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WORLD WAR TWO WAS less than eight hours old when the Athenia, a Montreal-bound passenger liner out of Liverpool, was some 200 miles west of Scotland's Hebrides. Of the 1,500 souls on board, many were Canadian and American vacationers who had been racing the clock to get out of harm's way before the shooting started. Regular travellers and Jewish refugees rounded out the complement and there probably wasn't a uniform in sight except for that of the ship's captain. VFL WolfsburgAs dusk descended, U-30, a German submarine, closed on the liner. Her commander, Fritz-Julius Lemp, sent two torpedoes into the unarmed ship, sending her to the ocean floor. Many of the 112 passengers who died were American and the sinking became a public relations disaster for Hitler, who denied that one of his submarines had been involved. His propaganda machine churned out the fiction that the British sank the Athenia to gain public support. Fritz Lemp became an embarrassment to Hitler and Admiral Karl Donitz, the head of the German submarine force, and was quickly assigned to a desk. Two weeks after the sinking, the Nazis were fighting another public relations battle on the front pages of papers around the world when U-29 sank the aircraft carrier HMS Courageous in the Western Approaches. Although Donitz was thrilled with the victory over a British warship, he apparently considered freighters a prime target because they could provide the fundamental stuff of survival to Britain. But the sinking of a British carrier was a major propaganda victory and he soon planned a daring encore. On October 1, Donitz called submarine commander Gunther Prien into his office and outlined mission impossible. The moon and tide would soon be right for an attack on enemy shipping in Scapa Flow, the prime establishment of the Royal Navy located in a strait among Scotland's Orkney Islands. Donitz admitted there might be some difficulty getting into these confined waters, and of squirming through submarine nets and evading patrols. Although he had given the commander two days to think it over, Prien said yes within a matter of hours. His U-47 left port six days later. According to plan, the sub arrived at Scapa Flow when a new moon darkened the harbour and the tides were running in its favour. Nestling in some 90 meters of water east of the Orkneys, Prien called the crew together and told them where they were going. watches-k The boat was rigged for its job and later surfaced. After several narrow escapes, the crew of U-47 finally invaded the harbour. Prien stood in the conning tower and must have whimpered: the harbour, key to Britain's naval power, was empty. Then Prien got an urgent message from home: two major ships--the Royal Oak and Repulse--were located in another sector of the harbour. Prien searched the harbour and finally found the ships. His first torpedo hit the bow of the Royal Oak. Although most of the ship's crew heard the muffled explosion, it was after midnight and the officers on duty incredibly did not raise an alert. It was over an hour later before U-47 had rearmed torpedoes in the tubes and was in a position to deliver them. This time two torpedoes hit the battleship followed by a major explosion that sent the ship to the bottom 20 minutes later with a loss of 800 men. Submariners soon became national heroes in Germany's war on the West. Although Donitz could only launch about a dozen U-boats, his skippers were sinking an average of three freighters a day. Early in 1940, Hitler solved a problem that had confronted Fritz Letup. He essentially declared that U-bo
was EVER since their fossils were first discovered, dinosaurs have fascinated mankind through sheer size alone. Their legend was increased by the debate about what could have caused them to disappear from the Earth so quickly. Then along came Steven Spielberg with his 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park. Suddenly, we were all encouraged to believe that science could one day being them all back to life. This simple concept from Michael Crichton's novel was such a big hit that Jurassic Park is still the 14th highest grossing movie ever made as well as being the oldest film in the all-time top 25. While London's Natural History Museum has thrived on its own collection for years, dinosaurs are now increasingly big business. Other brands jewelleryIn a multi-media explosion, we've had Walking With Dinosaurs on TV, an exhibition at Birmingham's Thinktank where you could be filmed running away from the beasts and we've seen life-sized models wandering around the NIA. Now the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery is also cashing in on the popularity of our most favourite dinosaur of all. The tyrannosaurus (Greek for 'tyrant lizard') rex (Latin for 'king'), lived more than 65 million years ago and was a meat-eater. In the first few days during half term, the exhibition was selling out at its 200 people an hour capacity. Knowing they've got another hit on their hands after the Staffordshire Hoard, the staff manning the front reception desk are especially good-humoured. "Thanks to Night at the Museum, my job is now really cool," jokes the security guard as we arrive. Ben Stiller, eat your heart out! To give this exhibition a bit of fizz, the Gas Hall exhibition has been dressed up with a