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Volkswagen WRC Title Details:
- One-two at Rally Spain finish makes the manufacturer title win possible
- Only one round left in the season
- VW wins Drivers and Co Drivers Championship and the Manufacturers' trophy
- First manufacturer to win a World Championship in its first year of WRC
Volkswagen has won the manufacturers' title in the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) thanks to a one-two victory at the Rally Spain. Sebastien Ogier/Julien Ingrassia (F/F) claimed the Drivers and Co- Drivers title at the Rally France and went on to win at the Rally Spain ahead of teammates Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN). With only one round left to go this season, Volkswagen has attained a strong lead in the Manufacturers' Championship.
In their premier season, VW has won all of the titles in the top category: the Drivers and Co Drivers Championship and the Manufacturers' trophy. No other manufacturer has managed to win a World Championship in their first year in WRC.
Through poor visibility and a punctured tire for one team, Ogier/Ingrassia put in best times on four of the six Special Stages on Sunday alone plus two more top-three times. On the final day two, Ogier experienced a puncture but Ogier/Ingrassia were able to gain 20sec on their direct competitors even through poor visibility.
While Rally Spain was the only round of the season to cover both asphalt and gravel, the VW Polo R WRC team pulled through achieving: 13 of the 15 best stage times and 26 of 45 possible top-three times.
Jari-Matti Latvala, Volkswagen Polo R WRC #7: "I'm absolutely delighted for the team. Volkswagen more than deserved to win the World Championship title this year. The Polo R WRC is a real World Champion car. Even though we had a few technical problems at the end today, it got us over the finishing line again and we won the very first one-two victory in the WRC with the team. I would've liked to have fought with Sébastien Ogier for victory in the round right to the bitter end because we had a fair duel without tactical instructions until just before the finish. I'm still pleased with second place. It gives me confidence ahead of the forthcoming Rally GB in Wales, which is definitely one of my favorite rallies. I can hardly wait to tackle it."
Sébastien Ogier, Volkswagen Polo R WRC #8: "What an incredible rally, and what a fantastic season! Our team really deserved the World Championship title. I'm incredibly proud to be part of the Volkswagen team. And of course I'm ecstatic that Julien and I managed to secure the win here in Spain. I promised beforehand that I would try everything - and it worked. It has to be said that it was extremely difficult early this morning though. Driving through the dust thrown up by the cars in front was like being in the thickest of fog - zero visibility. At times, we had to slow down in the middle of full-speed stretches because we couldn't see anything at all. We made a strong comeback in France and left as World Champions. Now we've managed to play catch-up big style in Spain - and we're World Champions again!"
Andreas Mikkelsen, Volkswagen Polo R WRC #9: "Volkswagen is World Champion! I'm so pleased for the team - they've just been great this season. It's just a fantastic bunch of people. I wanted to give them something back today too and tried to perform as well as possible. I felt comfortable in the Polo R WRC right from the start this morning and adjusted to gravel really quickly. Starting so far back certainly wasn't a disadvantage, but all that dust was. But we did a good job during the recce and I had a lot of confidence in the pace notes. Seeing your own name right at the top of the list of times twice is great, of course. On the third stage of the day, I slid off the road after a long right-hand bend that went into a sharp left-hand turn. This afternoon, I wanted to go on the attack again, but I hit something on the straight. After that, the steering wheel was wonky. Later on, the suspension got damaged too, which is why we couldn't take part in the last Special Stage. Nevertheless, I'm not dissatisfied with the Rally Spain."
Jost Capito, Volkswagen Motorsport Director: "Winning all three World Championship titles in one season is simply unbelievable. Given that this is the first season we have competed in the World Rally Championship with the Polo R WRC, it is an even greater achievement. Winning the Drivers' and Co- Drivers' World Championship was an absolute highlight for the whole team. It was a dream come true for Sébastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia in particular at their home event three weeks ago. But the Manufacturers' World Championship is even more important for a car maker because it proves that it's not just the driver who's exceptional - the product is too."

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Seventy-nine masterpieces of Renaissance drawing, including a number of rarely seen works, are on view. The show focuses on artists who worked on the frescoes, paintings, tapestries, and other decorative work that embellished the magnificent Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, best known as the home of the Medici dukes. Included in the show are sheets by Michelangelo, Pontormo, and Vasari, as well as mannerists such as Bronzino and Allori.
One of the most impressive buildings in Florence, the Palazzo Vecchio was the focal point of artistic activity throughout the sixteenth century, especially when Cosimo I de' Medici commissioned the artist-historian Vasari to design its expansion and decoration. The palace was more than doubled in size and included such masterpieces as the Studiolo of Francesco I de' Medici. The exhibition is divided into several sections highlighting the great masters who shaped Italian draftsmanship and the Palace's decorations.


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Catholic leaders condemned the June 28 assassination of a gubernatorial candidate in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, where elections are scheduled for July 4 in an atmosphere of violence linked to warring narcotics-trafficking cartels. Gubernatorial front-runner Rodolfo Torre Cantu was gunned down along with four others as their campaign convoy traveled to the airport in Ciudad Victoria, 200 miles south of the Texas border at McAllen. Torre, a physician and candidate for the locally powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party, led all polls for the election in Tamaulipas, which has become one of Mexico's most violent states.
"This crime ... threatens the core values and freedoms of all Mexicans such as democracy and is therefore doubly condemnable," the Mexico City Archdiocese said in a June 28 statement. "This act of violence attempts to rob Mexico of its dignity and desire for transparency, pluralism, freedom and ability to overcome."
The murder casts a further pall over the gubernatorial elections in 12 states, which have been marred by allegations of local governments using social programs for coercive get-out-the-vote schemes and suspicions that organized crime leaders might attempt to corrupt or disrupt the electoral process. In Tamaulipas, one mayoral candidate already was shot dead, while opposition parties reported difficulties finding candidates to run for public office. Many mayors in cities bordering the Rio Grande Valley of Texas reportedly live in the United States and commute to work in Mexico.
Violence has been widespread because the state is a key transit point for exporting drugs and importing weapons. The violence has escalated of late as several cartels have reportedly sent toughs to Tamaulipas to exterminate Los Zetas, a notorious group of ex-soldiers who previously were the armed wing of the local Gulf Cartel. Some church officials preferred not to comment on the situation or provide their names.
"There's fear ... it's gripping all of the state ... that's all I can say," said a spokesman for the Dioceses of Tampico, which includes an area where 20 bodies from a massacre were discovered June 11. "It's a time in which we have to trust in God," the spokesman added.
Father Alan Camargo, spokesman for the Matamoros Diocese, said "social psychosis" had taken hold in Tamaulipas. The state has recorded at least 300 deaths in 2010, according to media reports. The vote will continue, state electoral authorities said. Catholic officials urged residents to vote. Father Camargo, whose diocese borders Brownsville, Texas, said the same violence impacts the church, too. Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to Mexico, postponed a visit to the state until October because of security concerns. Parishes in many dioceses have altered Mass times to avoid celebrating the liturgy after dark.
"It's a situation that is surpassing the authorities," Father Camargo said.


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Favorite spells.
My favorite from the wizard list
Lev. 0. Prestidigitation. The ultimate cantrip. Clean, cook, dust corridors to cover your tracks, disguise your odor, makes it awesome.
Lev 1. Mage Armor
Lev 2. Scorching Ray (I use Arcane Study from PH2 and pack metamagic on it) second Rope trick. Never adventure without it.
Lev 3. It's a toss up between dispel magic and fly.
Lev 4. Scrying. I live for scrying. But I like Polymorph for that AC boost.
Lev 5. Wall of Force. For battlefield control. Fabricate, just because.
Lev 6. True Seeing and Dispel Magic, greater. Tons of cool spells.
Lev 7. Teleport Greater, Delayed Blast Fireball, later Reverse Gravity.
Lev 8. Mind Blank, Polymorph Any Object
Lev 9. Time stop, shapechange.


