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CCTV'd

Caught on own CCTV after staging 'robbery'

A SHOP supervisor staged a robbery at his work only to be caught out by the store's own CCTV camera.

John Tait got his friend to beat him up and steal more than £3300 from the safe at Scotmid in Calder Road, Edinburgh, on July 24 last year.

Tait, 21, was found lying on the floor of the shop injured and bleeding and claimed he had been assaulted and robbed.

But when police checked CCTV footage they saw Tait opening the shop on his day off and going in with his co-accused, Christopher McGirr, 20.

The pair, who regularly gamble together, admitted they had made up the plan at the Stanley Berkley Casino, in Rutland Street.

Tait admitted opening the safe and later told police he had also stolen another £3000 from it just days before.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard Tait had worked at the store for some time before being promoted to trainee supervisor.

Fiscal depute Carol Urquhart said two cleaners had arrived for work at the shop on July 24 last year to find the window shutters up but the lights off.

"When they entered the premises they found John Tait lying on the floor," she said. "He was bleeding from injuries. His mobile phone was nearby and was broken and the safe within the premises was open."

Tait, of Findlay Avenue, Edinburgh, pleaded guilty to stealing £3000 from the Scotmid safe.

He and McGirr also admitted planning to falsely stage an assault and robbery at the store, and reporting it to police.

Tait admitted opening the safe and stealing £3344 from it, and McGirr, of Lyne Street, Edinburgh, pleaded guilty to repeatedly striking Tait on the head and body.

They will be sentenced next month

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1659982007

Latest old greats on WFMU

New music, in no particular order of favouritism.



Sciflyer - Lush sounds teleported straight outta the nineties in some UFO accident. Listen to "Never Come Down" on the Andrew Lisfield Playlist (the preceeding tracks are ambiently nice) here.

Antibalas - Che Che Cola (Makossa) - Could be my new sound for the summer, maybe needs a techno remix before that happens. The Makossa remix heavy backbeat version certainly helps..... Listen to it here, from Hatch's playlist. I have to recommend listening to the whole playlist as well, apart from the 20 minute jazzy bit in the middle.

Lee Scratch Perry - Judgement in A Babylon - from the Brian Turner playlist here, this is a stinging attack on Chris Blackwell, which is also very funny and groovy. Listen to it here

Mogwai - Hunted by a Freak - from the Push Bin with Lou playlist - which was taken from the Peel Sessions. Listen here

The Ken playlist from 28 March 2001 - some good music on display here - from Little Axe's Ride On, which I remember from some years ago when my DJ friend got a promo and we played it to death, to Lee Scratch Perry and the Os Mutantes. Also my favourite Moby track Run On is here too!

Pseu's Thing With a Hook playlist from 24 June 2005. Starting with the Ramones, then the Jesus and Mary Chain ( a personal favourite of mine), then the Ravenonettes, David Bowie, it also introduced me to Joy Zipper's best song (in my humble opinion) a lot later on in the playlist. Unfortunately there is no accuplaylist, and I can't quite remember how long into the playlist that the song starts.... Before that incidentally is the Teenage Fanclub - a band I had the pleasure of seeing live in my home town.

My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When/Swallow - from the Karaoke Alarm Clock playlist, I hadn't heard the second MBV track before, and was immediately hypnotised. Listen here.

My Bloody Valentine - What you Want. Well caught up in a bit of MBV nostalgia, been listening to Joy Zipper as a susbstitute..... From the Push Bin with Lou, listen to it here.

Joy Zipper - previously mentioned above, listen to The Christmas Song here, from the Evan Funk Davies show

Serge Gainsbourg - Cargo Culte - from the playlist for Scott Williams there is no accuplaylist, so click on realplayer and scroll along to 1 hour and 58 minutes to listen. One of my favourite finds of the last 6 months, it immediately became apparent where I'd heard the bassline before! and when that choir sound kicks in....!

