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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. -
Complete 2008 Academic All-Big West Spring Sport Team in PDF Format
A total of 19 Cal State Northridge student-athletes made the 2008 Big West Academic All-Conference Spring Sports Team, the Big West Conference announced Wednesday. The Women's Track and Field Team, which captured its third-straight Big West Conference championship in May, led the way for the Matadors with eight selections.
Also earning the distinction for the Matadors were two baseball players, four softball players, a men's and women's golfer and three men's track and field team members. In order to qualify for the Academic All-Big West Team, a student-athlete must maintain a 3.20 cumulative GPA and participate in at least 50 percent of their team's competitions.
On the women's track and field team, Jessica Beach (Sr., Biology), Marissa Crook (So., Kinesiology), Jocelyn Do (Sr., Business), Sherrinna Lofton (So., Business), Lauren Michaels (So., Biology), Krystal Quinn (Sr., Sociology), Nanci Velarde (So., Kinesiology) and Sandra Velarde (So., Spanish) all received the distinction.
The honor caps off an impressive year for Lofton and Quinn, as both took home Big West titles in 2008. Lofton captured the 100m and 200m individual titles and was a member of both the 4x400 and 4x100 meter Big West Conference champions, while Quinn took home the pole vault title.
For the men's track and field squad, throwers Cody Pearce (Jr., Kinesiology) and Nick Saylor (Sr., Sociology) and middle distance runner Kevin Nious all earned the Academic All-Big West distinction. Pearce and Saylor finished second and third, respectively, in the men's hammer throw at the 2008 Big West Championships. Nious finished fourth in the men's 400m and was a member of CSUN's second-place 4x100m relay team at the Big West Championships.
In addition to spurring the Matador baseball team to a 24-32 record overall and an 8-16 record in Big West play, the program's most wins in conference since 2003, Billy Swanson (So., Business) and Billy Ott (So., Political Science) both excelled in the classroom as well. Swanson finished 2008 hitting .288 with three doubles while Ott was 1-5 with a 5.88 ERA.
On the Matador softball program, Alexandria Alvarado (So., Psychology), Sarah Kahn-Shamout (Jr., Biology), Mercedes Lovato (Sr., Communications) and Jaclyn Rymer (So., Journalism) all picked up academic awards to wrap up their 2008 seasons.
For Alvarado, Lovato and Rymer, the awards all come in addition to their All-Big West honors. Rymer earned All-Big West First Team honors for her play at first base, hitting .273 overall and .298 against Big West Opponents. Lovato wracked up a 19-14 record, the most wins by a Matador pitcher since 2001, en route to All-Big West Second Team honors, while Alvarado smacked 12 doubles to earn All-Big West Honorable Mention.
For Jim Bracken's men's golf team, Clint Oleson (Jr., Computer Science) was one of six Big West men's golfers to receive the Academic distinction. Oleson participated in nine tournament for the Matadors in 2007-08 season, finishing with a season low-round score of 70 and a 16th-place finish at the Ogio-Pacific Coast Intercollegiate.
In women's golf, Monique Huijsman (So., Business) was one of seven women's golfers in the Big West Conference to received the Academic All-Big West award. Huijsman participated in five tournaments for Northridge in the 2007-08 season, shooting a season-low round of 76 and finishing 17th at the Elco, Inc. Intercollegiate.
Billy Swanson, sophomore, Biology
Billy Ott, sophomore, Political Science
Alexandria Alvarado, sophomore, Psychology
Sarah Kahn-Shamout, junior, Biology
Mercedes Lovato, senior, Communications
Jaclyn Rymer, sophomore, Journalism
Men's Golf
Clint Oleson, junior, Computer Science
Women's Golf
Monique Huijsman, sophomore, Business
Men's Track and Field
Kevin Nious, senior, Cinema/TV Arts
Cody Pearce, junior, Kinesiology
Nick Saylor, senior, Sociology
Women's Track and Field
Jessica Beach, senior, Biology
Marissa Crook, sophomore, Kinesiology
Jocelyn Do, senior, Business
Sherrina Lofton, sophomore, Business
Lauren Michaels, sophomore, Biology
Krystal Quinn, senior, Sociology
Nanci Velarde, sophomore, Kinesiology
Sandra Velarde, sophomore, Spanish


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- Cub Scouting
- Cub Scouts is a year-round family- and home-centered program that develops ethical decision-making skills for boys in the first through fifth grade (or who are 7, 8, 9, and 10 years old). The Tiger Cub program for first graders and their adult partners emphasizes shared leadership, learning about the community, and family understanding. The Wolf and Bear Cub activities for second and third graders emphasize character development, citizenship training, and personal fitness. Webelos Scouts (fourth and fifth graders) participate in more advanced activities that begin to prepare them to become Boy Scouts.
- Boy Scouting
- Boy Scouts is a year-round program for boys 11 through 17 designed to achieve the aims of Scouting through a vigorous outdoor program and peer group leadership with the counsel of an adult Scoutmaster. (Boys also may become Boy Scouts if they have earned the Cub Scouting Arrow of Light Award and are at least 10 years old or have completed the fifth grade and are at least 10 years old.)
- Varsity Scouting
- Varsity Scouting is an active, exciting, year-round program for young men 14 through 17 built around five program fields of emphasis: advancement, high-adventure/sports, personal development, service, and special programs and events.
- Venturing
- Venturing is a year-round program for young men and women who are 14 (and have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years of age to provide positive experiences through exciting and meaningful youth-run activities that help them pursue their special interests, grow by teaching others, and develop leadership skills.
- Sea Scouting
- Sea Scouts is a specialized segment of the Venturing program, which was organized to address members' boating skills and promote knowledge of our maritime heritage. Swimming, lifesaving, first aid, Coast Guard Auxiliary Sailing and Seamanship, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation courses are taught with the ship by its officers.


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100 % Whole Grain Rye and Spelt YW SD with Scald and Seeds - The Altus Test
After 4 Fresh Loafians recent trip to KA flour where they took the rye class from master baker Jeffrey Hamelman and the recent spate of posts on altus, my apprentice couldn't help but devise a baking test to see if we could tell the difference, taste wise, when altus was added to a high percent rye and 100% whole grain bread.
Perfect bread holder for home made Pate Maison.
Our last bake was a test on 'old dough' that proved old dough makes a difference in taste that is noticeable and really quite profound. Normally we would put altus in high percent rye bread, if we have it, but have never baked the same recipe at the same time under the exact same conditions with and without altus to determine first hand if there really was a noticeable taste difference.
We would have made a 100% whole rye bread for this test but didn't have enough rye berries to grind up. We decided to use whole spelt berries for 50% of the mix and bake it like it was pumpernickel, that had real pumperdime berries cut in half - long, low and slow, to bring out the dark color. The instant coffee, cocoa, molasses, barley malt, honey and red malt also helped to turn this loaf dark.
The altus we used came from this bread - Multigrain SD/YW Brown Bread with Aromatic Seeds and Multi-Grain Scald which was also a multi-grain and YW/SD combo levain bread sort of similar to this one.
Today's lunch sandwich featuring the bread we used for the altus in todays bake that is still in the oven going on 7 hours.
You want to start the levain and scald the day before you bake. We had a mainly rye and spelt 100% whole grain starter, that had been developed to its peak for the last bake. It had been in the fridge for a coupe of days putting on some more sour. It was used to make the combo levain with 30 g of YW - a tiny amount in the scheme of things but YW really makes a huge difference to open the crumb in heavy whole grain breads.
