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First World War wills: Last words from a lost army
The First World War soldiers' wills released online this week are brief and all the more moving because they weren't received by loved ones
This poignant historical repository of some 230,000 wills, maybe five per cent of which are accompanied by final farewells to mothers, wives and sweethearts, has been made available on the internet by the Courts and Tribunals Service. Photo: PA
Young life: Walter Kleinfeldt, pictured carrying ammunition in a Somme trench, joined a German gun crew in 1915 and fought at the Somme aged just 16, taking pictures of life on the frontline with his Contessa camera
Final moments: Walter was just 16 when he fought at the Somme but his photos soon took on dark tone. Here he captures a German army medic kneeling beside a dying colleague – but he can do no more than offer comfort
'After the storm': Walter Kleinfeldt captions one of his images showing bodies strewn across the battlefield
Historic: A nurse from the Army Nurse Corps preparing dressings in a tent at the 13th Field Hospital Saint Laurent sur Mer near Omaha Beach near Omaha Beach on June 15, 1944. Nurses arrived in the combat zone after the 12th of June
Poverty: The picture on the shows a group of French people in Normandy in July 1944
Destruction: Some of the pictures, such as this incredible view of the bombed-out town of Agneaux, show the extreme damage wreaked on the French countryside. The two boys are watching an American Jeep drive past the rubble-strewn landscape
Poignant: A soldier from the 1st U.S. Infantry Division stares at the camera as he is surrounded by injured comrades near Omaha Beach. He has been identified as Nicholas Fina, who lived in Brooklyn, New York
A surreal image of a doll posed against the concrete post as an enormous American M5A1 tank from the 3rd Armored Division drives past
Party: A gathering of GIs in a building, watching actor Edward G. Robinson brandish a rocket pistol taken from defeated German troops. He has given his trademark cigar to a soldier directly behind him
Grim: Under the baking sun, German prisoners dig tombs for the casualties of battle at a temporary cemetery near Colleville-sur-Mer
Socialising: This picture from August 1, 1944, shows a sergeant with members of the U.S. Women's Army Corps. The woman in the centre is Lt Col Anna 'Tony' Wilson, the WAC staff director for the Europe. She was 34 and commanded 6,500 female troops
Embarkation: D-day, or Operation Overlord, saw troops setting off from Weymouth for the invasion of Normandy
Wish us luck: Sailors prepare to set off from Weymouth carrying thousands of troops over the Channel to Normandy
Contemplation: Colonel William D. Bridges of the 5th Engineer Special Brigade pauses in front of a temporary cemetery
Festival spirit: American GIs are mobbed by locals in the main street of the town of Granville
Hard at work: Private Alfonton Ortega, from Los Angeles, sets up wooden crosses which will be used as grave markers
Helping hand: Four civilians carry baskets full of flowers around a temporary cemetery, placing one on each grave
Surrender: A Canadian soldier helps a German officer out of his half-track vehicle from the 2nd Panzer Division outside a U.S. aid station near Chambois
Examination: Soldiers from the 2nd Armored Division handle a submachine gun they have taken from a captured German soldier at Notre-Dame de Cenilly
Bombed out: The church in Roncey, which was largely destroyed as a result of conflict between the Allies and the Nazis
Supervision: African-American soldiers watch German prisoners unloading casualties' corpses from a wagon near Colleville-sur-Mer
Engineering: Three GIs inspect a launch ramp north of Brix on June 20, 1944 – two weeks after the D-day landing
Braver than any man: Revealed for the first time, the awe-inspiring courage of two British sisters who waged a one-family war on the Nazis – and were left with emotional scars that never healed
By ANNABEL VENNING
PUBLISHED: 16:41 EST, 2 May 2013 | UPDATED: 16:41 EST, 2 May 2013
Hunched over a wireless set, alone in a safe house in a Parisian suburb on a rainy morning in July 1944, Didi Nearne tapped out a Morse Code message. It contained urgent information from the leader of her Resistance network to intelligence chiefs back in London.
A month earlier, Allied armies had landed in Normandy and the battle for France was raging fiercely. Agents of SOE — the Special Operations Executive — played a vital role sabotaging German communications and relaying information about troop movements and weapons back to Britain.
Furious, the Germans redoubled their efforts to catch SOE agents. Their radio-detecting vans combed the streets, seeking out signals that would lead them to the wireless operators laboriously tapping out their messages.
The average SOE wireless operator in Occupied France lasted for just six weeks before being arrested. Didi, 21, had survived for five months, making an astonishing 105 transmissions.
If caught, she faced imprisonment, perhaps torture and execution. Four female SOE agents had been put to death in a concentration camp by lethal injection that month. They were cremated, but evidence emerged later that some of them were still alive when they went into the ovens.
Brave: Eileen 'Didi Nearne operated as an undercover agent called 'Rose' in Occupied France and was caught and tortured by the Nazis
Didi knew the risks. 'There were Gestapo in plain clothes everywhere. I always looked at my reflection in the shop windows to see if I was being followed,' she recalled later.
But she had to send this latest message. It was only as she finished tapping it out that she became aware of shouting outside.
Peering through the rain-misted window, she was horrified to see several cars parked in the street below and Germans pouring from them. They had tracked down the wireless signal.
Didi knew she had only minutes. Hastily, she took the wireless set apart and hid the pieces in a cupboard. She hid her pistol, too. She snatched up her codes and the paper on which she had encrypted the message, shoved them into the kitchen stove and set light to them, poking them until just ashes were left.
Only then did she think of saving herself.
It was too late. There was a loud banging on the door. Taking a deep breath, Didi opened it and found a gun pointing directly at her. The man holding it began shouting at her in German, while other men started searching the house.
Displaying extraordinary nerve, Didi shouted back indignantly, denying any knowledge of a wireless set. But the search team soon uncovered it.
Didi was handcuffed, bundled into a car and driven through the Paris streets to an address that made every SOE agent shudder with fear: 11 Rue des Saussaies — Gestapo headquarters. This was where agents were interrogated, often tortured and then sent to concentration camps. Or executed.
The questioning began. What was she doing with a wireless set? Didi had her answer ready: she was a simple French girl and had been sending coded messages for her boss, a businessman. She had no idea what they were about.
The Gestapo men were puzzled. Could this seemingly stupid girl really be an innocent dupe of a Resistance agent? Or was she a brilliant actress?
Eileen Nearne — known as Didi — was, in fact, one of the bravest secret agents of World War II. When caught, she showed exceptional courage, withstanding torture and incarceration in concentration camps.
But Didi was a modest woman who seldom spoke about her wartime exploits. Her latter years were solitary and reclusive.
When she died, aged 89 in 2010 at home in Torquay, her body lay undiscovered for several days. Among her belongings, police found several medals, including a Croix de Guerre, and other clues to a secret wartime life.
It transpired that the eccentric old lady who fed stray cats had once been one of the most successful agents of SOE, as had her sister, Jacqueline, who had died many years before.
Heroine: Didi's sister Jacqueline also served as an SOE agent during World War II but returned to Britain exhausted in 1944
Now the story of these two astonishingly courageous women is revealed in a new book by the author Susan Ottaway, who was among the few people in whom Didi confided details of her incredible, inspiring story.
Didi was born in London in 1923 to Jack Nearne, a doctor-turned-chemist, and Mariquita, a French-Spanish aristocrat, who already had three children, Francis, Jacqueline and Frederick.
When Didi was two, the family moved to France, eventually settling in Nice where the girls attended a convent school. In 1940, the German army marched into France and the family's well-to-do life was turned upside down.
The pro-German Vichy authorities forced the family to leave Nice — as British citizens, they were not allowed to live near the coast — they moved to a village near Grenoble. Frederick, keen to fight the Nazis, soon left for Britain to join the RAF.
Two years later, Jacqueline decided to follow her brother and join the war effort. Didi insisted on going, too, and the two girls made the perilous journey via Spain and Portugal, arriving in London in May 1942.
At first they were rejected for war work. But their applications, mentioning their fluent French, reached the desk of Captain Selwyn Jepson, the recruiting officer for F section — the French section — of SOE.
Jepson believed women were suited to undercover work because they had 'a far greater capacity for cool and lonely courage than men'.
But did these two unworldly convent girls have the nerve and ability to become SOE operatives in enemy territory, carrying out Churchill's command to 'set Europe ablaze'?
It seemed unlikely at first. Jepson judged that, at 21, Didi was too young to be an agent. He put her to work as a wireless operator in England.
Jacqueline was sent for SOE training, but her instructors were unimpressed. 'Mentally slow and not very intelligent,' they sneered. 'She could not be recommended.'
