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Through a layoff and the death of her husband, Colleen E. Briggs still managed to save $40,000 to send her daughter to college.
But soon after Alyssa Dame, whom Ms. Briggs and her late husband adopted when she was 8, enrolled in college last fall, the Webster woman was notified that the state had run out of money to fund full tuition and fees for adoptive children, even though the family had counted on the financial support for years.
According to a Nov. 9, 2012, letter from the state Department of Higher Education, Ms. Briggs, a Wal-Mart retail manager, did not meet new income eligibility requirements for a 2008 law that provides waivers from tuition and fees at state schools to adopted and foster children.
The income rules, which exclude families who can contribute $10,000 or more a year toward their children's higher education, were put in last year because the state has been under-funding the program for several years and said it could not pay full college fees for everyone.
Only the poorest could now expect the state to come through with the full amounts promised by the law , those who could afford less than $10,000. The state said it would still pay for Ms. Dame's tuition at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams.
In Massachusetts, fees, not tuition, make up the bulk of public college and university costs. At Ms. Dame's school, for example, 2012-2013 fees are $7,496, while tuition is $1,030.
To Ms. Briggs and Ms. Dame, the news came as a shock, particularly because the letter from the state came after the school year had already started and they believed, based on a letter from another agency, the Department of Children and Family, that Ms. Dame was eligible.
The family felt betrayed. They and critics of the state's handling of the matter also argue that restricting the waiver program will end up as a disincentive to adoption, which saves taxpayer money by taking children formerly in state custody off the state's books.
"They reneged on the law," Ms. Briggs said. "What I'm angry about is they didn't honor a promise they made to her."
"It's unfair," Ms. Dame said. "I'm upset and worried about what's going to happen in the future."
State higher education officials say they had no choice this year but to end some fee waivers for families with "Estimated Financial Contribution," or EFC, levels of $10,000 or more under the federal student aid program.
State lawmakers initially appropriated $2.1 million for the program last year, but that amount was insufficient to cover those, such as Ms. Briggs and her daughter, with EFCs of $10,000 and up, according to Katy Abel, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Higher Education. The Legislature then supplemented the amount with another $1 million — enough to cover tuition and fees for families with EFCs lower than $10,000, but not higher.
Some 592 families received partial fee waivers for the 2010-2011 school year.
"If funds are remaining after all students in this group have been paid, the Department of Higher Education's Office of Student Financial Assistance will use any remaining balance to cover a portion of the 2013 spring fees for students with an Estimated Family Contribution of $10,000 or higher," Ms. Abel said.
In response to why the department waited until Ms. Dame was already enrolled to notify the family that the full reimbursement would not be forthcoming, Ms. Abel said: "Because the Department of Higher Education does not know the population of adopted and foster students before they arrive at campuses seeking these waivers; it's impossible for DHE to contact families any earlier.
"The Department can only provide information about funding levels once we have the list of students provided by the campuses, and campuses only have the information once a student has self-identified with proof of eligibility from the Department of Children and Families," she added.
Ms. Abel also noted that the higher education department website notes that tuition and fee waivers are "subject to appropriation."
As for the DCF, spokeswoman Cayenne Isaksen said agency recently modified its letter to adoptive parents stating they are eligible for the waiver to include a statement that the waiver is subject to appropriation and level of family contribution.
"As additional funding becomes available, it is our hope that all families can receive the full benefit of the program," Ms. Isaksen said.
Meanwhile, Ms. Briggs had been putting away money over the years with the expectation that Alyssa's education costs would be fully paid, as specified in the law.
The $40,000 — about $10,000 a year — she had saved was for room and board, which adoptive families are expected to cover on their own.
Now, Ms. Briggs has been forced to earmark one year's worth of that room and board savings to tuition and fees. So at the end of this school year, half of Ms. Dame's college money will be gone, and the 18-year-old will still have three years of school left.
Ms. Briggs said at this rate she will only be able to afford two years of college for her daughter.
As her anger about the situation deepened, Ms. Briggs got in touch with her state representative, Ryan C. Fattman, a Sutton Republican.
Mr. Fattman has taken up Ms. Briggs' cause, as well as that of another family in his district that is in a similar predicament but declined to speak about it publicly.
The Blackstone Valley lawmaker said he plans to file a budget amendment next month that would not only restore full funding for the program but also reimburse people such as Ms. Briggs for costs they incurred that should have been borne by the state. Mr. Fattman asserted that other legislators, including Democrats, have constituents with similar problems and will band together to try to restore funding.
While the governor has proposed increasing the tuition and fees waiver program to $3.2 million this year, Mr. Fattman said it isn't enough. For her part, Ms. Briggs noted that the Patrick administration has proposed a dramatic expansion in funding for social services and education this year, yet no similar major boost for the waiver program.
That amount not only could be cut back by the Legislature, but would also be unlikely to cover eligible applicants' 2013-14 education costs and also reimburse families for this year's outlays, he said. Therefore, Mr. Fattman said he would seek to free up extra money by freezing school administrators' salaries.
He said if any cuts had to be made because the state budget was tight, those already granted waivers (such as Ms. Dame, who was informed in 2011 by the Department of Children and Families that she was entitled to full tuition and fees) should have had them guaranteed.
"When you govern a state and make promises to people, you keep your promise. But in this case you've pulled the rug out from underneath all these people who had saved and planned," Mr. Fattman said. "Any cuts should have been made prospectively, going forward."
