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Special & Area Studies Collections
Visitor Information
The Department of Special & Area Studies Collections is housed in multiple buildings on the University of Florida campus. The main Special Collections Research Room is located on the second floor of the Smathers Library (Library East), and the Latin American Collection is housed on the fourth floor of the same building (both are accessible by elevator). The Price Library of Judaica is located in Library West.
See the University of Florida campus map.
Researchers are encouraged to telephone, e-mail, or write at least 3 business days in advance of their visit.
Regular Hours of Operation: See the complete Libraries' hours of operation.
Please be aware that these hours of operation do change throughout the academic year.
For contact information, including mailing and email addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and online contact forms, please visit our Contact page.
UF offers paid parking on campus at the Visitor Welcome Center in the Reitz Union. Other, external paid parking options are also available.
- Parking
- Visitor Welcome Center Hourly Paid Parking
- Reitz Union Garage, 655 Reitz Union Dr.
- General Information on UF Parking
- External, non-UF parking; e.g.:
- Stadium Club, behind 1802 W. University Ave.
- Lot across from Library West, 1542 W. University Ave.
- Visitor Welcome Center Hourly Paid Parking
- Maps
Other Visitor Information Resources
- UF Visitors Main Page
- Lodging, UF
- Reitz Union Hotel (center of campus)
- UF Hilton Hotel & Conference Center
- Lodging, non-UF:
- Holiday Inn (1250 W. University Ave.)
- List of available lodging through the Alachua County Visitors & Convention Bureau ("Come and stay awhile" has listings for hotels and bed & breakfasts)
- Transportation
- Gainesville Airport
- Jacksonville and Orlando airports: both are approximately a 1.5-2 hour drive from Gainesville (the Jacksonville airport is closer; the drive from Orlando includes toll roads)
- Gainesville bus system (note: campus bus schedules change for different semesters and during intercession)


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|As of today my products are no longer available on turbosquid as they have decided to try and squeeze yet more money out of the artists by demanding that prices on their site match other vendor sites but still only giving 40% of the royalties to the artist.
I always found this to be somewhat of an insultingly low percentage and only sold my products there with an added cost to compensate for the fact they took so much.
Well today they gave me the push I needed to end the abusive relationship with them, so I have now removed all products from their site.
All my products will still be available at the best price here and at my store on cgtrader and I am looking into other vendor stores.

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Wednesday's NHL trade deadline came and went with the Flyers making the smallest of moves that won't drastically improve the team now or down the road and that's OK.
Wednesday's NHL trade deadline came and went with the Flyers making the smallest of moves that won't drastically improve the team now or down the road and that's OK.
General manager Paul Holmgren wisely didn't mortgage the future for the short term to get a much-needed defenseman because there just wasn't a game-changing one on the market. Instead the Flyers, who entered Saturday's game against Winnipeg three points out of the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference, shipped out one backup goaltender for another (Michael Leighton along with a 2015 draft pick to Columbus for Steve Mason).
Nothing Holmgren could have done would have solved the woes of his defense, which has been the Flyers' biggest issue this season. Part of that is poor performance, part is bad personnel decisions and the last part is the organization's continued run of bad luck with concussions to franchise players.
When the Flyers traded for Chris Pronger in 2009 they thought they had shored up their defense and point on the power play for seven years (the length of the contract the Flyers gave Pronger when they acquired him from Anaheim). The move paid off immediately when Pronger helped the Flyers reach the Stanley Cup finals in 2010, but everything came crashing down at the beginning of the 2011-12 season when Pronger sustained a concussion after being hit in the eye with a stick.
Pronger, who was the Flyers' captain for just 13 games before the concussion, hasn't played since thanks to post-concussion symptoms and will likely never take the ice again. That puts him in an unenviable class of past Flyers captains like Eric Lindros and Keith Primeau, who both saw their careers destroyed by concussions.
With one hand tied behind his back thanks to Pronger's hefty salary, Holmgren succeeded in adding young scoring punch as he tries to bring a Stanley Cup to Philadelphia for the first time since 1975.
He did well by getting rid of Mike Richards, Jeff Carter and their God-awful contracts prior to last season, netting Brayden Schenn, Wayne Simmonds, Jakub Voracek and a draft pick that became Sean Couturier in return. Holmgren also strengthened his blue-line by trading talented, but underachieving forward James van Riemsdyk to Toronto for defenseman Luke Schenn prior to the start of this season.
It's Holmgren's move for goalie Ilya Bryzgalov prior to last season that has netted the harshest response from media and fans, although a bit unjust.
Bryzgalov, whose exclusive free-agent rights Holmgren traded for from Phoenix before giving him a nine-year, $51 million contract last year, hasn't been the equivalent of Martin Brodeur or Henrik Lundqvist (who is really?) during his short stay in Philadelphia, but he's been good enough that the shortcomings of the Flyers shouldn't only rest on his shoulders. There is some thought the Flyers might amnesty Bryzgalov and give Mason a shot, but that would be a huge gamble.
Where Holmgren has really struggled, though, is assembling a defense in front of Bryzgalov minus Pronger.
The backline Holmgren has put together is either old (Kimmo Timonen), immobile (Nicklas Grossmann) or bad (Braydon Coyburn and Bruno Gervais, who are both minus 10 this season). The worst part is Coyburn, Grossmann and Timonen are all signed through next year thanks to contract extensions given to them by Holmgren. There's no top prospect on the way either and this year's free-agent defensemen class doesn't inspire much confidence (Edmonton's Ryan Whitney would be a nice addition, but he's 30 and will command top dollar, and that's not available with money already committed by the Flyers).
Holmgren's only chance to get a defender who can help the Flyers challenge for a Cup would be to use a talented young scorer (Matt Read, Brayden Schenn or both, maybe?) as a trade chip, but I'd only be guessing as to who would be available. Like pitching in baseball, teams aren't exactly lining up to give away talented defensemen either.
One smart thing Holmgren did do was to stand pat Wednesday and that's a good start.


