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It's 9:30 a.m. on women's health day at the Volunteers in Medicine clinic in downtown Jacksonville and already there's a lobby full of female patients of all ages waiting to be seen. These women are the working uninsured of Duval County — daycare workers, dental hygienists, waitresses and hair stylists — whose low income and lack of health insurance limit their options for health care.
Fortunately, this option is a good one. Not only does this not-for-profit clinic provide free medical services to families who qualify, it also provides unmatched, hands-on community experience to students in the UNF Brooks College of Health School of Nursing. On this particular day, students in the Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program interact with 40 patients, conducting annual pelvic exams and seeing them for primary-care medical issues like hypertension, diabetes and thyroid disease.
One of those students is Bridgitte Futch, who entered the master's program after completing the RN-to-BSN Bridge program at UNF. Futch works on the weekends in the emergency room at Baptist Medical Center South while she attends classes at UNF and completes her clinical hours during the week. She spends many hours each week working with diverse populations in the community, developing and maintaining collaborative partnerships and providing health-care services to people in need.
"The community-involvement aspect is introduced at some point in other universities' nursing programs, but at UNF it's a constant focus throughout the entire program, from the first semester on," Futch said. "It's a more holistic approach."
The Home-Base Concept
According to both Dr. Pam Chally, dean of the Brooks College of Health, and Dr. Li Loriz, director of the School of Nursing, it's this approach —providing continuous community-based learning to students from the beginning of their nursing education — that sets UNF's nursing program apart from all others.
"Our goal is really for comprehensive student learning. Community-engaged learning happens in an environment that benefits the student, because the student learns, but it also benefits the community or the population the student is working with," Loriz said. "If our students didn't go to the hospitals to do clinicals, there would always be nurses there to do the job, so that work would still get done. However, if our students were not out there in the community doing community-based learning, that work would not always be getting done."
As Loriz explains, nursing students not only provide clinical hours in hospital settings as part of the nursing program curriculum; they also spend numerous hours each week immersed in the community — in nursing homes, community centers, homeless shelters and free clinics — providing essential care to diverse groups of people. While UNF students are out in the community learning about professional nursing roles and designing and managing culturally sensitive care, health-care needs for normally underserved populations are being met and the community as a whole benefits.
Putting it into perspective, every year about 450 students in the School of Nursing participate in more than 40,000 hours of community-engaged learning, which serves and benefits the uninsured, underinsured and underserved communities in Northeast Florida.
"The medically underserved are scattered across every walk of life," said Dr. Michele Bednarzyk, senior nursing instructor at UNF. "Nearly 46 million people in the U.S. lack health insurance; 82 percent are adults 19-64 years of age, and more than 80 percent are from working families. At clinics like VIM [Volunteers in Medicine], students are able to see a variety of patients and learning is emphasized equally with service, enabling students to understand resources that are available and barriers patients face."
Bednarzyk said one of the main ways for nursing students to really learn is to actively participate in helping to solve health-related problems encountered in the community.
From Day 1 in the School of Nursing's three undergraduate programs, students are assigned to a community home base consisting of a core group of clinics, hospitals, shelters and community organizations where they work until completing the program of study. Students in the six graduate programs and one certificate program also participate in providing primary-care or acute-care services in clinics and shelters.
This home-base concept has become the dominant feature for all undergraduate programs in the School of Nursing since 2002, when its curriculum was refined to correspond to changes in health-care delivery trends. The changes included focusing on understanding community environments and how individual families with health challenges reintegrate into their home communities. This concept is also currently being implemented in the graduate programs.
Its commitment to relevance, collaboration and meeting community-defined needs, as well as its distinctive curriculum, is what earned the School of Nursing's flagship designation in 2005. The goal was for the school to gain national attention and become a model for nursing programs around the country. The school is well on the way to achieving this goal, as evidenced by the presentation in 2008 of the Innovations in Professional Nursing Education Award by the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. With funding that accompanied its flagship status, the School of Nursing continues to focus on the mutually beneficial home-base concept.
"The students stay in the same community the whole time they're in the School of Nursing, rather than moving from one community to the next," Chally said. "I don't think nursing students are able to fully understand the community and develop partnerships to meet its specific needs without spending an extended amount of time there."
St. Vincent's HealthCare's Mobile Van
Even first-semester nursing students delve into working in the community from the get-go. In their first semester of the BSN (Bachelor of Science in Nursing) program, Megan Knight, Shae Raulerson and Kristin Sanders perform like seasoned nurses as they check in children for their school physicals at the Ed Stansel Clinic in Green Cove Springs. The clinic, indefinitely closed due to lack of funding, has opened for one day as part of St. Vincent's HealthCare's Mobile Health Outreach Ministry. Through a decade-long collaboration, UNF nursing students help deliver medical services provided via the St. Vincent's mobile van, which employs a small staff and travels throughout Northeast Florida to provide free medical care to underserved populations.
Taking turns conducting vision tests and recording the weight, height and blood pressure of incoming patients, the new nursing students are glad to participate in the hands-on work.
"We've already done so much, including going into nursing homes and working with the elderly, going to Vistakon to help with employee checkups and going downtown to the Sulzbacher Center to work with the homeless," Sanders said. "I've enjoyed all these experiences and I've learned so much."
Several nurse practitioner students are also helping out at the clinic, including Kristi Hurt and Linette Jackson, both already registered nurses completing the master's program part-time.
"UNF works with the St. Vincent's mobile health team to utilize their equipment and work together with their doctors and nurses to make sure every child is seen and examined thoroughly," said Hurt, who plans to eventually earn her Doctorate of Nursing Practice at UNF. "Most of the kids here today don't have insurance or a primary care office, so we're here to make sure they get school physicals and are up-to-date on their immunizations."