Mr. Fattman, an opponent of granting in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrants, also argued that adopted and foster children should be given be given preference for higher education slots over people who came here illegally.
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SANTA CRUZ — The former girlfriend of a man charged with murder testified Wednesday that he had become physical with her on three occasions.
The woman said she dated Richard Chavez from 1999 to early 2001, and the couple lived together for part of that time. She said she hadn"t seen him in 11 years before coming to court. Chavez is on trial for the Feb. 28, 2010 death of Deanna Dudley.
The Sentinel is not naming the woman because she is an alleged victim of sexual and domestic violence.
Under examination by prosecutor Jeff Rosell, the ex-girlfriend testified that Chavez became "dominating" in the course of their relationship.
Once, while camping in South Dakota, she said Chavez began calling her names, and acting "angry, scary, threatening." She said she tried to crawl out of the tent they were in but "he put his hands on my legs and pulled me back into the tent." Similar incidents occurred two other times, including once after she had moved to Germany to teach and Chavez was visiting.
Defense attorney Anthony Robinson asked if Chavez had ever slapped or punched her.
"No, he did not," she said, also testifying that she didn"t remember if the incidents caused bruising. She also testified that Chavez forged her signature on two checks after they"d broken up.
Chavez is charged with first-degree murder for the death of Dudley, a longtime friend with whom he"d become romantically involved. Dudley, 37, died after being struck in the head several times with a flashlight.
Chavez" attorneys, Robinson and Mark Briscoe, admit Chavez struck Dudley, but argue the case doesn"t fit the parameters of first-degree murder. They say the two were engaged in an alcohol-fueled fight, and that Dudley had been abusive before.
Also testifying Wednesday was Scott Bingham, who was a fire captain in Felton when Dudley died. He arrived at the Felton home where the couple lived and found Dudley lying on the floor of the bedroom closet. Blood filled her hair, and there were lacerations and torn skin on her head. She was unconscious, unresponsive, he said.
Chavez was kneeling by her head when Bingham came in and applying pressure to her head. He moved out of the way when emergency personnel arrived and they began performing first-aid, Bingham said.
The fire captain said he asked Chavez what had caused Dudley"s injuries, and Chavez told him it was a flashlight. He asked him how many times she"d been hit and Chavez told him three or four. Bingham next asked Chavez who did it, to which he said Chavez quietly answered "I did."
Testimony will continue Thursday and then break for the holidays, picking up after New Year"s Day.
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Integrating Ultrasound in The Primary Care Setting, Improving Outcomes: A Community Healthcare Partnership
International Community Health Services (ICHS) is a nonprofit community health centre that provides affordable medical, dental, behavioural care and health education services to Seattle. ICHS serves a highly diverse and ethnic population, while providing access to healthcare for low income and underserved populations.
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The drive-thru bill-pay window at the Albemarle County Office Building is the latest victim of the economic crisis. Despite a proposed eight percent hike in the property tax rate, the County's hiring freeze means that there aren't enough clerks in the finance department to keep the window open, says County spokesperson Lee Catlin. However, as tax time looms in late May and early June, the window (shown here February 25) will probably reopen temporarily, Catlin says.
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December 7th, 2011
Remarkable Statement by Secretary Clinton on SOGI
The third...issue arises when people cite religious or cultural values as a reason to violate or not to protect the human rights of LGBT citizens. This is not unlike the justification offered for violent practices towards women like honor killings, widow burning, or female genital mutilation. Some people still defend those practices as part of a cultural tradition. But violence toward women isn't cultural; it's criminal. Likewise with slavery, what was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's comprehensive, detailed and brave address on the importance of incorporating sexual [...]


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Authorized under the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) of 1966, the National Register of Historic Places is the United States' official list of over 80,000 cultural resources--districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects--designated as especially worthy of preservation. While the National Register is administered by the National Park Service, under NHPA each state appoints its own State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) which serves to coordinate preservation efforts at the local, state, and national levels. State Historic Preservation Offices are often the best starting point for pursuing preservation information or procedures for a given site. See:
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American Association for State and Local History
American Cultural Resources Association
American Folklore Society
American Institute of Architects
Association for Preservation Technology International
International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and US/ICOMOS
National Center for Preservation Technology & Training
National Preservation Institute
National Trust for Historic Preservation
Organization of American Historians
Preservation Action
Recent Past Preservation Network
Society for Commericial Archaeology
Society for American Archaeology
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Society for Industrial Archaeology
Society of Architectural Historians
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R oses, roses, and more roses turned the Bayfield gym into a rose garden on Parents Appreciation Night.
There were roses for the wrestlers moms and dads, even roses for the coaches wives.
But when the wrestling matches started, the Wolverines discovered that every rose has its thorn No. 3-ranked Alamosa stuck Bayfield 57-15 in an Intermountain League dual Thursday night at the BHS gym.
The Wolverines points came on a second-period pin by heavyweight Matt Eckstein and a comeback 8-4 decision by 145-pounder Joe Zink.
It was ... a matter of just stay tough, Zink said after he fell behind Dillon Bance of Alamosa 4-2 in the second period of their match, scoring with just 14 seconds left in the period.
The late reversal got him back in the match.
In the third period, Zink patiently worked for a favored move.
When I got that wrist to tilt, I thought Id better hang onto the wrist.
