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It's supposed to be a milestone, honoring students who worked their way to the top of their class. But Wharton High School's salutatorian's graduation speech didn't end the way he planned it.
"I've waited all four years, since the beginning of high school to give this speech," Harold Shaw said Friday.
The Wharton High School salutatorian's mic was cut mid-speech on Monday, after his principal says he strayed off topic.
"I was staying on script the whole time. I stumbled at one point. He was just looking for one opportunity, just one opportunity to pounce in there," Shaw said.
The Hillsborough County School District says the principal did the right thing.
"The principal had concerns because the first draft of the speech from the salutatorian was full of some things that were very inappropriate," Hillsborough County School District spokesman Steve Hearty said Friday.
Shaw believes he was targeted, after he created a documentary exposing what he believed were unsanitary bathrooms at the school.
"The conditions are very unacceptable. And the fact it is, they've been denied attention again and again," Shaw said.
The district says it's policy is crystal clear for all graduation speeches: stick to your script or be silenced.
"You have a bunch of kids there full of adrenaline. Many of them are considering doing something that might be very memorable, that would detract from the ceremony. Everyone can remember when they graduated. Somebody wants to do something, right? The principal's responsible for all that," Hearty said.
Shaw says he was robbed of his moment. He's now asking the principal for a public apology.
"I put in the time, put in the school work. I did anything I could to become #2 and that speech was taken away from me," Shaw said.
Despite the scuffle, Shaw did still get his diploma. The school district says the principal has extended an open invitation for Shaw to meet with him.
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5/5 rDev +11.9%
07-20-2014 04:06:20 | More by Davelwise
5/5 rDev +11.9%
07-13-2014 18:50:14 | More by Wando52
5/5 rDev +11.9%
06-13-2014 01:14:07 | More by animal69
4.5/5 rDev +0.7%
01-20-2014 18:10:32 | More by Pens1967
4.08/5 rDev -8.7%
The perfect location and view to sip beers and enjoy friends. The Barley Oak is a best kept secret among folks on the North Shore. Everything, including the homes in the neighborhood, is built on a second story level because of hurricanes/flooding. There are plenty of tables downstairs for eating and drinking. But the real action is upstairs.
Take the elevator or stairs to the best view of Lake Pontchartrain. There's always a good beer menu on draft as well as bottle and can. It's a bit pricey, so I worked on sample sizes (6 ounce) to give me more variety. Bartenders are friendly and pretty quick on service.
The food is OK, but overpriced. My briskit sandwich was a bit tough in places, but my wife loved her burger. We ordered a sausage sampler to spread around and it was tasty.
The Barley Oak is a great place to meet with friends, to enjoy the sunset and the lakeview and to feel that excellent north shore vibe.
And it has one of the best beer lineups around. Cheers!
01-23-2012 16:34:03 | More by brewskifan55
4.47/5 rDev 0%
Being an "out of towner" I'm not sure I would have been able to find this place without the help of my GPS. But, once I arrived I realized why they chose this plot of land. The view from the porch overlooking Lake Pontchartrain is what let me know I have arrived. It is truly calming...
The beer list is pretty extensive and it was hard to chose a beer at first. They seem to have more harder to get beers than I've seen at other bars on the NorthShore. The atmosphere was laid back. Everything was nice and clean, which surprised me considering Tropical Storm Lee rolled through a week earlier. The food menu isn't that extensive but it was good.
I can see why this place is popular. Great beer list, great atmosphere/service and great view!!
09-12-2011 10:56:15 | More by cvm4
4.88/5 rDev +9.2%
Location, Location, Location. Could not ask for a better Local place to unwind with a delicious brew with your friends after a long day and no where to go afterward. Situated on the Lake Front overlooking Lake Pontchartrain and the Causeway, this place is beautiful at Sunset, and the service is always with a smile. The atmosphere is quite and cozy during the week and vibrant on the weekend. The attitude is laid back, and why not? That's what you should be doing while enjoying two of God's Greatest Creations: Beer and LA's largest lake at Sunset. Not to mention that the upstairs is very well furnished.
Now, if you can afford it, this place has an excellent atmosphere, and that's what you're really paying for. If you really want to compare... You would find similar prices at some random cafe in Europe. Take St. Mark's Square in Venice, Italy for example: the avg. cup of coffee there is 8 euros (approx. $11!). Ok, well Mandeville, LA sure isn't Venice, but you get my point... Location! (The prices are "usually" only $1-2 more here)
The owners and the employees really like what they are doing, and they have an authentic passion for beer. I consider myself a regular here (at least once a week), but I was surprised how quickly the people behind the bar remembered my name and the names of my friends. The owner often works behind the bar alongside his wife and the other employees, and I have never been led astray by their recommendations. I'll keep on going until can't go anymore. Cheers to Beer and The Barely Oak!
