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Lake Plitvice National Park
Trip Start Sep 11, 2005
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As you go from town to town I will admit you can get a bit burnt out. After five and a half weeks of traveling you can get a little tired. I won't say that you want it to be over, but you realize that each day can be a challenge. Friday was one of those challenging days.
We left Bled on a bus pretty early in the morning. We then headed to Ljubljana where we caught a train to Zagreb, Croatia. We hit Zagreb late in the afternoon and decided to continue on our journey to Lake Plitvice National Park a few hours away. Another bus took us on our journey.
We had called ahead and reserved a room in the park so that we would have a place to stay when we arrived
As we drove we saw the sun set and some of the countryside torn apart from the past war. After two and a half hours we started to peek out the window wondering where our stop would be. We saw the signs for our hotel pass by and we began to get nervous. A few miles down the road they dropped us off. We were on the side of a highway, in the darkness. We started saying our prayers and wondering what we should do now. It was pitch black, no sidewalks, and a windy highway leading back to our home for the night. Oh the joys of traveling without a car.
So we found our flashlight and headed back towards our hotel. We hugged the side of the road and dashed away at the slightest sound of an oncoming car. I was praying like crazy, asking God what He was trying to teach us. All kinds of verses were coming to mind, especially Psalm 23. Over and over I repeated, "He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. " Somehow we made it to the hotel and smiled joyfully as we talked to the receptionist
She not so cheerfully informed us that they did not have a reservation for us and the hotel was full. We asked her to please call around and see if she could find our reservation. She directed us to another hotel a dark turn and 300 meters away. So off we went into the darkness, thanking God that we had packed a flashlight and His Word in our hearts.
The next hotel told us that they too did not have our reservation and that their rooms cost 110 Euro, that is way over our budget. That is like four times the amount we were hoping to pay. She told us that the next closest hotel was 12 kilometers away and there was no way to get there without a car. I was very grouchy and confused. We sucked it up and coughed over the cash to this stuffy hotel. All the while I was thinking, where did our reservation go?
I was on a mission to find out who caused this chaos. Of course I couldn't get the phone to work in our room so I ran off to the payphone. Charlie and I called back the number we had made our reservation with, no one answered this time. I was beyond frustration. I managed to find my way out to our balcony to try and find some peace. I then could hear the amazing crashing sound of water. It was very dark so I had no idea what was making this great sound, but it reminded me to be thankful. I had a balcony with a great view and amazing surround sound, I should praise God in the midst of our challenges.
The next morning brought with it confusion. What were we going to do about our sleeping arrangements? We wanted to visit the park, that was why we came all the way out here, but we couldn't do that and head on to our next destination in the same day
We stowed our bags at the front desk and ventured into the amazing park. We knew we were going to have to find somewhere to crash for the night because we were not leaving without exploring this amazing creation. God is so good.
We found our way to another entrance of the park. We had been told that not too far from the park was a small village. We were assured we could find a room there. Wouldn't you know it we were back on the highway in search of a place to stay. We found a small sign that said rooms and followed it down to a collection of homes. Each home had a sign out front that said they had rooms to rent. Some nice ladies sitting out on their picnic table told us that they had a room for a small fraction of what we paid the night before
Charlie asked if by some chance someone could take us back to the hotel to get our bags. A few minutes later a nice gentleman pulled up and took us back to our first hotel. On the way back he showed us how to get to the village safely from the park. We were so excited. We offered to pay him for the ride, but he said no. This was his house we were staying in and he seemed glad to help. Kindness is such an awesome thing.
We were eager to get back to the park. Upon arrival we were amazed at what we saw. Lake Plitvice National Park is a small piece of heaven. It made all the frustration we had gone through worth it when we finally arrived. What we were met with was incomparable beauty in every direction. The focus of the park is on the cascading waterfalls. The park is a collection of 16 lakes at different levels. As one lake rushes into another you are met with hundreds of beautiful waterfalls. The color of the water varies with the sunlight and direction you are facing, but from any angle you are met with clarity. Aqua, Clear, Charlie says Miami Dolphin Blue, are all glorious shades you see when you gaze at the water falling in so many directions.
We were lucky to have all of this surrounded by the lovely colors of fall
As we came back to our room we were greeted by our host who offered us something cold to drink and information about where we could get food in the morning. We gazed at our pictures wishing we could share this amazing place with everyone that we love. It reminds us of how creative God really is and how privileged we are to experience it all.
Today we were greeted with another sunny day. The temperature was warm and welcoming. The waterfalls seemed to be calling our names drawing us back to their beauty. We found our way to the far end of the park. There were not as many people and we enjoyed strolling through the grounds basking in the wonders of nature. The lakes reflected the glistening sunlight and lead us to waterfalls around every corner. We snapped a ton of pictures and tried to figure out how we could make this place last in our minds forever. I didn't want to turn away because I did not want to forget this awe inspiring place
We hiked another full day, enjoying every moment along the way. When we stopped to take a boat ride across one of the lakes we realized how much time had flown by. We wanted to make it back to the other side of the park so we picked up the pace as the sun was sinking. The journey was shorter than we thought and we were able to spend our last few minutes enjoying the big waterfall and the smaller falls which surrounded it. As I said goodbye I felt like I was leaving an old friend. The falls had shared their water with me, splashing me and cooling my face. They had reminded me of God's goodness and creativity. They allowed me to wander close by taking it all in. I would surely miss all this. It was very hard to walk away. One of the most beautiful places I have experienced had me captured in a trance. Thankfully it was a refreshing and rewarding trance. I am reminded that although there are frustrations it is an incredible privilege to be a traveler. You get to see this amazing world, I wouldn't change that for anything.


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Hello everybody. First of all thanks to the DXOMARK team for their outstanding work. It would indeed be nice to have the newer Nikon 24MP DX bodies tested. I think that many people are intested in buying some new lenses but are waiting to see how they perform on the 24MP sensors (d3200, d5200, d7100). It will be very interesting to see the real impact of those extra pixels in terms of actual image resolution ? Greetings everybody.
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Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
Not to make light of the fact that equine D.N.A. has been found in beef burgers, I think it wasn't actual horsemeat that had been minced and added, but a powder - produced in the Netherlands - containing horse D.N.A, as a bulking agent. The manufacturers apparently didn't know of this.
As for people who eat only Halal or Kosher meat, I don't think they need to worry, as these are produced in specialist establishments which are regularly inspected by Immams or Rabbis.
#12 Wed 06 Feb 13 5:40pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
linda.cooney.12 wrote:
Hi ... My daughter ate a tesco burger and within 6 minutes she was in acute severe anaphylaxis shock. She was rushed to intensive care and the doctors where unsure if she would even make it through the night. She survived thank God. I mentioned to the doctors at the time that all she had was a burger. They didn't really find out what happened to her that night. Ran tests and said she's highly allergic to a lot of things. When this burger scandal came out I just knew she nearly died because of that. She can't even go near a horse never mind consume its flesh. I'm sickened that this could have possibly ended her life. We live in Dublin.
I'm the same with peanuts....though strangely only for the last 10 years or so.
