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2 arrests net 108 grams of marijuana
LAKE CITY, Fla. – Two weekend narcotic arrests netted 108 grams of marijuana, according to the Lake City Police Department.
Police arrested 19-year-old Sylvester Warner (pictured, below on left) about 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Windsong Apartments in the 2900 block of Windsong Circle.
Officers said they received a report of a male walking around the building with a bag of marijuana in his hand and holding it up to his nose smelling it.
Police said they found a plastic bag of marijuana in Warner's jacket pocket.
The marijuana field tested positive and weighed 12.52 grams. Warner was arrested and charged with possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana and booked into the Columbia County Detention Center with bail set at $1,000.
Later that same evening, just before 10 p.m., police stopped 20-year-old Josiah Brown while he was driving on Southwest Arlington Boulevard with only one headlight.
During the stop, an officer said he could smell a strong odor of marijuana coming from the car. Emanuel Rentz (pictured, above on right), 24, a 16-year-old girl and a 2-year-old with no car seat were also in the car, police said.
Police searched the car and found marijuana in several places, including a compartment, ashtray and diaper bag, which contained 94 grams of marijuana and a digital scale. They said they also found $1,120 cash on Rentz.
Rentz told police the diaper bag was he and that he was trying to make some money to help support his child.
Rentz was arrested on several charges and booked into the Columbia County Detention Center with bail set at $11,000.
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BABSON PARK, Mass. – MIT freshmen Vynnie Kong (Cupertino, Calif.) and Juana Becerra (Bucaramanga, Columbia) teamed up for a key tie-breaker victory at number three doubles to help the second-seeded Engineers top the third-seeded Babson College Beavers, 5-3, in the semifinals of the 2011 New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Women's Tennis Tournament at Babson's Farwell Courts on Saturday afternoon.
With the win, MIT (7-2) advances to Sunday's Championship Match at 1 p.m., as the Engineers will take on top-seeded Wellesley with the conference crown and an automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament on the line. Meanwhile, Babson (9-3) sees the fall portion of its 2011-12 season come to a close.
After MIT's top duo of sophomores Lauren Quisenberry (Corpus Christie, Texas) and Julia Hsu (Knoxville, Tenn.) teamed up for an 8-5 win at number one, Babson tied the match when senior captains Ashley Lake (Brockton, Mass.) and Rebecca Stone (Dover, Mass.) pulled out a 9-7 victory at number two. Kong and Becerra then outdueled Babson's tandem of first-years Alexis Ferraro (Coral Gables, Fla.) and Minte Tamoshunas (Pittsford, N.Y.) in a tie-breaker, 9-8 (0), to give the Engineers a 2-1 lead after doubles.
The two teams split the first four completed matches in singles play, resulting in a 4-3 MIT advantage. For the Engineers, Quisenberry cruised, 6-0, 6-0, at number one and Kong prevailed, 6-1, 6-1, at five, while for Babson, sophomore Sarah Whitaker (Dellwood, Minn.) won, 6-2, 6-3, at number two and Tamoshunas added a 6-4, 6-2 victory at four.
Babson led in each of the final two matches, as Stone and first-year Courtney Fischer (Greenwich, Conn.) each won their opening set at three and six, respectively. However, after both contests were moved indoors to the Boston Sports Club due to darkness, MIT senior Anastasia Vishnevetsky (Orange, Conn.) finished off a thrilling 2-6, 7-5, 6-2 comeback win at four to clinch the overall match for the Engineers.
Regardless of who emerges victorious in Sunday's title match, Wellesley and MIT will have combined to win 16 of the NEWMAC's 25 conference championships dating back to 1987. Wellesley is seeking its 11th conference championship, while MIT is searching for its sixth league crown.
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According to a recent article in Newsweek siting several independent sources, the traditional Christian beliefs and values on which this nation was founded is shifting focus. Though 76 percent of Americans still consider themselves Christian, the traditional ways that many within this group define God, religion, and eternity are moving more toward a broader understanding of divinity and away from an absolute viewpoint.
Traditionally, Christians believe in the trinity of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, and have frowned on an all inclusive perspective that would include many more "demi' gods, the concept of reincarnation, and the consideration that other faiths outside of Christianity could lead to "salvation." These traditional beliefs are holding less weight among those who define themselves as Christians in today's world. A 2008 Pew Forum survey, states that 65 percent of us believe that "many religions can lead to eternal life" this including 37 percent of white evangelical Christians.
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A 2009 Newsweek pole showed that 30 percent of Americans view themselves as "spiritual, not religious" which is an increase of 6% from 2005. The spiritual view of death is shifting as well. Traditional Christian beliefs require a body to travel to heaven with the soul, while many other traditions see the soul as independent of the bodily form able to come back into new bodies over and over again after death, a process known as reincarnation. Now, 24% of Americans believe in reincarnation, which is a major paradigm shift from traditional Judeo-Christian beliefs.
What does this all mean? According to the author of the article, it means that our mainstream spiritual beliefs are shifting more toward Hinduism than the traditional Christianity on which the country was founded. Maybe it is because the practice of yoga is one of the largest and fastest growing trends in the U.S., and that so many teachers and practitioners are delving not only into the physical practice of the asanas, but into the spiritual side of yoga as well.
Yoga, though not a religion, is derived from Hindu science and spirituality, where the goal is as Sri Swami Satchidanada said, "to realize the spiritual unity behind all the diversities in the entire creation and to live harmoniously as members of one universal family." Such inclusionary perspectives are found all over the yogic teachings from the Vedas to the Bhagavad Gita, and may be having a major impact on the way Americans are viewing religion and spirituality. Through practice and exploration, we are no longer simply taking the words and doctrines of others as our own. Many yoga practitioners in the West are being directly exposed to the experiences of Yogic spirituality and are finding or perspectives shifting greatly from the spirituality of division and more toward the understanding of unity.
We are beginning to see the effects of this shift beyond our churches and synagogues. Americans are starting to understand how each individual is impacting the whole of humanity, and stepping up and taking more responsibility. Though the majority of us are not classifying ourselves as "Hindu," many people are adopting the philosophies that align ourselves with the greater good and acknowledge our actions as part of the whole. As Hindu and Buddhist symbols are becoming more commonplace in American retail stores as well as in Western Yoga studios, and practices like yoga and meditation are becoming less taboo, the element of fear about exploring different paths of spirituality is starting to fade. Americans are redefining what spirituality means to them. Whether or not the popularity of Yoga in the West is contributing to this shift, I don't know, but, I'd like to think it plays a part.
How has your view of God, religion, and eternity changed since practicing yoga?
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Wireless Interface
Using the DIR-615 device, you are able to quickly create a wireless network at home or in your office, which lets your relatives or employees connect to your wireless network virtually anywhere (within the operational range of your wireless network). The router can operate as a base station for connecting wireless devices of the standards 802.11b, 802.11g, and 802.11n (at the rate up to 300Mbps).
The router supports multiple functions for the wireless interface: several security standards (WEP, WPA/WPA2), MAC address filtering, WPS, WMM.
4-port Switch
The built-in 4-port switch enables you to connect Ethernet-enabled computers, game consoles, and other devices to your network.
The wireless router DIR-615 includes a built-in firewall. The advanced security functions minimize threats of hacker attacks, prevent unwanted intrusions to your network.
Easy configuration and update
You can configure the settings of the wireless router DIR-615 via the user-friendly web-based interface (the interface is available in several languages).
Now you can simply update the firmware: the router itself finds approved firmware on D-Link update server and notifies when ready to install it.
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Here's a face that you guys may remember. I told you I was going to be submitting characters from Naruto, and all of them will be easy. Up next I have "how to draw Sakura easy", step by step. I love her name because as you know 'Sakura' is the same name given to the cherry tree. Sakura has pink hair and green eyes just like the sakura tree. Her character in the Naruto series is just as important as Naruto's. In the beginning Sakura had some strong feelings for Sasuke. Of course these feelings where apparent in the early Naruto years, and I think some of the reasons why Sakura liked Sasuke is because he was good looking, he had this charming personality, as well as an awesome attitude. If you remember, Sakura used to work really hard in trying to make her feelings known to Sasuke. Later in the series she started liking Naruto and eventually stopped picking on him. They also grew to be good friends, and even though Sakura confessed that she loved Naruto, he knew that she was lying. Deep down Sakura loves Sasuke and she always will. Unfortunately Naruto's feelings remain the same for a while. I think this is going to be one of those lessons that makes you go and either pickup the manga, or watch the anime of Naruto again. Well, that's about it. I have to get busy with uploading more lessons for your enjoyment. Adios people and have fun.
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History of Fire Safety Legislation
And Other Interesting Dates
Medieval Ages 12 Century 13 Century 14 Century 15 Century 16 Century
17 Century 18 Century 19 Century 20 Century 21 Century
Current statutory provisions within the United Kingdom have evolved from measures introduced slowly over many centuries.
It was not until the 19th century that structural provisions were made for the safety of people within premises on fire.