03-21-2010 00:08:56 | More by LeFortitude
4.2/5 rDev -6%
An English Pub/German Biergarten inspired pub, one of my favorite places to go for beers on tap. With ~50 taps and an additional 50+ bottles available of a very wide variety of brews, you won't go home disappointed if looking for a place to try and enjoy beers that are many times hard to find in this area. The one and only closest competitor in the area would be the Tap Room in Covington, but the beer selection and atmosphere don't even compare. Not to mention the beautiful view of the lake; make sure and grab a brew one night during sunset, doesn't get any better.
Only drawback is it can get kind of expensive (real quick), it'd be nice if they had "frequent drinkers" aka, alcoholics memberships that would provide discounts, or simply come down a little on the prices.
12-31-2009 00:58:45 | More by xybreeder
4.16/5 rDev -6.9%
The location is great, right on the lakefront. Downside to that is differing rules on the hours that a bar can operate. The place must shut down 2 hours before bars inland close, at midnight.
It has a nice dutch theme, lots of room upstairs and on the ground level. Its usually pretty calm during the week, and explodes sometimes on the weekends.
Service is great, the bartenders get to know you fast and treat you like family.
Selection is the best on the northshore. Im not sure the exact tap amounts, but its round about 50+ with at least double that available in bottles.
Pricing is reasonable enough
Food is really good, I highly recommend the Rueben.
09-20-2009 01:46:41 | More by EgadBananas
3.38/5 rDev -24.4%
Been to this place many times since the opening, mostly due to the lack of alternatives. It's in a great location on the lake front, with plenty of in- and outdoor seating. Very nice building; it's brand-new and very well done. That said, it does sport the typically Mandevillian crowd, and is either dead (Mon-Thurs evening) or packed with upper-middle-aged yuppies (Fri-Sun). The bar staff is knows a bit, but really superficially so. They might know a beer is "brown" and "really good", but can't describe them any more than that typically. They always pour into frozen pints unless specifically asked otherwise. Belgians go into Chimay glasses, which might be somewhat redeeming, but one is charged a pint price for 33cl pour. The selection is decent for LA, but very mediocre compared to anywhere else in the country. The usual Warsteiner, Paulaner, Stella, with Delerium and Maredsous thrown in, along with some locals. Racer 5 is at least normally available. Pretty decent food, but nothing outrageous. My biggest qualm with this place is the price. There is some great stuff available in bottles, like Blaugies, Struise, and Mikkeller, but it's all exorbitant. Black Albert, for example, is $26 for a 33cl bottle. I've seen it in other bars for $16/bottle, and in retail shops for around $9. The same holds true for the others; Blaugies around $34/75cl, IIRC. That's ridiculous. The draft selection is slightly better, but it's still $9-10 for a 12oz pour of Maredsous. Best to just stick with NOLA/Lazy Magnolia at this place if one doesn't want to be raped by the prices.
09-01-2009 16:44:19 | More by philipquarles
The Barley Oak in Mandeville, LA
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The Widest range because their flat shape allows more wind to dump off the kite aiding in de-powering.
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More stable in flight so you can park and ride easily and not have to be as aware of the kite and you don't need to micro manage the kite.
High bar pressure as they fly further back in the wind window and take a lot of pressure to turn the kite, it can feel like harder work to fly these kites.
Bow kites tend to pivot turn which can cause them to "slide" through turns causing it to be more work for the pilot with increaded bar pressure and slower turning speeds. This is usually due to the kite slightly stalling during the pivoting turns due to its super flat shape.
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The traditional super curved leading edge kite with no bridle, lines attach directly to the kite. Traditional C kites are dangerous and should be avoided! They have not been made in the past 4 years, but can still be found in used markets at very low prices.
Newer hybrid "C" kites mentioned above have replaced traditional C kites by offering a bridle and therefore more de-power and better water relaunch than the older kites. I do not suggest buying any kite older than 2007.
New "C" kites are much more upright in flight and usually have less power for there size. They are prefered for kite looping and aggressive advanced style tricks since they maintain consistent power in kite loops.