All of the cracked and meal varieties of rye and spelt, half the total flour amounts used for the levain, along with some whole rye and spelt flour was used in the 1 build. The rye and spelt berries were soaked overnight for 12 hours and then simmered for 10 minutes and allowed to cool. The excess soaker / scald water was used to soften the altus so none of the flavor was lost.
It took about 12 hours for the levain to double on the counter. While that was happening, we autolysed the dough flour, salt, all the add-ns (less the altus and the scalded berries) using excess soaker water for the liquid for 4 hours. We like longer autolyse times for whole grain breads. We also see no difference if the salt is included to the autolyse or not… so we always put it in.
Once the autolyse and the levain came together we mixed the heavy 76 % hydration mass with a big metal spoon to try and get things acquainted before turning it out on the counter and doing 10 minutes of French slap and folds when the dough really came together nicely from a structure point of view but still very sticky.
The dough was rested for 15 minutes before the first of (2) S&F's were completed on 15 minute intervals. The scald was incorporated in the first one and the seeds in the 2nd one. Then the dough as divided in two with one dough 72 g more than the other since the smaller dough would have 72 g of soaked altus added to it.
Once the scald was added the dough felt wetter than a 76% hydration dough because of the excess scald water carried along with it – even after draining and running a paper towel through the berries.
15 minutes later, the altus went into half and a minute of slap and folds was used to distribute it properly. A few slap and folds were also performed with the other half to get it back into better shape gluten wise.
We then panned each into half of a PAM sprayed large metal loaf pan and covered the non altus side with the lighter colored oat bran and the altus side with the darker wheat bran to mimic their actual color since the altus had made that side darker.
We then covered in oiled plastic wrap and allowed it to proof on the counter for 30 minutes before refrigerating it for a 12 hour retard at 38 F. After removing the loaf from the fridge the next morning, we allowed it to warm up and proof on the counter for 6 ½ hours at 68 F until it nearly doubled to the rim of the pan.
We covered the top with a PAM sprayed double layer of heavy aluminum foil and placed it on the 375 F mini oven's broiler pan that was half full of water along with (2) of Sylvia's steaming cups that were heated to the boiling in the microwave. Even though the loaf tin was covered we still wanted as much steam as we could generate in the mini.
After 30 minutes we turned the mini oven down to 350 F for 30 minutes. We continued the baking in a falling oven with steam according to the baking schedule: Many will notice that this is similar to the baking schedule for Black Pumpernickel that Hamelman uses. This one just starts a little higher
Theise were 3"pieces of pumpernickel (altus left) that we got 12 slices out of the altus side than the 11 slices we got out of the non altus side. For lunch the altus wa more moist and produced few crumbs when slicing and the non altus side was more dry and produced more crumbs when slicing. It will be altus pumpernickel from now on.
375 F - 30 minutes
350 F - 30 minutes
325 F - 30 minutes
300 F - 1 hour
275 F - 2 hours
250 F - 2 hours
225 F - 1 ½ hours
200 F - 1 ½ hours
Turn oven off and leave the bread in the oven until morning or 8 hours. Uncover and de-pan the bread. Wrap the cooled bread in cotton cloth or linen for a minimum of 24 hours - 36 hours would be better.
A great lunch sandwich of Pesto Infused Roasted Pork Loin with; pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato and homemade Dijon mustard. The fruits and veggies, include Poblano peppers cantaloupe, carrots, a homemade kosher dill pickle and a Minneola from the back yard. A piece of this bread with a schmear of grilled salmon and cream cheese was included because it was go fantastic at breakfast.
Beautiful sunrise this morning!
Please note that the altus actually used for half of this loaf was 72 wet grams not the 144 listed in the formula below. The 90 g dry and 144 g wet altus would be used in a full, non test loaf of this bread.
Crumb shots will be 24 hours from now.
The great aroma of this bread didn't start permeating the house until the temperature had been reduced to 250 F. There were some unusual things and some expected from the crust points out. First the loaf shrank a little bit while baking instead of springing. I have never used a long low slow baking schedule for this kind of bread before and have never had one shrink - maybe this is normal?
The altus side came out of the pan much wetter than the non altus side and it was more caramelized. We have never had a bread come out of the pan this wet before but this too may be normal? When the aluminum foil lid came off, the aroma was incredibly pungent and pervasive. It sure smells like a very nice black pumpernickel and I can't wait to slice into it. But we will wait, even though my apprentice doesn't want to her being German and this loaf dear to her heart. The loaf is now resting in its cotton cocoon for 24 hours - making it 32 hours after it finished baking before we will slice it.
After baking and slicing the color difference went away, the non altus inside was more open with larger holes. the altus side was open too but the holes more even throughout. The crumb was glossy and moist. The YW really helped to open the crumb and make it lighter than just about any other bread of this type that I have made, seen or eaten. Great taste - less weight :-)
The long low and slow bake at the end produced a finished temperature of exactly 205 F . Amazing! This loaf was perfectly baked and the taste was just the best we have ever experienced. The difference between the altus and no altus was slight though not nearly as great as we would have expected. The altus side had a deeper and more complex flavor though and next time we have this bread for the altus. What a great loaf of pumpernickel!
100% Whole Grain Rye and Spelt Sourdough - The Altus Test
Build 1
SD Rye & Spelt Starter
Whole Rye, Meal & Cracked
Yeast Water
Whole Spelt, Meal & Cracked
Total Starter
Levain % of Total
Dough Flour
Dark Rye
Whole Spelt
Dough Flour
Dough Hydration
Total Flour
T. Dough Hydration
Whole Grain %
Hydration w/ Adds
Total Weight
Total Weight does not include added water from the scald and altus
Add - Ins
Barley Malt
Red Rye Malt
Rye and Spelt Altus
Coffee Cocoa
Spice Seeds
VW Gluten
Altus weighed 144 g after adding soaker water to soften
Spice Seeds - corriander, black and brown caraway, anise & fennel
Total Scald
Scald weighed 188 g when incorporated


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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Currently sitting in seventh place in the Ohio Valley Conference standings, the Tennessee Tech softball team will look to climb up the standing as it hosts a three-game series Friday against sixth-place Morehead State.
Morehead State owns an 18-27 record, including a 9-12 OVC record. The Eagles are currently on a six-game winning streak, five of which came in six innings or less. Kayla Brill leads MSU in home runs and runs batted in with eight and 36, respectively.
The Golden Eagles recently lost a pair of games at Jacksonville State and are looking to snap a five-game losing streak. The Tech offense is led by Callie Schmidt and Brittney Spalding, who have each driven in 22 runs.
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The Common Pauraque (Nyctidromus albicollis) is a most garrulous goatsucker found in the warmer portions of the Americas. From Texas south to Argentina, pauraques populate fields, scrub, and essentially anywhere they may recline unmolested ere they rise for their twilight supper. My experience assures me that the only bird in the genus Nyctidromus isn't all that difficult to find if you know its habits and habitat. Pronouncing the name of this nifty nightjar properly, on the other hand, seems to lay the most erudite avian enthusiasts low.
Pauraque is a peculiar name to be sure, but it derives from a Mexican transliteration of the bird's call. Volume 65 (1948) of the Auk explains "The correct name for the Pauraque."
The people called the bird "Parruaca" which, in accordance with Spanish rules of pronunciation generally, and local usage in particular, is pronounced, "Pahr-r-r-wah-kuh," the "r" being rolled rather strongly, the accented syllable "wah" cut rather short, and the final syllable "kuh," swallowed — that is, pronounced on an indrawn breath.
As the "pah" part of the first syllable is also pronounced rather shortly, or not voiced distinctly, the general effect when heard is of the trilled "r" and the accented "wah," followed by a clean cut "kuh." The result as absorbed by the ear is not unlike our word "squawk," though softened by the preceding and following sounds.