Jackson has been a nurse for 11 years, but until she came to UNF, she hadn't experienced public health firsthand.
"I really think UNF's nursing program is awesome because it exposes students to the community aspects of nursing," she said. "Once I entered the BSN program, I decided I'd like to focus on public health. Helping people who don't have access to health care is just so important, so that's the direction I'm heading."
Healthy Start Coalition
On the Northside of Jacksonville, one group of last-semester BSN students head to City Rescue Mission to present one of two educational programs to residents of the homeless shelter as part of an ongoing collaborative project with the Healthy Start Coalition, an organization dedicated to reducing infant mortality in Florida. The students discuss topics like nutrition, exercise, prenatal care, women's health and breastfeeding.
"Infant mortality is a big problem in Jacksonville. We lose 125 babies in Duval County each year, so our presentations cover ways women can get healthy before becoming pregnant or while they're pregnant so they'll have healthier babies and healthier families," said student Erica Mitchell.
Sarah Holdstein, a UNF alum employed by Healthy Start, has worked with UNF nursing students for the past three years. "The students from UNF have been amazing," she said. "The work we do here at Healthy Start couldn't be done without them because we don't have the manpower to do it alone. We're so grateful UNF nursing students are so willing to collaborate with us as colleagues."
The Mission House
In Jacksonville Beach, other students at the end of their BSN program are busy completing paperwork to secure free prescriptions for patients at The Mission House, a non-profit outreach center dedicated to helping those in need. Guided by associate professor Dr. Barbara Olinzock, nursing students Cheri Faurie and Ashley Foyt have perfected the Mission House Prescription Assistance Program.
Faurie said the most important thing she learned through the BSN program was how different each population is and how great their individual needs are.
"The community aspect exposed me to the varied populations that exist outside the hospital, because in the hospital, you treat patients only for the ailments they're in for," she said. "In the community, you get to actually see how some of these people live their daily lives and figure out what their health needs or concerns are, either as individuals or as part of specific populations."
Olinzock believes having students work with diverse and vulnerable populations makes them more sensitive to patients' needs in any setting.
"Prior to this [home-base] experience, students were very hesitant to work with populations like the homeless or in certain areas of the city," she said. "Our students now speak of being better advocates for their patients and understanding the challenges for vulnerable persons that exist in our health-care system."
Olinzock said through the home-base program, UNF faculty watch as their students mature and grow as nursing professionals, often having experiences that are life-changing.
"Students' logs and journals are very profound as they describe what their experiences have meant to them," she said. "Many students go on to commit to volunteer service as a result of their home-base experiences. In this way, they truly become a part of the community."


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Research to improve weather forecasting accuracy and honing prediction tools continue to assist farmers in making a variety of management decisions.
During a breakout session of the 2012 California Association of Pest Control Advisers (CAPCA) conference, attendees heard about the latest work being conducted by Walter Mahaffee, research plant pathologist at the USDA-ARS Horticultural Crops Research Lab in Corvallis, Ore.
Mahaffee and a large team of researchers are working on virtual weather data to improve disease forecasting systems and how inoculums detection technology can be used to determine fungicide application timing.
He cited the use of the Gubler/Thomas powdery mildew risk assessment model, developed in California, as an example of how a disease or pest model can be incorporated to time applications using virtual weather data.
"What we try to do is take weather patterns and scale them down to make decisions," he said of the project which involves integrating information taken from more than 15,000 stations across the U.S. The exact number of stations is very fluid as the data streams from all of them are constantly monitored. Some need to be removed due to no longer meeting operational standards and conversely others are added as they become ready to go online. The group that works on this system periodically encounters issues that can arise from working with all the stations including data acquisition, storage, and processing information. Occasionally they have also had to limit users in the number of stations because of the server limitations ability to process the data.
Mahaffee suggested that those making management decisions go to the site he discussed during his talk to create their own virtual weather station based on their specific latitude and longitude. However, he added it is still a good idea to have a rain gauge in the field and visually monitor weather.
"There will always be issues with forecast accuracy since they are predictions and there will always be error associated with those predictions," Mahaffee said.
As researchers continue to work on refining forecasting tools, Mahaffee said, investment in high resolution public weather monitoring would significantly benefit all aspects of society.
"The accuracy and spatial resolution of forecasting will continue to improve as the speed and cost of computing continues to decrease," he said. "However, it will always be dependent on the availability of weather data."
For those wary of using precision forecasting tools, Mahaffee encourages them to give it a try. He recognizes that the site may give the appearance of being more for tech geeks, but he said they have plans to make it more user-friendly as resources become available.
"I hope folks start to develop confidence in using pest and disease forecasting to make more informed management decisions and that the information increases the economic and environmental sustainability of their businesses," he said.
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Sweet Xenu – literally! Lisa Marie, if memory serves, drinks the Xenu Juice too, non? And from the looks of it, she also drinks something stronger. That is totally Vince Vaughn in Elvis's female form.
And Priscilla… WHAT THE FACK??
The Presleys were at the Food Bank for New York City last night giving back for the holidays. Philanthropy should always be applauded. Mutilating your face should never be applauded.
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Age of Ultron #9: Well, well. Nice job, Bendis! (spoilers)
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by GHERU » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:13 am
here's where you lose me
AoA, Mutant X, and other examples I can't think of right now, were fantastic alt reality stories well worth the temporary feel
the problem with AU is that unlike AoA or Mutant X, the readers are not given enough time or reasons to actually care about the atl versions and they are not all that interesting when compared to the "real" versions. This isn't just temporary its lazy and worthless even as entertainment.
by Punchy » Fri Jun 07, 2013 11:17 am
What I meant was, this story changed direction drastically with #6, you can't claim you knew that, so you can't claim that people who like this issue only like it because they decided they would ages ago. I had no idea there would be an 'Age Of Morgana Le Fay', but I still like it.
by Amoebas » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:10 pm
Well, seeing as how we had a thread on it back in March when AoU #2 had come out, I'd say, yeah, we did know (you too, as you posted in the thread).
by chap22 » Fri Jun 07, 2013 12:35 pm
Mutant X was terrible.
