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16 Jul 2012

Woman crashes while fleeing Colorado wildfire, starts Idaho blaze

A woman fleeing Colorado’s most devastating wildfire accidentally started a massive blaze in Idaho, where flames consumed all her possessions except the contents of her purse, NBC station KTVB of Boise reported.

Krista McCann, 19, was en route to her father’s Oregon home after evacuating for the massive Waldo Canyon fire raging near her home in Colorado Springs.

She had loaded up her car with all the things she had hoped to save from the Colorado wildfires, including her mom’s wedding dress.

Due to a mechanical problem, she said, she lost control of her Subaru on Interstate 84, between Boise and Mountain Home, Idaho.

“I just couldn’t go straight anymore and I ended up clipping the car next to me,” she said, describing the fiery accident.

After clipping a Jeep she was trying to pass, her car ran off the highway. Her car began burning, sparking a fast-moving wildfire that eventually burned 2,000 acres.

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She grabbed her purse. Everything else she owned went up in flames.

“This is everything I own now,” McCann said as she showed KTVB the few possessions from inside her purse.

“The adrenaline was going through me for a while, but after that started to fade it hit me pretty hard,” McCann said.

“I know I got out and I saw that the field was on fire and at that point I was just … I was pretty devastated. I didn’t want to do anything like that,” she said.

Colorado wildfire relief: ‘Beginning of the long haul’

McCann said she is glad no one was hurt. Now she is looking to the future.

The Bureau of Land Management declared the crash-sparked Idaho wildfire controlled Wednesday night.

The wind-stoked 18,247-acre Waldo Canyon fire reduced 346 homes to ash and was the most destructive on record in Colorado. The blaze, burning mostly in the Pike National Fores, was blamed for the deaths of an elderly couple who perished inside their home. At one point more than 30,000 people within the city and surrounding area were under mandatory evacuation orders. Thieves looted 37 homes and 28 vehicles belonging to evacuees. Federal fire managers pronounced that wildfire 100 percent contained Tuesday nearly three weeks after it started.

Red Cross volunteers in the trenches for wildfire in Colorado

“This is a chance to start completely over,” McCann told KTVB. “I have nothing. So I’ll start with a new wardrobe and a new car, and a new state of mind. And I’ll just move forward.”

McCann wants to move to a new city and create something beautiful, she said. She says has auto insurance, and is working things out with the Jeep’s driver.

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16 Jul 2012

13 manners to cruise when formulation a family highway trip. (Getty Images)

I gamble many childless folks substantially cruise a prolonged highway outing with immature children to be a good estimation of hell. But unless you’re a member of a private craft set, earlier or after you’re substantially going to strike a highway with your kids—either to save income (airfare for relatives and kids can unequivocally supplement up) or to revisit places not simply reached by plane. Since summer is rise deteriorate for family highway trips, I’ve put together some recommendation from relatives who have logged critical miles in a automobile with their kids.

1. Technology is your friend.

Virtually everybody we spoke to endorsed bringing something that plays movies. DVD players are great; or we can discharge a DVDs altogether and download cinema to a laptop or iPad.

2. If we have mixed kids, move mixed electronic devices.

The some-more kids we have, a harder it is to get them to determine on a movie. Rebecca Saff, who recently finished a 6,000+ mile, four-week highway outing with her father and 4 immature sons, packaged 4 inscription computers. “That way, everybody could watch a opposite film or play games,” she says.

3. Choose toys carefully.

“No toys with tiny pieces unless we wish to collect them adult 50 million times,” warns Carol Michael Stuckey, who creates unchanging highway trips from Massachusetts to Indiana with her dual tiny kids.



4. Change activities often.

Rather than vouchsafing her kids watch an whole film in one sitting or play mechanism games for hours on end, Saff was despotic about switching things adult on a unchanging basis. “Every 30 mins or so, everybody would put divided what they were doing and start something else,” she says.

5. Visit a library before we leave.

Saff checked out 20 books on CD from her internal library and done MP3 files of them to play in a car. The Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew and Encyclopedia Brown were large hits.

6. Have kids keep a record of a trip.

We’ve kept a integrate aged digital cameras to give to a kids when we travel. They take a lot of nonsensical photos, though it’ll be fun when they’re comparison to demeanour behind on family trips by their eyes. Saff’s comparison kids kept daily journals.