Best stick with home-made burgers if you can...
#13 Wed 06 Feb 13 6:12pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
http://news.sky.com/story/1046495/halal … n-pork-dna
You know stuff that says Halal on it is very rarely Halal. On the whole slaughterhouses just produce meat they always do and pay some guy like Masood Khawaja, from the Halal Food Authority mentioned in that article to cirtify it as Halal.
I know the trading standards have given Masood Khawaja, from the Halal Food Authority many fines for cirtifying clerly non-Halal meat as Halal for payment.
Off the top of my head I can name two takeaways that Masood Khawaja's Halal Food Authority have cirtified as Halal for a fee that sell pig parts in their food.
The UK government can give as many fines to Masood Khawaja's Halal Food Authority as they like. He will keep on doing it because he makes a lot more money on cirtifying food that isn't Halal as Halal than he loses in fines.
He and people like him is why HMC was set up, they inspect meat at ever stage or production.
Even though I believe in a religion. I do not trust organised religion.
People calling themselves priests, Rabbis and Imams and expecting us to trust them.
I kind of get the feeling if you pay someone, he will do what ever is asked of him. I can't speak for Jews. But me personally, I would think if a slaughterhouse pays an Imam he would say what ever they make is Halal whether it is or not. That is why I believe in independent inspection.
I used to respect organisations of all religions. But I lost faith in all organised religion when my son became ill. I thought a religious school would be better for him because I thought religious people are like that. So applied to our Local Church of England school. He had a SEN so they have to accept him by law. But they refused to because they didn't want disabled people in thier school.
Even though I still believe in God and my religion, I lost faith in all organised religiobn after that. I don't trust anyone anymore.
Now he goes to my old school and his teacher was teaching there when I was there. She wasn't my teacher but was my older brothers one and remembers me.
#14 Wed 06 Feb 13 6:19pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
Masood Khawaja, from the Halal Food Authority is a real ****. Here he says laws should be made stronger. But his own organisation is the biggest law breaker when it comes to falsely labeling Non-Halal meat as Halal.
He has always been known as someone to call for the removal of laws that safeguard Halal/Kosher.
#15 Wed 06 Feb 13 7:44pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
abdullahcohn wrote:
Masood Khawaja, from the Halal Food Authority is a real ****. Here he says laws should be made stronger. But his own organisation is the biggest law breaker when it comes to falsely labeling Non-Halal meat as Halal.
He has always been known as someone to call for the removal of laws that safeguard Halal/Kosher.
Oh....do get off your high "Horse" Abdullah...
(No offence meant, or taken, I presume... )
#16 Wed 06 Feb 13 8:01pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
lol, good one, No offence taken you were only horsing arround.
#17 Thu 07 Feb 13 7:21pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
According to the "Daily Mirror" yesterday, Asda "beef" burgers were found to contain up to 80% Horsemeat....
I would google the story and provide a link....if I could be that bothered about people who shop where the food is cheapest...because the cheapness is all they care about...
#18 Thu 07 Feb 13 7:46pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
I can beat that. Beef Burgers have been found with 100% horse meat. I heard it on BBC radio. I can't remember which supermarket cause I was driving at the time.
#19 Thu 07 Feb 13 11:03pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
Findus Beef Lasagme can be 100% horse:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink … -meat.html
#20 Thu 07 Feb 13 11:14pm
Re: Horsemeat in Irish burgers
You know the it was 60-100% horse meat. So you can say the lasagne was horse but sometimes it was contaminated by up to 40% cow meat?
You know, I think they should start testing burgers for cat, dog and Human.
Loads of stray cats and dogs are killed each year, what happens to their bodies?
And are we really sure crematoriums can be 100% trusted to burn everything that goes in? Can we trust morgues to dispose all the bits they pull out in a incinerator?
You know KFC is said to be finger licking good. But when you eat their burgers could you be licking some dead guys fingers?
I mean people why would people that put upwords of 100% horse and downwords of 0 % beef in beef be trusted to end it at horse?


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Kudos to Victor Cruz for his tribute to Giants fan Jack Pinto last week. But how about the starters for this week's games all wear Jack Pinto's name on their backs? Or, better yet, the starters could wear the last names of all those killed at the school and the second string could all wear Pinto on their jerseys. I think that would be a fitting tribute to the victims of that lunatic.
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Felton, WTC coalition gain honor
Kelly Felton, coalition coordinator with the Working Together Coalition (WTC), was awarded a scholarship from the Anti-Drug Coalitions of America and been invited to speak at this year's Substance and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) National Prevention Day Feb. 4, at the Gaylord National Hotel & Convention Center in National Harbor, Md.
Felton will present at two sessions, focusing on WTC activities and efforts in the Pine River-Backus, Walker-Hackensack-Akeley, and Northland communities during last year's first annual national prevention week. She will highlight the planning process, positive outcomes, increased community awareness of behavioral health issues and new partnerships formed during that week that have yielded additional collaboration.
This one-day event provides a forum for prevention practitioners, community leaders, researchers, scientists, consumers, and advocates in the behavioral health field to learn about effective programs and the latest developments in the areas of substance abuse prevention, substance abuse treatment, and mental health. Participants are able to network with other SAMHSA grantees and partners and will have the opportunity to take part in workshops to enhance their strategic organizational skills and to share experiences and information.
The ninth annual Prevention Day is in conjunction with CADCA's National Leadership Forum. CADCA's Forum is the nation's largest meeting for community prevention leaders, treatment professionals and researchers. The theme this year is "Coalitions: Science, Strategies, and Solutions" which emphasizes the importance of developing broad-based strategic alliances, implementing proven and promising strategies, and achieving population-level change.


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why not resign Brown? i think hes proven to be very solid all over the field. Do you think this year was a fluke?
They have to resign him still not that he is a fluke but he isnt the same player as phillips. Giants dont have a true single High safety on the roster besides Phillips.
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So Richardson followed by Datone Jones solid DE out of UCLA over Hunt
Not Datone Jones. Jones is a nce player but he is a Strongside 4-3 end. I want a weakside 4-3 end or Edge rushing LB to replace Osi. U arent getting edge rushing from any of the ends u listed. Datone Jones played inside a lot
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"I was totally overwhelmed and confused," the new Portland resident says candidly of her "post-partum funk," during which she feared that writing — a craft she'd honed at the University of Iowa's famous creative writing program — would fall by the wayside while she tried to juggle motherhood and a part-time paying job (most likely in social work, which she'd studied for her second master's degree, from Smith College).
She still doesn't know who her fairy godmother (or father) is, but two weeks after her son Asa was born, Braunstein got an unexpected phone call from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, which annually identifies and honors emerging female writers (the foundation's namesake, who died in 2005, is the author of The Last of the Wizards, The Best of Everything, and 14 other books). The caller told Braunstein that she'd been anonymously nominated, and chosen, to receive one of six $25,000 writer's awards, which she will formally accept on Thursday in New York City.
She calls the award "miraculous," and indeed, it's an apt narrative for a woman who relishes magical realism. All she knows about the person who nominated her for the award is that he (or she) described her work as "beautiful and singular."
