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Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen and Tiger Woods—oh my!
These celebrities and many more hold a special place in the hearts of E!'s very own After Lately cast, who, in the Thanksgiving spirit (and the fact that their show returns Sunday with special guest starJenny McCarthy!), shared the celebrity scandals they're thankful for this holiday season with us.
So who is thankful for Hugh Hefner? And who's loving Kiefer Sutherland? Read on...
Brad Wollack: "I am most thankful for the Lindsay Lohan debacle. Her constant mistakes are ensuring that I won't be the most embarrassing ginger out there."
Heather McDonald: "The celebrity scandal I am most thankful for is the whole Tiger Woods nightmare. When it got up to 14 women, all VIP hostesses and what not, and then one woman from the Waffle House who clearly didn't match the others, I realized Tiger had a real problem if he couldn't even get through a Rooty Tooty Fresh N' Fruity without boning the person serving it."
Josh Wolf: "The celebrity scandal I am most thankful for is the Charlie Sheen fiasco. It goes to show that you can do all the drugs you want, have sex with all the random women you want, lock people in bathrooms all you want—and as long as you apologize you'll still be able to find work."
Chris Franjola: "The scandal I am most thankful for is...Hugh Hefner being left at the altar by his 25-year-old fiancée. My hope for all of us this holiday season is that no one has to live in a world where an 85-year-old man and his 25-year-old girlfriend can't make it work. Mr. Hefner if you don't have anywhere to go this Thanksgiving, I have an extra seat at my table and just for you."
Sarah Colonna: "I will be forever thankful for every time Keifer Sutherland fell down, jumped on a hotel lobby Christmas tree or sat in a restaurant booth with his pants around his ankles. It's a nice reminder there's someone out there for me."
Don't miss the premiere of After Lately Sunday at 11 p.m. on E! and don't forget to share the celebrity scandal you're most thankful for in the comments!


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This is so sad. An 18-year-old South Carolina student was killed in a car crash on Thursday. He died on a stretch of road that was named after his father, a local soldier who was killed in Afghanistan.
Aaron Shawn Hill and three of his classmates were driving along Sergeant Shawn F. Hill Memorial Highway when they were hit head-on by a 2004 Chevrolet pick-up, reports the Spartanburg Herald Journal. Aaron was behind the wheel.
According to a statement from the Spartanburg County Coroner's Office, the Byrnes High School student was pronounced dead at the scene. He was wearing his seat belt. The other passengers in his car survived with injuries and were taken to a local hospital.
The section of Highway 129 where Aaron died was named after his father over two years ago. Sgt. Hill served the National Guard for 12 years until he was killed in Afghanistan when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb.
"(Aaron) was a good kid, a happy kid," Sheriff Chuck Wright, who knew the 18-year-old personally, said. "His family has been through a lot. It's very tragic."

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Peanut butter cover-up costs teachers their jobs
It was a cover-up that led to the hasty departure of two special education teachers from Millard Public Schools' Walt Disney Elementary School last year.
The teachers spun "a web of deceit," as one state official put it, to cover up after one of them allowed a student with a peanut allergy to taste a peanut butter sandwich during a class activity.
The fifth-grade boy broke out in an itchy rash and his eyes swelled, according to documents made public as part of a formal state complaint challenging their credentials to continue teaching in Nebraska.
The documents indicate that the teachers misled the boy's parents and school administrators about how the boy came into contact with peanut butter.
The teachers owned up to the deception several days later after a student-teacher at Disney notified her college adviser about the incident and the college contacted the Millard Public Schools, the documents indicate. Both teachers resigned.
Three paraprofessionals also left employment at the school after the incident.
A lawyer representing the teachers could not be reached for comment Monday.
The circumstances surrounding the April 18, 2012, incident were largely kept secret until state disciplinary proceedings against the teachers reached the decision point.
Based on a state investigation, the Nebraska Professional Practices Commission has recommended revoking for one year the teaching certificates of Keri Watkins and Ann Gigstad, who are no longer with the district.
The Nebraska Board of Education will consider approving that recommendation Tuesday.
Commission members ruled that Nebraska Education Commissioner Roger Breed had proved by a preponderance of evidence that Watkins and Gigstad "failed to be truthful" when questioned by Millard administrators.
Nebraska Administrative Code states that an educator shall not make any fraudulent statement or fail to disclose a material fact for which the educator is responsible.
Brian Halstead, assistant education commissioner and general counsel for the Nebraska Department of Education, told commissioners at a March hearing that when educators work with children, "parents are our partners.
"They deserve to know the truth also, even if they are difficult to deal with," he said.
Under Halstead's questioning, Gigstad testified that Watkins told her she saw the boy put the sandwich in his mouth and spit it out.
She said the two teachers decided not to tell the mother there was peanut butter in the classroom. Instead, documents show, the two teachers decided to say the boy may have contacted the substance in the lunchroom.
"That's the lie that continued to be told, right?" Halstead asked during questioning.
"Yes," Gigstad said.
Gigstad testified that Watkins had come to her at lunch "flustered" and said she had forgotten that the boy had a peanut allergy.
"I can't. I can't tell his mom. I can't tell," Gigstad recounted Watkins telling her.
She said the two had made a quick decision that they really didn't think through and now regret.
Rick Wade, an attorney from Lincoln representing both teachers, told commissioners that the student's health needs were "never in jeopardy."
"They were never ignored," he said. "There was never any risk of harm to that particular student."
The teachers took him to the nurse, and the boy's mom picked him up, he said.
"The problem," Wade said, "was the full disclosure or lack of full disclosure by Ms. Gigstad and Ms. Watkins."
Wade did not return calls from The World-Herald on Monday. Before the commissioners, he described Gigstad as a kind and compassionate teacher, citing a recommendation letter the district provided her as part of her severance agreement. In the letter, Millard Assistant Superintendent Jim Sutfin described her as hardworking and an "active leader" with good evaluations — he did not mention the incident.
A student teacher in Watkins' class told investigators that Watkins hid the trash that contained the material from the peanut butter lesson. The sandwiches were part of an alphabet lesson on the letter S.
The state report said that the peanut butter and other supplies from the activity had been discarded in a diaper pail.
The student teacher said Watkins and Gigstad told her and several paraeducators who worked in the rooms not to say anything about what happened.
Gigstad testified that she never told them to lie, only to let Watkins answer questions about it because she was the teacher.
Watkins did not testify at the hearing.
Wade and Halstead both told the commission they believed that Watkins had not been employed in K-12 education since the incident,.
Gigstad is employed as a special education teacher in the Atlantic Public Schools in Atlantic, Iowa.
She told investigators that she has disclosed the matter and pending state discipline in Nebraska to her new employer.
Gigstad was certified to teach in Iowa before coming to Nebraska, the documents say.
This is reprehensible. At school, the allergies for each our of kids are listed on a piece of paper at the front of classroom (my daughters name it up there but since it's an antibiotic, I'll be a tad surprised if she's ever given it at school). But, I've made it a point to make sure that I do not include any of the items in her lunch or breakfast which could cause any of the kids to have an allergic reaction. And, my DD LOVES peanut butter and strawberries. Her best friend is deathly allergic to strawberries. We save them for home.
You know - even if you don't believe that kids have allergies, why would you even want to take the smallest chance with someone else's child like that???? I just don't understand.
That sandwich sounds delish! :)
The story is just awful! Poor kid! My kids aren't allergic to anything we know about. However, I'm amazed every time I've brought a treat for girl and cub scouts, classrooms, or sports teams, I'm the only parent who ever asks if there are any food allergies. I guess people don't think about it. I do, and my kids don't have allergies.
