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THE resignation of a senior surgeon, along with the findings of an independent review, raised several concerns about a controversial shake-up of vascular surgery in the Thames Valley.
Certain complex vascular procedures, for patients with disorders of the arteries and veins, are set to be moved out of Wycombe and Royal Berkshire hospitals - with the work centralised at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.
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Phase 1 of the changes, involving the transfer of vascular surgery out of Wexham Park Hospital near Slough, was completed this year.
But documents obtained by the Bucks Free Press under Freedom of Information laws reveal how the surgeon leading this phase resigned to take a position at another hospital trust - after criticising the facilities and working methods in Oxford.
The centralisation, recommended by the South Central Cardiovascular Network, is aimed to increase the level of consultant cover and expertise, thereby improving patient outcomes.
But Peter Rutter, a senior vascular surgeon, raised concerns about "patient safety issues", 'antiquated equipment' and poor lighting in the operating theatres within the vascular department at the John Radcliffe.
He also complained of operations being cancelled due to a lack of ward and critical care beds, 'impossible' logistics for transferring patients and a lack of rehabilitation for amputees.
These criticisms triggered a review of Phase 1 before the phases involving the Royal Berkshire [Phase 2] and Wycombe Hospital [Phase 3] are implemented.
The findings of this external review say most of Mr Rutter's concerns have since been addressed by Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust [OUH] - which runs the John Radcliffe.
The reviewers do not challenge the decision to centralise arterial surgery in Oxford, saying as a major trauma centre, the presence of vascular surgery on site is "inevitable".
But the report adds: "Vascular surgery at OUH seems to be safe, but has not developed in the way that it has in other hospitals in the United Kingdom. It seems to be positioned about ten to fifteen years behind the best."
The reviewers say OUH practices vascular surgery more like a 'district general hospital' than an 'important teaching hospital', while several of the surrounding hospitals "probably provide a better endovascular service".
They add: "The impression is given that OUH had not properly thought through the implications of centralisation.
"There was apparently no business case to support the vision, and it is suggested that management had embarked on a shrinkage of vascular surgery, but was forced into an expansion."
Following the transfer of complex vascular surgery from Wexham Park, the reviewers said an 'us and them situation' emerged between consultants, with claims that Oxford University Hospitals was "empire building".
The 'established' vascular surgeons from Oxford had not agreed to do sessions in the surrounding district hospitals, according to the review, whereas the consultants coming into Oxford for their complex procedures would also have to look after less complex cases in their district hospital.
The review recorded several comments made by staff and found: "Several stakeholders commented that OUH vascular surgery lacks leadership, particularly in the endovascular arena, and that the existing vascular surgeons were individuals rather than team players. The reviewers agree with these views."
One stakeholder also said an "Oxford Senior Surgeon threatened to make Bucks Vascular Surgeons redundant unless they toed the line".
Earlier this year Wycombe MP Steve Baker raised questions about the clinical case for selecting Oxford as the regional centre – following an anonymous 'tip off' that Wycombe achieves better patient outcomes.
But after meeting the vascular team at Wycombe Hospital, Mr Baker said the stats were based on numbers sufficiently small that it was "difficult to make an absolute comparison", whereas the evidence from a broader perspective is that "if you centralise you get better outcomes".
OXFORD University Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the John Radcliffe, said in a statement:
"Centralisation of vascular surgery into larger dedicated centres has been initiated by vascular surgeons of the Vascular Society and supported by Vascular Networks.
"Oxford was chosen as the site to provide vascular surgery after extensive research and consultation by the South Central Cardiovascular Network.
"This decision has been endorsed by the external review and recommends that the centralisation of services at the John Radcliffe Hospital should go ahead as planned.
"Clinical outcomes were considered in the process and Oxford was chosen after extensive consultation and bidding processes with a national panel including commissioners, clinicians and public health professionals.
"The Trust's outcomes for vascular surgery are excellent and reflect the complex emergency case load. There has been no data presented to suggest that other services have demonstrably superior case mix adjusted outcomes."
The South Central Cardiovascular Network, which made the recommendation to the regional NHS to centralise complex vascular surgery in Oxford, said:
"Outcomes were part of the consideration... Outcomes for all providers, including Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, have continued to improve since the original review panel."
