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SUMMER NEWSLETTER AND PREVIEW OF COMING EVENTS September 11th 2011 - Sunday 2:00pm—4:00pm time for tea - Cost $23.00 for members and $27.00 for nonmembers. There are only 30 spaces available. Cheque should be sent now to POC: Anita Hood, 8114 Cooper Street, Alexandria, VA 22309- th 1008. Phone 703-780-4542 for any inquiries. Reservation deadline for payment 6 September, 2011.
At Our restaurant is a (see picture) Historic Site built in 1840 used by Choices By Shawn John Mosby. John Mosby was a 3950 Chain Bridge Road Fairfax, VA 22030 Confederate Officer during the 703-385-5433 Civil War and used it for a H eadquarters for the South.
O ctober 29th 6:30pm – Medieval Banquet (Alexandria VA) “Madness” – more details will be sent via email to all members with an email address on file with B&CSNA & other members by snail mail.
Cost for members $35.00, non members $49.00.
th December –Christmas “lunch/party” —Sunday 4 th December 2011– at:
Café Renaissance, 163 Glyndon St SE Vienna, VA. 703-938-3311
more details will be distributed via email to all members with an email address on file with B&CSNA and other members by snail mail.
December 17th 2011, B&CSNA Day at the Pantomime by British Players in Kensington,
MD. Details will be distributed via email to all with an email address on file with
B&CSNA and other people by snail mail closer to the date.
OFFICERS OF BRITISH AND COMMONWEALTH SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA FOR 2011-2012
President Barry Kelly 703-323-0314 Membership Chair Jill Holt 703-889-0741 Vice President Milton Davis 301 -930-0295 Newsletter Editor Anita Hood 703-780-4542
Secretary Elizabeth Davis 301 -731-0752 Canadian Representative Deepak Malhotra 301-467-6793
Treasurer William Barker 703 -892-6522 Member at Large John Prevar 703-684-7537
Asst. Treasurer Veronica Barker 571 -490-1970 Ex-Officio Member at Large R. Donald Hood 703-360-6478 Events Chair Pamela Prevar 703-684-7537 Ex Officio (Historian) Roger Diggle 303-862-9217
Ass. Events Chair Elsie Howenstine 703-527-9338 Page 1 of 10
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Editorial Notes: By-lined Suffrage: Universal and than its share of the world's Articles, sources, references and compulsory 18 and over. population. other items made available to Economy: GDP (2009-2010 History: Australia was the Editor for publication will estimate): A$1.2 trillion (U.S. uninhabited until stone-culture be published as submitted, $1.1 trillion). peoples arrived, perhaps by boat warts and all. People: (May 2010 est.): 22.3 across the waters separating the million. Australia's indigenous island from the Indonesia inhabitants, a hunting-gathering archipelago more than 40,000
people collectively referred to years ago. Portuguese, Spanish, ―Commonwealth – Corner‖ today as Aboriginals Dutch, and English explorers (continued) approximately 517,200. observed the island before 1770, Spotlight on Australia when Captain Cook explored Immigration has been vital to the east coast and claimed it for Australia's development. For Great Britain. (Three American generations, most settlers came colonists were crewmembers from the British Isles; most of aboard Cook's ship, the Australians are still Endeavour). predominantly of British or Irish origin, with a culture and Government: The
Australian Aborigine Photo: Don Hood outlook similar to those of Commonwealth government is a Americans. constitutional monarchy with a Geography: About the size of Constitution patterned partly on the 48 contiguous United States. Cultural Achievements: Much the U.S. Constitution, although of Australia's culture is derived it does not include a "bill of Capital City--Canberra (pop. from European roots, but rights.