He did.
Three points for a near fall on the tilt, a maneuver that uses the wrist and opponents arm for leverage to force the opponents shoulders to the mat.
Those were the points I needed, Zink said.
Three more points for another near fall for the final margin of victory.
Coach told us to come in with a no-fear attitude, said Zink, son of Faith and Pat Zink, two BHS senior parents who earned their roses Thursday night.
The Wolverines and their fans celebrated again when Eckstein took on Brandon Ratcliffe of Alamosa in the final match of the dual.
At the end of a scoreless first period with the two heavyweights hand-fighting on their feet, Eckstein executed a single-leg takedown for a 2-0 lead.
Early in the second period, he turned Ratcliffe over with a half-nelson.
The pin came 45 seconds into the period, elevating Ecksteins season record to 24-6.
Last year, I was much more of a thrower, Eckstein said. This year, people are actually taking shots on me, and I have to be able to get out from under them.
He set up his first-period takedown when he jumped away from a takedown shot by Ratcliffe.
Eckstein, son of Jeff and Ute Eckstein, said he and the BHS coaches have been working on evasive moves such as the ones he used Thursday night.
I thought our guys wrestled hard, Bayfield head coach Todd McMenimen said.
I was pleased with the way Allec (Rodriguez) and Drake (Rhodes) wrestled. Those are matches we can win at regionals, McMenimen said after Rodriguez lost a 15-0 decision to Kole Kelley (132 pounds) and Rhodes a tense 9-5 decision to Brandon Heredia of the Mean Moose (138).
In other Thursday matches:
Neff Malouff of Alamosa beat Tyler Beebe 17-0 at 120 pounds.
Nate Henry of Alamosa scored a 16-0 technical decision over Ian Hermanns (152).
Chris Aguirre of Alamosa pinned James Young in 37 seconds (170).
Gunnar Robinson of Alamosa pinned Michael Goodman in 38 seconds.
Nick Jones of Alamosa pinned Dom Brittain in 20 seconds.
Pablo Villareal scored a 14-1 win over Matt Cerdas.
It doesnt get any easier for BHS: It will host No. 1 Centauri at 2 p.m. today in a makeup dual.
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Giovanni La Motta
- Eternal Student
- Enterpreneurs
- Nerd Inside
- Rugby player
- Boxer
- Mozilla evangelist
- Fail! It's the only way to success!
Where I start?
I've been dealing with IT consulting, in the area of Benevento, since my first year of computer engineering studies.
So I'm a freelance consultant since 2006. From 2014 till 2016 I've been Student's union representative in the Evaluation Team of the University of Sannio.
What I'm doing now?
Currently I work as external consultant like a system and database administrator for Linkall srl.
I'm also fouder and CEO of Quarantadue.digital a consulting agency about business and marketing.
I'm Marketing manager for Industria Italiana del software libero (Italian association for professional that work with open source software).
The road traveled
Since 2012 I've been part of the board of Lilis : an association that deals with open source software and all the correlated stuff.
In 2013, as council member of the student association UnIng together with Lilis, I organized a workshop hosting Richard Stallman as main speaker.
My Mozillian story
After I met Daniele Scasciafratte, in the occasion of the linux day 2015, I entred the Mozilla community, and I worked hard to organize, in 2016, the first event in the University of Sannio for the campaign Take Back The Web organised in cooperation with Iswatlab.
The Linux day 2016 was the occasion to replicate the talk I had for the TBTW in the "G.B. Bosco Lucarelli" highschool.
I also contributed at the creation of the OpenStudentBook.
I'm currently part of the activate group and analyze, together with Daniele Scasciafratte and Edoardo Viola, the activities that could have a bigger impact in the Italian area.
I recently applied to join the communication group, my wish is to share my knowledge and experience as social media manager with the community in order to grow more and more.
Competenze.html, .project management .marketing fundamentals .logis, a bit graphic design, a bit mysql, android, event organiser, java, joomla, libreoffice, linux, mssql, promoteur commercial, storytelling, wordpress
LingueInglese, Italiano
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Daniele Scasciafratte
Giovanni, is an amazing guy. He organized the Take Back The Web in Benevento, manage also the Firefox Club in Benevento and helped with the internal organization of the Mozilla Italia Participation team.


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PAX East 2014 – Day One: 4 New Heroes Revealed for Heroes of the Storm
Blizzard Entertainment revealed today four new Heroes to join the roster in Heroes of the Storm: Brightwing (faerie dragon), Lili Stormstout, Zagara and Murky. In addition, Chen Stormstout, Kael'thas and Sylvanas are in development.
Lyndsi Achucarro (Associate PR Manager) shared via Twitter a sneak peek of Sylvanas (As seen to the right).
Ultimate Skins will make its way into the game for free. Something that totally caught me off-guard is that the April's Fools Pajamathur is going to be a real skin in Heroes of the Storm. You can see that in the first video below.
There are no plans yet for closed beta, but Blizzard revealed they have been inviting more people to the Technical Alpha on a weekly basis, which sounds cool.
Don't miss the new Hero video trailers. Especially, the creepy Brightwing faerie dragon, shivers.
The first action-packed day of PAX East has just kicked off, and we'll be bringing you updates throughout the weekend on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and within this very blog! If you're attending: make sure to stop by Blizzard booth #848 so you can battle it out on a brand-new playable demo, and make sure to check out our Heroes of the Storm PAX East Preview blog to find out about everything awaiting you at the convention from April 11 – 13.