Although large scale tests were carried out in the mid 18th century following
the recognition that fire should be confined to the room of origin rather
than the building, it was not until the end of the 19th century that we find
the origins of standard fire tests.
Middle Ages
Houses in medieval England were usually built of timber frames filled in with wattle and daub; the roofs were thatched and chimneys as such did not exist.
Within the congested walled towns the houses were built in narrow streets with over hanging upper storeys.
With houses having a central hearth and straw as the floor covering a fire spread could spread very easily.
William the Conqueror required all fires to be extinguished at night. The most popular method of achieving this was to use a metal cover that was put over the fire to exclude the air. This cover was called a Couvert Feu which in use became Curfew.
12 Century The first recorded attempt to legislate for fire safety. The Mayor of London laid down that houses in the city were to be built of stone, thatched roofs were not permitted, and party walls were to be of minimum height and thickness.
13 Century A disastrous fire in London where an estimated 3000 people died led to all alehouses being governed on their construction. Other requirements were made in connection with bakeries and brewhouses.
During the summer months a tub of water was to be made available in case of fire.
14 Century During the 14th century a move from central hearths to a position against an outside wall began, however it was not until the end of the century that chimneys came into use.
As these were usually made from hollowed out logs the hazard became worse.
15 Century The 15th century saw timber chimneys outlawed and the first Act of Parliament relating to fire which made provision for fire prevention, fire fighting and penalties against persons causing fire in Scotland.
17 Century The Great Fire of London started in the early hours of 2nd September 1666 at the end of a long dry summer and after burning for 4 days had destroyed five-sixths of the city.
Although only 6 people died it was a national disaster and London acquired it first complete code of building regulations and means for its implementation
On September 13th King Charles II issued a proclamation in which The walls of all new buildings were to be of brick or stone
The main streets were to be widened to prevent fire spread
Existing narrow alleyways were to be considerably reduced
A survey of every ruin and ownership shown of every plot
On 8th February the Act for Rebuilding the City of London received Royal Assent
A Mutual Friendly Society was formed for assisting members in case of fire
Following a history of serious fires in Edinburgh, the small wooden cottages covered with straw had begun to be replaced by houses of ten or twelve storeys fronting narrow streets an "Act Regulating the Manner of Building within the Town of Edinburgh" was passed which required that no buildings should exceed five storeys.
Fire Of Note (Blandford, Dorset)
18 Century The Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act came into being in 1774. This Act listed buildings into 7 classes with thickness of external walls and party walls laid down for each class. The Act also included provisions with the maximum area of warehouses. London boroughs were to appoint Surveyors and "every parish should provide three or more proper ladders of one,two and three storeys high,for assisting persons in houses on fire to escape therefrom"
Theaters had been taking their toll of fire victims for many years when in 1794 the rebuilt Drury Lane Theater incorporated an iron safety curtain in addition to a water tank situated on the roof which was intended for use in the event of fire. Other eighteenth century innovations were the treatment of theatrical scenery with boax, alum or ferrous sulphate. 19 Century Numerous fires throughout the 18th & 19th century in Edinburgh,culminating with several fires in 1824, resulted in the formation of the Edinburgh Fire Engine Establishment in October 1824. It consisted of 80 part time fire fighters who had building trade experience. Their Chief Officer, James Braidwood had a new way of tackling fires in that his crews would be highly trained in entering buildings and fighting the fires at their seat. James Braidwood was to meet his death in 1861 at a large warehouse fire in Tooley Street London, when he would be crushed by a collapsing wall.
Fire Of Note (Houses of Parliament)
Abstract: Destruction by fire of the two Houses of Parliament
Fire Of Note (Royal Exchange, London )
Fire Of Note (Tower of London )
The 1844 Metropolitan Building Act, which was based on the Fires Prevention (Metropolis) Act 1774, made few changes in constructional requirements for fire. However the 7 classes were reduced to 3 namely Dwelling Houses, Warehouses and Public Buildings. Warehouses limited to 200,000 cubic feet (undivided)
The 1847 Towns Improvement Clauses Act and the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act set out various standard clauses usually contained in local improvement Acts e.g., construction of roofs and walls, and the purchase of fire engines.
In 1850 the Burgh Police Act required that party walls be carried through the roof and that all party walls, external walls and roofs be constructed in "Incombustible" materials.
In 1858 the Local Government Act gave urban authorities the power to make building bylaws subject to confirmation by the Home Office. However in 1871 this responsibility was transferred to the Local Government Board who drew up model bylaws(first issued in 1877). The original scope of the bylaws was extended under the Public Health Act of 1890.
In 1861 the Tooley Street warehouse fire, which burned for two days and cost the insurance companies over �2m, led Captain Shaw of the London Fire Engine Establishment to state that a 216,000 cubic foot building was the largest volume that could be protected with reasonable hope of success.
In February 1862 the insurance companies, who were responsible for the London Fire Engine Establishment, wrote to the Home Secretary saying that they could no longer be responsible for the safety of London from fire. The Select Committee set up "to enquire into the existing state of legislation and of any existing arrangements for the protection of life and property against fires in the Metropolis' was told that the London Building Acts were faulty and inadequate, and were far inferior to the Bristol and Liverpool warehouse Acts. Apparently dock warehouses were exempt and one warehouse had been built with an undivided volume of 5,000,000 cubic feet. In several instances it had been successfully claimed that certain warehouses were not warehouses within the specific terms of the Acts.
A further Select Committee was set up in 1867 "to inquire into the existing legislative provisions for the protection of life and property against fires in the United Kingdom, and as to the best means to be adopted for ascertaining the causes, and preventing the frequency of fires". They recommended that a general Building Act for all towns in the United Kingdom should be placed on the Statute Book (with similar provisions and powers to the Metropolitan and Liverpool Building Acts). This should embrace thicknesses and heights of party walls; the placing of fireplaces, stoves and flues and the proximity of timber to them; the limiting of size and isolation of warehouses; and the use of proper materials in building. Other recommendations concerned living accommodation above shops; large lodging houses; water supplies; the classification and storage of goods; the sale and storage of flammable substances; and the setting up of procedures for investigating the cause of every fire. Unfortunately no action was taken.
Abstract: Reports on the necessity for the amendment of the law relating to gunpowder and other explosives, with suggestions for a new act
Legislation for theaters had existed outside London under the 1843 Theaters Act. However, the report which followed the inquest on the 1887 fire at the Theater Royal, Exeter, in which 186 people died, probably assisted in the passage of Section 36 of the Public Health Acts Amendment Act of 1890 which stated "Every building which, after the adoption of this part of this Act in any urban district, is used as a place of public resort, shall, to the satisfaction of the urban authority, be substantially constructed and supplied with ample, safe, and convenient means of ingress and egress for the use of the public, regard being had to the purposes for which such building is intended to be used, and to the number of persons likely to be assembled at any one time therein". But a Bill introduced in 1890 "for the further protection of life and property in the United Kingdom" to give County Councils power to appoint inspectors and to insist on proper fire escapes and alarm apparatus at all hotels, factories, theaters, schools, hospitals and workhouses, was not passed.
The end of the century saw the introduction of the first control of means of escape in case of fire from factories under the Factory and Workshop Act 1891 which concerned premises in which more than 40 persons were employed; workshops in which more than 40 persons were employed being added by the Factory and Workshop Act 1895.
The Act also made rules concerning new public buildings which included regulations
(based on the earlier 1879 theater regulations) on the width of staircases and
exits, and required that every new building exceeding sixty feet in height be
provided on the storeys over 60 feet above the street level "with such means
of escape in the case of fire for the persons dwelling or employed therein as
can be reasonably required under the circumstances of the case" and that
no such storeys be occupied until the Council had issued a certificate that
the provisions of this section had been complied with. It also provided a schedule
of "fire-resisting materials".
Abstract: Report from the Select Committee on Theatres and Places of Entertainment:
In 1897, 124 people died and over 200 were injured at a Paris Charity Bazaar where none of the exits were indicated and untreated velaria (canvas awnings) covered the whole of the underside of the roof. This led the LCC to instruct its theaters and music halls committee to report what security was afforded by the existing law to the public against fire and panic in charity bazaars and similar gatherings. On hearing that its powers were very limited, the Council sought legislation to license any establishments to which the public were admitted.
In spite of building legislation, there were ten fires in London during the last decade of the century - each destroying many buildings. The worst, in the Cripplegate area on 19th November 1897, involved four acres of warehousing - two and a half acres being completely burnt out with total losses estimated at �1.25m (an enormous sum at that time). The fire had spread from building to building across narrow alleys, streets and courts, and four thousand people (mostly women and girls) were put out of work as a result
Abstract: Report from the Select Committee on Fire Brigades
20 Century
A fire in Queen Victoria Street, London on 9th June 1902, in which eight people
were trapped on the top floor and many girls threw themselves to death on the
pavement rather than being burnt to death, caused much checking to be done of
local bylaws in the provinces, as the Queen Victoria Street premises was not
a workshop as defined in the 1901 Factory and Workshop Act. In London,
the LCC were given powers under the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act
1905 to require works to be done to certain existing buildings to facilitate
escape. The Act also required plans to he deposited for new building work and
a new schedule of "fire-resisting materials" was published.