However, Maurice Buckmaster, the head of SOE's French section, overruled them. 'One of the best,' he wrote on her file. She was also, he noted, a beauty, with her dark hair and eyes, slim figure and air of Parisian chic.
In January 1943, Jacqueline — codename Designer — and her network chief, Maurice Southgate, parachuted into Occupied France. Before leaving, she had made Buckmaster promise that Didi would never be sent on a mission to France.
Jacqueline became the courier for a large network of resistance groups, delivering messages and weapons across France and organising sabotage operations, including blowing up a Luftwaffe aircraft engine factory, setting fire to 27 new trucks bound for Germany, damaging railway lines and stealing 30,000 litres of German petrol.
Whenever Southgate was away, Jacqueline took charge of the network, with 600 men under her command.
It was risky work. Often she had to stay in hotels, and once a plainclothes policeman banged on her door, searching for members of her network. Jacqueline appeared to be so drowsy and confused that the man apologised and left.
He returned a few hours later, but by then Jacqueline had fled.
She was one of SOE's most successful agents, but after nearly a year-and-a-half of constant operations she was exhausted. In April 1944, despite her protests, Southgate sent her back to Britain.
Arriving in London, she learned that Didi had pestered Buckmaster into sending her to France as a wireless operator two months earlier.
Jacqueline was horrified. Surely her naive little sister could not survive in such a solitary, dangerous role?
Didi's SOE selectors would have agreed. 'Not very intelligent or practical, lacking in shrewdness and cunning . . . inaccurate and scatterbrained . . . immature,' they concluded.
But once again Buckmaster overruled them. Didi, he observed, was a highly convincing liar and performed brilliantly under interrogation.
She was given a false identity — Jacqueline du Tertre, a dizzy shop girl — and the codename Rose.
She found a safe house in a suburb of Paris from where to transmit her messages. The first time she set out, carrying the cumbersome 18kg wireless, a German soldier on the train asked what was in her suitcase.
Memories: Eileen 'Didi' Nearne (second from right) joins fellow ex-prisoner Odette Hallowes (right) at an unveiling of a plaque at Ravensbruck concentration camp
Torture: The women were worked nearly to death and beaten and whipped by cruel female guards in the camp
'Just a gramophone,' she replied, praying that he would not ask to see it. She got off at the next stop and walked the rest of the way. She was kept busy transmitting messages for her network chief about double agents, German communications, the distribution of weapons for the Resistance and the launch sites of V1 rockets aimed at Britain.
After D-Day, Didi noticed more Germans and more sinister detection vans combing the streets near her safe house. She found a new location, but decided to send one more, urgent message from the old one. It proved to be her last.
On the morning of July 22, 1944, she was caught — and so began her horrific ordeal at the hands of the Gestapo.
Didi was terrified but determined that they would not extract the truth from her. At first, one man questioned her gently while the other shouted vile abuse.
'You are a spy, you lying, dirty b***h,' he yelled, hitting her face so hard that she nearly fell off her chair. Boldly she yelled back, insisting that she had no idea what they were talking about. Eventually, she was hauled to her feet and marched down a corridor to another room.
Inside was a bath filled with water. Didi knew that she was about to face the dreaded 'baignoire' — the Nazi version of waterboarding.
Her interrogators held her arms tightly and questioned her about her wireless broadcasts. She refused to answer. Without warning, they plunged her into the bath, holding her head under the icy water.
She began to choke and struggle for breath as her mouth and nose filled with water. Suddenly she was pulled up, coughing and spluttering. They began shouting at her again. Who was she working for? Where was she sending her messages?
Didi remained defiantly silent.
Again she was thrust into the water, a hand holding her head under. Just at the point she felt her lungs would burst, she was pulled out, gasping.
A third time she was held under so long that she felt sure she would die. She began to feel calm and her body went limp. Abruptly, her torturers pulled her out, thumping her on the back. Didi spewed out water, then took deep, rasping breaths.
She was utterly exhausted, but quietly triumphant. They had got nothing from her.
Buckmaster had been right. She was a brilliant actress. Others had cracked under torture, revealing codes and the names of fellow agents. Not Didi. She withstood it all: she had won.
'We are going to give you the benefit of the doubt,' one of the Gestapo men announced. But then he added cruelly: 'We are sending you to a concentration camp.'
On August 15, just ten days before the Allies liberated Paris, Didi was put on a train crammed with hundreds of other prisoners in cattle trucks, jolting across France and into Germany for day after day.
Once, the prisoners were made to disembark at a station. Seeing some trees in the distance, Didi seized her chance and started running towards them. But a guard raised his gun, threatening to shoot her. Reluctantly she turned back.
Eventually, the train arrived in Ravensbruck concentration camp, where the Nazis followed a policy of 'extermination through work'.
Those too weak to work were sent to the gas chambers. Others were selected for horrific medical experiments. Sadistic female guards delighted in beating and whipping prisoners to death.
The relentless physical toil and lack of food took its toll, but Didi was sustained by her strong religious faith and unwavering belief that she would survive.
At Ravensbruck, she became friends with three other SOE agents, including Violette Szabo, later immortalised in the film Carve Her Name With Pride.
While Didi stuck to her story that she was a simple French girl, the other agents had admitted to being British. In February 1945, the guards executed the three British girls by shooting them in the back of the neck.
Didi was moved to another camp and put to work making parts for Messerschmitt aircraft. When she refused to work, her head was shaved and she was threatened with execution.
By April 1945, she was in another camp near Leipzig. Emaciated, with dysentery and a hacking cough, it seemed unlikely she could survive much longer.
With the Allies advancing through Germany, the guards decided to move the prisoners to another camp. As the column began to march off in the darkness, Didi and two other women made a break for some nearby trees.
They were free — but deep in enemy territory. For days they stumbled through the countryside, weak and starving. Once, some German soldiers stopped them, but they let them go. After several days they found a church and begged the priest for help. He took them in and they had their first proper meal and wash in many months.
When U.S. troops arrived in Leipzig, Didi and her friends gave themselves up to them. But the Americans suspected Didi of being a Nazi spy and locked her up with female Nazi prisoners.
It was to be another three weeks before British intelligence officers learned of her whereabouts and rescued her.
Lonely end: Didi was dubbed 'Eleanor Rigby' after she died alone in 2010, but when her story leaked out, the church in Torquay was packed
When Didi arrived back in Britain, Jacqueline was appalled at her emaciated, confused state. The long months of incarceration, seeing her friends weaken and dying beside her, had left her deeply scarred.
In 1946, suffering acute anxiety and depression, Didi was admitted to a psychological clinic, where she received electroconvulsive therapy.
Slowly she recovered, but the once vivacious, exuberant girl was now wary and reserved.
Jacqueline and Didi were recognised by the SOE as outstanding agents whose achievements had helped defeat the Germans. Yet neither was given the George Cross, unlike some other female agents who had spent less time in the field.
Neither sister married or had children, though Didi doted on her niece, Odile, the daughter of her brother Frederick.
Both women had sacrificed their youth, and their chance of motherhood, to fight the Nazis.
After Jacqueline died from cancer in 1982, Didi became more isolated and eccentric. In 1993, she bravely returned to Ravensbruck to unveil a plaque to those who had died there. But she remained reluctant to talk about her war experiences.
After her death, neighbours were astonished to learn of her heroic past. Hundreds of people turned out for Didi's funeral in Torquay to honour the modest heroine who had lived among them.
It was a fitting tribute to the sisters whose sacrifice and courage remain an inspiration to this day.
Hero who makes Biggles look like a wimp: He's flown more planes than anyone else in history – and took 2,000 Nazis prisoner single-handed. And now, at 94, he's telling his breathtaking story
By ROBERT HARDMAN
PUBLISHED: 18:50 EST, 6 May 2013 | UPDATED: 06:29 EST, 7 May 2013
Making history: Eric Brown (pictured at home in Copthorne, Sussex) has flown more aircraft than anyone else in history, and was the first man to fly a jet on and off an aircraft carrier
Eric Brown must rank as the most extraordinary airman alive. Indeed, open his memoirs at any page and you are left asking a single question: how on earth did this modest Scotsman live to tell the tale?
But Captain Eric 'Winkle' Brown RN is very much alive and in sparkling form as he pours me a glass of sherry at his West Sussex home and reflects on an astonishing life. This is the man who has flown more aircraft than anyone else in history.
He was the first man to fly a jet on and off an aircraft carrier. He has set aviation records that will almost certainly never be broken and is revered as one of the greatest test pilots of all time.
But even if you take out the aerobatics, his story is remarkable. Here is a man who narrowly cheated death in the wreckage of a torpedoed ship, helped to liberate Belsen and took 2,000 enemy prisoners armed only with a pistol.