Extremely poor de-power and therefore is very unsafe for beginners
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (BP) -- Messengers to the 193rd annual meeting of the South Carolina Baptist Convention adopted a new vision theme, and approved a 2014 budget that could move the convention closer to increasing its international missions giving by 21.95 percent -- and eventually a 50/50 split in CP receipts. They also elected new officers and endorsed a slate of resolutions.
The 888 registered messengers from 418 churches represented the least-attended annual meeting in the last 60 years; in 1953, there were 818 messengers present. Attendance was down by 19.5 percent from last year and by nearly half from 2011, when 1,742 messengers gathered to consider the report of the South Carolina Great Commission Resurgence Task Force. The meeting was held Nov. 12-13 at Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia.
According to Annual Church Profile information published in the 2012 South Carolina Baptist Convention (SCBC) Annual, there are 698,041 members representing 2,138 churches in the South Carolina Baptist Convention.
The theme for the 2013 annual meeting was "Better Together." Ralph Carter, outgoing president, assembled panels featuring pastors from different church settings to discuss the variety of ways in which they approach worship and ministry. Carter also produced a series of short videos to highlight the annual meeting's theme.
Messengers approved a $28.6 million budget for 2014. The budget anticipates $28.5 million in Cooperative Program receipts and $100,000 from "cooperative gifts."
While the budget's bottom line remains unchanged from 2013 and 2012, it reflects previously scheduled reductions in funding to The Baptist Courier and Baptist Foundation of South Carolina (as called for in the state convention's 2011 Great Commission Resurgence Task Force report); a freeze in funding to the SCBC's three affiliated universities, two retirement centers, a children's home and South Carolina WMU; and a 1 percent cut to Executive Board (Baptist building) ministries.
If South Carolina Baptist churches fully fund next year's budget, a supplemental allocation of $761,813 will be forwarded directly to the International Mission Board. In adopting the GCR report in 2011, messengers voted to increase South Carolina's contribution to IMB by 21.95 percent over the next three years in order to fund IMB at a level equal to the amount IMB would receive if South Carolina were splitting Cooperative Program receipts 50/50 with the Southern Baptist Convention. The current split, unchanged from 2013, is approximately 59/41, with the larger share remaining in South Carolina. Of the convention's $28.5 million Cooperative Program budget for 2014, $16,815,000 is slated to be spent on in-state ministries; $11,685,000 is scheduled to be forwarded to SBC causes.
Messengers defeated a motion from former SCBC president Wayne Dickard, pastor of Siloam Baptist Church, Easley, that would roll back the GCR-mandated progression toward a 50/50 split. The 2011 GCR report calls for "a five-year goal of moving the division of Cooperative Program receipts to 50/50 between the SCBC and the SBC."
D.J. Horton, pastor of Anderson Mill Road Baptist Church, near Spartanburg, was elected state convention president. Horton, 36, received 244 of 407 votes cast by messengers. Dusty Bradshaw, pastor of Hillcrest Baptist Church in North Charleston, received 163 votes. There were no other nominees for president.
Other officers, elected without opposition, included Tommy Kelly, pastor of Varnville First Baptist Church, first vice president; Shane Donald, pastor of Cedar Shoals Baptist Church, Belton, second vice president; and Verla Bennie, member of Mauldin First Baptist Church, recording secretary.
Bart Kelley, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Westminster, was elected registration secretary with 224 of 388 votes cast. Clark Carter, dean of students at Charleston Southern University and a member of Northwood Baptist Church in North Charleston, received 164 votes.
At a press conference following his election, Horton said he plans to represent South Carolina Baptists "outside the circle of South Carolina Baptists" and to "tell the story of South Carolina Baptists to folks who may have forgotten about us."
Addressing how he might seek to encourage struggling churches across the state to engage in the state convention's newly adopted emphasis, "Great Commission Living," Horton said churches can become healthy by "focusing on a few initiatives and doing them well."
"We have to center our efforts on a handful of biblical issues, like missions," he said. Churches should contextualize their environments and not be afraid to change the methods by which they reach their mission fields, he said.
Horton said the ministry and missions "templates" that nearly all Southern Baptist Convention churches and state conventions used in the 1950s and 1960s are no longer adequate to meet the challenges of a denomination seeking to reach the world today. He said that while the Southern Baptist Convention may not be in danger of dying, it runs the risk of becoming irrelevant if churches aren't willing to adapt when it comes to the methods by which they do ministry.
"How we do cooperation always has to be evolving," he said, "but how cooperation looks over the next 25 years can't be the way we've always done things."
Horton said he sees his role as president as working to make the state convention "be seen as valuable" to pastors. He plans to spend the next year "preaching, casting visions and building relationships."