I do love me some AoA though.
by guitarsmashley » Fri Jun 07, 2013 1:12 pm
Know we figured out Wolverine would go back in time after issue 1 when the solicit for 4 came out.
by xaraan » Fri Jun 07, 2013 7:04 pm
I didn't claim I knew it was changing direction, but I knew it was going to be dealing with alt times/dimensions/whatever. How the fuck else were they going to fix the world and bring everyone back that they've killed? Which is exactly what they've done, the only direction they changed was they actually got on with that story and quit dragging out the ultron future that they wasted four issues with.
by Grayson » Fri Jun 07, 2013 7:35 pm
It will turn out that the super top secret Joe Quesada portion of the final issue is just a revelation that the entire series was Ultron's dream!
by TheSecondLex » Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:37 pm
Personally, I am loving this, despite the pace (it gives me war flashbacks of House of M, which was my least fave during the Age of Bendis, to borrow a line; and it reminds me of the whole year of college it took to get through Civil War thankyouverymuchdelays). Still, I'm enjoying this.
I would have liked some time spent on Ultron and Pym interacting, perhaps as they both watch from the future as Ultron judges humanity, but alas. As it stands now, it's a very enjoyable story. And as I have not read the original Ultron story which the OP so nicely posted, I found Ultron-1's babytalk....very creepy. Very, brilliantly, very creepy.
by TheSecondLex » Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:39 pmAnd I love that Pym literally just sat there as the Wolverines talked their way through time travel, paradoxes, killing Pym himself, and Ultron. Such an overlookable moment, but probably Pym's best: he's a scientist and he's with two time travellers that shouldn't be, and he's soaking it all in. It's just cool
by fieldy snuts » Fri Jun 07, 2013 8:44 pm
imo they are usually right and you are wrong.
there's rare exceptions but they're more in tune with the modern reader and your disdain of all things bendis proves that.
your favourite writers wish they had the talent bendis has and all their fave artists practically line up to collaborate with him like jrjr and simonson have among others.
therefore you're wrong.
by Amoebas » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:19 pm
For the record - that 'brilliance' is 100% Roy Thomas and 0% Bendis.
by S.F. Jude Terror » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:30 pm
Oh shit.
by chap22 » Fri Jun 07, 2013 9:42 pm
Wow. Even in a thread mentioning Twigg and Punch...somehow this dark horse comes out of nowhere to win the coveted honor of "dumbest post ever." good show, fieldy....congrats on your upset victory.
by fieldy snuts » Sat Jun 08, 2013 4:07 ami blame the generation gap. you're just no longer tuned into what's hip and cool anymore thus anything groundbreaking or revolutionary like bendis's work just seems wrong to you because he's daring to break the mould and move past that stagnant stale setting you grew up reading to give us smarter, more intricate and deeper writing than we've ever seen before.
like i said, the man is a revolutionary for how he's managed to stay consistent and fresh for almost a decade on the avengers by constantly trying something new and exploring storytelling from so many different sides.
when people listen to criticism like yours about respecting continuity and things like that it ends up with something like DC pre DCnU.....and now as we can see they're basically reliving the 90's after they tried oh so hard to break the 70's/80's-cross-dark-and-edgy tribute phase that geoff johns and didio put them through during the 2000's.
therefore bendis is saving us from those sort of stories aka the stories your kind of fan wants because the alternative is enough to kill the book side of the industry.
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Memphis, TN – Marc Gasol and Zach Randolph each recorded double-doubles and the Memphis Grizzlies earned their sixth straight win with an 88-82 decision over the short-handed Orlando Magic.
Gasol finished with 19 points and 13 rebounds, while Randolph chipped in 16 and 14 for Memphis, which won the battle in the paint, 40-32 and had 12 more fastbreak points.
The Magic will almost surely miss the playoffs for the first time in seven seasons, forcing them to build for the future at Thursday's trade deadline by dealing sharpshooter J.J. Redick to the Milwaukee Bucks.
The three players Orlando received in the six-player deal -- Beno Udrih, Doron Lamb and Tobias Harris -- as well as Hakim Warrick, who was acquired from the Bobcats, were not available Friday, leaving the Magic with seven healthy bodies.
Arron Afflalo and Maurice Harkless totaled 20 and 19 points, respectively, to lead the Magic, who are mired in a 1-16 slump and have lost 10 straight on the road.
Even with the loss, Magic head coach Jacque Vaughn was positive after the game.
"I was extremely proud -- just the effort and the competitiveness, the thing(s) we've been talking about," Vaughn said. "It was just really good basketball overall tonight."
Andrew Nicholson added 14 points, but fouled out in the fourth quarter along with Nikola Vucevic, leaving the visitors with five available players down the stretch.
Despite the lack of depth, Orlando was within 74-71 with just over four minutes remaining before Tayshaun Prince, Randolph and Gasol each scored to make it a nine-point game with 2:10 left.
The closest it got from there was six.
"They came out and they fought right from the start. They fought right until the end. We did enough to win. It wasn't pretty," Grizzlies head coach Lionel Hollins said.
There were 15 lead changes and five ties in the first half, but the Grizzlies ended it on a 12-2 run, with Prince beating the halftime buzzer with a turnaround jumper for a 43-38 lead.
Memphis began pulling away in the third, and Quincy Pondexter's buzzer-beating 3-pointer gave the hosts a 67-53 advantage.