In a matter of minutes, the prospects looked different for Braunstein and her husband, who moved into an Oakdale apartment just a few weeks ago. With the money, she can pay for part-time childcare and studio space that will give her more time to write. Braunstein is working on her first novel, Split, set in a place much like upstate New York — a locale that she says "enchanted me in some way when I was little." It's the story of people who want to flee superficially ordinary lives, in which "strange, bewildering, uncanny things are happening beneath the surface."
"What interests me is looking at the most apparently sane and complete people, and finding out what is abnormal in those psychologies," says Braunstein. At the same time, she strives to "take objects and places that seem familiar, and find the kind of strangeness in them."
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Last time I got this excited for an album mix was around this same time last year, when Drums of Death dropped his Peaches' mixtape which highlighted a number of her then-new tracks from the impending, I Feel Cream. That title totally applies today, because I've got 25 minutes of hot hot hotness thanks to DJ Replay's mix which runs through Kelis' upcoming Flesh Tone, as well as tossing in some older treats of hers.
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Adjusting funding formulas for growth in charter enrollment. Three of the five entities profiled in this section (Arizona, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.) have annual allocation formulas designed to take enrollment growth into account. Others would like to move in this direction. In New Mexico, the NMCCS seeks to change the state's funding model so that the overall program funding level each year is based, in part, on changes in charter enrollment.
Adjusting funding formulas for inflation, particularly in facilities-related costs. Arizona respondents Sigmund and Kaprosy argue that the amount of aid for charter facilities should grow at the rate of a construction inflation index, which Arizona uses to adjust traditional public schools' funding when capital costs significantly increase. Sigmund points out that while Arizona's index has increased more than 12 percent per square foot over the past two years, the amount of facilities assistance for charter schools in the state has increased only 2 percent over the same period.23 Noting that Minnesota's lease aid grant amount also is due for an inflation adjustment, Schroeder suggests that states create adjustment mechanisms that account for local variations in the costs of living and construction.
Allowing flexibility in use of state aid intended to assist with cost of charter school facilities. Two jurisdictions highlighted in this guide for their facilities aid approaches (Arizona and Washington, D.C.) offer charter schools the flexibility to direct these funds where they deem them most needed. By not restricting this use of funding, these jurisdictions may encourage charter schools to be economical in their choices related to facilities because any leftover funds can be directed toward other needs. Many respondents cited the value of such flexibility.


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The ground floor has a spacious living room, kitchen and a sunny terrace. An enclosed parking for your car, we keep - no charge - for you in the
immediate vicinity. In the kitchen you are cooking with high safety with
pleasure, on the terrace for breakfast or a small sun break.
In addition, we still have to offer a comfortable summer house on the same property for max. 4 people.
1 bedroom, 1 sitting room, kitchen, shower, WC, terrace. Bookable in connection with the house or also separately.
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Reviews of this property
Great place to stay Good reception and Katarina was very friendly. The house is fully equiped and the fridge was already filled Nice garden as well Public transportation to the centre very near and frequent
Strenght of the Wifi could have been stronger
Next time in Berlin we will book here again
Very nice apartment which was very well equipped. Lacked hot water for showers,Took some time to establish contact to get hold of the key despite several tries weeks in advance. Very nice located in calm area. Great with bus very close which took you into Mitte. Could truly recommend it. Very children friendly and the extremely friendly cat next door was a very welcome bonus for the children.
A very nice and very quiet little house with a lovely garden. It is the whole place to yourself. Great and safe parking facilities. 5 min walk to the bus and just 10 minutes by bus to Unter den Linden. Penny and Aldi stores within walking distance. Highly recommended for anyone who attach no great importance to nightlife.
Ein sehr schönes und sehr ruhiges kleines Haus mit hübschem Garten. Man ist dort ganz für sich. Super und sichere Parkgelegenheit. 5 min zu Fuß zum Bus und gerade mal 10 Minuten mit dem Bus bis Unter den Linden. Penny und Aldi-Märkte in Laufdistanz. Sehr empfehlenswert für alle die keinen grossen Wert auf Nachtleben legen.
We had a very nice stay with Susi and Uwe. A nice apartment and full access to a nice garden (and especially loved by the kids - cats and rabbits to cuddle!). 5 min walk to the bus - and you were right in the city-centre in about 10 min - perfect! Very nice and quiet area to stay in. I would recommend this place to any family traveling to Berlin!
A really good experience to stay with Katarina and Uve. Very sweet and helpful and not least flexible. Although the location in quiet area, only 10-15 minutes drive from the center. If I'm going to Berlin again, I will definitely contact katarina and Uve again
En rigtig god oplevelse at bo hos Katarina og Uve. Meget søde og hjælpsomme og ikke mindst fleksible. Skønt sted i roligt område, kun 10-15 minutters kørsel fra centrum. Hvis jeg skal til Berlin igen, vil jeg helt sikkert kontakte katarina og Uve igen
Very nice, quiet apartment, we felt very woh. Good starting point to explore Berlin. Very nice hosts!
Sehr schöne, ruhige Wohnung, wir haben uns dort sehr woh gefühlt. Guter Ausgangspunkt, um Berlin zu erkunden.
Sehr nette Gastgeber!
Perfekt, perfekt. perfekt nothing more than perfekt.
Can only recomand this to other people.
A very nice, comfortable accommodation in a quiet area. Super connection and the 200 bus to all major tourist attractions over. Fast WIFI Internet and big TV made our week in Berlin "at home". Would come back any time!
Eine sehr schoene, comfortable Unterkunft in einer ruhigen Gegend. Super Anschluss and den 200 Bus an allen Sehenswuerdigkeiten vorbei. Schnelles WIFI Internet und grosses TV machten unsere Woche in Berlin "wie zuhause". Wuerden jederzeit wiederkommen!
We had a great stay in this little cocoon Berliners. We really felt like home. Total Comfort!
Nous avons passé un excellent séjour dans ce petit cocon Berlinois. Nous nous sommes vraiment senties comme à la maison. Total Confort!!
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Ford Super Duty - The Adventure BeginsPosted in Product Reviews on December 1, 2001 Comment (0)
Make no mistake. Ford's Super Duty 4x4s have changed the face of off-roading, thanks to several desirable traits, such as distinctive style, heavy-duty design, available V-10 engine, and the coveted straight axle/leaf spring configuration hung on the front of the duty's chassis. As with any truck that achieves got-to-have-one status, the Super Duty is being heavily supported by the aftermarket, with accessories specifically designed for the off-road community's new heavyweight contender. What follows is a look at suspension systems, engine performance goodies, and assorted accessories intended to enhance the Super Duty experience
Super Duty Suspension Guide:Shocks, Springs, And A Few Other Things
As previously noted, Ford's Super duty is the current favorite of enthusiasts who are focused on fitting their dutys with a lifted suspension and tall tires. here's an overview of various aftermarket offerings, from conservative to high-zoot; from strictly functional to show-me-the-undercarriage radical.
What It Is: Fabtech's 8-inch Suspension Lift
What It does: Functionally lifts a Super duty so that 38-inch-diameter tires can be installed.