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The emails are coming with no issue. The problem is that when a user requests password reset the $InviteLink is wrong.
To be more specific, the server's url is domain.com:2121 where 2121 is the port number that is open to public. The error in the emails is that the invitelink doesn't include the :2121 in the url, so that portal is not accessible.
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Manning's homecoming rates somewhere between Ulysses' and a visit to the ex-wife
Peyton Manning strides across America this week like some modern-day Colossus, blocking out the sun from every other story on the NFL's broad horizon.
His back foot is planted squarely in Denver, the front one hovers just above the giant footprint he left behind in Indianapolis. Yet somehow the hype has stretched even further. The clash between Manning's present and his past has dominated the airwaves, headlines and social media for days, so freighted with emotional baggage and divided loyalties that his return trip has already been compared with everything from Ulysses' homecoming to a visit with an ex-wife.
Manning finally broke his relative silence Wednesday, talking to reporters about the Colts only after the Broncos had finished practicing to play them.
Asked how he'll feel during a Hall of Fame-worthy tribute planned before Sunday night's kickoff at Lucas Oil Stadium — a.k.a. "The House That Manning Built" — the 37-year-old shrugged, then correctly pointed out there was no way to know until then.
"And," he added, with a mischievous glint in his eye, "I might not tell you afterward, either."
A moment later, Manning was asked what it would feel like playing against former teammates, especially fierce defenders and longtime friends like linebacker Robert Mathis, who were barely allowed to touch him during practices for years. He responded with a question of his own.
"A guy asked me, 'Is this like playing Eli?'" Manning began, referring to his baby brother, a two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback with the New York Giants and the youngest of Archie and Olivia Manning's three sons. Stories about football games between the boys on the family's front lawn in New Orleans have since become the stuff of legend.
"And I said," Manning continued, "I know Robert Mathis hits harder than Eli. I can guarantee you that.'"
After 14 years, 11 trips to the postseason and the same number of Pro Bowl selections, a record four MVP awards, one Super Bowl title and more passing records than you can count, Manning was released by the Colts on March 7, 2012. He'd had neck surgery the previous May, followed by spinal fusion surgery in September, then sat out the entire 2011 season. Doctors questioned whether Manning would ever play again, let alone whether his once-fearsome "rocket arm" would be good for much beyond holding a clipboard.
Faced with surrendering $28 million in bonus money to keep Manning, or hitch the future of the franchise to the most Manning-like QB prospect to come out of college since the original, Colts owner Jim Irsay elected to roll the dice on Stanford's appropriately named Andrew Luck.
In the 22 games since he moved to Denver, Manning has never looked better. After a bitter, improbable, last-second loss to Baltimore in the playoffs last season, Manning opened this one by torching those very same Super Bowl-defending Ravens with seven touchdown passes, the first step in what's become a 6-0 season.
But the Colts haven't been too shabby in his absence, either. Indianapolis posted 11 wins last season, despite coach Chuck Pagano being sidelined for most of it while he battled leukemia, in large part because their rookie quarterback displayed poise and maturity beyond his years, both on the field and off. With Pagano back at the wheel, and Luck becoming more Manning-like with each game, the Colts have beaten NFC West powerhouses San Francisco and Seattle and fashioned an impressive 4-2 start of their own.
"I never viewed it as replacing Peyton," Luck said after practice Wednesday. "I just viewed it as a chance to play quarterback in the NFL. It just so happened that one of the greats of all time was here before me."
The Indianapolis chapter of Manning's career began with an interview with then-Colts general manager Bill Polian at the scouting combine in March 1998. The Colts had the No. 1 overall pick in that year's draft, and the only other player they were considering, strong-armed Washington State quarterback Ryan Leaf, had blown them off just days earlier.
"So now comes our chance to interview Peyton, and considering what's at stake, I've got a long list of questions ready," recalled Polian, who departed Indianapolis just months before Manning did and now works as an NFL analyst for ESPN.
"Instead, he sits down, opens his briefcase and takes out a list of 25 questions he has for us — technical football questions, questions about our offensive approach, our personnel priorities, practice priorities and so on. He said he wanted to be sure he was going to be with an organization that was dedicated to winning."
A lot of that — winning — took place in Indianapolis between that day and this one. Yet during an interview earlier in the week, Irsay, a bona fide attention hound, called into question whether it was enough. He's told The Associated Press much the same thing for the better part of a year now without ever getting this kind of traction.
But even after walking back some of those comments on Twitter, Irsay is sparing no expense and going full-speed ahead with plans to honor the player he treated like a son — and whom insiders like Polian credit with keeping the Colts in Indianapolis and convincing the locals to chip in tax dollars to build Irsay's team a new stadium.
Meanwhile, Manning's real father, Archie, is recovering from back surgery in Memphis. When a text popped up on his phone asking what concerned him most in those days before his son made the soft landing in Denver he had no trouble answering.
"Peyton's health. Not football."
Of course, everybody knows now how things worked out. Luck's father, Oliver, who's been around the game in one role or another — as a college and NFL quarterback, administrator and current athletic director at West Virginia — isn't unhappy either.
"I don't know that I had any real concerns, beyond the concerns any dad would have with a son who was drafted with the first pick," he chuckled.
"So often in sports, a decision gets made and right away people rush to label it black or white, winner or loser. Andrew's not that far along, certainly nowhere near Peyton, but what's important is that he's trying to get there doing things his way. ... And if you look at where we were, and where we are, it really does look like a win-win for just about everybody involved."
Colts receiver Reggie Wayne, long one of Manning's favorite targets, said he's had enough of everybody singing "Kumbaya." Or maybe he's still smarting over what Manning told the Colts would happen if they let him go: "I'll kick your butt for the next 15 years."
Either way, it's high time to see who can tip the "win-win" scale in their favor, starting with Sunday.
"I'm just ... I'm just ... ready to play ball and get it over with," Wayne said. "It's like Ringling Bros. around here, man."


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Arizona 76, Washington St. 72
Brendon Lavender scored 17 points and Jesse Perry had two late
baskets that lifted Arizona over Washington State 76-72 on Thursday
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Kyle Fogg had 16 points and Perry scored 14 for Arizona (19-8,
10-4 Pac-12), which won its fifth straight game and remains in the
hunt for the Pac-12 title.
Brock Motum scored 28 points for Washington State (13-13, 5-9),
but missed four of five free throws in the closing minutes. The
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Golden Eagle game notes vs. JSU (PDF)
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- What could be the most important game facing the Tennessee Tech football team in a decade looms on Saturday when third-year coach Watson Brown takes the Golden Eagles to Jacksonville State for a noon contest in Paul Snow Memorial Stadium.
While the ranked Gamecocks aren't eligible for the Ohio Valley Conference title in 2009, the Golden Eagles are in the thick of the race with two weeks remaining.
Tech (5-4/4-2 OVC) is within one game of league-leading Eastern Illinois.
The Golden Eagles have not had much success in Jacksonville, winning just once in five visits.
The Gamecocks (6-3/4-1 OVC) rank first in the conference in scoring offense, scoring defense, total offense and total defense, pass offense and pass defense, and turnover margin.
Like Tech, the Gamecocks have played two games this year against FBS foes. The Gamecocks opened the year with a 37-17 loss at Georgia Tech, then nearly upset Florida State a week later before losing, 19-9.
JSU quarterback Ryan Perrilloux leads the OVC in both total
offense and passing, but the Gamecocks have put together a solid
defense to go with their explosive offense. Alexander Henderson
tops the league in tackles, T.J. Heath is first in the OVC in
passes defended and Monte Lewis is ranked first in fumbles
Fans can listen to the game on the Golden Eagle Sports Network or on Free Teamline via the Internet or telephone. The contest will also be streamed ive on OVCsports.TV.
Records in 2009: Tennessee Tech is 5-4 overall
/ 4-2 Ohio Valley Conference
Jacksonville State is 6-3 overall / 4-1 Ohio Valley Conference
Series Record: Jacksonville State leads series, 8-4
Last Meeting: Jacksonville State 41, Tennessee Tech 17 (2008 in Cookeville)
Tech Radio:
Golden Eagle Sports Network (Roger Ealey, Buddy Pearson, Brandon Goodwin)
also Free Teamline (Call 1-800-846-4675 - team code 0654)
Television: WJXS TV in Jacksonville, Ala
Live Stats: www.jsugamecocksports.com
Last Week: Tech lost at Georgia, 38-0; Jacksonville State def. SEMO, 24-3
Web sites:
Tennessee Tech - www.TTUsports.com
Jacksonville State - www.jsugamecocksports.com


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Portia welcomes the joy of spring into your home with a vibrant collection that is a testament to the power of color. This eclectic mix of patterns in lime, teal, and rose has the whimsical charm of watercolors. Portia's fun trims, polka-dots, and vivacious hues will also make this collection a bright and fun choice for any little girl's room. Sizes range from Daybed to Cal King and any component or piece can be ordered individually by contacting a design consultant.
Please see the bedding set chart in the detail photos for a complete list of what pieces come with each set, and their sizing.
Would you like us to help you find a similar item? Talk with our Design Consultants toll-free at1-800-927-5164.
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International Customers (including Alaska and Hawaii) please contact a Customer Service Representative if you have any questions about placing an order with PoshTots.
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Generally, most consumers know the rates for mailing a 1-ounce First-Class® letter. However, many don't know the prices of other postal service offerings, such as certification, insurance, or return receipt. In some instances, some of these services must be bundled with the mailing type.
Posting the rates for the more commonly used services in a convenient spot in the Post Offices would let customers know approximately how much services cost, allowing them to make informed decisions. For example, displaying rates for the first several ounce increments of First-Class mail, as well as the most commonly used rates for Express Mail and Priority Mail along with the rates for certification, insurance, and return receipt, would help mailers calculate the total purchase price.
Easy access to this information would allow mailers to effortlessly make price comparisons with other providers and clearly reveal the true value the Postal Service provides to consumers.
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With easygoing ukulele strumming and a catchy melody, Vacation Day is the perfect fit for any of your children-related projects.
The mood is light and fun, thanks to the joyful rhythm section and a combination of piano and bells to support the melody. Enjoy!
The download includes both WAV and MP3 files.
Please, do not forget to rate this track at purchase, thank you.
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Product Details
100% Wool Budget Kilt. 16 ounce wool used. (There is a small amount of viscose or acetate to hold the weave together but it is a very small amount)
This kilt has an inner lining protecting quality and ensuring comfort.
3 leather adjustable belts allowing for 2" adjustment.
* Please see our 'how to measure' page to ensure you order the correct size. *
* This is a very important step when ordering a kilt.
These kilts have a standard drop length of 24".
Small snags, pulls, holes and other blemishes are pretty rare but they do happen because this material is hand woven. These flaws are a natural part of the kilts character.
Complete the look........
Add matching sock flashes for an additional $20.
Add matching fly plaid and broach for a further $50.
Please allow 7-10 weeks for delivery. In most cases it will be less.
We stand by the quality of our products. If you are not fully satisfied, we offer a 30 day money back guarantee. See our Returns Policy
Don't take our word for it. Read our Customer Testimonials received so far. (just below the main image)


