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Fusing education with experience, Baldwin Wallace senior Jasmina Ellis participated in a $250,000 government-sponsored study with the Cleveland Clinic that could change how concussions are diagnosed.
Ellis, who is majoring in biology with a minor in neuroscience, dedicated a semester assisting in a study that focuses on using blood tests to detect sports-related brain injuries. Her work was part of an internship position and a senior seminar with BW and the Cleveland Clinic.
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Examining blood samples for levels of a protein called "S100B," the study seeks to identify notable brain injury not significant enough to be detected by traditional methods.
Upon completion, the research will be submitted for FDA approval as a feasible brain-injury blood test. Its effect will have major implications and change the way concussions are diagnosed by reducing the need for MRIs and CT scans.
Ellis, a resident of Brunswick, was an important part of the study, contributing by interviewing players about their medical history relating to head-injury and concussions. At the Cleveland Clinic, she was part of a team of researchers working to develop a test that can aid a doctor's ability to track the long-term effect of high-impact sports.
In addition to Ellis, the BW football team is an integral part of the study. The players have volunteered to be test subjects for the research, allowing Cleveland Clinic staff to draw blood before and after game activity.
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As an undergraduate student, Ellis gained real-world perspectives of the medical research field through her internship. "I was able to gain the experience of working with a team towards a common goal while simultaneously learning how a professional lab is run," she said.
She believes her experience in the lab of Dr. G. Andrew Mickley, professor in BW's psychology department and chair of BW's neuroscience program, provided excellent training for recording data and using proper lab techniques while working with the Cleveland Clinic. With plans to continue her graduate studies as an anesthesiologist or physician assistant, this study will serve as a distinguishing undergraduate experience.
Involved in the study is Paul Gubanich, M.D., a team doctor for Baldwin Wallace University and an orthopaedic specialist with the Cleveland Clinic Sports Health Center.
Principal investigator for the research is Damir Janigro, Ph.D., who is working with co-investigator Nicola Marchi, Ph.D. Both doctors are with the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.


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I can't remember the pub's name but I ate garlic and rosmary's fries and they were to die for.
The refrigerating process for the fries I learned a long time ago and it really works it's magic! When I have enough time I also refrigerate them between the first and second frying, it yields a brilliant crispy fry unlike anything you've ever tried! —Maria Teresa Jorge
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Idaho or Russet potatoes
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pinches Fleur de Sel
- Peel and cut the potatoes lengthwise into 1/4 inch thick slices. Then cut again each slice into 1/4 inch thick fries. Put in a large bowl and wash thoroughly to remove all the starch. Fill the bowl with cold water, add 2 cups ice cubes and put in the fridge for 2 to 3 hours.
- In a deep pan pour enough oil for frying, add the garlic and rosemary and heat to 325º. OIL SHOULD BE TWICE THE VOLUME OF POTATOES FRYING AT ANY ONE TIME.
- Drain the potatoes in batches, dry in a kitchen tea towel and fry also in batches (less is better) at 325º until yellow. Remove garlic, rosemary and potatoes with a slotted spoon and drain in paper towel. Finish all the potatoes at this temperature.
- Heat the oil to 375º.
- Put aside the fried garlics and rosemary to serve with the potatoes.
- Fry the potatoes for a second time in batches at 375º until golden brown and crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon and drain. At this point season with some fine sea salt and fresh milled pepper.
- Serve hot in a bowl, add the fried garlic and rosemary and sprinkle wth a little Fleur de Sel on top
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#1 More takers for one-way trip to Mars than for Obamacare10-20-2013, 09:22 PM
Calypso Louie (Lois Farrakhan)
More takers for one-way trip to Mars than for Obamacare, and one state spending $12,000 so far to attract each new insurance customer: Is this the worst launch ever?
The top contractor has been paid more than $200 million despite being fired by a Canadian province for botching its medical records database
A startup venture recruiting people for a one-way, 43 million mile trip to live on Mars has generated more signatures than all the Obamacare health insurance plans combined.
Just 712 people in Vermont have enrolled in the state's new health insurance exchange, despite $9 million in outreach, advertising and other PR expenses paid for by the federal government.
The entire state of Alaska has yet to register a single person, according to Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
('Juneau how many people have signed up?' asks one cheeky blogger. 'Hint: It's a round number!')
A CNN medical correspondent has found that the online Obamacare system, which was reportedly first tested just days before its Oct. 1 launch, is now spontaneously deleting some Americans' passwords.
The website itself, according to The Weekly Standard, includes pilfered source code but excludes a required copyright notice required by its author.
With $394 million in contracts in the rear-view mirror, the Obama administration has an online white elephant on its hands that hasn't worked as advertised. >>>
Welcome to the disaster: Healthcare.gov is more than three years and $394 million in the making, but few Americans have been able to make it function, leaving a trail of discouraged consumers in its wake
Vermont's health insurance exchange has corralled just 712 new customers, despite $9 million in PR and outreach expenses designed to attract taxpayers to the new system >>>
With the Obama administration cowering and late-night talk show hosts doing a brisk business in Obamacare jokes ('Today Obama changed his slogan from "Yes we can" to "Perhaps we could try. Can't promise anything,"' said Jay Leno), the White House is saying only that the president is 'not happy.' >>>
CGI's parent company was shown the door by health officials in Ontario in September 2012, after it missed deadlines in three straight years related to the province's online medical registry.
but The Obama administration had already awarded the firm a $93.7 million contract in late 2011 to complete work on Healthcare.gov. And two years later, Reuters reports, the value of that contract has grown to almost $292 million, nearly $200 million of which has already been paid.
All told, according to a Government Accountability Office report published in June, the administration doled out $394 million to dozens of companies for work related to setting up the health care exchanges nationwide.
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I caved in (chocolate chip cookies)
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The rice flour mix I use in almost all of my recipes is posted on the side of the page.
I am so excited about this recipe. Found out three weeks ago that I am allergic to wheat, gluten, eggs and milk. I have used several recipes from your blog and I'm going to try this one too. Do you think I should use ground flax seed instead of the eggs? Or egg replacer?ReplyDelete
I have always been known for my excellent chocolate chip cookies. Maybe this recipe will let me continue that reputation and still stay healthy. Thanks again.
I don't really know about egg replacers- I haven't worked with them at all. I would maybe halve the recipe and try whichever egg replacer you like best. I would suggest you use vegetable shortening instead or Earth Balance instead of the milk, either will work fine in place of butter if you have a milk allergy as well.
Let me know what works, if you have success!
Ooooh cool. I made a different variation of the Leite cookies a few weeks ago, and it wasn't to my liking. These look perfect though! I am going to link to this post on my site.ReplyDelete
These look good... think 2 1/2 sticks is a horrible amount of butter to use though!ReplyDelete
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Berkeley Assemblymember Nancy Skinner Pays to Play with Democrats in the California Legislature
The Sunday Chronicle headlined a juicy story from the Center for Investigative Reporting over the weekend: Speaker Perez Gave Top Donors Plum Posts.
