One of the country's leading architectural photographers was apprehended by City of London police under terrorism laws today while photographing the 300-year old spire of Sir Christopher Wren's Christ Church for a personal project.Grant Smith, who has 25 years experience documenting buildings by Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, was stopped by a squad of seven officers who pulled up in three cars and a riot van and searched his belongings under section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which allows police to stop and search anyone without need for suspicion in a designated area.
One of the country's leading architectural photographers was apprehended by City of London police under terrorism laws today while photographing the 300-year old spire of Sir Christopher Wren's Christ Church for a personal project.
Grant Smith, who has 25 years experience documenting buildings by Richard Rogers and Norman Foster, was stopped by a squad of seven officers who pulled up in three cars and a riot van and searched his belongings under section 44 of the Terrorism Act, which allows police to stop and search anyone without need for suspicion in a designated area.
Last week, Jeff Overs, a BBC photographer, was stopped under counter-terrorist laws for taking pictures not of a secret military establishment, or a nuclear power station, but of St Paul's Cathedral at sunset.
In the summer, Alex Turner, another amateur photographer, was arrested after he took pictures of Mick's Plaice, a fish and chip shop in Chatham, Kent, evidently a building of great strategic importance to the jihadi godfathers in Waziristan. A few days ago, Jerome Taylor was stopped while taking pictures of the House of Commons from the South Bank of the Thames. "For 10 minutes," he recalled, "I was questioned about my evening and asked to give my height, name, address and ethnicity - all of which were recorded in a form that will now be held at the nearest police station for the next year." The reason he had been stopped was also noted: "Using a camera and tripod next to Westminster Bridge."
the only area that has been revealed are all railway stations within the UK.
Which may sound like a joke, but when trainspotters - who are about as dangerous a rained-on khaki bobble hat - start complaining about regular harassment, policing is seriously broken.
I didn't make this up. There was an ancient law in NYC prohibiting photography in subway stations. Nobody took any notice of it, until some newspaper published pictures of exposed wiring in a station, and the city filed changes. The main outcome was that the law was changed, but after 9/11 they quickly started trying to figure out how to bring it back.
I presume that any self-respecting terrorist will take pictures with his phone, rather than doing something more obvious like these photographers have been doing. They'll just have to prohibit using your phone near a train station, I guess.
A Muslim woman was asked by a Christian hotelier if she was a terrorist and a murderer because she was wearing Islamic dress, a court has been told.Ericka Tazi told Liverpool magistrates she faced a tirade of abuse from Benjamin Vogelenzang and his wife Sharon, at their hotel on Merseyside. She said it was because she was wearing a hijab head covering and gown. Mr and Mrs Vogelenzang deny using threatening, abusive or insulting words which were religiously aggravated.
A Muslim woman was asked by a Christian hotelier if she was a terrorist and a murderer because she was wearing Islamic dress, a court has been told.
Ericka Tazi told Liverpool magistrates she faced a tirade of abuse from Benjamin Vogelenzang and his wife Sharon, at their hotel on Merseyside.
She said it was because she was wearing a hijab head covering and gown.
Mr and Mrs Vogelenzang deny using threatening, abusive or insulting words which were religiously aggravated.
Homeless Vietnam veteran Keith Fuller just wants to be left the hell alone. Fuller's life was uprooted last month when the makeshift shelter he lived in for three years in the homeless enclave known as "The Hill" located above South Franklin Street was razed. The 58-year-old Marine veteran spent a couple of weeks at the Glory Hole homeless shelter before setting up his new residence at the Thane Campground on Friday. "I don't ask for no help," Fuller said Friday. "Certainly I could go up to the V.A. and jump through their hoops again. It hurts. I don't bother no one. I keep my camp clean. I hate to be bothered by people and it's very devastating to have yourself uprooted."
Homeless Vietnam veteran Keith Fuller just wants to be left the hell alone.
Fuller's life was uprooted last month when the makeshift shelter he lived in for three years in the homeless enclave known as "The Hill" located above South Franklin Street was razed. The 58-year-old Marine veteran spent a couple of weeks at the Glory Hole homeless shelter before setting up his new residence at the Thane Campground on Friday.