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This is reprehensible. At school, the allergies for each our of kids are listed on a piece of paper at the front of classroom (my daughters name it up there but since it's an antibiotic, I'll be a tad surprised if she's ever given it at school). But, I've made it a point to make sure that I do not include any of the items in her lunch or breakfast which could cause any of the kids to have an allergic reaction. And, my DD LOVES peanut butter and strawberries. Her best friend is deathly allergic to strawberries. We save them for home.
You know - even if you don't believe that kids have allergies, why would you even want to take the smallest chance with someone else's child like that???? I just don't understand.
Geesh. And people wonder why I won't send my child away to school all day to be cared for by whoever the state deems fit.
They are special education teachers. First line of the article.
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Hacking Paid Media: 5 Little Tweaks That Can Deliver Big
Paid media's importance lies in the fact that it is the one marketing channel that guarantees volume and timing. While it can become costly at times, implementing a few tricks and ideas can substantially increase the effectiveness of your paid SEM and display banner campaigns. By following these 5 tweaks and tactics, you will start getting more from your campaigns while still staying within your marketing budget.
Paid Media Is Important
Its ability to deliver and scale a brand's message to the right people at the right time is unmatched by any other form of advertising. While AdWords, Facebook Ads, and banner ad campaigns can deliver a lot of immediate and long-term value to a brand, the channel can become very costly as well – eating away at the budgets of beginner and experienced marketers alike. However, implementing a few quick tweaks and tactics to your overall paid media strategy can help you drive down your costs and earn more value from your media buying initiatives.
To get the most out of your efforts, understand and internally define these three factors of your paid media:
- Targeting – Who should see the ads?
- Messaging – What should the ads say?
- Goals – What needs to be achieved?
Once these three factors have been defined based on your efforts, you can add to and tweak your current campaigns' targeting and messaging to help you reach your defined goals. Below are five targeting, messaging, and goal defining tactics that can help you, the online marketer, find new successes with paid media. Let's jump in!
1. Target Keywords Of Your Industry's Biggest Events
Attending industry tradeshows and events is crucial for many businesses. It provides a more personable way for businesses to connect with prospects, clients, and audiences that can't be done through email or social media channels. But people can only have so much networking volume in person. Using Adwords, brands can reach a large volume of a tradeshow's audience at a relatively low cost by targeting their industry's biggest events.
Greenbuild is perhaps the world's largest and most popular expo dedicated to green building. Thousands of deals can get started during its expo. So wouldn't it make sense for relevant companies to build interest around the event's keyword? Not yet, apparently:
The volume of search queries around Greenbuild will only increase as the event gets closer. At a very low competition and a high volume of searches, it makes sense for any green construction firm to advertise on this keyword.
Below you'll see that Marin Software took the initiative with the ad:tech New York event, perhaps the biggest online advertising and marketing event:
2. Iterate Creative Copy To Promote Your Brand's Earned Media Wins
If you were researching a product like KISSmetrics, would you click on an ad like this?
I definitely would.
Whether a product is earning positive media on Twitter, a small blog, or Mashable, any social proof can help move a brand's audience from thinking about converting to actually converting. Unfortunately, most of your earned media won't have the reach or volume to be able to influence all of the people who you'd like to be apparent to.
By using your paid media creatives to promote your latest earned media wins, you will give your earned media the reach that it's missing. Try using tweets for the copy and landing page of your Adwords ads, or having your display ads promote your big coverage pieces or favorite testimonials.
Examples from the wild:
Salesforce has committed an ad bombardment around its 2011 Dreamforce event, serving dozens of ads to promote it. This display ad particularly stood out, as it promotes its winning of the 2010 CRM Market Awards to display its legitimacy to those looking for new CRM solutions.
Evidon uses some of its big client wins to promote their service. Using logos of Akamai, The Media Kitchen, Mopar, and other brands as social proof, Evidon is effectively showing off their credibility and peaking its audience's interest.
3. Use Paid Media To Generate Earned Media
Your brand's starting to grow and you're acquiring some great customers and partners, and you're looking to keep this going. If your current customers truly are happy, they wouldn't have any qualms with referring you to people within their own network who can benefit from your services. The only problem is that asking for referrals can be tough. You want to make it easy for your customers, and you don't want to come off as needy or sound like you're begging for business.
Paid media can be used as an awesome and automated approach to help you generate some earned media and referral business. To do this the right way, your ad creatives and landing pages need to be positioned appropriately. Have the messaging of your ads promote your brand's values and use a call to action that promotes sharing. As for the landing pages, you can have your ads direct your audience to your social network of choice, with a pre-populated message that will help your audience spread your message to their own networks.
Here's a great example of this from TheGiveGive's Jeff Riddle:
Clicking on this ad will take users here, which pre-populates your tweet box with this message: ""Giving is good business" www.thegivegive.com via @thegivegive".
This can be applied on Linkedin and Facebook as well! Click the following links to check it out:
4. Retargeting Visitors Who Have Visited Important Webpages
If display and SEM are the bread and butter to your paid media initiatives, retargeting should be the meat of it. What you may already know is that retargeting shows ads to everyone who has visited your website but has left without converting. It is generally a much more cost effective way to drive conversions, since you're only spending your advertising dollars toward people who have already shown interest in your brand, and you're not spending any money toward developing an initial brand interest.
To retarget effectively, it's a best practice to show roughly 15 to 20 impressions to each of your unique visitors who haven't converted. However, sites with a small budget and a large amount of traffic may have a hard time allocating spend for retargeting. Naturally, an advertiser would attempt to combat this by starting with a smaller spend, but doing this will deliver sub-par results since the audience is being served less than 15 ads each month.
To fix this problem, start by retargeting visitors who have visited just one of your more important pages within your site (such as your pricing page), as opposed to your entire site. By doing so, you won't waste any money on retargeting a sub-optimal amount of impressions to all of your website's visitors. Instead, you'll be focusing an optimal amount of impressions to a smaller, but more active and conversion ready audience. This effectively lowers your spend and increases your performance.
5. Drive Activation
The whole point of advertising is to spread your message. Companies generally spend money on ads with the hopes of achieving or optimizing toward an ROI. This general use case involves using ads to drive relevant traffic back to their website. But this use case doesn't use paid media's guaranteed timing and volume to its full potential.
Contests are amazing ways to drive brand activation and recognition. The problem with online campaigns, however, is that they tend to require people to visit a brand's own internet real estate to partake in them. Using paid media, brands can activate a larger volume of people from real estate that the brand doesn't have to own.
The campaign (look at the ad in the bottom right corner):
Target ads to a relevant audience or retarget ads to your current audience, with messaging based around finding a secret ad to win something.
Pick a time to serve your secret ads, and gather your winners! Anyone who clicks on the winning ad should be sent to a landing page to claim their booty. Terminate the campaign once it's gathered a set number of winners. (Thanks to Chester French for the idea)
This not only drives your brand's recognition and activation, but it develops stronger relationships and loyalty with your brand's audience base. Ultimately, you'll receive all of the benefits of running a contest just from serving some ads.
While paid media can become a very costly marketing channel, its guaranteed timing and volume gives marketers a lot of hidden value to work with. From quick tweaks to unique ideas, paid media campaigns can be modified to start delivering more marketing value in many ways, while keeping its costs within current budgets.
Have you tried any of these tactics? Do you have any cool tips and ideas to add? Be sure to share your findings below, and don't hesitate to reach out to me and let me know how I can be helpful to you.