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Review: Miley Cyrus's new album shows promise
Miley Cyrus, "Bangerz" (RCA)
For all the antics that Miley Cyrus has demonstrated in the last few months — the wardrobe selections (or lack thereof), the outrageous quotes, the awkward twerking and the rest of her wild child behavior — she could easily grab attention if she did one thing: let her music speak for itself.
Cyrus' "Bangerz," her fourth album, is a collection that marks the 20-year-old's musical breakthrough. The former "Hannah Montana" star kicks off the 13-track set with "Adore You," a downbeat song about love. Other tracks that follow with that energy — "Wrecking Ball," ″My Darlin'" and "Somewhere Else" — capture a more mature, nuanced side of Cyrus that we haven't seen much of — and that's a welcome change. When she explores the different emotions of her character and doesn't play the caricature that she's become, you're able to appreciate Cyrus as an artist.
If using the phrase "artist" and Cyrus is shocking, it follows the theme of "Bangerz" — which surprises you, in a good way. When Cyrus teased the album with the radio-friendly party anthem "We Can't Stop" — a song originally created for Rihanna — and said producers would include Pharrell, Dr. Luke and will.i.am, the album seemed like it was going to be a hit machine in the vein of Rihanna or Katy Perry. But Cyrus' jams don't sound like insta-hits; some tracks even feel experimental as she blends elements of alternative, upbeat pop, soft rock with hints of R&B and hip-hop.
The Britney Spears-assisted "SMS (Bangerz)" and the Pharrell-produced "#GETITRIGHT" are addictive, feel-good, up-tempo pop tunes; "FU" — guess what it stands for — has Cyrus semi-angry over a dramatic beat, and it makes for an overall punchy and amazing track; and "4x4," featuring Nelly, is a pop-twang adventure. Even "Do My Thang" — where Cyrus isn't too convincing as a rapper — sounds good thanks to the groovy hook that she sings, and will.i.am's Southern hip-hop-flavored beat.
Cyrus' outlandish behavior is helping her get attention. She's become a social media queen, the talk of every news program and music's "it" girl, even stealing thunder from new releases by Perry and Lady Gaga. It's good for the Pop Star Cyrus, but for Artist Cyrus? Not so much. Aside from everything that made headlines following her MTV Video Music Awards performance, vocally she was horrific (she should also learn some better dance moves).
When less is happening onstage, Cyrus sounds better — check out her strong singing in a gritty rendition of "Wrecking Ball" on this past weekend's "Saturday Night Live." If Cyrus would concentrate more on showcasing her music than trying to become the latest shock queen, perhaps we wouldn't be shocked that "Bangerz" is a good album.
She should focus less on the antics and let her music do the talking — and keep that Sinead O'Connor letter in her back pocket (whenever her outfit allows it).
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I actually confused you with Riki it seems.
Bold, what the hell man? You're black??
I thought you were Chinese.
Boldilocks, are you ever gonna be more active around here fam? I miss you and your wisdom. At the same time though, it's important to me that you achieve all your goals, cause as much fun as this place can be you've got a life
it think it's more about the perception of me rather than me being weird
i wouldn't know what else to tell you since you're being vague as hell
i don't know why you'd think you're not unique, or i am - for that matter
what would make me different from you in... uniqueness degree?
that's a more punctual analysis than any i could hope to do for myself lol
and yet i bet you notice, as you were enlisting factors for this or that aspect of yourself, you could think of tons more that could have contributed even in minimal part to it. As well as the aspects of yourself, since i think being patient, christian and introvert are all traits that belong to you, but they don't quite define you. I can tell even while not knowing you that much.
a lot of people are introverts or religious (or introvert AND religious), but these aren't the things that make you unique. What makes you unique?
i wouldn't know how to answer tbh
what about you? Are you able to summarize the reason why you are what you are? I don't know if it's possible but it certainly isn't easy, and you won't find any deterministic result to compare with other people.
what do you mean?
are you memeing me?
Hi bold, please vote for me as worst member, I'd appreciate it.
A whole lot of boredom
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Offering a clear, precise, and accessible presentation, complete with MATLAB programs, this new Third Edition of Elementary Numerical Analysis gives students the support they need to master basic numerical analysis and scientific computing. Now updated and revised, this significant revision features reorganized and rewritten content, as well as some new additional examples and problems. The text introduces core areas of numerical analysis and scientific computing along with basic themes of numerical analysis such as the approximation of problems by simpler methods, the construction of algorithms, iteration methods, error analysis, stability, asymptotic error formulas, and the effects of machine arithmetic.Atkinson, Kendall E. is the author of 'Elementary Numerical Analysis', published 1992 under ISBN 9780471509998 and ISBN 047150999X.[read more]
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Caterpillar earnings after adjusting for a big write-down in China topped analysts' estimates Monday.
The company said it expects earnings to improve later this year, but its outlook shows it isn't banking on it.
The world's largest maker of construction equipment posted sharply lower profit due to a charge connected with accounting fraud at a Chinese subsidiary and weak demand among its dealers. Caterpillar's bulldozers, tractors, and other machines have been accumulating in warehouses due to slowing economies in China, Europe, and the U.S.
The company said it was able to sell off some of this glut in the fourth quarter, reducing the value of its inventory from the third quarter by $2 billion. Inventory levels, however, remain $1 billion above year-ago levels, and executives expect 2013 to be a "tough year."
Caterpillar forecast full-year earnings of $7 to $9 a share, compared to analysts' estimates of about $8.54 a share.
Caterpillar CEO Douglas R. Oberhelman cited the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the federal debt and deficit debate in Washington, D.C., for the company's wide guidance.
"What's coming up in 2013? ... It could be a pretty good year, but we've got that same political issue here in this country that will drive a lot of uncertainty if they start screaming at each other again. [So] we chose a wide-range top and bottom [lines]," he told CNBC's "Squawk Box."


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Harry Toporek
Born: April 20, 1923
Lask, Poland
Harry was one of eight children born to a large Jewish family in the Polish town of Lask, 18 miles southwest of Lodz. The Toporeks operated a tannery. Harry attended a public school in the mornings and a religious school in the afternoons. After graduating from secondary school, Harry helped his family in the tannery.
1933-39: On Friday, September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and by Sunday German planes began bombing Lask. We couldn't fight the planes so we fled into the fields. The dive bombing was unnerving, like fire from the sky. My family ran to a nearby village. A few days later, my brothers Efroim, Laib and I made our way to Lodz but the Germans soon took the city, so we returned to Lask. By then, the Germans had occupied [Lodz] our town.
1940-44: In 1943 my brother Sam and I were deported to Yavoshna, a subcamp of Auschwitz, where we worked in coal mines. I also did extra work as a tanner, processing rabbit skins for a camp boss. This saved our lives. Sam and I were in the infirmary when an order came to send the sick to Auschwitz to be gassed. The boss recognized me as the tanner and took me off the truck. I went to the boss and pleaded with him to save Sam's life too. We were the only two prisoners the boss saved from the whole infirmary.
In January 1945, with the Red Army advancing, Harry was force-marched out of Yashnova with the rest of the camp. He was liberated by Soviet troops five months later on May 8, 1945.


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Earlier this week we asked our Facebook fans to answer the following question; "What song, or songs, are a must have part of your summer soundtrack? Why?" Here are the responses we've received.
Earlier this week we asked our Facebook fans to answer the following question; "What song, or songs, are a must have part of your summer soundtrack? Why?" Here are the responses we've received.
Librado Jr. Ontiberos: "'Not Alone' by Jerrod Nieman because is keeps my motivation positive."
Alberta Perez: "Seals & Croft..... 'Summer Breeze'."
Nancy Mata Jaquez: "Any Christian music, English or Spanish."
Oscar Millan: "'Voices of North American Owls'. It's a phenomenal field recording; 10/10."
Patrick Lopez: "'Summertime' by the Fresh Prince Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff. It never gets old."
Amber Martin Gier: "'Here's to Us' by Halestorm. It's the ultimate 'hanging out with friends and having a good time' song!!!"
Gretchen Torrez: "The song 'Cruise'."
Anna Marie: "'Good Time' by Alan Jackson. Country screams summer, and it's a good song to roll your windows down and dance to."
Dawn Thompson Kazar: "'Riders on the Storm' by The Doors. Nothing like listening to this song while watching a summer thunderstorm rolling in."
According to Bliiboard.com, these are the top 30 summer songs of all time.
30) "Surfin' Safari' by The Beach Boys
29) "Summertime" by Billy Stewart
28) "Wipeout" by Fat Boys and the Beach Boys
27) "Cruel Summer" by Bananarama
26) "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran
25) "A Summer Song" by Chad & Jeremy
24) "Suddenly Last Summer" by The Motels
23) "Surfer Girl" by The Beach Boys
22) "Summer Breeze" by Seals & Crofts
21) "Schools Out" by Alice Cooper
20) "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer"
19) "Summer Love" by Justin Timberlake
18) "Saturday in the Park" by Chicago
17) "Summer Girls" by LFO
16) "California Girls" by The Beach Boys
15) "Summer" by War
14) "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters
13) "Summer of '69" by Bryan Adams
12) "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry
11) "The Boys of Summer" by Don Henley
10) "Summer Nights" by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
9) "Hot Fun in the Summertime" by Sly & The Family Stone
8) "Surfin' U.S.A." by The Beach Boys
7) "Summertime" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
6) "Endless Summer Nights" by Richard Marx
5) "Surf City" by Jan & Dean
4) "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" by Bryan Hyland
3) "Wipe Out" by The Surfaris
2) "Summer in the City" by The Lovin' Spoonful
1) "California Girls" by The Beach Boys