Charles Waddicor, the Network's chairman, added there are plans already in place to refurbish Oxford's vascular surgery theatre facilities by 2014, including a purpose-designed endovascular theatre by January 2015.
And he said work is already underway to expand the vascular department with a second interventional radiology suite and a hybrid theatre – which the external reviewers said should be in place before the transfer of vascular surgery from Wycombe goes ahead.


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A MAN got a leg stuck under a dumper truck in East Waterside, Upton, at about 3.30pm this afternoon.
Firefighters from Droitwich with specialist rescue kit as well as a crew from Upton were called to the scene and rescued the man, who was thought to be in his mid-20s.
He was treated at the scene by West Midlands Ambulance Service but it is not known if his injuries were serious.

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Goals: Hawthorn: J Gunston 4 J Roughead 4 L Breust 4 R Schoenmakers 4 C Rioli 2 D Hale 2 P Puopolo 2 S Burgoyne 2 B Hartung B Hill J Lewis. St Kilda: J Billings J Steven L Montagna R Stanley.
Best: Hawthorn: S Burgoyne J Roughead J Gibson G Birchall L Hodge L Breust B Hill P Puopolo. St Kilda: J Billings L Montagna L Hayes.
Umpires: Jacob Mollison, Dean Margetts, Robert O'Gorman.
Official Crowd: 32,924 at MCG.
What's the difference between Hawthorn and St Kilda? We could say that one team stayed in Tasmania and the other left; that one has far better stadium arrangements, and that, consequently, one has cash and assets and the other doesn't.
As of Saturday, the difference between the clubs that once shared Waverley Park also stands at 145 points.
As you'd hope, that margin is the largest in the history of these clubs, which is quite remarkable given that a.) teams – Hawthorn and Geelong excepted – don't score as much these days and; b.) Hawthorn was supreme in the '80s and the Saints won four consecutive wooden spoons from 1983-1986. It was a result that might feature in equalisation discussions.
There haven't been many scores greater than 145 points this season, much less a margin of that magnitude. Defensive tactics, such as the sandbagging deployed by Paul Roos, make such a margin improbable in 2014.
Yet the mother of all blow-outs happened at the MCG, and it happened in a match in which rain fell for roughly half the two hours. It is extraordinary to consider that this same Hawthorn team was almost beaten by an Essendon side (round two) that the Saints overran a fortnight ago.
But if we have gleaned anything from this season and the previous two years, it's that the Hawks have an unmatched ability to butcher the opposition and run up cricket scores. They are a pitiless gang, who don't permit the kind of face-saving that Collingwood afforded Carlton in the final quarter on Friday night. Once the kicking begins, they keep going.
Of the many records busted, and of all the frightening numbers, this was probably the most revealing: at the 25-minute mark of the second quarter, the Saints had their first forward (50-metre) entry for the quarter. By match's end, they had just 25 forward entries to Hawthorn's 68. Some teams squander this territorial advantage – not the Hawks, whose Jarryd Roughead, Luke Breust, Jack Gunston and, surprisingly, Ryan Schoenmakers each booted four goals.
Having Brian Lake back in the side, and with Josh Gibson manning Nick Riewoldt for most of the game, the Hawks didn't need Shoenmakers in defence. So, in his return to the seniors after a 12-month absence, the ''Show'' was given an attractive new job description of goal-kicker, which came in tandem with the unveiling of his hipster Samurai hairstyle. Perhaps the Hawks figured he wouldn't get sufficient work in defence.
Another frightening fact: Sam Mitchell was subbed out with a hamstring injury at quarter time. The Hawks didn't need their most productive midfielder to have complete territorial control and ownership of the ball. Lake also went off with a calf injury in the third term.
Skipper Luke Hodge stepped up in Mitchell's absence, while Shaun Burgoyne was among the most prolific ball winners. Gibson was rampant, especially in the first quarter, and there wasn't much Riewoldt could do about it because he was outnumbered whenever the ball went near him – and to get near it, he had to get up the field, where goals aren't scored.
You would think a team smashed by 24 goals would have been slaughtered at the contest. Umm, not exactly. Hawthorn ''won'' the contested ball by 146 to 135, not much of a gap.
