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Melbourne coach Paul Roos says he is unsure as to whether he will continue in the job beyond the end of 2015, but that any extension would be capped at one season.
"It won't be longer term. My wife's made a huge sacrifice to come to Australia," Roos told Channel Nine's Footy Classified program.
"From a family point of view, it definitely couldn't be any longer than three years."
Roos said however that he might continue in some sort of non-coaching capacity at the end of the 2016 season.
Pressed on when he would indicate if he would coach into 2016, Roos said he was prepared to hasten his call if the club requested.
"It really needs to be promoted within the club. If it's an issue with the players, I'm more than happy to discuss it," he said.
"Hopefully what I'm doing for the footy club is getting them competitive."
Roos earlier told Fox Footy's AFL 360 he had started preliminary discussions with Geelong premiership captain Cameron Ling about a potential assistant coaching role at Melbourne.
"It was just an informal chat. That (being an assistant coach) is the next stage he wants to get to. Once you get an assistant's role, you can then get an idea of what it takes."
On Footy Classified however, Roos downplayed the possibilty that Ling would be his successor.
"I wouldn't have thought Cameron would be a candidate for the succession plan because you've got to want to be a senior coach. What Cameron would be a candidate for at any club is an assistant coach.
"Through that process he might be able to make a determination about whether he wants to be a senior coach."
Roos believed he had not erred in skipping the meeting of AFL coaches convened last week by league chief Gillon McLachlan in favour of honouring his TV commitments, saying he believed the invitation had been informal.
"I hope I didn't disrespect the position or disrespect Gillon. When I went back and re-read the email, it was very informal. It said 'we understand people have things on.'"
Roos said he was pleased with the Demons' improvement throughout the season - they are 16th with 4 wins and 12 losses - despite the five-game losing streak.
"I'm really enjoying it, enjoying the group of players. While it's been frustrating at times, I can see some real progress," Roos said. "When you're coaching, you don't think about next year unless it's something about list management.''
Daniel is an Age sports reporter


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Proyectos freelance en nubelo
Proyectos freelance en nubelo
I have some knowledge of Xoops but i need an expert to explain me how to properly do things like to change domain name on one of my xoops website ( think I make some mistake when changing the script on [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL]), repair the database, upgrade modules etc.
Preciso de um desenvolvedor para criar um aplicativo em phonegap para uma rádio da minha cidade. o projeto inclui: 1) Por o site desenvolvido em PHP (XOOPS) no ar; 2) Criar um aplicativo preferencialmente usando phonegap com o player de rádio via streaming e acesso aos podcasts do site.
Для просмотра деталей, пожалуйста, зарегистрируйтесь или войдите в систему.
My Xoops site suddenly went to a blank page. It is running on a very old Xoops version. I need a Xoops expert to restore it an upggade the site to the latest Xoops version
New wordpress website, with a new lay out for existing xoops website [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] - New template (we are looking for on Themeforest) -- italian language only -- import all data from the old Xoops website They are required the same functions, pages and posts and additional plugin for: -- photogallery -- videogallery - events
The aim is simple : articles and pictures on a xoops site must be imported in a wordpress site. The method is : 1) to create a script that will import the fields of the first Mysql Database in the second Database according to the right fields ; 2) to import the pictures from the first site to the second, and modify the links in the database to
i need, script / bridges of mybb forum with xoops 2.5.8, only unique login form
looking for a Dev to create music module ..for Xoops CMS portal
i need a sound module for my web site which is build using xoops csm . the xoops community created some sound modules but i tried them and i do not like them . the module should have the following 1- adding category with name , image , Description 2-adding file , title name , year, bit rate.. 3 -mp3 player , html5 player 4-top rated , most visited
I need a new website. I need you to design and build it. Need a freelancer to work on XOOPS for a social networking site
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I have an old Xoops site I need installed on my local machine. I am running WAMP. This will be done via remote access using TeamViewer [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] The sql dump is quite large (186mb) and seems to large to import via phpmyadmin so you will need to make adjustments in the [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] I suspect. You will also paste the files into
...precise criteria (common infomations, but more : awards, warnings, lenght, subjects, writing authors, etc.) Not exhaustive pecifications : - must be perfectly integrated in XOOPS (1) with the general search engine, 2) must be reachable in the general search engine field 3) must be adapted to change of the theme - build actually in progress) ; - must
Create a module allowing to give to users the possibility to finance many projects, type mymajor.com. Need a good knowledge of Xoops. To have more information, you can see the filed attached (UML).
We need a notification system on a xoops website. - build the system ; - integrate it in website menu ; - build a mail notification for users who have not login since a while.
Busco un/a desarrollador/a xoops con experiencia para modificar y mejorar aplicación la cual esta en funcionamiento. Requisitos: Experiencia en bases de datos MySql Disponibilidad inmediata
Estoy mudando la página del caricaturista Paco Calderón que actualmente opera en el CMS Xoops en [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] a Wordpress . El sitio Wordpress actualmente es visible en http://69.[eliminado]/~pacocald/ Se requiere diseñar una plantilla Wordpress en español donde los cartones aparezcan en su tamaño original, y no reducidos como actualmen...
I need to have written a paper regarding Content Management System that has minimum 5 pages of text. It should conta...modules/themes - pros/cons - issues - optionally comparisons to other CMSs The choice of CMS system to write about is up to you, you can use one of the following (e107, Drupal, XOOPS, PHP-Nuke, phpWebsite, Joomla, Postnuke etc.)
Looking for a programer to build me a sound module for xoops cms portal .. the module should have .. artist, albums, songs , category, add single file and import multiple files ..category image , album image ..build in mp3 player , avi player..
Hi, we used impex to transfer a databse xoops/NewBB to vBulletin 4 So the import worked without any problem excepted one thing : the content of each message is empty. Seems the table xoops_bb_posts_text is not passed. We dont know why. What we ask : - fix the problem with xoops_bb_posts_text table to have it imported in vBulletin.
Need someone to migrate only user data from my XOOPS installation to social engine 4.6.0 fresh installation I need to save so much user data as it possible: User profiles with passwords (md5 encripted) User pictures from private albums and avatar User relationships (friendships) User private mesages My network is a school websiteabout 10.000 users
Estamos buscando un Content Management System que será el responsable del diseño, desarrollo e implementación de nuestras aplicaciones web. Responsabilidades: - Revisar los requisitos del negocio, trabajando con otros miembros del equipo. - Realizar un análisis técnico de los requisitos. - Producir un diseño técnico sólido y detallado. - Es...
Xoops version 2.4.5 and the newbb forum module version 3.08. Total Topics 4795 | Total Posts 82982 Need an import script to migrate users + forum topic + posting to vanilla forum
Estou precisando de um parceiro ou representante comercial para empresa de Webdesign, já temos alguns clientes como portfólio, trabalhamos com Joomla, Wordpress, Xoops, Drupal, Magento, Prestashop, Opencart e mais alguns CMS de menor expressão, nossa inte
Hello. We have a travel blog site in Xoops at [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL]; which we transferred to Joomla and customised under temporary domain http://www.artirdik.biz. Freelancer will be completing the punch items and then transferring from temporary to original domain hosting: 1) Template has a Turkish character encoding issue, Turkish characters are
Hallo, I need a one xoops design for my new website. The design should be in blue color, 3 colums. BR, Sahin
Looking for someone to create a Paypal subscription module for our Xoops based site. I've seen some out there, but not all quite working properly. To have it; Have the user click the Subscribe button on our site, then be sent to Paypal to complete the transaction. Once completed, have Paypal generate a username/password and email the info to
...members are hand picked and must be approved by the site admin team, no one can join and enter freely. We would like to use a open course CRM, something like Elgg, kickapps, xoops should be able to handle what we need. We are a startup company and will grow the site in the future but to start with a list of most of the features: - Ability to detect
We have long time unmaintained site at http://www.yaptik.biz. Freelancer will create a new site with Joomla, and transfer the content. He will be responsible to - show us several designs and implement/modify+install the favorite one to our requests (very minor logo design, or modification of existing may be requested). - Main page must display top users, new users, new articles for each categ...
Require an xoops professional with demonstrated abilities. Ongoing work provided. Ad hoc projects. Hourly budget available. Must be able to communicate effectively and have time to fit projects in. Projects might entail re-designing home page, developing 3d image software etc.
...2005 and we want to make some changes. First of all the site is in Greek language and the new site will be at Greek language. The present website/forum has been made with Xoops and we want to migrate to the newer version on Drupal. We can check joomla too but we like more Drupal. What we want: 1) Any action a present user has at our site must be
Hi I starting a new service to our business and we want to be able to do website for our clients Now I currently using on my own site joombla 1.5 which I ...is easy and reliable, Content Management Drupal Geeklog Joomla 1.5 Mambo PHP-Nuke phpWCMS phpWebSite Siteframe TYPO3 Xoops Zikula
I have 2 websites built with XOOPS CMS version 220.127.116.11 and only works with PHP4. Since it is difficult to find PHP4 hosting, I need to upgrade these sites to the latest version of XOOPS (which I think it is 2.5.x. now) to run on PHP5. I need someone who knows XOOPS very well and can do upgrade to the latest version. There is no PHP programming involved
...2005 and we want to make some changes. First of all the site is in Greek language and the new site will be at Greek language. The present website/forum has been made with Xoops and we want to migrate to the newer version on Drupal. We can check joomla too but we like more Drupal. What we want: 1) Any action a present user has at our site must be
hi i need website in xoops cms. now am working on it [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] but i need same like this [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] with lates new modules. when you complete this i have an other job in xoops cms.. this job is not more then 30 minute to 1 hour
You contacted me via elancefor our Xoops project. Original scope has changed but could you view attachment and review the price and leadtime. Have had a fair few developers look at his but feel they are learning on my time and the rate have been very high. As a small test we need a XOOPs module updated to add some additional functions. I need
You contacted me via elancefor our Xoops project. Original scope has changed but could you view attachment and review the price and leadtime. Have had a fair few developers look at his but feel they are learning on my time and the rate have been very high. As a small test we need a XOOPs module updated to add some additional functions. I need
We have various Xoops sites that have bugs that need to be rectified, also we need to modify and create new modules.
