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The Testosterone Trial in Older Men
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The Testosterone Trials are a multi-center set of trials involving 12 clinical sites geographically distributed across the United States.
The primary specific aims are to test the hypotheses that testosterone treatment of elderly men whose serum testosterone concentrations are unequivocally low - and who have symptoms and objectively measured abnormalities in at least one of five areas that could be due to low testosterone (physical or sexual function, vitality, cognition, and anemia) - will result in more favorable changes in those abnormalities than placebo treatment.
Two additional trials have been incorporated into the T Trial. Only men enrolled in the T Trial are eligible to participate in these trials.
- The Cardiovascular Trial will examine if testosterone treatment results in more favorable changes in cardiovascular risk factors, compared to placebo.
- The Bone Trial will test the hypothesis that testosterone treatment will increase volumetric trabecular bone mineral density (vBMD) of the lumbar spine as measured by quantitative computed tomography (QCT), compared with placebo treatment.
A Pharmacokinetic (PK) Study is also being conducted within the context of the interventional T Trial. It will examine the variability of the serum testosterone (T) concentration after application of testosterone gel or placebo, four months after the start of treatment.
|Drug: AndroGel® (testosterone gel) Drug: Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Randomized, Placebo-controlled, Double-blind Study of Five Coordinated Testosterone Treatment Trials in Older Men
- Each of the 7 trials has its own primary outcome: [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
PHYSICAL FUNCTION: Increase from baseline of ≥ 50 m in 6 minute walk test. SEXUAL FUNCTION: Change from baseline in responses to Question 4 of the Harbor-UCLA Sexual Function Questionnaire.
VITALITY: Increase from baseline in score on the FACIT-Fatigue scale by ≥ 4 points.
COGNITIVE FUNCTION: Change from baseline in responses to the Wechsler Memory Scale Revised (WMS-R) Logical Memory II, in men with AAMI at baseline.
CARDIOVASCULAR: Change from baseline in non-calcified plaque volume as measured by CT angiography.
BONE: Percent change from baseline in volumetric bone mineral density of trabecular bone of the spine as measured by quantitative computed tomography (QCT) scan.
ANEMIA: Increase in hemoglobin by ≥ 1.0 g/dL in men with anemia of unknown cause at baseline.
- The 7 trials have secondary outcomes: [ Time Frame: 1 year ]
PHYSICAL FUNCTION: Improvement of ≥ 8 on PF-10/SF-36; change in 6-minute walk distance; both outcomes combined.
SEXUAL FUNCTION: Change Harbor UCLA 7-day Sexual Function Questionnaire, DISF-II-M, IIEF.
VITALITY: Change on the Vitality Scale/SF-36, PANAS, PHQ-9. COGNITIVE FUNCTION: Change on BVRT, Card Rotations, Trails A minus the log-transformed total time for Trails B, 3MSE.
CARDIOVASCULAR: Change measured by CT in log-transformed coronary artery calcium, total plaque volume and subcutaneous fat; change in HgA1C in men not being treated for diabetes; change in HOMA-IR (not limited to those enrolled in cardiovascular trial).
BONE: Change (QCT) in trabecular vBMD, bone strength, cortical bone strength and whole bone strength of the spine; trabecular bone vBMD and whole bone strength of the hip; areal bone mineral density of the spine (DEXA).
ANEMIA: Change from baseline in continuous hemoglobin.
- Exploratory Outcomes [ Time Frame: 1 year ]A number of exploratory outcomes have been pre-specified.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|November 2009
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|June 2016
|Primary Completion Date:
|July 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: AndroGel® (testosterone gel)
AndroGel is applied to the shoulders, abdomen or upper arms once a day. Subjects will be instructed to wash their hands after application and not to have contact with women or children while the gel is wet. They will also be asked not to bathe or get this area wet for five hours after application. The initial dose of AndroGel will be 5.0 g (containing 50 mg of testosterone) once a day.
Drug: AndroGel® (testosterone gel)
Testosterone levels will be measured at regular intervals in order to achieve a testosterone level in the desired range.
Other Name: Testosterone gel
Placebo Comparator: Placebo gel
Placebo gel is identical to the testosterone gel and is supplied in an identical pump bottle container. It is applied to the shoulders, abdomen or upper arms once a day. Subjects will be instructed to follow the same precautions to avoid contact with others.
Drug: Placebo
Testosterone levels will be measured at regular intervals.
Detailed Description:
As men get older, they experience many conditions, often together, that eventually result in the inability to perform many activities of daily living, an increased propensity to fall, and decreased independence. These conditions include mobility disability and low vitality. Elderly men also experience increased anemia, metabolic syndrome, decreased sexual function and memory impairment. These conditions likely have multiple causes, but one cause that could contribute to all of them is a low serum testosterone concentration. When young hypogonadal men are treated with testosterone, they experience improvements in sexual function, muscle mass and strength, bone mineral density, sense of well being, and anemia. However, the benefits of testosterone therapy in older men with age-related decline in testosterone concentration are not known and are the subject of this investigation.
Participants will be treated with testosterone or placebo gel for 1 year. The dose will be adjusted in a blinded fashion to achieve a target T level range. Participants will be followed for one additional year following the treatment phase to assess adverse events.
- Men participating in the Cardiovascular Trial will be assessed for changes in atherosclerotic plaque burden from 0 to 12 months.
- Men participating in the Bone Trial will be assessed by QCT of the spine and hip, DXA of the spine and hip and clinical fractures at 0 and 12 months.
- Men participating in the PK Study will attend 3 additional study visits for blood draws at the time of the 4-month assessment.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|65 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Men greater than or equal to 65 years old
- Total serum testosterone concentration < 275 and < 300 ng/dL at 7 -10 AM at each of two screening visits
Exclusion Criteria:
- Diagnosed prostate cancer, prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN), prostate nodule or, by the Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator, a >35% risk of having overall prostate cancer or >7% risk of having high grade prostate cancer
- Severe lower urinary tract symptoms (score of > 19) by the International Prostate Symptom Score questionnaire
- Hemoglobin <10 g/dL or >16.0 g/dL
- Sleep apnea, diagnosed but untreated
- Alcohol or substance abuse within the past year (based on self report)
- Angina not controlled by treatment
- NYHA class III or IV congestive heart failure
- Myocardial infarction within the previous 3 months before entry
- Stroke within the previous 3 months before entry
- Severe pulmonary disease that precludes physical function tests
- Serum creatinine >2.2 mg/dL; ALT 3x upper limit of normal; hemoglobin A1c >8.5%, TSH > 7.5mIU/L
- Diagnosis or treatment for cancer within the past 3 years, with the exception of nonmelanotic skin cancer
- Body mass index (BMI) >37 kg/m2
- Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) Score <24
- Major psychiatric disorders, including major depression (PHQ-9 score > 14), mania, hypomania, psychosis, schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorders, that are untreated, unstable, have resulted in hospitalization or medication change within the previous three months, or would result in inability to complete the trial efficacy instruments. Subjects whose disorders have been stable while being treated for more than three months are eligible.
Use of the following medications within the previous three months:
- drugs that affect serum testosterone concentration
- rhGH or megestrol acetate
- introduction of anti-depressant medication
- daily use of prednisone for more than two weeks
- Opiate use within the past three months
- Skin conditions at the testosterone gel application site, such as ulcer, erosion, lichenification, inflammation, or crust, or generalized skin conditions such as psoriasis or eczema that might affect testosterone absorption or tolerability of the testosterone gel
- Known skin intolerance to alcohol or allergy to any of the ingredients of testosterone gel
Participants in the T Trial may also enroll in the Cardiovascular and Bone Trials if it is determined that they are eligible based on the specific exclusion criteria.
Participation in the PK Study does not involve additional exclusion criteria.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00799617
|United States, Alabama
|University of Alabama at Birmingham
|Birmingham, Alabama, United States, 35294
|United States, California
|University of California San Diego
|La Jolla, California, United States, 92093
|Center for Men's Health LA BioMed at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
|Torrance, California, United States, 90501
|United States, Connecticut
|Yale University
|New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520
|United States, Florida
|University of Florida
|Gainesville, Florida, United States, 32611
|United States, Illinois
|Northwestern University
|Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60208
|United States, Massachusetts
|Boston University
|Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215
|United States, Minnesota
|University of Minnesota
|Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455
|United States, New York
|Albert Einstein College of Medicine
|Bronx, New York, United States, 10461
|United States, Pennsylvania
|University of Pittsburgh
|Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15261
|United States, Texas
|Baylor College of Medicine
|Houston, Texas, United States, 76798
|United States, Washington
|VA Puget Sound Health Care System
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98108
|Principal Investigator:
|Peter J Snyder, MD
|University of Pennsylvania
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|University of Pennsylvania
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00799617 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U01AG030644 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
R01AG037679 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|November 26, 2008
|Last Updated:
|November 3, 2015
Keywords provided by University of Pennsylvania:
Mobility disability
Decreased libido
Age associated memory impairment
Low vitality
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Testosterone enanthate
Testosterone undecanoate
Testosterone 17 beta-cypionate
Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Antineoplastic Agents
Anabolic Agents
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 23, 2017