You would imagine then that the dismembered team didn't lay a tackle. Well, no, St Kilda out-tackled the Hawks by 73 to 57.
So, we come back to the opening question: what was the difference?
Skill level is the starting point. Ability to spread would be next, followed by defensive positioning. Hawthorn, as we know, can keep possession of the ball like no other team. That it rained in the second quarter only accentuated the difference in class. The uncontested ball differential was 149, of which most were short, staccato kicks to a brown and gold jumper.
Hawthorn kept possession. The Saints couldn't move the ball from out of defence, couldn't get it past the midfield often, and on those occasions when it was in their scoring area, were outnumbered by Gibson and his cohorts.
Grant Birchall and Matt Suckling played higher than usual – that is, where the ball was. Birchall, indeed, kicked the ball inside 50 metres six times; Suckling seven.
Alan Richardson reckoned the Saints failed to apply pressure and didn't cope with it, which was correct on both counts, despite the tackles. The greater failing was in combating Hawthorn's skill and retaining possession.
If the second quarter was ugly for the Saints, worse was to come after half-time. The Hawks piled on 10.2 to 1.1 in the third term, when they scored with ludicrous ease, highlighted by consecutive Cyril Rioli give-and-get goals on the run, and the unselfish waxing between Breust and Roughead, one donating a goal to the other within a couple of minutes.
Leigh Montagna resisted by winning the ball, as did Lenny Hayes, to a degree. Jack Steven tried, too. But these individual acts of resistance weren't sufficient to halt the ruthless march of the pitiless terminators.


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The debate over too-big-to-fail banks continues this week on Capitol Hill.
U.S. Rep. John Campbell, R-Calif., is introducing a bill titled the Systemic Risk Mitigation Act. If approved, the bill would require the biggest members of the banking industry to raise an additional layer of capital. In the event that an institution began teetering on the brink of failure, that capital would provide an extra cushion to prevent any type of bailout funded by taxpayers.
"The 'too big to fail' problem has not been fixed and remains a serious threat to our future prosperity," Campbell said in a statement. "We don't want to be like Europe."
While the bill is designed to eliminate the possibility of a public backstop for privately held banks, the release from Campbell's office makes it clear that he is not advocating for an actual breakup of too-big-to-fail institutions. His approach seems to strike quite the political balance between pleasing the public and giving members of the private sector the ability to make their own decisions.
"This legislation gives financial institutions, not policymakers, the final decision on how they will structure themselves," the release states.
In an interview with Bloomberg News, Campbell reinforced that his proposal does not hold all bad news for big banks, indicating that he believes higher capital requirements should excuse banks from the proposed ban on proprietary trading of the Volcker rule.
If you're a regular reader, you know that Congress has been working to address the banking industry's size issues. However, lawmakers haven't exactly knocked it out of the park in terms of developing an effective plan for the future of big banks. Five years removed from the financial crisis, questions remain over whether the government continues to fuel the perception that some banks are simply too important to our economy to ever let them fail.
What do you think Congress should do about the biggest banks in the country? Do you believe they are still a threat to the health of our economy?


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This post is intended for those of you who create articles, tutorials, and videos related to Flex and Flash Builder (although it will be useful to everyone). Apologies in advance for the bland title, but try as I might, I couldn't think of a snappy one…
Observant readers will have noticed that over the last few years, we at Adobe have been working to identify and link to content that you, the community, create. Whether it's an article, a video, a code example… whatever, we want to integrate with great community content. And I think this is a great thing for everyone:
- Viewers – From our pages on help.adobe.com, readers have easy access to useful, hand-picked content.
- You/Bloggers – Links from our pages on adobe.com boost your site's page rank, making it even more likely that searchers will find your content in the future.
- Us/Adobe – Scanning the community for content helps us learn what's important for customers and identify who's who in the community.
I don't know whether or not you've noticed, but lately we've given even more visibility to your links, moving them to the top of the page, sometimes placing the link inline, along with the related discussion. Also, we are applying some visual treatments to highlight these links:
- Byline – This icon indicates a link to customer content. See the Enable persistence in a mobile application page for an example of this.
- Adobe recommends – This treatment includes a blurb and an image (I've even contacted some of you for a picture or icon) to help draw attention to the link. See the About Spark layouts and Define views in a mobile application pages for examples of the "Adobe recommends" treatment.
