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If you are accessing this site, it is likely that you are an AP US history student or teacher. Welcome!
I retired in 2014 after teaching APUSH for 14 years. I have maintained this site for several years now, and I am happy to keep this site available for APUSH students and teachers. I myself will now be attending graduate school, but I hope to continue to help those of you taking on the challenge of mastering this curriculum.
Here's how to best utilize this site now that I am no longer actively teaching….
1. How to find posts on documents mentioned or on questions you may have:
If you look to the right, you will see several blocks to aid navigation of this site. Probably the one that allows you to control your access to what you need is the one entitled "Categories." At PHS, we used The American Pageant, 14th edition, as our textbook. But you can still use this site even if you use a different text. Each post– and there are about 1,000 posts on this site– has several tags or categories assigned to it. For instance, if you want information about Christopher Columbus, you could look under "Exploration," or "Native Americans," as well as "Chapter 1." You can also use the "Search this Blog" feature at the top right of the main page. Remember to use good searching skills.
2. How can I find some terms that might show up on tests, and/or build up a glossary of specific terms?
If you look along the top of the main page, you will see a list of terms for each chapter in the American Pageant, divided by "Semester 1" and "Semester 2." These were terms I used before the American Pageant started boldfacing some important terms. Even after they started that, I noticed that sometimes they omitted some terms I thought useful. So there are two pages with these kinds of terms on them.
3. I was absent during a class. How can I get a audio or visual update?
If you look at the category entitled "Audiovisual and video," it often has videos like "Crash Course" and other resources that you can use for both reinforcement or to recover if you missed class, or for review before tests. They are also cross-posted under the applicable categories.
4. I need help with study skills. Help!
—My handy-dandy tips of how to study and how to prepare for and take multiple choise tests can be found here: Part A: Preparing; Part B: Test-Taking Strategies; Part C: Tricks of the Test-Writing Demons. You can also download the whole thing, and you are welcome to use it as a teacher, but please attribute your source if you do.
—There are also several categories to help: "AP Review," "MC practice," "Study Skills," and "Test Preparation," among others.
—There are also several links to other resources under the "Blogroll" block on the right below the Categories block.
5. I just don't understand something. Help!
—Once again, try the categories or the search bar at the top right.
—Then try the "Links for more information page" which is located via a tab at the top of the main page. There are links for nearly every chapter in the American Pageant, although you can certainly still use these with any book.
—Then, you can try the Blogroll to the right under the "Categories" block.
—If your textbook has a website, use it!
—The College Board has all kinds of helpful info on their site. Go there!
—Form a study group with your friends! Create a Quizlet site, or something similar.
—Ask your teacher for help! Arrange a time to get help AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
—If all else fails, get some test prep materials like "5 Steps to a 5," etc.
—Seriously– READ the textbook with an open notebook next to you to write down questions you have, make sure you are concentrating on what you are doing and not distracting yourself. Make sure you write down questions, and then ASK about them in class or in study group! Use your computer to look up information rather than just give up if you can't find it in the book or in your notes. Don't put mental blockers into your head like "I'm not good at tests," or "I don't like reading." You can change both of those things!
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The original British version of "The Office," starring Ricky Gervais, lasted all of 12 half-hour episodes, with an hour-long special that provided a coda to the series.
The show ranks among the best seven hours of comedy aired anywhere, and was time enough to ingrain Gervais' grating and clueless office manager David Brent into the pantheon of great TV characters.
Now Steve Carell, who plays Brent's American counterpart, Michael Scott, in the U.S. version of the program on NBC, reportedly is mulling leaving when his contract is up after next season, the show's seventh.
"I think that will probably be my last year," Carell told BBC radio.
There's a certain amount of sadness prompted by news that one of TV's most consistently smart and funny shows – or at least one of the medium's enduring characters – could be winding down a successful run by this time next year.
But unlike bumbling Michael Scott, who turns mismanagement of Dunder Mifflin into a comedy of errors, Carell would be making an intelligent decision to pursue a burgeoning movie career while the show is still strong.
It's a tribute to Carell – and some great writers – that Michael Scott has proven durable for more than 100 episodes. Carell has imbued his often dense and sometimes infuriating character with a smidgen of decency and likeability that keeps us watching. When we cringe at Scott's latest buffoonery, we feel at least a tad of sympathy for him as we wince along with his victim.
Case in point: the recent episode in which he morphs into the obnoxious, beret-wearing "Date Michael" after a friend of Jim and Pam's takes a liking to his usual, goofy unguarded self. He blows a chance at love by humiliating the woman and himself, in a segment that was difficult to watch and even harder to forget.
Scott's on-the-spot transformation from amiable dope to crude jerk came during a season in which the show itself is in transition.
Jim and Pam's wedding, a potential shark-jumping moment, has given way to a baby and a mixed bag of domestic jokes and plots. Ellie Kemper's flaky receptionist Erin is showing hints of deep-seeded neurosis, taking her beyond the quirky gal who won tightly wound salesman Andy Bernard's heart. Kathy Bates provided a hurricane blast of fresh air as the blustery new owner of the paper firm – a reflection of workplaces all over the country buffeted by corporate instability.
But amid all the changes at "The Office," the (crazy) glue of the show remains Carell's Scott.
There could be a temptation to keep the program going without Carell, but it wouldn't be "The Office" without him. There could be spinoffs ("Welcome to Schrute Farm," perhaps?). But it's worth noting that for every "Rhoda" and "Lou Grant," there are far more failures, like "Joey" and "After MASH."
Speaking of "Rhoda" and "Lou Grant," let's revisit the ending of the greatest office sitcom of them all: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Moore called it a day after the seventh season, bowing out while the show was creatively vibrant. And when the brilliant ensemble cast walked out of the doors of the WJM-TV newsroom for the last time, they left together – literally, in a shuffling group hug.
Whether or not Michael Scott leaves Dunder Mifflin by himself, his exit would signal it's likely time to close the doors of "The Office" for good.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.

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Deploying a new generation of algorithms, retailers are changing the price of products from toilet paper to bicycles on an hour-by-hour and sometimes minute-by-minute basis.


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The Third Annual Twelve Days of Giving with Lila Loa and Sweet Sugarbelle, Day Twelve
It's day twelvth of the Third Annual Twelve Days of Giving with Lila Loa and Sweet Sugarbelle, and I have to say, this year the days just flew by!
To express our gratitude, on this twelfth and final day, we wanted to offer up a prize that is very very near and dear to our hearts.