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Returning home and cleaning up after a disaster such as Hurricane Ike can be a difficult, time-consuming and potentially dangerous task, said Texas AgriLife Extension Service experts.
But there are ways evacuees and others returning to damaged homes can prepare for what they might encounter and get a good start on recovery.
"With Hurricane Ike, the major property damage issue is flooding," said Janie Harris, AgriLife Extension housing and environmental specialist. "If a home has been flooded, pretty much everything that's gotten wet from flood waters should be considered contaminated. People will have to sort out what can be disinfected and saved and what has to be thrown out."
Harris said before evacuees return to their homes, they need to ensure their own safety.
"The first thing people should do is listen to the authorities in the affected area and not return home until they say it's safe to do so," she said. "It won't do any good to go home if there's dangerous debris, downed power lines or possibly even snakes or rodents in the area."
Harris added that if people return prematurely and suffer an injury, there may be limited access to medical attention.
"Once it's safe to return," Harris said, "people should prepare by getting together supplies that will help sustain health and safety, along with items for initial clean-up."
In addition to sufficient food and water, Harris suggests bringing a first aid kit, insect repellent, hand sanitizer, a basic tool kit, sturdy closed-toe shoes, and basic personal hygiene items such as soap, bath towels, toothbrush and toothpaste.
"People should also prepare by getting cleaning supplies such as buckets, bleach, sponges, scrub brushes, dust masks, gloves and trash bags," she said. "And they should wear long-sleeved shirts, long pants and work gloves or latex gloves, depending on what they're doing."
A list of suggested post-disaster cleaning supplies and other items can be found at Texas Extension Disaster Education Network, Texas EDEN, site, http://texashelp.tamu.edu/hot-topics/ . Click on either "Disaster Recovery Supply Kits" or "Restoring Your Home and Belongings" under the Disaster Recovery Resources heading.
Harris said some of the other issues returning evacuees will have to address include the lack of electricity, limited access to food or fresh water, the need to make temporary repairs to homes and taking steps to control mold growth.
"Many people will need to make some temporary repairs to roofs, walls, windows or other parts of their home using tarps, plastic sheeting, plywood or other materials," said Dr. Joyce Cavanagh, AgriLife Extension family economics specialist. "But before they make those repairs, they need to contact their insurance company, take photos of the damage and begin an inventory of damaged personal possessions for insurance purposes. Then they can make temporary repairs to prevent further damage."
Cavanagh added that people making temporary repairs should retain receipts for supplies purchased as some or all of these costs usually are reimbursed by their homeowners insurance.
"During the recovery process, it's also a good idea to keep a 'communications log' of the people you speak with and what was said during the conversation," she said. "This includes conversations with your insurance company, local authorities and contractors or others doing home repairs. That way you can keep track of things like expected repair dates, estimated costs and specifics on actions to be taken or work to be done."
Cavanagh added that additional near-term considerations for those returning to their homes relate to financial matters.
"One of the first things to do is check to see if your bank or credit union has an operating branch in the affected area," she said. "And see if you can find a working ATM that's on your debit card network."
Cavanagh also urged caution on taking out cash advances on credit cards.
"Interest rates on cash advances tend to be higher and typically start as soon as you take out the advance," she said. "And there's usually no grace period on a cash advance. So if you need a loan, check with your bank or credit union as they will have more favorable terms."
Disaster unemployment insurance may be available for those who have lost their jobs or are unable to return to work because of disaster-related damage to their workplaces, she said. "As for other disaster-related finances, those with homeowners insurance will probably have coverage for living expenses if their home is uninhabitable, and may have enough in savings to live on until these funds become available," Cavanagh said. "But people with limited financial means may need to take advantage of disaster relief funds or emergency food stamps."
She said information on insurance coverage and procedures should be available through the individual's homeowners insurer or the Texas Department of Insurance at 800-252-3439 or http://www.tdi.state.tx.us.
"People also need to remember that monthly bills don't stop when there's a disaster," she said. "Even if your home or vehicle is damaged, you still have to make your payment. And you may need to use credit cards to pay for some necessary items. You have to be especially careful about how you budget and stretch your money to last throughout disaster recovery."
Cavanagh suggested those needing financial relief contact their mortgage company or creditors before payments come due to discuss options.
AgriLife Extension offers online information in Spanish and English on recovering from hurricanes, floods and other disasters, most of which can be downloaded free. These can be found at http://agrilifebookstore.org and by clicking on Disasters and Emergencies.
Some materials also are available at county AgriLife Extension offices in affected areas.
Additional disaster recovery resources, including information on disaster-related health issues, food and water safety, financial recovery and risk management, septic systems and water wells, and tree removal can be found at the Texas EDEN site, http://texashelp.tamu.edu/.


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Disassemble the LS Pro v1/LS Live v1
Why should i disassemble my LS Pro?
- If you want to upgrade the HDD inside
- If your box is unbootable and you want to connect it to a desktop for data recovery
- If you want to solder headers for serial to the board.
- If you want to solder the JTAG headers for reviving
- because you can!
How to get out the HDD
All steps below in a full video:
Video - Getting the HDD out in 2 minutes
Video - Using a cordless screwdriver - 1 minute
10 Steps to get the HDD out of the Case
1. Here it is..my shiny new LS Pro
2.We need to remove this 2 screws on the bottom first
5.Now we need to open the case...look at the video.
Short Video - Opening the Case
6.Now we need to remove this 4 screws...
7.Short note for assembly: It was that way...
8.This is the last screw we need to remove..
Short Video - Pulling out the HDD
10.Here it is...unplug it and do whatever you like...
Removing the Mainboard
1.Do all steps mentioned above
2.Removing the Sata-cable, Fan-Cable & the Power Cable from the Mainboard ..
3.Removing the Faceplate
4.Removing the screw on the back
5.Removing the Backplate
6.Removing the screws on the Mainboard
7.Removing the Mainboard
Interesting parts of the Case
Prepared Serial Port inside the case, the PSU and the mainboard
My LS Pro doesn't look like that....
Some LS Pro's are now using updated hardware. Disassembly instructions are here: Disassemble the LS Live v2


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Full Swing (ft. Scott Wade) Lyrics
Built to land hard
That's exactly where we left it
Slippery downslide
And you could never fake it
I apologize, so excuse me
Slow we pacify
Come in full swing
Maybe it'll seem like it's gone
Knowing what you want when you can't
I could never stress it enough
Of all the right choices
I start with the wrong ones
Still falling, reckless and on again
Rumor mills got me locked in
Killing time, just hope it doesn't kill me
What is free?
What is free when you won't stop watching me?
Everything I do is adding up
Now I'm taking the warning
Everywhere I go…
I can't avoid it, but I can control it
Everything I do… I can't avoid it
Everywhere I go…
I can't avoid it, but I can control it.


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SHE'S once, twice, three times a lady - that's Sheffield's Philippa Hanna, according to superstar Lionel Richie after she wowed over 10,000 fans as his support act at the Motorpoint Arena, writes Graham Walker.
Armed with just her trusty guitar, wearing a blue sparkly dress, she had concertgoers dancing on the ceiling, or in the aisles at least, as the superstar's warm up.
VIDEO: Press the play button to watch Philippa on stage and chatting exclusively about what it was like to perform in front of over 10,000 people.
MORE VIDEO: Watch Philippa's full opening song, Happy In My Skin - CLICK HERE. Or watch it on YouTube - CLICK HERE.
The 28-year-old singer-songwriter, who has been playing coffee shops and church halls, was plucked from virtual obscurity to take the spotlight.
She's been doing that every night on his 11 date tour, with just three to go next month.
But after her homecoming performance, to a packed Arena, she admitted it had been "extra scary" knowing family and friends were in the audience.
"There's something about playing to your home crowd - extra exciting, but extra scary, because you just want to do a good job,'' she said backstage.
"But they were amazing. I feel good and relieved.
"It's great to hear that cheering but you don't want to disappoint them, not being Lionel."
Philippa, of Handsworth, added:: "I've always known Lionel Richie's music but we're in awe of him. I'm a tiny bit starstruck.
"He had me and my parents in, just before the show, and gave them a pep talk about having their daughter on the road. He's been an encouraging mentor."
Philippa, who works with X Factor acts at Grammy Award winner Eliot Kennedy's Sheffield studio, got the gig after she was spotted performing at one of his charity concerts by tour manager Nathan Hodgson.
Final dates on the Lionel Richie Tuskegee Tour 2012 are Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre, on December 13, Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Glasgow, December 14 and Nottingham Capital FM Arena, December 15.
* For details of Philippa's other gigs and to buy her albums visit www.philippahanna.co.uk. Also follow her on Twitter at @Philippahanna and Facebook, at www.facebook.com/philippahanna.


