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Federal, State, International, and Other Resources
With the growth
of online opportunities enabled by the Internet and the growing
popularity of such offerings, unfortunately, there has been
an increase in outright fraud and a proliferation of degree
or diploma mills and unaccredited institutions.
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Use the online databases of recognized accredited colleges and
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sure to carefully examine the search results, if any. Many "mills" adopt
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but are often located in different cities and/or states. For
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Pennsylvania rather than the well-known University of California,
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or universities. See Regional
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A man was charged after he opened fire during a dispute at a north Harris County college, shooting a 25-year-old man, a maintenance man, and accidentally shooting himself, deputies said.
Carlton Berry, 22, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Harris County sheriff's deputies said the shooting happened outside the library on the Lone Star College's North Harris campus, 2700 W. W. Thorne Drive near Aldine Westfield, at 12:19 p.m. Tuesday.
Investigators said the shooting stemmed from a dispute between two men. At least 10 shots were fired, according to Sheriff Adrian Garcia.
"What we had here was idiocy, stupidity," Garcia said. "We had individuals who did not care about putting other people in harm's way. It was a ridiculous, adolescent confrontation that occurred."
The maintenance man, Bobby Cliburn, was shot in the leg. He was released from a hospital on Wednesday.
Investigators said Berry accidentally shot himself in the leg while he was putting his gun back into his pocket. Garcia said that weapon has not been recovered and urged anyone who knows where it is to call investigators immediately.
In the moments after the shooting, Harris County Sheriff's Deputies and other officers searched the grounds near the college. The sheriff said they were looking for two important clues: a pistol and a possible second suspect.
A sheriff's department source told Local 2 that a man was apparently with Berry at the time shots were fired. The source said a person believed to be Berry's friend dropped his backpack, with identification, near the school, shortly after the shooting.
Sources said the gun may have been taken by a friend who ran from the building shortly after the shooting.
Berry remained hospitalized and in the custody of Harris County sheriff's deputies on Wednesday. His bond has been set at $60,000.
Berry is scheduled to appear in court Thursday to have an attorney assigned. However, that is unlikely as he was still recovering Wednesday night.
Berry has a criminal past, including arrests in 2011 and 2012 for possession of marijuana. He was also arrested for a theft charge in 2009.
The third person who was shot was identified as 25-year-old Jody Neal. Deputies said he suffered gunshot wounds to his abdomen and leg.
Neal also has a criminal history. He was convicted of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle in 2004 and possession of a switchblade/knuckles and misdemeanor assault in 2010.
Garcia said investigators were working to determine if Neal, or someone else in the area, also fired shots.
Dr. Richard Carpenter of Lone Star College said campus police heard the shots being fired and responded immediately. Harris County deputies were on the scene about four minutes later, Garcia said.
Garcia also asked anyone with cellphone video of the shooting to turn it over to deputies immediately. At least eight investigators have been dedicated to the case, Garcia said.
A fourth person, a woman, was transported to a hospital after she suffered an anxiety attack. She is expected to be OK.
Maintenance man talks about shooting
Cliburn, 69, talked to Local 2 exclusively Wednesday morning from his hospital room at Houston Northwest Medical Center.
"My intentions at first were just trying to calm the situation down, but this guy came out and he took two steps and he started shooting," the retired Marine said.
"There was 4, 5, 6 rounds shot. After the first two rounds, I immediately tried to get behind a column there," he said.
Seconds later, Cliburn was shot in the leg. He left the hospital Wednesday with the bullet still lodged in his calf.
"What they want to do is let it heal then come back and take it out," said Cliburn who has worked at Lone Star College's North Harris campus for 10 years.
Cliburn planned to return to work when he was physically able.
"I'm not a quitter," he said.
Students terrified after hearing shots
Students said they were extremely afraid after the shooting.
"I was waiting for my English class to start. It was five minutes before class and all of a sudden, I heard shots fired and people started rushing in the hallway. A few students even came in to our room seeking shelter and we closed the door and we pushed the table against the door and we were hiding," student Amanda Vasquez said. "You never think this is going to happen to you."
Vasquez said the shots were fired nearby.
"They sounded very close -- the shots. (We heard) five or six gunshots," Vasquez said. "I just ducked under the table as fast as I could and hoped for the best. I saw one of the shooters when he was already under police control."
Some students barricaded themselves in classrooms until they thought everything was safe.
"There were some people crying in the classroom," student Paul Ellis said. "A lot of people were freaking out. Some girl thought she was going to have a panic attack, but she didn't."
"I was doing my homework on the second floor and all you heard were six or seven loud gunshots. (Students) were just running away from the hallway. That's the same thing that I did. People didn't want to cross the hallway because it's open and we didn't know where the shooter was," student Daniel Flores said. "I went to the courtyard and there were people walking around like they didn't know. It wasn't organized."
"Nobody knew what to do," one student said. "I mean, we knew to hide, but that was it. We didn't know who shot who. I know one of the guys in there with me, he saw one of them shoot the other guy. But all I know is that everybody just ran."
Some students not notified through emergency system
Some students said they were not notified about the shooting,
Ariana Munoz, 19, said she was in Algebra class when a friend texted her about 12:30 p.m. to see if she was OK. Munoz said she and the other 25 students in her class didn't receive an alert.
"Come to find out the shooting wasn't far from me, so I alerted my other class members and I told my professor, who then went and told other professors," Munoz said. "Why is it that nobody from the school came and told us? Why was it that I had to alert the faculty? Why was it that I had to tell everybody?"
Munoz said the professor went about class as if nothing had happened. About 1:10 p.m., roughly 40 minutes after the shooting, Munoz said a police officer knocked on her classroom door and told everyone to evacuate. She said the college did send out an email alert eventually, but she said it was sent after she left campus.
Carpenter said messages were sent out.
"We sent out a text blast to all of our students, emails," Carpenter said. "We have multiple forms by which we communicate with students."
Carpenter said students are able to opt-out of those alerts, but the system is designed to send notifications to every student to their cellphones. However, on Wednesday, KPRC Local 2 learned that students have to opt in, not out, to receive those alerts.
Some students said cellphone service of spotty on campus.
"I had no more cellphone service, but I did have WiFi, which is when I decided to go to Twitter and warn others not to come into the academic building," Vasquez said.
A message was posted on Facebook about 1 p.m. The first posting the college made on its main Twitter account was about 2 p.m. A notice did not appear to have been posted on the North Harris campus' Twitter page at all.
