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Room available in great neighborhood with fun roommates for Dec (mission district) $1000 1bd

I'm leaving San Francisco for a month and my (awesome) roommates have said it would be ok if I found an awesome person who wanted to live in my furnished room while I'm gone. The three-bedroom apartment is in a prime location at 16th and Church, making it fantastically close to Dolores Park, Valencia St, the Castro, the Haight and prime mass transit options. The room is furnished with a dresser, desk with computer, queen bed, and closet. The roommates are awesome, and like I said, they demand an awesome subletter. Kelley works in socially responsible finance, likes karaoke, and good home cooking provide by her flatmates (hint). Chris is a male PhD student in a band with a very dry sense of humor. Fancy Pants is the cat and he's very affectionate, but doesn't consort with other animals so no new pets unfortunately. It's a pretty festive house, but everyone is a responsible adult. The roommates note that an appreciation of Jesus Christ Superstar, a faculty for making fine cocktails, or good skills in the kitchen will earn you bonus points. Failing that, Commonwealth accents are very popular here as well. I pay $1000 a month for rent and am asking for the same + ~$100 for utilities (electric, cable/internet, house cleaner). I'll be gone from 11/24-12/26, but if you only want the month of Dec (12/1-12/31) we can arrange something.

Room available for Dec (and end of Nov) in a 3 bedroom flat (mission district) $1100 1bd

I'm leaving San Francisco for a month and my (awesome) roommates have said it would be ok if I found an awesome person who wanted to live in my furnished room while I'm gone. The apartment is in a prime location at 16th and Church, making it fantastically close to Dolores Park, Valencia St, the Castro, the Haight and prime mass transit options. The room is furnished with a dresser, desk with computer, queen bed, and closet. The roommates are awesome, and like I said, they demand an awesome subletter. Kelley works in socially responsible finance, likes karaoke, and good home cooking provide by her flatmates (hint). Chris is a male PhD student in a band with a very dry sense of humor. Fancy Pants is the cat and he's very affectionate, but doesn't consort with other animals so no new pets unfortunately. It's a pretty festive house, but everyone is a responsible adult. The roommates note that an appreciation of Jesus Christ Superstar, a faculty for making fine cocktails, or good skills in the kitchen will earn you bonus points. Failing that, Commonwealth accents are very popular here as well. I pay $1000 a month for rent and am asking for the same + $100 for utilities (electric, cable/internet, house cleaner). I'll be gone from 11/24-12/26, but if you only want the month of Dec (12/1-12/31) we can arrange something.

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Terrorists try to infiltrate UK's top labs

