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I'm an 18 year old girl, who has quite the passion for writing and reading. I have written some story's, but it just so happens that I've gotten into a school and I'm in the second year and it takes up a lot of my time, so my story's are sort of on hold. I will write when I feel like I have time, writing is not something to be rushed. I hope you'll give the story's a try, and if you like them feel free to kick me in the but and write a PM telling me to post a new chapter. I play the Piano and sing, so music is something I care deeply about, besides that I'm quite the movie freak! If anything feel free to PM me.
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McciTrayApp.exe - what is it?
Posted 06 January 2008 - 21:40
I am seeing this exe McciTrayApp.exe process on my PC. Windows XP. I have Verizon DSL. Can some one tell me what this exe is. It is taking a lot of CPU. I got it from CTRL-ALT-DEL Task manager then Processes.
Thanks for help.
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This file should place an icon in your system tray that can be used to access Help/customer service. If so - and renu does not make use of Verizon Online Help it can be disabled via Startup Inspector so as not to autostart at boot.
- belongs to the software DVD Solution or BellSouth Wireless Connection or Verizon Online Help and Support or Soldat Interface Maker by Motive Communications, Inc (www.motive.com).
Description: McciTrayApp.exe should be located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files". Known file sizes on Windows XP are 543232 bytes (74% of all occurrence), 936960 bytes, 935936 bytes.
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Chloe Grace Moretz Named Aeropostale's First-Ever Celeb Brand Ambassador
In addition to the numerous blockbusters she has under her belt, Chloe Grace Moretz, 15, can now add a big-time ad campaign to her resume.
On Wednesday, Aeropostale announced that the Dark Shadows star will serve as their company's first-ever celebrity brand ambassador, sharing exclusive images from Moretz's ad campaign with Us Weekly.
"It's so exciting! I absolutely love Aeropostale so much, and I'm so excited to bring my artistic and very fashion-y feeling to this really great, young brand," Moretz told Us recently about her exciting new gig. "I have been an Aero fan for a very long time . . . ever since I was a little kid, I've definitely been wearing their stuff."
The busy young actress -- who is currently reprising Sissy Spacek's iconic role in an upcoming remake of Carrie -- also said she doesn't plan on slowing down at all to fete her latest accomplishment.
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"Right after I [left] the Aeropostale shoot, I headed back to Toronto, and I'll be back to filming," Moretz confessed. "I woke up at 4 a.m. today! But filming Carrie has been a lot of fun!"
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Open at 11am on Weekdays and 10am on Saturday and Sunday
Delizios is an elegant "Wine & Whiskey Bistro" in charming downtown Littleton. Featuring a lovely patio space and a contemporary menu that includes a selection of appetizers, tapas plates and dinner entrees. The wine list offers over 60 wines, with nearly 30 available by the glass. Over 50 different whiskies are available including a wide range of local Colorado offerings. The lunch menu features sandwiches, salads and soups. And on Saturdays and Sundays a unique and tasty brunch menu is offered, including bottomless mimosas.
Who knows, you may even find yourself reminiscing about a European cafe street scene as you sit on our outdoor patio overlooking the beautiful park setting with pedestrians and traffic bustling in front of you on Main St.
Depending on what you're in the mood for, we likely can accomodate!
Lunch? Come in and try one of our delicious sandwiches, gourmet burgers, fresh-made salads or soups.
If you're looking for an afternoon Happy Hour with great specials and equally great views then stop by between 3 and 6pm any day and try one of our contemporary cocktails paired with a tasty appetizer and get 20% off.
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- Cooking Time: 30 to 35 minutes
- Servings: 6 to 8
- Preparation Time: 15
- Filling:
- 1 Tbsp. unsalted butter
- 3 large apples, Mac's, peeled, cored and thinly sliced
- 2 Tbsp. packed dark brown sugar
- 1 Tbsp. grated fresh ginger
- 2 tsp. cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp. nutmeg
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans, or halves
- pinch of salt
- Crust:
- 1 cup unbleached flour
- 1/4 tsp. baking soda
- 1/2 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
- 1 cup large flake oats
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, melted
- Preheat oven 350º.
- Prepare a 9 X 9" baking pan. Line with parchment on bottom and butter the pan well.
- Filling:
- Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat, add pecans and toast until golden.
- Add apples, brown sugar, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt cook, stirring often.
- When the apples are golden and tender and caramelize, about 8 to 10 minutes.
- Put in a small bowl and let cool.
- Crust:
- In mixing bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, brown sugar and oats.
- Stir in melted butter.
- Take 1 1/2 cups of oat mixture and press evenly into bottom of prepared pan.
- Spoon filling over crust, spreading evenly.
- Crumble remaining oat mixture over filling.
- Bake bars for 30 to 35 minutes, until topping is golden brown.
- Let cool on a wire rack to room temperature, cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour, or overnight.
- Remove bars from baking pan, and cut into bars.
- Keep bars in an airtight container in the fridge.
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Coon Rapids, Minn., City Manager Steve Gatlin is allowing pile-driving work for a dam on Saturdays. Work has been delayed by high river flow since May and unanticipated debris upstream. Construction of the Anoka County side of the dam, which includes building a concrete apron, also has been delayed by about a month. The project has a two-year timetable and involves removal of a rubber dam, to be replaced with nine steel gates.
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Stately home's historic role in the First World War
In 1914 a stately home in Bedfordshire became the first in the country to be made a convalescent hospital for injured soldiers.
By the end of the First World War, 1,600 servicemen had been treated at Wrest Park near Bedford. It had by then become a full-scale hospital, with even an operating theatre in one of the rooms upstairs.
Now a new exhibition has opened telling the stories of those who stayed and worked there.
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Norfolk: Stretcher bearers successfully complete unique charity walk
Three friends have ended a fifty mile charity walk to re-enact the bravery of First World War stretcher bearers.
