Olonne sur Mer – Redon

Distance: 198 kilometers.

A real sprinter’s stage.

Thor Hushovd ( Nor – GRM – 051 ) [Yellow] 9h 46′ 46″
Jose Joaquin Rojas ( Esp – MOV – 088 ) [Green] 64 points
Philippe Gilbert ( Bel – OLO – 032 ) [Polka Dot] 1 points
Geraint Thomas ( GBr – SKY – 117 ) 4 [White]

Team: Garmin-Cervelo ( 051-059 ) [Yellow numbers]
Stage winner: Tyler Farrar ( USA – GRM – 054 )
Combative: Mickaël Delage ( Fra – FDJ – 133 ) [Red numbers]

They’ve gone 412.5 kilometers [256.3 miles] at an average speed of 42.2 kph [26.2 mph].

OVERALL STANDINGS:

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Another good day with containment almost doubling and minimal fire expansion.

They are also reporting that Investigators Determine Cause of Las Conchas Fire:

Investigators believe the fire started after an aspen tree was blown down onto nearby power lines during a period of strong winds. The contact resulted in the line arcing, which then caused the tree to catch fire. Heat and flame caused the line to snap, which then allowed the burning tree to fall onto the ground where the fire spread into nearby vegetation.

Information from the current Las Conchas Wildfire InciWeb Page

• Date Started: 6/26/2011
• Location: Jemez Ranger District, Santa Fe National Forest; approximately 12 miles southwest of Los Alamos off NM 4 at mile marker 35, New Mexico
• Cause: Falling tree hit power lines
• Size: 123,563 acres [193 miles² 500 km²] based on infrared data
• Percent Contained: 19%
• Injuries to Date: 4
• Residences: 410 threatened; 63 destroyed; 3 damaged
• Commercial Property: 45 threatened; 5 destroyed; 3 damaged
• Outbuildings: 110 threatened; 32 destroyed
• Number of Personnel: Approximately 2,164 including 56 hand crews
• Equipment: 8 dozers, 81 engines, 30 watertenders
• Aircraft: 18 helicopters, 5 air tankers
• Incident Commander: Dan Oltrogge, Area Command Team 1

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The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…

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