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My current gameplan is to arrive at tournaments early, and leave late so I get a ton of casuals in. Is it still possible for someone in this situation to level up?
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For now however, there is nothing that will keep this forum alive until October so no point in coming here to talk about things. Bye.
If you're smart (and patient) about it, online is still a source of information. Just look deep into what happens and accept that the correct decision will cost you matches online sometimes.
Look deep into what happens and collect your data. Consciously avoid netplay tactics and be sure to practice combos offline/find some good connections to play with to keep the execution reasonable. I have it somewhat lucky as a person who plays grapplers a lot of the time I'm trying to get a good read so it isn't like I was planning to react in the first place, but online tells me a lot about what the other characters can do, and that match up knowledge that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
Of course it isn't as good as having strong local players you can play often, but it is better than CPU's in terms of the information you can get.
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I have a question. It is factually based that three times as many people are killed by automobile accidents and drunk drivers than are killed annually by guns. Why is there no hue and cry to have major car control or get rid of automobiles altogether because of this clear-cut slaughter?
Where are our legislatures on this issue? Asleep at the wheel?
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Could it be that automobile ownership should be three times more controlled than gun ownership.
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Report: Cowboys' Dez Bryant could be out for rest of season with finger injury
DALLAS, Texas - The Dallas Morning News is reporting Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant will probably sit out the rest of the season due to a finger injury.
Team officials said Bryant likely injured his left index finger early in the fourth quarter of Sunday's 20-19 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals.
Bryant had just caught a pass and came up shaking the index finger on his left hand.
He got it checked out and taped up and returned to the game and caught a touchdown pass a few plays later.
According to the Dallas Morning News, Bryant is "scheduled to visit a hand specialist, but club officials fear that he will miss the final three games."
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The College of Idaho congratulates the 198 students who made the Fall 2013 Dean's List. To receive Dean's List recognition, a student must complete at least nine graded credits and achieve a GPA of 3.75 or higher for the semester. Nearly 20 percent of the College's total enrollment made the Dean's List. Students honored are listed below by hometown:
The College of Idaho is proud to present its 2014 opera production The Magic Flute, a popular opera written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and directed by C of I senior Jordan Bowman. There will be three performances of The Magic Flute inside Jewett Auditorium on the C of I campus in Caldwell: a 7:30 p.m. opening show Jan. 24 and 2 p.m. matinees Jan. 25 and 26. Tickets cost $10 for adults, $7 for seniors and $5 for students (C of I students get in free), with all proceeds supporting the C of I opera program.
A total of 240 days separate College of Idaho fans and the debut of the school's newly reinstated intercollegiate football team as the Coyotes will open their 11-game 2014 season on Sept. 6.
The Yotes will open the season on the road at Pacific University, returning to the Treasure Valley for their Simplot Stadium debut Sept. 13, hosting Montana Western.
The opener in Forest Grove, Ore., will come 13,438 days after the final game played by the original C of I team Nov. 12, 1977 – also against the Boxers. The Yotes were victorious in that final game, 24-23.
A dozen College of Idaho students will study international business and economics first-hand during January as part of a month-long, faculty-led field course in France.
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College of Idaho students will soon enjoy updated teaching laboratories in Boone Science Hall with the help of a $750,000 grant from the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust that is supporting a major renovation of the facility.
"The College of Idaho's philosophy is to help students learn science by doing science," said C of I President Marv Henberg. "That means engaging our students in research and directed inquiry, and this generous grant will help us create improved teaching spaces for doing science."
The College of Idaho has always had a strong relationship with Caldwell. Service is a particularly important component of the College's ties to the local community, and the campus capitalized on a big opportunity to serve Nov. 23 as Campus Ministries held its annual Rake Up Caldwell event.
"We are surrounded by a fantastic community that supports us to further our education and reach our goals" said C of I junior and Rake Up Caldwell supervisor Jocelyn Allen. "I think it is so key that we as students are given opportunities to give back to the community we live in."
The College of Idaho has published its fall 2013 issue of Quest magazine, which is in mailboxes now. The issue has a theme of "Leadership," honoring the College's longstanding tradition of educating leaders in many fields including politics, education, law, service and athletics.
Caldwell Fine Arts at The College of Idaho is proud to present the Eugene Ballet's timeless holiday classic Nutcracker, set for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11 inside Jewett Auditorium on the C of I campus in Caldwell. The ballet has become a treasured holiday tradition for Caldwell Fine Arts as the enchanting Sugar Plum Fairy, the scheming Mouse King and the brave Nutcracker Prince capture the imaginations of both children and adults year after year.
College of Idaho alumnus and art instructor Goran Fazil's piece "Hegelian Constructs" won second place during the Nov. 16 opening reception for the 2013 Boise Art Museum Idaho Triennial Exhibition. It is a prestigious honor for Fazil, who claimed second prize amongst 40 exhibitors chosen from more than 200 entrants for the annual BAM exhibition in downtown Boise.
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The Pomona College Museum of Art has been awarded a $220,000 Getty Foundation grant for the future exhibition "It Happened at Pomona: Art at Pomona College 1969-1973" under the Getty Pacific Standard Time initiative. The exhibition will focus on the intensely creative period from 1969 to 1973, when the Pomona College Museum of Art (then the Pomona College Gallery) presented some of the most experimental exhibitions of contemporary art in Los Angeles.
The Pomona College Museum and Art Department served as an incubator for artists like Pomona alumni Chris Burden, James Turrell and Mowry Baden, among others. Pomona College's exhibition of groundbreaking artworks (by Michael Asher, Jack Goldstein, and Allen Ruppersberg, for example) that integrated the legacy of Minimalism with the more contemporary concerns of Conceptualism formed the educational backdrop for a generation of artists who spent their formative years in Los Angeles.
Scheduled to open August 30, 2011 and to run through May 13, 2012, the "It Happened at Pomona" exhibition and accompanying catalogue will place projects developed at Pomona College in the context of a transformative moment in the Los Angeles art world, while also providing insight on how contact between Los Angeles and New York shaped art history.
