Haiti Relief Fund

From Salvation Army

Dear Caring Friend,
You may not know this, but The Salvation Army has worked in Haiti for 60 years, running schools, children’s homes, hospitals, and nutrition programs, and providing many other important services.
After last week’s devastating earthquake, our work in this impoverished country has never been needed more.

Thanks to generous friends like you, The Salvation Army has already leapt into action to provide life-saving care and God’s comfort for earthquake survivors.
Currently, we’re getting ready to rush more than 44,000 pounds of emergency food rations to people in the worst-hit areas. We’re also working to deliver safe drinking water – critical to helping prevent the spread of disease after a disaster like this. With most hospitals destroyed, medical care is going to be a top priority, too.
I’d like to offer you the opportunity to help us. Your gifts to the Army have always been used in your community. But today, I urge you to look beyond San Diego to our suffering brothers and sisters in Haiti. This truly is their darkest hour. Your love will remind them they are not alone, no matter how great their pain.
Please visit www.sandiego.salvationarmy.org to give a gift today. Your kindness will be a part of our every effort. Your kindness will SAVE LIVES.
Thank you for doing all you can.
And please, keep the people of Haiti in your prayers during this time of overwhelming grief.
God bless you,
Major Linda Markiewicz
To learn more or to donate now, paste the following URL into your browser: www.sandiego.salvationarmy.org

From Red Cross

Hi Friends:

As a volunteer of the Red Cross, I'm asking all of you my friends to kindly help us - The American Red Cross - with your contribution to allow us to provide help and assistance to those affected by the Haiti disaster. Donations could made in increments of $10 dollars by clicking the following link:

https://american.redcross.org/site/Donation2?idb=1933520596&df_id=4437&4437.donation=form1&JServSessionIdr004=g278ntjbh2.app196a

You can also donate $10 to Haiti relief by texting “HAITI” to 90999 or by calling 1-800-RED CROSS

Please click on the following link to see what The American Red Cross is currently doing for Haiti:

http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=2d576d585ce26210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD

Update: 1/20/10 @ 10:21 AM

From UCR

Operation Haiti

The PCA of the Campus Health Center and the WELL are asking students to please come out and help with our efforts to aid the disaster victims in Haiti.

We will be out by the bell tower on
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 from 11AM-2PM
collecting donations of monetary, clothing or care package form.

There will also be Bins at the CHC and the WELL
for clothing or care package Drop -Off

Items Needed are:
Shoebox or Zip-lock bags
Clothing
Batteries
Flashlights
Soap
Non-aerosol antiperspirant
Toothbrush and toothpaste
Phone cards
Pocket size tissues
Conditioner
Shampoo
Crackers
Breath mints
Trail mix/snack bars
Boxed munchies
Plastic trash bags
Feminine napkins
Tampons

Anything helps and in this crisis it is important to lend our support

Thank You
Preventive Care Advocates (PCA)

Ken Stewart
______________________________

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Ken H. Stewart, DrPH(c), MPH
Preventive Care Specialist
Campus Health Center
University of California, Riverside
http://campushealth.ucr.edu/ (online Appt.)
(0)951-827-2741
(F)951-827-3133
ken.stewart@ucr.edu
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Restuarant City Changes

Wow.  There has been a lot of changes in restuarant city.  With these changes, there are different strategies as well!

Some important changes
1. GP (Gourmet Points) are now accumulated even when you are offline.  Before, the only way to get GP was to wait in front of your computer while the game was running.
2. Max coins offline is now calculated.  Before, you would max out at 2000 coins.  Now it is calculated on how much stamina your worker has, how many waiters there are, how many cooks there are, how many games there are, and popularity.  Taking all this into consideration, the amount of coins that you can get changes.  To get the maximum potential of coins, you should have equal amount of cooks as there are waiters, and 50+ popularity.
3. New recipes are now require 4 ingredients to make.
4. Plants can be watered by your neighbors.
5. You can interact in the game.  You can click on dirty dishes to get rid of them, click on dirty toilets to clean them, and click on broken arcades to repair them.
6. Outside lot.  You can now purchase an outside lot for more space.  WARNING: If you block your door, or delete your door to close your restaurant, when you purchase the outside lot, you open new entrance ways.  You have to block the access to the sidewalk in order to stop customers from coming in and lowering your popularity points.
7. There are new awards for interacting with the game (Number of toilets cleaned, number of dishes cleaned...etc.).
8. Themes.  Restaurant city has really taken up some action and created lots of themes.  They pump one out every other week or so.  Maybe it is because of the holiday season, but they are creating many new items and themes.  Some are limited, so get yours as soon as possible.
9. Customers actually walk all the way to the door before entering.  Before they used to just pop out of thin air.
10. New questions for food quiz.
11. Newsletter direct from Restaurant City.  They now mail you with the newest and greatest about restaurant city.
12. The grandpa (I can't recall his name right now).  If you click on him, he gives you prizes that you can share with friends.
13. Friend restaurant quests.  You can now go to your friends restaurant and do quests to earn GP and coins!
Anymore??

