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Rye-stuffed Trout
Yield: 4 Servings
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4 sl Rye bread
1/3 c Chopped celery
2 tb Chopped onion
1 ts Grated orange peel
1/4 c Margearine or butter
2 tb Fresh orange juice
1/4 c Snipped parsley
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butter before baking. Bake until fish flakes easily at backbone, about 20
minutes. 4 servings.
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A record 5.4 million viewers tuned in Tuesday to Discovery's crab-fishing reality show Deadliest Catch to see the start of a mournful journey for the family and crew of the "Cornelia Marie." It was the first of several episodes to chronicle the Jan. 29 stroke and Feb. 9 death of Captain Phil Harris, 53.
"Seeing it all happen again, it freaks me out a little bit," Harris's eldest son, Josh, tells PEOPLE. "I can't tell you how many just sat there, crying, when we watched this in the bar. I had already seen the footage and I started crying again."
It's been a time of transition for Josh, 27, and Jake, 24, as they settle their dad's affairs and move on with their lives. For the eldest son, "I am going to take care of my family and the six companies that my dad started," Josh says, "like the coffee company. That was one of his pride and joys, so I've got to take that over, along with the boat, and all his endorsements he had."
The sons are looking to buy their dad's fishing vessel, the "Cornelia Marie," outright. "I will try to get it back up and running at full strength, and be the full owner, and my guys can keep their jobs," Josh says. "I will achieve my goals. One way or another, it will happen. There is no failure in a fisherman."
For Jake, mourning his dad's passing has been a tougher challenge. As viewers witnessed this season, Jake had come clean to his father about his drug addiction. "You got to go to treatment, man," Harris told his son. "At least you'll have a fighting chance." The two embraced with Jake, saying quietly, "'I love you, Pops.'" Then, not long after Harris's death, Jake was charged with reckless driving.
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While Jake is away fishing at the moment, Josh is trying his best to quit smoking with the help of electronic cigarettes. "It's one of the hardest battles of my life," Josh admits. "It's even harder of a battle than fighting the Bering Sea. But I'm on a wellness kick now, going around the U.S. and promoting health."
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A number of double-blind placebo-controlled studies have demonstrated the efficacy of imipramine hydrochloride1-4 and phenelzine sulfate4-7 in the treatment of phobic disorders, particularly agoraphobia associated with panic attacks. Uncontrolled clinical observations suggest that other "antidepressants" may also be effective. In this issue of the Archives, Zitrin and her New York colleagues present the final results of a study of the treatment of patients with phobic disorders (see p 125). Their study was started in 1972 and described in a preliminary report in this journal.2 Marks and his British colleagues also present in this issue results of a similar investigation, but they arrive at quite different conclusions (see p 153). Briefly, the New York group concludes that imipramine is effective in the treatment of phobic patients with panic attacks. Furthermore, dynamically oriented supportive psychotherapy is as effective as behavior therapy, as long as both lead to confrontation with
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Is your team struggling with healthcare receivables? This free downloadable report from insideARM.com helps you improve returns on healthcare receivables.
The U.S. healthcare receivables industry is enormous, representing one in every six dollars spent in this country, or roughly $2 trillion, in 2005. The aging of the population and other macroeconomic trends suggest that this industry will grow moderately for the foreseeable future. Part of this growth has heightened an industry problem: more bad medical debt. Healthcare providers in the United States set aside $129 billion annually to cover bad medical debt, amounting to roughly 7 percent of the industry's revenues – and more than double the industry's average net profits of 3 percent. As bad debt has caused profitability to wane, healthcare providers have partnered more with companies that specialize in the collection of delinquent medical receivables.
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Backing Louras for mayorFebruary 12,2013I have known Rutland Mayor Chris Louras since we were two local boys living in the same dorm at UVM who met and became friends. Later in life our paths diverged, and I would get my updates on Chris from his dad, Gus, as we exchanged greetings on Center Street and for a period of time the updates were of a more serious nature since Chris was piloting U.S. Army helicopters over Iraq during Desert Storm. Some years later we served together on the Rutland Board of Aldermen, and for those who recall a little history Chris was not exactly my greatest supporter when I ran for mayor against then Aldermanic President John Cassarino.