So, without further ado, here's what we've got!
One lucky winner will receive, Lila Loa's awesome book, The Cookie Companion, a set of her fantastic color cards, and the biggie…the very first set of her new COOKIE CUTTERS!
Yes, I said cookie cutters! Get excited y'all, because I don't even own them yet!
I hope after all that you're still with me, because there's even more! In addition to the complete Lila Loa cookie decorating collection, you will also get every single cookie cutter in the Sweet Sugarbelle line.
This includes my Shape Shifter and Holiday Wreath Platter set, ALL of the exclusive HSN Autoship cutters, the nested rose, oval, and rectangle sets, and all fourteen double cookie cutter sets.
You will also receive my storage tin, bottle spatula, and Sweet Sugarbelle food pick.
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Party Panache, Strawberries & Cream Bushwacker
We enjoyed a taste of summer on the coast last weekend, Saturday was warm and sunny and was spent boating and swimming
HHjr was head chef all weekend,
which gave me time to play with flowers
and paint with CC
"Now that I'm 6 Gigi, I'm old enough to wear lipstick!"
she announced
{we're going to have to work on application 😂}
"Your lipstick matches the tulips!" I told her…
We capped off our Spring Break fun with a dangerously delicious cocktail
A strawberries & Cream Bushwacker
Bushwackers are the local favorite cocktail on the Gulf coast
The recipes vary,
the best description is an adult milkshake
It's cold, creamy, and strong
made with coconut rum or vodka
Irish Creme, Kahula
This recipe is very simple
You can mix the Bailey's Strawberries and Cream
with vodka or milk or softened vanilla ice cream {swoon}
And of course, you could enjoy it all by itself on the rocks
Strawberries & Cream Bushwacker
1 part Vodka or milk
2 parts Bailey's Strawberries & Cream liqueur
fresh strawberries
Mix liquids and pour over ice in a glass. Garnish with fresh berries
Drink responsibily!
Strawberries bring Summer right to your door!
Here are some similar recipes you might enjoy as we approach Spring & Summer
Strawberry Shortcake Cheesecake Parfaits
The Strawberry Season Tray is available in my Society 6 Shop here
It's available on a cutting board and lots of other items too…
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🍓 Cheers to Strawberry Season! 🥂
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Comments37 Responses to "Party Panache, Strawberries & Cream Bushwacker"
Yum, I saw that strawberry Baileys a couple weeks ago and kind of veered to the right… Might have to stop back:@)
OMGoodness. Everything looks yummy. When I am in Orange Beach there are 2 places I have to go – Tacky Jacks for a Bushwhacker and Cafe Beignet. Your granddaughter is adorable. Have a great weekend.
CC is just a doll baby, and I love her painted lips.
What in the world??? I so have never seen the Bailey's Strawberry and Cream!! I always learn from you, Jenna! That drink sounds right up my alley.
CC is adorable! Our 9 year old grand wants to wear all sorts of make-up. She thinks she's 20…LOL Now I want a bushwacker and a trip to the Flora Bama…haven't been in years, but it was always fun! Hugs!
What a beautiful young artist you have at your table! Hope you have a very special holiday and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday.
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What better way to celebrate excellence in teaching than by rewarding one of America's best teachers? January 23rd, The Great American Teach-Off starts round 2 for High School and Middle School teachers.
The Great American Teach-off will let students, parents and teachers nominate one teacher who is making a difference and America will decide which teacher should receive a $10,000 classroom grant.
Educators are nominated through a 200 word essay on GOOD's website.
- Ten finalists are chosen by a panel of partnering organizations
- Finalists then submit short videos answering questions posed by the contest organizers
- Over the course of five weeks, finalists are paired against one another and America decides who should move on to the next round of competition


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Post by Former NIMH Director Thomas Insel: Citizen Science
Meredith, a 15-year-old high school student from San Diego, wrote this year's breakthrough paper on modeling global epidemics. An 11-year-old boy from upstate New York solved a problem in protein folding using a computer game called Foldit. And an octogenarian working with his retired physician partner created the Cinderella Therapeutics Foundation in Holland to launch rapid trials of drugs rescued from industry.
These are a few of the stories from the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress in San Francisco this weekend, supported by Google and the Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship. The Congress brought together a motley crew of computer geeks, bioinformatics scientists, genomics gurus, and patient advocates for two days of non-stop brainstorming about how to use innovation to empower patients.
You might not expect that a meeting with talks on managing "big data" or "open source tools" would be edgy or passionate. In fact, this Congress could have been called Occupy Science. We heard about new tools to give patients ownership of their medical information and research subjects ownership of their informed consent. We heard about projects to share research data broadly and publish research results freely. And we heard from patients who had to create their own clinical trials and their own organizations to get answers.
Beyond the passion—and there was a lot of passion at this meeting—the Congress captured an emerging trend. Just as technology has democratized communication, it is transforming science or, more accurately, the culture of science. Academic science has been based on a model of individual achievement, where success is defined by what and where a scientist publishes. While this system has worked spectacularly well in some areas, the success of "big science" like the Human Genome Project has demonstrated the power of large, collaborative teams. Recent technologies have actually created a new space in between the small lab and big science models. Powerful, affordable sequencing and computational tools have "democratized" much of what used to be done only in big science teams, empowering individual labs or even non-scientists to contribute in big ways.
Technology has created opportunity—that's hardly news. The gist of this meeting was not about technology but about changing the culture to accelerate progress on targeted treatments for cancer or reducing mortality from mental illness. How do we change the culture? The Occupy argument makes three claims. First, innovation will come from collaboration between scientists, clinicians, and patients, with patients recognized as the experts and given control over the use of their data. As Kathy Giusti of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation said it, "power to the patient." Second, taxpayer funded research must be accessible to taxpayers or, as Heather Joseph of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition said, "set the default to open." And third, the barriers to treatment development will be overcome by new precompetitive partnerships: collaborations with open sharing of data between industry, academia, and government. This would be nothing less than a revolution in how science progresses, driven by projects like the oddly named Arch2POCM.
We don't know if this revolution will succeed, if success is measured by better diagnostics and therapeutics. But I can say this with certainty: what we are doing now has not delivered as quickly or as completely as most of us want. Of course, the problems are complex and often we don't know enough to translate a scientific discovery into a breakthrough for health. Technology cannot fix this, but technology can alter the culture of science just as it has altered the culture of communication. Empowering the public, making data public, and creating models for open innovation are all experiments worth running. Time matters. The message from the Sage Bionetworks Commons Congress is that we can begin to change the culture of science right now.