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A blog by one of the volunteer reviewers for Geocaching.com. It's about geocaching and the review process -- what it takes to get your new caches listed on the world's most popular geocaching web site. ©Copyright 2012 by K.Braband. All rights reserved
Monday, April 10, 2006
State parks managed by counties
This weekend there were two new caches submitted for review called A Grove View and A Large Dead One which are both located in Oak Grove State Park. I wrote to the cache owner and requested that permission be obtained from the Iowa DNR. However, the owner, campingfarmer, correctly pointed out that even though this is a state park, it is managed by the county. He also provided a link to other such parks. As the DNR states at this site: "These parks fall under any rules, fees and regulations established by the county. Please contact the county conservation board listed for more information about a specific park." My thanks to campingfarmer for pointing this out.
Posted by IowaAdmin at 8:48 PM
3 comments:
- WindChill said...
I didnt know we had SP that were managed by a CCB. Thanks for the heads up.
- 8:34 PM, April 12, 2006
- IowaAdmin said...
Yup, that was news to me, too. Seems like a pretty creative cost-savings move by the DNR. I'd be interested to know the story behind how this came about.
- 9:39 PM, April 12, 2006
- --Schnider-- said...
My wife and I just did some caching last Sat. in Swan Lake SP. Managed by the Carroll Co. Cons. Board. Also then on Sun. at Eagle Lake SP managed by the Hancock Co. Cons. Board. So it was really interesting this came up.
- 10:41 PM, April 13, 2006
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Johnny Unitas' football life was remarkable, a royal blare of records, championships and honors. His life after football was another matter, grounded in the touchstones of normalcy more familiar to those who cheered for him.
Like a lot of former players, and for that matter, a lot of people, he experienced ups and downs with his health, money and business career as he raised two sets of kids, mowed the lawn, played golf, had some laughs and valued his time with his family and friends.
One of pro football's all-time greats was an everyman once he put away his uniform, and to know him well was to know that the contradiction didn't bother him. In fact, he wouldn't have wanted it any other way.
"He viewed himself as an average person," said Lee Stotsky, a Baltimore sales manager who played golf and ate lunch with Unitas for more than three decades. "I went a lot of places with John and saw him interact with many people, and the guy who had flash and a lot of money, that didn't impress him. That wasn't his thing. He related more to the average guy.
"In fact, that's what he wanted, just to be one of the guys.
"I don't think he liked celebrity, to be honest. As long as I knew him, we almost never talked about football. What he had done on the field, what everyone else thought was so great, to him, it was just his job. He didn't really think it was special."
Clearly, two elements were responsible for Unitas' common-man perspective, which was as steadfast as his will in the last two minutes of a close game. Born in 1933, he was raised in a working-class family in Pittsburgh during the Depression; his father, a coal deliveryman, died when he was 5, and his mother worked two jobs to raise four kids. Then, later, like many in his football generation, Unitas missed out on the big money that today's players earn, consigning him to a workingman's life instead of one of wealthy seclusion in a gated community on a golf course.
Though he yearned for more, he was satisfied with his lot and never developed the sense of entitlement and superiority so prevalent among today's athletes.
"For all he had accomplished in his career, he just did not have the aura of someone who felt he was more important than you," said Wayne Edwards, the athletic director at Towson University, where Unitas had recently began working part-time as a fund-raiser and consultant before his sudden death Wednesday of a heart attack. "Whenever we spoke, he acted as if I was the only person he needed to talk to that day."
Unitas and his second wife, Sandra, whom he married in 1973, lived for many years in a large colonial house on a 19-acre farm in Baldwin. They raised their three children, Joe, Chad and Paige, and also tended to a few cows and goats.
"It was a big, beautiful, old farmhouse. John would get on a tractor and cut the grass himself," said Richard Sammis, the Baltimore car dealer known as "Mr. Nobody," who was one of Unitas' longtime friends.
"Sometimes you'd get there and John would be out in the barn shoveling the poop," said Linda Miller, an account manager at a Timonium headhunting firm who worked in the same building as Unitas and became a close friend.
Business is bumpy
Though he could hardly take a step around town without being accosted by smiling strangers eager to share their football memories, Unitas spent his days just as many of his fans did, working to make a buck. His road was seldom smooth. Many of his business ventures lost money and he hit bottom in 1991, declaring bankruptcy when an electronics firm he had started with partners was unable to pay its bills.
Other failed businesses that Unitas oversaw through the years included a chain of bowling establishments, a prime-rib restaurant and an air freight company. His dabble in Florida real estate turned out to include swampland.
"He had faith in his fellow man and a tendency to trust people until he found out he shouldn't," Stotsky said. "The reality is he got taken a few times."
Though always able to extricate himself and somehow make ends meet, he never hit the business home run. His last full-time job was with a national electronics firm that had an office in Timonium; he was a vice president until he parted ways with the company last year.
"He had good times and bad times, good luck and bad luck. It wasn't smooth, to say the least," Sammis said. "But it never bothered him. You never heard him say, 'Aw, it's too much.' He just figured out a way to keep going."
The same was true with his health. He had both knees replaced, underwent heart bypass surgery in 1993 and dealt with a spate of injuries and conditions dating to his football days, most prominently the almost total loss of the use of his right hand due to a nerve condition. He submitted to several procedures to try to regain function, experiencing little success, and sought disability payments from the NFL, to no avail. Through it all, he seldom complained.
"Not once, actually, as far as I heard," Sammis said. "His hand was a real problem, but instead of complaining about it, he just shrugged and said, 'Well, it is what it is,' and figured out how to live with it. He learned how to play golf with it and how to write a beautiful autograph with his other hand. That was John."
Indeed. Famed for his no-nonsense demeanor on the sidelines and in the huddle, he had the same approach to life after football. You played the cards you were dealt. You dealt in what was real. You didn't put on airs. You didn't live in the past. What was the point in that?
It was funny, in a way: While the town around him reveled in its sports past, its greatest athlete could pretty much take or leave any walk down memory lane.
It was a walk he seldom took.
Though he stood on the sidelines at the Ravens' home games, eliciting cheers every week, he didn't do it for the attention; he was giving the new team in town his tacit endorsement, fully understanding its importance.
Living in the present, not in the past.
"He couldn't, for the life of him, understand what the fuss over memorabilia was about," Stotsky said. "He'd say, 'Why do people collect that stuff? Who cares?' "
And his own fame?
"He appreciated it, but truthfully, he didn't dwell on it," Miller said. "We never talked about football. We talked about life, families, other things. He was always looking ahead, never behind."
Miller, 42, worked a floor away from Unitas in Timonium and was warmly conscripted into a lunch group with Stotsky, 59, and Unitas, who was 69 when he died. They celebrated each other's birthdays and called with the latest jokes. Miller ushered Unitas into the computer world a few years ago, helping him purchase a unit and then teaching him how to use e-mail and the Internet.
"I could walk into John and Sandy's house in Baldwin without ringing the doorbell, just yell, 'Hey, it's me,' and they'd shout, 'Oh, come in, have you had lunch?' " Miller said. "I felt the most at home there that I'd ever felt anywhere. I felt so comfortable, so at ease that I could be myself. That was how they lived."
Unitas and his wife had just sold the farmhouse and moved to a townhouse in Timonium when he died.
A charitable spirit
He traded on his famous name mostly to help various causes, appearing at charity functions, golf outings and card shows benefiting others. He tended to back causes that friends and family supported, such as a nonprofit agency called Take Back Our Streets, which was affiliated with the Anne Arundel County police when his son, Kenneth, was on the county's police force in the '90s.
Unitas' own charity foundation, managed by his eldest son, John Jr., is a low-key enterprise that sponsors scholarships and a Heisman Trophy-style award honoring the best quarterback in college football.
"I do a lot of [charity] functions and I asked him to do a lot, and he never turned me down," Stotsky said.
Such days were among Unitas' favorites with their blend of golf, friends and laughs, all things he treasured.
"The public thought he was a man of few words, but they never heard him get on a roll with his dark sense of humor," Stotsky said.
But his favorite days were those spent with family. The great quarterback was no different from any father in that regard. He was as devoted to the five children from his first marriage, which ended in the early '70s, as he was to the three children he had with Sandra.
"He was just a huge family man, took great pride in his children - both sets," Stotsky said.
Kenneth was on the ballot in a Republican state senate primary in Harford County this year. Unitas campaigned for him.
"Kenneth was very nervous about the race. John just said, 'If the good Lord means for him to win, he'll win,' " Miller said.
Kenneth, 34, was defeated Tuesday.
Another son, Chad, 23, played on the golf team at Towson.
"John came to watch Chad as often as he could," Edwards said. "He was just another father of a student-athlete. He participated in the family events and never tried to tell the coach what to do. I've never met a man of that stature and accomplishment who was more humble."
Unitas' youngest child, Paige, is a student at Towson.
'He was special'
His last public appearance was at the opening of Towson's refurbished football stadium Sept. 5. As always, his fans took him back to his football days, and he went along for the ride with a wave.
"We chatted on the sidelines that night. He looked like a million bucks," former Colts teammate Lenny Moore said. "I said, to him, 'You're lookin' good.' He said, 'I'm trying to hang in there, Spud.' During the introductions, they called his name last, he walked out there nonchalant, the place went crazy."
Stotsky and Miller each saw him six days later, within hours of his death.
"That morning, I gave him some mail that had gathered at his old office in my building," Miller said. "We spoke for about 10 minutes in the parking lot. He said, 'Well, I have to go to Bel Air and film a commercial.' That was it."
Stotsky visited with him that afternoon at his office in Sammis' dealership. Sammis was giving Unitas space to work.
"I had a jersey for John to sign for a friend, had to be the last thing he signed," Stotsky said. "Then he got his stuff together and headed off to the [health] club."
Within an hour, Unitas had suffered a heart attack and died.
"A lot of people knew of John or had met him once at a signing event or a restaurant or bar, and he was always gracious," Stotksy said. "I was fortunate to get to know him quite well, and as I sit here now, I can't think of one negative thing to say about him. He was special. I feel fortunate that I got to enjoy his fellowship and friendship. Goodness, how I'm going to miss him."
Sun staff writer Mike Klingaman contributed to this article.


