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John Walker has a good article about it which I agree on.
I agree its a storm in a teacup it seems silly that two things that are on a program that is genrally good needs to make the WHOLE BBC change its absolutely ridiculous. Also very much pot calling kettle black on a lot of these newspapers but then again newspapers will jump on any chance to attack the BBC remember Saxgate.
Also I like how that Daily Mail while showing how the advert is terrible gives you big shots of the woman in skimpy clothing in question.
They wanted a scalp. They wanted the big story, the converse of the Savile situation... "Look! We care about catching pedophiles! Even when they are establishment figures". They rushed the program out, they possibly allowed politics to influence it, they provided no right to reply against some of the worst allegations a man can have thrown at him, they failed to do even the most basic of journalistic checks, and their editorial oversight was non-existent. As a result, the credibility of the accuser is now in serious question, an innocent man has been hounded and continues to be hounded, and the BBC as a whole is coming under tremendous attack.
It's not the death of the BBC, but it's a serious issue for NewsNight, at the least.
Whatever happens, this is totally not cool. I enjoy so much of BBC documentaries in all subjects. I dont know how to explain it, but BBC has somewhat very unique style which cannot be replaced by the others.
The outrage is not just about the shelved Newsnight about Saville.
Far more disturbing are the accusations that Saville regularly molested children in his dressing room inside BBC buildings. There is a growing consensus that people within the BBC must have known something was going on. There are even claims that BBC executives were told about allegations of sex abuse and did nothing.
Another way of looking at this is that a bunch of media outlets who've already been shown to be dishonest, venal, corrupt and working entirely for their extremist owners has gotten upset that the BBC failed to run a report and then ran a report it probably shouldn't have - both of which were judgement calls which only look bad with the benefit of hindsight.
Meanwhile the rest of the country is running around with it's head-up-it-arse seeing paedophiles in every bush and generally behaving like a lynchmob - because most of them are too stupid to breathe regularly without reminders...
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The thing is, Saville was hiding in plain sight - he even talked about stuff in his own bio which, when read without the tint of "it's Jimmy Saville, noted charity guy and all round helper of children", is pretty eye-opening stuff (OK, it was 1974 and things were a big different but still...)
Louis Theroux showed that he was stark-staring bonkers (if you'd not worked that out already) but everyone had a tale to tell - it's just they was that, tales, no-one was going to "out" him because he was friends with Prime Ministers and those sorts of people - we would, literally, have taken a LOT of people with him.
Hell, he even LOOKS like a pervert - arguably he probably avoided being 'caught' simply because thieves don't wear stripey jumpers and carry bags with "SWAG" written on them and murderers don't wear Freddy Krueger gloves and masks - you don't expect a crim to LOOK like a crim.
Literally hiding in plain-sight...
BUT - he's dead and I'd hate to think we're going to start digging up other people like him (Cyril Smith was added to the list today I see). I've no idea why people wait until someone's dead to talk to the Police about him - they really should say "bit late aren't you?"
I've no idea why people wait until someone's dead to talk to the Police about him
I can its very obvious if you think about it especially for the higher up people, obviously you fear you wouldn't be believed, they would get you or some other paranoid fear that abuse victims have. Its a bit horrible to turn them out the door.
They rushed the program out, they possibly allowed politics to influence it, they provided no right to reply against some of the worst allegations a man can have thrown at him, they failed to do even the most basic of journalistic checks, and their editorial oversight was non-existent. As a result, the credibility of the accuser is now in serious question, an innocent man has been hounded and continues to be hounded, and the BBC as a whole is coming under tremendous attack.
Yes i agree and things should be investigated, but no one is saying to the police officer who got it wrong that they should be fired, and other stuff that was along the line. this was shoddy journalism very serious shoddy since it is about pedophiles but still its shoddy journalism nothing more I don't think.
If I knew, or had heard things, I'd have one of two reactions:
1) I'm a total cock for not saying anything and keeping quiet lest everyone find out, or
2) I knew and did nothing and now I feel totally awful about it and really hope people can forgive me.
I don't get why this is something people want to admit to casually.
I don't think it's a crisis for the BBC or anything, but it's a pretty major f*ck up for Newsnight.
Also, maybe someone should be talking to the Police Officers that got it wrong, and all the other stuff along the line.
It's worth noting that the whole "top Tory implicated in paedophile case" story have been rattling around for a while - it was raised in Parliament last week(ish?) and everyone was scrambling to find-out who it was as a result of that.
When they worked out the likely party - and they probably did so simply by asking his accuser - they ran with it. They didn't really check anything else - which is sloppy when you're accusing people of this stuff.
That said, the way the press attacked Jo Yeates landlord last year was FAR FAR worse - they ripped the guy to pieces, got people to tell sordid tales about him and generally painted him as 'guilty'. So whilst the Police quietly eliminated him as a suspect the press were stringing him up/hounding him/accusing him of child abuse (when he'd been a teacher) and so on.
EIGHT newspapers paid him damages but I didn't see any of their bosses quitting in disgrace - I didn't see anyone demanding they reform themselves (aside from the Leveson Inquiry which we're constantly told is 'interfering with free speech').
expose of a pedophile in a private school in NYC that was published only after his death.
It resulted in a mass of people coming adding further accusations, an outspoken backlash against the school, a belated response by the school, the confession of secondary parties, and a question by the Times editor as to whether the truth of the matter was being sidelined for the spectacle of the case among a dozen more articles as the scandal continued.
Why was it hidden for so long? Because at the time it happened, the power of the teachers, the administration and the parents - each with their reasons to keep things under wraps - far outweighed the power of the student victims. Why was it exposed at all? Confessions and memoirs and investigative journalism on the part of a Times reporter.
The problem here being that dead people cannot defend themselves and so instantly become 'guilty' and I do actually worry about that, a bit.
The Police (at least in the UK but probably everywhere else) are not always the most trustworthy, honest and hard-working of people - they've been known to cut corners and scrimp on the truth - ride their "we are the Police and we are right" arrogance and when the person they're invesitgating is dead, you get the feeling they'll "go to town" with that...
I actually think that once someone is dead, any and all crimes they committed and any and all claims against them for damages etc. should be nullified - if you can implicate other people who are alive then by all means prosecute and sue them but the dead person and their estate should be out-of-bounds - IMO
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The thing I don't understand - And correct me if this has been addressed in the thread already, but I'm lazy - is that the BBC came under fire for not choosing to air a report on a suspected paedophile. Then, they air a report on a suspected paedophile, without even naming him, and they're under fire again.
Another good piece that I pretty much agree with, and also goes into broader territory which seems obciously scary at the moment.