So according to this source, pauraque is pronounced pahr-WAH-kuh. Yet, I heard four or five different pronunciations of the word and probably uttered about three new variations myself. So let's alleviate some of the anxiety that comes when tackling a new name. How do you pronounce PAURAQUE?
Of course, you can try to avoid the ambiguity entirely by using the Mexican Spanish cuiejo or Belize kriol hooyu to identify this bird, but then you'd have to figure out how to pronounce them too…
Since the name is ultimately echoic, it should be pronounced PRRRREEEEeeeeerrrr.
I agree with Rick! But I voted for pow-ROCK-ay because I always pronounce it like a Spanish speaker with "pow" being closest to the way you would pronounce the dipthong "au" and "que" being pronounced "kay" or really more like "keh". I guess we need to find out who determined the spelling and blame them. To match the historical pronunciation and have a Mexican spelling, you would need to spell it the way they had it "Parruaca."
Sadly, I'm most unlikely to get the chance to exclaim, "Look! A pauraque!" so the exercise is academic for me. In any case, I'd probably opt for the more pronounceable, "Look! A Nyctidromus albicollis!"
Gringo that I am I have always thought it was pronounced paw-rake. Though, like pohanginapete, I have never acutally had reason to say pauraque out loud before.
If it's anything like my Pauraque experiences, the argument is largely academic when you're explaining to the third Border Patrol officer of the night just why you're slowly driving up and down backroads near the Mexican border…
Yeh, as Patrick said, I don't think the pronunciation of "Parruaca" has anything to do with the current English pronunciation of Pauraque. Apparently the transliteration was botched badly, so nothing in the current spelling hints at the older pronunciation. Attempting to maintain it would be absurd (though certainly not without precedent in the wretched but delightful English orthography).
pow-RAH-kay (and when speaking English I would simply use a retroflex approximant for the 'r' since apparently this is pseudo-Spanish anyway)
ANYway, this bird eluded me on my last trip to the Valley, but there's always next time. 🙂
I've always thought it was paw-rack – now I'm really confused…
Whatever the pronunciation, that's a wonderful piece of text there, Mike!
When I was touring the Rio Grande Valley, everybody there called it a "Puh-RACK."
What about PAW-ruh-cue (like barbecue)? I'm going to start using that and see if it catches on. 🙂
I had always pronounced it puh-rock-eh (rolling the r just a little bit and swallowing the eh), until I went to Texas and heard others calling is a pa-ROCk-ee (hard r and long E at the end – which never sounded correct to my ear). From that point, I just assumed that somebody who lived near the birds knew better then me, and changed the way that I pronounced it, even though it seemed wrong.
This has encouraged me to go back to my initial pronounciation.
(And maybe I'll through a few PAW-ruh-cues around to help Patrick in his new 'research project')
I've always used (well dreamed of using) Parkay, followed by "butter". (or did you get those ads down there?)
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At the basic level, a spiritual mentor is someone who helps you grow spiritually. As one further down the road in their spiritual journey, he or she helps you pursue Christlikeness. A spiritual mentor helps you to be attentive to the presence of Christ and then to respond in a life of abiding faith, hope and love. They will help you foster and nurture a deeper knowing of yourself and the triune God.
What a Mentor Isn't
In contrast to other areas of Christian soul care that deal with problems, behavior or mental health, spiritual mentoring focuses on Christian growth and the pursuit of Christlikeness. A relationship such as this doesn't just happen, but must be cultivated by prayer and intentionality.
How to Select a Spiritual Mentor
Start with Existing Relationships
Ideally, you would start with someone you already know and with whom you already have a spiritual friendship. Ask yourself, "Who has taken an interest in talking to you about your relationship with God? Who has encouraged you specifically in your walk with God?" If you have a few people in mind, narrow the list to those who are further along in their journey with Christ. Typically these persons will be older than you—but this is not always the case.
Look for Christlike Qualities
Of the people you have in mind, can you think of a time when each one has shown a genuine love for others, perhaps through sacrifice of time or other resources? In addition, you will be sharing your story and struggles with this individual so you want to make sure he or she is trustworthy by asking their peers if they would feel comfortable confiding in the individual.
Ask the Right Questions
When you are ready to approach the person about mentoring ask him or her to share how they have experienced God's grace. Ask them to share a lesson that God has taught them through their journey. As you listen, recognize that authenticity, vulnerability and a willingness to share out of weakness are foundational for spiritual growth in community.


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January 15, 2003: Twenty Ball State University students have won funding to produce cutting-edge media artifacts in a program named "Tell a Vision," part of the Lilly iCommunication grant, administered by the Virginia Ball Center.
Audio Interactive Experience:Junior Jeff Cooney and his team worked closely with the Muncie Children's Museum. Using digital music and video technology this team created an interactive children's museum exhibit through which children learned about music and experiment with sound. (L-R: Jeff Cooney (Team Leader), Marty Tormoehlen, Heather Rowe, Joe Kunkel and Stacy Haggard).
The Hemingway Project:
A team led by senior English major James McWilliams created a digital companion to A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway's memoir of his time in 1920s Paris. This literary companion piece not only annotated each chapter but also provided a virtual tour of Paris, including video, photography, text, and audio narration. (L-R: James McWilliams (Team Leader), Rob Moery, Alysha Oglesby and Chris Raleigh).
Mitchell Place Gallery Web: Students led by junior Mark Miller worked with Muncie's Mitchell Place art gallery to create a virtual gallery space. Whereas typical "online galleries" tend to make even great art look bland, the Mitchell Place team intended to explore ways to make viewing art on the Web interesting, suitable for the art, informative, and interactive. (L-R: Tony Kubek, Dr. Jay Zimmerman (Faculty Advisor), Chad Yoder and Mark Miller (Team Leader)).
Everything You Need on a CD:
This team was led by junior Michael Walthour and created a virtual tour of Ball State University (BSU). This tour, endorsed by BSU's Office of Admissions, allowed students to take a digital walk through campus, hear departmental representatives discuss opportunities at Ball State, explore local attractions, and generally learn a great deal about life and education at Ball State University. The tour is available not only in a CD-ROM version which can be sent to high school guidance counselors and potential students, but also in a PDA version, which provides a self-guided walking tour for campus visitors. ((Front Row L-R:) Jonathan Young, Stephanie Lynch, Michael Walthour (Team Leader), Jennifer Henson; (Back Row), Stephen Reding, Dumac McKay, Tony Piazza, Dr. John Dailey (Faculty Advisor), Scott Sylte).


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I have a GPS system on my phone that not only knows exactly how to get me anywhere I need to go, it also knows where I am at any given time even when I don't have the slightest idea. Her soothing British voice is always there to guide me when I'm lost and it gives me comfort. She never gets rattled and she never loses patience with me. With GPS where I once was lost, now I'm found.
When I pray to find the correct address I'm looking for, she always guides me to it though sometimes it's not by the shortest route. Sometimes in life you just have to travel by most use of freeways. I have never met my muse face to face but I always know she's with me. I often travel into unfamiliar territory and even when I begin to question her wisdom and understanding of the situation I have learned that if I just trust her and follow her lead no matter how unfamiliar and frightening the area may seem to me, in the end I always end up where I needed to go no worse for the wear.
The more adventures we have taken the more I have come to rely on her guidance. It is becoming a normal way for me to live and it's becoming second nature to simply trust her without asking her why she is taking me this direction. It is comforting to learn to lean not on my own understanding but in all my ways acknowledge her and she will direct my path. Sometimes when I'm driving long distances I'll gaze into the heavens and wonder where she is.
