Saturday 17 September 2016
Holsworthy AFC celebrate 125th anniversary with charity match
Holsworthy AFC XI 2
Presidents XI 3
HOLSWORTHY Football Club celebrated its 125th anniversary with a charity match at Upcott Field on Sunday, September 4.
The day started with town crier, Roger Dunstan, welcoming everyone, and it wasn’t long before the teams gave the crowd of over 200 plenty to shout about.
With both current and former players taking part, Matt Andrew’s late winner proving decisive for the President’s Select XI after Adam Smith and Carlo Chandler had equalised for Holsworthy after early goals from Jacob Nosworthy and Andrew.
A number of high-profile figures from the club’s history were also in attendance, including ex chairman’s Rob Moores, Mike Pett, Barry Parrish and Tony Bayley.
Presentations were made by Devon FA chairman, Bernard Leach, to club legends Ron Gifford and Eric French who were members of the victorious Devon?Senior Cup side from the 1953/54 season.
French also became a life vice president of the club, along with Ray Latty, Clifford and Sylvia Gilbert, Ween Masters and Dawn Curtis.
Further presentations were made to Stuart Moore for his matchday programmes while Holsworthy Mayor, Cllr Jon read more
The extraordinary life of Bob Parks
Eccentric British conceptual artist Bob Parks was at the heart of the thriving Los Angeles performance art scene of the 1970s, appearing in galleries and on television as his alter-ego, Bignose, and walking the streets of LA in a string bikini. But after his marriage failed, Parks saw his burgeoning art career come to pieces. Having been rescued by the parishioners of a South Central gospel church, Bob finally moved back to the UK to live with his parents in the New Forest. Despite planning to stay for only six months to finish a series of paintings and gather his thoughts, Bob stayed for 30 years. A new film, The R&B Feeling: The Bob Parks Story - part of the BBC Four Goes Conceptual season - tells his extraordinary story. Here, director MARCUS WERNER HED and producer TOM VINEY reveal how they made it.read more
Sunday 11 September 2016
obscure laws
a 1322 rule still in force is all sturgeons and beached whales must be offered to reigning monarch ,also it is still illegal to be drunk in a pub and import potatoes from poland.see some more
Wake me up before you go go GO! The vibrating alarm clock that promises to start your day with an orgasm
Imagine if, instead of starting your day dragging yourself out of bed to the sound of a loud alarm, you were able to rise in the morning with a smile on your face, having just had a much more... er... pleasurable wake up call.
Well, that's the promise behind the new device making a buzz in the market, the Little Rooster alarm.
The small plastic miracle combines a vibrator with an alarm clock so that you can be woken up with an orgasm.read more
music can boost your immune system
Scientists found that after listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting dance music, the levels of antibodies in volunteers' bodies increased.
They also found that stress hormone levels, which can weaken the immune system, decreased after being exposed to the music.
Volunteers who played a percussion instrument along with the music also benefited from the immune boost.
The researchers, from Sussex University and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, Germany, say their findings demonstrate how music could be used to help aid patients' recovery while in hospital.
In a separate, unpublished, study they also found that playing music while a patient was under anaesthetic during an operation also helped to lower the levels of harmful stress hormones.read more
Indonesian province’s bizarre annual ritual of digging up its dead to give them a wash, groom and dress them in new clothes
They say the dead live on in our hearts and minds - but in one Indonesian province, the deceased continue to walk the earth in a rather more literal, zombie-like fashion.
Families in Toraja in South Sulawesi dig up the bodies of their dead relatives before washing, grooming and dressing them in fancy new clothes.
Even dead children are exhumed - two of these photos show the skeleton of a baby wrapped in a print dress with a doll laid next to it.
Damaged coffins are fixed or replaced, and the mummies are then walked around the province by following a path of straight lines.
The ritual is called Ma'nene, or The Ceremony of Cleaning Corpses.
According to the ancient Torajan belief system, the spirit of a dead person must return to his village of origin.
So if a person died on a journey, the family would go to the place of death and accompany the deceased back home by walking them back to the village.
In the past, people were frightened to journey far, in case they died while they were away and were unable to return to their village.read more
Dormice in Britain 'vulnerable to extinction'
Britain's native dormouse has declined by more than a third since the year 2000 according to a new report by wildlife charity, the People's Trust for Endangered Species.
The State of Britain's Dormice report also shows that hazel dormice are extinct in 17 English counties.
The researchers assessed more than 100,000 records gathered from across the UK over 25 years.