Abstract: Report of the Committee on the Hours, Pay and Conditions of Service of Firemen in Professional Fire Brigades in Great Britain
In 1921 a Royal Commission was appointed "to enquire into the existing provisions for
(1) the avoidance of loss from fire, including the regulations dealing with construction of buildings, dangerous processes and fire risks generally, the arrangements for enquiry and research and for furnishing information and advice to public authorities and others on matters relating to fire prevention; and
(2) the extinction of outbreaks of fire, including the control, maintenance, organisation, equipment and training of fire brigades in Great Britain, and to report whether any, and if so what, changes are necessary, whether by statutory provision or otherwise, in order to secure the best possible protection of life and property against risks from fire, due regard being paid to considerations of economy as well as efficiency". Their report published in 1923 made a number of recommendations, including - the need to extend the scope of the 1901 Factory and Workshop Act; fire precautions for new and existing theaters and other places of entertainment; and the provision of adequate means of escape from hotels, boarding houses, flats, shops and similar premises with sleeping accommodation on the upper floors, and the drawing up of model regulations.
Abstract: Report of the Royal Commission on Fire Brigades and Fire Prevention Fire brigades and fire prevention
Under the London Building Acts 1930 - 39 powers were granted to make bylaws and the first set issued in 1938 covered many of the constructional matters previously contained in the earlier Acts. Powers were also granted in respect of means of escape from certain new and existing buildings based on their height and use. However, these bylaws were not entirely satisfactory in that local authorities were not obliged to adopt them, and many did not. The 1936 Act was therefore amended by the 1961 Public Health Act to permit the making of one set of building regulations to replace the 1400 sets of local bylaws The first building regulations for England and Wales were made in 1965, the scope of which extended through the Fire Precautions Act 1971 to include means of escape in case of fire.
The Home Office in the introduction to its "Manual of Safety Requirements in Theaters and Other Places of Public Entertainment" (produced in 1934) explained that its recommendations were based on experience of disasters at home and abroad. Nine fires were highlighted, two of which in Exeter and Paris have been referred to earlier. The other fires mentioned, in chronological order, were at the Ring Theater Vienna where 450 people died (1881); the Iroquois Theater Chicago where 566 people died (1903); the Empire Palace Theater Edinburgh (1911); the Grand Assembly Rooms Leeds (1923); Drumcollagher Co Limerick where 50 people died out of a total of 150 (1926); the Glen Cinema Paisley where 70 children were suffocated and crushed (1929); and Coventry (1931). Those at Edinburgh, Leeds and Coventry were included as examples of safe escape being made. At Edinburgh, where although ten of the performers and stage staff died as a result of the fire the whole of the audience of about 3000 apparently cleared the building in just under 2.5 minutes while the band played the National Anthem. As a direct result of the Paisley fire, an amending regulation was issued under the Cinematograph Act 1909.
As regards factories, the Factories Act 1937 considerably extended the requirements as to means of escape originally contained in the Factory and Workshop Act 1901 under which District Councils had been given powers in respect of premises where more than 40 persons were employed. Following a fire in February 1956 at the Eastwood Mills, Keighley, in which eight people died, the whole question of providing fire alarms and adequate means of escape was reviewed by the Factory Inspectorate and a survey of 40,000 to 50,000 premises was carried out. The 1961 Factories Act consolidated the fire provisions contained in the Factories Acts of 1937, 1948 and 1959 - the last of which had placed the responsibility for certifying means of escape on the Fire Authority and not the District Council as provided for earlier.
Perhaps one of the most important pieces of work carried out this century in connection with fire, was that undertaken by a Joint Committee of the Building Research Board and the Fire Offices' Committee (FOC). This committee was set up in 1938 to review the underlying principles of fire protection in buildings in the light of the knowledge at that time and to present the results in the form of recommendations. Such recommendations were "not intended as a code for immediate application in practice, but as an exposition of the subject in the light of present-day knowledge, for the information of persons or bodies concerned in formulating rules for legal, insurance and other purposes". The committee, after looking at evidence available from home and abroad, together with experience gained during the Second World War, published its first report in 1946 on "General Principles and Structural Precautions". A second report published in 1952 included matters relating to means of escape in case of fire. Many of the Committee's recommendations are embodied in current thinking.
Until the formation of the National Fire Service in 1941 the United Kingdom Fire cover consisted of 1400 local Fire Brigades and within a couple of months these local Fire Brigades were transferred into a central command.
It is perhaps worth noting that apart from guidance prepared by the LCC, specific guidance in respect of means of escape and fire precautions had generally not been available before the last war; a fact which prompted the Building Industries National Council (BINC) to publish in 1945 a model code of requirements for application throughout the country and applicable to all types of buildings. (A report ten years earlier was concerned only with London). The first British Standard Code of Practice on "Precautions against Fire" was published in 1948 (Houses and flats of not more than two storeys), with other parts following in 1962 (Flats and maisonettes over 80 feet in height) and 1968 (Shops and Department Stores) and (Office Buildings).
The Fire Services Act 1947 transferred the National Fire Service to Fire Brigades maintained by County Councils and County Boroughs. This Act had amendments in Fire Services Act 1951 & Fire Services Act 1959 and is still the legislation that covers the Fire Service today.
Abstract Interim Report of the transfer of members of the National Fire Service to fire brigades
Another notable fire occurred in June 1960 at William Henderson and Sons department store in Liverpool. Ten people were trapped in the fourth storey even though the brigade arrived within two minutes of being called. One man fell to his death from a ledge whilst assisting others to safety. This fire (the main cause of its rapid spread being the presence of suspended ceilings and unenclosed escalators) prompted the fire sections contained in the 1963 Offices, Shops and Railway Premises Act - the clauses being modeled closely on the 1961 Factories Act.
Also in 1961, during the proceedings on the 1961 Licensing Act, opportunity was taken to table an amendment with the intention of giving fire authorities greater powers over club premises following the Bolton Top Storey Club fire in May of that year. In this fire nineteen people died - fourteen bodies were found in the club room and five of the people who jumped, or fell, into the adjacent river below also died.
A fire at the Rose and Crown Hotel, Saffron Walden on Boxing Day 1969 where 11 people died and a number of people were injured whilst escaping and 17 people were rescued by ladders, was one of a number of hotel fires which gave added impetus to the passing of the Fire Precautions Act in 1971.
The Fire Precautions Act 1971 (an enabling Act) came into effect.
�This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint, and different dates may be appointed under this subsection for different purposes.� (FP Act 1971 Section 44(3))
Abstract: Report of the Cunningham Inquiry into the Work of the Fire Service
In 1972, hotels and boarding houses were the first premises to be designated as requiring a fire certificate under the act. (SI 1972:No 238)
The Fire Precautions (Factories, Offices, Shops and Railway Premises) Order 1976 (SI 1976 : No 2009)came into effect on the 1st January 1977 which required that certain premises falling into this category required a Fire Certificate.
Abstract: Future fire policy
Provision of means of escape from fire from houses in multiple occupation had been dealt with under Section 16 of the 1961 Housing Act (now controlled under Part X1 of the Housing Act 1985). However, following a number of serious fires, concern was expressed during the proceedings on the 1980 Housing Act about fire safety in hostels. As a result, the 1981 Housing (Means of Escape from Fire in Houses in Multiple Occupation) Order was made which provided that exercise by Local Authorities of their powers under the Housing Act should be mandatory for certain premises .
Following the fire on 11 May 1985 at the Bradford City football ground where 56 people died and many were seriously injured, a committee was set up to enquire into the operation of the Safety of Sports Grounds Act 1975. The recommendations made in their final report resulted in changes introduced in the Fire Safety and Safety of Places of Sport Act 1987 and the revision of the Home Office Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds.
Abstract: Brightside lane warehouse fire (a report of the investigation by the Health and Safety Executive into the effects of the fire at the National Freight Consortium warehouse building, Brightside Lane, Sheffield, on 14 December 1984)
On the evening of Wednesday 18th November 1987 at 1932 hrs a serious fire occurred at the Kings Cross Underground Station which resulted in the loss of 31 lives. The Fire started under a wooden escalator and soon spread. As a result of this fire The Fire Precautions (Sub-surface Railway Stations) Regulations 1989 (Statutory Instrument 1989 No.1401) were made under Section 12 of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 and brought into effect on the 18th September 1989.
Abstract: Ministry of Defence: fire protection at main store depots (Fires at the central ordnance depot Donnington)
The Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 came into force on 1st December 1997.
These Regulations were amended which came into force on the 1st December 1999
The Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations 1999
Original SI 1997:1840 Complete with SI 1999:1877 Amendments
Precis of Employers Guide to the Workplace Regulations (As Amended)
These Regulations have been primarily made under Section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and give effect to the fire safety requirements of two European Council Directives adopted in 1989 (the Framework Directive 89/391/EEC) and (The Workplace Directive 89/654/EEC) the aim of which was to secure minimum safety and health requirements for the workplace.