In the immediate aftermath of the war, Eric had to interrogate a bewildering cross-section of leading Nazis, including Hermann Goering, as well as plane manufacturer Enrst Heinkel and designer Willie Messerchmitt.
What's more, he then had to test all their aircraft. And all this before turning 30. Little wonder that when he arrived at Buckingham Palace at the grand old age of 28 for the fourth time, to receive the AFC in addition to the DSC, MBE and OBE he had already received, George VI greeted him with the words: 'Not you again.'
In fact, young Brown would soon be back once more to receive the King's Commendation for Brave Conduct.
Years later, he would end up as an aide-de-camp to the Queen, who would add a CBE to his collection in 1970.
Pin-sharp at 94, Eric is in constant demand from historians and documentary makers, while his autobiography, Wings On My Sleeve, is a must-read for any self-respecting aviator.
Now he is about to tell all as one of the star speakers at next month's Daily Mail-sponsored Chalke Valley History Festival.
What's more, his appearance on the last weekend in June will coincide with the Chalke Valley History Festival Airshow — one of this summer's most spectacular, featuring replica dogfights from both World Wars. It will certainly bring back memories for Eric, whose flying career was shaped by these conflicts.
Eric's father had served in the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War and, along with all former RFC pilots, received an invitation from the newly formed German Luftwaffe to visit the 1936 Olympics.
A promising scholar at Edinburgh's Royal High School, Eric had recently lost his mother, so his father decided to take the boy to Germany to see the Games.
Among those hosting the RFC delegation was the charismatic Great War ace Ernst Udet, who had become a famous stunt pilot. He took up Eric for a spin — 'Terrifying stuff' — and the teenager was hooked.
'When we landed, Udet gave me the old fighter pilot's greeting — "Hals und Beinbruch!" [Break your neck and leg] — and told me to learn to fly.'
Eric went on to Edinburgh University, where he studied German and joined the university's air squadron. During a student trip to Germany, he wrote to Udet, by then a senior Luftwaffe general, who invited Eric into his social circle. The wide-eyed student was introduced to some of the leading lights of the Luftwaffe — including their formidable test pilot and world gliding champion Hanna Reitsch — having no inkling that, within a couple of years, they would be his sworn enemy.
'Udet was like a schoolboy who regarded the whole world as a friend,' says Eric. 'He had these riotous evenings at his flat in Berlin. One of his party tricks was a shooting game where you had to fire a pistol at a target behind you, using a mirror. It made a mess of the wall, but he was very good at it.
'I often wondered what the neighbours thought — but I suppose you didn't complain if your neighbour was a Nazi general.'
In 1939, having recently arrived in Germany on a teaching exchange, Eric received a knock on the door one morning. 'Our countries are at war,' said an SS officer, before taking away Eric for interrogation.
Fearing the worst, he was pleasantly surprised to be dumped at the Swiss border, from where he made his way home as fast as possible to sign up with the RAF.
Like all young pilots, Eric was itching to get airborne and was frustrated by the lack of RAF planes and postings. But there were plenty of vacancies for pilots in the Royal Navy following the loss of the aircraft carrier, HMS Courageous, with more than 500 men, in the opening weeks of the war.
So Eric transferred to the Fleet Air Arm — where he was nicknamed 'Winkle' — and retrained as a naval pilot. Before long he was on HMS Audacity, an aircraft carrier escorting vital convoys between Britain and Gibraltar.
His bravery in his Martlet fighter soon earned him the Distinguished Service Cross.
Then, in December 1941, his ship was torpedoed and sank 450 miles off Cape Finisterre. He was one of the few survivors after floating in the water for several hours.
'I couldn't walk for a week, but I was lucky,' he said. 'As pilots, we had proper lifejackets.'
Back home, his exceptional flying skills had been spotted and he was transferred to special duties as a test pilot. Among his tasks was working out ways of flying Spitfires, Hurricanes and Mosquitoes on and off ships, vastly improving the clout of the Fleet Air Arm.
And when he wasn't testing the boffins' latest theories, he was also charged with training a gung-ho band of Canadian Spitfire pilots with whom he saw regular action over France.
By 1944, Eric had moved to the top secret Aerodynamics Flight based at Farnborough.
By 1944, Eric had moved to the top secret Aerodynamics Flight based at Farnborough
Winston Churchill needed a solution to the Nazis' unmanned V1 rocket bombs, which were terrifying the civilian population.
One OF the first had reduced Eric's home, near Aldershot, to rubble. 'My wife was injured, our cleaning lady lost an eye and the dogs disappeared, so my interest was personal,' he says.
Eric helped develop a booster system that could get a fighter alongside a V1 for a short spurt and tip it off-course without colliding.
'You couldn't blow it up because you'd fly straight into the debris — but there was a way of nudging its wings using air pressure and not actually touching.'
It led to Eric's first — and last — bail-out. 'One day, the engine caught fire and my feet were starting to fry, so it was time to go over the side,' he says, matter-of-factly.
'I landed in a pond in a field with this very angry bull in it. Every time I tried to get out of the water, it came at me — and the ambulance and the Home Guard wouldn't go near it. I shouted at them to get the farmer. I remember him leading it away, saying: "Come on, Ferdinand."'
As the Allies progressed through Italy and France, Eric became commanding officer of a very exotic unit — Farnborough's Enemy Aircraft Flight. His task was to capture and evaluate as much Nazi hardware as he could find.
One of the most unappealing was a Messerschmitt 163 — a rocket plane that ran on liquid explosive.
Dozens of German pilots had been killed developing the thing, but Eric still chuckles as he recalls his maiden flight: 'I soon worked out that the only way to land it without exploding was to run out of fuel first, so you had to get your timings right.'
As commanding officer of Farnborough's Enemy Aircraft Flight, Eric had to capture Nazi hardware. One of the most unappealing was a Messerschmitt 163 – a rocket plane that ran on liquid explosive (pictured)
In 1945, landing at a newly captured airstrip in Germany, he met Allied troops investigating rumours of a concentration camp at Belsen.
Realising that Eric had better German than his interpreter, the brigadier in charge asked him along to assist with translation.
Eric has never forgotten the sights he encountered nor the remorselessness of the female commandant he interrogated, Irma Grese.
'She was the worst human being I ever encountered,' he says. She was hanged a few days later.
Soon afterwards, Eric flew in to another air base in Denmark, only to discover the Allies had yet to capture it.
'I was in this little Avro Anson and there were still 2,000 enemy troops there,' he says.
'I thought we were for it as we landed, but the commanding officer came up to me, handed me his sword and surrendered on the spot.'
Given his excellent knowledge of German and aeroplanes, Eric interrogated all the enemy top brass. He did not warm to Willie Messerschmitt. 'We had a bit of a to-do,' says Eric, with mischievous understatement.
'I accused him of compromising the integrity of his planes because the wings on some had started falling off. He bridled at that!'
Dr Ernst Heinkel was a 'funny little man'. Eric's erstwhile mentor, Udet, had committed suicide in 1941, but one day Winkle found himself in an interview room with Hanna Reitsch, still an unrepentant Hitler worshipper.
'She was emotional because she had just heard that her father had shot all the women in the family and then himself to spare them from the Russians. So she told me quite a lot.'
He even interviewed Hermann Goering. 'His uniform was falling off him, but he perked up when I told him he was going to be interviewed by a pilot. He answered all my questions.
'The first thing I asked was his opinion on the outcome of the Battle of Britain and he said: "A draw." He said they had not been defeated, but that Hitler had ordered the withdrawal of fighter units to concentrate on Russia.'
After the war, Eric worked with Sir Frank Whittle, the inventor of the jet engine, clocking up numerous life-threatening 'firsts' in the field of jet aviation.
Among his unappetising tasks was discovering why certain aircraft would crash at certain speeds, and why planes had a habit of disappearing in storms.
Among his many records is one for the most aircraft carrier landings in history: 2,407. A U.S. naval pilot who tried to beat him got as far as 1,600 before suffering a nervous breakdown.
It is also highly unlikely that anyone will surpass Eric's world record for flying 487 different types of aeroplane.
A proud grandfather and great-grandfather, he is typical of his generation in insisting that he was 'only doing the job'.
But Eric Brown did not merely witness history: he made it, too. And it is a hell of a story.