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The home team has won eight in a row in this series ... Mike Conley checked in with 14 points and seven assists for Memphis ... The Magic shot just nine free throws and made seven ... Memphis went 17-of-29 from the foul line.


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COLUMBIA — Beaufort and Jasper county communities are absent from a list of grant winners from across the state, but it doesn't appear to be a snub.
Some local governments opted to sit out the latest round of community development block grants provided by the federal government through the S.C. Department of Commerce, because they have an ongoing grant, are planning to seek a new one, or just because.
On Thursday the state commerce department announced 11 grant recipients, totaling $2.2 million and affecting an estimated 23,000 residents. Winners of the competitive grant program include Berkeley and Union counties and the cities of Lancaster, Greenwood, Hartsville and Bennettsville, and others.
"The (grant) program consistently has a positive impact on communities across South Carolina. These resources not only help improve residents' quality of life, but also help create a more competitive environment for bringing jobs and investment," said Bobby Hitt, state secretary of commerce, in a statement.
S.C. Department of Commerce spokesperson Amy Love would not say how many applications from Beaufort and Jasper county entities there had been and did not respond when asked for the number of total applications.
Beaufort County, city of Hardeevile and town of Ridgeland officials did not respond to questions about whether they had applied for the CDBGs.
Marcy Benson, who is in charge of the grants in the town of Hilton Head Island, said the town had not sought a new award, and that, "There wasn't any specific reason we didn't apply."
Like the town of Hilton Head, Jasper County also took a pass on the latest grant competition.
Jasper County administrator Andy Fulghum said the county will be applying in the next round for grant funding for renovation of the Health Department building.
"Jasper County did not apply this round as we have an active CDBG grant-funded project we are working on known as the Old Charleston Highway Sewer project," said Fulghum, referring to a sewer extension project with Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority to that extends sewer to residents along 5,000 feet of road on old Charleston Highway.
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Jesus was casting out a devil and it was dumb; but when the devil had gone out the dumb man spoke, and the people were amazed. But some of them said, '"It is through Beelzebul, the prince of devils, that he casts out devils"
There's always someone to spoil the fun or to think, as in so much of our media, that cynicism is the right, response to enthusiasm. Somewhere lurking in the ego there is a little mechanism that is triggered whenever it senses expansion of spirit. It tries to pull down, draw back and control.
The kingdom of heaven is close at hand.
This is the subtext of all the practices of Lent which are designed to remind us how easily we forget this and how simply we can remember it.
Etty Hillesum was a young vivacious Jewish woman who perished in Auschwitz in 1943. In the midst of the horror of the deportation of the Jews from her native Holland she underwent a personal spiritual awakening that has resonated down the decades.
How often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?' Jesus answered, 'Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.
A: You always win. You always manage to get your way
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A: Well you deserve it. I'm glad.
B: Thank you. Who's getting his way now?
The Christian message, born of an insight deeper than words and transmitted through the full silence of the Spirit, is embarrassing. "God became human so that human beings might be come God."
This refrain of the early theologians sounds more daring than many theologians would risk today and it strongly resisted the attempts of gnostical dualism to dilute it. What it means, of course, can only be understood through the experience of our lives when we try, weakly most of the time, to live as if it were the central truth, the real thing in all circumstances.
In the Temple he found people selling cattle and sheep and pigeons, and the money changers sitting at their counters there. Making a whip out of some cord, he drove them all out of the Temple, cattle and sheep as well, scattered the money changers' coins, knocked their tables over and said to the pigeon-sellers, 'Take all this out of here and stop turning my Father's house into a market. Jn 2:13
He was certainly not a politician and did not mince his words. He acted in accordance with his higher feelings and paid the price of alienating those who held power.
What do a lost sheep, a lost silver coin and a lost son all have in common? They are all lost, of course; but also, in the parables of Jesus, they are all found. Their re-discovery triggers joyful celebrations. The people who lost and found want and need to share their relief and happiness and call their friends and neighbours together.
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Ben Guiles went off for a school-record five touchdowns - four rushing and one receiving - while going over 100 yards both on the ground and in the air to lead Lebanon Valley past Gettysburg, 57-42, in the season opener at Arnold Field.
Taking over full-time at quarterback, Colt Zarilla threw for 275 yards and three touchdowns as LVC hung 28 points on the Bullets in the third quarter to run away with the win.
Guiles stole the show with his 12th career 100-yard game, racking up 143 yards rushing and a career-high 103 yards receiving. He tied his own school record with four rushing touchdowns, and is the only player to score five combined.
"Anytime you win the first one, it's a good feeling," head coach Jim Monossaid. "Guiles had a heck of a day. In order to run the ball and do some things up front, we started with an inexperienced group and I think they've come together."
Lebanon Valley's 57 points were its most ever in a season opener and the most in any game since beating Bridgewater 63-14 in 1989. Big plays were the key to LVC's outburst, with Guiles running for a 59-yard score in the second quarter before cutting through for a 57-yard touchdown catch in the third, and Joey Miller making a spectacular horizontal catch at the pylon in the third to put the Dutchmen up by two touchdowns.
"They were bringing people downhill and committed to stopping the run, and we had to burn them," Monos said. "Overall we had enough big plays that we ended up winning the game."
The Dutchmen defense was outstanding in the second half, generating six sacks - including two sacks each by Andrew Hurst and Zach Halpin - and led by Cory Homer's 15 tackles.
LVC's offense generated 547 yards overall, averaging 7.7 yards per play and converting all five red zone chances. The running game was balanced, with Guiles running just 16 times and Pete Panichi (10-59) andBlair Ransom (9-44) picking up the rest of the load. Gettysburg's offense was inconsistent at times, with Kody Smith taking over at quarterback for starter Kyle Whitmoyer and going 17-for-34 for 167 yards.