Why It's Super: System includes new front spring packs with tapered leaf ends and Teflon inserts for a smooth ride; front track bar drop brackets; drop pitman arm; extended antisway bar endlinks; front urethane bumpstops. main leaves use a military eye wrap for strength; rear lift uses blocks, add-a-leaves, or complete lifted spring packs; optional dual front shock mounts.
Where to Get It: Fabtech Motorsports, Dept. Or, 1000 Beacon St., Brea, CA 92821, (714) 990- 8850, www.fabtechmotorsports.com.
What It Is: explorer Pro comp's 6-1/2-inch suspension lift
What It does: Lifts a Super duty using a matched suspension system. packs; replacement front track arm bracket; forged, drop pitman arm; special antisway bar endlinks allow full axle articulation; heavy-duty urethane bumpstops; Proride rubber spring eye bushings. Includes RS 3000 performance shocks; optional rear lifted leaf packs.
Where to Get It: Explorer Competition Products Inc., Dept. Or, 2360 Boswell Rd., Chula Vista, CA 91914, (619) 216-1444, www.explorerprocomp.com.
What It Is: Skyjacker's 8-inch suspension lift
What It does: Lifts a Super duty a full 8 inches while retaining a smooth ride.
Why It's Super: Specially designed front spring packs can be used with V-8 gas, V-8 diesel, or V-10 engines without spring sag; dOT-approved, forged, extreme-drop pitman arm; Softride hydro or optional nitro shocks; optional triple front shock hoop; optional dual front stabilizers.
Where to Get It: Skyjacker Suspension, Dept. Or, 212 Stevenson St., West Monroe, LA 71292, (800) 551-4955, www.skyjacker.com.
What It Is:Rancho Suspension's lift/ leveling suspension
What It does: raises the frontend of a Super duty 4 inches and the rear 2-1/2 inches, giving a Super duty a level stance.
Why It's Super: easy installation; includes track bar bracket, drop pitman arm, urethane bumpstops, extended antisway bar endlinks and extended DOT-approved braided brake lines. components are MIG-welded and powdercoated or plated for durability; system includes front and rear spring packs (no blocks).
Where to Get It: Rancho Suspension, dept. Or, 500 N. Field Dr., Lake Forest, IL 60045, (847) 482-5000, (800) 574-6257, www.gorancho.com.
What It Is: King Shock Technology custom shocks
What It does: Provides race-quality suspension control and super-cool looks.
Why It's Super: They're super because King shocks (dampers) are fully tunable, adjustable, and rebuildable. every King damper is built for a specific spring height and rate, the amount of wheel travel, and is set up for the precise overall weight of a Super duty. All King dampers are nitrogen gas charged; heim joints are used at both mounting points. Options include remote reservoirs and special external finishes. King also manufactures bypass dampers that use extremely adjustable position-sensitive valving.
Where to Get It: King Shock Technology, Dept. Or, 10402 Trask Ave., Ste. A, Garden Grove, CA 92843, (714) 530-8701, www.kingshocks.com.
What It Is: Superlift 8-inch suspension lift
What It does: Provides a rugged, componentmatched lift that allows use of tires as big as 38 inches in diameter.
Why It's Super: Special spring rate on the front spring packs deliver a tall ride height without sacrificing ride quality; heavy-duty track rod drop bracket keeps the track rod in phase with the drag link, preventing suspension bind during axle travel and maintains Oe steering geometry; brake line extension brackets; Superlift shocks. Optional features are dual steering stabilizers, dual front shock mounts, and rear lift blocks or add-a-leaves.
Where to Get It: Superlift Suspension, Dept. Or, 211 Horne LN., West Monroe, LA 71292, (318) 388-0816, www.superlift.com.
What It Is: Al's Performance lifted spring hangers
What It does: Provide an economical, easily installed 4-inch lift.
Why It's Super: The front spring hangers are manufactured with precision flame-cut 3/4- inch steel plate, MIG-welded for strength. The lifted spring hangers are a basic bolt-on install, but require the repositioning of the brake line brackets and the installation of longer shocks.
Where to Get It: Al's Performance, Dept. Or, 28710 Las Haciendas, Temecula, cA 92590, (909) 695-2323.
What It Is: Fox Racing Pro Series bypass damper
What It does: Allows extensive tuning of the spring damping characteristics.
Why It's Super: external bypass tubes use adjusters that are easy to access; bypass dampers are position-sensitive and can be tuned to provide a soft initial ride, then go progressively firmer as the suspension compresses; can be adjusted to supplement the bumpstops; bodies are nickel-plated; models available with various amounts of travel from 10 to 18 inches; heim-joint mounting eyes. Optional external reservoirs.
Where to Get It: Fox Racing Shocks, Dept. Or, 3641 Charter Park Dr., San Jose, CA 95136, (408) 269-9201, wwwfoxracingshox.com.
What It Is: Explorer Pro Comp 2WD Super Duty Lift
What It does: Lifts Ford's Twin I-beam front suspension a full 6 inches.
Why It's Super: complete engineered system includes lifted front coil springs, heavyduty radius arm drop brackets, and crossover compression strut, super-strong I-beam drop brackets, a forged, dropped pitman (steering) arm, and antisway bar extension brackets. eS 3000 shocks are included; the rear lift is via add-a-leaves and alloy lift blocks. Installed kit allows use of 35-inch-diameter tires.
Where to Get It: Explorer Competition Products Inc., Dept. Or, 2360 Boswell Rd., Chula Vista, CA 91914, (619) 216-1444, www.explorerprocomp.com.
Super Duty Power Mods: More Horsepower, More Torque
While the general public may be satisfied with the output of any of the Super duty engines, off-road enthusiasts know there are additional ponies inside of the engines, begging to be let loose. There's an excellent selection of aftermarket goodies available for the 5.4L Triton V-8, and performance parts for the 6.8L Triton V-10 are becoming readily available. heck, there are even power-boosting systems for the 7.3L Power Stroke diesel, if the oil-burner's 500-plus lb-ft of torque doesn't suffice.
What It Is: B&B Fabrication's Power Stroke exhaust system
What It does: Increases the turbo diesel Power Stroke's output by 22 hp and 37 lb-ft of torque.
Why It's Super: mandrel-bent, 4-inch-diameter, T304 stainless steel tubing; flanges, hangers, resonators, and tips are also T304; 50-state-legal status; TIG-welding throughout; patented high-flow Tri-Flo muf- fler; maximum power requires the use of optional 3-1/2-inch diameter down pipe (from turbo outlet to exhaust system).
Where to Get It: B&B Fabrication Inc., Dept. Or, 23045 N. 15th Ave., Phoenix, AZ 85027, (888) 228-7435, www.bbtriflo.com.
What It Is: Kenne Bell's Twin-Screw Supercharger for the Triton V-10
What It does: completely bolt-on install; boosts power quietly and effectively.
Why It's Super: extremely low internal friction of the Kenne Bell blower means greater efficiency; Twin-Screw Supercharger takes air in at the front, compresses the air along the length of the twin intermeshing screw-shaped rotors, then pushes the pressurized air out the rear outlet. Typical horsepower increase on an otherwise stock V-10: 100; typical torque increase: 93 lb-ft.
