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Drusilla's Park is a zoo in East Sussex, England. On April 26th, there was a breakout when two raccoons escaped into the surrounding neighborhood. Turpin was found in another area of the park a week later and returned to her enclosure. But her sister Bandit remained at large until she suddenly was seen back in her enclosure when a zookeeper made an evening nose count. She has returned on her own!Claire Peters, of Drusillas Park, said: “We were incredibly surprised to see Bandit return. Obviously we longed for her safe return but no one expected her to turn up. It is thought the sisters escaped after being spooked by a noise or unexpected movement, leading them to flee up the perimeter fence and through the electric deterrent. Thankfully neither appears to be injured.”Bandit's identity was confirmed by a scan of her embedded microchip. She apparently found that the grass was not greener on the other side of the fence. Link -via Arbroath(Image credit: Drusilla's Park)

Tilda Swinton is the new face of Chanel's "Metiers d'Art Paris-Edimbourg collection," which (as the name suggests) has a Scottish theme. Although the lanky, 52-year-old, Oscar-winning actress was born and raised in England, she has Scottish family. Chanel has depicted her wearing rich, dark faux tartan patterns.Swinton's father was a member of the Scots Guards and later Lord Lieutenant of Berwickshire, according to The Telegraph. Her paternal great-grandfather was a Scottish politician. And her maternal great-great-grandfather was Scottish botanist John Hutton Balfour, The Telegraph said. See the rest of the story at Business Insider Please follow Advertising on Twitter and Facebook.

If you don’t find this dope I don’t even know what to say to you right now. Toronto producer Sol X is getting ready to drop his Dark Lights EP later this summer but hits us with “Blind Spot” where he samples ”Blind Spot” by the Submotion Orchestra, a 7-piece band from Leeds, England. This joint isn’t going to be on his project but if this is any indication of what sounds the Dark Lights will have on it I am going to be the first in line to cop, this shit is cold. DOWNLOAD Author informationJeremiahSenior Media Editor at KevinNottingham.comJeremiah is the Senior Media Editor for KevinNottingham.com. He is responsible for a majority of the Certified fresH content you get to see everyday on KN. In his extremely limited spare time Jeremiah expands his knowledge of the Hip Hop culture while enjoying coffee and collecting insignificant stuff. Jeremiah’s passion for Hip Hop is his most defining characteristic.TwitterFacebook Liked this post? Then you'll love these.,, Sol X: Twenty Eight (Solmix) Sol Messiah: God Shines Through [Remix] (feat Señor Kaos, 4-Ize & Numba 2) LMS: Blind [prod by Hazardis Soundz]

Stephen Luby, and Mark Ruse of Ruby Entertainment will start work on a TV mini-series adaptation of Kate Grenville’s novel The Secret River. The announcement: The ABC has committed to the development of acclaimed Australian novel, The Secret River, by author Kate Grenville, as a television mini-series. The novel won the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in the same year. Through the deeply personal story of a young couple, William and Sal Thornhill, The Secret River dramatises the colonisation of Australia and the escalating conflict between the original Indigenous inhabitants and the newly arrived white settlers. In this epic tragedy, Will Thornhill, a former convict, brutally treated and impoverished in England, is lead by desperation, fear and ambition towards a crime of terrible savagery. The story of Will and Sal Thornhill is at once an enthralling adventure, a compelling character journey, and a compassionate insight into the Australian soul. The project has been developed by producers, Stephen Luby, and Mark Ruse of Ruby Entertainment (Crackerjack, the Murray Whelan telemovies, Bed of Roses), Oscar nominee screenwriter, Jan Sardi (Shine, Mao’s Last Dancer) and acclaimed director, Fred Schepisi (Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith, Six Degrees of Separation), and will now be adapted into a television mini-series by Sardi with Mac Gudgeon. The Sydney Theatre Company’s adaptation of the novel played to sell-out audiences in January this year. “The Secret River is a profound and moving story that has captivated its readers. It’s wonderful that ABC TV can help bring such an iconic, landmark novel to a broader Australian audience.’ said Carole Sklan, Head of ABC TV Fiction. Producer, Stephen Luby said; ” It’s a great privilege to be working with ABC TV on a project which promises to be not only wonderful viewing, but is truly about us, about Australia. When I first read Kate Grenville’s novel, I felt it was a story that all Australians should have the opportunity to encounter. This collaboration with ABC TV offers just such an opportunity.” Source: ABC Press Release The post ABC comissiones Ruby Entertainment to adapt The Secret River appeared first on mUmBRELLA.