I also look around at all the other travelers going in many different directions than mine and yet she is able to assist all of us simultaneously. No amount of people asking her assistance is ever overwhelming or refused. There have been times when I have gone to areas I have been many times before but I have her guidance system engaged anyway. Once in a while she will direct me a different path than I am familiar with and used too even though I know the way!
I'll even ignore her guidance in these areas and choose my own route. She isn't offended but simply waits for me to make my move and then patiently readjusts her directions to try and compensate for the path I have chosen. She never gives up trying to lead me in the way I should go but because I am driving she doesn't stop me from my choices, she only makes do with what options I have left her with and carefully negotiates an altered plan based on where I have put myself.
Of course my way gets me where I wanted to go and her way would have done the same. Whose way was best, who knows? I do wonder though why I take her advice unheeded when I'm venturing into uncharted waters but always take the reigns back when I feel confident I know better this time. Of course my friends I realize I'm talking about a computer program and some satellite configurations. But why do I have this gnawing suspicion that there is a metaphor in here somewhere?
Around this time of year we always comment that another year has come and gone. But has it really? I mean we have arbitrarily created the calendar year based on the earth's rotation around the sun or something to that effect. But just because it does rotate consistently doesn't mean we had to choose that as our system of years.
Haley's comet comes around once every 75 yrs or so. What if we decided that every time Haley's came by it was a year? Think how much younger we all would suddenly be. The Bible say's that to the Creator one year is like a thousand and a thousand is one year. So you could at 30, for example, theoretically be turning 30 seconds old or 30,000 years old based on your measuring system.
Of course there was the tried and true hourglass that apparently took an hour to finish but only ran when you decided to turn it thus making a day much shorter if you chose. I think sundials were one of the first timekeepers but were pretty much only reliable in the Sahara. If you lived in Seattle and didn't want to be late for work back in the sundial days you were better off setting up a cot at your work station and get up when you heard any commotion.
God created the idea of time (since it is only an idea, being eternal there really is no 7:30 or whatever, but I digress) and gave us a way to measure it based on darkness and light.
He had to separate the two so we could tell them apart otherwise everyone would think they lived in Seattle as I already mentioned. We talk about time like it is alive. It is a good time to start a new resolution. It's about time I turned over a new leaf. There is no time like the present.
Actually all there is when it comes to time is the present. Each moment you exist is all you can rely on since none of us can control our existence and none but God decide when time is up.
The one thing you are expected to control is your attitude during the moments of existence. We are not supposed to grow as Christians to show God how holy we are getting. Instead we are to practice such an unusual lifestyle of gratefulness, love and compassion for others irrespective of our own condition that we drive fellow humans to desire a life like ours. Do people watch your life and say"I want what he has?"
This is why I imagine God says without faith it is impossible to please Him. Faith relies on what we believe God to be based on His Holy Book.
We live for substance we hope to grasp one day in a dimension both similar and dissimilar to our familiar 3rd dimension, we commit to evidence even when we don't see it using three dimensional eyes but a "sense" of faith that is tangible and allows us what would be considered an extra-sensory perception to "see".
This is the life of the believer that we all not only should strive for but are expected to. In time we'll get there, just stay clear of Seattle.
There was a time in my life when Christmas smelled like fir trees and hot cocoa. There was a time when getting a "Twister" game would have been a treat. There was a time when I could count on my grandparents giving all my cousins and me a "book" that contained lifesavers of all varieties packaged within its covers.
There was a time when I wanted a hot wheels set and a boomerang. There was a time when going to sleep Christmas Eve was nearly impossible, and yes, I listened for Santa on the roof. There was a time when I lived in California where we had no working chimney and yet the fact Santa was coming down it still seemed plausible.
There was a time when a brand new Christmas cartoon was going to air that night, something called " How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and I saw its first airing. (This was after the yearly ritual of watching " A Charlie Brown Christmas" had taken place.)
There was a time when I got a Slinky in my stocking and was overjoyed even though I broke it within the hour. There was a time when both my parents were alive on Christmas and me and my sister and my two little brothers celebrated as a family and thought it would always be that way.
There was a time when I got my first pellet gun for Christmas. There was a time when we sang Silent Night at our Christmas program at school. We also had a Christmas break. There was a time when getting presents was by far better than giving them.
There was a time when I went from hating clothes for Christmas to actually liking them. There was a time when some of my Christmas was spent at a girlfriend's house instead of at home. There was a time when I had my first Christmas tree with my wife and it was small and we decorated it and had eggnog.
There was a time when a Christmas card had a picture of me and my wife and a sonogram. There was a time when we put a Santa hat on a 6 month old and sent that card out. There was a time when we got Barney and Tele-Tubbie's videos for our kids for Christmas.
There was a time when my kids got there first bike for Christmas and we made cookies for Santa and he always took a bite and spilled a little milk. There was a time when I felt my kids would always want a picture with Santa.
There was a time that I thought my daughter would never be embarrassed to hold her dad's hand at the mall. There was a time when I thought my kids would always think I was smarter than they were.
There was a time when I realized my son doesn't need me as much as I needed him too. There was a time when I thought I would never grow old.
There was a time when I actually believed I had all the time in the world.
Merry Christmas my friends.
I came across a classic Christmas song the other day and after examining the words I have come to realize how easily humans accept ideas at face value without scrutinizing them for philosophical and/or cultural flaws. The song I'm referring to of course is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer".
Here are the lyrics with my copious notes:
"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer"…
Stop! First off, why bring up the red nose? If you have a red-nosed reindeer it is fairly obvious and social decorum would dictate you keep it to yourself to save the reindeer's embarrassment. We don't treat others that way normally. Who goes around introducing others like "Hey there's Jimmy the Pockmarked postman", or " Have you met Nancy the lazy-eyed court reporter"? No. In the past the only time we emphasized a physical flaw in others is when were trying to sell tickets to a sideshow. I'm pro sideshow mind you but I'm looking for an alligator skinned women or a snouted man, before plunking down good money. For a red nose?, ..Not so much.
"had a very shiny nose"..
Wait a minute. You just told me in the first line it was red, now it's shiny? Ball bearings are shiny; patent leather shoes as well, not necessarily a color. So which is it red or shiny?
"and if you ever saw it"..
Why would I? I don't need too since you already described it to me.
"you would even say it glows"…
GLOWS!? The moon glows, candles glow, how could you possibly confuse a glow for red or shiny? Why can't you get your story straight? Who are you protecting?
"All of the other reindeer, used to laugh and call him names"..
Why not, he's a reindeer with an indecipherable nose issue; something needs to be said.
"they never let poor Rudolph"..
Poor? How do you know? You have access to his tax returns, what, suddenly it's a class struggle; we have to play the poor card? Fear not Rudolph, Obama's in office, redistributed wealth is coming
"play in any reindeer games"
Does he care? What could a reindeer game consist of anyway? They have hooves for Pete's sake. Hooves not fingers. That rules out any board games that involve dice. (Can't grip em) no ball games. (Can't hold a bat, catch a football or dribble a basketball) or any charades since it would be impossible for him to indicate how many words or syllables. Sounds like he's not missing much!
"Then one foggy Christmas eve.."
huh, foggy where the North Pole? It's probably foggy a lot there but what are you saying the entire earth got foggy on the same night? That sounds like the apocalypse to me. What's next, locusts and boils?
"Santa came to say.."
finally Santa shows up. Where was he all the times Rudolph was being ridiculed and in pain? Can anyone believe in a Santa that seems to ignore us in our darkest hour?
"Rudolph with your nose so bright.."