The Regulations disapplies Section 9A of the Fire Precautions Act 1971 (as amended) in respect to those workplaces caught up by the Regulations, Section 9A still remains for those premises not effected.
A booklet entitled "Fire Safety: An Employers Guide " is available to help with the new Regulations.
The Fire Precautions (Workplace) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999 No. 1877), were laid before Parliament on 7 July 1999 and come into force on 1 December 1999. They amend the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997 No. 1840), which came into force on 1 December 1997. The Regulations, in their amended form, apply to the majority of workplaces where people are employed, including workplaces where a fire certificate is in force or for which an application for a fire certificate is pending under the Fire Precautions Act 1971.
The amending Regulations ("the 1999 Fire Regulations"), which were primarily made under the European Communities Act 1972, put beyond doubt the adequacy of the implementation (in Great Britain) of the fire safety requirements of two health and safety European Council Directives, 89/391/EEC and 89/654/EEC, adopted in 1989. The amendments:�
Confirm the unconditional nature of employers� responsibilities towards safeguarding the safety of their employees in case of fire;
Extend the scope of the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997 ("the 1997 Fire Regulations") by applying Part II of those Regulations (the substantive fire safety requirements) to some workplaces (where people are employed) which had previously been excepted from that application;
And modify the enforcement provisions of the 1997 Fire Regulations, replacing the hybrid system of those Regulations (which included civil sanctions in certain cases) in favour of a criminal sanctions only regime, and deleting the written notice of intent procedure in favour of the adoption of the principles set out in the Enforcement Concordat, which establishes the procedural safeguards for employers (and others) that participating enforcers, including fire authorities, will follow.
21 Century A dispute between the Fire Brigades' Union (FBU) and the employers concerning fire-fighters' pay in 2003 promted the Government of the day to bring in legislation on Fire Fighters pay and conditions of service (Fire Services Act 2003).
Section 1 of the act gives the Secretary of State the power by order to fix or modify conditions of service, including pay, of members of a fire brigade in England and Wales. Members of a fire brigade include whole-time members, who include all operational ranks, control room staff and non-operational staff, and part-time members, who include retained and volunteer members.
The Fire and Rescue Services Bill was published on January 13th 2004.
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The Bill sets out the future of the fire and rescue service, how it is intend to deliver the service and make it more efficient and effective, and how the service provides public safety. It includes proposals for changes in the structure of the service; in the institutions of the service; and in the working practices and procedures of all those who work in the service.
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"How I Found Dr. Right—and Got the RA Treatment I Needed!"
It's important that your doctor is someone you can work well with. One woman shares what you need to know when choosing a rheumatologist.
Kelly Young experienced her first rheumatoid arthritis (RA) symptom—stiff hands—when she was just 13. At the time, she had no idea that RA was to blame. It disappeared (though her finger joints would often get "stuck," and only later did she connect it with RA).
Over the years, other symptoms came and went, as the disease attacked every major joint in her body. Once, Kelly awoke with excruciating shoulder pain that lasted for weeks before it finally disappeared. She also sprouted terrible rashes, and endured bouts of debilitating stiffness in her wrists. She never knew where pain would surface next.
Eventually, Kelly's podiatrist—whom she'd been seeing because of foot pain and swelling—suggested she see a rheumatologist. At age 40, the mother of five finally got her diagnosis—but not much else. That first rheumatologist, she says, wasn't up to date. She actually had to ask around for recommendations and then switch health insurance companies to be able to visit a doctor that sounded right for her.
During her first visit, Kelly was delighted to learn the doctor had recently attended the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) conference and knew about the latest treatments, including biologics, drugs based on compounds made by living cells. "She explained how the biologics worked," says Kelly. "And told me I should give them a try."
Kelly's new medication regimen helped her regain some of her mobility, and in 2009, at age 45, Kelly founded her own website, RAWarrior.com, to help educate and empower people with RA. "It's so important to be involved in your care," says Kelly.
Here are 4 key things Kelly learned on her RA journey that may help you:
Find out what your doctor is writing about you
Ask for a copy of your doctor's notes, and get copies of your lab reports. "Often, what's written in the chart doesn't match what the patient is actually saying to the doctor," says Kelly. When she read her first rheumatologist's notes, she found no mention of her loss of functionality. Another set of notes incorrectly stated that she'd denied having morning stiffness, although she did. And still another misstated key medical test results. "See if you agree with how the doctor is interpreting what you say," she urges. Of course, making copies of charts can be time-consuming, so your healthcare provider's staff may charge you for this service. Minimize time and costs by asking for a copy of the notes every six months (versus asking for your entire chart to be copied every few years).
Make sure you have a top-notch primary care physician (PCP)
Ask your rheumatologist to recommend a strong primary care physician (PCP) to round out your health care. You probably see your rheumatologist only a few times a year, and he or she is focusing mainly on your joints. You need another healthcare professional who can help manage any other conditions you may have. A good PCP can also help you deal with secondary aspects of your RA, such as vision and stomach problems, heart-disease risk factors and medication side effects. "I finally found a great internist," says Kelly. "He actually has done research on RA, and wants to work with me on my other health issues."
Hit the right websites to stay current on RA—easily
There is a flood of new research on RA, and keeping on top of it can be daunting. That's one of the reasons Kelly started her site—to make it easier for RA patients to stay in the loop. Kelly goes to the ACR conferences herself, and spends about 60 hours a week keeping the site up to date. Don't assume your rheumatologist knows everything. "If you find something really important on a blog, go find the actual study and print out the part that you think applies to your care," Kelly suggests. "Highlight it, and send or drop it off at your doctor's office. Ask the staff to put it in your chart so it will be handy at your next appointment and you can discuss the issue face to face."
Monitor your meds' effectiveness.
If you have been taking a new medication for six months, and aren't seeing any improvement, it's time to try something else. To track your progress, keep a log indicating how you feel on a daily or weekly basis. Is your functionality getting better, worse, or staying the same? You should start to see some improvement shortly after you start a new med, but if there's no real change by six months—or you're feeling worse, you may need to change your medication, or the dosage, or switch to a different combination of meds. Kelly also advises monitoring your temperature, since many people with RA have low-grade fevers. "Take your temperature every day," she says. "If a low-grade fever persists, your med may not be working the way it should."


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Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
March 8, 2013
The Southern Poverty Law Center sent a letter earlier this week to Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging the government to establish a task force to investigate the supposed domestic terror threat posed by the likes of Alex Jones, We Are Change, Oath Keepers, the Constitution Party, the Tyranny Response Team and thousands of other Americans outside of the orbit of the establishment.
Chris Matthews continues the corporate media attack on the patriot movement. In the above video, Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, includes Alex Jones in a hysterical litany of dangerous and "nutty" people engaged in free speech.
The letter sent by the president and CEO of the SPLC, J. Richard Cohen, begins by reminding Holder and Napolitano that the organization "wrote Attorney General Janet Reno about the growing threat of domestic terrorism" prior to the Oklahoma City bombing in October, 1994.
"Today, we write to express similar concerns. In the last four years, we have seen a tremendous increase in the number of conspiracy-minded, antigovernment groups as well as in the number of domestic terrorist plots." Today's "ominous threats," Cohen warns, come from citizens concerned about federal government attacks on the Second Amendment. "Because of the looming dangers, we urge you to establish an interagency task force to assess the adequacy of the resources devoted to responding to the growing threat of non-Islamic domestic terrorism."
Utilizing the standard SPLC modus operandi and fear tactics, Cohen conflates a small number of racist white supremacist groups with the larger and more diverse patriot community. He also characterizes growing concern on the part of millions of Americans in response to egregious violations of the Constituion as dangerous and deems the federal government response to this "domestic terror" threat as entirely insufficient. "In light of these questions and the disturbing trends we have described in this letter, we believe it is time to take a fresh look at the issue," he concludes.
It is hardly surprising the SPLC has decided to exploit the growing and diverse movement opposed to a raft of recently proposed unconstitutional firearms laws and label the movement extremist and akin to domestic terrorism. It is also hardly surprising that MSNBC's Chris Matthews would have SPLC spokesman Mark Potok on his increasingly irrelevant cable television show just as Congress begins work on a number of anti-Second Amendment bills. SPLC's domestic terror angle and timing feed right into the larger anti-Second Amendment narrative spun by the establishment media.
The Department of Homeland Security most certainly has an overriding obsession in exaggerating and demonizing political activism the establishment regards as dangerous. As revealed in its "rightwing extremism" document leaked in 2009, the DHS is drinking the SPLC kool aid. It considers returning veterans, Second Amendment advocates, and anti-immigration activists on par with white supremacists and other ultra-fringe groups (many, as we have noted, infiltrated by the FBI). The establishment attack on opposition political activists cannot succeed without this necessary process of demonization and political ostracism hyped by its media.