Dozens of suspected terrorists have attempted to infiltrate Britain's top laboratories in order to develop weapons of mass destruction, such as biological and nuclear devices, during the past year. The security services, MI5 and MI6, have intercepted up to 100 potential terrorists posing as postgraduate students who they believe tried accessing laboratories to gain the materials and expertise needed to create chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons, the government has confirmed. It follows warnings from MI5 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office that al-Qaeda's terror network is actively seeking to recruit scientists and university students with access to laboratories containing deadly viruses and weapons technology. Extensive background checks from the security services, using a new vetting scheme, have led to the rejection of overseas students who were believed to be intent on developing weapons of mass destruction. A Foreign Office spokesman said the students had been denied clearance to study in the UK under powers 'to stop the spread of knowledge and skills that could be used in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery'. He added: 'There is empirical evidence of a problem with postgraduate students becoming weapons proliferators.' The overseas students, a number of whom are thought to be from 'countries of concern' such as Iran and Pakistan, were intercepted under the Academic Technology Approval Scheme, introduced by universities and the security services last November. The findings raise questions over how many terrorist suspects may have already infiltrated the UK's laboratory network. Rihab Taha, dubbed 'Dr Germ', who worked on Saddam Hussein's biological weapons programme, studied for her PhD in plant toxins at East Anglia University's School of Biological Sciences in Norwich. In addition, a number of well-educated Iraqi scientists - funded by Baghdad - infiltrated several British microbiology laboratories in the run-up to the Gulf war of 1990-91. Britain has about 800 laboratories in hospitals, universities and private firms where staff have access to lethal viruses such as Ebola, polio and avian flu or could acquire the technology and expertise to develop deadly weapons. Whitehall sources remain concerned about the number of countries intent on acquiring the materials and knowledge to develop a nuclear or biological warfare capability. John Wood of the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control said: 'Any scientist would say it's important that we know who is working in our laboratories, and also why they are working there.' The trial of two NHS doctors, Mohammad Asha, 27, a Jordanian national, and Bilal Abdulla, 29, from Iraq, who allegedly plotted widespread carnage through car bomb attacks in London's West End and Glasgow airport last year, has intensified scrutiny on the radicalisation of students. Named in the plot is 27-year-old Indian PhD student, Kafeel Ahmed, who drove a Jeep laden with gas canisters into Glasgow Airport's main terminal building but died several weeks later from severe burns. Ahmed studied for his PhD in the technology department of Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge. A spokesman for Universities UK, which represents vice-chancellors, said the security scheme had so far proved effective. He added: 'It is important to protect the UK from people who may wish to use technology and materials here inappropriately.' Michael Stephens, head of security at the Medical Research Council, which runs some of Britain's most sensitive laboratories, said they took the issue of biosecurity 'extremely seriously'. Concern that al-Qaeda is intent on developing a more sophisticated weapons capability moved the former director-general of MI5, Dame Eliza Manningham-Buller, to warn publicly that terror attacks in Britain could involve weapons of mass destruction. She said: 'We know that attempts to gather materials are there, we know that attempts to gather technologies are there.' Extremist groups are known to have targeted students, offering to fund courses in return for using their newly acquired expertise. It is unclear if any of those denied 'clearance' to study in the UK during the past year were funded by grants from host governments such as Tehran. A Foreign Office spokesman said 'efforts' on scrutiny of foreign postgraduate students would continue with only a few of the 20,000 applications rejected for security reasons. In the US, draft legislation advocates banning all non-Americans from laboratories which possess potentially dangerous bacteria and viruses, a measure the UK government believes is too draconian.Professor George Griffin, chairman of the advisory committee on dangerous pathogens, has warned of the lack of a national standard required for people to work in high-security laboratories. The move comes as the government considers plans to build a new pathogen research facility in central London, between King's Cross station and the British Library. Experts have warned that a terror attack would prove catastrophic to the surrounding area.UK security and terrorismWeapons technologyHigher educationguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

Wash. Post cropped Obama's "we've got a righteous wind at our backs" remark to exclude "but we're going to have to work"

In an October 23 article, The Washington Post's Robert Barnes and Anne E. Kornblut wrote that at two campaign events in Virginia on October 22, Sen. Barack Obama "promised to deliver the Commonwealth in the Democratic column for the first time since 1964" and then quoted Obama stating: "I feel like we've got a righteous wind at our backs." Barnes and Kornblut's citation of the quotation immediately after their assertion that Obama "promised to deliver" Virginia made it appear as though Obama was indeed suggesting that victory in Virginia was inevitable. But, as is clear from the rest of sentence and the two immediately following, which were part of a speech he gave in Leesburg, Virginia, and which were left out of Barnes and Kornblut's article, Obama was making a different point: that victory will come only if he and his supporters "fight for every one of the 13 days to move this country in a new direction." Here is what the Post printed in its October 23 edition: With an ear-splitting rally in the Richmond coliseum and a late-afternoon speech at a chilly park in Leesburg, Obama promised to deliver the Commonwealth in the Democratic column for the first time since 1964. "I feel like we've got a righteous wind at our backs," Obama told tens of thousands gathered on the rolling hills of Ida Lee Park. It was his eighth day of campaigning in the state since securing the Democratic nomination in June. Here is what Obama actually said (compiled from a Breitbart.tv video clip of the first part of Obama's remarks and an MSNBC video clip of the second part): And in 13 days, if you'll stand with me, then I know that we can win Virginia and we can win this election and we can finally bring the change we need to Washington. Now, that's the good news. I feel like we got a righteous wind at our backs here, but we're going to have to work. We're going to have to struggle. We're going to have to fight for every single one of those 13 days to move this country in a new direction.

Scottish Secretary boosts bid to get Lottery cash for 2014 Games

THE campaign to win Lottery funding for the Glasgow Commonwealth Games received a huge boost last night after Scottish Secretary Jim Murphy revealed he is backing the plans.

Colony abuse victims cash ruling

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office says victims of child sex abuse on Pitcairn Island can apply for compensation.

FCO owns up to energy waste

Cites 'national security' as reason to leave 10,000 computers on overnight The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has been leaving about 10,000 computers switched on overnight.?