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These regulations establish minimum standards for health, safety, accessibility, energy, fire and structural protection of buildings in British Columbia, as well as water efficiency, fire protection of buildings and facilities, and protection of buildings and facilities from water and sewer damage. The new 2012 Codes will become effective on December 20, 2012.
Complete building permit applications submitted to the City will be accepted under the existing code until the day before.
The Association of Professional Engineer and Geoscientists, the Building and Safety Standards Branch, the Architectural Institute of British Columbia, the Building Officials Association of BC (BOABC) and the Plumbing Officials Association of BC are collaborating to provide a series of province-wide seminars covering the changes brought into effect by the new codes. More information on the seminars, dates and venues, as well as registration forms, can be found on the BOABC website.www.boabc.org
Copies of the new codes are available from the Building and Safety Standards, Office of Housing and Construction, Ministry of Energy and Mines.
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On November 13, 2012, the City of Port Coquitlam adopted amendments to the Building and Plumbing Bylaw and the Zoning Bylaw for the provision of adaptable housing.
- The Building and Plumbing Bylaw requires 30% of the total number of dwelling units in new apartment buildings with 10 or more units, an elevator and common corridors to be built as adaptable units. This requirement only applies to single-storey units.
- Development permit applications received after November 13, 2012 must provide for adaptable units.
- If a Building Permit or a Development Permit application in process as of November 13th expires, then the renewed application will be required to provide adaptable units.
- To compensate for the larger floor area requirements of an adaptable unit, 2 m2 (21.5 sq.ft.) of floor area may be excluded from the floor area of an adaptable housing unit in the calculation of the floor area ratio.
- The location of adaptable units within the building will be the decision of the developer.
What is Adaptable Housing?
Adaptable housing generally refers to housing that provides flexibility in homes that helps occupants who, through illness, injury, and aging, experience permanent or temporary mobility limitations. Adaptable features are subtly incorporated into the overall design of a unit so that differences between an adaptable unit and one with a conventional design are not overly apparent. The required features are outlined in the BC Building Code.
Adaptable features specified by the BC Building Code include:
- Level entryways to units
- Corridors and doorways meeting minimum width specifications
- One bathroom with sufficient space to allow for assisted turning movements
- A continuous surface between the kitchen sink and stove
- Reinforcements in bathroom walls to support future installation of grab bars
- Raised electrical outlets and lowered switches
- Installation of lever style door and faucet handles
- Clear path of travel from building entry to unit entry
- Common corridor width not less than 1220mm (4 ft.)
- Clear area not less than 1500mm x 1500mm (5 x 5 ft.) adjacent to elevator entrance
Requiring adaptable housing is one way of responding to the City's need for housing diversity. Adaptable units facilitate conversion of a unit to a higher level of accessibility at a relatively low cost, should an occupant's mobility needs change.
Adaptable Housing or Accessible Housing?
The BC Building Code sets separate standards for adaptable and accessible housing.
Adaptable housing regulations are intended to meet the needs of residents who may experience impaired mobility and significantly reduce future costs to accommodate their needs such as in installation of grab bars. The primary visual indication of an adaptable unit is the lower placement of light switches and higher placement of plug-ins.
Accessible housing regulations are intended to meet the needs of residents who have a significantly impaired mobility, such as using a wheelchair. An accessible unit is noticeably different due to its modified kitchen design and specialized bathroom components.
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Not only was a sell-out crowd treated to a great night of country music, but a generous bid for an autographed guitar will help fund music education for students.
John Michael Montgomery kicked off his two night Scottsbluff run last night at the Midwest Theater.
Towards the end of the show, the country star announced that he will be signing a new Cort guitar donated by Steve Thrasher of Thrasher music. To up the ante, auctioneers Helberg & Nuss then started the crowd in a bidding award for the signed piece of memorabilia.
After a heated round of bids, local attorney Stacy Petitt won the guitar with a generous bid of $2,800.
The money will be used to continue to fund student performing arts education programming.
A second guitar will be auctioned off at Friday night's concert, and that money will also go to the student funding.


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Sunday's match with Chivas USA will not be Hartman's last
Julian de Guzman and Blas Perez will represent their counties next week in their upcoming World Cup qualifier matches.
FC Dallas head coach was fined today for comments he made following the 3-3 draw with San Jose.
FC Dallas has a big match against the league's worst offense on Saturday.
FC Dallas heads west for a must-win game against the San Jose Earthquakes, find out what it will take to beat the league's best club.
Seattle fans get to vote on their GM every four years. How would that look for FC Dallas?
FCD Reserves Drop SKC behind Leyva's double only further displaying the maddening aspect of the 20-year-old's up and down skill set
FCD needs help to reach the playoffs but they also control their own destiny as well.
San Jose pads their lead in the West, Vancouver struggles, and Chicago might win the East. Predictions nobody wrote to start the season.
I calculated strength of schedule (weighing home field advantage) for the entirety of the remaining MLS schedule. Unfortunately, it turns out that FC Dallas has one of the tougher slates in the league. Meanwhile Vancouver, who they have to draw even with, has the easiest schedule. FCD has to be commended for making this a race, but they'll have to overcome a decidedly uphill climb to finish the job. (click the title of this post to be taken to the full article at The Shin Guardian)
Brek Shea falls to number 3 on the MLS 24 Under 24 list after topping it in 2011.
Julian de Guzman's late goal for FC Dallas gives them the boost they need going into the final four games of the season.
A few thoughts going into the weekend for FC Dallas as Blas Perez is back and the schedule begins to lighten up.
A few thought surrounding Fabian Castillo, David Ferreira and Brek Shea as FC Dallas gears up for a game in Salt Lake this weekend.
Matchday 26: FC Dallas at Vancouver Whitecaps - Notes, Keys, referee and prediction - 3 hours to kickoff!
With the injuries to Blas Perez and Scott Sealy, home grown striker Ruben Luna got an unexpected first start of the season last night against the FC Dallas' 3-2 over the Colorado Rapids.
Coverage from around MLS, and a bit on the incredible olympic comeback of the USWNT.
Around MLS: Week 21, News from around MLS.
FC Dallas drops a tough one as Mike Magee and the LA Galaxy leave Frisco with a 1-0 win.
Behind Enemy Lines returns as we preview the David Beckham and the LA Galaxy.
Schellas Hyndman discusses the issues that are causing Brek Shea to not be the kid that was a MLS MVP finalist a season ago.
FC Dallas dominates Portland 5-0 with goals from all over. David Ferreira had two assists on the night and Jackson ended up with a goal and two assists.
Some positive were found in the disappointing loss to the San Jose Earthquakes last night for FC Dallas. Schellas Hyndman shoulders most of the blame in the loss due to his choses late in the game.
Julian de Guzman is reportedly being traded to FC Dallas. What will Toronto FC get in return? Find out more here.
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Andy Kohut Replaces Dave Wojcik as Tulsa Assistant Coach
May 21, 2009
Tulsa, Oklahoma - University of Tulsa Head Basketball Coach Doug Wojcik announced today the promotion of Andy Kohut to assistant basketball coach for the Golden Hurricane. Kohut replaces Dave Wojcik, who is expected to take an assistant coaching position at Wake Forest University.
Kohut has served as Tulsa's Director of Basketball Operations for the past four seasons, where he has implemented and coordinated the XOS Coaching, Recruiting and Scouting Technology for the Golden Hurricane basketball program.
The younger Wojcik has spent the past four years with the Golden Hurricane and was appointed as an associate head coach prior to last season.
"We thought we weathered the storm of losing Dave, but another offer came along that he just couldn't refuse for himself, professionally, and for his family, financially. He has an opportunity to be an ACC assistant coach, which certainly helped promote my career when I was at the University of North Carolina," said Wojcik. "We're losing a very good and experienced coach. I'm losing a security blanket and on top of that I feel bad for our two children because their cousin is moving away."
