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John Peters figured out long ago that the refugee relief business has more than its share of oddballs. It was 25 years ago, in fact--after the physician had joined in a series of medical relief missions that involved parachute jumps into Peru, Nicaragua, Honduras and Bangladesh in the wake of natural disasters. The experience threw him together with a tatterdemalion crew of shady adventurers and backwoods healers, wide-eyed holy rollers and salty combat veterans, including one ex-Green Beret named Robert K. Brown.
"Those were some pretty strange people we were jumping with," Peters recalls. "Real cowboys, people who were just in it for the glory rather than qualified medical people. Brown and I and some others decided that we should form our own group and have some more control."
Brown and Peters first met during a relief operation in Peru following a 1970 earthquake. At the time, Peters was a general practitioner on Colorado's Western Slope with no military experience but with a passion for skydiving; Brown was a Vietnam vet with vague ambitions to get into publishing. By the mid-1970s Brown had launched a controversial new magazine in Boulder, and Peters had become the medical director of Refugee Relief International, a nonprofit closely aligned with Brown's venture in spirit and deed.
Compared to conventional relief organizations such as the Red Cross, RRI may seem like an even stranger group than the parachute teams Peters joined in the early 1970s. The all-volunteer effort includes not only doctors and paramedics but several ex-military types eager to return as impartial angels of mercy to war-ravaged areas where they once played a highly partisan role. For the most part, the group's funding has come from the pockets of its participants and from the readers of Brown's magazine--Soldier of Fortune, the brash, blood-and-guts "Journal of Professional Adventurers" known for its vivid firsthand reporting from the world's trouble spots.
The relationship with Soldier of Fortune has been both a help and a hindrance to Peters's group over the years. RRI has been able to draw on the close ties that SOF enjoys with military officials in several Latin American countries in order to gain access to areas where other relief organizations don't care or don't dare to go. Despite its modest size and budget (now around $40,000 a year, excluding the medical supplies and transportation donated by drug companies, airlines and others), the group has also been able to mount several ambitious forays into civil-war zones in Southeast Asia that might be too daunting for larger, more bureaucratic organizations.
"People ask us to come to areas where, for reasons of security or remoteness or because the locals are Indians and nobody cares, they get no help," Peters says. "A lot of the guys pay their own way; we usually end up paying about half of it ourselves."
In recent years, Peters and his colleagues have brought equipment and medical supplies to a hospital on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast, a place so isolated and neglected that local doctors were compelled to reuse disposable gloves and syringes and make diagnoses without benefit of a microscope, much less an EKG machine. They have instructed native surgeons how to perform emergency amputations on Karen tribesmen injured by ancient land mines in the Burmese jungle. They've tracked famine in Afghanistan and advised Guatemala on its rural health program. Nobody gets paid, and all donations are earmarked for the actual expenses of the operation, Peters says.
But the SOF connection has always made RRI suspect in liberal circles, particularly during the magazine's early days, when its mercenary-for-hire ads and swaggering support of right-wing regimes attracted widespread criticism and Justice Department investigations. In the Reagan years, at the height of the civil war in El Salvador and the Contra campaign in Nicaragua, SOF's "action journalists" walked a thin line between reporting on the conflicts and actively training and assisting the anti-communist forces in both countries. RRI's efforts to deliver medical supplies and treatment in the region were soon regarded as a kind of front for further military assistance, a perception of the organization that persists to this day.
"There are still some people turned off by the Soldier of Fortune name," notes Ralph Edens, a longtime contributor to the magazine and RRI member. "It can be counterproductive. Back in the 1980s, there was a significant portion of the left that regarded any support for the Contras, regardless of what it was, as military. I don't care who went down with us and saw the two or three thousand people we treated--they were still thinking that we were up to something."
Peters says the group's members have "decided to completely divorce ourselves from the military connotation" of Brown's operation. Brown hasn't been directly involved in RRI for years, he insists. (Brown didn't respond to a request for comment.) A sister organization, Parachute Medical Rescue Service, has been phased out so as not to confuse potential donors with images of paratroopers wearing camouflage. Further restructuring of the group's management is in the works, Peters adds.
It's unlikely that RRI will ever completely shed its maverick reputation, particularly since several of its key participants tend to be the sort of well-traveled adventurers featured in Brown's magazine. Edens, for example, is an ex-military entrepreneur who was active with anti-Castro groups in Florida in the early 1960s. Although he didn't participate in the abortive attempts to overthrow the Cuban leader, he was later convicted of violating the Neutrality Act after bombing the palace of Haitian dictator "Papa Doc" Duvalier in 1969. There's a picture of him in a 1983 issue of Soldier of Fortune crouching over the bodies of two Salvadoran rebels who were gunned down by government troops Edens had accompanied in the field that day.
Edens, who still writes for SOF under the name of Don Rafael Iguana, prefers not to talk about such ancient exploits. He would rather talk about RRI's many trips to Nicaragua, where the group has treated ex-Sandinistas and ex-Contras alike.
"You can take a map of the world and throw a dart at it, and you'll find medical need there," Edens says. "Regardless of how big the organization is, you still can't take care of everybody--look at Kosovo. Because we spent time in Nicaragua during the war, we knew the need was there and that it wasn't being met after the war ended. So we started doing what we could do."
Peters, who now lives in rural Nevada, has made two trips a year to Nicaragua since 1995. Last February, in the aftermath of Hurricane Mitch, RRI embarked on a ten-day, twelve-person expedition to a remote northeastern village called San Jose de Bocay. The group saw hundreds of patients until the supplies they'd brought were exhausted. Edens assisted Adam Weaver, a dentist from Milwaukee, in extracting 435 rotten teeth.
San Jose de Bocay is a rugged area, and some locals who didn't turn in their guns after the war now make their living as bandits. Security for the RRI group, which included Peters's nineteen-year-old daughter, Mandi, a college student, was provided by former Contras, Edens says.
"The government promised the Contras aid and resettlement, but nothing ever came of it," he says. "They have a clinic there and two doctors, but they don't have any supplies, not even toothbrushes. It's terrible to see a little girl, ten or eleven years old, and you're pulling out her primary teeth already."
During a break in the medical mission, Edens and several others took a four-hour mule trip up a mountainside to inspect the wreckage of a B-26 that crashed there 38 years ago with two Cuban exile pilots on board, a decaying reminder of another forgotten war, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. The tug of memory is a powerful force driving folks like Edens back to Latin America, but he stresses that Refugee Relief is completely apolitical; he says he would welcome a chance to participate in a medical relief mission to Cuba.
"We treat everybody," he says. "Even as rabidly anti-Castro as I am, I'd like to do it. I don't care if you're a Sandinista. I don't care if you worship rocks. I don't expect you to have to listen to me before we treat you and feed you. That's a strong difference I have with some of the relief organizations. I've seen them sitting there giving a goddamn sermon before they give treatment. We don't do that."
It's a point of pride among RRI volunteers that they dispense the supplies they bring themselves. "We found out years ago that if you give them to the government, half of the stuff gets sold on the black market," says Peters. "We deliver it to the people who use it."
For his relief efforts, Peters has been knighted as a Knight of Malta, one of the oldest military orders in the world. But the honor hasn't opened a lot of doors for RRI with major relief organizations. Last year the 65-year-old physician had trouble convincing the rest of the world that the people of central Afghanistan were facing a famine of biblical proportions. Officials at the United Nations and the Red Cross said the situation was under control, but they were getting their information from the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic militia that was in the process of seizing power in the strife-torn country.
Peters, for his part, was delivering emergency supplies to relief workers near the Uzbekistan border, where hundreds of thousands of Hazara tribesmen had been pinned down by a Taliban blockade. The workers said that people had been driven from their villages and were living in caves; they expected up to 400,000 people to starve by spring. But when Peters asked for surveys and other documents to back up those claims, the workers said their superiors wouldn't permit them to share their findings.
Still, one international aid adviser from central Africa decided to help Peters anyway. "He said, 'I watched a lot of my countrymen die during a famine while the bureaucrats sat on their butts,'" Peters recalls. "'I'm leaving for ten minutes, and if this stuff is gone when I get back, I don't give a damn.' We proceeded to loot his office."
Peters brought the proof to California congressman Dana Rohrbacher, who waved it under the noses of a House subcommittee on Asian affairs. The United Nations resumed airlifting food to the region a few weeks later. But Peters isn't sure his work made any real difference in the situation.