Santa please! Keep up, here are your options the nose is either red, shiny or glowy. None of which fit the category of bright or someone would have said so long ago during the reindeer-mocking Rudolph sessions.
"won't you guide my sleigh tonight"?
Let me get this straight. Santa spent a year using magic elves to build, paint, box & wrap every possible gift imaginable. From Lego's to tennis bracelets, yachts to wii's. He is able to pack every gift for every human on earth in one sleigh and deliver it, via chimney, to every human on earth in one night, but somehow you were unable to fashion a couple headlights to your sleigh and needed to call on the freak?
"Then how the reindeer loved him.."
Oh yeah that's gonna happen, when they hated and mocked him his whole life and suddenly he's thrust into the spotlight to accomplish something these brats were incapable of, thus putting him in the category of Santa's favorite; Suddenly they're all going to let bygones be bygones and embrace him as misunderstood and they'll receive the revelation of their own arrogance and bullying and suddenly repent asking his forgiveness which he'll grant readily as he is an enlightened soul? Who wrote this story the Hallmark channel?
"as they shouted out with glee"..
Glee? Who uses the word glee? Yeah that's what the song was missing, an archaic word from a nineteenth century romance novel to keep the song exciting.
"Rudolph the red, (shiny, glowing, bright,) nosed reindeer, you'll go down in history".
Why not? There isn't a lot of competition for classic songs featuring reindeer. As a matter of fact it may be the only reindeer song ever penned. The fact that he was genetically mutated just gave the song the conflict it needed to give it legs.
By the way I just heard about a buffalo in Wyoming that was born with 2 heads, 6 legs and it lived. Sounds like the making of a new Christmas classic. Where's Mel Torme when you need him?


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Steve Yountz, the owner of Smiley's Lexington BBQ, continues to have a passion for barbecue cooking nearly four decades after he landed his first job.
Steve Yountz, the owner of Smiley's Lexington BBQ, continues to have a passion for barbecue cooking nearly four decades after he landed his first job at the former Southern BBQ in Lexington.
The 50-year-old Lexington native (who turns 51 Sunday) was recently named as one of the 2012 inductees for the N.C. Barbecue Society's Wall of Fame. He was one of four people — the only one from Lexington — to be inducted in this past year's class.
"I'm honored," Yountz said. "That's quite a recognition."
Yountz is the fourth person from Davidson County to be named to the Wall of Fame. The others were Kay K. Saintsing, one of the founders of the Barbecue Festival, and Wayne Monk of Lexington Barbecue, both of whom were inducted in the N.C. Barbecue Society's inaugural 2007 Wall of Fame, and Roger Lohr of Speedy Lohr's BBQ in Arcadia, who was a 2010 inductee.
The inductee must have made major contributions of time/talents and services that promoted North Carolina barbecue and contributed to the state's rich barbecue heritage to be included in the Wall of Fame, according to the N.C. Barbecue Society's website. Jim Early, president and chief executive officer of the N.C. Barbecue Society, said he nominated Yountz to the Wall of Fame because of his contributions to the society and his years of work in Lexington.
"Steve is a great guy," Early said.
The Wall of Fame can be viewed by visiting www.ncbbqsociety.com. Early said the N.C. Barbecue Society decided to do a Wall of Fame instead of a "bricks and mortar hall of fame" to be wise with money and take advantage of its website, which averages 100,000 views monthly.
Early explained Yountz has served as one of the instructors for the barbecue society's annual classes in which people from all over the country and from other countries attend to learn how to cook either eastern, western or Lexington barbecue. Early said Yountz serves as an instructor "pro bono." The N.C. Barbecue Society holds three major cooking schools in each part of the state each year.
Yountz's first job came when he was 13 years old when James "Junior" Coble, the owner of Southern BBQ, hired him to work curbside service. Southern BBQ is now Smiley's Lexington BBQ after Yountz purchased and renamed the restaurant on Winston Road in 2002. Yountz worked at Southern BBQ up until he was about 20 years old and worked at various other barbecue restaurants on a part-time basis before he bought his first restaurant.
"Lexington barbecue is something I grew up with all my life," he said. "I love it. I do not get tired of barbecue."
Yountz recalled the last class he taught in which he served as an instructor for between 75 and 100 people. One of his students was from New Zealand, and Yountz gave instructions on how to cook Lexington-style barbecue, as well as the dip and slaw that accompany it.
"Lexington barbecue is unique to Lexington," Yountz said. "It's a little different than this eastern versus western (barbecue styles) battle."
Serving as an instructor for the N.C. Barbecue Society is an honor, Yountz said.
"You can break it down so much that these are the basic ingredients without giving away your so-called secrets for your recipe," he said.
Yountz, according to the N.C. Barbecue Society's website, carries on the time-honored tradition of cooking real pit-cooked barbecue on the same pits when the restaurant opened in the 1950s. He cooks only pork shoulders, and cooks them lower and slower than most people do, the society reports on the website, which further states the meat is cooked about 10-12 hours.
Yountz said he is very passionate about his pit-cooked barbecue versus restaurants that cook it with either gas or electricity.
"I think there is a big difference in having that pit-cooked barbecue and just the way it's prepared and your end product," he said.
Yountz is married to wife Tena, the owner of the two Tiki Shak tanning salons on Talbert Boulevard and Cotton Grove Road. He has two grown children, Zack, 24, a lance corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps, and Morgan 22, a senior who is pursuing her bachelor's degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Four Royal Navy frigates will soon be put up for sale following decommissioning. They could be used for "non-military purposes which include sinking for use as an artificial reef, or for recycling," the Ministry of Defence said.
Algae and sponges can grow on the surfaces of sunken wrecks creating small ecosystems and habitats for fish such as triggerfish and eels. The Royal Navy's HMS Scylla was sunk in 2004 to create Europe's first artificial reef.
The four Royal Navy frigates - HMS Cumberland, HMS Cornwall, HMS Chatham and HMS Campbeltown - were all axed as part of the Strategic Defence and Security Review in 2010.
The 5,300-tonne ships have since been moored in 'Rotten Row' at Portsmouth Harbour where unused military ships are docked. Prospective buyers will be invited to view the over 25-year-old Type 22 frigates in the next two months.
An MoD spokesman said: "It will be for organisations bidding to submit proposals on how they plan to use the ships. However, the MoD's advertisement does state that bids will be accepted to use the ships in a non-military capacity, sinking for use as an artificial reef, or for recycling."
Conservative MP for Portsmouth North, Penny Mordaunt, backed the sale saying: "People want to get best value for the defence budget. We can get quite sentimental about our ships and we like to think they will go on to do something that befits their long service."
The MoD wants at least one ship to be recycled by a British company in order to test the UK's ability to recycle large warships.
HMS Cornwall was the last of the four warships to be decommissioned, retiring in June 2011 after helping to capture 17 Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
HMS Cumberland helped evacuate British citizens from Benghazi during the 2011 Libyan civil war. HMS Chatham, whose motto is 'Up and at 'em', was the first British warship to open fire on Iraqi targets in 2003.


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Which is pretty much how it was with Les Deux Salons. Except that before going myself, I recommended it to another friend who was after ideas for a new weekend nosh place. 'Go to Les Deux Salons,' I said, confidently. 'Everybody's talking about it, and it's all good.'
And so I sat back, happy that I'd done my good deed for the day. And then. And then I started to worry. I scolded myself for being lazy. I should have gone to LDS first before mentioning it to others. Or should I? Didn't other positive feedback count? Could I really trust those who had gone before me? What if it wasn't up to much after all? What if, what if?
Aaargh. Cue much anguished hand-wringing and soul searching.