The final flight of the Doolittle Raiders: Three of four surviving WWII crew members meet for last reunion to commemorate daring Tokyo mission
Last raid: Doolittle Raider Lt. Col. Dick Cole stands in front of a B-25 at the Destin Airport; the 2013 reunion will be the last public meeting of the surviving pilots
Inquiring minds: Doolittle Raiders (from left) Lt. Col. Dick Cole, Staff Sgt. David Thatcher and Lt. Col. Edward Saylor answer questions from the media and the public about the Doolittle Tokyo Raid on Wednesday
Meet and greet: Doolittle Raider Staff Sgt. David Thatcher (left) shakes hands with Alexis Edwards, 5, and her mother Michelle Edwards and father Brian Edwards (back) during an autograph session on Wednesday
Fearless leader: The raid was led by Lt Col James 'Jimmy' Doolittle
Celebrations past: The survivors of the raid gathered in 2010 as well to remember those who had passed, standing in front of a B-25 bomber
Off to battle: A B25 takes off from the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942 to complete the daring attack
Legions: Several bombers wait on the deck of the aircraft carrier, awaiting departure
Last surviving Dambuster reveals how he celebrated the success of his daring raid – with a fry up and a cup of tea, of course!
By JAYMI MCCANN
PUBLISHED: 16:28 EST, 17 March 2013 | UPDATED:18:35 EST, 17 March 2013
The last of the Dambusters has spoken for the first time how he celebrated the squadron's heroic raid – with a nice cup of tea.
Almost 70 years after the night-time bombing attacks, Squadron Leader George 'Johnny' Johnson, 91, told of the daring raid over occupied territory that dealt a decisive blow that crippled the Nazi war effort.
George was festooned with a raft of medals including a Distinguished Flying Medal for his part in 617 Squadron's daring 1943 blitz on the Nazi-controlled dams along the Ruhr Valley in Germany, destroying their hydro-electric source of power.
The last Dambuster: Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson, 91, at home in Bristol with his many medals
The Dambusters: (L-R) Johnny Johnson, Donald McClean, Navigator, Dave Batson, Front gunner, Joe McCarthy, Skipper, Bill Radcliffe, Flight Engineer and Len Eaton Wireless Operator
Widower George, who lives in Bristol, was a sergeant at the time of the raids, conducted under the name Operation Chastise, which smashed the Mohne, Sorpe and Eder dams.
He said: 'We were about half an hour late because our plane had a hydraulic leak and we had to swap.
'We took off at 22.01, and flew in over Sorpe dam in brilliant moonlight. We had to get the aim right – we went in six or seven times and I'd shout 'Dummy Run'.
'It was a totally different dam from the other dams. It was impossible to fly low over, so it had to be a drop, not a spinning bomb.'
Piloted by Joe McCarthy, the plane nicknamed 'T for Tommy' was one of five planes that made it to the dam, which was the most difficult of the three targets to crack.
It took bombardier George and his crew nine attempts to fly at a perilous 30ft, before the bomb, codenamed Upkeep, was finally loosed, seconds before they had to pull up to avoid smashing into the hillside behind the dam.
He said: 'I could see where to drop and shouted 'Bomb Gone' to cheers of 'Thank Christ' from the crew who were yelling for me to get the bomb out.
'At 00.46 on May 17 we dropped our bomb with 8,500lb of explosives.'
George added: 'There was a spout of water 1,000ft high. We circled and the dam crumbled about 10 yards wide.
'But it didn't seem as if the other five aircraft had been there. We needed six bombs to crack the dam and the water would do the rest.'
After smashing the dam, the heroic airmen flew their Lancaster bomber over the Mohne Dam, which has been blown by another plane in the same daring raid.
The Sorpe dam was badly damaged by the daring night-time raid, orchestrated by wing commander Guy Gibson and bouncing bomb inventor Barnes Wallace.
George said: 'I will never forget the sight. It was like an inland sea with all that water overflowing.
'It gave us a lot of satisfaction when we heard over the radio that the Eder had been breached as well.'
The whole crew: All of the Dambuster raid crews, Johnny Johnson is top 2nd from left
It was only when they flew back to RAF Scrapton in Lincolnshire that the brave crew realised they had been hit several times by an armoured train on their way to the dams, and the pilot's chair was pockmarked with bullet holes.
He said: 'I was tired and exhausted – I went to the mess and had bacon and powdered scrambled egg and a cup of tea. It tasted good.'
The five-hour raid came at a heavy price – 53 of the 133 brave airmen, hand-picked for the secret mission, did not come home.
George said: 'The waitresses in the sergeants' mess were all in tears as so many places were empty.'
The brave airman married sweetheart Gwyn, a phone operator in the Women's Royal Air Force, days before the sortie, after being given special permission from chiefs despite all leave being cancelled.
After narrowly avoiding death on an eye-watering 50 missions during his 22 years' service with the RAF, George became a teacher.
Great-grandfather George, who became a widower when Gwyn died of cancer in 2005, is helping Lord of the Rings filmmaker Peter Jackson with his scheduled remake of the classic 1955 Dam Busters film.
He said: 'I feel honoured and proud to have been lucky enough to take part in that raid.
'It proved to Hitler and the Germans what they thought was impregnable could be destroyed by the RAF.'
In late 1943: "Harris argued that Germany would surrender after the destruction of 'between 40 and 50 percent of the principal German towns,' which he believed could happen by April 1, 1944…Known to subordinates as both "Bomber" and "Butcher," imbued with what Churchill called a 'certain coarseness,' he was described by one admiring journalist as a 'tiger with no mercy in his heart.'…Harris believed that bombers should be clubs to bash the German Volk."
'I would have destroyed Dresden again': Bomber Harris was unrepentant over German city raids 30 years after the end of World War Two
By SUZANNAH HILLS
PUBLISHED: 09:29 EST, 11 February 2013 | UPDATED: 11:39 EST, 11 February 2013
The RAF commander who ordered the controversial fire-bombing of Dresden which killed an estimated 25,000 civilians during World War II said he would do it again in a long lost interview filmed 30 years after the end of the conflict.
Former marshal of the Royal Air Force, Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, gave the green light for the 1945 bombing which reduced the city in Saxony, Germany, to rubble.
The attack was widely criticised because of 'blanket bombing' which hit civilian areas as well as military targets – killing thousands of innocents.
But the newly-discovered interview with Sir Arthur, which was filmed in 1977 and will be aired for the first time on the BBC tonight, shows the RAF chief defending his decision.
Commander: Air Marshal Arthur 'Bomber' Harris, who planned the majority of the RAF's night raids during World War II, is seen at work in his office
Casualties: Around 25,000 people were killed by Allied bombers over the course of two night raids on the city of Dresden in Saxony, Germany, in February 1945
And the chief commander of the Bomber Command tells his interviewer, Air Vice Marshal Tony Mason, that he would do it again if he had to.
He said: 'If I had to have the same time again I would do the same again, but I hope I wouldn't have to.'
Sir Arthur then adds: 'I hope it's been of some use, for future generations in keeping them out of these riots. It never does anybody any good.'
During the interview, Mason discusses how many felt the Dresden attack was 'a city too far'.
However Harris stood his ground saying: 'The bombers kept over a million fit Germans out of the German army… Manning the anti-aircraft defences; making the ammunition, and doing urgent repairs, especially tradesmen.
Reduced to rubble: The 'blanket bombing' of Dresden was widely criticised as civilian areas were hit as well as military targets
Harris also countered the myth that area bombing was his idea – claiming it was already Government policy.
He said: 'I lived in a shower of directives from the day I took over to the last day of war.
'The directive when I took over was that I wasn't to specifically aim at anything unless ordered to do so and to blast the German cities as a whole.'
Mason asked Harris why he was ordered to bomb whole cities rather than specific Nazi targets. In response, Harris said: 'They came to the conclusion that they weren't hitting very much and they didn't have very much to hit things with…'
Sir Arthur, who died in 1984 aged 91, refused a peerage because his men were denied a campaign medal.
The Bomber Command, which suffered the highest casualty rate of any British unit, losing 55,573 of its 125,000 men, eventually got a memorial last year.
It was erected despite numerous objections from German politicians.
Bomber Command veteran Doug Radcliffe, 89, who is now secretary of the Bomber Command Association, backed his former commander.
He told the Daily Express: 'Our raids meant there were 10,000 88mm anti-aircraft guns pointing up to the sky instead of at our troops and the Russians.
'Dresden was a major centre for the manufacture of opticals, such as gun sights and binoculars.'
He added: 'After Dresden we lost another 700 bombers, and London was being hit by V2s which nobody could fight against.'
It was initially claimed that up to 250,000 civilians lost their lives in the Dresden bombings but an official report released after the war showed the casualty figure was in fact closer to 25,000.
Over two days and nights in February 1945 British and American bombers turned the city into a sea of flames and rubble.
Air raids: Dresden can be seen in flames following allied bombings in February 1945
The victims – mostly women and children – died in savage firestorms whipped up by the intense heat of 2,400 tons of high explosive and 1,500 tons of incendiary bombs.
The newly-found footage will shed more light on Dresden and the actions of the RAF during World War Two.