"Three months later the Taliban overran the area," he says. "We understand the doctors we worked with were killed."
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In recent weeks, Peters has been fielding inquiries about a possible mission to Kosovo, but he doubts RRI will get involved in that conflict. "There's no real reason for us to go," he says. "The big groups do that kind of thing very well, and we're not equipped for that at all."
Edens agrees. On the Macedonian border, RRI would be just one more pack of overwhelmed food-tossers, lost in a sea of misery, rather than the lone yanquis wandering into a village where no one has seen a yanqui since--well, since the wild old days.
"My view is that we can do more by getting into an isolated area where nobody else goes," Edens says. "You get a real sense of doing something good.


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With a trip to the desert in the rearview mirror, it's now time for the Jacks to get down to business.
That's especially true with the California Collegiate Athletic Association opener quickly approaching -- and that's exactly the way third-year head coach Steve Kinder is going about things.
"With the schedule we devised, we had the Disneyland adventure to Arizona. Now we have Simpson and Menlo to prepare for Pomona coming in here," Kinder said. "These next two games will test us again. But more importantly, we need to find the right combo of players and execute our gameplan."
Following their trip to face Division I powerhouse Arizona -- a 108-67 loss to the Associated Press' No. 12-ranked team in the nation -- the theme has been a consistent one as the Jacks head into their official season opener tonight against Simpson University at Lumberjack Arena.
"It was an opportunity for our players," assistant coach Carl Nash said. "We wanted them to experience that type of hoopla, the experience of playing against really good players and to play in an atmosphere where you know the adversity would be great."
It hasn't been a difficult one to figure out, either -- for the new-look Jacks to not just continue learning Kinder's system, but also coming together as a team.
"The junior college kids came in and started right away, those kids are fitting in great," freshman forward and Arcata High grad Tom Witzel said. "Personally, I'm starting to get up to par in that sense. It took me a little bit of time, but I'm getting there now."
And that begins against the Redhawks -- an NAIA school that finished 7-21 a year ago and are 1-3 to begin this season.
Tonight's matchup between Humboldt and Simpson might not see the full complement of the Jacks' squad take the court.
Both Darren Turpin and Deaundray Robinson have been battling injury problems throughout the week, but practiced on Thursday and may get some playing time, according to Kinder.
"It does (make things more challenging), however we're not the only team in America dealing with injuries in the early part of the season," Kinder said. "We're trying to find a niche, a set group. But it's early in November to be overly concerned."
Still, there are steps being made in the right direction, despite the slim number of practices thus far.
And the coaching staff has recognized it.
"Overall, the team is progressing," Nash said. "There are a lot of new guys. We have some returners who are starting to learn that their roles are more than coming off the bench and they're going to have to play some more minutes than they did last year."
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Haltwhistle Holy Cross Burial Register (1798 - 1812)
This entry, extracted from the Haltwhistle parish burial register, refers to Edward Musgrove. Edward died on the 3rd December 1811 and was buried on the 6th December 1811 aged 19 years. When a person is buried an entry is made in the burial register. Of particular interest are the burial registers of the period 1798-1812. These are known as Bishop Barrington registers. Shute Barrington, Bishop of Durham, ordered that additional information should be recorded, for example, a person's age and occupation when they died. Burial registers of Haltwhistle parish are deposited with Northumberland Archives Service.


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TORONTO — Amar'e Stoudemire has a new tattoo teardrop near his right eye in memory of his deceased brother.
On his return last night to the Knicks, that teardrop represented a tear of joy as Stoudemire celebrated wildly on the court with Tyson Chandler after Jeremy Lin's "miracle'' 3-point shot with 0.5 seconds left gave the Knicks a 90-87 victory over the Raptors.
Welcome back, Amar'e, and welcome to Linsanity.
It was a rough start but a great finish for Stoudemire, who finished with 21 points — 13 in the second half when the Knicks came back from a 17-point deficit.
"When he hit that shot, Tyson and I had a moment,'' Stoudemire said. "We stared at each other for three seconds and like, wow! Then we started dancing with each other and hugging each other as if we won the championship. I'm still amazed by the way he's playing.''
Stoudemire talked about a new tattoo he got during his week-long grieving in Lake Wales, Fla. His 35-year-old brother was killed in a car crash nine days ago.
"The tear tattoo shows I'm still crying inside,'' Stoudemire said. "It's hard to explain how close my brother was to me. He was my father figure and mentor and why I played basketball. He's part of my success so I'm always crying inside.''
Stoudemire, who missed four games, had a rough start and looked rusty and missed a bunch of shots around the rim in his first appearance since the Nets' game 11 days ago. He shot 2 of 9 in the half and looked out of rhythm and winded. He was 3 of 13 midway through the third quarter. Then he got hot.
"It took a while,'' Stoudemire said. "I was taking advantage of timeouts and breaks in the game. But the second half, I gained my second wind and was good to go.''
Stoudemire said he lifted weights and ran during his bereavement leave but "it's not the same as playing games.''
Coach Mike D'Antoni said he may have to start limiting Stoudemire's minutes the next couple of games.
"His wind. . . . I should've taken him out earlier,'' D'Antoni said. "That might be for a little bit until he gets his legs back. He's a presence out there.''
As he got rolling, Stoudemire's intensity rose. He was bouncing up and down in the huddle before the fourth quarter, like a prizefighter before the opening bell.
"He carried us for a while in the fourth quarter,'' Lin said. "It will be a little bit of an adjustment, but he's an unbelievable player.''
Before the game, Lin called Stoudemire a "lethal'' pick-and-roll player. But he called off the pick in the dying seconds.
"The opposing team might've been thinking we'd be doing a screen-and-roll,'' Stoudemire said. "He took his time, set it up that way and took a phenomenal shot. The guy has heart and such courage out there.''
Stoudemire only sees this offense getting better, and Carmelo Anthony gets added to the mix Friday.
"There' a lot more easy baskets,'' Stoudemire said. "We're going to get better as a tandem. We're still learning each other and it will be sooner than later. The second half I wanted to come down dominate and I got it going.''


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Extreme sport enthusiasts showed off their skills in the first round of this year's Wiltshire Skate Series.
RampNation, the indoor skate park in Devizes, hosted the event on Saturday, as more than 70 enthusiasts took part.
Skateboarders, inliners, BMX and scooter riders, aged 11 to 40, came from across the county to compete.
James Threlfall, one of the organisers, said: "It was our best turn out ever; not just those taking part but the amount watching. It was so good to see the park so full.
"The standard of riding was second to none."
Mr Threlfall, 20, a skateboarder from Edington, was involved in setting up the Wiltshire Skate Series when he was 14.
He said: "The riders are scored on their tricks and it's a balance between technicality and consistency.
"They have to make their tricks look as stylish as possible; it's almost like gymnastics on skateboards. It's open to interpretation. Riders can express themselves."
The next round will be at the Marlborough Skate Park on May 17, with a final to be held in Melksham.
RampNation co-owner Lucy Wain said: "The stunts these riders do are incredible. They seem to pull the stops out for it. One of the BMX riders attempted a barrel roll in his competition and broke his bike, but one of the other riders immediately lent him a bike and, on the replacement, he instantly landed it.
"The event brings riders together and they chat about it on Facebook afterwards."
As a result of the success of the skate series, Mrs Wain is planning a smaller version for under-12s.
She said: "There is a lot of interest from our young riders. Some of them came along to spectate on Saturday and they like to show what they can do.
"Even the seven-year-olds who come to a improve each week get more confident and daring."


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(WECK 1230) — Could Matt Leinart be moving toward Hamburg instead of Hollywood?
Connecting the dots, if Pro Football Talk had a report that the Cardinals were interested in Arizona boy Ryan Fitzpatrick, and Adam Schefter is reporting that the Bills are looking into Matt Leinart, then they may have an edge on the other teams mentioning in Schefter's report, the Raiders and the Giants.
Yet the reliable Chris Brown of BuffaloBills.com reports that Schefter's report is erroneous, which genuinely means he's been told such a thing. However, let's assume the Bills are playing it close to the vest and proceed.