But lo. The appointed day came around. And I received a message: "It was fab. So grateful for recc. You must go". Shortly followed by: "Superb lunch at Les Deux Salons. Quince, wet walnut, dolcelatte salad, saddle of rabbit + pumpkin gnocchi, Paris Brest."
THANK. MY. STARS. And – where's my phone?
Skip forward a few days, and I finally arrived at LDS to see/hear/smell/taste for myself.
I must admit, I was already favourably disposed – not just because of the impressive reviews I'd been hearing, but also because of the menu, handily displayed on LDS's website. There is NOTHING on there that I didn't want to eat, or dip my head into, as Gregg Wallace would say.
First impressions? Niiiiice. Smart, in a chilled kind of way. Slick, but not creepy with it. Definitely salon-like. Resembles a centre ville bistro/restaurant in a respectable French town. Buzzy and busy. Lots of people already there, munching away, looking and sounding happy. Plenty of staff, whizzing around quietly and efficiently. Shiny new well-stocked bar, already doing plenty of trade.
Not two moments after entering and disrobing, The Other Diner and I were – in true brisk French fashion – swiftly seated at our linen-covered table and brought menus, a generous basket of fresh bread, butter, and water.
Unremarkable, you might think, except that a little mention at this point should go to the set menu...
... which, at 3 lip-smacking courses for a shade under £16 has – surely – to be most outrageously bargainous lunch in London right now. Prove me wrong.
But my tastebuds had already been well and truly tickled by the à la carte menu, so, as tempting as the set menu seemed, it was cast aside for another visit. THIS time, I was after the full whackeroo.
Between us, The Other Diner and I ordered the ravioli of rosé veal, fresh goat's curd, cavolo nero and the lamb sweetbreads 'Bouchée à la reine' to start, and then, to follow, the saddle of rabbit, pumpkin gnocchi and hazelnuts, and the slow-cooked ox cheeks and parsnip purée.
While all that lot was being cooked, we dribbled expectantly and occasionally slurped a jolly good, crisp, Grüner Veltliner. It was all rather, well, cosseting.
Soon enough, the feast appeared before us, carried on huge trays by two serving staff – neatly attired in shirts, ties, and long aprons, French-stylee – who then waited momentarily for a senior waiter to arrive (differentiated by their shirts of random colour, no ties, and no aprons, since you ask*) and to actually present us with our food. Yes, it's the little details, and I have no shame in admitting that I like 'em.
So, anyway – the food. First up, the ravioli:
I didn't get much of a look-in, but I was assured that the ravioli were parcels of savoury loveliness (my one bite did at least confirm as much). You'd think that combining rosé veal, fresh goat's curd, and cavolo nero so as to achieve a finished mixture that reveals each flavour and yet also comes together to produce something tastier even than the sum of its parts would be a tad tricky. Under Anthony Demetre's stewardship (he of Arbutus and Wild Honey), apparently not.
My jumped-up vol au vent, meanwhile, was no less arresting. In a cardiac kind of way.
Boy, it was good. Mushroomy, buttery, creamy deliciousness with treaty little sweetbreads to match. The pastry? Fab, faultess, and only succumbing to sogginess once it had done at least three circuits of my plate to soak up stray sauce.
Blimey. So good so far and still 2 more courses to go? I let out a notch on my belt, and sat back comfortably into my obligingly squidgy seat.
Up next, our mains – the ox cheeks and the rabbit. Well, I guess if you're the critical type, you might seize upon the fact that slow-cooked ox/cow/pig cheeks are the lamb shanks of a few years ago. A bit of a restaurant cliché. Still, there's a reason for that. They're bloody tasty and a joy to eat. I'm sure I will get tired of eating them one day, but that day isn't coming around any time soon. I can vouch for this particular bulgesome beauty, which was every bit as good as it looks:
My saddle of rabbit wasn't far behind, if at all, in the pleasure-giving stakes. Lovely tender, positively succulent rabbit, kept perfectly moist, with sweet pumpkin gnocchi and hazelnuts. Need I really say more? I couldn't, in any case, because my mouth was stuffed full with it.
A minor niggle was that my plate featured the same mushrooms and carrots that I'd had with my bouchée, but then that's hardly the restaurant's fault unless they were serving them up with every main dish, which they weren't. Still, it was perhaps fortunate that we'd ordered sides of braised endive and winter greens. I can't describe the endive any better than how it was described to me by the friend I'd 'sent' there a few days previously: "the braised endive with orange. Deelish! Almost like a pudding. You can really taste the Very Best French butter. Yum." So there you are.
By this stage, my only concern was whether LDS had a dormitory upstairs in which happily sated customers could spend a half hour or so for a post-lunch nap.
Fond daydreams of fresh bedlinen and plumped pillows were, however, chirpily interrupted by the effervescent co-owner, Will Smith. "Are we desserting?" he trilled at us, with an encouraging grin. Hah! The answer is yes, and thrice, YES, I do believe we are. So – again acting on hot tip-offs – we opted for the Paris Brest and the floating island.
And here, dear reader, I confess that pure greed overcame me. I managed a photo of the Paris Brest, but in my haste to get my gnashers around the floating island, the intricate technicalities of getting a point-and-shoot to focus were beyond me. It's not as though the rest of my pics are particularly brilliant, I know, but this one was so shamefully bad that I just can't bring myself to reproduce it here. Instead, I will return to LDS, order it again, and try once more. The things I do.
In the meantime, here's the Paris Brest:
Yes, it was as big as it looked. Audley Harrison fist-sized. Halfway through, The Other Diner declared an inability to manage it all. Barely two minutes later, it had disappeared entirely. Uh-huh. Draw your own conclusion.
My floating island, a rather more refined affair, arrived in a charming silver bowl, a fat cylinder of Persil-white meringue puff decorated with Barbie-pink pralines sitting atop thickly vanilla-spotted custard. It looked pretty. It ate pretty. Actually, it was rather better than that.
I suppose I'd anticipated a confection somewhat on the sweet and sickly side. No bad thing in my book, and that's why I ordered it. But it wasn't. There was indeed a good sugary hit on first bite, but nothing overpowering. It was moreish, not cloying, in its sweetness. The pink pralines added crunchy interest and welcome nuttiness. And the custard was a marvel. I simply don't understand how you can make custard so that it's comforting and refreshing – yes, refreshing – at the same time. But then that's why Anthony Demetre holds Michelin stars and I'm a paying punter. Sir, I salute you.
Good coffee? Check. Oh, and chocolate truffles? Don't mind if I do.
On this form, Les Deux Salons is onto a winner. I really, really hope they keep up the standard, because I really, really want to be able to keep going back there. It's a fun place to be but, more importantly, the food was flippin' fabulous. I personally can't wait to go back.**
* There may also have been other, more subtle distinctions of seniority based on choice of belt and/or shininess of pointy-toed shoes. If so, they eluded me.
**(Or to be able to recommend it to others with an entirely clear conscience...)


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April 20, 2014
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By Kara Hallam
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Coppell High School student *Amanda reaches for a pair of scissors to cut her fake ID in half and throws it away in a moment of inspiration. For *Amanda, this was the end of her fake ID phase, but for many Coppell High School students to come this is just the beginning of their journey through the underground world of fake IDs.
In Texas, the legal drinking age is 21. However, fake IDs offer a way for some CHS students to get around this policy.
"This all boils down to something deeper; why kids are buying alcohol. They are getting drunk as some sort of sport to lose themselves in a self destructive way," CHS junior Nick Shelton said.