Where to Get It: Kenne Bell, Dept. Or, 10743 Bell CT., Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91730, (909) 941-6646, (909) 941-0985, www.kennebell.net.
What It Is: Gale banks PowerPack airflow system for the Power Stroke diesel
What It does: boosts the Power Stroke's power by improving and cooling the intake airflow. Torque gain: 220 lb-ft; horsepower gain: 113.
Why It's Super: banks' ram-Air free-breathing air filter; banks' high-flow monster Turbine Outlet Pipe replaces the restrictive Oe turbo pipe; 3-inch-diameter, mandrel-bent exhaust system; the banks Quick-Turbo turbocharger housing is smaller than the Oe housing, creating better throttle response; banks' Techni-cooler intercooler assembly and Twinram manifold cool and manage the intake airflow; banks' PowerPack computer module modifies the fuel delivery.
Where to Get It: Gale Banks Engineering, Dept. Or, 546 S. Duggan Ave., Azusa, CA 91732, (626) 969-9600, (800) 438-7693, www.bankspower.com.
What It Is: K&N Fuel Injection Performance Kit
What It does: noticeably increases throttle response and power on Triton 5.4L V-8 and Triton 7.3L V-10 engines.
Why It's Super: The FIPK dramatically reduces intake restriction as the filter straightens and smoothes incoming air, which allows the engine to inhale a larger volume of air during each intake stroke, resulting in torque and horsepower gains; unique filter housing/heat shield helps keep hot air from entering the filter; K&n filters are washable and re-oilable; FIPK is legal in all 50 states.
Where to Get It: K&N Engineering Inc., Dept. Or, 1455 Citrus Ave., P.O. Box 1329, Riverside, CA 92502-1329, (909) 684-9060, www.knfilters.com.
What It Is: Borla cat-back exhaust for Triton 5.4L V-8 and 7.3L V-10 engines
What It does: Gives Triton engines more power and better sound.
Why It's Super: constructed in the u.S.A. using aircraft-quality T304 stainless steel, mandrel- bent, 3-inch-diameter, 14-gauge tubing; uses a high-performance muffler with dual 2-1/2-inch outlets; 50-state-legal status; system uses Oe spring hangers.
Where to Get It:Borla Performance Products, Dept. Or, 5901 Edison Dr., Oxnard, CA 93033, (805) 986-8600, www.borla.com
Super Duty Accessories: Maximize Function And Style
Super duty-specific parts and accessories are the current aftermarket rage, with everything from fender flares to grilles and bumpers to winches. even as you're reading this story, the aftermarket is in full-tilt development on a slew of Super duty styling and performance accessories that will only feed the frenzy over off-road-modified Super dutys. here are some parts that are sure to make your Super duty experience a whole lot better.
What It Is: Bushwacker cut-out Fender Flares
What It does: Provide stylish fender clearance for large-diameter tires; protects the paint from the chips and damage that occur when rocks and mud are thrown from the tread of a spinning tire; provide legal coverage for wide tires.
Why It's Super: basic installation requires only a small amount of sheetmetal cutting and the drilling of holes for the flares' fasteners. Flares are manufactured from near-indestructible plastic.
Where to Get It: Bushwacker Inc., Dept. Or, 6710 N. Catlin, Portland, OR 97203, (503) 283- 3007, www.bushwacker.com.
What It Is: Ramsey RPH 12,000 Winch
What It does: Pulls a Super duty out of a sticky situation without stress-related failure.
Why It's Super: hydraulically powered; spring-applied hydraulic release brake; choice of air-actuated clutch or manual clutch; expandable to operate hydraulic tools; massive winch designed for industrial uses and tow truck applications.
Where to Get It: Ramsey Winch, Dept. Or, 1600 N. Garnett, Tulsa, OK 74116, (918) 438-2760.
What It Is: J&J enterprises custom Grille
What It does: Gives a Super duty's grille cavity a touch of flash.
Why It's Super: Polished 304 stainless steel construction; round, 1/2-inch-diameter tubes; doesn't require cutting or modification of the OE grille; attaches with special hidden fasteners.
Where to Get It: J&J enterprises, Dept. OR, 5498 Mission Blvd., Ontario, CA 91762, (909) 628-5679, (800) 367-4961, www.j-jenta.com.
What It Is: Safari Gard Front bumper
What It does: Strengthens a Super duty's front end and provides a rugged mount for mounting auxiliary lights and a winch.
Why It's Super: Constructed from 3/16-inch mild steel plate topped with 2-inch-diameter, 0.120-inch-thick tube for light protection; four integral light tabs; available with a powdercoat or a chrome-plated finish; optional winch mount/cutout.
Where to Get It: Safari Gard, Dept. or, 41095 Fig St., Murrieta, CA 92562, (909) 698-6114, www.safarigard.com.
What It Is: Optima yellow-Top battery
What It does: Provides gobs of cranking power and electrical energy for winches, lights, high-powered sound systems, or other power-hungry electrical accessories without losing its capacity to be fully charged.
Why It's Super: Special acid paste is used instead of liquid acid, which means the Optima battery can operate in any position without loss of power; durable case and interior components ensure reliable function; 950 cold cranking Amps provide enough juice for V-8, V-10, and diesel-starting requirements; deep-cycle design means the yellow-Top Optima can be fully discharged and completely charged hundreds of times with no loss of capacity.
Where to Get It: Optima Batteries, Dept. Or, 17500 E. 22nd Ave., Aurora, CO 80011, (303) 340-7440, (888) 867-8462, www.optimabatteries.com.
What It Is: Leer 100XL bed cap
What It does: Gives a Super duty the look of an SUV with the versatility of a truck.
Why It's Super: recessed, automotive-style side windows with small, SUV-style flip-out ventilation windows; dual-stage rotary latch system for the rear window; a recessed Led third brake light; dark- tinted safety glass; one-piece molded construction; can be factory color-matched with basecoat/clearcoat paint; limitedlifetime warranty.
Where to Get It: Leer Truck Caps, Dept. or, 1686 Beamer St., Woodland, CA 95776, (800) 444-5337, www.leer.com


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verb: to snipe and dangle, making an incredible fake move followed by a perfectly placed shot, most commonly in the sport of ice hockey
When Alexander Ovechkin scored what became known as "the goal" while sliding on his back, he had snangled the entire Pheonix Coyotes hockey team
by MilfordSteve March 27, 2007
To snuggle at an angle, usually less than 90 degrees from the surface on which the snugglers are positioned. This act is much less conducive to chastity than lying independently at an acute angle or snuggling while sitting perpendicular to the ground.
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Sansum Clinic is proud to be home of the largest Obstetrics & Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) practices in Santa Barbara. Women's healthcare is primarily concerned with reproductive health in the childbearing years through menopause.
Our Obstetricians and Gynecologists conduct annual well-woman exams and address other routine issues, and all Ob/Gyn servcies are offered at three locations. Please click on the links below for phone, fax, hours and directions:
We routinely provide the following women's health services:
In-office, same-day, nursing appointments are conveniently offered for minor concerns such as blood pressure checks and screening for urine infections.