The grant to Pomona College is one of 26 grants—totaling nearly $3.1 million—that will launch an unprecedented series of concurrent exhibitions at museums throughout Southern California starting in Fall 2011. Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, a joint initiative of the Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute, aims to document the history of art in the region's vibrant post-World War II decades, and will be a unique opportunity for audiences to explore and celebrate L.A.'s artistic legacy.
For Pomona College President David Oxtoby, "The retrospective exhibition is a wonderful opportunity for Pomona College to share the story of this exciting and creative period with a broad audience both on and off our campus."
In October 2008, the Pomona College Museum of Art received a $190,000 Getty Foundation grant to support research and exhibition planning of the "It Happened at Pomona" exhibition. The current $220,000 grant helps to support exhibition related costs and the production of the exhibition catalogue. The Pomona College Museum of Art is planning a rolling series of exhibitions that will include key examples of work by over 30 artists, recreations of installations and other work created during 1969-1973, and a timeline of events with documentation and commentary. The Museum will devote all of its exhibition galleries for the entire academic year to the "It Happened at Pomona College" exhibition.
From 1969 to 1973, the Pomona College Museum of Art presented a number of intensely creative and innovative projects that reflected a confluence of art faculty, curators, visiting artists, and students who would go on to make significant contributions to contemporary art history. In the fall of 1969, Mowry Baden, the newly-arrived chair of the Art Department and professor of sculpture, hired Hal Glicksman as Gallery director/curator. From the fall of 1969 through June of 1970, Glicksman devised a unique series of exhibitions for a program that he called the "Artists Gallery." Under this program, the gallery functioned as a studio-residency for conceptual artists in Southern California. Michael Asher, Lewis Baltz, Michael Brewster, Judy Chicago, Ron Cooper, Tom Eatherton, Lloyd Hamrol, Robert Irwin, among others, presented work or created different environmental situations in the gallery.
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There have been several requests made by people asking how to import a chart from one document type to another document type. In a previous post, I showed you how to push data into a spreadsheet to create a chart. Today, I am going to show you how to import a chart from a spreadsheet to a Word document.
To import a chart from a spreadsheet to a Word document we need to take the following actions:
My post will talk about using version 2 of the SDK.
For the sake of this post, let's say I am starting with the following spreadsheet and chart:
Also, let's say I am starting with the following Word document, which contains a placeholder content control:
If you just want to jump straight into the code, feel free to download this solution here.
As described in the solution section above, steps two through four require us to open the Word document, find the content control that will contain the imported chart, and nuke the placeholder content of the content control to get it ready to contain the chart. Below is the code snippet necessary to accomplish those tasks:
You might notice the code used to find the proper content control looks very much like the code I used in my previous post for assembling Word documents. By nuking all the children under the paragraph within the content control, we have made it ready to contain a chart.
Instead of having run and text elements, the content control needs to have a run with an inline drawing element so that we can reference the chart properly. This task is accomplished with the following code snippet:
Notice that I have hardcoded the dimensions of the chart I will be importing. The dimensions I used are based on what I thought would work best for my template. Feel free to choose any dimension that works best for your document. At this point, the Word document is ready to have the chart imported and be contained within the content control. To import the chart we need to first get the proper chart part and then add that part to my Word document. These tasks are accomplished with the following code snippet:
The chart part is now part of my Word document package. All we have to do now is reference the chart part properly from the inline drawing contained in the content control. There are two main items we need to include to get everything to work:
#1 is easy to accomplish since we can reuse the same graphic objects from the spreadsheet. The main difference is we need to make sure the relationship is pointing to the appropriate chart part within the Word document. Here is the code snippet to accomplish item #1:
#2 requires us to calculate a unique id for the chart. Here is a method that can accomplish this task:
Almost done! The last bit of work we need to do is add the unique name and id to chart drawing and then add everything to the inline drawing object. Here is the code snippet to accomplish these tasks:
Putting everything together and running this code, we end up with a Word document, which contains the chart imported from my spreadsheet.
Here is a screenshot of the final document:
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What is technically called as cunnilingus implies stimulation by licking women's external genitals (vulva) by the tongue done by partner causing intense sexual arousal and orgasm.
Cunnilingus is to females asfellatio (blow job) is to men.
The commonly used names for cunnilingus are given below.
Is Oral Pleasuring of female genitalia normal?
It is indeed normal. Giving face (cunnilingus) enhances sexual pleasure. It is not a perversion. Some women may not prefer it. Some cannot resist it.
Lesbian and Straight
Lesbian does this for her female partner just as heterosexual (non lesbians) male does it for his female partner.
Medical Role of Cunnilingus
Treatment of an-orgasmic women and female sexual arousal dysfunctions.
Cunnilingus can be effectively used to cause sexual arousal, sustain sexual excitement, generate adequate lubrication. This is one of the important treatments for an-orgasmic women.
Better sex compliance, generation of mood.
It is not uncommon to find women who have not experienced the thrill of sex so all frills become meaningless. Many boys ask, "Is there any remedy to cause sexual arousal?" Good news boys, do carpet munching (cunnilingus) .
No risk of pregnancy too.
When a partner goes down (performs cunnilingus)
what cunnilingus feels like for a woman.
Most women have whacking out of the world sexual experience, like floating on intense clouds of repeated climax.
This stimulation of vulva by mouth done by her partner is called Cunnilingus only in medical textbooks. The various names commonly used for this heightened sexual excitement are as follows.
- have a box lunch
- square away
- give face
- Eat
eat out/hair pie/fur pie/
- Dine at the Y
- Enjoying a Tuna Taco.
- Carpet munching
- oral sex for female
Below are dictionary definitions.