...in implementing OpenX's OnRamp or BittAds (free hosted advertising control solutions) in to a site created with XOOPS. If you have experience, this should be simple. We could consider alternative free ad controllers (or even a XOOPS module), but we need to make sure it can control banner ads so that rivals do not ever appear in the same page
We would like to migrate a website from a xoops platform tr wordess. The modules required to be migrated are the downloads module and forum module. The website is saarnaindexi.net. the look of the site also needs to be migrated.
We would like to migrate a website from a xoops platform to either drupal or wordpress. The modules required to be migrated are the downloads module and forum module. The website is saarnaindexi.net. the look of teh site also needs to be migrated.
I am looking migrate a website from a xoops platform to a wordpress platform. This may involve altering tables within a mysql database and php code. This should be fairly simple for somebody who is familiar with php, mysql or xoops and worpress platforms. Good luck to all bidders
We have a problem with xoops CMS. Have you experiance? Regards Arthur
I need to compleet my [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] cms website [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] For this we will have to upgrade all installed xoops modules, upgrade them, isntal new modules, upgrade xoops cms if needed, integrate rss feeds and web services in the home page blank tabs, Create a page content for all website corporate and community pages and link all dummy
I need to compleet my [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] cms website [войдите, чтобы посмотреть URL] For this we will have to upgrade all installed xoops modules, upgrade them, isntal new modules, upgrade xoops cms if needed, integrate rss feeds and web services in the home page blank tabs, Create a page content for all website corporate and community pages and link all dummy
We will provide SSH access to the TWO Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers (release 5 Ti...information. And we will need to add several new fields to our MySQL for things like "Receiving Photo Upload URL" Attached XLSX file shows details of the needs. Knowledge of XOOPS would be a plus because our website is built with it, but is not a requirement.


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Car News
2014 Mazda3 Pricing Officially Announced
- Mazda3 pricing announced; will start at $17,740
- More powerful s model starts at $25,390
- New Mazda3 will reach dealers in September
Mazda has announced official pricing for its all-new 2014 Mazda3 compact car. The brand says a base-level version of the small car will start at $17,740 with shipping, while pricing for other trim levels will increase from there.
According to Mazda, that figure is for an i SV sedan with a manual transmission. Shoppers who want a hatchback will have to step up to the i Sport, which starts at $19,740 with shipping. The i Sport hatchback is $500 more than the i Sport sedan -- a price difference that Mazda continues throughout the entire Mazda3 lineup.
Mazda also offers two trim levels above Sport. Touring models start at $20,390 with shipping, while the upscale Grand Touring starts at $23,540. All trim levels are offered in both sedan or hatchback body styles.
Of course, shoppers who want more power will have to pay more. The above prices cover the Mazda3 i, which offers a 155-horsepower 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine. Drivers wishing to step up to the Mazda3 s will find prices starting at $25,390 with shipping. Those drivers will get a 184-hp 2.5-liter 4-cylinder -- but they'll have to pick from a Touring or Grand Touring model, as the SV and Sport trims aren't offered on the Mazda3 s.
In addition to announcing base pricing, Mazda also revealed prices for a few important options. The Touring Technology Package, available on i models, costs $1,600 and includes a 7-inch touchscreen infotainment system and Bose audio. The same $1,600 on s models adds the fuel-efficient i-ELOOP regenerative braking system along with advanced safety features such as lane-departure warning and Smart City Brake Support.
Mazda says the all-new 2014 Mazda3 goes on sale in September. All models -- sedan and hatchback, i and s -- are expected to reach dealers at the same time.
What it means to you: Mazda's all-new compact is competitively priced and offers high-end features and options.


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October 1, 2011
Dear Lawmakers, it is with civil conscious and solidarity with Mr. Chuck Blakeman that I offer the argument of this text. Thank you for your deepest consideration and solution to same.
Walter Grail
Dear Sirs:
A company in the United States that is co-owned by Chuck Blakeman, an American social entrepreneur, and a Congolese tribal Chief, has committed to create sustainable economies in the Congo by exporting minerals and leaving a significant portion of the profits local, something no other company has ever done. They also will build potable water projects, clinics, and schools with the profits, and create training certifications for local business owners to learn how to run businesses.
They will also fund these businesses and believe they can solve systemic poverty in the DR Congo in 5-10 years.
But now an obscure provision tucked into the Dodd-Frank Act could be jeopardizing much of this and is already hurting hundreds of thousands of Congolese and putting some in immediate danger of death.
We need to repeal this obscure 1502 provision from the Dodd-Frank Act will you help us?
The Problem The Dodd-Frank Act Provision 1502
The recent Dodd-Frank Act has had a terrible affect in the Congo. A provision (1502) in the bill requires all companies in America to disclose if their products use minerals from the Congo, and to create a trail of paperwork and outside audits to prove they did not create profits for criminal militias. As a result of the unintended stigma this has created, the mineral trade for central Africa has evaporated in the last few weeks, creating an effective mineral embargo of the entire region. Thousands are being devastated by Dodd-Frank.
The Negative Effect
Chucks private company has been lauded by Chiefs throughout the Congo for our commitment to export minerals above board and for our desire to build local potable water projects, clinics and schools.
Because of the stigma surrounding Dodd-Frank, only the Criminals are benefiting now.
One tribe dug and stored tons of coltan over the last two years without pay simply because they did not want to sell it to war lords. Chuck was supposed to meet these chiefs in Africa next week to export the first of a 20 year contract for monthly shipments. But because of the stigma attached to Dodd-Frank, no buyers can be found, leaving starvation or criminalized sales as the options for these chiefs. The 20 year contract would create job stability with certain futures for people who have never had it.
The Nuclear Option is Not Acceptable
Our company was stepping into the legitimacy gap, but the U.S. government and very well-meaning activists have created what we see as a nuclear option.
The Main Argument Against Dodd-Frank The Nuclear Option Is Not Acceptable
People decry the use of a drone-launched precision attack missile because its possible at least one innocent bystander might be affected. Then why is it perfectly acceptable to employ a nuclear option in the Congo that affects 100% of all the innocents, in order to root out the militia?
This all-inclusive collateral damage strategy must be stopped. Hundreds of thousands have lost their meager living or are being forced to now sell to the very militias Dodd-Frank wants to punish. The innocent are the only ones being hurt the militia will get their money, even if not through minerals. One woman said, I used to tend my fields, but every woman who farms gets raped regularly by the militia. My only safe job is in the mines. I dont know what I will do now.
Hundreds of thousands of people are suffering right now in the DR Congo as a direct result of this Dodd-Frank provision. Please help us correct it immediately and stop this nuclear option. 100% collateral damage to the innocent is simply not acceptable under any circumstance.
Please drop this devastating provision from the Dodd-Frank bill. It is killing people right now.


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Acer Extensa 5200
Basic informations about that laptop. Some parameters may be diffrent
Processor: Intel Celeron M 440 @ 1.86
Video: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
Audio: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
Wired NIC: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX Ethernet (rev 02)
Wireless NIC: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 Wlan Mini-PCI Card (ref 01)
On default kernel everything seems to be ok, but if you want to hibernate you need kernel23-suspend2
Ethernet works fine
For my Broadcom i use Ndiswrapper. Drivers are [here].
In the fact, you need only two files, bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys. You can download it [here] , that's LESS THEN ONE MEGABYTE!!
Just install ndiswrapper
# pacman -S ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-utils
Remove module from your existing kernel
# rmmod bcm43xx
download and extract drivers and install them
# wget http://cave0.tl.krakow.pl/~ert16/bcmwl5.tar.bz2 # tar -jxf bcmwl5.tar.bz2 # cd bcmwl5 # ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
you can test driver by using
# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 No scan results
Power Management
Just install acpid and acpitool
#pacman -S acpid acpitool
and add it to daemons in /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=( acpid )
now everything should work fine. After reboot you can check it by
$ acpitool Battery #1 : charged, 100.0% AC adapter : on-line Thermal zone 1 : ok, 46 C Thermal zone 2 : ok, 46 C
CPU frequency scaling
Works by default width KDE manager, but I preffer cpufreqd install cpufreqd and cpufrqutils.
#pacman -S cpufrequtils cpufreqd
If you are using XFCE you may want plugin that shows your courrent cpu frequency.