Professor Richard Aldrich, University of Warwick, said: 'It's interesting because it's not done immediately after the second world war, it's done at a time when there have already been several waves of interpretation about Bomber Command, about Harris himself and so one not only gets his memories which are still clearly quite fresh, but also is commentary on those different interpretations.
'It's a multi-layered interview and all the more interesting for it.'
Sir Arthur Harris was appointed commander-in-chief of The Bomber Command – the unit responsible for defending Britain from aerial attacks and bombing enemy targets – in 1942.
In the early part of the war, the Bomber Command's raids had little effect.
The bombers only flew at night to reduce the danger of being shot down, but with primitive navigation equipment, this made it difficult to identify and hit a small target.
In 1941, it was decided that The Bomber Command would target entire industrial cities – known as area or blanket bombing.
This policy was endorsed by Churchill and formally adopted in early 1942 as Sir Arthur took the helm of The Bomber Command.
Harris said at the start of the bombing campaign that he was unleashing a whirlwind on Germany.
Working class housing areas were targeted because they had a higher density and firestorms were more likely. This disrupted the German workforce and the Germans capability of producing more weapons.
The plan was highly controversial even before it started, but the Cabinet thought bombing was the only option available to attack Germany directly as a major invasion of the continent was years away. The Soviets were also demanding that the Western Allies do something to relieve the pressure on the Eastern Front.
Tribute: The memorial to The Bomber that was unveiled in Green Park, London, last year
Destruction: This picture of Cologne around the time of VE Day shows how most of the city was nearly flattened apart from its iconic cathedral
Striking: Many of the Allied troops were particularly moved by the sight of Cologne Cathedral, which was mostly unharmed
Attack: A unique photograph of Cologne taken from the side of a bomber during a 'trolley mission' at the end of the War
Craters: The landscape around this factory came under heavy bombardment, leading to pockmarks all across it
Strategic: The railroad bridge running across the centre of Cologne collapsed into the river thanks to Allied bombing attacks
Flattened: The RAF's bombing raids in German were intended to flatten the country's infrastructure and demoralise its people
Rural: The scene on the outskirts of Bremen – a hint at the economic damage which would require years of rebuilding in Germany
Wasteland: Parts of Germany were left almost uninhabitable in the wake of frequent RAF raids
Shells: Whole neighbourhoods were devastated and abandoned in the aftermath of the fighting
City: Dortmund shown after the end of the Second World War on another 'trolley mission' launched by Allied troops
Surveillance: A photograph of post-War Hamburg taken from an RAF plane surveying the damage
The coffin containing the remains of World War One soldier Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard arrives at the Ecoust-St-Mein cemetery in northern France for his re-interment
A poppy wreath and a sword that belonged to Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard were carried by a soldier during the ceremony at the HAC cemetery yesterday
Relatives of Lieutenant John Harold Pritchard were among those who attended the burial service in northern France, nearly a century after he died
British soldiers were laid to rest in the Ecoust-St Mein war cemetery in northern France, not far from where they fell 96 years ago next month
This Christmas postcard was sent by Private Elphick, of the Honourable Artillery Company, six months before he was killed in action fighting the Germans in 1917
Last Christmas card: Private Elphick, who was 28 when he died, expressed his hope to the card's recipient that 1917 would 'bring us all together once more'
French farmer Didier Guerle, who found the soldiers' remains while clearing his land with a metal detector in 2009, shows off a rusted rifle and pickaxe he found nearby
Mr Guerle also found the shell of a World War One gas bomb near the remains of the British soldiers – his father had always told him not to plough that field
Apocalypse: This was all that remained of the Belgian town of Ypres in March 1919 after fierce fighting during World War One reduced it to mere rubble
In rehab: An aerial view of Ypres under construction in 1930 which gives an idea of how the city looked before it was bombarded during the Great War
Felled: Trees along an avenue in Locre, Belgium, lie torn to shreds. These images are from a series documenting the devastation caused along the Western Front
Destroyed: The Hotel de Ville in Arras, Northern France, looks more like a medieval ruins after it was heavily shelled during World War One
Reflected glory: A peaceful pond is what remains today of the craters made by massive mines on the Messines Ridge near Ypres. Their explosion was heard in London
Sorry sight: The Cloth Hall at Ypres, which was one of the largest commercial buildings of the Middle Ages when it served as the main market for the city's cloth industry
Standing proud: How the Cloth Hall looked just before before the 1st bombardment by the Germans during the first battle of Ypres in October 1914
In the line of fire: Two soldiers pose for the camera at a Franco-Belgian frontier post in Northern France during the war
Clear-up effort: The East end of the Nave in the Basilique at Saint-Quentin in Northern France photographed soon after the end of World War One, circa March 1919
Shot to pieces: The wreckage of a tank. Some 7.5million men lost their lives on the Western Front during World War One
Forlorn: A little girl cuts a sorry figure surrounded by the ruined buildings in the Belgian village of Neuve Eglise, also known as Nieuwkerke, which was heavily bombed
Snipers, sickness and close brushes with death: The final interviews with America's last World War I veterans
Doughboys: The last of the American World War I veterans have described the perils of war, the emotional toll of fighting and the celebration of the armistice in a new book spotlighting their stories
Recollections: Howard Ramsey, who was 105 when he spoke to Mr Rubin in 2003, said that he and his colleagues were at one time so ill-prepared for the cold that they resorted to sleeping in a French cemetery
Finally laid to rest 95 years on, 21 German soldiers found perfectly preserved in trench where they were buried alive by Allied shell
Grave: Timbers lining the tunnel where the soldiers were found. They were buried alive in 1918 when a huge Allied shell exploded above the tunnel causing it to cave in
Pompeii: Many of the remains were found in the same positions the men had been in at the time of the collapse, prompting experts to liken the scene to Pompeii
Unearthed: A number of the soldiers were discovered sitting upright on a bench, one was lying in his bed and another was in the foetal position having been thrown down a flight of stairs


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Hi list, I have a huge table of documents with many many thousands of rows (currently only 18000 , and will as it grows to many many times that over time. I need some way to select out the documents from a fixed time period, the last (n) months: I've tried this in pgAdmin: Select (the-fields-I-want) from documents.vwDocuments where deleted = False AND date_created between '01/11/2010' AND Now() order by date_created DESC LIMIT 10; Date_created is an un-indexed field (can one index date fields?) This unbeleivable slow, some 25 seconds over the 18000 records. Displaying the records where document records where they belong to an individual person is really quick within my program (gambas). Any ways of re-phrasing this better, optimizing? Any help appreciated. richard
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The U.S. women's soccer team got the payback it was looking for Thursday by beating Japan, 2-1, in the Olympic gold-medal game before a crowd of 80,203 at Wembley Stadium.
The attendance was an Olympic record as well as the largest crowd ever to see a women's game in Britain. The U.S. last played before a crowd that big in the 1999 World Cup final at the Rose Bowl.
For the Americans, the loss avenged a painful decision in last summer's World Cup final, when the Japanese twice rallied from deficits to win the title on penalty kicks.
PHOTOS: 2012 London Olympics | Day 13
Carli Lloyd, a largely unsung midfielder on a team of stars, made sure that wouldn't happen this time, scoring goals in each half.


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Top 100 spring allergy cities
Posted: 4/4/2013
From ABC News:
As spring arrives, flowers bloom and airborne pollen molecules bring allergy sufferers misery. To kick off the spring season, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America released a list of the top 100 U.S. allergy capitals.
Unfortunately for those suffering from hay fever, there is no such thing as a "safe" region (except maybe Antarctica). Read more.


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Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 2009/10/26 - Olympus has introduced the all-in-one FSX100 fluorescence microscope system to enable even the most inexperienced users to create high-end research images.
The FSX100 microscope is designed to remove all of the complex steps involved in setting-up and using multi-channel fluorescence microscopes, ensuring that users can concentrate on the images and data without any prior microscopy expertise.
By coupling high quality microscopy and imaging components with precision automation and advanced software, the Olympus FSX100 presents simplified workflows so that users can obtain high quality images and image series by simply: loading their sample; defining their observation mode and regions of interest (ROI); and then capturing their images: as straight-forward as Set-Select-Capture.
The advanced UIS2 optics used in the FSX100 include an SAPO 40x (NA 0.95) objective and 0.4x-2.0x optical zoom, providing an overall magnification range of 17x-80x. The three pre-installed fluorescence filter cubes - ultraviolet (360-370 nm), blue (460-495 nm) and green (530-550 nm) - cover a broad range of dyes with fluorescence illumination provided by an easy to fit, pre-centred metal-halide burner with a 2,000 hour lifespan. A highly stable LED illumination system is used to provide consistent brightfield and phase contrast illumination with a 16,000 hour lifespan.