Manchester United and England footballer Brian Greenhoff died today, aged 60. Greenhoff made 221 appearances for Manchester United from 1970-79 as a midfielder and centre-back. He was capped 18 times for England, and helped United win the 1977 FA Cup. After leaving United, Greenhoff played for Leeds United from 1979-82. I vividly remember watching Greenhoff on television when he played for Manchester United and Leeds. The goal that I still remember to this day is the one he scored against West Bromwich Albion in the 1978-79 season (you can see it in the video below), where the ball looped in off the crossbar. In the late 1970s, Greenhoff’s brother Jimmy played in the same team as Brian at Manchester United. Since I’m not a Manchester United or Leeds supporter, my memories of Greenhoff aren’t as crystal-clear as some of you, the readers, so feel free to share your memories of him in the comments section below to paint a better picture for others. Here’s a tribute video to Brian Greenhoff. Manchester United Footballer Brian Greenhoff Dies, Aged 60 [VIDEO] is a post from EPL Talk - Independent voice of EPL soccer fans since 2005.

If  you read Chris Schwarz’ recent post about a possible 17th-century image of a shaving horse  http://blog.lostartpress.com/2013/05/21/a-17th-century-shavehorse/ Here’s how it came about. When talking with the EAIA crowd last week at Plimoth, part of what I discussed was our research over the years. Way back when, Plimoth had many shaving horses in the 1627 village. I first visited there in 1989 or so, and it looked like they all rode in on them. …stuck a feather in his cap… By the time I got to working there (1994) they were gone. All gone. They had done some re-evaluation of the research behind that, and came up empty with 17th-century references. The best-known early images are the 15th-century German ones from the Mendel Hausbuch, etc.  (these portraits are now online, Chris Schwarz recently posted the link to them, here it is again: http://www.nuernberger-hausbuecher.de/ There is a well-known 16th century one, also German, from a book on mining, De Re Metallica. (the only time you will see the word “Metallica” on my blog) – I think 1566 is the date, or thereabouts. 18th-century versions are well represented; Roubo, (copied here from one of Roy Underhill’s books) and Hulot…maybe even Plummier. Hulot as I recall isn’t properly a horse/vise arrangement, but a low bench with a notch to brace the far end of the workpiece against, and the near end bumps into a breast bib. ( I can’t find my picture of that right now…) Roubo   For the 17th century, what do we have? Moxon’s uncomfortable description of how to use a drawknife: “…When they use it, they set one end of their Work against their Breast, and the other end against their Work-Bench, or some hollow Angle that may keep it from slipping, and so pressing the Work a little hard with their Breast against the Bench, to keep it steddy in its Position, they with the handles of the Draw knife in both their Hands, enter the edge of the Draw-knife into their work, and draw Chips almost the length of their Work, and so smoothen it quickly. “ OUCH. Years later, I found an Essex County, Massachusetts court record that mentions an accident in which a ship’s mate injures himself while shaving or drawing hoops. “Unice Maverick, aged about forty?three years, deposed that riding to Boston with her son Timothy Roberts, they met with Richard Hollingworth upon the road, who inquired for a man to go to sea with him. Her son told him he would go and thereupon Hollingsworth shipped him at 35s per month. The voyage was to Barbados, thence to Virginea, thence to England and home to New England, and in case he received any of his wages in England, then he was to be allowed part of his wages for his payment there. He was upon the voyage about eleven months. She further testified that Hollingsworth only desired him to carry his adze with him, which he yielded to, but utterly refused to be shipped cooper. Sworn in court.  Moses Maverick, aged about sixty years, deposed that upon Hollingsworth’s return from Barbados, he met him at Boston and told him he was sorry for what had befallen Timothy Roberts on his voyage…   John Cromwell, aged about thirty?five years, deposed that on the voyage “one morning Timothy Roberts comeing Auft upon the house Mr Hollingsworth asked him why he did not draw the hoops or shaue some hoops. Timothy told him he could not the vessel did roule soe. Mr Hollingsworth spoke Angerly to him and bid him make a horke or a galloss or some such like word he spake and timothy went forward againe and a little while after came Auft upon the house crying and sed O lord I am undone I have cutt my kne.” Sworn, 24:4:1671″ So the boy tore open his knee. If only he had a “horke or galloss or some such word” – so not only do we have what might be a weird case of transcription, but even the man making the deposition says “some such word” – so not a term known to him. Ahh, well. Randle Ho