News Dominate 's Educators Paid Darien In Top Darien 2016 Shelton knows students who got their fake IDs from a novelty ID shop 30 minutes away. Coincidentally, this novelty ID shop is the exact same place students got their fake IDs from years ago according to *Katherine.
"I got mine from [a novelty ID shop] with friends. They were two for $85 so it was basically a really good deal since usually only one is that much," *Katherine said.
*Katherine is an alumni of CHS who graduated within the past 10 years.
At this shop a customer would walk in and find themselves in a large almost empty room except for two tables and a shack-like box. On the tables are sheets to fill out that ask what information a customer wants put on the card.
The customer walks up to the shack-like box with thick glass windows and slips the information sheet through a small slot to the employee who communicates with the customer through a microphone and speaker. Next, the customer hands the employee money through the slot and the card is printed with the information on the sheet given.
"I was at an overnight school competition and my teammates and I wanted alcohol because everyone else was drinking. I had the ID so we went across these railroad tracks from our hotel to a gas station and I bought beer. The cameras in the gas stations are there to make sure employees check IDs so whether it was fake or not really did not matter to employees," *Katherine said.
Students today use their IDs at gas stations and liquor stores on the outskirts of towns like Lewisville, Dallas and Grapevine. The novelty IDs are said to be magnetically encoded and able to pass the scanners at bars but there is no guarantee which ones they work on and which ones they do not.
"I had heard stories from my friends and they knew which places to go to so you would not get caught. I figured if someone did catch on I could just run away or awkwardly leave," *Amanda said.
*Amanda and her friends will wear college T-shirts to pass themselves off as college students.
"These IDs look real. We cannot always stop the crime but we can try to prevent it by educating students on things like underage drinking and fake IDs," Student Resource Officer Rachel Freeman said.
These IDs violate the Fictitious License or Certificate law in which a person under 21 possesses an ID which states they are 21 and does not contain the words "NOT A GOVERNMENT DOCUMENT" on both the front and back of the card.However, in less than 15 minutes this disclaimer can be removed with nail polish remover and has been able to be passed off as a real ID to buy alcohol with.
"The disclaimer protects the business, but it does not protect the customer," Freeman said.
Some bars and liquor stores have tried to get a hold on the situation. In fact, *Katherine's ID was taken up by a gas station.
"When you work in the bar business long enough you learn that IDs have a certain feel and you can tell when it doesn't feel right," Mucky Duck bartender Shaun Kelley said.
Kelley looked at the same ID that Freeman did and easily found the differences between this ID and a real one. The ID would not pass because it claims to be issued a year ago although it looks new and is not worn. The photo is not clear on it and it is thicker than real IDs are.
Those caught using a fake ID at the Mucky Duck get the card back but are removed from the premises. By state law, they cannot confiscate the ID because only law enforcement is entitled to do so.
The students who have been able to buy alcohol with fake IDs have either easily fooled naive cashiers or the cashiers have compromised integrity just to make a sale or not cause any trouble.
However, there still are many liquor sellers who are able to catch those using fake IDs. Not only was *Katherine's ID confiscated by a gas station when she tried to buy liquor there but her parents also found out about it too.
"When *Katherine was in high school we were very naive. There were a lot of things we did not find out about until years after high school and they all just came out one by one. I was disappointed in *Katherine but she is not a bad person for these mistakes," *Katherine's mother said.
The use of fake IDs cannot be completely prevented and students will continue to buy alcohol with them. *Amanda, offers some hope though, by putting a stop to her fake ID use on her own when she saw the harms it was doing to herself.
"At first it was just for fun with friends, just messing around, but once i got to high school it became a means of escape and a 'good time', or in other words I could just get drunk and forget everything," *Amanda said.
*Amanda went to several parties with students from other high schools. Usually they provided the alcohol but once she got a homemade ID from a teen she met at a party, she started buying alcohol on her own.
"For a long time you could say I was stuck, stuck in the cycle of alcohol. I just wanted to be happy, so I drank, but it made it worse and so I would drink more, just trying to get by and it just kept going and going, Drinking is much more normalized so there is not necessarily peer pressure to drink it is just a normal thing to do," *Amanda said.
Underage drinkers must keep in mind the use of fake IDs not only risks being criminally prosecuted but it also can risk one's health.
"Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant, it alters neurotransmitters in the brain. It can cause grogginess, euphoria and forgetfulness," Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at University of Texas Southwestern Jessica Sharry Williams said.
Drinking for emotional reasons like *Amanda can lead to alcoholism faster than drinking for fun can. Like Freeman, Williams recommends education as the best method of prevention for underage drinking.
*Amanda was able to prevent these health risks by throwing away her fake ID and not going to parties with alcohol. Now she is happier and healthier, but most importantly once she realized the possible consequences she ended her drinking phase by choice before she got caught unlike *Katherine and one of Shelton's friends.
"When you stop drinking you will find your real friends. They are not going to be the ones trying to get you drunk because that drunk person is a fake version of you just as fake as the person on your ID. You create that you through alcohol because you think it is a happier you, but it is not really you. The real you is the one your real friends want," *Amanda said.
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'high quality recording'
'excellent high-end camcorder'
'It excels in low-light environments and it's also ideal for macro shooting.'
Excellent motion and sharpness in 2D
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'Input/output terminals.'
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'huge zoom and superb image stabilisation'
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Most CEOs don't have the time to personally interview every person who joins their company. But they absolutely set the priorities and culture that factor into every single hiring decision, and are intensely involved with top level hires.
Those are some of the most important decisions they can make, so company leaders tend to have strong opinions about the kind of people they want at their company.
My jaw hit the floor. I'd hired thousands of people up to that point in my career, but no one had ever said anything like that. I said, 'you're hired.'
Following the revelation that Wall Street's top banks are falling over themselves to hire an unheralded undergraduate who wrote , here are 15 of the best tips that top executives have shared over the years on what impresses them.
Richard Branson - founder and chairman, The Virgin Group
"The number one thing that matters, especially if you're going to be manager at Virgin, is how good you are with people. If you're good with people and you really, genuinely care about people then I'm sure we could find a job for you at Virgin."
From a 2005 American Express event, via
John Chambers - chairman and CEO, Cisco
"All of us have had mistakes and failures. And it's surprising how many people say, 'Well, I can't think of one.' That immediately loses credibility. It's the ability to be very candid on what mistakes they've made, and then the question is, what would you do differently this time?"
From a 2009 interview with
Jeff Bezos - founder and CEO, Amazon
"Some companies, if you wanted to put it into a single word, they have a conqueror mentality, and we have an explorer mentality. And the people who like our mentality of exploration and pioneering, they tend to stay here, and have fun here, and that's self-reinforcing."
From a 2013 interview with the
Ursula Burns - CEO, Xerox
"You have to have a very strong opinion with some facts and data to stand it up, you have to prove that you are right more times than you are wrong, and then you better walk into the room with something to say because otherwise you don't really add a whole lot of value to the group."
From a 2011 interview with
Mickey Drexler - CEO, J. Crew
"The person is a resume, not what's on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in college should be dismissed. Titles don't matter. GPAs don't matter, nor does what school you go to. What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence."
From the
Kenneth Chenault - chairman and CEO, American Express
"At the end the day because I believe so strongly in leadership, what I look for first, what I try to assess is integrity. For me integrity is the consistency of words and actions. Part of the way that you do that is to ask people questions on some of the most difficult issues that you confront. 'Take me through where you felt you had to compromise your values.'"
From a 2009 interview with the
Lloyd Blankfein - chairman and CEO, Goldman Sachs
"I look for two things that may sound a bit inconsistent, but they're reconcilable. I look for people who are willing and able to get very deeply involved in something. And at the same time I like people with broad interests, so that they're well-rounded and interesting people, and are interested in a lot of different things."