Before coming to Tulsa, Kohut was on the basketball staffs at Purdue and Michigan State while completing his undergraduate and graduate degree programs. He served as a team manager at Purdue under legendary Gene Keady while pursuing his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering.
"In the spirit of coaching and developing young coaches, and being true to what I've told these guys, I know that we're doing the right thing from promoting within," said Wojcik. "Andy will do a great job, just like he has since he's been here. He was the second guy I hired behind my brother.
"Andy has put together our entire video system and has worked countless hours. He has learned a great deal over the last four years while being a vital part of 81 wins and three straight 20-win seasons," added Wojcik. "We now have David Cason as associate head coach and two good young coaches in Jeremy Ballard and Andy Kohut."
At Purdue, Kohut was involved in video breakdown of the opposition, statistical work and assisted in drafting scouting reports and practice coordination. Following graduation, Kohut spent two years as a graduate manager at Michigan State under Tom Izzo. His responsibilities there included opponent scouting and digital video editing.
Kohut earned his bachelor's degree from Purdue in 2003, and his master's degree in sports administration from MSU in 2005.
"Andy's background is phenomenal. He learned a lot from Gene Keady at Purdue. Then he came to Michigan State and helped us get to the Final Four in the spring of 2005. He's been able to grasp a lot of information in terms of how teams play, zone offenses, zone defenses and things like that," said Wojcik. "I see this as a smooth transition. We'll put a little more emphasis on Associate Head Coach David Cason and lean a little more on Jeremy Ballard as well."
Wojcik also announced the appointment of Joe Wallace as the Director of Basketball Operations.
Wallace has spent the past three years as a graduate manager, serving as director of player development and handling team travel. He came to Tulsa after spending four years as an assistant basketball coach at Bishop Donahue High School in West Virginia.
"Joe is a guy who has done what you have to do to get into the college basketball coaching profession. He's paid his dues. Basically, he has volunteered for us the last three years and has handled our team travel and done everything that has been asked of him," said Wojcik.
"I feel good about our program being in a position to graduate players, hopefully develop life skills and move them on to the next phase of life whether it's as a player or in the job market. It's the same thing with coaches. I don't think many guys get chances around the country, and one thing I'd like to do here is to be able to promote and develop young coaches and that's what we're doing," Wojcik added.
Wojcik likes the stability that the Tulsa basketball program has been able to develop during his four seasons as the Golden Hurricane head coach.
"I think part of our success has been our stability. We've had wonderful stability. Dave leaving is good for all of us. He's going into the ACC, and I think it gives young coaches hope that they can move in the profession and it shows that we can move someone in the profession. I'm never one to hold anyone back, because I wasn't held back," said Wojcik. "As a program I think it speaks volumes about the University and what we've done over the last four years to get that type of promotion from Conference USA to the ACC. I feel great that we can elevate Andy and Joe within our program and feel good about where we're going."
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Since the spring of 2011, David Reeves of Lansing, Kansas, has been been employing Midwest Finesse tactics at Table Rock Lake, Missouri. In April of 2013, he spent some time creating a YouTube video, featuring how, when and where he fishes with a Z-Man's Fishing Products' 2 1/2-inch ZinkerZ that is affixed to his homemade mushroom-style jig.
His tactics will work on other Ozark reservoirs, too.
Here's the link to his video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc-vHuo3QA4 .
For more information about Reeves' Midwest finesse endeavors at Table Rock Lake, see this blog: http://www.in-fisherman.com/2012/05/10/midwest-finesse-goes-to-table-rock-lake-according-to-david-reeves/.


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One week slip of Fedora 11 Release Jesse Keating Tue May 19 15:00:48 2009
In a meeting today between Release Engineering, QA, and various team leads, we decided to enact a 7 day slip of the Fedora 11 release date. The primary reason behind this slip is the state of our blocker bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/showdependencytree.cgi?id=F11Blocker&hide_resolved=1 We cannot begin Release Candidate phase until the blocker bugs are closed or at least in MODIFIED state. We are not there today, which would be our last day to enter RC phase and still have enough time to release on the 26th. We hope to enter RC phase in the next couple days, and hit our new target, June 2nd. Freeze breaks for critical bugs will still be accepted, however trivial bug fixes should be pushed as updates via bodhi. Thanks! -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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The @SeattleTimes publishes the shirtless photo of the FBI agent: bit.ly/W9T6mW http://t.co/K9icAnfh—
Daily Intel (@DailyIntel) November 15, 2012
As Twitchy reported, the Petraeus/Broadwell love polygon took yet another tawdry turn when it was revealed that the FBI agent leading the investigation had sent shirtless pictures of himself to Jill Kelley, who had also received harassing emails from Paula Broadwell. The country's curiosity was piqued, as is often the case when it comes to matters of shirtlessness.
Well, today, the long national wait is over; the shirtless photo has been revealed:
So, was it everything you'd hoped for? These folks didn't think so:
This was the what the fuss was about? o.O RT @JAllmendinger1 @moorehn here's the shirtless FBI agent is.gd/iWYeAn—
Ella Drake (@Lori_Ella) November 15, 2012
Nippleless RT @BuzzFeedAndrew Via the Seattle Times, here is the "shirtless photo" that the FBI agent sent Jill Kelley. http://t.co/HKRVpD5p—
Eli Valley (@elivalley) November 15, 2012
#missingnipplegate MT @BuzzFeedAndrew Here is the "shirtless photo" that the FBI agent sent Jill Kelley. http://t.co/fWpCqjWS—
chihiro (@lovingremixed) November 15, 2012
omg does the FBI remove people's nipples?! RT @sllambe: FBI Agent's shirtless photo surfaces. buzzfeed.com/stacylambe/pho…—
Matt Bellassai (@MattBellassai) November 15, 2012
ahhh the "shirtless fbi guy" picture is such a non-salacious letdown—
siobhan k (@sibbsy) November 15, 2012
Too weird for words MT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Here is "shirtless photo" that the FBI agent sent Jill Kelley. bit.ly/UGOSYy h/t @gastropoda—
Ellen Comisar (@elesscom) November 15, 2012
Terrible pic. RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Via the Seattle Times: the "shirtless photo" that the FBI agent sent Jill Kelley. http://t.co/E7Dp8tbY—
Kiah Lau Haslett (@khaslett) November 15, 2012
Eww. Just eww. @BuzzFeedAndrew Via the Seattle Times, here is the "shirtless photo" that FBI agent sent Jill Kelley. http://t.co/ITGPPotz—
LeishaC (@Leishac) November 15, 2012
Just sorta creepy RT @buzzfeed: O_O..the Seattle Times posted the "shirtless photo" that the FBI agent sent Jill Kelley http://t.co/l5be565k—
Lawscribe (@lawscribe) November 15, 2012
+1 MT @Neda_Semnani: Are there awards for worst shirtless pictures ever? I nominate 3. Weiner 2. Chris Lee and 1. FBI guy—
Kate Ackley Zeller (@kackleyZ) November 15, 2012
Which one is he? MT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Via the Seattle Times, here is the "shirtless FBI guy", shirtless is.gd/FCTdiH—
Not Scary Charles (@Ugarles) November 15, 2012
Had to look but regret doing so. RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Via the Seattle Times,"shirtless photo"FBI agent sent Jill Kelley. http://t.co/F63QGOsP—
Lisa Manna (@LisaManna) November 15, 2012
the shirtless FBI agent photo is proof that entire Patraeus scandal is God trolling us in prep. for world's end when does the rapture start—
hare checklist (@harechecklist) November 15, 2012
Can't unsee RT @jess_mc weirder than expected. RT @DailyIntel
@SeattleTimes publishes the shirtless photo of FBI agent: bit.ly/W9T6mW—
Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) November 15, 2012
Dear Shirtless FBI Agent: We thank you for your submission, but we have no plans for a 'Men of the FBI' calendar.
jgerber (@sailorboyj) November 15, 2012
Evidently, the agent, Fred Humphries, also emailed the photo to a Seattle Times reporter in 2010:
The Seattle Times was able to obtain shirtless FBI photo because agent emailed it to one of their reporters – bit.ly/UIYbBR—
Matthew Keys (@TheMatthewKeys) November 15, 2012
The picture, which was sent to a reporter at The Seattle Times in 2010, was taken following a "hard workout" with the SWAT team at MacDill Air Force Base. He's posed between a pair of target dummies that have a remarkable likeness to the buff agent. The caption on the photo, which was sent from a personal email account, reads, "Which One's Fred?"