7. Novelty is key.

Load adult your iPhone or iPad with new games, move cinema your kids haven’t seen before, and collect adult new toys as we travel.

8. Bring path desks.

Kids can tone or play with tiny toys like cars or blocks.

9. Old-school songs and games still work.

Many relatives introduced their kids to games they remember personification on highway trips they took with their possess parents. (If we select to open a Pandora’s box of “99 Bottles of Beer on a Wall,” however, don’t censure me.)

10. Consider bringing your possess potty.

“They sell fold-up unstable kids’ potties that reveal to be flattering most like a unchanging potty. They use gallon zip-top bags that we zip adult and chuck out. Terrible to consider about though arrange of a life saver!” says Stuckey.

11. Stock adult on motion-sickness meds, only in case.

Talk to your pediatrician in advance.

12. Minimize grill meals.


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16 Jul 2012

Cost Plus World Market Celebrates the Launch of Its New Kingdom Animalia Collection with an African Safari Sweepstakes …

OAKLAND, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Celebrating the launch of Cost
Plus World Market’s fall 2012 Kingdom Animalia Collection, the
specialty retailer is offering the “African
Safari” Sweepstakes. One lucky winner will win the Grand Prize trip
for two to South Africa. The five-day luxury excursion includes flights
to Johannesburg with accommodations and escorted tours through Kruger
National Park, where visitors often catch sight of the iconic “Big Five”
– lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and buffaloes. The trip is provided
by Intrepid
Travel, one of the world’s leading small group adventure tour
operators. In addition, the winner will receive a $1000 World Market
gift card that can be used to refresh his or her home with the latest in
fall home décor trends. Customers can enter for a chance to win World
Market’s “African Safari” Sweepstakes at www.worldmarketsweepstakes.com
or www.facebook.com/worldmarket
now through August 17, 2012.* World Market will also award three
runner-up prizes of a $500 World Market gift cards.

Inspired by World Market’s love of international travel, adventure and
exotic discoveries, the new fall collection, Kingdom Animalia, captures
Africa’s beautiful outdoor spirit and has woven it into items for the
home. Grounded in warm, neutral colors and natural fabrics, the unique
and affordable collection features updated classic and iconic items from
Africa’s British Colonial years, including the campaign desk, butterfly
chair, and travel trunks. Animal prints and graphic patterns are
featured on textiles including cotton dhurrie rugs, toss pillows, faux
fur throws, bath towels and shower curtains. Tabletop items include
woven natural fiber placemats and beautiful horn serveware; each piece
adding a rustic yet sophisticated style to the dining table.

Let the fall season be the season of home entertaining starting with our
trunk bar. Wrapped in a woven fiber fabric, the trunk is set on locking
casters and includes shelf and drawer space for all your bar glassware
and accessories and holds up to two cases of wine – which can also be
purchased from World Market’s wide selection of wines from some of the
best wine regions in the world.

*Full “African Safari” Sweepstakes rules and information can be found at www.worldmarketsweepstakes.com
and www.facebook.com/worldmarket.

For information about Cost Plus World Market’s current promotions and
events, follow us on www.facebook.com/worldmarket,
www.twitter.com/worldmarket,
and www.pinterest.com/worldmarket.

About Intrepid Travel Pty. Ltd.

Now in its 23rd year of operation, Intrepid
Travel is one of the world’s leading small group adventure tour
operators. Intrepid takes over 100,000 travelers to more than 100
countries worldwide, each year. Intrepid trips are designed to go off
the beaten track, meet the locals and travel in an unconventional way,
joining locals on their transport, in their markets and even in their
homes. Intrepid employs close to a thousand employees in nearly 20
countries worldwide.

About Cost Plus World Market

Cost
Plus World Market operates 259 stores in 30 states under the names
“World Market” and “Cost Plus World Market.” The store features an
ever-changing selection of casual home décor and furnishings,
housewares, gifts, jewelry, decorative accessories, over 500
international wines, gourmet foods and beverages offered at affordable
prices and imported from more than 50 countries. Many items are unique
and exclusive to World Market and are regularly supplied by an
international network of individual and regional artisans developed over
the Company’s more than 50 years in the import business.

Cost Plus World Market
Jill Osaka, 510-808-9319
jill.osaka@cpwm.com


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16 Jul 2012

Family grieves daughter killed in crash

Alexis McKinney’s family has missed her every day since Thursday.