As Mayor Chris Louras runs for re-election in March, given the challenges that Rutland faces, I am sure there are some who are questioning whether change would be appropriate. Rutland, not unlike many cities across our country, is facing significant economic as well as aging infrastructure challenges. Having known Chris for many years, when he first ran for mayor, I knew he was intelligent, tough and had deep-rooted pride in his native city. I believed that if elected he would be a good mayor. During his mayoral tenure he has demonstrated these qualities and much more. Mayor Louras has faced the tough infrastructure issues head-on. He has introduced some very talented fresh faces at City Hall. And he has shown an open-mindedness and inclusiveness at City Hall that has frankly surprised me. These continue to be tough times, and as mayor, Chris Louras has made some tough choices, but Rutlands future will continue to be brighter with his leadership at City Hall.
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With every issue of the Archives, the reader is inundated with psychiatric research: new treatments, new biological abnormalities, new diagnostic methods, new diagnoses—the list seems endless. It is difficult to conceive of anyone, except, of course, our dedicated Editor, who bothers to read every article in every issue. Indeed, it would be a rare individual who had the time to read every abstract. In the current issue of the Archives, Mossman and Somoza1 reexamine the dexamethasone suppression test (DST) using a statistical method that is new to psychiatry, namely, receiver operating characteristic (ROC). Using this method, they are able to demonstrate that there is significant variability in the performance of the DST among different psychiatric centers. As with any statistical method, ROC involves more than a little mathematics, and the natural question as one leafs through the See also p 653. Archives is "Why should I bother with this?"
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Signs needed
While running the Ravenel Bridge on March 30, I saw several people, including groups of adults and parents with small children and strollers, walking on the right side of the path directly in the bike lane instead of keeping to the left in the pedestrian lane.
Many visitors and first-time bridge walkers and runners do not realize the potential safety hazard from speeding bikes in the right lane.
While the path does have markings on it for pedestrians to stay left and bikes to stay right, these markings are not prominent enough, especially if someone is not looking for them or doesn't notice them, which is too often the case for first-timers using the bridge path.
As an extra heads up before an unaware local resident or visitor gets seriously injured, the addition of a prominent and visible sign at the foot of the bridge on both sides directing pedestrians to keep left and bikes to keep right would be a welcome reminder in the interest of everyone's safety.
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Block texts in cars
It seems to me that this country has the technical capability to install a device in automobiles that would prevent a mobile phone from either sending or receiving text and verbal messages while the ignition switch is on. Sound alerts for messages to be checked would pass through the screening process.
It could be a requirement that it be installed on any new vehicle as well as any vehicle traded in to a dealer. Existing vehicles would be retrofitted with the device paid for with a charge added to the monthly bill for two years for all mobile phones.
Yes, this would cause some inconvenience for all vehicle occupants as drivers would need to pull over and turn off the ignition in order to send or receive messages.
However, I believe this to be a better solution than trying to enforce a ban on texting or conversing on a mobile device while driving, which would be very difficult to do.
David Fleshman
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Retirement funds
As a financial consultant helping individuals with their 401K rollovers for the past 16 years I was dismayed to read the front-page article by the Associated Press that 401K service providers may be misleading participants about what to do with their retirement savings after retiring or changing jobs.
I watch the same TV commercials and read the same articles you do. The messages are misleading and need to be controlled.
However, within our community are dozens of well trained, professional, honest financial consultants who offer trusted advice and exceptional service to help individuals manage their retirement savings appropriately.
As with so many things in life, "if it sounds too good to be true it probably is." The uncertainty of future government benefits makes your retirement savings potentially the only source of future income.
I urge IRA investors to find a local advisor who has the moral character they find attractive.
Meet face-to-face, and put together a reasonable plan with strong risk management characteristics. Everything you need to be successful is right in your own backyard.