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More than 20 people were evacuated after a fire ripped through several buildings in Eureka early this morning.
"I pretty much lost everything," Michael Waldrip said.
Waldrip is one of three people that have to find other living arrangements after a fire destroyed two buildings on Myrtle Avenue.
"By the time I got outside the whole house and the rest of the bedroom and the upstairs were on fire," Waldrip said.
Humboldt Bay Fire said they got the call just after 3:30 a.m. Officials believe the fire was accidental and it likely started from a dryer inside Crossroads, a sober living and rehabilitation facility.
"It was actually in our office area and our group area," Crossroads Program Manager Shawn Doney said. "The actual residents were actually in the main part of the house not where the fire was. There's a little bit of damage to it."
Firefighters said it was burning for at least thirty minutes before anyone called. Luckily no one was injured and those 16 residents in Crossroads will be able to return.
"Kind of devastating though," Crossroads Addiction Specialist Denise Lee said. "We're a non-profit organization and we run on minimal bones here so hopefully we'll be able to stay open."
As for those three in the apartment building next to crossroads— they are receiving resources from the American Red Cross. Waldrip said he's thankful for the relief, but said he's sad he lost memorabilia and the pace he called home for 13 years.
"I never thought something like this would happen to me," Waldrip said. "It's hard. It's really hard. At least I have family I can rely on."

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Washington, Oct 12 (IANS) A protein, which increases during an endurance exercise, may promote brain health, US researchers say.
Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School found that the FNDC5 protein, when given to non-exercising mice, turned on genes that promote brain health and encourage growth of new nerves involved in learning and memory, Xinhua reported.
The findings, reported in the Cell Metabolism journal, explain the capacity of endurance exercise to improve cognitive function, particularly in older people.
If this protein can be developed into a drug, it might lead to improved therapies for cognitive decline in older people. It can slow the toll of neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer and Parkinson, according to the researchers.
Earlier, the researchers reported that the protein is produced by muscular exertion and is released into the bloodstream as a variant called irisin.
In the new study, they found that mice voluntarily running on a wheel for 30 days will have increased metabolic activity, which spurred a rise in FNDC5 protein.
The increase of FNDC5 in turn boosted the BDNF brain-health protein in the hippocampus, the researchers said.
Hippocampus is the part of the brain involved in learning and memory.
Having shown that FNDC5 is a molecular link between exercise and increased BDNF in the brain, the scientists looked into whether artificially increasing FNDC5 in the absence of exercise would have the same effect.
So, they used a harmless virus to deliver the protein to mice, hoping the FNDC5 could reach the brain and raise BDNF activity. Seven days later, they examined the mice brains and observed a significant increase in BDNF in the hippocampus.
However, the researchers said they are not sure whether the protein that got into the brain is FNDC5 itself or irisin or perhaps another variant of the protein.
Spiegelman added that further research is needed to determine whether giving FNDC5 actually improves cognitive function in other animals.


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Paris is a city where possibilities are endless, expectations are high, and no one doubts magic can happen.
Anyone who saw Woody Allen's recent homage to the City of Lights, Midnight in Paris, knows what I'm talking about. Allen's protagonist, a Hollywood screenwriter who yearns to be a serious scribe, takes to wandering the rainy streets of Paris at night in search of a muse.
On one such night, he accompanies a couple in 1920s dress to what he assumes is a costume party. Instead, he's transported back in time to Paris during the Jazz Age. It was a time when Gertrude Stein reigned over her famous salon and Cole Porter threw lavish soirees at his palatial mansion near Les Invalides; when Picasso and Dali sat for hours in Left Bank cafés discussing art; Josephine Baker lit up the stage of the Folies Bergère, and F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald knocked back martinis with Hemingway at the Ritz Hotel's bar.
I've always thought if I could go back in time to any era, that would be the one. So, in the spirit of Allen, on my most recent trip to Paris in December, I spent a lot of time walking (in the rain, as it turned out) seeking places that have inspired me.
After a particularly turbulent trans-Atlantic flight, I found myself happy to be in Shangri-La. It wasn't the mythical kingdom of James Hilton's novel, but the 1896 townhouse of Prince Roland Bonaparte, Napoleon's grandnephew, in the fashionable 16th arrondissement, with the Seine River at the back door.
Prince Roland is long gone, but his elegance and love of luxury lives on in his home's reincarnation as the first Shangri-La hotel in Europe.
From the moment I arrived at the entrance, with its columned portico strung with twinkling lights for the holidays, I felt something special was about to happen. When I opened the drapes in my suite and saw the Eiffel Tower looming just beyond the windowsill, I knew it.
If you're looking for inspiration in Paris, where better to start than with its incomparable museums? If the vast corridors of the Louvre seem a bit daunting, but you want the best art the city has to offer, opt instead for the Musée d'Orsay.
Housed in the former Orsay railway station, just across from the Tuileries Garden, the building itself has been called the museum's first work of art. Arranged over three floors, it has the look of a Beaux Arts palace, with a central dome and large windows offering exquisite views across the city. My favourite is the view through the giant clock face, which offers a vista of Montmartre and the Basilique du Sacre-Coeur.
What's inside is equally spectacular, especially the galleries devoted to what is said to be the world's largest collections of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings. Room after room is filled with the most famous works of Manet, Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Sisley and Seurat.
At the Musée d'Orsay, unlike the Louvre, you may walk right up to the art. The museum has more than 1,850 paintings, sculptures, photographs and other works, but don't leave without visiting the marvellous decorative-arts galleries.
After the museums, it has to be the meals that provide the most inspiration to visitors in Paris, long known as the capital of haute cuisine. It would take many lifetimes to visit even a fraction of the city's eateries. For contrast, here are two of my favourites.
Le Train Bleu could be your big splurge. Located in the Gare de Lyon train station, it is named after the Blue Train, which in the 1920s left the station en route to the French Riviera.
The restaurant is a monument to Belle Époque splendour, with wood panelling, polished parquet floors, plush velvet draperies, massive chandeliers and 41 paintings on the walls and ceilings. Having a meal at Le Train Bleu is a bit like dining in the Sistine Chapel.
For a complete contrast, spend an evening in one of Paris's bistros, which are becoming increasingly harder to find. You'll have to venture off the usual tourist route to get to Astier in the 11th arrondissement, but it's well worth the detour.
With its red-and-white-checkered table linen and menus printed on the chalkboard, Astier is the personification of an intimate Parisian bistro. Owners Frédéric and Claudia Hubig-Schall are gracious hosts and offer a prix-fixe menu that at 35 euros (about $50) is a good value, particularly considering it includes the expansive cheese platter, with more than 15 varieties.
What is Paris without nightlife? Before heading off to shows at the Moulin Rouge (Toulouse-Lautrec's favourite) or the rollicking Crazy Horse Cabaret, stop for a drink at the Hemingway Bar at the Ritz Hotel on the fashionable Place Vend¥me.
The bar's name perhaps results less from Hemingway's fame as a scribe than from the ruckus he created here Aug. 25, 1944. That was the night Ernest and a group of Allied soldiers, armed with machine guns, decided to "liberate" the Ritz from the Nazis.
After climbing to the roof, where, instead of Germans, their gunfire succeeded in bringing down only a clothesline hung with the hotel's linen, the victorious troops retired to the bar for a round of dry martinis.
That account has no doubt been embellished with each retelling, but there's no doubt of Hemingway's love for the iconic Paris landmark, as he noted, "When I dream of an afterlife in heaven, the action always takes place at the Ritz Paris."
The bar named in his honour has changed little since that evening in 1944. Black-and-white photos of famous literary drinkers Marcel Proust, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Graham Greene and Noel Coward line the walls.
If Hemingway was the past resident celebrity, today that honour goes to Colin Field, a Brit who conquered France with a shaker instead of a sabre. The Ritz's head bartender since 1994, Field has twice been named the best bartender in the world by Forbes Magazine.
During my stay, Midnight in Paris became more than the title of Woody Allen's movie. It was the (be)witching hour, the last chance to see the nightly light show that takes place every hour at the Eiffel Tower.
Standing at my window at the Shangri-La, I watched the glittering lights sparkle like diamonds up and down the length of the tower, and thought that Paris is indeed the stuff of which dreams are made.
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WHERE TO STAY: The Shangri-La Hotel. One of the city's newest luxury hotels, it is ideally located near the Seine River and Eiffel Tower, and it's close to many of Paris's museums. Its 81 rooms and suites have been beautifully decorated by designer Pierre-Yves Rochon. The hotel's Shang Palace Restaurant, serving Cantonese cuisine, often requires a two-week wait for a reservation, but I preferred its other restaurant, L'Abeille, which is unabashedly French in style, service and cuisine. shangrila.com


