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The state of California may have a free and easy reputation, but something as harmless as a little game of frisbee is now punishable by a fine.

In a country that prides itself on the pursuit of liberty, pitching a frisbee at a pal on the beaches of LA County could see you slapped with a $100 (63) penalty.

All balls, except volleyballs, are also forbidden on pain of the same penalty, and children digging a hole anything deeper than 18in could also land their parents in trouble.

The bans have been imposed on the same beaches where the iconic TV series Baywatch was filmed, following pressure from real-life lifeguards.

'Our beaches are very popular', LA County's Carol Baker told Sky News. 'This is simply about keeping them safe.'

Between 50 and 70 million visitors swarm the county's beaches each year.

Authorities say the new beach rules are a rationalisation of a decades-old blanket ban on flying projectiles and they will apply only to the months between May and September.

Instead, ball sports and frisbees will be permitted in designated areas.

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>somebody had to post it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16642369

Megaupload, one of the internet's largest file-sharing sites, has been shut down by officials in the US.

The site's founders have been charged with violating piracy laws.

Gregg Schwarz frowned as he positioned himself, just so, in front of the wrought iron fence surrounding John Edgar Hoover’s grave, a place he has visited countless times but never before in anger.

A retired FBI agent who joined the agency in 1972, the year Hoover died, Schwarz had hired a videographer to film him for YouTube expressing his displeasure with a movie that depicted Hoover as a repressed homosexual. In a dig at Clint Eastwood, the director of “J. Edgar,” Schwarz titled his video response, “Dirty Harry to Filthy Harry.”

“Mr. Hoover was portrayed as an individual who had homosexual tendencies and was a tyrannical monster,” Schwarz said into the camera, as the sun glinted off his FBI cuff links and FBI lapel pin. “That is simply not true.”
Many former FBI agents share Schwartz’s pique with the film’s dropped hints of an abiding love between Hoover and aide Clyde Tolson, who is buried a few grave sites away. Historians agree that there is no evidence that either man was gay, and a request for comment from either Eastwood or screenwriter Dustin Lance Black was declined.

Since “J. Edgar’s” release early this month, hundreds of agents have griped about the film on xgboys, a closed e-mail list for FBI retirees that takes its name from one of Hoover’s pet dogs, which in turn is a play on the old nickname for federal agents, “G-men.”

“I don’t know anyone who’s not extremely upset,” said Bill Branon, a former agent who is chairman of the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation, which grants scholarships to college students studying law enforcement and forensics. “It’s not only because of our admiration for him. It’s the fact it’s just not true. If it were true, it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world. But don’t do that to the poor guy when he’s dead and gone.”

The widespread unhappiness over Hollywood’s imagined rendering of Hoover’s rumored-but-never-proven personal life largely comes from men who started their FBI careers when Hoover was still in charge. Their devotion is undimmed almost four decades after his death.

Nowhere is that more evident than at Hoover’s grave at

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>>	Anonymous 11/12/19(Mon)18:19 No. 272482 In a society where a sexuality is considered a deciding descriptor in one's legitimacy and perceived identity, a characterization is a drastic blow to one's credibility.

>>	Anonymous 12/01/23(Mon)19:10 No. 272523 J. Edgar? More like Gay Edgar.

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Under-age lovers, transvestite tendencies and a porn stash New book exposes secret world of J. Edgar Hoover 12/02/08(Wed)18:13 No. 272526 File 13287536118.jpg - (91.66KB , 672x572 , Capture.jpg ) J. Edgar Hoover assembled the largest collection of pornography in history to meet his insatiable sexual demands, according to a new biography. The former director of the FBI built up a vast stock of adult films made by Hollywood stars before they were famous which he watched for his own titillation - or to blackmail them. They included one starring a very young Frank Sinatra made in 1934 he shot when he was a penniless wannabe actor slumming it in New York. Hoover was also partial to ‘classically erotic lithographs’ depicting men with giant phalluses or full frontal nudes which he hung on his bathroom walls Among the book’s other revelations are that Hoover and one of his close friends both had sex with a male suspect caught by the FBI - before letting him go and making his case disappear. Hoover has long been the subject of speculation about his private life, in particular that he was a transvestite and enjoyed a gay relationship with his close friend and FBI associate director Clyde Tolson. Last year saw the release of the Clint Eastwood biopic ‘J. Edgar’ starring Leonard Di Caprio, although it avoided the question of whether he was even gay. The new book by contrast goes much further and delves into the most sordid details of the man who did more to shape the morality of America than any other person. Message too long. Click here to view the full text.