Pages that link to your content
Here is a partial list of the authors and articles we link to:
- Jeffry Houser, Component layout in a Flex 4 application
- Tink, Carousel Layout
- Emily Kim/Trilemetry, Introducing Styling and Skinning
- Peter deHaan, many examples from flexexamples.com
- Brent Arnold (aka iBrent), Troubleshooting Android device connections on Windows
- Numerous articles from Holly Schinsky(aka devgirl), including Flash Builder 4.5 – Mobile Highlights
- Xavi Beumala, Flex 4 Accordion3D layout
- Brian Telintelo, Flex 4.5 Spark TileLayout finally pays off for multi-screen apps
- Joseph Labrecque, Building Mobile Apps with Flex 4.5
- Russ Watson, DropdownList labelDisplay tooltip
- Fabio Biondi, Mobile Flex 4.5 Demonstration
- We also link to articles and videos on adobe.com, including videos by Serge Jespers, and articles by NJ and Evtim Georgiev.
We're always looking for articles, tutorials, and videos, so if you have something, please let us know by adding a comment to this page with your e-mail and a URL.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – Despite opening the Sunshine State Conference match with 3-0 lead after doubles, the Saint Leo men's tennis team (5-4, 1-3 SSC) fell to No.8-ranked Rollins by the score of 5-4, Tuesday afternoon from the Saint Leo Tennis Center.
After posting a 3-0 advantage following doubles action, the Lions saw the Tars rally-off five-of-six contests in singles action.
The day started off great for the Lions as they took each of the doubles contests in order. No.21-ranked tandem of Matt Nicholson-Lewis and Victor Lozier easily downed the No.24-ranked Rollins' team of Lucas Jovita and Jason Alabaster, 8-3. Jacobo Gonzalez-Tarrio and Antoine Raffaelli took home the win at No.2 doubles, 8-5, while Jake Fleischer and Aloua Adjenak bumped-off their opponents, 8-6.
However, the momentum shifted in singles action as the Tars took matches at No.1 and No.2 singles in straight sets. After the Lions Gonzalez-Tarrio extended the Lions' lead to 4-2, Rollins bounced back by taking matches at five, six, and the eventual-match clincher at No.3 singles.
The Lions will return to the court on Saturday, March 3, when they travel to Florence, Ala. to compete in three south region matches. The Lions will challenge in a rare doubleheader on Saturday as they take on Delta State and North Alabama at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
For more on the Saint Leo men's tennis team, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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On the 25th anniversary of its EOS system, Canon finally announced the long-awaited update to its full-frame 5D Mark II dSLR. The 5D Mark III is packed with capabilities for both still and video shooters, but at a much steeper price. As you'd expect, the 5DM3 consists of a combination of technologies, features, and design updates rolled out in the EOS 7D and the more recent 1D X. The result is a camera that looks similar to its predecessor with a lot more capabilities and better performance, but isn't as different when it comes to the basics -- photo and video quality -- as you'd expect. Of course, the 5D Mark II is pretty great in those respects, so no drastic change isn't necessarily a bad thing.
Image quality
Though a different sensor than that of the 1D X, it uses a lot of the same technology that Canon rolled out for that model, including gapless microlenses and improved quantum efficiency (to improve the amount of light capturable on the photodiodes); better on-chip noise reduction; and faster data readout (dual four-channel readouts). Though it has 6.25-micron sites compared with 6.4 microns on the older sensor, Canon claims that all the other advances, including the better processing in the Digic 5+ engine, delivers overall better noise performance -- two stops better for JPEG and video. Canon does say the 1D X remains about one stop cleaner, however.
There's no doubt that the 5DM3 delivers excellent photo quality. The unprocessed images do seem to have less pronounced color noise than the 5DM2, and at midrange-to-high ISO sensitivities the JPEGs do look a little cleaner. But at low-to-middle ISO sensitivities I actually think the JPEG photos from the 5DM2 look a little better, with more naturally defined detail and fewer processing artifacts. That said, the 5DM3's JPEGs do look fine up through ISO 1600, and depending upon the scene and your needs they can be quite good through ISO 6400. Raw images look great and unambiguously better through ISO 1600, though.
