NOT A JOKE, JUST A REMINDER......................

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Happy 6th Birthday Kurt....................

Six short years and 8,000 plus post Kurt Harden has created a large list of readers on a daily basis. If you are not one of the his loyal followers you should be, click here to check out what you have been missing.

Rules to always being a lady.............

Rules set by Kurt Harden for his daughters.

Should Toddlers Use Tablets & Smartphones....................

From Time Tech:

"The American Academy of Pediatrics has repeatedly warned that screen time for children under the age of 2 is a no-no. Why? Research suggests it delays language development and can disrupt sleep. Generally speaking, we know that interacting directly and routinely with your child is paramount when it comes to hitting established developmental milestones. In fact, a recent story in the New York Times referenced research by academics Betty Hart and Todd Risley (published in the 1995 book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children), who found that the more parents spoke to their children and the broader the parents’ vocabulary, the higher the child’s IQ and the better he or she performed in school"

Click here to read the complete article here from TIME.com

Difference of 1st, 2nd & 3rd alarm fires...................

Some where within Facebook, a person asked the differences of 1st, 2nd & 3rd alarm fires. Newark Fire Department's Assistant Chief Dave Decker responded with a brief and detailed description. I just hope know one cares about copyright etc.

• The alarm assignments in Newark are set up for "Residential fires" and "High risk/value" which is a commercial occupancy or multi-family dwelling such as an apartment.
  
  Initial alarm for a single family dwelling is 3-engines, 1-ladder, 1-chief, 1-medic. The working fire announcement gets you an additional engine to act as a RIT crew which is a safety crew, and an additional medic for an EMS sector just in case of any injuries. 

  
  

  2nd alarm gets you an additional 3&1 (3 engines - 1 ladder) plus an air supply unit and a chief officer when available. 

  
  

  Each subsequent alarm provides an additional 3&1 plus an EMS unit and another chief officer.
  
  Commercial fire assignments are beefier because of the increased fire load and staffing necessary to combat the fire. Initial assignment is a 4&2 assignment. 4-engines, 2-ladders, 1-chief, 1-medic. Again, the working fire gets you an extra engine for RIT and medic for the EMS sector.
  
  Most departments follow something very close to this with 1 exception. Departments in areas without hydrants will have a number of tankers on each alarm to provide water where there are no hydrants .

  
  

  Editor's note: No where in the assignments it mentions Newark Fire's Unit-G, but usually responds to all first alarm assignments. If not, there would be no one present to bother the assistant chief in command.

  
  

  
  

Final Four....survive and advance

Sean Carpenter's post at Carp's Corner brings into the fact that everyone in sales has the same theory as the NCAA Basketball Teams going into the Final Four : Survive and Advance".


How can you approach your business with a “survive and advance” mentality?

• Focus today on lead generating activities until you have secured an appointment.
• Pre-qualify your customer so you are well prepared for your appointment.
• Show up on time, dressed professionally and show them how you are prepared to help them achieve their real estate goals.
• Confidently overcome objections and walk away with a listing, priced properly at a full fee.

Click here to read Sean's complete post at Carp's Corner! 

Now I know what to do with a stack of old phone books.................

Stolen from the Art of Manliness

Step 1: Grab Phone Book With Both Hands

Place your thumbs on top and your fingers underneath one of the edges of the phone book (excluding the edge that is the binding). You can either tear the phone book by its length or its width — either way it will be impressive.

Step 2: Make “V” With Phone Book

This is the “trick” part of tearing a phone book in half. Make a deep “V” in the phone book by pressing the bottom edge up with your index fingers while pressing the middle of the top edge down with your thumbs. The “V” creates spaces between the pages which makes it easier to rip through, as opposed to ripping all the pages stuck together. I found the deeper “V” you make, the easier it is to tear.

Step 3: Begin Tearing Phone Book

Brace the phone book on your hip or thigh and hold it tightly in both hands. Keeping your thumbs on top of the V, begin bending the sides of the phone book down. Maintain your “V” shape as much as possible while you bend the sides down. The cover and the top few pages should begin to split apart. Keep bending until you tear all the way through to the other side. You’re doing it right if you feel like your pecs are getting a workout along with your hands and forearms. Letting out a manly yell at this point can help. The thicker the phone book you use, the harder this part is. I was able to tear through a two-inch phone book easily; a four-inch phone book was a beast, but still doable.

Step 4: Pull Halves Apart

Once you’ve torn through the edge, ripping the rest of the phone book in half is relatively easy. Just finish tearing through the book by pulling the two sides apart. You may need to readjust your hands on the book to get a better grip.

Step 5: Bask in the Fruits of Your Virile Feat of Strength

Congratulations! You just tore a phone book in half with your damn, bare manly hands. Time to impress your friends and make the ladies swoon with this virile feat of strength.

Thermal imaging, tools of the trade............