On the CIR website, this was the title:
California speaker gives Assembly's juiciest jobs to biggest fundraisers
And Berkeleyans will be interested to learn some information that for some reason was cut from the Chron's version of the story: our own Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, now termed out of the Assembly, expected to be tapped by the queenmakers to succeed Loni Hancock as State Senator, is one of the big players (and the big payers) in this pay-to-play system.
Here's the paragraph from the CIR version that the Chronicle left out:
"Nancy Skinner of Berkeley gave $201,000 to the targets. She continues to serve as chairwoman of the Rules Committee, a post that is part of Pérez's leadership team, and sits on two juice committees: Business, Professions and Consumer Protection, which supervises occupational licensing and state regulatory agencies; and Utilities and Commerce, which regulates energy companies and public utilities. She is a former Berkeley City Council member and environmental activist. Of her fundraising, Skinner wrote in a statement: 'I am enthusiastic to support our Caucus efforts to elect great Assemblymembers.' "
This is how CIR senior reporter Lance Williams describes the scheme:
"In May 2012 and again in June, Speaker John A. Pérez wrote memos to Democrats in the California Assembly. He wanted millions in campaign cash to win a handful of key races.
"At stake, Pérez wrote, was their party's control of the Assembly – and, as it turned out, the perks and power enjoyed by the lawmakers themselves.
'It is critical that we band together to maximize our financial resources,' the burly Los Angeles legislative leader wrote in the memos, copies of which were obtained by the Center for Investigative Reporting.
"The lawmakers gave Pérez what he wanted, state campaign finance records show.
"Exploiting loopholes in a law enacted to stanch the flow of big money in state politics, the Assembly Democrats pumped $5.8 million into the campaigns Pérez designated, a CIR data analysis shows. The infusion of cash helped the Democrats win a supermajority in the Capitol: two-thirds control of the Legislature for the first time since 1883.
"The system also paid off for the speaker's biggest fundraisers in the Assembly.
"According to the data, Pérez gave lawmakers who raised the most money the best assignments in the new Legislature – posts on the speaker's leadership team and seats on the powerful "juice committees."
One of whom, it turns out, was Nancy Skinner.
Go to the CIR website to read the full story. It's curious that the Chronicle version omitted her role, since Berkeley is still a relatively strong readership area for a paper whose circulation is steadily shrinking.


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() MUMi analysis between W1481 and other spp. The initial result showed that W1481 has the closest value (0.64) when compared to subsp. . () Comparison between the MUMi values among W1481 and the groups of five existing subspecies of The MUMi results of each subspecies are summarized and compared. The upper value of the box and whisker box showed the highest MUMi value, whereas the lower value showed the lowest MUMi value while the value in middle showed the average MUMi value when we performed comparison. A clear separation of W1481 from the rest of the known subspecies is able to be performed at the threshold of 0.6342. (Note: FNA denotes subsp. ; FNV denotes subsp. ; FNN denotes subsp. ; FNP denotes subsp. and FNF denotes subsp. ).
() MUMi analysis between W1481 and other spp. The initial result showed that W1481 has the closest value (0.64) when compared to subsp. . () Comparison between the MUMi values among W1481 and the groups of five existing subspecies of The MUMi results of each subspecies are summarized and compared. The upper value of the box and whisker box showed the highest MUMi value, whereas the lower value showed the lowest MUMi value while the value in middle showed the average MUMi value when we performed comparison. A clear separation of W1481 from the rest of the known subspecies is able to be performed at the threshold of 0.6342. (Note: FNA denotes subsp. ; FNV denotes subsp. ; FNN denotes subsp. ; FNP denotes subsp. and FNF denotes subsp. ).
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Eh? What's wrong with Portuguese?
Great write-up Tim. If things go as planned, my future children will likely be educated in Portugal.
It's nice to know there won't be a serious price shock between living in say Florianopolis compared to living in Porto or Lisbon.
Thanks for the post, Tim. Tomorrow I'm leaving to Portugal, I'll live between Lisbon and Coimbra and I really needed to have this little helpful guide with me! You saved the day! :)
Susan Korthase and her husband made the usual mistake of thinking the coastal concrete and golf was "the Algarve". We disliked it too, until we explored the Serra da Monchique. Stunningly beautiful; laid back; unlike the rest of the Algarve, the local council is solvent. – Portugal is run by a bunch of self-serving interconnected families that milk it for all it is worth, and far more. The tragedy of the revolution was the failure to purge the system totally. That is the price of having good guys in charge of much needed revolutions. Such a shame, it's a beautiful land with many good people. Still, we can't have everything perfect can we? :)
WOW!!!!!!! How exciting. I am planning a trip to to Portugal and the more I read the more excited I am to go. The thought of leaving the winters behind and picking fruit off of trees makes the temptation more desirable. Thanks for the information.
I am a divorced woman, recently retired – 60 years of age, who is considering the Cascais region of Portugal to live. I love the ocean, the small town feel of Cascais and the proximity to Lisbon. I am now living in New York.
My net income is $3,600 a month. Do you think that is enough to rent an apartment, live comfortably and put a little away each month for savings?
I have never been to Portugal and don't know anyone who lives there, but I'm very outgoing and make friends easily.
Thank you for any replies. Carol Joyce
I think you would live very well on that. Start following local expat blogs and message boards and you'll get a better idea of prices. Start with the Portugal chapter and resources in A Better Life for Half the Price if you have
Thank you Tim I appreciate all of the good information. I've always wanted to visit Portugal and possibly live there.
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Think of "This is 40" as the American version of "Amour." Unable or unwilling to contemplate mortality, American filmmakers and audiences are far more comfortable keeping things light with some not-very-deep thoughts about middle age, and "This Is 40" happily complies. What elevates the latest Judd Apatow film is its depiction of a married couple, itself just as real, idiosyncratic, and vivid as the husband and wife depicted in "Amour."
As played by Leslie Mann and Paul Rudd, Debbie and Pete are freshly 40, the parents of two daughters, and they only hate each other maybe a third of the time. There are many screaming matches between Debbie (a health nut who smokes in rubber gloves and a turban to hide the smell) and Pete (who devours cupcakes with the same neediness with which Debbie inhales smoke), but the fights aren't the usual, movie-married-life battles. No one cheats in "This Is 40," no one has a terminal disease, and even the looming threat of bankruptcy is neither overly dramatized nor easily dismissed. What Apatow has created (just in time for the holidays!) is a warts-and-all look at marriage that reveals both the ugly erosion of boundaries and the multiple levels of feeling that can let a person simultaneously love someone and plot his or her gruesome murder.
"This Is 40" is helped immensely by Mann and Rudd's performances. Both actors have a knack for staying likable even as they behave abominably. Pete and Debbie are constantly letting each other down, but even when one of them writes off their marriage has devolving into a "business relationship," we are never in serious doubt as to whether or not they will survive this latest crisis. Debbie and Pete are too weird, too minutely complementary in their quirks to ever really consider divorce. And Apatow doesn't skimp on showing them at their best, most memorably during a pot-cookie-fueled weekend getaway.