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Another reason to shoot raw with the 5DM3 is tonal range. I found the JPEGs tended to clip highlights and lose color and detail on very light colors in as little as a 2/3-stop brighter, even when both exposures are well within acceptable parameters. You can fiddle some with the Highlight Tone Priority setting (disabled by default) and Auto Lighting Optimizer to help this, but I still think you don't get enough of a correction with it. There's a substantial amount of recoverable color and highlight detail in the raw files, however. Enhancing detail in deep shadows does bring out a lot of noise, though that's pretty typical. Overall, it retains the dynamic range in the shadows through the higher ISO sensitivities as well, with no contouring and little clipping.
Likewise, the camera is capable of excellent color reproduction. As with most Canons, the default Standard Picture Style boosts saturation and contrast just enough to shift some hues slightly and clip some shadow detail, but that's easily fixed with a switch to Neutral (I boost the sharpness in Neutral by two units, though).
As for video, it's excellent in both bright and low light, and I think better overall than the 5DM2 -- if only because of the All-intraframe codec, which compresses the video less. As far as I can tell there's no moiré, rolling shutter, aliasing, jitter, or any other noticeable artifacting. The tonal range looks good, and there's far less color noise in low-light video than in the 5DM2 or D800.
Overall, the 5DM3 performs roughly as well as the D800 on nonburst shooting -- they're both pretty fast -- and outpaces it significantly at continuous shooting. It's not a lot faster than the 5DM2, though it has zippier autofocus in low light and better burst performance. In good light, time to focus and shoot is about 0.2 second, and rises to 0.4 second under poorer lighting conditions. JPEG shot-to-shot runs 0.3 second with raw just a hair slower.
For continuous shooting it delivers 5.6fps, which is a new best for this class. While it's not up to an action sports or bird-tracking level of performance, it may be fast enough to serve a chunk of people who don't want the bulk or the expense of a 1D-class camera. One of the nice things about the 5DM3's burst shooting is that you can maintain a solid clip while shooting raw+JPEG. (I used a SanDisk Extreme Pro 90MB/sec CF card.)
The AF system is still easily fooled by fast, erratically-moving low-differentiation subjects (e.g., a light-colored dog against light-colored ground) -- one of the hardest things to track -- but the new 61-point autofocus system is a vast improvement over the 5DM2's. You can select from six preset configurations of the AF system: general, obstacle-insensitive, objects moving into a specific range of AF areas, acceleration sensitive, erratic speed, and erratic speed and direction. They're all basically combinations of three settings -- tracking sensitivity, acceleration tracking, and AF point autoswitching -- that you can adjust manually. The Live View contrast autofocus remains almost unusably slow, though, despite some updates.
Canon also reduced the spot meter size to 1.5 percent of the viewfinder. Overall I consider that a plus, but it does require some changes to your old metering habits if you're a big spot-meter user, especially if you shoot a lot of wide angle. But it's great to have 100 percent coverage now. The viewfinder also has an optional grid overlay and can supply alerts for a handful of settings that affect picture quality, such as ISO expansions.
And the larger, higher-resolution LCD is much better for gauging sharpness, though you still really need a third-party viewfinder for shooting video; I'd love to see a peaking feature, which would help a bit.
Design and features
With the exception of a slightly tackier grip (as in sticky, not cheap), the body of the camera feels much like the 5DM2, and some of the control layout has changed, mostly for the better. The mode dial and power switch sit on the left shoulder; now the mode dial locks, albeit with the center pushbutton that debuted in the 60D and which I find a bit awkward. While I have no issue with the location of the power switch, it does routinely flip from off to on when moving in and out of my camera bag. That doesn't seem to have affected battery life, but it's annoying.
On the right shoulder are the button controls for metering, white balance, autofocus mode, drive mode, ISO sensitivity, flash compensation, and a backlight for the status LCD. There's been some discussion online about light leakage from the LCD backlight, which results in changed exposure settings, but I didn't have any problems (despite having a serial number within the affected group). Canon added a small programmable button to the top of the camera, and the depth-of-field preview button, also programmable, now sits near the grip for operation with your right ring finger. You can also set a button to display an electronic level using the AF-point grid.