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Cher and Donald Trump were feuding on Twitter.
Donald Trump has been making his opinions known on Twitter for some time now, earning special attention for posts he made after President Barack Obama was re-elected on Nov. 6.
But now another big celebrity has jumped into the arena and is engaging in a Twitter fight with the billionaire -- Cher.
Cher's not the only one who objects to Macy's involvement with Trump. Over a half-million people have signed a petition asking the department store chain to cut ties with the billionaire, saying otherwise they will cut up their Macy's credit cards.
Stay tuned. With two such vocal and Twitter-happy celebs involved, this feud may not be over.
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We've had it easy for a long while, with Google offering a large list of mapping and geolocation services pretty much for free, pretty much for everybody. But now they've placed a price tag on those services, which means it's time to decide if the price is fair, based on what benefits you get for your money, and based on what it would cost you to replace them with other paid, free or open alternatives.
We will go over the services Google offers as part of their Maps API, look at alternatives for each one, consider switching costs, operational costs, functional comparisons and intangibles. We won't answer the question for you, but you will get plenty of data points to make a more informed decision and you'll get a sense of when is rolling your own maps a good bet, and when is Google your best choice.
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Every problem-oriented policing project is unique, and you should adapt this guide to address the specific problems your park poses. You should answer questions about its design and maintenance, as well as the "who," "what," "when," "where," "why," and "how" regarding its current use.
Understanding the park's physical design and layout as a whole helps to identify its risk and protective factors. For larger parks, there are maps and aerial photos, but it is usually necessary to walk around the area, looking at it from potential users' and abusers' perspectives. It is important to understand people's reactions. There is no good substitute for literally being in the park. "Walking the beat" is how police officers get to know their local community; the same applies to parks.
In doing so, it is necessary to ask a series of "what if I was" questions to explore the park's potential impact on diversity issues such as gender, culture, age, race, etc. As an example, a male police officer may need to consider how a female or older person might perceive the park both during the day and at night. Different users have different opinions about the park and its appropriate use. Identifying these differences is critical to finding and involving natural guardians from the local community. It is important to talk with offenders, victims, users, and local nonusers to determine what the park means to them.
You should audit the park's crime-prevention-through-environmentaldesign (CPTED) features to identify those factors that increase the probability of crime and disorder. These can be static (such as the geographic location, or offenders' age and sex) or dynamic (such as the maintenance quality or the offenders' attitudes). The audit can help to identify the factors you can change, as well as those that you should protect. The factors that can promote crime include those below.
Some useful guides include Edmonton, Canada's Design Guide for a Safer City (1995) and its Safety Audit Guide for Crime Prevention (2000); The City of Nottingham's Design Guide for Community Safety in Residential Areas (1998); and material from the city of Toronto, available from the Project for Public Spaces. Also see Wekerle and Whitzman (1995).
Clear sight lines are important as they let people see, without interference, what lies ahead.
Movement predictors are those lanes, paths, or tracks that follow a predictable pattern. People can easily be trapped on movement predictors if there aren't clearly visible escape routes.
Entrapments are spaces usually concealed from view that offenders can use to hide, trap unwary people, and/or conceal crimes.
Activity generators are features that tend to create (or generate) activity. The activity may be positive or have negative consequences if it is inappropriate or a nuisance to others.
People often decide to go to the more "wild" areas of the park to be alone with nature, seeing only trees and shrubs and hearing only birds chirping. But isolation and reduced visibility also increase the risk of crime.
In Safe Cities: Guidelines for Planning, Design, and Management,, Wekele and Whitzman (1995) argued that planners should site activity areas near park perimeters, to enhance street surveillance. An active edge encourages use and creates a park surveillance perimeter. Instead of creating an active edge, planners often site major park activity nodes in the park's interior, not visible from the outside, and thus with little natural surveillance from the street.
There are more aspects to isolation that you should investigate while walking through the park:
In formulating interventions, police and park staff need detailed information about who is and isn't using the park. The ability to give a number rather than saying "some" or "many" is critical for program design. If possible, you should gather the information in active collaboration with the park management and other interested stakeholders.
You should obtain the information through interviews, focus groups, or surveys. You should also try to include offenders in the interviews.16 Since the park is a public space intended to be accessible to all, identified offenders should always be welcome back if they are going to behave appropriately and be considerate of others. In one park CABE studied, by involving youths in the park's redesign and renovation, they committed less vandalism, they contained (legal) graffiti to designated areas, and less conflict occurred between them and the older users, since each group now had its own distinct activity area.17
In conducting an on-site survey of park users, here are some key points to remember:
(1) A survey should take only 10 to 12 minutes, at the most. Pretest the survey to be sure it works within this time frame. At first, the interviewers may take 15 minutes to finish administering the survey, but after several days, they should take only 10 to 12 minutes. If not, then revise the survey.
(2) Begin with demographics.
Interviewers may be tempted to fill in many demographic points, such as age, race, and disability, but for accurate record keeping, they should ask respondents to provide this information. They will need to ask respondents where they live.
(3) Each survey should contain only a few questions related to a key theme.
Typical safety questions include the following:
(4) Do exit rather than entrance surveys.
As they leave, people may be willing to reflect on what they did, and you can ascertain both what they were planning when they came to the park, and then their feedback about what they actually did. Ask them where they went, and have them point out the locations on a precoded map.
(5) Ask everyone what they did at least three times to determine the full array of their activities.
When interviewees tell you what they did, ask, "What else did you do?" Be sure to probe, especially so you hear about so-called passive uses. To "I played ball," ask, "What else did you do?" and you might hear, "Well, I took a walk."
(6) Look at local versus regional use.
People who live near a park use it the most. They are used to the park, and have a sense of which areas are safe and how to handle themselves. So when they hear that a bad incident happened in the park, they tend to think of it as unusual rather than routine, and they keep going there. People who live farther away aren't as familiar with the park, and vote with their feet by not going there after its safety is put into question.
(7) Consider asking people how they find out about park activities. From fliers? From posters? From the media?
The responses will help you gear your communication strategies to the appropriate audience(s).
See guides such as Conducting Community Surveys: A Practical Guide for Law Enforcement Agencies (Weisel 1999), or Surveying Communities: A Resource for Community Justice Planners (Paik 1995) for suggestions.