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Nice one Retargeting is where it is at!
I also like the bidding on seasonal or event keywords idea.
zeromomentoftruth.com/ has some good points on carrying the message through ad, landing page and onwards, keep delivering on initial promises. Too many people just send people to their standard homepage, get specific for different people and ads.
Interesting, Dan. I gotta check out the Zero Moment Of Truth.
Enjoy mate, my favorite video is from the landing page, the cupcake store owner who says online marketing was critical to her success. More offline businesses NEED to see this. It's from Google and no opt-in for anyone else interested.
Great article Samir!
Thank you for sharing!
Also, Dan´s suggestion is very valuable, I´ve downloaded ZMOT and will definitely be reading it in the next few days
Thanks for sharing the post.
Any data or research to support the claim "To retarget effectively, it's a best practice to show roughly 15 to 20 impressions to each of your unique visitors who haven't converted."


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You have probably often heard the phrases "the early bird gets the worm", or "Johnny on the spot" in regard to being eager and motivated and getting things accomplished. While being the early bird is a plus in many aspects, being too eager and not factoring in important details can mean that being first in line can pan out last. As an outdoor living space builder I get asked all the time during the first meeting to guess a ballpark figure of how much a project will cost. One of the worst things I can do is throw out a number. Here's why.
Archadeck of Central Georgia does all of our pricing through a computer and innovative software that dictates price through pricing models. These pricing models take into account the width, depth, height off the ground, shape and various material needs in each project we do. It is a very sophisticated, yet accurate process, and I am constantly amazed at how bad my guesses are once I have compared them with the computer results. I have been designing and building outdoor structures since 1999, and even with my background and experience I guess too high on one out of three quotes, too low on one out of three and in the ballpark ( but not a home run), with one in three! With this in mind, the worst thing I can do is guess at a price or set a homeowner's expectation on something I cannot deliver.
In our last story, we discussed how a design can dictate the price. The real question that needs to be addressed prior to throwing out any numbers is how much you want to spend on a project. Archadeck of Central GA ask three important questions prior to giving any quote to ensure the customer gets the space they want at the price they can afford.
Before you go to any car lot, you know if you are looking for a Chevy or a Lexus. Before you go shop for homes, you know whether you are looking for houses priced at $250,000 or 500,000 just to name a couple examples. You don't expect the Lexus dealer to give you a Chevy but you do need to know the range of investment and the level of quality you are seeking.
The three questions that any quality, experienced builder should ask their customer are:
#1) What do you want the project to look like?
#2) What function do you want to project to deliver?
#3) What is your economic investment? This ensures we can stay within the price range of what the homeowner is looking for.
In retrospect, if I am not able to get a homeowner to provide me with the answers to these three crucial questions, I typically do not get the work. It is however, not uncommon that there has to be some give and take on at least one of these areas. Archadeck of Central GA has built projects that are $4,000 and also projects in excess of $70,000, so we expect some grey areas. The purpose of getting a customer to answer these questions is important because it gets clients to think about their situation which helps them determine how much money they are willing to budget for a their project because that is the question I cannot answer for them.
When you are comparing prices from one project to the next, unless you have written specifications and a drawing, or rendering, as well as methodology of the intended construction, then it is hard to only compare price. In the commercial world of building and design, architects design to certain specifications. These specifications are sent out to those bidding on the jobs and each contractor involved has to compile and deliver a quote based on the same specifications. This method ensures the purchaser knows that they comparing apples to apples and can make a well-informed decision based on the price supplied by those quoting the project. In residential outdoor design, the homeowner rarely if ever hires an architect. Therefore the customer and builder must work together towards a common goal and the builder must have ways to articulate exactly what their project includes.
Before you decide to go with the contractor who is the quickest to quote your project,take heed and proceed with caution because the ultimate success and happiness of your outdoor living space project is all about communication and details- something the "Johnny on the spot" builder is not prepared to deliver.
Remember that no two outdoor living spaces are created equal. Having an outdoor structure specialist designing your space can actually help keep the prices lower enabling a more suitable design for your individual needs. If you are ready to learn more about how we can enhance your outdoor living experience and stay within your budget, contact Archadeck of Central GA today(478) 745 – 2000
You can see more examples of our versatile, high quality outdoor living spaces by visiting our decks photo gallery and our porches photo gallery located on our website.


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Scientists take unique measurement of exotic oxygen nucleusTheAllINeed.com
(NC&T/OU) The finding, published in Physical Review Letters, confirms a relatively new theoretical model that predicts dramatic changes in structure as one looks at heavier and heavier oxygen nuclei.
In the experiment, researchers measured a never-before-seen energy state of oxygen 23 � one of the heaviest oxygen isotopes that exist. "It was very exciting to see an experiment that was able to observe this (energy) state very close to where we predicted," said Alex Brown, a theorist involved in the shaping of the theory and professor at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory (NSCL) at Michigan State University, where the research was conducted.
Atomic nuclei are composed of protons and neutrons, only certain combinations of which can exist. Each element � determined by the number of protons in its nucleus � comes in a variety of flavors with different numbers of neutrons, creating isotopes. The search for the maximum number of neutrons that can fit into a given element's nucleus lies at the forefront of nuclear physics research.
Moving towards the limit of nuclear stability often leads to strange behavior, such as unexpected changes in nuclear structure.
|Andreas Schiller. (Photo: MSU/NSCL)
Schiller conducted the research while working as a visiting assistant professor at Michigan State University. He joined Ohio University this fall and is a member of the Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics and the Structure of the Universe project, both in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.
While oxygen 23 contains eight protons and 15 neutrons, stable form of oxygen, making up the bulk of the oxygen found on Earth, has only eight neutrons.
A few years ago, scientists tweaked an older version of the theory of atomic nuclei to try to explain some startling phenomena among the heavier oxygen isotopes. The new calculations predicted more dramatic changes in structure among the heavier oxygen isotopes than previously thought.
The experiment, which was conducted at NSCL, confirms that it is true.
Looking at the excited states of a nucleus � reached by adding extra energy into it � is a good way to understand the forces inside it, said Michael Thoennessen, associate director of nuclear science at NSCL and co-author of the paper.
The result paves the road to studying the neighboring oxygen 24 � the heaviest possible oxygen isotope.
Many more mysteries remain to be explored, physicists say. As many as 8,000 nuclei are predicted to exist, but so far only 2,000 have been observed.
The experiment, funded by the National Science Foundation, was the first to yield new information from two tailored NSCL tools, which came on line only recently. One device, the Modular Neutron Array, detects neutrons with high efficiency, and the other, the sweeper magnet, uses NSCL's superconducting magnet technology to allow a higher percentage of sought-after particles to pass.
These devices make it possible to explore isotopes farther towards the extreme edges of existence, by making experimental run times up to seven times shorter.
"Without them you couldn't do the experiments," Thoennessen said.
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Hey all, my guild is starting to work on 25 man heroic siege this week, I was looking for some help on the belt, but any advice for the fight will help.
First off, we have 4 hunters who are very geared, I was going to send them up everytime. From there we have 2 rogues, 2 warriors, an enhance, 2 ret pallies, and 1 DK.
I was thinking I would send the 4 hunters and 1 rogue up for every belt. Would this work? Could I send the same rogue? I've heard shadowstep is glitchy on this fight.
Also, what order do you guys recommend? As of right now I feel the guide from warcraft academy would work best for us. Is there any real reason to deviate?