Where the movie falters is in its all-encompassing forgiveness of Pete and Debbie's mistakes. After Debbie verbally abuses a classmate of her daughter's after suspecting him of being a bully, Pete yells at the boy's mother, but neither Pete nor Debbie ever suffers any repercussions for their actions because they're beautiful and thin, and the boy and his mother aren't. The mother is, however, played by Melissa McCarthy, improvising mercilessly and almost rescuing that plot strand from the shoals of "Gee, being middle class, pretty, and white is awesome!"
Even that misstep can be shrugged off when the rest of the movie is so pitch-perfect in depicting married life as something other than a fat man-skinny wife comedy or a melodramatic series of tragedies. "This Is 40" is too smart to settle for either extreme, and we're the luckier for it.
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Onlly need another 6 inches before we can ski here. the good news is that the cross country ski club is installing lights on the trail. We should have 5 km of lit trails for skiing this winter
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fear of snow?
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Wow.. I like snow.. and I like it even more here, mainly because I can't even see it here in Valdivia.. and if I do, it's such an extraordinary event that everyone is just shocked at the snow... Last time I saw snow in Valdivia (The only time that I remember) is July 1995... and there was another time in 1992... but I was in the US at the time, and with a hideous NJ summer..
and if it's not here, it's in the mountains, and I just went there last weekend to catch the last spots of snow in Villarica. Oh and I had a great time with the snow in the US (who wouldn't.. it snowed so much that the schools where closed!).. So that's why I like snow.
And right now... It's partly cloudy... and hasn't rained since the last post....though there are some nasty looking clouds comming from the hills...
103, but it was a nice dry 103 -none of that humidity.
Cloudy, min: 6ºC Max: 17ºC
And here's a lovely IR sattelite image of most of the american continent, courtesy of NRL:
Where's Valdivia there? The little bay you see in the lower third of the square made by the 30º S 45º S and the 75º W and 60º W We face the Pacific ocean just in case ... See the nice storm comming for Thursday?
24C (75F), some cloud, no breeze. I went for a row early this morning and it was warm and sunny but it has clouded over a little now.
Webcam shot of Lake Macquarie entrance - intended to make Donk cry.
Beautiful weather here today, around 22C (72F) and only a light breeze which is perfect because I've just spent the last 6 hours testing paint markings in various locations.
There are signs that the Indiginous People's Summer may be coming to an end.
It rained for awhile last night, so now we have snow and slush and cold.
Looks like my roof gets left for another year.
Too lazy to beat myself up for being to lazy to beat myself up for being too lazy to... well you get the point....
It's a sunny day in The Big Easy. The high will be 85 degrees with low humidity.
Gettin' colder - high of 7C today. Starting to cloud over, with rain forecast (again). No flurries yet though...
It's getting cooler here in Chi.land. I could see my breathe this morning.
Yeah for cold weather!
(BTW: Cardinal you had me going for a couple moments with that cloud picture, D, ', O, H)
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I'm sorry. Is my bias showing?
Every day is today. Yesterday is a myth and tomorrow an illusion.
You know...for kids.
The Concord Forecast:
Tomorrow: Periods of snow. Some rain may mix in. High 41F. Winds NW at 10 to 20 mph. Chance of snow 70%.
"Growth is inevitable and desirable, but destruction of community character is not. The question is not whether your part of the world is going to change. The question is how." -- Edward T. McMahon, The Conservation Fund
snow is in our long range forecast for the 28th....
that was hilarious!There are signs that the Indiginous People's Summer may be coming to an end.
its gotten cooler and cloudy here
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Ben Franklin
Remember this motto to live by: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, martini in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO- HOO what a ride!'"
Heard on the radio this morning that Western PA will be getting snow tonight and flurries tomorrow. Dammit Donk, I'm blaming this all on you.
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If Donk doesn't see his own shadow, then its an early winter?Originally posted by biscuit
Dammit Donk, I'm [blaming] this all on you.
No shadow for me today.
Next time I'm down at the parent's I'll check with allistair. He really hates snow and winter.
Too lazy to beat myself up for being to lazy to beat myself up for being too lazy to... well you get the point....
Great fall day today in north Idaho. High in the low 70's. But tomorrow....yuck, it turns cold.
Habitual Offender
Cloudy and about 70°. Cooling off thsi weekend to potentially normal fall conditions. LIke Cardinal posted, Indigenous summer is damned near over for us in the upper midwest. Just in time for State Cyclocross finals! Yummy!
This is the 24 hour tempature change as of 16:00 GST. Looks like PA gets the brunt of the cooldown.
Same as yesterday in The Big Easy...sunny and a high of 85 with relatively low humidity.


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Remember when Apple threw away Google Maps as its default mapping service and instead implemented its own? We saw Madison Square Garden turn into an actual park, bridges just drop off midair, and major landmarks disappear entirely. It was a complete disaster, and left people bemoaning their decision to upgrade to iOS 6.
Well hold your collective breaths. A new patent from Apple shows that it's looking to take on Google's infamous Street View.
According to the patent, instead of clicking to move in any which direction, as you would on Street View, Apple's version would simply require you to tilt your device in the desired direction and it will respond. Whether it will do a "fast forward" as happens in Street View, or a smooth transition, which Apple is fond of, we're not sure.
However, the coolest part, if Apple can manage to pull it off, is the potential option to not just walk up and down streets, past buildings, but to actually virtually ENTER buildings. (We foresee a lot of legal undertaking to pull that part off…but we sure hope they do!)
What's more is that, users will be able to pair their device with another (two phones or two tablets) in order to further expand the view they're seeing. This could be especially beneficial when navigating to beautiful vistas, allowing users to take in the whole thing in one fell swoop.
It's really exciting, and if Apple can successfully pull this off, it'll be giving Google, long considered the go-to source for mapping ever since it outdid MapQuest years ago, a run for its money.
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Call 314-516-4990
God Bless Your Church with Strength! for SATB, Trumpet and Organ
God Bless Your Church with Strength! is a joyous anthem for choir, trumpet and organ, based on the three hymns, St. Thomas, Festal Song and Heath.
VIV 940, 40 pages, $24.95
Click here to view a page of the score.
A Brief Bio of the Composer
Barbara Harbach has a large catalog of works, including symphonies, opera, string orchestra, musicals, works for chamber ensembles, film scores, modern ballets, organ, harpsichord, piano, choral anthems, and many arrangements for brass and organ of various Baroque works. She is also involved in the research, editing, publication and recording of manuscripts of eighteenth-century keyboard composers as well as historical and contemporary women composers. Her work is available in both recorded and published form through MSR Classics, Naxos Records, Gasparo Records, Kingdom Records, Albany Records, Northeastern Records, Hester Park, Robert King Music, Elkan-Vogel, Augsburg Fortress, Agape Music and Vivace Press. Harbach is also the editor of the journal, Women of Note Quarterly.
"Harbach's music astonished me for its heavy reliance on the lyric and the beautifully (and cogently) framed melodic line. I could listen to her music for hours." American Record Guide ~ March / April 2008. " Harbach has distinguished herself as one of the preeminent American composers of any generation." All Music Guide ~ December 2007.