School reopened on Wednesday
Students, their parents and faculty returned to campus on Wednesday.
The Lone Star College Public Information Officer, Vicki Cassidy, said the school was on "high alert and will continue the same pattern" Wednesday. The PIO also said there would not be extra security on campus.
However, security on the college campus was much more visible early Wednesday. Officers were out patrolling the campus to help ease fears as students headed back to school.
"It makes you scared to go anywhere," student Danielle Roberson said. "You are at school to get an education and better our future and we still get to school and get nervous."
Lone Star College and the four nearby Aldine schools -- Dunn Elementary, Parker Intermediate, Nimitz 9th grade campus and Nimitz High -- were on lockdown Tuesday. The lockdown was lifted about 3 p.m.
"I'm just glad nothing happened at any of the other schools and the suspect didn't make it to other schools," said Kevin Williams, who has two children who attend Dunn Elementary. "As a parent, you think, 'Go get my child, go help my child,' but you have all the police, so what else can you do?"
Town hall meeting scheduled
Harris County sheriff's deputies will hold a town hall meeting to talk with the public about the department's plan for responding to school shootings.
The meeting will be held at San Jacinto College's North Campus, 5800 Uvalde, from 6 to 8 p.m.
Garcia said the timing of the meeting was coincidental and not in direct response to the Lone Star College North campus shooting. The meeting was organized after the school shooting in Newton, Conn.
"We want people to know that our deputies are prepared, they're brave, they're courageous, they're going to run toward danger that people will run from and, in the event they might be outgunned, we got surprises for the bad guys."
Guns illegal on campus
There were more than 10,000 students on the campus at the time of the shooting, said Jed Young, a school spokesman. Lone Star College's North Harris campus sits on 200 acres and opened in 1973. It offers more than 80 programs of study.
It is illegal to carry a concealed gun on a college campus in Texas.
"The policy of the board is that it's a gun-free campus," Carpenter said. "That doesn't mean that we can observe every ... we've got 19,000 students on this campus. We don't search students that come on the campus."
According to college officials, administrators have been actively talking about how they should deal with a shooter on campus. On Tuesday morning, the college president sent faculty members a link to a video that demonstrates what to do in an active shooter situation.
College officials said an email to a link with a training video will be sent to students.

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Yes. In a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, cross-over study, done at the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at Auburn University in Alabama, 42 healthy subjects (22 male and 20 females) between the ages of 35 and 65 were given 325 mg of aspirin, 650 mg of aspirin, and placebo for 4 consecutive days. On the fourth day they also ingested 500 mg of immediate-release niacin 30 minutes after taking aspirin or placebo. They reported the intensity of flushing, headache, pruritus, tingling, and warmth. Reactions were evaluated at time 0, 15, 30, 60, and 120 minutes following the niacin dose.
The results were clear. The symptom scores for flushing, itching, tingling, and warmth were all significantly reduced by both aspirin regimens. There were no major differences between the 325 mg and 650 mg doses. The researchers conclude, " An aspirin regimen of 325 mg is effective in suppressing niacin-induced cutaneous reactions. Increasing the dose to 650 mg does not provide additional benefit."
Jungnickel P, Maloley P, Vander Tuin E, et al. Effect of two aspirin pretreatment regimens on niacin-induced cutaneous reactions. J Gen Intern Med 12:591-596, 1997.
Comments: Patients with cardiovascular disease generally benefit from taking aspirin as an anti-coagulant. The recommended dose for this regimen is still not well established, but it generally ranges from 80 mg to 325 mg daily. If a patient has elevated serum lipids, and is a candidate to be placed on niacin, it would make sense to take the aspirin a half-hour before the niacin. This study showed that 325 mg of aspirin is as effective as 650 mg. It's also possible a lower dose could be beneficial, especially if the niacin dose is also lower than 500 mg.


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I've been wondering since the vice presidential candidates' debate this past Thursday night: how can Democrats have been pleased by Joe Biden's performance? His behavior was almost beyond belief. But for his excellent articulation, one might have taken him for a loudmouth drunk — until he shifted his dynamics into the stage whisper of the last half hour. As many have observed, his behavior was rude, boorish, bordering on the unhinged.
His behavior set off a debate of its own. Did it most resemble that of The Joker in the Batman series, or that of the Jack Nicholson character in The Shining?
There may have been deep thinking strategery behind his performance. Perhaps he was trying to throw Paul Ryan off his game. Perhaps he was seeking to assert his dominance. Perhaps he was seeking to humiliate. Perhaps he was seeking to send a thrill up the leg of Obama supporters depressed by Obama's performance in the first debate.
As I watched, however, I thought: If this guy were a Republican, I would be embarrassed. I would think he is not fit for high public office.
Liberal Democrats in politics and the media formerly known as mainstream have not reacted as I did to Biden's performance. I would like to raise the question why.
I don't have a good answer, but I speculate that it has to do with the contempt in which they hold their political opponents. Obama frequently expresses such contempt in his own way. He even did so famously in Ryan's case after Ryan unveiled his budget plan. (In case you need a refresher, Neo-neocon reviewed the incident most recently in this post.)
The liberals' contempt is a companion to the tyrannical impulse that governs their politics. They want to run our lives. Indeed, they think they are fit to run our lives and they we are unfit to run them ourselves. William Buckley used to proclaim with a glint in his eye that a liberal is someone who wants to reach into your shower and adjust the temperature of the water. Man, oh, man, was he right.
The tyrannical impulse underlying modern liberalism is inconsistent with the democratic temper founded on the proposition that all men are created equal. Manners are the relic of an ancient past. They are obsolete. They are dead as the dodo.
Why aren't our liberal "friends" (to use Biden's term) embarrassed by Biden's behavior? Or if they are, why don't they say so? I don't have the answer, but I think it bears examination.


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There's no way Jerry Manuel will survive after this season. Whoever replaces him will have to be marketed to a disgruntled and discouraged fan base.
The one guy who will work and won't break the bank, and who has won at his level, but hasn't managed on the major league level is Wally Backman.
The Mets need to market fire and intensity, something that has been lacking, and Backman meets that description. Because of his background and ties to the 1986 championship team, Backman is somebody the team can market and the public will buy.
The downside is his lack of major league experience, but the Mets have to weigh this against the public relations upside.


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New Los Vaqueros Reservoir filling up
One inch at a time, the water level is rising at the new Los Vaqueros Reservoir. In the coming months, with the new dam complete, Los Vaqueros will be twice the size of any other recreation lake in the Bay Area.