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The Second in the Trilogy –
"Almost a thousand years into the future and humanity is enslaved. There appears to be no hope for freedom, merely survival. Can a plan set in motion hundreds of years ago save, not only humanity, but the rest of the galaxy?
A man invested with strange and exotic powers must work out their true purpose, where others have been unable to before.
A Novella of 18,000 words, this is a future science fiction story.
The second book in The Ark Project Trilogy.
This book is written in British English."
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7,000 people attend second day of GEF and GESS 2014
Held under the theme 'Education and the 21st Century: Skills, Opportunities and Challenges,' the 7th Annual Global Education Forum (GEF) and the Gulf Education Supplies and Solutions Exhibition (GESS) resumed yesterday (Wednesday, March 5, 2014) with an estimated 7,000 people including officials, educators, professionals, and industry leaders attending the event. On the second day of the forum, participants presented their research papers and attended workshops to talk about the current issues facing the global education industry.
The discussions centered on key subjects touching on technological empowerment; parent-student relationships and their role in the education sector and other challenges facing the education system. International achievements in terms of technology, teaching methods and other methodologies were also highlighted during the event. The forum provided learning opportunities to the UAE Government as it stepped up its efforts to achieve better and high-quality learning while adopting the industry's best practices.
Why go to school?
During his presentation titled 'Why Go to School?' Ewan McIntosh, CEO, NoTosh Limited, noted that "giving life to education" is one of the hardest challenges faced by many teachers today. The method revolves around delivering a comprehensive learning experience to the students. Many educators have adopted this practice by implementing 'Genius Hour,' which empowers students to explore their own passions by allocating 20 per cent of their time deciding what and how they want to learn.
What happens if we apply this step all the time and students become responsible for what they learn and how they want to learn it? They even determine when they want to learn and the process becomes a norm rather than an exception. How can the school principal contemplate this transformation? McIntosh answered these questions and shared some poignant stories he experienced while working in schools from around the globe like Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. These stories explained why students go to schools.
Enrollment and Acceptance
During a workshop titled 'The Student Admission List (Enrollment and Acceptance),' Mohammed Al Khumairi, Director of Specialized Schools, UAE Ministry of Education, explained the admissions guidance and procedures which will be adopted by UAE-based schools in April 2014. Based on the latest guidelines, registration will begin on March 1 up to the end of April 2014. Al Khumairi also talked about the new admission system which is specifically designed to be used by parents.
He added that some of the new amendments to the Student Admission List (Enrollment and Acceptance) are the following: age limit for admission is four years old; admission to Grade 1 at six completed years; raising compulsory education age to 18 years old; and compulsory education for all six-year-old male and female children until high school or until reaching the age of 18.
"The central list gives school officials the power regarding enrollment and acceptance of students. It covers all public and private schools, adult education, home education, and special needs education. In case of student transfer from a public school to a private school, or vice-versa, it shall be based on request by parent and in accordance with MOE requirements," Al Khumairi said.
He also explained the use of the ID Card Reader by installing the program into the computer to be activated and used by parents.
Effect of Games
Steven Stevenson, CEO & Founder of Savivo-Savivo, talked about 'The Effect of the Use of Games and Technologies on Education.' He reaffirmed that online learning has enabled customized learning where there is no need for classmates or peers. Children can go beyond the defined school boundaries and curricula to learn much more than what is provided while having fun and entertainment at the same time. Games and teaching were never this close before and that is exactly what this idea implies with two interesting challenges – Does virtual learning outperform traditional learning and what is the effect of using online educational games and technologies on the learning process of the child?
Nurturing the Gifted
Mariam Al Ghawi, Head of Management of the Gifted, Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Distinguished Academic Performance, talked about the education of gifted students which is recognized as one of the key educational priorities in the UAE. The organization has established a national plan to nurture the gifted with the aim of identifying their talents and supporting them all the way to reach the highest levels of success and therefore invest their capabilities towards the benefit of the country and work on developing them.
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The program aims at providing a comprehensive system for encouraging gifted and talented students based on the highest standards and tools which help teachers discover the electronically gifted students, extracting the results while saving effort and time spent manually to correct tests. The program also suggests the most suitable development program for each candidate student based on his/her test results, providing a database for the teachers and schools. It also provides comprehensive reports about candidate students and statistics related to the gifted students, their schools and its teaching methods. The report will help in the areas of online programs assessment, evaluation forms analysis, while facilitating quick access to information.
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"I want to start by saying I can't believe this day has come and I can't believe it's for real," Clinton told Walters. "Because I don't know what we're all going to do without seeing you go from one place to another, asking questions that we'd all like to ask."
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Looking upon the numerous women who had looked up to her throughout her career, Walters said they were her legacy.
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Never seem to see any, did they just get out class that perfect in beta?
Never seem to see any, did they just get out class that perfect in beta?
I guess it means that they don't feel that Shaman need adjustments as much as other classes. Enhance is on the upper to high side of the DPS scale, and Elemental is at the lower end of the scale, but is almost perfectly balanced with Boomkins and Shadow Priests, which are the closest comparisons as hybrid casters. Resto is at the high to middle range of the scale for healing throughput.
The one thing that annoys me is that the Holy Paladin 4 piece was buffed by 200%, while the Resto Shaman 4 piece, that was far weaker than the Paladin one to begin with hasn't been touched.
We've had a few hotfixes. Otherwise, the class is basically fine as it is. The one area I think needs some improvement is Elemental, but it's difficult to make changes there which won't require overhauling the already-balanced PvE.
Originally Posted by tibbee
The paladin 4-piece just reduces the cooldown on one spell by 2 seconds. The Shaman 4-piece improves the uptime on a significant buff to our healing, giving us less need to roll Riptides to maintain it. If you're glyphing Riptide, it's likely useless, but otherwise, it's at least as good if not better than the Paladin 4-piece.
10 man healing might be a lot different in this respect, but in 25 man, I almost always have at least 85-90% uptime on Tidal Waves (and almost never glyph RT), and often close to 100%. I also don't see "less need to cast Riptides" as much of a benefit. I find that Riptide as a standalone spell is generally worth casting on CD, so that you can have one rolling on each tank (for the healing buffer and to keep rolling the HP buff), and another one on a good target to Chain Heal off of. Unless you need to cast 3 straight HW/GHW/HS, Tidal Waves should always be up. Even on primarily tank healing, the amount of GCDs/cast time that are spent casting ULE/Healing Rain/Healing Stream Totem, etc means that it's rare to need 3 straight direct heals. Even if you find yourself needing one with TW down, you still have Nature's Swiftness + Greater Healing Wave once a minute.
I see the set bonus as only really adding about 10% Tidal Waves uptime, which is very mediocre compared with a 38% increase to Holy Power generation.
It bothers me a little to never see shaman changes. Not that I want changes for the sake of changes, but there's still a few things that I feel needs to be addressed.
Such as Ele's dependence on RNG is way too high atm... Even though I'm not playing any better or worse between pulls, my DPS varies by 30k either way based on RNG.
Enhance AoE is still very cumbersome, being based of a 10sec CD ability that is also our highest damage single target rotational ability.
Resto's CD's are probably too stronk atm... and we still have too many "no brainer" talent choices IMO.
But hey, at least we're not getting nerfed right?
I'd tend to agree that Resto cooldowns are too strong, but our overall output is balanced right around where it should be (within a 5% variance of all specs but Mistweavers that are getting nerfed and Disc that is getting buffed). I would rather see Healing Tide and Ascendance toned down, with the power of our regular healing spells buffed to compensate. Shaman end of fight output tends to be variable on how often and how effectively you can use those two cooldowns, with both accounting for upwards of 30% of our output often. If another healer uses a cooldown at the same time or the damage Healing Tide could heal gets healed faster than the duration of the totem, our output goes down a lot. If we line it up with a time when the raid is really low and we get maximum value out of our mastery, our output goes way up.