"Twelve months is not long enough to make a fundamental shift, but we can start the right conversation," he said. As part of his duties as state convention president, Horton said he will "pick folks with progressive thinking" to serve on the SCBC's Committee on Committees.
Horton, originally from Montevallo, Ala., and his wife Laurel have four children: Ty 10; Micah, 8; Lily, 5 and Grey, 3. They are in the process of adopting a child from Ethiopia.
'Great Commission Living'
Messengers adopted a new vision theme: "Great Commission Living." The theme was presented to messengers by former state convention president Sonny Holmes, pastor of Northwood Baptist Church in North Charleston. Holmes chaired the 30-member Seeking the Kingdom Task Force, charged with seeking God's vision for the SCBC beginning Jan. 1, 2014.
The task force's report includes the following vision statement: "The South Carolina Baptist Convention will assist churches in making disciples who will urgently take the whole Gospel to the world that all will be whole." The vision is supported by Matthew 4:19: "'Follow Me,' He told them, 'and I will make you fish for people!'" (HCSB).
The task force was appointed by 2012 convention president Brad Atkins and followed approval of the Great Commission Resurgence focus on church revitalization, missions mobilization and evangelism, and church planting.
The task force, led by Holmes, included members of the convention's Executive Board; executive-level convention staff (including executive director-treasurer Jim Austin); former convention presidents; directors of missions; institution presidents or their designees; and Laurie Register, executive director-treasurer of Woman's Missionary Union of South Carolina.
Holmes presented 10 Scripture-based initiatives that were developed in cooperation between the Seeking the Kingdom Task Force and all of the convention staff members. The initiatives challenge convention staff to:
-- Assist all SCBC churches in developing and implementing an intentional relational discipleship process (2 Timothy 2:2).
-- Involve 8 percent of SCBC churches in a church-health process each year (Revelation 2:4-5).
-- Cultivate a church-planting movement that assists SCBC churches in annually planting reproducing churches that equal at least 2 percent of the total number of the convention's churches (Acts 13:1-5).
-- Work toward a climate of prayer, repentance and reconciliation among churches and their members (Mark 9:29).
-- Change the culture of pastor-church relationships so that the convention becomes last in forced terminations and suicides instead of first (Hebrews 13:17, 1 Peter 5:2).
-- Create a church-leadership development pipeline for young people and others that will encourage them to respond to God's call for missions, church planting and church revitalization (Mark 3:13-15).
-- Partner with churches to mobilize 700 full-time SBC missionaries by the year 2024 (Matthew 9:37).
-- Encourage Great Commission generosity by increasing Cooperative Program and other mission offerings by one-tenth of 1 percent per year (Luke 6:38).
-- Work to enhance alignment of ministries provided by the SBC, the SCBC, and its ministry partners (John 17).
-- Pray and realize that without true revival, none of the preceding will ever occur (2 Chronicles 7:14).
To meet the initiatives, the convention staff organizational structure will be built around church-supporting staff, church-strengthening staff and church-sending staff.
The new vision theme follows the previous SCBC emphasis, "Experience Kingdom Life," and, before that, "Empowering Kingdom Growth."
Messengers approved resolutions on religious freedom, a call to prayer for the preservation of biblical marriage, expression of disappointment with the Boy Scouts of America's membership policy regarding homosexuality, Christian ministry to those struggling with mental illness, responsible use of social media, and the 125th anniversary of Woman's Missionary Union. To read the resolutions in their entirety, visit http://www.scbaptist.org/defining-scbc/annual-meeting/resolutions/.
The resolution on religious freedom was amended on a motion by Stephen Owensby, pastor of First Baptist Church of Enoree. The resolution challenged the United States government's encroachment on the "cherished rights of all citizens to express their religious beliefs in public." Owensby's motion encouraged South Carolina Baptist pastors to "preach the entire counsel of God during this difficult season as in any other season," expressing his belief that pastors are on the front lines of any attack on religious freedom. The convention's Resolutions Committee did not oppose the amendment.
The resolution related to the Boys Scouts of America's membership policy expressed "disappointment in the decision to change the BSA membership policy regarding homosexuality." It called on churches continuing to support the BSA to "share the life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ with all members and leaders while working to reverse the current membership policy... that normalizes sexual conduct opposed to the biblical standard." For churches no longer supporting the BSA because of its position to accept members regardless of sexual orientation, the resolution asked churches to continue ministry to children and youth through biblically based programs.