The first Test match of the English summer seen a nice profit landed as England beat New Zealand inside 4 days at Lord's. The quick turn around in the direction of the match on the Saturday morning allowed me to turn a potentially losing position, into a £30.01 win. I started off trading the Test match on Betfair before a ball had been bowled. I thought the draw looked too short around 48-36 hours before the scheduled start of play, so I started off by laying it (it was 2.44 when I placed my lay bet). This short price was obviously down to the bit of indifferent weather that was lingering over London and most of the UK in the build up to the Test match. It's amazing, the effect the weather can have on cricket betting in England! Sure enough by the morning of the Test match, I was in a position to trade out for a couple of quid profit on all outcomes. Unfortunately, this is where things started to initially go wrong though. I didn't trade out. I thought that in the hour or so prior to the start of play, the draw would drift further out to around the 2.9 to 3.0 mark (I believe it would have been around 3.4- 3.5 without a weather risk). It didn't drift though, it stayed at around 2.62-2.68. This price still offered me a profit, but I didn't take it and I then compounded things as I then took my eye of the ball and missed the toss. This gave me a massive problem as England won it and decided to bat. This meant that the draw immediately got backed in, as the Betfair cricket betting market felt that England would probably bat for 4 or 5 sessions and take time out of the game, and with the dodgy weather in the air, increase the likelihood of a drawn match. Had England bowled first, I believe the draw would have drifted, as the market would have expected England to bowl New Zealand out cheaply given the overhead conditions, and move the match on at a pace. Anyway, I know found myself in the position of either having to take a hit, or sit tight and hope/expect that the match would turn. It clearly didn't on Day 1 as play was cut short by rain, and England had batted very cautiously and slowly prior to that. Day 2 seen an improvement as wickets started to tumble. After the two Kiwi wickets fell early in their innings, I managed to trade out for scratch and thought I had got away with things. On Friday night I then decided to trade the draw on Betfair. I put my lay bet up, it got matched, so and I put my back bet up, and that got matched, giving me a couple of quid profit. I did it again, only this time I placed both my back and lay bet at the same time. This was a bit lazy of me, I didn't expect the draw to shorten, so I should have got my lay bet matched first (as I could only see the draw drifting), and only then should I have placed my back bet. Anyway, only my back bet got matched as the draw drifted. I went to bed assuming it would come back in, and that I would get up in the morning to see a small profit on all three outcomes, but I didn't. When I got up in the morning, the draw had drifted even further. This left me with a nice profit on the draw, but large losses on an England or New Zealand win. And I didn't think the game would end in a draw!! So I then decided to place a large lay of New Zealand at 3.75. I did this in the belief that that they would either lose wickets, meaning they would drift. Or they would also grind out a score over a long period of time, taking time out of the match like England did, and their price would also drift (but not as much). My preference was a clatter of wickets, and luckily that's what happened. I then found myself in a position to trade out for a nice all round profit. My green on England was around £46.00, so I waited until it was time for England to bat again, and then stated to reduce some of my New Zealand red (by backing them at longer odds). I gradually reduced my potential New Zealand loss over the Saturday afternoon, and I was pleased I did