First up is an exciting new Hero Trailer for none other than Kerrigan, the Queen of Blades!
"It's not easy being queen."
Next up, take a break from real life and warp into the Nexus with our live discussion panel, Heroes of the Storm: The Ultimate Blizzard Mashup, today in the Albatross Theatre at PAX East! Whether you're at PAX in-person or not, you'll be able to catch our panel by tuning in to the live broadcast on Twitch.tv/PAX2 at 10:30 a.m. EDT (7:30 a.m. PDT) on Friday, April 11.
During the panel, Game Director Dustin Browder, Senior Producer Kaeo Milker, and Senior Artist Phill Gonzales will be sharing a sneak peek at several exciting new heroes and skins, as well as answering questions from the audience. Once the panel wraps up, Kevin Knocke will join forces with Dustin Browder to get your heart racing with a fresh Heroes of the Storm showmatch commentary where you'll be able to see the new heroes in action!
The panel has just concluded! Stay tuned for a full recap!
Heroes of the Storm: The Ultimate Blizzard Mashup – PAX East Panel Recap
On Friday morning, Game Director Dustin Browder, Senior Producer Kaeo Milker, and Senior Artist Phill Gonzales, gathered on stage at PAX East in the Albatross Theatre to talk all about Heroes of the Storm. Dustin kicked off the panel with an exciting new video, followed by a brief look at the ongoing Technical Alpha.
Heroes of the Storm PAX Feature Trailer
A Note About the Alpha
We do not have a date for the Heroes Beta yet. We're still working hard to test and level up our technology to be sure we can continue to expand the playerbase without encountering major issues. On that note, we've been adding players to the Tech Alpha on a weekly basis, and if you'd like to sign up to be invited, make sure you've opted in to Heroes testing on your Battle.net account's Beta Profile Settings.
That said, there are no keys! Be wary of phishing attempts and anyone offering to give you Heroes of the Storm access. The only way to be sure you've received a legitimate invitation is to check your Battle.net account for a Heroes of the Storm game license.
What's Cool About Heroes of the Storm?
Dustin went on to give the audience an introduction to Heroes of the Storm by describing a few of the game's aspects that we think make it very fun to play.
Blizzard Heroes
We have many incredible heroes we can draw from that you've come to know and love in our other game universes. There's rich lore and history behind our characters, and we think it's awesome to see them all interacting and doing battle with each other. Because this game represents a collision of all our universes, we can introduce heroes from any of our other games, past, present, and future.
Original Hero Design
We're trying to be creative with the types of heroes we bring into the game. We want them to be able to interact with the battlegrounds in very unique ways, and play like nothing you've seen before in our other titles. Abathur was among the first of these very different heroes. He can't really get into the fight himself, but instead sits behind the lines of battle and infests his allies to help them out from the sidelines.
Battlegrounds are more than just maps. Each is designed to be different from the others, with unique objectives and focal points that can change your strategies and swing the tide of the game in your favor.
As an example, let's take a look at Blackheart's Bay:
- On Blackheart's Bay, you and your allies are tasked with collecting Doubloons and turning them in to the evil ghost pirate, Blackheart, in order to buy his favor.
- Players accumulate Doubloons by destroying Treasure Chests or defeating Mercenary Camps, which are scattered around the Battleground.
- If your team manages to turn in enough coins, Blackheart will set Blackheart's Revenge, his ghostly pirate ship, on enemy forts and bombard them with cannon fire!
- Be careful, though, because if you die while carrying coins, they'll spill out onto the ground and your enemies can reclaim them. On Blackheart's Bay, players become Treasure Goblins.
We currently have four Battlegrounds in the Tech Alpha, and have plans to add many more in the future so that you can change up how you play, as well as use different strategies to succeed from one game to the next.
Following Dustin's overview, Phill picked up the mic for a peek into what the Heroes of the Storm Art Team has been up to lately.
When we started to really ramp up Heroes development we were initially focused on standing up art and models for as many of our heroes as we could. While we managed to get a lot of heroes into the game, we wanted to continue iterating on them until each one really lived up to the fantasy behind their character.
We've put a lot of work into improving the appearances of our heroes and skins since we first revealed Heroes of the Storm at BlizzCon last year, and have put a lot of time into adding more details to their faces and character models over the last few months.
Hero Skins
Kaeo Milker then took the stage to show off some of the new skins that we'll be releasing in the future.
Skins are an exciting way for us to really dig into the lore and flavor of each hero, and we always have a lot of fun coming up with our next great idea. Through skins, we can show off looks we've come to love. We can also explore a variety of different appearances for each hero, including looks that cross into our other game universes.
Heroes of the Storm has a rather lighthearted nature, which allows us to add in humorous skins as well, such as Stitches in a bikini, or Abathur in pajamas. That's right — Pajamathur is no longer just an April Fool's joke, and will be added to the game!
In addition to all of the skins we have available in the shop, we've also got a ton of skin variations that you can unlock for free, simply by playing with a particular hero frequently. Skin variations not only work for your base hero skin, but once unlocked, they'll work for all future skins you buy for that hero, as well.
We didn't want to stop with variations, though, so we decided to create what we're calling "Ultimate Skins." Ultimate skins are the complete realization of the fantasy for each hero in the Nexus, and are free to unlock, just like skin variations. We want you have a lot of freedom in how you can show off your favorite heroes in-game, and feel that all the skins we have to offer help accomplish this for players who want to really dig deep into a specific hero.