About 35 percent of the interviewees in a 1995 New York City Central Park survey had such deep, positive feelings about the park that they said they were willing to volunteer for it, and gave the interviewer their name, address, and phone number.18 Such motivated people will become the core of the community involvement necessary for long-term park safety.
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I heard the kid who did Boba in AOTC will be on the show, so it'll most likely be a Fett show!
"In 2007, Lucas will begin work on a live-action "Star Wars" show set during the 18-year gap between Episodes III and IV. "We haven't started yet; I start that next year," the filmmaker said, adding that he's determined to write an entire first season before shooting begins on the show that will star "background" characters from that time period."None of the Skywalker story, none of that stuff is in there," he explained, shooting down any depiction of a young Han Solo acquiring the Millennium Falcon or running with Lando Calrissian. "It's completely different. The animated series has got all the characters in it. The one that comes after, the live-action one, is with people who were in 'Star Wars,' but they're not the main characters."Lucas said the plot will be steered by characters such as Tie-Fighter or Rebel pilots, most only briefly glimpsed in the six "Star Wars" films."
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(RNN) – CNN's New York offices and studios were evacuated Thursday night because of a phoned bomb threat.
Fire alarm bells rang shortly after 10:30 p.m. ET to signal the evacuation.
The all-clear was given by police around 11:50 p.m. after investigators found no bombs in the Time Warner Center. A bomb squad remained on standby as employees went back inside.
Don Lemon's "CNN Tonight" was taken off the air as staffers left the building. The network moved to taped programming, then began covering the situation from outside.
Authorities barricaded the area around the building as police investigated the threat.
A police official said the caller claimed there were five bombs in the building, WNBC reported.
The Time Warner Center was partially evacuated in October after a package containing an explosive device was discovered, which was addressed to former CIA Director John Brennan.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Forgive Juan Pablo Montoya if he doesn't find the fireball jokes very funny. He's just totally over them a year after crashing into a jet dryer during the Daytona 500.
The wreck in last year's race caused a raging inferno that stopped the event for two hours, and made Montoya an instant punch-line.
"People are dumb enough to think I hit the thing on purpose, like I really want to try and kill myself," said Montoya, who has a short fuse when asked about the crash that occurred when something broke on his car as he raced around the track under caution.
"That was a freak accident, and in a way, I was very, very lucky to walk away from that one. Not only myself, but the guy driving the jet dryer. To walk away with nothing out of that it was a miracle. I was glad it was over."
But it set the tone for yet another disappointing season that Montoya is eager to put behind him. Montoya finished 22nd in points last year with only two top-10 finishes all season, and since leaving Formula One midway through 2006, he's yet to find the success he'd been accustomed to his entire career.
The Colombian driver has had no consistency whatsoever in NASCAR. He's got just two Sprint Cup Series victories, both on road courses, and his 2009 berth in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship is his only appearance.
"It is not humbling. It sucks," he said. "It's not about humbling. I've won at everything I have been in, and I came to NASCAR and I've been good. I know I can do it. To run where we've run, it hasn't been fun."
It's been a constant battle at Chip Ganassi Racing to get Montoya and teammate Jamie McMurray running up front, and the team owner made wholesale behind the scenes changes before the 2012 season. But the performance never improved for either driver, and both Montoya and McMurray insisted change wasn't going to happen overnight.
After a full year, though, Montoya is determined to do his part off the track. He's working out harder than he ever did in F1, he said, and looks considerably slimmer. And he's clearly buoyed by driving the closing stint in the Ganassi team's win last month in the prestigious Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona sports car race.
Although it was Montoya's third Rolex win, he'd never before closed the race.
That was a confidence booster for a driver who perhaps has been tested by this rash of mediocrity.
"You always wonder, 'Can I do anything different?' But even when you run good, you think about how you can make it better," he said. "It is hard. When the cars don't have enough speed, you can compensate for a little bit, but if they aren't good, they aren't good. I was telling someone the other day, we are not miracle workers. So you start trying different things, and sometimes you make more damage than help by trying different things.
"I think I'm a lot better driver than I was four or five years ago. I have not only the open-wheel experience, but the stock car experience. I understand how the races work. How everything is done."
Montoya is entering a critical year in his contract with Ganassi, whom he teamed with to win the 1999 CART championship and the 2000 Indianapolis 500. The owner holds an option on next season for Montoya, and it's possible their long relationship could be coming to an end.
But Montoya is adamant he wants to be with Ganassi, with sponsor Target and in NASCAR.
"I am committed to Chip and to Target. And, we are committed to make this work," Montoya said. "We're going to try to make this work. Chip is committed to it. He fired everybody ... he didn't think that was working and he needed new people, he hired new people. As everybody starts coming together, you kind of expect everybody to work perfect side-by-side from day one. But they have to understand, and understand the problem. One you understand the problems, then you can find solutions.
"The racing is still amazing. I still love it. I still love being here. But, when you're not running good, it's not fun. I don't think it is fun for anybody."


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Earth from Space: Venice
The canal city of Venice (Venezia) and the Laguna Veneta are shown here by ESA's microsatellite Proba.
Venice and its lagoon were made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987. The entire city is an architectural masterpiece in which even the smallest building contains works by some of the world's greatest artists.
Refugees from the Po Estuary fleeing foreign invaders founded the city in the 5th Century AD. In later centuries Venice became part of the Byzantine Empire, then an independent city-state and a major maritime power in its own right.
Venice extends across 118 small islands in a marshy saltwater lagoon at the northwest corner of the Adriatic Sea. A series of barrier islands protect this low-lying city from storm surges, but its 270 633-strong population still must contend with a metre-high tidal range, a problem made worse by regional land subsidence and a slight increase in sea level.
In the famous flood of 1966 waters rose to almost two metres above sea level, and flooding occurs regularly these days – between September 2000 and March 2001 alone, more than 40 floods were recorded.
The S-curve of the main Grand Canal is clearly visible, dividing the fish-shaped city in two, with the larger Canal Giudecca and Venice's modern port facilities to its west. The famous landmark of St Mark's Square is visible where the Grand Canal meets the Canal Giudecca.
Adjacent to the port and the railway station beside it is the road and rail causeway linking Venice with the mainland, where, at the top of the image, can be seen Venice Airport.
Just above Venice proper is located the cemetery island of San Michele, where Venetians have been laid to rest for the last two hundred years. Next to it is the glass-making centre of Murano, to the east of which is the lacework centre of Burano, linked by bridge to the smaller island of Mazzobro.
