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Coffee Counter~Week of January 2nd

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COFFEE COUNTER
for week of
January 2nd

Today In History

Jan 2, 1971~ Football fans crushed in stadium stampede

On this day in 1971, 66 football (soccer) fans are killed in a stampede at a stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, as they attempt to leave a game after a late goal by the home team. Initial reports suggested that the disaster was caused by fans returning to their seats after hearing of the last goal, but in fact it was simply the crush of spectators all leaving at the same time on the same stairway that led to tragedy. This was not the first time that disaster had struck the stadium.

Ibrox Stadium was built on the south side of Glasgow in 1900 and suffered its first serious incident only two years later. Just minutes into a match between England and Scotland on April 5, 1902, the weight of the fans on the stadium's wooden west terrace caused a partial collapse of the structure. Dozens of spectators fell 45 feet to the ground. To make matters worse, the collapse caused a general panic and hundreds of people were injured in the subsequent rush to the exits.

In September 1961, a crush of fans on stairway 13 killed two people and injured scores of others. This same stairway was the site of eight serious injuries at a match in September 1967 and 24 more injuries in January 1969. Still, no design or safety changes had been made to the stairway by the time the Rangers played a home match against Celtic on January 2, 1971, in front of 80,000 fans.

The game was a scoreless tie until Celtic took the lead with minutes left. However, Ranger Colin Stein scored the equalizer with just seconds remaining and the excited home crowd exited quickly on the cold, misty afternoon. At the top of stairway 13, a few metal railings bent and collapsed with the weight of the crowd, and people began to fall forward down the stairs. Sixty-six people--65 men and one woman, 18-year-old Margaret Ferguson--were suffocated and crushed to death in the resulting chaos. Another 145 were seriously injured.

This was the worst soccer disaster in Scottish history and the worst ever in the United Kingdom until 96 people died in Hillsborough in 1989.

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Quote Of The Day

"Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles,
you can work up to the bigger ones."

Norman Vincent Peale

Today's Trivia

Facts About January

Most of the world uses the Georgian calendar, which has January as the first month of the year. It is named for Janus, a Roman god. Roman legend has it that the the ruler Numa Pompilius added January and February to the end of the 10-month Roman calendar in about 700 B.C. Pompilius gave the month 30 days. Romans later made January the first month. In 46 B.C., the Roman statesman Julius Caesar added a day to January, making it 31 days long. The Anglo-Saxons called the first month Wolfmonth because wolves came into the villages in winter in search of food.

Mount Washington

Mount Washington (New Hampshire), the highest peak in the northeastern U.S., attains an elevation of 6,288 feet above mean sea level, and is located at latitude 44° 16' N, longitude 71° 18' W. It is in Sargents Purchase in Coös County, New Hampshire, at the heart of the White Mountain National Forest. Originally called Agiocochook by native Americans, the mountain boasts some of the planet's most severe weather, and retains the world record for wind speed, 231 MPH. The 52-acre Mount Washington State Park surrounds the summit, where visitors will find a multitude of old and modern buildings, once known as the 'City Among the Clouds'.

From Our Forums

See who is being featured in PHOTO PARADE
Featuring a selection from the smaller galleries of some of our members
Special Images by clicking here

CLIFF'S FOTOFUN #71,

Here is our new Fotofun supplied by our last winner RockArea............................... We are now voting on this. Please vote for your favourite three before clicking submit .

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Welcome to our HDR Challenge #2
here at the Photography Cafe

"Architecture"

This is our latest HDR
challenge here at the. Please vote for your favourite 3 before clicking submit. (Voting closes: January 16, 2011, 1:09 pm)

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Welcome to our Cafe Book Nook
here at the Photography Cafe

Photo Locations, Tutorials on Digital Techniques, Photo Techniques and Equipment.

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See who is appearing on Centre Stage this week

Here is our latest Centre Stage highlighting one of our members here on the Cafe! Please read the interview and then feel free to ask your own questions of our Manfred!

Manfred

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PHOTO OF THE MONTH
NOVEMBER 2010

"Misty Run"
by RGBont Thumb Up

CONGRATULATIONS RGBont!

Click on the photo to go to RGBont's album and leave a comment.
We all love comments!

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The Judges of the Cafe Choice Award are pleased to announce the presentation of this highly rated award:

is awarded to member

LES F

for his image

"ONE UP and ONE TO COME"

From the Judges:

"Les’s image was taken in evening sunlight at Curbar Edge in the Peak District. One climber sits on the pinnacle while the second makes his way up.

This is a picture that sums up the battle of man against the elements and the isolated climber and the space around him show that off to good effect. The countryside beyond is lit up by that evening sun which also rim lights the bare-chested climber.

It is an unusual image. You may see shots of the countryside from elevated viewpoints, you may see shots of climbers perched atop rocky crags but to get them both in one shot makes it special.

Congratulations Les!"

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Today's Chuckles

Magic Of The Internet

My friend Nancy and I decided to introduce her elderly mother to the magic of the Internet. Our first move was to access the popular Ask Jeeves website, and we told her it could answer any question she had.
Nancy's mother was very skeptical until Nancy said, "It's true, Mom.

Think of something to ask it." As I sat with fingers poised over the keyboard, Nancy's mother thought a minute, then responded, "How is Aunt Helen feeling?"

How Old Are You?

Nurse: How old are you?

Patient: None of your business.

Nurse: But the doctor must know your age for his records.

Patient: Well, first, multiply twenty by two, then add ten. Got that?

Nurse: Yes. Fifty.

Patient: All right, now subtract fifty, and tell me, what do you get?

Nurse: Zero.

Patient: Right. And that's exactly the chance of me telling you my age.

Quick Quotes

"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. "
~Robert H. Goddard
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"Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. "
~William James
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"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. "
~Frank Tibolt
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More Chuckles

Chocolate Is A Vegetable

Chocolate is derived from cacao beans. Bean = vegetable. Sugar is derived from either sugar CANE or sugar BEETS. Both are plants, which places them in the vegetable category. Thus, chocolate is a vegetable.

To go one step further, chocolate candy bars also contain milk, which is dairy. So candy bars are a health food.

Chocolate-covered raisins, cherries, orange slices and strawberries all count as fruit, so eat as many as you want.

If you've got melted chocolate all over your hands, you're eating it too slowly.

The problem: How to get 2 pounds of chocolate home from the store in a hot car. The solution: Eat it in the parking lot.

Diet tip: Eat a chocolate bar before each meal. It'll take the edge off your appetite, and you'll eat less.

If calories are an issue, store your chocolate on top of the fridge. Calories are afraid of heights, and they will jump out of the chocolate to protect themselves. (We're testing this with other snack foods as well.)

If I eat equal amounts of dark chocolate and white chocolate, is that a balanced diet? Don't they actually counteract each other?

Chocolate has many preservatives. Preservatives make you look younger. Therefore, you need to eat more chocolate.

Put "eat chocolate" at the top of your list of things to do today. That way, at least you'll get one thing done.

A nice box of chocolates can provide your total daily intake of calories in one place. Now, isn't that handy?

If you can't eat all your chocolate, it will keep in the freezer. But if you can't eat all your chocolate, what's wrong with you?

If not for chocolate, there would be no need for control top pantyhose. An entire garment industry would be devastated. You can't let that happen, can you?

Remember - - - "STRESSED" spelled backward is "DESSERTS"