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When the Oakland Raiders and Kansas City Chiefs got together for their twice yearly meetings over the last 57 years, there's always been a certain edge to the competition.
Generally what has been on the line is pride, reputation and honor. Every once in a while the payoff is even larger. The latter is the case Thursday night when the Raiders visit Arrowhead Stadium to play the Chiefs. Kickoff is set for 7:35 p.m. in what is predicted to be a frigid evening, with temperatures in the high-teens and a wind-chill factor that will make it feel like 10 degrees.
The weather conditions just may help the 9-3 Chiefs cool off the hot 10-2 Raiders. The battle is for control of the AFC West, where Oakland is the leader and the Chiefs sit a game behind. But Kansas City won the first game between the teams 26-10 back in October in Oakland. Since that game the Raiders have not lost, racking up six consecutive victories by an average margin of nine points. Carr has become the first player in NFL history to throw five game-winning touchdown passes in the fourth quarter or overtime in a season.
Other than a two-point loss to Tampa Bay just over two weeks ago, the Chiefs have continued their winning ways, taking six of the last seven games. With their 11-1 record to close out the 2015 season, Kansas City is 20-4 in their last 24 regular-season and postseason games. Both teams won last Sunday, with the Chiefs beating the Falcons in Atlanta by one point and the Raiders coming from behind for a victory over Buffalo.
The short preparation time is the bane for all players and coaches, especially the Chiefs, who have had two straight road games, including the trip to Denver when they played a full 75 minutes. The Raiders will be sore, tired and cold.
The first game between these teams was a 16-point victory for the Chiefs. That day the Raiders did not have Murray, who was out with an injury. He should be on the field Thursday evening. That K.C. victory was built on ball control and security.
They'll need more of the same to slow the Raiders locomotive.

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Women Are From Venus, Men Are From… Who Knows?!?!
Women don't understand men and men don't understand women. That's a fact. We all know it. But it's very frustrating, and I just want to understand men better. So I decided to go straight to the source (men) and ask them, "Why do men do the things they do?"


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When Chicago power-rock outfit Tight Phantomz technically disbanded in 2006, lead singer-guitarist Mike Lust wasn't ready to call it quits. After touring behind 2005's Crazy When Wet, Lust started on a songwriting streak, recording a tune whenever he found the time; by late 2006, the rest of his band had called it quits for various reasons, leaving Lust alone with his new music. That didn't deter him: Lust decided to keep the name Tight Phantomz and forge ahead with what would become Silk Prison, a double album that trades the group's former hair-metal-inspired licks for melodies that alternately soar and brood—a beautiful arrangement of unconventional rock that, much like Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, dares listeners to peg it to the band's previous work.
The album is done, recorded at Lust's Humboldt Park studio Phantom Manor, but because the band's former label Southern is no longer in the picture (they amicably split in late 2006 before Southern folded in 2008), Silk Prison has an uncertain future. In the meantime, Lust continues to focus on running the studio, where he's recorded bands like the Sweep The Leg Johnny and Mannequin Men. A few weeks before Tight Phantomz's gig Friday at the Hideout (with a new lineup), The A.V. Club visited Lust at Phantom Manor—a vintage, cedar-lined former corporate boardroom, situated above a printing press—to talk about the his studio, his love of the album format, and his DIY spirit.
Listen to an exclusive stream of Silk Prison:
The A.V. Club: A few months ago, you started pressing copies of Silk Prison and handing them out yourself. Was that an attempt to circumvent the label and get it out yourself?
Mike Lust: I didn't ever want to do that. I wanted to expedite—I figured it was a record where you couldn't send a label just a couple MP3s. I thought it would be a selling point for some label to see the record the way we wanted to present it, and understand it that way before they put it out. Then it started leaking, and now a lot of people we know have copies of it, and we're fine with that. We figured that's the way people are going to start talking about it, and that's the way we can eventually, maybe, wind up on a label we'd like to be with. Just sort of generating the buzz about it, you know?
AVC: What have been potential labels' reactions to the fact that Silk Prison is a double album?
ML: For the labels that I've talked to that have wanted to put it out, it hasn't seemed to be a problem. But we shot big, sending it to a lot of the bigger labels, and I haven't done much of a follow-up with them. It's hard for me to call somebody and talk about my own record and say, "Hey, you gonna put it out?" It's almost like you want to come up with a fake name, like, "Hi, I'm calling representing Tight Phantomz." So it doesn't seem like anyone has had a problem with it, but at the same time, maybe no one has the balls to tell me that. Perhaps, because here we are, and it's getting crunch time, and if we're going to have something out properly in March or April, something has to give soon.
AVC: Has the process of finding a label changed since you guys left Southern?
ML: Maybe we're not going to be as choosy, because we can't be. Every couple weeks that your expectations get torn down a little bit, you get a little less picky. Then you get to a point where you're like, "I just want this fucking thing to come out. You want to put it out? Let's do it."
AVC: How did you arrive at the different sound for Silk Prison? It's a real departure from earlier Tight Phantomz material.
ML: Led Zeppelin started out as just a blues band, and by the third album, they've got a horn section, a 75-piece string section, and a basketball coach. And it turns out that what was a classic band sounds relevant today. I see myself as a lifer. I'm doing this, even if it's not a lucrative career. I'll go get a job doing anything just to keep doing this. So I thought we could add to the longevity of this band if we don't pigeonhole ourselves into making the same kind of album every time. [In 2005,] I'd seen where music was going, where people were making a single and throwing it in the atmosphere right away. I saw the album format start to slip away, you know? Everything was just files and MP3s, and CDs were disappearing. And so I just thought, man, I don't want this to go away. I want to make an album. And I want it to be something, if not spectacular, sort of grandiose. Suddenly I found myself in late 2006 without a band, and it fueled the fire even more for making a more bizarre record. [Since then,] there's long periods where there wasn't as much touring as I would have liked. Maybe it hurt, because I haven't been outside of Chicago. There aren't many great Chicago labels anymore, since Touch And Go and Southern have folded, and now Flameshovel [is on hiatus]. I should have probably said that earlier, but that's the crux of a lot of my frustration: having to rely on national labels now.
AVC: Has the local scene suffered without those local labels you mentioned?
ML: Yeah, it's been harder for a lot of really great bands' records to surface. I mean, there's so, so many bands in this city, you know? It's the greatest city to start a band. People want to come to Chicago and make music the way New York is great for art or LA is great for film. And it's hard with so many bands, so many clubs, so little labels, for a lot of great music to surface, really. A lot of it's—I didn't want to use the word "lost," but a lot of it just goes under the radar because there's oversaturation, you know? People are tired of going to shows every night. They get tired of going to street fairs every weekend.
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ENGLAND head coach Stuart Lancaster praised former Dursley youth player Charlie Sharples after he scored two tries in England's demolition of Fiji.
The Gloucester wing, starting in place of the suspended Chris Ashton, was unfortunate not to score a hat-trick in the 54-12 win at Twickeham and pressed his claims for a start against Australia next Saturday.
Ugo Monye on the opposite wing also bagged a try on his return to the England team and with Chris Ashton set to return to face Australia, Lancaster faces a welcome selection headache.
"Chris Ashton is back so there are selection decisions to be made. It's not a nightmare at all," Lancaster said.
"It's a great position to be in. Charlie did what we wanted him to. He was excellent in every area."
While Dursley celebrated Sharples' achievements of becoming the first player to come through their youth ranks and score an international try for the senior England side, it was also a monumental day for the town of Thornbury.
Mako Vunipola became the first person to come from The Castle School and Thornbury Broncos Youth Rugby Club to earn a senior England cap when he came on as a replacement early in the second half.
Sharples scored his first try when he evaded four tackles to stretch over in the corner, shortly after a Toby Flood penalty gave England the lead.
Three more England tries followed before Sharples doubled his tally in the second half when he stepped inside from Flood's long pass to go down in the corner again.


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Landing in fifth place on Forbes's top-earning models list, Dutch beauty Doutzen Kroes continues to make her mark on the fashion world. The Victoria's Secret model earned her wings in 2008, just four years after she began working with the brand. She is currently a spokesperson for L'Oréal Paris, and she fronts Spring 2013 ads for Tiffany & Co and Miu Miu. In honor of her 28th birthday on January 23, we take a look at her top style and beauty moments.
Here, she wears a tuxedo jacket with red leather pants at the Dance4Life World AIDS Day Benefit Fundraiser.
She steps out in a sheer Sophie Theallet number at the CFDA Fashion Awards.
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Using the NAG C Library Mark 23 with Java
The information here is applicable to the DLLs supplied with CLW3223DAL.
The NAG technical report TR2_09 gives full details of how to build the necessary interfaces using Java and Visual C++.
Remember that to be able to run the Java program, the NAG C Library DLL will need to appear somewhere in your current path. For example, if the DLLs are in C:\Program Files\NAG\CL23\clw3223dal\bin, then your PATH environment variable must contain this folder. If you are using the MKL-based version of the NAG C Library (CLW3223DA_mkl.dll), then the folder containing the MKL DLLs should also be on your path, but should appear later in the path than the bin folder for the NAG C Library DLLs, e.g.
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Debbie Sterling is an engineer from Stanford who has created a new kids' toy aimed at attracting young girls to the field of engineering. The toy company, called Goldie Blox, consists of a book series and construction toy (now available at Toys R Us). The book follows Goldie and her friends as they go on adventures and solve problems by building simple machines. The goal is for young girls to read along and build what Goldie builds using their toolkits.
According to Ms. Sterling, she only knew engineering even existed because her math teacher from high school said she should explore it. "I'm creating a toy company that teaches little girls what engineering is, making it fun and accessible. I'm making sure that girls don't have to rely on a serendipitous comment from a teacher to realize their passion for engineering," she says.
Wouldn't it be cool if we wrote another "Meet a Manufacturing Engineer" story—about 15 years from now in which something as simple as a kid's toy convinced somebody to go into engineering or manufacturing? It will be interesting to see what resources and tactics actually work to attract, educate and train the next generation.