New Heroes –: We've just announced that Brightwing, Zagara, Murky, and LiLi are our newest Heroes!
As we mentioned previously, we're working hard to create heroes that feel and play very differently than anything we've done in the past, and we have a few examples for you today:
- Lili is a new support hero with an ability set that helps her to very effectively aid her teammates throughout the game.
- She has lots of ways to protect herself and allies, and she doesn't need to be babysat.
- You'll see a lot more from her in the showmatch commentary at the end of the panel.
- Brightwing has the ability to passively heal any allies nearby.
- She can also transform enemies into animals.
- Brightwing is a versatile support hero capable of teleporting from ally to ally, healing them and providing them with the help they need to succeed in battle.
- Zagara has map-wide components to her design.
- She can drop Creep Tumors to spread Zerg Creep, which helps speed up her movement speed, as well as the speed of her summons.
- What's more, Zagara can use her Nydus Worms to hop back and forth around the map, giving her plenty of opportunity to Creep up and siege multiple lanes at once.
- When we talked about putting Murky in the game, we initially struggled with what to do with him. Making him a really powerful hero just didn't seem to fit quite right (he is a Murloc, you know.) Instead, we chose to make him very, very weak, but incredibly persistent.
- Murky can lay an egg which he can use to respawn near instantly upon being killed. If his egg is destroyed, Murky will face the same respawn timers as other heroes do, so be sure to hide it well!
- Murky is going to die A LOT, but he's a hero who eventually overwhelms enemies across multiple battles. He doesn't need to win every fight; he just needs to win once.
Q&A Session
Once the presentation wrapped up, Dustin fielded questions from the live audience. Read on to get the full Q&A Session breakdown.
Q: Is there any opportunity to see Heroes on other platforms, such as mobile or console?
A: We haven't really worked on that and it could be a lot of work considering we'd have to take controls into account. At one point Kaeo did manage to hook up an Xbox controller to his home computer and play using that.
Q: Balance aside, which hero would you like to see in the game?
A: The hardest heroes for us to do are the really huge ones. We've talked about Deathwing as a hero we'd really like to put in, but he'd have to be very big. We've found heroes like this to be really challenging to make so far.
Q: Do you think you'll eventually run out of existing Blizzard characters to use as heroes?
A: Our library of Blizzard characters is pretty massive. We've got a very long list of potential heroes that we'd like to implement, and we do want to add many more heroes to the game than are present right now. We're ready to do more. There may be a few heroes who you might not entirely familiar with if you haven't played the game they're from (Stitches from World of Warcraft, for example,) but we can dip into all of our universes to continually create new heroes.
Q: Will there be more high-risk, high-reward Talents added to the game?
A: We're constantly talking about Talents — what to add, and what to change. For example, Zagara's talents are kind of insane right now. One idea, which Matt Cooper proposed, was to double the range of her Baneling ability, and I really hope that one will stick around. We're continuing to evolve the Talent system to add more customization, more options, and more ways for you to play your favorite heroes how you'd like.
Q: Originally Heroes was going to be part of the StarCraft II Arcade. Is Heroes still based off the StarCraft II Editor, or has it changed?
A: Yes, it's still based on the StarCraft II Editor, but it has changed a bit. We want to get to a place where we can make the map editor available for Heroes, as well.
Q: With regard to new characters, are there any hopes for seeing heroes from older blizzard games?
A: You mean like Rock N' Roll Racing, or the Lost Vikings? Yes, we'd definitely love to look into creating Heroes from our older titles. I can't make any promises right now, but we will certainly work on it.
Q: With so many unique characters and ways to play, how do you balance the game?
A: We get this question a lot. It's going to be a lot of work for us, but we have a team of balance guys working on this night and day, and we're pretty confident at the moment. We're not afraid to admit when we're wrong, see what the community has to say, and make changes. The editor also lets us make changes on a hero by hero basis. For example, the way Sgt. Hammer roots herself basically attracts skillshots from her enemies. If we need to fix something about that, we can adjust her talents to give her more survivability while she's sieged up.
There's more to come as Blizzard storms Pax East 2014, so stay tuned for updates today, and all weekend long!


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Destroyed vehicles lie in the rubble outside the Plaza Towers Elementary school in Moore, Okla., on Tuesday.
For many, it's impossible to view the heartbreaking stories coming out of Oklahoma and not feel an overwhelming urge to do something. But following your first impulse to help could just lead to more heartbreak, as many charitable givers often fall prey to scams in the wake of national tragedies.
Authorities are warning would-be donors to think carefully before they donate, and before they click.
"There is always a high probability for con-artists or 'travelers' to pop-up in the state following a storm, pushing quick-fix repair schemes and charity scams," Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt said in a press release. He urged Oklahomans to stay alert.
Scam artists crawl out of the woodwork only hours after the first pictures of death and destruction emerge. Like clockwork, spam emails, fake Facebook pages, telemarketing phone calls — even full-fledged websites that accept credit cards — pop up, all claiming falsely that they are collecting money for victims. Virus writers also get into the act, sending around booby-trapped emails that appear to come from charities, but are designed to invade victims' computers.