Oy. Nice going, shirtless FBI guy.


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A day of radiance and sunlight. You feel that the key that unlocks the meaning of life is within your grasp. Gemini is the star sign of the twins. Today seek to synthesize various polarities (symbolized by the sun and the moon, male and female, spirit and soul), within your own being.
The Week of April 1st - 7th
This week rapturous Venus (the planet of Love) will rendezvous with forceful Mars (the planet of War). Challenge, chase, and conquest are their courtship, their cri de coeur "All's fair in love and war."
No delicate pastel-hued week for us, spring's fancy turns to fire. The stars predict a pandemic of red-hot spring fever; the symptoms: scorching sexuality, passionate desire, a hunger for undying love. There is no cure for this fever—it needs to run its course.
The planetary provocateurs celebrate and detonate pyrotechnics when Venus and Mars are joined by the Sun, their fireworks fulminating the Fahrenheit. We revel in this, dancing with a fiery abandon and falling in love, hard and fast. Their brilliant fire incites us to dare, to dream, to love.
Misunderstood, this is the bonfire of the vainglorious; where arrogance, vanity, and selfishness smolder. But for those willing to summon the strength, take risks, and undertake a deeper knowledge of love, be prepared to witness a revelation: the golden radiance of the pure heart.


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Felipe Massa: I considered quitting F1 during 2012 Ferrari slump
Ferrari's Felipe Massa considered ending his Formula 1 career in the midst of his struggles last season.
The Brazilian was off the pace of team-mate Fernando Alonso in the first half of the year but ended strongly, even outpacing the Spaniard occasionally.
Asked if he considered stopping, Massa said: "Yeah. I thought about so many things. I thought maybe I was finished. I thought about not staying in Ferrari.
"I did not know what would happen. So many things were inside my brain."
At mid-season, Ferrari were planning to drop Massa after seven years with the team but his revival in the second half of the championship convinced them to give him another year's contract.
Massa, who was talking in an exclusive BBC Sport interview, admitted he had worked with a sports psychologist as he sought to work out what was going wrong.
"I talked to everyone," said Massa, who narrowly lost out to Lewis Hamilton in a battle for the world title in 2008. "But I also did work with a professional psychologist, sporting psychologist.
"That was just the beginning. After that I was able to change the direction to think, the direction to work and I think it was like training I did. But also I think my family helps, definitely 100%."
He added: "The result is the most important thing. If you are able to show things change very quickly in F1, people who are sure you are finished they say different things after.
"Many people said I was just using fuel at the beginning of the year and then after they want me to stay in Ferrari because it was the best option. It is important to work to get the good result. If you have that nothing else is important."
The 31-year-old said he was confident he could retain his good form for the start of the 2013 season.
"I am very confident I can be in good shape," he said, "which I was [at the end of last year] even if it was not winning the race. But we did not have the car.
Massa said that Alonso was the best driver he had ever raced against – including Michael Schumacher, who was his team-mate at Ferrari in 2006.
"I think I had more difficult times with Fernando, so I would say Fernando was the strongest team-mate for me," Massa said. "You can even see in the numbers [statistics].
"But you learn with everybody. I learn a lot with Michael, with Kimi [Raikkonen in 2007-9] and Fernando."
Asked to confirm that he meant Alonso was the toughest ahead of Schumacher, he said: "Yeah."
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Mr. Darryl States
Jul 09, 2013
About spying, As an American, I'm sorry that we have spied on you. I'm sorry that we do not have a competent
management in our NSA and they operate in secret and
in direct violation of our constitution. Please do
your best to discover all that America is doing in this area and bring it out into the light. Thanks, Darryl
Mr. Darryl States
Aug 06, 2013
Thanks for looking into what the NSA is doing. Perhaps
you can get more information about the NSA than the
American people are getting. I do not favor the government holding secrets from the same people they are to govern.
I support you.
Ms. SR Schreiber States
Aug 30, 2013
Dear Chancellor Please stop persecuting families Who home school. Give back the 4 children that were taken by authorities in Darmstadt. Get rid of the 1937 nazi era education laws. Can there not be a compromise between the state and parents. Let them home school and then be tested.
Ms. Gina Ugo States
Oct 25, 2013
I am an American citizen. I am not alone in telling you how sorry we, the American people are, about the terrible man in the white house. He has neglected the constitution on the most serious levels and I hope you won't think poorly of us, regular American citizens. Again, we are helpless to make things better until our elections. Please don't hold the regular Americans in the same light as the president. Thank you.
Ms. Thelma Heywood States
Oct 29, 2013
To Esteemed Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel: I am full-blooded German-American. I am sorry my family came here and I hope one day my daughter and I can visit your wonderful country. Please know that all of us in the United States do not approve of the direction our federal government has taken. My daughter and I admire you (she is a uniquely qualified educator.) We both work closely with science. To spy on my fatherland embarrasses us and I hang my head! This is not the United States in which I grew up. May God give you many blessings and may you remember that not all of us believe in what our federal government has done. We lack the leaders of yesteryear, especially George W. Bush but also others who would spy on this Nation's friends.
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If nothing else, getting achievements means I am doing something sort of productive in wow. Not majorly productive – like gearing, or getting a something really rare; but I am getting somewhere.
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Dark Heart of Pandaria Heroic scenario
I've only done a handful of heroic scenarios and the Dark Heart was pretty tough all told. I joined the team and found that it needed all my concentration to keep alive and swinging. Yes, heroic scenarios are actually challenging. That is good. Bring them on.
WoW patch 5.4 looks good thus far
There is a stack of new material to read for patch 5.4, and what I'm reading at the moment makes me think that it will be a good patch. Why? Because a lot of the material is further along that what we saw with the early v5 patches, which means I think I am getting a better view of things to come.
Linkage of interest (spoilers and opinions follow):
- wowhead's build highlights
- wowheads's Tier Armor preview
- and current patch notes (yup, wowhead guys really do great summaries)
My highlights so far are:
- There are new temporary titles for the people completing the realm best challenge modes, and the character only has the title while they hold the record. To keep the title you need to keep the record. That is so darn cool! i.e. "Darkmaster" for Scholomance. What warlock does not want the title Darkmaster?
- DK have a change to Blood spec where Dancing Rune Weapon does not cost runic power anymore. Cool! I'm going to macro that puppy in now and use it all the time.
- Interesting that Fel Armor for Warlocks, Shadow for priests, and Moonkin form for Druids no longer reduces damage taken, from 15% to 0%. The Hunter talent was reduced from 15% to 10%. Why the difference? Do Hunters still need protection from standing in bad and raid damage, but the casters are meant to know better?
- Pvp Season 14 Armor for Warlocks is awesome looking. I want a t16 Warlock now.
- Pve T16 for Mages is very beautiful. The glasses are a little odd, but the overall effect is stunning.
- Flexible Raid will be interesting and I can see a huge potential for guilds to use this.
- The "virtual servers" acting as realm combinations is a new feature which is interesting. Does this mark the unavoidable merge of low pop realms? It depends on how it is added, and what the effect is. i.e. If I join a guild on a different server using this virtualisation and then that realm becomes high pop, do I get unjoined?
- The new solo content in the Proving Grounds is something I like to read about. Will the rewards be cosmetic (like Brawlers and Challenge modes) or gear-ups like Heroics and Scenarios?