The trade makes more sense for the Buddy Nix's Bills and the Giants than Oakland. Sure, the Raiders would be putting Leinart in his old USC haunt, but Jason Campbell is not only an investment they've made, but a more proven commodity. Out in New York, he'd be no more than insurance for Eli Manning, but the Giants have Jim Sorgi and Rhett Bomar backing up their prized quarterback. Would Leinart be better?
Forget better than Sorgi and Bomar, how about Edwards and Fitzpatrick. Sure, Leinart hasn't ever been "handed the keys," but numbers are numbers.
Edwards- 32G, 29GS*, 61.3 comp, 5498 yards, 24 TD, 25 INT, 77.9 rating
Fitzpatrick-28G, 24GS*, 57.8 comp, 4104 yards, 21 TD, 27 INT, 67.7 rating
Leinart – 29G, 15GS*, 57.1 comp, 3893 yards, 14 TD, 20 INT, 70.8 rating
*In our case, we used games of significance (GS) rather than games started, because Edwards coming in for J.P. Losman against the Patriots isn't a game started, but he played a ton of it. The feeling is that will average out with the games in which a player is injured early.
There are reasons to try out Leinart, and reasons not to. One of the latter may be PR. Sure, the new guy in town is always a sexy move, but the first time he struggles you'll see blue collar fans pointing out that when you do a Google Image search on the quarterback you'll find way more pictures of Matt partying than Matt starting. Not only that, for some reason the media makes a bigger deal out of white athletes illegitimate children than other races, so you'll hear a lot about Brynn Cameron and their child support woes/battle.
It does seem unfair that a guy that does this in his mid-twenties (which not many do)…
… gets more press for doing this in his mid-twenties (which many do).
Then again, Leinart's only season with significant playing time was better than Edwards' first campaign, so perhaps Chan Gailey can do something with the hunk. In two more games, Leinart threw for 900 more yards, four more touchdowns and four more interceptions. Leinart has two years left on his rookie deal, which pays $5 million in each of the next two seasons, so there is more time to evaluate. Edwards, as well as Fitzpatrick and Brian Brohm, would be free agents after the season. A big issue regardless is that Leinart doesn't have a super strong arm, and Ralph Wilson Stadium has super strong winds. Seems reason enough to avoid the move altogether.
So, I wouldn't be totally against the move since this season is a "feeling out" situation in most fans' minds. Although, if Gailey is really trying to give Edwards one more kick at the can, then it wouldn't be right to shake up what is right now a perfectly content camp that No. 5 is their best option… at least from what we've heard so far.
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Publication Abstract
Authors: Rengan R, Mitra N, Liao K, Armstrong K, Vachani A
Title: Effect of HIV on survival in patients with non-small-cell lung cancer in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy: a population-based study.
Journal: Lancet Oncol 13(12):1203-9
Date: 2012 Dec
Abstract: BACKGROUND: HIV-infected patients with lung cancer have been reported to have poorer survival than uninfected patients. Whether this outcome holds true in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is unclear. We examined the effect of HIV infection on clinical outcome in patients with lung cancer who are also receiving HAART. METHODS: Patients diagnosed with non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) from Jan 1, 2000, to Dec 31, 2005, with or without HIV infection were identified by querying the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results registry and the Medicare lung cancer database. Survival analysis by stage and treatment delivered comparing the HIV-infected patients with uninfected controls was done with Kaplan-Meier and Cox models with propensity score adjustments. FINDINGS: 71,976 patients with NSCLC were identified as uninfected controls and 322 patients with NSCLC were identified in the HIV group; median age was 75 years for both groups. Median overall survival for all stages was 7·0 months (95% CI 7·0-7·0) for uninfected controls versus 8·0 months (6·0-10·0) for the HIV group (p=0·16); for those with stage I/II disease it was 37·0 months (36·0-39·0) versus 43·0 months (26·0-58·0; p=0·37); for those with stage IIIA/IIIB disease it was 7·0 months (7·0-7·0) versus 3·0 months (2·0-8·0; p=0·051); and for those with stage IV disease it was 3·0 months for both groups (95% CI 3·0-3·0 for controls; 2·0-5·0 for HIV group; p=0·77). After propensity score adjustment, the survival difference in stage IIIA/IIIB was no longer seen (hazard ratio 0·88; 95% CI 0·71-1·09). The median survival for HIV infected patients with stage I or II NSCLC who underwent surgical resection was 58·0 months (95% CI 57·0-60·0) for uninfected controls versus 50·0 months (42·0 to unestimable) for the HIV group (p=0·88). INTERPRETATION: We noted no significant difference in clinical outcome between patients with HIV and uninfected controls with NSCLC. Survival after curative surgical resection in early-stage patients was similar in HIV-infected individuals and uninfected controls. These data suggest that HIV status should not affect therapeutic decision making in NSCLC. FUNDING: US National Cancer Institute (award number UC2CA148310).
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Trump says NFL too worried about players' safety
"Going to the White House was a great honor until you showed up!"
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Daniel de la Rosa Anaya, the Secretary of Public Security in Baja California, spoke briefly with the press on Wednesday, May 8th, in regards to organized crime in the state. The official stated that eight crime cell lieutenants are responsible for the majority of narcotics that move through the state. He also stated they are responsible for the majority of homicides which occur.
According to state figures, the first three months of 2013 saw a rise in homicides in comparison to the same time period in 2012. State investigators have claimed that at least 85% of those homicides are linked to gang and drug violence.
De la Rosa Anaya would not elaborate on the criminal cells, yet stated that they are the same groups which have operated in the state in recent years. He went on to say that the leaders have been identified and authorities are working to stop them.
The Cártel de Sinaloa has become the dominant organized crime group in the state in recent years, even though the long time resident group, Cártel Arellano Félix, remains highly active. The Drug Enforcement Agency recently declared the six most wanted drug traffickers in the San Diego-Tijuana area. Five of those men are associated with the Cártel de Sinaloa, one with the Cártel Arellano Félix.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury also released, on May 7th, the names of the eight alleged Cártel de Sinaloa lieutenants that run the border cities from Mexicali to Nogales, Sonora.
Our DEA knows who they are. But they've been operating with impunity inside Mexico for many years. Oh, and "they are the same groups which have operated in the state in recent years. He went on to say that the leaders have been identified and authorities are working to stop them." How many years? And why do the "authorities" not stop them now? Or why didn't they stop them years ago? Give us a break "K". The "crime cells" are nothing but the drug cartels that have been getting away with anything and everything in Baja for far too long. But now the Secretary for Public Security has finally figured it out, and knows that they are the killers in the state. No, doh! So, what prevents them from being arrested? The cops there have no restraint when it comes to arresting a Gringo tourist for some tiny offense, but they can't arrest known killers? That's Mexico!


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The 'First Moon Party' Will Teach All Young Girls A Lesson [Video]
'First Moon' sounds like it might be the next 'Twilight' movie, but for this young girl trying to become a woman, it's much more dramatic than that.
The people at HelloFlo have done a phenomenal job of taking a very awkward time in every young woman's life, and making it even more
awkward . . . I mean hilarious.
Maybe hilarious isn't the word either. They have done a great job of tackling this, potentially awkward time, with comedy and common sense. Do you remember their first video on the topic, 'Camp Gyno'? If you missed it, check it out below. Trust me, it's definitely worth the watch.
First Moon is a different take on the same subject matter, but in HelloFlo's second video the hero of the story all depends on who you ask. Mom's everywhere will hail the parents in this video as geniuses, but young girls may not feel the same way.
The overwhelming message of this video is this:
Periods don't have glitter.
Wait, no that's not right either . . . How about just being honest with your parents? That sounds way better.
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Love Waits.
Silence hangs over the atmosphere as the gentle breathing playing like a symphony.
The two adolescent teens lay on a large bed with white lace sheets, they felt sleek and smooth against her skin, and reminded him of her. Light baby blue pillows that reminded her of his eyes, and reminded him of the shirt she wore when he first saw her.
They lay in a passionate embrace, arms wound around each other so tight that the air between them would be suffocated.
He moved his mouth from his and pressed them down her jaw, her neck to her collar bone. She bit down on her lower lip softly as he continued to repeat this action.
Her teenage hormones were getting the best of her, she felt the burning desire deep in her throat, she felt the need to have his broad figure combine with hers, she felt as if the planets would align right if this happened…this was the night.
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Werner's review published on Letterboxd :
Jeff Bridges as a low life country singer hitting rock bottom in his late days. Alcohol, women and touring around the country, this movie shows the afterlife of Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll and how one tries to revive it. About how the student (Colin Farrell) beats the master.