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Top-paid lobbyists in Maryland for 2011
Eight Maryland lobbyists got more than $1 million in billing compensation, as companies spent heavily trying to promote their agendas in Annapolis. Lobbyists have to report their activities, and a listing is generated each time an advocate picks up an active client. In this gallery, you can see who each lobbyist is representing, and on what issues (in parentheses). All information comes from the Maryland State Ethics Commission.
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Academy for SuperheroesDVD - 2007
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This movie was entertaining but full of holes and had some bad acting, the battle with the main bad guy was very disappointing. I loved this movie when i was a child but seeing it now it's somewhat funny but filled with too many plot holes to look past.
I rather enjoyed this. It's just one of those movies that are fun to watch. The action scenes are decent and the super kids' powers are actually somewhat cool. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed this movie and would recommend it to anyone, adult or child. This is great for a family movie night.
Terrible movie! 'Zoom' accurately describes the speed I returned this to the Library.
What an absoluttely dreadful film. There is nothing funny, fresh or exciting about this film. Don't waste your time, unless your under the age of 8.
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Published at Wednesday, December 06th, 2017 - 00:35:42 AM. . By Queen Haley.
Safe Step Stools For Senior Citizens: Have you seen a senior citizen in your neighborhood having difficulty getting in a car or on a bus? It is hard to find a safe step stool for your beloved family members that are aged or physically challenged. Many of us have loved ones whom are suffering from this difficulty due to some ailment or just aging. Some aging Americans may have just had surgery or a long confinement in the hospital that has made them and made it difficult to control their balance. It's almost impossible for them to lift their legs from the ground 5 or 6 inches. It might be too risky for our beloved seniors to go out to dine with family or to see a doctor for check-up. It's not that easy to get our seniors safely in any vehicle to transport them with this kind of condition.
There are independent retirement homes and some adult communities that are having the same problem with their seniors. And they have been trying to solve this problem by making their own wooden step stools out of plywood. Some communities use old wooden coca cola crates as step stool just to overcome this kind problem. Others have even tried to use piles of heavy block of wood for their seniors to step on in boarding the bus they are traveling on. Directors of the said communities are challenged to find a more durable, light easy and safe step stool for their seniors. And looking for this kind of quality step stool shouldn't have been hard! Hasn't anyone out there have come up with an invention to solve this national problem?
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Frank Horwill
- These articles were first published many year's ago and whilst some are as relevant today as they were when new, many are now mostly of historical interest as modern research and coaching methods have superseded them.
Planning Your Track Season
By Frank Horwill
- Aim for a target time or championship goal.
- The target time or championship goal must be achievable.
- The target or goal must be challenging.
- Decide what amount and quality of work is required to reach your goal.
- Plan out the necessary number of under-distance and over-distance races required to peak at the right time.
- Discuss with your coach the tactic be used in each build-up race.
Some athletes may have solely a time target in mind. For example, a female with a time of 2mins 3secs for 800m, may have a burning desire to crack 2 mins and once achieved the rest of the season is an anti-climax. Other athletes may wish to win or get placed in one of the many championships at hand (County Area, National, Commonwealth etc). To do this, they must estimate the possible winning time and train accordingly.
Pie-in-the-sky ambitions should be expunged from the mind. We have to be realistic. There is not much point in talking about wanting to run a sub-4 mile if you haven't yet run under 4mins for 1,500m. The ultimate goal is a long-term plan, you need to concentrate on the now.
In deciding whether your goal is challenging or not, some statistics are worth studying. For example, Sebastian Coe at 15 years of age, had best times of 4mins 25secs for 1,500m and 2mins 13secs for 800m. Exactly 10 years later his times were 3:31.95 and 1:41.73. That works out at 5.4secs average improvement per year for the 1,500m and 3.2 secs annual improvement in the 800m event. It should also be noted that the average peak age for peak times is around the age 25 years. This does not preclude faster times being done before or after that age; however, it is a strong indicator.
In working out what training is required, there are several factors to consider:
a. The amount of time available for training and the amount of actual training you wish to do.
b. The physiological indications of the event. Here, there are several choices: 1) Using A.V. Hill's aerobic/anaerobic table. 2) Using Matthews's and Fox's energy pathway requirements. 3) Using empirical methods. Hill stated that the 1,500m event is half aerobic and half anaerobic. We have to understand what is meant by those terms. Also, we have to be clear in our minds that there are several predominantly aerobic speeds where the majority of the oxygen needed can be breathed in. For example, running at 3K speed, about 4secs per lap slower than in the 1,500m is 60 per cent aerobic. We must also understand that anaerobic running involves a wide range of speeds and includes: 200m (95 per cent), 800m (67 per cent) and 1,500m (50 per cent).
There are those who question Hill's findings, stating that the aerobic requirements is grossly under-estimated. Until they receive a Nobel Prize, as Hill did for his findings, we must assume that he knew better!
Fox and Matthews sub-divided Hill's two main categories (aerobic/anaerobic) and stated that the 800m event was 65 per cent LA-O2, 30 per cent ATP-PC and 5 per cent O2. These abbreviations simply mean lactic acid/oxygen (LA- O2), adenosine triphosphate and phosphocreatine and lactic acid (ATP-PC and LA) and O2 is oxygen usage (aerobic). All these energy pathways are duration-related: for example, if we sprint 100m, for the first 4secs, we use ATP; if we continue to 200m, we use ATP + PC; and if we plug away to 400m, we use ATP + muscle glycogen; if we stagger on for another 80secs, we are running anaerobically, building up lactic acid and relying on muscle glycogen to keep us going. We must eventually slow down after 2mins still relying on muscle glycogen, after 4mins we slow still further and keep going because we use more oxygen and start burning fatty acids as well as muscle glycogen.
Given ten training sessions over a course of 14 days using Hill's table for the 1,500m, we could allocate five sessions to aerobic work and five to anaerobic efforts to look like this:-
Day 1 – Aerobic (99 per cent) – Run steady for 1 hour.
Day 2 – Anaerobic (67 per cent) – Run 4 x 400m at target 800m speed with 3mins rest.
Day 3 – Aerobic (90 per cent) – Run 10k fast.
Day 4 – Anaerobic (95 per cent) – Run 8 x 200m full out with 200m walk back recovery.
Day 5 – Aerobic (60 per cent) – Run 45mins fartlek as follows: 10mins jog, then 3mins fast runs at 3k speed with 1.5mins jog recovery x 6.
Day 6 - rest
Day 7 – Anaerobic (83 per cent) – 1 x 350, 2 x 300, 3 x 250. All full out with 400m walk recovery after each.
Day 8 – Aerobic (80 per cent) – 4 x 1,600m at estimated 5k speed with 200m jog recovery. To estimate 5k speed add 8secs per 400m to best 1,500m time per 400m. Example – best 1,500m = 4mins = 64secs = 72secs/400m on this session.
Day 9 – Anaerobic (50 per cent) – 8 x 400m at best 1,500m speed starting with 90secs rest and decreasing by 15secs rest after each rep. After rep done after only 15secs rest, return to 90secs etc.
Day 10 – Aerobic (99 per cent) – Run steady for 1 hour.
Day 11 – Anaerobic (100 per cent) – Run 8 x 100m full out with walk back recovery.
Day 12 – Start cycle again.
Using the Fox and Matthews method of working the energy pathways involved in the 800m, it could look like this:-
Day 1 – 02 – Run steady for 1 hour.