All of these settings can be saved to one of the three Custom slots on the mode dial. And as much as I love the easily accessible custom settings on the Canon, it's time to up the number of slots from three to at least five. I need three for stills (general daylight, general low light, and continuous shooting) and another two for video (day and night). There's certainly spare room on the dial for them.
On the back right are a set of well-placed and easily operated controls. The Live View/Movie record switch and button sit right next to your thumb; just below is the navigation multicontroller, quick menu button, and a large lockable dial that doubles as a silent touch pad for adjusting settings during movie capture. (The controller may be silent, but you might still hear operational sounds such as the aperture changing.) In addition to a comparison playback view, there's a dedicated button for rating photos, which gets written into the EXIF data.
Incorporating Digic 5+ adds a lot of important features. These include support for UDMA 7 CF; the camera now has dual CF/SDXC card slots, which is a really useful feature. And Canon implements it with the novel ability to configure it to record different sizes/quality of raw or JPEG files saved to each card. There's also three-shot in-camera HDR, but you can save the source images as well as add some effects. (For manual HDR, you get a bump to seven-frame bracketing at +/-5 EV.) Additionally, it offers the same powerful multiple-exposure mode as the 1D X.


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The group meets on the first Thursday of the month at 7pm except for January and July. Upcoming books for discussion are available at the Checkout Desk about one month before the scheduled discussion. Ask at the desk to obtain a copy of the next After Dinner Books selection. You are also welcome to purchase the books at bookstores or borrow them from friends. Pick up a copy of our next discussion book and help us make our next book discussion a memorable one!
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Leading a Book Discussion Group
Leading a Book Discussion
Book discussion groups usually have a leader or moderator to keep the discussion on target and make sure every member has an opportunity to contribute. The moderator may want to prepare an opening comment or question to launch the discussion, and be prepared with other questions or observances should the discussion lag or become bogged down on one particular aspect of the story.


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Luichiny Open Toe Boot
It's always been hard for me to find footwear that I like in a gunmetal gray. To some it looks dismal but to me I need it to balance out my black sometimes. I love the heel on this boot. It comes in other colors but I was smitten with this color and am really digging the eyelets, lace up and stitching.


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Professor, Environmental Studies, and Director of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education
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Research Interests: Environmental education, education for sustainable development, Earth Charter education, and higher education for sustainability.
Current Projects: Work to advance the research dimensions of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) through active scholarship on the Global Higher Education for Sustainability Partnership – Resource Project and through the UNESCO Reference Group for the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
Environmental education and education for sustainable development in the South Pacific, emphasis on Fiji. Invited to serve as a Visiting Research Professor at The University of the South Pacific (USP), Suva, Fiji, 2006. Sabbatical at the Pacific Centre for Environment and Sustainable Development at USP, 2007.
Earth Charter in Southern Africa, emphasis on education.
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A much-loved Ilkley pharmacy supervisor is to retire from her post after more than 38 years.
Mary Hulme is known by many customers, patients, and professionals for her service at Lloyds Pharmacy, Springs Lane.
All her working colleagues have said her loyalty has been outstanding to all the company's that have taken over throughout the years. She has followed on her position in the pharmacy with the highest of proficiency and we have also found her working hours beyond her daily expectation to organise for the next day.
Mrs Hulme would like to thank all the patients, customers, colleagues, and Doctors local to Lloyds pharmacy for their cards and well wishes for her future in retirement.
She said: "I shall miss all the friendly faces and I feel privileged to have got to know so many lovely people over the years."
All the team wished her the fondest farewell and said they are going to find it hard to adjust to her leaving the little family she has created at the shop.
Her colleagues said they felt honoured to have worked with her over the years.


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In the small Southern town where I grew up, chicken shacks dot every other street corner, gas station, and strip mall. My first summer job was at one of those famous fry joints; I was 16 and had so much to learn. My best friend and I drank bottomless cherry cokes and ate too many French fries — it was three short months of greasy teenage bliss. Man, what I wouldn't give to have that high school metabolism back!