#pacman -S xfce4-cpufreq-plugin
Now, load your kernel-module that will manage your cpu, for me this will be p4_clockmod
#modprobe p4_clockmod
check if it runs correctly
#cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 002: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2006 Report errors and bugs to email@example.com, please. analyzing CPU 0: driver: p4-clockmod CPUs which need to switch frequency at the same time: 0 hardware limits: 233 MHz - 1.87 GHz available frequency steps: 233 MHz, 467 MHz, 700 MHz, 933 MHz, 1.17 GHz, 1.40 GHz, 1.63 GHz, 1.87 GHz available cpufreq governors: ondemand, conservative, performance current policy: frequency should be within 1.87 GHz and 1.87 GHz. The governor "performance" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 1.87 GHz.
now, configure cpufreqd, that will change your cpufreq governor and other settings when you plug out your AC, or your battery will be low. Edit /etc/cpufreqd.conf and uncomment lines
[acpi] acpid_socket=/var/run/acpid.socket [/acpi]
And make it quiet
If you want to change settings by cpufreqd-set, uncomment lines
enable_remote=1 remote_group=root
Now, you can lunch daemon up and check if it is working correctly
#/etc/rc.d/cpufreqd start
If everything works change your system settings. Edit /etc/rc.conf, and add module p4_clockmod to the list of preloaded modules
MODULES=( p4_clockmod )
and add daemons to the list at the end of the file
DAEMONS=( acpid cpufreqd )
On XFCE right-click on you panel and add monitor to see informations about your current CPU speed.
Follow the manual about Suspend to Disk
After configuration uncomment
Runi915resolution yes
install 915resolution by
pacman -S 915resolution
edit /etc/conf.d/915resolution and insert lines
Add 915resolution to startup scripts in /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=( 915resolution )
Before you start binding your special keys you need set keymap. My keymap is Here . You need save it in the file, and load when you start Xorg.
xmodmap keymap
External Resources
- This report has been listed in the Linux Laptop and Notebook Installation Guides Survey: Acer.


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I consider myself a born-again atheist. By this I mean than in my younger days I did not believe. Then, in my late 20s, when feeling down and lonely, I succumbed to an invitation from a local evangelical church and started attending. They had me hook, line and sinker.
In church I found 'friends', which I wanted. When I moved from the city to a neighbouring town, I joined a Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada (POAC) church and was there for a few years. Moving back to the city, I attended a very fundamentalist church. Then, in an adult class one Sunday, the leaders finally said evolution was not real and I was supposed to accept it. The rebellion began.
I started easing out, looking for a church that would work for me. I went back to the very first church I attended. While there, I attended the funeral of a friend's father. Driving home with the pastor, he said he found such services difficult because the deceased had never accepted Christ, so what could he say to the grieving family, knowing their father was in hell.
Moved on again at that point to a more liberal Christian church. In Canada, that would include the United Church of Canada. Still didn't sit right. It was on to a New Thought group that followed the teachings of Ernest Holmes . . . kinda like the whole Secret think from a couple of years ago, but originating back in the 1920s or so.
After a couple of years, I moved to a different city. No New Thought churches. Mostly traditional and Mormon. So, I took up with a small Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. I've been calling myself an atheist for a few years. Now the UUF is starting to feel a bit like a crutch.
Members who call themselves pantheists. Members who believe in astrology! Members who are followers of The Secret and believe the universe responds to our intentions.
I've eased my way out of the flock and think it's time to leave all the spiritual mumbo-jumbo behind - even if the group is accepting of different beliefs, including atheism. I find I'm just not willing to sit there and listen to different folks expressing how astrology helps them determine their life path, or how positive intentions put out into the universe will create actions to your benefit, or any of the other things that pass for spirituality.
Has anyone else eased their away out of the church or did you go cold turkey?
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That's very true. I found my way into the church culture, I've been finding my way out and I realize I simply want to sever all ties with the concept.
I was deeply involved in the church for several years. After years of doubt, I moved from Christian to Diest to Atheist. My wife is still a strong believer. In an effort to keep the peace, I still attend Sunday morning services. However, I no longer serve in any capacity, attend Sunday evening services or Wed night prayer meetings.
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They weave
through cones, dangle from bars until their arms burn and leap as high as they can
Most gyms
offer up a standard assortment of weights and cardio machines, but the
University of North Florida's Student Wellness Complex offers students and
staff something much more intense — an opportunity to test themselves against
the best.
The Health
Promotion team in the Student Wellness Complex is offering members of the
campus community a chance to test their athleticism against the Dottie Dorion
Fitness Center's dedicated group of fitness trainers in a Pros vs. Joes-themed
workout competition.
program started at the beginning of the semester and tests participants using a
battery of fitness challenges, said Ashley Ballard, health education
coordinator. Tests include grip strength, a one-mile run, a flex arm hang,
vertical jump and an assortment of other exercise circuits.
answers one simple question — where does the student body line up to the fitness
staff in terms of health?" she said.
The brains
behind the operation is a student staff member, senior community health major
Chris Wayant.
said the idea came to him last summer, inspired by the popular sports reality
TV show on the Spike Network and his own interests — sports, working out and
testing himself to see how he stacks up to the competition. This program takes
that competitive nature to another level, allowing students to track themselves
and their progress against the dedicated trainers in the Dottie Dorion Fitness
all the fitness trainers as a freshman and sophomore, it got me inspired to try
harder and get to their level," Wayant said. "This program challenges others to
do the same thing and see how they stack up to the pros. If one person who
otherwise wouldn't have worked out gets started on fitness because of the
program, then this was a success in my eyes."
Joes who
eclipse the pros and place in the top three participants for each individual
exercise will have their photo and fitness results enshrined on the leaderboard
near the fitness assessment office on the second floor of the Student Wellness
Complex. If those top marks remain until the end of semester, the students in
first place for each individual exercise receive a commemorative championship
T-shirt. Any student who beats a benchmark set by a pro wins a T-shirt
acknowledging their accomplishment.
More than 520
students have competed this semester, and Wayant and the Health Promotion team
plans to evolve the program next year to allow participants to compare
themselves to professional athletes.
Additionally, a group of 42 UNF
Army ROTC students came out to in mid-November to test their mettle on 12
different challenges in the hopes of having their pictures mounted on the leaderboard.
A few new top marks were set, but the
bulk of the standing records remain in place. Wayant said he hopes other athletic teams and organizations around campus will also accept
the challenge and compete in his program.
Purser, director of Health Promotion, said the institution of the program
showed tremendous initiative by Wayant.
engaging students on a level that makes them want to come back for more,"
Purser said. "That's what health and wellness is all about — sustaining a level
of activity that you can make into a lifestyle. And he found a way to do that
for others and make it fun."
Beyond the
positive feelings associated with helping others build a healthy lifestyle,
Wayant said he has also gained a sense of pride in seeing his idea take off.
really cool to sit back and watch people get excited about something you were thinking
about one day," he said. "For them, it gives them a kind of framework in the
gym, so that if they don't know what to work out that day, they have these
options to try out. For me, I get to encourage them and push them to the limit.
It's a great feeling all around."
'Tis the season to be jolly — and
there are plenty of festive events happening at UNF (or nearby) to remind us
that the holiday season is in full swing. Here are a few you might want to
consider as you plan your holiday schedule:
7th Annual Feast of Carols: Jacksonville's holiday sing-a-long
UNF ensembles will be joined by school
and community choirs for a musical ringing in of the season. Sing in the
holidays with the Clay High School Royal Blues, First Coast High School Concert
Choir, Fleming Island High School Desperate Measures, Fletcher Vocal Ensemble,
Jacksonville Children's Chorus-Young Men's Chorus, LaVilla Bel Canto Chorus,
UNF Chorale, Wolfson High School Singers and members of the UNF Orchestra,
directed by Dr. Cara Tasher. Mike Buresh from FOX30/CBS47 will serve as the
event MC.
Call the box office at (904) 620-2878.
Tickets available online here.
Dec. 1,
Location: Lazzara
Performance Hall
Cost: Adults: $7 in advance, $10 at the door,
students free with Osprey 1Card
UNF Alumni Association's 21st Annual Holiday Party
This is the one holiday party this season you don't
want to miss. The UNF Alumni Association's 21st Annual Holiday Party
will feature great food, music, dancing, door prizes and more.
more information, please contact the Office of Alumni Services at (904)
620-4723 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Date: Thursday,
Dec. 6
Time: 7 to 10 p.m.
The Casa
Marina Hotel
Cost: Suggested donation of $20 per
women's basketball hosts holiday tournament
The University of North Florida women's
basketball team will host its annual Hampton Inn Oceanfront Holiday Classic
tournament at UNF Arena. The Ospreys will
play games against Jacksonville State University and the University of Maryland-Eastern
Shore. Campbell University will also participate in the event.
Dec. 14 and Saturday, Dec. 15
Adults: $6, Youth/Senior/Military/UNF Staff: $4, UNF Students and children 2
years old and under: Free with Osprey 1Card
Department: Academic
Center for Excellence
Job title: Academic
What do you
Advise and assist firstand second-year
students with their academic plan through their first 60 credit hours.
Years at
What is your
favorite thing about working at UNF?
Seeing the looks on the faces of new students and
knowing I play an active role in plotting their educational path.
Tell us
about your family.
I am the fifth (and only girl) of seven children.
I have one son, and one daughter.
If you could
choose any other career, what would it be and why?
I'd be a professional singer. I love to sing, and
I can carry a pretty good tune!
What would
you like to do when you retire?
I'd like to serve on the board of directors for a
nonprofit organization
What is the
best thing you ever won?
$50 on a $5 scratch-off ticket. Don't judge me.
band(s)/musician(s) would perform the soundtrack to your life?
Lyfe Jennings and Jill Scott
Who is your
favorite fictional character? What makes them your favorite?
Glenda the Good Witch — even with the power to be
bad she chose to do good.
If you won
the lottery, what would do with the money?
I'd become a philanthropist.
If you were
not working at UNF, what would you be doing?
Either advising at another institution or working
as a guidance counselor at a high school in hopes of better preparing high
school seniors for the college/university experience.
your favorite UNF-related memory? Fall 2009 graduation
What is your
favorite way to blow an hour? Solving word jumbles
If you were
asked to paint a picture about anything you wanted, what would you paint? World Peace
What was the
best money you ever spent?