It took them four days to walk from Narborough in West Norfolk to Norwich.
They slept in the open and ate soldier's rations.
They wanted to be a moving monument to the often forgotten heroes of the Great War who scoured the battlefields bringing rescue and relief to the wounded and dying.
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A military enthusiast from Bedfordshire has raised thousands of pounds so he can build a memorial to his county's brave soldiers.Read the full story ›
First World War Centenary: A School Report from the Open Academy in Norwich
This tale was sent in by 14-year-old Ethan Harvey, a First World War enthusiast from The Open Academy in Norwich.
He told ITV News Anglia he wanted to tell us about a soldier who was involved in one of the most famous stories from the Great War.
And, when it comes to re-creating it, Ethan has been meticulous - right down to building his own trench.
This is the story of one soldier's life in the trenches.
First World War Centenary: A School Report from Ashton Middle School in Dunstable
Earlier this year, ITV News Anglia launched its First World War Centenary School Report and asked children from across the region to tell us a Great War story from their area.
The last in our series has been made by year eight pupils at Ashton Middle School in Dunstable.
Pupils there have been looking at the stories of their school's former pupils who fought in the Great War, the sacrifices made, and what Armistice Day means to them.
Amazing Kitchener maize maze to mark WW1 centenary
Twelve acres of Cambridgeshire countryside has been transformed into a maze which from above is in the shape of the First World War's Lord Kitchener as part of the conflict's centenary commemorations.
The Lord Kitchener Maze at Wimblington was opened by his great great niece Lady Emma Kitchener-Fellows who is married to actor novelist and director Julian Fellows ,creator of ITV's Downton Abbey.
Its first guests included children from Thomas Eaton School in Wimblington who helped plant 60,000 poppies as part of a school project.
The owners of the maize maze say visitors will have to navigate the pathways of the World War One centenary maze and find ration stamps to put in their mess tins.
The maze at Wimblington between March and Chatteris in Cambridgeshire is open until September when the maize is harvested.


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Modifying gene called Foxp3 may develop cells capable of suppressing immune response
THURSDAY, Nov. 13 (HealthDay News) -- New understanding about how to control autoimmune responses offers promise in efforts to develop treatments for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), British researchers say.
RA -- a painful, inflammatory form of arthritis -- occurs when the body's immune system attacks itself. A molecule called Foxp3 plays an important role in immune system regulation. People who lack or have mutated versions of the Foxp3 gene lack or have dysfunctional immune system regulation.
Scientists at the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge genetically engineered a drug-inducible form of Foxp3, which enables them to switch developing immune cells into regulatory cells capable of suppressing immune response.
The study was published in the current issue of the journal PLoS Biology.
"We have generated a modified form of Foxp3 which can be introduced into immune cells using genetic engineering techniques and then activated by a simple injection. When administered to and activated in animal models of arthritis, the modified cells inhibit or even reverse the disease process," group leader Dr. Alexander Betz said in a PLoS Biology news release.
The researchers are now focusing on the molecular mechanisms involved in Foxp3 function and will then start working with human cells.
"First, we will develop a human Foxp3 factor and then assess its function in human arthritis models. To be viable as a therapeutic option, the regulatory cells must fulfill certain criteria: They must be tissue matched to the patient for compatibility; they must only block the targeted disease and not the whole body immune response; and they have to home correctly to their target tissue. Establishing these criteria will be the key focus of our research," Betz said.
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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
4/17/2014 (1 year ago)
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If you're diligent and go to your doctor regularly - you still may not be getting a clean bill of health. According to a new study, one in 20 Americans who see their doctor may walk away having their condition misdiagnosed. Twelve million Americans a year could be affected by these errors.
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
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4/17/2014 (1 year ago)
Published in Health
Keywords: Misdiagnosis, five percent, patients, cancer
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Of these cases, about six million could potentially be harmful. Patient safety expert Dr. Hardeep Singh says that this means patients with conditions as varied as heart failure, pneumonia, and anemia and lung cancer could have serious problems that remain unrecognized by a doctor.
"What we say is, was there a missed opportunity? Was there some kind of a red flag?" Singh, a researcher at the Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety says.
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According to the study, published in the journal BMJ Quality and Safety, quantifying such errors has been difficult as researchers don't all use the same definition for mistakes. It's also hard to track cases across multiple providers over time.
Singh won the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from President Barack Obama for his work on missed diagnoses and patient safety.
Singh and his colleagues used data from three previous studies that focused on unusual patterns of return visits after primary care visits, such as the lack of follow-up for abnormal findings related to colorectal cancer and consecutive cases of lung cancer.
Based upon electronic "triggers" of errors in records at two large health care systems in 2006-2007, the definitions were consistent and allowed for precise analysis and estimates.
In little more than five percent of cases, the original diagnosis was wrong and could have been accurately detected by the information available in the first setting.
"It is surprising - five percent," Singh said. "Yet on the other hand, this evidence has been coming together."
Dr. Gordon Schiff, a patient safety expert at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, says he thinks Singh's study probably underestimates the actual scope of diagnostic errors.
"I think it does give us a good a hard number. Previously, we had softer numbers," he said. "But the numbers probably overlook other error activity. I would say this is a minimum."
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for Everyoneby A verified traveler from bogota
Excelente stay with pleasant staff.Posted Aug 24, 2015
Pros: Well located.
Cons: The kitchen facilities could include more facilities: towels, soap, more pans, more plates, forks, soup spoons, and more glasses.