It remains to be seen if the effort will be successful. Following extensive coverage on the DHS "Rightwing Extremism" document eventually covered by the mainstream media, elements within the Republican party criticized Napolitano and the DHS, a reaction that resulted in an embarrassing backtrack by the agency. Because of this experience, the DHS may be reluctant to heed the SPLC call to wage a domestic war on terrorism against political groups that do not pose a threat and are wholly within their rights under the First Amendment.
Finally, the SPLC's theatrical use of the Oklahoma City bombing is interesting considering the organization's connection with that terrorist event. In 2004, a declassified FBI memo obtained by an Oklahoma newspaper revealed the existence of a Southern Poverty Law Center informant connected to the Elohim City operation. "References to an informant working for the SPLC at Elohim City on the eve of the Oklahoma City bombing raises serious questions as to what the SPLC might know about McVeigh's activities during the final hours before the fuse was lit in Oklahoma City – but which the SPLC has failed to disclose publicly," the newspaper reported.
Asked about his organization's role in the terror attack, Morris Dees, co-founder and chief trial counsel for the SPLC, told the media: "If I told you what we were doing there, I would have to kill you."
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Jardin des Tuileries
Paris, France
Water, especially with (small) boats, green, places to sit, people to watch and open space are always popular in an urban environment.
This curving liquid spine is the literal and figurative backbone of the city, connecting tourist destinations to "town centers" for locals.
Charles Bridge and Mala Strana
Prague, Czech Republic
People, activity, water, opportunities to wander and outstanding views of Prague's town center.
Djemaa el Fna square and souks
Marrakesh, Morocco
Morocco's largest souk spills into this grand square, Marrakesh's town center, that comes alive with food and entertainment and the sun's shadows lengthen and the cool of the evening gives relief to the heat of the day.
French Quarter
New Orleans, USA
New Orleans food and jazz, the highest concentration of colorful people to watch, cafes, retail and entertainment for all.
Temple Night Market
Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Retail design at its roots – people, people, people.
Ortaköy Square
Istanbul, Turkey
A small waterfront square with outstanding views of the Bosphorus with cafés, restaurants, art galleries and artisan shops.
Piazza del Campo
Sienna, Italy
An artistic triumph of Reniassiance architecture, and one of the first squares in Europe to chase the cars out.
Piazza Navona
Rome, Italy
The best of the Eternal City – fountains, piazza and great streets.
Tivoli Gardens
Copenhagen, Denmark
Before there were theme parks – long before there were theme parks – there were the Tivoli Gardens. A mixture of nature and amusement, Tivoli has been a favorite pastime during the long days of Copenhagen's remarkable Summer since 1843.
Salzburg, Austria
The birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is steeped with history and romance, and its outstanding streets and squares filled with people, retail shops and restaurants.
Bryant Park is a peaceful place in the midst of Manhattan's towers and crowds. Just blocks from Times Square, this "Town Center" park is a favorite with locals seeking sun, sleep or society.
Since 1461, Istanbul's Grand Bazaar has served as the city's retail hub. 250,000 to 400,000 people a day wander the Bazaar's streets, domed bedestens and dine in its shaded outdoor courts.
Souk al-Hamidiyeh
Damascus, Syria
Built 2000 years ago by the Romans, this ancient retail district has thrived ever since, and is worth study by anyone interested in creating a thriving retail place.
Piazza della Repubblica
Cortona, Italy
The Piazzas at the heart of this stunning Tuscan city are multi purpose, and are frequently and quickly repurposed – a late night outdoor theater becomes an early morning farmers' market.
State Street
Santa Barbara, California
State Street, where the pedestrian comes first, the auto a distant second, is always active, always filled with people. It is a thriving outdoor retail and entertainment center where the primary form of entertainment is watching all the people.
This stunning Southern Bohemian city, along with the castle perched above it, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and dates to the 13th century. This small but gorgeous town, bifurcated by its "S" shaped river, is an easy and rewarding walk.
Old Town Square
Prague, Czech Republic
Prague's town square, with its animated clock, variety of architectural styles, retail shops, cafes and restuarants, as well as its proximity to a plethora of outstanding streets and districts is only rivaled in Northern Europe by the much larger Paris.


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Monday, February 1, 2010
Invincible and 10-mans
Yet, we have achievements that are capable of sensing whether a raider in the group has been to 25-mans. Why not limit the 10-man chance to drop to groups who have cleared the instance without any member of the raid ever having stepped foot in the 25-man? There are multiple ways of doing this, including the gear-check ala Dedicated Insanity or just a "this person has killed Marrowgar 25."
Certainly, once Cataclysm is released, 10-man guilds can go back into ICC25 and try their luck at getting the mount. Just as they can all go back into TK from TBC and try to get the Ashes of Al'ar. *snort* How often does that happen? Most of the time spent in a raid instance is during its height as content, and even now, TK is beyond most players due to its complex mechanics, many of which are built to assume a full 25-man raid, and the drop chance is still infinitesimally small (edit: that is Al'ar, of course; Mimi-head and Invincible are 100% droprate assuming you can make it through the entire heroic-mode dungeon/hardmode). Is it fair to assume ten-man raiders will have to pug a 25-heroic version of a dungeon to get the mount, or have to do it when they're in Cataclysm? Will the mounts even still be available then, or will they be yanked out of the game like the Amani Warbears?
I don't care so much about the legendary weapons. Those are equippable items that impact the raid's actual performance, and to allow them to drop in a ten-man (even with a "strict" drop criteria) would require the coding for a "lower item level" version of the current item, which in turn seems counter-productive to the weapon's existence as a legendary. In the end, the weapons get replaced, shoved off into the dusty corners of banks and taken out to play fashion-craft with outside the auction house.
Invincible is different. This is a mount. In Cataclysm, while the healing legendaries of Ulduar are rotting under a mound of virtual cobwebs, Invincible will still be a glory symbol carrying players across the skies. Mounts are useful. We still see the Al'ar mount and sigh in jealousy, or the Headless Horseman's mount, or Rivendare's or Attuman's or the black AQ bug. We even still see the RARE original mounts of the game owned by players who have been in since day one, and didn't turn them in for the graphic upgrades. Mounts live on in a way that legendary weapons don't.
Mimiron's Head was handled the same way as they plan for Invincible: it only drops off of the hardest mode of 25-man. Ten-man gets a trinket that summons a tentacle, which is admittedly pretty cool. There was less of an outcry against this because Mimiron's Head was, as a mount, kinda corny. It doesn't have the same awe factor as the Ashes of Al'ar or Invincible. It still wasn't very fair, but it wasn't in that same way of "wow, I want that... for me, or for my guild."
Blizzard has stated many times that they support and believe in ten-strict guilds as being viable and non-casual, but at the same time, they limit us to the subpar cool-stuff. Legendary weapons we can live without, but when it comes to really awesome mounts, why are we getting shafted, especially when we know the code exists to limit its drops to only those ten mans who ARE strict?
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- Keeva said...
Perhaps make it a reward from Herald of the Titans / Dedicated Insanity type runs - so it won't matter how much gear you get from 25man runs, you won't be able to use any of it if you want the reward.
That way.. 25man raiders can go in and try for additional rewards if they want to - but only if they wear strict 10 man gear, to even the field.
- February 1, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Kae said...
Dedicated Insanity had the problem of limiting out the Ony25 gear, which is why Vortex never got the achievement. My dang cloak that was pugged out of Onyxia and replaced a 213 I was wearing otherwise. Strict-ranking sites ignored Ony/VoA since they are so easily puggable, and it's the same iLevel (245) as the gear dropping from heroic-mode ToC, but it still nixxed our ability to get the achievement.
It's unlikely groups would carry around "old" gear, and at least at this point, there are no "puggable" bosses beyond the new VoA boss that will possibly count against Blizzard's own "strict" criteria (which they weren't very clear on for Dedicated Insanity).
Sorry, got me on a rant there :)
I would think it'd be easier for them to say "hey, if anyone in this group has ever killed Marrowgar on 25-man, then remove the mount from the loot table." Far easier than scanning the entire raid for gear sources each time they kill a boss. Of course, in contrast, you'd then have new players joining the guild who may be coming from a 25-man raiding guild... but you'll have that problem with gear, too. In which case, being able to just shed the gear for the achievement/mount seems fairer.
After all, few in a 25-man guild will hang onto ten-strict loot in their bags just for the off-chance a mount will drop off of the end heroic-mode boss, making the instance harder on themselves and having to deal with all the holes in itemization while taking up extra bagspace.
Sooo yeah, gear check may be the way to go with it.
- February 1, 2010 at 10:00 AM
There should be a talk switch before doing the boss that drops the mount.
"if you wish for a chance at invincible, you must show your strength by for-fitting the visitation of all other universes where one might battle to obtain this steed."
That way if you talk to the NPC in 10 man, some switch turns that disables you from obtaining it again on 25 for the lockout period. Vice versa if you talk to the NPC in 25, talking to the same guy in 10 should say sorry .. "you already had your chance."