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In keeping with a new strategic direction to focus on core businesses of bananas and salad mixes, Chiquita Brands International Inc. is consolidating divisions, and named Brian Kocher as chief operating officer to lead the effort.
The company is searching for a successor to Kocher's chief financial officer position, and he will continue in that role until a hire is made.
The company is consolidating global sales, business units and food safety capabilities into a single organization which Kocher will lead. He will focus on increasing cash flow in core businesses and driving value through customer relationships, according to a news release.
Commercial operations will focus on global banana sales, and salad and healthy snacks in North America primarily through subsidiary Fresh Express Inc., Salinas, Calif.
Kocher joined Chiquita, Charlotte, N.C., in 2005. Before his position as chief financial officer, he was Chiquita's president, North America; president, Europe and the Middle East and vice president, controller and chief accounting officer, according to the release.
He has more than 18 years of accounting, sales, finance and business process change expertise.


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OK, so this isn't exactly "barbecue," but huge sections of BB and HTG are devoted to kebabs and the like, something we've been making more and more of lately, so I thought I'd share this experience.
The wife and I got rid of the kids last night and headed out to Newport on the Levee in Kentucky. After getting no service at the bar we went to, we walked out and looked around for what we wanted to eat. We were walking to Johnny Rockers when I saw Cafe Istanbul across the courtyard and said one word to the wife, "kebabs."
The wife had the Adana kebabs, and I had the Doner ones. Our food came with rice, a veggie medley that was fresh, and fresh flatbread that was a cross between pita and naan. The yogurt sauce was great as well.
The meat was great, but our dinners were pricey at 15 per for street food, but I chalk that up to America. We love paying too much for peasant food. Besides, I don't mind paying a little extra for fresh food, and this place claims to do all their own butchering and yogurt making. Overall the food was very good and a nice change. I'd go back again for a nice late dinner with my wife and/or friends, which is a strong possibilty because of the location.
edit: Also, I didn't see any baba ganush on the menu, although the one on the wbsite does, and I was a little disapointed. The website menu is different than the one they gave us last night, so they've either taken it off or I just didn't see it.


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FIREFIGHTERS spent an hour-and-a-half talking a fire in a field in Malvern.
Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service was called just after 5.30pm yesterday (Thursday) to Meadow Sweet Court and found a 50 by 50 metre mound of freshly-cut grass on fire.
Two crews from Malvern along with two off-road vehicles attended and used backpacks and beaters to extinguish the blaze just after 7pm.
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- US shares drop on fiscal failure
- European shares down on US cliff worries
- Gold slumps to near four-month low
- AUD slips 0.7 per cent to $US1.0424
- SPI futures up 24 points to 4616
- Wall Street Week Ahead: Traders brace for the coming storm
- So what now? seven 'fiscal cliff' scenarios
Oil prices fell on Friday after Republican lawmakers in the United States withheld support for a proposal to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, reinforcing concerns that a budget deal will not be reached before the end of the year.
The Republicans late on Thursday abandoned their own proposed solution, championed by House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, to head off $US600 billion worth of tax increases and spending cuts that investors fear could push the US economy into recession next year.
"The petroleum markets are coming under selling pressure on equity market weakness and US dollar strength after a 'Plan B' fiscal bill failed to garner enough support to pass the US House of Representatives," Tim Evans, energy futures specialist at Citi Futures and OTC Clearing, said in an email to clients.
Global stock markets fell on Friday, while the euro slipped and the dollar strengthened, on pressure from the latest setback in budget talks and evidence of Europe's ongoing economic woes.
US crude remained on pace to post a second consecutive weekly gain, as Middle East instability and expectations for revived growth in China provide support to oil prices.
Brent February crude fell $US1.36 to $US108.84 a barrel. Front-month Brent prices need to close above $US109.15, settlement of the expiring January contract last Friday, to prevent posting a weekly loss.
Brent reached $US110.28 on Friday, edging above the $US110.24 200-day moving average, then slipped as low as $US108.66, back below the 50-day moving average.
US February crude was down $US1.75 at $US88.38 a barrel, having traded from $US87.96 to $US90.07.
Sharp price swings have been aided by thin volumes ahead of end-of-year holiday's next week, traders and brokers said. Turnover was 50 per cent below the 30-day averages for Brent and US crude futures at midday in New York.
US RBOB gasoline and heating oil futures also fell, with heating oil feeling pressure from seasonally mild weather.
A drop in consumer sentiment in December, as the budget talks dragged on, added pressure on oil futures on Friday.
The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's final reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment tumbled to 72.9 from 82.7 in November, worse than forecasts for a reading of 74.7 and the lowest since July.
Analysts are more positive on the prospects for the oil market in the New Year, following Chinese data showing higher demand and on expectations of slightly faster global economic growth.
World oil demand growth looks set to rise in 2013 due to a recovery in the US economy, according to many forecasters.
The US economy grew faster than previously thought, at a 3.1 per cent annual rate in the third quarter, the Commerce Department said. It was the fastest pace since late 2011 and more than double the second quarter's 1.3 per cent rate.


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U.S. coral reef ecosystems cover less than one percent of the earth's surface, yet
are among the most diverse and productive communities on Earth. They enhance biological
diversity, fisheries, tourism, maritime and cultural heritage, and protect shorelines
from storm damage. Stressed by human activities and extreme events, coral reefs
are in decline worldwide. Excess nutrients and sediments, overfishing, coastal development,
and increased coral bleaching threaten nearly 60 percent of the world's reefs and
the resources they support.
Seagrasses are also in decline world-wide, unable to withstand the cumulative toll
of nutrient and sediment runoff, invasive species, disease, commercial fishing and
aquaculture practices, and climate change. Ship groundings and prop scars are
also problem. Seagrasses stabilize sediments, alter water flow and nutrient cycling,
and provide habitat for fish and invertebrates.
NCCOS is working
to understand these problems and evaluate possible solutions. We assess, map, and
monitor coral reef ecosystems throughout the U.S. and the Freely Associated States.
We led the development of the first national State of the Reefs
reports and are key players in mapping U.S. shallow-water
coral reef systems. With the release of the National Summary of NOAA's Shallow-water Benthic Habitat Mapping
of U.S. Coral Reef Ecosystems,
NCCOS and its partners have mapped nearly 3 million acres (or 12,100
km2) of coral reef ecosystem habitats across the nation. With respect
to seagrass, we
developed many of
the techniques used in seagrass restoration and the monitoring and evaluation of
restoration projects.
We are leading an effort to characterize and understand intermediate depth,
mesophotic coral ecosystems found between 30-150 meters (100-490 feet). This
includes publishing the first Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems
Research Strategy to identify critical research
needs to help inform management of these ecosystems and a dedicated theme section
in the journal Coral Reefs
focused on the state of knowledge regarding mesophotic
coral ecosystems.
NOAA is locating and protecting many of the nation's deep-sea corals for the habitat they provide to fisheries. To support this effort,
NCCOS is building a national geo-database of deep-sea corals and sponges, and developing predictive models to identify places where deep corals are most likely to grow. This helps NOAA focus mapping and exploration efforts in areas where deep reefs are likely to occur. NCCOS conducts field surveys of deep-water habitats throughout the US, providing crucial scientific data and analyses of ecosystem diversity, health, and condition that support coastal ecosystem management.


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A MAJOR Worcester road has now reopened following a fire in an airing cupboard but things could have been much worse if the property had not had a smoke alarm.
Fire fighters were called to Tolladine Road in Worcester at 7am today after an electrical fault caused the fire.
Fire fighters used a hose reel to dampen down clothes outside the bungalow. At the peak of the incident there were three fire engines and an ambulance although no-one needed hospital treatment.
A fan was used to clear smoke. One lane of the road was closed while the fire was brought under control with a fire fighter directing traffic. The stop message was received at 7.50am.
Jim Nokes, crew commander at blue watch, said: "The smoke alarms went off. That saved the day. I would recommend that everybody check their smoke alarms.