Pruitt said people around the country should donate to "reputable" organizations such as the Salvation Army or Red Cross. "The first scam we typically see after devastation like this is charity fraud," he said
Pruitt also said his department has already sent 30 investigators into the tornado-ravaged area to stop local scams, fraud and price gouging.
For a detailed list of ways to help Oklahoma victims, visit NBC News' How to Help page.
Attorneys general in several other states, from Washington to South Carolina, have also issued charity fraud warnings.
Even consumers who wouldn't normally fall for scams are at risk in the aftermath of major disasters because the overwhelming sadness of the events, and the urgency of the need, can override a giver's natural sense of skepticism. The same urgency force is at play whenever a scam artist insists that a supposedly great deal is only available for a short time.
Federal Trade Commission spokesman Frank Dorman said he didn't believe his agency had received any complaints about Oklahoma-related scams yet, but that's not unusual: victims wouldn't yet realize they'd been scammed, he said.
The agency does offer an extensive set of tips for evaluating charities.
Consumers should beware anyone who:
- Uses high-pressure tactics like trying to get you to donate immediately, without giving you time to think about it and do your research.
- Refusing to provide detailed information about its identity, mission, costs and how the donation will be used.
- Won't provide proof that a contribution is tax deductible.
- Uses a name that closely resembles that of a better-known, reputable organization.
- Thanks you for a pledge you don't remember making.
- Asks for donations in cash or asks you to wire money.
- Offers to send a courier or overnight delivery service to collect the donation immediately.
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Head spinning from juggling the figures of your student debt and your financial aid package? This week, you can ask the president for help, and he just might answer — by text message.
President Barack Obama is answering students' questions about paying for college this week, ahead of a planned July 1 rate hike on the interest charged on students' subsidized Stafford loans.
Every day this week, the youth activism group DoSomething.org is collecting questions and sending one of those to the president to answer.
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Obama's answered an inquiry Tuesday from Marcus in Nevada, Texas, about what the government is doing to educate high school students about loans before entering college.
"We launched a College Scorecard and Financial Aid Shopping sheet to compare schools, aid and loan options," Obama said via text message. "It's something Michelle and I wish we had had when we were in your shoes — because sometimes we got surprised by some of the debt that we racked up."
On Monday, the president responded to a question about what has been done to lower student debt, saying the government has expanded grants and proposed incentives for colleges to keep tuition down.
Students interested in submitting questions can text "PREZ" to 38383 to sign up, then submit a question.
The White House has been fighting with Congress over how to deal with the student loan rate hike, and no solution has been reached. The subsidized Stafford loan interest rate will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent next month if Congress does not act soon.


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Fireworks Safety
Larry D. Jones, MPH, Health Director
July 2, 2013
With the 4th of July only days away, it's time for all of us to remember the importance of fireworks safety. In the United States, 200 people on average go the emergency room every day with fireworks-related injuries in the days surrounding this celebration.
Because a single spark is all that's necessary to ignite a fire capable of risking the lives and property of family, friends, and neighbors, we should carefully select the location for a fireworks display. Anyone choosing to shoot fireworks should avoid open fields and unmowed areas. Never shoot fireworks over homes, trees, or other areas with natural ground cover.
As an additional precaution, you should always have a bucket of water and hose available nearby in case of an accidental fire. Also, the Fire Department recommends soaking all used fireworks in water before disposal.
When lighting the fuse on a firework, you should never place any part of your body directly over the device, and never try to re-light or pick up a firework that failed to go off. Forty-six percent of all reported injuries are to the hands and fingers, and many are due to people investigating a device that did not fully ignite.
Parents should never allow young children to play with or ignite fireworks, and older children should always have an adult supervise fireworks activities, including the use of sparklers. Seventeen percent of all reported firework injuries are due to burns associated with using sparklers, which burn at temperatures of around 2,000 degrees.
In Independence, City Code makes it unlawful for any person to possess, store, handle, or use, within the city bottle rockets, aerial missiles, sparkler bombs, or altered/combined fireworks. Fireworks within the city limits of Independence are only permitted between the hours of 10 a.m. and 11 p.m. July 3 and July 5; and between the hours of 10 a.m. and midnight July 4.
City Code also makes it unlawful to use, explode, detonate, or shoot fireworks from a motorized vehicle or throw any ignited firework into, at, or under a motorized vehicle or near any person or animal.
Any citizen with an inquiry about general fireworks use and safety, can call 325-7123 during normal business hours (8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, except holidays), and they will be directed to a Fire Department representative who can provide information or answer their question.
Anyone who witnesses unsafe fireworks use that is not immediately life threatening should contact the Fire Department immediately. During normal business hours call 325-7123. After hours or for an emergency, call 911.
Information provided by the Independence Fire Department and the United States Product Safety Commission.


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J. D. Heyes
November 26, 2012
Yakov Dubin is not likely to do anyone a good deed for a while, if ever again. Society has the New York City Police Department to thank for that.
Dubin, 49, was acting more like a Good Samaritan than a petty thief when he was busted by plainclothes officers recently after taking $27 from an old purse he found lying in a local park.
Police had left the money in the handbag, which Dubin described as very old, very dirty and smelly. He says he took the cash so he could turn it in to authorities but before he could, he was arrested and accused of stealing the money instead.
"It was a very bad experience," said Dubin, a successful real estate agent from an Atlanta suburb who has since filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the NYPD for wrongful arrest.
