The weather is weird today. It is certainly warm but I have been so busy working on certain plans that I could only review the forecast at around 3 o´clock. By that time we have quite heavy clouds on our mountain and a possibility of rain. My bones tell me it probably won´t rain but my eyes are giving that prognostication a good run for its money. Elsewhere, I have not even glanced at a television today so I´ll have a quick shufty at the news.

I look at the Sun on line and I can normally glance at a few headlines to know I benefit from being away from the UK. mI think many of us are perplexed by the sad loss of life and limb and the explanation that the war in Afghanistan will halt bombs on the streets of London. I´m sure there is an element of truth in the explanation but Afghanistan has suffered many wars for many years. Most serious people who write on the subject suggest that it is impossible to win a war in that country. It also is exacting a very heavy toll on the UK.

Is it just me or is the world on a collision course with insanity? British women are apparently demanding bigger boobs. Any bloke who wants his girl to endure such agonies is insensitive. Whatever comes with the package should suffice with very few exceptions! Any lady who goes through the enlargement process just to keep a man must feel very unsure of herself. Anyway, that´s always been base camp for the Sun. Elsewhere, a teenage mum took her baby with her on mugging expeditions. An Olympic boxer swung a punch into his teenage wife and almost 4, 000 cases didn´t end up in court because of  prosecutor´s blunders. On a lighter note Bruce Forsythe´s comments seem to have been received out of all proportion and David Cameron seems to be ready to go into long pants for the next term!

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Let´s check our Alicante weather…

Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday
25° C | 14° C	25° C | 13° C	24° C | 12° C	25° C | 14° C

It looks nice and Mike and Sue Adamson will have a good week in their holiday haven from Hull. Nice to see you, to see you, nice!  Whilst you´re here I´ll give you a word for Michael to learn………

Word of the Day

Costumbre koh-stoom’-breh  (noun)

custom, habit

EXAMPLES

Tengo la costumbre de madrugar. – I am in the habit of getting up early.

Es una persona de costumbres. – He is used to a life of routine.

My very good friend the rebel doctor has more food for thought…. Stop the one-a-day nonsense

When you’ve been around as long as I have, you see a lot of asinine “health” crazes come and go.  But the worst of them keeps hanging around like a bum on his favorite street corner: It’s that insane notion that you need to take an aspirin every single day.

I’ve debunked this medical myth time and again, and in recent years nearly every study on the matter has shown exactly what I said it would. The latest study printed in the journal Aspirin for Asymptomatic Atherosclerosis just adds more fuel to the fire.

The researchers found that aspirin does no better than a placebo when it comes to protecting patients from artery and heart disease. In fact, the only thing healthy people who take an aspirin every day get is an increased risk of internal bleeding.

The drug peddlers over at Bayer are going to have a hard time poking holes in this new study. The researchers involved in it didn’t use lab rats, and they didn’t limit their study to a few dozen or even a few hundred patients.

They followed 3,350 patients for the better part of a decade, an average of 8.2 years.

If people understood the true risks of aspirin, they probably wouldn’t want it in their homes, much less their bodies. In addition to internal bleeding and a host of stomach problems, regular aspirin use has been linked to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke, cataracts and macular degeneration.

As with any other painkiller, aspirin is a powerful med. Take it only when you really need to — and never on a daily basis.

Leapy has passed me an internet circular. These can be very revealing for a man´s political inclination when it comes to what appeals to whom……………..

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Spain is the 2nd most visited nation on the planet with more than

50 million annual visitors. Only France receives more. Of the 41

Spanish airports Madrid’s Barajas airport is the busiest with over

40 million annual passengers making it the world’s 12th most

popular airport.

It´s a bit of a muggy evening and I won´t be too surprised if we have a bit of a storm tonight. We have a fiesta tomorrow so that is then equivalent to the Bank Holiday rain back in the UK. I can honestly say I have totally and utterly forgotten why we have this fiesta but it has come at a particularly good time as I could do with a little break. I thought I´d join in the holiday mood and add a few funnies to get in the holiday mood and we start withanother look at some signs written in English and posted around the world´s hotspots. Most of these wopuld be seen as everyday signs in England these days!

On the main road to Mombassa, leaving Nairobi

TAKE NOTICE: WHEN THIS SIGN IS UNDER WATER, THIS ROAD IS IMPASSABLE..

On a poster at Kencom:

ARE YOU AN ADULT THAT CANNOT READ? IF SO WE CAN HELP.

In a City restaurant:

OPEN SEVEN DAYS A WEEK AND WEEKENDS.

In a cemetery:

PERSONS ARE PROHIBITED FROM PICKING FLOWERS FROM ANY BUT THEIR OWN GRAVES .

Tokyo hotel’s rules and regulations:

GUESTS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO SMOKE OR DO OTHER DISGUSTING BEHAVIOURS IN BED.

On the menu of a Swiss restaurant:

OUR WINES LEAVE YOU NOTHING TO HOPE FOR.

In a Tokyo bar:

SPECIAL COCKTAILS FOR THE LADIES WITH NUTS.

Hotel , Yugoslavia

THE FLATTENING OF UNDERWEAR WITH PLEASURE IS THE JOB OF THE CHAMBERMAID.

Hotel , Japan :

YOU ARE INVITED TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE CHAMBERMAID.

In the lobby of a Moscow hotel across from a Russian Orthodox monastery:

YOU ARE WELCOME TO VISIT THE CEMETERY WHERE FAMOUS RUSSIAN AND SOVIET COMPOSERS, ARTISTS AND WRITERS ARE BURIED DAILY EXCEPT THURSDAY.

A sign posted in Germany ‘s Black Forest :

IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN ON OUR BLACK FOREST CAMPING SITE THAT PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT SEX, FOR INSTANCE, MEN AND WOMEN, LIVE TOGETHER IN ONE TENT UNLESS THEY ARE MARRIED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THIS PURPOSE.

Hotel, Zurich :

BECAUSE OF THE IMPROPRIETY OF ENTERTAINING GUESTS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX IN THE BEDROOM, IT IS SUGGESTED THAT THE LOBBY BE USED FOR THIS PURPOSE.

Advertisement for donkey rides, Thailand :

WOULD YOU LIKE TO RIDE ON YOUR OWN ASS

Airline ticket office, Copenhagen :

WE TAKE YOUR BAGS AND SEND THEM IN ALL DIRECTIONS.

A laundry in Rome-LADIES, LEAVE YOUR CLOTHES HERE AND SPEND THE AFTERNOON HAVING A GOOD TIME.

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A big ´Thank You´to Ian K  in Villamar who aklerts us to a new kind of scam

A ‘heads up’ for those men who may be regular supermarket customers.  This one caught me by surprise.

Over the last month I became a victim of a clever scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned out to be quite traumatic. Don’t be naive enough to think it couldn’t happen to you or your friends.

Here’s how the scam works:

Two seriously good-looking 20-21 year-old girls come over to your car as you are putting your shopping into the car. They both start wiping your windshield with a rag and Windex, with their breasts almost falling out of their skimpy T-shirts.   It is impossible not to look. When you thank them and offer them a tip, they say ‘No’ and instead ask you for a ride to McDonalds.  You agree and they get into the back seat. On the way, they start undressing. Then one of them climbs over into the front seat and starts crawling all over you and doing things you’ve never dreamed of before, while the other one steals your wallet out of your trousers.

I had my wallet stolen August 4th, 9th, 10th, twice on the 15th, 17th, 20th, 24th & 29th. Also on September 1st & 4th, twice on the 8th, 16th, 23rd, 26th and again on the 30th, three times yesterday and very likely again it will happen again this coming weekend.   So tell your friends to be careful.

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Here´s the Alicante weather forecast.

Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday
26° C | 15° C	25° C | 13° C	24° C | 13° C	25° C | 13° C	24° C | 12° C
Clear	Scattered Clouds	Clear	Clear	Clear

Word of the Day

La deuda deoo’-dah  (noun)

debt

EXAMPLES

La deuda pública hoy en día es horrorosa. – The national debt these days is appalling.

Por fin saldé toda mi deuda. – I finally paid off all of my debt.

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for La deuda.

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Christine has sent me notification of 10 PEEVES THAT DOGS HAVE ABOUT HUMANS

1 Blaming your wind problems on me….. Not funny… Not funny at all !!!

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2 Yelling at me for barking. I ‘ M A FRIGGIN ‘ DOG

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3 Taking me for a walk, then not letting me check stuff out. Exactly whose walk is this anyway?

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4 Any trick that involves balancing food on my nose. Stop it!

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5 Any haircut that involves bows or ribbons. Now you know why we chew your stuff up when you ‘ re not home.

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6 The sleight of hand, fake fetch throw. You fooled a dog! Whoooo Hoooooooo what a proud moment for the top of the food chain.

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7 Taking me to the vet for ‘ the big snip ‘ , then acting surprised when I freak out every time we go back!

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8 Getting upset when I sniff the crotches of your guests. Sorry, but I haven ‘ t quite mastered that handshake thing yet.

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9 Dog sweaters. Hello ??? Haven ‘ t you noticed the fur?

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10 How you act disgusted when I lick myself. Look, we both know the truth. You ‘ re just jealous.

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Now lay off me on some of these things. We both know who ‘ s boss here! You don ‘ t see me picking up your poop do you?

EVERY DOG HAS HIS DAY. A DOG ALWAYS OFFERS UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.

CATS HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT!

Love me when I less deserve it, because it ‘ s when I need it most…..Chinese Proverb.

Wednesday is a day I can get on with my work. There´s no Coronation Street and no Eastenders to distract me and very little else is on TV. However, I got to thinking. They are pretty good company when you´re on your own. Coronation St is always a little lighter for my money. There´s always a bit of northern humour running along some steamy scene and a bit of drama. Eastenders, on the other hand, seems hell-bent on being gloomy. Sorry if this isn´t your view but I think it epitomises the difference between the north and south of England. We had muck and grime in the north of England right through the Victorian times and northerners do have a different sense of humour. We´ve got to the way Liverpool are playing this year!

The British press was hailing the end to the recession about two weeks ago. The day after that announcement details were given of thousands of jobs being lost through redundancies. The Pound Sterling is heading towards parity with the Euro. I felt the euphoria in the press was overstated when I first read it. Personally, I think the recession is far from over in the UK.

You might recall that last week the rebel doctor was knocking the Mediterranean diet.  The following is taken from SpanishVida website. People who followed the Mediterranean diet, an eating regimen that is rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fish and nuts, were less likely to develop depression in a Spanish study.

“We are speaking of a relative reduction in risk of 42 percent to 51 percent,” said study co-author Dr. Miguel A. Martinez-Gonzalez, chair of preventive medicine at the University of Navarra. “This is a strong association.”

The Mediterranean diet usually is recommended to reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems. This study, reported in the October issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry, is one of only a few to assess its effect on mental function.

The Spanish researchers followed more than 10,000 healthy adults who filled out questionnaires between 1999 and 2005. All were free of depression when the trial started. Their adherence to the Mediterranean diet was measured by looking at nine components, such as low intake of meat, moderate intake of alcohol and dairy products, and high intake of fruits, nuts, cereals, vegetables and fish.

After an average follow-up of 4.4 years, the overall incidence of depression for those who most followed the diet was 30 percent lower than for those who most ignored the dietary rules. Even lower rates of depression were associated with intake of specific elements of the Mediterranean diet, such as fruits, vegetables and olive oil.

There are several possible explanations for the reported protective effect, Martinez-Gonzales said. The Mediterranean diet improves the function of the endothelium, the delicate inner lining of blood vessels, which is involved in the production of brain-derived neurotrophic factor BDNF, a molecule that is responsible for the growth and function of nerve cells, he said. “Dysfunction of BDNF is thought to be responsible for some depression cases,” Martinez-Gonzalez said.

In addition, olive oil improves the binding of serotonin to its receptors “and serotonin is a key neurotransmitter in depression,” he said. “In fact, Prozac acts by increasing the availability of serotonin in the brain.”

And the omega-3 fatty acids found in some fish might help improve the function of the central nervous system, Martinez-Gonzalez said. “All these mechanisms may lead to an improved brain function and a greater resilience to better face the frustrations of every day, to control stress, and so on,” he said.

But Martinez-Gonzalez does not recommend that people diagnosed with depression try to treat it by adopting this diet. “The Mediterranean diet might be ideal for the prevention of depression, but not for its treatment,” he said. “For those patients who already have depression, the best thing they can do is to seek the proper medical treatment by a psychiatrist.”

“Its not surprising to see these results,” said Dr. David Mischoulon, an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. “They are what we would have expected to see on the basis of previous information. There is a very large body of work in the psychiatric literature saying that components of the Mediterranean diet when looked at separately have such an effect.”

Mischoulon agreed that he would not recommend the diet as a treatment for existing depression. “A person in an episode of depression needs more direct and more targeted intervention,” he said.

But the study adds one more reason for adopting the Mediterranean diet, Mischoulon said. “If you have a family history of depression and you are concerned about it, a diet like this probably would be a good place to start,” he said.

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English From Around the World

In a Bangkok temple:

IT IS FORBIDDEN TO ENTER A WOMAN, EVEN A FOREIGNER, IF DRESSED AS A MAN..
Cocktail lounge , Norway : LADIES ARE REQUESTED NOT TO HAVE CHILDREN  IN THE BAR.
Doctors office, Rome : SPECIALIST IN WOMEN AND OTHER DISEASES.
Dry cleaners, Bangkok : DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST  RESULTS.
In a Nairobi restaurant: CUSTOMERS WHO FIND OUR WAITRESSES RUDE OUGHT TO SEE THE MANAGER.

Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday	Monday
28° C | 16° C	27° C | 15° C	27° C | 15° C	26° C | 14° C	25° C | 14° C
Scattered Clouds	Clear	Scattered Clouds	Clear	Clear
Hourly

Word of the Day

Suficiente soo-fee-cyen’-teh  (adjective)

enough, adequate; smug, full of oneself, self-satisfied; passing score

EXAMPLES

Con esto hay más que suficiente. – With this, there is more than enough.

No tienes la altura suficiente para esta atracción. – You aren’t tall enough for this ride.

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For those that don’t know him, Major General Peter Cosgrove is an Australian.    General Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently.    Read his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you have to love this! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time.
In a portion of an ABC radio interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about  to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military Headquarters.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL COSGROVE:!
We’re going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Shooting! That’s a bit irresponsible, isn’t it?

GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don’t see why, they’ll be properly supervised on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Don’t you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don’t see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
But you’re equipping them to become violent killers.

GENERAL COSGROVE:
Well, Ma’am, you’re equipped to be a prostitute, but you’re not one, are you?

The radiocast went silent for 46 seconds and  when it returned, this interview was over

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A lawyer in Charlotte North Carolina purchased a box of very rare and expensive cigars, then insured them against, among other things, fire.

Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of these great cigars, the lawyer filed a claim against the insurance company.

In his claim, the lawyer stated the cigars were lost ‘in a series of small fires.’

The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason, that the man had consumed the cigars in the normal fashion.

The lawyer sued and WON!

Delivering the ruling, the judge agreed with the insurance company that the claim was frivolous. The judge stated nevertheless, that the lawyer held a policy from the company, in which it had warranted that the cigars were insurable and also guaranteed that it would insure them against fire, without defining what is considered to be unacceptable ‘fire’ and was obligated to pay the claim.

Rather than endure lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance company accepted the ruling and paid $15,000 to the lawyer for his loss of the cigars that perished in the ‘fires’.

After the lawyer cashed the check, the insurance company had him arrested on 24 counts of ARSON!!!

With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case being used against him, the lawyer was convicted of intentionally burning his insured property and was sentenced to 24 months in jail and
a $24,000 fine.

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Here´s my podcast for 7th October and the Platters and Johnny Kidd join the hall of fame whilst others wonder who was Smiley Lewis. Cass Elliott and Jimmy Page were in trouble with the Police and Janet Jackson and Paula Abdul were batting well for the ladies. The Corrs, Faith Hill and Rascall Flatts were all featuring on this day in the world of music.

It has been another wonderful day on the Costa Blanca.  The sun has been shining all day and any visitors to the area will be chuffed to bits.
I had the following sent to me as an e-mail and I want to include it in my blog. I´d also like to dedicate the thought to Eileen, a lovely listener to my radio show from benidorm, who passed away very recently. Eileen used to visit all the presenters at OCI on a regular basis and she was always a welcome face. She was a lovely lady and will be sadly missed. Here´s what I was sent.
A small request.. Just one line

Dear God, I pray for a cure for cancer. Amen
All you are asked to do is keep this circulating, even if it’s only to one more person..
In memory of anyone you know who has been struck down by cancer or is still living with it.
A Candle Loses Nothing by Lighting Another Candle……………………………………………………….

I have had a few enquiries about a very famous rock ´n´roll act not seen on the circuit for a while. I have been given information that Rockin Rupert has not become a recluse but has been extremely busy working on a very new project. This has taken all of his time and energies over the previous few months.

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age. – Christopher Morley, 1890-1957

* Animal Odd Couples: Unlikely Duos Find Friendship *

You’d have to see it to believe it.A kitten and a crow. A primate and a pup. Even a predator and its prey.Defying the laws of nature itself, animal odd couples forge friendships under the most peculiar circumstances. But in the process, they show us that humans aren’t the only members of the animal kingdom to demonstrate complex emotions and traits.Full story.

* Coworkers Discover They’re Brothers *

Gary Nesbit was just the guy carrying the other end of the couch for deliveryman Randy Joubert. At least that was the case until the coworkers found out they were brothers.

Both adopted at birth, the men made the discovery decades later working side by side at the same furniture delivery company in Maine.

Full story.

* Jobless Man Uncovers Gold Hoard with Metal Detector *

An unemployed man has unearthed the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever found with the help of his metal detector. Experts are now calculating its value–a process that could take more than a year because of its size.

Terry Herbert from Burntwood, Staffordshire, stumbled on the hoard in a private field with his trusty 14-year-old metal detector. Over five days in July, the 55-year-old dug up a fortune on the farmland near to his home. The find was declared as treasure by coroner Andrew Haigh, which means the cache will be offered for sale after it is valued.

Full story.

* Palau Creates World’s First Shark Sanctuary *

The tiny Pacific nation of Palau is creating the world’s first shark sanctuary, a biological hotspot to protect great hammerheads, leopard sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks and more than 130 other species fighting extinction in the Pacific Ocean.

But with only one boat to patrol 240,000 square miles (621,600 square kilometers) of Palau’s newly protected waters — including its exclusive economic zone, or EEZ, that extends 200 miles (320 kilometers) from its coastline — enforcement of the new measure could be almost like swimming against the tide.

Full story.

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Here´s the weather for the Alicante area…..

Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
27° C | 17° C	26° C | 17° C	27° C | 14° C	27° C | 13° C	23° C | 14° C
Scattered Clouds	Chance of Rain 20% chance of precipitation	Scattered Clouds	Chance of Rain 20% chance of precipitation	Chance of Rain 20% chance of precipitation
Hourly	Hourly	Hourly

It looks like we will get some rain at the weekend although we are near the mountains and the Mediterrranean so things can change quickly. Here´s our Spanish Word of the Day

Enchufar en-choo-farr’  (transitive verb)

to plug in, to connect, to fit together; to turn on; to direct; to pull strings for

EXAMPLES

Si el router no funciona, desenchúfalo y después enchúfalo. – If the router isn’t working, unplug it and then plug it in.

La enchufó en la empresa. – He pulled strings to get her a job in the company.

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for Enchufar.

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Protect Yourself From Piggyback Downloads

Anti-adware programs such as ZoneAlarm, Avast! Antivirus, Advanced System Care Plus, etc., will detect and remove piggyback programs like these. But things like MyWebSearch just download and install the darned things again and again. It’s perfectly legal and completely evil.

To get rid of piggyback programs once and for all, use the Control Panel to uninstall MyWebSearch and any other free software you may suspect of downloading piggyback programs. SmileyCentral is another example of this wicked breed; it provides a library of animated graphical emoticons which most people don’t want to receive in email anyhow. Get rid of it!

Think before you download. If it’s free, somebody may be paying the distributor to load up your computer with adware or extras you don’t need. Pay attention during installation; opt out of anything you don’t really need; and take the time to read Terms Of Service before agreeing to them – or just don’t agree to such things without compelling productivity reasons.

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Here´s my latest podcast for 6th October and Jerry Keller was at No 1 in the UK with Here Comes Summer in 1959. Elsewhere, Free joined the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and the Doors in the charts. Blue Mink, Cher, Slade and David Bowie all did well. Elvis, the Rolling Stones and Queen were all still making the charts. More to the point, who was Johnny OKeefe?

For many of the oldies living on the Costas in Spain I will give you a few facts for today. In 1958, Cliff Richard and The Shadows played their first gig together when they appeared at the Victoria Hall, Hanley, England. In1961, Cliff Richard’s backing group The Shadows had their second UK No.1 single with ‘Kon-Tiki.’ In 1962, The Beatles debut single ‘Love Me Do’ was released in the UK. It spent 26 week’s on the chart peaking at No.4 and in 1965, the late, great Johnny Cash was arrested crossing the Mexican border into El Paso, Texas after customs officials found 100’s of pills in his guitar case. He received a suspended jail sentence and a $1,000 fine. Now doesn´t that make you feel old? Never mind, we´ve had some more beautiful weather so let´s see how long it will last.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
26° C | 16° C	27° C | 16° C	28° C | 17° C	28° C | 17° C	26° C | 15° C
Clear	Clear	Clear	Clear	Chance of Rain 20% chance of precipitation

We´ve a pretty good week ahead but keep an eye on Friday. Here´s Jackie C from AlfaZ……..

The absolute best Little Johnnie joke

Little Johnnie’s neighbour had a baby. Unfortunately, the baby was born without ears. When mother and new baby came home from the hospital, Johnnie’s family was invited over to see the baby.

Before they left their house, Little Johnnie’s dad had a talk with him and explained that the baby had no ears. His dad also told him that if he so much mentioned anything about the baby’s missing ears or even said the word ears, he would get the smacking of his life when they came back home. Little Johnnie told his dad he understood completely..

When Johnnie looked in the crib he said, “What a beautiful baby.”
The mother said, “Why, thank you, Little Johnnie..

Johnnie said, “He has beautiful little feet and beautiful little hands, a cute little nose and really beautiful eyes. Can he see?”

“Yes”, the mother replied, “we are so thankful; the Doctor said he will have 20/20 vision.”

“That’s great”, said Little Johnnie,”coz he’d be ********* if he needed glasses!”……………………………………………………………………………………………….

There´s a big night ahead at the Marina Hotel in Benidorm on Wednesday 18th November when the guest speaker at a four course dinner with cabaret is none other than Manchester United legend, Paddy Crerand. Ticket Hotline is 965 013 073

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The way you look at prostate health is about to change…for the first time in almost two decades.

You already know the statistics: once we hit 50, there’s a 50% chance of experiencing some kind of prostate issues. And at 80, that percentage goes up to about 80-90%.

But, scary statistics aside, it’s important to understand…

A good night’s sleep, a steamy sex life and even a full game of golf or a long trip in the car are all dependent upon beating those statistics, right? Wrong!

For thousands of men just like you, keeping your prostate in line is only part of the story…keep reading

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Word of the Day

El préstamo preh’-stah-moh  (noun)

loan; lending, borrowing

EXAMPLES

Pedimos un préstamo al banco. – We applied for a loan at the bank.

Me dejó su taladradora en préstamo. – He lent me his saw.

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for El préstamo.

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A teacher training course in Wiltshire is telling trainees to ditch the casual clothes, messy hair and lax attitude – and smarten up their act.

The Ridgeway School in Wroughton near Swindon takes about 60 teaching students on placements every year.

As an experiment, professional tutor Rosie Cairns took six of the scruffiest trainees and told them to smarten up.

And when they reappeared in the classroom in their “going out” clothes, pupils gave them much more respect.

Glitch in the armour

Male trainees were encouraged to wear sharp suits, and female trainees to put long hair into a schoolmarm-style ‘bun’.

Mrs Cairns, 51, said: “It’s something I have been looking at for a good many years.

“While some pupils say they want to be friends with their teacher, our research shows they actually prefer a little bit of distance.

“They prefer not to have that relationship. If they do, it breaks down after a while.

“If they [pupils] see a glitch in someone’s armour, they will go for that.”

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A poll of 15,000 women found that Germans are considered “too smelly”.

English lovers came second because they are so lazy, while men from Sweden were branded “too quick to finish” and came third.

Spanish men topped the table as the best lovers, followed by Brazilians and Italians.

The poll, carried out by global research site www.OnePoll.com, asked women from 20 countries to rate nations on their ability in bed and give reasons for their answers.

Germans were deemed to have bad body odour, Englishmen were accused of letting women do all the work, whilst Swedes were a bit too quick to finish.

Men from Holland were “too rough” between the bed covers and Americans were accused of being “too dominating” in the bedroom.

Greek men were said to be a bit too soppy.Other countries who didnt fare well in the poll were Scotland too loud, Turkey too sweaty and Wales too selfish.

Russian men crept in at tenth place amid accusations they are too hairy for the average woman.

A spokesperson for www.OnePoll.com added: These results are an eye-opener for thousands of men around the world and female travellers might judge potential new lovers by looking at these results.

WORLDS WORST LOVERS:

1. Germany too smelly

2. England too lazy

3. Sweden too quick

4. Holland too dominating

5. America too rough

6. Greece too lovey-dovey

7. Wales too selfish

8. Scotland too loud

9. Turkey too sweaty

10. Russia too hairy

WORLDS BEST LOVERS

1. Spain

2. Brazil

3. Italy

4. France

5. Ireland

6. South Africa

7. Australia

8. New Zealand

9. Denmark

10. Canada

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Here´s my latest podcast………5th October and the Beatles joined Cliff Richard and the Shadows in the charts and Johnny Cash was found with pills in his case on the Mexican border. Midge Ure, Bryan Adams and Marky Mark all hit the top whilst we lost Eddie Kendricks of the Temptations and Frankie went to Hollywoood enjoyed the accolades.

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I don´t like cheats and  hate shirkers. Why do I still watch them every week? I´m talking about football where the game seems to be descending into depravity rather too quickly for my liking. We have the technology so why don´t wrongdoers get penalised retrospectively?  If the cameras can see the blatant shirt pulling  and theatrical diving, and we all see it week in week out, then why isn´t the FA able to fine the culp’rits after the game?

How come there´s seemingly always a goal scored in extra time? Is it just me that suspects foul play? I´m sorry but the laws of probability legislate against a late goal in extra time at almost every fixture played by certain teams.

Oh yes, there´s a modicum of sour grapes in all this. I´ve just watched some of Liverpool´s millionaires strolling around Stamford Bridge as if they owned the place. They are dispossessed but do they run their guts out to retrieve their mistake? Do they heck. They´re more likely, in their minds, on the phone to their frinancial adviser than to any repentent area in their psyche that knows they haven´t tried hard enough.

A lot of it is down to the fact that they probably didn´t know where Liverpool was on a map before their bank managers showed them. I used to love this game and now I almost dread the fact that this drug will hook me in for another dose of mediocrity next week.

And whilst my team were inept Chelsea had their theatrical department working overtime with French actors and Russian acrobats showing us the best in diving and acting as though they were having a near death experience. Do I sound annoyed? Whilst all these Gods are being worshipped as they spit and strut around before being retired to their thrones the rest of us are still battling a recession. Do me a favour!

Although it´s my team I cannot see Liverpool winning anything this year. Unless they buy a couple of half decent players by the end of October I wouldn´t even bet on Rafa Benitez keeping his job.

Here´s a better way of looking at this annoyance. There´s been earthquakes and Tsunamis and car bombs and other disasters around the world that are far more important than any of this. I am going to stop for a minute and say a little prayer for all those damaged by such recent events and put my own selfish annoyance on hold. It´s stupid to get worked up over something which anyone with half a brain can see is several miles adrift of really important matters……………..It´s the internationals next week. They´re sort of friendlies with the odd important one thrown in for good measure!

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The Rebel Doctor  has sent me another article.  I tend to eat good Mediterranean food when I can so here´s an article that is making me think

Latest work on bad diet is a real head-scratcher

There’s an entire olive grove of reasons to ignore the ridiculous and trendy Mediterranean diet… but a few researchers think you’re most likely to ditch it because of the cost.

I really don’t care what your reasoning is, as long as you stay far, far away from this fish- brained diet scheme. It’s not just expensive — it’s unhealthy and dangerous.

The study, which I still can’t believe someone actually paid for, compared the low- quality Mediterranean diet to the low-quality Western diet. Both of them stink, but that wasn’t the point of this research.

The researchers were more interested in the cost of each — and in promoting some bizarre socialist experiment that involves using junk food to subsidize health food.

You can’t make this stuff up.

The study’s authors wrote in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health that, because people are more likely to stick with a cheaper diet, junk foods should be taxed. Then, that money could be used to subsidize the Mediterranean diet.

This way, everyone can afford this wonderful diet, right?

Wrong.

The Mediterranean diet is great… if you’re a bird. Who else can eat all those nuts, seeds and grains? If you’re a human being, on the other hand, you should avoid this diet at all costs. I don’t care if it’s free or if they pay you to try it.

This is a diet that encourages you to pour gallons of olive oil on everything as you avoid red meat, limit your eggs, eat a little chicken, peck on nuts and seeds, and gorge yourself silly on mercury-laden fish.

It’s nonsensical.

If you really want to live well and eat right, you can do so simply, easily and inexpensively and without following the bizarre rules of this mistaken diet. Ditch the carbs and processed foods, and eat your favorite meats and fresh veggies along with fatty oils — including olive oil and coconut oil.

In the end, I doubt that would cost more than a Mediterranean diet. And you’ll get to live longer, better and healthier — I think that’s worthwhile at any price.

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I certainly am in total agreement with his next article….

Turn the TV off — NOW

You’d have to have a V-chip in your brain to think that TV is good for kids at any age. But few parents realize that the idiot box is just as bad even when it’s only on in the background.

A new study paints a frightening picture of what happens to crucial parent-child interaction when the boob tube is on in the background.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts watched 50 sets of kids and their parents for an hour. For half of that time, the parent and child were alone in a playroom with no TV. For the other half, a TV was brought in and the parent was allowed to put a program on in the background.

They found that when the TV was on, parents spent 20 percent less time talking to their kids. Not only that, but they were less active and gave their kids less attention.

And you probably thought TV was only bad for the kids. Seems like even parents fall under the spell of the comforting glow. But that’s what TV does to you — it sucks you in even when you think you’re not paying attention to it.

I’m not saying you need to ditch the TV entirely (even though you’d be better off if you did). Small doses of age-appropriate television won’t hurt your child, as long as you don’t let it become his constant companion or babysitter.

But for too many families, the TV is the social center of the home. It’s on all day, every day — and there’s simply no excuse for it, especially if you have a small child in your home.

Sure, you both might go through some withdrawal symptoms at first. But in the end, the quality time you’ll have together will be far greater than whatever nonsense was on TV that day.

Giving you the attention you need,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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Let´s get the week´s weather for Alicante and area……..

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
26° C | 16° C	28° C | 16° C	29° C | 16° C	28° C | 16° C	26° C | -491° C
Clear	Clear	Clear	Scattered Clouds	Haze
Hourly

Aerobics Instructor

The first time I met my wife, she was an intense aerobics instructor at my health club and I was an out-of-shape new member. After one gruelling workout, I gasped, “This is really helping me get toned.” She looked me up and down. Feeling self-conscious, I added, “Big men run in my family.”

She raised an eyebrow. “Apparently not enough.”

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word of the Day
Platicar plah-tee-carr’ (transitive verb)

to chat, to talk, to converse
EXAMPLES

Ha pasado tanto tiempo que hemos platicado. – It has been so long since we have talked.

Extrañaba platicando contigo en SpanishDict. – I missed chatting with you on SpanishDict.

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I was sent the following information which is important.

Save your mouth to save yourself from cancer

Want a quick and easy way to slash your cancer risk? Take better care of your gums.

A new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found a link between chronic periodontitis — a common gum disease — and certain types of cancer. And while it may have been a small study, it’s not the first to find a link.

There’s enough evidence out there now that you should make healthy teeth and gums a priority — and the best part is that you can do it on your own, for practically nothing.

Ignore the entire oral hygiene section of your supermarket — all the pricey pastes and wasteful washes, and forget the floss — and get yourself some good old-fashioned baking soda and a bottle of 3 percent hydrogen peroxide. You might already have these in your home.

Mix them together to make a paste, and rub it on your teeth and gums three times a day. Your mouth will be cleaner and fresher than ever, and you’ll be the most irresistible kisser in town.

But if you prefer to buy your toothpaste (hey, it’s not my business if you want to waste your money), just stay as far as you can from anything that contains that powerful poison known as fluoride.

Rinsing my mouth out,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

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Dinner Party

My dinner party was headed for disaster.

One man, an insurance salesman, was monopolizing the conversation with a lengthy account of recent litigation involving himself. Since two other guests were lawyers, I was becoming increasingly uneasy.

“In the end,” the salesman concluded, “you know who got all the money.”

I cringed.

“The lawyers!” he shouted.

There was embarrassed silence at the table. My heart was pounding until the wife of one lawyer said, “Oh, I love a story with a happy ending.”

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Excuses, Excuses

Philadelphia’s Highway Patrol officers hear all kinds of creative excuses that drivers give for speeding. Here are some of the officers’ favorites. By the way, none of them worked.

A man told the officer he was rushing to the hospital   because had been stung by a bee, and was allergic. “There’s the bee right there,” he said, pointing to his dashboard. The officer looked. The bee was not only dead, but in a advanced state of decomposition.

An officer stopped a man doing 80 mph. When he asked the driver whether he had seen the speed-limit signs, the man responded, “I went by them so fast I probably missed them.”

A man going south on I-95 was stopped near Washington Avenue doing 79 mph. “My engine misses, and I’m trying to clean out the carburetor,” he told the officer. For good measure, he added, “If I don’t go this fast, my car won’t go at all.”

“I’m due in traffic court,” one speeder said. “If I’m late they’re going to enforce the bench warrant.”

When an officer told a speeder that the speed limit on the Schuylkill Expressway was 50 mph, the driver responded, “Officer, where have you been? It’s 65 now.”

One speeder said simply, “I’m trying to beat my wife home. Don’t ask.”

An elderly person was stopped after doing 73 mph. When told he was getting a ticket, he asked the officer, “Is there a senior citizen’s discount?”

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Bucket o’ Chicken

One day a state trooper was pulling off an expressway near Chicago. When he turned onto the street at the end of the ramp, he noticed someone at a chicken place getting into his car. The driver placed the bucket of chicken on top of his car, got in, and drove off with the bucket still on top of his car.

So the trooper decided to pull him over and perform a community service by giving the driver his chicken. He pulled him over, walked up to the car, pulled the bucket off the roof, and offered it to the driver.

The driver looked at the trooper and said, “No thanks. I just bought some.”

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Finest Equipment

Morris had been playing golf for years and he had the finest golfing equipment, but his technique never improved a bit.

As his friend watched, he teed up at the first hole and promptly drove a brand-new ball into the woods. On the second hole, he drove another new ball into a lake. On the third, he lost a new ball in another part of the woods.

“Why don’t you use an old ball?” his friend Sam asked.

“I’ve never had an old ball,” Morris said.

Here´s the latest podcast

Another better day for us on the Costa Blanca and it looks like we can breathe a sigh of relief. Maybe the worst of the weather has passed us. I´ll have a very quick look at the forecast to see whether this is the case.

Saturday	Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
26° C | 15° C	28° C | 16° C	27° C | 16° C	29° C | 19° C	26° C | 18° C
Clear	Scattered Clouds	Clear	Clear	Clear

2nd October and Don Cornell was at no 1 in the UK in 1954 , The Crystals launched Phil Spector and Maggie May was Rod Stewart´s Hit. The McCoys and The Whispers joined the Stylistics and Musical Youth were passing the Dutchie. Adam Ant was in trouble, Robbi Williams in the money and the world lost Gene Autrey. James Blunt and Katie Melua were just two of the new names. This is today´s podcast and is now available.

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My friend the rebel doctor is back in town……….

Insane new food labels

The food industry has hit a deceptive new low with its latest marketing scheme.

It’s called “Smart Choices,” and I can tell you everything you need to know about it in one sentence: Under this food industry-funded program, Froot Loops cereal and Fudgesicle ice pops are considered “Smart Choices.”

Foods that are approved for it get a shiny new label with a great big checkmark — as if they’ve passed some tremendous test. Truth is, the real check here is the one the manufacturer has to write for the privilege of using this deceitful logo — up to $100,000.

Once the check clears, the only real test seems to be whether or not there’s a food out there that’s less healthy than the one you’re selling. Even the head of this campaign had to use some pretty bizarre logic to defend it.

“You’re rushing around, you’re trying to think about healthy eating for your kids and you have a choice between a doughnut and a cereal,” Dr. Eileen Kennedy, president of the Smart Choices board, told the New York Times. “So Froot Loops is a better choice.”

A better choice than a doughnut? Let me tell you something — if you’re choosing between a sugar-loaded cereal and a box of doughnuts for breakfast, you need a lot more help than any new package label can give you.

I’m no psychic, but I’ll also go out on a limb here and predict there’s a hospital visit in your future.

The brains behind “Smart Choices” must think the rest of us are dummies — but you know better. Use a little common sense in the supermarket, stick to fresh meat and vegetables, and your choices will be a lot smarter than anything with a slick new label.

Slashing through that checkmark,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.

Sleep peaceful as a lamb and

A London lawyer and a Yorkshireman are sitting next to each other on a long flight to Leeds. The lawyer is thinking that Yorkshiremen are all ‘cloth cap and clogs’ and that he can fool them easily…

So the lawyer asks if the Yorkshireman would like to play a fun game. The Yorkshireman is tired and just wants to take a nap, so he politely declines and tries to catch a few winks. The lawyer persists and says that the game is a lot of fun.
‘I ask you a question, and if you don’t know the answer, you pay me only £5; you ask me one, and if I don’t know the answer, I will pay you £500.’

As may be expected, this catches the Yorkshireman’s attention and to keep the lawyer quiet, he agrees to play the game.
The lawyer asks the first question. ‘What’s the distance from The Earth to the moon?’
The Yorkshireman doesn’t say a word, reaches in his pocket, pulls out a five-pound note, and hands it to the lawyer.
Now, it’s the Yorkshireman’s turn. He asks the lawyer, ‘What goes up a hill with three legs, and comes down with four?’
The lawyer uses his laptop, searches all the references he knows. He uses the air-phone; he searches the Net and even the British Library.

He sends e-mails to all the smart friends he knows, all to no avail. After over an hour of searching, he finally gives up. He wakes up the Yorkshireman and hands him £500. The Yorkshireman pockets the £500 and goes straight back to sleep.

The lawyer is going crazy not knowing the answer. He wakes the Yorkshireman up and asks, ‘Well! What goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?’ The Yorkshireman reaches in his pocket, hands the lawyer £5 and goes back to sleep.

Don’t mess with us Yorkshiremen; we only talk different tha knows.

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Word of the Day

Agobiado ah-go-byah’-doh  (adjective)

overwhelmed, snowed under, weighed down

EXAMPLES

Está agobiada de problemas en casa. – She is overwhelmed with problems at home.

Estoy agobiado con trabajo ahora. – I am snowed under with work right now.

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for Agobiado.

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Here´s a link to an article which might help you sort out your windows start-up problems..

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HEMA is a Dutch department store. The first store opened on November 4, 1926, in Amsterdam . Now there are 150 stores all over the Netherlands .  Take a look at HEMA’s product page. You can’t order anything and it’s in Dutch but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens. Don’t click on any of the items in the picture, just wait and see what happens.This company has a sense of humor and a great computer programmer, eh?

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No rain today and a lot of nice sunshine. All in all it has been a better day.

Where on earth did September go? Football seems to eradicate all traces of Summer and we´re well and truly feeling autumnal with the onset of winter colds and Vick to be rubbed heartily on many a chest.

If you´re coming over to Spain this is a lovely time to get here and the resort changes to a its more mature mantle of visitors staying out late into the night to enjoy then bawdy areas of the town. Elsewhere, many Brits come for a break from the unkind Winter in Britain. We have many hotels offering special deals, plenty of places to park your mobile home, long rent flats and other accommodation filling up for the next six months as some even plan their eventual stay. In find it a very interesting time.

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I have some rivoting footage of Cat Stevens in his early days. I can almost guarantee you´ve never seen this before. It isn´t exactly purrfection but there was a claws in the contract which only permits this version.

It also shows that with a musical career pusserverence pays!

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The Swine Flu debate rages on and the information just keeps coming……

“Just don’t try giving me the swine flu vaccine.”

That quote is from Dr. John Crippen, a general practitioner who writes about health issues for the UK newspaper The Guardian.