Shelagh McDonald - Liz's Song - from the Hatch Sept 3 2005 playlist. Found via the WFMU beware of the Blog web ... well.... eh... blog. Listen here

Vashti Bunyan - Diamond Day - Listen here. From the Acapulco Dance Party playlist, also found via the WFMU Beware of the Blog site. Yeah I love it.

Loads more Vashti Bunyan on the This is the Modern World with Trouble playlist here, plus an interview with said person. It's all good.


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Me want beer

"homepub" fridge/freezer

- A fridge that delivers draught beer on tap!!

£649.00

Extend your warranty 12 months extra cover £72.00
Model: "AHP7316".
Chilled draught beer on tap - from the fridge!
Fridge capacity 220 litres gross (218 net), 7.9 cu.ft gross (7.7 net).
Freezer capacity 96 litres gross (83.net), 3.4 cu.ft gross (2.9 net). 2 glass shelves. Energy consumption 255.5 kwh hours per year.
Wine rack. Anti-bacterial linings.
Automatic defrost on fridge, manual on freezer.
Fittings for using a unit to store a 5-litre barrel of beer/lager together with a gas cylinder and valve. Beer is dispensed via a pump on the fridge door. H 185, w 60, d 60cms.
Details included inside of how to get extra kegs. Visit www.beersofeurope.co.uk for 24hr keg delivery service or phone

Link

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Very, very something or other.

Very, very something or other.

Link

Crowley (125kb)
From PDC tape #18 (Dec 5, 1952)
"Now, he could simply say, "I have action." A magician - the magic cults of the eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth centuries in the Middle East were fascinating. The only modern work that has anything to do with them is a trifle wild in spots, but it's fascinating work in itself, and that's work written by Aleister Crowley, the late Aleister Crowley, my very good friend. And he did himself a splendid piece of aesthetics built around those magic cults. It's very interesting reading to get hold of a copy of a book, quite rare, but it can be obtained. the Master Therion, T-h-e-r-i-o-n, The Master Therion by Aleister Crowley. He signs himself "The Beast"; "The Mark of the Beast, 666." Very, very something or other."

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Broadside news

From the front page:

In the centuries before there were newspapers and 24-hour news channels, the general public had to rely on street literature to find out what was going on. The most popular form of this for nearly 300 years was 'broadsides' - the tabloids of their day. Sometimes pinned up on walls in houses and ale-houses, these single sheets carried public notices, news, speeches and songs that could be read (or sung) aloud.

The National Library of Scotland's online collection of nearly 1,800 broadsides lets you see for yourself what 'the word on the street' was in Scotland between 1650 and 1910. Crime, politics, romance, emigration, humour, tragedy, royalty and superstitions - all these and more are here

Link here

19th century transvestite!:

Female Foot Boy!

This is a rattling good yarn from the 1820's which would not look out of place in a modern tabloid. It concerns a young woman who had to dress as a man to earn a living.

When her true identity was discovered, she was forced into marrying an unmarried mother - a bizarre arrangement which happily did not prove to be permanent!

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Hearts Sacks Fans !

Nicked from Motherwell Board which Nicked it from the Hibs board:

Heart of Midlothian Football Club today announced that
they have sacked all their fans

The Hearts support, who joined the club in 1874, were
dismissed by owner Vladimir Romanov after a series of
poor results. A statement issued on behalf of Mr
Romanov, who from the end of the season will be known
as Club President, said: "We have been disappointed
with the performance of the fans. Results were not
what they should have been.

"The way in which some events were discussed by the
paying support was disappointing to us. It was been
made clear that the only statement that is appropriate
for the supporters to make is the mindless chanting of
the words: 'I believe'. Genuflection to the club
President is also appropriate."

Mr Romanov, who from the end of next season will be
known as Tsar of All The Russias and Empress of India,
added: "I'd like to thank the Hearts support for all
its hard work. It gave 100%, but ultimately it did not
work out. Vladimir Romanov and the club's management
felt that something had to be done quickly. We owed it
to our own ridiculous delusions."