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Reconfigured ball screws move tons for politics
As the dramatic and pivotal stage of the upcoming 2012 Republican and Democratic National Conventions (RNC: August-Tampa, FL / DNC: September-Charlotte, NC) approaches, streamlining the staging of the massive events historically has never been a small task. That was the case with Chicago Scenic Studios Inc. (CSSI), a leading provider of scenic theatrical systems, who faced the daunting challenge of transforming the Boston Fleet Center into a spectacular convention hall for the 2004 Democratic National Convention.
One of the major engineering hurdles of the set design was the development of an automated system for raising and lowering three main podiums, slip stages, and monitor walls. The most technical challenge was vertically lifting and retracting two transparent, 300-pound podium backing acrylic walls, each of which contained a series of flat-panel video monitors within the top portion of the walls, so they can be hoisted away from the set with rigging.
With the daunting task of handling a fairly heavy load within a small footprint, CSSI enlisted leading linear motion control systems and components manufacturer Nook Industries (Cleveland, OH) to develop customized 50 mm ball screws that could lift loads upwards of 1,000-pounds quickly, quietly, and within an eight-inch footprint. Nook deployed their two-ton ActionJac ball screw jacks to efficiently lift the 300-pound walls over a travel length of eight feet; dampen vibration and resonance while sustaining a six-inches-per-second lift speed to deliver the unique, fully automated set on-time and on-budget.
ActionJac design
The ActionJac product line is time-tested and was originally designed and applied in the 1970's for the home direct-satellite market. Each model in the ActionJac line incorporates a rugged worm gear set arrangement that uses an alloy steel worm, which drives a high strength bronze worm gear (drive sleeve). The worm shaft is supported on anti-friction tapered roller bearings with external seals to prevent loss of lubrication.
The addition of a high efficiency ball screw and nut reduces the required input torque to approximately 1/3 the torque required for Machine Screw Jacks. Used individually or in multiple arrangements, each Worm Gear Screw Jack is built to specification with customized travel lengths and reliable load handling capacities ranging from ¼ ton to 100 tons.
Stage walls lifted, small footprint
With 16-foot high walls, and a 30-foot studio ceiling, CSSI needed a means for cutting the height of the wall in half by lifting and retracting the lower portion inside the upper portion so the collapsed eight-foot wall could be removed from or brought onto the set. This movement needed to be achieved relatively quickly (and quietly) to facilitate fast, uninterrupted set changes. They were also working with frosted Plexiglas with double-sided light boxes that you could see through, and needed to hide the linear motion control system in the side of the upper wall in a space that only provided a few inches in which to work.
Ultimately, the system needed to be small enough to fit within an eight-inch footprint, yet powerful enough to lift and lower a thousand-pound load. Essential to Nook's engineered solution was increasing the diameter of the lead screws and using a steep pitch thread pattern to provide the speed that was needed. Additionally, utilizing an oversized 50 mm shaft ensured that the screw would not vibrate or resonate while turning. The specially reconfigured 50 mm ball screws were then mounted in the sides of the upper wall.
To drive the screw jacks, the system incorporated a 2 hp ac electric motor that raised the ball nut on the lower wall, and lifted the wall completely. According to Mark Ewing, CSSI's head of automation, "We were able to automate every moving system, including the screw jacks used on the podium backing monitor walls, by tying them back to a PLC control with touch-screen integration. Ultimately, the system did an excellent job of driving electrical and mechanical systems to control 19 separate points of motion" from one location.
Nook's engineered screw jack solution met CSSI's tight deadline and budgetary demands by using ActionJac screw jacks stocked as inventory to support the initial application of the company's new stage automation system. According to Ewing, "There were not any standard systems that could accommodate an eight-foot travel length in such a small space. Nook provided us with specially configured ball screws with a custom length and diameter that provided an effective solution that worked perfectly for moving the podium backing monitor walls−just like we expected."
Today, Nook's expanded ActionJac line is comprised of standard machine screw, ball screw, stainless steel, metric, and trapezoidal screw jack options to meet the specifications of a myriad of unique applications. Nook also offers a full line of accessories which are available with each screw jack. Accessories include: motors, motor mounts, encoders, hand wheels, counters, couplings, miter gear boxes, boots, limit switches, top plates, and clevises are also available.
For more detailed information, and to configure and download 2D/3D CAD files visit the Nook web site.


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Mitt Romney Votes for Presidency in Massachusetts - Pics!
Mitt Romney and his proud wife Ann smile after filling out their ballots at the Beech Street Center on Tuesday (November 6) in Belmont, Mass.
The 65-year-old former Governor was asked by reporters who he voted for and he responded by saying, "I think you know."
Also pictured: Mitt's running mate Paul Ryan showing his ballot to his daughter Liza before casting his vote that morning in Janesville, Wis.
DID YOU VOTE for the president yet?
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Plitvice Lakes National Park
The path from the secondary entrance leads to the largest lake, KoZjak Lake, and forms a boundary between the upper and lower lakes. The upper lakes are seperated by dolomite barriers, surrounded by dense forests and interlinked by several gushing waterfalls. The lowers lakes were formed by cavities created by the water of the upper lakes. Most of the water comes from the Bijela and Crna rivers and pool in the Proscansko Lake. There are 16 lakes in the park, all connected by well designed wooden walkways and trails.
View Plitvice Lakes National Park in a larger map
Useful info
Bus timetable:
To get in: seach timetable with autobusni kolodvor, the station of the Plitvice Lakes National Park is Plitvička Jezera. Another searchable timetable is Liburnija Zadar, if you are departing from Zadar (Croatian only). There are discrepancies from two search engines, it is highly recommended to re-confirm the bus schedules with the bus stations. To get out: If the bus is not full, it will take on more people. Bus schedules are posted at information stations near both entrances to the park.
Ticket: if you are staying in one of the hotels in the park, buy a one day ticket and have your hotel stamp on it that will give you unlimited access to the park and all transportation in the park during your stay.
There are many routes in the park (maps) and all are well-marked. You can choose one that fits your schedule and an easy way to see all the lakes and waterfalls is to take a shuttle bus to Okrugljak Lake at the top (St4) and then walk down (red line). Take a boat at P2 to P3 (green line) and then red line to St1. Take a shuttle bus back to St2 where the hotels are located. (Google map above)
Plitvice Lakes National Park official website: http://www.np-plitvicka-jezera.hr/eng/index.php
5 comments:
- Traveling Hawk said...
This year, on April, I visited Plitvice for the third time! I have been there in different seasons and, every time, it was great to see those marvelous lakes! I liked your article about the National park. I will put you in my blogroll, as I like how you present the places you saw.
Plitvice Lakes is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its a complex of 16 lakes with mesmerizing waterfalls and deep forest. We went there in October and was delighted with the incredible beauty. We also got chance to see autumn color. we spent entire day in the park exploring the beautiful places and taking pictures.
Lakes in the world
- Robert said...
I like your photo presentation of Plitvice lakes and waterfall.It is also my favotite place for taking pictures.
- Croatia said...
Breathtaking beauty!! Great pics !! Plitvice lakes are the most visited place in Croatia, surrounded by mountains and it offers a pure beauty of nature. Plitvice lakes are the home to 16 lakes that are popular for their magnificent beauty and distinctive colors which are ranging from azure to green and grey to blue. The most exciting thing about these lakes is that the color of the water bodies is changes with respect to the sunlight and depending upon the constituent minerals.
we are thinking of going there this early april - is it a good time to see the beauty of the lakes? I have read some comments which seem to suggest that it rains a lot in April.


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Songwriter Susanna Clark Dies at Age 73
Susanna Clark, wife of Guy Clark and longtime friend to Nashville singers and songwriters, died this week at age 73. As a songwriter, Clark is best know for the Emmylou Harris hit 'Easy From Now On.' She was also a talented painter, with the cover of Willlie Nelson's 1978 'Stardust' album amongst her more famous works.
According to the Tennessean, Clark and her husband hosted regular songwriter gatherings in the mid-70s. They became friends with — and were an inspiration to — artists like Townes Van Zandt and Rodney Crowell. The above picture is from the 2005 movie 'Be Here to Love Me,' which chronicled the life of Van Zandt, who died in 1997.
In addition to the Harris hit (also recorded by artists like Miranda Lambert), Clark wrote 'I'll Be Your San Antone' by Dottsy, and Kathy Mattea's 1989 hit 'Come From the Heart.' Rosanne Cash, Jerry Jeff Walker and her husband Guy also recorded Susanna Clark's songs.
Clark died in her sleep on Wednesday morning (June 27). She had been in poor health before her passing. There will be no funeral or memorial service, per her wishes.