Some are not waiting for that. Earlier this month, a pair of lucky anglers caught 25 trout in one day. Golden eagles are building nests. Bobcats are out hunting ground squirrels.
In the past few weeks, the level climbed past what used to be full for the old reservoir. It's now at 68 percent of the new capacity.
The new Los Vaqueros, when full, will be 1,900 surface acres, the centerpiece of a watershed that spans nearly 20,000 acres.
To put it in perspective, consider other well-known recreation lakes in the Bay Area: In San Francisco, Lake Merced South is 203 acres and Merced North is 105 acres. In Marin County, Alpine Lake is 224 acres. In Contra Costa County, San Pablo Reservoir is 866 acres. In Alameda County, Lake Chabot is 315 acres and Del Valle is 750 acres. And in Santa Clara County, Lake Anderson is 1,000 acres.
Of all the places you can go in California, I'm most transfixed by Los Vaqueros because of what is already happening - and what is possible: fish, wildlife and birds.
Yet many have still not seen Los Vaqueros. It is in deep valleys in the rolling hills roughly between Livermore and Brentwood in remote Contra Costa County. There are two access points: South Gate out of Livermore for the marina and trailheads for the best lake views and wildlife sightings; and North Gate out of Brentwood for the John Muir Interpretive Center and ranch roads for mountain biking and hiking out to the dam
Fish: As the lake fills, the amount of cover and the richness of the aquatic food chain will probably make this one of the top fishing lakes in California. Trout and striped bass are on the marquee, and a new program for bluegill and crappie will be established this year.
Trout fishing is good, with regulars getting their limits every time out, and some do better. This month, Al Hurwitz of Saratoga and Abbey Lev of Sunnyvale caught 25 trout, released 18 of them, with seven ranging from 1 1/2 to 4 1/2 pounds. They were trolling Rapalas five feet deep in 20 to 30 feet of water in the large inlet cove on the eastern shore near the dam.
But what could boggle the mind is the striped bass, which get pumped in with the water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The lake-record striper is already a 45-pounder. It's my experience that when the water temperature hits 57 degrees (it's 52 now), that's when schools of stripers form to corral and attack baitfish; you can cast to the school and catch-and-release five to 10 stripers in a session.
Wildlife: Sightings of bobcats and coyotes have been higher this month at Los Vaqueros than at any other watershed, preserve or park in the Bay Area. The reason is the high number of ground squirrels and rabbits. Predators always have something to hunt there, and so they're out a lot, visible to many, hunting. If you hang around much at Los Vaqueros, sooner or later you'll see a bobcat trotting down the road with a squirrel in its mouth. "There's so much wildlife and birds, three times what I see at the other places," said longtime field scout Chris Senti, who runs the marina and has worked at many lakes in the Bay Area and Northern California
Birds: Last spring, in a series of successful golden eagle nests, eight juvenile goldens were verified to fledge - that is, to learn to fly and hunt. This year, with heavy December rains and improved habitat conditions, numbers could be even higher. In addition, it is common to see red-tailed hawks, kestrels and, if you know how to identify them, prairie falcons and peregrine falcons. Though bald eagles have not established residence yet (there are eight nesting pairs in the Bay Area), they are common visitors. The best spot to look for bald eagles is in the scraggy trees north of the marina above the West Fork of Kellogg Creek, where the eagles often perch to watch for fish.
If you want to go
Access, parking: $6 per vehicle (discounts for seniors, Contra Costa County residents).
Fishing permit: $4.25 per day.
Lake records: 45-pound striped bass; 30-pound catfish; 13-pound rainbow trout; 12-pound largemouth bass; 6.97-pound brown trout; 6-pound salmon; 4.85-pound brook trout; 2-pound crappie.
Boat rentals: 16-foot electric-powered boat: $25 per hour, $50 for five hours, $65 all day.
Events: Guided nature tours, including boarding a patio boat for bird watching, are scheduled Fridays through Sundays; see www.ccwater.com/losvaqueros/.
Weird rules: A series of inexplicable rules are in effect that include: no private boats or swimming (even though the adjacent delta, where the water comes from, is full of boats and water sports), no leashed dogs (even though cows graze in the watershed).
How to get there
South Gate: From San Francisco, take Interstate 80 over the Bay Bridge to the split and bear right on I-580. Continue east on I-580 for 37 miles to Livermore and beyond to Vasco Road. Take Vasco Road north 4.5 miles to Los Vaqueros Road (look for small brown watershed sign). Turn left and drive to South Gate entrance station, then continue to parking, marina and trailheads.
North Gate: In Contra Costa County, take Highway 4 east to Antioch (past Hillcrest) and merge left onto the Brentwood Bypass and continue to Walnut Boulevard. Turn right on Walnut and drive a mile to North Gate entrance station, then continue to parking, interpretive center and trailheads for access to dam.
Contact: Los Vaqueros Marina, (925) 371-2628; fish report, (925) 248-3474, norcalfishing.com; watershed information, including live cams, events, www.ccwater.com/losvaqueros/.
Tom Stienstra is The San Francisco Chronicle's outdoors writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com. Daily twitter at: @StienstraTom


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In this world there are people who get Tyler Perry's brand of humor. Then there are the rest of us. We're the people who saw Jamie Foxx dig his comedic claws into Madea this weekend on Saturday Night Live and wanted to watch it over and over and over again.
If you're a proud member of the "Why the hell do people watch Tyler Perry movies" fan club, allow me to share with you the hilarious gem that came out of Foxx's hosting duties this weekend. He might be all Mr. Serious Actor these days, but I saw flashes of Foxx the funny man we all loved from his In Living Color days in his faux trailer for Tyler Perry Presents: Alex Cross 2 : Madea Special Ops. It's like Jamie Foxx and SNL's giant holiday gift to the Anti-Tyler Perry Fans Club!
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Ooooh, that's worth three snaps in Z formation right there! In two minutes Jamie managed to do what Madea can't do in a whole movie: make me laugh!
I almost feel bad for Tyler Perry. Almost. He tried to escape Madea by reprising the Alex Cross role that Morgan Freeman killed in Kiss the Girls, but as Foxx so hilariously pointed out ... it ain't going to happen. Once an annoying nosy old woman in drag, always an annoying nosy old woman in drag.
Jamie, on the other hand, can dress up in half a wig with half a pair of granny glasses and still look hot. That's saying something!