- The Siege of Ogrimar / Garrosh encounter is going the way I didn't like, but hey – can't have it all. Garrosh is corrupted/empowered by Y'shaarj who is one of the old gods, and gains all sorts of boosts from it. Reading the summary thus far the end fight in SoO might feel similar to the end of Ulduar. Not a bad thing, I would have preferred that Garrosh was a nasty bastard without having him "corrupted". Why must our evil villains be corrupted to be evil?
- Apparently support for dedicated sound hardware has been nurfed in WoW, and this makes the shitty chopping sound I'm getting since patch 5.3 make sense. I'll have to research how to alter my sound config to not stutter now.
- We have new item levels as:
- 521 for Raid finder, 527 for Flex raids, 541 for Normal raids, 547 for Thunderforged, 554 for Heroic raids, and 560 for Heroic Thunderforged gear.
- That means that the Normal mode gear you might have now (522) will be upgraded slightly by Flex, no real upgrade except the Tier bonuses for LFR.
- Unless you've also already upgraded your 522 to 530, and then even Flex offers nothing except Tier gear. The numbers seem well thought through.
- The Engineer's SkyClaw mount might be in this patch.
- Blacksmiths get another new daily transmute – the Balanced Trillium Ingot. I'm still transmuting the other stuff. Hopefully this is a useful waste of Trillium bars.
- Les excited by a new Celestial Tournament, which will likely be the new daily quest hub. Probably also another bloody faction to grind up with. For pitty's sake.
Lastly we have the Death Knight new Tier bonuses…
T16 PH – Death Knight DPS
2 pieces: Item – Death Knight T16 DPS 2P Bonus – Killing Machine and Sudden Doom grant 500 Haste or Mastery, whichever is highest, for ($hnd * 2 + 4) sec, stacking up to 10 times.
4 pieces: Item – Death Knight T16 DPS 4P Bonus – Death Coil increases the duration of Dark Transformation by 1.5 sec per cast. Pillar of Frost increases rune regeneration speed by 100% while active.
T16 PH – Death Knight Tank
2 pieces: Item – Death Knight T16 Blood 4P Bonus – Dancing Rune Weapon will reactivate all Frost and Unholy runes as Death Runes, and make your next 4 Death Strikes free.
4 pieces: Item – Death Knight T16 Blood 2P Bonus – Every 4 Heart Strikes, Rune Strikes, or Blood Boils will add one charge to your next Bone Shield.
For Blood I can see DRW being a bloody awesome Boom tool. It becomes a burst effect for either recovery or threat/dps. I really like that idea. The 4x set is also clever in terms of quality of life improvement where Tanks need to think about refreshing Bone Shield less.
For DPS the 4x set looks nice in terms of boosting dps on use, which is better than the current 4x set which I think is situationally great or average. Not sure on 2x set as yet.
Impressions of new content for patch 5.3
I played the new content released in the WoW patch 5.3 last night, and here are a few observations (also here is Wowheads guide – which is darn handy).
Overall: Great to see new lore. Excited to have two new scenarios, specific quests to advance the story, and an experience across both the old world and Pandaria. Great too that the legendary quest keeps rolling, and I cannot wait (but will take months and months) to get the high level cloak.
Whatever comes in 5.4 will hopefully still value that cloak's ilevel 600. Otherwise it seems a short term reward. Or imagine what the next jump after 600 will be, and how that will devalue all other gear for the patch.
But … no way in hell I'm doing the "gather 150×4 materials" every bloody week. I started the quest yesterday, and it took hours and hours to progress through it. I've got around 450 of the 600 drops needed, and I'm already really bored with doing the same four tasks:
- Kill mobs in one of the four areas, infrequently opening boxes too. At the moment I can kill and loot mobs faster than I can sneak past mobs to loot boxes. Druids however can loot the boxes in bird form and snaffle them quickly.
- Kill one of the special bosses which randomly spawn. After death they drop a better amount of each material, but they also can now (hotfix 223 May) be tagged to the alt faction and also take a bit of time to kill. That change at least means it is faster to gather the mats.
- Escort a caravan, so that it arrives safely and hope than a faction opponent does not dps it dead. The caravans as so easy to kill its a joke. Trust me – I took revenge on a horde group by nuking their caravan.
- Find the random exploded boxes. Periodically somewhere on the map a lot of boxes spawn all spread out. Run around looting them for 1 or 2 mats per box.
Dull, dull, double-dull is all I can say about this weekly quest.
I've already read comments from other players saying they'll do this quest twice and then never again. My advice is to do this now while people still want the pet and the few other odd rewards so that you gain the advantage of big groups killing those NPCs. It is a blisteringly stupid move to create such a grind.
But apparently it is great for alts, as they can gear up this way? FFS no. Each weekly grants a 489 item when better rewards are in the new heroic scenarios, but only if you have also looted one of the special drops too. Derp.
Otherwise the scenarios and new quests are great. Fast, easy on normal, and fun to blow through. I get the impression that after a few times I'll recognise all the lore elements and begin to get tired of them, but for now it is something new to play through. My last task is to get the end of the "help the lost old hermit" chain, for the boots, and then that will be all the lore done. A few nights and the content is "encountered".
Regardless, I hope you're liking it. TyphoonAndrew.
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WoW p5.3 this week, highlights include
Patch 5.3 notes are out, for the Prod drop on May 21st. Ref: MMO-Champion – Patch 5.3 Live This Week for a full summary. I expect downtime to be bigish, with the downloader churning away. This means the cycle is less than three months between patches, and if the next patch comes quickly we might see a staggeringly fast end to the Pandaria story-lines. Blizzard's website also has a nice prep summary.
I'm pondering the amount of ilevel 500+ gear which is being made available in one time rewards, and perhaps it is time to consider the offset as a priority.
A few highlights for me are:
- the return of the Item Upgrades, via that vendor. Yes, we can again decide if an existing upgrade is better than buying off-loot (" items upgraded with Valor will now cost 250 Valor Points to upgrade per 4 Item Levels, for a total of 500 Valor for 8 Item Levels per item "). Cool. Mr Robot and others will have their systems ready too if what I read is true.
- the ilevel 600 cloaks from the Wrathion quest chain. ilevel 600 is huge, and worth it for everyone. I want it, and want three of them.
- the Heroic Scenarios is a boon I'm looking forward to, not because I want to see that older content again, but because of the chance for the ilevel 516 gear. Including a quest that has a reward of a 516 built in. Wowhead has a comment which lists the rewards by armour type. Why on earth are these using the Pandarian models for blue and green loot? Lazy. A re-colour at least might have been nice – all emeralds and ruby.
- the Heroic scenarios need item level 480 to enter, and use a pre-made team of three. Still hopefully should be not too hard at ilevel 510.
- the new scenarios for the lead up lore/story to the Siege of Orgrimmar. Assuming that is the big deal in patch 5.4, this should get all the players happy with killing Orcs and agreeing that the War Chief is a bad guy, not a good-bad guy.
- a quest has been added that reveals the final Sha and some ilevel 502 boots. Nice upgrade for the slow and unlucky guys like me. Shamefully I'm planning on getting better than this, so I might just take the Tanking option instead of the Dps option.
- I know I should try the brawlers guild soon.
- the Darkspear Rebellion Quartermaster will sell re-colour of popular old Tier gear, upgrades to ilevel 489 which is nice for the alts and new main toons. I don't mind at all they the stuff is available in a different way. They've chosen some nice sets, and as a DK I had access to my set anyway.
- we can now transmog from the Bank and Void Storage directly. Good. Nice change.
- the Heirloom Shields are in. Great news for alts. I've been saving the odd Justice Point for this.
- Lastly – I'd love a Hearthstone Beta. I've ripped on it recently as a distraction, but I am curious. HINT. Too strong? Nah. HINT HINT.
Overall I'm looking forward to the 5.3 patch. It is not a huge patch for content, rather is a prep patch. It is a great patch for gearing your toons. The folk who don't get much are those who are already geared up beyond 522 or higher. Sorry guys, only the cloak for you.