fancy title: T. Rex - The Killer Question. Was it a predator, hunting and killing its own food? Or was it a scavenger, relying on others to do its dirty work? Children can investigate for themselves. A Discovery documentary featuring Jack Horner, the inspiration for Sam Neill's character of Dr Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, says good science is all about considering the evidence. Take the graphic about leg sizes. An ostrich, for example, is a fast runner because it has a short thigh bone. Human legs are about 50-50 split at the knee, meaning we are better at walking than running. But a T. Rex ed hardy wholesale apparently had a shin that was shorter than its thigh bone - and that's not good for running. Some of the exhibition's giant beasts are packed with impressive animatronics, with some even capable of facial expressions. I could have sworn one T. Rex had a quizzical look like a squinting Clint Eastwood when he asked: 'Do you feel lucky?' The best thing about T. Rex is that it's a summer-long exhibition which younger children can really get their teeth into. Assuming of course, they are brave enough. Quite a few youngsters had 'issues' when we visited, but even the most timid of children are eventually talked round by good parents. If you want to experience what it's really like for toddlers, try sitting on the floor with them. Some other adults might think you are mad, but th
ALLEN -- Mildred M., 83, of Albany Township, died June 8. A graveside service will be held on Wednesday, June 16 at 11 a.m. at the Finnish Cemetery, Pioneer Street, West Paris. Arrangements are under the direction of Weston-Chandler Funeral Home, 45 Main St., South Paris. Online condolences may be shared with her family at . ARSENAULT -- Lillian P. "Memere," died June 14. Visitation will be at the FORTIN GROUP FUNERAL HOME, CREMATION AND MONUMENT SERVICES, 70 HORTON ST., LEWISTON, on Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Louis Church on Friday at 11 a.m. Interment will take place at Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery at a later date. COMEAU -- Angelique V., 98, of Lewiston, passed away in Lewiston on June 15. A Memorial Mass will be held at Holy Cross Church, Lewiston, on Friday at 11 a.m., with committal to follow at St. Peter's Cemetery. Arrangements by Funeral Alternatives Group, Lewiston. CRABTREE -- Paula Elizabeth, 69, died in Mechanic Falls May 28. A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Sunday, July 11, at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, 259 Fore St., Oxford. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in her memory to Riverview Memorial School in Norridgewock, Pinetree Academy in Freeport, Forestdale School in South Woodstock. Replica watchesFLECK -- Rachel A., 74, of South Paris, died in Auburn. Funeral services will be held on Saturday, June 19 at 11 a.m. at Weston- Chandler Funeral Home, 45 Main St., South Paris, with interment to follow at Norway Pine Grove Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. Remembrance donations can be made to the Hospice House of Androscoggin Home Care and Hospice, 236 Stetson Road, Auburn, ME, 04210. Online condolences may be shared with her family at . FLETCHER - Wayne Allan, 28, of New Vineyard, died in Wilton on Saturday, June 12. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 18, at the Wiles Funeral Home, Cremation Service & Remembrance Center, 137 Farmington Falls Rd., Farmington, with the Rev. Herman Ellis officiating. Interment will follow at the New Vineyard Cemetery on Rte. 27 in New Vineyard. Family and friends are invited to call at the funeral home from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 17. Gifts may be given in Wayne's memory to the Ronald McDonald House, 250 Brackett St., Portland, ME 04102. FOLSOM - Clenda E., 81, a resident of Monmouth, died Monday, June 14. A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 18, at Monmouth Ridge Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Monmouth. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to: Hospice House of Androscoggin, 236 Stetson Road, Auburn, Maine 04210 or Cumston Public Library, PO Box 239, Monmouth, ME 04259. Replica watches Arrangements by BRAGDON-FINLEY FUNERAL HOME, 707 Main Street, Monmouth , ME. GILBERT -- Theresa E., 80, of Lewiston, died June 13. Visitation at Fortin/Lewiston Wednesday 2 to 4 and 6 Replica watches to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish at Sacred Heart Church Thursday at 11 a.m. Graveside committal at St. Anne's Section of St. Peter's Cemetery. In her memory, donations may be made to American Heart Association, 51 US Rte. 1, Suite M, Scarborough, ME, 04074, or online at . You are invited to share your thoughts, condolences and fond memories with the Gilbert family by visiting their guest book at . A service of The Fortin Group Funeral Home, Cremation and Monument Services, 70 Horton St., Lewiston, ME, 04240, (207) 784-4584. Other articles: http://www.stlpunk.com/blog/view/id_11455/title_Italians-crash-out/ http://onlinepeeps.com/blog/view/id_4058/title_RadiSys-Integrated-Mobile-Medi/