Overall a very pleasant stay. Very spacious apartments, Attentive staff.
by A verified traveler from El Salvador, SAL
Very good service personalPosted Jul 18, 2015
Good location; bars,restaurants and night clubs available within a 10 minute walk as much. The staff is very very friendly, they talk to you by name, that is great when you already are a stranger in other countries. My only complain will be that the cleaning lady don't do the cleaning as supposedly she has to. Breakfast are great, for dinner go for a walk in comfortable cloth, relax and enjoy.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Santiago - Chile
Muy cómodoPosted Jun 30, 2015
Habitaciones muy cómodas con closets grandes, escritorio, living, comedor y cocina completa. el equipamiento esta en buenas condiciones. totalmente recomendable
for Familiesby Huyen from Vietnam
Good stay in the 4 starhotel with reasonable pricePosted Jun 29, 2015 on Hotels
Overall the hotel was good and the staff is helpful.. Except several things as follows: 1. For 2 last days I had to remind the housekeeping to make up our room. It wasn't made up by 12pm. 2. The restaurant waiters kept giving us the bill for the first 3 days breakfasts even though it included in the room rate. 3. The receptionist gave us the very long direction to the Thai restaurant while we found the much shorter way on the return. 4. The mattress is so soft that made our backs sore.
for Business Travelersby A verified traveler from Chicago
a suite in Panama CityPosted May 25, 2015
Pros: Clean rooms and premises, great friendly and helpful staff.
Location: We did not walk around the neighborhood because for one thing there is a lot of construction going on. We had our schedule pre-arranged with a varie
My husband and I were traveling with a friend. We wanted a suite so my friend would not have to be in a separate room since we had been warned about safety issues in Panama. I was told that there were very few hotels in Panama City with suites so I was relieved to find there was a Marriott. The staff was great and helped us since we don't speak Spanish and most of the taxi drivers didn't speak English. So other than the hotel itself which is new and clean, good food in the restaurant, we depended on the staff as translators. They made sure the cab drivers understood where we were going and when to pick us up. Our primary goal in being there was to take the complete transit of the canal and see its operation. When we saw new customers arriving, sometimes in groups, we understood that the primary use of the hotel is for people coming to work for companies who use the hotel as a temporary residence or for meetings.
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Washington, DC
Home Away from HomePosted May 9, 2015
Friendly staff spoke fluent English. The suited were exceptional, just like the pictures. It's near metros and supermarkets - and within walking distance from several eateries, in case you don't want to use the restaurant on-site. Anneth, Shaun, and Aurelio were very knowledgable and simply amazing!
for Business Travelersby A verified traveler
ExperienciaPosted Mar 11, 2015 on Hotels
Bastante regular para la calidad Marriott no se conseguia agua en botella para tomar
for Everyoneby A verified traveler from Cayman Islands
Convenient - close to subway stationPosted Aug 5, 2014
Pros: Hotel has all necessities for a great long weekend getaway. Pool, Gym, buffet breakfast and tour guides await your beck and call just outside
Cons: Provide apparatus to clean dishes in kitchenette (sponge/soap etc)
Location: Location is close to supermarket and subway station. Also close to Iglesia del Carmen which is a beautiful church, nice backdrop for taking pictures.
This hotel is good for family stay, close to subway station for travel to Albrook Mall (only 2 dollars for adult travel pass for the day) and room was clean and comfortable (convenient like a studio apartment). Only complaint is that kitchen did not have dish sponge or washing liquid and room attendants did not clean dishes when tidying the room.
Recommendedby Belisario
Posted Jul 16, 2014 on Hotels
Hotel muito bom, com boas instalações e preço
Recommendedby wrldtraveler from california
large comfortable roomsPosted Jun 12, 2014 on Hotels
I was in panama for sight seeing. The hotel was great. Excellent accommodations. Nice central location. The one negative was the front desk manager. I arrived late at night and was greeted by a gentlemen who was obviously not wanting to be employed. No friendly greeting, tone and body demeanor was as if I was bothering him. I enquired the next day and they told me he was the manager. The only smudge on the review was unfortunately the managers attitude, disregard that and its a 5 all around.


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2015 Fall Fire Academy Information for Attendees
Academy Extends 2015 Fall Academy Registration Deadline to October 9
Due to the extremely busy fire season NYWIMA has extended the registration deadline for the 2015 October Academy to Friday, October 9, 2015. All registrations will remain at the normal registration rate of $70 per day (excluding flat fee classes). The late registration fee has been waived. Any agencies facing payment issues, please contact the Academy office at 631-769-1556 to find out about payment arrangements for classes.
Cancelled Classes
The Academy regrets that the following classes had to be cancelled due to low student enrollment.
- S-215 - Fire Operations in the Wildland / Urban Interface
- S-270/271 - Basic Air Operations and Interagency Helicopter Training
- AWR-326 - Tornado Awareness
- PER-304 Social Media for Disaster Response and Recovery
The Fall 2015 Academy brochure is now available by clicking on the link on the right side of this page. The 2015 Academy is scheduled to run from October 22 to November 1, 2015. Online registration for 2015 and registration for access to Brookhaven National Lab are available by clicking on the links on the right side of the page.
New Course
AWR-326 - Tornado Awareness - October 30
This awareness level course helps participants to better understand the basics of tornado science, the weather forecasting process, and the tornado warning process. Participants will also be better able to implement safety measures for themselves, their families and their organizations in preparation for tornado season.
Course Modules Include:
- Science of tornadoes
- Weather forecast process
- Tornado warning process
- Tornado safety
Individuals who are interested in this free course can register for it at www.nywima.com
The Academy will be operated in a fire-camp environment (meaning the daily operations are similar to what you would see at an actual fire-camp). To ensure the smooth operation of the Academy, the following rules apply to all individuals:
Incident Check-In and Brookhaven National Lab (BNL) Information
The following links all leave DEC's website.
- Check-in will begin no earlier than 3 p.m. on Thursday, October 22rd. You may also check-in daily between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. You will find out your classroom assignments at this time. Classes run from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Some classes may run longer if an exam is involved.