Harbach has toured extensively as both concert organist and harpsichordist and her lively performances and recordings have captured the imagination of many American composers, and the body of work written for and dedicated to Harbach is substantial. Musical America has called her "nothing short of brilliant," and Gramophone has cited her as an "acknowledged interpreter – and, indeed, muse – of modern harpsichord music." She was host of the weekly television music series Palouse Performance seen throughout the Inland Northwest.
Currently professor of music at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she holds academic degrees from Pennsylvania State University (B.A.), Yale University (M.M.A.), Musikhochschule (Konzertdiplom) in Frankfurt, Germany, and the Eastman School of Music (D.M.A.). In 2002, Harbach received an honorary doctorate in music, honoris causa, from Wilmington College, Ohio for her lifetime achievement as a composer, performer, editor and publisher.
Barbara Harbach initiated Women in the Arts-St. Louis, a celebration of the achievements of women creators. The over 800 events by various cultural organizations in the St. Louis region provided audiences with new and historical examples of the work of women writers, composers and artists. In 2006 for her work Women in the Arts-St. Louis she was the recipient of the Arts Education Award from the Missouri Arts Council; the Missouri Citizen for the Arts Award; the Yellow rose Award from the Zonta International Club of St. Louis; the UM-St. Louis College of Fine Arts and Communication, Faculty Excellence Award; and in 2007 she was awarded the Hellenic Spirit Foundation Award.
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.The newest findings explain for the first time how vitamin C can react with and neutralize the toxic byproducts of human fat metabolism.
"This is a previously unrecognized function for vitamin C in the human body," … "We knew that vitamin C is an antioxidant that can help neutralize free radicals. But the new discovery indicates it has a complex protective role against toxic compounds formed from oxidized lipids, preventing the genetic damage or inflammation they can cause."
"It's true that vitamin C does react with oxidized lipids to form potential genotoxins,"…… "But the process does not stop there. We found in human studies that the remaining vitamin C in the body continues to react with these toxins to form conjugates - different types of molecules with a covalent bond - that appear to be harmless."
In human tests, the OSU scientists found in blood plasma extraordinarily high levels of these conjugates, which show this protective effect of vitamin C against toxic lipids.
"This appears to be a major pathway by which the body can get rid of the toxic byproducts of fat metabolism, and it clearly could relate to cancer prevention."
Oxidation of lipids has been the focus of considerable research in recent years, the scientists say, not just for the role it may play in cancer but also in other chronic diseases such as heart disease, Alzheimer's disease, and autoimmune disorders.
The toxic products produced by fat oxidation may not only be relevant to genetic damage and cancer, researchers believe, but are also very reactive compounds that damage proteins
What are peoples' thoughts about this news and how Vitamin C may or may not relate to MS? What are the pros and cons of Vitamin C for PwMS? It seems to be a recommended vitamin for people with high cortisol (stress hormone) levels. I'm trying to figure out how to reduce mine (which tested high).
Thanks everyone.


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Rolla ranks No. 19 on a list of the smartest places in the United States.
Rolla ranks No. 19 on a list of the smartest places in the United States.
"Economists and urban researchers tend to analyze the collective intelligence of cities based on socioeconomic variables like income and education levels," Daniel A. Sternberg, Ph.D., writes in the introduction to the report from Lumosity, a web-based company that uses games to train brains in its human cognitive performance program.
"Last year, Lumosity published its first Smartest Cities rankings based on our own database of users' performance on cognitive training exercises."
The 2012 rankings measured the "cognitive performance" of more than 1 million Americans who logged onto the Lumosity website and participated in the brain training program. This year's rankings looked at three times that many, according to the report.
The report has various rankings of cities and areas. Rolla is listed among the core-based statistical areas. In addition, there are rankings by combined statistical areas and direct city and state; Rolla is not ranked in those measurements.
A core-based statistical area, such as Rolla, includes an urban center of at least 10,000 people, along with adjacent areas that are socioeconomically tied to the urban center via commuting.
Ithaca, N.Y., a college town, ranked No. 1 on the core-based statistical area list.
Columbia, home of the University of Missouri, ranked No. 41.
Rolla's No. 19 ranking pleased city and Missouri University of Science and Technology campus leaders.
"It's a nice recognition for Rolla and for the campus," said Andrew Careaga, director of public relations for Missouri S&T. "The quality of S&T's academic programs naturally attracts many bright and talented students. And of course, the university attracts some of the nation's smartest professors and researchers."
City Administrator John Butz said, "It's one of those fun things you brag about and laugh about."
Sternberg said the analysis of Lumosity users had some guidelines for selection.
"To be included in the analysis, a user must have played at least one game in each of the five Lumosity 'brain areas': speed, attention, flexibility, memory and problem solving."
The users must have provided their date of birth and gender, and the analysis also ranked places by age.
Looking only at the under-35 age group, Rolla as a core-based statistical area ranked even higher. It was at No. 11. Kirksville ranked No. 3. Columbia did not make the list.
Rolla was not ranked in either the 35-55 or over 55 age groups. Columbia was No. 3 in the 35-55 group and it was No. 1 in the over 55 group.
The analysis also looked at the cognitive areas used by Lumosity in its training.
Rolla ranked No. 8 in memory and No. 10 in problem solving. Columbia ranked No. 22 in problem solving.
Rolla was No. 21 in the speed area. Columbia was No. 31.
Here are the top 100 areas:
1. Ithaca, N.Y.
2. State College, Pa.
3. Lafayette-West Lafayette, Ind.
4. Iowa City, Iowa
5. Ames, Iowa
6. Ann Arbor, Mich.
7. Bloomington, Ind.
8. Madison, Wis.
9. Lawrence, Kan.
10. Pullman, Wash.
11. College Station-Bryan, Texas
12. Appleton, Wis.
13. Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
14. Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, Va.
15. Charlottesville, Va.
16. Boulder, Colo.
17. Provo-Orem, Utah
18. Harrisonburg, Va.
19. Rolla, Mo.
20. Houghton, Mich.
21. Muncie, Ind.
22. Corvallis, Ore.
23. Boone, N.C.
24. Logan, Utah-Idaho
25. Stillwater, Okla.
26. Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wis.
27. Claremont-Lebanon, N.H.-Vt.
28. Lebanon, Pa.
29. Moscow, Idaho
30. Cedar Rapids, Iowa
31. Lincoln, Neb.
32. Bloomsburg-Berwick, Pa.
33. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, Minn.-Wis.
34. Starkville, Miss.
35. Athens, Ohio
36. La Crosse-Onalaska, Wis.-Minn.
37. Brainerd, Minn.
38. Burlington-South Burlington, Vt.
39. Fargo, N.D.-Minn.
40. Stevens Point, Wis.
41. Columbia, Mo.
42. St. Cloud, Minn.
43. Rochester, Minn.
44. Auburn-Opelika, Ala.
45. Waterloo-Cedar Falls, Iowa
46. Oil City, Pa.
47. Fort Collins, Colo.
48. Sheboygan, Wis.
49. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, Mass.-N.H.