‖ Powers of the 351,000). distinctive Australian features Commonwealth are specifically have evolved from the defined in the Constitution, and Climate: Relatively dry and environment, aboriginal culture, the residual powers remain with subject to drought, ranging from and the influence of Australia's the states. The Parliament and temperate in the south to neighbors. The vigor and the people, via referendum, tropical in the far north. originality of the arts in must approve proposed changes Literacy--over 99%. Australia--film, opera, music, to the Constitution. painting, theater, dance, and Government: Constitutional crafts--have achieved A song called The Galaxy was monarchy: democratic, federal- international recognition. made by NASA, the song was by state system. Constitution: a British man, and it was coming In sports, Australian athletes are Passed by the British Parliament directly from Australia. Be sure internationally renowned, on July 9, 1900. Queen to turn on your speakers. It is particularly in swimming, diving, Elizabeth II (head of state, something you will enjoy. Enjoy cricket, netball, tennis, rugby, represented by a governor your journey! Copy the URL rugby league, and golf. general); the monarch appoints below and put it in your browser Australia's share of Olympic the governor general on the http://dingo.care2.com/cards/flash/5 advice of the prime minister. medals and world titles is larger 409/galaxy.swf
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Joke/Laugh Time Tommy five times better business than An attorney arrived home late, By paradin' in full kit. after a very tough day trying to Rudyard Kipling - Then it's Tommy this, an' get a stay of execution. His last I went into a public-'ouse to get a Tommy that, an' "Tommy, 'ow's minute plea for clemency to the pint o' beer, yer soul?" governor had failed and he was The publican 'e up an' sez, "We But it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" feeling worn out and depressed. serve no red-coats here." when the drums begin to roll, The girls be'ind the bar they The drums begin to roll, my As soon as he walked through laughed an' giggled fit to die, boys, the drums begin to roll, the door at home, his wife I outs into the street again an' to O it's "Thin red line of 'eroes" started on him about, 'What myself sez I: when the drums begin to roll. time of night to be getting home O it's Tommy this, an' Tommy We aren't no thin red 'eroes, nor is this? Where have you been? that, an' "Tommy, go away"; we aren't no blackguards too, Dinner is cold and I'm not But it‘s ―Thank you, Mister But single men in barricks, most reheating it'. And on and on and Atkins‖, when the band begins remarkable like you; on. to play, An' if sometimes our conduck The band begins to play, my isn't all your fancy paints, Too shattered to play his usual boys, the band begins to play, Why, single men in barricks role in this familiar ritual, he O it's "Thank you, Mister don't grow into plaster saints; poured himself a shot of whiskey Atkins", when the band begins While it's Tommy this, an' and headed off for a long hot to play. Tommy that, an' "Tommy, fall soak in the bathtub, pursued by I went into a theatre as sober as be'ind", the predictable sarcastic remarks could be, But it's "Please to walk in front, as he dragged himself up the They gave a drunk civilian room, sir", when there's trouble in the stairs. but 'adn't none for me; wind. They sent me to the gallery or There's trouble in the wind, my While he was in the bath, the round the music-'alls. boys, there's trouble in the wind, phone rang. The wife answered Lord! they'll shove me in the O it's "Please to walk in front, and was told that her husband's stalls! sir", when there's trouble in the client, James Wright, had been But when it comes to fightin' wind. granted a stay of execution after For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy You talk o' better food for us, an' all. Wright would not be hanged that, an' "Tommy, wait outside"; schools, an' fires, an' all: tonight. Finally realizing what a But it's "Special train for Atkins" We'll wait for extry rations if you terrible day he must have had, when the trooper's on the tide, treat us rational. she decided to go up stairs and The troopship's on the tide, my Don't mess about the cook-room give him the good news. boys, the troopship's on the tide, slops, but prove it to our face O it's "Special train for Atkins" The Widow's Uniform is not the As she opened the bathroom when the trooper's on the tide. soldier-man's disgrace. door, she was greeted by the Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy sight of her husband, bent over that guard you while you sleep that, an' "Chuck him out, the naked, drying his legs and feet. Is cheaper than them uniforms, brute!" 