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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in Carrie Bradshaw's apartment and stare into the streets of Manhattan hoping to one day find love and buy labels?
Now, you can! Well, if you can find $9.65 million in spare change between the couch cushions, that is.
The townhouse, which is located at 64 Perry St., was used as the backdrop of the Sex and the City writer's apartment. The West Village home boasts four floors, six fireplaces and 10 rooms.
The brownstone went back on the market Saturday. A rep for Sotheby's confirmed that showings began Tuesday.
New owners bought it in November for $9 million, but now they are hoping to flip it after they have done extensive repairs. The house was built in 1866.
The new owners will hopefully be tourist-friendly. Even today, eight years after the series ended, people live vicariously and swing by the location to take their pictures in front of Carrie Bradshaw's iconic apartment.
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Make Your Own Babaganoushby Toby Amidor in Healthy Recipes, August 16, 2011
My family originates from the Middle East so it's traditional to find babaganoush alongside typical appetizers like hummus, tahini, pita bread, pickled vegetables and olives. Here are the basics to making a killer babaganoush.
The Eggplant
Babaganoush is basically a pureed eggplant salad. It's typically used as a condiment or dip for veggies and pita bread. Make babaganoush by selecting a shiny and firm eggplant that's heavy for its size. Rev up your oven and roast it for about 30 to 40 minutes until the center is tender. Some recipes call for peeled and diced or sliced eggplant, while others tell you to bake it whole. The main goal is to get the inside of the eggplant soft enough so you can puree it.
The Flavors
I like traditional flavors mixed with my babaganoush like lemon juice, olive oil, tahini (sesame seed paste) and garlic. You may find spiced up versions with tomatoes, peppers, jalapeno, thyme or basil. Experiment with your favorite flavor combinations and make it your own. Here's my recipe for Israeli-style babaganoush.
Traditional Babaganoush
Serves: 12
Serving size: ¼ cup
1 large eggplant, halved lengthwise
1/4 cup lemon juice
1/4 cup tahini
1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
Salt and pepper to taste
Nonstick cooking spray
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Place eggplant cut side up on a baking sheet coated with non-stick cooking spray. Roast for 30 to 40 minutes, turning occasionally, until soft. Remove from oven and let cool for about 10 minutes. Scoop out flesh with a spoon; discard skin.
Place roasted eggplant, lemon juice, tahini, sesame seeds, and garlic in a blender; puree until smooth. Season with salt and pepper, to taste. Transfer eggplant mixture to a medium bowl and mix in olive oil. Refrigerate for 3 hours before serving.
Nutrition Information (per ¼ cup serving)
Calories: 60
Total Fat: 5 grams
Saturated Fat: 0.5 grams
Protein: 2 grams
Total carbohydrate: 4 grams
Fiber: 2 grams
Cholesterol: 0 milligrams
Sodium: 50 milligrams
Recipes to try:
Toby Amidor, MS, RD, CDN, is a registered dietitian and consultant who specializes in food safety and culinary nutrition. See Toby's full bio »