50. Keene, N.H.
51. Oshkosh-Neenah, Wis.
52. Burlington, N.C.
53. Pittsburgh, Pa.
54. Fond du Lac, Wis.
55. Concord, N.H.
56. Morgantown, W.Va.
57. Bellingham, Wash.
58. Mount Pleasant, Mich.
59. Ottawa-Peru, Ill.
60. Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, Ind.
61. Laramie, Wyo.
62. Barnstable Town, Mass.
63. Lancaster, Pa.
64. Reading, Pa.
65. Winchester, Va.-W.Va
66. Bozeman, Mont.
67. Bloomington, Ill.
68 Gainesville, Fla.
69. Duluth, Minn.-Wis.
70. Michigan City-La Porte, Ind.
71. South Bend-Mishawaka, Ind.-Mich.
72. Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa
73. Omaha-Council Bluffs, Neb.-Iowa
74. Oxford, Miss.
75. Altoona, Pa.
76. Wooster, Ohio
77. Bismarck, N.D.
78. Grand Forks, N.D.-Minn.
79. Grand Rapids-Wyoming, Mich.
80. Albany-Schenectady-Troy, N.Y.
81. Binghamton, N.Y.
82. Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pa.
83. Wisconsin Rapids-Marshfield, Wis.
84. Ogdensburg-Massena, N.Y.
85. Kansas City, Mo.-Kan.
86. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, Calif.
87. Torrington, Conn.
88. Trenton, N.J.
89. Rochester, N.Y.
90. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Wash.
91. Oneonta, N.Y.
92. Eau Claire, Wis.
93. Warsaw, Ind.
94. Norwich-New London, Conn.
95. Eugene, Ore.
96. Topeka, Kan.
97. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, Pa.-N.J.
98. Mankato-North Mankato, Minn.
99. Helena, Mont.
100. Cincinnati, Ohio-Ky.-Ind.
"One of the most interesting findings from this analysis is that most of the top metro areas contain major research universities, suggesting that education is an important predictor of cognitive performance," Lumosity data scientist Sternberg said in a statement. "Neuroscience research has found that those who are engaged in learning and cognitively stimulating activities throughout the lifetime build up a 'cognitive reserve' that helps maintain and improve cognitive performance."


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Eden Project Ice Rink
20 October 2012 – 3 March 2013
Skate beneath the icy glacial walls and vibrant light displays of the Eden
Project's Ice Rink. Skating is open every weekend afternoon from
3pm, all day Saturday and from midday on Sunday. Sessions for all the family
are also available with visitors advised to pre book to avoid disappointment.
Adults and children £6


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200 Madison Ave.Memphis, TN 38103Loan Amount: $3.2 million
200 Madison Ave. • Memphis, TN 38103
Loan Date: Aug. 30, 2013Maturity Date:Borrower: Visible Music CollegeLender: Renasant BankDetails: Visible Music College has filed a $3.2 million loan on its Downtown campus at 200 Madison Ave.
The music and worship arts school filed the Tennessee deed of trust, assignment of leases and rents and security agreement Aug. 30 through Renasant Bank. Ken Dale Steorts signed the trust deed as president of Visible Music College.
Visible Music College bought the building – an iconic, triangular-shaped building with a glass front – from Memphis Chamber Foundation in December 2009 for $1.1 million.
Built in 1972, the six-story, 45,200-square-foot building is on three-quarters of an acre at the northeast corner of Madison Avenue and the Court Street alley – directly across the street from the AutoZone Park outfield. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $1.5 million.
The school, which moved into the building at the beginning of the semester in August 2011, recently announced it was launching a student work-scholarship program this fall.
The new program will employ 70 students in positions transferrable to the professional, post-collegiate world. Students will work hours weekly in recruitment and advancement, media and marketing, building management, music publishing, hospitality, admissions and more.
The college started its fall semester with a capacity enrollment of 129. Students moved in to campus housing in Memphis on Aug. 10.
3619 Kingsgate DriveMemphis, TN 38116Loan Amount: $2.5 million
Loan Date: July 17, 2013Maturity Date: July 17, 2014Borrower: Capital Equities LLC, George Fakiris, Stacy Varsos Cohen and Dragan KocicThe Health, Educational and Housing Facility Board of the City of Memphis (Capital Equities LLC)Lender: Amerasia BankDetails: New Horizon Apartments at 3619 Kingsgate Drive, which sold for $150,000 in a successor trustee's sale last year, has been financed for $2.5 million through Amerasia Bank.
Documents related to the financing were filed with the Shelby County Register of Deeds last week, but borrowers Capital Equities LLC, George Fakiris, Stacy Varsos Cohen and Dragan Kocic filed the multifamily deed of trust, assignment of rents and security agreement in July.
New Horizon, which sits on close to 60 acres in Whitehaven, was built in 1970-1971. The property includes four parcels, three of which contain Class D apartment buildings.
The first contains 196 units and was appraised by the Shelby County Assessor of Property this year at $198,300. The second contains 312 units with an appraised value of $250,100. And the third contains 394 units with an appraised value of $195,000. A fourth parcel is a vacant lot with an appraised value of $100.
Roslyn Heights, N.Y.-based Capital Equities in May entered into a payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) agreement with The Health, Educational and Housing Facility Board of the City of Memphis for the property.
George Fakiris signed the July trust deed as member and manager of Capital Equities, which is listed as grantor-in-possession; Daniel T. Reid signed as chairman of the HEHFB, which is listed as grantor-in-fact.
5870 Airline RoadArlington, TN 38002Loan Amount: $1.5 million
Loan Date: Aug. 27, 2013Maturity Date: n/aBorrower: Goodwin Henry Properties LLCLender: Renasant BankDetails: Goodwin Henry Properties LLC has financed its 16,800-square-foot shopping center at 5870 Airline Road in Arlington for $1.5 million.
The company filed the Tennessee deed of trust, assignment of rents and leases, security agreement and fixture filing Aug. 27 with Renasant Bank. T. David Goodwin signed the trust deed as chief manager of Goodwin Henry Properties.
Built in 2005, the Class A strip retail center is situated on 1.9 acres on the east side of Airline in front of Douglas Park, between Douglass Street to the north and Otto Lane to the south. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $2.2 million.
The parcel is one of three Goodwin Henry Properties bought in a March 2001 sale for $219,950.
8132 Country Village DriveMemphis, TN 38016Loan Amount: $1.4 million
Loan Date: Aug. 22, 2013Maturity Date: Aug. 25, 2018Borrower: Rock A. WoosterLender: Renasant BankDetails: The owner of the Spinal Healthcare Associates, Cordova Pain Treatment Center, at 8132 Country Village Drive in Cordova, has filed a $1.4 million loan on the property.
Rock A. Wooster, one of the chiropractic clinic's doctors, filed the deed of trust Aug. 22 through Renasant Bank.
Built in 2007, the Class A, 11,669-square-foot office medical facility sits on 1.6 acres at the northeast corner of Country Village Drive and Cordova Road. The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2013 appraisal is $1.5 million.
Wooster and other doctors bought the land for the clinic in 2006 for $415,000, and they worked with architect Brian Bullard of UrbanArch Associates and general contractor Len Hester of Grinder-Haizlip Construction Co. Inc.