Day 2 – ATP-PC-LA – 24 x 100m sprints in sets of 8 (3 x 8) with three times the time of the rep as rest, e.g. 100m in 12secs, 36secs rest. After each set walk 400m.
Day 3 – LA-02 – 5 x 600m fast with twice the time of rep as recovery, e.g. rep in 90secs, recovery 3mins.
Day 4 - LA-02 – 4 x 800m fast in sets of 2 (2 x 2). Take the same time of the rep as recovery, e.g. 2mins 10secs rep, 2mins 10secs rest. Rest after second rep.
Day 5 – ATP-PC-LA – 50 x 50m sprints in sets of 10 (5 x 10 x 50) with treble time of rep as recovery. Walk 400m after each set.
Day 6 – rest
Day 7 – LA-02 – Repeat Day 3
Day 8 - LA-02 – Repeat Day 4
Day 9 – ATP-PC-LA – Repeat Day 5
Day 10 - LA-02 – Repeat Day 3
Day 11 – Start cycle again
Using a common sense or empirical approach to training for the 5,000m event, there are some essential factors to consider:-
1. Familiarisation with the target pace per 400m.
2. Improving speed at lesser distances, i.e. 3k and 1,500m.
3. Establishing good endurance from fast 10k running and slower 20k running.
With these three in mind a schedule could look like this:-
Day 1 – Fast endurance – Run 10k near to maximum speed.
Day 2 – Pace familiarisation – Run for 3 minute spells at target pace 5k with 1 minute recovery x 6. A target of 15mins=72/400, run for 3mins at 72secs/400 = 1k distance.
Day 3 – Slow endurance – Run 20k 30secs slower per 400m than best 1,500m time per 400m, e.g. best 1,500m = 4mins = 64secs = 94secs/400= 6mins 16secs per mile on this run.
Day 4 – Speed work – Run 4 x 800m at best 1,500m speed with 3mins recovery.
Day 5 – Fast endurance – run 10k near to maximum speed.
Day 6 – rest
Day 7 – Relative speed work – 3 x 1,500m at best 3k speed with 3mins recovery.
Day 8 – Slow endurance – Run 20k
Day 9 – Pace familiarisation – Run for 5 minute spells at target 5k pace with 2mins recovery. A target of 14mins = 67/400 = 1,800m distance x 4.
Day 10 – Fast endurance – Run 10k fast
Day 11 – Speed work – 5 x 600m at best 1,500m speed with 2mins rest.
Day 12 – rest
Day 13 – Start cycle again
In planning your races for the season it is a good idea to work backwards from the goal you hope to reach. This is important because peak performances are not always required at the same time each year, with some exceptions, for example, BUSF and English Schools championships. Athletes should study their race diaries and discover at what time over the past two years they ran their best race. They should also study their performances in non specialist distances. Here, the BMC has some average statistics. Your best 800m, 1,500m, 3km and 5km, is most likely to occur from the fifth to seventh race at those distances. This assertion is the same for under-distance races, this ideally could mean for an 800m specialist – 5–7 x 400m races + 5–7 x 800m races. Also, the average figure for over-distance races which accompany peak performances is three. This indicates that an 800m specialist should also race three times at 1,500m and that a 1,500m runner should consider racing 3km or 5km, and a 5km runner three outings at 10km or further.
Now, if we accept BMC statistics, there is not much point in rattling off five to seven races in as many weeks at the beginning of the season as the likelihood of performing well later will recede. That said, every athlete is an individual and if you peak after your tenth race at your specialist distance, so be it!
There is also the question of how you treat all build-up races. In his early days, Coe spent a whole season running all his races from the front in order to see if he ran better that way and also to experience it should he be forced to do so. Every race should have a point to it. The obvious one is to win it! A secondary one is to win in a good time. A third is to experiment, for example, increasing speed for the third lap of a 1,500m race or the third 200m of an 800m is not a popular tactic with the opposition! If you lack finishing power this may be something you have to work on. A powerful finisher must rely on keeping in touch and keeping in contact requires good endurance and training should reflect this. Using different tactics also confuses the opposition, it is difficult for them to fathom out your next move. Avoid being an open-book.
The track season is a culmination of what has occurred in the winter. Some coaches place great importance on physiological monitoring every 3 months. These tests are simple to do and reveal much. You may consider having your endurance assessed before the track season, to do this, choose a windless day and see how far you can run around the track in 15 minutes. A good male club runner should be able to run 5,000m (67.5mls.kg.min), a good female club runner should achieve 4,600m (63.2mls.kg.min). If these figures are way beyond you, it would be wise to shift the emphasis in training to correct this weakness. The test for pure speed is a 40 yards (36.6m) sprint from a standing start. At least three attempts should be tried. Females should attempt to get well under 6secs and males well under 5secs. Times achieved on this test reveal the 400m potential using this formula – Time run x 10 + 2secs = Male 400m potential. Time run x 10 + 3secs = Female 400m potential. Failure to get under 6 or 5 seconds respectively indicates that most probably leg-strength is poor and or regular sprint-work is not being done.
Attention to detail is important in the track season. Here is an example: In 1984, Tim Hutchings qualified to run the 5km in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He was not expected to make the final because he had not broken 13mins 20secs. A 50-year Metereological Report with average readings for the weather most likely to occur in Los Angeles showed that smog would be bad up to midday, and that the temperature would be around 100F/38C. He was advised to take daily 5mg vitamin A 14 days before departure and also while there. This vitamin is specific for the health of the trachea membranes which are affected by smog. Because the perspiration loss would be excessive, he would lose minerals rapidly, in particular, potassium which has a direct affect on the heart, severe shortages cause heart failure, he was therefore advised to drink copious amounts of pure orange juice which is a major source of potassium.
Hutchings qualified for the final while some illustrious names failed to make it - for example, John Walker dropped out of his semi-final. In the final, Hutchings lowered his 5km time to 13mins 11secs, an improvement of 10 secs, the greatest improvement by a British athlete in an Olympic 5km final. He ran the last mile in 4mins 6secs (the average mile time for 13:11 is 4mins 14secs). However, one noted 1,500m runner dropped out of his final and collapsed, taken to hospital tests showed that he had heart failure due to excessive potassium loss.
Some tips for the track season:-
- Eat every 4 hours meals which contain fruit, vegetables, skimmed milk, fish, lean meat, bread and rice. Physical output will be increased by this routine.
- Avoid excessive consumption of cola drinks: the phosphorous in them destroys calcium and makes bone and teeth fragile.
- Drink plenty of pure orange juice when the temperature gets above 60F/15C.
- Do not rely on thirst as an indication of the body requiring water when the temperature is above that stated in (3), drink one pint of water morning and night as a matter of routine in such conditions. Tea and coffee take fluid from the body.
- In weather where the temperature is above 70F/32C, you may consider shortening your warm-up from 10mins to 5mins. Recent research from Australia has shown that marathoners who have a cold bath/shower when racing conditions are hot run much better because the maximum body temperature of 104F is delayed during the race.
- Get in the habit of taking carbohydrates in fluid form within 30mins of finishing training or racing. The best way to do this is to purchase a carbo-loader (polymer). Glycogen is preferentially stored in the first 2 hours after exercise.
- Watch your weight for two reasons: a) A steady loss of weight daily indicates either dehydration and or stress. b) Increases in weight denote that the consumption of saturated fatty foods is excessive. Training in the morning will raise the metabolic rate for several hours which means more calories will be burnt even when sitting down.
- A simple plan before a race, if conditions are good, is to calculate what pace per lap will give you a personal best. The advantage of this is you only have yourself to worry about! If your best time for 800m is 1:52, you work out that to run 1:50, each 200m must be run in 27.5secs and ignore what others are doing. Level-pace running means increased effort every 200m.