"I don't ask for no help," Fuller said Friday. "Certainly I could go up to the V.A. and jump through their hoops again. It hurts. I don't bother no one. I keep my camp clean. I hate to be bothered by people and it's very devastating to have yourself uprooted."
Drinking coffee does not sober you up - and may actually further impair your judgement, new research suggests. The combination of alcohol and caffeine produces a potentially lethal mix that just makes it harder to realise you are actually drunk in the first place.
The combination of alcohol and caffeine produces a potentially lethal mix that just makes it harder to realise you are actually drunk in the first place.
One of the most interesting spam campaigns in the past week has been the "Google Jobs" scam. Its interesting from a number of angles, including how they make their money, but first let's talk about how the spammers are abusing Google, Twitter, and Microsoft to avoid being detected as spammers.The spam messages have subjects which have a random number letter combination at the start and the end of each subject:
Malicious hackers are posing as DHL and social networking site Facebook in their latest attempts to infect computers with malware. Today we are seeing widespread spam campaigns being cannoned around the world, posing as messages from the companies. However, files attached to the emails carry Trojan horses that can allow cybercriminals to comandeer your computer for their own purposes.
Malicious hackers are posing as DHL and social networking site Facebook in their latest attempts to infect computers with malware. Today we are seeing widespread spam campaigns being cannoned around the world, posing as messages from the companies.
However, files attached to the emails carry Trojan horses that can allow cybercriminals to comandeer your computer for their own purposes.
The 'click this link' link led to the irishbathrooms.com domain - not quite a triumph of cyber-camouflage, perhaps.
As the owner of several energy-efficient light bulbs and a recycled umbrella, I'm familiar with the critiques of "ethical consumption." In some cases, it's not clear that ostensibly green products are better for the environment. There's also the risk that these lifestyle choices will make us complacent, sapping the drive to call senators and chain ourselves to coal plants. Tweaking your shopping list, the argument goes, is at best woefully insufficient and maybe even counterproductive. But new research by Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong at the University of Toronto levels an even graver charge: that virtuous shopping can actually lead to immoral behavior. In their study (described in a paper now in press at Psychological Science), subjects who made simulated eco-friendly purchases ended up less likely to exhibit altruism in a laboratory game and more likely to cheat and steal.
As the owner of several energy-efficient light bulbs and a recycled umbrella, I'm familiar with the critiques of "ethical consumption." In some cases, it's not clear that ostensibly green products are better for the environment. There's also the risk that these lifestyle choices will make us complacent, sapping the drive to call senators and chain ourselves to coal plants. Tweaking your shopping list, the argument goes, is at best woefully insufficient and maybe even counterproductive.
But new research by Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong at the University of Toronto levels an even graver charge: that virtuous shopping can actually lead to immoral behavior. In their study (described in a paper now in press at Psychological Science), subjects who made simulated eco-friendly purchases ended up less likely to exhibit altruism in a laboratory game and more likely to cheat and steal.
New Goldman Sachs Green Tower to Rise Near WTC [...] The bank's new world headquarters will rise in Battery Park City's last remaining commercial plot, known as Site 26. Designed by Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the 740-foot-tall tower will earn Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification by incorporating "green" building technologies, such as water and energy conservation, and use of recycled materials.
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The bank's new world headquarters will rise in Battery Park City's last remaining commercial plot, known as Site 26. Designed by Henry N. Cobb of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, the 740-foot-tall tower will earn Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification by incorporating "green" building technologies, such as water and energy conservation, and use of recycled materials.
Parents are being urged to boycott shops selling pink toys and gifts by a campaign group. Pinkstinks says the "pinkification" of little girls causes them to choose less challenging careers and pass up opportunities as they grow up.
Parents are being urged to boycott shops selling pink toys and gifts by a campaign group.
Pinkstinks says the "pinkification" of little girls causes them to choose less challenging careers and pass up opportunities as they grow up.