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Observation Balloons
The Film
Running Time
03 min 55 s
Canadian War Records Office, Ministry of Information
This footage shows a ground crew preparing for the ascent of an observation ballon and the observer crew preparing to board the gondola.
Images of the ascending balloon are followed by a series of aerial shots of the surrounding area, including some lower level aerial shots of a town with railway lines. The clip concludes with images of a parachute, possibly carrying an object or message, falling onto treetops, and a shot of the balloon being winched back to ground.
Balloons were used in warfare as early as 1794, when French revolutionary armies employed them for artillery observation. They were used in various 19th century conflicts, including the American Civil War: in addition to being a cavalry officer, Lt George Armstrong Custer was also a balloon observer. In 1911 the Italians used both balloons and aircraft in their invasion of Libya.
Observation balloons — oblong gas bags slung with an underhanging gondola — were used extensively throughout the First World War, when massed artillery, barbed wire and trenches resulted in extended stalemates on the ground. In these conditions, aerial observers would emerge as the most important airmen in the war effort.
Manning a balloon was a dangerous job. The crews would be suspended under giant containers of flammable hydrogen, which were highly vulnerable to enemy fire. They at least had parachutes — which was generally not case for the men who flew and crewed other types of aircraft. Balloons would always be tethered, and were not necessarily manned by trained balloonists but rather by artillery specialists.
Early descriptions of this footage identified the town seen from the air as Mons, in Belgium. However, this is unlikely, given that Mons was well behind German lines for most of the war. It was captured by the Germans in mid-August, 1914, and was not retaken by British and Canadian forces until November, 1918. During this long period, Mons might have been reconnoitered by aircraft but would not have been under balloon observation.
Pieces of History
The First Air War
Hugh A. Halliday
Historian and author
During the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) experts noted that smokeless powder, rifled artillery, machine guns and barbed wire had turned battlefields into vast wastelands where armies hid from their opponent's shells. Cavalry—the traditional form of reconnaissance—could not manoeuvre . Ten years later, aircraft made stalemate even more certain. In August 1914 aerial reconnaissance enabled the Allies to counter-attack against German armies invading France. Thereafter, with few exceptions, aerial observers forecast an enemy's offensive and thus assured its failure (or success, at appalling cost).
The power of aerial observation went further. With armies driven into complex trench systems, artillery came to the fore as the deadliest weapon of the war. The great guns of the Western Front were the primary killing machines of what had become industrialized warfare—65 percent of all deaths and wounds were attributable to artillery fire, which delivered awesome weights of shell and shrapnel.
Days before his death by artillery fire, an American soldier wrote, "This is a cowering war—pygmy man huddles in little holes and caves, praying to escape the blows of the blind giant who pounds the ground with blind hammers." But the hammers were not blind. Their targets were mapped by men in aircraft and balloons, their fire was directed from aircraft and balloons. The aerial observer was the most important airman of the war; his role today has been assumed by others, including the aerial spy satellite.
The courage of these men defies imagination. Balloon observers ascended under gas bags filled with flammable hydrogen, vulnerable to fighter aircraft determined to shoot them down. The men in the balloons at least had parachutes, if time permitted them to escape. For most of the war, pilots and airplane crews had no such equipment; fire in the air was the most dreaded fate of all, and many men carried pistols to shoot themselves rather than suffer agonizing deaths. In June 1918 German aircrews were issued parachutes; even these failed to deploy about 25 percent of the time.
Given the importance of aerial reconnaissance and artillery direction, it is puzzling to find so much attention being devoted to fighter pilots, these "knights of the air." Fighter pilots and tactics evolved from 1915 onwards, but their task was always secondary to that of the observation crews. It was a fighter pilot's job to shoot down enemy observation aircraft and protect his own observation aircraft. Nevertheless, propagandists trying to divert attention from the awful slaughter on the ground fastened upon the fighter pilots as men engaged in single combat, man-to-man, with the high-scoring "ace" as the centrepiece of the narrative. Never mind that the fighter pilot's objective was (preferably) to surprise an opponent and shoot him in the back. Chivalry there might be—a decent burial for a fallen enemy, a toast with a captured foe—but in the heat of battle there could be only one rule: kill or be killed. At the heart of everything else, that was a fighter pilot's job description. It is a measure of the propagandist's success that, 90 years later, the public knows more about the First World War fighter pilots than the men they were actually protecting.
Airplanes were used for many other tasks—anti-submarine patrols, trench strafing, communications and bombing. Indeed, aircraft performed almost every task in the First World War that they would later execute in the Second World War. The one exception was the aerial delivery of soldiers. Even so, aircraft were used to place spies behind enemy lines and drop supplies to isolated troops. Nevertheless, in most roles the airplanes of 1914-1918 only hinted at what was to come. Only one submarine was sunk by aircraft during the First World War; at least 400 submarines on all sides were destroyed by aircraft during the Second World War. Aerial bombing between 1914 and 1918 inflicted only modest devastation (although its psychological impact was very great at the outset); the bombing campaigns of the Second World War were horrific both in physical impact and subsequent moral outrage.
Aircraft affected the conduct of the war, and war influenced the technological development of aircraft. For example, engines increased from an average of 80 horsepower (1914) to 350 horsepower (1918), while speeds of 110 km/h had risen to about 200 km/h. Yet if the war had not taken place, it is conceivable that commercial incentives might have produced similar results. The first four-engine airliner had flown in Russia in 1913. Might not development have taken place along civilian lines ? Five years later, France and Britain initiated civilian air transport services using modified bombers that carried fewer passengers than their Russian predecessors of 1913.
Whether or not it was due to war, a radical transformation occurred between 1914 and 1918 that involved the attitudes of aviators themselves. Even among the select circle of 1914 pilots, flying was considered hazardous,, and training methods reflected this. At the time, no aircraft had been designed specifically for training; throughout the war most training aircraft were machines like the RE.7 and Farman Shorthorn, which had been retired from front-line duties to rear echelon tasks. The Curtiss JN-4 broke this pattern.
The most radical change, however, involved the training syllabus itself. Early flying instruction covered the basics of flying but emphasized dangers to be avoided, particularly stalls and spins. By 1916, however, the dynamics of flight controls were more fully understood, and recovery from spins could be practised. New systems of instruction emphasized the theory of flight and explained exactly how manoeuvres could be executed, thus encouraging intelligent aerobatics. Instead of being regarded as a threatening mount, the airplane came to be seen as an even-tempered, reasonable machine. Previously, students had been taught what to avoid; the new methods instilled confidence. By the end of the war, pilots had become enthusiastic about the potential uses of aircraft and convinced of the fundamental safety of their machines. Confident prophets inspire confident converts.
Canada's role in these developments was insignificant in some ways, crucial in others. Before the war the government studiously ignored aviation, and only in 1918 did it take steps to form distinct Canadian air force units. On the other hand, it assisted the British flying services, which recruited in Canada and trained personnel in this country. Thousands of Canadians enlisted in the British flying services, either directly or by transferring from the Canadian Expeditionary Force. No one really knows just how many joined; the lowest estimate (13,160) seems too modest, but the highest guess (22,812) cannot be documented. It is generally believed that, as of 1918, about one-quarter of all members of the Royal Air Force were Canadians. The most famous were aces such as Raymond Collishaw and William Barker, but they included many other fascinating individuals. In 1915, Redford Mulock had been a trooper transferring from the cavalry to the Royal Naval Air Service. As of November 1918, he was a decorated colonel commanding heavy bombers that would have raided Berlin if the war had lasted only two weeks longer.
Selected Bibliography
Chajkowsky, William E. Royal Flying Corps; Borden to Texas to Beamsville. Cheltenham, ON: Boston Mills Press, 1979.
Costello, W. Brian. A Nursery of the Air Force. Carleton Place, ON: Forest Beauty Products, 1979.
Dodds, Ronald. The Brave Young Wings. Stittsville, ON: Canada's Wings, 1980.
Drew, George. Canada's Fighting Airmen. Toronto: Maclean Publishing, 1931.
Ellis, Frank H. Canada's Flying Heritage. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1954.
Fuller, G.A., J.A. Griffin and K.A. Molson. 125 Years of Canadian Aeronautics: A Chronology,1840-1965. Toronto: Canadian Aviation Historical Society, 1983.
Goodspeed, D. J. The Armed Forces of Canada,1867-1967. Ottawa: Canadian Forces Headquarters, 1967.
Greenhous, Brereton. The Making of Billy Bishop. Toronto: Dundern Group, 2002.
Greenhous, Brereton and Hugh A. Halliday. Canada's Air Forces,1914-1999. Montreal: Art Global, 1999.
Halliday , Hugh A. Not in the Face of the Enemy: Canadians Awarded the Air Force Cross and Air Force Medal,1918-1966. Toronto: Robin Brass Studio, 2000.
Jones, Neville. The Origins of Strategic Bombing. London: William Kimber, 1973.
Milberry, Larry. Aviation in Canada. Toronto: Canav Books, 1979.
---. Canada's Air Force at War and Peace. 3 vol. Toronto: Canav Books, 1999 to 2001.
Rimell, Raymond Laurence. Zeppelin! A Battle for Air Supremacy in World War I. Stittsville, ON: Canada's Wings, 1984.
Shores, Christopher, Norman Franks and Russell Guest. Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915-1920. Stoney Creek, ON: Fortress Publications, 1990.
Sullivan, Alan. Aviation in Canada,1917-1918. Toronto: Rous and Rous, 1919.
Wise, S.F. Canadian Airmen and the First World War. Ottawa: Department of National Defence, 1982.
The following Web site has a section "Honours and Awards" and a subsection dealing with Canadians in the British Flying Services during the First World War: http://www.airforce.ca/.
Battlefield Communications
Bill Rawling
Historian, Department of National Defence
Battlefield communications were a mix of old and new. The Western Front benefited from the most technologically advanced artillery, where the guns could call on wireless-equipped aircraft to correct fall of shot. The communications technology available to the infantry was far less advanced, however; in late 1914 and early 1915, the Canadians in England who would be responsible for sending and receiving messages from the front were trained on flag drill and lamps.
The Telephone
The telephone, the most convenient means of communication then available, was the responsibility of brigade and division signallers, who, although farther back from the front line, faced an almost impossible task. When laid on the ground, wire was easily destroyed by shelling, and the Germans did not lack for artillery. Stringing it up on poles increased its endurance only slightly, so the only recourse left to signallers was to bury it. Finding labour for such a task when infantry units, who normally provided work parties, were busy digging their own trenches and dugouts was not easy, and a wire shortage made matters worse.
By July 1916, cable laying was somewhat faster, but only because an entire battalion worked on the project at any given time, and soldiers digging trenches for telephone lines were subjected to shelling and machine gun fire as they worked through the night. Wireless telegraphy, which as its name implies did away with wire, was in the early years of the war available only in small numbers, reflecting limited manufacturing resources. Heavy reliance on the telephone, then, could not be avoided, though something had to be done about wires and cables that were continually being cut by artillery and the movements of one's own vehicles. A possible solution was soon forthcoming—laddering—a technique of laying parallel cables about 60 yards apart connected by lateral lines. To shut down communications, artillery would have to cut both main cables between cross-pieces.
Reliance on runners
Still, keeping in touch with the troops who were fighting their way into enemy trenches was an almost insoluble problem. After an attack on November 17, 1916, the 5th Brigade reported that its battalions had kept in touch with the front line with visual signals, but such ease of communication was uncommon, and even the formation in question mentioned that it also relied on runners. Forward of battalion headquarters the most common means of sending information was to have men hand-carry messages through shelling and, occasionally, machine gun fire. After two months of fighting on the Somme in the fall of 1916, commanders simply assumed that runners would be the only way to get messages across no man's land and planned accordingly.
Contact patrols
An added possibility was contact patrols—aircraft that were supposed to advise commanders of what they could see by dropping messages or using wireless telegraphy, but the system was still experimental in 1916. The 78th Battalion suggested that, for troops in an advance, "Communication to contact airplanes is best maintained by flares," but such techniques required perfect timing to ensure the signals were lit while the aircraft was in position to see them. Such synchronization was difficult to achieve when men were fighting for their lives.
Rather than solve the problem of communications on the battlefield, each new development was simply added to existing methods. At Vimy Ridge in April 1917, the Canadian Corps sought to maintain communications by exploiting every means available: runners, flags, pigeons and telephones. A little later, on August 15, the Canadian Corps assaulted and captured Hill 70, and here wireless played an important role, as the Canadians relied on their gunners to break up the inevitable German counterattacks. Signallers could send back quick corrections to an artillery exchange, which then passed on the information to the guns by telephone.
Until the end of the war, forward of brigade headquarters (which kept in touch with its flanks and higher formations with telephone or wireless), the most common and effective means of communication remained the runner, who carried written messages through enemy and friendly fire to keep commanders appraised of the situation so they could allocate reserves or artillery support accordingly.
Near the end of the war
In 1918, the war entered a more mobile phase. Headquarters had to move often in spite of their heavy reliance on the telephone, pushing signallers almost to the breaking point to keep messages moving. The tendency to multiply methods of communication, as at Vimy Ridge, continued. Telephones, visual signalling, pigeons, message-carrying rockets, wireless, runners and contact patrols were all available in the final battles of the war.
In the Canadian Corps' last set-piece attack at Valenciennes on November 1 and 2, there was no time to lay cable, and all messages from brigade to higher headquarters were sent through wireless stations. Communications between aircraft and troops on the ground, however, had not improved. Infantry devised a new system for signalling contact patrols: troops waved a white cloth with a metal disk sewn on the inside flap of the gas mask when they were called; and though the Royal Air Force found the devices very useful in determining the infantry's position, air-ground communications in the last Hundred Days were essentially the same as those of 1917, and remained so until the Armistice was declared on November11.
The First World War did see the development of aircraft, submarines and tanks as weapons of warfare, tactics underwent drastic changes as fire and movement replaced wave attacks, and scientific gunnery proved ever more capable of supporting infantry battalions as they struggled to survive in one of the most hostile environments our species has yet devised. However, in the realm of communications, the revolutionary developments of previous decades—especially the telephone and wireless telegraph—were only partially applied to the information problems of the modern battlefield. In fact, the runner remained an important link between the front line and headquarters until the very last days of the conflict.
Selected Bibliography
Moir, John S., ed. History of the Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, 1903-1961. Ottawa: Royal Canadian Corps of Signals, Corps Committee, 1962.
Rawling, Bill. Surviving Trench Warfare : Technology and the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Teaching Materials
Films : Observation Balloons, Fighter Planes, Airplane Casualties
Background Notes for the Teacher
At the beginning of World War I, the airplane was used for reconnaissance. It had a top speed of about 120 km/h and was not equipped with ammunition. By the end of the war, bombers could reach speeds over 275 km/h and carried up to 3 tons of explosives.
A pilot needed to be able to do more than fly an airplane and fire artillery. He was required to read maps, take aerial photographs, make meteorological observations, assess enemy capabilities and communicate using a wireless telegraph system. Pilots faced many hardships in their open cockpits. Rain and cold made flying at high altitudes very uncomfortable. Sunlight could be blinding and it was difficult to distinguish between Allied and enemy planes even in the best of conditions.
Two of Canada's most decorated fighter pilots were Billy Bishop and Billy Barker. Bishop was credited with 72 confirmed victories while Barker destroyed 50 enemy planes. A pilot was classified as an "ace" if he shot down five enemy aircraft.
From the 1870s until the 1940s, tobacco companies issued trading cards to help sell their product. Baseball players, airplanes and war heroes were some of the trading card subjects. This marked the beginning of the trading card industry.
Introducing the Subject
Discuss how the military uses planes today (reconnaissance, bombing, troop and equipment deployment).
Study a picture of an airplane from World War I.
Would this aircraft have been capable of transporting troops and supplies?
Teaching and Learning
View film footage and have students identify some of the ways that planes were used by Allied forces.
Together, list other functions not shown in the footage.
Discuss the challenges of flying in an open cockpit.
Applying the Knowledge
Students can research a famous Canadian World War I pilot (e.g. Billy Bishop, Billy Barker, Raymond Collishaw, D.R. MacLaren) or one of the planes used by the CEF.
Provide students with some background information on the history of the tobacco card. Ask them to design their own trading card highlighting what they have learned about their topic.
Teacher Reflections
Were students able to trace the evolution of the airplane during World War I?
Did they recognize the courage required to be an aviator?