As a veteran and self-proclaimed chicken joint "pro," let me give you non-Southerners a couple of tips should you make it down this way. Chicken joints do one thing — fried chicken — and they do it well. Don't even think about asking for grilled. You can get a plate, a box, or a bucket; all served with crinkle fries, slaw, and Texas toast. There are three options for a reason, so don't try to over-complicate your order. (Simple works, folks, especially when high schoolers are running the register). And let's not forget about that oh-so-special "special sauce." Every spot has its own secret recipe, but they all taste pretty similar, and delicious, to me. Go ahead and order a couple of extras; you're gonna need them.
In case you aren't headed South anytime soon, here's a recipe to give you a little taste of what you're missing.
This is my interpretation of the chicken of my youth, and I think you'll be quite pleased. First the chicken gets a long bath in pickle juice (my homage to a certain closed-on-Sunday classic) before getting a light and fluffy tempura batter that adds a modern twist. I'm also sharing my super-secret recipe for special sauce — it's so dead-on you'll never need to pay for those extras again.
Southern-style Chicken Nuggets and Special Sauce
Serves: 4 to 6
Active Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 4 hours and 45 minutes (including marinating time)
For the chicken:
1 1/2 pounds chicken breasts, cut into 3/4 to 1-inch pieces
1/2 cup dill pickle juice
1/4 cup hot sauce, such as Frank's (optional)
Peanut or canola oil, for frying
For the special sauce:
1 cup plus 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/2 cup ketchup
2 teaspoons black pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
For the tempura batter
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
2 teaspoons kosher salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
2 egg whites
2 tablespoons canola oil
1/3 cup dill pickle juice
Marinate chicken in pickle juice and hot sauce for at least 4 hours (or overnight if possible).
To make the special sauce, combine the mayonnaise, ketchup, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and garlic powder. Adjust any seasonings, if desired. Refrigerate until ready to serve.
To make the chicken, fill a Dutch oven or cast iron pot with 3 to 4 inches of peanut oil. Heat the oil to 375 degrees F, keeping a close watch on the thermometer, making sure not to exceed this temperature.
While the oil is heating, prepare the batter. Combine the flour, cornstarch, salt, paprika, baking soda, and cayenne in a large bowl. Add the egg whites, canola oil, and pickle juice and whisk until the mixture is thick and sticky (almost like glue). Stir the marinated chicken into the fry batter until every piece is completely coated.
Working in batches, fry the chicken until crisp and golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes per batch. (The coated chicken pieces will want to clump together in the oil, so I like to put in each piece one by one.) The oil temperature will drop to approximately 350 degrees, which is the temperature you should maintain while frying. Return the oil to 375 degrees in between batches.
Using a spider, remove the cooked chicken to drain on a sheet pan lined with paper towels or a large brown paper bag. When all the chicken is fried, return oil to 375 degrees. (Taste chicken. If desired, drizzle additional pickle juice over chicken when it comes out of the fryer for a more predominant "pickle" flavor before continuing with second fry.)
Add ALL of the fried chicken back into the hot oil for 30 seconds to 1 minute. The second fry will not only re-heat the chicken but make it extra crispy. Remove the chicken back to the sheet pan lined with fresh paper towels or a large brown paper bag. Season generously with kosher salt.
Serve warm chicken immediately with the special sauce. If serving as an appetizer, you can put a toothpick through each piece. Reheat the chicken in the oven, if necessary.
Nealey moved from Alabama to the West Coast to follow her dreams, only to realize once there how much she missed good ol' country cooking. So she took to the kitchen and began re-creating the dishes of her past, but this time without any help from a can. What started out as a hobby turned into an obsession, so she quit her day job to pursue cooking, and eating, fulltime. Dixie Caviar is where you can follow her pursuits of all things Southern.
Get the printable recipe here.


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For the last week, Conservation, Registration, and Exhibits have
been busy installing Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the
Whydah. This travelling exhibit features over 300
objects--each of which is checked by a Conservator before it goes
on display. We check for any signs of new damage that may
have occurred during shipping, or any artifacts that may need extra
care before installation.
Real Pirates is fascinating from a Conservation
perspective. When objects are buried at sea for long periods
of time, they are covered with minerals, plants, and even
animals. These materials form a hard layer, or
concretion, on the surface that can completely cover the
artifact. Visitors to Real Pirates can see some of these
concretions, and learn about how Conservators remove this tough
outer layer to reveal the artifacts inside.