You don't know for sure if you should feel pity and sorrow with this man or just to blame him for the downfall of his life. Maggie Gyllenhaal tries to pull him out of this misery, but will she succeed? A movie with one of the best written soundtrack, or better to say, one of the best written country albums ever around describing the story by itself. Listening to it by yourself already makes you picture the life of a man who has a crazy heart.


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Thursday, 1 October 2009
This is not just beer... it's cider as well
23 comments:
- Peter Russell said...
I wait with baited breath for it to appear at my local M&S. I picked up some of the Cornish IPA a few months back and it was a revelation, if the new ones are up to that standard it will be a welcome addition to my local beer shops.
- 1 October 2009 at 11:06
- The Beer Nut said...
Hats off indeed.
Is there a full list anywhere?
- 1 October 2009 at 11:06
- Pivní Filosof said...
Nice to see a chain taking a product seriously, specially if it's beer.
Do you remember the maker of the Czech Lager?
- 1 October 2009 at 11:11
- Mark, Real-Ale-Reviews.com said...
A brand spanking new M&S Simply Food recently opened up near Ikea in Leeds, a tiny 8 min car journey from my house and perfect for those luxury items we like to indulge in (ASDA for the boring stuff!)
I noticed they had a safe and limited range of beers over the last 2 months or so, some better than others and some still resembling those St Michaels copycats, but generally a not bad selection and at least different to the other supermarkets. I think there was a couple each of British bitters, English IPAs, bottled ciders and Italian lager.
I was impressed that they had sourced beers from Suffolk, Cornwall and of course Yorkshire, and the range sat nicely on it's own plinth next to the wines.
These new ones look like a great improvement in variety though and certainly be worthy of the short journey up to our local store in the coming weeks.
Completely agree on the St Austell (we reviewed it not too long ago), the Cornish IPA is very nice (and much better than the Mark's & Spencer's India Pale Ale!)
- 1 October 2009 at 11:12
- Pete said...
Good question re full list - not as far as I know, but I'll find out from the PR who invited me yesterday.
The Czech lager is from the Bohemia Regent Brewery.
Yep, I think the Cornish IPA remains the star - but a few of the new ones get close to it!
- 1 October 2009 at 11:26
- BLTP said...
sounds all good (we shouldn't forget Booth's up in cumbria for their beer range) Like that they've credited the brewers this does effect my choice of beer.
- 1 October 2009 at 13:19
This all sounds very exciting. It is also worth stressing that supermarkets are rapidly becoming far less interesting places for all the BWS categories. It never ceases to amuse me that having discounted the value out of wine they are now desperately trying to find ways of adding the value back in!
I wholeheartedly agree with your comments about the state of confusion that reigns in supermarkets regarding beer. I used to work in Sainsburys and at store level we had surprisingly good access to Head Office but they never cracked how to merchandise beer. I very rarely followed the planograms that were sent down and got into an increasingly large amount of trouble for doing so.
The things they never cracked were how to communicate what the beer was all about, how it related to others in the range and how to help this along with the layout. I think the problem is they were never sure what to communicate which is related to the question of styles and what they mean. The Taste the Differnce beers are a classic example of this. The Meantime beers should have been joined by others and together led the way on the merchandising. Sadly this never happened.
If M&S have sorted this out then hats off to them (and you) as it would be a great acheivement. Given they put their toe in the water with a new range of bottle conditioned beers over a year ago this must be something that is working for them. Here's hoping this is not amother false dawn.
- 1 October 2009 at 13:38
- Cooking Lager said...
Any of this stuff come in a big box for a fiver?
- 1 October 2009 at 16:22
- Velky Al said...
I wonder if the beer range will make it to the M&S franchises in the Czech Republic (note to self: don't hold breath)? When I asked them before about the beer range I was told that they "didn't have permission to sell beer" but they did for cider, wine and liquers.
- 1 October 2009 at 19:12
What kind of timescale is this revelatory beer adventure supposed to have been visioned in, Pete? I ask, because I'm sure I bought a bottle of M&S Yorkshire Ale (brewed at Cropton) around 18 months or so ago, when they launched 3 or 4 bottled ales, showing provenance on labels.
The Yorkshire was very good - bottle-conditioned, well-balanced and (if it's a big deal) true to style. I haven't been to an M&S lately for any reason (my good pair of undercrackers will see me past Xmas yet), and if they've got more good beer then all power to them. I don't believe they're the worst of the 'big' food retailers by a long chalk.
Sainsbury's forgot how to retail good ale when they gave up on their own-label London Porter, Belgian Ale and French Ale. No supermarket committed to bulk display and passing customer interest and no shelf 'talkers' or information the way they provide for wine will ever be able to claim they are 'promoting' good beer.
- 1 October 2009 at 19:20
- Rob Nicholson said...
You've obviously never been to Booth's in Knutsford? I popped in there for a couple of beers for a BBQ and was overwhelmed with the choice. And not hidden anywhere - right next to the tills.
- 1 October 2009 at 22:57
- Laurent Mousson said...
Well, good to see M&S get their act together with beer fitting the fine food market slot they've been working on for ages...
From the consumer point of view there's one important point here the labels clearly disclose who brews which beer, which usually is the problem with generic supermarket brands.
- 2 October 2009 at 08:35
- Pete said...
I should clarify: for a few years now M&S have had a range of six bottle conditioned ales, and where you could find them they were pretty good. But they suffered poor distribution and placement, and where you did find them, one or two ales you'd never heard of before didn't look that convincing. Those ales are still there, but they're now joined by many more.
And I forgot about Booths - been in the south for too long! But yeah, Booths rocks.
- 2 October 2009 at 08:48
- Cooking Lager said...
At the risk of appearing a beer geek, Is the Unicorn Chocolate Stout a rebadge of Robinsons Chocolate Old Tom?
- 2 October 2009 at 09:34
- Pete said...
CL - it probably is, but what's this? Beer geekdom finally winning you over? Is there something else in the Cooking Lager fridge we should know about? Something that costs more than 60p a can, perhaps?
- 2 October 2009 at 09:39
- The Beer Nut said...
Anyone else think the name "Unicorn Chocolate Stout" in some way implies that it came out the back end of a unicorn?
Just me then...
- 2 October 2009 at 09:41
- Baron Orm said...
This is excellent news, I can't wait to pick a few up to give them 'baron ratings'
Thanks so much for the informative post, nice to read a bit of background into the new beer range.
- 2 October 2009 at 09:42
- Curmudgeon said...
Surely a problem with this is that beer, more than pretty much any other consumer product, sells through the name or the brand. Therefore a generic own brand, however good it is, will always be perceived as somehow second-rate.
- 2 October 2009 at 15:45
- Baron Orm said...
Curmudgeon, that's interesting as I've just commented on the same thing over on Chris Routledge's blog where he's made a comment on this post.
- 2 October 2009 at 20:11
- Barm said...
Are supermarkets that bad for beer? They currently stock a wider range than ever before and they are light years ahead of the traditional high street off-licences, even Oddbins. If you want to be really depressed as a beer fan, visit a branch of Thresher or Victoria Wine.
I'm fortunate to have a specialist independent off-licence near me, but not everyone is.
Beer has always been a poor relation at M&S as far as I can remember. This is the most exciting range they've ever had.
- 2 October 2009 at 23:02
- Curmudgeon said...
Got to agree with Barm - supermarkets are far less depressing than Pete suggests in the OP and stock a far greater variety of decent beer than they did in the past.
Given the realities of the market place obviously they sell a lot of crappy cans as well, so really they're doing shoppers a favour if they separate them out from the more interesting bottled stuff.
Personally I couldn't care less about tasting notes and food matching suggestions and just want a clear, uncluttered presentation that allows me to see what's available and find what I want.
I often get the impression (I'm sure I've seen this on Boak & Bailey too) that supermarkets in London lag a bit behind the rest of the country in terms of their beer offering.
- 3 October 2009 at 08:11
- Curmudgeon said...
The fact that Cornish IPA is being flogged off for 89p a bottle in B&M Bargains suggests it isn't going quite as well as Marks might have expected...
- 31 October 2009 at 16:39
- Baron Orm said...
Which is a great thing for me as I love the stuff - going to up my baron rating from 4/5 to 5/5 after having a couple more last night.