- The Academy is located at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL). You will be required to have a photo ID with you to enter this facility. Follow the NYWIMA signs to Berkner Hall (Bldg. 488) where you will check- in to the Academy. Directions to the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- Breakfast and lunch will be available in the cafeteria beginning Friday morning October 23rd. NOTE: All meals will be at your own expense.
For Dormitory Lodging:
Contact: BNL Housing at (631)344-2541
- You must first complete the BNL guest online registration before you reserve your dormitory room.
- Next to register for your dorm room you must complete the guest registration form. (you will need your BNL guest registration #)
**Housing Hours of Operation:**
Mon.-Fri. 8 a.m. - Midnight Saturday - Closed Sunday - 4 p.m. - Midnight
AFTER HOURS: You can check in at Security on Upton Road across from the Brookhaven Center
Special rates have been arranged with the following hotels:
Hyatt Hotel of Riverhead - (631)208-0002
Special Academy rate of $89 per night (state you are reserving under the NY Wildfire Academy)
Includes hot continental breakfast and shuttle service.
Located at 451 E. Main Street Riverhead, NY 11901 next to the Atlantis Aquarium.
Hampton Inn of Farmingville - (631)732-7300
www.hamptoninnbrookhaven.com (honoring Double Hilton Honor points)
Special Academy Rate of $85 per night (use group code "NYS" to make a reservation)
Includes hot continental breakfast and shuttle service.
Located at 2000 North Ocean Ave. Farmingville, NY 11738
Marriott Springhill Suites of Bellport - (631)924-0090
Special Academy rate of $89 per night
Includes hot continental breakfast and shuttle service.
Located at 2 Sawgrass Dr. Bellport, NY 11713
Hilton Garden Inn - (631)727-2733
Special Academy rate of $99 per night
Includes hot continental breakfast and shuttle service.
Located at 2038 Old Country Rd. Riverhead, NY 11901
**Reference the NY Wildfire Academy when making your arrangements**
Class Information
The following links all leave DEC's website
- If you are enrolled in the S-130/190 Field Day, S-212, S-219, S-230, S-236, S-270/271, S-336, S-390, RX-341, PER-304, ISMTT there is student pre-work required. Please read and/or complete the pre-work and bring it with you to class, unless otherwise specified. All the above can be found on-line at http://training.nwcg.gov/pre-courses.html
- For the S-130/190 Field Day Course students should go to:
NWCG S-130 Firefighter Training
NWCG S-190 Introduction to Wildland Fire Behavior
- FOR SOCIAL MEDIA CLASSES (PER-304 and ISMTT) - Students must obtain a FEMA SID and register for the class through their training site: https://ndptc.hawaii.edu/training
- Students must complete pre-test & post-test will be completed through this site following the class. Students must provide their own Wifi capable laptop or tablet. PCs running Windows must run Windows 7 or higher.
Training Information
- Task books will not be issued at the Academy. They are to be initiated by your home unit. For those who bring a Task Book, a Training Specialist (TNSP) will be present to work with you and your trainer to ensure you receive proper credit for those tasks you have satisfactorily completed.
- Every morning beginning at 8:00 a.m. there is a Daily Briefing given by the staff alerting everyone to the locations of the classes, how you will be getting to these if they are off site, any changes that might have been made in the schedule, safety issues, the weather and a daily welcome by the Incident Commander and Academy Coordinator. Please make every effort to attend these daily. There will be evening presentations during the week. A schedule of events will be posted in the Check-In/Information area.
- While in class, casual dress is the norm.
- Students enrolled in wildland firefighting courses who have copies of standard wildland firefighting guides (i.e. Incident Response Pocket Guide, etc.) should bring these guides to class.. If you do not have a copy, they will be available for purchase at the Commissary.
Emergency and BNL Information
- The emergency phone number during the Academy is (631)394-5451. This phone will be available for your family to call and leave a message for you in case of an emergency only.
- In the event of course cancellations due to weather emergencies or other events the Academy will be making attempts to update it's website at the New York Wildlife & Incident Management Academy, our webpage at the DEC, and on our Facebook page.
- Mail service will not be provided. There is a Post Office on the premises.
Registration Confirmation Information
- If you find any errors on your confirmation or your invoice please notify us ASAP so that the error may be corrected. Finance can be reached at (631) 769-1556 - Kathy Delligatti.
Academy staff, overhead and instructors will work as hard as possible to make your training experience a positive one and we all look forward to your arrival.
If you have any questions about future Academy class offerings, or the New York Wildfire and Incident Management Academy, you may e-mail the Academy at email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com or call directly at 631-769-1556.
Additional Training Opportunities
The Academy has also provided individual training sessions for a variety of large organizations that wanted training for their entire workforce. Courses put on by Academy staff included
- I-300 - Intermediate ICS with NIMS
- S-130/190 - Basic Firefighting and Wildfire Behavior
- S-212 Wildfire Powersaws
- S-215 Fire Operations in the Urban Interface
More information on these individual training programs can be found by calling or e-mailing the Academy.
The Central Pine Barrens Commission's Wildfire Task Force conducts the Academy with a consortium of federal, state and county agencies including: (Federal) Brookhaven National Lab, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, United States Coast Guard, United States Forest Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service; (State) Massachusetts Department of Environmental Management, New Jersey Forest Fire Service, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), New York State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services (DHSES), New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control, and (City, County and Other Organizations) Fire Department of New York (FDNY), Suffolk County Department of Fire, Rescue, and Emergency Services, and the Colorado Wildfire Academy.
More about 2015 Fall Fire Academy Information for Attendees:
- Wildfire Academy Pre-registration - Information to consider before signing up for classes.
- 2015 Fire Academy Required Equipment and Pre-Course Work - Student equipment needs.
- Wildfire Academy Supplemental Information - Additional equipment and pre-course work information.
- 2014 Fire Academy Accommodations - Local area lodging options.