I did not finish collecting the Wrathion tokens from boss kills in patch 5.2, but will get there soon. I also don't run the downloader often, so I'm going to kick that off before bed tonight.
Happy Killing, TyphoonAndrew
Popular content observation
I read recently that WoW will be concentrating on scenarios rather than 5 mans. It started a pleasing debate over on the wow forums.It is worth a read through.
Quick thought – I think that the only reason people do scenarios and even 5 mans more than a few times is because they reward Valor points. The time/valor point is good, the experience is repetitive in the extreme. I know this is how I play, because as soon as I cap my Valor points each week I stop doing 5 mans and Scenarios.
Not true? So test this by removing the Valor reward from Scenarios and 5 mans for a patch and see how many people do them every day. Just because people are doing the content does not mean it is good, it means it is a means to an end.
(this was interesting from that thread – Sharmarli):
At this point I'm not really doing Scenarios or Heroics. I have never done heroics this expansion (total of 9 I think when I got drug into guild runs) While I did a large number of scenarios initially to help gear up this Char the only reason I've been running since about the end of November has been for quick valor points.
With the release of 5.2, however, I haven't even been doing scenarios for the most part. If I need extra VP I just go and kill the Isle rares for the 15VP books (made 135 VP last night in about 30-40 min of actual play time: killed 6, went and made dinner, came back and killed 3 more).
Building new content should be an inbuilt part of the expected dev cycle. I know there is less money in the pot then before, but 8.5 million players is still a heck of a lot of players by any stretch of the imagination.
The devs have done great things by giving players more choice on how to earn these points, but we still need them. The old statement that Valor grinding is not "mandatory" is as silly today as it was before, we just have a wider range of ways to perform than grind.
Screenie – 3x DKs smash a Scenario
How do you get to 1000 valor per week?
I'd like to know how other players get to the 1000 valor cap per week? My method is constrained by small blocks of time, and a desire to alternate activity. I do:
- as many dailies for valor and rep as I can fit in while waiting for a queue
- x1-2 scenarios and x1 instance run per day, for the 3 nights a week I play. As a priority the Instance comes first, as it rewards more VPs, although the Scenarios can be quick.
- rarely I'll do one or two extra daily quests before work, or on an off-night. Only 10-20 VPs worth at a maximum.
- even more rarely I get to kill bosses in a Raid or an LFR. Typically this happens if I don't get a raid spot and I also get a night with no distractions. Once a month typically.
How successful is the strat? Its generally not enough. I get to around 650 VPs per week, although on a great week that might be almost 900 VP.
Is this the fault of me as a player not having enough time, or the fault of game design?
Given I spend approx 9 hours playing a week broken into small chunks of 45 minutes to 1.5 hours (if not raiding) I'm very comfortable saying that it is my schedule which affects the lack of capp'ing Valor points. Adding a night, or even 1 extra hour per day would make a huge difference on this time, and that is my long term plan – to spread play into "off-nights" but only doing stuff that is very easy to be interrupted in.
I've posted about the Valor rewards themselves being poor, and it may appear to be an attack on the overall system. The facility for obtaining Valor is fine, but the reward rate (5x per Daily) feels very low, but has not totally prohibited gear upgrades.
Happy Killing.
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- wow p5.1 Valor Grinding Update by Ask Mr. Robot (typhoonandrew.wordpress.com)
- Shieldwall VP rewards (typhoonandrew.wordpress.com)
- Gearing up for an adventure (typhoonandrew.wordpress.com)
- Dungeon and Raid Requirements (typhoonandrew.wordpress.com)
Dungeon and Raid Requirements
A "note to self" on what item levels are needed to get into the MoP Scenarios, Dungeons, and Raids, and what item level they drop. Also what is obtainable from Factions and Craftables, via gold and Reputation.
Why? Because I frequently get them confused with each other…
- Requires: 425
- Awards: chance of 463, and now a small chance of 476
Heroic 5-mans
- Requires: 440
- Awards; 463, with very rare 476 on a few end bosses.
Mogushan Vaults (raid)
- Requires: 460
- Awards LFR: 476, Normal: 489, Heroic: 502
Heart of Fear and Terrace of Endless Spring (raids)
- Requires: 470
- Awards LFR: 483, Normal: 496, Heroic: 509
Reputation Rewards
- (most) faction = 458 gear purchased with Justice points
- (some) factions = 463 gear, such as Klaxxi Exalted weapons, for gold.
- (most) Honored and Revered with faction = 489 gear purchased with Valor points
- Friendly with ShieldWall Offensive = 458 gear purchased with Justice points
- Honored with ShieldWall Offensive = 496 gear purchased with Valor points
- Revered with ShieldWall Offensive = 496 gear purchased with Valor points
- Exalted and doing a Quest chain, with the Golden Lotus grants a 489 Neck
- Exalted and doing a Quest chain, with the Klaxxi grants a 489 Ring
- Item level 450s (no special mats needed – dirt cheap)
- 463 (Spirit of Harmony needed – cheap-ish)
- 476s (Spirit of Harmony needed – not badly priced at the moment due to new gear)
- 496 (Bloods needed – very expensive)
Happy killing
Lore for the Fall of Theramore
Here is a great summary of the lost lore to do with the Fall of Theramore scenario, from the Wowinsider folks. Its a great summary that I'm going to read in detail a few more times. Kudos. I'm about 6 chapters into the book so far, and enjoying the lead up to what I know is about to happen to Theramore.


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Coffee with a Cop provides a unique opportunity for community members to ask questions and learn more about the department's work in Mint Hill's neighborhoods.
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10:00am Saturday 9th February 2013 in News By Clare Buchanan
Traders are being warned to be extra vigilant after a charity collection box was swiped from a shop counter.
Julia Beswick, owner of the card collection in High Street Teddington, raised the alarm and notified other shops after she discovered the tin was missing from her store on Monday, February 4.
The greeting card and balloon retailer was raising funds for the Teddington Memorial Hospital and said the incident had marred the positive atmosphere brought by the fiver festival taking place in the town.
She said: "It's rather sad that someone is going round doing that sort of thing.
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ESCAMBIA COUNTY -- An Escambia High School teacher is accused of downloading and sharing child pornography.
63-year Jeffrey Richards was arrested and charged on federal child pornography charges.
He only taught at the high school for a few months.
But had been a teacher at Milton High School for many years.
Some of his former student swere stunned to hear about Richards' arrest..
Jeffrey Richards taught many courses here at Milton High School for around 20-years..
Many in the community were surprised to hear what the US Attorney's Office says they discovered in a year long investigation.
The FBI says during a yearlong investigation Jeffrey Richards used software to share hundreds of images of child pornography online.
A long time teacher at Milton High School ,many were in disbelief when they heard of what he was being accused of doing.
Ashley Sasser "He seemed like a nice teacher he didn't seem like he would be charged with what he's being charged with."
Megan Lassiter "It doesn't matter how good of a teacher you are you can't mess with our children. They are the future you don't need to ruin it."
Richards was just hired a few months ago at Escambia High School SuperIntendent Malcolm Thomas says he had solid references and background checks were performed.
Thomas says to the districts knowledge no students at Escambia High Schools images were found.
Bobbie Shirah "There is a difference between being a good teacher and having bad things that you do."
Thomas says to the districts knowledge - no images of students at Escambia High Schools were found.
Richards has been removed from his post at the school and the status of his job will be determined at a future board meeting either later this month or January.
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The Vomit Clinic
Excerpts from my blog at http://bigtummyinkenya.blogspot.com February 4, 2006. My friend Julia runs the village vomit clinic. She calls it an herbal medicine practice, but when sick people come over to your house and barf into a basin so you can analyze it, I call it a vomit clinic. She has been running it for about four years, and people come from as far as Kapsabet, the district capital an hour and a half away by bus, seeking the healing powers of puke. The vomit potion is a family secre...