Ten-day cruise of the West Indies aboard the
Norwegian Spirit
Is there a
piece of technology that you just couldn't live without?
My smartphone
What is the
proudest/happiest moment of your life?
I have two: seeing my son graduate from high
school and finding out my daughter will graduate early with only three years of
high school.
Tell us
something that would surprise people to know about you:
I can't dance. I was born of the Rhythm-less
What was the
first concert you ever attended, and what was the most recent concert you
First was Boyz II Men, Brandy and Subway in
Gainesville. The last was Anthony Hamilton and Angie Stone in Jacksonville.
What person
had the greatest impact on your life?
Constance McCoy — in the course of six months, I
gained a different perspective.
What are you
most passionate about?
Leaving a lasting impression on the lives of
those with whom I come in contact.
Who is the
most famous person you ever met? Angela Bassett at the Blockbuster
in Fernandina Beach
Tell us
something about you that even your friends don't know:
I was named after my mother.
What do you
hope to accomplish that you have not done yet?
I'd like to have all the pages of my passport
Last book
"I, Alex Cross" by James Patterson
College of Health
Clinical and Applied Movement Sciences: Drs. Peter Magyari and James Churilla had their peer-reviewed research article,
"Association Between Lifting Weights and Metabolic Syndrome among U.S. Adults
1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey" published in The
Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research.
Nursing: Dr. Cynthia Cummings gave
a presentation entitled "Red Cross Health Services Disaster" to a group of
nurses and students in the community in November. Discussions included what
disaster workers can do, how to set up a shelter, obtain supplies and how to
assess and intervene in these situations.
A group of
four inter-professional team members from the Northeast FL area attended the
International ID Week in San Diego this October. Those members included Dr. Jan Meires,
Dr. Patrick Monaghan, Sarah Wheeler, a 2012 UNF MSN graduate and
Dr. Mobeen Rathore. They presented a poster on "Declining Trends in
Rotavirus Testing and Infections in Northeast Florida in the Post-vaccine Era."
Irma Ancheta, Cindy Battie and Dr. Tes Tuason published a
paper entitled, "A Comparison of Metabolic Syndrome (METS) Risk Factors in
Filipino Women and Filipino American Women: A Pilot Study" in Ethnicity &
Public Health: Dr. Tammie M. Johnson and Dr. James Churill, spoke at the
140th American Public Health Association Meeting in San Francisco in October.
They gave a presentation about "Measuring diabetes self-management education
duration among adults: Results from the 2008 Florida Behavioral Risk Factor
Surveillance System."
Dr. Elissa Barr, Dr.
Michele J. Moore and Alexandra Howard, published a piece in the
American Journal of Sexuality Education titled "A Pilot Project to Increase
Parent Comfort Communicating with their Children about Sexual Health."
Drs. Elissa Barr,
Michele J. Moore and Tammie Johnson, along with P. Stewart, gave a
presentation about "The Relationship Between TV/Computer Use and Sexual
Behaviors Among Middle School Students" at the Society for the Scientific Study
of Sexuality Annual Meeting in Tampa.
Coggin College of Business
Economics: Dr.Sharon Cobb was awarded the Southeastern Division of the Association of American
Geographers' 2012 Excellence in Teaching Award at the Annual Meeting in Asheville.
SEDAAG comprises 10 Southeastern states with more than 550 members.
College of
Arts and Sciences
History: Dr. David
Courtwright spoke at a public event sponsored by the LSE Ideas, the
in-house think tank of the London School of Economics. Photos and a short recap
of the event are online here.
Literatures, Cultures: Dr. Shira Schwam-Baird
published "Translation in the Late Fifteenth Century: Octovien de
Saint-Gelais's L'ystoire de Eurialus
et Lucresse" in Medieval
Dr. Nirmal Patel was awarded a Florida
Space Grant Consortium (NASA) award for $4,100 for "Measurement of ozone
profile in the stratosphere using nanocrystalline sensor arrays payload on a
HASP2012 balloon flight."
College of
Computing, Engineering & Construction
Construction Management: Drs. Adel El Safty, Mag Malek and Amal EL Safty published their paper, "Construction Safety and
Occupational Health Education in Egypt, the EU, and US Firms," in the Open
Journal of Civil Engineering in November.
Dr. Adel El Safty presented and published
three peer reviewed papers: "The CFRP
Repair Performance in Pre-cracked Reinforced Concrete Beams," "Fatigue Testing
of Half-Scaled and Full-Scaled AASHTO Type II Bridge Girders Laterally Damaged
and Repaired Using CFRP Laminates" and "Full-Scale Flexural and Fatigue Testing
of Laterally Damaged AASHTO Type II Bridge Girders Repaired Using Nonpressed
CFRP Fabric Laminates" during the 2012 PCI Convention and National Bridge
Drs. J. David Lambert, Patrick
Welsh, Gerald Merckel, Daniel Cox andMichael Toth filed their patent, "Street Light Monitoring System,"
with the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office on behalf of UNF.
Computing: Dr. Ching-Hua Chuan and E. Chew presented and published their paper, "Creating
Ground Truth for Audio Key Finding: When the Title Key May Not Be the Key" at
the 13th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval in October.
Chuan also gave an invited presentation, "Computing and Engineering Approaches
to Music Information Retrieval," at the CCEC Research Colloquium the same
month. Chuan was also invited to become a reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on
College of
Education and Human Services
Department of
leadership, school counseling and sport management: Professor and Associate Provost E. Newton
Jackson, Jr. co-authored a manuscript, "Statistical data analysis techniques
utilized in the International Journal
of Sport Management during its first ten years." It is in the
upcoming volume and issue of ISJM.
At the Professional
Recognition Awards Banquet Nov. 2 at the Florida School Association (FSCA)
Conference, Dr. Carolyn B. Stone
was awarded The Robert D. Myrick
Lifetime Achievement Award. Carolyn Stone is the first recipient of this
special recognition for her extraordinary contributions to professional school
counseling and counselors in the state of Florida. The School Counseling
Program had four students who presented at the recent Florida School
Counselor Association' Convention. Kimberly Volz, Erin Monahan, Lisa
Coppedge and Sarah Beth
Glicksteen each presented a poster session. Sarah Beth Glicksteen
co-presented with Dr. Stone on the subject, Sexually Active Students: What School Counselors Need to Know.
Also at the recent Florida School Counselor Association Conference, Nov. 1-3,
in St. Petersburg, Dr. Rebecca A.
Schumacher moderated a panel discussion consisting of five
district-level administrators and school counselors pertaining to the job
search process for graduate students.
In October,Drs. Jason W. Lee, Elizabeth Gregg, Kristi
Sweeney, Jennifer Kane and E.T. Kian presented "ESPN the Magazine's
Body Issue: The good, the bad, and the sexy" for Sport Marketing Association
(SMA) Conference in Orlando. Also presented at the SMA conference was "A tale
of two cities…and four universities: Brand building in higher education has
been accepted for Sport Marketing" by Drs. Jason W. Lee, Elizabeth Gregg and K.
Miloch. Additionally, at the Southern Criminal Justice Association (SCJA)
Conference in Atlantic Beach Drs. Jason W. Lee and Kristi Sweeney presented as
part of the Athletes and Criminal Activity panel, "Criminal jocks: An NFL case
Department of
exceptional, deaf and interpreter education:
Dr. Susan Syverud was
invited to speak at the Interfaith Coalition for Action, Reconciliation and
Empowerment (ICARE) Community Problems Assembly Oct. 30 at St. Paul African
Methodist Episcopal church in Jacksonville. ICARE is currently tackling four
big problems in our community—reducing youth crime, ending homelessness,
increasing reading achievement levels, and creating new jobs. Syverud's testimony
on reading was titled "Why not DI?" Syverud presented her past accomplishments
as a learning disabilities teacher and her current work as a Professor in
Residence at Woodland Acres Elementary in increasing reading achievement levels
and preventing reading failures through the use of Direct Instruction.
Childhood Education, Literacy, and TESOL: Drs. Gigi David and
Elizabeth Fullerton presented
"Promoting Preschool Friendships" at the Florida
Association for the Education of Young Children conference in
Orlando dditionally, Dr. David presented "Exhibiting project-based learning: A
collaboration between a local art museum, university education students and
elementary students" at the National Association for Education of Young
Children in Atlanta.
Dr. Nile Stanley was a
featured author for the 50th Annual Conference of the Florida Reading
Association in Orlando. He spoke on "Performance Literacy: Gateway to
Meeting the Common Core Reading Standards" and did a signing for his book,
"Performance Literacy through Storytelling."
In October, Dr. Stacy Boote presented
a Gallery Workshop, "No More Division Monkey
Moves: Using Craft Sticks to Support a Conceptual Understanding of
Division," for in-service and pre-service teachers at the 2012 National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics Regional Conference in Dallas. Also, Boote
recently had an article published, titled "Assessing and Understanding Line
Graph Interpretations Using a Scoring Rubric of Cited Factors," in the
Journal of Science Teacher Education as an 'Online First' piece by SpringerLink.
Office of the Dean: Kelly Turner, a graduate research assistant in the Dean's Office, presented
"Scaffolding the Reading Fluency Development of English Language Learners" at
the Florida Reading Association's Annual Conference in Orlando in October.
Faculty Awards
Nominations will be accepted beginning Monday, Jan 7 for the Distinguished Professor Award, Outstanding
Faculty Scholarship Awards, Outstanding Faculty Service and thenew Outstanding
Faculty Community Engaged Scholarship Awards.