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Thanks in English
I read in the March 27 paper that a man who immigrated from the Dominican Republic and has lived in the United States for 26 years won the $338 million Powerball Lottery.
That alone is amazing. But what really puzzles me, and also bothers me, is why he, living in the land of opportunity, home of the free and the brave, does not speak English.
One would think that after all this time, he would be thankful enough to use the language of the country that has provided him all these joys of living in such a wonderful country.
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Tommy Circle
Goose Creek
Wrong lesson
It is testing season in our public schools. Most likely your child's classwork for the past two months has been replaced with PASS practice tests and review sheets.
Your school may have held a PASS pep rally. Your child may have been offered a prize related to testing.
If your child was out sick on a test day, you may have received a personal phone call from the principal.
The message is clear: The PASS test is very important.
But to whom? Do our children benefit when meaningful learning is replaced with test prep?
Are worksheets boring our students and extinguishing their love of learning?
Are teachers frustrated by their shrinking control?
Standardized tests were created as a crude tool to help teachers identify strengths and weaknesses.
They are now misused for school and teacher accountability, and our students are paying the price.
As thousands across our country rally to put an end to high stakes testing, the Charleston County School District has taken the opposite route by accepting federal grants that require us to link student test scores to teacher evaluation and pay, and do nothing to benefit students.
We should focus our resources on student-centered learning, smaller class size, learning materials, field trips, early childhood education and recruiting experienced certified teachers.
Please research the corporate reform movement that is threatening to take over our public schools. Compare it to the position of legitimate grassroots organizations (not StudentsFirst) that represent the voice of parents, students, teachers and others. We must unite and demand change. Silence is interpreted as acceptance, and our children deserve better.
For more information on how to help end high stakes testing, you may contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Mount Pleasant
NCAA bullying
Gene Sapakoff's sports column, "Flag cost USC, but NCAA ban backfires," in the March 27 Sports section did an excellent job of detailing the lunacy of the NCAA ban against South Carolina because the Confederate battle flag still flies on the S.C. Statehouse grounds. I will take it a step further and call it what it is — bullying.
I was born in Savannah and raised in South Carolina. I graduated from The Citadel and spent my entire Air Force career flying C-141s at Charleston Air Force Base. I am fiercely proud of my Southern heritage and consider the Confederate flag a part of that heritage.
I do not condone the notion of slavery in any way, shape or form and do not tolerate those who do, but I will not bow to anyone who tells me to sweep my heritage into the closet.
Memo to the NCAA: Don't you dare insult my Southern heritage and don't you dare call me a bigot. The flag stays!
Chuck Croft
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Mount Pleasant
Vets for pets
It has been proven that pets enhance the quality of life for senior citizens. But we are told if you can't afford a pet don't get one.
Who on a fixed income can afford the exorbitant vet fees? The shelter where we got our dog offers a senior for senior program.
Of course, the older the dog, the more health problems that may occur.
I am thankful that many shelters offer for adoption pets that are spayed, neutered and up to date on monthly flea and heartworm meds.
If everyone had to take his shelter dog to the vet for all this I bet not so many dogs would be adopted.
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Sometimes it pays to play for the worst team in the NBA.
In the case of the 76ers, who could challenge the 1972-73 team for worst record (9-73) in NBA history, it could pay off handsomely.
You see, the 11 players currently on the Sixers roster are scheduled to earn a combined $24.25 million in salary next season. Under terms of the NBA's salary floor, teams are required to spend at least $56.759 million in salaries for 2014-15.
According to salary cap expert Larry Coon (and his website Q&A pointed out by USA TODAY Sports), if the Sixers don't spend another $32.6 million on players by season's end, that difference is forfeited to the National Basketball Players Association.
Guess who receives it? Anyone who plays for the Sixers this season.
The shortfall is based on the team salary as of the team's last regular-season game, according to Coon, but the distribution comes after the league's audit in July. The union informs the league of its proposed distribution within 30 days after the audit, and the team has 10 days after receiving the proposal to distribute the money.