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For the past couple of months, the Dow Jones Industrials have been rising to record highs. But after having dominated the headlines throughout much of last year, Europe has moved to back of most investors' minds. Let's take a closer look at what's been happening in Europe lately and whether you should be confident that the all-clear has sounded. A look at Europe's big players Despite the temptation to think of Europe as a single entity, there's a huge disparity among the various national economies and stock markets in Europe. In Germany, where austerity has been a centerpiece of the response to tough economic conditions, the DAX set a new all-time record high of its own on May 3 and has continued to soar, rising another 5% in just the past few weeks. As Fool contributor Dan Carroll noted last week, European automakers have benefited from a rise in car sales, representing the first gain for the industry in about a year and a half. That's consistent with what we saw from General Motors earlier this month, which posted losses in Europe of $175 million that were much lower than what anyone had expected. By contrast, France's stock market continues to languish well below its past records set in 2007, and even though the CAC 40 broke through the 4,000 level last Friday for the first time since mid-2011, French leaders aren't nearly as committed to the austerity path. With its success in getting European Union officials to give the nation more time to reduce its deficits, France is responding to public pressure to avoid big budget cuts that many of its people believe are worsening the recession. Finally, outside the eurozone entirely, Great Britain has come within spitting distance of its own all-time stock market high, with the FTSE 100 closing today at levels about 1% below the record mark of 6,930 set on the last trading day of 1999. The banking sector has done particularly well lately, with Royal Bank of Scotland having produced extremely strong gains in what is shaping up to become a full recovery from the depths of the financial crisis. Insulated from the eurozone's troubles to some extent because of its decision to retain its own currency, Great Britain is dealing with its own austerity issues, but with the Canadian central bank leader slated to take over as head of the Bank of England, policy changes may be in the offing for the island nation later this year. Keep your eyes open As easy as it is to focus solely on U.S. markets, it's essential to stay aware of events around the world. In a global economy, what's happening in Europe can have a dramatic effect on American companies and investors. Few companies lead to such strong feelings as General Motors. But ignoring emotions to make good investing decisions is hard. The Fool's premium GM research service can help, by telling you the truth about GM's growth potential in coming years. (Hint: It's even bigger than you think. But it's not a sure thing, and we'll help you understand why.) It might help give you the courage to be greedy while others are still fearful, as well as a better understanding of the real risks facing General Motors. Just click here to get started now.

Rafael Benitez is set to look for a fresh challenge next season after leaving his successful spell at Chelsea, and the Spanish manager should look no further than Napoli if it transpires the Serie A side are interested in hiring him.The Italian league runners-up will be looking for a new boss after Walter Mazzarri left upon the expiration of his contract, saying he wanted a new challenge (as per FIFA.com): The moment has come for me to reflect. Napoli is a marvellous place but I am leaving after four years because the players need some new stimulation. I took this decision some time ago. Out of respect, though, I wanted the players to be able to give their all right to the end, which they did. I've taken Napoli as far as I can and I've put all my strength into this team and I think I have fulfilled the mandate in the right way, I think it's time to go and sit still for a few months or even try a new challenge. It depends on the offers. Naples has a precious treasure and a solid club which is very healthy, and I think they will have a bright future. Benitez meanwhile led Chelsea to a third-place finish and the UEFA Europa League trophy after just five months in the job after replacing sacked Roberto Di Matteo, boosting his reputation as a top manager on the continent who can deliver the goods on a regular basis.The Express have already linked Rafa with a move to Italy to take charge of Napoli, and there are many reasons why the two seem potentially an ideal fit. Unfinished Business in Serie A?In 2010 Benitez left his job at Liverpool and immediately took over at Serie A side Inter Milan.Having enjoyed considerable success in Spain and England, adding trophies while in Italy would have given the manager an enviable record in three of the toughest championships on the continent—but although he won the World Club Cup and the European Super Cup, his time at Inter is considered a failure.Benitez was sacked after barely six months in the job and cited a lack of investment in players after selling too many as a reason why he had been unable to keep the success of the previous year (when Inter won the treble) going.Whether now with Napoli or in the future with another club, Rafael Benitez will not want this unsatisfactory spell in Italy to be the sole achievement of his time in that country. Napoli could well offer him the chance to change that record. Solid Team, European Prospects, Potential FundsHaving finished second in Serie A this season, there can be no arguments that Napoli do not possess a very capable team.The likes of Edinson Cavani, Hugo Campagnaro and Marek Hamsik have enjoyed another good season and the side have automatically qualified for the group stages of next season's UEFA Champions League, a competition that Benitez has won once and reached the semifinals of on multiple occasions.It may be that Napoli need to sell on one or two of their players this season, by their own choice or the players', but with the likes of Cavani linked with moves for up to £52 million by Mirror Football, the incoming manager should have plenty of room to manoeuvre in the transfer market. More depth will be required for next term to compete in the Champions League, but Benitez is adept at gelling teams and getting a good tactical balance in his sides.Benitez has also traditionally worked with a preferred attacking central midfield player as the focal point to build his side around—Pablo Aimar, Steven Gerrard, Wesley Sneijder, Juan Mata—and Hamsik could provide exactly that kind of starting point for him. Rafa Wants a "Project"With regards to his next challenge, Benitez has already stated his aims; either to be managing a club with money to spend to aim for immediate trophy success, or else to find a project where he can build a team over a period of time (via Guardian).Having risen to second in the league under Mazzarri, Napoli might be expecting a new boss to come in and help them take the final steps to challenge