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Get a stick, a puck and strap some skates on your feet. It's time to play field hockey, ice hockey, or roller hockey. However, you don't need any of this stuff to play air hockey, which you can find in this category too. Actually, you don't need any of this stuff at all. You just need a desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone connected to the internet to play a little hockey wherever and whenever you want. No money is required since it's all for free. And you can squeeze in a quick hockey break from anywhere, whether at lunch, at home, or on the road. As long as you're not driving, of course! Plus, you'll walk away with all of your teeth and zero cuts and bruises as well! Play as a duck, a puppet, or a grizzled superstar while you practice your aim and hand-eye-coordination skills. Shoot and protect the goal to rack up the points. Once you find a game that you enjoy, you can always save it to your favorites for later. Just don't forget to check back on this page from time to time to see what new hockey titles have been added!


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Police Seek Suspect In Daly City Hit-And-RunPolice on Thursday asked the public for help identifying a suspect in a hit-and-run Sunday in Daly City that left a woman with serious head injuries.
Police Seek Selfie-Taker After Theft Following Craigslist Encounter In Daly CityPolice in Daly City were asking for help in finding a woman who took a selfie with an iPad she allegedly stole from someone she met on Craigslist.
2 Dogs Rescued After Falling 100 Feet Down Daly City Cliff With Woman, ManEmergency crews rescued two dogs that fell off a cliff with a man and woman early this morning in Daly City, a spokesman for the Peninsula Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said.
Mountain Lion Roams Close To Busy Daly City MallThe latest Bay Area mountain lion sighting happened at a rather unusual place in Daly City.
Daly City Pastor Won't Have To Register As Sex Offender After Pleading No Contest To ChargesA Daly City pastor who had been charged with three felony counts of child molestation pleaded no contest Wednesday to a misdemeanor count of false imprisonment which will not require him to register as a sex offender, prosecutors said.
Officer Opens Fire After Partner Dragged By Fleeing Vehicle In Daly CityPolice are investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred in Daly City Wednesday night after a law enforcement officer was dragged by a vehicle fleeing the scene of a traffic stop.
Paraglider Killed In Daly City After Crashing Into Coastside Cliff A paraglider died after crashing into a coastal cliff in Daly City Sunday morning.
2-Alarm Fire Damages 3 Daly City Homes, No Injuries ReportedFirefighters responded at 11 p.m. Friday to a fire at a two-story residence on Vista Grande Ave., in Daly City. The fire spread to two homes on both sides of the residence.
Bay Area Filipino Community Excited Ahead Of Pacquiao, Mayweather FightIn what has been billed by promoters as the "Fight of the Century," the much-anticipated matchup between Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao takes place Saturday. Excitement about the fight is high in the Bay Area's large Filipino community.
Danville Music Teacher To Stand Trial In Alleged Molestation Of Teen Girls In Daly CityA 29-year-old Danville music teacher was ordered to stand trial Thursday for allegedly molesting three teenage girls last year, prosecutors said Friday.
Adults Hosting Underage Drinking Parties In Daly City Now Face Major Fines As DeterrentDaly City joins Pacifica as the second city in San Mateo County to enact a social host ordinance. The new law allows police to cite adults for hosting parties with underage drinking.
Daly City Police Seek Help In Finding Missing Developmentally Disabled GirlSixteen-year-old Destiny Peoples has been missing since Sunday. She was last seen at about 7:30 p.m. Sunday when she left her home in the Serramonte area. She is considered 'at risk' because she is developmentally disabled.


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Panhandle shelter mistakenly euthanizes dog
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) - Employees of a Panhandle Animal shelter say a woman's dog was mistakenly euthanized because of improper paperwork.
The Pensacola News Journal reported that Cowgirl, a Labrador retriever mix, was euthanized Aug. 30 even though her owner had been in contact with the shelter for several days.
A report by the Escambia County Human Resources Department determined that an employee noted the owner's name and contact information on an identification card. But there wasn't a note on the front of the card that additional information was located on the back. The report included recommendations on how the shelter might avoid such mistakes in the future
Cowgirl isn't the first pet to be mistakenly euthanized by the shelter.
Reports show that on Oct. 25 a micro-chipped dog was put down after shelter employees were unable to contact the pet owner by phone. Shelter employees later found out the microchip manufacturer was able to reach the dog owner via email. A day earlier, a dog owner turned custody of her pit bull over to the county because it was aggressive, then changed her mind the same day only to find the dog had already been put to sleep.
Among the report's recommendations were: developing a written policy for all employees on procedures for the intake of animals, creating a spate identification process for animals that will be euthanized and requiring audits of paperwork on euthanized animals.
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Leading candidate for Rhode Island governor reveals he killed a man in car crash when he was 18-years-old
- Allan Fung, the mayor of Cranston, Rhode Island, is currently running for governor of the state
- In a press conference yesterday, he disclosed the fact that he killed a man in a 1989 car crash
- Fung says he lost consciousness behind the wheel and hit 41-year-old James W Skipper Jr
- He insists that drugs or alcohol were not involved in the crash, and that a grand jury chose not to indict him
A leading candidate for Rhode Island governor revealed publically for the first time yesterday that he killed a man in a car accident when he was a teenager.
Political strategists said it was a smart move for Cranston Mayor Allan Fung to release the story himself so early in the race, to put the issue to bed.
Fung approached the Providence Journal with the story last week, saying he knew the story was bound to come out in the race and he wanted to give voters the whole story.
'I wanted to get the truth out there,
get all the facts out there to the voters of the state of Rhode
Island,' Fung said in a 25-minute press conference yesterday. 'They need
to know the truth about me.'
Admission: Allan Fung, Republican candidate for governor of Rhode Island, held a press conference yesterday where he spoke publically for the first time about the car crash he caused in 1989 that resulted in the death of a 41-year-old man
Fung was an 18-year-old freshman at the University of New Haven when the crash happened on a Friday morning in February 1989, while driving home to Cranston to work at his parents' restaurant.