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Trying to get that esports money, but Star is nowhere to be found =(
One thing I wanted from the game was to see certain characters who had been cursed to eternal damnation improve their situation. Poor Seiko can't seem to catch a break. Man though, Dat epilogue.
Quote from: Akanbe- on July 08, 2013, 10:07:48 PMTrying to get that esports money, but Star is nowhere to be found =(Well, I got my Internet back, I can play with you too.My nick on LoL is "Sibunna".I dread how many patches I'll have to download after missing a month =(
Hey, I waited until midnight last night but I was sleepy. i got my smurf account to level 5 easy peasy.
Can anyone vouch on the difficulty of harder settings in Last of Us?


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The news out of Florida surrounding sweepstakes business owner Chase Burns of Oklahoma is troubling to say the least. Nearly 60 people have been arrested there on fraud charges and dozens of sweepstakes businesses have been closed by law enforcement in what is being described by authorities as a gambling operation disguised as a charitable operation to raise money for military veterans causes.
Florida officials also say that they are now looking into political campaign donations to Florida politicians that might be connected to Burns and his International Internet Technologies company. In North Carolina, the nonpartisan campaign advocacy group Democracy North Carolina already has looked into donations by Burns and his wife to legislative candidates in last year�s General Assembly races and the N.C. governor�s race � and the findings not only strike close to home, but are an interesting lesson in political gamesmanship. North Carolina leaders have been debating the on-again, off-again legality of sweepstakes operations in the state for the past few years.
Democracy North Carolina, which is headed by Bob Hall, found that Burns and his wife donated during the past two-year election cycle a total of $235,500 to the campaigns of 67 legislative candidates, Gov. Pat McCrory, the N.C. Republican House Caucus and the N.C. Republican Senate Caucus.
The list reported donations to a legislator from Alamance County, Republican state Sen. Rick Gunn ($4,000). It also includes Triad-area political luminaries like Republicans Sen. Phil Berger ($8,000), who is Senate president pro tem, Sen. Jerry Tillman ($4,000) and Rep. Jerry Dockham ($2,500) and Democrats Sen. Gladys Robinson ($1,000) and Rep. Alma Adams ($1,000).
According to Democracy North Carolina, 24 Democratic and 43 Republican candidates for the General Assembly received donations ranging from $1,000 to $8,000 (the maximum for donations from two people). Four of them � three Democrats and one Republican � who each received $1,000, lost their races. Fortunately, it seems from Hall�s group�s research that only one questionable donation was made, a $2,500 check attributed to International Internet Technologies. Donations from businesses to campaigns are illegal.
But the pattern of donations shows how someone involved with controversial legislative matters plays the field with contributions to members of both parties. Burns knew that donations buy name recognition and access for the donor, and it helps to be known by those in both parties.
For his part, Gunn says he doesn�t know Burns and had no idea about any potential wrongdoing by Burns until the indictment. He also noted that he followed legal procedure with his campaign contributions and receives quite a few directly to his campaign from PACs, entities and individuals. Fair enough. But we would also note that it�s wise for political leaders to know the sources of their donations in case questions are raised later.
McCrory has said his campaign will donate the $8,000 he received to charity. Some of the others who received money from Burns have said that, too. Such donations would be good gestures by any candidate who still has campaign money left.


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Monday's local forecast
Expect spring-like temperatures today, with partly sunny skies and a high near 76. It will be breezy with winds from the south-southwest at 15 to 25 mph. Gusts could be as high as 30 mph.Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low around 50, with a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Winds will be form the south around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.Get a weekly preview of the local forecast now at weather.gov.


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BOINC software development
BOINC is free software, distributed under the Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The University of California holds the copyright on all BOINC source code. By submitting contributions to the BOINC code, you irrevocably assign all right, title, and interest, including copyright and all copyright rights, in such contributions to The Regents of the University of California, who may then use the code for any purpose that it desires.
BOINC development
- Personnel and contributors
- Development process
- Development projects
- boinc_dev, an email list for BOINC developers
- Coding style
- Using SVN
- Debugging the client on Windows
- BOINC 6.0 Development Portal?
- BOINC wiki documentation
Get and build BOINC software
- Get source code
- Software prerequisites
- Building on Unix
- Building applications
- Building the client
- Applications on Mac OS X
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Writing add-on software
BOINC's architecture is 'open'; documented interfaces making it possible to develop various types of applications and web sites that interact with BOINC components. Examples include:
- Client GUIs: Applications that control a local or remote core client.
- Credit statistics web sites: Web sites showing credit information (project totals, user/team/country leaderboards) based on daily XML feeds of statistics data from BOINC projects. The XML format is documented here.
- Account managers: Web sites that let BOINC users create and manage accounts on multiple projects.
- Aggregate credit statistics: Web RPCs for getting cross-project credit data for hosts, teams and users.
- Web RPCs: These interfaces let a program or web site obtain information about projects, and create/edit entities (users, teams, hosts) on projects.
- Local editing of preferences: This mechanism lets you write programs for local editing of preferences.
Check the index of add-on software before writing anything (it may already exist). The index has instructions for submitting new add-ons.
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Event raises funds for mental health programs, awareness
The Stuttgart Scooters are working to raise funds and awareness for mental illness.
To do this, the six-member team is hoping to raise $1,500 before its participation in the 10th annual NAMIWalks.
The 5K walk, scheduled for 9 a.m. May 11 on the grounds of the Clinton School of Public Service, is a fundraiser and mental health awareness program. It is sponsored by the National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI).
Barbara Cook of Stuttgart has participated in the walk for four years and is presently serving as a NAMI board member. She said this year's team consists of team captain Lisa Graves of Stuttgart, Damon Phillips of Stuttgart, Terry Webb of DeWitt, Janie Darden of Little Rock and Jason Cook of Stuttgart.
The team has raised about $1,000 so far. Their next event is an 8:30 a.m. bake sale Saturday at Mayflower Foods. Cook said residents would also be able to purchase donated gift packages, including a Big Banjo pizza and four bowling games at Rice Bowling Center as well as movie passes to the Stuttgart Twin Cinema.
NAMI is the largest grassroots mental health organization in the nation and has more than 1,100 affiliates who work in advocacy, research, support and education. According to NAMI, its members are families, friends and people who live with mental illnesses such as depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and borderline personality disorder.
The organization provides support and education programs to its members. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that one in four adults ― 57.7 million Americans ― experience a mental health disorder each year. There are one in 17 people living with a mental illness and one in 10 children have a serious mental or emotional disorder. Cook said this is why NAMIWalks is so important.
"It's support for myself, for my team and NAMI because they helped me with their support," Cook has said previously. "And I just want more people to know about it because it's not a contagious disease and I want them to know about the stigma and know the facts."
Cook said she would like to thank the area businesses and residents who have donated so far.
For more information, contact Cook at (870) 830-7263, another team member or go online at http://ar.nami.org.


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Broken record: I've been warming my way across various posts-in-progress for this site and Stumptown Vegans – where there's always something – multiple posts, second and third visits, site development ideas, etc. – going on behind the scenes. Working on that, the grand invites and open registration (why, could it be next weekend?!?) for Vida Vegan Con almost makes it less depressing that my sunny culinary photograph is now limited to the weekends and sporadic lunch hours. Will my dinners become boring? Not necessarily, I typically vow to never eat leftovers at home, but last night I did make a mini pizza on lavish bread, which was pretty lame. It wasn't an abomination of ingredients (a mix of homemade sauce, farmar goods, and teese); I just don't feel right calling it a pizza. I can just imagine my Italian great aunts giving me the stink eye over the crust (and the whole soy cheese thing, but whatever).
As for the titular pasta dish, there's a layer of chopped lemony sorrel, Trader Joe's whole wheat rotelle, squash sauce, sautéed tempeh bacon and sweet red pepper, and roasted pecans. The sauce is a go-go Magic Bullet puree with a base of sautéed garlic and a teeny bit of olive oil, black pepper, sea salt, roasted acorn squash, plain soy milk, nutritional yeast, ground pecans, thyme, sage, oregano, red miso, a little tamari, mustard, and probably something else or another. Those fun things that go into cheesy sauces.
In continuing adventures of confirmed deliciousness and fall acceptance, Savor Soup House is still delicious. I had a cup of Tomato Fennel Orange soup earlier for lunch, and a big kudos for a soup-maker that knows how to meld flavors other chefs might use for sheer attention.
I took my lunch to Director Park for reading & eating, and there was a 'flashmob" taking place. I would have assumed it was a colorful, regular theater troupe, but I heard a few excited mentions of "flashmob" around me and grabs for smartphones. Sadly, no sign of dancing zombies.
And one more time – Vegan Bloggers, wherever you are – if you're interested in attending the Vida Vegan conference late next summer, I'd selfishly advise subscribing to the site for the registration opening. Once it's booked up, it's booked up. I don't think I'm the only one who's going to squeal when our amazing speakers, or you know, special vegan guests from the dreamlist, like Moby, confirm…