USA Today quotes Coon as saying:
"There is no set rule for how the money is distributed. The CBA merely says 'pro rata or in accordance with such other formula as may be reasonably determined by the Players Association.'"
Of course, Sixers president Sam Hinkie could add a few players to get his money's worth this season. But don't expect him to sign any high-priced veterans. He would prefer the team take its lumps and stockpile assets for the future.
The Sixers recently traded their highest-paid player, eight-year veteran Thaddeus Young ($8.3 million) to the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for Luc Mbah a Moute and Alexey Shved and a first-round draft pick from the Cleveland Cavaliers in the blockbuster deal that sent Kevin Love to the Cavs.
That leaves injury-riddled veteran Jason Richardson ($6.6 million) as the team's highest-paid player, followed by Mbah a Moute ($4.3 million), 2013 first-round draft pick Nerlens Noel ($3.3 million), Shved ($3.1 million) and reigning NBA Rookie of the Year Michael Carter-Williams ($2.3 million).
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Reformed Youth Movement – Summer Camp 2007 Pacific Northwest
56 teens learning the doctrines of Justification and Sanctification, braving the ropes course, and laughing at, then discussing "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," is dominating the Reformed Youth Movement Summer Camp 2007 in the Pacific Northwest. There's more: The teen band leading worship music – singing psalms and hymns set to new tunes – teens worshipping a holy and gracious God. Michael Subracko preaching on our identity in Christ and God's promises made good to us in Christ is shaping these teens to live confidently and productively to the glory of God.
Reformed Youth Movement seeks to connect teens with the Reformed University Fellowship of the Presbyterian Church in America. In the Pacific Northwest, we support two Reformed University Fellowships at the University of Washington and at the University of Oregon. Ryan Hughes is the Campus Minister at UW and David Rapp is the Campus Minister at UO.
RYM Camp is vital to the spiritual development of teen members of our church. They need to pursue faith and life in a context removed from their parents from time to time. As teens transition from childhood to adulthood, these events apart from parental oversight is significant. Our adult staff to camper ratio is one to 3.5 and five of these adult staff are ordained ministers of the gospel! If a parent could be a fly on the wall at this conference center, he/she would be impressed with the spiritual maturity of these teens. Significant needs and problems plague a good number of the campers, but the gospel of freedom in Christ ministers to them all.
Teens that do not take advantage of such events often suffer in two ways: 1) they don't know how to make wise choices when they finally are free of their parents' oversight and authority; 2) they do not persevere in the most holy faith, never having made it their own, having merely complied with their parents' domain of faith.
The peer interaction is not only necessary in these situations, but it is quite spiritually moving to observe. I have seen teens reach out to peers who suffer from mild mental disabilities, treating them as one of the group and respectfully protecting them. At this particular camp, one teen is legally blind and has slight mental disability. He is part of the group. Another is legally deaf and has slight mental disability. She is part of the group. Another teen is in shock at the divorce of his parents and abandonment of him, yet at camp he is part of the group receiving comfort, assurance, and spiritual sustenance. Through peer interaction, these teens are discovering that the church is larger than their particular congregation, youth group, and family unit. Building relationships with teens from other congregations is helpful to the formation of a Christian adult.
Reformed Youth Movement supports and reenforces congregational and family life. Our participants return to church and home ready to submit to authority, charged up about serving Christ, saturated by the gospel, and appreciative for the comforts and blessings of their usual environment.
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STAYTON — Regis High School and St. Mary Catholic School here have welcomed many new faces.
Three Pacific Alliance of Catholic Education teachers from the University of Portland will join the faculty: Nathan Mattix and Michael Rezich at Regis and Erika Murphy at St. Mary.
SALEM — St. Joseph School welcomes a new principal, William Summer.
Summer was born and raised on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. He spent summers with family in upstate New York and had the opportunity to attend Camp Don Bosco in Newtown, New Jersey. The camp, the philosophy of St. John Bosco and the Salesians continue to be at the core of who he is and what he hopes to share with St. Joseph School.