Authorities said the 15-year-old was killed in a wreck on a rural Butler County road.

“We were supposed to go birthday shopping this weekend. I never thought I would have to go funeral shopping. That was the hardest part,” said McKinney’s sister, Kristina Wenck.

Wenck and McKinney were sisters and best friends. Wenck said she is thankful for the matching tattoos they got nearly two years ago.

“Mine says always and forever, bigger sister, and on her right arm is always and forever, little sister. When we would hold hands, they would go together,” Wenck said.

They were also looking forward to McKinney’s jeep her father bought her for her 16th birthday, which would have been on Wednesday.

“I know she was excited. They were going to make it into a Barbie Jeep,” mother Sherry Wenck said.

“We talked about pink seat covers, pink everything. We were even going to try and paint it pink. We didn’t care what anyone thought — even our mom,” Kristina Wenck said.

Alexis McKinney’s father now has to sell it to pay for her funeral. Her mother said she is thankful for the time she had recently with her daughter during a trip to Erie.

Sherry Wenck also said she’s thankful for the rainbow that appeared right over their home Sunday after a thunderstorm.


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16 Jul 2012

Fuel Up on Summer Fun! Make a Quick Pit Stop on Cox Petrol’s Facebook to …

From Jul 5 – 19, Cox Petrol wants to know what people consider about automobile transport and creation it fun. For a time taken to fill out a brief survey, participants will be entered into a sketch to win an iPad 2 that will assistance make automobile transport sparkling for a whole family.

Dallas, TX (PRWEB) Jul 15, 2012

Ahhh. The untroubled summer highway trip. The fun of a wide-open road. Road trips are a smashing approach to try – either a tour is an hour divided or opposite a nation — and even suffer family fastening time. Yet mostly relatives of toddlers, facile age kids and even teenagers are concerned about a automobile float for fear of a dreaded “b” word: bored. From Jul 5 – 19, Cox Petrol wants to know what people consider about automobile transport and creation it fun. For a time taken to fill out a brief survey, participants will be entered into a sketch to win an iPad 2 that will assistance make automobile transport sparkling for a whole family.

    Steer over to http://www.facebook.com/coxpetrol and like Cox Petrol on Facebook. Summer is relocating by quickly, and once unchanging highway trips get started, everybody will get into a pitch of it and indeed demeanour brazen to a time in a car. But don’t check entering to win an iPad 2 since chances of winning are good. That new iPad 2 is only a ways down a highway watchful for a winner.    

             Cox Petrol can be found during a 4 Rudy’s Country Store and Bar-B-Q locations in a Metroplex in Frisco, Allen, Denton and Arlington that are a initial of some 30 stations that a association skeleton to modify to a code during a subsequent 16 months.

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16 Jul 2012

Evans bullish despite odds

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16 Jul 2012

GO SISTA! Super Nanny Saves 4-Year-Old Boy From Runaway Jeep

cindy gaston saves four year old boy new yorkcindy gaston saves four year old boy new yorkCindy Gaston (pictured), a 25-year-old Brooklyn woman who works as a nanny, plucked the four-year-old boy she was caring for from the path of a stolen jeep that almost killed them both, the New York Daily News reports.

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The near-death accident took place on Thursday when Gaston and the boy, Jonathan Meltzer, were waiting on a corner for a bus that was bringing his sister home from a camping trip. Gaston saw a green vehicle coming at them and instinctively yelled “Run!” The vehicle careened across traffic, jumped the sidewalk and crashed through a traffic pole. It clipped Gaston in the back of the leg, injuring her.

Witnesses quickly came to her aid until an ambulance arrived. Once inside of the emergency vehicle, Gaston had the wherewithal to call the boy’s mother to assure her that the boy was OK.

“She totally saved my child’s life,” Chandra Meltzer told the Daily News.

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Dezmon Sardina, the 19-year-old man responsible for the accident, was charged with “seven criminal charges ranging from robbery to reckless endangerment.” Sardina allegedly stole the vehicle from his girlfriend after pushing her down to the ground on a nearby street.

Gaston was treated at a local hospital for bruises and released soon after. Gaston — perhaps Super Nanny now — is on crutches, but otherwise OK. She is in pain, but is very eager to see the boy she saved and his older sister.