Not sure if it's because it's right at the end of it's shelf life so it's 'matured' as much as it can but no yeast comes out in the pour and it tastes delicious!
Going back as soon as I can to get some in before it all goes!
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Former N-Dubz star Fazer to launch talent show to rival The X Factor
A new BBC talent show is to be hosted by former N-Dubz star Fazer in a bid to rival his ex-girlfriend
Tulisa Contostavlos on The X Factor.
The UK's underprivileged youth will be encouraged to audition for a place in a new urban orchestra, reports The Mirror.
Fazer told the paper: 'I'll put together people that wouldn't necessarily get the opportunity to perform in a prestigious place, or even with a full orchestra, and create an urban orchestra which will really set me up for my tour next year.'
He said that he will be looking for people to play everything from violas and violins to strings, drums and even brass instruments.
The urban orchestra will get their first chance to perform with him on tour at the Royal Albert Hall.
Filming for the show, which is to be called Fazer's Urban Orchestra, is expected to start at the beginning of 2013.
He said: 'It's gonna be something to watch. At the end of the show, I want to be able to say, like in Gladiator: 'Are you not entertained? Are you not entertained?''
The first solo single Fazer has recorded is called Killer and was released yesterday (Sunday 26th).


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Fri Dec 9, 2011, 12:30 AM
EarlG (15,609 posts)
Elad has programmed a major upgrade to the Latest page
Previously, all threads from all forums and groups were appearing on the Latest page. This was obviously cluttering things up significantly and people were noting that it was making the Latest page less useful. We agree.
Today, Elad was able to make some significant improvements to the filtering options on the Latest page which will give everyone a lot more control over what is displayed there. (Please note that we have NOT programmed the ability to filter individual forums or groups from the page yet, but we do hope to do that in the future.)
Improvements to the Latest page
The first thing to notice is that all forums and groups have been sorted into two categories: political, and non-political. The center drop-down box at the top of the Latest page (Relevance) now allows you to select which kind of threads you want to see on the Latest page. You can choose "All" if you want to see political and non-political mixed together.
Second, the drop-down box for the type of threads you are viewing has been removed. You should now use the buttons to decide whether you want to see Latest, Most Discussed, Most Rec'd, or Last Replied.
The default settings for this page are:
Latest threads from all political and non-political forums and groups from the past 24 hours.
However, using different combinations of buttons and drop-down menus you can now customize the page in a variety of different ways. For example:
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Most discussed threads from all non-political forums and groups from the past week
Most recommended threads from political groups only over the past month
Last replied to threads from both poltical and non-political forums and groups (but not places) over the past 3 hours
Those are just a few of the combinations you can select. Feel free to play with it and see what combinations you find interesting or useful. (Do bear in mind though that while the options you select in the "Select forums & groups" and "Relevance" drop-downs will save when you leave the page, the "Started within" drop-down and the button will return to their defaults of "24 hours" and "Latest" respectively.)
Currently, I have mine set to show Latest threads from political forums and groups (but not places) over the past 24 hours. Then I can toggle between political and non-political to see "serious DU" and "fun DU".
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Response to EarlG (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2011, 03:05 AM
Lucinda (26,287 posts)
1. Thank you!
I love the options this gives us!
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Fri Dec 9, 2011, 03:28 AM
Make7 (7,385 posts)
2. How are the people in the Lounge going to feel about this? ( n/t )
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Fri Dec 9, 2011, 12:51 PM
HopeHoops (47,675 posts)
5. Not sure, but it will probably involve Olive Garden and Narwhals.
Response to EarlG (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2011, 09:57 AM
freshwest (53,661 posts)
3. Thanks, noted this morning. Applied filters. Appreciate the variety of options.
Response to EarlG (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2011, 10:58 AM
NV Whino (20,886 posts)
4. Just found it
Great improvement. Thanks.
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Fri Dec 9, 2011, 01:54 PM
Gregorian (23,867 posts)
6. Success! (with an edit- in other words, we're still asking for more)
I'd say this is about as good a website as one can create. Congrats, you guys.
OK, I think I spoke too soon. The real functionality some of us miss is "most recommended threads" with respect to time. Sorted in the same sequence as when they were originally posted. That's it! I'm only on my first latte. And I'm troubleshooting a problem with the espresso electronics.
Most recommended threads sorted in the sequence in time in which they were originally posted.
What this does is it gives us the ability to pick up the forum where we left off without missing anything.
Response to EarlG (Original post)
Fri Dec 9, 2011, 02:08 PM
immoderate (20,885 posts)
7. Much better!
That is a good feature.
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Fri Dec 9, 2011, 05:31 PM
tandot (6,671 posts)
8. Thanks!
Response to EarlG (Original post)
Sat Dec 10, 2011, 07:58 PM
slipslidingaway (21,210 posts)
9. Would it be possible to have a filter that sorts the latest/greatest threads by time
as the left hand side of the GP does now? These are only threads that 5 or more DU'ers recommend and are placed in chronological order once they hit 5 recs.
The new filters help, but still find myself looking at the same thread titles over and over again.
Greatest Discussion Threads
Sorted by Time
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Wed Dec 14, 2011, 09:21 PM
Skinner (63,251 posts)
10. We'll try to do this soon. (nt)
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Wed Dec 14, 2011, 11:09 PM
MelissaB (12,058 posts)
11. Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you!
Response to Skinner (Reply #10)
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 11:58 PM
slipslidingaway (21,210 posts)
13. Thank you, that would be wonderful, just not sure how that will work with threads being ...
recommended a week later. It was very efficient!
Response to EarlG (Original post)
Wed Dec 14, 2011, 11:19 PM
PatrynXX (5,656 posts)
12. Hopefully you'll fix the home page as well
ended up having a guilty till proven innocent (can't proof my innocence (what country am I in? china?) because a closed board discussion group ended up on the home page. making me look like an idiot.
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Wed Jan 4, 2012, 02:03 PM
Hokie (3,870 posts)
14. Question on Latest/Greatest
When you click on a post on with the "Greatest" picked how do you go back to the "Greatest" view instead of the default latest view? Does that make sense? I must be missing something easy.


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LAURIE Daley says he holds no fears for the future of the All Stars concept, despite rugby league's celebration of Indigenous culture taking on a vastly different form in 2014.
Due to the anticipated toll the recently completed Rugby League World Cup will have on the game's star players, it was decided the annual All Stars match should be ``rested'' and in its place a non-elite Indigenous team will play the Newcastle Knights in a trial match on February 8.
Instead of the NRL's premier Indigenous talent taking centre stage this coming pre-season, the showpiece event will be the Auckland Nines tournament, taking place on the following weekend in February.
The Nines is the latest addition to a rugby league calendar already criticised for being too clustered, but Daley said the NRL was in the ``entertainment business'' and argued there was room for both the All Stars and the Nines concepts going forward.
Daley has been assured the Indigenous All Stars v NRL All Stars match, which promotes Aboriginal issues and culture, is a priority for the game and will return in 2015.
``All the indications I've been given is it's a big part of the rugby league calendar, so I certainly don't hold any fears,'' Daley said.
``They are pretty committed to staging it into the future. The timing of the game is for the powers that be to decide, but in terms of the game itself it's here to stay. I don't think there are any worries there.''
Newcastle coach Wayne Bennett, has been one of the most vocal supporters of the Indigenous All Stars' concept, having coached the NRL All Stars since inception in 2010.
Bennett said next year's switch to promoting emerging talent was a good compromise and believes NRL clubs could potentially add a young Indigenous player to their roster based on performances in the match.
``The Indigenous game is not a trial match, believe me. It's a full on game of rugby league,'' Bennett said.
``I'm really happy with the concept.''