ARSENAULT ? Lillian P. "Memere," died June 14. Visitation will be at the FORTIN GROUP FUNERAL HOME, CREMATION AND MONUMENT SERVICES, 70 HORTON Replica watches ST., LEWISTON, on Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at St. Louis Church on Friday at 11 a.m. Interment will take place at Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery at a later date. BORDEAU ? Angela M., 19, of Mexico, died Tuesday, June 15, in Carthage. Visiting hours will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday June 18, at SG Thibault Funeral Home. A Funeral Service with Liturgy of the Word will be held 10 am Saturday June 19, at Parish of the Holy Savior. Interment will be in St. John Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, contributions in Angela's memory may be made to the Bordeau family at P.O. Box 56, Mexico, ME, 04257. You are invited to share your, thoughts, condolences, and fond memories with the Bordeau family by visiting their guestbook at . Arrangements are under the care of S.G. Thibault Funeral Home & Cremation Services, 250 Penobscot St., Rumford, ME, 04276, 364- 4366, . BRESSETTE ? Lucille B., 71, of Poland, died on Tuesday, June 15, in Lewiston. Graveside services and interment will be held on Friday, June 25, at 1:30 p.m. at the Worcester County Memorial Park in Worcester, Mass. Arrangements under the care of Oxford Hills Funeral Services, 1037 Main St., Rt. 26, Oxford. Online condolences may be expressed at oxfordhillsfuneralservices.com, 743-0270. COMEAU ? Angelique V., 98, of Lewiston, passed away in Lewiston on June 15. A Memorial Mass will be held at Holy Cross Church, Lewiston, on Friday at 11 a.m., with committal to follow at St. Peter's Cemetery. Arrangements by Funeral Alternatives Group, Lewiston. DIRENZO ? Marjorie A., 78, a resident of Auburn, died Wednesday, June 16, in Auburn. A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial honoring Marj's life will be celebrated SATURDAY at 11 a.m. at St. Philip's Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish. Private graveside committal prayers will be held at Gracelawn Memorial Park. Memorial donations in her name may be made to the Hospice House, 236 Stetson Road, Auburn, ME, 04210. Online condolences and sharing of memories may be expressed at . Arrangements by DILLINGHAM & SON MEMORIAL CHAPEL & TRIBUTE CENTER, 62 Spring St., Auburn, 784-6449. FITZPATRICK - Nettie M., 74, of Andover, died Tuesday, June 15. Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Saturday, at the MEADER & SON FUNERAL HOME, 3 Franklin St., Rumford, ME, with the Rev. John Gensel officiating. Interment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery in Andover. Those who desire may contribute to Togus VAMC Voluntary Service (135) Recreation Activities, 1 VA Center, Augusta, ME, 04330, in her memory. Online condolences may be shared with the family at . FOLSOM - Clenda E., 81, a resident of Monmouth, died Monday, June 14. A graveside Replica watches service will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 18, at Monmouth Ridge Cemetery, Cemetery Road, Monmouth. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to: Hospice House of Androscoggin, 236 Stetson Road, Auburn, Maine 04210 or Cumston Public Library, PO Box 239, Monmouth, ME 04259. Arrangements by BRAGDON-FINLEY FUNERAL HOME, 707 Main Street, Monmouth , ME. GAY - Josephine E., 94, of Greene, formerly of Livermore Falls, died June 15 in Auburn. Funeral services will be held on Friday, June 18 at 11 a.m. at the Wiles Remembrance Center, 308 Franklin Road, Jay. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the center on Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. Those who desire may make memorial contributions in her memory to the charity of one's choice. Interment wi
Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the deployment of Cisco庐 Digital Signs at Unirea Shopping Center, one of the largest retail complexes in Bucharest. At Unirea, Cisco Digital Signs, part of the Cisco Digital Media Suite (DMS), is used to provide a centralized streaming of graphics and video over the Internet Protocol (IP) network to 85 wide-screen displays located across the mall. Key Facts / Highlights: With three floors of shops and another floor devoted to food and entertainment, the Unirea Shopping Center attracts on average 40,000 people during weekdays and 55,000 people on weekends. The Cisco Digital Signs solution is used to run in-mall advertising for tenants. It helps the mall operator create a differentiated offer, retain a rental premium, and generate new revenue streams. The Cisco Digital Media Suite is an integrated business video platform consisting of a comprehensive suite of applications for the transfer of interactive video content. Unirea selected Cisco Digital Media Players, which deliver content to the digital signage systems and provide standards-based video codec support, and the Cisco Digital Media Manager, which manages content and creates and schedules playlists. Cisco Digital Signs supports the scalable, centralized management Chopard Fake and publishing of high-quality content to digital signage displays. The system runs on the mall's Cisco local area network (LAN), which includes Cisco Catalyst庐 2960 and 3560 Series Switches. Probitas, a Cisco Premier Fake Franck Muller Watches Certified Partner in Romania, designed and installed the Cisco Digital Signs solution at the Unirea Shopping Center. Supporting Quotes: Carmen Adamescu, president and chief executive officer, Unirea Shopping Center "Unirea stores are keen to advertise their products, and in-mall