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Fed up with your cat climbing on
the keyboard? Amazing photo of
medieval manuscript covered in
pawprints shows it´s nothing new
Daily Mail [UK], by Hugo Gye
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 3/8/2013 3:39:17 AM
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| Many animal lovers are familiar with the nuisance caused by cats interrupting their work by climbing across their papers or computer keyboard. But this is not a new phenomenon, as this extraordinary photograph of a medieval manuscript proves. The 15th-century book is marked with four pawprints, which appear to be the result of a cat jumping on to the paper. The animal also seems to have stepped in ink of some kind, leading to the exceptional clarity of the marks even five or more centuries later. The picture was taken by Emir O. Filipovic, a scholar working in the Dubrovnik
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher, 3/8/2013 5:03:26 AM (No. 9214266)
:-) Funny! I wouldn´t say the document is damaged...it´s part of it´s unique charm.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
civilservant, 3/8/2013 6:39:31 AM (No. 9214339)
Cats.....indifferent to Man´s labor for over 6 centuries.
Said the dog lover. 
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
TunnelRat, 3/8/2013 7:46:06 AM (No. 9214450)
Old news: this was all over twitter more than two weeks ago
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Attercliffe, 3/8/2013 7:53:27 AM (No. 9214464)
#4, pity you didn´t post and let us non-twits know at the time.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
happywarrior, 3/8/2013 8:06:55 AM (No. 9214486)
My cat loved that article!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
provide, 3/8/2013 9:04:09 AM (No. 9214625)
I had a cat that would sit on my drawing table and watch me work. He´d play with the pencils and drink from the clean water vessel when I watercolored.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
udanja99, 3/8/2013 9:14:18 AM (No. 9214652)
#7, you just dredged up a 40 year old memory for me - of sitting at my drawing board preparing for final evaluations in art school. My cat was sitting on the board and swatted the end of my paint brush at a most inopportune moment causing me to have to start over completely on the piece I was designing.
Another little paw print piece of trivia...Remember the 70´s band ´Yes´? Their album cover for "Close to the Edge" has cat paw prints in the clouds of the cover illustration.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
udanja99, 3/8/2013 9:20:41 AM (No. 9214666)
Oops, it was the illustration inside the album cover. You can find it on the internet.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Zarin, 3/8/2013 10:08:37 AM (No. 9214807)
This calls to mind the mention of an Irish Monk´s poem about or rather to his cat. I read it in ´How the Irish Saved Civilization´ - it is on the Net too.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Zarin, 3/8/2013 10:17:18 AM (No. 9214835)
The cat´s name was Pangur Ban
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bullhead, 3/8/2013 4:52:09 PM (No. 9215544)
Cats are on a centuries-long quest for world domination.
PS: #5, I don´t do Twitter either.
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Nigeria: ´Many dead in Boko
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Fifty-five people have been killed in the north-east of Nigeria in co-ordinated attacks by the Boko Haram militant group, the Nigerian army says. It said 105 prisoners were freed in the pre-dawn raid in Bama, Borno state. Bama´s police station, military barracks and government buildings were burned to the ground, said the military and witnesses. Correspondents say extremist attacks are common in the region but the scale of bloodshed makes this raid stand out. This strike--coming on the back of other deadly attacks--undermines the suggestion that the military operation against the militants has diminished the threat they pose, says the
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/8/2013 12:59:28 AM
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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Lord Lawson´s right: of course
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Telegraph [UK], by James Delingpole
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/7/2013 8:05:20 AM
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Lord Lawson has become the most senior Tory yet to argue that we should quit the EU. What does that tell us about the state of politics that this is a newsworthy event? "Not only do our interests increasingly differ from those of the eurozone members but, while never ‘at the heart of Europe’, we are now becoming increasingly marginalised as we are doomed to being consistently outvoted by the eurozone bloc." Lord Lawson knocked back any suggestions that there would be "a heavy economic cost, making this unwise" because "the economic gains would substantially outweigh the costs."
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Cameras to be allowed in
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It now appears cameras and recording devices will be allowed in Thursday’s court hearing on Mark Sanford’s alleged trespassing of his ex-wife’s home. Jenny Sanford had initially sought to ban cameras, but the filing was dismissed today. The pair will be in Charleston County Family Court after Mark Sanford said he watched the Feb. 3 Super Bowl at her Sullivan’s Island home with one of their sons. Jenny Sanford had not given him permission to be there and said it was against their divorce decree. Also, that it was part of a pattern on her ex-husband’s part.
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Tanzania church attack:
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/6/2013 8:39:09 AM
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Eight people--including four of Saudi origin--have been arrested over an explosion that killed two people at a church in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha on Sunday, police say. President Jakaya Kikwete condemned the blast as an "act of terrorism". No group has said it was behind the explosion, which left at least 50 people wounded. Militant attacks are relatively rare in Tanzania, unlike neighbouring Kenya and Somalia. Al-Qaeda-linked suicide bombers killed more than 200 people in simultaneous attacks in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998. Tanzania has seen a rise in sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in the past
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The man who lives without food
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Telegraph [UK], by Will Storr
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/6/2013 7:12:48 AM
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Last Christmas, Rob Rhinehart realised that food doesn’t work. At least, not very well. Its function is to deliver the energy and nutrition that the body requires for fuel, and yet it’s expensive to buy and takes time to prepare. Many in the world can’t afford to eat properly, whilst others eat so badly that they become clogged and obese and then they just die. Eating is a problem, in one way or another, for millions, perhaps billions of humans. So, a few months ago, the 24-year-old computer engineer began his quest to “solve” food.