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Vital Signs: More Households Don't Own a Car
Is America's love affair with the automobile cooling?
A study out this month by the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute finds that a larger share of U.S. households do not own a car, light truck or SUV. In 2012, 9.22% of all U.S. households were without a vehicle, little changed from 9.29% in 2011 but continuing an uptrend started since 2007, just before the economy fell into recession.
Ownership rates vary greatly among the 30 largest cities, says the study's author Michael Sivak, director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at Michigan. New York had the highest share of non-car households, 56.5%, while San Jose had the fewest, 5.8%. Sivak calculates that 21 of the 30 cities have seen a rise in non-ownership since 2007.
What's behind the vehicle avoidance?
Sivak writes that many factors can influence a household's decision to own a car, such as income, availability and cost of parking and local weather, but "the five cities with the highest proportions of households without a vehicle were all among the top five cities in a recent ranking of the quality of public transportation."
Looking at nationwide data Sivak concludes, "we now have fewer light-duty vehicles, we drive each of them less, and we consume less fuel than in the past. These trends suggest that motorization in the U.S. might have reached a peak several years ago."


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IGN:Rockstar's Dan Houser explains the ins and outs of the next great leap for the sandbox franchise.
I'm hoping they have mini games for Multiplayer like maybe dirtbiking etc.
I still want to know if we get tanks and cheats.
Would be awesome if all cheats were available once the game was completed.
I felt this was a slightly more interesting read than the GI fan Q&A... I am really excited about the focus on heists. GTA3 started with a heist gone wrong so it's kinda come full circle. Please let us customize cars at least R*!!!
if the game is even half as awesome as R* say it will be i can wait for the pc version :)


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Review Group #360 New Avengers #1
Hey you! Reader! Want to be a part of the GREATEST COMIC BOOK AND GEEK COMMUNITY on the web?! Well, they're not accepting new members, but we'll take anyone here, so why not sign up for a free acount? It's fast and it's easy, like your mom! Sign up today! Membership spots are limited!*
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by GLX » Wed Jan 02, 2013 2:27 pm
New year! New review group! New New Avengers #1! Let's get to it!
New Avengers #1
If you can't make it to your local comic shop, a digital copy can be found here.
Ze rules:
Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not.
When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic.
Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick.
I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection.
Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll.
If it's your week to pick, remember to keep it under $3.99.
Naturally, this new system is new and it may be necessary to make changes as we go.
I have next week's pick. It'll be revealed by week's end.
Suggestions welcome.
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by GLX » Thu Jan 03, 2013 5:01 pmEven though Luther Strode is a boss comic and you fools should be checking it out, I doubt that most here are reading it. Instead, I'll be attempting to charge the group up again with...
Avengers Arena #3
by Amoebas » Fri Jan 04, 2013 12:11 pmFirst off, this was really a Black Panther solo issue (hardly what I would start a new team book with). If you're not a big T'Challa fan (and I havet been on the edge for a while) there's little to keep you interested.
So the book opens in Wakanda, where there's zero evidence that it was destroyed by Namor just a few months ago. One good tidbit to take from this is that Hickman might be trying to get everyone to forget AvX. If not it's a glaring omission.
Anyway, a sluttly girl who I thought was Darkstar magically appears with a ton of armed goons behind her. So what does one of the kid's T'Challa with do? He cheerfully welcomes them to Wakanda. Predicting the only outcome of this greeting takes no effort (they must grow the kids extremely dumb in Wakanda nowadays (which is odd because all the word heavy first few pages were about how smart they are)).
Anyway, stupid kids get killed, baddies set some 'wheel' in motion and Panther knocks out bare-midriff-girl. All better right? Wrong.
Things get so unexplainedly bad that Stark, Richards, Strange, Rogers, Namor & Blackbolt all show up. Would have been nice for there to at least have been a hint as to "why" things got so bad.
And this is one of Hickman's foils. He setting up a mystery that will probably need 43 issues to explain. He tries to grab the reader into an undefined mystery when he should be trying to grab the reader into the book instead. It appears to me he thinks 'his' story is more important than the characters. It isn't and imo, it never will be.
Epting has always been a solid artist and he is his usual good self here (and draws a REAL Captain America (not that movie/ultraexageratted chainmail thing that appears more and more often).
And Namor is in Wakanda? And the Wakandan soldiers aren't even trying to point their guns at him? What the Wakandan fuck?
I've said it ages ago and I'm still saying, Hickman isn't as good as he (or Hab) thinks he is.
As first issues goes - this wasn't good.
Story - 0
Art - 7
Overall - 3.5
by GHERU » Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:18 amugh
the more I read of him the more I know I do not get the Hickman hype
boring "everything we ever knew changes" issue
not pre-ordering anymore from DCBS
art was pretty
story - 3
art - 7
by Punchy » Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:35 amThis was probably the worst Marvel Now book I have read so far, just the very worst Hickman cliches all in one package.
by GLX » Mon Jan 07, 2013 7:05 pm
If you can expand your review to 5 sentences or more, it'll count.
by GLX » Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:07 pmAny other reviews before the new thread goes up, tomorrow?
by GHERU » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:19 am(after some edits, this is going on the front page any notes will be welcomed)
New Avengers #1
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Penciler: Stephen H. Epting
Publisher: Marvel Comics
So, here we are, a new era for Marvel – the NOW! Era – and with that comes a new volume of everything, including Avengers and New Avengers, both written by Jonathan Hickman. Yippee! I tried, I really did, and I read both of these comics with an open mind. I figured that if I could learn to like The Avengers I could learn to like Hickman.
I was wrong.
Focusing on New Avengers nothing sums up my feelings on the issue like fellow Outhouse writer, Punchy:
"This was probably the worst Marvel Now book I have read so far, just the very worst Hickman clichés all in one package."
There you go, if you want a comic that is not new reader friendly, doesn't explain anything, presents the first part of an undefined mystery, and provides absolutely nothing that would inspire a reader to care about what happens next, New Avengers #1 is for you.
Here's your synopsis – Something weird happens in Wakkanda (don't worry, it's not explained) and the answers to what happened (no idea what that was, I think some teenagers died) and the books ends on a dramatic cliffhanger with more questions than answers. No, this isn't a review of S.H.I.EL.D. #1 (2, 3, 4, 5, or 6) or any of the other comics Hickman has written that follows this same formula. Best part is it will only take 20 or so issues for the mystery to be clearly defined – nor for it to be solved – but for us to know what is going on.
I don't know when it happened, and there are arguments as to who exactly is to blame for this, but it seems that there is a new group of mainstream writers that are more interested in writing THE Avengers / THE X-Men / THE InsertBookNameHere story / THE run that will be put on the same list as Claremont's X-Men, Alan Moore's Swamp Thing, Joe Kelly's Deadpool , or even Wolfman and Perez on Teen Titans rather than put in the work to write a coherent comic book that will stand the test of time, not flame out after a year or so. And, from what I can tell, Hickman is leading that charge.
By halfway through the issue I was dreading turning the page to see what would (not) happen next.
Stephen H. Epting's pencils are spot on. The art in this issue created a nice flow that did its best to communicate what was happening in a clear and easy to follow manner, too bad about the story.
One silver lining, I had already broken my rule on no new monthlies with Avengers Arena, at least now I can save money and drop two books: New Avengers and Avengers.
Story – 2
Art – 7.5
by GHERU » Wed Jan 09, 2013 9:22 am
fair enough
by GLX » Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:28 pm
What led to the change in scores?
FYI - your new average is 4.3 (rounded from 4.25)
by Amoebas » Wed Jan 09, 2013 1:31 pm
I know that every time I think about the book the writing drops another point.
by Stephen Day » Sat Jan 12, 2013 7:32 pmI'm a big Black Panther fan, so this issue focusing solely on him didn't bother me. That said, there really wasn't much of a story to this issue. Yeah, the villains could be interesting. Yeah, the plot introduced could be interesting. It could all be really great, but there isn't enough to judge anything here. I've always found that to be unacceptable in a first issue.
4 out of 10, saved from getting lower by my sheer enjoyment of most anything featuring T'Challa.
by GiveWarAChance » Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:18 pmI didn't hate this issue nearly as much as everyone else in here did. Saying that, I think it probably would have been better as an #0 issue setting up the series, considering the New Avengers don't actually show up until the final 3 pages. As others have already stated, this is basically a Black Panther solo issue that sets up a new super villain(a black swan who speaks multiple languages and knows of multiple Earths) who is paving the way for another super villain(he is referred to as the great destroyer with an endless appetite) that we don't yet know. I think the issue did a decent job of showing us how Black Panther could be considered an equal to the rest of the Illuminati. I just wanted to see more of the team. Steve Epting's art is simply gorgeous. Say what you will about the story but the art is really the highlight of this issue.
Story - 5
Art - 8
Overall - 6.5
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My Party: Isabella
Birthday parties are a perfect time for an Escape. Debra shares her daughter's: "My daughter Isabella has had "a trip to Paris" on her gift wish lists for a couple of years. When her aunt & uncle asked if she would be interested in going on a trip with them this past Winter, she replied "to Paris?!!!" When it came time to plan her 9th birthday celebration immediately Paris came to mind.
The Theme: A typical pink themed Parisian party wouldn't do for this 9 yr. old, she wanted the authentic colours of the French flag, think Bastille Day combined with Breton stripes and of course the Eiffel Tower.
Decorations: Lots of red, white & blue. Breton stripes, fresh flowers in rustic pails, french inspired red & white linen runners, chalkboard signs showing the "Patisserie" and "Parfumerie", a "you are here" Paris map, and a bunting made with antique Paris photos, created the french bistro/nautical atmosphere.
Invitations: Handmade invitations with a hand illustrated Eiffel Tower printed postcard style.
Games/Activities: We made "Souvenir de Paris" glitter globes using jars, mini Eiffel Tower charms spray painted red and lots of blue glitter. We also made "perfume" which was a big hit. The girls loved mixing essential oils to create their scent. The scents were bottled in mini spray bottles with vintage "parfum" labels.
Guests: 10 nine year old girls dressed in stripes.
Food: A "Patisserie" table included homemade lemony Madeleines, strawberry mousse tarts, mini cupcakes, and cookies. A selection of red, white and blue candy in vintage mason jars and popcorn in sweet white scalloped boxes. The main course included croissants, brie, frites (french fries), mini hamburgers, and berries served in vintage berry baskets. They loved sipping my homemade version of French Lemonade made from frozen pink lemonade and mineral water.
Favor Bags: Guests left with mini travel kits, a luggage tag, a french language travel guide and travel journal.
A fun party to plan!
Thanks Debra – it looks like a fun party to attend as well!