'They're not hanging Wright an' they're starvation cheap; But it's "Saviour of 'is country" tonight,' she said. An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when the guns begin to shoot; For The Love Of God Woman, when they're goin' large a bit is An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy Don't You Ever Stop?!!!’ that, an' anything you please; Page 3 of 10
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An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool Veterinary Corps was shot dead Bossy Boudicas -- you bet that Tommy sees! in Helmand province yesterday, Boudica on the warpath taking the number of British
dead in the conflict since 2001 to 357. May your blessings outnumber the It prompted allegations that shamrocks that grow, ministers had broken promises and may trouble avoid to shield front-line troops from you wherever you go. cuts. Many of them have Britain is often thought of as a ~Irish Blessing endured repeated tours of duty matriarchal society. Personally I
amid some of the fiercest put it down to Boudica, also On the frontline fighting experienced by British spelled Boudicca, and formerly From a recent Daily Telegraph forces since the Second World known as Boadicea (and you UK report by War. think Hyacinth Bucket has James Kirkup, name issues). It was she, the Political It also follows criticism that the original Queen "B" who, when Correspondent Coalition had broken its the Romans got her motherly promise to enshrine in law the goat up by killing her hubby Almost the entire contingent of military covenant, the duty of and deflowering her daughters, Britain‘s 10,000 troops in care between the nation and its rode her chariot through the Afghanistan have been told they servicemen and women. Two streets of Colchester and St. could be sacked within months weeks ago, the MoD was forced Albans, slaughtering thousands, after ministers disclosed plans to to apologise for using email to and pronouncing death to all get rid of one in 10 members of inform dozens of serving soldiers who rained on her parade. the Armed Forces. that they were to be made Bossy Boudica was the first in a redundant. The Ministry of Defence has long line of strong willed British women who ruled with an iron announced the full scale of The Armed Forces will lose redundancies that will take place fist – or in the case of Maggie 17,000 posts, a tenth of their Thatcher, an entire body. in the Army, RAF and Royal number. Eleven thousand will Navy in an attempt to cut Think on it – Hyacinth Bucket, be made redundant with 6,000 Nora Batty, Jean Pargetter, billions of pounds from the coming from ―natural wastage‖ department‘s budget. Queens Victoria, and Elizabeths including retirement and a I and II, Sybil Fawlty, my mum. reduction in recruitment. Military experts and former But behind every femme formidable, there stands a man officers said that the ―crass‖ For the complete story go to decision to tell troops that they patiently awaiting his next http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ instruction. It is, after all, the may be sacked while putting newstopics/onthefrontline/835590 men whose devotion empowers their lives at risk to fight the 2/British-troops-on-front-line-in- Taliban would inevitably damage Afghanistan-told-they-face-the- the women they seemingly dote morale. sack.html upon. Like a sandwich without filling, or a teapot without tea, The announcement came as a EVER WONDER Why?? Why it takes two to dance the soldier from the Royal Army sheep don't shrink when it rains? tyrannical tango.
