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A deer entered a Colorado store. The store owner gave him some chocolate chip cookies. The deer left the store and returned after half an hour with all his family members

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My wife has been trying this with the deer that come into our back garden! ****ers just keep eating my plants
 
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Brilliant "Deep brain stimulation involves implanting an electrode deep within your brain. The amount of stimulation delivered by the electrode is controlled by a pacemaker-like device placed under the skin in your chest. A wire that travels under your skin connects the device to the electrode "


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Qantas, the Australian airline turns 100 years old.
It is the oldest airline in the world.
It is also the safest, never having lost an aircraft in service.
Pretty decent accomplishment you would have to say.

Qantas turns 100 years old: Australia's first airline marks a century of flying
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Qantas is turning 100. On November 16 1920, Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited was founded at Winton, Queensland. The evolution from outback Queensland mail service with just one single-engine biplane to one of the world's leading airlines is a ripping yarn. Here's how it all began, and some of the milestones along the way.

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The Qantas story has its roots in March 1919, when Wilmot Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, former lieutenants who had served in the trenches of Gallipoli, the Palestine Campaign and subsequently as flyers in the Australian Flying Corps, renewed their friendship. The motivation was a £10,000 prize offered by the Commonwealth Government for the first Australians to fly from England to Australia in less than 30 days.

McGinness set off to visit Sir Samuel McCaughey to see if he would stump up the funds for a suitable aircraft. McCaughey was a wealthy grazier who, together with his brother, had donated the Bristol F2B Fighter aircraft that Fysh and McGinness had flown together in the Middle East. The grazier was keen, but died before a suitable aircraft was found, and the executors of his estate refused to fund the venture.

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    Qantas goes international
    In 1935 Qantas began operating its first international service, a flight between Darwin and Singapore, taking two days aboard a De Havilland 86 biplane. This was a link in a new air route that connected Australia with the UK. At Singapore, passengers would board an Imperial Airways service for the long flight to England. That same year the airline changed its name to "Qantas Empire Airways Limited", reflecting its international focus.

    From 1938, Empire flying boats began operating between Sydney's Rose Bay and Singapore. Empire flying boats featured a promenade cabin, galley, wine cellar, in-flight meal service and space to stroll about and socialise. The windows of the promenade cabin were placed at standing height to allow passengers to take in the view, since the cruising speed was a leisurely 240 km/h at a maximum altitude of 5000 feet (1525 metres).

    A long time in the air
    Qantas holds the record for the world's longest scheduled passenger flights by elapsed time, an accolade it has held for close to 80 years. To maintain the vital Australia-UK air link during World War II, from 1943, RAAF pilots began flying Qantas Catalina flying boats non-stop between Western Australia and Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. With Singapore under Japanese occupation the original route was no longer possible. Covering 6480 kilometres, at an average speed of 200 km/h, the flight took between 27 and 33 hours.

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    According to David Crotty, Curator of Qantas' Heritage Collection, "the Catalina's navigators used celestial navigation by taking sightings of the sun, stars and planets to plot their position as they flew over a featureless ocean with no position checks except the Cocos Islands. As they were flying through areas patrolled by Japanese ships and aircraft, radio silence had to be maintained until approaching the bases at Koggala Lagoon, Ceylon and the Swan River, Perth.

    Primary navigation was the job of a highly skilled navigator using an RAF Mark IXB bubble sextant to take at least three sightings of celestial bodies, and by measuring their angle with the horizon and plotting an estimated triangulated position on a map. Variables such as wind speed and direction could be measured by using a drift sight to record smoke released by a "smoke float" dropped from the Catalina onto the ocean surface.

    The five Qantas Catalinas were named after primary stars used by navigators, Antares, Rigel, Spica, Altair and Vega. In all, 271 safe crossing were made carrying 113,760 pounds (51,600 kilos) of mail and 648 passengers (maximum three per trip). Much of the mail was microfilmed to save weight. Each passenger received a certificate awarding membership to the "Rare and Secret Order of the Double Sunrise" for the flight.
 
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