The JADN Repository

Inventors, pioneers and entrepreneurs

• Brian Martin - a blind inventor who has invented a guide rail to help disabled people go ten-pin bowling. This is now being manufactured by LM Product (Stockbridge) and has been sold to Butlins and Bowlplex (Basingstoke)
• Elaine McAllister has launched a jewellery business in Basingstoke, opening a shop called The Jewel Box where she also holds workshops for those who want to learn about jewellery design
• Teaching website - North Hampshire education recruitment website eteach.com has scooped the trophy for “Best On-Line Service” at the Hantsweb Awards
• Ockham's Razor - an aerial theatre company perform at the at the London International Mime Festival
• Pat and David Steele - Basingstoke inventors of a panelled duvet which is easy to wash in a washing machine
• Thomas Bayes - 18th-century English clergyman whose mathematical theory predicts the unpredictable
• William Kimber - the morris dancer who worked with Cecil Sharp, a collaboration which led to the morris revival

Health, religion and morality

• Say your prayers - research by William Harris of Saint Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City shows that prayer significantly improved the outcome for patients in a coronary care unit over 12 months
• Angels of death - deathbed visits from dead relatives - around 10% of the terminally ill or those caring for them report some kind of mysterious, inexplicable event that gives them a glimpse of an afterlife
• Emotional Infidelity - having an Emotional Affair is the new infidelity - it seems that sharing secrets, dreams and fears with another person can be as dangerous to your marriage as the old-fashioned exchange of bodily fluids.
• Stress and the ultradian rhythm - work with the ultradian rhythm to to relax and replenish your energy

Financial topics

• AIM investments and UK Inheritance Tax - some AIM investments qualify for "business property relief", which means that, if held for two years, they are no longer part of your estate for IHT purposes
• Couples warned of being caught by new inheritance tax (IHT) rules - a recent ruling by the Special Commissioners has revealed a flaw in certain nil-rate band discretionary trusts used by couples to avoid inheritance tax
• Fund managers beat the bears - three fund managers, Tony Nutt, Neil Woodford and Bill Mott, perform well even in times of trouble
• Uncharitable means - aggressive charities harrass bereaved families over charitable bequests

Consumer interest

• Boots No 7 Protect and Perfect Beauty Serum - the so-called "miracle anti-ageing cream" - featured on a BBC2 Horizon programme in March 2007, and then in the Daily Mail. An independent study claimed it dramatically reduced wrinkles. Since then Boots has doubled production to more than 24000 of the 30ml etched glass bottles a day.
• Coversyl and amlodipine, two drugs which, taken together, prove highly effective for high blood pressure
• Ebay racketeers - how three Romanian immigrants, Nicolae Cretanu, his wife Adriana and accomplice George Titar, conned eBay customers out of nearly £300,000
• Hospital medical records are wide open to hackers - thousands of patients are at risk from hackers targeting medical records stored on computers at leading hospitals
• Lessons on going green - Basingstoke couple Yvonne and Steven Lucas opened their five-acre garden to the public to raise money for organic farming charity the Henry Doubleday Research Association
• Mobile network from phone number - mobile phone numbers can give an indication as to which network issued the number
• My war on waste - approaches to reducing waste: avoiding excessive packaging is a start, but the radical solution is simply to reduce unnecessary purchasing
• Paris for families - good value places to stay in the French capital
• Purple Sprouting Broccoli - when eaten in its true season, early spring, fresh from the garden, it is a treat on par with asparagus
• Speed cameras do lie! - call to scrap police LTI 20.20 Ultralyte 100 mobile speed cameras after tests show some ridiculous results
• The great mosquito sting - some anti-mosquito devices simply do not work - Holiday Which? picks the winners and losers

Basingstoke

• Basingstoke special awards for John Martin, the headteacher of Castle Hill Junior School; for Lin Osborn, a Basingstoke photographic artist; and for Billy Phillips, a Basingstoke musician
• Basingstoke hospital team explore links with Uganda - Duncan Sherlock, Jill Pellett, Lesley Phillipson and Nigel Rossiter travel to Uganda as part of the hospital’s long-term aim to create a partnership with a developing community
• Kingsley Windows Ltd - Ted Cox has run this local Basingstoke company for over 19 years
• NGH-Computers - a Basingstoke company that recycles old computers, monitors and printers

Other articles

• A fresh start for teachers - two opportunities for retired teachers to use their skills
• Photoshop - how to correct a colour cast on digital photographs using layers and blending modes
• Coventry Diocese Clergy and Laity lists
• Frimley - St. Peter's Churchyard - Bret Harte, William George Cubitt, John Frederick Lewis, Charles Wellington Furse and Sir Doveton Sturdee are all buried here
• Joseph Craven and Edith Dewhirst - two former teachers who married on June 8th in Bradford Register Office
• Kirkjubøur, Streymoy - the village in the Faroe Islands with the greatest historical traditions
• p-Phenylenediamine - contact allergen and sensitizer used in almost every hair dye on the market
• The seal-woman of Mikladalur - a legend in Mikladalur, the largest village in Kalsoy in the Faroe Islands
• Sharpening digital camera images for photo-store printing - a newsgroup discussion
• First Malaysian Family Life Survey, 1976–1977 - information about the survey, and links to download the full text of the report
• Kuala Krai - a newspaper article from the 1970s - an old newspaper article about Kuala Krai in Kelantan, Malaysia

Copernic searches

• The JADN Quest: selective exports from Copernic searches