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A winner was selected from 42 designs submitted by 21 freelance designers.
We need an updated logo that represents global peace through education. We would potentially like a base logo then add one graphic that represents each of the 3 programs.
An updated version of the present logo incorporating the 3 programs
- Senator Fulbright's Legacy
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- Peace and Education
- Item 1... Classic and updated
- Rust color scheme
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Montevideo's second foot�ball win this season was also the Thunder Hawks' second victory in a rivalry game as the T-Hawks defeated Yellow Medicine East 33-20 here Friday in the "Battle for the Paddle."
Montevideo's second football win this season was also the Thunder Hawks' second victory in a rivalry game as the T-Hawks defeated Yellow Medicine East 33-20 here Friday in the "Battle for the Paddle."
Piling up 25 first downs and 409 yards of total offense, Montevideo's attack produced five long touchdown drives of 66, 88, 72, 77 and 70 yards.
The ground game, with Marcus Kranz gaining 97 of the team's 202 rushing yards, and the passing attack, with Troy Diggins throwing for 207 yards and three TDs, were equally effective.
Montevideo opened the scoring on Wyatt Enger's 27-yard run. The score was set up by a 27-yard pass from Diggins to Austin Hansen.
The Sting, trying to snap a losing streak that dates back to the 2010 season, came back to take the lead on a blown coverage by the Montevideo defense. Sting quarterback Blake Lindstrom found Tyson Velde wide open for a 22-yard scoring play.
Montevideo scored on its next two possessions for a 21-7 halftime lead.
Diggins hit Bryce Maurice for an 11-yard gain on a fourth-and-3 play. Facing another fourth-and-3 situation, on the 7-yard line, Diggns connected with Logan Knoshal for five yards. Kranz barreled into the endzone standing up on the next play.
The T-Hawks got the ball back when John Herfurth recovered a Sting fumble on the Montevideo 28-yard line. Diggins completed passes of 19 yards to Enger and 12 to Dazhown Coleman. Diggins hit Austin Hiepler on a slant pattern, and Hiepler eluded two Sting tacklers for a 25-yard scoring play.
Montevideo took the second half kickoff and drove 77 yards in 10 plays, eating up nearly half of the third quarter. Diggins gained 12 yards on a keeper, and Coleman ran for 13. Hiepler caught a 23-yard pass from Diggins, setting up a 13-yard TD pass to Knoshal, who caught the ball on the 6 and dove into the endzone.
The Sting still had hope when they scored less than a minute later on a 46-yard pass from Lindstrom to Chase Richter to pull YME within 27-14.
YME threatened to get even closer early in the fourth quarter when a tipped pass was intercepted by Lindstrom on YME's 27-yard line Vikander ran for 28 yards, but Preston Herfurth stepped in front of a Sting receiver to make a key interception.
The T-Hawks sealed the win when Diggins hit Knoshal in stride down the right sideline for a 38-yard scoring play and a 33-14 ;ead with 9:34 to play.
Montevideo (2-2) will host Minnewaska Area Friday at 7 p.m.
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A winner was selected from 242 designs submitted by 56 freelance designers.
Inkleys is a new startup site which will concentrate on journalistic articles on web content management. We will specifically focus on language aspects of content management. The site will include in depth articles mostly, including content reviews, content usability, content guidelines and coaching for professional web writers. Secondarily we will incorporate in depth articles on market developments, including site tracking and content software.
Web content management professionals, including journalists, content managers, web communications specialists.
Logo inspiration PDF at: http://www.bureaubeuq.nl/99designs/…ration.pdf
The Inkleys brand is fully internet based and oriented at journalistic content. The logo should reflect our background and target audience. The logo must be designed in such a way that it can be used with all elements or just the main text / the main text + icon. Elements are:
- Main text: Inkleys
- Icon: yes, abstract
- Subtext: web content management specialists
Main text requirements:
- No frills, clean looking font
- It would be nice if the logo expresses slight movement
- Professional (no funny fonts)
- Don't use overly expressive colors
- No futuristic / sci-fi fonts ;-)
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- May be playful, colorful and/or artful, but not too much
- Would be nice to emulate old (news)paper style (effect)
- May be incorporated into the main text (for instance the I)
- May also just use the first letter (I) as the icon base
- Less is more
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Chelsea pair out of England squad
Chelsea duo Frank Lampard and Ryan Bertrand have withdrawn from the England squad ahead of the World Cup qualifier against San Marino.
Lampard has been nursing a knee injury and will not be risked against the group minnows while Bertrand has a sore throat which has not improved sufficiently.
The Football Association announced this morning that both men will return to the European champions for treatment over the next couple of days before reporting back to the England camp on Sunday for assessment before Tuesday's tricky trip to Poland.
Lampard's withdrawal leaves coach Roy Hodgson with a decision to make over the captaincy.
With regular skipper Steven Gerrard suspended, his deputy Lampard was in line to wear the armband at a sold-out Wembley on Friday night.
His absence opens the door for someone else, with Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart reportedly in the frame.
Hart, however, believes the honour should go to striker Wayne Rooney.
"I've no idea who is going to be captain but I am pretty sure it will fall to Rooney," said Hart.
"He is our star man with 10 million caps at the age of whatever he is, 26?
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Under normal circumstances, when deciding what to write about for IMG, we reviewers take our pick from a selection of the latest titles. But clearly its not possible to cover absolutely everything, and sometimes a game slips through the cracks. This tends to be the case particularly with casual games: the cheap ones that get churned out in huge numbers, often to something of a formula. I dont mean to imply that casual games arent well worth a look, though: on the contrary, some of them are really great. Recently it occurred to me that one of my personal favourite games, which also happens to fall under the casual heading, had never received the IMG treatment, so as a good deed this Christmas I decided to put the matter to rights.
A few years ago I got a game called Fairway Solitaire from Big Fish Games. I probably wouldnt have paid it a second glance normally, as golf doesnt particularly thrill me, but it was on offer for free, so I grabbed it. Well, I loved it: it was far better than Id have imagined, and I played it a lot. So when a completely rewritten version of the game arrived, called Fairway Collectors Edition, it was a no-brainer: I jumped for it immediately. (Note that theres also a standard version of the game, called simply Fairway; its cheaper but it doesnt have as much content. Im covering just the Collectors Edition in this review. Rather sadly, the original Fairway Solitaire that first hooked me – and which is still a great game – is no longer available to buy.)
