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The Mizzou Fan's Survival Guide to the SEC

Author : Ron Higgins

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 13,76 MB

Release : 2012-06-15

Category : College sports

ISBN : 9781935806288

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As a Mizzou fan, you have been to the same Big 12 Conference locales, from Lubbock to Lincoln, for years. You have known the long-standing traditions, the can't-miss restaurants, the best bars. It's a comfortable feeling, similar to your dislike of Kansas. Then you wake up on November 7, 2011, to the announcement that the Tigers are switching leagues, jumping into the snake pit called the Southeastern Conference! And they are doing it starting the 2012 football season. Your mind shifts into overdrive, considering questions about the SEC, your new athletic universe, such as: Is Fayetteville, AR at the end of the earth? No, but you can see the end from there. Why do I need earplugs when I visit Starkville, MS? Because the SEC deemed it legal for Mississippi State fans to ring their beloved cowbells whenever the ball is not in play. Who's the biggest figure in SEC football history, Alabama coach Bear Bryant or Florida quarterback Tim Tebow? It's a draw. Both have their own statues outside their respective stadiums. Does the Tennessee band know how to play any song but "Rocky Top?" No, they play it repeatedly until you throw yourself off the top of Neyland Stadium. The Mizzou Fan's Survival Guide to the SEC is your shortcut to instantly and easily navigating the most competitive and hardest-partying college conference in the nation. Be prepared for the brave new world of the SEC.



The Aggie Fan's Survival Guide to the SEC

Author : Ron Higgins

Publisher :

Page : 196 pages

File Size : 43,51 MB

Release : 2012-09-19

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 9781935806400

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It’s an exciting and confusing time to be a Texas A&M Aggie fan. You’re pumped because your school is joining the Southeastern Conference, a league so powerful that a school that didn’t even win its division in football in 2011 ended up winning the National Championship. You’re in a tizzy because without longtime rival Texas on your schedule as a fellow conference member, you don’t know which SEC school to dislike as much as the Longhorns. Could it be LSU? What about Alabama or Auburn? You might also have questions like: • How do you get your name on a stadium in the SEC? You win 72 of 74 home games for your career, like Alabama coach Bear Bryant did in the Tide’s Bryant-Denny Stadium. • What causes lights to flicker in Starkville? It’s when Mississippi State turns on its Davis-Wade Stadium video replay board, the fourth largest in the nation. With a board that big (112 feet wide, 48 feet high) in one of the smaller SEC stadiums (55,082 capacity), it’s like having a big screen TV in a double wide. • Was former Florida star Tim Tebow the first SEC quarterback ever to kneel and pray? No. Vanderbilt quarterbacks, not blessed with adequate pass protection, have been kneeling and praying for decades. The Aggie Fan’s Survival Guide to the SEC is your roadmap to winning the party, even if you don’t win the game, in the nation’s biggest, baddest, most competitive college athletic conference north of the equator.



100 Things Missouri Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die

Author : Dave Matter

Publisher : Triumph Books

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 35,42 MB

Release : 2018-09-04

Category : Sports & Recreation

ISBN : 1641251182

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Most Tigers fans have taken in a game or two at the Zou, have seen highlights of "Mister Magic" Willie Smith, and remember the 2002 and 2009 Elite Eight appearances. But only real fans know the Civil-War roots of the "Tigers" nickname, the significance of Al Abram, and can name the football and basketball stars who went on to be Hall of Fame players. 100 Things Missouri Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource for true fans of the Missouri Tigers. Whether you're a die-hard booster from the days of Dan Devine or a recent supporter of the team, these are the 100 things every fan needs to know and do in their lifetime. Tigers writer Dave Matter has collected every essential piece of Tigers knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.



Nuclear War Survival Skills

Author : Cresson H. Kearny

Publisher : Skyhorse

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 28,15 MB

Release : 2016-01-19

Category : Medical

ISBN : 1510702059

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A field-tested guide to surviving a nuclear attack, written by a revered civil defense expert. This edition of Cresson H. Kearny’s iconic Nuclear War Survival Skills (originally published in 1979), updated by Kearny himself in 1987 and again in 2001, offers expert advice for ensuring your family’s safety should the worst come to pass. Chock-full of practical instructions and preventative measures, Nuclear War Survival Skills is based on years of meticulous scientific research conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Featuring a new introduction by ex-Navy SEAL Don Mann, this book also includes: instructions for six different fallout shelters, myths and facts about the dangers of nuclear weapons, tips for maintaining an adequate food and water supply, a foreword by “the father of the hydrogen bomb,” physicist Dr. Edward Teller, and an “About the Author” note by Eugene P. Wigner, physicist and Nobel Laureate. Written at a time when global tensions were at their peak, Nuclear War Survival Skills remains relevant in the dangerous age in which we now live.