He says he lost consciousness behind the wheel and woke up after hitting a man on the side of Route 95 south who was changing the front tire on his 1981 Pontiac.
'I was just driving along. At some point, I lost consciousness,' Fung recalled. 'I remember the crash kinda woke me back up.'
The Providence Journal covered the accident at the time, and said the victim, 41-year-old James W Skipper Jr, died after being thrown 96 feet from his car. He would have turned 42 the following day.
At the press conference on Monday, Fung insisted that the crash didn't involve drugs or alcohol.
Fung was arrested and charged with driving to endanger, resulting in death, a grand jury decided not to indict him.
An accident: At the press conference, Fung insisted that the crash was not caused by drugs or alcohol and that a grand jury eventually chose not to indict him
'The accident was thoroughly investigated, and all charges were dismissed. Neither drugs nor alcohol was involved,' Fung wrote in an email to supporters on Monday. 'This is something that I have lived with, and will continue to live with, for the rest of my life.'
At the time he was represented by criminal lawyer John D Jack Cicilline (father of former Providence mayor and current U.S. Representative David N Cicilline). Fung ended up paying Skipper's family $112,000 in a court settlement with money from his parents and their insurance company.
Fung still doesn't know what happened to cause the accident. At the time, a doctor told him a thyroid condition might be to blame but he hasn't passed out like that since.
'God knows why my life was spared that day and someone else's was taken,' he said.
Fung says he hasn't kept the story the secret, and has spoken about the incident when asked about it and in job situations.
But he says the crash is the most painful experience of his life, and something he still has a hard time talking about.
At one point in the press conference he has to leave the room for a moment just to compose himself.
In for the long haul: Political strategists say it was a smart move for Fung to release the story himself so early in the campaign
While never prosecuted for Skipper's death, the accident continued to haunt his professional life.
When he interned for the Department of Corrections while in law school, the accident turned up in a background check and someone advised him to get the charges expunged from his records so he took that advice and had the records sealed.
Fung says he hasn't talked to the victim's family over the years, in part because he doesn't want to bring up the pain of their loss. But when the Providence Journal told him that Skipper's sister Joyce Strange, who lives in Maine, is interested in talking to him, he said he would 'probably give her a call'.
Mr Strange told the Journal that the accident shouldn't be held against Fung, who was 'gone through hell'.
By releasing the story so early in the campaign, Fung may have saved himself the criticism if it came out later in the campaign, by one of his rivals.
'They say "control your own issues," and that's how he chose to do it,' Jennifer Duffy, senior editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Cook Political Report, told the Journal. 'The purpose of coming out and talking about it is to show that you've got nothing to hide.'
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|May 2004
|David Brock
|Founded at
|Washington, D.C.
|501(c)(3) nonprofit
|Bradley Beychok
|American Bridge (super PAC), Media Matters Action Network (501(c)(4))
Revenue (2013)
|Expenses (2013)
|"Monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media."
Media Matters for America (MMfA) is a politically progressive[2] media watchdog and advocacy group with a stated mission of "comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media".[3][4] Set up as a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization, MMfA was founded in 2004 by journalist and political activist David Brock.[5] It is known for its aggressive criticism of conservative journalists and media outlets, including its "War on Fox News."[6]
|Social impact
|News media
Media Matters analyzes American news sources including NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, and Fox News Channel. Its techniques include content analysis, fact checking, monitoring, and comparison of quotes or presentations from media figures to primary documents such as Pentagon or Government Accountability Office reports.[7]
Beginning in 2006, Media Matters for America has released a number of studies which contend that Democrats and progressives are outnumbered by Republicans and conservatives in terms of guest appearances on television news programs.[8]
On September 12, 2007, Media Matters released its study of 1,377 U.S. newspapers and the 201 syndicated political columnists the papers carry on a regular basis. Media Matters said "in paper after paper, state after state, and region after region, conservative syndicated columnists get more space than their progressive counterparts."[9]
John Diaz, editorial page editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, said by over-factoring conservative columns in smaller newspapers, Media Matters' study had overestimated how many conservative columns appeared in daily newspapers. Diaz said Media Matters had obscured the nuanced ideological positions of some columnists classified in the study as conservative.[10]
An annual feature on the Media Matters website is the title of "Misinformer of the Year", which is given to the journalist, commentator, or network that Media Matters believes was responsible for the most factual errors or claims.[11] Recipients of this award have included: Bill O'Reilly, Chris Matthews, ABC, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh, CBS News, and George Will.[citation needed]
MMfA started with the help of $2 million in donations. According to Byron York, additional funding came from MoveOn.org and the New Democrat Network.[12][13][14]
In 2004, MMfA received the endorsement of the Democracy Alliance, a partnership of wealthy and politically active progressive donors. The Alliance itself does not fund endorsees, but many wealthy Alliance members acted on the endorsement and donated directly to MMfA.[15][16][17]
Media Matters has a policy of not comprehensively listing donors. In 2010, six years after the Democracy Alliance initially endorsed MMfA, financier George Soros — a founding and continuing member of the Alliance — announced that he was donating $1 million to MMfA. Soros said his concern over "recent evidence suggesting that the incendiary rhetoric of Fox News hosts may incite violence" had moved him to donate to MMfA.[18] During a 2014 CNN interview, David Brock stated that Soros' contributions were "less than 10 percent" of Media Matters' budget.[19] According to Politico: "Media Matters, however has received funding from or formed partnerships with several groups that Soros funds or has funded. These include the Tides Foundation, Democracy Alliance, Moveon.org and the Center for American Progress."[20]