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Ann Q4 profit doubles; integrates stores and e-commerce; cuts 100 jobs
New York – Ann Inc., owner of Ann Taylor and Loft, on Friday reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit but forecast a lower-than-expected outlook for the year. The retailer also announced a strategic realignment that includes integrating stores and e-commerce and will result in the loss of about 100 corporate jobs. Ann said the realignment is expected to result in annual operating savings of about $25 million. The retailer expects about $15 million in savings for fiscal 2014. It anticipates an approximately $15 million restructuring charge related to the moves, with most of the charge coming in the first quarter. "Retailing has undergone a sea change over the last few years, driven by the continued rapid shift of consumers' purchasing behavior and the growth of omni-channel shopping," said president and CEO Kay Krill. "Ann Inc. has been at the forefront of this evolution, investing in the infrastructure and system enhancements that led to the launch of our successful omni-channel platform in 2012. Today, we are taking the next critical step, by realigning our organization to support an integrated stores/e-commerce structure to accelerate our strategic growth agenda and overall financial performance in 2014 and beyond." Krill said the realignment builds on the chain's ongoing initiatives to expand its omni-channel capabilities, enhance the productivity of its store fleet, and grow its international presence. As part of the restructuring, Ann promoted Gary Muto to president of Ann Inc. Brands. He will mostly concentrate on design, merchandising and marketing for Ann Taylor and Loft. For the three months ended Feb. 1, Ann earned $4.7 million, up from $2.4 million in the year-ago period. Revenue increased 3% to $623.3 million, a bit less than Wall Street's $624 million estimate. Same-store sales rose 2.9%. For the full year, net income slipped to $102.4 million from $102.6 million. Annual revenue rose 5% to $2.49 billion, from $2.38 billion. Same-store sales were up 2.3%.


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A rookie policeman was critically injured and is fighting for his life in a hospital after he reportedly was involved in a melee and tried to shoot it out with a fellow policeman who responded to a distress call before dawn yesterday in Caloocan City.
POI Michael Salvador, assigned at the Northern Police District Mobile Force, is confined at the Jose Reyes Memorial Hospital due to a single gunshot wound and multiple hack and stab wounds.
At about 2:30 a.m. yesterday, a fracas reportedly occurred on a parking lot at Block 24, Dagat-Dagatan, Caloocan City among groups of drunk men. PO1 Angelito Pino of Caloocan's Mobile Patrol Division who was called to pacify the warring groups fired a shot in the air after introducing himself as a lawman to quell the rumble. But one of the unruly men, who later turned out to be Salvador, reportedly fired at Pino prompting the latter to shoot back hitting Salvador in the body. As Pino was about to disarm the wounded Salvador, another man identified as Jason Garbon, allegedly attacked the alwman with a knife but Pino was able to maim his attacker by shooting him in the leg.
Garbon, who also sustained a hack wound in the left arm aside from a mangled left leg, is also confined at the Jose Reyes Memorial Hospital.
Police probers recovered from the crime scene a .45 caliber pistol with its magazine loaded with seven bullets, three spent shells and a 9 mm slug , one .45 caliberspent shell and a double bladed knife.
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CROWDs turned out in force for Gargrave Show on Saturday, which remained dry despite threatening clouds and a stiff, almost autumnal breeze.
Held in front of stately Eshton Hall, people queued to get in to a showfield packed with entertainment, livestock, trade stands and the ever popular and well-contested fell race.
Following a display by the Langstroth Gundogs, and making its return after a break of ten years, was the horse jumping event the puissance, which proved to be a great hit.
Crowd favourite was 11-year-old Holly Airton on her black and white pony, Little Coloured. Talented rider Holly, from Eastby, cleared 4ft 4ins before going out at 4ft 6ins, but took home £25 as winner of the pony class and a big cheer from the crowd.
With just two riders left in the final round, the wall went up to 5ft2ins - the same height it reached ten years ago.
Ellie Stephenson on her coloured horse Puzzle won, despite three faults, after Richard Chadwick's handsome grey, Good News III, refused and was retired by its rider.
Star turn in the heavy horse foal class was Richard Bedford's Hartcliff Leona. The filly foal, born in April, has won every five times she's been out this season, including the Great Yorkshire Show, the Halifax show and the Northern Heavy Horse Society Show.
Cllr Robert Mason, deputy chairman of Craven District Council, in addition to having a keen interest in the cattle section, had brought along a vintage tractor and a Ford Zephyr Six.
Cllr Mason's 60-year-old Fordson Major came off the assembly line in the same month he was born and has always been in his family. He restored it in the 1990s, drove it to Gargrave on Friday night and plans to take it to Malham Show this weekend.
"Its a real family heirloom and is the same age as me to the same month," he said.
In the horticulture tent, a mild winter was a winner for the vegetables, but not so for the flowers.
Ronald Hallings, chief horticulture judge, said: "The standard has been very good and I think that must be down to the mild winter, but the recent weather has spoilt a lot of flowers."
Malcolm Weaving, show president, said it was a marvellous day. Mr Weaving, in his first year as president, but a regular at the show, said he had been particularly impressed by the variety and quality of poultry on show.
"We've had a beautiful day, its stayed dry and there's a hell of a lot of people here. Its been marvellous," he said.
Sarah Davidson, entries secretary, said she was sure numbers were up.
"I've been involved in the show for 14 years and I've never seen queues like it to get it."
And she was particularly pleased with the success of the puissance, and hopeful it would return again next year.


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Lancaster PA474
PA474 is one of only two Lancaster aircraft remaining in airworthy condition out of the 7,377 that were built (the other is in Canada with the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum at Hamilton, Ontario). PA474 rolled off the production line at the Vickers Armstrong Broughton factory at Hawarden Airfield, Chester on 31 May 1945, just after the war in Europe came to an end, so she was prepared for use against the Japanese as part of the 'Tiger Force'. However, the war in the Far East also ended before she was deployed and she did not take part in any hostilities. After a period in storage, PA474 was converted for photo reconnaissance work; modifications for these duties included being stripped back to a bare metal (silver) finish and the removal of all her gun turrets. She was then assigned to aerial survey duties with No 82 Squadron in East and South Africa from September 1948 until February 1952.
On return to the United Kingdom, PA474 was loaned to Flight Refuelling Ltd at Tarrant Rushton to be used as a pilotless drone, an uncertain future, which would likely have led to her loss. Fortunately, however, before the conversion started, the Air Ministry decided to use a different type of aircraft for the drone programme (a Lincoln) and PA474 was reprieved. She was then transferred to the Royal College of Aeronautics at Cranfield where she was used as a trial platform for the testing of various experimental aerofoil sections between 1954 and 1964; the trial wings being mounted vertically on the upper rear fuselage.
In 1964 PA474 was adopted by the Air Historical Branch with a view to putting the aircraft on display as a static exhibit in the proposed RAF Museum at Hendon. She was flown to Wroughton where she was painted in a camouflage paint scheme, though without squadron markings, and it was during this period that the aircraft took part in two films, 'Operation Crossbow' and 'The Guns of Navarone'. Later in 1964, she was moved to RAF Henlow and grounded in preparation for display at the RAF Museum.
In 1965, Wing Commader D'Arcy, the Commanding Officer of 44 Squadron (then flying Vulcans at RAF Waddington) asked permission for PA474 to be transferred into the care of the Squadron. An inspection found that the aircraft was structurally sound so permission was granted for PA474 to make a single flight from Henlow to Waddington, which it completed in August 1965. At Waddington a restoration programme began on the Lancaster and by 1966 work was progressing well with both the front and rear turrets in place. Permission to fly PA474 regularly was granted in 1967, whilst restoration continued. The Lancaster joined the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight in November 1973 and restoration work on various parts of the aircraft has continued ever since. A mid-upper turret was discovered in Argentina and was brought to Britain aboard HMS HAMPSHIRE; it was fitted to PA474 in 1975. In the same year, the aircraft was adopted by the City of Lincoln, permission being granted for her to display the City's coat of arms, which will always be displayed on PA474 regardless of what colour scheme she wears.
PA474 is currently painted to represent Lancaster DV385, "Thumper Mk III" of 617 ('Dambuster') Squadron, with the code letters 'KC-A'. This aircraft was one of the brand-new standard Lancasters issued to 617 Squadron as replacements after the 'Dams Raid' in 1943. It was delivered to the Squadron in November 1943, whilst the unit was based at Coningsby, and it flew 4 'ops' from Coningsby before 617 Squadron moved to Woodhall Spa in January 1944. The "Thumper" nose art features the cartoon rabbit – from the 1942 Walt Disney cartoon 'Bambi' – holding a foaming pint of beer.