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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace, Release 6.1 -- Requirements for Cisco Unified MeetingPlace H.323/SIP Gateway when installed with Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 6.1
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Cisco Unified MeetingPlace H.323/SIP IP Gateway Requirements
- One primary IP address for communication with the Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server.
Hardware Requirements
One of the following Cisco Media Convergence Server (MCS) 7800 series servers with the Cisco Systems version of the Microsoft Windows 2003 server operating system installed:
- Cisco MCS 7835
- Cisco MCS 7845
The H.323/SIP IP Gateway can be installed on a server with other Cisco Unified MeetingPlace components. However, we recommend that you install the H.323/SIP IP Gateway on a dedicated server for installations larger than 96 ports.
Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server Requirements
- Cisco Unified MeetingPlace 8100 series server with a compatible version of Cisco Unified MeetingPlace Audio Server. See the Compatibility Matrix.
- You must configure the Multi Access (MA) Blade for IP.
- There must be one primary IP address for communication with the H.323/SIP IP Gateway server and other gateways and clients.
- You must assign one additional IP address for every 240 IP user licenses.
Cisco Unified CallManager Requirements
Cisco Unified CallManager (also known as Cisco Unified Communications Manager) Release 3.22 through 6, or 7.1.2, must be installed and configured to work with your network.
Endpoint Requirements
- Cisco Unified IP Phone configured to work with one of the following applications:
- Cisco Unified CallManager Release 3.22 or later, and 7.1.2.
- Cisco SIP Proxy Server Release 1.0.
- H.323 endpoints.
- PSTN phone connected to a configured voice gateway.
Network Requirements
For the H.323/SIP IP Gateway server to communicate with the Audio Server, confirm that your network meets the following requirements:
- The Audio Server and the H.323/SIP IP Gateway server must be located on the same subnet.
- The H.323/SIP IP Gateway server must be inside the corporate firewall and must be able to access the softswitch (for example, Cisco Unified CallManager, H.323 gatekeeper, or Cisco SIP Proxy Server) by using H.323 or SIP.
- The H.323/SIP IP Gateway server must be able to open a TCP connection on port 5003 when connecting to an Audio Server.
- The secondary Ethernet connections-those that are connected to the Multi Access Blade and not the second Ethernet port on the CPU card-on the Audio Server must be connected to the same subnet as the corporate network to which your Cisco Unified IP Phone is connected.
- The Ethernet switch port or any other network devices to which the Multi Access Blade connects directly must be set to fixed 100Base-TX full duplex; if not, you may experience decreased voice quality.
- The Audio Server must be connected to a network switch port that is configured for autonegotiate for duplex and speed.
- If G.711 codec is configured, a dedicated 100-Mbps subnet is required for each MA-16 connection; if not, the voice quality may be degraded.
- From the H.323/SIP IP Gateway server standpoint, the IP address of the Audio Server must not be translated by using a Network Address Translation (NAT) routing scheme.
- Connectivity between the H.323/SIP IP Gateway server and the Audio Server must be high quality and not subject to interruptions because of traffic congestion. Any time the round-trip latency exceeds 100 milliseconds or there is more than 1-percent packet loss, expect a noticeable reduction in service quality.


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As "30 Rock" inches closer to its last episode ever on Jan. 31 (moment of silence), we compiled the best things Tina Fey has said over seven seasons. You'll want to go to there. - By Jordan Bartel
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Love Lab
Love Lab
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The Fujisaki Girls Academy is known for their school body being composed of very proper students. The most prominent one of them is Maki, the student president who is admired by her classmates for her calm and polite demeanor. On the other hand, Kurahashi Riko is also admired but for having a very forward and boyish personality. Riko accidentally walks into Maki while she's practicing kissing with a pillow and learns that she isn't what everyone thinks she is. Riko is forced into keeping Maki's secret and join her in practicing all aspects of romance like holding hands and more.
Characters & Voice Actors
Enomoto, Yuiko - Sakura, Ayane
Kurahashi, Riko - Numakura, Manami
Maki, Natsuo - Akasaki, Chinatsu
Mizushima, Sayori -Taichi, You
Other Information
Type: TV
Episodes: 13
Status: Currently Airing
Producers: Aniplex, Dogakobo
Genres: Comedy, Romance, School
Duration: 24 min. per episode
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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Just finished watching and my thoughts on the first episode:
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LOL, now that was funny, more than I had thought.
Dem imaginations.
Natsuo Maki blushes a lot more than I thought anyways.
I'll stick with this series for awhile. Lol @ Riko. The way she hits Natsuo was just XD
Ending song reminds me a little of GnP.
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Just finished watching and my thoughts on the first episode:
Spoiler Alert! Click to show or hide
LOL, now that was funny, more than I had thought.
Dem imaginations.
Natsuo Maki blushes a lot more than I thought anyways.
I'll stick with this series for awhile. Lol @ Riko. The way she hits Natsuo was just XD
Ending song reminds me a little of GnP.
Sorry if I beat you to it Stark, yea as always I will do a first impressions video later, going to watch some other series before making these videos. Well back to watch some series!
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I hope CR streams it... :)
It looks cute and it is a Dogakobo anime so I have good expectations for it
Feeling too lazy to go after Nico atm... :( ill try later on...
Pretty funny, definitely gonna enjoy it this season! So far Riko is my favorite character. Gonna watch this till the end!
I'm getting a slight yuri vibe from the plot haha. Watched the first episode, it's cute and on my summer watch list, not a priority watch though.
Hello my friends!
first episode was hilarious really like Maki and Riko. Maki is my favorite character she made laugh the most
is it more moe girls doing moe things?
His Holiness Optimus Maximus Decimus Meridius Colossus Nemesis Nexus Genesis
Yea i wonder if its just moe girls being moe cuz i cant watch this and Yuruyuri at the same time if so.
Did he just walk up...slowly...and ban me? @GoldTStar117
Tried it out on a whim and I loved it.
Maki and Riko are a freaking awesome comedy duo
avoiding doing any work today
Yup. I give up. I don't that I'll ever keep up with all of these things. "LAWL"
En Español, las chicas llamanme "El Tigre Negro Chino Cabrónisimo". "LÀWL"
I saw the previews once they started to come out and I knew I had to watch it.
I was definitely right to pick this up and watch this season. SO FUNNY!!!
Holy crap. I dont think I've ever seen a comedy anime just about girls in school as funny as this before.
I mean I had more lols in this show than K-ON!, Yuru Yuri, GJ-Club, Yuyushiki and a variety of other stuff as well.
The faces they make, the animation, and the art at times is just superb.
Think this is going to be my favorite of the season, which is surprising since I was betting on Service x Service since it was the same author as Wagnaria, which is on of my favorites.
In an instant we echo, and our hearts meet, IMPACT CROSS!
Okay after some careful consideration, I decided not to do a first impressions on this series. I MIGHT watch the 2nd episode, not sure if I will stick to it as I did get bored from the first episode. It was interesting at some moments and pretty funny, but nothing to keep me entertained enough.
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As they say in the recruiting circles, D'Cota Dixon is 'blowing up' right now.
At his current rate, the New Smyrna Beach defensive back could have more than 30 college football scholarship offers by the time the spring session is over.
"I'm feeling great right now," said Dixon, the do-everything athlete who will see time on offense and defense this coming season for the Barracudas, but his specialty is safety, and there are a lot of college coaches who would like to see him wearing their uniform next season.
UCF is one of them. The Knights, along with USF, are the only Florida schools to offer Dixon so far, but the 5-foot-11, 190-pound defensive back knows it's still early in the process. He visited USF earlier this spring with teammate and quarterback Marcus Johnson and said he liked what the Bulls had to offer.
As for UCF, he said he'd like to visit the Orlando school at some point.
"I think it's a good school. I've never actually been there," he said. "I was supposed to go on a visit there but I never got the chance. One of my friends committed there, though, so that's pretty cool. … my friend got offered and I got offered."
His friend of Port Orange Atlantic running back C.J. Jones, who committed to UCF last month. Jones hasn't shut down his recruiting and is still entertaining all suitors, but he's the lone 2014 commit currently on the UCF board.
Dixon, the No. 12-ranked player in the Sentinel's 2014 Central Florida Super60 and the No. 81 player in the Sentinel's 2014 Florida Top 100, is reeling everything in for now. He won't begin the process of narrowing his list of potential schools until this summer, and he hasn't fully begun the process of researching. He also said he hadn't given much thought to his UCF offer or the thought of playing college football so close to home.
"Yeah, I'm not really actually sure yet," said Dixon, whose older brother Daryl is a former Florida defensive back and is currently in his fifth year as assistant coach at Ball State. "Everything will depend on playing time and academics so I'll have to wait and see who all offers."
Once he starts to zero in on where he wants to play, he'll start the process by looking at rosters to see how deep each school is at the safety position.
"I wanna play … I wanna play as soon as possible," he said. "So I will be looking at that, but I feel good . I'm blessed right now."
He won't be playing in the Barracudas' spring game at Palm Beach Central, taking extra precautions not to further damage a slight labrum tear in his shoulder that he suffered in the Barracudas' kickoff classic game last August against Merritt Island.
He came off the field with his arm dangling, grimacing in pain. His shoulder had popped out of place, but he never thought the injury was serious enough to warrant any reconstruction.
"I played through it all last year and I didn't even know I had torn it," Dixon said. "It is [painful] sometimes when it pops out, but I get it back in, rest one play and I'm good to go … get back in the game. It didn't pop out again last year until midseason and then the last time was the Winter Haven game."
That was the last game of the season for the 'Cudas, a 24-20 heartbreaker in the first round of the Class 5A state playoffs, ending an undefeated season that most figured would go deeper into the postseason.
He says he won't have the tear repaired until after his senior year and that he's confident it won't cause him any issues.
"I didn't think it was bad until I had an MRI and they told me the results," Dixon said. "It's not bad, and that's the good thing … just a little tear that can be repaired and ready in four or five months.
"It's not as bad as everyone thinks it is. I can play through it. There's nothing stopping me. It hasn't popped out all spring. I'm ready to go forward, make some more plays and go to the playoffs .. . farther this year."
He's taking 100-percent reps in practice and looked good in drills on Thursday.
"I know I won't be able to play in the spring game, but I'm good," Dixon said. "I know I'm 100 percent, we just don't want to take any chances, but I'll be definitely be playing in the fall … every single game."
He plans to graduate early and be on a college campus next January and he is scheduled to take the college entrance exams in June. Those scores will give him a better idea of where he stands in achieving that goal.
Chris Hays is the Sentinel's recruiting coverage coordinator and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow us on Twitter at @Os_Recruiting and Facebook at Orlando Sentinel Recruiting and now on Pinterest at Orlando Recruiting.