The game has also since appeared for iOS, and there are separate versions for iPhone and iPad (with different courses to suit the different screen sizes). Although Im reviewing primarily the Mac version here, Im going to refer to the iOS versions too, because there are some differences worth knowing about between the platforms. One, in fact, is the name: on iOS, its Fairway Solitaire (HD for iPad), and theres no choice of versions. The Mac version has dropped Solitaire from the title (perhaps to avoid confusion with the discontinued original) and you can get the standard Fairway or the Collectors Edition.
Notwithstanding the confusion of versions and titles, what everything boils down to is one very simple concept: Golf Solitaire, or Golf Patience if you prefer – the card game. Many patience games on the computer include an implementation of Golf, not least because its dead easy to learn and play: its just about the simplest patience game ever devised. Basically, all you have to do is to play cards in ascending or descending order, regardless of suit, until all the cards on the tableau are gone, at which point you win. You can change direction at any time – e.g. you can go 6-7-8-9-8-7-8-7-6-5 if those cards happen to be available – and the only caveat in some variants is that you cant go below Ace (which is low in Golf) or above King. However, in some versions of Golf, this rule is relaxed and you can wrap around between Ace and King; and Fairway is one such variant. Thus, the cards are circular in this version of the game, and you can keep on playing up and down the numbers for as long as suitable cards are available. When you cant play any more cards, you just turn over another card from the stock, and hopefully, by the time they run out, youll have played all the cards on the tableau.
So much for the basic concept of Golf Patience. What makes Fairway special is the variety it presents on this basic theme, how it plays the Golf metaphor for all its worth, and how it does so in such a splendidly entertaining and thoroughly polished way.
Unexpectedly enough, Fairway actually has a storyline of sorts. Thats to say, the levels of the game are punctuated by cartoon movies of Gutsy McDivot, a nefarious gopher on a constant quest to make life difficult for the hapless golfer. The gopher is at war with the player, and is working to create some kind of anti-golfer doomsday weapon called The Golfinator. Of course, as with all cartoon villains, things always go wrong in amusing fashion, so theres nothing to worry about really. McDivot isnt restricted to the inter-level story scenes, though; hes well integrated into the game itself. Sometimes he pops up on the course, and you can earn a little money, if youre quick enough, by clicking him, Whack-a-Mole style. He pops up quite often in the Wild Shot minigames (of which more anon), and he even occasionally interferes with the in-game commentators (again, of which more anon). Although the gopher is an extraneous element that could have spoilt the game by being an intrusive irritation, McDivot manages to be entertaining rather than annoying… most of the time, at least!
As for actually playing the game, theres a lot of material to work through. The game is divided into many packs of courses, where each pack comprises nine courses, and each course is composed of three, six or nine holes. Each course has its own setting, picked from over a dozen different locations around the world, and each hole has a unique layout of cards. This variety of hole layouts is what gives the game its great feeling of variety and lasting interest, as well as making the gameplay reasonably strategic: some of the hole layouts are really quite challenging because of the way in which some cards are trapped by others. Picking the right cards to turn can make all the difference, and is more important in Fairway than in regular Golf Patience.
You dont have to actually win the game on every hole; the scores work just like they do in real golf, with par being the basic minimum to aim for and any score under par being desirable for achieving a good score. So you can earn a perfect score by removing all the cards from the tableau, but finishing with a small number of them remaining doesnt necessarily matter that much. Depending on the hole, you can score (at best) −5 for any given hole, though often the best score will be only −3. If you do really badly, and end up with loads of cards left on the tableau at the end, the worst you can do is to score +5; the maximum score per hole is capped at that. All scores are referred to in golfing terms (birdie, eagle etc.).
As you play, your career in the game progresses and you earn in-game money: Golf Bucks. These can be used in many ways, such as to purchase irons, to unlock courses (as some special courses have to be unlocked with Golf Bucks) and to buy aids in the Golf Shop. The better you play, of course, the more Golf Bucks you earn, and youll also gain them for winning the games many achievements. (Plus the odd handful for clicking McDivot when he appears on the course.)
When playing a hole, there are various extra features to spice up the gameplay and make it more interesting and strategic than straightforward Golf Patience. There are water hazards, in which certain cards appear blue and watery. These must all be cleared from the tableau before certain other cards become unlocked and available for play. There are sand hazards, which cant be unlocked until you have unearthed and collected the Sand Wedge card, which will be buried somewhere in the playable section of the tableau. And theres the rough: nasty tall-grass-covered cards that have to be matched twice before you can get rid of them.


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Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and the other Gladers embark on a mission to put a stop to WCKD, which is sacrificing kids in order to find a cure to a deadly disease called The Flare, an infection which turns people into rampaging zombies. The Flare has wiped out most of the world's population.
Immune to the disease themselves, Thomas, Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and the rest of the Gladers decide they have to save the other captured kids by putting a stop to WCKD. However, Thomas has a hard time putting his feelings for Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) aside, even though she betrayed them. Friendships are tested and loyalties are strained as the fight for survival comes to a climax.
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- Olivia Lockhart16 Lighthouse RoadCedar Cove, WashingtonDear Reader,You don't know me yet, but in a few hours that's going to change. You see, I'm inviting you to my home and my town of Cedar Cove because I want you to meet my family, friends and neighbors. Come and hear their stories-maybe even their secrets!I have to admit that my own secrets are pretty open. My marriage failed some years ago, and I have a rather...difficult relationship with my daughter, Justine. Then there's my mother, Charlotte, who has plenty of opinions and isalwayswilling to share them. Here's an example: I'm a family court judge and she likes to drop in on my courtroom. Recently I was hearing a divorce petition. In Charlotte's view, young Cecilia and Ian Randall hadn't tried hard enough to make their marriage work-and I agreed. So I rendered my judgment: Divorce Denied. Well, you wouldn't believe the reaction! Thanks to an article by Jack Griffin, the editor of our local paper (and a man I wouldn't mind seeing more of!),everyone'stalking. Cedar Cove-people love it and sometimes they leave it, but they never forget it!See you soon...Olivia
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The Role of Gear in DPS:
Let me ask you this. How many times have you looked at a tier set and thought it was poorly itemized? How many times have you wished it had more of stat X and less of stat Y? I think those types of reactions are common and normal, but I've come to realize that they are useless when looked at from a different perspective. There are really two distinct perspectives that have different goals.
For the player, making gear choices is all about maximizing DPS. How individual pieces of gear are itemized is very important in that context for comparing the options. The itemization determines which piece of gear is better, but as players we are making those choices with in a set framework. Those choices are distinct and very limited.