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Light travels faster than sound. Bucket's face when Hyacinth back up than a dirty sink. For This is why some people appear partakes in a particularly bold which the punishment I hear is bright until you hear them bit of bossiness. It's like Richard fustuarium or, even worse, being speak. says, "living with a bossy boots is construed to limbo, otherwise a bit like being in the army – known as a trip to the local you never have to make a single Marks and Sparks. The stamping decision, or prepare your own ground where middle-aged (and dinner". middle-class) matriarchs unite, seemingly to purchase their pork Compo and Nora pies and cotton underwear, but So maybe more likely to trade intelligence that's it? and pay homage en masse to Being bossy their 2000 year old red-headed Hyacinth and Richard takes a lot of mentor. Source: MPT Newsletter. Think I jest? Next time you're in work. It's not England, be sure to schedule in easy being in a Saturday morning supermarket charge all the shopping side trip. It's as though time. With What is a Lance Corporal? Boudica rules once more. Only great power, comes great By N.C.A. instead of a wooden chariot, a responsibility and who wants to A lance corporal is a budding supermarket trolly serves as the be responsible for cooking, RSM . . . to himself, ‗Arry‘ to his force by which she plows cleaning, ironing and putting contemporaries, a "green horn" through the aisles, wielding not together candlelit suppers? No, to his corporal, a problem to his a spear, but her weekly shopping much better to let Mrs. Bossy sergeant, "come ‗ere Smith' to list. While pushing the cart Boots take over, and while she's his sergeant major, "the new behind her like a devoted figuring out, with military one" to his OC, and the vital spaniel, is the 'man' of the precision, the tactical maneuvers raw material of the Corps to the house. Rule Britannia! Britannia involved in acquiring the PM. rule the aisles! If he can't keep optimum parking spot at the A lance corporal wears one large up, or if he foolishly wanders local car boot sale, pop the kettle stripe on each sleeve. A lance away – like Boudica before her, on, make yourself a nice cuppa corporal comes in one of three no aisle will be left unturned tea and consider yourself lucky sizes- slim, thick or very thick. until he's been tracked down, you're not the one having to A lance corporal is made (unlike recaptured, and relegated to his make the decisions. officers who are born). It takes rightful place of walking two four months to make a lance steps behind his own personal corporal, by a complete process Queen of the shopping aisles. known as 1icking into shape". So why do they put up with it? He is guided by a polite sergeant Why do the Richards, the who exercises loving care and a Compo, the Lionels, the Basils shiny pace stick. During his and the Ralphs of this world training he compiles a diary of tolerate their bossy British wives? daily jottings which is known as "She makes me laugh" is my Car Boot Sale a "Best Book", this is matured dad's excuse, which probably Make sure you wash up after for 30 years and then put in a also accounts for the wry smile yourself though – because place of honour in a museum. we see sneaking over Richard nothing gets a bossy woman's Page 5 of 10
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A lance corporal has a pale he writes with a blunt pencil and If I agreed with you we'd both be green complexion except when drives with his legs crossed, He wrong. posted to sunny climates, when spells "Provo Marshall, prosead his knees, arms and nose assume and dryvel". He enjoys rewriting A Tech 'Care Package' for Mom a brilliant scarlet hue. He is also pages of the DOB and seeing red and Dad wet behind the ears and often comments on his reports. Master the Web with short, has to be taught how to shave. A A lance corporal likes to spend instructional videos by: Cathie lance corporal does have guts, his free time twisting with Gandel source: AARP Bulletin. but it takes a dark night and an nurses, playing with one-arm Every time Jason Toff, a product ugly brawl to find them. bandits, football and juke boxes, marketing manager at Google, A lance corporal is shaky on his "blanket bashing", and twisting went home to Pennsylvania, his first night in the Corporals' club with nurses. He likes chips and parents gave him a "tech to-do" . . . he is 14 Rum 'n' Cokes, 23 brown sauce, and egg 'n' chips list. "Then I discovered it was a verses of "we're off to see the and brown sauce, and half common situation among my Wild West Show" and a thick chicken 'n' chips