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NO VITAMIN C IN RIBENA

Two science students in New Zealand, both age 14 at the time, tested the family drink Ribena as a science project and found NO TRACES OF VITAMIN C. Multinational company GlaxoSmithKline was fined NZ$217,000 for misleading advertising March 27.

The company admitted to 15 charges of five years of misleading advertising between 2002 and 2006. The suit was filed by the country's consumer watchdog, after a 2004 school science project exposed the false claims.

Ribena has long been sold as a healthy drink that blackcurrant juice has more vitamin C than orange juice. Its New Zealand advertisements claimed Ready to Drink Ribena had 7 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 milliliters (0.25 ounce per 3.4 fluid ounces).

But students Anna Devathasan and Jenny Suo, then 14, found the product on sale in their country contained almost no trace of vitamin C after testing the children's syrup-based drink as part of a science project in 2004, reports AP.

Malaysia's GlaxoSmithKline managing director has assured $ingapore consumers that Ribena products have the required level of vitamin C. All Ribena Ready-To-Drink tetra packs are made in Malaysia and exported to $ingapore. $ingaporeans can be assured that since the drink is manufactured in Malaysia, it does not contain any treated sewage water [New Water]. In $ingapore raw sewage [shit and pee] is treated and transformed into New Water which is then recycled for mostly "industrial" use. Thank god Ribena is MADE IN MALAYSIA.

New Zealand has less sheep than $ingapore.

SCIENTISTS CREATE $HEEP THAT'S 15% HUMAN... IS IT A $IN...?

Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. It is the work of Professor Esmail Zanjani, of the University of Nevada, which has spent seven years and £5 million perfecting the technique, which involves injecting adult human cells into a sheep's foetus in the hope of creating internal organs that can be used in human transplants.

There are dangers that silent viruses harmless to sheep may be introduced into the human race. Animal rights activists also fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep.

The scientific breakthrough was the subject of a BBC4 documentary, ANIMAL FARM, broadcast on March 28, 2007. In $ingapore, the harvesting of human organs from dead $ingaporeans is automatic. It is the law that if you have not signed a declaration objecting to donating your organs, the government has the legal right to them. Ignorance of this law is not an acceptable excuse.

It's not called $heep City for nothing.


MALAYSIA'S LOW SEX HARASSMENT CASES TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

A minister in Malaysia thinks the 2 per cent of cases of sexual harassment among the country's 11.6 million workers "too good to be true". Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakar said March 23, 2007 he believed many people did not report sexual harassment in the workplace as they feared a backlash from colleagues or superiors, were too embarrassed or were unaware of their rights under the law.
In $heep City, $ingapore, the police have a motto which says "Low crime doesn't mean no crime". In Malaysia, even the minister won't believe the low numbers.

DOCTORS ENCOURAGED TO TRAIN WITH iPOD

Doctors can greatly improve their stethoscope skills and therefore their ability to diagnose heart problems by listening repeatedly to heartbeats on their iPods reports Live Science. Previous research has shown that the average rate of correct heart sound identification by physicians is 40 percent. In a new study, 149 general internists listened 400 times to five common heart murmurs during a 90-minute session with iPods. After the session, the average score improved to 80 percent.

Proficiency with a stethoscope minimizes dependence on expensive medical tests, said lead researcher Dr. Michael Barrett of Temple University. In a profit-driven hospital, expensive medical tests are encouraged and the norm.

WOLFGANG'S VAULT TO OFFER PAID DIGITAL DOWNLOADS

The San Francisco company that bought the music archives of the late concert promoter Bill Graham announced this week they are closer to launching a paid download service - as unrestricted 256k mp3 files, twice the bitrate of iTunes' 128kbps. Wolfgang's Vault have also noted requests for lossless downloads.

The company says, "We hear you and we intend to offer lossless in the future. This is largely a timing and resource issue and lossless will be offered as soon as possible." All concerts offered will be complete shows. Fifty concerts are being prepared for the launch at US$9.98 per show.

NEW SHOWS STREAMING FROM WOLFGANG'S VAULT

Though he was born on the banks of the Mississippi, Muddy Waters was no stranger to San Francisco, where the Fillmore Auditorium hosted his frequent pilgrimages to the Bay. Muddy influenced a whole generation of young folk and schooled them in the traditions of delta-driven blues. This night in 1966, he shared the stage with his five-piece electric blues band, and together they treated the audience to an hour-long set of the slow and husky blues that Muddy had been perfecting for the past 25 years.

Play the concert here.