All components are motorised and controlled via the interactive software, ensuring that functions such as focusing, exposure, fluorescence wavelength selection and even cover slip thickness correction are automated. As a result the user does not have to touch the microscope at all and can perform advanced imaging processes such as time-lapses, Z-stacks and multi-image alignments with ease. Due the compact and self-contained design of the FSX100, it can be placed on the bench at the point of discovery, or easily transported to wherever it is needed, making microscopy very flexible. Furthermore, the stage is completely enclosed and therefore provides full darkroom facilities, ensuring maximum imaging sensitivity.
The highly intuitive software guides users through the whole imaging process. An overview image of the sample is generated automatically once the slide or cell culture dish is placed on the stage and the user has clicked start. From here, regions of interest are selected and the microscope zooms in, optimising the image and presenting the user with a series of intuitive tools for imaging the sample. At this stage the user can capture the automatically optimised images or manually adjust settings such as the focus and exposure time, magnification, stage position and even change the observation method. On capturing images, the associated data and meta-data are stored in a highly logical image library. As a result, settings from existing images can be reapplied to the instrument for imaging new samples, ensuring excellent experimental consistency.
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Kiarash's story
Kiarash Zangeneh Pourzadeh, a pro-democracy and gay rights activist, left Iran on the basis of his sexuality.
He hitchhiked across the border and was granted refugee status in Turkey, where he lived for more than a year before coming to Australia.
Once settled in Melbourne, he faced the challenge of telling his parents that he is both gay and a refugee.
Here, he shares his story with ABC News Online.
The government does not accept homosexuality, it is illegal. But more than that, the people of Iran do not accept it. Wherever I went – even if I just had an earring in and nothing else to show my sexuality – the people around me made me feel like nothing. I wish they could understand that I have no choice in this, but I don't think they can accept that.
In late 2008, early 2009, I was a graphic designer. I took part in Green Movement protests, which were just trying to get democracy in Iran.
I was also volunteering at an Iranian gay rights group, Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees. It was basically advocating for gay rights, and it helps gay Iranians seek asylum. We didn't want the people of Iran to believe that homosexuality is bad. We put information with the families of gay children, had discussions about discrimination on radio and magazines, and sometimes I would meet with gay people in Iran and help them come out, or just help them deal with their orientation. But I used another identity so I wouldn't get recognised.
No one called me my birth name anyway, so I changed my name to Kiarash. It was a good move, but still the police came close to catching me.
I left Iran in late 2010 because I thought I would absolutely be persecuted for the rest of my life. I went out through hitchhiking thousands of miles across the border and into Turkey. I was leaving legally but thought it would be safer to go across the border by walking. You don't need a visa to go from Iran to Turkey, and there are a lot of gay Iranians living there. I went to the UN office and they accepted me as a refugee after a long interview. Then I stayed 17 months – it was a beautiful life. I really miss my life in Istanbul.
A few months before my flight, the Australian embassy in Istanbul interviewed me and accepted me as a refugee. I am now a resident here. I arrived in Australia on a humanitarian visa in February this year. I had some ideas about what Australia would be like, especially from my Aussie ex-boyfriend. We met in Iran and we travelled and lived together in Istanbul. I was always wanting to be really far away, so I was always thinking about Australia and I am happy to be here.
I didn't come by boat – I don't have that bravery. As much as I feared for my safety in Iran, I did not want to risk my life to find a new country. I met two Iranians in Melbourne who had come here by boat: their stories were really scary.
At the time I left I didn't think I would be gone for a very long time, my parents did not know that I was a refugee. They didn't know I came here, they didn't know about my sexuality. I came out once I was in Australia and initially they reacted with homophobia. It was a shock for them, and hard for them to accept that I am a refugee and I am a homosexual. But the next day they called me on Skype, and they were really okay with it. I couldn't believe it. I thought they'd be shocked for one year, two years, but it only took one day.
I live with friends in Melbourne. They are amazing and have helped me settle into Australia. It's a house with seven bedrooms – really old and really big. I study at AMES in Melbourne. I would go back to Iran only if there was a revolution, a change. I do believe that will happen, one day.
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Menachem Genack (1949) is an Orthodox rabbi and the CEO of the Orthodox Union Kosher Division, a supervisory organization of kosher food. As such he oversees the kosher certification of 6000 facilities in 83 countries.[1] He is known as one of the foremost talmidim of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik under whom he studied for over a decade. He was also very close to Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro and Rabbi Shmuel Berenbaum. In 2008 The Jewish Daily Forward listed him as one of the "Forward 50," the fifty most influential Jews in the United States.[2] He is a scholar of note as well.
Genack lives in Englewood, New Jersey, where he is rabbi of Congregation Shomrei Emunah since 1985.[1][3]
Genack was founding Chairman of NORPAC, a pro-Israel political action committee and serves on the executive committee of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.[3]
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For the 10th year, Friends of the Arcata Marsh and Redwood Region Audubon Society are co-sponsoring a Student Bird Art Contest in conjunction with Godwit Days held each year in April. Some $550 in prizes will be awarded to Humboldt County students from kindergarten through high school who submit a drawing of one of 40 suggested species or another common local bird. Prize(s) also will be awarded for the best rendition of a bird in its natural habitat.
Local wildlife artists and educators will judge the entries, and winners will be announced at the 18th annual Godwit Days Spring Migration Bird Festival in mid-April.
All entries will be displayed at the Arcata Community Center during the multi-day Festival and copies of winning artwork will be shown at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center during May.
A flier with the complete rules and a list of suggested birds may be viewed at rras.org/education.html and arcatamarshfriends.org/education.php. The fliers are also available at the Arcata Marsh Interpretive Center, Strictly for the Birds in Old Town Eureka or by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Louise Bacon-Ogden, 2337 B St., Eureka 95501. Fliers have been mailed to all schools in Humboldt County.


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| Summary Act as part of the medical services team providing reproductive health care according to PPMW protocol and operational process as directed by the Medical Director, Director of Patient Services, and Center Manager. Reports clinically to Medical Director and operationally to Center Manager.
Essential Functions
1. Secure a complete health history, including obstetric, gynecologic, contraceptive, medical, surgical, sexual, family health, and psycho-social; and record findings accurately and succinctly.
2. Perform physical examinations with special emphasis on the reproductive system, including breast examination, pelvic examination, cancer screening tests, diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and other types of more specialized procedures as may be indicated by medical policy.
3. After observation and approval, provide direct medical care to patients for core services; this may include family planning, surgical abortion, medication abortion and colposcopy service.
4.Perform and interpret ultrasound for gestational dating and IUD localization.
5.Provide all aspects of abortion care allowed by law and within PPMW Medical Standards and Guidelines and protocols.
6.Serve as a telephone resource person for client or medical information calls.
7.Participate in accomplishing customer-focused goals.
8.Provide referrals and assure follow-up.
9.Perform order and interpret diagnostic studies as indicated and permitted by affiliate medical protocols.
10.Consult with Medical Director, Director of Patient Services, and/or Director of Risk and Quality Management as needed to ensure compliance with PPMW standards and guidelines.
11.After observation and approval, and if qualified according to PPMW requirements for mid-level colposcopist, may provide skilled colposcopy services for patients requiring such treatment for abnormal pap smears.
12.Provide on-going specialized preceptor duties, such as training for residents, nurse practitioner and Registered Nurse students.
13.Assist in emergencies as needed.
14.Participate in after-hours emergency call triage nursing per PPMW protocol.
15.Participate in risk and quality management activities, including, but not limited to recording adverse reactions, occurrence reporting and maintenance of abortion complication data.
16.Appropriately delegate nursing duties to RN, LPN/LVN and/or Health Care Assistant.
17.Act as a resource to physicians regarding Planned Parenthood Policy.
18.Provide relevant health instruction to include family planning, nutrition, sexual counseling, and principles of health promotion and maintenance.
19.Work independently to maintain up-to-date knowledge in the health care field via attending seminars and workshops, and reading relevant material.
20.Support and encourage a culture that:
• Provides a rich conduit of information and ideas between sites and other PPMW departments.
• Participates in ongoing feedback with colleagues.
• Incorporates customer satisfaction into all aspects of the work.
• Encourages team to take responsibility for evaluating and improving systems.
21.Demonstrate flexibility and teamwork; understand the interaction between this position and others with whom the position works directly and indirectly.
22.Ensure that interactions incorporate PPMW values of integrity, partnership, customer focus, communication and quality.
23.Support effort of the PPMW's diversity program to provide services that are culturally and linguistically competent; takes the initiative to develop own awareness and knowledge of diversity matters.