A first-quarter touchdown by Guiles and Sean Fakete's 22-yard field goal made it 9-7 following Freddy Caruso's run for Gettysburg, and the Bullets retook the lead to start the second quarter after Smith hit Bobby Romano. Guiles answered back with his second score, hitting a seam on the right side and blazing up the sideline midway through the quarter.
It became a dogfight for the rest of the half, with Gettysburg's Ted Delia scoring from six yards out to go up 22-16 before Guiles got free again for a 28-yarder two drives later to end the half up 23-22.
The third quarter, however, turned the momentum firmly in LVC's direction, with Guiles scoring from 18 out on the second play of the half following a big return by Macke Hall and a Tim Picerno catch; Guiles then caught his 57-yarder from Zarilla on the next drive to blow the game open at 37-22.
Gettysburg stopped the bleeding with a long pass to Caruso, but Miller's touchdown and another late strike from Zarilla to Matt Mankiewicz made it 51-29 heading into the fourth quarter.
The offensive fireworks didn't stop there, with the sides combining for three touchdowns in the final five minutes on a Nick Ulassin run and Jon Smoker catch for Gettysburg and a Blair Ransom touchdown for LVC.
Lebanon Valley will make a long road trip to Grove City next Saturday for a 1:30 start as part of the PAC-MAC Challenge series.
Game Notes: Despite putting four first-time starters on the offensive line, LVC racked up 272 yards of rushing, averaging 6.0 yards per carry, and allowed only two sacks ... Guiles now has 31 career rushing touchdowns, chasing down Charlie Parker 10's record of 35 ... Cory Homer had one of the best games of his career, leading all players with 15 tackles and adding a sack and a pair of hurries on a key drive in the third quarter ... Nate Kauffman was all over the field, generating eight tackles and two pass break-ups ... Nick Bowne forced and recovered a fumble to go with a sack and six tackles ... Dave Hallinan notched his first career interception ... Joey Miller, making his first career start, ended with 68 yards on four catches with his first career touchdown ... Sean Faketebooted his first career field goal, LVC's first since the 2009 season ... The first quarter began with a string of turnovers, including fumbles lost by both teams and an early interception by Zarilla ... Zarilla had a solid day punting, averaging 40.6 yards and dropping four of his seven inside the 20.


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Draw Coffee: A Celebration of Coffee Culture Through Coffee Filter Doodles!
Ben Blake loves coffee. No, he really loves it—so much, in fact, that he's begun documenting his coffee journey through sketches and narratives, all hand-drawn on coffee filters. His website Draw Coffee showcases his doodles on roasting companies, brewing methods, events, and anything else tangentially related to coffee, from Jeni's Ice Cream in Columbus, Ohio to the World Barista Championship in Vienna, Austria (he dedicates a filter to the winner, Paul Rodas). "Coffee inspires creativity," he says – and we can see how!
Ben's love affair with coffee started in college, as he tells Cool Hunting, but it wasn't until years later that he started Draw Coffee as a way to keep track of and share what he'd begun learning about coffee.
I have experienced a community full of passionate and creative individuals who love coffee. I've been welcomed with open arms by so many people–the drawing thing helped, obviously, but people are so willing to teach and share about coffee. It's exciting, and I think it's contagious.
In addition to his own filter drawings, Ben is now doing a number of commissioned side projects with roasters and other coffee companies, so you may see him pop up at your own local coffee place!
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It came without the aid of a lob.
Against Clippers point guard Chris Paul.
The Lakers' All-Star guard, now in his 17th season, deflected a pass by Paul near the free-throw line, tracked it down along the sideline and went the length of the court before throwing down a one-handed dunk over Paul.
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While Class A motorhomes were simply "born big" at the turn of the '60s, Class C coaches display a progression that would make Charles Darwin smile. Class C motorhomes — first known as "housecars" — didn't simply happen. They evolved. In fact, a case could probably be made that they owe their life to their travel trailer siblings.
This form of motorized camping is thought to have originated from Traveleze Industries, and its founder, Kenneth Dixon. A trailer manufacturer since the early 1930s, the company made a lasting impression when, in 1948, it decided to see what would happen if a trailer could be carried as easily as it was towed.
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|2008-02-18, 20:26
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.... I'm still awke....
It was ep 3 not 4 *jinx* maybe its time for bed.
Thx you all for those answers, you'll helped me to get a good sleep, I hope.
Domo Arigato, Bye Bye, good night and thanks ^^ (Can't wait to see more of Asia ... not that you perverts ... and maybe Sakura? and also Nemu?
By the way, like other I first thought she was dead or worse, but after reading some spoilers I know now that she is alive... I hope to see more of here now I'm the pervert. )
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Now this is rating is done through my hazy memory, but what I distinctly remember from oh so long ago was that I HATED the series after the first cour. So much pointless stuff that neither advanced the plot, nor gave character development. Talking about specifically about the 'filler' stuff that they put halfway after the episode near the beginning of the second cour, because they don't have anything else to animate. If they had time to put those, might as well condense everything to one cour.
That is, if they only cut some of the introductory episodes short (was there really a need to dedicate an entire episode for each of the heroines?), and somehow compact the end all in one cour, this will be an A rating. But it would've to settle with a B-, and even that is being generous as almost half of the episodes from memory is utter garbage. Only thing that saved it from being the likes of Green Green was the end, which was very well done.
Introductory episodes: B
Episodes with 'filler' scenes: D
Last few episodes: A
Overall rating: B- (felt it took too long, though the end should be seen as it was well done.)