Guidelines for the awards are listed on the Faculty Association website under "Faculty
Nominations can be submitted one of the three ways
— online nominations submitted through
the "Online Forms"; e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or
handwritten or typed nomination forms delivered to the Faculty Association
Office in the Honors Hall, Building 10, room 1120. The deadline is Friday, Jan. 18 at 5 p.m. For more information, contact
Cindy Chin at firstname.lastname@example.com or ext. 2872 or
Dr. Gordon Rakita at email@example.com.
Milestone anniversaries
Congratulations to the following employees who will celebrate a milestone
anniversary at UNF in December:20 years
Gates, Office
Manager, Counseling Center
10 years
Michael Holmes, IT Systems Engineer, Information Technology Services
Carol Murray, Administrative Secretary, Brooks College of Health
Torrell Poole, Custodial Worker, University Housing
Laura Langton, Instructor, College of Education & Human Services
Five years
Calliste-Edgar, Office Manager, Professional
Development and Training
Deborah Reed, Assistant Professor, Exceptional, Deaf and Interpreter Education
Carol Woodson, Assistant Professor, Building Construction Management
The following employees were either hired by UNF or were promoted from OPS
positions from mid- to late-October:Latoya Alston, Custodial Worker,
Custodial Services
Bodniowycz, Coordinator, Coggin College
of Business
Gene Jones, Custodial Worker, Custodial Services
Jordan Ray, Custodial Worker, Custodial Services
David Seidel, Parking Services Technician, Parking Services
Tammy Spencer, Custodial Worker, Custodial Services
William Taylor, Custodial Worker, Custodial Services
Eric Thomas, Maintenance Mechanic, University Housing
Donatella Schianomoriello, Academic Support Technician, Center For Instruction and
Mildred Rhodes, Custodial Worker, Custodial Services
Zully Rivera-Ramos, Mental Health Counselor, Counseling Center
Justin Sipes, Coordinator, Greek Life Fraternity and Sorority Life
Great job
The following employees were promoted from mid-to late-October.
Maria Atilano, Library Services Specialist, Library
Tracey Britton, Library Services Specialist, Library
Karla Calliste-Edgar, Office Manager, Professional Development and Training
Collin Cassidy, Senior IT Support Technician, User Services
Justin Clark, Coordinator/Team Lead, One-Stop Student Services
Felicia George, Associate Director, Human Resources
Rabena Johnson, Procurement Card Coordinator, Controller's Office
Amara McMann, Coordinator, Art and Design
Neidhardt, Associate Director, Human
John Timpe, Director, Center for Student Media
Linda Walton, Associate Director, Human Resources
Congratulations to Dr. David Kammerman,
coordinator for UNF's Office of Nationally Competitive Scholarships and Honors
faculty member, and his wife, Dr. Marcelle Polednik, director of the Museum of
Contemporary Art Jacksonville, a cultural resource of UNF, on the birth of
their first child on Nov. 7. Their son, Beckett Edward, weighed in at 6 lb., 9
oz. Mother, father and son are all doing well.
as the "fruit of the angels" by Christopher Columbus, papaya is a native
Central American fruit adopted by Hawaiians. It's packed with vitamins, minerals
and fiber. Dr. Nancy Correa-Matos, a registered dietitian and faculty member in the
Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Flagship Program, discusses papaya, a
heart-healthy, anti-inflammatory and cancer-fighting fruit. To help you add papaya
to your diet, a recipe is provided.
Myth: Papaya isn't nutritious.
Fact: Papaya contains three times more vitamin C than the daily
recommendation. It's a good source of vitamin A, folate, potassium, magnesium
and fiber, while also being rich in antioxidants and B vitamins. It's also low
in fat and calories — a half-cup of ripe papaya provides 26 calories and less
than 1 gram of fat. The same amount of unripe papaya provides around 40
calories and less than 1 gram of fat. As it ripens, the carbohydrate content is
lower, providing even fewer calories per serving.
Myth: Papaya is unknown in the United
Although papaya is native to Mexico and Central America, it was introduced to
Hawaii in the last century. Since then, Hawaii has been the leading producer of
the small-sized papaya, called theCarica
Papaya Linn species, which is widely available in the United States throughout
the year. Papaya plants can't survive in cold weather, strong winds, shade or
flooding, so that's why it's considered solely a tropical plant. In the U.S.,
the "papain" content in the seeds is used as a meat tenderizer and as an
ingredient in chewing gums.
Myth: It's recommended to eat only the
The pulp and the seed are both good sources of nutrients, while the ripe pulp
is rich in antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. The seeds have a spicy taste
and can be easily substituted for black pepper. The seeds contain compounds
that have been shown to prevent and inhibit cancer development, destroy viruses
and bacteria as well as reduce inflammation.
Myth: Papaya can cause allergic
If a person is allergic to latex, avocados or bananas, it's possible to have a
cross reaction with ripe papaya. In this case, it's recommended to consume well-cooked
papaya. This way, the chitinases, compounds that are related to allergic
reactions when consuming these products, will be totally destroyed during
cooking. Candied papayas are good alternatives to cooked papaya, and they are
safe for people with these types of allergies.
Papaya is only good for healthy vision.
Papaya provides overall health benefits. Scientific investigations have shown
that papaya provides benefits against cardiovascular diseases due to its healthy-fat
content, its LDL cholesterol-lowering effects and acts as a vasodilator and antioxidant.
Also, it has antimicrobial and antibacterial effects. It has been used as an
analgesic and anti-inflammatory in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Additionally,
papaya has been used in home remedies as an antimicrobial for the reduction of
inflammation in sports injuries and the prevention of staph infections. In some
regions, papaya has been used to treat parasitic infections. The fiber and oil content
of papaya can also alleviate constipation.
Healthy papaya smoothie
from Eating Well for a Healthy Heart Cookbook (2008).
Servings: 2 servings, 1 1/4 cups each
papaya, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped (1 1/4 cups)
cup bottled fruit nectar, such as papaya, mango or peach
cup buttermilk
1/2 tablespoons sugar, preferably superfine
tablespoons fresh lime juice
ice cubes
all ingredients in a blender; cover and blend until the desired consistency.
Pour into a glass and serve immediately.
Nutritional Content (per serving):
fat 1 g
42 g
3 g
fiber 2 g
365 mg
The Goods is a monthly column about food myths and
facts by faculty members in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Flagship
Program and runs in The Florida Times-Union's "Taste" section.
Have a question about papaya? Contact Dr. Correa-Matos at
ABCs of Holiday Eating
Have you heard the old adage that people
gain 10 pounds during the holidays? Actually, the average holiday weight gain
is between one and five pounds. The good news is that with a little forethought,
you can avoid any holiday weight gain.
Follow these simple ABCs and have a
holiday that allows you to enjoy eating your favorite foods while keeping your
health — and waistline — in mind.
A = Assess your hunger. Use a hunger
scale to determine if you are eating because you are hungry or for other
reasons. Before you eat, give yourself a number on a scale of 1 to 10 where 1
means you are starving and 10 means you are "thanksgiving stuffed." If you give
yourself a 3, you are physically hungry and it's a good time to eat. When you reach
a 6-7, it's a good time to stop eating.
B = Balance your plate. Include all the
food groups of protein, grains, vegetables, fruit and dairy on your plate. If
you miss a food group at one meal, include it as a snack or at the next meal.
Balance also applies to the size of your meal. Take portions that will satisfy
your hunger, not overstuff your stomach. Using this strategy, you can still
enjoy your favorite holiday foods and treats.
C = Cardio. Add exercise that increases
your heart rate to burn off extra calories. Exercise can be broken into small
chunks of time. Take a brisk walk after lunch, dance in the kitchen with your
family and play some flag football before dinner and you've hit your goal while
enjoying your holiday break.
For more information, call (904) 620-1570
to meet with the Health Promotion wellness dietitian. This article was written
by Alexandra Lewis, MS, RD, LD/N, a Wellness Dietitian in the Department of
Health Promotion.
Healthy Osprey is
designed to provide solid advice on how to become more healthy at work and at
home. Shelly Purser, director of Health Promotion, and Mike Kennedy, assistant
director of Health Promotion, will write a different article each month that
will focus on some aspect of health and wellness.
Osprey is a collaboration of students, faculty and staff working together to
foster a University community that embraces the development of a healthy body, mind and spirit. The purpose of the Healthy
Osprey initiative is to assess and respond to the needs of the UNF community to
create and maintain a healthy environment, which will enhance the holistic
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TxAIRE Homes Study Looks at Fire SafetyTyler TX
Artist rendering of TxAire Test Homes
The Research Study
An interesting research project is taking place at the University of Texas at Tyler. The Texas Allergy, Indoor Environment and Energy (TxAIRE) Institute has built two identical test homes on campus using different construction techniques. TxAIRE was created to help identify, demonstrate and evaluate products that improve the energy efficiency and indoor environmental quality of buildings. More energy efficient and healthier buildings are the two primary elements of the rapidly expanding "green building" market.
The two test homes make it possible to complete full testing and analyses of different building components used in the building process. The mechanical systems are fully instrumented and include multiple systems to facilitate comparison of performance. Professor Roy Crawford, Ph.D. and director of research and technology development at TxAIRE, says the houses offer a tremendous opportunity to study energy efficiency products.