Beside it on the eastern edge of the image is Torcello, in the 10th century a trading centre larger and more powerful than Venice with a population of 10 000 people but gradually declining in the intervening centuries as its waters turned into swampland and the resulting malaria struck the population. Its abandoned buildings were used as a source of stone for Venice and Murano. Today only about 60 people live there.
This image was acquired on 11 November 2004 by the Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS). Built by UK-based Sira Technology, CHRIS is the main payload on ESA's Proba microsatellite, designed to acquire hyperspectral images with a spatial resolution of 18 metres across an area of 14 kilometres.
The size of a washing machine, Proba was originally launched in 2001 as a technology demonstrator, but is now operated as an ESA Earth Observation Third Party Mission.


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Immigration and better economic prospects in B.C. will bring a boost in existing home sales and new home construction in 2013, compared to last year, but both will remain below their 10-year averages, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
For 2014, CMHC calls for stronger economic and employment growth, leading to higher levels of resale activity and construction as well as modest home price growth in B.C.
The forecast for resales is 73,000 units in 2013 and 79,500 in 2014, again below the 10-year average of 86,500 units.
"While employment and population growth would suggest a higher level of resale activity than projected, a number of factors are dampening sales. These factors include a reduced inventory of homes for sale as some sellers choose to let their listings expire rather than accept lower prices, and buyers take a wait-and-see attitude as existing home prices moderate in the Vancouver and Victoria housing markets," CMHC said in its forecast, which calls for a slight dip in the average MLS price to $511,200 in 2013, and then a subsequent rise to $524,000 in 2014.
Single-family housing starts in B.C. are forecast at 9,100 units in 2013 and 9,500 units in 2014, well below the 10-year average of 11,700 units. Multi-family starts are forecast at 19,700 units in 2013 and 21,000 in 2014, CMHC said. The 2013 numbers include several large-scale projects in the Vancouver area which already have building permits and site preparation underway, CMHC said.
Across the country, CMHC says total annual housing starts are expected to be lower in 2013 compared with last year because moderate economic and employment growth in the second half of 2012 have led to more modest housing demand this year.
CMHC says employment and economic growth will likely gain momentum later this year and in 2014, pushing housing starts slightly higher next year.
"CMHC expects housing construction activity will trend lower in the first half of 2013, before gaining more momentum by the end of the year as economic and employment growth remain supportive of the Canadian housing market," Mathieu Laberge, deputy chief economist for CMHC, said in a statement.
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Christmas Vespers, a Hope College and Holland, Mich. tradition now in its eighth decade, will continue on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 7-8, in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
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The program of Christmas carols and anthems is presented by the college's department of music and features more than 200 students in four services in historic Dimnent Memorial Chapel. Participants will include Hope's College Chorus, Chapel Choir and Symphonette, as well as organists and instrumental ensembles.
Christmas Vespers was first held on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, at 4 p.m. The timing was fateful—the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor only hours before, precipitating the entry of the United States into World War II.
The program was sponsored, the "Anchor" student newspaper noted at the time, by the college's Musical Arts club as the first of a series "designed to give music students of Hope an opportunity to perform in public and to bring to public attention the work of the music school." Approximately 500 attended, the "Holland Evening Sentinel" reported afterward.
Vespers today takes place on a scale that 1941's organizers could scarcely have imagined. The college regularly starts receiving inquiries about tickets in August, and Hope now presents four services each year in response to interest in the event. For many families, attending has been a highlight for generations.
Christmas Vespers is also featured on radio stations around the country each year, and every two years, including this year, is produced by WGVU television in western Michigan and made available to PBS affiliates across the United States.
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• 1:39 p.m.: Kathy Olson, 45, of Gardnerville was arrested in the 1800 block of Maxwell Drive on suspicion of felony DUI-third offense. According to Olson's arrest report, a deputy was dispatched to her location on a report of a possible DUI driver. The deputy reportedly saw Olson vomiting, then saw an excessive amount of vomit on the road next to the driver's-side door. She reportedly was difficult to awaken, then could barely stand. She had a blood-alcohol level of .241, and the deputy learned she'd had two previous DUI arrests. Bail was set at $20,000.
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• 3:10 p.m.: A 27-year-old transient was arrested at the Carson City Jail on two violation-of-probation-conditions warrants. Total bail was set at $6,000.
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New York City major names Cornell University as the winner of the year-long competition for rights to build a new sci-tech research facility in the city.
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Cornell University, in a partnership with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, has won the bid to build a state of the art science and technology research facility in New York City. With $100 million in funding from the city for infrastructure, Cornell and Technion plan to complete the first set of buildings for the graduate science campus, which will be located on Roosevelt Island, by 2017.
Once completed, the campus will house 280 faculty and 2,500 graduate students, as well as incubator and spin-out space for start-up companies, Nature reported. However, students could begin taking classes at off-site locations as soon as 2012.
"Of all the applications we received, Cornell and Technion's was far and away the boldest and most ambitious," New York City Major Michael Bloomberg said in a press conference on Monday (December 19). It was Bloomberg who announced the competition earlier this year as part of an effort to turn the city into a science and technology hub akin to Boston and San Francisco. Cornell's and Technion's proposal beat out those from 17 leading institutions around the world.
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text: Drama, opera or cabaret With the largest professional theatre in Switzerland, St.Gallen can look back on a long theatrical tradition. St.Gallen Theatre St.Gallen Theatre was founded in 1805. The theatre is not just steeped in tradition, but has been Switzerland's most popular for years. The theatre is equally home to opera, drama, operetta, musicals and dance. Kellerbühne This cabaret theatre was built in 1965 in an old fruit wine cellar at Müllertor, close to the Abbey District. Around 130 events take place there each year. Theatre, cabaret and musical events are just some examples of what is on offer. Puppet Theatre The St.Gallen Puppet Theatre provides a varied programme of in-house productions and guest performances for children and adults. The theatre uses traditional puppets (hand and stick puppets, as well as string puppets), but also open and experimental types combined with drama. Parfin de Siecle Theatre The theatre on Mühlensteg 3 is located in the place where St.Gallen's painter and sculptor Max Oertli used to live. The theatre has gained a firm place in St.Gallen's cultural life with productions in the Botanical Garden in the summer and numerous plays, readings and musical programmes.