1. The fine art of making love to a vagina/vulva with your mouth and tongue.
2. The act of using the mouth to stimulate the female genitalia. This can include sucking or licking the outer and inner areas of the vagina, and most often involves direct stimulation of the clitoris
Some women find cunnilingus to be the most satisfying sexual act. Indeed, a great number of women report that oral sex is the only way they can achieve orgasm. The mouth can create a uniquely intense range of sensations which many find unrivaled. Any woman you learn to do it right for will appreciate you all the more for it.
Oral pleasuring of the female vagina in an attempt to make her cum. Also called Carpet Munching, Dining at the Y, or Enjoying a Tuna Taco.
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Upstream Theater's Ancient Mariner Is a Triumph
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St. Louis Shakespeare's Blood Reigns Is Fit for a King
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Four Stories Explore Mysteries of Women
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Saudade Cracked eggshells, cleared of yolk, pile into the crevices of chunks of salvaged Sheetrock, bolted together in half-closed, half-ravaged shelflike units. A tin can, nearly entirely gnawed out by rust, serves as a small pedestal for two shells; two found pieces of scrap wood, crudely nailed together, cradle another broken set. These small assemblages by St. Louis-based artist Jessica Kiel-Wornson make nests of industrial refuse, importing a romantic delicacy to the otherwise abused, abandoned and rough-hewn. It's a familiar ambition of a sweeping love-song variety, but Kiel-Wornson seems aware of this (the exhibition's title is a Portuguese word that describes a kind of longing, which the artist discovered via the singer Nick Cave). The pieces, as a result, act like sketches of a proposal to plumb high sentiment to its unapologetic depth — a proposal worth accepting. Through June 13 at PSTL Gallery at Pace Framing, 3842 Washington Boulevard; 314-531-4304 or www.paceframing.com. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tue.-Sat.
Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space An explicit treatment of film as art, this survey of two decades' worth of the Belgian documentarian's work distills the medium to two essential parts: narration and gaze. Projected and screened in truncated swatches in a dark warren of loosely partitioned spaces, Akerman's work appears as a menagerie of endless highways, anonymous passersby and the overlapping cadences of the cigarette-ravaged voiceover of the filmmaker herself. Because two of her films explore canonically familiar American subjects — the culture of the Deep South and the Mexican immigrant experience — the issue of otherness, or how someone else's perspective can transform the well known, becomes saliently relevant. How much, actually, is different when seeing the familiar through another's eyes? Complementing Akerman's work is British artist Carey Young's Speech Acts, a series of pieces capitalizing on the creative potential of call centers, telephone operators and that disembodied voice at the end of a long line that calmly leads you through the nebulous airspace of critical questions and their ostensibly revelatory answers. It's an attractive form that suggests perhaps all of us have a need for the ritual of bureaucratic help — as a kind of general panacea, with nothing actually resulting from its use. Through August 2 at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or www.contemporarystl.org. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wed.-Sat., 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sun.
Diary of Consequence This modest show of drawings, prints and manipulated books by St. Louis-based abstract painter Gary Passanise presents a backlog of personal ephemera reflecting certain diaristic urges and sketchbook dreams. In the works on paper, line drawings of skeletal structural frameworks reappear — on studio-abused scrap paper, in formal screen-print series — and alternately suggest something delicately private and publicly monumental. In the collaged and repurposed book-based works, a similar tension exists: An old journal is literally nailed shut, while a small sheaf of torn-out vintage text (from a book entitled Life Among the Lowly) is hand-bound with needle and thread. From nails, chains and shards of glass to the small wavering marks of the hand, it's a show of broad-stroke romantic tropes at odds with their antidotes: earnestness, economy and restraint. Also showing: an installation by Jessica Kiel-Wornson, and work in the flat files by Maria Marshall, Clyde Ashby and Peter Pranschke. Through June 6 at Snowflake/City Stock, 3156 Cherokee Street; www.snowflakecitystock.com. Hours: 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sat.
Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master This thorough and engaging re-examination of the father of conceptual art's sudden choice to resign from making art to become a full-time chess player sees Duchamp's ostensible career change as yet another brilliant creative maneuver. Duchamp, who was responsible for some of the most formidable innovations in twentieth-century art — most resonant, the idea that choice-making itself is an artistic act — found chess to be not only a universal language but the ultimate distillation of his fundamental interests: winning, losing and fastidious strategy. The exhibition presents ephemera and art related to the artist's late years as a chess champion, chess writer, chess correspondent and chess aesthetician (even the chessboard and pieces held particular interest for Duchamp and his like-minded contemporaries), the sum of which is an elegant argument for the game's expansive and allegorical merits, as well as the boundless intellectual agility of the ever-clever master himself. Through August 16 at the Saint Louis University Museum of Art, 3663 Lindell Boulevard; 314-977-2666 or www.sluma.slu.edu. Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Wed.-Sun.
Ideal (Dis-) Placements: Old Masters at the Pulitzer This exhibition of canonical canvases of slain martyrs, pious virgins and other grand dilemmas borrowed from two encyclopedic museums and replaced in naturally lit contemporary galleries is a reaffirmation of the human scale. The minimalism of Tadao Ando's building design is diffused by ornate, gilt-framed compositions that date from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century, the two historical extremes meeting precisely at the fragile effects of daylight on the predominantly figural pieces. Contemplative and reverent, the show fulfills its premise so well that it seems capable of providing a discretely intimate experience for each and every viewer. Through October 3 at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, 3716 Washington Boulevard; 314-754-1850 or www.pulitzerarts.org. Hours: noon-5 p.m. Wed., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sat.
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Common symptoms of low sodium
You may experience low sodium symptoms daily or just once in a while. At times any of these low sodium symptoms can be severe:
- Abdominal pain or cramping
- Bloating
- Body aches
- Changes in mood, personality or behavior
- Difficulty with memory, thinking, talking, comprehension, reading or writing
- Dizziness
- Headache
- Impaired balance and coordination
- Malaise or lethargy
- Muscle spasms
- Nausea with or without vomiting
Serious symptoms that might indicate a life-threatening condition
In some cases, low sodium can be life threatening. Seek immediate medical care (call 911) if you, or someone you are with, have any of these life-threatening symptoms including:
- Abdominal pain or cramping
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- Confusion or loss of consciousness for even a brief moment
- Dizziness or vertigo
- Gradual difficulty walking and speaking, memory loss, tingling or weakness of extremities
- Muscle twitching, spasms or seizures
- Vomiting including multiple episodes
What is low sodium?