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Georg Philipp TelemannGerman
Georg Philipp Telemann (March 14, 1681 – June 25, 1767) was a German Baroque music composer, born in Magdeburg. Self-taught in music, he studied law at the University of Leipzig. Often described as the most prolific composer in history (at least in terms of surviving oeuvre), he was a contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi and a lifelong friend of George Frideric Handel. While in the present day Bach is generally thought of as the greater composer, Telemann was more widely renowned for his musical abilities during his lifetime.
Telemann traveled widely, absorbing various musical styles and incorporating them into his own compositions. He is known for writing concertos for unusual combinations of instruments, such as multiple violas or trumpets or oboes or harpsichords.
He held a series of important musical positions, culminating in that of music director of the five largest churches in Hamburg, from 1720 until his death in 1767.
Georg Philipp Telemann was born in Magdeburg, the capital of the Duchy of Magdeburg, in 1681. Telemann's family was not particularly musical; his great-grandfather had served as Cantor at Halberstadt, but no one else in his direct family had been involved in music. Telemann's father died in 1685, leaving his mother to raise and oversee the education of the children. They were an upper-middle-class family, and many worked in the church. Telemann began to discover music at age 10, and quickly showed talent, composing his first opera by age 12. But this talent was not approved of by his family. Fearing that her son would pursue a career in music, Telemann's mother confiscated all of his musical instruments and in 1693 sent him to a new school in Zellerfeld (1694-1698), hoping that this change would put the boy on a more lucrative career path. However, the superintendent of this school approved of his talents, and Telemann continued to compose and expand his knowledge of music on his own. By the time he completed his studies at the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim, Telemann had learned to play the recorder, organ, violin, viola da gamba, flute, oboe, chalumeau, double bass and bass trombone, almost entirely by himself. His travels had also exposed him to newer musical styles, and the music of Johann Rosenmüller and Arcangelo Corelli became early influences.
In 1701, Telemann entered Leipzig University intending to study law, perhaps at the request of his mother. It was not long before his musical talent was discovered, however, and he was commissioned to write music for two of the city's main churches. Soon thereafter, he founded a 40-member Collegium Musicum to give concerts of his music. The next year, Telemann became the director of Leipzig's opera house and cantor of one of its churches. His growing prominence began to anger elder composer Johann Kuhnau, whose position as director of music for the city had been encroached upon by Telemann's appointment as a cantor. Telemann was also using many students in his opera productions, leaving them less time to devote to participation in church music for Kuhnau. Kuhnau denounced Telemann as an "opera musician". Even after Telemann's departure, Kuhnau could not regain the performers he had lost to the opera.
Telemann left Leipzig in 1705 to become Kapellmeister for the court of Count Erdmann II in Sorau (now Zary, Poland). Here he acquainted himself with the French style of Lully and Campra, composing many overtures and suites in his two years at the post. An invasion of Germany by Sweden forced Count Erdmann's court to evacuate the castle. Telemann apparently visited Paris in 1707; and was later appointed as a leader of the singers at the court in Eisenach, where he met Johann Sebastian Bach. The major position of Telemann's life was his appointment in 1721 as musical director of the five main churches in Hamburg, a position he would hold for the rest of his life. Here Telemann wrote two cantatas for each Sunday, as well as other sacred music for special occasions, all while teaching singing and music theory and directing another collegium musicum, which gave weekly or bi-weekly performances. Telemann also directed the local opera house for a few years, but this proved a financial failure.
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Yes, 49ers linebacker Patrick Willis has a slight fracture in his right hand. No, it's not a concern for the team or the player.
Per a league source, all current indications are that Willis will be fine, despite the reported discovery of a fracture in his hand during Thursday X-rays. Willis injured the hand on Wednesday, during practice.
"Fine" may not mean "able to play in the preseason," but that's not a huge blow. Especially since it ensures Willis won't get injured in any meaningless games.


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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by hofo, Jan 28, 2013.
Besides screaming *shit mult* and posting a bunch of useless gifs?
No. Never.
Schmoopy abuses substance.
Not a fan of the left
Another thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does this matter in the long run?
Just watch the retards line up trying to feel better about their life Schmoop.
The shit mults are the cool kids living life in the fast lane.
They're better looking than us, have better jobs than us and have tons of sex!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Schmoopy wins again
They're always the life of the party too.
Was there ever any doubt?
No need. You're quiet about your sitch, but I can probably guess it sucks. Schmoops works a vacuum store. Below average looks and zero wit. Well....
Winner Winner Schmoopy Dinner
The shit mult typed "situation" as "sitch." I had to look that up.
Don't make me post a pic of your game room!


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|2012-05-07, 07:39
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Don't Call Me Bro
|2012-05-07, 07:58
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Tumble Rumble
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Imagination Land
Age: 34
I wasn't playing her in ranked, so I usually just create really strange builds for her. Like if I was building her normally I would pick up a bloodthirster mid game. Its hard to fail on Fiora top lane, so I dont see why I can't make strange builds if im doing well . Tiamat Tuesdays everyday
|2012-05-07, 08:06
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Athens (GMT+2)
Age: 29
Tiamat is one of the most underused items in the game, that's for sure It can be fun on slow farmers or your occasional jungler, but it takes up sooo many slots until the final item and all of its effects are overshadowed by BF sword or philo/meki/whatever. If I had to compare it to TriForce, the latter is made up of items which are unique in their own way: MS boost from zeal is the cheapest thing next to boots, sheen is...well, sheen, and phage is a staple item for any melee who doesn't get red.
All that being said, I heard that tomorrow is Tiamat Tuesday!!
|2012-05-07, 08:21
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Tumble Rumble
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Imagination Land
Age: 34
I just played a bot game AD Kennen using Ionic Spark, so hilarous.
|2012-05-07, 11:08
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: FL, USA
Age: 31
Also I decided to buy Udyr after trying his boots/phoenix jungle start I am liking him a bit more.
And on Skin Sales I'd like to see Ionian Master Yi go on sale, I've been debating buying it for months.
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Location: FL, USA
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Pshaw, no one wields destruction better with Tiamat than Twitch. Thank god they nerfed him, because after pre-nerf Twitch got IE + Tiamat (no need for PD as Ambush + Spray almost maxes his AS back then), you pretty much auto-lose every team fight. And even now, Tiamat Twitch is a force to be reckoned with... it's just so damn rare because its so hard to get fed with Twitch now due to him losing practically any bottom lane match up.
As for Tank Riven... I dunno, she can't really do the role of a tank when her initiation is so poor. 1s stun and maybe half second knock up is still relatively easy to get out of.
Assassin or tanky dps, Riven works though. But dear god, don't play main tank with her.
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Watched a few Varus games, they do a better job at showcasing his skills and synergy with champions than Phreak's spotlight. He is very farm-friendly thanks to his passive increasing his AS for every kill and complements ganks well, for the same reason. AoE grievous wounds killed a lot of ranged carries with heals, but since he is built as a glass cannon, he is little more than a wraith in front of a farmed Veigar. Ultimate's kinda sucky; good damage, strong CC but very hard to latch onto enemies as it sticks out from a mile away and its tether is easy to break.