Working in the groundnut field.
Should I get in this car?
A setplas I took to the Kombo from Basse. It had its own juju around the steering wheel.
profound moment
I was at the local post office in my town in Balaka, Malawi. I was accustomed to speaking Chichewa, the local language, every time I went there. One day I was waiting in line and I heard a distinctive American voice; I looked around to find the white person - the other 'azungu' in the area. I looked and looked and went around the building and back and there was no white person to be seen. Finally I let my ears do the walking; I saw a telephone booth and in that booth was a young woman about m...
Victoria Falls Bridge
This is Victoria Falls. The bridge crosses from Zimbabwe to Zambia.
This child's name is Wikipolo. He is being cared for by a very young mother.
These are hippos seen from the local Hippo Bar; a place where we could have soft drinks and watch Hippos. Never get between hippos and the water.
These are giraffe seen at Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe.
These are African kudu, the closest thing to American deer. They are the feast of choice for lions.


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hey bloggers! well i'm back from my annual birthday trip to the happiest place on earth and what a trip it was. i want to start off by saying a huge thank you for all of the tweets, facebook, email, and text wishes on my birthday - wow! i also want to say thank you to those who sent such incredible birthday cards to me. i came back to the studio to a huge pile of mail and was simply blown away by the thoughtful creativity shared by all of you. thank you just doesn't seem like enough, but know that it is genuine and sincere...
we headed out a little early this year to spend a couple of days at sizzix to wrap up some details on the new cha releases and the booth displays...i am so excited for cha time and just wait until you see what i have in store! while i was at sizzix mario had a chance to spend the day with his aunt marie and uncle john that he hasn't seen in a while. he had a great day and he truly adores his aunt marie - can't you tell???
then of course, it was time to enjoy a few days of the most magical time with friends. hard to believe that it's already been 11 years since i started my annual birthday tradition to spend it at disneyland, and even happier that my dear friends take the time out of their lives to celebrate with me! the laughs, fun, rides, food, shopping, and spending time together is what it's all about. i'm sure the photos say it all - dreams that you wish truly do come true...t!m
(richele, ted, michelle, carol, me, joy, mario, heather...and chelle*not pictured)


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By Emily Cronin
Victoria Durrer-Gasse, designer and co-owner, La Galeria Elefante
'La Galeria Elefante is a big, old finca that we've renovated and restored to create a funky, loft-style shop, with furniture, homeware, ceramics, tableware and my clothing, as well as lots of vintage.' On the road to Santa Gertrudis
'World Family have a range of bags and do the bags for Paul & Joe. They make tasselled leather bags with beautiful embellishment from Afghanistan—it might be that a bag is beaded and then has a closure taken from an old Afghan silver necklace. They're very special designs and everyone buys them. The business is run by the mum and the father and the two daughters, and they're all amazing and extraordinary-looking.' Carretera de San Carlos, km.12, 100 07850 Sant Carles de Peralta
'A really good Italian restaurant called La Paloma has a shop area that carries Italian products, like Santa Maria Novella soaps, and jewellery. It's a really nice mix—very chic boho.' In San Lorenzo
Natasha Collis, jewellery designer
'Las Dalias Night Market is a great market that has been evolving on the island for as long as I can remember, every Monday night.' Carretera de Sant Carles Km 12, Santa Eulària
'Dario Bome makes unique, one-off fashion pieces.' C/ De la Iglesia 10, San Miguel
'Poli is a secret gem for antique furnishings. There's a stall in Sant Jordi Market and Almacen in Sant Miquel.'
Lauren Stevenson, PR director at my-wardrobe.com
'Boheme by Charlotte Kennedy is a gorgeous kaftan collection, which I bought from a teeny boutique in Ibiza town.'
'Everyone's favourite is Zara in Ibiza Town, where you can pick up Zara pieces for a bit cheaper than you can at home! I always get a new pair of sandals when I'm there.' Bartomeu de Rosselló 26
'For designer, there's reVOLVER. They stock all the Melissa Odabash, Sass & Bide and LNA pieces you could ever want to wear to dance the night away at the Blue Marlin.' Calle Bisbe Azara, 1, Ibiza 07800
Catherine Sanchez, founder of reVOLVER Ibiza
'Wander through the streets of Ibiza Town at nighttime. There are lots of market-style stalls, the shops are open late and there's a really nice buzz about the town.'
'There's a shop a bit out of town near Santa Gertrudis called Sluiz. It's something to be seen. It's enormous. It's a homewares kind of shop but also has a bar, and sells everything from furniture to knick-knacks. Last time I went, I bought a yellow drinks server in the shape of a sombrero.' Carrer d'Eivissa, 7 07817 Sant Jordi de Ses Salines
'Walking up into the Dalt Vila. It's another Ibiza Town recommendation, but this is all about hidden alleyways and stepping back in time a bit, with local products, leather goods and flowing white dresses. It's another nice vibe.'
Renu Kashyap, Ibiza-based fashion stylist and consultant, www.styledbyrenu.com
'Everyone visiting Ibiza pops by at Las Dalias Hippy market. But I would like to draw some extra attention on the stall of Daphne de La Grandiere. She has a selection of antique Rajasthani jewellery that tops anything else.'
'Typically Ibiza are the small shops/stalls that you find next to beach restaurants, with their rich mixture of bohemian dresses, bikinis and jewellery. It's worth checking out the one at Atzaro. It's one of the most divine places to sleep, and they just recently opened a restaurant on the beach of Cala Nova. Anything they touch turns out stylish, so don't miss it...'
'Dutch interior designer Alberto Cortes is well know on the Island for his impeccable Ibiza cool styles villas and hotel.. If you have slept in one of these rooms or at one of their villas (www.harissa.nl) there is a big chance you would like to remodel your apartment back home. KsaR gives you this possibility, with its big collection of Afghan carpets, and tribal art.' Carrer Cala Carbó 2, 07830 Ibiza
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NJIT To Host Seminar on Next Generation Nano Carriers for Multifunctional Drug Delivery
NEWARK, Feb 20 2009
Robert K. Prud'homme, PhD, professor and director of the Program in Engineering Biology at Princeton University, will discuss "Next Generation Nano Carriers for Multifunctional Drug Delivery, Imaging, and Targeting-How Do We Make Them?" on Feb. 23 at 2:45 p.m. in Kupfrian Hall Rm. 205. The Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering Graduate Seminar is presented by the NSF-ERC for Structured Organic Particulate Systems (C-SOPS) at NJIT. Contact: R. Dave, email@example.com, (973) 596-5860.


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Jets sign WR Gilyard
The Jets signed WR Mardy Gilyard to their active roster on Wednesday, the team announced.
AFC East Spin cycle: Pats embarrass Jets, while Dolphins rally for win
On Thanksgiving night, the Patriots handed the Jets a loss to forget, and New England finds itself close to clinching the AFC East for the fourth year in a row.
Ugly loss 'hard to fathom' for Jets coach Rex Ryan
Jets coach Rex Ryan addressed the team's embarrassing Thanksgiving-night loss in a conference call on Friday.
Tebow's rib injury brings more questions to Jets' QB situation
Tim Tebow was active with a rib injury on Thursday night, which made observers wonder about the status of No. 3 QB Greg McElroy.
Patriots force five turnovers, rout Jets
Tom Brady threw three touchdowns and ran for one as the Patriots embarrassed the Jets with a 35-point second quarter in a 49-19 victory Thursday night.
Jets promote three from practice squad
The Jets signed CB Donnie Fletcher, CB Darrin Walls and WR Jordan White from their practice squad to the active roster.
Jets release WR Hill
The Jets cut Jason Hill for the second time this season, releasing the sixth-year wideout on Tuesday.
AFC East Spin cycle: Three 4-6 teams looking up at Patriots
The Patriots dominated in Week 11, extending their division lead to three games over the Bills, Jets and Dolphins, who are all 4-6.