Low sodium, medically known as hyponatremia, is a lack of balance between the water and salt (sodium) levels in your body. A correct level of sodium is important for the proper function of your muscles and nerves.
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Comment Re:And walking around with it ... (Score 5, Insightful) 67 67
No politics... no script kiddie bullshit.. not a random person's blog post..
Just fun hacking for no good reason other than to do it. That's why most of us are here!
Comment Re:false flag? (Score 1) 98 98
Comment Re:Editor Troll (Score 1) 286 286
I personally went back to an old unforked xmms. Still compiles!
Well doesn't that just whip the open source llama's ass!
Comment Re:DC Follows suit (Score 1) 590 590
Comment Other potential female conversions. (Score 1) 590 590
Comment 5 stars! (Score 4, Funny) 67 67
(I'll wait patiently for my check now)
Comment Re:How hard can it be? (Score 1) 104 104
Comment Re:the meaning of the word bully (Score 1) 734 734
bully verb : to frighten, hurt, or threaten (a smaller or weaker person) : to act like a bully toward (someone) : to cause (someone) to do something by making threats or insults or by using force
I applaud you for being able shrug off the verbal abuse, but I'm also curious how you felt during those moments. Honestly, did the verbal abuse (whether or not combined with physical) just not bother you at all? OR did you shrug it off after the fact as time passed and you got older? Be honest with yourself. If as a kid you were indeed able to just let the verbal abuse go without even feeling a knot in your stomach, then were indeed a strong kid, and I commend you!
I was rarely physically bullied in school, it was all verbal. Man, there was sometimes I was trying for a black eye, just so there would be EVIDENCE. That's what's truly horrible about the verbal abuse. It can go unnoticed for YEARS. I didn't have a smartphone were I could show an abusive text back then to "authorities". I'm not going to debate you on whether physical violence is "worse". It just doesn't fucking matter. No child should have to suffer mentally or physically at the hands of another child. The word "teasing" trivializes what we are talking about here, and your case aside, it can be very damaging.
Freedom of Speech. Why do people want to read that as "Freedom to be a dick"? Freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to harass. Would you call one of your coworkers fat and ugly everyday and not expect to be reprimanded in some form?
At any rate, Freedom of Speech is only allowed in First Amendment Areas, which are probably all closed because of the shut down
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rounded edges,
Uh oh. I think someone has prior art...
Comment Re:God of the Gaps (Score 1) 1293 1293
Um, no. God only shrinks if you're explanation for every problem is "God did it". If that's why you believe in a deity, then you miss the point of faith.
To make the point differently, just because I know exactly how a chair was built, it doesn't mean that I stop believing that a carpenter built it.
I will accept your poor analogy on one condition. That this is the chair you are referring to in your analogy.
Comment Re:Yeah, that's what XP holdouts were waiting for (Score 4, Interesting) 246 246
Windows 8.1. *eyeroll* They're going to 7 you morons, and they're going to stay there for another 15 years. Doesn't matter what you do to the Start Menu.
Yeah, I read that, and thought BS as well. They're looking the wrong direction I think. Looking backwards at the curmudgeon that was Vista, that was (at least in my enterprise environment) completely skipped over. It was really a matter of earning back some trust.
I understand that 8.1 is to 8 what SP2 was to XP (in theory) but I just can't see any advantage to using 8 in an enterprise environment.
Not to mention, enterprise adoption is a SLOW process in a lot of cases. It's the same reason certain cars sell better on the used market than others. PROVEN reliability.
(oh shit, did I just make a car anology... I really need to get off this site)
Comment Re:Feel free to tell Mr. Neal the error of his way (Score 1) 74 74
I think the particular usage of CNO here is mostly descriptive rather than a legal category, as the term itself is broad. Therefore I don't think you can infer a legal classification into crime, terrorism, act of war, etc. from that usage.
According to a reply to my tweet, that's exactly the statement he used to infer terrorism.
Miles Mawyer @milesmawyer 33m
@IBTimes @ryanWneal I'm irritated and disappointed by your use of the "T" word. It's not a generic term for "Bad Guys". FBI didn't use it..
Ryan W. Neal @ryanWneal 29m
@milesmawyer Good point, but that's what they mean with "CNO efforts against US Web sites and networks."
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@ryanWneal That just means you're equated hacking with terrorism. That's still a broad and inappropriate generalization.


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How Old Is Bachelor Sean Lowe?
When it comes to the looks department, 2013 Bachelor Sean Lowe really hasn't changed that much since high school, at all.
Sure, he lost the frosted tips and eased up on the gel a bit, but Sean basically looks the same today as he did in his late teens. That brings us to the question: Just how old is Sean, anyway?
As it turns out, the Texas-raised furniture store owner is 29 years old — which means it's been almost a full decade since his adorable high school photo was taken. We'd love to know his anti-aging secrets. Hey Sean, have any tips you'd like to share?


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Hey everyone! I really need some help...I just got a samsung t220 for my macbook (tiger) it's about 2 years old..I bought a dvi cable not the apple brand but the second party brand dynex...I connected everything however I'm not getting my desktop features....just the screensaver loads for some reason....I called samsung and they told me I need the driver. However, the cd that comes with the samsung t220 is only for windows. I was told if I don't have the driver then that's it... take it back. But many people said there t220 worked on there mac. I really need some understanding here and some help.