Of course... why would they bother putting new code in ... they have a new expansion to work on. They have already given up on WOTLK.
- February 1, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Charles said...
Rahana at Blueberry Totem went so far as to suggest a way for 10-man raiders to voluntarily lock a particular character of theirs out of 25-man participation altogether, which while contrary to Blizzard's "don't exclude people from content" mantra, seems no more or less contrary than excluding people from rewards based on raid size (or encounter difficulty).
To me, the Invincible thing says more about Blizzard's attitude to 10-mans than anything they've actually written on forums.
We know they're *capable* of making 10-mans as or more challenging than 25s (look at Sarth3D). We know they're *capable* of limiting rewards to people who are "strict" in their genre. But at the end of the day, they don't seem interested. Where's ICC's dedicated insanity or herald of the titans? It seems 10-man raiding is becoming increasingly "casualised" and sidelined in their thinking, despite (or perhaps because of) its enormous popularity.
Yet despite this, we get overtuned 10-man encounters that have to be hotfixed and normal-difficulty tuning in ICC that's clearly designed to challenge hardcore raiders (until the phasing buff starts getting added in a few months' time).
I don't see how any of that makes sense. It's just not coherent.
To me, the most insulting thing is that Crygil actually goes so far as to suggest that it's OK because 10-man raiders can PUG 25-man raids. And there's so many things wrong with that assertation that I get all frothy and quivery and have to go sit in a corner and calm down.
- February 1, 2010 at 12:58 PM
- Kae said...
Ten-strict guilds are formed specifically BECAUSE we're a bunch of elitist burnouts who'd rather be more picky about the hand-selected chosen few we spend our digital blood wiping with in instances. Few ten-strict guilds are formed because they're "casual."
Pugging makes me want to gauge my eyes out. Pugging makes me grateful for the wonderful guild I have. Pugging makes Kae go craaaaazy.
- February 1, 2010 at 1:31 PM
Honestly, I don't know why they cannot make an equal reward for the 10 mans.
How many guilds, 10 or 25, actually went in to do Yogg 0? Not such an overwhelming amount that should have precluded mimiron's head from dropping on both.
I don't know, I do agree that Blizzard should make obtaining the mount an equal option in both the 10s and the 25s. If they think that there should be some limiting factor to keep them from being farmed by 25 man raiders, then put one in.
But, it does seem somehow grossly unjust to say "we are offering multiple menus to choose from while raiding that will bring something for everyone", and then only offering the creme brulee on one of those two menus.
- February 1, 2010 at 2:37 PM
- Kae said...
Vortex was second guild on the server to do Yogg +0 on ten-man... you certainly have a point with the limited number of guilds able to accomplish the feat :)
The problem I see with having the option to "opt out" of getting the mount on 25 that week is that a 25-man guild can then split into two groups and get two mounts, where previously they'd have gotten only one in that week. While that in itself doesn't bother me, I do sympathize for the drama involved in those 5-8 players who don't make their guild's ten-man raids and thus have no chance for the mount; I doubt we'll see a pug version of heroic ICC10 be able to clear the instance until the expansion is out.
- February 1, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Hana said...
Ten-strict guilds are formed specifically BECAUSE we're a bunch of elitist burnouts who'd rather be more picky about the hand-selected chosen few we spend our digital blood wiping with in instances.
That's exactly why I made my 10-man guild. I didn't want the headaches and drama of a 25-man guild. Everyone knows everyone else in my guild and when we raid we barely need to say anything before the fight starts. Just a ready-check and go.
It makes things so much easier when it's the same set of faces every week and you don't have to worry about the random sluggard who dies in the fire. Everyone's performance is at about the same level.
I'm not big on vanity mounts or legendary weapons (I've passed on every OS3D drake I've seen), so having them be 25-man only doesn't particularly bother me, but I know otehr folks in my guild that are bummed there aren't 10-man equivalents of Invincible or Shadowmourne.
- February 1, 2010 at 8:14 PM
- Mark said...
Well, you're kind of mixing up Blizzard's definition of 10-man strict and the social definition. I wouldn't really consider the exclusion of Ony25 gear for Dedicated Insanity a fault of Blizzard, more so than an inconsistency on the part of GuildOx. By all rights, Ony25 should have never really been open to 10-man strict in the first place.
I'm also not sure that the code *is* there as you claim at the end of your post. I mean, it is in the sense of achievements (a bad idea since that definitely ruins the exclusivity of the mount when 10 people get it all at once), but I'm not sure it's actually doable outside of that context. That is, I don't know if they can actually track the ilvl of gear on every kill if there isn't an associated uncompleted achievement doing the tracking for them.
Ashes of Alar aren't a 100% drop, so it's a bit different in that regard (if it was, a lot more people would be doing it). The ZA bear is a more suitable comparison: just remove the award with the 4.0 patch.
Yogg0 is also a good comparison. Not many people even did the 10-man version, although it's a bit inconclusive since it could be argued that not many people did it because the rewards just weren't high enough. How many guilds would have made the effort if it dropped Mim's head?
Although it doesn't adversely affect me to have a shared raid lockout or a character lockout implementation, I do agree with Blizzard's overall reluctance to do so. Closing off content, whether as an opt-in process or not, is a bit against their stated intentions. Again, this is more of a situation where the community has created its own social rules (10-man strict) and the game is lagging a bit behind in supporting it.
I actually wonder if Blizzard actually is looking somewhat warily at 10-man strict raiding. After all, the players in these guilds are generally a sub-set of players from the top-end of 25-man raiding. I'm sure there's a serious question of whether supporting the playstyle too much will result in a significant exodus from the 25-man scene to the 10-man. The 10-man strict scene has done nothing but grow over the course of the expansion, and in light of that, the superior itemization, the legendaries, trinkets, weapon procs and cool mounts seem almost like Blizzard making attempts to tip the scales back over to 25-man, specifically the 25-man hard modes.
That sounds a bit more conspiratorial than I mean it, but I think it would be silly to completely dismiss the number of difference as unintentional oversights.
I put some more of my own thoughts over on Ancestral Knowledge (http://ak-shaman.blogspot.com/). Feel free to check it out!
- February 2, 2010 at 12:19 AM
- Mark said...
Aw, it removed my ShamelessPlug tags from the last paragraph...
- February 2, 2010 at 12:20 AM
- Kae said...
Dedicated Insanity specifically said "Meet the criteria for A Tribute to Insanity without any raid member having used an item only obtainable from 25-player Coliseum, or any more powerful item." Ony25 gear is 245, thus not ToC25 (251) or more powerful (and thus not meeting the text of this achievement requirement). Yet, Ony25 gear counted against our guild in being able to earn that achievement: it's 245 gear, the same iLevel as what was dropping out of our ToC10 heroic run in the first place, but Blizzard decided to flag it without telling anyone (until enough people complained and they posted the specifics on their forums).
Now we know and will be far more careful about what side raids we pug up on our offnights, as annoying as it is (administrative nightmare, too).
If the code is there to track achievements and can be so picky as to pull out Ony25 loot (which means they're scanning each piece against a list, rather than just looking at iLevels), it can easily be tweaked into a "check every time" sort of script to determine whether or not the mount will drop for a non-25 group.
- February 2, 2010 at 9:04 AM
- Mark said...
Normal ToC25 drops ilvl 245 gear, same as Ony25.
E.g. http://www.wowhead.com/?item=47287
- February 2, 2010 at 2:01 PM
- Mark said...
I disagree with the notion that it's "easy" to do the gear check without really knowing how they have the code set up. I wouldn't be surprised to see it being dependent on their achievement tracking code, which may or may not be easy to convert to triggering off a boss kill instead. There's also inherent differences in the systems too since achievements reward in a different manner (through the mail). Using it to reward something extra on a loot table is a bit different and not something I can think of them doing without having conditions established before combat starts (e.g. keeping drakes alive for Sarth), as a timer (e.g. Hodir) or with attempt timers (e.g. Tribute to Insanity). I guess it could determine the ilvl eligibility of the raid once combat begins, but what if people swap in higher ilvl weapons during combat? By all rights that should disqualify them. How does it catch that? If Herald of the Titans rewarded different loot off Algalon, then it would be a clear case that they could do it.
That said, I doubt it would be *impossible* to do something like that, but it might actually take a decent amount of work on their end. So it's likely doable, just not necessarily easy.
- February 2, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Kae said...
Normal ToC25 drops ilvl 245 gear, same as Ony25.
...ha, shows how often I raid 25s. ;) Still, the ony gear isn't gear obtainable in ToC25 "or higher."
And I still think it'd be easy to check (relative to having to write a whole ground-up code for it). They did it somehow for Dedicated and for the Algalon gear-check requirements; loot is triggered after the kill as well. If they have a way to track it for achievements, then that check can be routed towards other things like loot drops.
I want a pegasus of doom. :(
- February 2, 2010 at 2:48 PM
- Mark said...