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2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) cold unsalted butter
1 large egg
1 1/4 cup unsweetened coconut milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp coconut extract
Glaze: 1 cup confectioners sugar, 1 Tbsp milk, 1/2 tsp coconut extract
Preheat the oven to 375 F, line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.
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Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and stir gently until dough is evenly moistened.
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I'm trying to tie together some websites into a single one I can use as a portfolio to send potential employers.
The old sites positioned everything to fixed sizes and I'm converting it over to percentages or em measurements. At the same time, I set a minimum width of like 600px, and it's responsive at sizes above that but if you shrink the browser down to an inch or two it'll shrink to a minimum of 600px.
So I'm wondering how many pixels wide is the smallest android/iOS smartphone? Would 600px still go beyond it's screen size? Should I make it 400px or something else minimum?
.Also I'm using a mobile doctype for the site rather than xhtml transitional, both validate so I dunno what the difference is between the two....
Any advice?
There is a lot of browser extensions to simulate a mobile browser screen size and to switch between them, very useful for testing responsive websites.
Here is a list of some smartphone screen size :
High-end new android smartphones (Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2, etc.) : HD (1280x720)
iPhone 5 : 1136x640
iPhone 4 : 960x640
Most android smartphone and almost all Windows Phone : WVGA (Wide VGA : 800x480)
Low-end or old smartphones (including iPhone 3GS) : HVGA (VGA/2 : 480x320)
Old low-end smartphones : QVGA (VGA/4 : 320x240)
So the usual (high-end ?) smartphone width is 800px and I don't know of any smartphone with a resolution lower than QVGA, so basically the minimum browser width in landscape would be ~320px, which is very small and not suitable for browsing without zooming.There's not a lot of smartphone using resolutions between WVGA and HVGA, so i think the strategy is either you support a width >800px or >480px (width a safety margin).If you manage to get everything to fit in something like 450px in the smallest responsive mode, you'll be more than fine.
And for the DOCTYPE, note that the XHTML Mobile Profile has been superseded by XHTML Basic 1.1, but personally i would go with an HTML5 DOCTYPE, even without using HTML5 features.
The whole point of responsive design is that you can comfortably view content on a small screen without zooming.
Rather than worry about all the various screen sizes, find the natural break points in your layout and focus your @media rules on those.
Yes but media queries are not magical wands, you still have to make a number of judicious breakpoints in order to smoothly handle computer screens, tablets, high-end smartphone and low-end smartphones. The natural breakpoints of the website design may not be in keeping with the technical devices breakpoints. And even with the best mobile-first responsive approach, it may not be as trivial to handle a 320px screen-width as well as a desktop screen-width. I guess it depends on the content.
I think you are missing the point a little here. If, for example, you reduce the width of your desktop browser, you'll see things shift and rearrange, and at a certain point, the layout will break a bit, and that's where you add in some different styles. If you account for these breakpoints, down to 320px or whatever, then your design should work nicely on the various devices it will encounter. If a set of styles work for your layout from, say, 600px down to 400px, then those styles will work nicely on a device that is, say, 500px wide.
I agree completely with that, I was just trying to make two points :
You can focus your media queries only on the natural breakpoints of the website layout without taking into account the average screen sizes of the device you're trying to target. It will always work nicely as you say, that's the beauty of responsive design, but if you know what device you are targeting while writing each set of style, you'll have a better idea of what layout the user will be expecting, and for that, you'll have to know what resolutions the mobile devices is running on.
Even with a responsive website, there'll always be a screen size limit at which your website is not readable anymore. If you take some brand new responsive websites such as microsoft.com or capgemini.com (sorry for the ad, that's just the first examples that cross my mind), they can take as low as 240px-width before breaking up but they are mostly showcase websites without complex content. In a usual website, even in a 1 column grid, there'll always be an element that just needs some minimum space. The original question was to determine the minimum resolution a responsive web application should support and i think you can answer that question by looking at the devices you are trying to target and their respective screen sizes.
Edit: And to clarify, I perfectly understand that you can always add some styles set to handle smaller and smaller resolutions (even if that's not the best approach for responsive design), but the real question is not "can you do it ?" but "do you have to do it ?" and "do you really need it ?"
Indeed, and it's a site-by-site question. I certainly don't envy those with complex sites, but I guess this issue makes us face the question over how important that content really is. Anyhow, if someone chooses a really small device, they've got to expect to have to scroll sideways now and then. Who knows, Apple might come out with a web-compatible wristwatch or something. If they did, I don't think I'd even bother designing for that.
That's fine but can you mention what frame are you working on ?
How do you scale text? I can get the divs and images to scale fine but the text overhangs the divs, I could try overflow hidden but it would cut words off...
Something's gone wrong, in that case. Sounds like you have some inner widths set that are getting in the way.
Well I had manually set them to 0.9em, so maybe I need to remove that and change to pixels? I need it a little smaller than full size.
In that case, put some padding on the container.