Although the real "Thumper Mk III" flew a total of 50 'ops', the 'bomb log' under the cockpit on PA474 displays 35 'ops' as shown in a wartime photograph. The bomb symbols include one with a 'D' for Operation 'Taxable' (the 'spoof' D-Day chaff mission on 5/6th June 1944) and one with a swastika denoting a kill against a German fighter. "Thumper Mk III" dropped a total of 15 of the huge 'Tallboy' 'earthquake' bombs; it was involved in many important missions, including the first 'Tallboy' raid against the Saumur railway tunnel on 8th June 1944 and many raids against 'V' weapon sites. Between February and August 1944, the aircraft was mostly flown by Flying Officer (later Flight Lieutenant) Bob Knights DSO DFC and his crew.
Later, "Thumper" took part in the two raids against the battleship Tirpitz in Tromso Fjord on 28th October and 12th November 1944, flown by Flying Officer John Castagnola, who claimed a direct hit against the ship on the last raid. DV385 survived the war and was
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As we have dripping from Bathroom exhaust in winter, (normally after taking shower). I would like to have some tips to fix it. Also would like to know where we can find services to fix this issue?
Hi Nitit!
Well sounds to me like your exhaust piping is not insulated. What happens is the warm air from your bathroom condenses inside the pipe and runs back into the fan box then into your bathroom. Its because of the piping being exposed to cold air in your attic or wall wherever it might be run through.
An easy fix you can do yourself is wrap the exhaust pipe in your attic with pipe insulation available at most hardware stores like Home Depot etc.
I'm sure there must be someone in your vicinity that can help you out if you can't or don't want to do it yourself.
Hope this helps.
Hi Nitin,
Brent is correct - you should wrap your exhaust in insulation. You could also install a timer that runs the fan for an extra 20 minutes or so to remove any left over humidity.
This is available at the same stores as the duct insulation but does not require you to go into the attic.
Good Luck with it!
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Today, StarHub and Facebook have jointly announced the new Facebook mobile app for Java feature phones. The app is free for mobile pre-paid Happy Stars customers and there is no data access charges for all other mobile post-paid and pre-paid customers till end April 2011.
StarHub and Facebook today announced that StarHub is the first mobile operator in Singapore to offer customers a new Facebook mobile application for Java-powered feature phones.
From 29 January, the new "Facebook for Feature Phones" service will be available for free to all StarHub's mobile pre-paid Happy Stars users. There will be no data access charges for these customers to download and use the application locally. Besides free unlimited local data access to Facebook using the new Facebook application, the Happy Stars top-up value of S$17 also offers free incoming calls for 30 days, free 500 SMS, 120 minutes of local outgoing calls and 50MB local mobile data access. On top of that, all StarHub's mobile post-paid and pre-paid customers can also access the application for free till 30 April 2011.
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By Charles Mutebi
Uganda 149 Canada 119/9
(Canada win by 59 runs D/L method)
Nepal 171/9 Netherlands 172/3
(Netherlands win by seven wickets)
THE truth is bitter. But it is the truth. Uganda have been relegated back to the ICC World Cricket Division 3 yet who can claim they deserved any better.
For a team that has lost all its matches at the ICC World Cup Qualifier in New Zealand without putting up a fight, demotion was the perfect reward. Ironically, Uganda still had a chance to escape the drop going into Sunday's encounter with Canada at Mount Maunganui.
But, rather inevitably, this game turned to be the epilogue left to make Uganda's tragedy complete. Uganda lost to Canada by 59 runs (D/L method) after being bowled out for 149 in 49.5 overs.
Canada won the toss and elected to field after rain delayed the start of the match. Hamza Saleh, Brian Masaba, Richard Okia, Frank Nsubuga and Davis Arinaitwe scored 33, 29, 19, 14 and 11 as Uganda posted another underwhelming total to leave the door wide open for Canada to escape demotion.
Canada were set a revised target of 61 runs in 29 overs. They went far and above that – racing to 119/1 in their allotted overs to win by 59 runs.
Uganda were relegated to Division 3 in 2011 and Arinaitwe's team were very eager to avoid the same fate after gaining a chance to stay in Division 2 for the next two years. That chance has not been taken and now Uganda face a long and uncertain way back.
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This tiny device, measuring 3.2" x 2.8" x 1.1", is a perfect little travel companion. Take it along with your table, laptop or smartphone for those times when you have a wired internet connection available, but really prefer the ease of a Wi-Fi connection. The Mini Wireless Router, TL-WR700N, touts 150Mbps wireless speed using 802.11n Wi-Fi. The entire router is 20 percent smaller than Apple's AirPort Express. It has a MSRP of $29.99.
The device comes with configuration instructions, a mini-CD resource disk and a Ethernet cable (not shown).
Power is provided by directly plugging the device into a standard power outlet.
And the power connectors gracefully fold into the body for easy traveling.
The bottom of the small device includes a cable connection for Ethernet LAN/WAN service, and a reset button is the only control. Once plugged in and connected to an Ethernet Internet connection, you're set to connect to your new wireless network. The device's SSID and password are printed directly on the device.
Here is a Windows 8 Consumer Preview Start screen with networks exposed. Note the computer is connected to the TP-Link network.
TP-Link offers technical support 24 x 7 and by email. It supports five modes including AP (access point) / Client (wireless client) / Repeater (radio relay) / Bridge (wireless bridge)/ Router (wireless router).
In my tests, the device connected the first time I tried it. And it continued to connect flawlessly during repeated restarts and awakes from sleep mode or hibernation. The connection was strong over the floor plan of our house and speeds were as expected.
According to the company, the TP-Link Pocket Router is also available online at Fry's, Micro Center, New Egg and other online sources.
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Judicial diversity is a priority
The recent controversy created by the addition of a nominee for the at-large vacancy on the Florida Supreme Court has many Floridians wondering what is the process for selecting the judiciary in our state.
The intention is that judicial nominating commissions (JNCs) review and select a slate of names that are then submitted to the governor. Ultimately it is the governor who picks the final appointee who will serve on the state's judiciary. JNCs are made up of members appointed by the governor with several of the appointees including candidates recommended by the Florida Bar.
Apparently, the present controversy has arisen because the governor has asked several JNCs, including the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission, to make sure they are sending him the most diverse pool of candidates possible.
Diversity in its broadest sense is extremely important in judicial selection. This includes diversity of race, gender, ethnicity and experience.
Judicial decisionmaking is enhanced by the diversity brought to the process. Similarly, confidence in judicial decisionmaking is enhanced by having a judiciary that reflects the diversity of Florida's population.
Allowing judicial nominating commissions to give the governor more options only enhances the possibility of a more diverse judiciary. There is nothing improper with the governor asking for more names or the JNC sending more names. A 1996 attorney general's opinion affirmed the fact that the JNC could send additional names to the governor if the names did not exceed six and were sent to the governor before a judge had been selected to fill a vacancy.
The JNC should be commended for attempting to provide the governor with a list of diverse nominees.
Cynthia Tunnicliff, Tallahassee
Editor's note: Cynthia Tunnicliff has served on the Supreme Court Judicial Nominating Commission and as chair of the 2nd Judicial Circuit Nominating Commission and the 1st District Court of Appeal Nominating Commission.
9 to watch in 2009 | Dec. 28, story
Leaders need experience beyond politics
As you pointed out, Adam Putnam has the smarts and the ambition to become the speaker of the U.S. House some day. But does he have the experience and the background for the job?
Putnam was elected to the state Legislature right out of college and then, a few years later, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. He has never held a full-time job nor has he ever had a real boss to report to. He has never had to ask for a raise or worry about losing his job or do any of the other things most of us have had to do who work in the private sector.
Our Founding Fathers worked under the assumption that our political leaders would be representatives of the various states and occupations and therefore be able to work for their mutual benefits. They also assumed that these leaders would stay in Washington for a short time and then return to their homes, as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson did. Instead, our country has developed a cast of characters who are only politicians and have no interest except to remain a politician. I fear that Adam Putnam typifies that type of politician.
If he really aspires to head the House of Representative, he should come back home and get a job for a few years so that he understands the problems most of us face in our everyday working lives.
Roger W. Gambert, Palm Harbor
Silence greets Sansom outrage | Dec. 27
We voted for them
Golly gee. I naively thought it would be somewhat more than a month after the November elections before the whining would start — but no. Floridians continue to vote Republican in the state level elections and then — surprise — complain about the fine folks they supported. It's either that the legislators they just elected / re-elected are abusing their power, are deaf to the needs of the state and its citizens or just accomplish nothing.