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A CHAMPION of cancer patient support is calling on Swindonians to dig deep in a bid to raise the £3m required to fund a new radiotherapy unit in the town.
Patients currently travel up to an hour-and-a-half each way to Churchill Hospital in Oxford to receive radiotherapy treatment.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust's (OUHT) board last month backed the creation of the new unit, which would help ease demand and allow Swindon residents to receive treatment much closer to home.
The OUHT would pay up to £14.7m for the unit but £3m would be needed from fundraising across Swindon and Wiltshire.
Cancer survivor Alan Nix, who is one of the founders of self-help group ABC, which stands for Affected By Cancer, is now urging residents to donate generously to ensure no-one ever has to endure more than is strictly necessary while fighting a life-threatening illness.
The new department would make an enormous difference in the lives of patients and the parents of young children forced to undergo radiotherapy for days on end, according to Alan, who is no stranger to the physical and emotional impact the treatment too often has.
The 79-year-old became a frequent visitor to Oxford's health services back in the early 1970s after his three-year-old son Simon was diagnosed with Wilms' tumour, a growth the size of an orange on his kidney. He died after a year following unsuccessful courses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Simon would now be 55 years old.
And, 12 years ago, father-of-three Alan found himself travelling back to Oxford for radiotherapy after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
"No-one can imagine the torment of submitting a child to the trauma of radiotherapy and chemotherapy," said Alan, from Lawn. "Recently I had my own Oxford experience that included the nauseous, incontinent return home after treatment.
"I was so poorly in the end and so tired I rented accommodation and stayed there."
He added: "Finally, our efforts to establish a Swindon-based facility are now rewarded with the prospect of the dreadful Oxford journey for cancer patients, parents and carers soon to be just unpleasant memories."
The £3m needed is a relatively small price to pay for the well-being of hundreds of patients each year, Alan added.
"If people don't help, nothing will get done," he said. "Fortunately, the people of Swindon do not have history of 'passing by on the other side'. Large businesses I am sure will be making a contribution."
To find out more about ABC contact chairman Tony Pocock on 01793 432417.
Sam's marathon effort in memory of daughter
DISTRICT Nurse Sam Richards lost her baby daughter to a viral infection and now she is running the London Marathon for Children with Cancer UK.
The 40-year-old from Stratton specialises in palliative care and works regularly with people who suffer with cancer and their families. She said: "In my role as a district nursing sister I specialise in palliative care. "I work with many families in the local community who have been affected by cancer.
"Sadly, my role doesn't change the outcome but, through dignity, support and symptom management, I can make things easier for those involved.
"For me it is a privilege to be involved at such an intimate time of life. I have worked with some very brave people."
Sam experienced her own grief through cancer after she lost her daughter, Siobhan, who would have celebrated her 18th birthday yesterday.
Sam, who also has two younger teenage daughters, said: "As a mother I have sadly been through my own personal experience of loss and this year would have signified the 18th birthday of my gorgeous daughter Siobhan, who sadly died through illness. "Losing a child is one of the worst things that can happen to you, and it is something I have a personal experience with having lost my child to cancer.
"It was probably the most painful experience I've ever been through.
"I wanted to run the Virgin London Marathon to raise as much money as possible for Children With Cancer, although my circumstances were different. "I just want to do what I can to help other people going through the same thing. "Hopefully the money I raise will help other families so no more children have to go through what we did.
"I am incredibly passionate in supporting others living and coping with children with cancer."
Sam hopes to raise £1,000 for the charity, and she is well on her way after clocking up more than £400.
To prepare for the marathon in London, Sam has taken part in a number of other races in the area.
As part of her fundraising efforts, Sam is holding a charity gig to help raise funds for Children With Cancer UK.
The event will take place on Saturday at the Southgate Inn in Devizes and will feature a performance from local rock band Wipeout.
From 7.30pm everyone is welcome to come along to the free event and help her to raise the money, and there will also be a raffle in the evening with a top prize of a 30-minute flight in a private plane.
Children With Cancer UK is a national charity leading the fight against childhood cancer, which is the biggest child-killer disease in the UK with 3,600 children and young people diagnosed every year.
The charity funds life-saving research into the causes, prevention and treatment of childhood cancer. To show your support for Sam, donate through her Just Giving page at www.justgiving.com/ Sam-Richards1.


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COMMUTERS trying to beat the traffic to Worcester when floods closed the river bridge have caused pot holes along a road in Powick, near Malvern.
Councillor David Hall brought it to Powick Parish Council's attention at a meeting on Wednesday, March 5, that damage had been caused along King's End Road.
He said: "While Worcester bridge was closed, a lot of traffic was using that road from the bottom up to King's End Farm and we now have quite a few pot holes."
Vice chairman Colin Phillips said traffic backed-up through Malvern making cars find another route along King's End Road to the city centre to attempt to avoid long queues.
The pot holes will be officially reported to the Worcestershire County Council hub to be repaired.