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Fantastic Four Vol 1 98
this wiki
10th Anniversary
of the Marvel Database
Reed Richards
Johnny Storm
Appearing in "Mystery on the Moon!"Edit
Featured Characters:
- Fantastic Four
Supporting Characters:
- Kree Sentry 9168 (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Franklin Richards
- Neil Armstrong
- Col. "Buzz" Aldrin (Voice only)
- Ivan
- Sonia
- United States of America
- France
- Pacific Island
- Luna (Moon)
- NASA Rocker
- Apollo Unit
Synopsis for "Mystery on the Moon!"Edit
It is July 1969, and the United States is about to send the first manned mission to the Moon. Kree Sentry #459 has deemed that the mission to the Moon must end in failure and so rockets itself across the ocean to an island made to resemble the moon's surface. Inside this island lays a device the Sentry intends to use to insure that the Apollo mission ends in failure.
Learning of this plot, Reed takes Ben and Johnny with him to the island to battle the Kree Sentry and destroy the device it intends to use to destroy the Apollo space shuttle. After a battle against time, they manage to defeat the Sentry, and Johnny is able to destroy the device that is to be used against Apollo. Ben then carried Reed and Johnny back to the their ship and blast off for home, just as the Apollo space craft lands and Neil Armstrong says his historic words "That's one small step for a man-- one giant leap for mankind!"
- Although the plot centers around July 1969 and the Apollo space mission to the moon, these events are only topical as per the time of the issues publication as per the rules of Earth-616's sliding time scale so its just one of many trips to the moon.
- This issue contains a letters page, Fantastic Four Fan Page. Letters are publsihed from Soloman Arrington, Glenn G. Hakanson and Dave Layton.
- As seen on page one, this issue is Story#123.
Solicit Synopsis:
- It's mystery time for the F.F. again—and what better place than on the moon? Fantasy and suspense—as you like it!
- This comic quotes the 616 version of Neil Armstrong as saying, "for a man", where as in our reality, he misspoke when it counted, and said "for man"
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- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Fantastic Four Vol 1 98 on the forums
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- Images from Fantastic Four Vol 1 98
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As of July 1 in Quebec, the grace period came to an end regarding legislation banning the use of hand-held cellphones while driving. If you are caught now, it's a $115 dollar fine and three demerit points off your licence.
Earlier this year, Quebec and Nova Scotia passed a cellphone law. They become the second and third Canadian provinces after Newfoundland and Labrador to ban hand-held cell phones in vehicles.
Ontario, B.C and New Brunswick, meanwhile, are "looking" at such a law.
In the U.S., July 1 also marked the first day of a new ban on "drive and chat" in the car-crazy state of California and in Washington.
There are 23-million licensed drivers in California and the Public Policy Institute of California is predicting that 300 lives could be saved in the first year of this legislation.
There are now only seven states with a full ban on cellphone use. Three others are debating a ban and 16 others have partial bans. A study by Carnegie-Mellon University released in March of this year said that any noise in a car reduces brain activity associated with driving by 37 per cent. The American Psychological Association reported that talking on a cellphone reduced brain activity related to driving by 50 per cent.
And other studies show that using hands-free technology is not much better.
Is all this for our own good? Well, for the cynics out there, the state of New York generated $27 million dollars in fines in the first three years of its cellphone ban law.
But Quebec road safety expert Etienne Blais told CTV News that the added distraction leads to an increase in collision risk.
"It's quite the same as driving while intoxicated by alcohol or even speeding," said Blais. Cellphone use while driving is on the rise, according to an August 2007 survey conducted by the Canadian Traffic Injury Research Foundation. That study said that 37 per cent of drivers admit to using their cellphones while driving in 2007, compared to just over 20 per cent in 2001. And what are other nations doing? Well, 46 nations have bans in effect including high-tech countries like Japan, South Korea, Singapore the U.K. , Ireland and Israel. By the way, in most jurisdictions, the law applies to those who are visiting … so be careful where you use your cell.
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All the tutors have been recommended by college instructors and have been fully trained.
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2005 The Iraqi elections at the end of January have given the security forces a needed boost of confidence, said Air Force Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, deputy commander of U.S. Central Command today.
Smith spoke to reporters at the Pentagon about the Iraqi elections, the continued U.S. effort in Afghanistan and other hot spots in the Central Command region.
On Jan. 30, there were between 200 and 300 terrorist attacks. Smith said the violence in Iraq had returned to pre-election levels, with terrorists shifting their targets back to the Iraqi security forces and civilians.
He said the elections caused an "attitude change" in the Iraqi people. "The Iraqi security forces acquitted themselves very well during the election. I think they feel good about it," he said. "So there is a level of self- confidence out there that maybe they didn't have before. And then we see some pride on the part of the Iraqi people for the performance of the Iraqi security forces."
He said there is a growing level of trust between the Iraqi people and their security forces. "That's critical to our ability to get in and make sure that there's a viable Iraqi security force so that we can at some point in time draw down our forces and come home," he said.
But it is not just because of the elections that the security climate in Iraq is improving. "We have very aggressively gone after the insurgents, and we've been very effective in taking out leadership and in rolling up some of the bad actors that are out there," he said.
The general said the coalition and Iraqi forces have been effective against senior leadership, particularly Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terrorist network. "We have taken out some former regime element leadership," he noted. "Now we're hoping that the attitude of the people is such that the recruiting base for the insurgents is diminishing. And if we can continue with that momentum, we think (the terrorists) are going to have some problems continuing the operations tempo that they had and that they'd like to continue."
Smith said he expects the number of American troops in Iraq to drop to 135,000 in the springtime. He said the brigades extended for the election will come home on schedule. There are more than 150,000 U.S. troops in Iraq today.
The coalition is getting a significant amount of help from Iraqi citizens, Smith said. The information Central Command has is anecdotal, but commanders feel they are receiving more help, more information and more actionable intelligence from the Iraqis.
"In Fallujah, for instance, there are Fallujans that are clearly Sunni, that are pointing out caches of weapons," he said. "There are people in Fallujah and Samarra and other places that have pointed out bad actors of some sort, whether they're extremists or former regime elements. And then there are others that are pointing out IEDs and taking us to IEDs."
