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The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
By Simon Abrams [ Ravenous screens tonight at 9:30pm at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Click here for more information. ] [ Author's Note: Try as I might to omit them, this piece feature SPOILERS . You’ve been warned. ] Antonia Bird’s Ravenous is an exciting, new kind of gothic horror film, one that replicates that traditional, oft-misappropriated proto-genre’s fixation...
Photographs Of Newcastle (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Lemington, Bell’s Close and Sugley were adjacent villages which developed in the nineteenth century around the new industries which took advantage of the coal and clay deposits as well as the nearby water transport. They were all part of the parish of Sugley. In the sixteenth century there was a Lamedon Mill and a Lamedon House and in 1638 the staithes at Lemendon are recorded. There was also...
Luxurylaunches.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
New Zealand’s only non-military vessel that can refuel a helicopter at sea is up for grabs. The super yacht named T6 is owned by one of New Zealand’s richest men, John Spencer, who has put the vessel up for sale. The 49 meter (160-foot) superyacht has been designed by Pieter Beeldsnijder and built by Flyghtship in New Zealand. Spencer made his money from Caxton paper mills and was worth...
Luxist (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
One of New Zealand's richest men, John Spencer, has put his yacht up for sale . The 49-meter (160-foot) superyacht T6 took nearly eight years to build and the interior was only finished a couple of years ago. Spencer made his money from Caxton paper mills and was worth an estimated $265 million when he commissioned the yacht. It was designed by Pieter Beeldsnijder and built by Flyghtship in New Zealand....
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
New Zealand rich-lister John Spencer has put his pride and joy, the 49m superyacht T6, up for sale at a reported asking price of 39.5 million euros ($80.6m).Mr Spencer's Whangarei company Flyghtship Construction took nearly...
kottke (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
A new study concludes that babies and dogs do not have an advanced ability to read social cues, but that wolves do. Using a hiding-and-finding game, scientists at University of Iowa and Indiana University have concluded that babies and dogs are distracted by social cues such as adults' facial expressions and vocal interactions, and that they don't have a unique or enhanced ability to recall where an...
Harry's Place (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Although the debate has been eclipsed by the Polanski affair, Professor John Spencer of Cambridge University recently flew the kite of reducing the age of consent - presently 16 - to some unspecified lower age. Here is the Daily Mail’s report, illustrated with a photo of a putative teenager, taking contraceptive pills: A BBC programme is [...]
the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
A LAW professor this week caused outrage – the newspapers said we were outraged so, obviously, we must be – when he publicly suggested lowering the age of consent to 13. Now, Prof John Spencer may be right, he may be wrong, but the trouble with being instantly outraged, assuming we are, is that we [...]
Love Undefiled (Free subscription) | 09/25/2009
This program is a debate about the legalisation of underage sex. Cambridge Lawyer, Professor John Spencer, says that we should make it legal for young teenagers to have sex. He says the age of consent, fixed at 16 by the Sexual Offences Act 2003, makes criminals of half the population. Dr Trevor Stammers does a great job defending common sense.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
Like it or not, people under the age of 16 have sex – the current law of consent doesn't protect them, it persecutes them Law professor John Spencer of Cambridge University has created a huge controversy by suggesting a reduction in the current age of consent of 16. His proposals, broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Iconoclasts programme , with my support as a co-advocate, have been savaged by the Sun...
Share My Journey (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
In a programme planned to be aired tomorrow evening on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Iconoclasts', John Spencer, who is a Law Professor, proposes to argue in favour of reducing the 'Age of Consent' for children to engage in sexual intercourse to be lowered, basing his argument on the fact that so many children under the age of 16 already do so, and that accordingly it 'makes criminals of half the population.'...
Dear Miriam - Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Underage pregnancies I can't believe that lowering the age of consent for sex is a topic up for debate on BBC radio tonight. In Iconoclasts, a Radio 4 discussion programme, law professor John Spencer will argue that the current age...
Soccer By Ives (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Major League Soccer's disciplinary committee gave additional one-game suspensions to Chivas USA midfielder Paulo Nagamura and Houston assistant coach John Spencer after both were sent off during their teams' games this past weekend. Nagamura was issued an extra game to his suspension for kicking Seattle Sounders forward Fredy Montero in the face. He will now serve a two-match suspension for that incident,...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
From The Christian Institute The BBC will broadcast a show featuring an academic’s plea for the age of consent to be lowered so that young teenagers are free to have sex. Professor John Spencer will set out his views on the Radio 4 programme Iconoclasts, due to be aired tomorrow night, before answering challenges from a panel. According [...]
the optimum population trust blog (Free subscription) | 09/22/2009
A NATIONAL radio program is to feature a call for the age of consent to be lowered to the age of 13. Law professor John Spencer will argue that the current age of consent, fixed at 16, criminalises “half the population”. His controversial views will be debated on the BBC Radio 4 program Iconoclasts tomorrow evening. In [...]
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