University of Southern Indiana has been a great college for me to attend. When it comes to my career choice, they have met my needs. Many colleges around the area where I live do not offer my major. They have many similar courses, but not my exact career choice.
    I plan to be a Website designer in the future. I want to deal more with the designing aspect of making a Website. I would rather spend less time on the coding and more on the design.
    Since finding my college, it has helped me to have an opportunity to go for this. I have already taken a class where I learned how to create a webpage the way I prefer.
    Before finding this college, I was set on attending a two year college that had my major. I had already been accepted and was ready to go, but I noticed most employers in my field preferred to hire people with four years of college, not two. The process was definitely last minute. I found out about University of Southern Indiana one night and within the next few days I was set, accepted, and there was no turning back. It was like finding a gem among a bunch of rocks the day me and my family found out about what my college has to offer. 
    The size of the school is great. It is not too big not too small. This helps the sizes of the classes to be smaller, which is great for learning and having more one on one time with the teachers. This is something I really like about my college along with the fact that they even have on-campus apartments that any grade level can live in. 
    Those are not the only things I like about my college; they are definitely all about culture. It did not take long to find out that this college is very welcoming to international students. This was a plus for me, because I can work towards my career choice and enjoy the ride along the way while having fun with one of my favorite subjects of interest: international culture. So far, I found that I am very interested in the Arabic language from meeting many Arabic people around the campus.
    The University of Southern Indiana has brought me the opportunity to indulge in different cultures, learn more deeply about Website Design, and meet many new and awesome people along the way. The journey here has been great. I can not wait to continue on here learning more and more website design, and getting more involved with the many different cultural clubs and events that happen around campus.
    Making the choice to go with The University of Southern Indiana instead of my past choice was probably one of the best choices I have made. Overall, this school has been in the top of my choices since attending. If given the choice to go back, I would not change my choice of college.

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I’m Proud To Be A Christian

Where At Least I Know I’m Saved

And I Wont Forget The Man Who Died

To Save My Life For Me  

And I Gladly Stand Up Next To Him    

And Defend His Name Today  

There aint no doubt I love this man

 By Amber T on 12-10-10

By Mustafa Haji Abdinur (AFP) – 14 hours ago 

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked rebels said Thursday they were moving over 12,000 starving families back into famine zones they had fled, where the UN has warned they will die without help.

Draconian aid restrictions imposed by the extremist Shebab are blamed for turning harsh drought across the Horn of Africa into famine in the areas they control, with 750,000 people at risk of death in coming months, the United Nations has said.

“The mujahedeen fighters, in their bid to help people displaced by drought, started working on plans to send them back home where they will be assisted, God willing,” said Sheik Mahad Abu-Safiya, a senior Shebab official.

The families, estimated to number at least 50,000 people, were “taken back to their homes with packages to feed them for three months,” he added.

Witnesses said the packages included rice, maize and cooking oil.

However, the Shebab have refused most international assistance, and blocked people fleeing drought and famine in the Bay and Bakool regions from travelling in search of aid to Mogadishu, where relief efforts are centered.

Crowded trucks began moving people late Wednesday from camps in and around the Shebab-held town of Baidoa back to their original villages, up to 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of the town, officials and witnesses said.

“The process has started and we have moved the first of the 12,000 displaced families to their original locations,” Mohamed Walid, another Shebab official, told reporters.

“Most of the displaced people were moved from a big camp at Baidoa airport, they were taken on long trucks,” said witness Osmail Mohamed.

“I have seen people returning onboard trucks with food distributed to them by the Shebab,” said Abdulahi Derow, who said the food they were given was “enough for a month.”

Local aid workers said the Shebab had ordered them to help move people back to the villages they had fled from.

“The Shebab group started sending people back to their homes, and gave them some food,” said one Somali aid worker said, asking not to be named. “But people are still in need of help.”

Shebab fighters last month pulled out of positions in the war-torn capital Mogadishu where they were battling the weak Western-backed government, but they still control swathes of south and central Somalia.

The United Nations has declared six regions in south Somalia famine zones, the majority in Shebab-controlled areas.

Drought, high food prices and fighting in Somalia have increased the number of those in need of humanitarian assistance across the Horn of Africa to 13.3 million, according to the UN.

Access to Shebab-controlled areas is a major concern, with a group of 20 international and Somali aid agencies calling on Wednesday for talks with the Shebab to create “free passage of assistance.”

The agencies warned the situation was the worst they had ever seen in decades of work in Somalia, and was expected to deteriorate further with rains next month likely to worsen conditions for disease.

It is feared that cholera, measles and malaria will have a devastating effect on a people already weakened by harsh drought.

“Never before have we faced such acute suffering with so many lives at stake,” they warned in a joint letter. “Somalia is at a turning point.”

Ken Menkhaus, professor at Davidson College in the US state of North Carolina, called for a “diplomatic surge” from the “West and the Islamic world” to ensure both the Shebab and the Western-backed government allow access to affected people.

Writing in a paper Thursday for the Washington-based Enough pressure group, Menkhaus called the Shebab an “Islamic Khmer Rouge, in which an armed group with a deeply twisted interpretation of the faith presides over the mass deaths of its own people.”

The Shebab “must be made to justify its policy to Islamic leaders and scholars,” Menkhaus added.

“How, precisely, does allowing hundreds of thousands of captive fellow Muslims to starve advance any Islamic or Somali cause?”

Copyright © 2011 AFP. All rights reserved.

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(AFP) – 19 hours ago 

GENEVA — Over 3,700 Somali refugees have made the perilous sea journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in August alone amid the severe drought in their homeland, the UN refugees agency said Friday.

“Yemen is seeing a sharp rise in the number of Somali refugees arriving on rickety boats across the Gulf of Aden,” said Adrian Edwards, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

“More than 3,700 Somali refugees have reached Yemen’s coast so far in August,” said the spokesman.

The number marks a sharp jump from the 15 who crossed the Gulf of Aden for the whole of 2010.

“It is testament to the refugees’ desperation that they have chosen to flee to Yemen, which is itself affected by serious unrest,” said Edwards.

“The new arrivals tell our staff they fled Somalia because of the unstable security situation, severe drought, high food prices and lack of job opportunities,” they said.

In addition, the journey is extremely dangerous, with two Somalis drowning when a boat capsized on Monday.

“Nonetheless, more Somalis are expected to arrive in Yemen in the coming months. We believe that many who fled their homes are already waiting in Bossaso for calmer seas before starting their journey,” said Edwards, referring to the staging point in northern Somalia.

But even as the outflow via Yemen increased, the displacements within Somalia or to Kenya were falling.

Arrival rates in Mogadishu dropped to about 200 a day in August, compared to 1,000 a day in July.

The UNHCR said that due to insecurity, almost no movements were recorded in Mogadishu districts previously under control of the Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militia.

In areas under the control of Shebab rebels, meanwhile, restrictions on movements were being imposed.

In addition, donations as well better access to aid may have led others to head to places where there are relief supplies, rather than to Mogadishu.

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