OREGON CITY — St. John the Apostle School is welcoming three new teachers.
Stephanie Hussey-Pack is relocating with her husband from North Carolina, where she has taught English at the middle and high school level. Hussey-Pack is also versed in digital arts. Hussey-Pack will be teaching middle school.
Students from Oregon State and Portland State universities this summer went on a evangelization trip to the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia. The 30 youths organized the trek, which took place June 17-30. The trip started in the same way Jesus told his disciples to travel— with nothing for the journey. That's because the baggage was stuck in Miami.
A team from St. Pius X Parish in Portland has completed a trip to Tanzania for the opening of a new church and an ordination.
They wanted to support Father Peter Siamoo, a Tanzanian priest who had served their Oregon parish and worked as a hospital chaplain before returning home to the Diocese of Moshi.
After Mass on a summer Sunday, Holy Redeemer Parish, seminarians and parishioners hunch over smart phones, consulting.
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In November 2006, with several original cast members from the movie in attendance (including Scott Schwartz as the flagpole-licking Flick), the 'A Christmas Story' house opened as a tourist attraction, with more than 4,000 'Story' fans making the pilgrimage to the home. Since then, more than 100,000 of the 'Christmas Story' devoted have visited the house and on Thanksgiving weekend, the 2010 'A Christmas Story' Convention will feature an autograph signing with cast members (including, again, Schwartz), a BB gun range and rides on the original fire truck used in the movie to help rescue Flick from the flagpole.
Location as Character: It's where the Old Man's (Darren McGavin) "major award," the Leg Lamp, was housed, where Mrs. Parker (Melinda Dillon) winter-wrapped Randy Parker (Ian Petrella) to within an inch of immobility and where young Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley) wore his pink bunny suit pajamas and opened his greatest Christmas gift of all time, the official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time.
Historical Significance: Though some movie aficionados might cite 'It's a Wonderful Life' or 'Elf' or 'A Miracle on 34th Street' as the best Christmas movie ever, Moviefone put 'A Christmas Story' atop its list of the "25 Best Christmas Movies of All Time."
Besides, what other movie has inspired a 24-hour marathon of repeat TV airings every Christmas?
Fun Fact: Not since 'Star Wars' has a movie been better merchandised than 'A Christmas Story.' In addition to several versions of the DVD -- including deluxe box sets and Blu-ray discs -- the official 'A Christmas Story' gift shop in Cleveland (and website) includes such goodies as Bunny Suit Pajamas (just like the kind Aunt Clara sent), 'A Christmas Story' Monopoly and Yahtzee, Parker Family action figures, action figures that depict the classic scene of Flick getting his tongue stuck to the flagpole, replicas of Flick's cap and Schwartz's stocking hat, official Red Ryder BB guns and several incarnations of the infamous Leg Lamp, including actual Leg Lamps, Leg Lamp string lights, Leg Lamp Christmas stockings, a Leg Lamp inflatable lawn ornament, a Leg Lamp light-up tie (with fringe!), a Leg Lamp snow globe and a Leg Lamp cookie cutter.
Directions: The 'Christmas Story' house is located at 3159 W. 11th St. in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, on the city's west side. To reach the house from downtown Cleveland, take 90 West to the W. 14th St. exit. Head south on W. 14th, turn left onto Clark Ave. and right onto W 11th. The 'Christmas Story' museum and gift shop are across the street.
Visitor Info: The 'A Christmas Story' house is open year-round, and tickets are available for guided tours of the house, which also includes admission to the museum and gift shop.