John Podesta, former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton, provided office space for Media Matters early in its formation at the Center for American Progress, a Democratic think tank which Podesta established in 2002.[21] Hillary Clinton advised Media Matters in its early stages out of a belief that progressives should follow conservatives in forming think tanks and advocacy groups to support their political goals.[21][22] According to the New York Times, Media Matters "helped lay the groundwork" for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.[23]
Media Matters has hired numerous political professionals who had worked for Democratic politicians and for other progressive groups.[14][24] In 2004, National Review referred to MMfA staffers who had recently worked on the presidential campaigns of John Edwards and Wesley Clark, for Congressman Barney Frank, and for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.[14]
Eric E. Burns served as MMfA's president until 2011.[25] Burns was succeeded by Matt Butler, and then, in 2013, by the organization's current president, Bradley Beychok.[26]
In 2014, the staff of Media Matters voted to join the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). Media Matters management had declined to recognize the union through a card check process, instead exercising its right to force a union election.[27][28][29]
Established to "incubate a new generation of liberal pundits", the Progressive Talent Initiative trains potential pundits in media skills.[30][31]
David Brock established Media Matters Action Network to track conservative politicians and organizations.[32] Organized as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit group,[32] the Media Matters Action Network can lobby and engage in political campaign work.[33] The New York Times reported that it was "set to take on an expanded role in the 2012 elections, including potentially running television ads".[32]
Brock established American Bridge as a super PAC associated with Media Matters for America. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and a former lieutenant governor of Maryland, chairs the board of directors of American Bridge.[32] American Bridge is focused on opposition research.[34]
In 2009, Media Matters Action Network launched the Conservative Transparency website, aimed at tracking the funding of conservative activist organizations.[35] Media Matters Action Network established the Political Correction project with the goal of holding conservative politicians and advocacy groups accountable.[36]
In December 2010, Media Matters Action Network started EqualityMatters.org, a site "in support of gay equality". At launch the site fully incorporated Media Matters's content on LGBT issues.[37] Designed to provide talking points for liberal activists and politicians, Brock set up the Message Matters project.[30] Media Matters runs the website DropFox.com and works to get advertisers to boycott Fox News. One target, Orbitz, initially referred to Media Matters' efforts as a "smear campaign",[38] but agreed, on June 9, 2011, following a three-week campaign by prominent LGBT organizations, to "review the policies and process used to evaluate where advertising is placed".[39]
In 2008, Jacques Steinberg of The New York Times reported that David Folkenflik of National Public Radio had told him that although Media Matters looked "at every dangling participle, every dependent clause, every semicolon, every quotation" for the benefit of "a cause, a party, a candidate, that they may have some feelings for", they were still a useful source for leads, partly due to the "breadth of their research". Conversely, political analyst and columnist Stuart Rothenberg told Steinberg that he did not pay attention to them, as he had no confidence in "ideological stuff". In Steinberg's view, Media Matters is a new weapon for the Democratic Party employing "rapid-fire, technologically sophisticated means to call out what it considers 'conservative misinformation' on air or in print, then feed it to a Rolodex of reporters, cable channels and bloggers hungry for grist".[13] According to an Economist blog posting, "because it is dedicated to critiquing distortions by conservatives, its critiques carry no weight with conservatives."[40]
Some news organizations have cited Media Matters reports and credited it for bringing attention to issues including the story of James Guckert, formerly a reporter for the web-based Talon News. During George W. Bush's administration, Guckert gained White House press access using the pseudonym Jeff Gannon and attended 155 White House press briefings. It was revealed that he had also worked as a prostitute soliciting male clientele on the internet with photos of himself fully naked.[41] Liberal or leftist columnists and writers such as Paul Krugman and the late Molly Ivins cited Media Matters or identified it as a helpful source.[42][43]
On April 4, 2007, Media Matters posted a video clip of Don Imus calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team members "nappy-headed hoes" and made their discovery known in Media Matters' daily e-mailing to hundreds of journalists. The next day, according to The Wall Street Journal, "top news outlets didn't mention the incident." But objections made to CBS Radio by the National Association of Black Journalists led to an on-the-air apology from Imus. MSNBC, calling Imus's comments "racist" and "abhorrent", suspended Imus' TV show, and within minutes CBS suspended Imus's radio show. The Wall Street Journal said Imus's apology "seemed to make matters worse, with critics latching on to Mr. Imus's use of the phrase 'you people.'" Included among those dissatisfied with Imus's apology and suspension were the coach of the Rutgers team and a group of MSNBC African-American employees. After Procter & Gamble pulled advertising from all of MSNBC's daytime schedule, and other advertisers, including General Motors and American Express requested CBS to cancel any upcoming advertising they had bought for "Imus in the Morning", MSNBC and CBS dropped Imus's show.[44]
In 2007, Media Matters' reported radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh saying Iraq war veterans opposed to the war as "the phony soldiers". Limbaugh later said he was speaking of only one soldier, Jesse MacBeth, who had falsely claimed to have been decorated for valor but, in fact, never saw combat. Limbaugh said he was the victim of a "smear" by Media Matters, which had taken out of context and selectively edited his comments. After Limbaugh published what he said was the entire transcript of phony soldiers discussion, Media Matters noted that over a minute and 30 seconds was omitted without "notation or ellipsis to indicate that there is, in fact, a break in the transcript".[45][46] Limbaugh told National Review that the gap between referring to "phony soldiers" and MacBeth was a delay due to his staff printing out an ABC news story that reported on what it called "phony soldiers", and that his transcript and audio edits were "for space and relevance reasons, not to hide anything".[47]
The Associated Press, CNN and ABC reported on the controversy,[48] as political satirist and fictional pundit Stephen Colbert lampooned Limbaugh and his defenders saying: "Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended."[49]