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Writing Scripts
One of GeoQO's most powerful features is its scripting ability. Scripts let you execute any of the geoqo features within one file.
Scripts can do anything GeoQO can do
Take a simple example of needing to display a list caches Yamar owns. You can do this by writing the following script.
%search cache:owner_name=Yamar %display list
If you take the above and put it in a file called "yamars" you can then run geoqo using the -x option to run the script:
geoqo -x yamars
This will produce the following two windows:
Scripts can do many things at once
Scripts work by taking the results of a search expression and acting on it any way you want. Or multiple ways. Lets extend our example above to not only display a list, but also to export it to a gpx file:
%search cache:owner_name=Yamar %display list %export test.gpx
When you run the above, you'll not only see a displayed list but it'll also create a test.gpx file.
Scripts can have mulitple types of the same section
Exporting a search to multiple file formats:
%search cache:owner_name=Yamar %export test.gpx %export test.html
Scripts have auto-gui support
One of the most powerful features is that scripts can be created to prompt you for information. As an example, lets change the above to replace Yamar with an expression that will turn that part of the script into a parameter:
%search cache:owner_name=%[ownername,Yamar,text=Enter a Cache Owner Name:] %export test.gpx
Now when you run this script, it'll prompt you for a name to fill in and the default will still be set to Yamar:
Parameter specification syntax
The syntax for specifying parameters looks like:
DEFAULT is the default value placed into the GUI screen. OPTIONS is fairly complex, but consists of any number of name=value pairs.
The NAME field is used to refer to things later on as well. For example, you could set the export file name to the entered name as well:
%search cache:owner_name=%[ownername,Yamar,text=Enter a Cache Owner Name:] %export %[ownername].gpx
Note that only the first call needed the extra DEFAULT parameter and extra OPTIONS.
Advanced Scripts
You can do many things with the OPTIONS section, including specifying the widget types, making menus with a list of values, etc.
You can also perform any tasks that geoqo itself can do using the GUI or command line options. See the geoqo manual on the [scripting ability] details for further reading.
In fact, the entire geoqo GUI is actually built on internal scripts. What really happens when you run geoqo without any arguments is that it is effectively doing the same thing as:
geoqo -x gui
Go ahead. Try it! Then, take a look at the scripts/gui file to see what it's doing internally. You'll see that's a top level file that displays buttons and calls other script files when they're pushed. Wheee......
Other Pages with Scripting Examples
See the scripting category page below for other pages that have example scripts on them:


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Did you know?
Bulembu was purchased by Bulembu Ministries in Swaziland and is now a safe haven for orphans.
You may have heard of Mpumalanga's historic little town of Barberton, once the bustling hub of the 1880s gold rush, but few visitors are aware of the spectacular Bulembu Pass that is accessed from Barberton.
The Bulembu Pass is a scenic route that takes you over and through some of the oldest mountains on Earth. This mountain pass twists and turns along winding roads and hairpin bends, bypasses mountain streams and crosses rivers before finally taking you to Bulembu, the former asbestos mining town just over the Swaziland border.
But be warned, while a sedan car can handle the journey, it is recommended you use a 4x4 as the road is extremely steep in places and full of potholes.
Set out from Barberton on the Sheba road and go south on the R40 to the Bulembu Pass. For the first 9km you'll be on a steep tarred road that takes you over the Saddle Back Mountains. Be sure to stop at one of several lay-bys to admire the spectacular views.
Be sure to go left onto the Shiaylongubo Dam road, down 6km to Peglar's Bush. This stand of magnificent natural forest in the midst of pine plantations is a highlight of the Bulembu Pass.
Once back on the mountain pass look out for the old Havelock-Barberton aerial cableway – used to ferry asbestos in the old days – that crosses the road in front of you and enjoy great views of the Songimvelo Game Reserve to the west.
One other must-do on the route is just 2km before the Swaziland border post. Turn right and descend into the Msauli Valley – a gorgeous spot full of waterfalls and rivers.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Mpumalanga Tourism Authority
Tel: +27 (0) 13 759 5300/1
Email: email@example.com
How to get here
Barberton is easily accessed from Mbombela (Nelspruit) on both the N4 and R28. The closest airport is Kruger Mpumalanga International, 70km outside Mbombela.
Best time to visit
The road is in better condition during winter as summer rain makes the surface very slippery.
Get around
A well-sprung sedan car is fine but a 4x4 is better.
Length of stay
It will take a few hours to drive the route as you will want to stop and admire the scenery.
What to pack
Carry your passport with you so you can pop over the Swaziland border if the mood takes you.
Where to stay
Barberton Manor Guest House is a good bet as a base from which to explore the area.


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To kick off the 2014-15 production year, Stow Players in inviting anyone interested in the group and its productions to a wine and cheese open house on Sept. 7, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at the Heritage Barn, 5238 Young Road, the back entrance to Silver Springs Park. Many current members, actors, directors, Board members and others will be there to discuss the onstage, backstage, and backstage workings of one of the area's oldest community theaters. Directors for the upcoming season will also be in attendance and will answer questions about their productions. Season tickets will be available, and club memberships can be obtained, too.
A special addition to this year's Wine and Cheese Open House will be a performance of the 2014 First Place winner of the Weathervane Playhouse 8x10 Play Festival, "Telegram in a World of Smartphones," directed by Stow Players Bill Morgan and Pat Robertell-Hudson and written by Stow resident Brandi Eaton. The performance starts at 3 p.m.
Dress is casual, and RSVP's are encouraged by calling Stow Players' "Hotline" at 330-655-6051 to let them know how many are coming.


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Former Greenbrier and Georgia Tech Star Brandon Cumpton has earned a second start for the Pittsburgh Pirates after an impressive debut over the weekend. The 24-year old righthander worked into the sixth inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers, allowing seven hits and three runs, and earning a no-decision in the Pirates 5-3 loss.
Back in 2006, I wrote a column about a gentleman named Ed Amerson. Usually, my columns consist of stories about the exploits of high school or college athletes. However, that story was very different.
My objective was to try and convey to the readers just how important "Mr. Ed" was to Greenbrier High School. Back then I was very proud of the column. When I hit "send" on my keyboard to send the column, I was thoroughly satisfied with my effort. I realize now that I actually failed that day.
He might have got the promotion because of injuries and a depleted pitching staff in Indianapolis, but Brandon Cumpton is making the most of his opportunity.
The former Greenbrier High School and Georgia Tech standout was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the ninth round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft. He began the season in Altoona, the Pirates' Class AA Affiliate. However, after only two starts in Altoona, Cumpton was moved up to the organization's Class AAA affiliate in Indianapolis.
To say former Greenbrier High School standouts Ben Morgan and T.D. Davis were leaders for the Georgia Southern University baseball team this year would be an understatement. The talented duo led the Eagles in virtually every offensive category.
I have a message for the Greenbrier High School baseball team: Hold your heads high; you gave all of us a fun ride over the last few weeks.
Sure, it stings to come so close to a state title and lose. I understand that. It should hurt. If it didn't hurt, teams would not begin each February with a state crown as their ultimate goal. This might sound obnoxious, but for most of those teams, it is just talk. It is what coaches say to try and motivate their teams. In Columbia County, and especially at Greenbrier, anything less than a state championship is tough to stomach.
The University of South Carolina's baseball team wrapped up its regular season over the weekend, dropping two of three to Mississippi State. The Gamecocks are now 39-16 as they head into the SEC Tournament. The 2013 South Carolina squad might not be as talented as the teams that have claimed two national titles and a national runner-up finish over the last three seasons.
Greenbrier High School will face Whitewater High Monday in the Class AAAAA baseball semifinals. If this story sounds familiar, that's because the same two teams met last season. A year ago, Greenbrier won the three-game series, advancing to play Loganville in the state championship series.
Whitewater is doing something similar to what Greenbrier did a decade before. In 1996-97, Greenbrier opened its doors and became a baseball power. Whitewater, in Fayetteville, Ga., opened in 2003 for freshmen, but began competing in the GHSA in sports during the 2006-07 school year.
To say Henrik Norlander's rookie season on the PGA tour was a struggle would have been a big understatement two weeks ago. The big kid from Sweden had earned just $63,000 and was not even in the Top 180 on the PGA tour's Money List. He had missed the cut in four of those nine events, and when he did make the cut, it seemed he was just narrowly cracking the Top 70 to be around for the weekend.
The USC Aiken Pacers have had a solid baseball program for quite some time, but this year's squad is reaching incredible milestones.
First, the Pacers recently locked up the Peach Belt Conference regular season title. USC Aiken finished the regular season 42-8 overall and 24-6 in Peach Belt play. To win 24 games in the PBAC is amazing, because the conference is regarded as one of the top baseball leagues in America.
I was very happy to hear that Greenbrier High School forward Connor Sigrist had signed a scholarship at Oglethorpe University.
First, I am always glad to see local athletes get a chance to play at the next level. I also feel Sigrist has only scratched the surface of the player he can be. I also know he will be playing for a coach who will give him a chance to tap into his tremendous potential.
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ROCKLAND, Maine — The grounds of the Maine Lobster Festival were crowded early Wednesday afternoon as the 67th annual summer event kicked off on the city's waterfront.
Chuck Kruger, president of the festival board, said organizers are optimistic about turnout for the festival. He said advanced bookings at local lodgings are strong, and the number of vendors and sponsorships are up.
Kruger said, as always, the star of the show is seafood and particularly lobster, which is so important to the local economy. Kruger, in his role as a state representative from the Thomaston area, pointed out that he sponsored the legislation that became law to put more money into marketing and promoting lobsters.
He said 15,000 to as many as 20,000 pounds of lobsters are expected to be sold during the festival, which continues through Sunday. The festival is purchasing the lobsters through Linda Bean.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals had planned to have a plane fly over the first day of the festival with a banner proclaiming, "Keep Your Paws off Their Claws! Try Vegan."
But a stubborn fog bank in Rockland Harbor was, at least temporarily, grounding that effort.
PETA announced late Wednesday that the flyover was rescheduled for 12:15 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday.
Kruger said he had no objections to the planned PETA flyover.
"We offer local, fresh and sustainable lobster, and we love to share it with people both near and far," Kruger said.
PETA issued a news release Tuesday, urging people not to eat lobsters and made reference to its investigation of the way Bean's processing plant in Rockland kills lobsters, which it maintains created horrific abuse for the crustaceans.
On a lighter note, the role of Blackbeard is being performed this year by Al Simmons, who succeeds legendary Blackbeard Brian Messing. Messing performed in the role for the past 12 festivals before retiring.
"It hasn't hit me yet," Messing said as he walked the grounds as a regular volunteer. "When I see cute little kids with Blackbeard, then it will hit me."
Simmons said he lobbied for the Blackbeard role. He is part of Pirates of the Black Rose, which hires out pirates for parties, school programs and other events.