Our board certified obstetrical and gynecological (Ob/Gyn) physicians and nurse practitioners are devoted to primary care and reproductive medical care for women. We provide age-appropriate care to all women throughout the lifespan, from adolescents to older adults.
If your doctor recommends hysterectomy, you may be a candidate for da Vinci Hysterectomy, one of the most effective, least invasive treatment options for a range of uterine conditions. da Vinci Hysterectomy is performed using the da Vinci™ Surgical System, which enables surgeons to perform with unmatched precision and control – using only a few small incisions.
For most patients, da Vinci Hysterectomy can offer numerous potential benefits over traditional approaches to vaginal, laparoscopic or open abdominal hysterectomy, particularly when performing more challenging procedures like radical hysterectomy for gynecologic cancer. Potential benefits include:
Moreover, da Vinci provides the surgeon with a superior surgical tool for dissection and removal of lymph nodes during cancer operations, as compared to traditional open or minimally invasive approaches.1
da Vinci Hysterectomy also allows your surgeon better visualization of anatomy, which is especially critical when working around delicate and confined structures like the bladder. This means that surgeons have a distinct advantage when performing a complex, radical hysterectomy involving adhesions from prior pelvic surgery or non-localized cancer, or an abdominal hysterectomy. 2
As with any surgery, these benefits cannot be guaranteed, as surgery is both patient- and procedure-specific. While radical hysterectomy or abdominal hysterectomy performed using the da Vinci Surgical System are considered safe and effective, these procedures may not be appropriate for every individual. Always ask your doctor about all treatment options, as well as their risks and benefits.
Learn More. If you are a candidate for hysterectomy, talk to a gynecologist or gynecologic oncologist (a cancer specialist) who performs da Vinci Hysterectomy.
1.Boggess JF. da Vinci® Hysterectomy for Endometrial Cancer with Staging. Presented at ISI WWSSM 1/06. 871391_rev B_dVH Endometrial Cancer Presentation
2. UNC Department of Obstetric & Gynecology Health & Healing in the Triangle Vol 8 No 3 pp 22-23.
While clinical studies support the effectiveness of the da Vinci® System when used in minimally invasive surgery, individual results may vary. Surgery with the da Vinci Surgical System may not be appropriate for every individual. Always ask your doctor about all treatment options, as well as their risks and benefits.
For additional information on minimally invasive surgery with the da Vinci® Surgical System visit www.davincisurgery.com
Sansum Clinic physicians Dr. Carin Craig and Dr. David Raphael are specially trained in the use of the da Vinci surgical system.
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YOLOha is a philosophy of life combing two disparate but compatible concepts. YOLO (You only live once) and Aloha, the grand cultural spirit of togetherness and family that exists in Hawaii. To put it shortly, YOLOha is shorthand meaning that you only live once, so you should live your life with the spirit of aloha.
by originalchangsta September 12, 2013
A little american and hawiian thrown into one. Yoloha is simply a mixture of "Yo!" and "Aloha!".
Used occasionally around Berne, Switzerland to welcome good friends.
Used occasionally around Berne, Switzerland to welcome good friends.
"yoloha !"
"yoloha und sälü !"
"yoloha und sälü !"
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Run high intensity, highly efficient workouts and drills that improve speed, agility, explosion, vertical jumping and endurance. Used today in coaching youth athletics, high school, college and pro team sports, including football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, soccer and others.
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I have been lucky enough to have genetically amazing hair, but for year I neglected it with sub par shampoos and products. I finally got the light switch in my head turned on to take better care of my hair and started to use crew products. My hair is soo much more manageable and healthier now. As a man I dont care about hair complements, but I have gotten a couple after the switch and its pretty nice. If only getting a six pack was this easy.5


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Here is a list of 9 players that 10 different sites mocked as our 1st round pick in the '12 draft. 4 of the sites picked Dwayne Allen as our 1st, while every other player had only 1 site pick them.
From this list ALONE, who would you pick and why?
Dwayne Allen - TE
Coby Fleener - TE
Dont'a Hightower - LB
Luke Kuechly - LB
Vontaze Burfict - LB
Mike Adams - OT
Zebrie Sanders - OT
Cordy Glenn - G
Andre Branch - DE
I think that our o-line will be better next year than people think, but I'd go with Cordy Glenn based on something that I read today on him (don't remember the site) saying that he was versatile enough to play T as well. If that's the case, then I'll take Glenn's versatility on the O-line (like a young Diehl).
IF Osi isn't back next year then I'd go with the DE, Branch, in order to keep our pass rush strong since that's what our D is designed to do.


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Top photo: Zenong Yin, chair of the UTSA Department of Health
and Kinesiology, checks blood pressure at the Christmas Under
the Bridge event. Bottom photo: People line up to receive services
from the UTSA Mobile Health Lab.
UTSA students volunteer in mobile health lab
By Ashley Harris
Public Affairs Specialist
(Dec. 14, 2007)--Students faculty and staff from the UTSA College of Education and Human Development (COEHD) participated at the City of San Antonio's "Christmas Under the Bridge" event Saturday, Dec. 8. Working out of COEHD's new mobile health lab, the group provided blood pressure checks, weight assessments, and guidance on exercise and healthy eating.
The professors and students also distributed H-E-B gift cards and toys donated by COEHD faculty and staff at the college's holiday party.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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"Christmas Under the Bridge" is the city's annual event that provides toys, food and health services to the area's underprivileged and homeless population. The event is held under the Interstate 35 viaduct between Martin, North Pecos, La Trinidad and Houston streets, one block north of the UTSA Downtown Campus.
As one of a kind in Texas, the UTSA Mobile Health Lab focuses on childhood obesity research. Rather than burdening parents of children participating in studies by requiring them to take off work and travel to testing centers, the uniformed testing center is brought to them. This allows for data collection from at-risk children who normally can't participate in study groups.
The mobile health lab also travels to inner-city areas of San Antonio and remote parts of South Texas where health promotion programs are not widely available to provide health screening services, healthy cooking sessions and multimedia-based health education programs.
The 38-foot customized mobile home features a reception area, enclosed area for physical exams, area for drawing blood -- including a bench-top centrifuge and freezer -- a fitness testing station, a nutrition education kitchen, computer stations for instruction and survey research, and an enclosed area for body composition analysis.


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Since the passing of Michael Winner, there are only three remaining entities in British public life who genuinely do not care about being liked. They are Millwall fans, David Starkey, and Michael O'Leary. Even Dr Starkey's inclusion on the list is debatable: as someone who has hit his stride as a professional contrarian, the telly historian does rather need to be loathed, and increasingly feels just a little too grateful for the opportunity. As for the denizens of the Den, they at least have each other, leaving only the Ryanair boss to bear the burden of monumental universal distaste all alone.