What I felt though was that they learned from this, as DCII was leaps and bounds better in terms of pacing. Just goes to prove that longer is not necessarily better; sometimes, one cour is all you need to tell a proper story.
|2008-02-19, 04:30
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It also lacked Kotori, which was a bit of a turn off. And lack of Naru Nanao's character designs was also a bit disappointing, the characters weren't as likeable and/or cute, in my opinion.
I also agree in that the original Da Capo(s) would have done very well as one cour series, as pointless side-stories (though somewhat entertaining), took up a good third of the series, and the first half or so could have easily been covered in fewer episodes.
While I'm here, I named my Kain in Final Fantasy IV after Minoru, though I later changed it to Archer because of his GARness, and because I was lacking a name for Edge, and decided that Minoru Shiraishi was a deserving name for a ninja.
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Here you go *bam* *squish* *sap* *booom*
Its was 02:26 and I didn't get much sleep in the last few days
So I'm a little bit dizzy ...
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I think that I now fully understand what you meant with "canon".
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Gnaaa I'm now at episode 11 and they are still only holding hands and watching videos.... give me a break, how old are those two.
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And hey, I liked the side stories. They were definitely weird and a bit out there, but were fun in their own way. Very unique. But if you really don't like them, you can always just skip them. In the end, though, I guess I could agree that the original D.C. story had content for 18 episodes as opposed to 26, and they just found a way to make it work. At the time, though, the idea that bishoujo game adaptation would get that many episodes was pretty unheard of (that's why they were selling it so strongly on the voice actor talent, and had those music videos in the first 6 episodes). So as I said last time we had an "epic revival" of this thread, you always have to remember the era a show was made in before you pass final judgement.
|2008-02-19, 19:13
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Finished the second season.
And wow a nearly perfect ending.
The second season is more of a flush through, no really stop points a continuely story line but after the first time Aisia wanted to resurect the tree I knew what the ending would be like.
At the end of the first season I wanted a happy end but I wasn't sure at all, that they would give that to us, compared to the second season it was mostly clear...
The second season has not as many sad points as the first one, so it was easier for me to look it, but I like the first season a bit more.
But they should have made at least one episode where Junichi and Nemu spend a day together in love or more
... The end was something I really needed *gush*
There aren't many questions left, only .... how did their story continue ... did they have a good life ... why didn't they show the bear more often ... did Aisia continued her magic life and could she be happy ... ok there are some questions but the story had a close end and I feel kind of happy.
If there was a game with the story of the second season, could someone tell me about it? The different endings? The canon ending? Did you see more of Nemu and
I will start to watch Da Capo II tomorrow and I hope that I get the same feeling as both seasons had given me.
Arigato to you people for answering my questions.
Arigato to the fansubers even if they don't read this ^^ they made a good job.
Arigato to the writes, designer, production firm and and and for this awesome show.
Did I forget something... I don't know but this thread/post wont disappear ... I hope
Bye Bye
And fear my question while/after seeing Da Capo II
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Don't think that anything will hold me back from asking questions but I will ask them there.
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|2008-04-04, 00:41
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I didn't think it was possible to find a more annoying pest of a love interest then Kaede from Shuffle, but Nemu just takes the Cake.
At least Canvas 2 convinced me to like Elis enough to accept her as the winner, I wish Nemu would've got on a plane to somewhere, and never come back.
Besides that, this series had hardly enough comedy or fanservice to make up for being almost devoid of drama.
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Yeah, Kotori got the short end of the stick - when the only other girls that hang around him are the guy's sister and cousin, you have every right to believe that you're the frontrunner. Unfortunately Jyunichi is a confirmed siscon and no one was going to shake him from that path...
Sakura deserves some sympathy as she competed fairly with Nemu for Jyunichi's love and came out on top. Their eternal love was sealed by the sakura tree's magic, only to be thwarted as Nemu stole Jyunichi away from her. Ah, the fate of a jilted lover...
As for Nemu, she did her best to keep Jyunichi for herself, but found that Jyunichi and Sakura's promise was binding. She may have succeeded in winning Jyunichi over for now, but she had to pay the ultimate price - as the sakura tree caused her to be frail and eventually led to her premature demise...
But never fear, because their spirits live on in their descendants! Yoshiyuki will learn from his ancestor's error and live up to the promise he made under the sakura tree, as he and his eternal lover will "become one"...
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|2008-05-17, 18:37
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Buenos Aires Argentina
Age: 29
I just finished the first season of Da Capo and about to start the second one but there is something i dont understand.... where did Nemu go? I mean... werent they back to lover relationship in season 1?
EDIT: nevermind xD Just finished the second season
Im glad i decided to watch the second season. Everything was explained and the ending was really satisfying. At some point i wished someone slapped Aisa back to reality.... but since everything ended for good i'll forgive her
Spoiler for ending:
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|2008-05-17, 19:45
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Join Date: Dec 2005
A lot can change in 2 years... heck, a lot did change in 6 years, which was the premise for season 1.
Somewhat surprised they didn't draw more parallels between Nemu's situation in DCSS and Sakura's situation in the original Da Capo. It would've been amusing to see more broken promises... indeed, what happened to Nemu to Junichi no Yakusoku?
|2010-01-22, 11:33
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Join Date: Dec 2003
Age: 36
Spoiler for Da Capo anime ending:
|2011-02-01, 08:20
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Da Capo (DC) belongs to the better side of harems, since is tries to be more than just fan service or simplistic characters in weird relationships. It is otherwise not really fully exploiting its own merits and ends up feeling bad half the time. And with Key works looming frightfully over its head, it is not even alone in the higher ranks of the genre; so I'm not going to go easy on it. DC is also based on a long series of hentai games but the adaptation is of course taking out the naughty parts and makes the whole thing feel like a joke. It is a usual treatment to the genre; those who want more must play the games and thus fill the industry's pockets.