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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away...(unkown) • Go With The Flow • Thyroid Support Group
Buy my wife's sea catchers
12 Monkeys
I'm running somewhere tomorrow. It's going to be beautiful. I can't wait.
Poor baby
Oh Mighty Wing
The real question is this -
If the monkey's get you and decide to deposit you at the finish does it still count??
Lazy idiot
I'm amused that people think we're kidding about the monkeys.
Some of you may be in for a real surprise.
Tick tock
Based on the rumors I've heard, if the monkeys deposit you at the finish it will be in turd form.
wait if the monkey's steal you they eat you? I thought they just played with you for a while.
For real, I'm still trying to figure out the severity of the monkey's.
wait if the monkey's steal you they eat you? I thought they just played with you for a while.
HA! I'm not laughing at the monkeys, I'm laughing at you. Run fast, don't look back.
That hill climbs ~700 feet in just under 3 miles (i.e., 250 ft/mile). There is just one.
Monkey hills climb ~200-300 feet in 1/2 - 3/4 miles (i.e., 400 ft/mile). There are many many of them.
That's a nice hill you've got.
But the Monkey hills are many and they are steep and they are endless. I ran half the course yesterday, and that bit at mile 18-19 never gets any easier. You're just basically almost never not on a hill.
Which I tend to like. I think the constantly changing terrain is good for your legs. I'd rather run there than do a flat marathon. The Monkey hurts more during; flat races, in my opinion, hurt more later. ?
All of which is irrelevant. The monkeys will get you anyway, so who cares about the hills?


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Carrboro High School football coach Jason Tudryn is leaving his position to take a position with the football team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tudryn will serve as the director of high school relations for the Tar Heels' football team, he confirmed Tuesday afternoon. Carrboro opened its doors in 2007 and Tudryn has been there since it opened.
In his seven seasons at Carrboro, Tudryn's teams compiled an overall record of 43-44. Each of the program's first two years, the Jaguars posted 1-10 records, but by 2009 Carrboro put together a 4-8 campaign.
The program kept progressing. In 2010, Carrboro had its first winning season with a 10-4 overall record. After a brief setback in 2011 with an 8-4 mark, the Jags posted a school-best 15-1 record in 2012. The Jaguars played for the 2-AA state championship that season, but fell to South Iredell, 30-27.
Last year, Carrboro was 4-7 overall in the new Mid-State 2-A Conference. Tudryn started his new position at UNC on Monday.