"I'm a law-abiding citizen. I've never been arrested, and for them to put me in handcuffs in the middle of the day in front of my kids was humiliating," he told the New York Daily News.
Making up crimes and creating criminals
Dubin was arrested on Aug. 11, 2011, as part of a sting operation the NYPD calls "Operation Lucky Bag." It's a controversial little action in which cops put valuables such as cash, an iPad or other electronics, in a handbag, then arrest whoever tried to walk away with the booty.
Needless to say, legal experts and critics say the operation smacks of entrapment – and they are right. Nice way for the NYPD to "welcome" tourists to the city.
According to his court filing, Dubin says his ordeal began after he found a purse that did not contain any identification underneath a park bench. He did admit to pulling out the cash while leaving the purse behind because it was, well, disgusting.
When he started to walk away, he was set upon by plainclothes officers who asked him if he might have something that didn't belong to him.
"Plaintiff told the officers that he had taken the money out of the purse in order to turn it over to a park ranger," says the lawsuit. "(He) then gave the money to the officers."
That didn't matter. Cops handcuffed him anyway, triggering tears of angst and fear from his teenage daughter, the suit said.
Then, according to the suit, one of the officers just couldn't resist adding insult to injury.
"Don't worry," a "Lucky Bag" officer allegedly told her. "We'll take your daddy to a good jail."
So much for visiting NYC
The suit says the hapless Samaritan spent four hours in police custody before finally being released. He was charged with petty larceny and possession of stolen property.
A month later; however, the charges were reduced to a $120 fine and a disorderly conduct violation.
Of course, the NYPD would not respond to the Daily News' request for comment regarding the lawsuit, but nonetheless one of the department's mouthpieces attempted to defend this indefensible action.
"Someone who opens a bag that doesn't belong to him, stuffs $27 in his pocket and walks away is not innocent," he said. "Any law-abiding person who has had their property stolen from a park bench or blanket will be happy to know that the NYPD is out there combating such thefts."
Really? How about the fact that if your department hadn't baited this guy, he'd have never been in this spot to begin with? And doesn't the New York City Police Department have better things to do? Real crimes to solve? Or is making up crime the new normal in the Big Apple?
Needless to say, Dubin said the experience has soured him on New York.
"I haven't been back since, except to go to court," he said. "And then it was in and out, not even stop to buy a hot dog."
This article first appeared on Natural News.
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Samsung might be working hard on banging out the identikit mobile phones in a bid to steal market share from Nokia, but a recent folding handset concept shows its design team is still hard at work / on the crazy pills.
Basically it's a side opening clamshell that has a normal phone on the outside, but with a full-screen display on the inside for all your media watching needs.
We've seen phones like this before in the shape of the Polymer Vision Readius, but this is a novel idea that set hearts racing at FPD International in Japan.
Flexible magic
Using a flexible OLED, likely developed by the Samsung SDI division of the Korean giant that has been working hard on churning out better OLED displays, users can take a call on the handset and watch movies etc without having to squint at a teeny screen or hold a whacking great brick to the side of their head.
It's unlikely that we'll be seeing this exact model over in the UK, in fact unless it's slimmed down somewhat then it probably won't be released anyway.
But we know you like looking at crazy and shiny things, so fill your boots with our (slightly grainy) photos of the next generation of mobile phones.


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China stepped up the pressure Friday in its latest territorial spat with Japan, as Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi demanded that Tokyo immediately free the crew of a Chinese fishing boat detained in disputed waters.
Mr. Yang made a "solemn representation and protest" about Tuesday's seizure, a Chinese Foreign Ministry statement said, and "demanded that Japan unconditionally release and return the entire crew of the fishing boat." The Chinese boat was seized after it collided with two Japanese patrol boats.
China is Japan's largest trade partner and the two countries have made considerable progress in recent years to overcome decades of hostility and mistrust stemming from Japan's occupation of China last century.
But misgivings on both sides persist. And this latest spat over territory illustrates that relations remain tender.
The latest in the fishing boat spat
The Japanese Coast Guard turned the captain over to the prosecutor Thursday, increasing the chances he would be charged with deliberately ramming two Japanese patrol boats. His ship was seized near a chain of tiny uninhabited islands known in China as Diaoyu and in Japan as Senkaku.
"This is a criminal case, so we have to implement domestic legislation" a Japanese government official who asked not to be identified said in a telephone interview. "The room for maneuver is very limited."
At the same time, he added, "we have no intention of playing up this event, and Japan is always prepared to make the necessary efforts to maintain stable relations with China."
"I don't think Japan's tough stance will last," predicts Huang Dahui, who studies Sino-Japanese relations at Renmin University in Beijing. "Japan will look at the situation in the light of its overall relationship with China."
This is not China's only territorial dispute
On Friday the Japanese Defense Ministry issued a report worrying that "China has been intensifying its maritime activities including in waters near Japan."
China is involved in territorial disputes with a number of its neighbors, including Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam. Beijing was angered recently when Hillary Clinton suggested that Washington might mediate some of those disputes, and insisted that China would deal with them only bilaterally.
China and Taiwan both claim the Diaoyu/Senkaku, an island chain controlled by Japan that straddles rich fishing grounds and possible undersea oilfields.
Given the disputed ownership, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said Thursday, "the Japanese side applying domestic law to the Chinese fishing boat operating in this area is absurd, illegal, and invalid."