24.Complete all responsibilities according to established protocols, policies and standard practices in the areas of customer service, quality assurance and regulatory compliance programs such as HIPAA (Health Information Portability & Accountability Act), OSHA (Occupational Safety & Health Act) and CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Administration) and Title X.
25.Collaborate with the health team and other community agencies and resources (e.g., physicians, local health departments, social service, nutritionists, dentists, and parent education groups), through joint planning and coordination of activities, in providing comprehensive care.
26.Participate in Risk Management and Quality Assurance program, medical committee meetings and other agency and center meetings as required.
27.Other duties as assigned.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Reasoning Ability
Must have the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusion. Ability to interpret a variety of technical instructions in various formats required. Ability to multi-task and to work effectively under pressure due to conflicting demands is required. Must be flexible, highly organized, creative and detail-oriented with the ability to set and meet deadlines.
Language Skills
Requires excellent verbal and written communication skills, listening and interpersonal relationship communication skills. Must be able to communicate clearly and interact comfortably with a diverse group of clients, staff and volunteers in a non-judgmental, professional and sensitive manner .
Mathematical Skills
Must possess the ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.
Computer Skills
Excellent keyboarding skills with high level of accuracy required. Must possess capacity to learn software programs required for specific position and access electronic communications, including e-mail, extranet and intranet.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. All of the job functions listed within this job description involve to greater and lesser degrees the following physical demands: close vision; hearing/listening; clear speech; walking; lifting and carrying up to 10 pounds overhead and 40 pounds from the floor; stooping; kneeling; bending; sitting; standing up to 6 hours at a time; and use of hands to finger, handle, and feel. Must be able to assist a semi-conscious or unconscious youth/adult from a wheelchair to a bed.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The employee must possess a demonstrated ability to work in a diverse environment and build productive relationships. A demonstrated ability to effectively work independently and collaboratively as part of a team is essential.
•This position performs tasks that involve exposure to blood, fluids, or tissues as well as cleaning solvents and other chemicals.
•The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
•This position requires the ability to work in high stress, fast paced environment with potential.
•Protesters may be present at work and related sites.
•This position requires the ability to work an irregular schedule which could include some weekends, early mornings and evenings.
•The position may require travel and as such employee must provide own reliable transportation for the performance of agency duties.
Additional Salary Information: PPMW has a comprehensive and competitive compensation/benefits program to include employer matched 401K, Health, Dental, Vision, FSA, employer paid short-term disability, long-term disability and life insurance, convenient hours, and a generous time off package.


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Thanks to the Florida Marlins refusal to lose and the New York Mets and Philadelphia Phillies refusal to take hold of the division, the top of the NL East is a veritable mishmash of teams vying for first place. A hodgepodge, if you will. A jumble. A clutter. A big fucking mess. And thats just the way the Marlins like it.
The Fish continue to prove that no lead is safe, no matter how deep into a game or far behind in the deficit the team finds itself. With Dan The God of Thunder Uggla and Hanley Last Son of Krypton Ramirez leading the way, the Marlins have rallied to 31 come-from-behind victories, the most in the National League. Thanks to their penchant for hitting home runs in bunches in the eighth and ninth innings, Floridas comeback kids are making a run for the playoffs against their more expensive rivals. The NL East is up for grabs. And the only thing Philly and New York should know from here on out is that no lead is safe. On Tuesday, the Fish host Albert Pujols and the St. Louis Cardinals at Dolphin Stadium. First pitch is at 7:10.
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text: Blair Mountain march planned for June By Paul J. Nyden March 9, 2011 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A group that wants to preserve Blair Mountain will re-create a historic march by thousands of coal miners from Marmet to the Logan County mountain this summer.The march will begin June 6, almost 90 years after nearly 10,000 United Mine Workers members marched from Marmet down into Logan County to organize non-union coal miners.The Battle of Blair Mountain, fought between Aug. 25 and Sept. 4, 1921, was the largest armed confrontation in U.S. labor history. Federal troops eventually helped force the miners to return home.This summer's march, organized by the Friends of Blair Mountain, will demand preservation of Blair Mountain, now threatened by coal companies, including Massey Energy and Arch Coal, that hope to begin mountaintop removal mining operations on the historic site.Marchers said Wednesday they would also support an end to mountaintop removal mining and increased rights for the labor movement."Miners fought for so many rights that Americans today take for granted," said C. Belmont Keeney, whose great-grandfather was a main UMW organizer of the 1921 march."They fought for freedom of speech, the right to assemble, the right to own their own homes, to be paid in American money and not company scrip. ... They fought to abolish the privately held armies of the coal operators and they fought for the right to join a union," said Keeney, who teaches history and sociology at Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College.Salt Rock native Brandon Nida is coordinating efforts to organize the June march, which will end June 11 with a rally on top of Blair Mountain along the Boone-Logan county line."Most West Virginia politicians are in the pockets of the coal companies," said novelist and activist Denise Giardina. "Even Blair Mountain, the most important mountain in coal history, is threatened. We are walking for the protection of Blair Mountain, and all mountains, from mountaintop removal mining." March organizers who spoke at a news conference Saturday said they wanted to get the UMW more involved with the event."We must work to make the United Mine Workers realize that this is a UMW issue as well and urge them to get on board," said Ken Hechler, former congressman and secretary of state.UMW members should support the abolition of mountaintop removal mining, in part because those mines cut employment, said Perry Still, a retired coal miner and UMW member in Matewan.In Boone County, the state's largest coal county, 2,053 miners working in underground mines produce more than 10 million tons of coal a year, Still said. The county's 1,086 surface miners produce nearly 12 million tons."I would like to see the leaders in our union join our protest," Still said.Last month, UMW President Cecil Roberts wrote in The Charleston Gazette, "Blair Mountain is as close to sacred ground as there is for the UMWA. Though we may not physically own the mountain's land, its legacy is ours. ... We strongly support its preservation, for it represents the power ordinary people have when they decide to stick together and take up common struggle for the benefit of all." Chuck Nelson, who grew up along the Coal River in Boone County, worked in the mines for 29 years, including eight years as a non-union miner after Massey Energy bought the mine where he worked."Massey was reluctant to hire union miners," Nelson said. "Massey brought people in from outside the area. Today, our towns are turning into ghost towns. And mountaintop removal mining is also destroying our communities."Reach Paul J. Nyden at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5164. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Facebook founder visits Charleston restaurant 2 Innerviews: Dual-identity surgeon riding high in horse racing world 3 Safety shutoff disabled prior to June coal-mining death, report says 4 Gazette editorial: Capito has second chance to do the right thing 5 Doug Smock: AAC not ready for Power 6 quite yet Authorities warned of high water before tragedy Previous Story Lawmakers down to the wire on Marcellus regulations Next Story


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Aiming to employ 650 workers in the Stanford Research Park, Tesla is preparing for an initial public offering (IPO), in which the company seeks to raise $100 million. Both its strength and its vulnerability are outlined in its financial filings submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission Jan 29.
The modern automobile is a sophisticated blend of hardware and software that requires significant manufacturing expertise and logistics skill, since today's cars are built with thousands of parts from suppliers. Tesla's Palo Alto headquarters positions it perfectly for software engineers but puts it far from the auto industry's epicenter, Detroit.
It's not a coincidence. Tesla has earned the reputation for thinking like software people, not automakers. Tesla's management, board and early investors are overwhelmingly from software backgrounds, although it has hired seasoned auto executives in design and manufacturing. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the car company's largest investor even before he got $44 million in stock options last month, founded online payment system PayPal and sold it to eBay.
Tesla has intentionally departed from the traditional auto-industry model in two key ways. First, it owns its entire vehicle sales and service network. When your Tesla breaks down, you will take it to a dealership, such as Menlo Park's, owned by Tesla, not an independent business that runs a Tesla franchise.
Second, Tesla is betting the house on electric cars, not hybrids, gasoline or diesel. The electric powertrain is Tesla's key proprietary technology. It powers both its high-end, $100,000 Roadster model (introduced in 2008) as well as the $57,000 Model S sedan, due in 2012. Tesla will sell its electric technology to other car companies, a potentially lucrative revenue source.
Tesla's IPO features both blue-chip bankers (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, etc.) and Palo Alto talent — legendary Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is Tesla's legal counsel and the Palo Alto office of law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP helped on the IPO filing.
Tesla's IPO will not be its largest source of capital — and neither is $303 million in venture capital and angel investor funds already powered in. It's Uncle Sam, through a $465 million, low-interest loan from the U.S. Department of Energy. Some $100 million is earmarked for the powertrain manufacturing plant on Deer Creek Road. Manufacturing cars requires lots of capital.
One rather odd Tesla investor is Daimler, the German manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz that largely drove U.S. carmaker Chrysler into bankruptcy after Daimler acquired it. In addition to a 5 percent stake in Tesla, Daimler also has contracted for 1,000 Tesla's powertrains for its electric smart car in Europe.