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Seaman John Hunter Navy
Andersonville (Sumter County)
Sumter County
Georgia, USA
John Hunter was age 28 when he enlisted in the U.S. Navy on April 8, 1862, at Boston, Massachusetts, for a term of 3 years, as an Ordinary Seaman, to the credit of Salem, Massachusetts. He served on the Receiving Ship OHIO and aboard the U.S.S. BRANDYWINE, the U.S.S. SUSQUEHANNA, the U.S.S. MINNESOTA, and finally the U.S.S. SOUTHFIELD. He was taken prisoner on March 31, 1864, and confined at Camp Sumter, Andersonville, Georgia, where he died of anasarca (better known as dropsy).
Sources: MASS. SOLDIERS..., 8: 202; Goss, THE SOLDIER'S STORY..., p. 355. Burial:
Andersonville National Cemetery
Andersonville (Sumter County)
Sumter County
Georgia, USA
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This article was published 13/5/2013 (1559 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The pieces of the prime-time puzzle are falling into place.
NBC and Fox have unveiled their schedules for the 2013-14 television season, bringing more than a dozen new titles to prime time this fall and introducing almost as many rookie shows at midseason. The announcements are part the annual upfront ad-sales presentations in New York, a frenzied, week-long TV marketplace in which U.S. networks and advertisers lay the economic groundwork for the upcoming season.
ABC's schedule announcement takes place today, with CBS and the CW network unveiling their fall lineups later on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively.
NBC will bring TV favourite Michael J. Fox back to prime time this fall, as star of The Michael J. Fox Show, a sitcom about a news anchor who returns to the airwaves after taking half a decade off to deal with health issues and family matters.
Also on NBC's new-comedy roster for this fall are Sean Saves the World, which stars Will & Grace alumnus Sean Hayes as a divorced gay dad struggling with suddenly becoming a full-time parent to a teenage daughter, and Welcome to the Family, which stars Mike O'Malley (Glee) and Mary McCormack (The West Wing) as parents dealing with the news their high school-grad daughter is pregnant and planning to marry her Hispanic boyfriend.
NBC's midseason lineup includes the sitcom About a Boy, based on the bestselling Nick Hornby novel (which became a 2002 movie starring Hugh Grant); Jason Katims (Friday Night Lights) is executive producer, and the cast is led by Minnie Driver.
Topping the list of midseason dramas on NBC is Crisis, which stars Gillian Anderson (The X-Files) and Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend's Wedding) in a thriller about the kidnapping of a busload of students from a high school that educates the offspring of Washington, D.C.'s political and business elite.
NBC's new dramas for this fall include Ironside, a remake of the 1960s/'70s cop show about a wheelchair-bound detective (the new version stars Blair Underwood in the role originated by Raymond Burr); The Blacklist, which stars James Spader as a former government agent who, after several years on the FBI's most-wanted list, turns himself in and offers to help catch a terrorist leader; and Dracula, a new adaptation of the timeless vampire tale, with Jonathan Rhys Meyers (The Tudors) starring as the blood-lusting count.
NBC's lengthy list of shows that won't be back for 2013-14 includes 30 Rock, The Office, Deception, Animal Practice, Do No Harm, Guys With Kids, Smash, Up All Night, Whitney, 1600 Penn and Go On. The fate of mid-season arrival Hannibal has not yet been decided.
Meanwhile, over at Fox, the fall-season lineup will include three new comedies and a pair of new dramas, as well as a kitchen-reality spinoff of a familiar franchise.
The sitcom bracket includes Dads, the first live-action comedy venture from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane, which focuses on a pair of 30-something roommates who suddenly find themselves forced to let their cranky dads move in with them.
Also new to Fox this fall are Brooklyn Nine-Nine, a cop-driven comedy starring SNL alumnus Andy Samberg, and Enlisted, a family-focused sitcom about siblings stationed at a Florida army base.
Fox has two new drama titles in its fall lineup -- Almost Human, a futuristic cops-and-robots thriller from Fringe/Lost producer J.J. Abrams, and Sleepy Hollow, a modern-day spin on the classic tale of Ichabod Crane, with the hero having been transported through time only to find he's humanity's last hope.
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay will presumably ease back on the profanity this fall when he serves up Junior Masterchef, a culinary competition series for kids between eight and 13 years of age.
Among Fox's midseason entries for 2013-14 are Rake, which is adapted from a popular Australian TV series and stars Greg Kinnear as a brilliant lawyer battling multiple addictions, and Us & Them, based on a BBC hit about a couple whose romance is complicated by their wacky families and friends. Jason Ritter (Parenthood) and Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) lead the U.S. version's cast.
Fox also announced that torture-loving world-saver Jack Bauer (played by Kiefer Sutherland) will return to its lineup next year -- 24: Live Another Day, a 12-part series in which each hour-long episode covers two hours of "real" time, will debut in the summer of 2014.
Not returning to Fox's lineup for 2013-14 are Fringe, Touch, Ben & Kate and The Mob Doctor.
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While on my annual version of the Griswald family vacation this week in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea (admittedly no Wally World adventure), I took some good natured teasing from family and friends over the most recent Fourth of July holiday. Evidently, I run with a crowd that doesn't post Blogs, Tweet, IM or live on Facebook. So, I had to explain the rationale behind Blogs and why I was Blogging. It was one of those explanations that elicited bewildered stares, half hearted interest and a yawn (or two). But trust me, I delivered an impassioned argument.
So I must apologize to my clearly enlightened and tech-savvy reader when I state the obvious: the power and relevance of social media has never been greater. Those of us who 'live' in the world of technology cannot escape this reality, and this new reality presents even greater risks and challenges to corporations. Think about it. Today, I don't just tell a few friends about a bad experience – I tweet, blog, Yelp, and post a note on my facebook page — from my PC, mobile phone or tablet – from my office, home or local Starbuck's hotspot – all of which can touch thousands of people…in real time. Gone are the days where I only complain to a few close friends about a poor customer service experience. Social media has ushered in a new reality that puts at risk a company's image, brand, customer loyalty and ultimately their revenue. These colliding dynamics are forcing companies to rethink how they provide an immersive, differentiated and compelling customer experience on-line. And Adobe is in the center of that discussion.
Recently, I visited a large telecommunications company in the Asia Pacific region. I met with the Director of Creativity and Innovation. This person's charter is to "electrify" (his words) the experience between the company and their customers. For me, the most intriguing aspect of this position was the fact that he was hired by the CEO. Make no doubt about it. Customer experience is a C-level priority. All of this is quite simple and really makes perfect sense when you think about it. Just look at our personal lives: if an application or web experience falls short and doesn't deliver to our expectations, then we shout NEXT! But if an application enraptures and delights us, then we keep coming back. Corporations are beginning to acknowledge that customers are defining their loyalties and brand preferences based upon the experiences that they receive on-line. In order to survive in this new reality, corporations must accelerate their move from black and white, data centric experiences to high definition applications that customers love to use. Now, this director of "creativity and innovation" literally came out of his shoes when we demonstrated how other companies are leveraging Adobe technology to change the game.
As for further evidence of this movement, I just listen to my family and friend bad mouth a given web experience, vowing never to return again…or when I greet the UPS man at the front door as he delivers yet another shipment from Zappos.com. Now if only my family and friends would truly embrace this galactic Inter-Web thing (the Internet) and start yelping/blogging/tweeting there would be a lot of companies feeling the sting of delivering a woeful customer experience. And this tsunami is gaining speed.