Uponor's Fire Safety System Installed in TxAIRE Home
Uponor's fire safety system, called AquaSAFE™, was installed in one of the homes while a competitor's product was installed in the other home. AquaSAFE is a multipurpose system that combines the fire sprinklers with the home's potable water. The competitive product is a passive purge multipurpose system that connects a single toilet to a separate potable-water system. The benefits of the Uponor system is that there is a reduction in material and labor when integrating the potable water with the sprinkler loop. The other product is a passive purge system with a separate potable-water manifold that runs the sprinkler and the potable loops separately (except for one toilet). Ultimately, this uses more material and requires more labor. In addition, since Uponor's system has more potable lines connected to the system, it eliminates stagnancy issues.
Pyramid Homes, located in Tyler, is the building contractor, and owner Anwar Khalifa was the area's first certified green professional. "It is very important for us to find new products and innovative installation techniques that align with our green building philosophy," Khalifa says. "Uponor has a very good sustainable product that also helps us save money. Overall, we liked the system for the way it installs using fewer connections and less tubing and therefore allowing for sustainability and long-term savings."
Less Pipe, Fewer Fittings, Easy Installation
Sean O'Keefe, superintendent with Pyramid Homes, oversaw the installation of the two different fire sprinkler methods. "Being a green builder, it is important to reduce the amount of pipe that we use during installation. Uponor's system used less pipe than the other company and this reduces the overall energy consumption during the water-heating process. Also, it'll decrease the amount of water flow and therefore decrease the energy cost to the homebuyer," he says.
Both the plumbing installer and the fire sprinkler installer agree that Uponor's fire safety installation was an easier system to install than the competitive product – especially when it came to installing the fittings. "Due to the design of the system, the other company required two guys to install where Uponor's system only needs one person," O'Keefe says.
Chris Adee of RUDD Fire Protection, a local company, checked the two systems and preferred Uponor's AquaSAFE. Adee is a NICET 2 designer and said he was pleasantly surprised to see that all of Uponor's layout and calculations were correct. "I received a great set of plans from Uponor to work from," he said, "and the design fees were reasonable. Many companies don't offer design services, making it more complicated for the contractors to install a solid system."
In the end, the research going into the two TxAIRE houses on the University of Texas campus will benefit homeowners and builders by accelerating the application of the newest products and technologies for sustainable building methods.
Project Highlights
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14-Year-Old Comedian Wows on 'Britain's Got Talent'
The next great stand-up comedian can't even stand up.
14-year-old Jack Carroll, who suffers from cerebral palsy, has won fans around the world for poking fun at himself during a stand-up routine he performed on 'Britain's Got Talent.'
Jack has no problem being self-deprecating, starting off his set by saying, "Don't worry, I know what you're thinking: Harry Potter's had a nasty Quidditch accident."
After that bit, the audience remained on his side as he continued to make himself the butt of jokes. By the time he finished, he earned a standing ovation from the impressed and amused audience.
Jack's set was so good, in fact, even Simon Cowell was laughing. You know he must be funny to get that curmudgeon to turn that frown upside down.
Jack seems to be following the trail blazed by Josh Blue, another comedian who has cerebral palsy who also got his big break on a reality show ('Last Comic Standing').
Here's hoping Jack keeps writing material because it looks like he's going to be on the show for a long time.


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Venus and Jupiter will be at their closest — or in conjuction of 3 degrees — Thursday. Look to the Western skies near sunset and up to four hours after sunset.
Venus will be brighter because it is closer to earth. After Thursday they will start to drift apart. But don't wait till Thursday to view the sky.
Here is a cool illustrated guide to the conjuction from Earth Sky.


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Statement of James B. Lockhart
The Deputy Commissioner of Social Security
Testimony before the Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management,
Government Information, and International Security
March 9, 2006
Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:
Thank you for inviting me here today to discuss the efforts the Social Security Administration (SSA) is undertaking to strengthen and maintain the integrity of the Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (Social Security) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs, and to prevent, detect, and collect improper payments. This issue is crucially important to the Social Security Administration and is essential to insure public confidence in our programs. To that end, I will today describe the scope and magnitude of our Agency's activities.
Administration of Our Programs
SSA's programs promote the nation's economic security by administering America's major income support programs for the elderly, disabled, and their dependents and survivors through the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program, the Disability Insurance (DI) program, and the SSI program. These programs touch the lives of over 95 percent of the American public and improve the economic well being of the nation.
The combined Social Security programs provide a comprehensive package of protection against loss of earnings due to retirement, disability, and death. Cash benefits are financed through payroll taxes paid by workers, their employers, and self employed individuals. SSI, on the other hand, is a needs-based program funded by general revenues designed to provide assistance to disabled and aged individuals with limited income and resources.
In 2005, SSA paid over $520 billion to over 48 million individuals in Social Security benefits, and over $38 billion to over 7 million individuals in SSI payments. Our beneficiary rolls continue to grow. Over the 10-year period beginning October 1996 through the end of September 2005, the number of OASI beneficiaries has increased by 6 percent, DI beneficiaries by 37 percent, and SSI recipients by 10 percent.
As you can see, SSA pays out a large amount of money to a growing beneficiary population. We are proud of the work we do to maintain and improve our high level of payment accuracy. In FY 2004, our combined Social Security/SSI payment accuracy was 99.1 percent with respect to overpayments, and 99.7 percent with respect to underpayments. Even with this high level of performance, we believe we can do better. We are committed to improving our payment accuracy and reducing the volume and magnitude of improper payments we make.
SSA has a well-deserved reputation for providing sound, excellent financial management. We take our reputation, and the stewardship responsibility that comes with it, very seriously. We have made improving the financial integrity and management of all the programs we administer one of our top priorities.
SSA's Stewardship Responsibility
The Social Security Administration faces great challenges: giving the American people the service they expect and deserve, particularly as the number of beneficiaries increases each year with the aging of the baby boomers; improving program integrity through sound fiscal stewardship; ensuring the program's solvency for future generations and maintaining the high quality staff the Social Security Administration needs to meet these challenges. The Agency's strategic goals -- Service, Stewardship, Solvency and Staff -- directly address these challenges. To achieve these goals, we established nine strategic objectives.
One of our strategic objectives is to detect and "Prevent fraudulent and improper payments and improve debt management." To support this objective, we established individual performance measures aimed at preventing and detecting improper payments and collecting debt efficiently. This goal aligns directly with the President's Management Agenda (PMA) program initiative to eliminate improper payments. We work closely with OMB on this initiative.
We also work closely with our Inspector General to detect, prevent, and resolve improper payments. For example, the Cooperative Disability Investigations (CDI) program is a joint effort among Federal and state agencies to effectively pool resources to prevent fraud in SSA's Social Security and SSI disability programs and related Federal and state programs. SSA's Office of Operations, Office of Disability Programs, and the OIG manage the CDI Program. In the field, CDI Units are typically comprised of one OIG Special Agent, two Investigators on detail from state or local law enforcement agencies, and two experienced SSA and/or DDS employees.
The mission of the CDI program is to obtain evidence of material fact sufficient to resolve questions of fraud in SSA's Social Security and SSI disability programs. Last year CDI units saved $123 million related to overpayments caused by fraud.
Definition of Improper Payments
The Improper Payments Information Act of 2002 (IPIA) and OMB implementation guidance define programs whose estimated improper over and underpayments exceed 2.5 percent of program outlays and $10 million as susceptible to improper payments. SSI has been identified as such a program, and, while improper payments in our retirement, survivors, and disability, programs are well below that threshold, we are part of the "Eliminating Improper Payments" program initiative and are committed to eliminating improper payments in all our programs.
In measuring payment accuracy SSA considers as proper those payments it is required to make under statute or court order, even though some of those payments may later be determined to be overpayments. Both OMB and GAO have affirmed this to be a correct interpretation of IPIA. However, OMB and SSA have agreed that once it is known that these payments are determined to be overpayments and thereby subject to recovery, SSA initiates collection efforts immediately to increase the chances that they will be recaptured. All overpayments, whether improper payments or the result of a statute or court order, are pursued aggressively using all recovery tools available to SSA.
An example of this type of payment occurs when an individual is determined to no longer be disabled, but files an appeal of SSA's decision. Under section 223 (g) of the Social Security Act and pursuant to the 1970 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Goldberg v. Kelly, while the appeal is being adjudicated SSA is required to continue to pay disability benefits to the individual if requested to do so. This requirement was extended to SSI payments by the U.S. District Court order in Cardinale v. Matthews in August 1975. If the appeal decision upholds the Agency's determination, the individual is considered overpaid as of the date of the original decision. While this results in an overpayment that must be resolved, the payments issued are not considered improper since they were required. It is important to note that, while these payments are not defined as improper, SSA makes every effort to collect the resulting overpayment.
Management Plans Addressing Improper Payments
We have plans in place to reduce improper payments and are implementing them. Our Social Security improper payment rate is extremely low -- one-half of a percent with respect to overpayments and two-tenths of a percent with respect to underpayments in FY 2004. Despite these low percentages, we are committed to taking the steps needed to lower them further because in a program the size of Social Security, each one-half of a percent increase in payment accuracy equates to $2.6 billion of error prevented.
As of the first quarter in FY 2005, OMB implemented a President's Management Agenda program initiative on Eliminating Improper Payments. Prior to this time, activities in this area were highlighted in the Financial Performance PMA Initiative. We report to OMB every quarter on our accomplishments for the prior three months as well as actions we plan for the next quarter. OMB reviews the quarterly report, and rates the agency both on progress and status using a scorecard with the possible grades of green, yellow, and red. In its most recent scorecard report, OMB scored this initiative as a "green" in progress and a "yellow" in status. We are pleased with this score, but plan to implement additional improper payment safeguards to reach our goal of green in both status and progress.