Well, to be fair, the achievement description was written before Ony was released. Excluding her loot does still feel consistent with their intention since the ilvls in her 10- and 25-man versions are identical to the drops from ToC. If 245 gear from ToC25 is ineligible, then it makes sense for 245 gear from Ony25 to be ineligible.
The PvP bosses make sense for being excluded from 10-man strict criteria since the gear they drop is entirely obtainable in Heroic 10-mans already (well, it is in the last two tiers anyway). Ony25 never really made sense to me other than GuildOx making a somewhat arbitrary decision to bend the rules for that one boss.
We're probably just debating semantics for the most part over the code thing. I agree with you in that I think it's the most elegant solution to check ilvls on a boss kill, whether it's easy to do or not.
Alternatively, they could at least announce an equally cool item for the 10-man Heroic kill, which they haven't even done. (Hint: a tentacle trinket *is not* equally cool as Mim's head).
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Late last month, Nintendo slashed the price of the 3DS. As website The Register asked, is this impacting other hardware, like the PlayStation Phone?
Online British retailers are cutting the Xperia Play's price: Expansys.com slashed the phone's price from £500 to £289; Play.com is now asking £299.99.
These are not official price drops. Many retailers, however, continue to charge around £500 for the phone.
In the UK, the Xperia Play launched (buggy and partially delayed) earlier this year with few customers buying PlayStation 1 games for the phone. At least the Kristen Schaal ads were great.
PlayStation phone prices plunge [The Register]
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From an email sent by Miami lawyer/Bush family insider Luis Gazitua to "friends, floridians, Republicans....:'
Tuesday's elections proved that our party needs to broaden our appeal and rebuild in an inclusive manner with a new generation of leaders.
In order to begin this transformation, we must begin investing in rising stars within our party and I am confident that with thoughtful and forward thinking messengers such as Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and George P. Bush we will emerge stronger than ever.
As a friend of George P's next generation movement, I wanted to let you know that yesterday George created an exploratory committee to begin looking at running for statewide office in Texas. Should you be inclined to support his efforts with some seed capital, checks can be made payable to: George P. Bush Campaign.


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Dancing With The Stars Finale Rehearsal Photos, GMA Rehearsal Footage, And More
by Lois
The Mirror Ball Trophy, all shiny and bright
Will be awarded to the winners Tuesday night
Who will win, who will place, who will show
Katherine and Mark will sparkle, be all aglow
William and Cheryl, shaking hips to the beat
Will Donald and Peta be able to take the heat
All three couples will race to the finish line
All will put on their best, looking mighty fine
The noise will crescendo, the rafters will shake
The ballroom will explode, the win is at stake
The freestyles amaze, dazzle, rock and roll
The dancers bring forth their heart, their soul
Tom and Brooke, the winners they proclaim
Couples nervously waiting to hear the name
The race for the trophy, a dream come true
The winners, showered in confetti of blue
The Mirror Ball is awarded for another season
Which only serves to give us another reason
To tune in again, the show will return in the fall
For another chance to win the next Mirror Ball!
To help us introduce this post, above is a Dancing With The Stars finale poem written by PureDWTS reader Lois gearing us up for tonight. Perfect Lois!! Thanks!
Also, Cameron Matheson of Good Morning America goes into rehearsals to do the same. You can see them practicing on the Dance Floor. The couples give us some teasers (William says Donald will be taking off his pants, lol) as well as tell us why people should vote for them. This is fun…
Also, if you haven't been following Sherri Shepherd at twitter, be sure you are as she has been tweeting some fun pictures of the cast rehearsing for this week's finale dances. Below are just a few of them. Be sure to check out her twitter account here for more.
ADDING: TV Guide has a cool commentary up today of what to watch for in tonight's dances on Dancing With The Stars. They also run through each couples strengths and what they need to work on. Below is what they wrote for Donald Driver. You can read more of what they wrote for Katherine and William at the link.
For Him : Charm, Packer Nation and sympathy. Despite a handful of strong and dynamic performances, the judges have been underscoring Driver. He also arguably deserved his long-desired perfect score of 30 two weeks ago for his jive trio, but Len Goodman continues to hold back the 10 paddle while over-scoring some other pairs. The underscoring has angered a lot of fans and has not gone unnoticed by the pros.
Needs to work on: Getting out of his own way. Driver's so desperate for a 30 that he sometimes goes into overdrive (no pun intended) when he dances, which causes him to either slip up or tighten up. Forget about the triple 10s and just dance! If you perform it, they will come.
Why he might win: He's a better dancer than both Katherine and William; he's technically sharp and an electric crowd-pleaser. His own eight-pack also doesn't hurt and neither does his massive Green Bay Packers fan base. Plus: The fact that he's been a diehard Dancing fan since the first season — and is not doing this to shill something — is surely endearing to viewers. Football players have a great record on the show too, but while there have been many who have made it to the business end of the season, only two have won: Emmitt Smith and Hines Ward. Could Driver be the third?
Watch out for: His freestyle. We all know that's the make-it-or-break-it dance, and the pressure will be on his partner Peta Murgatroyd, who's untested in her first final in two seasons against two two-time winner pros, to deliver a routine worthy of Quickie's talent.
ADDING #2: More rehearsal footage and interviews. This time from ET Online…


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Once upon a time, a cupcake blogger (me) was browsing one of her favorite eye candy sites (Tastespotting or Foodgawker) and came upon a link to a blog called Waffleizer. She quickly stopped by for a visit and learned that Waffleizer was not a blog about waffles; rather, it was a blog about taking ordinary food and putting it in a waffle maker to answer the question, "Will it waffle?" The cupcake blogger immediately fell in love (after all, the unwritten motto for her site is "Will it cupcake?").
One day, the cupcake blogger noticed that Marisa (her former editor at Slashfood and author of the awesome Food in Jars) wrote a guest post on Waffleizer – jealousy ensued. The cupcake blogger wanted a chance to be a part of the waffle challenge. To get what you want, you have to ask. So, our heroine dropped Waffleizer creator Daniel "King of Waffles" an email and asked if she could create a waffle cupcake for his blog. Rather than allowing her post on Waffleizer, King Daniel decided to treat the request as a duel. They would each create a waffled cupcake to share with the world – may the best cupcake win.
This blog post is a play by play of that epic duel.
The cupcake blogger and King Daniel agreed that the cupcake flavor would be strawberry.
King Daniel consulted The Flavor Bible to try to come up with a unique strawberry cupcake flavor combination.
The cupcake blogger just happened to be in Borders and also looked at The Flavor Bible. (Is this cheating or smart playing? You decide.)
The cupcake blogger considered flavor after flavor. She even had dreams about strawberry cupcakes. But, ultimately she decided on the simple American classic – the strawberry shortcake.
King Daniel wrote the cupcake blogger to say that he was struggling with the challenge.
The cupcake blogger bravely warmed up her waffle iron and took out an unfrosted strawberry shortcake cupcake.
She greased up her waffle iron, sliced her strawberry shortcake in half, and put it on the grill.
She closed the lid, waited about 30 seconds or so, and…
Voila!! It worked! The cupcake blogger had achieved a waffled strawberry shortcake cupcake on the first try. Touche!
She put the first piece back in the wrapper and topped it with strawberries and balsamic whipped cream. Then, she put the second piece on top and covered it with more strawberries and balsamic whipped cream, and crowned the whole thing with a waffled chocolate wafer.
Despite her clear success, the cupcake blogger still doubted whether she had gone far enough, so she kept going. In her next rendition of the waffled cupcakes, she cut two cupcakes in half, waffled both of them, made three layers of waffle/strawberry/whipped cream and topped the creation with the fourth piece of waffled cupcake.
In this configuration, the eater is actually consuming two cupcakes in a single wrapper – pure gluttony.
Still, the cupcake blogger feared that King Daniel would call her foul – she had not waffled a whole cupcake. She had cut it up. So…
Head over to Waffleizer to see how King Daniel fared.


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David Healy believes Linfield have showcased their versatility in the opening weeks of the Danske Bank Premiership season.
The Blues were at their clinical best against Glenavon last week, scoring four unanswered goals in a one-sided rout at Windsor Park.
The previous week they had to prove their mettle with a steely 0-0 draw against champions Crusaders at Seaview – playing most of the second half with 10 men following Stephen Lowry's sending off.
Asked whether last week's romp against Glenavon had set the benchmark, Healy said: "I think we set the benchmark with 10 men against Crusaders.
"That 45 minutes proved the players' character and mettle. They proved they had the courage to go and play.
"I thought we were good against Crusaders, and I didn't want that energy and tempo dropping against Glenavon.
"We have shown different sides to our game over the past two weeks, and that's what you need to do against teams like Crusaders, Cliftonville and Glenavon.
"We know what we have to do, because teams raise their games against us. We have to work harder than the opposition and then hopefully the quality shines through."
Healy admits he has a squad he can "trust", and he will put that faith in them delivering three points against Dungannon on Saturday.
"Dungannon will be another tough test. They won at Solitude last week which is a hard place to get a result, so we have to be ready," Healy added.