The results are in for 2011. Here are the 50 most popular travel destinations worldwide A list of the 50 top tourist attractions in the world. Grouped into categories, some interesting trends emerged.

Piers anyone?

http://www.travelsupermarket.com/blog/top-50-tourist-attractions/

Google, Facebook, Twitter discussing going down to protest SOPA:


http://digg.com/news/politics/google_facebook_twitter_discussing_going_down_in_protest_of_sopa

Thoughts?

Women who thought Israel's battle for gender equality was mostly won warn of a new assault from the fast-growing ultra-Orthodox, seeking to expand religious-based segregation into the public realm.

Reporting from Jerusalem— When public buses rumble to a stop in some of Jerusalem's religious neighborhoods, women often dutifully enter by the rear door and sit in the back, leaving the front for men.

There's no law requiring the women to do so, but those who don't risk verbal taunts and intimidation.

It's a curious sight given Israel's history as an international trailblazer for women's rights.

The country produced one of the democratic world's first female heads of government with Golda Meir's election in 1969. Women lead Israel's Supreme Court and two of the nation's main political parties. Israel drafts women into military service and has some of the world's toughest laws against sexual harassment and rape.

Yet Israeli women say that recently some of their most basic rights have come under attack, including singing and dancing in public, vying for student government positions at a religious college, appearing on billboards in Jerusalem, speaking on a religious radio station and even using the sidewalk during religious celebrations.

Feminists who once thought Israel's battle for gender equality had been mostly won are warning of a new assault from Israel's fast-growing ultra-Orthodox community, which is seeking to expand religious-based segregation into the public realm.

"We are going backward and losing all our achievements," said Rachel Liel, executive director of the New Israel Fund, which advocates for civil rights and equality. "A 21st century democracy is not a place where women sit in the back of the bus."

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This is sad, and I'm a coldhearted bastard... so for me to feel anything... yeah.

http://youtu.be/qiCTh54VMPk

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Pro-Israeli grafitti in Iran

This needs to go viral.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/herman-cain-suspends-his-presidential-campaign/

ATLANTA — An unapologetic and defiant Herman Cain suspended his presidential campaign on Saturday, pledging that he “would not go away,” even as he abandoned hope of winning the Republican nomination. Instead, Mr. Cain announced what he called a “Plan B,” continued advocacy of his tax and foreign policy plans.

“As of today, with a lot of prayer and soul searching, I am suspending my presidential campaign,” Mr. Cain said. “Because of the continued distractions, the continued hurt caused on me and my family, not because we are not fighters. Not because I’m not a fighter.”

Mr. Cain, with his wife at his side, adamantly professed Saturday that the accusations of sexual harassment and of a long-term affair that have swamped his campaign were not true. The circus-like atmosphere surrounding Saturday’s announcement – complete with numerous postponements, barbecue, a blues band and supporters in colonial-era dress – was in keeping with the campaign’s irreverence and disarray since its inception: Mr. Cain, a self-styled rebel, announced his intention to run earlier this year at a rally, also in Atlanta, with the nonsensical phrase, “Aw, shucky ducky!”

For days now, the campaign has fueled a “will he or won’t he?” storm of speculation, at once thriving on the media’s attention while denouncing it as the source of Mr. Cain’s plummeting popularity. Mr. Cain’s critics have long posited that he was more interested in creating celebrity for himself – as a means to sell books and increase speaking fees – than in any serious candidacy.

Mr. Cain’s political unraveling was as swift and sudden as his ascent. It began just one month after an unlikely surge in the polls, from the bottom ranks to the top tier of Republican candidates, fueled by the strength of his performance in debates, the novelty of his 9-9-9 tax plan, and his Sept. 24 surprise victory in the Florida straw poll.

>>	Anonymous 11/12/26(Mon)14:33 No. 272500 File 13249388093.jpg - (18.24KB , 600x250 , brooker1.jpg ) Hah! 9-9-9? More like Nein, Nein, Nein! Get it, cause we're all Nazis and stuff, and it sounds the sa- I DON'T KNOW WHY I BOTHER WITH YOU

>A virus with the potential to kill up to half the world’s population has been made in a lab. Now academics and bioterrorism experts are arguing over whether to publish the recipe, and whether the research should have been done in the first place.

­>The virus is an H5N1 bird flu strain which was genetically altered to become much more contagious. It was created by Ron Fouchier of the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, who first presented his work to the public at an influenza conference in Malta in September.

>Fouchier said the strain circulates in animals, particularly birds, but rarely affects humans.
In the ten or so years since bird flu first emerged in Asia, fewer than 600 cases have been reported in humans. But the H5N1 strain is particularly vicious, killing roughly half of patients diagnosed with it. What stops it from becoming a major threat to public health is that it does not readily transmit from human to human. Or at least it didn’t – until now.