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This year is another bumper year for employment law changes. In this article we consider the key changes for employers in 2012, planned changes to Employment Tribunal practice and procedure and what changes are still in the pipeline.
February 2012
Annual Increases - From 1st February 2012, the maximum limit on a week's pay (i.e. for statutory redundancy calculation purposes) increased from £400 to £430 and the maximum unfair dismissal compensatory award increased from £68,400 to £72,300. These new awards are only be applicable to dismissals which take effect on or after 1 February 2012.
April 2012
Unfair dismissal qualifying period– although much of the detail is still expected from Government, from 6th April 2012 the qualifying period of service to bring an unfair dismissal claim increases from one to two years. The Government hopes that the number of tribunal claims will be reduced by 3,000 per year. This will only apply to employees taken on after 6 April. Importantly this change does not affect employees rights to bring unfair dismissal claims with lesser service for protected reasons such as whistleblowing, reasons related to pregnancy and maternity and dismissal for trade union related reasons. Employees are also able to bring claims for discrimination without any service requirement therefore employers should ensure if they are seeking to dismiss before a two-year period (or at any time), they use consistent procedures and have evidence to demonstrate a dismissal was for a non-discriminatory or fair reason.
Increase in Statutory Payments:
From 6th April, these will increase as follows:-
Last updated on: 27/02/2012 16:52:15
PharmiWeb.com is Europe's leading industry-sponsored portal for the Pharmaceutical sector, providing the latest jobs, news, features and events listings.
The information provided on PharmiWeb.com is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her physician.


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Japan Prime Minister sends offering to controversial war dead shrine ahead of Obama visit
TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a religious offering Monday to a Tokyo shrine that honors the dead, including executed war criminals -- long a source of tension with Japan's neighbors China and South Korea.
Abe's offering at the Yasukuni Shrine marks the April 21-23 spring festival, one of the shrine's key annual events. But the move suggests he will not go to Yasukuni ahead of President Barack Obama's visit beginning Wednesday.
Abe presented a pair of "masakaki," traditional Shinto-style decorations of tree branches and other ornaments, along with a wooden plate carrying his name and title.
Two ministers of his Cabinet have prayed at Yasukuni recently -- the national public safety chief on Sunday and the interior minister the previous week -- ahead of the festival during which most pro-Yasukuni lawmakers visit. Dozens of lawmakers are set to visit the shrine Tuesday.
This year's spring festival at Yasukuni partially overlaps with President Barack Obama's trip to Japan, part of an Asian tour that also includes South Korea, the Philippines and Malaysia.
Late last month, Obama helped to bring together Abe and South Korean President Park Geun-hye for their first face-to-face meeting since they took office more than a year ago. The absence of such a meeting between the leaders of key U.S. allies in Asia was a deep concern for Washington.
Yasukui enshrines 2.5 million war dead including 14 Class A war criminals from World War II. The shrine has been a flashpoint between Japan and neighbors China and both Koreas. They see Yasukuni as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, and repeated visits by Japanese leaders as a lack of remorse over wartime history.
Abe's past remarks suggesting revisionist views about Japan's wartime history, and his push to step up Japan's national security and defense has prompted caution from the neighbors.
Conservative politicians who visit the shrine argue they are only making a pacifist pledge by praying for those who died in the war. Abe was mum Monday about his donations.
Abe regularly visited Yasukuni until he became prime minister, and has visited only once in December since taking office at the end of 2012. That visit has infuriated South Korea and China, worsening ties with already chilling ties with them over territorial and history issues. Washington said Abe's visit was disappointing.


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The Cat5e Snagless Unshielded (UTP) Slim Network Patch Cable is the perfect solution for high density datacenter applications. The use of 28 AWG conductors allows for a 36% reduction in diameter over a standard Cat5e network patch cable. This reduced diameter provides a smaller cable surface area which allows for increased airflow when compared to standard Cat5e cables. The 28 AWG conductors also allow this cable to have a smaller bend radius than standard Cat5e cables. The small size and small bend radius of this cable allows it to be easily routed through cable management panels.
This cable is designed for fast Ethernet networks that require bandwidth-intensive voice, data, or video distribution applications. Constructed from high quality copper cable, this design minimizes Near-End Crosstalk (NEXT) levels. The molded, snagless boot prevents unwanted cable snags during installation and provides extra strain relief. Available in a variety of colors to easily color-code your network installation.
|Network Cable Type
|Patch cable - CAT 5e
|American Wire Gauge (AWG)
|Wires per Cable
|8 wires
|Pairs per Cable
|4 pairs
|Molded, snagless, slim, strain relief, minimized Near-End Crosstalk (NEXT)
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|RJ-45 - male
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One of the first manifestations of ungodly wisdom occurred in the garden of Eden just after Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit. Instead of turning to the Lord, our first parents hid from Him. That is not the model ...Read More
A Contrite Repentance
As we saw in our study of Psalm 51:4, the wrongs we do are first and foremost sins against the Lord. True repentance realizes our transgressions are heinous because they violate God's holy character. If you have a ...Read More
Living Coram Deo
In verse 10 of today's passage, David begs the Lord to "renew a right spirit" within him. The "right" or "steadfast" disposition to love God affects our sin. We may go through extended periods of devotion, but when our ...Read More
Purging the Inward Parts
The process of repentance can be rough and hurt at first. But remember that the Lord chastises us at times because that is the way He chooses to restore us to full health (Hos. 6:1). If you are crushed ...Read More
God's Just Judgment
We cannot forget the consequences our sins have on the world around us. However, if we do not understand that our sin is primarily and ultimately against God, we have not truly repented. Perhaps you have sinned against another person ...Read More
Tender Mercies
If you have asked the Lord to have mercy on you in Christ and forgive you of your sin, then He has washed you clean (1 John 1:8–9). Moreover, we must imitate God (Eph. 5:1) and be ...Read More
Do you truly realize the importance of prayer, or do you think that you can be wise without a deep and consistent prayer life? Take some time to consider the importance of prayer and how you can make it a ...Read More
Testifying of God's Mercy
Read John 4:1–42. What did the woman do when she heard that Jesus was the Messiah? What was the result of her testimony? Do you feel compelled to tell others of the mercy of Christ? Think through your ...Read More
Knowing Your Sin
Read Luke 18:9–14. How is the confession of the tax collector like David's? Have you ever confessed to God not only your sins but that you are a sinner by nature? Do you confess your sins daily ...Read More