Jets snap losing skid, rout Rams
Bilal Powell ran for the first two touchdowns of his career, helping the Jets end a three-game losing streak with a 27-13 victory over the Rams.
Jets sign RB Bell, release LB Maybin
The Jets signed former Bears RB Kahlil Bell and released OLB Aaron Maybin, according to multiple reports.
AFC East Spin cycle: Patriots survive; Dolphins, Jets fall flat
While the Patriots escaped with a win over the Bills to extend their lead in the division, the Jets and Dolphins suffered bad losses.
Seahawks stay undefeated at home with win over Jets
Russell Wilson threw two touchdown passes in the Seahawks' 28-7 win over the Jets.
Jets look to youth to spark pass rush
The Jets' sack numbers are historically low this season, and they are looking to youngsters Quinton Coples and Ricky Sapp for help.
Jets promote LB Sapp
The Jets signed LB Ricky Sapp to the active roster from the practice squad on Thursday, the team announced.
Jets sign WR Hill
The Jets brought back WR Jason Hill and waived rookie S Antonio Allen, the team announced Tuesday.
The Jacksonville Jaguars and Landry have agreed on a five-year contract, giving the franchise a third new defensive starter in as many days.||||||| Landry, who spent the last five years in Baltimore, is expected to sign a contract Saturday and would be eligible to practice when the new collective bargaining agreement is ratified. Landry accumulated 362 tackles, nine interceptions and five sacks with the Ravens. He missed most of the 2008 season with a neck injury. He likely will replace Don Carey in the starting lineup.
The Ravens placed Landry on injured reserve Tuesday, ending his season. He is still experiencing tingling sensations in his neck after suffered a spinal cord concussion against the Cleveland Browns in the third week of the season. In that game, the crown of Landry's helmet struck the knee of Browns running back Jamal Lewis.||||||| Landry, a fifth-round draft pick in 2006, started all 16 games last year. He led Baltimore defensive backs with six tackles in the opener against Cincinnati on Sept. 7.
Landry was taken from the field on a cart Sunday after taking a knee to the helmet during the second quarter of a game against Cleveland. Landry was trying to tackle Jamal Lewis, whose knee hit Landry in the head. Landry lay motionless for several minutes before being taken from the field with the facemask removed from his helmet and his head immobilized. Landry never lost consciousness and had movement in all his extremities, Ravens orthopedist Leigh Ann Curl said.||||||| Landry, a fifth-round draft pick in 2006, started all 16 games last year. He led Baltimore defensive backs with six tackles in the opener against Cincinnati on Sept. 7.


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SPUUF is a lay led, informal, independent fellowship. We are a warm, open and friendly community of people. Our small size allows for a connectedness among members that has fostered a strong sense of belonging, family and community. We also have a casual atmosphere that many find a comfortable alternative to a more formal Unitarian church. We are also growing our membership, and are open to visitors at any time. Child care is provided for young children, and RE classes for older children.
Alice Blair Wesley has said this about Unitarianism:
"At a Unitarian Universalist worship service or meeting, you are likely to find members whose positions on faith may be derived from a variety of religious beliefs: Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, naturist, atheist, or agnostic. Members might tell you that they are religious humanists, liberal Christians, or world religionists.
All these people, and others who label their beliefs still differently, are faithful Unitarian Universalists committed to the practice of free religion. We worship, sing, play, study, teach, and work for social justice together as congregations-all the while remaining strong in our individual convictions."
At South Park Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship, our lay-led services feature a variety of inspirational and informative speakers drawn from the community, including college faculty, authors, ministers, and performers. Other programs feature the thoughts and talents of adult and youth fellowship members. Programs usually include a period for discussion and reflection.
To find out more about Unitarian-Universalists, here are a list of sites you may find useful:


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Lion soaks Ochocinco when nature calls
"The big cat apparently aimed straight for Ochocinco's face, according to his fiancée's Tweets, and sprayed him "like a water gun." Its aim was as least as good as Tom Brady's - so to speak - and Ocho couldn't break this route in time. Lozada was not in the line of fire and managed to be spared."


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Several members of IABC Utah are headed out next week to Toronto for the IABC World Conference. With an impressive line-up of speakers and professional development opportunities, this 2014 World Conference will definitely provide enormous bang for the buck.
For those of us not going we can follow what's happening on Twitter @iabc and watch for the hashtag #IABC14 for updates and ideas from World Conference speakers.
For the complete details about the conference please visit: http://wc.iabc.com/


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Via National Journal:
In 2008, minority voters turned out in record numbers, propelling Barack Obama to the White House. Similar results fueled his second-term victory on Tuesday. A 2-percentage-point increase in nonwhite votes—to 28 percent—sealed Obama's reelection, and data seem to indicate minority influence at the polls has grown stronger in the past four years.
Obama managed to win again, despite securing only 39 percent of white voters–who still represent the nation's largest voting bloc at 72 percent.
Poll after poll indicated the issue atop all voters mind this election season was the still-weak economy, a color-blind issue affecting nearly everyone.


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In order to save his dying father, young stunt cyclist Johnny Blaze sells his soul to Mephistopheles and sadly parts from the pure-hearted Roxanne Simpson, the love of his life. Years later, Johnny's path crosses again with Roxanne, now a reporter, and also with Mephistopheles, who offers to release Johnny's soul if Johnny becomes the fabled, fiery Ghost Rider, a supernatural agent of vengeance and justice. Mephistopheles charges Johnny with defeating the despicable Blackheart, Mephistopheles's nemesis and son, who plans to displace his father and create a new hell even more terrible than the old one.
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The season is drawing nigh. Which means The Schnell is fine tuning his game as well as that of his Fighting Owls. Florida Atlantic opens with Nebraska, if you recall. So mid practice, Schnellenberger had his troops switch from general pre-season stuff to specifics for the Huskers.
It was Literary Schnell who explained the purpose of yesterday's preparations: "It was a practice for all seasons. The first part of practice we finished up our training camp and then we had about 20 plays to get ready for the Cornhuskers."
As he went on, the Coach For All Seasons morphed into Screenwriter Schnell: "Rather than have some disjointed kind of thing, I wanted to have a good practice. We got some things done that we needed to get done, even though it was a little bit off of script. Sometimes you have to go off script because of what your personnel situation is."
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Last updated: 7:20 p.m.
By Jim Miklaszewski, Pete Williams, Richard Esposito and Erin McClam, NBC News
A former naval petty officer who apparently had a grudge against the Navy sprayed an office building with bullets at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, killing 12 people in a rampage that paralyzed part of the nation's capital, authorities said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in the United States since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last year.
Authorities said that the gunman, a civilian contractor and former Navy reservist identified as Aaron Alexis, 34, was killed after exchanging fire with officers who stormed the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command in a massive law enforcement response. He packed an assault rifle and two other guns during his lethal rampage.
At a Monday evening press conference, Mayor Vincent Gray said there was no information on a motive and there was no information suggesting terrorism was involved.
Authorities said Alexis might have used someone else's identification to get into the office building. At least four people were wounded, but some reports placed the number as high as 16. Authorities are still working to identify the victims.
"There is no question he would have kept shooting," Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier said.
Authorities told an evening press conference that they were still looking for one person considered a possible suspect — a 50-year-old black man with a rifle, wearing an olive drab military uniform. Earlier they were looking for two, but they found one and ruled him out as a person of interest, police said.
Besides being the biggest shooting rampage since last December, when 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn., it was the deadliest on a U.S. military installation since 13 people were killed at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.
President Barack Obama called it a "cowardly act." He said the rampage targeted patriots, military and civilian alike, "men and women who were going to work, doing their job, protecting all of us."
The Navy said the first shots were fired at 8:20 a.m. ET at the Sea Systems Command headquarters. Alexis was carrying an AR-15 military-style semiautomatic rifle, a double-barreled shotgun and a handgun, law enforcement officials said.