and brown coworkers," he says. head at first parade. sauce. He does not like porridge, The solution: A lance corporal is duty driver, POM or marmalade (that's for TeachParentsTech.org, a website duty desk, duty town patrol, officers). created by Google that offers duty stand by . . . duty points- A lance corporal enjoys writing more than 50 two-minute videos man waving his arms at the examinations, reading maps with step-by-step instructions on uncomprehending traffic. upside down and following the everything from how to cut and He is a red top 'n' armband, North point of a compass. He paste copy to creating a blog. white belt 'n' whistle, note book reads the red book from front to The site is set up so "kids" can e- 'n' pencil. He likes to wear year back (and learns it from back to mail a tech support "care "Christmas Tree order" all the front). He knows all about the package" to their parents — or round, even at Hogmanay. "Powers of arrest, definition of anyone else. Just go to the site A lance corporal is an burglary, route signing and and click on the topics that have interpreter in umpteen different escorts", but he rarely has time got users stymied. The selected languages --"Johnny say you hit to write it all down. In this way a videos will be e-mailed to the him on de nose plenty quick lance corporal is graded like an recipients. savvy? ... Vo ist der unfall mate?" egg, according to his ability to The videos have received more A lance corporal likes to drink learn by heart and or forecast than 1 million views since the ―civvy coppers‖ beer, to ride in questions. December launch of the site. their patrol cars and to be A senior lance corporal attends Cathie Gandel is a freelance writer photographed wearing their a "Jaypeccee" and comes back in Bridgehampton, N.Y. caps. depressed. He is marched in on Getting Live Customer Service by: A lance corporal is a kind uncle OC's orders and comes out with Sid Kirchheimer Source: AARP to lost children, a solicitous Bulletin brother to distraught mothers, a faraway look and two stripes. father's friend and everyone‘s A Corporal walks about with an Q. How can I quickly reach a enemy, (he never had a father of aura of grandeur, two large live person when calling a his own, - that's why he wears a white stripes and 'gets big grips' customer service number red cap). on "greenhorn" lance Corporals. A. Before dialing, check out A lance corporal has two Source: RMP Corps Journal shining eyes and a dirty thumb, DialAHuman.com or Page 6 of 10
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GetHuman.com; both list Stan Hinden, a former to theinsurancebook.com. The customer service numbers and columnist for the Washington Ultimate Guide to Car Insurance give instructions on how to Post, wrote How to Retire in Virginia. Ben's Blog Car bypass automated prompts to Happy: The 12 Most Important Accidents and Personal Injury reach a live representative. Decisions You Must Make Cases in Virginia. To view my With another free service, Before You Retire. Have a video on the subject go to: LucyPhone.com, you can avoid question for the Social Security http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DiOKaO mVqo&feature=related being placed on hold. You enter Mailbox? Check out the archive. the company's name or phone If you don't find your answer Metro Access number and your number and there, send a query. Submitted by Don Hood hit "start." LucyPhone connects Did you know that Metro you to the company's line, where provides a pickup service to take you pick an option for getting a Did you know that dolphins are so you to hospitals, medical live rep. You hang up and get a smart that within a few weeks of appointments, shopping etc. callback when a person is captivity, they can train people to within the area covered by its actually on the line. stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish? busses and trains? To qualify you must visit Metro HQ in DC Sid Kirchheimer writes about for a one on one interview. consumer and health issues. Warning In our case we qualified by being Check out the Ask Sid archive. If you still drive make sure that over 65, one in a wheelchair and If you don‘t find your answer you have adequate ―Uninsured one with a walker (Metro picked there, send a query.by: Stan Motorist‖ coverage – us up from home to go to the Hinden Source: AARP Bulletin Recommendation= $1,000,000. interview and returned us home Your editor was involved in an – no charge). After a few days Q. My annual Social Security accident where an illegal alien, we received our registration statement is not due for six drunk driver, no license, no cards, through the