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Supreme-Louis Vuitton T-shirt resold for £3, 000

Supreme brand Louis Vuitton unveiled its collection last month, and especially young rich people in London, Los Angeles, and Tokyo camped overnight outside stores hoping snap up the designer T-shirts and Hoodies, with Louis Vuitton stamp of approval. Many wanted to make a quick buck by reselling these valuable highly coveted name on the eBay…

Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman launched to space 50 years ago on June 16, 1963 aboard Vostok.

Valentina, first woman launched to space 54 years ago

Valentina Valdimirovna Tereshkova, Soviet Cosmonaut becomes the first woman to travel into space, after 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all the U.S. astronauts combined to that date. Textile worker Valentina born to a peasant family in Maslennikovo, Russia, made her first parachute jump and…

Everybody lies so where is the truth

Everybody lies is a fascinating, witty book, blending informed analysis of the signal and the noise and looks into new data sources, dominated by Google, where the author Seth Stephens previously worked. “I am convinced that Google searches are the most important data set ever collected on the human psyche”, he writes. Data provides new…

Mapping fat accumlation around coronary artery with a new non-invasive imaging technique

Heart attack risk visible by scanning blood vessels: Oxford University

Oxford University Medical researchers have developed a sensitive test to identify people at high risk of a heart attack or stroke by scanning their blood vessels, a method known as fat attenuation index or FAI, which identifies people whose blood vessels have fatty deposits or “plaques” that are in charge of breaking off and causing…

Eva Ekeblad’s 293rd birthday

Countess Eva Ekeblad was a Swedish noble and agronomist who discovered Vodka from potato, moonshine, potato wine and the method of extracting starch from potatoes paving way for gluten-free baking. She also discovered a method of bleaching cotton textile and yarn with soap in 1751. She was the first female member of the Royal Swedish…

Trump meets Putin

Hakan Samuelsson Chief executive of Volvo

Volvo stops making diesel and petrol cars

The Swedish firm Volvo would switch to electric for all models and would not rely on an internal combustion engine by 2019. Yesterday’s UK car sales of diesels figures showed a 15 per cent drop, following stern warnings about air pollution deaths and costly levies. There was also upward sales surge of electric and hybrid…

Cladding fire safety checks at Bray Tower in Camden

181 high-rise buildings from 51 local authorities fail fire safety tests

Serious concerns were being raised over efficiency of checks after it emerged insulation beneath the cladding was never tested for fire safety, as 181 high-rise buildings in 51 local authorities have failed fire safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Cladding samples tested as part of a “major national investigation” into the…

Reynobond combustible cladding at Grenfell

120 tower blocks have now failed the cladding safety tests

Theresa May promised “major national Investigation” into the widespread use of flammable cladding on residential tower blocks. The newly elected Labour Mp Emma Dent Coad for Kensington complained that England’s building regulations had been “watered down”. to suit the fat cat developers and contractors. Even the Germany city of Wuppertal ordered the evacuation of a…

Air bed for evacuated residents of tower block

75 tower blocks failed fire safety tests on cladding

According to the Government, 75 tower blocks from 25 councils have now failed the fire safety combustibility tests on cladding since the Grenfell Tower fire disaster, blamed on buildings polyethylene insulation. Every panel testes has failed. In the past building materials passed building control officials are considered to be dangerous. The Association of British Insurers told ministers…