Patricia Ward, who works at the Navy Yard, said she had just gotten breakfast in the cafeteria when she heard "three gunshots, pow-pow-pow, straight in a row."
"All of the people that were in the cafeteria, we all panicked, and we were trying to decide which way we were going to run out," she said. "I just ran."
The roughly 3,000 people who work there were told to stay in place. For the next several hours, conflicting reports circulated about whether the shooter was still alive, whether he had accomplices, how many places were active shooting scenes, and how many people were dead and injured.
In the meantime, chaos enveloped the surrounding neighborhood. Flights were briefly grounded at Reagan National Airport. Nearby schools and bridges the headquarters of the Department of Transportation were locked down. Farther away, police stepped up security on the Capitol grounds.
Many of the details were still uncertain at midafternoon. Hours after the shootings, the sergeant-at-arms of the Senate said he had recommended a "shelter-in-place" order to Senate leaders.
Terrie Durham, who works at the Naval Sea Systems Command building, said she saw a gunman who appeared to be wearing dark fatigues. Another worker there, Todd Brundidge, said he heard a fire alarm go off, and later saw the gunman come around the corner.
"He turned our way and started firing, and we ran downstairs to get out of the building," Brundidge said. "No words. He raised the gun and started firing."
Speaking about the deadly shooting at a Washington D.C., area Navy Yard, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus says, "The Navy family has suffered an horrific attack."
Brian Chaney, who works on the second floor, described it as a typical Monday. He said he took the stairs toward his office and heard what he thought was a locker door slamming. He later heard another round of what turned out to be gunshots.
"I never heard any screaming, 'Oh, my God,' nothing like that," he told MSNBC.
A naval security guard was among those shot and was hit in both legs, U.S. military officials said. Washington city police told WRC, the NBC affiliate in Washington, that one of their officers was also among those shot. It was not clear how many of the others shot were civilian and how many were military.
It was not clear how Alexis, identified as the gunman, died. He lived in the Queens borough of New York a decade ago and is still listed on voter rolls there. A Navy spokeswoman said Alexis served from May 2007 through January 2011, and was an aviation electrician's mate — a third-class petty officer — before he was discharged.
NBC New York has confirmed that some of Alexis' relatives — including his mother, Cathleen Alexis — live in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Anthony Little, Alexis' brother-in-law, told NBC New York his family is "distraught" in the wake of the shooting. He said that Alexis' mother was being questioned by the FBI.
The spokeswoman had no details on the discharge.
Texas records show that Alexis was arrested Sept. 4, 2010, for allegedly discharging a firearm at his Ft. Worth home. He told police was cleaning a gun in his apartment when it accidentally went off, according to a statement from the Tarrant County District Attorney's office.
In Fort Worth, Oui Stuhamtewakul, who identified himself as Alexis' best friend and former roommate, described Alexis as a Thai speaker.
Oui, the owner of a Thai restaurant in Fort Worth, said Alexis owned a gun and had a concealed-weapons permit. He said they were last in touch four months ago, when Alexis left for Washington.
Although the FBI believes it knows a great deal about Alexis, investigators are nonetheless asking for information about him. Officials released a poster Monday afternoon with Alexis' photo and relevant numbers to call.
Washington police issued lookouts for two people they described as possible suspects — a 50-year-old black man with a rifle, wearing an olive drab military uniform, and a white man with a pistol, wearing a short-sleeved, tan uniform and a beret. They later said that the man in the tan outfit was not a suspect.
Dr. Janis Orlowski, the chief medical officer at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, said that the hospital was treating three gunshot victims — a woman who was hit in the head and hand, a woman who was hit in the shoulder, and a man, a Washington police officer, who was hit in the legs.
She said that the victims came in alert and talking.
"They're talking about gunshots that they heard in rapid succession," she said.
Orlowski described all three as doing relatively well. The police officer was expected to remain in surgery for hours, and was most concerned about talking to his mother. He was in stable condition Monday evening, officials said.
The woman hit in the shoulder was in such good spirits that she was playfully ordering doctors and nurses around. And as for the woman hit in the head, the bullet never touched her skull.
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"She has a significant wound, but she will recover without surgery," Orlowski said. "She is a very, very lucky young lady."
George Washington University Hospital said it had one patient.
Obama, speaking at an event marking the fifth anniversary of the financial crisis, turned to the shooting and said: "We are confronting yet another mass shooting, and today it happened on a military installation in our nation's capital."
"It's a shooting that targeted our military and civilian personnel," he said. "These are men and women who were going to work, doing their job, protecting all of us. They're patriots. And they know the dangers of serving abroad, but today they faced the unimaginable violence that they wouldn't have expected here at home."
Obama called Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus to "express his condolences to the families and colleagues" of the shooting victims and applaud Navy personnel and law enforcement for their response, according to a statement from the White House.
At the direction of House Speaker John Boehner, all House flags will be lowered to half-staff until sundown Friday. Obama has also ordered that flags fly at half-staff at the White House.
The Naval Sea Systems Command builds, buys and maintains ships and submarines and their combat systems. The Navy Yard is along the Anacostia River in Washington, near the Washington Nationals baseball stadium. The Nationals postponed their game Monday night against the Atlanta Braves. The notation on the Nationals' website read, "Postponed: Tragedy."
Tracy Connor, Charles Hadlock, Michael Isikoff, Kasie Hunt, Alex Johnson, Michael O'Brien, Andrew Rafferty and Daniel Arkin of NBC News contributed to this report.


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The article quotes Tom Oren, a spokesman for AARP Michigan, speaking to the Detroit Free Press: "Local government is certainly getting involved. They perceive it as another service to the community."
U.S. Legislators Are Calling for A Policy Change
Across the United States, other local and state governments are getting involved in the push to provide seniors with the option to purchase lower priced Canadian prescription drugs.
For example, the State of Vermont petitioned the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to approve a pilot program that would allow importation of Canadian prescription drugs.
Vermont state officials are also calling for a change in the position currently taken by the Bush administration and the federal government, which reject efforts like this to cut prescription drug costs for seniors and others.
U.S. Drug Costs Highest in the World
Prescription drugs are more expensive in the United States than anywhere else in the world.
The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that doesn't enforce price controls to keep prescription drug costs down. U.S. drug companies have fought against limiting drug prices, or allowing the importation of price-controlled medications from other countries, because it would deprive the pharmaceutical industry of billions of dollars in profit.
Drug manufacturers argue that limiting costs would reduce the companies' ability to pay for the costly research that creates new medications.
What You Can Do
- If you choose to purchase Canadian prescription drugs by traveling to a Canadian pharmacy on your own, remember:
- While importing Canadian drugs is against U.S. policy, the FDA has said that it will not prosecute individuals who import small (3 months or less) amounts for personal use.
- The drugs you purchase may or may not be approved by the FDA, which is a U.S. regulatory agency. Canadian pharmacies sell drugs approved by Health Canada, which has standards that are similar to those of the FDA, so you can be reasonably assured of safety.
- You may receive a generic substitute.
- Work with a health care provider who is familiar with writing prescriptions in Canada
- The Canadian pharmacy may be overwhelmed by U.S. customers, so be sure to check your medication, dosage and instructions carefully before you go back home.
- If you choose to purchase Canadian prescription drugs online,you run a very big risk that the drugs may not be approved by Health Canada. An organization that regulates state pharmacies, The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), has received numerous complaints about online Canadian drug sellers. Common complaints include customers who thought they were getting Canadian prescription drugs but received drugs from Asia, and customers who were charged for medication but never received it.
It is very important to ensure that you are dealing with a legitimate pharmacy and not an illegal drug Web site.
- If you are one of many seniors who struggle with high prescription drug prices but are unable to travel to Canada, let your state and national government representatives know how you feel about this issue.
- Not sure how to contact your representatives? Follow these links:
- Congress: U.S. Senate and House of Representatives
- State and Territorial Government Home Pages
- State, County and City Governments
Click here for details on the Warren, Michigan program mentioned in this article.