mail. ServiceWebsites to help months, insurance in a car he didn‘t but I need to get a copy sooner. Trip scheduling must be done How can I do that? ahead of time by calling Metro to schedule a pick-up time A. You need to submit a Social window for a one way trip. The Security statement request form. return trip – must be separately Download one from the agency's scheduled –you must be specific website, www.ssa.gov, and mail it Editor's Car about the destination drop off in. Or fill it out on the site and own, crashed into another car point, the address, phone send it electronically. The agency causing it to be pushed head-on number, hospital entrance door won't respond online but will into our car, killing the driver and whether or not you need mail your statement in two to and sending us to hospital for 5 wheelchair accessibility. four weeks. You can also get the weeks – our rehab form by calling 1-800-772-1213 continues. The drivers of the vehicles do or by going to a Social Security Our medical related not wait at the destination to office. For more, visit the SSA bills will be at least take you home. website and click on "Request a $200,000. To get a The fees for the pickup service Social Security Statement" on free book from our are based on what the rail / bus the left side of the screen. Accident Attorney Ben Glass go Page 7 of 10
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SUMMER NEWSLETTER AND PREVIEW OF COMING EVENTS fare would be – no trip is more Mr. Lucas in Are You Being for therapeutic interventions," than $7.00 one way. If a Served? Theis tells WebMD. Personal Care Assistant (PCA) needs to go with you – they Bannister suffered a fatal heart All five of the newly discovered travel free but you must indicate attack on Thursday, April 14th genes affect this more common that a PCA will accompany you while doing some repair work on form of the disease. None is as at the time the trip is scheduled. a shed in the allotment at his powerful as APOE. Roughly home in Thames Ditton, Surrey. 27% of Alzheimer's disease can The fee each way must be paid Above source: MPT Newsletter. be attributed to the five new in cash, exact amount or gene variants, calculates Julie establish an on line debit Alzheimer’s: Excerpt. Williams, PhD, of the U.K.'s account ―Smart Card‖. The Gigantic Scientific Effort Cardiff University. drivers do not give receipts or Discovers Clues to Treatment, make change. Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease "But you will never have the By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD perfect treatments to take out all Note: The drivers are not Health News Reviewed by Laura the disease-causing effects of medically trained and are not J. Martin, MD these genes," Williams tells permitted to enter a residence WebMD. "The point is that now for a pick up. A massive scientific effort has there is the possibility to take found five new gene variants out a considerable amount of This is a great service, however, linked to Alzheimer's disease. disease if we take these results schedule plenty of time to The undertaking involved forward, understand the transact your business at your analyzing the genomes of nearly Alzheimer's disease process, and destination – If you are not 40,000 people with and without make interventions, including ready to go when the driver Alzheimer's. The mammoth task lifestyle changes." arrives he/she cannot wait for was undertaken by two separate you. research consortiums in the U.S. "If you look at all the and in Europe, which Alzheimer's genes we now know, collaborated to confirm each we have accounted for 20% of Trevor Bannister Passed Away other's results. the causal risk of Alzheimer's disease and 32% of the genetic The finding may lead to earlier risk," Williams tells WebMD detection of Alzheimer's disease as well as to new treatments, says "Theis is an unprecedented story William Theis, PhD, chief of collaboration. The world is scientific officer for the coming together to say, ―We are Alzheimer's Association. going to beat this thing,‖
John Inman as Mr. Humphries Pericak-Vance tells WebMD. "We will see more and more of and Trevor Bannister as Mr. "These are not 'possible' these kinds of genes. And the Lucas in Are You Being Served Alzheimer genes; they are more we have, the more we will Amid the flurry of excitement definite and further confirmed be able to define a person's risk over the Royal Wedding, it was by the European studies. These of Alzheimer's disease and the also a time to mourn the passing are robust findings we can take more possibilities we will have of Trevor Bannister, who played to the next level."