The report says the dormouse is now vulnerable to extinction in Britain.
Since 1998 trained volunteers around the country have been gathering data on the tiny hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius). It is one of the longest-running small mammal monitoring projects in the world.
The creatures live mainly in hedgerows and woods, weaving ball-like nests in the undergrowth from bark in the summer and hibernating on or near the ground in winter between October and May.read more
Ticks found on 'one third' of dogs, researchers say
Almost a third of dogs checked at random across the UK were found to be carrying a tick, researchers say.
The finding comes from the largest survey of ticks in dogs.
Researchers also found that the risk of an animal picking up a tick is as great in urban areas as in rural ones.
Ticks can carry a range of diseases including Lyme disease, and also a parasite discovered in the UK for the first time earlier this year that is potentially fatal to dogs.
Lyme disease has the potential to cause serious health problems, such as meningitis and heart failure.
In the most serious cases, it can be fatal.
Almost 15,000 dogs from across the UK were examined in the study, which was carried out by Bristol University last year.read more
Scientists in search for hottest life forms
SCIENTISTS will start drilling off Japan this month to seek the hottest place where life can survive in an uncharted realm deep below the seabed.
Drilling under the Nankai Trough in the Pacific Ocean will be part of a project by 900 experts to map carbon underground, hoping for clues to everything from the origin of life on Earth to the formation of oil and gas.
Previously, microbes have been found living at a torrid 121 degrees Celsius around a volcanic vent on the seabed in the Pacific Ocean off the United States.
Scientists will now drill into rocks where temperatures reach 130 degrees in a two-month trip off southern Japan starting on Monday, said Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, of the University of Bremen in Germany who led the scientific proposal for the mission.
He reckoned life was likely to exist at temperatures around a maximum 85 to 90 degrees beneath the surface. He said there was probably less food in such rocks, heated by the molten core of the Earth, than near volcanoes on the seabed.
“But we’ve been surprised in these systems before. I wouldn’t bet any money on it,” he told reporters.
Water in the Nankai Trough is 4.7 kilometers deep and the scientists will drill another 1.2km into the Earth. Researchers reckon it is easier to prevent contamination of samples on a drilling ship than on land.
Scientists say they are discovering vast amounts of carbon-based life in the little understood subterranean zone.read more
Surprise! Giraffes fall under 4 species, not one
For centuries, scientists believed all giraffes fall under one species.
But genetics now show the lanky creatures are not one species, but rather four different ones, changing the game for the world's tallest mammals.
The new findings appeared in the journal Current Biologythis week, highlighting the need for further studies of the four genetically isolated species, according to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, which was part of the research.
Until now, the gentle African mammals were all classified under the Giraffa camelopardalis species.read more
Does Weather Affect Joint Pain?
The skies are clear blue, but your ankle starts flaring up with arthritispain. Could a storm be looming? You feel it in your bones, but is it just an old wives' tale? Or can joint pain actually predict weather changes?
Believe it or not, your weather forecasting might have some validity, thanks to the effects of barometric pressure changes on your body.
It's common for people to blame increased pain on the weather, according to Robert Newlin Jamison, PhD, a professor in the departments of psychiatry and anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School and a researcher who has studied weather's effects on chronic pain patients.
"Everyone's got an aunt who complained that her knee or ankle would flare up. Or Uncle Charlie's shoulder would give him trouble and he would say, ‘Oh, the weather's changing,'" he says.
But Jamison, who is also the chief psychologist at the Pain Management Center at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, has seen patients worry about being ridiculed. "For whatever reason, people with chronic pain are real shy about saying it, because they think other people think they're nuts," he says.read more
Animated 'Doctor Who' series will re-create 'Power of the Daleks'
BBC America and BBC Worldwide say they have ordered a six-part, animated series re-creating the long-lost, Doctor Who adventure The Power of the Daleks.
The installment of the sci-fi program was notable as Patrick Troughton's debut as the Doctor, but the master negatives for it were destroyed in an archive purge in 1974 and no complete film recordings are known to have survived.
Original audio recordings, photographs and film clips will be used to refurbish the episode, which is to air this fall.