Try these links:
Restaurant City page 2
Facebook's Restaurant City

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The power of Bananas

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A professor at CCNY for a physiological psych class told his class about bananas.  He said the expression "going bananas" is from the effects of bananas on the brain.  Read on: 

Never, put your banana in the refrigerator!!! 
This is interesting. 
After reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.. 

Bananas contain three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber. A banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy.

Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute workout. No wonder the banana is the number one fruit with the world's leading athletes.

But energy isn't the only way a banana can help us keep fit. It can also help overcome or prevent a substantial number of illnesses and conditions, making it a must to add to our daily diet.. 

Depression: According to a recent survey undertaken by MIND amongst people suffering from depression, many felt much better after eating a banana. This is because bananas contain tryptophan, a type of protein that the body converts into serotonin, known to make you relax, improve your mood and generally make you feel happier. 

PMS: Forget the pills - eat a banana. The vitamin B6 it contains regulates blood glucose levels, which can affect your mood. 

Anemia : High in iron, bananas can stimulate the production of hemoglobin in the blood and so helps in cases of anemia. 

Blood Pressure: This unique tropical fruit is extremely high in potassium yet low in salt, making it perfect to beat blood pressure. So much so, the US Food and Drug Administration has just allowed the banana industry to make official claims for the fruit's ability to reduce the risk of blood pressure and stroke. 

Brain Power: 200 students at a Twickenham (Middlesex) school ( England ) were helped through their exams this year by eating bananas at breakfast, break, and lunch in a bid to boost their brain power. Research has shown that the potassium-packed fruit can assist learning by making pupils more alert. 

Constipation: High in fiber, including bananas in the diet can help restore normal bowel action, helping to overcome the problem without resorting to laxatives. 

Hangovers: One of the quickest ways of curing a hangover is to make a banana milkshake, sweetened with honey. The banana calms the stomach and, with the help of the honey, builds up depleted blood sugar levels, while the milk soothes and re-hydrates your system. 
Heartburn: Bananas have a natural antacid effect in the body, so if you suffer from heartburn, try eating a banana for soothing relief. 

Morning Sickness: Snacking on bananas between meals helps to keep blood sugar levels up and avoid morning sickness 

Mosquito bites: Before reaching for the insect bite cream, try rubbing the affected area with the inside of a banana skin. Many people find it amazingly successful at reducing swelling and irritation. 

Nerves: Bananas are high in B vitamins that help calm the nervous system. 


Overweight and at work? Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure at work leads to gorging on comfort food like chocolate and chips. Looking at 5,000 hospital patients, researchers found the most obese were more likely to be in high-pressure jobs.. The report concluded that, to avoid panic-induced food cravings, we need to control our blood sugar levels by snacking on high carbohydrate foods every two hours to keep levels steady. 

Ulcers: The banana is used as the dietary food against intestinal disorders because of its soft texture and smoothness. It is the only raw fruit that can be eaten without distress in over-chronicler cases. It also neutralizes over-acidity and reduces irritation by coating the lining of the stomach. 

Temperature control: Many other cultures see bananas as a "cooling" fruit that can lower both the physical and emotional temperature of expectant mothers.. In Thailand , for example, pregnant women eat bananas to ensure their baby is born with a cool temperature. 

Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Bananas can help SAD sufferers because they contain the natural mood enhancer tryptophan. 

Smoking &Tobacco Use: Bananas can also help people trying to give up smoking. The B6, B12 they contain, as well as the potassium and magnesium found in them, help the body recover from the effects of nicotine withdrawal. 

Stress: Potassium is a vital mineral, which helps normalize the heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and regulates your body's water balance.. When we are stressed, our metabolic rate rises, thereby reducing our potassium levels. These can be re balanced with the help of a high-potassium banana snack.. 

Strokes: According to research in The New England Journal of Medicine, eating bananas as part of a regular diet can cut the risk of death by strokes by as much as 40%! 

Warts: Those keen on natural alternatives swear that if you want to kill off a wart, take a piece of banana skin and place it on the wart, with the yellow side out. Carefully hold the skin in place with a plaster or surgical tape!

So, a banana really is a natural remedy for many ills. When you compare it to an apple, it has four times the protein, twice the carbohydrate, three times the phosphorus, five times the vitamin A and iron, and twice the other vitamins and minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best value foods around So maybe its time to change that well-known phrase so that we say, "A banana a day keeps the doctor away!"

Fake Swine Flu Drugs Sold Online

Apparently there are some claims online that products sold online are curing or preventing swine flu.  The FDA announced that these are false.  They can contain Tylenol and not even anything that are proven to cure swine flu.  And if it does contain the drug to cure swine flu, they were not approved by the US.

Heroes of Newerth Closed Beta Key Open Registration

Not sure if it will work for everyone, but HON has released a link for open registration.  You can try your luck
http://www.heroesofnewerth.com/open_create_account.php

If that does not work, try adding yourself to their fan page on facebook and then try it again.

Want a free Heroes of Newerth (HON) closed Betakey?

According to Heroes of Newerth's status update on facebook, they will give instruction today about how to sign up for a betakey.
Direct from their facebook status:

Heroes of Newerth Beta Key Giveaway Winner

About a week ago I had a contest for HoN beta key giveaway and the winner was Darksnow!!

Congratulations Darksnow!!








I've sent you the key via HoN Email.