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Cultural Advancement
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, and perhaps the leading economic engine in your community – an industry with tremendous potential to change the social, economic, and natural landscapes of every place it touches. – Dan Shilling
But not every tourist attraction is authentic or worthy of our time, money, attention. Tourism can be a superficial experience or tourism can be so much more genuine than commercial merchandizing.
"Travel at its best can be a kind of vision quest, in which we journey away from the familiar world to encounter some alien setting, some natural or cultural or spiritual presence that enlarges our understanding, and then we journey home to act out that larger vision in our households, neighborhoods, towns, and cities."
"The kind of tourism that interests me, the only kind I am willing to advocate, would challenge and inspire travelers by providing them with experience of real place, a distinctive place, a place with its own history, culture, and texture – an immersion of the traveler in the geography of somewhere."
"What qualities give certain places a feeling of character and charisma makes them worthy of a visitor's deep engagement and a citizen's love?"
"A real place conveys a sense of temporal depth, a sense that people have been living and laboring here for a long time. The traces of earlier generations are preserved in festivals and folkways and habits of speech; in the old buildings that have been restored and kept in service; in landscapes that are still devoted to orchards, dairies, woodlots, and traditional uses."
"A real place keeps us mindful of nature, as it keeps us mindful of history."
"We encounter real places not by gazing through windshields or by gaping at screens but by walking. Alluring places invite us to immerse ourselves, to open all our senses. --- On foot we experience the world in three dimensions; we move at a speed that allows us to absorb and savor and reflect."
"What we all long for, I suspect, is to love the places we live and to live in places worthy of love. … we hunger for integrity and authenticity." – Scott Russell Sanders in "The Geography of Somewhere"


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This is the perfect sandwich to make and serve for a Jungle-themed party or any wildlife type of luncheon. But any child would love to have this little elephant for lunch. Even your big guests will be impressed! The elephant is quite easy to make and few ingredients are needed.
For the Elephant:
- 2 slices Pumpernickel bread
- 2 slices White bread
- Orange pepper
- Ham slice
- Chives
- Green grape
- Cheese for eyes
- Sandwich filling
Put pumpernickel bread slices together and then cut out a large circle. We used a glass with a large opening to cut out our round or if you have a large round cutter that would work also. Set white bread slices together and then cut two large ears for the elephant. Fill sandwiches with desired filling and arrange on the plate. Ham and cheese work well for this sandwich, as you will be adding a layer of ham on top of the ears.
From a slice of ham, cut two slightly smaller ears that will rest on top of the "ear" sandwich sections. Cut two long slices of orange pepper from the sides of your pepper. Make the long, fat part of the trunk from one piece and then cut a curved "c" shape that will form the lower part of the trunk. Place the curved section on the plate, beneath the upper part of the trunk.
Cut two slices from the grape for eyes and then cut smaller circles from a white food, such as cheese, apple or zucchini. Use whatever you have on hand. Cut small stems of chives to place in the elephant's trunk, to look as though he is eating. Serve with a few peanuts!
Save any left over sections of bread in a baggie and pop into the freezer ... use when you want to make bread pudding, croutons or stuffing.
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February 02, 2004
Dr. Phil talks with guests about the realities and expectations of reuniting with a loved one, including how to prepare for it and how to make the relationship last.
Searching for Twins
Jacque placed her twins for adoption at birth. For the last 18 years, she's thought about them every single day.
Reality After the Reunion
On her 35th birthday, Melinda met her brother for the first time. The reality was nothing like the fantasy she imagined.
See Dr. Phil's advice for Melinda and Mike.
Reuniting After 36 Years
Denise placed her son David for adoption when she was 15 years old. After 36 years, she will finally get the chance to meet him in person.


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Here's what else is on tap for Wednesday:
» With backups quarterbacks set to take a big role in Week 11 -- and possibly beyond -- Daniel Jeremiah examines who's in good shape to weather the storm -- and who isn't.
NFL Replay
will re-air the Dallas Cowboys' 38-23 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 10 on Wednesday, Nov. 14
at 9 p.m. ET.
» NFL Network schedule
» If you missed the Dallas Cowboys' victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in the Desperation Bowl, watch "NFL Replay" tonight at 9 p.m. ET on NFL Network, followed by an all-new "Sound FX" at 10:30 p.m.
» Ian Rapoport breaks down all the Week 11 games in the Rap Sheet Rankings.
» Bucky Brooks looks ahead at Thursday night's Miami Dolphins-Buffalo Bills matchup (8:20 p.m., NFL Network).
» NFL.com's Gil Brandt breaks down the NFL's best defensive backs.
» Who gave the best passing and rushing performances of Week 10? Who was the week's best rookie? Cast your vote for these and other categories on NFL.com.
» Find out how your team would fare if the season ended today with the updated Playoff Picture.
» It's not too late for you to start a fantasy football team on NFL.com.
» Happy birthday to Dallas Cowboys quarterback Kyle Orton, who turns 30 on Wednesday, and to Minnesota Vikings quarterback Joe Webb, who turns 26.
Want to get NFL.com's top 10 headlines sent to your inbox daily? Click here for details.


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Minneapolis Fire Department Fire Education
Fire education is imperative to fire prevention, and our goal is to educate all citizens of Minneapolis on basic fire safety for the purpose of preventing fire-related injuries and deaths.
Consider the following recent fire statistics :
- Smoking is the leading cause of fire-related deaths
- Alcohol use contributes to an estimated 40% of residential fire deaths
- Cooking is the primary cause of residential fires
- Approximately half of home fire deaths occur in homes without smoke alarms
- In 2005, fire departments responded to 396,000 home fires in the United States, which claimed the lives of 3,030 people (not including firefighters) and injured another 13,825, not including firefighters
- On average in the United States in 2005, someone died in a fire about every 2 hours, and someone was injured every 29 minutes
How do these statistics apply to Minneapolis? Between the years 2004-06, Minneapolis had 13 fire deaths. The most common cause (three of the 13) was careless smoking – falling asleep with a burning cigarette. Other causes included unattended candle, careless cooking, unattended campfire, child playing with matches and other preventable causes.
In the fire six months of 2007, Minneapolis suffered 1 fire fatality – again, related to smoking…
Most residential fires are preventable. Here are a few things you can do to prevent a fire from occurring in your own home:
1. Never smoke when you're drowsy or in bed! If you smoke, put your cigarettes all the way out!
2. Have a working smoke alarm. A working smoke alarm in your home reduces your chances of dying in a fire by nearly half. Test your smoke alarm monthly, and change the batteries twice per year.
3. Place a smoke alarm on every level of your home and outside bedrooms. If you keep your bedroom doors closed, place a smoke alarm inside each bedroom as well.
4. Never leave candles burning unattended. Make sure you place burning candles on a non-combustible surface, such as metal or glass, and keep them away from combustible materials such as drapes, furniture, and clothing.
5. Remember that space heaters need space. Keep objects at least three feet away from the heater in all directions and never connect the heater to spliced, do-it-yourself or damaged wiring.
6. Prepare an escape plan and practice it regularly with everyone in the home. In case of a fire, follow the escape plan, get out and stay out.
7. Consider installing a residential automatic fire sprinkler system to protect your home and family.
Following these few simple steps above can mean the difference between life and death!
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Fire Safety and Prevention Resources
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Minnesota State Fire Marshals Office
FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Association)
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Fire Safety Contact Information
Casidy Anderson
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Minneapolis Fire Department
(612) 919-7790
[email protected]
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panicking as 1) i've just now come to the realization that i have put my apartment search on the backburner for far too long, and 2) am just now figuring out how expensive it really is to live in NYC (fed, state, "city" (!!!) taxes, broker fees (!!!), move-in fees, application fees, breathing fees, blood pumping fees, etc).
After working all day every day for so long, now I have some guilt in the back of my mind when I am not working even if I don't have anything that I need to be doing.