Now that Shyvana's sexy skin is on sale, I bought her What's the most effective way to jungle her? Boots/pots, cloth/pots, vamp scepter, regrowth pendant? Go for Q or W at LV1? Currently building her with merc treads, wriggle's, mallet, atma's, sunfire cape, wit's end, not in that particular order. Lacking CDR, although she doesn't really neeeed it but it would be cool to have burnout always on.
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I start her with boots and 3x health pots, but a lot of people start her with cloth. Its up to you, boots for aggressive early game, cloth for longer stay in the jungle, which I am sure you know. I feel the most effective way is boots. Picking up Merc treads after Wriggles then Wit's, somewhere inbetween those items I pick up Heart of Gold. After that it depends on what you need, tanky or dps. If unsure pick up Frozen Mallet. Summoner spells I use are Exhaust and Smite.
Max burnout asap pick it up at lvl 1. Pick up twin bite at lvl 2 and max at 13.
No comment on Varus, havn't seen enough of him yet.
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Played as Varus twice (once as AD, once as AS/AP on-hit). First of all, he has a sick attack animation His skills are good but suffer from extreme cooldowns early on (mage-style 18 seconds on hail of arrows), he can pick up kills with ease thanks to Q's amazing range. My first game was pretty much right-click to win with a few well-placed E's here and there and pretty snipes through jungle walls. Chain of corruption is more effective than I gave it credit for in TF, mass root from a distance feels like you're throwing Amumu instead. Q damage is worth noting, as is his passive's speed. Farmed 76 creeps in 10' @bot, I usually get 56~64.
On-hit Varus was very interesting, started off maxing his blight damage and it was insane :O Kinda like playing Vayne, but with more damage and longer distance procs. After picking up the shredder stuff (Malady/wit's end/madred's), Varus could kill any champion with a 1-2 combo. Ran flash/cleanse. I can totally see him getting nerfed.
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who faces aggravated pimping charges in France, will serve as an economic adviser for Serbia's top officials, the Balkan country's deputy prime minister said.
Aleksandar Vucic told state television late Thursday that Strauss-Kahn will advise him and Serbia's prime minister and finance minister on restructuring the country's large foreign debt.
Vucic, a powerful Serbian politician, asserted that the charges against Strauss-Kahn did not tarnish his reputation as a financial expert. To claim they have, Vucic said, would be as illogical as saying Pablo Picasso's abilities as a painter should be judged by his unfair treatment of some of the women and children in his life.
The French case revolves around an alleged hotel prostitution ring and hinges on whether Strauss-Kahn knew he was partying with prostitutes and whose money was used to pay them. His lawyers have said Strauss-Kahn had attended "libertine" gatherings but did not know that some women there were paid.
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From the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a devastating accident that ruined her knees sprang a new reason to live for Debra Lampley.
From the heartbreaking loss of her mother and a devastating accident that ruined her knees sprang a new reason to live for Debra Lampley.
The 59-year-old Southmont resident volunteers an unheard of 32 hours per week at Carolina Cancer Services. And while her coworkers sing her praises, she brushes it off, vowing she receives so much more from volunteering than she gives.
Lampley, who moved here with her parents when she was 13, went to work at Lexington Furniture Industries soon after high school like many Lexingtonians used to when the factories were the largest employers in the county. She figured she would spend her entire career working in the factory, but trade agreements signed in Washington sent her job and most of her coworkers' jobs to China in the mid-2000s.
"I was trying to find another job, but all I heard over and over is 'You have to have an education to get a job now,'" she said. "So I went back to school at Davidson County Community College and then when I graduated all I heard was 'You have to have experience to get a job.' Well how do you get experience if no one will hire you?"
The unlucky situation of not finding a job turned out to be a blessing, she said. Soon her mother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, and she was needed to care for her mother and drive her to all of her doctor's appointments. About the same time, Lampley fell down a flight of stairs at her home, messing up her knees badly. It was so bad, she was eventually placed on disability.
"I wanted to work. I wanted something to do, but I needed a job where I could sit down because of my knees," she said.
Well a job didn't come her way, but the opportunity to volunteer at Carolina Cancer Services did in May 2011. Her daughter, Lori Triplette, who is a fundraiser on a local American Cancer Society Relay for Life team, heard that Carolina Cancer Services needed a volunteer receptionist for a few hours once a week. Lampley jumped at the chance, and her once a week volunteering turned into three days a week on her second week of volunteering. For the past 1 1/2 years, she has been volunteering at the agency for 32 hours each week.
Lampley is the agency's intake and quality services coordinator. She interviews Davidson County residents to see if they qualify for financial assistance during their cancer treatments to buy prescriptions, pay for gas to reach the appointments and other needs. The agency also provides support groups, educational information, wigs, scarves, hats, bras, Ensure and other items people battling cancer may need.
"I have been with nonprofit agencies longer than you have been alive," said new Executive Director Gary Drake. "And in all my years, I have never had a volunteer give 32 hours a week."
Ray Nance Howell IV, the newly named director of patient services, added that he knows of no agencies in town that have a volunteer who gives so much time.
"She really is the heart and soul of our clients," he said. "We are undergoing a transition, but she is the stability. We're able to continue the mission even while undergoing change."
For Lampley, she said the long hours are worth it when she is able to see relief on a client's face because the agency will help them with gas money to travel to appointments or treatments, or help them pay for a prescription they could never afford.
"I just love doing this," she said.
"She embodies the spirit of the season," chimed in Howell, referring to Christmas.
When not volunteering, Lampley loves to read action/romance novels and spend time with her family. She is married to Donald Lampley, and they have a daughter and son, Don, along with four grandchildren and another on the way. The family loves gathering to eat, play Wii, cornhole and just be together.
"I have had people say, "Why do you do this? You don't get paid.' I say, 'Yes, I do.' Every time I help someone with travel expenses or another need, and I see the relief on their face, I get paid. I try to remember what it was like when I walked that trip with my mom. I try to give them what I wanted for her."
Jill Doss-Raines is the lifestyles editor at The Dispatch. She can be reached at 249-3981, ext. 219, or at email@example.com.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. - June 22, 2009 - /PRNewswire/ - The National Minority Quality Forum today launched a groundbreaking HIV/AIDS Atlas (http://www.MapHIV.org) that highlights the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in communities across the United States. The Atlas makes information on HIV/AIDS prevalence rates available in a single location for the first time, painting a comprehensive picture of the varying intensity of the epidemic across the country.
The HIV/AIDS Atlas is being released in advance of National HIV Testing Day (June 27), to highlight the growing need for increased HIV screening efforts in communities that are suffering disproportionately from the disease. Currently, 20 percent of HIV-positive Americans-approximately 220,000 individuals-are unaware of their infection. People with undiagnosed HIV infection are not receiving life-saving therapies, and it is estimated that they may unknowingly transmit up to 70 percent of new infections in the United States.