Blizzard on the other hand is making choices to balance DPS. Their options are almost unlimited. How gear is itemized is just one component of the framework they create. As a result they are not looking to perfect the itemization, they are looking to balance it against other components of the framework.
In short, Blizzard determines the DPS potential of each class, and gear is one of the ways we try and reach that potential as players. This is one of the ways we as players can show our skill. We can show that we know how to pick the best gear even if it isn't itemized with the best stats. As long as the Moonkin DPS potential is similar to that of other DPS specs it doesn't matter if we take gear loaded with Crit or loaded with Haste to get there. We as players just have to know what is the best available option and choose it.
Is Gear Fun?
At the end of the Dev Watercooler post Ghostcrawler asked "Would more universal gear be more fun or less fun?" I want to broaden the question a little bit and ask something simpler. Is gear fun?
In some cases the answer is obviously yes. I've never had a legendary item, but I have a hard time believing that they wouldn't be fun at least at first. There are also some items like Nibelung and Deathbringer's Will that have some built in flavor that I know some people think is fun. These are definitely examples of where gear is or could be fun, but I believe this type of fun to be fleeting. Legendary's are eventually made obsolete, and then are only brought out to brag or for the occasional kill screenshot and flavor items eventually lose their novelty.
So, lets take a look at normal gear. A year and a half ago, I wrote a post on why I thought Hit Rating was a sexy stat. In that post I argued for the choice that the Hit Cap created. I like evaluating the options and making a choice. As I said before, the choices we make are one of the things that can separate the good players from the bad players, but I'm not a big fan of the choices currently being offered by Blizzard.
In some cases our choices are very limited like in the case of Bracers and Boots. For other slots we are overflowing with choices like in the Ring and Trinket slots. On top of that we have reforging which makes the choices we do have even more complicated, and the random loot from Throne of the Four Winds is very frustrating in my opinion. I think the gear decision can be fun, but I find Blizzard's current model to not be a lot of fun because it's imbalanced and overwhelming at times.
Can gear be fun enough to support the game?
As I said above, I think gear can be fun, but I don't think gear can be fun enough to drive the game. Personally, when I look back on my past as a raider, I never think about the night that I got a nice new piece of gear. I think back to the first kills and the achievements we gained.
Ultimately gear is a means to an end. Gear may be fun to some extent, but its real value is that it helps us achieve the things that are really the core of this game's fun. No one who has raided for an extended period of time raids for gear alone. The people who do raid for gear alone get bored or flame out because some gear choice didn't go their way. So, while I believe gear has the potential to provide some fun in this game, I think it's fleeting. The real fun of this game comes from other sources like the encounters that are provided and the interaction we have with other players.
The Gear Conclusion:
So, to circle back to Ghostcrawler's questions, would more universal gear be more fun? My answer to that question is yes, if you can maintain a health level of choice. The problem with moonkin gearing at the point is that Blizzard has made only a halfway conversion to universal stats. As moonkin we are interested in both Spirit items and Hit items and that overly complicates the choice. It also puts us in a bit of a tug of war between the Cloth DPS and the healers. The Clothies say "don't take our Hit items because you can use Spirit," and the healers say "don't take our Spirit items because you can use Hit."
I think competition for gear as a consideration is a little irrelevant as well. Yes, it sucks when 8 people want the same item, but in the long run it doesn't matter. In most cases we will be killing these bosses for weeks if not months or we moving on to content with better gear. Eventually you will get all the gear you want or better in the long run. More specialized gear on the other hand means more sharding which is never good for the guild.
There were a couple of other things that popped up over the past week that I wanted to talk about quickly.
Call to Arms
I have to say I love this idea. I've heard a couple of people discounting it as "lets give free loot to tanks" or that it's just going to cause an influx of bad tanks like this joke from the Daily Blink. I find these predictions to be a bit pessimistic and callous.
The problem with the current system is that there are two many ways to manage the system. Guilded tanks usually ask in guild if anyone wants a run before entering the queue to help guildies and to work with known players. Some tanks will also sell their time and instant queue in trade chat for extra gain. This means that when a DPSer enters the queue, he has a lot of people jumping ahead of him in line because the tanks rarely enter the queue alone. Giving tanks a reason to queue alone should cause the line to move faster for those people who don't queue with a tank.
And yes, the Call to Arms will attract a lot of new and bad tanks. It may be painful in the short run but it will be good in the long run. Some of the new tanks will learn to be effective tanks. Not only will this shorten queue times, but it will also make raiding easier since raider leaders should have more tanking and possibly healing options when roster options are low.
I'm sure some of you saw this change in the MMO-Champion data mining:
Sunfire base damage has been increased by 50%, from 372 to 558.I don't like to comment to heavily on data mined info since it rarely gives a completely accurate view of what the real change is. However, like most of you I have been waiting on some sort of buff to make up for the nerf to Starsurge.
I find this change to be a bit strange. If we assume that this is a real change, and that the spell coefficient is similarly increased by 50%, then this is a decent buff. I looked at a couple of logs with single targets and Sunfire made for about 6% to 7% of the damage in most of the cases. A 50% increase should make up for the 3% to 3.5% DPS we are losing from the Starsurge nerf. When you consider multi-DoT fights like the twin dragons then it should be even more.
That said I don't like the fact that it makes Sunfire better then an Eclipsed Moonfire. If Sunfire is better then Moonfire it will obviously have some rotation impacts. It will renew questions of when should we renew our DoTs and should we refresh them early during Solar Eclipse. I would prefer if both Moonfire and Sunfire were buffed the same way or that Blizzard would do a more global buff like increasing Moonfury.


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Emily Post's Great-Grandson to Present 'Manners and Manby Howard W. Hewitt • January 12, 2007 Share:
Wabash College students' actions and conversations are governed by The Gentleman's Rule. But what does it mean to be a gentleman? A nationally-acclaimed expert will offer his advice on "Manners and the Man" at 8 p.m., Thursday.
Peter Post, the great-grandson of the etiquette icon Emily Post, will appear at Wabash in Salter Hall to discuss manners and business etiquette. Post is the director of the Emily Post Institute and author of three etiquette books. His lecture will be free and open to the public.
The Emily Post Institute, created by Emily in 1946 and run today by third generation family members, serves as a "civility barometer" for American society and continues Emily's work. That work has grown to address the societal concerns of the 21st century including business etiquette, raising polite children and civility in America.