GAO designated SSI as a high-risk program in 1997. Shortly after Commissioner Barnhart and I came to SSA, we released the SSI Corrective Action Plan in June 2002. This plan outlined a multi-faceted approach to improved stewardship through increased overpayment detection and prevention, improved debt collection, new measurement strategies, potential changes in SSI policies, and Agency accountability. GAO recognized SSA's progress in improving the management of the SSI program by removing it from the high-risk list in January 2003. In FY 2004, our error rates were 6.4 percent with respect to overpayments and 1.3 percent with respect to underpayments. We are pleased with our progress and continue to improve our management of the SSI program. The SSI Corrective Action Plan is updated monthly, and I meet with the SSA accountable executives each month.
As you can see from the attached charts ( PDF file), SSA has been able to keep its error rates at low levels over the last several years. For Social Security benefits, the error rate for both over and underpayments have been less than 1 percent in every year during this period. The SSI program is more error-prone. Over the same period the overpayment error rate ranged from a low of 5.3 percent in 2000 to a high of 6.7 percent in 2001. For the same period, the SSI underpayment error rate has been consistently below 2 percent. The combined rate for all programs, for both over and underpayments, has been under 1 percent each year. But we can and must do better, especially in the very complex SSI program.
Challenges in Eliminating Improper Payments
The complexity of the programs we administer presents unique challenges in our ability to control improper payments. The risk of improper payments increases in programs with a significant volume of transactions or complex criteria for computing payment. For example, application of provisions relating to the effect of workers' compensation payments on DI benefits varies based on differences in state laws. In addition, we are sometimes unable to get timely information on the amount and payment of workers' compensation from the beneficiaries and payers.
Another error-prone area involves substantial gainful activity (SGA), which is the determination as to whether a DI beneficiary's work activity indicates he/she is no longer eligible for benefits. One issue in this area is the accuracy and timeliness of work reports. Another is the complex nature of the determination, which involves consideration and development of work related income exclusions, subsidy, application of trial work period months, and extended periods of eligibility.
The rules for determining initial and continuing eligibility for SSI are even more complex. Our ability to get timely, accurate information to support payment determinations, especially where wages are concerned, sometimes adversely impacts our ability to effectuate accurate, timely benefits. While we continue to pursue data matches and other initiatives to get the information we need, we must still rely heavily on reports from recipients or their payees to get information timely.
Computing an SSI payment involves developing complex issues such as living arrangements, in-kind support and maintenance, cash income, and ownership and valuation of resources. Resource limits, which exclude a house and one car, are $2000 for individuals and $3000 for couples.
Some types of income are subject to specific exclusions. Others, such as some child support payments, do not count dollar for dollar. In addition, many individuals who are eligible for both Social Security and SSI are subject to a complex adjustment of their retroactive payment.
We build accuracy controls into every payment decision we make. Further, SSA has a number of very cost effective processes to prevent and detect improper payments. Prominent among these are continuing disability reviews (CDRs) for assuring ongoing entitlement to disability benefits, and redeterminations of eligibility for SSI recipients to assure that payments reflect any changes in circumstances that affect eligibility. The administrative cost of those types of workloads is more than offset by the savings that result -- by a factor of about eight program dollars saved for every one administrative dollar spent. We use sophisticated profiling techniques to select cases for those reviews and to maximize the resulting savings.
This year the Congress did not fully fund the President's administrative funding request and it is important to acknowledge that budget limitations will impact our ability to pursue as many of those cases as we know would be productive. In his FY '07 the President is asking for special funding and a discretionary cap adjustment to assure that the resources will be available to conduct CDRs.
What We Are Doing
SSA has made great strides in preventing improper payments by obtaining beneficiary information from independent sources sooner and by using technology more effectively. For example, SSA has data matches with a number of Federal and state agencies. These include matches with the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. With the states, we also have developed and are using Electronic Death Registration information to prevent improper payments after an individual's death.
We are in the process of developing automated capabilities that will further prevent, identify, and correct computation errors. For example, we recently entered into an agreement with the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) to access the database of new hires to detect work activity of DI beneficiaries. We have implemented a system known as eWork, which allows field office staff to record work reports and issue receipts for reported work, and allows managers to track and prioritize our nonmedical CDR workload. We are improving the accuracy of earnings records by encouraging employers to file wage reports electronically. Last year, 66 percent of W-2s were filed electronically, up from less than 10 percent in 1999.
One of our most effective tools to prevent DI overpayments is the Pre-Effectuation Review (PER) of samples of favorable DI awards. During FY 2004, we reviewed over 330,000 cases. An estimated $13 was saved for every $1 spent on these reviews.
We are also involved in initiatives specific to controlling SSI improper payments. For example, we are testing an automated telephone process for SSI recipients and their payees to report monthly wages. We are also conducting a test in Kansas City that utilizes a centralized unit to process mailed-in wage reports. During the interview process we use online queries during interviews to access the OCSE online wage and new hire files to help avoid and detect SSI wage overpayments. In addition, we are exploring the usefulness of matching all recipients against the new hires file to learn quickly about unreported work.
To address improper payments caused by unreported financial accounts held by SSI beneficiaries, we initiated a study in our New York region to gather information electronically about account balances directly from financial institutions and ascertain the characteristics of cases that are likely to have unreported resources. We plan to expand this successful pilot.
The redetermination process is one of our most powerful tools for preventing and detecting SSI overpayments. In this process, we review cases to ensure that nondisability factors of eligibility continue to be met and payment amounts are correct. In FY 2004, this process enabled SSA to collect or prevent $2.4 billion in overpayments and $1.3 billion in underpayments.
To support our strategic objective to "Prevent fraudulent and improper payments and improve debt management", SSA established performance goals for processing redeterminations, processing CDRs and for the percentage of outstanding debt in a collection arrangement. I am pleased to report that, in FY 2005, we met each of these goals. We also have very aggressive goals to maintain our Social Security improper payments at 0.4 percent and reduce SSI improper payments to 5.2 percent by 2008.
In addition to our efforts to prevent and detect improper payments, SSA also has a comprehensive debt collection program. We use both internal and authorized external collection tools to collect what we are owed. Internal methods include benefit withholding for persons who are on our rolls, and our own billing and follow-up system to collect overpayments from individuals who are no longer receiving benefits. Other authorized external debt collection methods include:
- Tax Refund Offset (as authorized under IRC section 6402(d));
- Administrative Offset (collection of a delinquent debt from a Federal payment other than a tax refund);
- Mandatory Cross-Program Recovery;
- Credit Bureau Reporting; and
- Administrative Wage Garnishment (AWG).
We plan to expand the use of the AWG program, and are working towards implementing programs involving federal salary offset, non-entitled debtors, interest charging, and private collection agencies.
SSA continuously develops legislative proposals to improve administration of our programs and to support the President's annual budget. The Social Security Protection Act of 2004 (SSPA) contained several provisions that simplify administration of the SSI program. These include changing the way we calculate certain income exclusions, making uniform the time period for excluding from countable resources certain payments, and simplifying how we count one-time receipt of income.
SSPA also expanded our ability to use cross-program recovery to collect overpayments. We can now recover overpayments paid under one program from benefits payable under another. We can also withhold up to 100 percent of any underpayment and 10 percent of ongoing monthly income to recover an overpayment
On February 8, 2006, the President signed S. 1932, the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. It requires the Commissioner of Social Security to conduct reviews of a specific percentage of SSI initial disability and blindness cases of individuals aged 18 and older that are allowed by state disability determination service agencies (DDS). The provision will be phased in beginning in April of this year. In fiscal year 2007, the review requirement is 40 percent. And, for fiscal years 2008 and thereafter, 50 percent of all DDS allowances will be reviewed. We project these pre-effectuation reviews will save approximately $490 million over 10 years. By the tenth year, these reviews will have identified and prevented improper payments in an estimated 25,000 incorrect SSI disability and blindness determinations. As I said earlier, we already conduct PER reviews on DI cases and have found them to be an extremely effective improper payment prevention tool.
The President's FY 2007 budget request includes a proposal that would simplify the administration of our workers' compensation offset provisions. Enactment of this proposal would establish a uniform amount of reduction and would limit the duration of the offset imposed to five years.
The budget request also includes a proposal that would improve the administration of provisions that reduce the Social Security benefits of beneficiaries who receive government pensions from work not covered by Social Security. The proposal would establish a mandatory electronic system for collecting data on pension income from non-covered state and local employment. This proposal and the workers' compensation proposal will prevent $2.8 billion in improper payments over the next 10 years.
As mentioned in the 2007 budget and as part of our SSI Corrective Action Plan, SSA is working on a plan to restructure and simplify the SSI program, including the complicated in-kind support and maintenance rules I mentioned earlier. Our challenge is to do this in a fair and equitable manner while being budget neutral regarding program costs.
This budget also helps SSA to fulfill its fiscal stewardship responsibility by providing funding to conduct CDRs, which ensure proper benefit payments. Funding for CDRs is included in the $9.5 billion budget for SSA's Limitation on Administrative Expenses (LAE) account. As I mentioned before, the FY 2007 President's budget proposes to finance the increase in SSA's CDR funding through a discretionary cap adjustment of $201 million. We estimate we will save $2 billion in program costs through this additional funding.
SSA is committed to ensuring that the public receives the benefits they are due and assuring taxpayers that Trust Fund money and general revenue funds are accurately and efficiently paid. We are responsible for nearly $560 billion in benefit payments annually, and we take our stewardship responsibility very seriously. Every year, we target initiatives that will have the most potential to improve the integrity of the Agency's programs by improving debt prevention, detection, and collection.