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Here's my feeling on the NHL Draft for the Rangers, and it's the same as every draft:
I don't know. You don't know. They don't know. Nobody knows.
And we won't know for years. That's the nature of the animal. Unless you're getting one of those clear-cut NHL-ready stars like a Crosby, an Ovechkin, a Taylor Hall, there's no way to judge a draft until, like wine, it ages.
Kids picked in later rounds routinely turn out to be better than players picked in the first round. The Rangers have historically done better in later rounds: such as when they selected Henrik Lundqvist in the seventh round (after taking Filip Novak, Dominic Moore, Premsyl Duben, Nathan Martz, Brandon Snee and Sven Helfenstein) in 2000; or when they selected Doug Weight second after picking Michael Stewart first, and then got Sergei Zubov in the fifth round and Sergei Nemchinov in the 12th round (!) in 1990.
I always go back to the first NHL draft that defined the Edmonton Oilers dynasty (overseen by Glen Sather, as you know). Well, they got a fabulous player in Kevin Lowe in the first round. But they got Mark Messier in the third round and Glenn Anderson in the fourth. You can give Slats all the credit in the world for that draft, but honestly, if he had known that Messier was going to be one of the top five or six players of all time, and that Anderson would score 1000 points and almost 500 goals and go to the Hall of Fame, well, what was he waiting for? And what the hell was everybody else thinking (the Rangers selected Doug Sulliman and Ed Hospodar ahead of Messier!!!)?
The point is this: You are drafting 18-year-olds. Some of them turn out to be Pavel Brendl or Hugh Jessiman. Some of them turn out to be Brian Leetch. You don't know now. You know later. Especially with defensemen.
Which brings us to this draft. The Rangers trade of former first-rounder Bobby Sanguinetti for a second-rounder and a sixth-rounder pretty much tells us why they felt it was OK to pass on Cam Fowler and Brandon Gormley. Maybe they saw Sanguinetti in those two. Highly-ranked, but cookie-cutter, dime-a-dozen types. Who knows?
Maybe they felt that Dylan McIlrath was more likely to be an NHL player, if not a star then a steady, first-pair defenseman who might one day be a shut-down guy with a Chris Pronger mean streak. We know he's got the streak, and the size. Plus, maybe we (those watching from a distance) should have taken into account what Gordie Clark and Jeff Gorton said before the draft: That after No. 1 and No. 2, the rest was pretty wide open. That the 19th-ranked player could go third, and vice versa.
Plus, it's not like McIlrath was ranked 140th. He was the 17th-best North American skater on NHL Central Scouting's list, and the sixth defenseman. So he went 10th, and as the second defenseman taken.
A surprise? Yes, a surprise. We, who only (and barely) know the names of the prospects coming into a draft, expect the players to be picked in order. Well, that's why every team has its own scouts. They make their own rankings list. Obviously, Clark — who has had a pretty decent run as a talent evaluator — had McIlrath rated higher than the other available defensemen.
I'm going to go right ahead and admit that he knows better than I. About a zillion times better.
Plus, the Rangers have a boatload of defensemen who can move the puck and skate and pass already in their system. They don't have a cruncher or a shut-down guy anywhere, in the bigs or in the minors.
Will McIlrath be Pronger? That's a bit wildly optimistic. Will he be Jeff Beukeboom? Well, he has the size and meanness, and he has more skill than Beukeboom had, and what's wrong with a first-pair defenseman who plays 10-12 years? Will he be Sanguinetti, and traded at the 2014 draft for a second-round pick? Or will he be Hospodar or Dale Purinton? Very doubtful.
But we won't know for two, three, four years. He'll spend next year in juniors, at least.
Maybe by then, one of the other Rangers' 2010 picks will be playing in the NHL. Who knows?
But chime in anyway in the poll on the right.


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GHENT, BELGIUM--(Marketwire - October 08, 2012) - Ablynx (EURONEXT BRUSSELS: ABLX) today announced, in accordance with Article 14 of the Belgian Law of 2 May 2007 regarding the publication of major shareholdings in issuers whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market (the "Transparency Law"), that it received a notification of shareholdings from Gilde Europe Food & Agribusiness Fund BV.
The above shareholder now owns a holding of 3.52% in Ablynx, which represents 1,539,047 shares.
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Ablynx is a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the discovery and development of Nanobodies®, a novel class of therapeutic proteins based on single-domain antibody fragments, for a range of serious human diseases, including inflammation, haematology, oncology and pulmonary disease. Today, the Company has approximately 25 programmes in the pipeline and seven Nanobodies at clinical development stage. Ablynx has ongoing research collaborations and significant partnerships with major pharmaceutical companies including Boehringer Ingelheim, Merck KGaA, Novartis and Merck & Co. The Company is headquartered in Ghent, Belgium. More information can be found on www.ablynx.com.
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Sunny, dry weekend in the forecast
Published: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 9:11 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 9:11 a.m.
A mild, sunny weekend is forecast by the National Weather Service with high temperatures in the 70s and no chance of rain through Sunday.
Low temperatures are expected to be in the 40s and the warmth is expected to continue into next week. No hazardous conditions are forecast.
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Leland Earl Burns Military History
26 Janaury, 2013 — Anderson, SC
My father was Leland Burns. On his 18th birthday he enlisted in the USAAF. In 1942 you had to have a college degree or score very high on the pilots test to get into flight school. Reportedly he made a perfect score. For many years as a kid he built model planes and won several free flier competitions. He was president of the local model plane club. That club also included Major Rudolf Anderson of Cuban missil crisis fame. After approximately 18 months of training he was asigned to the 50th Fighter Group, 81st Fighter Squadron as part of the 9th Air Force. On june 6th 1944 he board a liberty ship in Richmond, Va. headed for his first base in Lymington, Englnad. They were on there a few days before moving to their first base in France located at Carentan near Utah Beach. Overt he next 11 months he flew 92 missions in a P-47 Thunderbolt providing ground support for troops advancing toward Germany. Those missions included destroying anything that moved. Locomotives, train yeads, marshalling yards, barges, trucks, tanks, horse carts, ox carts, Also, destroying bridges. As a teenager Pop had trouble being acceted by the older more experienced pilots. It was not until they discovered he had 20/10 vision that they began to include and trust him on dangerous missions. In April 1945 Pop reported entire colums of German solders would surrender to two Thunderbolts. The pilots would call the forward air controller and they would send out one or two jeeps and they would take control of Marching 300/400 german prisoners of war. Pop boarded the Queen Mary out Gourock in July 28 1945. They arrived New York harbor August 1, 1945. Pop returned home safely three months before his 21st birthday. He passed awa in June, 2000. In 2003 I began to attend their unit reunions. As of this date to my knowledge there only six members of their original unit surviving.


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After the excitement of Facebook's $104bn IPO and the subsequent fall in its shares, something more modest is coming onto London's alternative investment market.
Incadea, an Austrian company that provides software for BMW and other car dealerships, will raise around £17m on Friday, in a stock market float expected to value the company at £47m.
It's a lot smaller than Facebook, but it is a rare technology listing in London, where the tech IPO market has been considered closed for a long time. Read more


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Engage the Mission: Zambia
By: Brittany Latimer, Class of 2012
The Zambia Medical Mission (ZMM) is an annual event that has been taking place since the 1990s. Every year, Americans and Zambians come together to hold clinics in four different villages in the southern province. Back in the '90s it began as a much smaller operation but has blossomed over the years to now include about ninety-six Americans and over one hundred Zambians.
The clinic is composed of many different areas which include medical, dental, wound care, ophthalmic care, pharmacy, spiritual and children's ministry. A line begins to form early in the morning before the clinic opens around 8 a.m. and will remain until around 5 p.m. when the clinic closes. There are nurses and doctors at the front of the line that triage the patients
and determine to which station they need to go to. Through the collaboration of the Americans and Zambians, the ZMM was able to see almost 20, 000 people over a six-day period. They were also able to distribute over 501 clean delivery kits, baptize 96 people, perform over 50 cataract surgeries, give over 50 wheelchairs away, and deliver 2 babies.
One of the things that I will never forget are the people. The people are so friendly and peaceful. Although they may not be as materially blessed as we are, they are generous with the most precious commodity, time. It is much more like a community where everyone takes care of one another and takes the time to spend with one another.
Though the trip was demanding physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally, I cannot express how much I have been blessed by this trip and how much I grew as a person during this time.
By: John Deason, Class of 2012
Zambia, as you could probably guess, was the trip of a lifetime! I, along with Brittany Latimer, was there for just shy of two months. In that time I worked at the local Zonal Clinic doing everything from taking temperature and dispensing medications to pulling teeth and giving shots. Once the actual mobile medical clinic began, I was mostly working on entering the data for the computer system we brought (thanks to Healing Hands International). When we had some down time, I generally left the pharmacy to see how the other departments (wound care, general medical, and etc) operated.
Without a doubt, learning a new culture and making new friends was one of the most fascinating and fulfilling aspects of the journey. I found that there were some things my pharmacy knowledge really paid off for (i.e. antimicrobials), but my understanding of tropical diseases was sadly very lacking. Coming back has only given me a fire to finish up school and a new direction to put my focus on.
Zambia was beautiful in its own way. I'll never forget all that I've seen (especially Victoria Falls!). What has truly made a lasting impression though has been the people. Beyond the relationships I've made, I can't get over the spirit that is in the Zambians. It is one of patience and laughter despite the disparities these people face. It's truly a testament emphasizing that even after all is stripped away we are still content in having only God's love and mercy.