Yet it is as gossamer on those rugby-shirted shoulders, which are always ready to be raised in his signature gesture – the expansive shrug that says: "I literally do not give one thousandth of a toss." It has been suggested Ryanair's company motto is "Talk to the hand"; certainly the airline's customer service department is widely believed to comprise a single phone ringing out on the floor of a locked cupboard somewhere on the Dingle Peninsula. And so what? You get to fly to Estonia for fifty quid. There may be only paid-for access to Pringles – but there is access to Pringles. If you don't like it, do one to BA.
When O'Leary unveiled plans to sell standing tickets for £4 – which would see passengers strapped to deeply inhospitable-looking vertical struts – I wondered whether he'd been inspired by some horrifying tale about someone lashing themselves to landing gear to enter this country. We see the desperate actions of an asylum seeker; he sees the future of the Stansted to Rhodes route. Last year he fumed that he was still being prevented from introducing the scheme. "The problem with aviation is that for 50 years it's been populated by people who think it's this wondrous sexual experience," he reflected, "when really it's just a bloody bus with wings."
O'Leary is once again in the headlines for what's usually termed "all the wrong reasons" – despite the fact that an unremittingly bad press has never done the slightest thing to dent Ryanair's profits. (It posted record ones earlier this year, down slightly last month due to fuel costs, but full-year guidance remains the same.)
The facts of this latest drama are these: Channel 4 broadcast a Dispatches show entitled Ryanair: Secrets from the Cockpit, which included anonymous testimony from various pilots alleging that the airline's policy led to them flying with reduced back-up fuel. One pilot who waived anonymity has been summarily dismissed, and Ryanair has begun libel proceedings against Channel 4. What this will do to the previously unstoppable Ryanair is the $64,000 question (though of course, the question itself is priced at $19 – the rest is made up of ancillary charges).
I've flown Ryanair plenty of times, and had a few shockers, but I'd never have gone to most of the places if I'd had to fork out what it used to cost to get there. You pays your comparatively little money, and you takes your chances. They get you there. Or thereabouts, give or take a three-hour coach trip.
Their policy on limiting the number of disabled passengers on a flight deserves greater opprobrium than it attracts; yet their policy on charging people for luggage is what we hear endlessly more about. This week the former archbishop of Canterbury expressed frustration with Christians who speak of being "persecuted", when what they mean is that they have been "made to feel mildly uncomfortable". He wished they'd grow up. I always feel the same about Ryanair passengers who complain about Ryanair's "third world" treatment of them, when what they mean is that their cheap flight was delayed and the cabin crew didn't cry a river about it.
If I were one of those who persist in the bizarrely outmoded fantasy of the glamour of air travel, when everything from slashed personnel budgets to Tony Blair's foreign policy have rendered it anything but, Ryanair would still be low down my list of sky villains. I'd be far more faux-offended by whichever non-budget airline it was that reportedly lavished man hours this week on rejigging the flight arrangements of Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Aniston, when they noticed that the former Mrs Brad Pitt and his current partner were scheduled to have to endure the same first class cabin. If so much as one civilian suitcase was lost by that airline that day then their priorities are infinitely more out of whack than those of O'Leary.
There are no VIPs on Ryanair, despite the enjoyable recent Twitter strop of former Westlifer Bryan McFadden, who was required to pay the standard £70 for forgetting to print his boarding pass, and declared: "Michael O'Leary you're a scumbag who exploits." (Bryan was on his way to Spain to play golf.) Evidently he imagined his Twitter followers would boycott the airline in protest – and let's wish him all the best with that one. After all, I'm not convinced Ryanair passenger numbers would be meaningfully affected even if they were revealed to be scrimping on safety (and in the interests of not securing my own invitation down the Strand, I should say their safety record is unblemished).
For all that Westlife made it sound desirable, none of us really wishes to be Flying Without Wings. But would we, hypothetically, accept Flying For Hugely Reduced Rates With A Theoretically Increased Risk in the Possibility of Winglessness? For all the moaning, I suspect a staggering number of us would.
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Still, behind closed doors at this very moment, there is likely a depth chart -- a pecking order -- that exists at each and every position. It probably looks something like this:
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Ryan Nassib
Josh Freeman
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Peyton Hillis
Michael Cox
Kendall Gaskins
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Dallas Reynolds
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John Jerry
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Brandon Mosley
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Mario Manningham
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I'm hoping to get to the NYG DET game this year for my first ever Giants/NFL game. maybe get mugged after the game for the full experience of Detroit.
has anyone been to Ford Field? whats the sightlines like? any sections one should avoid?
and while I'm asking what other stadiums have you been to and enjoyed?


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Idaho sees growing need for foster families
POCATELLO, Idaho - The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has named May as National Foster Care Month.
The most recent report published on the department's website indicates more than 400,000 kids nationwide were placed in the foster care system in 2010.
To put this into perspective, it would take approximately 8,000 school buses to transport all of those kids or even 30 Holt Arena stadiums in order to seat everybody.
According to the department's regional representatives, there has been a steady incline in the number of children placed in the foster care system in Idaho.
Lisa Williams is the local Region 6 Child Welfare Supervisor for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare and said the state received 19,104 phone calls this past year alone regarding people referring kids across the state to the foster care system. Out of those, there were 2,563 children who were actually placed in the system.
"That equates to a call placed every 27 minutes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week," Williams said. "So you can see that we have a high need for response for child welfare."
Williams also said with only 165 foster families in the region, she is seeing a growing need for foster parents these days.
The department's report also shows Idaho having a 2.9 percent foster care entry rate. Compared to the rest of the nation, the state with the highest entry rate is West Virginia at 8.5 percent, and Puerto Rico hitting the nation's low at 0.9 percent.
Williams said with the need for more people in the eastern Idaho region to become foster parents, anyone who is interested can call the 2-1-1 Idaho Careline at 1-800-926-2588.
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Rex Ryan's.
Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week... try the veal...
Rex need to use this footage to show what a perfect tackle is :laugh2:
One hell of tackle
Amazing Senior Picture... which one of you guys is it?
I've got more red flags that Soviet Russia!
Thanks! I must have had a couple of drinks when I put that in there. :laugh2:
I bet the back of that dudes head hurts like hell. It looks like it slams the pavement pretty hard.
It was probably Cowboy McCoy :laugh1:
Well, you should fix it and the other paragraph too.


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How to Make a Moscow Mule
You'll need lime juice, vodka, and ginger beer.
- 1/2 oz. lime juice
- 2 oz. vodka
- 4-6 oz. ginger beer
- Collins glass
- Squeeze lime juice into a Collins glass (or Moscow Mule mug) and drop in the spent shell.
- Add 2 or 3 ice cubes, then pour in the vodka and fill with cold ginger beer (not ginger ale, although what the hell).
- Serve with a stirring rod.
The Moscow Mule is not, by the way, the first silly vodka drink. That distinction belongs to the Blue Monday, first printed in the English Savoy bar book in 1930. The BM, which appears to have been quite popular in Europe, mixes vodka with a splash of Cointreau, which is just a superior brand of triple sec or white curaçao, and blue food coloring. It's a simple step to premix the curaçao and the dye, yielding blue curaçao—the first artificial liqueur (have you ever seen a blue-orange?).