We will continue to work with Congress, OMB, and other stakeholders to achieve the PMA goal of eliminating improper payments. I appreciate the opportunity to discuss our efforts, and I would be happy to answer any questions you may have.


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Maybe consider making port-adapters to fit other housings for CFWA??
This is a different lens design, not a full hemisphere as is required for full frame fish eye lenses, and there aren't many lenses for conventional dslr that would image well with this dome. It does work extremely well with m4/3, and I expect will work well with other 4/3 and E- mount lenses.


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White Ship
- "In the twilight of autumn it sailed out of Mithlond, until the seas of the Bent World fell away beneath it…"
- ― The Silmarillion,Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age.
The White Ship was the ship that sailed from the Grey Havens into the Uttermost West, carrying the Ring-bearers to Aman. Its departure marked the end of the Third Age.Along with Frodo the Ring-bearer and Bilbo the Ring-finder the ship also carried Elrond, and Galadriel, and Gandalf the White, who had been the Keepers of the Three Rings. They were accompanied to the Grey Havens by Gildor Inglorion and many other Elves besides, but whether any of these others went aboard the ship with them is not told. It does seem, though, that Gandalf's horse Shadowfax did make the journey for we see him waiting at the quayside in The Lord of the Rings, and in one of his Letters, Tolkien says that he sailed away with Gandalf.The White Ship was one of the last ships to have set sail from the Grey Havens.


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The big story in the market right now is the incredible outbreak of bullishness.
It's not just an attitude towards stocks, but a general view that a corner has been turned in terms of the economy and the long-lasting economic crisis.
Earlier today we brought you a sentence form SocGen's Kit Juckes that explains a lot about why nobody's bearish:
The reality is that we are short of things to worry about and long of liquidity which tends to weaken the resolve of any bear.
We're seeing this all over the place.
-- David Tepper said you have to be long stocks, because he just can't think of anything to be worried about.
-- A new Bloomberg investor poll showed a huge breakout in bullishness.
-- A SocGen economist talked about how America's "watershed" moment was near.
-- Mohamed El-Erian hinted that the "New Normal" might be over, and that it might be a return to the "old normal."
-- A BofA poll found that professional fund managers were getting bullish in record levels.
The economy is still weak. Unemployment is too high and growth is meh.
But with the GOP caving on the debt ceiling, Europe reducing its tail risk, and China growing, people are just having a really hard time being anything other than bullish.


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By Molly Johnson, sports information student assistant
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College volleyball team's Rachel Rice (Johns Creek, Ga.) earned the honor of being named to the 2013 Pepsi Bash At The Beach All-Tournament Team for her performance Nov. 11-12.
The All-Tournament Team consisted of players that were voted in by the coaches of each team. Rice was accompanied by Caleen Hawkins from Claflin University, Kristin Koch from GRU-Augusta, Kristen Arvidson from Stonehill College, and both Christina Alessi and Melissa Buckingham from Palm Beach Atlantic University.
Rice had an outstanding tournament playing in all 11 sets throughout the weekend. She recorded a total of 41 kills and a hitting percentage of .310. In the Bobcats' match against Stonehill, Rice logged 22 of her total kills, averaging 3.73 kills per set. Rice tallied 25 digs for the weekend as well, averaging 2.27 digs per set.
The Bobcats won their first match against Claflin 3-0, then fell to Palm Beach Atlantic 3-0 and Stonehill 3-2.
The Bobcats' next match will be a home bout in the Centennial Center against Francis Marion University (17-5, 9-4 PBC), Nov. 8 at 7 p.m.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 11 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at @GCBobcats on Twitter and Facebook for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Short swim in the gulf
by, February 7th, 2014 at 09:14 PM (1368 Views)
I had a very blissy swim in the gulf today. Yesterdays steady rain was gone, and the day was brilliantly sunny. By noon, the overnight freezing temps had warmed up to the low 50s, and water temps were in the mid-50s. A strong north wind tamped down the waves, leaving just ripples on the surface. The tide was high, making the water deep enough to swim on the near side of the first sandbar. I ended up swimming back and forth along a 300m stretch of beach, staying in for about 30 minutes. The water was very clear, but there wasnt much to seeI encountered one jellyfish, white with pale yellow tentacles, that was floating about 3 feet under the surface, and a small white fish that swam by underneath me.
It was very peaceful out in the water. I did some backstroke, ducking my head entirely under the water to see the ripples on the surface, then turning back over for some freestyle, where I watched the rippled sand beneath me. Swimming along was as easy as in a pool, with no current or waves to speak of. It was a lot different from a couple of days ago, when I got in just to play in the surf, and let the waves rock me around as I floated on the surface.


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Calling all craftbots, costumatics, and cosplayiticians!
Timmy's ready to refresh his Comic-Con wardrobe in time for San Diego in late July, so we're looking to recruit creative stitchers, knitters, and hookers (of the crochet sort, thank you) for Timmy's Volunteer Costuming Corps.
We started this project last summer and we cannot adequately thank the volunteers that made our current collection possible. No, really, it was the best thing ever getting them in the mail last summer, and they've served us very, very well all year. Timmy is definitely the best-dressed monkey on the internet, and yes, internet, we did just go there.
Think you've got the time and skillz to add to Timmy's trunk? Check out our costume wishlist below, peruse his existing collection on Flickr, and sign up below to volunteer!
We would covet these costumes:
- Fourth Doctor (scarf!), 10th Doctor, or fez (for existing 11th Doctor costume)
- Stormtrooper, Vader, Tusken Raider, Boba Fett, Lando, R2, Chewie, or Jawa (we have a Yoda and Jedi)
- Mal (we have two Kaylees already)
- Wheatley or Turret (we have a Chell jumpsuit, Portal gun, companion cube, and cake already)
- Moogle or Cactuar
- Mario, Luigi, Shy Guy, Princess Peach, or Bowser
- The Stig
- Matter Eater Lad, Captain Marvel, Green Lantern, Flash
- Link (with shield, sword, ocarina)
- Harry Potter
- Sheldon (with soft kitty?)
- Thor
- Nibbler (antimatter poop NOT optional; already have Zapp)
- Black Knight (with removable arms)
- Sonic or Tails
- Samurai, Ninja, or Pirate (yes, we have a zombie)
- Moss (from IT Crowd, in case that's not clear)
- Indiana Jones (with bullwhip)
- Yuri Gagarin
- Wil Wheaton (clown sweater? can this be done!?)
- Gandalf or Gollum (we have a Frodo)
- Trogdor or Strongbad
- Tintin
- Stillsuit
- Marty McFly (with hoverboard!)
- Big Daddy
- Mega Man
- Buster (we have an Adam, Jamie, and segway; open to Kari, Grant, and Tori as well)
Of course, we welcome your ideas and suggestions, but some of the above just should happen--like Vader. We need a Darth Timmy.
If you sign up below, we'll be in touch via email to confirm your costume pick to ensure maximum cosplay efficiency (so 10 people aren't working on the same costume at the same time). And we only have a few Timmy clones on hand this year to share for sizing purposes, but we will ship those out to those who might need them most; measurements are below for everyone else.
"Wait!" you cry. "I need more detailed information on this monkey costume project!" Can one ever really know enough about monkey costumes? We think not, but we'll try.
What are Timmy's measurements?
Height: 8"; Chest (all the way around): 9"; Neck (all the way around): 8"; Arm (shoulder to end of hand): 3.5"; Shoulder to wrist: 2"; Tips of fingers to fingers across shoulders: 10"; Inseam: 2"; Outseam (hip to bottom of foot): 3.5"; Head (where a hat would fit): 8"; Height (tip of head to bottom of foot): 7.5"; Tail length: 5"; Width of face across nose: 2"; Width of feet (so you can get pants on over them): 1.75"; Neck to hip (for shirts): 3". Pretty sure that's every conceivable measurement, but let us know if we missed one you need!
What's my deadline?
Timmy will depart Fairfax, Virginia on July 20, and he'll need a few days to get his affairs in order. Thus the deadline for your costume to arrive at ThinkGeek HQ is July 15th.
Where do I ship my marvellous creation?
Please address your costume to: Timmy's Volunteer Costuming Corps ThinkGeek, 11216 Waples Mill Road, Suite 100, Fairfax, VA 22030
Can I work on one this year if I made one last year?
OF COURSE. This is not a contest; our love (and Timmy's warddrobe) is infinite.
Where will Timmy wear my work?
Timmy will bring his favorites to SDCC this July (and they're going in a carry on this year to make sure they arrive!), and we'll put them on display in our conference room. (That's the clone army pictured above.) We'll use them throughout the year for various events, and of course they'll be on display on Flickr forever and ever, with credit, so that others may bask in their warm, geeky glow.
So that should be it. If you have questions or feel like we didn't outline this project sufficiently, please comment below and we'll update with the necessary information.
Can't wait to see what you guys come up with this year! We'll try to control ourselves, but the mailman will be most displeased with our squees.


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A HP TX1000 Series laptop PC is unresponsive to the power-on event. What was a previously working machine, the LCD display panel suddenly switched off while the machine was in normal operation.
When the machine is switched on now, the machine displays these behaviors:
- all LEDs glowing as usual
- CPU exhaust fan works
- DVD activity LED works. DVD eject works.
- LCD panel DOES NOT work.
- NO HDD rotation sound.
- Power switch works (switch on and off).
- no activity on the external display.
- the Nvidia GPU produces heat.
Upon opening the machine, there are no indications of burns.
Question: any hints on the cause of this problem, or any steps to remedy this?