Subway in NYC offers Date While You Wait, (MUST READ)

 

 I don't know about you but only a black man would think of something crazy enough like this to do Date while waiting at a subway! lol Date while waiting  as gone Viral all over the USA, and we are please to share this message with you, you might never know you could be his next date.

With train delays on the rise, New Yorkers have been spending an increasing amount of time in subway stations this summer. One enterprising New Yorker has thought of a pretty brilliant way to pass that time: going on dates.

Thomas Knox has been hitting up train platforms across the city with a table, two chairs, a simple vase of flowers and, occasionally, a game of Connect Four. Then, he waits for idling commuters to take a seat and, well, get to know him a little better. Over the last 10 days, he’s posted over 30 of these “subway dates” to his Facebook and Twitter pages.

"I wanted to do something fun in the subway due to all the negative things that happen," says Knox. "I wanted to make people smile and enjoy the commute. I feel each date has been successful in its own unique way. The general reaction has been positive and hopeful."

 

140-year-Old Bottle Of Beer Selling for £600

 

A 140-year-old bottle of beer brewed for an arctic expedition is to be auctioned after being found in garage

The beer - Allsopp's Arctic Ale - was brewed in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, for an expedition led by Sir George Nares in 1875.

The unopened bottle was discovered in a box in a garage in Gobowen, Shropshire, but auctioneers said it was a mystery as to how it got there.

The bottle is expected to fetch up to £600 when it is auctioned on 13 June.

Auctioneers Trevanion and Dean, in Whitchurch, described it as "very special".

'Sweet tasting'
 Aaron Dean, a partner at the auctioneers, said: "The beer was brewed for an expedition to the north pole which, unfortunately, didn't get there.

"It was made to a certain recipe, so it lasted, and it was slightly medicinal.

"It went all the way to Portsmouth and it was loaded on to the ship as cargo, to go out with the HMS Alert and HMS Discovery.

"Unfortunately, the expedition didn't quite make it to the north pole, so it came all the way back again."


Ice cold bitter

 ◾The 1875 expedition was led by Sir George Nares, a Welsh naval officer
◾Although Nares was able to travel via a waterway between Greenland and Ellesmere Island - now    named the Nares Straight - he was not able to reach the North Pole
◾The explorers suffered from scurvy and poor equipment and were forced to retreat

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Mr Dean said he was "not sure" how the beer had ended up in the garage.

"It came from the vendor's father but where he got it from, we are still investigating.

"It's a curio, it's a historical object."

He said he had researched what the beer would taste like.

"A similar bottle has been opened previously and was described as 'sweet tasting with a hint of tobacco'," he said.

Why is God not female?

 

A group in the Church of England is calling for services to address God as "She" as well as "He". The question of God's gender goes back to the early Christian Church, writes Stephen Tomkins.

The Christian Church has always had a bit of a problem with God's gender. He doesn't have one, but - as that statement demonstrates - it's hard to talk about God without giving God a gender. To talk about God we have to call God something, and avoiding pronouns altogether is cumbersome, as I've just demonstrated again. "It" seems a bit rude, talking as if God was an impersonal force like gravity or inflation. So God has to be "He" or "She", and in a patriarchal society there's no contest. As The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: "God is neither man nor woman: he is God".

Why God is not a Female ?

UK Doctors Find Cure For Cancer

 

A pair of cancer drugs can shrink tumours in nearly 60% of people with advanced melanoma, a new trial has suggested.

An international trial on 945 patients found treatment with ipilimumab and nivolumab stopped the cancer advancing for nearly a year in 58% of cases.

UK doctors presented the data at the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Cancer Research UK said the drugs deliver a "powerful punch" against one of the most aggressive forms of cancer.

Melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, is the sixth most common cancer in the UK - it kills more than 2,000 people in Britain each year.




Defensive boost

Harnessing the immune system is a rapidly developing field in cancer research.

The immune system is a powerful defence against infection. However, there are many "brakes" built in to stop the system attacking our own tissues.

Cancer - which is a corrupted version of healthy tissue - can take advantage of these brakes to evade assault from the immune system.

Ipilimumab, which was approved as an advanced melanoma treatment by the UK's health service last year, and nivolumab both take the brakes off.

An international trial on 945 people showed that taking both drugs led to tumours shrinking by at least a third in 58% of patients - with the tumours stable or shrinking for an average of 11.5 months.

 The figures, published simultaneously in the New England Journal of Medicine, for ipilimumab on its own were 19% and 2.5 months.

 'Big future'

 Dr James Larkin, a consultant at the Royal Marsden Hospital and one of the UK's lead investigators, told BBC News: "By giving these drugs together you are effectively taking two brakes off the immune system rather than one so the immune system is able to recognise tumours it wasn't previously recognising and react to that and destroy them.

 "For immunotherapies, we've never seen tumour shrinkage rates over 50% so that's very significant to see.

 "This is a treatment modality that I think is going to have a big future for the treatment of cancer."

More info @  Cancer Research UK