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Right at Your Door (US - DVD R1)
Gabe hears an explosion, takes a step outside, and then breathes in deeply...
Struggling and unemployed musician Brad (Rory Cochrane) and his breadwinning girlfriend Lexi (Mary McCormack) have recently moved to a new neighbourhood in Los Angeles. On this seemingly unremarkable morning Lexi heads off to work, and Brad sets himself for another afternoon of boredom and gear grinding. Then their routine is shattered when a series of dirty bombs explode in downtown LA, rocketing toxic clouds of ash all over the city. After failing to get a hold of Lexi, Brad follows the advice of his neighbour's handyman and seals the house with his wife outside. Then Lexi comes home, covered in ash and still alive.
The paranoia exploiting thriller is a proud film tradition going back to the beginning of the medium. Chemical warfare has enjoyed a seat around the top ten of the world population's fear list for generations, and saw a healthy resurgence during the as yet unsolved anthrax attacks of 2001, which continued as a part of the various 'unspecific' terrorist threats of the years that followed (remember, duct tape and garbage bags are your friends). Writer/director Chris Gorak's film, Right at Your Door, seems to arrive about two years too late to fully exploit the public's dirty bomb apprehensions, but as Hollywood have studios discovered with the releases of producer J.J. Abrams' low-fi monster movie Cloverfield, and director Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds remake before that, the public's fearful fascination with 9/11 is not yet satiated.
Right at Your Door's opening act twists the paranoia screws tightly, hinging mostly on Rory Cochrane's authoritative performance, which is effectively realistic without devolving into hysterics. The chaos is told from his point of view, which is placed outside of the actual action of the terrorist attack. This is very clever from a budget standpoint, and dealing with a massive catastrophe without showing it specifically is a refreshing changeup from Hollywood disaster saturation. But this approach isn't anything new—George Romero did it in 1968 when he made Night of the Living Dead (and his horror follow-up, The Crazies covered a lot of the same man-made infectious agent bases).
Right at Your Door doesn't utilize the 'tell not show' concept entirely ineffectively, but it stretches itself thin very quickly without a lot of pay off. The small ensemble of actors and limited sets is similar to a stage show, but not so much to the film's advantage. So much time is spent describing things that have happened off screen that the concept becomes somewhat of a parody. At a certain point the fear begins to fade and the realization that this isn't enough material to fill a feature length film begins to replace it (the extra features tell us the film originated as a short). New characters are introduced almost as quickly as they leave, and emotional speed bumps don't quite produce results.
The padded film time and semi-parodic lack of on screen action is not remedied by the film's impotent attempt at a shocking twist ending. I complain often about twist, but it's not because I don't like a good twist, it's because I don't like it when they serve no purpose beyond shock. This particular twist doesn't serve the story beyond Twilight Zone level irony, and it cheapens this otherwise pointedly 'classy' horror film.
Right at Your Door means to look rough, and it does. The film won an award at Sundance for its cinematography, which is nice and realistic with a healthy spritzing of stylization, sort of hyper real. The 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen frame is quite grainy at times, one assumes on purpose, but the compression noise is distressing. The detail levels are respectable, but edge enhancement is pretty brutal, a common side effect for lower budgeted movies made on film rather then digital HD. Most of the lighting is of the natural kind, and the film's less stylized scenes are a little too dark. Overall this is a decent video release that wears the symptoms of its budget and style respectably.
The back of the box lists the sound options as Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0, but playback calls the 5.1 track an EX track. The EX isn't really very impressive, but the sound design is quite minimalist. The surround channels only really spring to life during the film's music, but incidental sound effects are reasonably powerful during the outdoor and home attack scenes. The dialogue is clear, centred and natural, though the film's many radio broadcasts (an element taken directly from Romero's Night of the Living Dead) have an artificial sheen, always sounding post-produced rather than part of the scene. A small complaint, but a valid one.
For a film that received basically zero theatrical release in the States, this disc is pretty well stocked, especially considering Lionsgate's barebones approach to minor releases. Things start with writer/director Chris Gorak's commentary track, where he is joined by Empire magazine writer David Hughes. The Gorak's overall tone is lethargic, but he does cover the bases, including a few pointers on how to pull together a professional looking feature from a rather meagre budget (by Hollywood terms, of course). Hughes is a nice addition, and spends his time prying healthy bites info from Gorak, rather then acting too much as a critic, though his preparation takes even Gorak by surprise at times. Between the two commentators there isn't a lot of blank space on the track.
'Forearm Shiver' (a reference to the film's original title) is an interview with Gorak, where he covers his post-9/11 inspirations, script writing, studio interest, casting, improvisation, multiple endings, budget problems, basically all the stuff he already covered during the commentary track. Gorak's tone is again lethargic, and when coupled with his image the dude comes off as either very shy or a bit pretentious. It's hard to read him. The interview footage is inter-spliced with film footage and runs about twenty-five minutes.
This is followed by a short 'Film School' with Gorak, where he offers his tips on how to make an independent film. He starts with how to break into the business, which in his case was as an intern. Then he worked his way up through special effects and production design on various Hollywood releases. If we are to work from his model, the final film will take about fifteen years to get to, but his points on absorbing the talents of others are very valid. Gorak touches upon the story writing process, the casting process, how to pitch a script (he had contacts, we probably don't), but there isn't any real focus on brass tacks filming processes in the under fifteen minute featurette, which is what I'm sure most of use were looking for.
The disc finishes off with text based script pages revealing two slightly alternate endings (Gorak alluded to four total in the commentary), and a whole bunch of Lionsgate trailers.
Well directed and well acted, Right at Your Door suffers from a stretched script, a distinct lack of stuff happening, and a cheap ironic twist ending. There's nothing new or shocking here (in fact the story may already be two or three years too old), but the first act is very effective, and it looks pretty fantastic for such a cheap production. Worth a look if you find the concept particularly fascinating, otherwise just watch Night of the Living Dead or The Crazies again.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian
Disc Details
Release Date: 29th January 2008
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Director/Empire Magazine Writer Commentary,'Forearm Shiver', Film School Featurette, Alternative Ending Scripts, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Chris Gorak
Cast: Mary McCormack, Rory Cochrane, Tony Perez, Scotty Noyd Jr, Jon Huertas
Genre: Thriller
Length: 92 minutes
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Nov 17 - According to the Contra Costa Times, after it was reported yesterday that Chris Webber wants to be traded, some fans ran wild with the idea of the Warriors making a deal for him. However Don Nelson, who coached Webber as a rookie shot that theory down. "That wouldn't be a good thing for him or me."
nellie said it best. unless we paackage dun dun and someone else for iguadola i dont want to trade for webber. hes fat, slow and old.
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i dont want him here at all see what happen before its going to be bad for the warriors if they get him here unless ,like u said trade Dunnly boy or folye
migya wrote:Webber is an expirer?
Will be next season... and expirer of $22 million, which makes him one of the most appealing guys on the market for trades. I don't think it makes sense for Philly, but it's worth a try... you never know who can bite.