Tesla's IPO will be closely watched by Wall Street and the green-technology industry.
"Tesla is an important and highly visible IPO," said Kris Tuttle, the France-based CEO of Research 2.0, a Boston research firm focused on emerging technologies. He expects buyers of Tesla stock to include green-themed mutual funds and giddy individual investors.
As the e-car sector is increasingly jammed with both old-liner players (Nissan, GM, Ford, Toyota) and newbies (Fisker Automotive), Tesla gives Palo Alto a front-seat view on CleanTech's sexiest market.


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Richmond City Council secured new refinancing of its municipal complex Feb. 27 at a council meeting that was moved back a day due to Tuesday's snow storm.
The council unanimously approved an ordinance allowing the city to change its financing of the complex, now at $4.48 million. The move takes effect March 27.
The city received a favorable fixed interest rate of 3.9 percent through the duration of a 30-year loan – a quarter percent less than what was anticipated by Jack Dillingham of Piper Jaffray Feb. 13. Financing now is through a Bank Midwest loan of 4.25 percent, but interest rates could increase in 2015 if the loan is extended by the city.
Dillingham anticipates the city will save an average of $24,729 each year until 2038. However, from 2039 to 2043, there would be no cost savings because the loan has been extended five years beyond the current loan. Dillingham predicts the city will save a little more than $50,0000 on the current loan if it remained at 4.25 percent.
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SOLD OUT — SEMINAR: Auditing Compliance With Changing Overtime Laws — A Practical Workshop for Liberal Arts Majors Who Avoided Math Classes in College
Please join us on Thursday, May 29, for an afternoon presentation that will cover the current state of President Obama's expansive overtime work rules and who they may impact. Learn about recent changes that may affect overtime calculations. We will provide you with the tools necessary for auditing your own wage and hour practices, and we will also address how to tackle complex overtime calculation scenarios. We will discuss best practices for employers who have misclassified workers as overtime exempt, what does and does not get put into the regular rate of pay, and how to handle overtime calculations for salaried non-exempt personnel or workers with alternative pay structures. Participants will also have the opportunity to dust off their high school math skills and put that knowledge to practical use in a hands-on workshop based on real-life scenarios.
This seminar, geared toward Employers, Managers, Human Resource Professionals and Corporate Counsel, is part of our ongoing Employment Law School For Managers® Series. This seminar is a follow-up to our sold-out seminar in May 2013 addressing "Wage and Hour Compliance: Exemptions & Independent Contractors — a Practical Workshop."
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April 5, 2012 : Dear Corporation: B&Q and illegal Israeli settlements
24 April 2012 - Corporate Watch recently wrote to B&Q concerning the supply of goods manufactured by companies that work out of illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank. The open letter to B&Q, reproduced below, asked for clarification of whether the store will cease its supply of Keter Plastics products.
In January this year, activists held a protest against the sale of garden sheds made by Keter Plastics, an Israeli company that has a factory in the Barkan settlement industrial zone in the West Bank.
Since then B&Q has pledged, in correspondence with Palestine solidarity campaigners, not to sell products sourced from conflict zones and/or occupied territories. However, it remains unclear whether this means that B&Q will discontinue the sale of Keter products, some of which are manufactured outside Israel.
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are established on land taken from Palestinian civilians by military force. The settlements are illegal under international law and their illegality is recognised by British Foreign Office policy, which states that the settlements are an obstacle to peace.
Barkan, attached to the residential settlement of Ariel, was established in 1982 on the land of the Palestinian villages of Haris, Bruqin and Sarta. The industrial zone hosts a disproportionate number of factories that pollute the environment. For example, waste from Barkan runs down the hillside of the Al-Matwi valley, damaging Palestinian farmland. Palestinian labourers are employed in the industrial zone and are paid, in several documented instances, below the minimum wage and denied the right to unionise.
In the above-mentioned letter to campaigners, Terry Anne Rowland of B&Q's Customer Care Team said: we will work with our suppliers to identify which, if any, products are manufactured in countries associated with conflict/occupation (eg Afghanistan/Israel) and seek confirmation that the product has not, at any stage been made by a company operating in a conflict zone or occupied territories. We will put in place exit strategies for the product and/or supplier where progress to our aim, over a defined period, is not achieved.
Corporate Watch welcomes the sentiments expressed in the letter but would like to clarify whether this statement means that B&Q will no longer deal with Keter Plastics.
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Pepsi paying it forward with yellow caps
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It's no secret that schools continue to suffer from annual budget cuts from the state and federal government.
So, when a company like Refreshment Services Pepsi decides to fund a program that puts money back into the schools, there's not much opposition.
"I've been trying to cut back because I'm in softball, but I still drink a lot of soda," Mackenzie James, a Pittsfield High School senior said.
James is one of hundreds of Pikeland students hoping to bring more money to their schools buy purchasing Pepsi products with a yellow cap.
"We have this big bucket where I try to put all my caps in," James said.
Last year, the Pikeland School District received close to a thousand dollars from the yellow cap program and split it between its three buildings. With Jiffi Stop on their side once again, Pittsfield High School Principal Angie Greger is excited to see the benefits.
"Especially as the teachers are getting ready to plan for the next school year, and looking at materials they'd like to use, especially with our transition to the common core," Greger said.
Greger decided to put most of the money into the school's library, where all students could benefit, rather than giving to one department.
"The kids love to read here and it's also a strong part of our curriculum, because the students at the high school are required to read 8 books, in addition to the classroom novels," Carla Morrison said.
Carla Morrison says recent budget cuts from the state and federal government have made it hard to buy new books and technology.
"The Pepsi funds have made it possible to buy more books for my students. We've bought Netbook computers and to be honest, there's a waiting list on them all the time. We're a fairly high poverty district and I did a survey a couple years ago and 27 percent of my students have no computer at home, at all. And yet, every student is supposed to do a research paper that's typed," Morrison said.
It's a hope there won't be as long of a waiting list for those Netbooks next year with help from the Pepsi cap program.
"Having that money coming in is a great added bonus to be able to continue to do the things we like for our students," Greger said.
From now until April 30, you can drop off your Pepsi yellow caps at the Pittsfield Jiffi Stop or any of the schools.


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Best Value for Money in Procurement
Recent years witnessed a gradual change on how to evaluate successful procurement, in both the private ad the public sector. Indeed from a price-only criterion for measuring success, decisions shifted to a multi-criteria approach where various dimensions of quality, as well as price, are considered. The most common way to express such shift is to say that procurement should deliver "best value for money" (BVM). That is, to award the contract, both monetary and non-monetary components of an offer are to be considered. Whether in competitive bidding or negotiations BVM is typically formalized by a scoring formula, namely a rule for assigning dimensionless numbers to different elements of an offer, often expressed in different units of measurement. The contract would then be awarded according to the total score obtained by an offer. This paper discusses the notion of BVM and some typical forms of scoring rules, as a way to formalize the procurer's preferences.
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There are so many things to love about weddings – two of my favorites are the chance to wear fancy shoes, and the dancing! Unfortunately these things don't always go hand-in-hand. Many a high heel has been abandoned by the side of the dance floor kicked off by a dancing guests aching feet. So, why not opt for flats!? Pick a fancy pair and you might make a bigger statement than your black pumps ever could!
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This heavily bearded man with his sturdy locks welcomes you to the HVRMINN Fall Winter 2013 collection. The New York brand moves from a solely custom tailor service to its first Ready-to-Wear and Made-to-Measure collection. The always in favour Martin Greenfield factory in charge of production, the collection described as "vintage elegance with a modern sensibility" features classic tailoring with little offbeat touches in longer cut jackets and exaggerated lapels. See Fall Winter 2013 in the gallery.
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What is the correct path setting for PCSat on the D700A,would it contain a wide2-2? would it be PCSAT,W3ADO-1,WIDE2-2.
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It depends on what the state of PCSAT is, when PCSAT is in full sun for the entire orbit then the path would be PCSAT,SGATE but when it is going through eclipses, then W3ADO-1,SGATE would be necessary.
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Hi, can you tell me if PCSAT is still active on 145.827 1200baud ? From some days I'm trying to digipeat and no luck, no response from PCSAT. Maybe is not operational during eclipses ? (Because all this days I have passes during eclipses of it's orbit.) Thanks a lot.
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PCSAT is only fully operational when the orbit is in full sun. It does operate occassionally near the end of a long sun pass but only in its default state.
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Thanks. I use APRS via W3ADO-1. It is OK ?
That will work when PCSAT is in default mode. You should use PCSAT when it is restored and in full sun.
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