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As the Director of Instrumentation, Dr. Fumiya Watanabe has overseen the construction of the Center for Integrative Nanotechnology Sciences' clean room. He also is heavily involved in the maintenance, policies, rules and regulations of the CINS Facility Equipment and Instruments. Dr. Watanabe earned his PhD in Metallurgical Engineering in 1990 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked as an undergraduate, a graduate student, and as a Post-doctoral Research Assistant/Associate. Afterwards, Dr. Watanabe worked as a Visiting Scientist for IBM Research Division at the Almaden Research Center, as an Assistant Professor for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Kyushu University, Japan, as a Visiting Scientist at Frederick Seitz Materials Research Lab, and for the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
He has collaborated in publishing 40 articles, and has conducted presentations in both English and Japanese. Dr. Watanabe's expertise includes material and surface science as well as instrumentation use and development.
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EU Ministers Link Post-2010 Biodiversity and Climate Change
15 March 2010: During a meeting on 15 March 2010, in Brussels, Belgium, the Council of the Environment Ministers of the EU adopted Conclusions on biodiversity post-2010, which include several references to climate change.
In its Conclusions, the Council recognizes that climate change is increasingly among the strongest pressures on biodiversity, and that unavoidable climate change could even aggravate some effects, such as the proportion of species facing extinction. It underlines that the development and transfer of best practices and technologies will be essential to achieve a coordinated response, and stresses the need for cost-effective use of resources to cope with biodiversity loss, climate change and desertification.
The Council further stresses that effective policies in support of biodiversity and climate change mitigation and adaptation are inextricably linked, and highlights that greater convergence at international and national levels is needed in efforts to address both issues in a mutually reinforcing manner, optimizing opportunities in ongoing global processes within the CBD and UNFCCC, and in the preparations for Rio+20.
In the Conclusions, the Council recognizes that public and private finance, including innovative forms of financing, and finance associated with the Copenhagen Accord, should -based on appropriate criteria- include scope for payments for ecosystem services. It further provides that such finance should specifically support conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity within REDD+ (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries, including conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks) as appropriate, through the implementation of negotiated safeguards. Finally, the Council stresses the positive contribution of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture to food security and climate adaptation and mitigation through the conservation and sustainable use of these genetic resources. [Council Conclusions] [Meeting Announcement]


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Viral Video: Mash-Up of Star Wars and Schoolhouse Rock Is Nerd HeavenJoslyn Gray
Who's ready for a little trip down memory lane? A slightly weird and off-kilter trip down memory lane, but a trip nonetheless.
Two new mash-up videos by OneMinuteGalactica combine footage from Star Wars with the music of Schoolhouse Rock. In case you're too young to remember Schoolhouse Rock, it's pretty much the reason anyone my age knows what an adverb is, how to multiply, or how a bill becomes a law.
Of the two, my favorite is the one using the song "Unpack Your Adjectives," primarily because it introduces us to words like "moonish," "spacestationy," and "shoot firsty."
This one of "Interjections" is almost as good. The problem with this one is that unfortunately, the very last interjection used is the f-word (with the "u" blanked out), making me not want to share the fun with my kids. Boo. On the other hand: still funny for us grown-ups, so including it here anyway. (Alternative: stop the video at 2:17 if you want to show the kiddos.)
Let's hope OneMinuteGalactica comes up with a way to mash Star Wars into Schoolhouse Rock's multiplication rock songs, too. Personally I'd like to see one of "Three Is a Magic Number" featuring Darth Vader, Emperor Palpatine, and Count Dooku.
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I'm getting ready to start my son and I on the NRA qualifications courses of fire.(the self-directed stuff).. there is a term that i don't understand.. in the pistol course of fire (defense style, not bullseye), it talks about the position of "standing" in some sections and of "standing, ready" in others..
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Positive Adult Development
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Positive Adult Development is one of the four major forms of adult developmental study that can be identified. The other three forms are directionless change, stasis, and decline. Positive adult developmental processes are divided into at least six areas of study: hierarchical complexity (orders, stages), knowledge, experience, expertise, wisdom, and spirituality.[1]
The achievement of complete development at the end of adolescence was suggested by Freud, Piaget, and Binet among others. Research in Positive Adult Development questions not only that development ceases after adolescence, but also the notion of decline after late adolescence postulated by many gerontologists. