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There seems to be a lot on the topic via Google. Does this help? http://www.windows-secrets.co.uk/2012/07/2185/

Would you believe...it's Star Trek! (Saw it at the cinema and have the DVD too but this hadn't registered!):

My son and I heard this music played as the England football team took the field at Wembley Stadium and we could not identify it. It sounded a bit like a Batman theme but not... Tonight, I explored the official Lourdes shrine site and watched its YouTube channel. Associated music accompanied one of the videos there. Ironic that I went to a holy site and found myself "Two Steps From Hell"! The music is absolutely f***in' magnificent and I shall be downloading what I can (I gather they have two albums available via iTunes, Amazon etc.) Turn the volume up and let those hairs on the back of your neck do their thing!

I know religion is a banned topic around here so I risk censure for typing this message but I hope the example of the guy I am going to talk about may inspire others and, particularly, comfort those who are facing major health issues currently. I met Brother Rick Bunch, an American who ran a mission in Thailand, caring for HIV/AIDS sufferers, in February 2011, when he accompanied a priest I was picking up from Heathrow Airport to begin a post as curate of our local parish. Brother Rick made an immediate impression on me. He was visibly in poor health but that didn't cramp his style - he was outgoing, committed and a great guy to talk to. We had common ground - one of my former areas of "business" was investigating people trafficking and he had rescued women and children from the clutches of gangs in Thailand and Burma. Some women had been in cages and the children had been as young as eight years old. Yes, eight years old! I returned home announcing to my wife that I had just met "the closest thing to a living saint" possible. Much later, I learned that this guy had worked alongside the Blessed Mother Theresa. He'd also discussed the plight of HIV/AIDS sufferers with our own Queen Elizabeth, whom he respected greatly. The man confounded doctors. With his complex health problems - he was a diabetic whose heart had been seriously damaged by multiple heart attacks, he suffered from Parkinson's Disease and neuropathy - medical opinion was that he should not have been still alive! But he was! We knew why he was, of course, and Who was keeping him going! But his attitude to suffering was that it, along with everything else we are given, was a gift. The question to be asked was not "Dear God, why do you permit this?" but "Dear God, what lesson am I expected to learn from this?". The world has lost a mighty agent for love and goodness and I am saddened to learn of his passing. But his example can inspire others - doctors are not the arbiters of life and death... That privilege belongs to He who brought you into being. Farewell to an extraordinary man. RIP + To read more abour Br R Bunch, see: http://soltnews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/br-rick-bunch-solt-rest-in-peace.html

But what f***in' pisses me right off is that two traumatised victims of crime, once again, have been treated like scum criminals! They have been arrested, fingerprinted, photographed and DNA taken then held in (I can guarantee this - I used to run one!) smelly, uncomfortable conditions in a custody centre where they'd have been deprived of basic comforts and distractions (like TV). Though released without charge, they will be unable to apply for deletion of their records for SIX years! The b*st*rds that broke into their home and received an appropriate "greeting" are all still alive so why were these innocents locked up for nearly two f***in' days?! It shouldn't take the slowest of lawyers that long to work out they aren't criminally liable. I assert such people should NOT be arrested!

Have you seen the pre-order offer on Origin for the new Sim City, hxtr? Guess it's around $100 over there but it is the game for 2013 that has me most excited. I was put off the Sims when characters began dying from f***in' hamster bites and cancer which I thought was in very poor taste.

Welcome!

It fell over again, last night, and was restarted by Markoff.

He is belted > XI< on my xfire. No, that isn't among the hits either. I think the info on the website profile is incorrect.

As I don't have permission to read that, I guess it is in an Admins' forum, you idiot! LOL! Is that map still on the server?

Congratulations to you both! Belted, your Xfire username doesn't exist - are you "belted" rather than "belted>XI<"?

Whilst loading the CW_ROCKET map, last night, around 10pm BST, the DM server crashed. It was reset by Black Cat and functioned normally thereafter. It was a "spectacular" crash from this end of the wire, locking up the machine, preventing task manager from being displayed and even ALT-TAB to desktop. I had to log out of my PC and log back in again.

I can only "land" in water, personally... (Though I did manage to put an F35 in a tree once...)

Welcome!

I played abrief game of VFT last night after encountering the CIs on the DM server. Though I got my ass kicked, the game itself seemed to be running OK with 5-a-side. Methodical troubleshooting would pay dividends as neither a particular map nor the number of players on the DM server induces this behaviour.

Welcome!

About 10 of us just now - CIs galore for players in USA and UK. Impacts severely on the game.

Someone has sticky fingers?

I shall deviate from my usual welcome (back in your case, good sir) and offer this instead. You won't have the foggiest idea what it is all about - isn't that hilarious?! It'll make some sense to the older Brits at least! Pleased to see you back in the clan - stick around this time!

Guessing it is affecting vision, mate? I got this news four years ago along with an armful of literature about diet. For me it is Type 2 and I have, so far, managed it via diet. It helps I don't have a sweet tooth though I do experience odd cravings for sugary stuff that I take as a signal from the body that it needs some fast. Weight is a problem - I have trouble losing it permanently - it goes down then up again! I guess it doesn't help that I am a beer monster... Very little in the way of actual symptoms I can recognise as being out of the ordinary, to be honest. Come and play on COD5 DM with us - JohnnyDos and Mikey1799 are fellow sufferers too and I'm sure they'd share what they know. Don't despair! Feel free to Xfire/ PM any time.

Insane!

UK news report: http://www.telegraph...es-on-fire.html Coincidentally, Dutch authorities detonated a 500kg German bomb found at Schiphol Airport (though not in situ!): http://www.bbc.co.uk...europe-19408265 There's a lot of this stuff still about. Munitions from WW1 are still coming to the surface in France on the old battlefields. It used to be the case that the farmers had to have special insurance for their livestock to cover the loss of those that trod on shells etc that detonated. My wife's family found a landmine on the local beach here, some years go, and a 500lb bomb was dredged up in Dover Harbour last month. An enduring childhood memory is of seeing a WW2 vintage sea mine bobbing up and down just off the beach at Seabrook Point! But, consider this... Just off the North Kent coast, in the Thames Estuary, lies the wreck of the liberty ship SS Richard Montgomery. It contains an estimate 1400 tonnes of unexploded ordnance. If that goes up, every window in the town of Sheerness would break and they reckon a wall of water sixteen feet high would be propelled out from the site! Mad Boris, the London Mayor, wants to build an airport nearby... See: http://www.dft.gov.u...dmontgomery.htm PS: I once had a guy walk into my police station and place a rusty (live!) hand grenade on the desk in front of me! He'd dug it up in his back garden, put it in the boot (trunk) of his car and driven through the centre of town to bring it to me. During the drive, it had been rolling about in there... I was pleased to see the Army guys turn up to take that away!

That is such sad news. Condolences to your family at this painful time.