"Fifty years after its inception, Doctor Who continues to be a global phenomenon that perpetually re-animates itself -- literally, right now," Sarah Barnett, president of BBC America, said in a statement. "The Power of the Daleks is the latest uniquely creative storytelling to spring from the extraordinary mythology of the Doctor Whoworld -- there are only a handful of global franchises that have the depth to evolve in this kind of way. We are so proud to present this work to our BBCA Doctor Who fans, who we think will go crazy for this reverent, yet shockingly re-invented, 'mash-up.'"read more
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why am i writing about a number ,well carry on reading this post and you will find out more .many moons ago i lived in ilfracombe near barnstaple devon and to get a little extra cash i went to garages and various other places picking up scrap iron with a friend .one whilst awaiting items to be weighed at barnstaple scrap yard i spotted an old 56 lb weight may have been used to weigh potatoes -so i put it inside the front of van and from that day i have used it in every home weight routine and would hate to depart with it -how sad.so i bet your glad dear reader you stuck this intesting post out -ha.
Yorkshire Dales get a new mountain
THREE hill-walking friends are 'thrilled' that they have helped reclassify a Yorkshire Dales hill as Britain's newest mountain.
By the tiny margin of just six millimetres, Calf Top, near Sedbergh, has nudged over the 2,000-feet threshold required for an official mountain.Back in 2010, when Myrddyn Phillips and his two fellow amateur surveyors measured the Cumbrian hill, it was declared to be 609.58 metres high - tantalisingly, a mere two centimetres below the 'magic' 609.6 metres/2,000 feet that is the benchmark height for mountains.
However, six years on, the Ordnance Survey has double-checked and verified the data with a new 'geoid' computer model and declared Calf Top to be 609.606 metres high - making the grade by six millimetres or less than a quarter of an inch.
"For this to happen six years later, there's a thrill involved and a little bit of excitement and a tremendous amount of satisfaction," said Myrddyn, 55, of Welshpool, Powys.
"Personally I quite like reclassification. I like change but that change needs to be based on fact. In 2010 when the OS processed our data and it was literally two centimetres below, I was resigned to the fact that was the height of the hill. At that stage you can't argue against that."read more
secrets of the sas
a documentary on channel 5 running over 4 programmes in which you can see former sas members talk about serving in this elite military unit .things talked about are -rationalise killing as part of their duties ,what happens to those instincts when leave service to return to civilian life.
east african gorilla near extinction
the population of this gorilla has fallen in rwanda,uganda ,congo by 70 per cent in 20 years .this means the east african gorilla is now on the red list of threatened species as critically endandered which is one step away from extinction status .
prince buster grandfather of ska and two tone -r.i.p
Cecil Bustamente Campbell OD (24 May 1938 – 8 September 2016), known professionally as Prince Buster, was a Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer. He was regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of ska and rocksteady music. The records he released in the 1960s influenced and shaped the course of Jamaican contemporary music and created a legacy of work that later reggae and ska artists would draw upon.[1]
Early life[edit]
Cecil Bustamente Campbell was born on Orange Street in Kingston, Jamaica, on 24 May 1938.[2] His middle name was given to him by his family in honour of the Labour activist and first post-Independence Prime Minister William Alexander Clarke Bustamante.[1] In the early 1940s Campbell was sent to live with his grandmother in rural Jamaica where his family's commitment to the Christian faith gave him his earliest musical experiences in the form of church singing as well as private family prayer and hymn meetings.[2]Returning to live at Orange Street while still a young boy, Campbell attended the Central Branch School and St. Anne's School. While at school Campbell performed three or four times a week at the Glass Bucket Club as part of Frankie Lymon's Sing and Dance Troupe; rock 'n' roll-themed shows were popular during the 1950s, with the Glass Bucket Club establishing a reputation as the premier music venue and social club for Jamaican teenagers at that time.[1][3] Upon leaving school he found himself drawn to the ranks of followers that supported the sound system of Tom the Great Sebastian. Jamaican sound systems at that time were playing American rhythm 'n' blues and Campbell credits Tom the Great Sebastian with his first introduction to the songs and artists that would later influence his own music: the Clovers' "Middle of the Night", Fats Domino's "Mardi Gras in New Orleans", the Griffin Brothers featuring Margie Day, and Shirley & Lee.[1]wiki link
Japanese fisherman aged 63 'fights off bear with karate'
A Japanese man in his 60s fought off a wild bear using karate to save his life.
Martial arts expert Atsushi Aoki was fishing in a mountain creek when the massive 6ft 3ins Asian black bear attacked him.
Using only his bare hands to fend off the beast, the 63-year-old told a Japanese broadcaster: "I thought it's either 'I kill him or he kills me'."
However Mr Aoki didn't escape unscathed and was left with injuries to his head, arm and leg.
"The bear was so strong and it knocked me down.
"It turned me over and bit me right here," he said pointing to his bandaged leg.read more and watch video
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