The photo above is of a Thermal Imaging camera held by Lt. D. Rehbeck of the Newark Fire Department during a recent house fire. The gray background around his hand and the camera is heavy smoke as the camera is pointed at the living room window. The light glow area of the photo is the "hot" area, showing firefighters where there is most likely fire above the ceiling and in the walls. The dark areas are "cooler" areas that have not absorb so much heat (but you still would not want to touch the items with your hand).

The dark black area is actually the hose stream being shot onto the ceiling from the firefighters standing at the front door, thus the water is cooler from the 15 degree temperature during the early morning fire. This has become a great tool not for just finding the seat and hot spots of a fire, but also locating any victims to rescue who could not get out of the fire building.

A thermal imaging camera can be purchased for around $10,000. 

Click here for more information from Wikipedia.

How to Use a Fire Extinguisher..........

"Fire extinguishers. You pass them all the time as you walk the hallways at work or school, and hopefully at home too."

"But no matter how many times you’ve seen them in your day-to-day life, you’ve probably given little thought as to how you actually use one. Maybe it never crossed your mind, or maybe you assume it’s so simple it’s not something you need to learn."

Learn something today! Click here for complete blog post by The Art of Manliness.

Thanks to Park National Bank's Dave Hardy for passing this blog post along.

A little Dab will do ya...........................

This sign for the famous Vicks VapRub is missing one way to use the product almost everyone has grown up with. A small dab in the middle of your mustache, just below your nose helps make diaper changing a breeze.

Click here for more information on the inventor and for a reason why if you invent a product you should not have a name to long to print on your product's container.

Thank you to Sister Robin for sending along the history of Vicks.

Teaching Luke....................

I am on a mission: make sure to instruct my grandson Luke Andrew Guanciale on all my guidelines of life. The photo above is on the second day of his life, telling him about Blackberry versus Apple. 
Other subjects to be covered in the near future, click on the subject for more detail:
Don't hang around the water cooler.
Always remember Dec. 8, 2007 and customer service.
No socks, some personal rules can be broken.
Math is important
Be careful with your response.
Learn to sew
No short sleeve dress shirts
Walk out of the house being presentable
Real men wear pink
Support school levies
Take care of you elders
If you like it, buy more in quantity
Keep your shoes shined
Basic dress principals
Honor your religion
Learn how to spot a good leader
Do not be scared of being unique
Have a unique hobby, different from anyone else.

Shape of foot and ancestry.....................

Girl Scouts learning about money...............

Last year, in the first overhaul of its merit badge system since 1987, the Girl Scouts introduced a new set of badges for financial literacy. Scouts can earn recognition for: •Money management •Budgeting •Financing their future •Good credit •Philanthropy

Click here to read TIME.com about the Girl Scout's five newest merit badges.

The article also included:
"Students receive little financial education at school and have repeatedly failed broad tests measuring their mastery of basic personal finance and economic concepts. Just 14 states require high schools to offer a course in personal finance, according to the Council for Economic Education. Even fewer require students to take such a course in order to graduate.

Click here to read where Ohio stands amongst other states in

offering mandatory Economic and Personal Finance Education.

Ohio University knocked out of top spot.............

Click here to read the complete article at TIME.com

Don't trip over a dollar to pick up a nickle...........

"Good" things may cost a little more, but will last you longer. This does not just pertain to household furnishings, clothing, automobiles etc.

This thought also pertains to banks, attorneys, mechanics, insurance and of course real estate agents.

From the New York Times:
When we start treating everything around us as disposable, it’s hard to not think of money as disposable, too. And it’s this line of thinking that gets us into trouble.


Don’t be the person who ends up with a storage unit full of stuff you didn’t really want in the first place and an empty bank account. Do be the person who buys good things and then hangs on to them. Both you and your bank account will be happier.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

A must read & make you smile blog post.............

Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do.

Do things that have never been done.

Click here to read the most interesting blog post

you will read this week.

Thank you to Cultural Offering, Execupundit, & Blog of Impossible Things

All Star Performance...................

Last night during a dinner out with friends an oyster shooter clog one of WPDGNEWARK's avid reader's airway, as they stood up another person sitting at our table recognized the sign of what was happening. Quickly jumping from their seat the Heimlich Maneuver was performed, the air way unclogged and dinner and fun was had by all during the next three hours.


CLICK HERE TO STUDY THE GUIDELINES OF PERFORMING THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER.

Tips: Taking photos with any device.............

NASA against Mars, .722 batting average.........

Starting today check out NASA web site for updates during this two year long game.

Click here for NASA.gov and watch NASA television.

Old Licking County, Ohio Jail tour...................

If you have seen the above photo (stolen from Newark Advocate) you are old and most likely arrested for public drunkenness between 1889-1987.

This Friday from 4-8pm as part of the Newark Downtown Association's Final Friday celebration, the old County Jail will be open for tours. This is a unique opportunity to view a little of Licking County, Ohio's history. There will be a small tour charge with the funds going towards the jails preservation.

It will be your decision to make if we treat/punish criminals the way they should be treated today. Click here to read the interesting article by the Newark Advocate and view other photos.