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When I was thirty years old, I was appointed Deputy Editor of Country Life magazine. To all my friends – and probably most of the staff of the magazine – it was hard to fathom. I had begun my career with six years at the celebrity-chasing Mail on Sunday, lived in London my whole life, could only walk in high heels and couldn't tell my Doric from my Architrave. When the then-editor, the charming Clive Aslet, sent out an email announcing that I would be starting in the job, the staff Googled my name and the first thing that came up was an article I'd written about knickers. They didn't hope for the best.
In the end, I stayed over four years, acquired five pairs of Hunter wellies and although I don't think I succeeded in achieving my brief (to modernise the culture of the magazine – "like trying to modernise Prince Phillip," a friend of mine remarked), I learned a lot. I also gained a real respect for the sometimes quieter way of going about things, for the men and women who had spent their years learning their craft or chosen subject, sometimes obscure but always valuable if they were not to disappear forever, whether that be the growing of cobnuts or the restoration of 14th century oak beams.
Some lessons were harder won. I was, after all, a townie, and the ways of the country were a mystery to me. After I asked my editor what the difference was between hay and straw, the only answer I could remember was that hay is a book festival and straw is something you drink cocktails with.
During my time there, I wrote a column for the now-defunct The London Paper, which appeared on Fridays, encouraging townies to go to the country at the weekend and indulge in the pleasures of pubs, stately homes, walks, strange Guy Fawkes night parades and so on. These formed the basis of my first book, Mud & the City: Dos and Don'ts for Townies in the Country (now available as an e-book). At the same time, I wrote a column for the magazine, as the Town Mouse, describing my various antics in and around the harsh pavements of London.
Now I have moved to the country for real. (This is partly why I've been a quiet on the blog front lately.) We are in Oxfordshire and I'm having to put some of my advice into practice – getting to know the neighbours, employing locally, chatting to the shopkeepers. There will be chickens, there may even be a dog. Some things have been surprising – for all the fresh air, I'm much more unhealthy in the country, baking and eating endless cakes and never walking anywhere (everything is a car journey's distance away). Some less so – the house is freezing in the afternoon, it's eerily quiet at night. I don't feel quite up to writing a Country Mouse column yet (still using straws for cocktails), but perhaps a Town Mouse In The Country blog will do. I'll let you know how I'm getting on. In the meantime, do come over for tea. There's cake.


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Rosslyn Park enjoyed a winning start to their National League One campaign but coach Jan Bonney says there is more to come from this charges.
Nev Edwards' try and Ross Laidlaw's five penalties saw Park to a narrow 20-14 win over Sedgley Tigers that left Bonney grateful for Laidlaw's boot.
However, after a good pre-season, the coach said the whole team is in good shape.
Bonney said: "I would not want to rely on Ross too much but in a tight game like that it is always good to have his ability
"Sedgley were a good side but we conceded a soft try from a lineout.
"But these are things that we will iron out as the season goes on.
"Either way, I am delighted to get that first win.
"We had a good pre-season and to take it into the matches that matter is pleasing."
Although Park came out of the game with no injuries, he said they have good strength in depth should any players be crocked.
He said: "There is good competition for places here which is what any coach wants, but it is also important to have cover for injuries.
"We have that in most positions although some positions are weaker and those players may be finding themselves playing week in, week out."
Park travel to title favourites Ealing, who beat Coventry 37-13 in their season opener, on Saturday.


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Family Style Dining -- The Choice is Yours!
Family Style Dining
Take a 360 tour of the Restaurant Barn
Sit down under the hand-hewn timbers of the Restaurant Barn and enjoy Amish Acres nationally famous Threshers Dinner, a family style feast of Amish country favorites. In tribute to the generations of Amish threshers who band together each harvest season to cut and thresh, thus separating the grain from the chaff, each other's crops in friendship, mutual aid and neighborliness.
This feast is reminiscent of the hearty fare cooked up by the women in the wood fired stoves, bake ovens, and smoke houses of the host farm in time for the noontime break in the threshing day. Often served out of doors under the shade of orchard trees, the Threshers dinner was and remains the best of all worlds.
In the spirit of neighborliness and thanksgiving, and in the tradition of the Threshers Dinner, you'll share your simple vittles amid the hand hewn beams of John T. Vawter's bank barn which was originally raised in 1870 and reconstructed here in 1977. Your food is all on the table and there's more in the kitchen, so like a hungry thresher, don't be timid, ask for more.
Sunday Threshers Dinner Buffet
Now enjoy all of your favorite Threshers Dinner platters of meat and bowls of vegetables plus famous ham & bean soup, dessert, and drink of your choice. It's the new and perfect after church, before show dining experience.
* Our family style Threshers Dinner and Threshers Buffet is all you care to eat, but leftovers may not be carried out.
Best Amish Food in the Area
The best Amish food that we have had was at Amish Acres. We've been to other Amish Style restaurants in Indiana and in Lancaster, PA and none compare.The server was friendly and did a wonderful job. The food was fresh and very good. Not too salty, lots of sides and the roast beef and chicken were wonderful. as were the stuffing, cole slaw, vegetables, etc. The Restaurant was clean and very pretty. We were seated at a window table where we could see the beautiful grounds.
We will be back!
Visited June 2016
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Hawaii Restaurant Chefs Recommend
Chef Recommends: Everyone envisions chefs laboring away at the hot stove, so much so that we sometimes forget they do venture out of their kitchens, eat at other restaurants, try new dishes and relax with friends around a table.
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Sheldon Simeon
Chef de Cuisine at Star Noodle
At his restaurant: Pohole salad ($8).
Born and raised in Hilo, Simeon grew up eating pohole (ferns)—at baby luau, parties, from his grandparents' backyard. "When developing the menu [at Star Noodle]," he says, "I knew I wanted something on the menu that ties to my roots." He combines the pohole with dried shrimp, shredded ika (cuttlefish), kombu (kelp), onions, tomatoes and sesame oil for a sweet, salty and umami-filled bite. 286 Kupuohi St., Lahaina, (808) 667-5400, starnoodle.com.
He also recommends: Sansei's shrimp dynamite at Sansei Seafood Restaurant and Sushi Bar ($12.95).
For this pupu, tempura-battered rock shrimp are tossed with masago aioli and unagi sauce. "The creaminess works well with the crunchiness of the rock shrimp," Simeon says. "And it goes well with Kirin Ichiban. Or a couple of sake shots." Sansei, Kihei Town Center, 1881 S. Kihei Road, No. KT-116, Kihei, 879-0004, sanseihawaii.com.