In October 2007 television and radio host and commentator Bill O'Reilly said a Media Matters' headline declaring O'Reilly surprised "there was no difference" between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants took out of context comments he made regarding a pleasant dinner he shared with the Rev. Al Sharpton at a Harlem restaurant.[50][51][52] O'Reilly said Media Matters misleadingly took comments spoken five minutes apart and presented them as one.[53] In an appearance on NBC's Today with Matt Lauer, Media Matters senior fellow Paul Waldman said Media Matters had included "the full audio, the full transcript, nothing was taken out of context".[54]
On August 12, 2010, Media Matters reported that radio host Laura Schlessinger said "nigger" eleven times during a discussion with an African-American woman, continuing to say it after the caller took offense at the word. Schlessinger told the woman she was too sensitive, and that a double standard determined who could say the word. Schlessinger also said that those "hypersensitive" about color should not "marry outside of their race". The caller had earlier in the discussion said her husband was white.[55][56] Schlessinger apologized for the epithet the day after the broadcast. A joint statement of Media Matters and other organizations noted that although Schlessinger "attempted to apologize for using the epithet, the racist diatribe on Tuesday's show extends far beyond the use of a single word" and urged advertisers to boycott her show. After General Motors, OnStar, and Motel 6 pulled their advertising, Schlessinger said she would not renew her syndication contract set to expire December 2010.[55][57] In January 2011 her show resumed on satellite radio.[58]
Schlessinger held Media Matters responsible for the boycott, which she called a typical tactic of the group to fulfill its "sole purpose of silencing people". She said the boycotts' "threat of attack on my advertisers and stations" had violated her First Amendment free speech rights.[59][60][61] Media Matters claimed that, as the boycott was not "government-sanctioned censorship", her First Amendment rights had not been violated.[62]
In 2010, MMfA declared a "War on Fox". Brock said MMfA would focus its efforts on Fox and select conservative websites in what Brock called an "all-out campaign of 'guerrilla warfare and sabotage'".[63] MMfA said the greater attention given to Fox was part of a campaign to educate the public about distortions of conservative media, and the greater attention given to Fox was in line with its prominence. MMfA said its Drop Fox campaign for advertisers to boycott Fox was also part of its educational mission. MMfA said that changing Fox, not shutting it down, was its goal.[64]
In December 2013, the War on Fox was officially concluded, with MMfA Executive VP Angelo Carusone claiming the "War on Fox is over. And it's not just that it's over, but it was very successful. To a large extent, we won", claiming to have "effectively discredited the network's desire to be seen as 'fair and balanced'". Around that time, Glenn Beck had departed the network and Sean Hannity's time slot was moved from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.[65]
Saying that MMfA's War on Fox — as well as its partisan activities — was not primarily educational as MMfA had insisted, but instead "unlawful conduct", former White House counsel for George H. W. Bush and Fox consultant C. Boyden Gray sent a letter to the IRS in 2011 asking that MMfA's tax-exempt status be revoked.[66] Prior to Gray's IRS petition, Politico reported that Fox News had run "more than 30 segments calling for the nonprofit group to be stripped of its tax-exempt status".[64] In another report, Politico said Fox News and Fox Business campaigns held, "The non-profit status as an educator is violated by partisan attacks. That sentiment was first laid out by a piece written by Gray for The Washington Times in June."[67] In an interview with Fox News, Gray said "It's not unlawful. It's just not charitable."[68]
MMfA vice-president Ari Rabin-Havt said "C. Boyden Gray is [a] Koch-affiliated, former Fox News contributor whose flights of fancy have already been discredited by actual experts in tax law."[68] Gray denied having been on Fox's payroll while he was a Fox consultant in 2005, although at that time Fox had said Gray was a contributor, adding: "We pay contributors for strong opinions."[67][69]
Marcus Owens, former director of the IRS's Exempt Organizations Division, told Politico in 2011 that he believed the law was on Media Matters's side.[70] Owens told Fox Business that only an IRS probe could reveal if partisan activity takes up a substantial enough part of MMfA's operations to disallow its tax-free status; the IRS does allow limited political activity at nonprofits, so long as it does not take up a substantial amount of their operations.[71]


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Camel and Bike Race, Gun Range, Nth Face Challenge
... some video as I had to watch where I was driving. I'm glad I'd put in a few months of training on Highway 30/Fahaheel Expressway beforehand otherwise I wouldn't have had the balls to join in.
Anyway, it was a great day out and quite interesting to see how a race like this was managed given the jockeys were radio controlled little whipping machines which even had speakers on them through which the driver in the car could whisper ...
Deaths Due to Alcohol Driven Violence in Australia
... men. These acts are being branded as 'coward punches' in a social shift to stigmatise alcohol driven violence.
Here are the news stories I collected in researching this piece:
- No Country for Young Men: Notions of Gender Must Evolve
- Push to refer to king hit attacks as 'coward punches' after teen left in coma
- Redditor ...
Chance the Gardener on Lebanon
... cigarette, rises.
... Many of us forget that nature
and society are one! Yes, though we
have tried to cut ourselves off
from nature, we are still a part of
it! Like nature, our economic
system remains, in the long run,
stable and rational. And that is
why we must not fear to be at its
(he smiles at Chance, who
So Kuwait Got on the Jimmy Fallon Show
... They call them dishdashas here, and I bought one as a way of demonstrating my interest in participating in the culture. Men, in recent history, have had to wear bifurcated garments, unless you're brave enough to wear a kilt (something I'll get to in a moment). So, I had to adapt my gaydar here otherwise I would have been struggling to stifle a grimace most times I saw a formally dressed man. Another thing I have seen here is men kissing. Admittedly ...
The Grand Tour of Kuwait, Iraq Border
... no one else about where you are headed.
Another thing. As we drove along, the nice and reassuring bitumin road was being interrupted by drifts of sand more and more frequently. As we drove along this 30km section I began to wonder, and then try to stop wondering, about what would happen if the car stopped, or got stuck in a sand drift. And how quickly. One particularly scary moment for me was when we drove over a ...