The amendment calling for prayer concerning the preservation of biblical marriage between one man and one woman was twice amended without opposition. An approved amendment offered by Gregory Dry, associate minister of First Baptist Church, Spartanburg, called for strengthening the resolution to read "that messengers stand steadfastly for God's design of one-man, one-woman marriage, and we urge all people of faith to urgently do as 1 Timothy 2:1-2 says and lift our elected and appointed leaders and judges in prayer and urge them to protect and defend one-man, one-woman marriage as same-sex marriage is being deliberated in our state and several others." An amendment by Mike Hamlet, pastor of First Baptist Church, North Spartanburg, specifically identified the University of South Carolina Upstate and the College of Charleston as two schools that "have endorsed required reading curriculum that embraces the acceptance of the gay agenda and have used specific programs to promote the homosexual agenda using public resources and have hired staff to promote homosexual lifestyles on campus."
Bylaw changes
Messengers heard a first reading on changes to the convention's bylaws. One proposed change states that a contribution to the Cooperative Program is required for a church to be in good standing with the state convention. Another would create the position of president-elect as a convention officer. The proposed changes to the bylaws will be considered for approval by messengers at the 2014 annual meeting.
Next year's annual meeting will be held Nov. 11-12 at Shandon Baptist Church in Columbia.
Butch Blume is managing editor of The Baptist Courier, the news magazine of South Carolina Baptists. Scott Vaughan is a contributing writer for the South Carolina Baptist Convention.
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Men Over ThirtyOpinion
August 13, 2003, 07:17 AM
Fashion experts from Esquire magazine offer their list of inappropriate behavior for men over thirty, which includes staying in bed past 11 AM or wearing a watch costing less than £100. Says fashion editor Simon Tiffin: 'We were inspired by the sight on planes, trains and buses of too many grown men reading Harry Potter. They are kid-ults. We've lost the art of growing old gracefully.'


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Tripoli airport becomes 'war zone' as militias clash
Black plumes of smoke marked shell blasts and bulldozed earthen barricades mapped out the frontlines around Tripoli's largest airport.
In addition to all the terrible things Muammar Gaddafi can be accused
for, we can now add "World's Worst Boyfriend" to the list.
Some closure, hope for Lockerbie victims
Families of victims killed in the Libyan bombing of a U.S. airliner over
Scotland in 1988 said justice was served with the death of Libyan
leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday — but they also hoped it would reveal
others behind the attack.
Joyous celebrations as Muammar Gaddafi rule ends
Gunfire echoed across Libya's main cities Thursday as crowds poured into
the streets to celebrate the death of Muammar Gaddafi, ruler of the
North African nation for 42 years.
Muammar Gaddafi: A dictator in the dock
Muammar Gaddafi is rumored to be plotting an escape to Niger. But even
if he succeeds, he'll hardly be safe. Interpol has issued a Red Alert
against the Libyan dictator.
Libya rebels to loyalists: Surrender
Libya's interim leader gave forces loyal to deposed ruler Muammar
Gaddafi a four-day deadline yesterday to surrender or face a bloody end
to a war that the new leadership said has killed 50,000 people.
Libyan rebels work to restore oil fields; Gaddafi still hiding
Muammar Gaddafi taunted his Libyan enemies and their Western backers on
Thursday as rebel forces battled pockets of loyalists across Tripoli in
an ever more urgent quest to find and silence the fugitive strongman.
$1M price on Gaddafi's head as fighting goes on
Libya's new masters offered a million-dollar bounty for the fugitive
Muammar Gaddafi yesterday, after he urged his men to fight on in battles
across the capital.
Rebels celebrate but Gaddafi still defiant
Libyan rebels sacked Muammar Gaddafi's Tripoli bastion, seizing weapons
and smashing symbols of a 42-year dictatorship whose demise will
transform Libya and send a warning to other Arab autocrats facing
popular uprisings.
Gaddafi on the run as rebels fight in Tripoli
Remnants of forces still loyal to Muammar Gaddafi staged a desperate
stand in Tripoli yesterday as rebels fought their way into the capital,
but the whereabouts of the veteran leader was a mystery.


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Cher make a comeback: Ten fun facts about the diva
Ten facts to bring you up to speed on Cher's life.
VIDEO: Cher performs new single 'Woman's World' on TODAY show
The 67 year-old diva still has it.
Cher set to appear on 'The Voice' season finale on June 18
Cher will appear on the season finale of "The Voice" on June 18, making her first live TV performance in more than 10 years, NBC said on Monday.