>Researchers in Fouchier’s team used ferrets – test animals which closely mimic the human response to influenza – and transmitted H5N1 from one to another to make it more adaptable to new hosts. After 10 generations, the virus had mutated to become airborne, which means ferrets became ill from merely being near other diseased animals.

>A genetic study showed that the new, dangerous strain had only five mutations compared to the original one, and all of them were earlier seen in the natural environment – just not all at once. Fouchier’s strain is as contagious as the human seasonal flu, which kills tens of thousands of people each year, but is likely to cause many more fatalities if released.

>"I can't think of another pathogenic organism that is as scary as this one," Paul Keim, a microbial geneticist who has worked on anthrax for many years, told Science Insider. "I don't think anthrax is scary at all compared to this."

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Anonymous 11/11/30(Wed)05:56 No. 272463 File 132266136936.gif - (135.58KB , 468x1840 , science reportage.gif ) >>272459 >Not sure why these people felt the need to make an improved version of a virus, Duh, because >could wipe out half of humanity Seriously though, they were experimenting to find out high probable it is that such a virus could become airborne (turns out, with terrifying ease). This research is part of the global anti-H5N1 initiative aimed at studying the virus to learn how to stop it.

>>	Anonymous 11/12/06(Tue)19:20 No. 272470 it is an interesting development but it poses the real question of: how long before some loon actually does this and releases it to create a real life 12 monkeys.

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Anonymous 11/12/22(Thu)18:42 No. 272489 >>272459 >Not sure why these people felt the need to make an improved version of a virus So we should wait until some asshole dictator does it and releases it accidentally causing billions dead across the world instead of making it ourselves and working out a vaccine beforehand? Geniiiiooooosssss! You should get a Nobel prize in procrastination. >>272470 Hopefully after we have the vaccine.

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Iran continued working on nuclear weapons at least until last year, including efforts to shrink a Pakistani warhead design to fit atop its ballistic missiles, a report from United Nations inspectors said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, drawing on evidence collected over eight years, reported yesterday that Iran carried out “work on the development of an indigenous design of a nuclear weapon including the testing of components.”

The IAEA document shows that Iran worked to redesign and miniaturize a Pakistani nuclear-weapon design by using a web of front companies and overseas experts, according to the report and an international official familiar with the IAEA’s investigation.

Such a warhead could be mounted on Iran’s Shahab-3 missile, which has the range to reach Israel, according to the report.

The IAEA report adds to international pressure on Iran to answer questions about its program. It was released amid reports in Israeli media that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is pressing his Cabinet to support possible military action to halt Iran’s nuclear program.

The U.S. may pursue additional sanctions against Iran following release of the report and is waiting to see how Iran responds, according to two U.S. officials who briefed reporters on condition of anonymity. Iran already is under UN sanctions and the U.S. has put sanctions on Iranian government agencies, financial institutions and government officials.

Sporadic Development

The administration officials said the IAEA’s conclusions don’t conflict with U.S. intelligence estimates that Tehran’s government scaled back nuclear weapons development in 2003 while maintaining capability to resume. The officials said Iran’s nuclear weapons efforts have proceeded sporadically since 2003 and that the U.S. believes advancement since then hasn’t been dramatic.

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The Russian security services are being blamed for an attempt to spread baseless gay smears about the son of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock.

Stephen Kinnock was left bewildered when the stories started circulating in September just days before his glamorous wife, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, became the first female prime minister of Denmark.

Ms Thorning-Schmidt, 44, the leader of the Social Democrats, was forced to deny that Mr Kinnock was gay after rumours about her husband's sexuality became an election talking point.

'It's really uncomfortable, also for my family and my children,' she said. 'It's grotesque.'

The claims – widely seen as a doomed attempt to derail her campaign – were denounced by Lord Kinnock as 'politic-ally motivated fiction' designed to discredit his daughter-in-law.

Now The Mail on Sunday has been told by diplomatic sources that suspicion for originating the smear has fallen on shadowy figures in the Russian intelligence community.

The sources believe it dates back to the time when Mr Kinnock, 41, was embroiled in a diplomatic row as head of the British Council in St Petersburg, when relations between London and Moscow were at their lowest ebb following the 2006 poisoning of Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko in London.

In December 2007, the Kremlin ordered the British Council to shut its offices in St Petersburg and Ekaterinburg, saying it was 'operating illegally' within Russia and had 'violated tax regulations'.

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