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Reds ride power to series victory over Bucs
Negron, Frazier homer to fuel Cueto's 10th win
CINCINNATI -- With injuries mounting for the Reds this season, sound bench play carried Cincinnati in the first half. So it was fitting that in the final game before the All-Star break, a new name was added to the list of contributions by Reds reserves.
Rookie Kristopher Negron delivered his first Major League home run and All-Star Todd Frazier hit his 19th of the season to help Cincinnati to a 6-3 win over the Pirates at Great American Ball Park on Sunday, keeping them 1 1/2 games off the pace in the National League Central.
With two on and two outs in the second, Negron -- who was called up from Triple-A Louisville on Thursday and started at second for Ramon Santiago (sore left shoulder) -- drove a changeup from Pittsburgh starter Francisco Liriano over the wall in right-center field to put Cincinnati ahead, 3-0.
"[Liriano] sinks the ball away, changeup away, so anything up in the zone on the outer half of the plate, I was looking to drive that way," Negron said.
"[I was] told to throw him a change down and away, it stayed up the middle, a mistake pitch, and he got it pretty good," said Liriano.
Even though Santiago was able to play in spite of the sore shoulder, Reds manager Bryan Price penciled Negron into the starting lineup at a position that is wearing very thin for Cincinnati with everyday starter Brandon Phillips recovering from surgery to repair a torn ligament in his left thumb.
"Another great move, huh?" Price joked after the game. "Just like all the other guys that have gotten an opportunity here lately, [Negron] stepped up and, I mean, that's a three-run homer off an outstanding pitcher to give us an opportunity to take an early lead."
The homer gave Reds starter Johnny Cueto an early cushion to work with, and he was grateful."
"I felt great that he did that, hitting that home run," Cueto said through translator Tomas Vera. "He not only lifted me up, but he lifted up the rest of the team."
Cueto needed some run support on a sweltering Sunday in Cincinnati, with temperatures reaching the low 90s and high humidity before a thunderstorm moved in, causing a 56-minute rain delay in the middle of the fifth.
Pittsburgh got to the All-Star right-hander in the fourth, when Andrew McCutchen tripled and scored on a Neil Walker groundout.
In the fifth, Cueto walked Pedro Alvarez and one out later, issued a free pass to pinch-hitter Travis Snider. Following the rain delay, Cueto struck out Gregory Polanco, but then gave up an RBI single to Josh Harrison that made it 4-2.
Walker led off the sixth with a solo homer to right for Pittsburgh's third run.
Overall, Cueto allowed three runs on five hits, two walks and a hit batsman, while striking out seven over six innings.
"It was hot, and with the humidity, I couldn't even see the strike zone sometimes," Cueto said. "It was not easy [during the rain delay]; I don't recommend that to anybody. I hope nobody has to go through that. When you're up in your tempo and then you've got to come back and wait and wait and wait, you've got to create so many things. And I thank Bryan that he let me continue in the game."
The Reds added a run in the fifth on All-Star Devin Mesoraco's RBI double.
With Cincinnati clinging to a 4-3 advantage in the sixth, Frazier hit a two-run shot off Pittsburgh reliever Vance Worley just inside the foul pole down the right-field line to make it 6-3.
After Jumbo Diaz and Jonathan Broxton combined for two scoreless innings of relief, Aroldis Chapman closed the game out for his 21st save on the season. In the process, he extended his Major League-record streak for consecutive relief appearances with a strikeout to 41, striking out the side in the ninth.
The Reds head into the All-Star break bruised but alive and well in the NL Central. Despite losing Phillips and first baseman Joey Votto (strained left quad) while weathering other injuries along the way, Cincinnati has won 16 of its last 23 and finds itself right in the thick of the division race.
"The All-Star break couldn't have come at a better time," Price said. "I don't think there's a team that's more deserving of a four-day break than these guys after going through what they've gone through to this point -- and really battling and having a nice stretch here of six or seven weeks of really, really good baseball."
Manny Randhawa is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Read and Play - Brooklyn Public Library, Sunset Park branch
April 16, 2013 - Sunset Park
Children, age birth to 5 years, and with and without disabilities, share stories, rhymes, and play. Part of the Child's Place for Children for Special Needs.
After School Homework Help - Brooklyn Public Library, McKinley Park branch
April 16, 2013 - Dyker Heights
Kids get help with homework from library staff.
826 NYC After School Tutoring - Brooklyn Public Library, Williamsburg branch
April 16, 2013 - Brooklyn
Kids get homework help courtesy of the 826 NYC writing/tutoring organization (home to the Brooklyn Superhero Supply).
Gear Up for Earth Day - Brooklyn Children's Museum
April 16, 2013 - Crown Heights
Children will dig into their love of planet earth this week and get involved with the environment. They'll explore it all from the soil under their toes to the fluttering insect friends in the sky!
Cirque Du Solieil Presents 'Totem' - Citi Field Lot C.
Through April 21, 2013 - Flushing
Tony Hawk / Rad Science - New York Hall of Science
Through April 22, 2013 - Corona
Find out how the physics of gravity, force, velocity and balance make radical tricks possible in action sports in this program that runs through April 22. Children under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Make it Grand - New York Transit Museum
Through April 23, 2013 - Brooklyn Heights
Join the Museum during spring break for Make It Grand!, an original, interactive musical that celebrates 100 years of Grand Central Terminal. The program is free with Museum admission. Performance is approximately 30 minutes in length. Recommended for ages 4 and older.
Natural History - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Through April 30, 2013 - Crown Heights
Artist Patrick Dougherty and a team of volunteers constructed a monumental woven-wood sculpture in honor of Brooklyn Botanic Garden's centennial. The result, large-scale sculptures made from sticks and saplings, is an organic structure that changes over time as the materials settle and decay.
Wacky Tuesday - Brooklyn Children's Museum
Through April 30, 2013 - Crown Heights
Kids under 5 explore art, science, and culture in a wacky, fun, and exciting way.
Little Scientists - Brooklyn Children's Museum
Through April 30, 2013 - Crown Heights
Kids under 5 investigate the world of natural science with hands-on activities.
Tales for Tots - Brooklyn Children's Museum
Through April 30, 2013 - Crown Heights
Travel to far away places in your imagination by listening to tales from around the world.
Introduction to Birdwatching - Prospect Park Audubon Center
Through May 01, 2013 - Flatbush
Explore the Park's natural areas and learn how to look for amazing birds. Take a tour and learn about the 250 species of birds that call Prospect Park home.
Arty Facts - Brooklyn Museum
Through May 19, 2013 - Prospect Heights
Children ages 4-7 and their adult friends explore the galleries, enjoy a family activity, and make their own art in this 90-minute class, each one a variation on a monthly theme.
Transit Tots - New York Transit Museum
Through May 30, 2013 - Brooklyn Heights
Stories, games and surprises for our youngest transportation fans.
Art classes - The Painted Cloud
Through May 31, 2013 - Brooklyn
The Painted Cloud classes offer a nurturing, dynamic environment that introduces children to many new techniques and materials, and allows them the freedom to express themselves artistically. unique and creative art projects using a wide array of high quality art materials.
Art Classes - Chroma
Through May 31, 2013 - Brooklyn
Kids enjoy exploration, interpretation, and reflection through art-making. Activities include drawing, painting, sculpture, puppet-making, mixed media, collage, printmaking, clay, and much more!
Namaste Yoga Health and Wellness - Namaste Yoga of Kensington
Through May 31, 2013 - Kensington
Namaste offers a range of yoga classes for all ages, as well as Zumba fitness classes, kickboxing, pilates, belly dancing, and more.
Friday Singalong with Jarrod - Greenlight Bookstore
Through May 31, 2013 - Fort Greene
Greenlight offers a weekly singalong/story time event for babies and toddlers each Friday afternoon! Meet in the kids section for 40 minutes of favorite songs and stories for the littlest booklovers, led by Greenlight bookseller Jarrod and his trusty guitar.
Nature's Helpers - Prospect Park Audubon Center
Through June 01, 2013 - Flatbush
Spend some time outside enjoying nature while helping to keep the Park clean. Families are encouraged to come and take a tour of the Park and its waterways and help keep it tidy along the way. Gloves, garbage bags, and trash grabbers will be provided.
Spring Weekend Discovery Workshops - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Through June 02, 2013 - Crown Heights
Kids learn about garden plants and animals and explore Spring time through discovery stations, scavenger hunts, story time, crafts, and plantings to take home.
Indoor Playspace - Kings Bay Y at Windsor Terrace
Through June 14, 2013 - Windsor Terrace
Children age 6 and younger enjoy an indoor playground, rockers, blocks, play panel for theater, rock climbing wall, bouncy castle, musical instruments, and easel boards for drawing. Have fun with many more age appropriate toys that encourage creativity and develop children's imagination.
Breastfeeding Support Group - New York Methodist Hospital
Through June 30, 2013 -
Discuss questions and concerns regarding breastfeeding and find support and encouragement with this group, which meets regularly.
Indoor Play - Powerplay
Through June 30, 2013 - Gowanus
Powerplay's play area is an environment that encourages physical and imaginative play. It's indoor play space is a warm embrace for the cold and frosty days. It provides amenities of a local playground in a fun and inviting atmosphere. Parents and caregivers must supervise their child.
Open Play - The Gym Park
Through June 30, 2013 - Greenpoint
Kids have fun, exercise, and enjoy alot of gymnastic-based sensory input. Use our 2,800-square-foot facility to explore, discover and help increase your child's awareness with positive play habits and a fun social environment. The Gym Park also offers a wide range of other programs including gymnastics and physical education for home-schooled children.
Kids' Yoga - Bend and Bloom Yoga
Through June 30, 2013 - Park Slope
Bend and Bloom Yoga offer children's yoga classes. Mondays are for 8-12 year olds. Tuesdays are for 3-5 year olds. Wednesdays are for 6-8 year olds. Kids are allowed to drop in ($18) or register for a series of classes. Family classes for moms and tots are also available.
So Smart Kids Fun Fitness Program - Vee Arnis Jitsu
Through June 30, 2013 - Canarsie
Fitness program helps build self-esteem and confidence, social skills, attention span and focus, gross motor development, and breathing and calming strategies for children with special needs.
Gymnastics - Aviator Sports Center
Through June 30, 2013 - Gravesend
Classes at Aviator's state of the art gymnastic facility is available for the home-schooling community.
Story Time with Emily - The Moxie Spot
Through June 30, 2013 - Brooklyn Heights
Emily, The Moxie Spot's resident storyteller, reads for the young and impressionable.
Sing-along with Andrew - The Moxie Spot
Through June 30, 2013 - Brooklyn Heights
Hear stories, sing, dance, then eat!
Dance Around with Nat - The Moxie Spot
Through June 30, 2013 - Brooklyn Heights
Nat, the Moxie Spot's proprietor, leads an hour of dancing and music.
Sunday Story Time - Greenlight Bookstore
Through June 30, 2013 - Brooklyn
Babies and toddlers enjoy stories as read by a different visiting author each week.
Saturday Story Time - Greenlight Bookstore
Through June 30, 2013 - Brooklyn
Saturday Story Time is geared toward kids ages 3 to 8 and their families. Authors and illustrators of picture books often visit us on Saturdays to present their new books, and neighborhood performers sometimes read as well.
Breastfeeding Support Clinic - Tribeca Parenting
Through July 31, 2013 - Park Slope
These clinics are helpful for moms who need a little reassurance or encouragement with breastfeeding. While many simple issues can be resolved in these helpful group sessions, please be aware that certain more complex breastfeeding issues may require more individualized attention which can be provided in a home visit.
John Singer Sargent Watercolors - Brooklyn Museum
Through July 31, 2013 - Prospect Heights
Children love painting with watercolors. Here they can examine the work of master watercolorist John Singer Sargent via a collaboration between the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. In all, 93 pieces are on display, exemplifying the beauty and majesty of watercolor art.
Pinocchio - Puppetworks
Through August 18, 2013 - Park Slope
Puppetworks performs its adaptation of Collodi's legendary tale, Pinocchio, with an original score and laughs galore.
Superhero Science - Brooklyn Children's Museum
Through August 31, 2013 - Crown Heights
Kids, 4 and older, can supercharge a magnetic compass with Magneto, explore optics with Cyclops, learn the forces of flight with Superman, or sling a web with Spidey. It's a new super science adventure every week!
Adventurous Appetites - Brooklyn Children's Museum
Through August 31, 2013 - Crown Heights
Kids will create a tasty dish and explore food from around the world.
The Big Adventure - Brooklyn Children's Museum
Through August 31, 2013 - Crown Heights
The Big Adventure provides fun, dramatic, exciting, unique, and challenging experiences, making the exhibit great for young minds and bodies. Visitors will have opportunities to choose adventures that appeal to them, identify challenges, solve problems, make decisions, set goals, enhance creativity and gain confidence.
Free Open Hours - Waterfront Museum
Through September 30, 2013 - Red Hook
Visit the Waterfront Museum during free open hours and learn about this historic Hudson River barge and the maritime history of New York harbor.
Brooklyn Navy Yard Overview Tour: The Past, The Present, and The Future - Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at Building 92
Through October 01, 2013 - Vinegar Hill
It's hard not to notice the hulking structures of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Here's an opportunity to tour the Yard and learn about intriguing sites of the 150-year shipbuilding facility, including a Civil-War era dry dock, the 24-acre former Navy hospital campus, and more.
Nature on the Go - Prospect Park Audubon Center
Through October 31, 2013 - Flatbush
Kids have fun out in nature by playing animal charades, pretending to be a bat trying to catch a moth, or joining in many other fun and active nature games that teaches them about the nature around us. Led by a park naturalist.
Carousel Rides - Prospect Park Carousel
Through October 31, 2013 - Flatbush
Take a ride on the Park's beautiful 101 year-old carousel.
Tree House Installation - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Through October 31, 2013 - Crown Heights
Tree house architect Roderick Romero has created a whimsical, inhabitable sculpture using wood from trees felled by Hurricane Sandy. This "tree house" will be part open-air classroom, part viewing point, and part artwork. Created specifically for BBG, it will invite visitors of all ages to experience the Garden in a new way.
World Brooklyn - Brooklyn Children's Museum
Through December 01, 2013 - Crown Heights
Kids can visit examples of stores they might find in some of Brooklyn's ethnic pockets: a Chinese stationary store, a Mexican bakery, a West African import store, to name a few, which are modeled after real Brooklyn businesses. There's also an international grocery store and a replica of the famous L&B Spumoni pizzeria from Bensonhurst.
ElectriCity: Powering New York's Rails - New York Transit Museum
Through December 31, 2013 - Brooklyn Heights
This long-term exhibit engages visitors in a compelling and participatory exploration of electricity's role in powering the metropolitan region's subways and commuter rails.
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S/Sgt Francis L Noble, 321st BG, 447th BS, B-25 MTO
1943 — Notrh Africa
During WWII, Groups and squdrons were formed as fast as was possible, while pilots were being trained, other men were at Technical Training Schools learning everything they needed to survive and become a team. Francis was assigned to the 321st Bomb Group, the 447th Bomb Squadron at Columbia AAB SC to 'join-up' and become a working team. He was assigned to Lt Albert Duke and they flew training Missions for bombing, gunnery and other activities.
The last stage of training was at DeRidder AAB, Louisianna and soon Lt Duke flew in with a brand-NEW B-25 (Painted "desert-pink", but referred to as Pink Elephants ;) as they would be going to North Africa. Lt Duke named his new B-25 TRIGGER after his wife (her nick name) and in fact, Lt Duke's CREW also attended his wedding before they left forthe WAR.
Sgt Francis Noble was in the [now famous] General Bob Knapp's Flight over the Atlantic, a Combat Unit of B-25's to fly over the Atlantic, the Southern Route, en mass with out loss. Leaving Morrison Field, Florida. He flew in the TRIGGER #41-13171 with Lt Al Duke (pilot), .... Lt Dan. McDuff (Pilot in CP position), .... Lt Doug Orr (Nav.), .... S/Sgt Harold Govini (Eng), .... S/Sgt Edward Ennis (RADAR/Radio/Gunner), .... S/Sgt Francis L NOBLE (Gunner), and .... Officer Lt. Robt. Manley (HQ) as passenger.
Saturday, 20 March 1943
447th BS War Diary: Our squadron participated in two missions today. The first was a sea sweep. A convoy was sighted and attacked. During the attack two of our planes were seriously crippled by flak, the one flown by Lt. Albert Duke and the one flown by Lt. J.P. Burns. Then fighters attacked and Lt. Duke was shot down at sea. With him were his CP, Lt. Ackley; Bombardier, Lt. Douglas Orr; and gunners, S/Sgts. Govoni, Noble and Drogosch. Five enemy fighters attacked Lt. Burns' ship. He was alone and his turret gunner, S/Sgt Woody had been killed. Shortly afterwards his tail gun was shot out leaving only his two waist guns to fight off the attackers. S/Sgt Woody had managed to shoot down one of the fighters before they got him. The other gunners chased the rest of the fighters away. Lt. Burns made a crash landing at Bone. There were over two hundred bullet holes in his plane but he called in tonight and reported that all the crew were safe except S/Sgt. Woody. With Lt. Burns were his CP, Lt. Cohagen; Bombardier, Lt. Lingrel; and gunners, S/Sgts Woody, Perpich and Byerly. No word was received from Lt. Duke's crew today and they are assumed lost. Thus the squadron suffered its first casualties of the war today.
A/C No. 41-13171 (?) "Trigger" shot down Duke, Albert, 2Lt Ackley, James H., 2Lt None Orr, Douglas C., 2Lt Govoni, Harold F., S/Sgt Drogosch, Robert C., S/Sgt Noble, Francis L., S/Sgt
Lt. R. Richardson arrived at Ain M'Lila today. He was left behind at Borinquen Field Feb 16 for an engine change. S/Sgts. Perpich, Noble, Drogosch credited with one E/A each shot down during sea sweep.
Drogosch, Robert C., S/Sgt, radio-gunner Noble, Francis L., S/Sgt, gunner
Perpich, Joseph G, S/Sgt, engineer-gunner Richardson, Robert W. "Rich", 2Lt, pilot
BEFORE being shot-down, Sgt Noble credited with one enemy aircraft shot-down/killed.
FAMOUS Knapp Flight Over ATLANTIC; B-25 Crew and Ship Roster for the 321st Bomb Group, ALL Squads...
http://57thbombwing.com/321stHistory/321_BG_1943-02.pdf (KNAPP CREWS, 12 Feb. 1943)
Francis was transferred to 321st BG HQ 22 Oct. 1943 and stayed in war-service until 1945..
Lt Duke and his CREW were shot-down 20 March, 1943 ... in a British Hospital 25 March, 1943 and returned to us 27 March, 1943.
Barbi Ennis Connolly, 321st Bomb Group Historian http://57thbombwing.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=1372 Official 57th Bomb Wing web--site........