Let's start with the story, which is the thing most of its kind hardly bothers with. The premise is indeed very catchy as it involves an island of evergreen sakura trees, where wishes are granted. Most characters in the story also have a supernatural element to themselves, like the protagonist being able to see other peoples' dreams, a girl reading thoughts of others, a loli-looking high-schooler, an android, a cat maid, and so on. The story makes sure it use all that as part of an overall plot and doesn't simply have them there as a useless dressing and sexual fetishes, thus it is nice to see such touches in an otherwise predictable genre. The worldview of the setting is like that of dreams, where people have desires and problems that need to be resolved in order to move ahead in life and the magic of the island helps them in their struggle. Most of such problems have to do with unusual traits that others must accept or with you having to find a way to use them properly. All these elements are what effectively make the show to stand out from all others of its kind.
Unfortunately, they are as I said not fully exploited and a show that could be heavy on character drama is rather left to be just a typical light love comedy with some weird stuff going on in it. Almost half of the episodes are practically fillers, with many more being recaps or simply introduction to a secondary character. Heck, one third of all episodes are spin-off scenes about singing and other similar nonsense. Even the characters themselves are not all looked into their issues as much as some others, effectively having a cast of numerous side characters and a few major ones, who also take part in the main romantic conflict. For a harem, only two girls and a guy feels a bit poor, considering there is a dozen of them present. And from all possible pairings, why are all the major ones only incest-related? Shouldn't they be the hardest? And as usual, we are just left to assume all girls fall for the same blunt archetype, when he is nothing special as usual. Well thanks for ruining the otherwise catchy idea.
As much as I liked the setting and the character supernatural traits, I just can't overlook how most were hardly given the attention they needed to become great in my mind. The ending is another issue to consider, as it feels way too weird for its own good, as if it tried to be special by having a NGE ending, when in reality it wasted more than half its duration in aimless comedy and then threw in something weird just to win the last impressions. That is why I consider both story and characters to be half-good and give them the base score (5).
Art and Sound are very good for this type of show. Many praise its details and soundtrack but I personally wasn't amazed with all that. There are way too many scenes where the characters are poorly drawn and the animation is just a few frames of blobs going back and forth. And the music, as dreamy as it was, is not something memorable for me. Voice acting is quite good in terms of passion but squeaky voices were never my thing. You can say I even disliked all those silly accessories many girls wear that move as if they have a will of their own. Seriously, if one watches Clannad this will feel bad in overall. But I will be lenient on them and still give a good score for the dreamy setting of the sakura trees and the dialogues around several issues which are not always about breast sizes and incest romances (8).
Is it a great anime? Not for me. It could have been if it focused a lot more on those funky elements with the magic and the character dramas and had more girls going bold with the main male. I give Value and Enjoyment the base score again (5).
Overall Score: 6/10
And now some few extra info about the later seasons, as I won't bother making more reviews about DC. THEY ARE WORSE ALL THE WAY.
In Da Capo 1 season 2, some well established characters from this season are removed and replaced with far less interesting ones and acting as if all the resolution of the first finale never happened. And the setting is no longer so dreamy or magical, while the plot is mostly fillers and the conclusion just typical and uneventful.
In Da Capo 2 seasons 1 and 2, the series returns to the same concept of the magical sakura trees, as the scriptwriters probably found out that this was what made the original good. The cast is entirely different, as the story happens many decades in the future and again involves the granting of wishes. Unfortunately, by now the formula felt too tired and the new cast was far less interesting and far more sexualized. Although the ending tried to be powerful and WTF once more, it turns out the same trick doesn't work equally as well as the first time. This anime is basically a more sexual and dark rehash of the first series, with the first season being considered the worst of all installments and the second being the best.
In Da Capo If, it is just a small OVA show, in an alternative setting where the lead male of Da Capo 1 chooses a different girl. Well, it's part of the new trend of resetting the story and having the lead choosing someone else, just to please the fans of a different girl. It is not much of a story other than fan pleasing.
|2013-01-23, 00:28
|Link #637
I know its a bit too late but I wish to vote and give my commentary regarding the first Da Capo...
I have no plans to watched Da Capo (because of the damned 76 episodes) at first but since I felt that I have to watch the original and second to be an opening for the third installment of the series.
Spoiler for Da Capo Season 1 Commentary:
Now, for the second season!!!
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Student's High-Profile Internships Leverage Career in Film Production
With three internships under her belt, senior Elizabeth Nunnally planned to focus on her studies during her final semester at Baldwin Wallace University. But for Nunnally, some of the best opportunities come when she least imagines them.
In a tight job market and highly competitive field, Nunnally recently landed a position with the Cleveland Browns. As the content production intern, she will work from the Cleveland Brown's stadium editing feature stories. This exciting job follows three unique and experience-building opportunities.
Diverse Experience Broadens Knowledge and Resume
Participating in the New York Media Experience Program in 2011 offered Nunnally an much-desired opportunity to make connections in New York City. After an intimidating last-minute internship search, Nunnally was offered work at CBS and the Rachel Ray Show. "CBS was the obvious choice," she said. There, she worked on lighthearted stories and even found a feature that aired in March 2011.
This semester, Nunnally's visit to a BW career fair spurred an offer with Fox 8 Cleveland. She works on the morning show, greeting guests and facilitating show setup. More "laid back" then CBS, Nunnally appreciates the unique experience and exposure.
Internship Offers Relevant Experience, Understanding
A broadcasting and mass communication major, Nunnally, who is originally from Madison, Ohio, is working towards a career in film. Her experience on the Cleveland-based set of the comedy "Fun Size" offered a realistic preview of the inner-workings of film production. Nunnally's workdays, often 12 hours long, were spent overseeing the production office.