As far as no brainer talents, the L60, L75 and L90 talents all are kind of obvious choices in most situations (and the L30 and L45 talents don't really matter in most cases). Ancestral Swiftness and Healing Tide Totem are probably taken by 90%+ of raiding resto shaman. The L90 talents are a kind of obvious choice too - Primal Elementalist if you want to primarily focus on AoE healing or Unleashed Fury for single target. Both of them are pretty marginal as well. I'd like to see them find a way to make Echo of the Elements, Conductivity and Elemental Blast more viable options for Resto.
Blizz should fix elemental scaling and obvious bugs like Lakestrider and Totemic Encirclement glyphs.
I'm not sure if they are all already hotfix'd yet (which I highly doubt):
- Totemic Restoration is still bugged since beta, and may not work at all.
- Lakestrider glyph bug.
- Unleashed Fury - Windfury doesn't proc Static Shocks during Ascendance. This is a serious DPS-loss.
- Personal opinion: Capacitor Totem is too difficult to use, requires QoL changes.
- Personal opinion: Ele is way too RNG based. We need more reliable burst. (Hint: Take Lava Burst out of mastery, make it similar to Chaos Bolt so critical chance improves its damage, adjust numbers)
- Not sure: Astral Shift should work while CC'd, stunned or silenced, etc.
- Nature's Guardian is not interesting enough even for PvP or PvE (more health, more heals, less mana, healers hate you, damage reduction > health increase).
- Flame shock isn't spreading intendedly and as easily as it should be, on Lava Lash.
- Enh goes oom even not hardcasting, maintaining normal rotation and low movement fights.
- Enh AoE is too complex compared to any other class / spec. Average to long time AoE'ing results going oom.
- PvP:
- Ele, compared to pure casters such as mages and warlocks:
- Have way less cooldowns or ways to avoid/counter death or damage. (-)
- Better self healing than mages, definantly worse self healing than warlocks. (-, we should be superior)
- Less ways to control opponents. (-, we should be inferior but it should be improved to be on-par with other hybrid casters)
- Less damage. (we should be inferior)
- More utility. (we should be superior)
- Ele, compared to hybrid casters such as shadow priests and boomkins:
- We lack passive damage reduction. (%15)
- Healing is about the same, but offspec healing will hurt us the most since we have the worst survivability cooldowns, depending more on hard cast heals.
- Less control, I'd still like to see more reliable control. (Hint: Reviving rockbiter as chance on hit knockdown, remember Zul'Aman trash)
- Same-ish damage, however too dependent on RNG and procs.
- Same-ish utility with totems, which should be improved even more. (Hint: New, cool, badass and useful totems!)
- Enh, compared to other melee:
- Terrible mobility with lack of none-talented way to remove snare/roots, combined with no gap closers. Ghost Wolf is still dispelable, crippling our mobility. Spirit Walk and Unleashed Fury sprints are useless without removing snares since there are too many snares and roots in PvP right now. Windwalk totem is meaningless since Frozen Power is pretty much mandatory with the lack of a gap-closer. Melee has to keep its target in place to reach it.
- Because of mobility problems, mana.
- Almost no tools to lock down a single target as other melee, compared to a feral - warrior - monk - rogue. Obviously enough we can never be as close to rogues on this topic since this is their speciality but we are obviously lagging behind everybody else.
- Too strong against casters (although not as strong as used to be), too weak against melee.
- Searing Totem is an outdated mechanic which doesn't fit Blizzard's logic to totems today and definantly a hold-back in PvP.
- Maelstrom Weapon survivability / utility works perfectly in theory, but it fails in real play because of the number of controls (stuns, even silences and many more), mobility issues and avoidance cooldowns (dodge, miss cooldowns mainly)
That was just a list of the first stuff popped in my head. It's not complete, even some of them includes personal opinions which can be proved otherwise or you would just simply disagree. Although it can't %100 be false or personal opinions, there are still lots of things to fix / change / improve with the class. I don't think I heard a noticible change/improvement to the class for a while, not even a new glyph to be excited about. Also, I don't play resto but I'm almost sure that no class or spec will be %100 alright ever, there'll be always room to improve or stuff to fix.
My point is, I highly disagree we are doing alright and it's fine that there's no mention of our class in the next big 5.1 patch.
If Blizzard showed at most the half attention they showed to Warlock class, we would be discussing "aight, we have no bugs or terribly important issues now, we are almost on-par with others, the class doesn't hold me back and rewards me as much as my skill-level, now let's talk about how cooler it can get!".
I respectfully disagree, sir.
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I changed the bullets to make it easier to respond point-for-point.
1. Totemic Restoration is not bugged that I am aware of. In fact, I just tested it, both with recalling totems with Totemic Recall, and having a Grounding Totem absorb a spell, and both effects reduced the duration by close to 50%, exactly as expected.
2. This is a very new issue that only sprang up in the last hotfix, and it's a bug. It should get fixed, and it's pretty darn minor; you can just unglyph Ghost Wolf and cast Water Walking when you need it.
3. Unleash Fury: Windfury lets your autoattacks trigger Static Shock. Windfury attacks are not autoattacks. This is not a bug, it's working as intended, and as the ability is written. Nor is Enhancement DPS suffering, even.
4-6. These are personal opinions. However, Elemental is no more RNG based than any other class. That's simple statistical fact. We DO need some tweaks for PvP, but the spec is fine in PvE; RNG is not a factor there. If your performance is inconsistent between attempts outside of about the normal +/- 5% that everyone sees, the issue is likely that your performance is inconsistent, not that the spec is too RNG.
7. On the contrary, it's a reasonably strong option for PvE particularly, and the reactive nature means it has its place for PvP as well. Are there cases where you wouldn't want it? Sure. You're expected to change talents for those. You aren't intended to be able to pick 6 talents and never change them, you should be changing 1-2 or more every raid boss. Potentially even for arena matches depending on your opposition.
8. Again, I haven't heard anything mechanical related to this, just people who don't like how it feels. If you've got proof (and forum threads of QQ aren't "proof"), I'd like to see it.
9. I haven't heard this from anyone, and it's certainly not true in the sims, even at lower gear levels. The T14N profile doesn't have Enhancement ever dipping below 95% mana, for instance.
10. You aren't intended to necessarily be able to sustain AoE indefinitely. Nor is Enhancement AoE that complicated. It doesn't have to be a one-button wonder.
In short, these are either personal taste, or just straight-up wrong. The only exception is #2, the Lakestrider glyph, and that's really not a game-breaker. Plus, it's a bug, it's not intended to do that.
I don't want to break these down too much, since I've been pretty open about thinking Elemental needs some love in PvP. However, the method of your comparison here isn't very fair; you're looking for ways we're inferior to pure casters, and then ways we're inferior to hybrids. You're not considering advantages at all. This lets you play one against the other as it suits your intended conclusion, regardless of the facts. It's kind of like saying "Wayne isn't better at baseball than professional ball players. He's also not better at basketball than NBA players. He needs to be a better athlete." If the Wayne in question is Wayne Gretzky, though, your conclusion is pretty much wrong, since he was a record-breaking hockey player who still holds a lot of the league records, even years after retirement. It's an issue with the style of argument; even though you may be right in the particulars of your premises, the logic is faulty and the conclusion does not follow.