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OK, first of all please do not mind the crazy bangs and my makeup free face. Lol. And I warn you that these are my lounge looks. I'll have a dressier look for you soon! Promise.
I love the Frock & Frill Pageant Tee (#1)! I have gotten a lot of compliments on it and the quality is amazing. Super duper comfy. Then there's the Acid Wash Zip Neck Top (#2) that goes amazingly well with leggings. Yes, I said acid wash! I haven't worn that since I was a teen. I had to try it. Both tops can be worn many ways and I think that's what I love the most about them.
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COMMUTERS faced extra delays on their first day back at work today after one of York's busiest routes was again closed by flooding.
The A19 at Fulford was shut to traffic just hours into the New Year yesterday, with traffic having to enter and leave the city on other routes such as the A1079 Hull Road and Tadcaster Road.
The road was submerged after the River Ouse rose to 4.2 metres above normal summer levels in York following the heavy rain on New Year's Eve. The river continued rising to about 4.5 metres by last night, and was expected to remain at this level for some time.
Pubs and other properties along Kings Staith were all under water yesterday, with businesses in Tower Street also at increasing risk of being affected as the river rose.
Weathermen said another band of heavy rain was set to cross the region today, although coming days are set to be much drier.
Cawood Bridge, on the B1222 near Selby, was also closed by flooding, and the B1222 York Road, which has been closed between Naburn Village and Naburn Lock Caravan Park since Christmas Eve, remained shut.
City of York Council said river levels were expected to stay high for some time, as there had been a lot of rain in the catchment area. "Therefore we'll need to keep a close eye on transport tomorrow but currently everything is planned to run as normal," said a spokesman.
He said about 20 members of staff had been working through the Christmas and New Year holidays on flood and surface water issues.
"These are drawn from our civil engineering and highways maintenance teams," he said. "There are about 60 of them in total, so about a third have had to work over the holidays."
In Norton, Mayor Di Keal said the River Derwent had been 'quite high' for the last couple of days, leaving residents anxious. "Water levels are still very, very high all over the place, the ground is sodden and rivers are high, it could flood again at any time," she said.
"The flood defences worked fantastically, thank God we had those, but the surface water problem which can be addressed, needs to be addressed now."


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I want to learn Romanian and I have been using Rosetta Stone to learn other languages. There is no Rosetta Stone for those who want to learn Romanian and searching for options online I found somebody posted a public spreadsheet in Google Docs with RS words and phrases in different languages and there is also a column for Romanian.
It looks like they just posted it, please if you have a chance take a look of it and add or correct the Romanian language column.
This would be a useful tool to make a "home made" Rosetta Stone for those who want to learn Romanian or to make flash cards that could be used in apps like Anki.
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Covington residents could be seeing some savings on their homeowners insurance in coming years thanks to the city's fire protection rating improving.
Editor's note: The article "City joins rail case, OKs budget" in Wednesday's newspaper contained a reporter's error regarding the millage rate, and this article was written, in part, to correct that error and clarify the situation.
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County commissioners appeared to be close Monday to reaching a consensus on next year's budget, agreeing to lower the millage rate (informally called the property tax rate) from its current 11.54 rate to somewhere around 11, a change that would save a $150,000 property owner around $30 a year in county taxes.
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