Guide for All-Hazard Emergency Operations Planning

Author : Kay C. Goss

Publisher : DIANE Publishing

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 40,31 MB

Release : 1998-05

Category :

ISBN : 078814829X

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Meant to aid State & local emergency managers in their efforts to develop & maintain a viable all-hazard emergency operations plan. This guide clarifies the preparedness, response, & short-term recovery planning elements that warrant inclusion in emergency operations plans. It offers the best judgment & recommendations on how to deal with the entire planning process -- from forming a planning team to writing the plan. Specific topics of discussion include: preliminary considerations, the planning process, emergency operations plan format, basic plan content, functional annex content, hazard-unique planning, & linking Federal & State operations.



The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

Author : Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.

Page : 692 pages

File Size : 28,57 MB

Release : 2011-05-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1616405414

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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.



Roundabouts

Author : Lee August Rodegerdts

Publisher : Transportation Research Board

Page : 407 pages

File Size : 41,88 MB

Release : 2010

Category : Technology & Engineering

ISBN : 0309155118

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TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 672: Roundabouts: An Informational Guide - Second Edition explores the planning, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of roundabouts. The report also addresses issues that may be useful in helping to explain the trade-offs associated with roundabouts. This report updates the U.S. Federal Highway Administration's Roundabouts: An Informational Guide, based on experience gained in the United States since that guide was published in 2000.



A Stolen Life

Author : Jaycee Dugard

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 293 pages

File Size : 20,75 MB

Release : 2012-07-03

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1451629192

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A revelatory memoir about a young woman whose life was stolen when she was kidnapped in 1991 and remained an object of captivity for 18 years.



Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys

Author : Kate Brian

Publisher : Simon and Schuster

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 44,46 MB

Release : 2008-06-23

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN : 1439107688

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When she was nine, Megan Meade met a group of terrible, mean, Popsicle-goo-covered boys, the sons of her father's friend -- the McGowan boys. Now, seven years later, Megan's army doctor parents are shipping off to Korea and Megan is being sent to live with the little monsters, who are older now and quite different than she remembered them. Living in a house with seven boys will give Megan, who has never even been kissed, the perfect opportunity to learn everything there is to know about boys. And she'll send all her notes to her best friend, Tracy, in... Megan Meade's Guide to the McGowan Boys Observation #1: Being an army brat sucks. Except that this is definitely a better alternative to moving to Korea. Observation #2: Forget evil, laughing, little monsters. These guys have been touched by the Abercrombie gods. They are a blur of toned, suntanned perfection. Observation #3: I need a lock on my door. STAT. Observation #4: Three words: six-pack abs. Observation #5: Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a hazmat team. Seriously. Observation #6: These boys know how to make enemies. Big time. Megan Meade will have to juggle a new school, a new family, a new crush -- on the boy next door, as in next bedroom door -- and a new life. Will she survive the McGowan boys?



China's Influence and American Interests

Author : Larry Diamond

Publisher : Hoover Press

Page : 223 pages

File Size : 41,30 MB

Release : 2019-08-01

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0817922865

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While Americans are generally aware of China's ambitions as a global economic and military superpower, few understand just how deeply and assertively that country has already sought to influence American society. As the authors of this volume write, it is time for a wake-up call. In documenting the extent of Beijing's expanding influence operations inside the United States, they aim to raise awareness of China's efforts to penetrate and sway a range of American institutions: state and local governments, academic institutions, think tanks, media, and businesses. And they highlight other aspects of the propagandistic “discourse war” waged by the Chinese government and Communist Party leaders that are less expected and more alarming, such as their view of Chinese Americans as members of a worldwide Chinese diaspora that owes undefined allegiance to the so-called Motherland.Featuring ideas and policy proposals from leading China specialists, China's Influence and American Interests argues that a successful future relationship requires a rebalancing toward greater transparency, reciprocity, and fairness. Throughout, the authors also strongly state the importance of avoiding casting aspersions on Chinese and on Chinese Americans, who constitute a vital portion of American society. But if the United States is to fare well in this increasingly adversarial relationship with China, Americans must have a far better sense of that country's ambitions and methods than they do now.