- PvP:
- Ele, compared to pure casters such as mages and warlocks:
- Ele, compared to hybrid casters such as shadow priests and boomkins:
You need to establish that Elemental is lacking against everyone, in an overall sense. Which, again, I agree is true in PvP. Perhaps not as much as some people, but it could use some love.
Specifically; we SHOULD be weaker than other classes in some areas. Most areas, in fact. As well as having a few things we do better than anyone, which make up the difference. If there's 10 facets to PvP, everyone should be average at 5, suck at 3, and excel at 2. If that's true across the board, the game is balanced. I agree that it's not for Elemental, but focusing on the "suck at 3" angle doesn't prove anything, since EVERYONE has weak points.
Here are some concerns with some of our talents in particular.
-Stone Bulwark Totem - it is not really viable for raiding, especially for DPS specs, because it costs a GCD plus mana to use (and Astral Shift does not), and for it to be superior to Astral Shift in terms of damage reduction, you need to use it pretty close to every 60 seconds, which is an enormous DPS loss. It also causes problems with not being able to use with Earth Elemental totem active (most relevant when specced into Primal Elementalist). These two should really be unlinked.
-Totemic Restoration - To be worthy of a talent, it really needs to restore 100% of the lost duration of the totems, not 50%. It's almost always going to be a DPS/HPS pulling cooldown totems early if you aren't getting the same duration back, so why talent it?
-Call of the Elements - This one is tricky, because you can't put Healing Tide/Spirit Link/Fire Elemental/Stormlash totems as resettable, without the talent becoming 100% mandatory. However, there just really isn't a sub 3 minute CD totem that is compelling enough to want to be able to reset. It's only situationally useful on fights where resetting Tremor/Earthbind/Capacitor are a big deal.
-Echo of the Elements - It's too underwhelming for Resto, and does not proc from enough of our toolkit. Ancestral Swiftness is too much of a no brainer talent for Resto currently. When you compare EoE to a talent like Paladin's Divine Purpose, it just feels lacking. I would like to see it at least be added to more spells, or the proc rate to be increased.
-Healing Tide Totem - There is too much of a gap between how much it heals for as Resto and how much it heals for as Ele/Enhance. Ancestral Guidance is almost always more healing output for DPS specs if used in any kind of intelligent manner, and doesn't cost a GCD. It probably should be buffed for DPS shaman slightly.
-Conductivity - Needs to be buffed or reworked to actually be an interesting option. For DPS, the DPS cost of casting Healing Rains is so high, that the talent needs to be an amazing benefit to be used (i.e it needs to be significantly stronger than HTT or AG to warrant the DPS loss). For Resto, it needs to be strong enough to warrant a playstyle change that is a throughput loss and to warrant losing a CD as strong as HTT.
-Unleashed Fury - I would really like to see the +50% buff from casting ULE on a target go on myself instead of the target of the ULE. Too often, the target gets topped before you can finish the sequence (or I want to use ULE - Healing Rain - be able to still use the +50% portion).
-Primal Elementalist - They need to fix the bugginess with the Empower/Reinforce buffs, where they break on fights like Elgelon and Gara'jal when you cross realms. I would also love to see an autocast option on those buffs so you can set it to automatically start channeling them every time you use Fire or Earth Ele, instead of having to mash a cast sequence macro.
-Elemental Blast - It is too weak for Resto right now. The cast time is too long and the buff uptime too short to be worth the HPS loss of casting it. To make it compelling for Resto, they would probably have to increase the duration (for Resto only) to like 20-30 seconds, and make it a Spirit buff automatically.
That doesn't mean your boss kill DPS will suffer the same fate, though. RNG being RNG, you'll tend to even out over the rest of the fight. An unlucky streak at the start might leave you lagging a big, but not outside that +/- 5% range I mentioned, on average.
I'm not saying we don't have a bunch of RNG, I'm just saying it's not THAT much more different than someone else popping their CDs and just not getting crits. Everyone sees this. Ascendance in our opening, with our big spike damage, just makes it really visible if you're watching the meters.
There are only two changes I'd really like to see for Elemental, 1) Glyph of Flame Shock removed and the duration of Flame Shock increased 2) Some passive damage reduction akin to Shadowform and Moonkin Form. Example, X% damage reduction while Lightning Shield is active
I love enhancement currently. I top dps in my 10 man all the time. I quite happy there are no changes.
1. I just spent my 10 minutes and tried it out. Tried it on Tremor, click-demolished them by hand. Two times, cooldown wasn't reduced. Definantly bugged.
2. I agree it's nothing to be hotfix'd, but we are talking about 5.1 which is a major patch. Plus, taking out the glyph is not related with patch notes because it's not really a solution, it's a workaround. (side-note, Water Walking should be raid-wide buff for QoL, that's a change, some people asked for it when they asked us about QoL changes)
3.Originally Posted by AscendanceDuring Ascendance, we do autoattacks. Unleashed Fury during Ascendance should proc Static Shock. Bug.Originally Posted by Unleashed Fury
4. I would like to meet a shaman who loves Capacitor Totem as the way it is now. Blizzard knows many people don't like how it works now, but aight with the idea. I'm not asking for a buff, I'm asking for QoL improvement, which -I think- should be defended by a Shaman community.
5. Even if it's fine in PvE, doesn't mean it's fine as a simple statistical fact. Our damage is designed around our mastery, which limits Lava Burst. It's over than average burst if the stars align, but if not -usually that's what happens- it's below average. That is called RNG. Elemental's main damager is Lava Burst, it should be more predictable for the sake of PvP although it doesn't effect PvE very much, since fights are more stable and longer.
6. Your post doesn't answer my point on Astral Shift being usable during CC effects.
7. Exactly my point, I should be changing my choices. And furthermore, all three options should be close enough, so I will be forced to make a call. Instead of Stone Bulwark (less but longer) or Astral Shift (more but shorter). Nature's Guardian can't compete with two and not interesting enough to force me into a decision between three of them.
8-9. I'm a bit offended by this if you are referring my post as "forum threads of QQ". It does exist even if you haven't heard of it and I already reported this with proof -as I did with all similar others- to Blizzard.
10. Not that I feel overwhelmed by the difficulty level of our Enh AoE, I feel stupid when every other class and spec in the game can do as good as me or similar. I do believe you don't need my proof to believe how Enh AoE is complicated compared to any other spec (mind you, not only class but spec), if I'm not being rewarded for this effort, I would feel stupid. From another approach, my AoE doesn't have to be more complex than any other spec to be as good as any other spec. If everyone else does this one-button wonder, what is my fault to have 4-5 different spells on different cooldowns to do the same? I should have an one-button wonder too?
If you have read my original post's last paragraph instead of tunneling the list that I've made, you would have understood that there is no excuse to be left-over for so long without changes, improvements or fixes while we do have certain issues. There is no point to defend Blizzard, because it's frustrating when you see all the attention they are giving to other classes. I also have a warlock as an alt, each patch I log I feel thrilled. Shaman received no love for no reason for so long, while the class needs it the most in its history.
It is no apples and oranges comparision, it's a comparision between our beloved class and other classes we compete in same roles. We may function differently and we should, however they should be close in terms of filling a role. What I did there is just categorizing shaman with similar other classes and simply doing a pros-cons. There is nothing wrong with that, you can't just take Shaman class individually and isolate it from anything else when it comes to PvP and competing.
And back to the topic, if you also think Ele PvP could use some love, how come you are aight with Shaman's disappearance for many patch notes?
