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Variety is the spice of life as far as rail replacement buses go and with the line from Meopham/Strood to Rainham closed on Sunday 5th November a number of operators including Stagecoach South East, ARRIVA Kent & Surrey, Chalkwell, Travelmasters, 1st Bus Stop and Go-Ahead London provided transportation for Southeastern's customers.

Seen here alongside the River Medway on Canal Road, Strood is Stagecoach South East 15704 GN60 FDA, 15703 GN60 FCZ, Go-Ahead London PVL221 Y821 TGH and Chalkwell LJ04 LDF awaiting their next run from Strood to Rainham. Sunday 5th November 2017.

GN60 FDA & GN60 FCZ - Scania N230UD 10.6m - ADL Enviro 400

Y821 TGH - Volvo B7TL - Plaxton President

LJ04 LDF - DAF DB250 - Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini (Ex-ARRIVA London DW65)

FDA by peaceful-jp-scenery

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Mt.Fuji Shizuoka Airport

富士山静岡空港

The airplane is Fuji Dreamy Airlines No.7 (Yellow).

FDA has 8 airplanes. The color is different one by one.

フジドリームエアライン、7号機（イエロー）です。

FDAは現在8機、カラーリングが一つずつ異なります。

17年までにもう3機増える見込みです。

Makinohara city, Shizuoka pref, Japan

LX-FDA by Marc Duthet

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Dassault Falcon 7X cn182 de 2012

Global Jet Luxembourg S.A. (30/11/2013-...)

aéroport Marseille Provence

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The Flibanserin Effect by DES Daughter

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The FDA is about to approve Flibanserin, marketed as the “Viagra for women” who want to increase their libidos. But according to reports, the effects aren’t dazzling. And there are some rather significant side effects... Image via aNewDomain, 2015/06/04.

* Read Will the “female Viagra” really help women? and watch Flibanserin “Female Viagra” gets approval from FDA with conditions: theDESK video.

* See more health cartoons.

Dinner with Richard Dawkins and CFI... like a candle in the dark by Steve Jurvetson

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Many know him as one of the world's top science authors. We were gathered for his non-profit, the Center for Inquiry (CFI), the “only organization in the country that promotes secularism and skepticism to apply critical thinking and the scientific method to all claims about the true nature of reality.”

Some of their activities and concerns:

• Secular rescue: like the underground railroad for the thirteen countries where being a non-theist is punishable by death

• Battling fake medicine: suing Walmart and CVS for putting poorly-labeled quack homeopathic remedies that lack any active ingredient alongside real children’s medicines on their shelves. Homeopathy is a $3B business in the U.S., and the FDA just ignores it. Here's a punchy video summary.

• The decline of critical thought: 40% of Americans think God created the Earth and anatomically modern humans less than 10,000 years ago. Psychics bilk the gullible of $1B per year. “A new age has dawned for pseudo-science, conspiracy theories, religious zealotry, medical quackery, and plain old lies. When no one can trust anything they hear, they will believe what they want, regardless of whether it’s true.”

• Of their many programs, my favorite is the CFI Investigations Group, the largest paranormal investigations group in the world: cfiig.org They offer a $500K prize to anyone who can prove anything paranormal or demonstrate anything supernatural. Next time someone prattles on about crystal healing, or homeopathy, or speaking with the dead (1/3 of Americans believe in this!), or telepathy or astrology, and you just can’t anymore, you have a new tool — suggest they go collect the $500K that’s just waiting for them. Why not? If it’s a lack of faith, perhaps they should keep their delusions to themselves.

For over 40 years, CFI has advanced reason over fantasy and science over myth. The co-founders, Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, B. F. Skinner and James Randi were deeply worried back in the 1970s, that many Americans looked to horoscopes, mystical gurus, spirits of the dead, aliens, and countless other forms of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory, and the paranormal.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Thank you to last night’s host David Cowen, and for his support of the rescue of freethinkers, such as the Afghan girls robotics team, after the fall of Kabul. You can donate to CFI too.

FDA Marcella by Patty B

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fda xmas tree by crazydolls

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Staircase by Catia Destro

FDA Manon by Patty B

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FDA_7975 by francisdelelis

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FDA Marcella by Sergey Sergeevich

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FDA Marcella by Patty B