The Wondrich Take:
In which our half-pint dissertation on the Progress of Vodka in America is brought to a felicitous conclusion. In 1934, one Rudolf Kunett bought the U.S. rights to the French Smirnoff brand (formerly, of course, Russian, until the hugger-mugger with that Lenin fellow) and started making and marketing vodka in America. Now, Americans had heard of the stuff, to be sure: It's not like we as a nation were entirely unprovided with Russians—some of them refugees from the revolution, many from other Russians. G. Selmer Fougner's 1935 Along the Wine Trail, a distillation of the wisdom to be found in his daily column in the New York Sun, presents a tidy little section of vodka drinks—including the earliest vodka martini our tireless researchers have been able to uncover, lurking under the guise of the Vodka Perfect (as in martini; unless, of course, it's a vodka Perfect Manhattan). But when Fernand Petiot, inventor of the Bloody Mary, moved to New York from Paris after Repeal, so scarce was vodka that he was forced to build his creation with gin. It wasn't that we didn't know vodka, it was that we didn't like it (one 1933 drink book defined vodka as "Russian for 'horrendous'").
In 1939, an exec at Heublein Inc. by the name of John G. Martin convinced his employer—Lord knows how—to buy out Kunett for all of 14K. Martin was not a stupid man, although it kinda seemed that way at first. But he was a push, push, push hard-charger, and he caught a couple of lucky breaks. First off, when they bottled Kunett's remaining stock, they used the leftover corks from his even-less-successful attempt at making whiskey. Heublein's distributor in South Carolina, the story goes, took one look at the cork and was visited with the slogan "Smirnoff White Whiskey. No taste. No smell." This, especially once refined into "Smirnoff leaves you breathless," inaugurated vodka's lock on the, ahem, dedicated daytime drinker.
Yet these brave souls, however loyal, weren't enough to support a business on the scale that Martin had in mind. Cut to Hollywood, 1946. Martin's sitting at the Cock 'n' Bull pub in Hollywood, commiserating with its owner, Jack Morgan. Morgan, you see, had been bottling this nice, spicy ginger beer that nobody wanted to drink. The deal was done: Smirnoff, Cock 'n' Bull ginger beer, and half a lime (swiped, no doubt, from the Cuba Libre), dumped into a special copper mug—sourced by yet another friend with business problems—and stuck with a meaningless but catchy name. The Moscow Mule. A little careful promotion, and wham! Vodka's breakout cocktail. Professional bartenders hated it, but the suckers bit.
At least the Moscow Mule is easy (your dog could make one), smooth, and refreshing. Taken by itself, it does no harm, and compared to so much that has followed, it's practically elegant.


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This morning's spam filter issue
January 31st, 2009 | Published in Gmail (Google Mail)
This morning there was a problem with the implementation of Google's malware filters. Gmail's spam engine uses those filters (among hundreds of other signals) to help protect our users from malware, and so between 6:00 a.m. PST and 8:00 a.m. PST, we mistakenly sent some legitimate mail to people's spam folders.
We're working to roll out an automated fix to put these legitimate messages back into your inboxes, and we expect this to happen within a day. In the meantime, if you were expecting a critical message this morning, please check your spam folder. (We tune our spam filters well enough that ordinarily you should never have to check your spam folder.)
We're very sorry for the inconvenience. We'll update this post as we have more information to share.
Update (2/1): We've rolled out a fix that has restored these messages to most people's inboxes, though to be on the safe side we'd still recommend that you check your spam folder if there was a critical message you expected to receive between 6am and 8am PST on Saturday.


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Longtime employer is community conscious
In a column submitted by Don Bye, there were a number of comments about AGCO, a Duluth, Ga.-based manufacturer of agricultural equipment, and the community of Jackson, Minn.
While we understand Mr. Bye's desire for job creation in Brainerd, we wanted to clarify some statements he made about AGCO, the company's recent and future expansion planned in Jackson, and our community. You see, AGCO is one of our community's longtime, major employers.
AGCO has been in business since 1991, and today employs more than 1,300 workers in Jackson — many who have worked at the facility for more than 20 years. They're a testament to the quality employment AGCO provides our citizens and to the value AGCO places in its Jackson manufacturing team.
We're proud that our community, a town of 3,299 in southwest Minnesota, has been a home to farm equipment manufacturing since 1963, when a local resident founded Ag-Chem Equipment Company as a distributor of spraying equipment. Ag-Chem was purchased by AGCO in 2001 and was quickly expanded in 2002 when AGCO purchased the Challenger line of track tractors from Caterpillar and began building them in Jackson.
Today, through the cooperative effort of private economic development organizations, plus city, county, state and federal government agencies, Jackson is home to Challenger and Massey Ferguson high-horsepower wheeled row crop tractors as well the Challenger track tractors and crop input application equipment originally manufactured here.
Manufacturing of the company's popular wheeled row crop tractors came to Jackson in 2011, and it was heralded by Gov. Mark Dayton as "good for jobs and good for Minnesota." These products were moved to Minnesota from Beauvais, France, so AGCO could better meet the needs of North American farmers and so the plant in France could be used to more efficiently build tractors for European farmers.
With the addition of the new tractor line, AGCO's existing 856-person work force in Jackson increased by 100. In addition, more than 200 jobs that would have moved out of Minnesota remained due to the cooperative efforts of AGCO and our community.
The Jackson AGCO facility was selected to build these two brands of tractors for many reasons, a major one being our community's existing work force. With nearly 50 years of ag manufacturing in Jackson, there is a long-standing tradition of dedication, excellence and hard work that brings agriculture some of the highest-quality and most-respected products on the market.
The heritage and work ethic of the residents of southwest Minnesota were among the deciding factors as AGCO entertained offers from across the nation to manufacture its most advanced machines.
Jackson sits at the intersection of Interstate 90 and U.S. Highway 71, both major thoroughfares. Our location benefits AGCO and our Industrial Park's other manufacturers and affects their decisions to locate and expand in Jackson. The support from the city and county of Jackson, the state of Minnesota, the surrounding community and area businesses helped clinch AGCO's decision to expand here. AGCO is committed to the Jackson community, as well as our partnership.
Certainly, in the next three years, as AGCO completes nearly $42 million in additional expansion, and several other Industrial Park businesses complete expansions, they will all need more employees. They can be assured that the city and county of Jackson, the Jackson Economic Development Corporation and other resources will work through the challenges together to ensure there is housing, amenities, shopping and, to that end, more available employees. The challenges that our community faces are challenges many other communities across the state would love to have.
If you'd like to know more about the Jackson community and what we have to offer, check us out at www.targetjackson.com. If you would like to know more about our school system and our Minnesota West campus, go to www.jccschools.com or www.mnwest.edu.
You can learn more about AGCO at http://Jackson.AGCOcorp.com. Tours of the AGCO manufacturing plant are available Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and its Intivity Center visitors' center is open weekdays.
Minnesota is a great place to live and to do business. The community of Jackson has been successful in partnering with AGCO and other manufacturers to bring employment to our region. Hopefully, the communities of Brainerd and Pine River can achieve the same success.
(Wayne Walter is mayor of the city of Jackson; Clayton Lewis is president of the Jackson Economic Development Corporation.)