He then outlined ambitious plans for the club to win
the Champion's League, lift the World Cup and put a
man on Mars by 2007 - probably Stephen Pressley.

In the interim, the support will be replaced by
"caretaker fans" - cloned members of the Romanov
family who have been trained to burl scarves and ask
no questions.

A spokesman for the Hearts Supports Support Group, Mr
A N Gunt-Romanov, said: "I believe."

Disgruntled Hearts fans gathering outside Tynecastle
were offered an attractive array of one, two and
three-bedroom luxury apartments from £100,000.

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Scary Face Smiley Face

This is really cool and a bit freaky but you might
have to back off a bit, or squint your eyes.


at the website grand-illusions.com :

Yeah click it !!
Do you remember the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Dr Jekyll, the famous scientist, is not all he seems,
and the other side of his character - Mr Hyde - is,
you will recall, a distinctly nasty piece of work.

Continuing the idea of the two sides of the human
character, have a look at the picture above. On the
left is Dr Angry, and on the right is Mr Calm.

Now, back away from your computer screen. This effect
will work at different distances for different people,
but you should see the two characters swap over...! As
you come closer to the screen again, they revert to
their original characters. Spooky or what!

As optical illusions go, we think this is pretty
impressive. A short explanation goes something like
this. When we look at an object, we can normally see
both fine detail and coarse detail. However when we
are close, the fine detail will dominate, and when we
are further away, we lose the fine detail, and see
more of the coarse detail.

Both of the faces you see above are hybrids - each
face is actually a combination of two faces. The left
hand face shows an angry man in fine detail, but
within the picture there is also coarse detail of the
calm face. Move away, and you lose the fine (angry)
detail, and just see the coarse (calm) detail.

The right hand face shows the calm face in fine
detail, and the angry face in coarse detail.


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Kawasaki ZX-6R Ninja �Geometrik� edition (apparently) from
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Eccentric Genius Hypnodisk, (not) available to take over the world at http://www.eccentricgenius.ca/Products7.htm
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Going anti-grav

Instructions from the 1996 Electronics Now magazine on how to build your own ant-grvity machine (well an electro-magnetic levitator) re-printed on the web in full here.

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The incredible mind-control and journey of a parasite

From Pennyslvania Boat and Fish Commision, is this description of the life cycle of a fish parasite. The "Black Spot" parasite has be born in the belly of a bird, get passed to the water, live in a snail, before it progresses to live in a fish. Link.

Incredibly,iIn order to increase the chances of a bird eating a host fish, the parasite actually alter fish behavior, causing it to swim awkwardly and nearer the surface, where a bird will more likely grab it.

The lifecycle of the "black spot" parasite is complex. The adult parasite is found in a fish eating bird, the kingfisher. The larval parasite is transferred from the infected fish to the bird during the feeding process. In the kingfisher, the larval stage develops into an adult parasite. The adult parasite in the intestine of the bird produces eggs that are eventually deposited in the water. There the eggs mature, hatch, and develop into the miracidium stage of the parasite. The miracidium infects a snail. In the snail, the miracidium develops into the cercaria life stage. The cercaria leaves the snail and actively penetrates a host fish. In the fish, the parasite becomes encysted. In about 22 days, black spots form around the cyst. This entire lifecycle takes at least 112 days to complete.

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Civilisation crash

From polyscience.org an interesting feature on the collapse of the Easter Island population. Read the interview with Dr William Basener here

There are several well-known examples of societies that have experienced a collapse. Several of these are described in Jared Diamond’s recent book “Collapse.” In each case there are a number of theories for the cause of the collapse. For example, take the Maya Civilization. At their peak, the population was as dense as modern day Los Angeles, and they built the magnificent buildings, but their population very suddenly dropped to a small fraction of their peak.

Q: Can your work be applied to modern civilizations? Perhaps for the use of oil?
A: We believe so. We are collaborating with some economists on applications to the present. Long-term sustainability is a well-studied topic, although much of the work is still being done

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