Afghanistan continues to capitalize on the gains of the October elections, he said. The country is preparing for parliamentary elections in the spring, and coalition forces continue offensive operations against foreign terrorists and Taliban sympathizers. He said the effort is hindered by very bad weather.
He praised Pakistani efforts in north Waziristan. Al Qaeda and Taliban sympathizers are trying to use the remote tribal areas of Pakistan as sanctuaries. "We're looking for good things from (the Pakistanis) through the winter and into the spring when activity starts to increase," he said.
Other areas concern CENTCOM leaders. In Africa, he said the peace treaty signed in Sudan encouraged leaders, but they remain very concerned about the genocide in the Darfur region of the country.
He said there has been some movement on the transitional government into Somalia. Outside Mogadishu, Somalia is virtually ungoverned. Command officials said it is important for a government to extend control into the area so it doesn't become a safe haven for terrorists.
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Industry Resources
These links and contacts can kick-start your career in the lodging and hospitality industry.
- American Hotel and Lodging Association offers industry statistics.
- The National Restaurant Association lists restaurant industry statistics as well as other helpful information.
- The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation features career assistance and scholarship information.
- The Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Educators features a "Just for Students" area.
- HCareers lets you search for jobs in hospitality.
- Star Chefs is the magazine for culinary insiders.
The following companies are generous with donations to the students and program. Please support those who support the program!
- Domino Sugar
- Pillsbury
- Nestle Chocolates
- Custom Culinary
- Minor Bases
- Kikkoman Foods
- Unified Brands
- Schweppes
The following links lead to other hospitality organizations and information which may be of interest to prospective students:
- The American Culinary Federation
- The Retail Bakers of America
- The Bread Bakers Guild of America
- Educational Institute of the AHLA
- Professional Chefs Association
The following links lead to other sites that may be of interest:
Laura Lerdal, Culinary Market and Lab Coordinator
(630) 942-2359
Anna Gay, Program Support Specialist
(630) 942-2502
Mary Beth Leone, Coordinator, Hospitality
(630) 942-2059
Tim Meyers, Co-Coordinator, Culinary and Baking
(630) 942-3223
David Kramer, Co-Coordinator, Culinary and Baking
(630) 942-2868
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Technical Education Center (TEC), Room 1034, (630) 942-2592
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Download UFO: Aftermath
4 out of 5
X-COM Successor's Success
This game is as much a strategy game as it is horror. Aftermath was created to be a successor to the X-COM series. This is a game for people who miss X-COM, and want something more. Compared to X-COM, the graphics are upgraded, everything is 3D and the camera can be rotated and zoomed. Base building is eliminated, instead you gain bases by winning certain missions. Intercepting UFOs has been simplified and what little control the original game had was removed. Building and rebuilding interceptors is automatic. Money and economy has been totally removed. Manufacturing and salvaging at the end of missions is the only way to gain equipment. There are no scientists or technicians. Bases are tuned to "scientific" "manufacturing" or "military." More science bases increase research rate, more manufacturing bases mean faster manufacturing of technology. Military bases are where soldiers can launch from. Soldiers are few and far between, so any deaths are keenly felt. Combat is all real time, and time freezes whenever something significant like sighting an alien, being wounded, or a death occurs. I was pretty good at X-COM, I was even able to beat it, but UFO: Aftermath is more challenging. Aftermath can be more frustrating than X-COM in some respects, and smoother in others. This is a game for strategy fans, people who want a challenge, and love to make tactical decisions. Furthermore, there are several UFO sequels to investigate when you've finished with this one.
5 out of 5 (1 votes)UFO: Aftermath (pc game)
- Genre: Strategy, Real time, Science Fiction
- Software house: 1C Publishing
- Year: 2003
- System: Windows


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Rahm brings Wilmette bargaining style to Chicago.
"We buy the cheapest paper. Why not the cheapest teachers."
I have a teaching pal who proudly hails from a working class suburb on the south-west side of Chicago.
For years he has described for me the difference between the boards of education from these communities and those from the tonier north suburban and north shore suburbs.
Intuitively folks think that teachers up north get more respect, higher salaries and bargaining that goes smoother.
Not so.
"Parents and those that sit on the board of education are very respectful of teachers and the hard work we do," my buddy always tells me. "People work hard for their money. But they are concerned about their children's futures and they are willing to pay top dollar to get good teachers."
My own bargaining experience has been decidedly different. I have spent my professional teaching career in a north suburban school district. The bargaining scenario has, with a few exceptional years, always played out the same. It's like squeezing blood from a turnip.
It can be characterized by a comment made by a parent at a board meeting a few years ago. "If we look to buy the cheapest paper, why not the cheapest teachers?"
One year a board member told the union bargaining team, "You have to understand that to us, teachers are just one more cost that needs to be contained."
This difference in attitude towards teachers as a reflection of economic class differences is supported by an article in today's Chicago Sun-Times.
If you want to take home Illinois' top dollar in teacher pay over time, don't head to Chicago, where beginning salaries start out strong but fade in the stretchDon't even head to tony Winnetka or Lincolnshire.
Head straight to the near southwest suburbs. Blue-collar Burbank. Working-class Summit. Middle-class Oak Lawn.
A pocket of suburbs southwest of Chicago — some of them kissing the city's border — have a blue-chip salary schedule that rewards starting teachers as well as the most veteran, highly credentialed ones with some of the steepest teacher pay in the state. Their beginning and ending teacher salaries are among the top 15 in Illinois.
The compensation surpasses even what is paid in Winnetka and Lincolnshire, where bottom and top scales are nothing to weep about, coming in among the top 25 in the state.
It appears that Rahm Emanuel has brought the Wilmette attitude towards teachers to the bargaining table in Chicago.
Note that recent polls show that the attitude of the working class parents of Chicago public school children are similar to their south suburban counterparts. They overwhelmingly support the teachers in the current bargaining process.
