Mother branded as abuser for telling daughter of caesarean

Social workers have placed the five-year-old daughter of a professional couple on the child protection register for “emotional abuse” after the mother told the girl she was delivered by caesarean.

Other allegations against the mother include cuddling her daughter for too long when dropping her off at nursery

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The intervention by Birmingham social services prompted the mother, Shahnaz Malik, to go into hiding with her daughter, Amaani, for two months, fearing the girl would be taken away.

An alert was put out to all British ports, and police conducted raids on a string of properties in the West Midlands. Two weeks ago police battered down the door of the family’s home in an apartment block in an attempt to find Amaani. She had been moved elsewhere by her mother, but her father, Vijay Bansal, 42, an IT consultant, was later arrested and held in a cell overnight for “obstructing” the search.

Officers also seized Malik’s car, took toothbrushes from the bathroom to analyse for DNA and raided the homes of relatives in the middle of the night, looking for the mother and girl.

“This whole case is madness as there is no reason for the state to be involved in this little girl’s life in this way,” said John Hemming, a Birmingham MP who campaigns against abuses by the family courts.

“The problem is that the system is using massive aggression to deal with the mother’s refusal to respond to a set of frankly silly concerns.”

Happy New Year

Dreamy hime solo

Just spending my morning soloing Mong. Buddha, I am so boooored!!

Mount Faber, two - Graham one

The "Colour their world" run was the worst organized, with the worst course, that I have ever encountered.

And not particularly good value. For $25 we got a T-shirt (which I don't wear) and the most pathetic "goodie bag" ever ( a few small cartons of juice). No number, and no timing for the run. Of course I timed myself, but how do I know what my approximate position in the pack was?

With a 7:30 am start time, Chrissy and I got there at 7:15 and Jack showed up a little later. There were one or two volunteers (ok, it was for charity, but still...) and the list of runners did not show up till 7:30. They announced that running would start at 8:00am, but when that rolled around they announced some (shudder) community stretching.

I mooched around the start line, so as not to be caught behind the plodders and when they let us loose in batches of 25, I was off with the first group.

In fact, I was in front.

I know that I tend to get off to a quick start and try to regain myself in, but this time I was out in the lead. After quarter of a mile I was worrying that I had taken a wrong tun and glanced over my left shoulder. By the time I looked forward again, four or five had overtaken me on my right. So - situation normal. (more)

So, farewell then, J.D Salinger

We all wanted to be Holden …

but then some of us became Franny

or maybe, Zooey as these things happen

"So it goes".

Dragonm book bastards

A real trip down memory lane, this one would have been. You can learn more about software from the almost quarter century old "dragon book" than from most modern ones.

And I found a second hand copy at a "reputable" online book shop for $3.49.

> Dear Graham,
>
> I am very sorry to hear that your order has not arrived. At this point I'm
> afraid we have to consider it lost in the mail. I have issued you a full
> refund for this order. If you have any questions or concerns please don't
> hesitate to contact us. I hope we can help you in the future.

Whoop de doo! I get my $3.49 refunded. Of course, they do have other copies - starting at $85 for the 1986 sedition and rising to $190 for the 2006 (when even Amazon has just reduced its price on that from $120 to $94).

Lost in the post? A cynic might think …

Do miracles happen to atheists too?

(Kiss my unbelieveing butt, religious nutters)

I was showering and shaving this morning when an apparition appeared in my window!

It surely can't be … but you can't deny that it looks uncannily like him …

Trojan horse

God protect this blessed laptop

A VICAR has launched a bizarre bid to attract city workers to his church — by offering to BLESS their mobile phones and laptops.

The Rev David Parrott issued his first blessing over a heap of high-tech laptops and smart phones on the altar of London's 17th Century St Lawrence Jewry church today.

He said it was to remind the capital's busy workaholics that "God's grace can reach them in many ways".

He added: "It's the technology that is our daily working tool, and it's a technology we should bless."

The short blessing capped today's services at the Christopher Wren-designed building — the official church of the Corporation of the City of London, which runs the capital's bustling financial district.

Parishioners took out their mobiles and Rev Parrott recited a blessing prayer over them.