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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Under the watchful gaze of crumbling saints and baby-faced cherubs, you hurry down a path lined with mausoleums. Eventually, you pass crops of headstones casting long, narrow shadows in the moonlight. Each engraved with the epitaph of the dead person's life. You run past sunken graves and dying flowers, hoping that the sound you hear is just the wind and you're trying to shake the feeling that something is following close behind you.
Maybe you've never taken a midnight stroll through your local cemetery. But if you have ever set foot in one, you've likely felt a hint of fear and uneasiness that is their legacy. Maybe you were attending a funeral of someone dear and close to you, touring graveyards or simply fleeing things that go bump in the night.
Whatever your reason for strolling among the tombstones, you probably felt something noteworthy about the experience-something different from all the other spaces and places that fill our lives. After all, graveyards are the final resting place for many of our dead. People say their last goodbyes there, sometimes returning year after year to leave flowers or say a few words.
No matter where we travel in the world, cemeteries are silent and solemn settings. Whether the grounds are finely manicured or left to the weeds, graveyard exist as the place where the living contemplate many mysteries, traumas and heartbreaks associated with death.
Why are many people afraid of graveyards? Is it the thought of all those decaying bodies (zombies) under the dirt or the idea of an old crusty are coming out of the grass to grab your foot and pull you into their final resting spot with them? Or is it something deeper?
Cats often receive a bum rap for hanging out in cemeteries, but can anyone blame them? Graveyards offer a cat everything they could ask for: all the best spots to nap, trees to use as scratching posts and a selection of small animals to prey on. What more could your averages sized cat want with your dead relatives soul when there are many squirrels and birds around to occupy their time?
To cats, graveyards may be another place to sleep away the afternoon, but to we humans, they represent the mystery and the outrage of mortality. Whether we like it or not we're all going to die. You may think you've accepted that fact, but it's an issue humanity has struggled with for ages. Unable to avoid it, we've tried to figure out what lies beyond its doors. Will we live forever in a golden paradise, be reincarnated as a cow (or a cat that spends all afternoon in a cemetery) or simply cease to exist? We've pined for understanding since the times of the great pyramids and stared into the eyes of guillotined heads, hoping to catch a glimpse of something other than the emptiness of nonexistence.
Fear exists as a response to stimuli that threatens our survival as a species. We're programmed to fight or run from anything that might cause death, and we approach death with this same attitude. We flee from it every day by distancing it from our thoughts and lives. In most parts of the world, we've handed the duties of interring the dead over to morticians, which limits our intimacy with death.
Fighting death is trickier. To avoid staring down mortality, we've redefined what death is. We choose to see dying not as something our bodies eventually do, but something that eventually happens to our bodies. We cast ourselves as the victim of death, which is the reason grim reapers and other death-stalking beings permeate our beliefs. If death is a natural counterpart to life, there's nothing we can do about it in the end. But if it's something inflicted on us by an outside force, then perhaps we have a fighting chance.
Society often sets aside the angel of death and instead chooses to practice what some people call "the deconstruction of mortality." That is, we break down the insurmountable mystery of death into smaller pieces we can digest easily: biological functions, diseases and mental dysfunctions. If prayer or bribing the reaper doesn't work, maybe multiple organ transplants will.
Pray and think about death all you want, but it's still going to happen at some time.
Disposing of a body isn't difficult. Bury it in the forest, cremate it or just leave it out for the vultures--a rite Zoroastrains in India still practice. Not only are these methods cheaper than buying a fancy casket and a cemetery plot, but they also allow "Mother Earth" to reclaim the decaying material faster. The use of stone mausoleums, coffins and embalming only slows down the decomposition process.
But then again, burials aren't really about the dead--they're about the living. We do our best to stave off some of the bad properties of death. And while immortality isn't an option, tombstones and stone monuments serve as long-lasting markers of the life that was. Aunt Betty may be out of your life for good, but a slab of engraved granite will serve as a reminder that she existed. Cemetery stonework also serves to encourage a sacred atmosphere, enforcing notions of afterlife and further establishing the site as a kind of sacred place between life and death.
We humans fear death, yet we work hard to maintain hallowed spaces where the dead are memorialized and at least partially preserved. On top of that, we heap religions full of resurrection prophecies and thousands of years' worth of superstitions, folktales and ghost stories. We're constantly repressing our feelings about death or magnifying them to tremendous proportions. Maybe you avoid cemeteries and nursing homes, or actively try to speak to the dead through TV psychic mediums-either way, you're striving to avoid the real relationship that exists between life and death.
We've poured a lot of sacrament, superstition and fear into our graveyards, which makes for quite a powerful atmosphere. Not only do graveyards play on past memories of loss, they also invoke potentially potent themes of supernatural terror. It's not just horror movies that contribute to this frightening reputation. Cemetery preservation groups and historical societies sometime get in on the action with haunted tours.
In more extreme cases, people actually suffer from colmetrophobia, the fear of graveyards. The condition involves a heightened, unrealistic fear of graveyards that actively interferes with a person's life. But unless walking past a cemetery makes your heart race, your fear probably doesn't qualify as a phobia.
For the most part, the only things you really have to fear in graveyards are collapsing tombstones and monuments. Besides that, living, breathing humans are responsible for more graveyard assaults than all the vampires, zombies and ghouls combined.
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BALTIMORE – An annual aerial survey of Chesapeake Bay grasses has found they continued to decline last year, and researchers are again blaming a pair of 2011 storms.
Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee dumped mud and debris into the bay, and surveyors said Thursday that is the mostly likely cause for the 24 percent drop.
"Literally millions and millions of tons of mud came in [to the bay] with Tropical Storm Lee, particularly. And that clouded the water. These plants need sufficient light to grow," says from Lee Karrh, biologist with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and chair of the the Chesapeake Bay Program's work group on grasses.
A more than 20 percent decline the previous year was blamed on the same storms and summer heat.
"In the lower part of the bay, we had a die off of Eel Grass due to heat stress in 2010, and we're not seeing that recover," Karrh says.
Underwater grass acreage has now dropped to levels last reported in 1986. The die-off was least severe in the southern bay, where new beds were found in the James River. Grass beds declined by nearly a third in the upper bay.
The grasses provide food and habitat for many species while absorbing pollutants and helping clear water.
"Bay grasses are an indicator of water quality … They are dependent on having clear water with very little algae, very little sediment, to grow," Karrh says.
John Aaron contributed to this story.
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(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press and WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)


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I got riled up about five months ago because ReactOS, the wannabe Windows mimic, was making strides toward actual usability. So you can imagine my excitement after trying the Haiku OS alpha, and getting this on my Inspiron.
I understand that this was built, sort of, from the remains of BeOS, and I will admit a very, very brief run-in with BeOS about 12 years ago, if memory serves. I had only an oblique interest in it and I quickly reinstalled Windows after tinkering for an hour or two.
This is a horse of a different color though. Exceptionally smooth. Native resolution, mouse support, hard drive access, reasonable 3D acceleration (in a manner of speaking), USB access, and so forth. Lightning fast too — boot times in under 20 seconds to the desktop, a number I can't reach with Arch Linux and not far off what I get from a customized Crux system.
My only issue was with networking — Haiku found my Intel wired connection with no problem, and even managed to connect and get an address. But for whatever reason, ping and Firefox both couldn't find the connection, and I didn't have time enough to track down the issue and solve it.
For alpha release software, this is a very promising show. I like almost everything about this — the size of the installation, the desktop look, the clean way the system applications and desktop widgets handle themselves. If I can track down why the network was inaccessible I definitely plan on reinstalling it and giving it another whirl.


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Nationwide Children's Hospital's South High Primary Care Center is moving and will begin seeing patients at the new location on June 25. The move will enhance the patient experience by providing newly renovated facilities with more free parking.
The clinic will move to 1405 S. High St., just across the street from the current location. The current location will stop seeing patients on June 21.
The Resident Physicians, Dr. Scott Holliday, MD, Dr. Megan Brundrett, MD, Dr. Kim Bates, MD, Dr. Cami Curren, MD and Dr. Rich Rodenberg, MD and staff members will move from the current location to the new location. As doctors for adults, through the Department of Internal Medicine at at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and doctors for children through Nationwide Children's Hospital, the center will continue to provide care for the entire family.
Services offered at this Nationwide Children's location will include:
• Call a Nurse
• Complete health care, including checkups for children and teenagers
• Care for sick children
• New baby checkups
• Immunizations
• Women, Infants and Children (WIC)
• Nutrition Services
• Social Services
• Resource Parents Program
• Car Seat Program
• Reach Out and Read Program
Nationwide Children's 10 Primary Care Centers offer community-based physician services for children (ages birth to 21) to help keep children healthy with regular physical exams, vision, hearing, developmental checks, and immunizations against childhood diseases. Nationwide Children's is one of the largest hospital-owned primary care networks in any children's hospital.
To schedule an appointment, call (614) 722-6200 or go to NationwideChildrens.org/South-High-Primary-Care-Center.