Peter Post has authored The Boston Sunday Globe's weekly question and answer business etiquette advice column, "Etiquette at Work." The column is distributed by the New York Times Syndicate.
One of Emily Post's four great-grandchildren, Post also owns a marketing and public relations agency. He has more than 25 years of experience in marketing, communications, design and education. Peter holds a master's degree in fine art from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
The "Post" family name has been associated nationally and internationally with manners and etiquette since Emily Post's 1922 book, "Etiquette" topped best-seller lists. Her name became so synonymous with manners and etiquette that the phrase "according to Emily Post" entered our language as the last word on the subject of social conduct.
Emily Post was born in 1873 into a family of privilege. She began her writing career writing newspaper and magazine articles on architecture and interior design. She also wrote what were called light novels before turning out her landmark book, "Etiquette." Post died in 1960.
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HAPPY DECEMBER!! We're at the last few newsletters for 2013! The year is nearly over! That doesn't mean the fun is going to end! Whether you're doing December Daily, a layout a day, or what, you'll find this month full of kits perfect for whatever you're doing!
This month, there's no official theme to the buffet. There's a unifying color palette, and the kits play together beautifully. Enjoy the December 2013 {Designer's Choice} buffet series this month!
We have NEW Buffet options!! You asked for it, and we listened! The GS Buffet will now included FULL size kits!! In addition to the mix and match packs, you can now also find full size kits in the buffet section. The price point has been adjusted accordingly. Everything in the Buffet will always be $4.00 and under. Every month the new Buffet items will all be 50% off (from the 1-5th of the month). That means Full kits for $2 and a ton of mix and match packs all for $1!! You will not want to miss this!
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Pohela Boishakh 1419 Festival Events, Programmes & Celebration
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The Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA) of Dhaka University is a major hub of Baishakhi celebration. As the Bangla new-year is very near, the faculty transforms into a centre of Baishakh festivities.
With students racing against the clock to meet the deadlines, the Faculty vibrates in colour and life.
The Mongol Shobha Jatra (new-year parade) by students and teachers of Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA) of Dhaka University is a major attraction on Pahela Baishakh morning in Dhaka.
The well decorated parade with large colour clad replicas of birds and animals based on folk motifs from traditional folklores of Bangladesh is a signature event of Baishakhi celebrations.
With Pahela Baishakh only a day away students of FFA are racing towards finishing their last minute preparations to greet the Bangla New year 1419.
Mongol Shobha Jatra is a costly affair, the replicas featured at the colourful parade costs a lot of money. The collection of funds for the event begins with students selling masks, paintings, traditional pottery and several other items which they prepare specially for the Baishakhi celebrations. Anyone can buy the item from the FFA campus premises.
This year's Mongol Shobha will feature six huge replicas. And like every year the students will paint the walls of FFA marking Pahela Baishakh. This year the Mongol Shobha Jatra will go around Rupushi Bangla Hotel, Doyel Chattar and Shahid Minar and then return to FFA.
Boishakhi festival at Hotel Sonargaon
The Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel will arrange a traditional mela (fair) at its lobby lounge on April 14-16 on the occasion of
the Bengali New Year 1419. The fair will be ornamented with a number of colourful stalls offering Bangladeshi handicrafts, cloths, souvenirs and snacks, said a press release. The hotel will also offer various food stalls including chatpati, fuchka, sugar cane juice, mango bhorta and mixed fruit cocktail on the occasion.
Like every year, during 14-16 April, the hotel's Café Bazar restaurant will offer a buffet lunch and dinner of Bangali style 'pantha elish' along with 'shutki' and all kinds of bhorta (smash) and chutney for Tk 2500 (all inclusive) per person and Tk 1250 (all inclusive) for children up to 12 years, the news release said.
During the fair, a group of young artistes will enthrall the guests with their astounding rhythms of dance and music. The guests will also enjoy the tantalising and splendid delicacies of different regions of Bangladesh.
Radisson welcomes Bangla New Year 1419
The most colourful festival for every Bangali is the Bangla New Year. To observe the occasion, Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel Dhaka will be holding special programmes from April 12 till April 14.
On April 12-13, Water Garden Brasserie of Radisson Blu Water Hotel Dhaka will serve unique Bangalee delicacies for dinner. On the very day of Pohela Boishakh, Water Garden Brasserie will serve guests with extensive Deshi lunch and dinner buffet of sumptuous local delicacies.
The menu includes all time favourites "panta illish", "panta bhat" along with "Shutki Bhorta". Pohela Baishakh special menu will also cover assorted "bhortas" like "chingri Bhorta,"begun Bhorta" and aloo bhorta". The salad bar will offer different kinds of Bangladeshi salads like "Bengali Mixed Salad", "Tomato and Coriander kashundi" and other favorites.
Main dish corner will be adorned with "chicken and potato chokka", "rui fish fry", "bhoona khichuri", roasted pigeon and other special items as well. Local sweet treats like "mishti doi", "roshogolla, "jorda" along with other sweet delicacies will be found on the menu.


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To the Editor:
I am an 80-year-old grandmother and I am very concerned about the violence in our country. What hope is there for peace in the world when there is so much violence in our own country.
Many people are talking about controlling gun laws. My suggestion is to implement a law immediately to ban all sales of violent video games. These games are a bad influence on the minds of our children. It is saturating their minds with evil and danger.
And as far as network programing, let us bring back sitcoms from the early years, where there was love of family structure, stability and laughter. We need to expose our children to good and not evil.
Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a still a mystery. Today is a gift. Let us use the present to restore the future for the youth of today.
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Shocker, isn't it? You'd think that with all the previous pioneering research in this field (Landis, J. et al. Animal House, Universal, 1978) further studies wouldn't still be needed.
Better yet is how they obfuscated the subject to make it sound more interesting: they put sex into it. This is a guaranteed way of getting your paper more attention than it deserves.
Basically, they interviewed 648 college students about "risky sexual behaviors" and found that if you're drunk you have a much higher incidence of having casual sex, or inebriated sex, or both. I suppose this could also be done using a more mundane topic such as "more likely to incorrectly sort the recyclables" but who would read that?
Since such information is hardly new, they decided to put a twist on it by studying risky sex following the consumption of energy drinks, both with and without alcohol. And, in a stunning conclusion, found that the incidence of banging near-strangers went up considerably when alcohol was involved, rather than just a plain old energy drink.