He said the service was an update of a traditional back-to-work ceremony called "Plow Monday", in which villagers gathered to bless a symbolic farming implement dragged to the church's door.

But Rev Parrott said that ceremony didn't have much relevance for his church, which was "nowhere near a field in the middle of London".

He took up his post at St Lawrence Jewry — so-called because it stands in what was once the capital's Jewish neighbourhood — about seven months ago, and said the updated ritual was "a fresh idea for a fresh post".

He said he hoped the ceremony had made worship "lively and relevant to the people who work nearby in the financial district".

Rev Parrot added parishioners were welcome to leave their phones on during the service — as long as they kept them on silent.

Gay man who tried to poison lesbian neighbours with slug pellets over three-legged cat feud walks free

Ok, I will admit that I haven't even read this one; but I doubt that I need to Teh title alone was captivating, and I have simply cut & pasted it. Enjoy …

A gay man who attempted to poison his lesbian neighbours by pouring slug pellets into their curry after they accused him of kidnapping their three-legged cat has walked free from court.

Gary Stewart, 37, had fallen out with his neighbours, Ann Marie Walton, 38, and Beverley Sales, 36.

But in an apparent bid to restore cordial relations with the pair he offered them a curry from a local Indian takeaway. When the couple went to eat the meal they found the curry sauce was laced with dozens of tiny blue slug pellets.

Afterwards Stewart said he had done it after he had found the tyres to his car had been slashed with a knife.

He texted a friend saying: 'It was them next door, the f******* fat lesbians, I'm glad I've poisoned them and yes it was slug pellets.'

He was sentenced to a six month suspended jail sentence at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester after pleading guilty to attempting to poison the two women on September 22 last year. The court was told Mr Stewart, who is HIV positive, was devastated after his partner Paul Kleisier, 43, died of an Aids related illness last summer.

Informative compiler error

Description Resource Path Location Type
expected a constant of type ‘const char*’, got ‘const char*’ test_fsm.cpp line 73 C/C++ Problem

Way to go G++

Serves me right for messing with templates, I guess. Sigh!

Ten thousand spoons

Now, isn't it ironic?

This year is the year of the Tiger - and I'm giving up Tiger for a year (at least). Last time was twelve years ago, year of the Tiger, back in Hong Kong, when I dragged it our for 21 months, then went to dinner in Switzerland with the guy who was embezzling me (and many others) but said he was investing in fine wine (he did have a good and verifiable track record before he went of the rails. Might have known he was dying and thought he could escape; little does he suspect that I'm following him to hell to weak my wevengeh).

Tiger year, no Tiger beer … now isn't it iroooooonic?

(or do I mean moronic?)

The first one's free …

A schoolboy has been suspended for 'crisp dealing' at a school which has banned fatty drinks and snacks.

In sign of pupil disgruntlement over school meal reforms spearheaded by TV chef Jamie Oliver, 12-year-old Joel Bradley was caught allegedly selling a packet of Discos at a marked-up price of 50p.

He was suspended from Liverpool's Cardinal Heenan High School because it was the second time he had been caught.

His father, Joe, said the boy had been 'victimised' for an enterprise which could earn him as much as £15 a day.

'I think the school has made a beeline for him because of what I've done,' he told the Liverpool Echo.

Mr Bradley, from Liverpool's Norris Green district, admitted he too had once been caught selling canned drinks, chocolate bars and crisps from a van outside the school - saying he was filling a void left by the closure of a local shop.

But headmaster Dave Forshaw said parents and pupils must abide by the school rules or go elsewhere.

'We are a healthy school and proud of it,' he said.

'If parents are not happy then they are perfectly free to take their children to a school that allows pupils to sell these things and allows a father to sell them outside on the pavement.'

Mr Forshaw said pupils were caught around 'three or four times a week' selling snacks at the school.

'We have six to seven regular sellers we pinpoint', he said.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235279/Boy-12-suspended-crisp-dealing-school-banned-junk-food.html#ixzz0ZduS0pQZ

sudo make up; make out

sudo bash
make cleam
make dep
make
make check
make install
make up
make out

But at least a copy-watch will help

After my recent "life is shit" post, I received the solution this morning by email.

It seems that all that I need is a copy-watch.

On this day in previous years...

2009 My second home

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