In Tokyo, the government has been growing impatient with what the Coast Guard says is an increasing number of Chinese fishing vessels entering Japanese-claimed waters in recent weeks.
"We have been warning the Chinese government for the past two months, but it has never taken the necessary measures to improve the situation" says the Japanese government official. "We are very unhappy with that."
In Beijing, however, the government is showing little sign of backing down. The Foreign Minister told the Japanese ambassador here that "the Chinese government is staunch and unwavering in defending its sovereignty over the Diaoyu islands and the rights and interests of China's citizens," the ministry spokesman said.
"Japan should not ignore or underestimate China's spirit on this case," warns Professor Huang. "China will not give in on this issue."


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New Arts Center envisioned for Willoughby Avenue District
Published: 02/14/2013 12:50:00
Conceptual plans for a new Willoughby Arts Center have been released and the idea has generated a lot of excitement, located between the existing Juneau Arts and Culture Center and Centennial Hall, the building would house both the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council and Perseverance Theatre, creating a vibrant core for the Arts in downtown Juneau. We spoke with Nancy DeCherney, the Executive Director of the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council, to learn more about the project.
VIDEO: Willoughby Arts Center would be a central facility housing the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council and Perseverance Theatre. (Image: MRV Architects)
"We have been thinking about doing an expansion to the JACC for quite some time, we started planning for that last year, the city and borough has a comprehensive plan that designates this area as the cultural section of the town. As Perseverance began to look at their theatre needs and the fact that it needs to be replaced, they had looked at various different options; they had a theater consultant come in. It just seemed like it made a whole lot of sense for us to make one building that houses all of the arts in the community and put it right here."
Art Rotch, the Artistic Director of Perseverance Theatre said;
"We've been talking for a long time, I mean almost as long as I can remember working at the theater about what the building should be and what we would want it to be because the building that we're in was built as a temporary solution back in the early 80's. And cut a long story short but we came around to this idea because it just makes more sense to build one theater building in Juneau than two."
Nancy DeCherney expanded the conversation to touch on what the site could include;
"Among the ideas that we have is to not just have the theaters and the office space, that sort of stuff, we want to have a restaurant, we want to have a little bar, we're also thinking about housing and perhaps office space available to the public. "
Art Rotch then explained the next step in the process of making it a reality;
"So where we are right now is looking for time and money to do more work on the design so we can really flesh out what that building's going to have inside it and what it'd look like and what that theater will be for perseverance."
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Where do they all stand? In a move I thought they'd save for the finale, Jack was all over Jacob's job offer in "What They Died For," going through the whole ritual of wine-drinking and light-seeing to become the Island's protector. The rest of the core four are still wracked with grief over the deaths of their friends. Kate's old goal of trying to find Claire has seemingly been replaced by trying to kill Locke 2.0. Sawyer, meanwhile, was blaming himself for killing Sayid, Jin, and Sun on the sub. Hurley was just glad he didn't get stuck with Jacob's job. Continue reading


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Yes, The NSA Has Always Hated Encryption
from the like-kryptonite-to-spies deptWith the latest reports of the feds (both the NSA and the FBI) trying to get tech companies to cough up master encryption keys, Matt Novak of the awesome PaleoFuture blog (now a part of Gizmodo) notes that the NSA has a long history of hating civilians who use encription. While many of us lived through the crypto wars of the 90s, in which PGP was branded a weapon, and it was supposedly illegal to export it, Novak goes even further back to when the NSA flipped out about some of the early research on civilian cryptography in the 1970s:
Of course, imagine an internet without the kind of encryption we have today. While it still doesn't go nearly far enough it is one of the few things that really can significantly protect some aspects of privacy. Not only that, but it's really been key to many of the things that we now take for granted online, including e-commerce and online money transactions. Of course, if the NSA had had its way, we might not have that today -- or at least it wouldn't be nearly as trustworthy, meaning there would be a lot less of it.
As Jay Stowsky at UC-Berkeley notes in his 2003 paper "Secrets or Shields to Share?" the intelligence community fought tooth and nail against the private development of cryptography for computers. When the NSA got wind of the research developments at IBM, Stanford and MIT in the 1970s they scrambled to block publication of their early studies. When that didn't work, the NSA sought to work with the civilian research community to develop the encryption. As Stowsky writes, "the agency struck a deal with IBM to develop a data encryption standard (DES) for commercial applications in return for full pre-publication review and right to regulate the length, and therefore the strength of the crypto algorithm."
Naturally, in the Watergate era, many researchers assumed that if the U.S. government was helping to develop the locks that they would surely give themselves the keys, effectively negating the purpose of the encryption. Unlike IBM, the researchers at Stanford and MIT didn't go along with the standard and developed their own encryption algorithms. Their findings were published (again, against the wishes of the NSA) in the late 1970s after courts found that researchers have the right to publish on the topic of cryptography even if it makes the government uncomfortable. According to Stowsky, the NSA retaliated by trying to block further research funding that Stanford and MIT were receiving through the National Science Foundation.
Think about that every time the NSA or FBI wants master keys, backdoors or weaker encryption. They hype up the FUD about how they need this to stop extraordinarily low probability events like terrorist attacks, but allowing that technology creates tremendous innovations and benefits. When we do a basic cost-benefit analysis, the NSA is going to lose, but they'll try to scare the crap out of people so they don't even get a chance to realize what they're giving up.
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