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For the sixth straight season and the 16th time in the last 17 years, the Liberty women's basketball team has been voted as the preseason favorite to win the Big South Conference title, as voted upon by the conference's head coaches and media members. Meanwhile, redshirt junior point guard Emily Frazier was named to the preseason All-Big South team. The honors were announced at Thursday's 2013-14 Big South Basketball Tip-Off Media Luncheon, held at the Sheraton Myrtle Beach Convention Center Hotel. Liberty, which swept the 2012-13 Big South regular-season and tournament titles, received 13 of 25 possible first-place votes and topped the standings with 261 points. Led by Big South Preseason Player of the Year Dequesha McClanahan, Winthrop finished just five points behind the Lady Flames in second place. The Eagles totaled 11 first-place votes and 256 points. Campbell earned 206 points for third place, followed by High Point (fourth place, 178 points), Gardner-Webb (fifth place, 144 points) and 2013 Big South Championship runner-up Longwood (sixth place, 133 points). Gardner-Webb received a single first-place vote. Presbyterian College (seventh place, 129 points), Radford (eighth place, 118 points), 2014 Big South Championship host Coastal Carolina (ninth place, 91 points), Charleston Southern (10th place, 79 points) and UNC Asheville (11th place, 55 points) rounded out the poll. Frazier was enjoying a stellar sophomore season before suffering a season-ending knee injury on Feb. 16. She led the Big South in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.81) and finished second in the conference with 4.7 apg. The native of Magnolia, Texas recorded a trio of double-digit assist performances on the season. Frazier and senior post player Jasmine Gardner are the two returning starters from last season's 27-7 team. Head coach Carey Green's squad equaled the conference record with 16 Big South victories in 2012-13 and made its 15th appearance in the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship. Liberty is just over two weeks away from its 2013-14 season opener, slated for Nov. 8 at Charlotte. The Lady Flames will return home on Nov. 12 to tip off their home schedule with a Commonwealth matchup against James Madison. Liberty will then welcome Radford to the Vines Center on Dec. 7 for its first of 20 Big South Conference tilts. Both the 2014 Big South Men's and Women's Basketball Championships will be played at Coastal Carolina's The HTC Center in Conway, S.C., for the second consecutive year. The women's tournament will span March 4-9, with the winner earning the Big South's automatic bid to the 2014 NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship.
2013-14 Big South Women's Basketball Preseason Poll Team (First-place votes) – Points 1) Liberty (13) – 261 2) Winthrop (11) – 256 3) Campbell – 206 4) High Point – 178 5) Gardner-Webb (1) – 144 6) Longwood – 133 7) Presbyterian College – 129 8) Radford – 118 9) Coastal Carolina – 91 10) Charleston Southern – 79 11) UNC Asheville – 55
2013-14 Big South Women's Basketball Preseason All-Conference Team Dequesha McClanahan, Winthrop (Preseason Player of the Year) Kiera Gaines, Campbell Stacia Robertson, High Point Daeisha Brown, Longwood Emily Frazier, Liberty Karlee Taylor, Presbyterian College Schaquilla Nunn, Winthrop
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Press Release
From: American Institute of Physics
Posted: Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Edwin C. Krupp, director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, is the winner of the 2013 Andrew Gemant Award.
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has announced that Edwin C. Krupp, director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, is the winner of the 2013 Andrew Gemant Award – an annual prize that recognizes significant contributions to the cultural, artistic or humanistic dimension of physics.
Krupp will be formally presented with the award at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, November 22 during the Los Angeles City Council meeting. His award will be re-presented at a ceremony hosted by the American Astronomical Society (AAS) at their Washington D.C. meeting in early January 2014. Krupp will deliver lectures on both occasions.
In its award citation, AIP recognizes Krupp: "…for 40 years of extraordinary public outreach and education through planetarium shows and programs, award-winning popular books, articles, television programs, exhibits, lectures and public events, as well as for his outstanding archaeoastronomical research, exploring the links between astronomy and ancient culture."
As winner, Krupp will receive a modest cash award and will be able to choose an academic institution to receive a small grant to further the public communication of physics.
"Griffith Observatory, where Edwin Krupp has been director for nearly four decades, is the most-visited public observatory in the world," said Catherine O'Riordan, AIP vice president of Physics Resources. "Through telescopes, other public instruments, innovative exhibits, and live astronomical programs, he has brought the heavens to life for millions on the ground."
Krupp will deliver a public lecture at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, November 22 at Griffith Observatory. He will also give a plenary talk at 3:40 p.m. on January 9 at the AAS meeting at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.
In addition to his work in the Los Angeles area, Krupp has had a long career explaining astronomy to the general public. He has written hundreds of articles for general audiences and four children's books on astronomy. He has collaborated with musicians and artists in a variety of projects and performances that link astronomy with arts, and he often appears on local and national television and radio to interpret recent discoveries and developments in the field.
Most recently Krupp led a $93-million restoration, renovation and expansion of Griffith Observatory, a project he conceived and shepherded through design, fundraising, construction, reactivation, and return to public service after a five-year close. The project was accomplished through a unique public-private partnership between the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, which owns and operates the Observatory, and Friends Of The Observatory, the Observatory's non-profit support group, which Krupp co-founded in 1978 to help restore the building.
About Dr. Edwin C. Krupp
E.C. Krupp is an astronomer and Director of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. He received a BA from Pomona College in physics/astronomy and his MA and PhD in astronomy at UCLA, where he studied the properties of rich clusters of galaxies as a student of Professor George O. Abell. Krupp began working at Griffith Observatory in 1970 as a part-time planetarium lecturer when he was still in graduate school. He has been director since 1974.
Since 1973, Krupp has been active in the study of ancient, prehistoric and traditional astronomy and is recognized internationally for this work. He is the author and editor of five books on this subject and has personally visited, studied, and photographed nearly 2,000 ancient, historic and prehistoric sites throughout the world.
About the Gemant Award
The Andrew Gemant Award is given to one individual by the AIP Governing Board each year, based on the recommendation of an outside selection committee, for significant contributions to the cultural, artistic or humanistic dimension of physics. For more information, see: http://www.aip.org/aip/awards/gemawd.html
About the American Institute of Physics
The American Institute of Physics is an organization of physical science societies, representing scientists, engineers and educators. Through its Physics Resources Center, AIP delivers valuable services and expertise in education and student programs, science communications, government relations, career services for science and engineering professionals, statistical research in physics employment and education, industrial outreach, and the history of physics and allied fields. AIP publishes Physics Today, the most influential and closely followed magazine of the physics community, and is also home to Society of Physics Students and the Niels Bohr Library and Archives. AIP owns AIP Publishing LLC, a scholarly publisher in the physical and related sciences. http://www.aip.org
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BUFFALO, New York (Reuters) - A powerful winter storm pushed through the U.S. Northeast on Thursday, forcing the cancellation of hundreds of airline flights while bringing some holiday cheer to families hoping for snow and lifting spirits at ski resorts in the region.
