http://www.scraggles.com/rss/ scraggles.com: News agregator en-uk Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:59:59 GMT Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:59:59 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss siteadmin@scraggles.com siteadmin@scraggles.com scraggles.com feedbuilder 1.0 http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8564999.stm A rally will be held in Glasgow in memory of three Russian asylum seekers who fell to their deaths from a tower block. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:14:58 GMT BBC UK News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8565102.stm Rugby fans travelling to the Scotland v England match should not be affected by the rail strike, First ScotRail says. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:12:23 GMT BBC UK News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/8565613.stm The postal watchdog is considering taking action against Royal Mail after finding that delivery quality tests were rigged. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:07:07 GMT BBC UK News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/8565480.stm UN wildlife negotiations begin on banning the trade in bluefin tuna and permitting sales of ivory. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:17:19 GMT BBC World News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/8565544.stm Officials in Georgia announce a scheme to let prisoners shorten their jail terms by spending time in a monastery instead. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:02:40 GMT BBC World News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/education/8565258.stm Children's strange misconceptions about science are revealed in a science knowledge quiz. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:10:09 GMT BBC UK News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/d_PtTp-snfU/School-Putting-Autistic-Children-in-Fenced-Enclosure In an attempt to deal with autistic children who "have no sense of boundaries and do not respond to staff asking them to stop," a Sydney primary school has created pens which hold the disabled children during play time. As you might expect, parents have expressed outrage that their kids are forced to stand inside a fenced enclosure that has one tree, a bench and a dirt floor. The Department of Education said in a statement: "The school is located on a busy road. Without this area, the students may leave the school grounds and could potentially be injured. Some of these children have no sense of boundaries and do not respond to staff asking them to stop. Once the school is satisfied a student will listen to directions from staff members and is also aware of playground boundaries, the child can use the playground." Read more of this story at Slashdot. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:39:00 GMT Slashdot http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/8AZr4_t0KXQ/Digg-Says-Yes-To-NoSQL-Cassandra-DB-Bye-To-MySQL donadony writes "After twitter, now it's Digg who's decided to replace MySQL and most of their infrastructure components and move away from LAMP to another architecture called NoSQL that is based in Casandra, an open source project that develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database. Cassandra was open sourced by Facebook in 2008 and is licensed under the Apache License. The reason for this move, as explained by Digg, is the increasing difficulty of building a high-performance, write-intensive application on a data set that is growing quickly, with no end in sight. This growth has forced them into horizontal and vertical partitioning strategies that have eliminated most of the value of a relational database, while still incurring all the overhead." Read more of this story at Slashdot. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:47:00 GMT Slashdot http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/8565610.stm Police in the Irish Republic release three of the seven Muslims arrested over an alleged plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:18:07 GMT BBC World News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8565606.stm The Scout Association has launched a campaign to encourage young people to vote, amid fears up to half may not be registered on the electoral roll. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:22:20 GMT BBC UK News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://feeds.coolhunting.com/~r/ch/~3/UFDc6SZIIPw/design-indaba-e-3.php Launched at last month's Design Indaba expo, the Inception Collection from Snapp was one of the more attention-grabbing product collections there. With its use of brilliant hues and bold forms, the group of five objects stood out from much of the more craft-based wares on view. Founded by industrial... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:23:43 GMT Josh Rubin: Coolhunting http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32158/f/414204/s/97c2b29/l/0L0Sitn0O0C919843e7fbb5f28d7132f7b1e8e9aff90Bhtml/story01.htm One of the raciest venues in Victorian London is open this weekend, allowing visiters to experience what it was like 145 years.Related Stories100 firefighters battle blaze in LondonJen and Gerard best of friends at premiereSarkozy's anger at questions over private lifeCheryl Cole pulls out of Jonathan Ross showKate Humble talks Lambing Live Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:13:33 GMT ITN http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32158/f/414204/s/97c2b28/l/0L0Sitn0O0C8d81361559ae6cc29951fac238ddb9d40Bhtml/story01.htm Nick Clegg opened the Liberal Democrat Conference last night with one message: "Change that works for you. Building a fairer Britain".Related StoriesSunderland and Birmingham winThree MPs and a Peer deny expenses fraud charges"£30bn high-speed rail network green lightMother gets 15 years in jail for starving KhyraVauxhall given Government loan guarantee Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:13:52 GMT ITN http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32158/f/414204/s/97c2b2a/l/0L0Sitn0O0Ca0A1db416272c5ffbc29d929dd873d340A0Bhtml/story01.htm More than 360,000 people have been forced to move home in the past year because of irritating neighbours, new research shows.Related StoriesMortgage ending down by half as tax break endsYouth charged over Susan Boyle theft Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:14:54 GMT ITN http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/8564632.stm An inquiry finds "widespread evidence" that some agency and migrant meat plant workers are abused and exploited. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:08:26 GMT BBC UK News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/8563232.stm Weekend polls may loosen Sarkozy grip on Elysee Palace Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:12:08 GMT BBC World News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/8565243.stm Nasa Moon astronauts tell the BBC President Barack Obama's decision to cancel the US lunar programme is "catastrophic". Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:38:02 GMT BBC World News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7364074.stm General Ray Odierno, who is set to become the top US military commander in Iraq, played a pivotal role in implementing the Bush administration's Iraq strategy. Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:47:05 GMT BBC Conflict with Iraq http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/32158/f/414204/s/97c051c/l/0L0Sitn0O0Cea7e2ee0A7379862aa81130Aac0Af6c972d0Bhtml/story01.htm Kate McCann is taking part in a charity run to raise money to help find missing people. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:29:08 GMT ITN http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8564117.stm Bulldozers menace remote beauty of Indian state Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:50:08 GMT BBC World News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/CLPXj5pbiPo/Nearby-Star-Forecast-To-Skirt-Solar-System PipianJ writes "A recent preprint posted on arXiv by Vadim Bobylev presents some startling new numbers about a future close pass of one of our stellar neighbors. Based on studies of the Hipparcos catalog, Bobylev suggests that the nearby orange dwarf Gliese 710 has an 86% chance of skirting the outer bounds of the Solar System and the hypothesized Oort Cloud in the next 1.5 million years. As the Oort Cloud is thought to be the source of many long-period comets, the gravitational effects of Gliese's passing could send a shower of comets into the inner Solar System, threatening Earth. This news about Gliese 710 isn't exactly new, but it's one of the first times the probability of this near-miss has been quantified." Read more of this story at Slashdot. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:36:00 GMT Slashdot http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/dx9EJL_sy2g/Hunting-Disease-Origins-By-Whole-Genome-Sequencing ChocSnorfler writes "James Lupski, a physician-scientist who suffers from a neurological disorder called Charcot-Marie-Tooth, has been searching for the genetic cause of his disease for more than 25 years. Late last year, he finally found it — by sequencing his entire genome. While a number of human genome sequences have been published to date, Lupski's research is the first to show how whole-genome sequencing can be used to identify the genetic cause of an individual's disease." Read more of this story at Slashdot. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:04:00 GMT Slashdot http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/sport2/hi/rugby_league/super_league/8560232.stm Super League leaders Wigan bounce back from their first defeat to run eight tries past Hull FC at the DW Stadium. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:43:36 GMT BBC UK News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/health/8562231.stm Obese women drinking little more than a glass of wine a day have double the risk of liver disease compared with those who are slimmer, experts warn. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:09:44 GMT BBC UK News http://www.scraggles.com/link.php?link=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7429754/Samantha-Cameron-My-love-for-Dave.html Samantha Cameron has for the first time revealed how she fell in love on a family holiday with the man she refers to as "Dave the Politician". Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:10:12 GMT Daily Telegraph UK News