When I sat down with our bargaining team and the representatives of the board, the first thing we would agree on was a list of comparable districts. We often referred to these at the "north forty." They were the districts that made up the north suburbs and north shore. We used these to check that both side's proposals reflected the market.
Our mistake.
We should have looked south.
August 8, 2012 8:16 am
South didn't have 13 million dollars to elect one of their own into the Mayoralship
granny permalinkAugust 8, 2012 11:26 am
Where do you think all the "deformer" types come from?
Anonymous permalinkAugust 8, 2012 12:53 pm
Hi Fred,
As a teacher about to return to work in the school district you just retired from, I'd like to comment about the cheapest paper, cheapest teacher remark. It was used again last fall by a small pocket of Tea Partiers speaking to the Board about cost containment.
Citizens of Park Ridge, you need to get a clue. Your public schools are the only things your city has going for it. Your property values are declining, and your property taxes are increasing, like just about everywhere else. Your local government is broke and has had to lay off police officers. Take a look at your downtown. Store after store is empty and you have no industry to speak of. People still buy homes in Park Ridge because of the excellent reputation of the SCHOOL SYSTEM. They don't move here to eat at Houlihan's or go to the Pickwick. If the Board were to hire the "cheapest teachers," your schools would decline faster than Facebook's stock price. When the schools decline, there go your property values. The experience of the teachers, their level of education, and their commitment to your children is what makes your schools excellent. Containing costs when it comes to hiring educators does not. A younger teacher doesn't mean a better teacher, an older one doesn't mean worse. There is a need for every level of teaching experience in your schools, and to suggest otherwise is ignorant.
We have no contract as of this writing. Teachers in D64 will nevertheless return to work on August 20. That's what we do. We teach children, and if you're looking strictly at standardized test scores, we do a fantastic job. There is more to it than test scores, however. You don't see the intense work that goes on to make sure all of our students, your children, succeed. That takes collaboration between your educators at all levels on the pay scale.
District 64 Schools are the jewel in Park Ridge's crown. If you truly want Park Ridge to remain "A Wonderful Place," let your School Board know that you want your schools to continue to offer a superb education while keeping your property values steady. Tell them you are not on board with hiring "the cheapest."
A Faculty Member of D64


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CNN is reporting that Anna Nicole Smith's will has been revealed, and it names Howard K. Stern as executor of her estate.
The will was written in 2001 and was not updated after the birth of her daughter, Dannielynn Hope.
There were two witnesses to the will's signing, one of which was Kimberly Walther, Anna's former assistant.


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Created: 05/10/2013 12:38 PM KSTP.com By: Jennie Olson
A quarter of Minnesota House members wound up voting a personal preference on legalizing gay marriage rather than following results of last November's ballot measure to ban it.
Thursday's 75-59 vote in favor of a bill to permit same-sex marriage saw Republicans and Democrats defy the fall outcome on the constitutional amendment in their district.
Eighteen Republicans from districts where a majority opposed barring gay marriage voted to keep marriage as exclusively for one man and one woman. Plymouth Rep. Sarah Anderson represents the heartiest anti-amendment district for a Republican opposed to legalized same-sex marriage.
Fifteen Democrats bucked the home tide by supporting gay marriage while representing districts that clearly opposed it. Murdock Rep. Andrew Falk had the starkest difference between his vote Thursday and his district's vote last fall.
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How to Uninvite Someone from a Party
We've all been in that awkward situation where you invited someone to your party or event, then think about it nearer the time and realize that you really don't want them there. Dis-inviting someone is always going to be awkward, but hopefully this article can help make it easier.
1Make sure that you really DON'T want this person at your event, and make sure you have a good reason. Nothing is more embarrassing than inviting someone, then changing your mind and dis-inviting them, then changing your mind again. If you're sure, move on to the next step.Ad
2Think. Since you invited this person, have you had a major argument or fight? If you're no longer on speaking terms with the person, they are unlikely to think that they are still welcome at your party. They will probably not want to attend anyway.
3If you are still on speaking terms, but since the invitation the other person has offended you, it is best to confront them, calmly, about the offense. This way, the problem will either be resolved, in which case there will be no need to dis-invite them, or you can say something like "If we can't resolve this problem, I think it might be best if we keep out of each other's way for a while." If they need a less subtle hint, explicitly mention the party.
4Remember that you should only do this in serious circumstances. If at all possible, try to put up with the other person, just for the duration of the party.Ad
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- Dis-invitations should be done face to face wherever possible.
- Always remain calm and polite.
- It is only acceptable to dis-invite somebody if they have offended you AFTER the invitation was made.
- Be aware that you could permanently lose a friend. Do not take the decision lightly.
- Always be sure that you want to do so, otherwise it could end up very embarrassing!
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Is Lucas Duda a good player, or not?
I'm still not sure, frankly. I guess I see him as a complementary piece. But when a team is comprised too heavily with complementary bats, like these Mets, the offense doesn't function.
Let's look at some numbers. As of this writing (not including Wednesday night's game), the Mets are 37-47. That's 84 games in the books. Across 282 PAs, Lucas Duda has put together a .252/.344/.467 slash line, which is remarkably consistent with his career numbers over more than 1,500 PAs: .247/.342/.432.
Despite the fact that Duda has started only 64 of the Mets 84 games, he has put up solid counting stats: 12 HRs, 41 RBI. Over the remaining 78 games, it's fair to assume that he'll get close to 70 starts (the big red flag waving on the horizon is Duda's unacceptable 2014 performance against LHP: .159/.275/227).
Given another 310 PAs, Lucas would blow away his previous high of 459 PAs in 2012. Provided with that opportunity, it's reasonable to project that he'd give the Mets 25 HRs and 85-90 RBI.
Folks would sign up for that, right? All for the low, low price of $1,637.500.
He hits a HR every 20.5 ABs, and drives in a Run every 6 at-bats.
We know he can't run and lacks defensive mobility. Yet his hands are soft and it's fair to term his defense as "okay enough, I guess." Is that a category?