From a 2009 interview with
Howard Schultz - chairman and CEO, Starbucks
"We want people to join Starbucks who have like-minded values. We need happy people — we're a people company that serves coffee, not the other way around."
From a 2011 interview with Career Builder
Mark Pincus - co-founder and CEO, Zynga
"I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they're humble."
From a 2010 interview with
Alan Mullally - president and CEO, Ford
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From a 2009 interview with
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Sheryl Sandberg - COO, Facebook
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At a 2011 McKinsey conference,
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From a 2010 interview with
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I really like this book. My favorite part was when Bogey taught Birdie to ride a bike and play the guitar. That seems like a normal thing between friends but remember, Bogey is blind and she needed her blind friend to help her. My favorite person in the story is Bogey because he is blind but he can do more than you might think. This book taught me that people should not limit themselves by what they can do. There may be more things that they can do that they just are to afraid to try.
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As part of the background research for our expedition to the Norwegian Fjords and prior to joining the research cruise, Mary and I paid a visit to the University Museum of Bergen. The aim was to investigate bryozoan specimens collected from deep water around the coastline of Norway during the recent MAREANO project surveys.
The Bergen museum was actually founded in 1825 - they moved to the current building in 1866, and it is divided into two departments. These encompass Natural History Collections and the Cultural History Collections. There are also public events and exhibitions. The museum is situated within the grounds of a former Botanical gardens.
Renovations underway at the University Museum of Bergen.
The building is currently being renovated, so in order to view the holdings of the bryozoan material, we were hosted by curator Jon Anders Kongsrud, and taken to University of Bergen Marine Biological Station by the waterfront at Espeland. The lab is situated in a lovely bay, and it was great weather with sunshine and blue skies, paradise for a marine bryozoologist .
Enjoying the sunshine at Espeland Marine Biological Station.
We spent an industrious morning at the microscopes, viewing the MAREANO material collected in 2009. Among the samples were specimens collected from deep water stations around 2,000m, and we were able to identify some interesting species.
Identification under way in the lab at Espeland.
Samples from the MAREANO collection.
A species of Bicellarina from the MAREANO collection.
This was an excellent opportunity to meet some of the staff and to enjoy the Norwegian hospitality. After lunch we were introduced to Emeritus Professor Brattegard, who has been compiling a checklist of the Norwegian bryozoan fauna, which he shared with us. His long experience in studying the distribution patterns of Norwegian marine life meant that he could also suggest some interesting locations for us to go and survey.
Following the visit, the last task of preparation for the day was to transport the consignment of sampling buckets from the marine station to the hotel in Bergen.
Mary manouvreing our bryozoan sampling buckets.
Tomorrow we will be joining the diving vessel MV Halton at the Bryggen waterfront in Bergen, ready to load on board all the equipment and supplies needed for the survey. We will need a large taxi to transport all our dive gear and equipment from the hotel!


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The redesigned 2013 Ford Fusion engine lineup is not as powerful as the old car's, but better fuel economy and a slick new look mean it's a better car overall.
There's been a quiet revolution within Ford in recent years. The reinvented 2013 Fusion is a perfect example. Sharing most of its parts with the highly regarded European Ford Mondeo, the new Fusion is an all-out assault on the midsize sedan segment. The previous Ford Fusion was certainly a decent car, but the 2013 Fusion is a remarkable midsize sedan. It's Ford's best attempt at taking down Camry and Accord, and we won't be surprised if it does exactly that.
The new Fusion is more fuel efficient. Starting with the standard engine -- a 170-horsepower 2.5-liter 4-cylinder engine mated to a 6-speed automatic transmission -- fuel economy ratings are 22 miles per gallon in the city and 34 mpg on the highway for a combined 26 mpg rating that is identical to the old Fusion when equipped with an automatic transmission.
An all-new 1.6-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine, which packs 178 hp and 184 lb-ft of torque, is optional on the SE. Yes, that's barely more thrust than the base engine, but the 1.6 is considerably lighter, so the Fusion is quicker this way. It's also more refined: Turbo lag was imperceptible during our test, and the 1.6 speaks softly, unlike the gruff 2.5.
A 6-speed manual is available with the 1.6 and it returns the best fuel economy of any non-hyrbid Fusion: 25 mpg city/37 mpg hwy. The 6-speed automatic drops to 23 mpg city/36 mpg hwy, though Ford says that the optional auto stop/start system (exclusive to the 1.6 automatic) adds one mpg on each side. A word on that stop/start option: We like that it saves fuel, but there's a palpable shudder every time it does its thing, so we're glad Ford includes a prominently placed off button on the center console.
The Fusion Titanium comes with its own engine, a 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder rated at 240 hp and 270 lb-ft of torque. That might seem like a huge leap forward from the 1.6, but the Titanium packs some extra pounds. The difference is more like going from mild salsa to medium. It's especially subtle in the all-wheel-drive (AWD) Titanium (the only Fusion offered with AWD), which is the heaviest model of all at nearly 3,700 pounds. A 6-speed automatic with shift paddles is the only transmission here, and fuel economy estimates range from 22 mpg city/34 mpg hwy with front-wheel drive to 22 mpg city/31 mpg hwy with AWD.
But the new Fusion isn't just about performance. It's also a really slick looking car. From every angle, the Fusion looks great. The bold grille, the sleek roofline and high mounted, thin taillights all make the Fusion stand out in a crowd. However, some editors think outward visibility is compromised by the low roof.
The interior is also all-new and thoroughly modern. The dash, center console and gauges all have a clean, uncluttered look that makes the Fusion seem like a more expensive car than it really is.
The 2013 Ford Fusion is offered in four trim levels: S, SE, SE Hybrid and Titanium. Base price for the S is just over $21,000 while a top-of-the-line, front-wheel-drive Titanium version is just over $30,000.


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AMPHORA was presented at The 18th European Congress of Psychiatry of The European Psychiatric Association, 27 February to 2 March 2010, in Munich.
The scientific program included plenary lectures, symposia, workshops, a three-day program for young psychiatrists and CME courses.
The poster "Creation of the Alcohol Public Health Research Alliance (AMPHORA)" was selected for presentation. Available here.


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LAS VEGAS (AP) Freshman Anthony Bennett scored 22 points and No. 18 UNLV beat Iowa State 82-70 on Saturday night in the consolation game of the Global Sports Classic.
UNLV (3-1) began to pull away late in the second half. After Will Clyburn's tip-in at 7:24 cut Iowa State's deficit to 57-54, the Rebels closed the game with a 25-16 run.
Anthony Marshall added 16 points for the Rebels, and Mike Moser had 15 points and 12 rebounds.
The Runnin' Rebels used a pair of runs to seize momentum midway through the first half, but Iowa State (4-2) managed to stay close.
Clyburn had 21 points and 15 rebounds for the Cyclones. Tyrus McGee added 12 points while Melvin Eljm scored 10.


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American Crafts announced today that Elizabeth Kartchner is bringing her "Dear Lizzy" signature to the company to create products for them.
Kartchner won the 2007 Creating Keepsakes Scrapbooker of the Year contest, and writes a column for the magazine called "Dear Lizzy". She is also the author of the book 52 More Scrapbooking Challenges.
The line will be debuted at CHA-Winter 2010 in Anaheim in the American Crafts booth (#1750). Kartchner describes it on her blog as a spring-themed collection with fabric paper and lots of glitter. American Crafts describes the line on their blog as "an outdoor tea party, inspired by nature and childhood play – you'll notice designs of darling flowers, trees and bicycles throughout."