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Will serve 11 months, with credit for time served, in Ionia County Jail.
An Ionia man will serve 11 months in the Ionia County Jail for shaking a baby in his care in July, 2012. He was sentenced in Ionia County 8th Circuit Court Tuesday by Chief Judge Suzanne Hoseth Kreeger.
Ian Seger, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, and one count of child abuse in the third degree.
Seger will get credit for 200 days served, plus fines, costs and fees. He will be placed on probation for five years.
Seger "brutally attacked an innocent baby. As (the child's) voice, I ask for justice," said the mother of the victim, who was 6 months old at the time of the incident, in a statement she read to the court. She asked the court not to be lenient in sentencing, but to give Seger at least the maximum sentence allowed.
Seger's attorney, Kevin Peterson, said his client admitted shaking the baby, and was remorseful about what he had done.
"He was in a stressful situation," Peteson said. "He completely regrets it today. Never at any point did he deny what happened."
Peterson added that the child suffered a subdural hematoma but no brain injuries or other permanent injuries. Ionia County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Lori Kirkhoff responded that there have been some medical issues and there could be further permanent injury, but the doctors say is it too early to tell.
"This is a very concerning situation. We want our children to be safe in our homes, and that does not appear to be the case here," Kreeger said. "We don't know the future (for the victim.)"
Kreeger said she would abide by the terms of the plea agreement, crediting Seger for recognizing "where you fell short" and for the fact that he does not have an extensive criminal record. She told him she wants him to complete the cognitive training program offered in the jail "to be sure you are making wise decisions."
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President Obamais to outline his plan for immigration reform at an event in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
The White House announced Friday that Obama would be unveiling a comprehensive plan, just one week into his second term as US President.
Irish American advocates welcomed the move."We look forward to reviewing the bill and working with our friends in Congress on both sides of the aisle to help pass it ," said Ciaran Staunton president of the Irish lobby for Immigration Reform.
"The Irish have been unfairly shut out of America since 1965. We need to address future flow as well as our undocumented who are here,". he said
In a statement, the White House said the president's proposal would call for legislation to create a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
On Friday Obama met with members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus and assured them that reform efforts would be "a top priority" in his second term.
"The President was pleased to hear from CHC members and noted that they share the same vision, including that any legislation must include a path to earned citizenship," the White House statement said.
"The President further noted that there is no excuse for stalling or delay."
Read mroe: Irish American lobby focused on immigration reform in Obama's second term
House Democratic Caucus Chair Xavier Becerra said in a statement following the meeting that it was clear Obama is determined to fix "our long broken immigration system."
"The President expressed a great sense of urgency and that comprehensive immigration reform, including an earned path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, is his top legislative priority."
According to the Associated Press, the White House will unveil its plan separate from a bipartisan Senate working group, that is expected to outlines their proposals next week also.
The president has said that he is "very confident that we can get immigration reform done," and suggested he would debut his plan early in his second term.
"I think it should include a continuation of the strong border security measures that we've taken, because we have to secure our borders," Obama said at a press conference shortly after winning re-election.
"I think it should contain serious penalties for companies that are purposely hiring undocumented workers and taking advantage of them. And I do think that there should be a pathway for legal status for those who are living in this country, are not engaged in criminal activity, are here simply to work."
The news comes as a new poll this week shows the majority of Americans now back citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Read More: Should I stay or should I go? --Undocumented Irish talk about missing family life
The majority of Americans now favor undocumented immigrants being given a path to citizenship, according to the latest poll.
The Associated Press-GfK poll shows that 62 percent of Americans now support allowing undocumented immigrants to remain in the US.
The results come as Republicans continue to reconsider their stance on immigration, following the party's low support from Latino voters in November's election.
The poll suggests that more than six in ten Americans now favor finding a way for undocumented immigrants to remain in the US.
Read More: Bill O'Reilly backs Marco Rubio immigration reform as fair and good
The research shows the Democratic party are more trusted to handle the issue, with a 41 percent to 34 percent lead over Republicans.
A majority of GOP voters (53 percent) now favor proposed immigration reform, an increase of 22 percentage points from 2010. In comparison 72 percent of Democrats and 55 percent of Independents also support such a move.
One poll participant, Nick Nanos, 66, of Bellmore, New York, said he thinks a pathway to citizenship for the undocumented would honor the Americans' history as a nation built by immigrants.
"We act as if our grandparents got here legally. Don't want to ask a single Indian about that," Nanos said.
"I don't think that most of us can solidly come to a point where our grandparents or great-grandparents or great-great-grandparents were here legally. What does that even mean?"
Melissa Johnson, 40, of Porter, Texas, disagreed.
"I think there were generations of people that came over here legally, and just because your parents snuck you in or snuck in while pregnant with you doesn't give you automatic citizenship," she said. "I think they should send them all back home."
The Associated Press-GfK Poll was conducted Jan. 10-14, 2013, by GfK Roper Public Affairs and Corporate Communications. It involved landline and cellphone interviews with 1,004 adults nationwide.
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Central Ohio women have picked up skeins of yarn where a beloved mother left off, knitting and crocheting 46,000 items for charity over two decades.
Central Ohio women have picked up skeins of yarn where a beloved mother left off, knitting and crocheting 46,000 items for charity over two decades.
Gahanna resident Glenda Neely started the knitting/crocheting ministry of St. Matthew the Apostle Church to continue the community service started by her late mother Grace Miller.
This year alone, 39 central Ohio organizations have benefited from about 8,000 gloves, hats, scarves, baby blankets and lap robes that have been donated with a note, "May God bless you and keep you warm and safe."
Neely said the ministry started as a gift of knitting lessons to her mother in 1990, when she was diagnosed with viral cardiomyopathy that was caused by a virus from the flu. The family learned that Miller's condition had no cure and her prognosis was five years.
Neely said Miller started making scarves and hats, donating them to the Worthington United Methodist Church, and she continued that generosity until her death in 1995.
"Driving home from work one day, I saw a homeless person at Morse Road and I-71 wearing one of my mother's knitted hats," she said. "It was a brown hat. I can still picture the man. After seeing him, I knew her work should continue."
Currently, about 125 volunteers crochet and knit items to be donated to those in need.
Women gather at Neely's home from 7 to 9 p.m. most Mondays to crochet and knit and at Panera Bread (Morse and Hamilton roads) on the third Monday of the month.
The last hat stitched by Miller still sits in a copper tub in a room where many of the ladies gather to work on their latest creations.
"We have retired nurses, teachers, a chemist and business professionals -- people from all walks of life," Neely said. "Whoever comes comes. We have fun. A lot of women knit and crochet at home.
"The whole thing is about the group and giving to those in need," she said. "It's such a feeling of satisfaction. There are people out there that need help and people who want to help."
Neely said Ann Hobart is an exceptional volunteer, making hundreds of items every year.
Joey Ashbrook, 71, has been crocheting since she was 18.
"We did 8,000 units this year and 7,000 last year," she said. "We never catch up with the need. One year we'd think we would have leftovers. One thing about this group is that it's spiritual, but we don't talk religion."
Sue Lawhead said she had read a story about Neely at church and has been a part of the group for six years.
"I wanted to do things for the homeless," she said. "It's my passion. I love it. I'm making a scarf and will make a hat to match. At 65, I learned how to knit."
Two weeks ago, she received a box containing yarn addressed to "Elf Susan," from Santa. An attached note said the yarn was for the knitting ministry.
Neely said mysterious donations are typical.
"Thousands of skeins of yarn are used," she said. "I'm completely amazed. It has all been word of mouth and notes in the church bulletin. People want to help."
Every November brings a large gathering at Gahanna's Mifflin Presbyterian Church, where most of the year's work is placed on tables for distribution.
"Everyone comes together," Neely said. "It just runs as smooth as clockwork. We already have 500 items for 2013."
In addition to helping people they will never meet, the women of the ministry have been a close-knit group.
Susan Fedorchak said she recently had back surgery, and the ladies provided her food for three weeks.
Member Joanne Kitchen quickly added, "I had wrist surgery, and food came to my door."
In addition to making scarves, Teresa Prociuk volunteers to serve food through the Interfaith Hospitality Network YWCA on Fifth Avenue.
"St. Matthew's provides dinner every other month," she said. "Today (Dec. 3) we dropped off 250 sets of hats and scarves. It's beautiful seeing the kids run around with the scarves around their necks. The kids look at themselves in the mirror and say, 'Wow,' because it's new. There is a young population at the shelter."
Neely said she always recalls one thing her mother often said.
"We're all one paycheck away from being homeless," she said. "I've never forgotten that."
Anyone wanting to donate yarn or monetary contributions to the knitting ministry should contact St. Matthew the Apostle Church, 807 Havens Corners Road, Gahanna. Neely can be reached through the church at 614-471-0212.


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Silverz wrote:I had no luck whatsoever with chi-chi. His dodge spell and healing seemed impossible and was very frustrating. I tried magic pets, and then a bunch of other pets that normally are effective vs flying. Any suggestions?
Yes, for Chi Chi you want to use a Pandaren Water Spirit, Chrominius and Rapana Whelk. Start with Geyser, whirlpool, then swap to Chrominius. Cast howl and surge of power. Chi Chi should die at this point . The Rapana Whelk is just there for good measure. Feel free to substitute any pet as a third. Good luck! You use this same team with Zao!
Also, Mr. Bigglesworth solo's Yu'la! Start with claw, ice tomb, ice barrier, pass a turn, claw, claw, claw. Repeat this two more times and watch Yu'la crash 'n burn .