The storm dumped a foot of snow on parts of the United States with the heaviest snow falling across northern New York and New England, the National Weather Service reported.
"It feels lovely to have wonderful snow for the kids to play in, and I think it's the kind of snow that's good for making forts and snowmen," said Katryna Nields, a musician in Conway, Massachusetts, who was outside her home shoveling snow.
"It's just the kind of snow you want for between Christmas and New Year's," she added.
The National Weather Service issued winter storm warnings for parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and New England and coastal flood advisories from New York's Long Island to southern Maine.
Airlines canceled more than 800 flights on Thursday, according to FlightAware.com, a website that tracks flights.
Some flights into and out of the three major New York City area airports - Newark Liberty International, John F. Kennedy International and LaGuardia - were delayed due to the weather, the Federal Aviation Administration reported.
The weather service forecast 12 to 18 inches of snow for northern New England, accompanied by freezing rain and sleet, creating hazards on the highways and at airports.
More snow is headed east, said Alex Sosnowski, senior meteorologist at Accuweather.com.
"A new storm is in the works for portions of New England, the mid-Atlantic and the Ohio Valley," he said.
The new storm "will bring more snow to areas that received snow from the post-Christmas storm and will bring snow to some areas that got rain or mostly rain," he said, adding that it has the potential to strengthen to a strong nor'easter or blizzard in parts of New England.
Tom Olney, a 50-year-old stay-at-home father of two, was making plans to go sledding with his children in their hometown of Wayland, Massachusetts.
"We love snow," Olney said. "What else are you going to do when it's this wet and cold out?"
Western Massachusetts, like much of the Northeast, had an uncharacteristically mild winter last year, but residents such as Olney say they are ready for a more typical cold season.
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Authorities said an 81-year-old man died in Georgiana, Alabama after a tree fell on his home.
Additional reporting by Betsy Pisik in Wayland, Massachusetts, Zach Howard in Conway, Massachusetts, Kaija Wilkinson in Mobile, Alabama, Colleen Jenkins in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and Dan Burns in New York; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and Claudia Parsons


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I didn't really start coming "out" about my life of recovery until the last year or so (which was at almost seven years sober). It's not that I was purposely trying to hide anything, but I guess I wanted to get some time under my belt and allow people to make their mind up about me before knowing my past. I think that now that I have established the type of person that I am, I have a lot more confidence in telling people that I am in recovery. In fact, it has now become a blog, an Instagram, and a Twitter…who would have ever thought?
While I didn't really know what to expect when I started on my "recover out loud" journey, one thing for sure has been a HUGE surprise; there are a ton of people out there that are very much against Twelve Step programs. Some simply say that they don't align with it and some will openly express their pure disdain for it. Call me naive, or maybe I was just living in a bubble, but I really didn't know that this was happening prior to my entry into the recovery blogging and social media world.
To give some background on my story, I got sober in Jackson, Mississippi. I was deep in the South and in what many of you like to refer to as "the Bible Belt." Where I got sober, Twelve Step programs were really the only sober support group around – at least that I had ever heard of. While I hadn't tried any other support groups, by the time I made my way back to the rooms I had tried pretty much everything else. Moderation, medication, geographical changes, yoga, religion, and psychiatry were just some of the things I had hoped would lead me to the path of abstinence. But none of that worked. Each attempt would result in me falling even flatter on my face and leaving me more confused. By the time I made my way back, I was desperate. I pretty much came in, white flag in hand and said, "just tell me what to do, and I'll do it!" It was like I had been in a room with a hundred doors for all those years and made the point to open every single one except for the Twelve Step door. I just didn't wanna. Luckily, I ran out of doors.
All that being said, I have never walked around saying that the Twelve Steps are the only way to achieve sobriety. I completely believe that people have gotten sober in other ways. It doesn't really bother me so much when people say that Twelve Step programs didn't work for them. I mean to each their own and if it wasn't a good fit for you and you found another way, more power to you. There have been some statements, however, that not only express a distaste for the programs but are providing inaccurate information. I wish to dispel those, so I am going to quote some of the things I have read on various platforms and respond with what is written in Twelve Step literature. Before that though, let's all go into a little history lesson…
The Twelve Step philosophy has migrated into a number of support groups all over the world. While they started in the infamous Alcoholics Anonymous, we can now find NA (Narcotics Anon.), CA (Cocaine Anon.), OA (Overeaters Anon.), GA (Gamblers Anon.), etc., etc. It's basically been adopted as a means of recovery for all types of addictions. So not only have the Twelve Steps made their way into just about every addiction you can think of but they have survived a lot of time and a lot of change. AA began in 1935 with two men and was slow to grow. It took about four years to obtain 500 members but after a series of trial and error, the development of literature and traditions, and a mission to help others recover, the program continued to grow and expand all over the country, and eventually, the world. There were over 60,000 attendees at the most recent AA International Convention in 2015. Anyway, those are just the basics. If you want to learn more history, AA.org has a lot of great resources. My point I guess is that for the steps to survive this long and have traveled into so many different groups, areas of the world, and acquire so many members, they must be doing something right.
Getting back to some misconceptions, here are some of the things I have read over the last few months that are inaccurate. I am quoting them as I have read them.
1)"The Twelve Steps teach you that you're doomed to a life of powerlessness and will always want to drink or use drugs."
Um, no. Thank GOD, no. Twelve Step programs suggest that the first step in our recovery is admitting that we are powerless over (fill in the blank) and our lives have become unmanageable. We are powerless over our addiction, which in the twelve-step philosophy, is a physical, mental and spiritual disease. The physical aspect starts as soon as we put the drink or drug into our body. Once we start, we cannot stop. The mental aspect is an obsession of the mind that tells us that we want to drink/use, even though we know that it's destroying us and our lives. The spiritual part of the disease encompasses many things, but the main root is in self-centeredness. Until the spiritual aspect has been addressed, the mental and physical parts of the disease will remain a problem. However, the program also teaches us that "when the spiritual malady is overcome, we straighten out mentally and physically." There's an article written by Mike L. that does a great job of going into more depth with this.