advertising is probably the best way to reach customers in a targeted way. Digital signage is a win-win, as it helps our tenants grow their sales, whilst it has great potential to generate advertising revenue for the mall. It's a good example of how we can use the latest technologies to differentiate our offering and to maintain our position as the best mall in the country." Alexandru Zamfir, executive director, Information Technology & Communications Division, Probitas "The Cisco Digital Signs solution at Unirea is the first implementation of this particular Cisco technology in Romania, and Probitas is proud to be the partner who accomplished this important step. The solution is based on IP and runs over the existing LAN. It is very flexible and easy to manage, and it provides the foundation on which we can build new high-quality multimedia capabilities." Tags, Keywords: Unirea, Cisco, Digital Media Suite, digital sign, digital signage, business video, DMS RSS Feed for Cisco: Supporting resources: Cisco website Read more about the Cisco Digital Media Suite: About Unirea Unirea Shopping Center - USC ( ) is the largest retail shopping center in Romania. The investors and new management team aim to transform USC into the main mall of Bucharest, designed to respond to the dynamic lifestyle in the third millennium Romania. Fake Corum About Cisco Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the worldwide leader in networking that transforms how people connect, communicate and collaborate, this year celebrates 25 years of technology innovation, operational exce
Every year in March the men of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity (Iota Phi Chapter) hold their annual Mardi Gras. The "greatest brothers on earth" do some serious brain-storming and they come up with a theme. This year on March 13 at the Greater Pittsburgh Coliseum in Homewood nearly 800 people gathered to clown around with the Qs. The flyers went out inviting all far and wide to hurry, hurry, hurry to the CirQUE De Omega and party from 8 p.m. until 2 a.m. links of london charms You had to get there early to find a place to park within walking distance. There were stilt walkers, well there was one and several clowns, snake charmers and magicians. Some of the clowns were made of balloons and others were making balloons. The United Rays Corvette Club even constructed a real big top while the Deltas, AKAs and Zetas branded their tables for immediate recognition. Bvlgari Replica WatchOn the "midway," also known as the "Quesino" there were games of chance and opportunities to win fabulous prizes. The food and drink flowed all night. The fun and festivities helped to fund many of the programs sponsored by the Iota Phi Foundation and administered through Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc, Iota Phi Chapter-popular programs like the Black College Tour, Thanksgiving Baskets, Christmas with the Qs, the Talent Program and the Mentering Program just to name a few. Chopard Replica Watchesby Debbie Norrell Courier Staff Writer Other articles: http://www.sxcsxx.net.cn/bbs/Blog.asp?BlogUserName=windows&menu=ShowBlog&BlogID=1245 http://merapindh.com/blog/view/id_817/title_Buggin’-out/
TEMPE, Ariz. Kurt Warner wound up right where he wanted to be, with a hefty pay raise to return to the Arizona team he led to the Super Bowl. The 37-year-old quarterback agreed to terms Wednesday on a two- year, $23 million contract with the Cardinals. "I love what we've been doing," Warner said. "I love what we've been building here." The deal includes a $15 million signing bonus. Combined with a $4 million salary for the first year of the contract, $19 million is guaranteed. "We're ecstatic about the commitment the organization has made to us," Warner said. "Now it's my job for the next two years to go fulfill my part of the deal." cartier maurice lacroix watchesHe believes it's his final NFL contract. "You never say never," Warner said, "but I'm old." He said he understands that he's getting a lot of money in a time of financial hardship for so many. "You know the numbers are staggering, and to add to that the economy and where people are struggling, it's tough," Warner said. "But all I know is I've worked hard to get to the point that I'm at, to be in this position and have opportunities like this and I don't regret that fact. "The fact is that's the market for what I do. I'm fortunate for that and I'm blessed in so many ways." Warner and his wife Brenda made a highly publicized visit to the San Francisco 49ers on Monday, but he said he knew quickly that he wanted to return to the Cardinals. "I told my wife probably 45 minutes into it that I just felt God say 'You're supposed to be in Arizona,'" Warner said. While the 49ers are planning a run-oriented offense, the Cardinals were among the best passing teams in the NFL. maurice lacroix masterpieceWarner said the 49ers made him an offer that was larger than the one he agreed to in Arizona. But on the flight back from San Francisco, he said he called his agent, Mark Bartelstein, and told him to do what was necessary to get the Cardinals deal done. Other articles: http://www.haikashi.com/hgbss/Blog.asp?BlogUserName=shoping&menu=ShowBlog&BlogID=1447 http://boasvendas.com.br/toaki/blog/view/id_1107/title_Clock-strikes-gold-for-soaring/
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