Now, on the surface this may sound like some vaguely interesting paper about regular energy drinks (such as Red Bull) vs. those mixed with alcohol (i.e. Jägerbombs) but let's face the facts: it basically found that alcohol consumption leads to a greater incidence of risky behavior than being sober. No shit, Sherlock.
You could do the same sort of research about coffee vs. coffee + bourbon, or milk vs. milk + schnapps. Those haven't been done yet, so if you're a grad student desperate to publish in the "Spiking Drinks Quarterly" (or just trying to meet girls) this is your big chance. Please see the definitive paper on the subject (Ramone, JJDTMR Somebody Put Something in My Drink, Sire Rec., 1985).
This research was supported (according to the article) by a government grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Sadly, I'm not making that up.


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Attorney Kathleen Carroll writes in response to "Every man did his whole duty":
I have lived in Gettysburg for 8 years and run on the battlefield very often. As a Civil War reenactor, I know the story of the 1st Minnesota well and I think of those valiant soldiers every time I pass the 1st Minnesota monument, giving proof to the saying "gone but not forgotten."
I salute them every time I pass and was pleased to see you recognize their supreme sacrifice — casualties exceeded 80 percent — at Power Line. "Not Forgotten" can also be applied to the citizens of Gettysburg this Memorial Day. I was honored to be part of a small "host group" as our town welcomed more than a dozen wounded veterans from Walter Reed Hospital. They screened the film "Fields of Freedom" made especially for visitors and recounting "Pickett's Charge" ("Longstreet's Assault for the purists") — I worried a bit as there are many soldiers blown up in the film and I was afraid it might be a bit too close to home for the survivors of IEDs.
They didn't seem to mind. We treated our visitors to lunch and they were the guests of honor at our parade. I can't tell you how thrilling it was to see the response of everyone waiting for the parade as our bus rolled down the main street bearing a banner on the front identifying the occupants. Everyone stood and cheered. Most touching was the response of the Vietnam veterans made known by their hats — old boonies or baseball caps proudly proclaiming "Vietnam Vet." Most leaped to attention and saluted. Many also visited with our guests on the reviewing stand, shook hands and said "thank you."
There were gifts for our guests and everyone wanted to meet them. One amazed wounded warrior told me "they asked us if we wanted to take a bus tour of Gettysburg — no one said anything about all this!" Of course, we made them suffer through all the speeches in the Memorial Day service at the National Cemetery, but no one complained (at least that I could hear). The wounded veterans and their families were profoundly grateful for the support and attention and we were confronted with our wounded service members in the flesh whose missing limbs, wheelchairs, crutches, angry scars and pins and rods protruding from legs are clear evidence that freedom is not free.
As a former Army officer and the stepmother of an Infantry officer currently serving in Iraq, I can't think of a better way to have spent Memorial Day and I look forward to hosting another group next year and the next and the next until all our soldiers are home.


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Insulin resistance refers to the inability of the body
tissues to respond properly to
insulin. Insulin lets sugar (glucose) enter body
cells, where it is used for energy. Insulin also helps muscles, fat, and liver
cells store sugar to be released when it is needed. If the body tissues do not
respond properly to insulin, the blood sugar level rises.
resistance causes the
pancreas to release too much insulin
(hyperinsulinemia). It may also cause the
liver to release too much sugar into the blood.
Several things may increase insulin resistance, including:
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Personal Safety Workshops
WomenStrength personal safety workshops are designed to introduce adults to a variety of self-protective options in a short, non-physical, discussion format. The basic workshop covers:
- prevention strategies
- recognizing when one is being targeted for an attack
- the pros and cons of various options for ending an attack
Discussion is designed to help people identify their risks and evaluate their strengths, and to explore their options for dealing with the threat of violence.
In WomenStrength personal safety workshops, emphasis is placed on options, not rigid safety rules. A workshop is a great place to explore some available options to see which feel comfortable. Among the options discussed are weapons, strange behavior, actively choosing to do nothing, running, verbal strategies, and physical fighting. No physical skills are taught in the workshops, but information on classes will be provided to those who want to learn physical self-defense.
Unlike our physical self-defense classes, WomenStrength personal safety workshops are available for self-organized groups within the Portland city limits. Workshops can be customized for specific needs of groups. The optimal length of time for the workshop is one to two hours. If you are interested in scheduling a workshop for your group, call the WomenStrength program director at 503-823-0260.
WomenStrength Personal Safety Workshops
- are free.
- are subject to availability of an instructor for the date requested.
- are available at worksites or for private groups.
- are for adult women and/or men.
- do not include any physical self-defense skills.
- are taught by the director of the WomenStrength program or the volunteer staff of self-defense instructors.
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Suzzy Robinson necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 177 diseños de 58 diseñadores freelance.
Ed Robinson's Diving Adventures, http://www.mauiscuba.com
Ed and Suzzy Robinson, 25 year owners of "Ed Robinson's Diving Adventures" in Maui, Hawaii. Maui's most premiere dive operation is globally recognized as a leader in the dive industry. They offer daily scuba diving tours on their two 30' boats and offer shoreline scuba tours, scuba instruction, underwater photography lessons and snorkel tours which focus on snorkel instruction and marine biology. Ed Robinson is a world renowned underwater photographer and his wife Suzzy Robinson has been his underwater model for 25 years. They have a dedicated staff that love sharing their passion of the ocean with all divers. Most of their staff have been with the company 10 -20 years. What do Steven Tyler, Buzz Aldrin and Tanya Tucker have in common....they all dive with Ed Robinson's Diving Adventures.
Target Audience:
Hawaiian Tourists (specifically Maui, Hawaii). Scuba Divers - certified scuba divers or people who are interested in experiencing or learning the sport. People who want to learn and share in the joy, love and adventure of our living oceans. Those who want to explore the depths, and others who are focused on overcoming personal obstacles such as a fear of water. Families who dive together stay together. Mid to higher income bracket. Scuba Dive Shops, Scuba Dive Clubs, Travel Agents, Activity Agents, people who live in cold climates.
Need a clean logo using Ed Robinson's Diving Adventures (no web site address). Design needs to show fun, tropical/hawaiian, diving, adventure and premier quality and service. Design also needs to be able to be multiple colors or one/two colors for print and embroidery work.
Our motto (don't put this in your logo design) "Dedicated to the enjoyment and conservation of our living Oceans".
Held a contest about 6 months ago and now it seems the logo might not be the one. It needs to be simple, recognizable, clean and distinctive.
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