What the program promises is that after we have worked the steps, and come to believe in a "power greater than ourselves," the obsession to drink or use drugs will be removed. In other words, we will no longer think about wanting to get loaded anymore. Sound hokey? Yeah, I thought the same thing in the beginning. But I have not thought about drinking or taking any pills in a long time – and I firmly believe that something much bigger than me got me there.
2) "Twelve Step groups want you to remain anonymous. You're not allowed to tell anyone that you're in recovery."
False, false, false. This is one that I hear all the time, and it's just not true. The programs of AA/NA do not care if you run into an auditorium of 5,000 people that is being televised and scream, "I'm sober!" Feel free to tell the world that you're a recovered drunk and that you love a life of sobriety – they only ask that you don't run into that same auditorium screaming, "I'm in AA, I'm in AA!" See the difference? While the tradition of anonymity did start out of fear and to keep the early members a secret, the basis of it now has much more to do with protecting the organization as opposed to its members. For example, if I had run around telling everyone that I was going to twelve-step meetings on one of my first and several, half-assed sobriety attempts, each relapse that I had wouldn't have given anyone the idea that the program I was attending worked. Also, remember – just because we get sober doesn't mean that we stop being human. There's a famous golfer who used to run around and tell everyone publicly that he was a member of AA. Any match that he didn't do well with ended up with him cursing and throwing his club all over the place. Not a great representation of a "spiritual" program. The anonymity is for the greater good. However, it really only applies to press, radio, television, film, and social media. So you're welcome to tell people in a general setting that you're a member of your respective program if you want to. But please – can we let this whole "you're not allowed to tell anyone that you're in recovery" thing die already. It's just not true.
3) "Having a sponsor is stupid. I don't want to depend on a person for my sobriety. What if they get drunk?"
First of all, the program does not teach us to depend on any human power for our sobriety. Secondly, if your sponsor relapses, then your sponsor relapses. What does that have to do with you? Will it sting? Yes. Will it piss you off? Probably. But that has nothing to do with your recovery and shouldn't have anything to do with what motivated you to get sober in the first place. The sponsor's role is to help guide you through the steps. Period. They're not your mom, your dad, your priest, and not your boss. Thirdly, my experience has been that when picking someone to sponsor you, you find someone who has something that you want. For me, that was peace. I wanted someone who seemed like she had her crap together and like she enjoyed sobriety. I have rarely ever seen anyone who gets a sponsor with some time and good quality sobriety, only to watch them relapse.
4) "The Twelve Steps don't work. They have the lowest success rate of any current method of recovery."
Honestly, I don't really care about the statistics but I do know that there really isn't any solid way to achieve a number on who stays sober on twelve step programs. It's anonymous, remember? Some say that the percentage is around 5-10% and others say much higher. The most recent survey that I could find conducted by Alcoholics Anonymous was in 2007. According to that survey, 33 percent of the 8,000 North American members had remained sober for over 10 years. Twelve percent were sober for 5 to 10 years; 24 percent were sober 1 to 5 years, and 31 percent were sober for less than a year. Honestly though, nobody really knows. This is especially hard to measure with so many different twelve-step groups that are now around different addictions. I will say it again though – the last International Convention of AA had over 60,000 attendees from all over the world. Something is working…
5) "Twelve-Step programs are religious and push Christianity on you."
No. And if you're going to a meeting where people are doing that, go to a different meeting. The program makes a point to not align itself with any religion. It does stress the spiritual importance of the program and suggests that you find a power greater than yourself to stay sober. For many of us, that is God. However, a lot of people use the group itself as their Higher Power. While the steps do have a Christian background, the groups are not Christian themselves. I live in a large Jewish community and many of them attend twelve-step groups. I have also met Buddhists, agnostics, and atheists in the program.
If Twelve-Step philosophies aren't for you, that is absolutely 100% fine. One thing to remember is that these programs do not tell us to do anything. They are labeled only as suggestions. Honestly, if there is anything that members are telling you, and it's not in the literature, you should just disregard it as an opinion of the program as a whole. Remember that it's a simple program filled with complicated people. In the same way that Twelve-Steppers shouldn't run around telling everyone that any other way is wrong, I would request that people not involved in the Twelve-Step method of recovery to do the same. Please express your opinions and likes/dislikes – but it would be best if we make sure to have all the facts about something before we aim to criticize. The most important components of any recovery, for me, are this: get sober, work on yourself, aim to grow, and help someone else.


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Does baseline concussion testing really reduce risks to athletes?
Baseline concussion tests given to hundreds of thousands of athletes might, paradoxically, increase risks in some cases, according to a Loyola University Health System researcher.
The tests likely have a high "false negative" rate, meaning a test shows an athlete has recovered, when in fact he or she is still experiencing cognitive impairments from the concussion.
This could increase risks by returning to play athletes who might otherwise be withheld for a longer period, neuropsychologist Christopher Randolph, PhD, writes in a recent issue of the journal Current Sports Medicine Reports.
Baseline concussion testing is mandatory in many football, hockey and other programs, from elementary schools to the pros. Such testing provides a baseline score of an athlete's attention span, working memory, reaction time, etc. If the athlete suffers a concussion, he or she retakes the test. If there is a large decrease in the post-concussion score, the athlete typically is benched until the score increases.
Randolph examined the most common baseline test, called ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing). The 20-minute test is taken on a computer.
"There is no evidence to suggest that the use of baseline testing alters any risk from sport-related concussion, nor is there even a good rationale as to how such tests might influence outcome," Randolph writes.
In searching the scientific literature, Randolph could not find a single prospective, controlled study of the current version of ImPACT (version 2.0). Such a study would involve baseline testing a large sample of athletes and then retesting concussed athletes in comparison with noninjured teammates. There was a single prospective, controlled study of an earlier version (1.0), but that study had several serious flaws, Randolph writes.
Studies by independent researchers have found that the reliability of ImPACT testing "appears to be far too low to be useful for individual decision making," Randolph writes.
Using baseline testing with poor sensitivity and inadequate reliability could create a false sense of security that an athlete has recovered from a concussion.
Rather than relying on ImPACT or other baseline tests, team medical personnel "may be better advised to rely upon their own clinical judgment, in conjunction with a validated symptom checklist, in making return-to-play decisions," Randolph writes.
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