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White Britons abandon
ethnic minority areas
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Daily Express [UK], by Martyn Brown
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Posted By: Attercliffe- 5/6/2013 6:59:13 AM
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White Britons have retreated from parts of the country where immigrants have become the majority of the population, a startling study reveals today. Figures show in just 10 years mass immigration has driven a four-fold rise in ethnic minorities living in areas where less than half the population are white British.[Snip] The 4.1 million ethnic minorities who now live in white minority areas is a big increase from the 2001 Census, when just 1 million lived in those areas. The study for the think-tank Demos lays bare the true cultural impact of Labour’s open-door immigration policy between 1997 and 2010.
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Working gun made with 3D printer
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BBC News [UK], by Rebecca Morelle
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The world´s first gun made with 3D printer technology has been successfully fired in the US. The controversial group which created the firearm, Defense Distributed, plans to make the blueprints available online. The group has spent a year trying to create the firearm, which was successfully tested on Saturday at a firing range south of Austin, Texas. Anti-gun campaigners have criticised the project. Europe´s law enforcement agency said it was monitoring developments. Victoria Baines, from Europol´s cybercrime centre, said that at present criminals were more likely to pursue traditional routes to obtain firearms. She added, however: "But as time goes
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/7/2013 5:14:14 AM
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When it first became clear that the CIA’s Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. After all, it served President Obama’s political purposes to claim, at the height of a political campaign in which he was taking credit for the fall of al Qaeda, that the death of a U.S. ambassador was down to spontaneous outrage over a video, rather than pre-planned terrorism. It turns out, however, that the State Department was the prime culprit. It was State that pushed back hard against the original talking points.
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Republican probe of Benghazi
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Republican lawmakers, who have spent months seeking to tie President Obama to last year’s deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, are increasingly focusing their probe on a new target: former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton. The GOP-led investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, assaults that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three others now centers heavily on the State Department and whether officials there deliberately misled the public about the nature of the assault. Three State Department officials are scheduled to testify before a House committee on Wednesday about the Benghazi attack and its aftermath.
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Sanford gets second chance:
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Post & Courier [Charleston, SC], by Glenn Smith*
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Former Gov. Mark Sanford completed the trail to political redemption Tuesday with a win over Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch to reclaim his old seat in Congress. Sanford defeated Colbert Busch 54 percent to 45 percent, according to full unofficial results. Turnout was heavier than expected, with about 32 percent of the district’s 455,702 registered voters casting ballots. Sanford, who has never lost an election, returns to the 1st District seat he held for three terms from 1995-2001. It’s a remarkable comeback for a man many pundits had written off after his highly publicized affair with an Argentine
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A new ‘Dawn’ at ABC:
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New York Post, by Tara Palmeri
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Top ABC News editor Don Ennis walked into his Manhattan office on Friday in a “little black dress” and a brunette bobbed wig and announced to colleagues that from now on, he would like to be known as Dawn. The 49-year-old father of three said he’s splitting from his wife of 17 years to become a woman, or Dawn Stacey Ennis, as she is now known on her governmental records. “Today I begin anew,” she wrote on her Facebook timeline, where she debuted a flirty new profile picture. “Please understand: This is not a game of
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee: Constitution
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Washington Times, by Douglas Ernst
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/7/2013 8:22:18 PM
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Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took to the House floor Monday night and implied that the right to health care and education exists in the Constitution. Ms. Jackson Lee, Texas Democrat, also made the case that the moral authority for such services is also derived from the Declaration of Independence. “One might argue that education and health care fall into those provisions of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” she said. Ms. Jackson Lee added, “I think that what should be continuously emphasized is the president’s leadership on one single point: that although health care was not
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Mark Sanford wins South
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Washington Post, by Rachel Weiner
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Posted By: supersid- 5/7/2013 8:55:20 PM
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Mark Sanford has won the South Carolina special election in a competitive race for what in normal circumstances is a safe Republican seat. The former governor beat Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert Busch, for the state’s 1st congressional district. The AP called the race for Sanford early in the evening, with the Republican leading Colbert Busch 54 percent 46 percent.
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Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News,
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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From the start, the Obama administration’s account of what happened in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year didn’t quite square for Sharyl Attkisson. So the veteran CBS News reporter dug in, and kept digging. The result: Attkisson has been a persistent voice of news-media skepticism about the government’s story. On the air and online, Attkisson has questioned the administration’s timeline and its response. (Snip) While other media, particularly Fox News, have been similarly skeptical about the official narrative about Benghazi, Attkisson and CBS might put the story in a different light. As a much-decorated reporter from a news
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Dem Sen: Second Amendment Not
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Real Clear Politics, by Ian Schwartz
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/7/2013 9:28:03 AM
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on states nullifying federal gun laws: I mean, let´s look at the context of nullification. Nullification was last used by Southern states to try to eviscerate Civil Rights legislation, to try to prevent states from basically enforcing desegregation and frankly, I think history will look back on this round of nullification as kindly as it did on the last round. It is laughable also because it is a total bastardization of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is not an absolute right, not a God given right, always had conditions upon
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