The Sansom article notes there is no outrage over the collegiate shenanigans of the House speaker from his colleagues. And that surprises who? They don't want to upset the apple cart because woe be unto them when their apple cart gets dumped over. They know there are no consequences. Florida will keep electing them, Charlie Crist will keep praising their actions and all will be fine. Just some pesky editorials and letters to the editor that will eventually go away.
So can we stop the complaining now? I can't take two more years. We elected these clowns. Deal with it.
Doug Bauer, Clearwater
Rep. Ray Sansom
Call in the ethicists
Here we go again. The questions are about ethics, but the answers are sought not from ethicists, but from lawyers.
We are likely to get SOS (the same old story): "His behavior was unethical, but not illegal." Conclusion: Case dismissed.
When I think about professional ethicists, lawyers are not the profession that springs to mind. When the questions are about the law, bring on the lawyers; but when ethics are to the fore, call the properly trained professionals for those questions.
Would you look to a lawyer to answer questions about electricity, farming, medicine or other fields which require special knowledge? Of course not. Why then call on them for questions on ethics?
Mortimer Brown, Lutz
Buddy's blunders too many to count Dec. 26, Daniel Ruth column
Bungling Buddy
I loved Daniel Ruth's column about Buddy Johnson. Johnson's actions are particularly egregious when you remember what a great job Pam Iorio did as supervisor of elections. Iorio handed Buddy Johnson a department that was running perfectly and he managed to not only mess it up but also to incur this enormous "supposed" debt.
In reading the accounts of election night, I found it interesting that Buddy Johnson was "missing" for several hours and his staff was unable to contact him regarding the voting problems. His flippant attitude toward this very important position and his numerous ethical lapses are the very reasons that he was voted out of office.
Delia Miller, Temple Terrace
The walking wise men of D.C. | Dec. 21
There's a local need
The article in a recent Sunday's Parade magazine was an inspiration. You could look into the eyes of Brandon Forrest and Arthur Rush and see the goodness of their souls.
A local chapter of the Alliance for Concerned Men would be a great idea. Perhaps some local reformed men who read this article would start a chapter. The Times could help by doing an occasional article on the local chapter, along with donation instructions.
Claude Hensley, Clearwater


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Report: Nickels didn't ask for special treatment during snowstorm
One driver alleged manager said plowing mayor's street in "our best interests"
Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Mayor Greg Nickels didn't use his position to get special treatment for himself or his West Seattle neighborhood during the December snowstorms that paralyzed the city, a report released Thursday said.
However one plow driver told investigators that he remembers a high-ranking transportation department manager telling him that it was in "our best interests" if the streets by Nickels' house as well as the homes of Deputy Mayor Tim Ceis and Transportation Director Grace Crunican were plowed and that "would make us all look better."
That manager, Paul Jackson, denies ordering special treatment for Nickels and the others and investigators said there was insufficient evidence to file charges against him.
In March Nickels asked the city's Ethics and Elections Commission to look into the matter following a Seattle Times story that described a confused city bureaucracy, delayed response in dispatching plows and emphasis on clearing roads in certain neighborhoods - including the West Seattle neighborhood where Nickels lives.
The city's handling of the storm has become an issue in the mayor's race, with Nickels' opponents slamming him for the icy roads, messed up bus service and for initially giving his administration a "B" grade for the whole affair. The mayor has since said the situation wasn't handled well and that he's learned from the mistakes.
Nickels asked the ethics commission to determine whether any city employees misused their positions in deploying snow plows in violation of Seattle's Municipal Code, which prohibits city officers from using their jobs or city property for "private benefit."
According to the report Nickels, Ceis, Crunican and her subordinates were interviewed as well as some lower level staffers in the transportation department.
Investigators also reviewed original crew reports from Dec. 13-27 which detailed how snow plows were used. Crunican told investigators that she was never contacted by any elected official or by anyone in the mayor's office seeking special treatment. Some City Councilmembers passed along complaints from citizens, she said.
"The SEEC found no evidence that Mayor Nickels, members of the mayor's senior staff or cabinet ... misused their official positions to secure special treatment from SDOT during the storm response," the report said.
In May city officials said they were confronting an "unhealthy and divisive work environment" in city's street maintenance division and that Jackson, the department's director, had asked to be reassigned.
In a statement released Thursday afternoon Nickels said he has never "tolerated any hint of special treatment in any regard and this allegation was both disturbing and frustrating. I requested this investigation because I expect nothing short of ethical conduct by all city employees. As we move forward, one thing is certain: We are determined to improve our response to snow."


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#10 Michele Brown Economic Development Authority, CEO
She soars into the Top 10 with passage of EO13. "She's one of the top players in the biggest development legislation in years. The EDA will be huge in its implementation, and she's the right person to lead it," said one insider. "She's valuable because of her longevity with the government and the relationships she has with the top people in the administration." More than anything, many said she's great at playing to her strengths. "She handles the big-picture issues and the governor," another said. "She's smart and her reveiws are excellent."
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Parent Charged After Allegedly Punching Another After Fight At Middle School Basketball Game
Delaware County deputies say a parent got so mad over a middle school basketball game that he punched another parent in the face.
Richard Rodgers tried to respond to the judge during his arraignment but was cut off by his attorney.
Deputies said Rodgers assaulted a referee and broke another parent's nose.
It happened Sunday during a basketball tournament at Olentangy Local Schools' Shanahan Middle School in Lewis Center.
The director of Ohio Youth Basketball, the organizer of the tournament, said Rodgers is a parent of a student who was playing on a fifth grade team.
The director said pending the outcome of court proceedings; the father may no longer be able to attend Ohio Youth Basketball events.
Rodgers faces felonious assault and assault charges.
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It's been a long time since I was in Lock Haven, but in the early 90's I went there a few times to compete in National Trials motorcycle events. Tis a beautiful area.
Spam spam spam spam.... my old boss, the guy that taught me upholstery wouldn't eat Spam and he had a good reason. He was in the navy when WW2 ended. His ship was just about to stop in Italy and pick up supplies when the word came: "The war is over, go home". The ship headed back to the USA, but.... they were low on supplies. In fact, the only food on the ship was flour and Spam. It took nearly two weeks to get home and three meals a day they had whatever the cook could invent next. Spam & bread, Spam & biscuits, Spam and pancakes, Spam and crackers, and when the flour ran out, they ate Spam & Spam. He never touched Spam the rest of his life after he got off that boat.


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Eirias Triathlon Prize Fund
We have developed a new approach to sponsorship that allows businesses of all sizes, individuals and brands to have visibility at a mass participation sports event where the sponsorship money goes straight into the athletes' prize fund.
By supporting the various donation options you know that the money invested goes directly into the prize fund for athletes, which we would like to make one of the biggest in the UK by all working together.
We have invested £1500 to start this off and we will call this "Crowdfunded Prize Fund for Triathletes". We want to start this initiative at The Eirias Triathlon which is recognised as one of the most challenging events in Wales. Now in its fourth year the event has been praised by athletes as being a great triathlon.
For the 2015 event, we have moved dates to the end of the triathlon calendar (26th September) and with the introduction of the cash team prize we are hoping to attract athletes from all over the UK.
The "Crowd funded Prize Fund for Triathletes" is the first of its kind for a triathlon and this prize fund goes straight back to the winning athletes of this triathlon. By being part of this community initiative you will help to attract athletes from all over the UK to attend this amazing event in North Wales, boosting the economy for the region further and ultimately investing in triathlon development combined with athlete investment.
In return for a donation to the prize fund we offer advertising space to businesses and any individuals who would like to see more visitors coming to Colwyn Bay and the fabulous PORTH EIRIAS venue, please see below for details.
Triathlon is a fast growing sport, and research shows that triathletes tend to be professionals, age 25-45, with high disposable incomes, 70% of whom are male. A large prize fund will help to attract competitors, family and friends to the Colwyn Bay area, many of whom will stay overnight, making a significant economic impact, both over the weekend, and for future visits. The money won by the Triathletes will help to develop the sport further by being invested into the athletes from grass routes to seasoned pros, the winners will receive the prize fund so invested straight back into athlete development.
We want to create a unique approach to sponsorship that goes straight to the athletes whilst creating visibility for you, your business or brand. This will be the first application of this initiative at The Eirias Triathlon.
NOTE: Xtra Mile Events reserve the right to decline donations through this initiative.