I totally agree we should have weak points, but all of my points are made having a balanced enviroment as much as possible in mind.
I read somewhere that Windfury attacks are not being converted to nature damage during Ascendance. I think it probably should, to make the damage more consistent in its source.
Also Enhance AoE is terrible and clunky, and really does need to be reworked, again. Much better than it was, but it takes me 3 GCD's to get it rolling, 4 including magma totem (either dropping it or relocating it if i dropped it earlier). As Ele all I need to do is position magma and start spamming CL for much more reliable cleave.
Enhancement doesn't go oom.... in PvE. PvP is a different story.
As for it's AoE, complex isn't the adequate word. Bothersome would be more like it. Enhancement AoE basicly takes a considerable amount of globals - when compared to other classes - to set up.
- Magma totem
- Lava Lash
- Unleash Elements
- Fire Nova
- Storm Strike
- Chain Lightning
It's bothersome alright, but when there's loads of mobs up, you'll certainly be up there. Thing is there are other classes who can do the same with considerably less buttons.


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Patrick Nwanguzo won 5 national titles, 11 all-American honors
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(NOTE: Frank Bass, Breena Caldwell, Richard Miller and Patrick Nwanguzo will be inducted into Wayland Baptist University's Athletic Hall of Honor during ceremonies Saturday, Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m. in McClung University Center. The induction ceremony will precede a doubleheader featuring the Queens and Pioneers beginning at 2:00 p.m.)
Patrick Nwanguzo came to Wayland in 1984 from Nigeria, where he had been working at the Imo State Sports Council. During his three years as a member of the Pioneer track and field team, Nwanguzo helped lead the Pioneers to three straight NAIA Indoor Championships and three straight NAIA Outdoor runner-up finishes. Individually, he won five national championships, was named an NAIA All-American 11 times and earned recognition as a NAIA Scholar Athlete.
In his first national track meet at the 1985 NAIA Indoor Championships, Nwanguzo was the runner-up in the 600-yard dash with a time of 1 minute, 10.89 seconds. He was also a part of the Pioneer mile relay team, along with Devon Morris, Russell Mitchell and Peter Scott, that set a meet record with a winning time of 3:16.55. The WBU men won their first team national championship that year with 78 points, 22 more than second-place Texas Southern.
Nwanguzo earned another all-American designation at the 1985 Outdoor Championships when he finished sixth in the 400 meters with a time of 47.26. He and Morris, along with Dennis Moore and Moses Ugbisie combined to run a 3:06.84 to win the 4x400-meter relay. Earlier in the season Ugbisie, Mitchell, Nwanguzo and Morris established a new school record in the event with a time of 3:03.74, a record that was still standing 26 years later. As a team the Pioneers produced 76 points to finish second, their highest finish ever at a national outdoor meet.
The 1986 Wayland men wrapped up the indoor and outdoor seasons just the way they did the previous year. The indoor team scored an all-time high of 125 points - a total that still stands - to run away with the championship, while the outdoor squad put up 78 points to finish behind Azusa Pacific University. Nwanguzo picked up his second indoor runner-up trophy in the 600 yards in a time of 1:11.95, and he and Moore, Morris and Scott repeated as national champions in the mile relay, crossing the finish line in 3:17.32.
At the 1986 NAIA Outdoor meet, the 4x400 relay team failed to repeat, finishing just behind Central Arkansas with a time of 3:11.50. Nwanguzo captured one other award at the meet when he was named to the NAIA Scholar Athlete team.
The elusive national championship plaque in the 600 yards finally became his in 1987 when Nwanguzo won the race in a time of 1:12.64. He added yet another all-American designation when he ran a 50.19 in the 440-yard dash to place second, and the mile relay team was victorious for the third straight indoor meet. This time Nwanguzo and Morris combined with James Rolle and Dennis Alexander to run a 3:19.46 to win the title, and the entire Wayland team put up 115 points to make it three banners in a row.
In the final championship meet of his Pioneer career, Nwanguzo and the rest of the 4x400-meter relay team ran a 3:13.20 to finish second to Prairie View A&M University. The WBU men scored 82 points in the meet to once again finish behind only Azusa Pacific in the race for the championship banner.
Nwanguzo was awarded his Bachelor of Science degree in physical education at Wayland in 1988. He is currently CEO of Eagle Case Management LLC in Kansas City, Kansas. He has two sons, Ricky and Joshua, and enjoys photography, travel and listening to the news.


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She Got Her Father To Warn Me OffHey guys,
I knew this girl for a short time as a biz associate. She is in her mid 30s and living with a guy and I am in my early 40s. We got on ok on a business level.
We met about a dozen times to review consutruction projects for Montreal. She was very friendly, smiley, outgoing, warm, told me a lot about her family and her boyfriend whom she lives with.
I never asked her out (a) cos she was in a relationship. I am single.
However, we did get on together.
After she completed a project for me I gave her a small gift to say thank you and welcome to the team. She was a sub contractor. She send me a text that evening thanking me for the gift. I responded that it was no problem and I was happy to have her working with us.
A week later she called my cell phone to say she couldn't work with me. She was contracted to work with another firm and working with me would compromise her biz relationship with the other company. She said she was so sorry. But maybe we might hook up to work together in the furture.
I said ok and asked her to meet for a coffee to run over some of the plans I had already discusedd with her.
She said yes and we agreed to meet the following Monday evening.
I arrived at the hotel and text her to say I was there in the lobby. She text back to say she had forgotten about our meeting.
I said ok. I called her the next day to rearrange our meeting and she wouldn't pick up. Instead she sent me a long email stating that it was not possible for her to work with me and that she thought there was no point in meeting me.
I was baffled, confused and felt very guilty. Like I had done something to her. Which I hadn't. I didn't respond to her. I thought about it fora few days. Couldn't understand why she had changed her attitude towards me. I genuinely never asker her on a date and never made a move on her. So I was totally confused.
But the best part of it was meeting her in the same hotel by coincidence a month later. I told her it was unfortunate she couldn't work with me. And that I was baffled by the tone of her mail to me. She muttered somehing about being under pressure, not having time to meet up with friends and didn't see the point in having anything to do with me.
At that point I had had enough of her insults and just turned away and left her in the lobby. I went about my business. A few days later I got a call on my work cell phone from her father accusing me of causing her stress. She obviously told him a story about me harrassing her which I never did.
When he listened to me for a few minutes I think he realised his daughter hadn't been telling him the whole truth.Anway that was a back in March and I'm still baffled by her behaviour.
(a) why treat me so badly when I never did anything untoward on her?
(b) why ask her father to call me?
navalgazer 36-40, M 1 Response 0 Jul 9, 2010
She probably was stressed out by other situations unconnected to her working relationship with you. However, she used you as the catalyst for her unhappiness and blamed you for whatever was stressing her. Probably something to do with her boyfriend. I wouldn't worry about her. Narcissitic woman.


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POWELL, OH (WCMH) — A fight at a Powell area wedding venue led to a person losing a part of their nose.
According to the Delaware County Sheriff's Office, it happened Saturday in the bridal dressing room of the Bridgewater Banquet and Conference Center.
During an altercation in the dressing room, the victim "had a section of nose detached by an unknown assailant," according to an incident report.
The sheriff's office did not identify the victim.
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Discussion in 'Green Room' started by tdinc, Jan 28, 2006.
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Despite being registered blind and therefore having a blue disabled badge, my gran who is 91, still declares herself as fit to drive, although my mum fills in the form because my gran can't see it. I have reported her to the authorities but they are unable/unwilling to do anything about it, this is a ridiculous state of affairs, elderly motorists cannot be trusted to be responsible about this and at the very least sight and reaction times should be retested. Personally I am in favour of a full retest, including theory.