He usually bats 6th in the lineup (38 times), compared to cleanup (only 9 times).
When Lucas Duda swings at the first pitch (and puts it into play, presumably), which he has done 28 times this season, his slash line is .464/.464/.893.
Got that? An OPS of 1.357.
Yet this is the guy we like because he works deep counts? That's so wrong.
Up 1-0 in the count, he has swung and put the ball into play only 13 times, with this result: .538/.538/1.462.
Down 0-1, he's swung 23 times: .435/.458/.522. Again, amazingly productive early in the AB.
Swing the bat, Lucas.
For stark comparison, look at this:
Wow, just wow. If Lucas Duda is up, and he's taking pitches, working deep counts, he might work out a walk — but he sure as shooting won't hit the ball with authority.
Swing the bat, big man. Swing often, swing early, swing hard.
Obviously, it's a game of adjustments. You don't want to become a robot, swinging at every first pitch. Word would get around. At the same time, passiveness does not suit Lucas Duda. The walks seem nice, as a number, but the baseball reality is that he's a slow man clogging up the basepaths . . . batting in the wrong slot in the order.
In 2014, he's reached base 97 times (H + BB + HBP), not counting times he's reached on a force play (probably not often). Subtract the 12 HRs, and that's Lucas Duda standing on base 85 times for the NY Mets, including 17 doubles. Of those 85 times, he's come around to score 18 runs.
Because of course he does.
He's slow and he bats 6th for the stinking NY Mets.
In the end, what have we got here? A 28-year-old mystery wrapped in an enigma, the masher inside the marshmallow. A guy getting his first real full season of play, coming to the plate 600 times, and putting up respectable numbers. A hitter who, in terms of approach, seems to do things the wrong way. Maybe some folks like that he works counts, is patient at the plate, draws walks. I don't. I'd like to see him amp the aggressiveness up — way up.
Could he goose it to 30 HR, 100 RBI? Seems possible.
But not if he gets patted on the back every time he takes a 2-1 fastball.
When we examine how he hits in game situations, more red flags emerge. I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, since I don't have the league comparisons at hand. But pick a category, "2 outs, RISP," "Late & Close," "Tie Game" and his OPS plummets: .752, .386, .623 respectively. Maybe that's true of most players, I don't know.
But "Late & Close," he's come to the plate 60 times and put up this slash: .113/.217/.170.
Who knows, some of that likely derives from the fact he's seeing a lefty specialist at that point in the game. Late and close, bring in the southpaw, because it turns Lucas Duda into an easy out. The Stay Puft Man.
That's a huge flaw in his game right now, one that will likely forever prevent him from becoming a truly effective first baseman. I'm glad he's getting a full season to show us what he can do with regular playing time. So far I'd have to say: Not bad, not great.
Final grade: Incomplete.
Bobby Abreu has PH for the Mets 27 times in 2014: .083/.185/.125.
Two freaking hits, three walks.
Let's put this myth to rest.
Conversely, as a starter (21 games): .324/.400/.485.
And, oh yeah: Noah Syndergaard started a game in Las Vegas on Wednesday in 111 degree temperatures. Great, just great. The place, the park, is not meant for baseball, yet that's where the club stakes its future.


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The page lists upcoming conferences, workshops, and calls for participation that include software architecture among their topics of interest. To see upcoming events sponsored by the SEI offering a wide range of software and systems engineering topics, see the SEI calendar of events.
May 16, 2015
The Second International Workshop on Software Architecture and Metrics will be held in Firenze, Italy, in conjunction with ICSE 2015.
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The Seventh International Workshop on Managing Technical Debt will be held in Bremen, Germany, in conjunction with ICSME 2015.


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Flu has arrived in MA!
The first cases of influenza have been officially diagnosed in Massachusetts. Now is a great time to get your flu vaccine before we see any cases on campus. You can get the flu vaccine at any pharmacy, Urgent Care or from you primary care provider. Please click on Seasonal Flu on the left side of this webpage to get information on prevention and treatment of the flu. Let's have a healthy winter!
EBOLA Information:
Ebola is a rare and deadly disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains which are found in several African countries. There have been several outbreaks of Ebola since 1976 sporadically in Africa and this most recent outbreak has been in Liberia, New Guinea and Sierra Leone where thousands of people have been infected. There have been 3 cases in the United States, all in people who were in close contact with someone with Ebola. The first was a man who travelled to the US from Liberia after having been exposed to Ebola. The other two are health care workers who cared for him. There are reports that these 2 nurses cared for him for several days before personal protective equipment was recommended. 70-100 other people were exposed to this patient but have not come down with the disease. These are the only cases in the US. There have been no cases in Massachusetts.
The Framingham State University Community is at very low risk for Ebola exposure. We have no international students studying with us from West Africa nor do we have students studying abroad in West Africa. In order to get infected with Ebola you have to have direct contact with the bodily fluids of someone who is sick with Ebola. The director of the Health Center is in close contact with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health through weekly conference call updates. We do not expect any cases at FSU but we do have a plan in place if there is a suspected case and will follow the guidance of the MA DPH.
For further information about Ebola, please see these websites:
The Health Center is open Monday-Friday: 8am-5pm
If care is needed outside those hours, students have several options:
MetroWest Medical Center
115 Lincoln St.
Framingham, MA 01702
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In the event of an emergency, Campus Police should be called at (508) 626-4911. Campus Police will assess the situation and call to arrange transportation to the ER at MetroWest Medical Center. If the incident is not an emergency and the student is ill, Campus Police will transport the student if needed to the ER.
CareWell Urgent Care - (508) 861-7375
50 Worcester Rd. Framingham MA
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CVS Minute Clinics
414 Union St (Rt. 135) Ashland (508) 881-7606
137 Central St. (Rt. 135) Natick (508) 655-2109
When the Health Center is closed, refer to the student self care link for information about taking care of a specific health issue.
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CVS: 1280 Worcester Rd. (Rt. 9) at Temple St. (508) 872-1432
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