"We began this project with a desire to fill a fundamental gap in public access to HIV/AIDS information," said Gary Puckrein, Ph.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Minority Quality Forum. "Mapping the disease made visible health disparity zones around the country. It is an important step in increasing awareness and stemming the tide of the epidemic. Now that we can see more clearly where the problem is, we can improve data collection and analysis, prevention initiatives, early diagnosis and routine testing efforts in the hardest hit communities."
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Using cutting-edge technology, the National Minority Quality Forum developed the HIV/AIDS Atlas from data provided by HIV/AIDS surveillance branches within state and territorial departments of health in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and New York City. The Atlas presents county-level prevalence rates based on the reported numbers of people living with HIV (non-AIDS) and AIDS in 2006. Users of the Atlas can map available data in multiple ways, including by age, gender and race/ethnicity. They can also view their congressional and state legislative districts overlaid on the county-level HIV/AIDS prevalence maps.
This is the first edition of what the National Minority Quality Forum plans to be an evolving tool. Upcoming versions of the HIV/AIDS Atlas may include: revised HIV/AIDS information from national, state and local HIV/AIDS surveillance departments; a greater representation of county- and zip code-level data; and information about the locations of HIV-testing centers, by zip code and county, among other features.
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HIV/AIDS is a serious public health threat in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the U.S., and data released last year show that the annual number of new HIV infections is approximately 40 percent higher than previously estimated, with more than 56,000 infections occurring each year. In an effort to prevent new HIV cases and allow for timely initiation of therapy among those living with the disease, CDC issued new guidelines for HIV screening in 2006, which recommend that HIV tests be a routine part of medical care for all persons ages 13 to 64. Earlier this year, the White House and CDC launched a landmark five-year HIV/AIDS public-awareness campaign, "Act Against AIDS," which will provide information about testing and prevention. It is the first campaign of its kind in more than a decade.
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A long, devastating war between humanity and Kaiju (giant, city crushing monsters) is brought to an end when a human woman named Margaret Rosenblatt (Dana Delany), and the king of the Kaiju, Belloc (Kevin Michael Richardson) fell in love. Their union also brings about a son named Duncan (Jesse Head). We'll pretend we aren't thinking about the logistics of that union. Duncan and his mother are obvious persons of interest for various world governments, and are placed in a sort of witness protection program in hopes of providing Duncan with a relatively normal childhood. The boy's orange skin and scales don't help his situation. At the age of sixteen Duncan starts life at a new high school, and makes new friends and enemies in the process. Meanwhile, his father decides to become a bigger part of his life, and introduces Duncan to the prospect of him inheriting the leadership of the Kaiju kingdom someday.
Cartoon Network's Firebreather generally matches the studio's usual stand-alone movie quality standards, which is to say it's perfectly entertaining, but not very good. This is a continuing bone of contention, since the station's regular series continue to impress with very few exceptions. Firebreather's problems start at its basic script. There's not a lot of novelty in the story setup, which includes bits of the Superman, Spider-Man (it has a lot in common with both the MTV animated Spider-Man series, and the Spider-Man inspired Batman Beyond series) and X-Men mythos. It reminds me the most of Walking Dead writer Robert Kirkman's more charmingly derivative Invincible, who according to the wiki actually crosses over with Firebreather at one point in the comics. Since pretty much every comic book property floating around waiting for a screen adaptation is derivative in one way or another, the bigger problem is that there isn't much else to the characters, and a 69 minute run time isn't enough to build this mythology and these characters, so both end up thinly constructed.
The film is directed by animation prodigy Peter Chung, the man that invented MTV's thoroughly strange shorts turned regular series Aeon Flux. Chung's design and expressionistic direction can also be scene in Matriculated from The Animatrix, Dark Fury, the Chronicles of Riddick prequel, and Reign: The Conqueror. Chung's films are often sexually aggressive, and brimming with abstract and psychologically grotesque concepts. Firebreather represents his first work in family friendly entertainment since his character design on Rugrats, and his first exclusive 3D CG animation. Sadly, the animation here is pretty stiff, and the characters feature all the life of moving action figures. Chung's weirdo style, which includes gawky, skinny, spider-like humans, comes through in CG, but the lack of budget means the characters don't move as fluidly as Aeon Flux. The character designs also feature a lot less detail than their 2D counterparts, and don't have much going on in terms of facial expression. Chung overdoes the floating camera and random dutch angles, but his action scenes are generally dynamic and entertaining, even if they aren't much more exciting than the average, decently budgeted video game cut scene.
This 1080p Blu-ray disc transfer effectively showcases both the film's biggest visual shortcomings and achievements. Modern computer generated animation tends to look better than even the best decade old material, but a comparatively low budget will always rear its head in some form or another. The overall smoothness, which is partially a stylistic choice but also clearly a money saver, leads to a general lack of fine detail, and I'm pretty sure the DVD version will look basically the same in this regard. Duncan's scales, his jacket, and Belloc's rock-like skin are among the more impressive textures. These all stand up to some pretty tough eyeballing, and suffer only minor digital artifacts. The colour quality is vibrant and relatively clean, and there aren't any jagged or halo stricken edges, but the colour blends are too often blocky.
For an action flick from the studio that brings us the aurally explosive weekly Star Wars: The Clone Wars series, Firebreather isn't doesn't feature a particularly overwhelming or aggressive soundtrack. Overall there isn't a lot worth complaining about with this Dolby TrueHD 5.1 track, but there isn't a whole lot to celebrate either. There just isn't much in the way of layers to the sound, especially any scene that doesn't involve a lot of Kaiju fighting action. This empty sound pallet just feeds the whole low budget problem, and the volume levels don't help. There are a few expressive action scenes, the Kaiju feet create some effective LFE rumble, but the more point of view based shots (one of Chung's trademarks) don't really engulf the viewer at all. Between this and the Venture Bros. season four release I'm suspecting that perhaps WB is just sticking a TrueHD label on compressed Dolby Digital tracks for their animation releases.
The disc's extras are pretty weak, but do cover the visual development process. These start with a deleted scene, which is surprisingly shown as a completed product (00:50, HD). This leads into a 2D animation test directed by Chung that matches his normal style much more closely, and is frankly a more interesting looking product (1:30, HD). There are also four animatics, and three visual development galleries ('Firebreather: The Comic', character designs for 2D and character designs for CG).
Firebreather is a solid piece of base level entertainment, but I'm not too excited about a possible series following this standalone release. I've heard good things about the comic it's based on, but this CG movie doesn't do quite enough to endear me to the characters, or interest me in their further adventures. This Blu-ray release is about average, with some minor video gaffes, a compressed sounding Dolby TrueHD soundtrack, and precious few extra features.
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I enjoyed the comic. It's not award-winning material but it's good fun. I was confused by this release because I wasn't sure it was related to the comic. The difference in his skin is hardly noticeable and where did the wings go?
I'd consider picking this up if he looked more like this:
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I think this could of worked if it was live-action. And a ton of visual effects work..
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Disc Details
Release Date: 22nd March 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 English
Subtitles: English
Extras: Deleted Scene, Animation Tests, Development Galleries
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Peter Chung
Cast: Jesse Head, Kevin Michael Richardson, Amy Davidson, Tia Texada, Grey DeLisle
Genre: Adventure and Animation
Length: 69 minutes
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