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New Alzheimer's Genes, New Hoare first made his claims in a Receipt of emails. Alzheimer's Treatments? New York Times investigation Are you receiving emails from Perhaps the greatest value of the into the phone-hacking us? If not, please send us your gene studies is the clues they allegations at the NOTW. email address, we quite often offer to the causes of send out last minute flyers via Alzheimer's. The new genes Hoare, who worked on the Sun email, in colour, so if we do not affect three important pathways: and NOTW with Coulson have your email address you before being dismissed for drink might be missing something Endocytosis, the process by and drugs problems, was said to you would have liked to receive. which large molecules -- such as have been found at his Watford Send email addresses to: the amyloid precursor protein -- home. Anita Hood at: get into brain cells. [email protected] and "The death is currently being Jill Holt at Inflammatory immune treated as unexplained but not [email protected] responses, which seem to go thought to be suspicious. Police awry in Alzheimer's disease. investigations into this incident are ongoing." Lipid processing. The brain British Army to ditch Danish makes its own cholesterol. bacon APOE -- and now a new gene Marmite made illegal in called ABCA7 -- are involved in Denmark - Source UK Telegraph The Army could soon be this process. Misprocessing of According to the marketing marching on a breakfast made cholesterol could contribute to slogan it is a taste that you either from entirely British ingredients Alzheimer's, Williams speculates. love or hate. But Danes will no for the first time in over 40 "Each one of these metabolic longer get the chance to make years. pathways becomes a place to up their own minds on Marmite look at interventions that may after the British delicacy was Any member of the Armed lower the risk of Alzheimer's banned under food safety laws. Forces who is fighting on the disease or may even result in a front line is entitled to full treatment," Theis says. English every morning. Both the U.S. and European However, for generations the research teams report their bacon has not been British findings in the April 3 advance because it has been too online issue of Nature Genetics expensive; instead troops have They've arrived! been offered cheap Danish or Prince William Dutch rashers, latest figures After 168 years the News of the and new bride indicated that not a single rasher World Newspaper (NOTW) has Kate touched of the £1.5 million-worth of ceased publication. bacon consumed by the Armed down in Canada Forced over the last year was NOTW phone-hacking for the first leg of British. Source: UK Telegraph. whistleblower found dead. their North Death of Sean Hoare – who was I thought I wanted a career, turns out I first named journalist to allege American tour. just wanted paychecks.
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Report from 22 May 2011 AGM of B&CSNA About 30 people were in attendance at the Commonwealth Day and AGM Brunch on May 22 at Fort Myer‘s Officers Club. The wide selection of food, as usual, was delicious and the resident pianist played British favorite melodies. Barry Kelly opened the meeting and asked that the slate of members for election on the board be approved. Charles Stephenson proposed and Malcolm Booth and Jerry Hamilton seconded the motion that the proposed board be elected. Listed below are the members that were elected to the new Board effective 1st July 2011: BARRY KELLY Current President; MILTON DAVIS Current Vice-President; WILLIAM BARKER Current Treasurer; ELIZABETH DAVIS Current Secretary; JILLIAN HOLT Current Membership Coordinator; PAMELA PREVAR Current Events Coordinator; ELSIE HOWENSTINE Current Assistant for events; VERONICA BARKER BARZEL; Current Assistant Treasurer & handles special mailings; JOHN PREVAR Current Member at large; ANITA HOOD Current Newsletter Editor; DEEPAK MALHOTRA Current Canadian representative; and DON HOOD Current Ex-officio member.
Joanne and Jerry Hamilton were thanked for their help on the board the last year and were wished well as she retires and they travel more. William Barker, treasurer, reviewed the past year‘s finances and had itemized spreadsheets available. He said that the club gave $250 to the New Zealand Earthquake and $250 to the Sasha Bruce Youthwork organization in DC. William also said that when a membership dues renewal notice came in July, members would be asked to clarify if they would like their newsletter to come regular mail, or e-mail, or both.
The raffles organized by Elizabeth Davis and Joanne Hamilton included British newspapers of the Royal Wedding in April, a patriotic tie, and British food basket. Once again the raffle proceeds went to the charity fund for 2011. The Queen‘s speech was read very precisely by Regina Barker-Barzel. We also had a surprise guest speaker, Sandra Clarke, a new member, who recounted how she had just had a wonderful trip to London with a ―front row‖ place at the gates of Buckingham Palace when the Royals returned from Westminster Abbey.
Barry Kelly supplied a quiz to tax our brains and also, true to form, entertained with a fresh supply of his sometimes saucy jokes. Thanks go to Pamela Prevar for organizing the event. Elizabeth Davis,Page Secretary 10 of 10