In a recent column, he added: “On the facts available to date, I will not be having it. Nor will my family. I will not be the only doctor taking this view.”

He’s got that right. The British Medical Journal reports that in a recent survey of Hong Kong health care workers, about half said they would refuse the H1N1 vaccine. They offered two reasons: 1) doubts about efficacy, and 2) concern about side effects.

A UK poll produced similar results and we’ve heard the same report about U.S. health care workers. But it’s not surprising at all. Every year, a large percentage of these workers turn down the seasonal flu shot, even when it’s free and available with the greatest of ease in their workplace.

But why would they pass up a chance to avoid the big bad swine flu? After all, these professionals are not mainstream medical skeptics – they ARE the medical mainstream.

Dr. Crippen: “I did trust the government when it introduced an emergency vaccination programme for smallpox. But smallpox was a deadly disease and the vaccination was tried, tested and proven. The swine flu immunisation is being rushed out. It is of uncertain efficacy. It is to be given to prevent a disease which, as yet, is mild…if the virus mutates to a more virulent form, the immunisation may in any case not work.”

A similar comment appeared in an MSNBC report – this from an anonymous nurse, posted on nurse.com: “I’m not rolling up my sleeve for anyone. It’s my opinion that flu vaccines are hit and miss at best, and by the time the virus mutates its way into the population, the original vaccine is kaput. Viruses are smarter than vaccines.”

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As adamant as Dr. Crippen and “anonymous nurse” are, they might be blindsided by this H1N1 vaccine detail: Choice might not be part of the equation.

This past August, the New York State Health Department issued an emergency order that makes the H1N1 vaccine and the seasonal flu vaccine MANDATORY for thousands of state health workers.

Other health institutions are following suit.

Last month, Loyola University Health System in Chicago informed more than 7,800 employees that a 2009 seasonal flu vaccination is a condition of employment. Those who opt out will also opt out of their jobs. Period. Loyola officials are also expected to make the H1N1 vaccine mandatory when it becomes available this month.

This overreaction is way out of bounds. As Barbara Loe Fisher of the National Vaccine Information Center points out in the MSNBC article, health authorities are treating the H1N1 virus as a public health emergency even though there’s no evidence that it’s going to be more virulent than the seasonal flu.………

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I´ve just finished looking at what happened on this day in music. You can hear the podcast by clicking this link.

1st October Elvis joined the Beatles and Bob Dylan as the all-time greats said goodbye to Jimi Hendrix. Elton John picked up an award, Al jackson of Booker t and the MGs was shot and john Cougar was at number 1 in the USA. Not a good day for drummers as Andy McVann died. So did Lena Zavaroni. Madonna marched on and the Spice Girls reunited on this day in the history of music.

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Word of the Day

El agujero ah-goo-heh’-ro  (noun)

hole; deficit, shortfall

EXAMPLES

Ten cuidado de que no te caigas en el agujero en la acera. – Be careful that you don’t fall in the hole in the sidewalk.

Me hice agujeros en las orejas cuando tenía 10 años. – I pierced my ears when I was 10 years old.

IDIOMS

Hacerse agujeros en las orejas – To pierce one’s ears

For more information and examples, visit the SpanishDict.com entry for El agujero.

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Here´s a newer scam….

Hello, Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Mr. Michael Wheeler , I am working at oil refinery off-shore base as a contractor, am from London UK, and I am looking for an experienced wedding planner who will handle my wedding and arrange the reception dinner or a group of people who will be attending the wedding ceremony.

The wedding is expected to hold on the 25th of November 2009 and 55 to 75 guests are expected to attend.

As i do not know what the guests might choose for their meals and drinks, i will make a
prepayment as initial deposit for this booking via our certificate Bank checkup payment or credit card charging Machine once availability is confirmed by you.

You are to arrange for a venue for the wedding (it’s a civil wedding), a place for the reception, Video graphic, Music Entertainment, Photography, cake and flowers. If there is any this item that is beyond your capability, you let us know so that another company can handle it.

Write me back to me with your response as we don’t have much time with us so that we can process our accommodation within the region more convenient for you and us.
Best Regards,
Mr. Michael Wheeler.
E-mailto:mrmichaelwheeler@yahoo.co.uk
My Private Contact phone: +44 704 578 6270
My office fax number:: +44-87-1256-5009

Don´t even go there!

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I have seen this before but I) am adding the detail just in case people out there have not yet seen it. Thanks to Richard in Morallet for shipping it on to me.
THIS IS NO JOKE

IF A PERSON CALLED SIMON ASHTON (SIMON25@HOTMAIL.CO.UK ) CONTACTS YOU THROUGH EMAIL DON’T OPEN THE MESSAGE. DELETE IT BECAUSE HE IS A HACKER!!

TELL EVERYONE ON YOUR LIST BECAUSE IF SOMEBODY ON YOUR LIST ADDS HIM THEN YOU WILL GET HIM ON YOUR LIST. HE WILL FIGURE OUT YOUR ID COMPUTER ADDRESS, SO COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE TO EVERYONE EVEN IF YOU DONT CARE FOR THEM AND FAST BECAUSE IF HE HACKS THEIR EMAIL HE HACKS YOUR MAIL TOO!!!!!…

Anyone-using Internet mail such as Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL and so on. This information arrived this morning, Direct from both Microsoft and Norton. Please send it to everybody you know who has access to the Internet. You may receive an apparently harmless e-mail titled ‘Mail Server Report’

If you open either file, a message will appear on your screen saying: ‘It is too late now, your life is no longer beautiful.’

Subsequently you will LOSE EVERYTHING IN YOUR PC,
And the person who sent it to you will gain access to your name, e-mail and password.

This is a new virus which started to circulate on Saturday afternoon. AOL has already confirmed the severity, and the anti virus software’s are not capable of destroying it .

The virus has been created by a hacker who calls himself ‘life owner’.

PLEASE SEND A COPY OF THIS E-MAIL TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS, And ask them to
PASS IT ON IMMEDIATELY!

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