Goodbye Leslie Nielsen...

The death of veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen, star of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, at the age of 84 will felt worldwide - and let's not forget his role in the 1956 Sci-Fi classic Forbidden Planet.
RIP
Obituary: Leslie Nielsen

Let it snow (the 2010 remix) - continued...

Snow falls across much of the United Kingdom, causing disruption and closing hundreds of schools, as temperatures in some areas plummet to the coldest on record for November.

Yep, looks like winter's here....
Travel disruption as snow spreads across UK

Tequilla!

If you're looking for a REALLY pricey Christmas prezzie, you can always contact Mexican distiller Hacienda La Capilla who has produced what it hopes will become the world's most expensive bottle of tequila called 'The Diamond Sterling'.

The 1.3-litre ceramic bottle is coated in more than 5lbs of platinum, and is encrusted in over 4,000 diamonds, totalling 328 carats. The bottle is crafted by renowned designer Fernando Altamirano and is valued at around $3.5 million (£2.2 million).

And in case you're wondering about the quality of the liquor inside: it's a rich seven-year aged tequila from the Mexican state of Jalisco.
Hacienda La Capilla already holds the Guinness record for the most expensive tequila with a bottle that sold for $225,000 (£142,000) in 1996.
Fancy a tipple? World's most expensive tequila goes on sale... for $3.5million a bottle

To those across the pond...

Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your turkeys...

Back to the abyss...

Following a formal request for international aid, the Republic of Ireland has accepted up to 90bn euros (£77bn; $124bn) of EU-led loans to shore up its finances
Meanwhile the Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said he will call a general election in the new year following political turmoil over the bail-out.

First Iceland, then Greece. Now it's Ireland's turn - and the fear is Spain and Portugal could follow....
In graphics: Eurozone in crisis

Goodbye Ingrid Pitt...

Polish-born actress Ingrid Pitt, best known for starring in Hammer horror classics The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, has died at the age of 73.

The star passed away in a south London hospital after collapsing a few days ago.
Hammer horror actress Ingrid Pitt dies aged 73

A couple of years ago, I posted my appreciation for the late Ms Pitt in this blog, so her death is sad news indeed. Doubly sad, considering film-maker Roy Ward Baker, who directed her in The Vampire Lovers movie died some weeks earlier.
RIP

Alexandra Orlando Canadian Gymnastics

Alexandra Orlando is a 2008 Canadian Olympian and one of the best rhythmic gymnasts this country has ever produced.

Born and raised in Toronto, she was a five-time Senior National Champion, a Commonwealth Games six times gold medallist, world record holder and a three-time gold medalist at the Pan Am Games.

Since her retirement she has become an athlete advocate sitting on the board of Gymnastics Canada, Athletes CAN as Treasurer and an active member on the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Bid Committee.

Alexandra continues to be involved in her community as a motivational speaker, a gymnastics coach and judge and community outreach coordinator at her neighborhood high school.

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Yelena Soboleva Russian middle distance runner

Yelena Soboleva is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 meters.

In February 2008 she established a new world indoor record of 3:58.05 seconds in a race in Moscow, and in March 2008 she beat her own world record in Valencia. She won a silver medal at the World Indoor Championships in Moscow.

During the Russian Indoor meeting in Moscow in January 2008, she set a new national record in the women’s Mile with a time of 4:20.21, which was the third fastest of all-time.[2] She also holds the national indoor record for 800 m, set in Moscow during the 2008 season.

Soboleva was selected to represent Russia in both the 800 m and 1500 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, but was suspended from competition, after the discovery of doping test irregularities. She and four her teammates were charged in substitution of their urine tests after competitions last year. There were no charges in using of doping but they were suspended.

On 20 October 2008, it was announced that Soboleva, along with 6 other Russian athletes would receive two-year doping bans for manipulating drug samples.The ban would come into effect from April 2007, when the samples were given for testing

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Mirjana Lucic Croatian professional tennis player

Mirjana Lucic (born March 9, 1982, in Dortmund, West Germany) is a Croatian professional tennis player.She enjoyed a brief but promising career on the WTA Tour in the late 1990s, during which she set a few "youngest-ever" records and won one Grand Slam women's doubles title at the Australian Open in 1998 when she was only 15 years old, partnering Martina Hingis. Following a series of personal problems from 2000 onwards, she faded from the scene. She later had a first-round victory at the 2007 Indian Wells, and in 2010 her ranking returned back into the top 200 for the first time in several years, after spending time toiling on the ITF Women's Circuit.

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THAT Engagement...

Royal wedding: Prince William to marry Kate Middleton

Oh well, at least the story kept Simon Cowell's X-Factor out of the papers (for a while)...

Remember...

Excerpt from For The Fallen
Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

Anastasia Myskina the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam event

Anastasiya Andreyevna Myskina ( born July 8, 1981, Moscow, Russia) is a professional tennis player from Russia. She won the 2004 French Open singles title, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to win a Grand Slam event. Subsequent to this victory she rose to number 3 on the WTA ranking, becoming the first Russian female tennis player to reach the top three in the history of the rankings. In September 2004 she reached a career high of No.2, but she has not played professional tennis since 2007, and has stated she does not know whether she will return or not. Injury has prevented her from advancing for the past several years.

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