A new report commissioned by the RAC Foundation estimates that as many as 50,000 driving licence holders in the UK who turn 70 this year will carry on driving when they are no longer fit to do so. Even more – up to 170,000 – will surrender their licences prematurely.
The report, Driving Choices for the Older Motorist, compiled by the Transport Research Laboratory, also says older motorists need more support when it comes to determining whether they are fit to continue driving, and that the government and medical profession should give more support to people when it comes to making a self-assessment of their fitness to drive.
Professor Stephen Glaister, director of the RAC Foundation, commented: "All drivers should regularly consider their fitness to drive, but matters really come to a head when we reach 70 and have to declare that we are fit to be on the roads.
"In general older drivers have an enviable safety record but it is clear that faced with this critical yes or no decision many motorists simply do not have a realistic view of their capabilities.
"While this will mean there are drivers who are unfit to be on the roads there will be many others who have prematurely hung up their keys.
"This will have a huge impact on their ability to live an active life, access essential services and take part in social activities.
"The RAC Foundation does not support compulsory retesting at a certain age because this presumes that on reaching a particular birthday people's physical and mental capacities change radically.
"But we do see an important need for an ongoing dialogue with motorists and encouragement from officials and the medical profession for all of us to regularly consider our abilities – whatever our age."
Currently, when holders of driving licences hit their 70th birthday, and every three years thereafter, they are required to complete a declaration stating whether or not they are fit to keep on driving.
The report, based on analysis of data from a number of countries, finds that self-assessment tools alone are not adequate in determining fitness to drive, and says they are unable to take the place of professional assessment, although the RAC Foundation stops short of calling for compulsory retesting once drivers reach a certain age.
The problem, says the RAC Foundation, is twofold – the current self-assessment regime means that of the half a million people in the UK turning 70 this year alone, an estimated 50,000 will carry on driving when they are no longer fit to do so, but even more, as many as 170,000, will give up driving prematurely.
While no specific study on the issue has been carried out in the UK, those estimates have been compiled based on research in the United States and Australia.
It adds that the issue will become an increasingly pressing one due to the ageing of the UK population, with 17 per cent of people alive in 2010 expected to survive to celebrate their 100th birthday.
The RAC Foundation says that while at present there is no nationwide requirement for use of self-assessment tools, some local authorities, including Devon and Suffolk County Councils, do encourage their use.
One of the chief areas of concern about the fitness of older motorists to drive surrounds the deterioration of vision with age, and a number of cases reported here on road.cc involving cyclist casualties have the driver's uncorrected vision cited as a factor.
Those include one from North Wales in 2011 in which an 85-year-old man with failing eyesight and other health issues drove for on three miles without apparently being aware that he had ploughed through a group of cyclists, killing one and seriously injuring another.
In 2011, around 6,000 motorists across all age groups had their licences revoked due to defective eyesight. That reflects a continuing upwards trend in recent years, but still equates to only a tiny proportion of motorists, a little over one in 10,000.
With more than 1 million people in the UK over the age of 80 now holding a driving licence, it seems fair to assume that many continue driving when they are no longer able to do so, fearful of the potential isolation and lack of independence they may suffer if they have to give up their car, a theme explored in a 2020 BBC documentary called Taking the Keys Away.
Born in Scotland, Simon moved to London aged seven and now lives in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds with his miniature schnauzer, Elodie. He fell in love with cycling one Saturday morning in 1994 while living in Italy when Milan-San Remo went past his front door. A daily cycle commuter in London back before riding to work started to boom, he's been news editor at road.cc since 2009. Handily for work, he speaks French and Italian. He doesn't get to ride his Colnago as often as he'd like, and freely admits he's much more adept at cooking than fettling with bikes.
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A retest every 10 years for everyone - including theory - might weed out the incompetent. I'm sure quite a lot of drivers have never seen a Highway Code since they passed their test, and a retest would focus minds. Then perhaps a reaction and sight test (with specs if needed). Which would help a lot. Personally, I will be taking an IAM (been an "advanced" driver/moto rider for years) assessment 3 yearly from about 65, just to make sure I'm still reasonably OK. But then, I'm interested in other people's safety as well as my own!
Another take on this, not just the age issue, but from the health perspective:
I've been diagnosed with cancer and just been through a rather intense 67 day period of very strong chemo. At no point in all my treatment was it ever mentioned that I couldn't drive after treatment. However, there were days when I could barely lift my head off the pillow, but I could, if I wanted, gone out and driven. (I didn't)
I had my dad running me around for the most part of my treatment, and did some driving myself only when I was fit to.
I was knocked over by an old woman driving up our side of the road round a corner. Had my arm smashed to pieces and received two major operations to sort it out. She had absolutely no idea what she'd done and one of my mates had to stand in front of her car so she couldn't drive away. The police had to visit her on two occasions, on their second visit she had no idea she'd knocked me down and couldn't remember the police visiting her the first time. Charges were never brought against her but she had to give up her license. I still shudder when I think that it could have been one of the many families from the area that go out cycling on that route. On the plus side I got a huge payout from her insurance company
That first comment is very shocking. It shows that the system isn't working.
It never has - it presumes our unalienable "right to drive" over and above everything else, even personal fitness.
My grandfather had several (very minor) prangs before we finally convinced him to give up driving. He was an absolute menace; couldn't see very well, couldn't judge distance/speed accurately yet his doctor could do nothing about it. Ridiculous situation.
Mandatory retests (inc sight) and the ability of a health professional to revoke your licence should be law.
it presumes our unalienable "right to drive" over and above everything else, even personal fitness.
And there-in lies the root of the problem. Driving should
be a privilege NOT a right and re-testing every 5 years.
HGV and PSV are retested regularly so should private
drivers !
I have the answer!!
I'm 65; and I suggest everyone who can pass a cycling proficiency test (basically ride a bicycle)to a high degree of proficiency? then they are OK to drive! Hey we're all gonna get there some day, don't knock the elderly. I've been knocked off my bike 3, times; and none of the drivers would be considered OLD. Very few accidents are caused by drivers over 70.
drfabulous0, are you a real doctor?
Because if you are, you'd doubtless be aware you have a responsibility to take action, where you see a significant risk of someone causing death or serious harm.
Maybe you could have a chat with your grandmother? Or her GP? Or continue to contact the DVLA until something is done about it?


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Iran: A Paintball Embargo?
Sunday, July 19, 2009 at 18:22
Maryam from Keeping the Change notes a possible US link to the Iran's Government suppression of protests:
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"Green" may be the color we now associate with the movement for reform in Iran, but it appears that the power of color is also not lost on government forces working to resist these calls for change. According to an eyewitness report sent to us by one of our readers, the Iranian police are using "paint balls" against demonstrating crowds. This eyewitness, who was in attendance at Rafsanjani's Friday sermon yesterday at Tehran University, claims that during demonstrations outside the University following Rafsanjani's speech, police forces launched paint balls at protestors. The account is confirmed by a piece published in Al-Arabiya newspaper yesterday, reporting that the Iranian police used paint balls and tear gas to disperse demonstrators, particularly around the Interior Ministry building.
Our eyewitness' report, however, suggests that the paint balls may not be used simply to disperse the crowds, but rather that a more nefarious strategy may also lie behind the paint ball - tactic. According to this person, the paint balls are used to single out protestors, who the police believe should be arrested.
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