Though exhausted after each day, Nunnally recalls,"it was an overall great experience." The job solidified her love for the industry, even with long hours. The laborious position wasn't an easy catch, either. An unexpected interview came while Nunnally was visiting friends last spring. "I ran around my friend's rooms borrowing dress clothes and went to the interview that night," she said. The next day, an offer for an interview with the director spurred a second round of frantic closet raids.
Nunnally didn't land her ideal job as the director's assistant, but had the opportunity to fill in for a production assistant for a few days. With a smile always on her face, her persistence and positive demeanor earned her an offer to keep the job for the summer.


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Zoomer Bentley Robotic Pet Puppy Unboxing & Playing
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COLUMBIA -- The public has the chance to speak up this month on the question of how much pollution is tolerable for a pending wastewater-spraying permit in Jasper County.
The town of Ridgeland is involved in Nimmer Turf Farm's plan to spray treated wastewater on its land. The farm's last permit to do so expired in 2008. The site is located about 2 miles west of the town of Ridgeland. The company sells turfgrass for residential lawns, commercial landscapes, golf courses, and other uses.
The Nimmer site is described as 342 acres of designated spray fields, according to a public notice posted by the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control. Local goverment, not the state agency, is in charge of zoning, land use and property values.
The agency, meanwhile, is accepting comments from the public on the pending permit, and will hold a public hearing if enough people express concerns.
As part of Nimmer's application, groundwater will be tested at nine monitoring wells.
Although, that aspect of the permit may also be shaped by any public concerns.
"The pollutant limitations and other permit conditions are tentative and open to comment from the public," state DHEC's summary.
The Beaufort-Jasper Water & Sewer Authority is not involved in this proposal. Messages to Nimmer Turf Farm and the town of Ridgeland were not immediately returned Thursday.
Written comments about the pending permit must be submitted within 30 days of DHEC's Oct.1 public notice. For more, visit the notice.


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June 10, 2009
Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) Endorses Equinix as a Preferred Data Center Colocation Provider
TOKYO, Japan — June 10, 2009 — Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), a provider of global data center services, today announced that Equinix will offer high performance colocation and low-latency connectivity solutions to TOCOM market participants through Equinix's two Tokyo International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers. TOCOM market participants will be able to colocate their electronic trading data infrastructure in close proximity to the vibrant financial community within Equinix's network-neutral centers.
Equinix's TY1 and TY2 IBX centers, located in Heiwajima and Shinagawa respectively, offer premium data center infrastructure for achieving the security and resilience demanded by high-availability execution venues. Within both centers, TOCOM will have a direct connection to Equinix Financial eXchange service's established community of execution venues, buy and sell side firms, market data providers and technology utilities, that have located at Equinix's high performance data centers to access the widest choice of low-latency networks and to directly exchange data with strategic partners and customers in close proximity. The high quality, advanced design of the TY1 and TY2 centers offers financial customers a full range of scalable services, including colocation, interconnection, support and monitoring.
"We are delighted to welcome Equinix as one of TOCOM's preferred colocation providers," said Masaaki Nangaku, president and CEO of TOCOM. "Equinix's leading expertise with the global financial marketplace ideally complements our goal of providing world-class trading functionality to the international marketplace. Equinix's global footprint, commitment to the Asia-Pacific region, and relentless pursuit of the best network providers for the financial industry, offers a new choice for our market participants who are seeking a reliable, low-latency and network rich environment with close proximity to strategic partners."
"TOCOM is transforming into an international commodity market by expanding trading services," said David Wilkinson, Representative Director of Equinix in Japan. "With presence in all of the top ten world financial centers, the global reach of Equinix Financial eXchange affirms such view with reliable, fast and seamless access via low-cost connectivity to execution venues around the world. Featuring industry-leading uptime, best-in-breed connectivity capabilities and ultra low-latency, we help pioneers like TOCOM achieve and build a lasting competitive advantage."
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Tokyo Commodity Exchange, Inc. (TOCOM) is Japan's largest commodity futures exchange with a trading volume of 41 million contracts, representing an 80% market share, in 2008, and one of the most prominent exchanges in Asia. Futures and Options contracts on a variety of industrial products are traded (i.e.: gold, silver, platinum and palladium in the precious metals market; crude oil, gasoline and kerosene in the oil market; aluminum and rubber). TOCOM was established in 1984 as a result of a merger between the Tokyo Textile Exchange, founded in 1951, the Tokyo Rubber Exchange and the Tokyo Gold Exchange. Tokyo Commodity Exchange was demutualized in December 2008. For more information about TOCOM, please visit http://www.tocom.or.jp/
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About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX) provides global data center services that ensure the vitality of the information-driven world. Global enterprises, content and financial companies, and network service providers rely upon Equinix's insight and expertise to protect and connect their most valued information assets. Equinix operates 42 International Business Exchange™ (IBX®) data centers across 18 markets in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
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Recently fired FBI director gets cookies from 9-year-old neighbor
Recently fired FBI director gets cookies from 9-year-old neighbor
McLEAN, Va. —
Shortly after former FBI Director James Comey was fired, a 9-year-old neighbor delivered chocolate chip cookies to his Virginia home.
Va. 9-year-old delivers cookies to James Comey https://t.co/yqpMxQI9V7 pic.twitter.com/BuC30jDiop
— WFAA-TV (@wfaachannel8) May 11, 2017
The girl's mother told NPR that her daughter, Abby Grace, hand-delivered a dozen cookies fresh from the oven by walking up to Comey's home and introducing herself to a 6-foot-10-inch agent.
Abby also included a handwritten note in the shape of a heart. A photo of the note posted by WUSA-TV showed that she thanked Comey for all he has done for America.