“The kids are so sweet,” she said. “The sweetest children in the world. I’m so happy that I was able to do this.”

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    16 Jul 2012

    Road outing cultivatable for Grace Potter

    Vermont rocker Grace Potter wants to apologize to all of her tighten friends staying in a Bay Area. When she intentionally circumnavigated San Francisco during a new two-week expostulate from Los Angeles adult a California seashore in her little Fiat, she was on a mission, and she indispensable a time alone to totally rethink her new album, “The Lion The Beast The Beat,” whose sessions had strike a artistic passed end.

    “All we had in my automobile was a blanket, my guitar, a bag of mushrooms, some Smart Water and a croissant,” says a blond conform plate, who went unrecognized on her outing in infrequent jeans and T-shirts. “Plus a Coke-bottle thick eyeglasses that I’m legally compulsory to wear, only in box I’m ever pulled over.”  

    It was a high-pressure followup. Potter and her subsidy rope pennyless by with 2010’s “Grace Potter The Nocturnals” and a flagship strike “Paris (Ooh La La),” and “You and Tequila,” her pound duet with Kenny Chesney, for whom she opens in Oakland tonight.

    But dual months into recording, with 50 intensity cuts, she says, “I didn’t have any torpedo songs that we was vehement about — they all sounded like Adele or Florence and a Machine ripoffs. Not that we meant to do that — that was a instruction that was being speedy for me by, umm, a powers that be.”

    So a composer (also featured on a new VH1 “Storytellers”) simply ditched a dissatisfactory element and strike a road, veering off march into Utah and Nevada.

    She stayed in a condemned room during a Madonna Inn, visited spook towns, hung out in Bodega Bay since Hitchcock filmed “The Birds” there, and camped out in a Big Sur wilderness. “There’s a lot of uncanny s— in Northern California — I’m not going to lie,” says a trailblazer. “It’s one of a many overwhelming places to be alone.”

    Otherwise, Potter, 29, ate during lorry stops and slept in her car. Gradually, honest, working-class anthems emerged, like “Timekeeper” and “The Divide,” facilitated by serve songwriting forays behind home to Vermont, afterwards to a Caribbean.

    When 3 Dan Auerbach-assisted marks fell into place (including a kickoff singular “Never Go Back”), “Lion’s” rootsy new march was set. By removing lost, she found herself.

    Potter is still vacant that her record company, Hollywood, let her go so distant off a grid. “But we was on a walkabout, a self-inflicted adventure,” she says. “And by it, we schooled that we trust myself some-more than we realized, and that faith in yourself when you’re creation a record is some-more critical than anything else.”

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    16 Jul 2012

    Another trip around the triptych

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    16 Jul 2012

    RoadTrip Mixtape Uses Your Driving Directions to Build a Playlist Stuffed with …


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    RoadTrip Mixtape Builds a Perfect Road Trip Playlist, Stuffed with Bands from Cities You Drive Through Planning a highway outing this summer? RoadTrip Mixtape is a new webapp from The Echo Nest that takes your start and finish points, gets pushing directions from Google Maps, and afterwards creates a playlist for any leg of your outing done wholly of musicians and bands who got their start in a cities you’ll be pushing through.

    RoadTrip Mixtape is a lot of fun to use, and if you’re always meddlesome in finding new song (some of that might even be in your backyard), it’s value a look. When we plotted directions from my place in Washington DC to revisit my family in Pennsylvania, we started out with DC musicians like Fugazi, Chuck Brown, and Thievery Corporation, tuned in to The Awesomes and some Oddzar—both from my aged stomping drift in executive Maryland, and grooved to a small OHO on my approach north into Pennsylvania.

    The use uses Rdio to name song and build a playlists, and it matches adult a generation of any playlist with a leg of your journey. The usually critical downside to a use is that it doesn’t let we trade your mixtape or save it so we can take it with we in a car. Even so, we can click any leg on a Google Map to see that artists are in that leg, and skip brazen by a legs of your outing to build your possess playlist in whichever use we select formed on a songs RoadTrip Mixtape selects for you.

    The developers behind a webapp contend that a mobile version, and support for some-more services in further to Rdio, are on a approach soon, so stay tuned. In a meantime, it’s a good approach to select some internal song to listen to for your subsequent trip, or only learn musicians who got their start in your area.

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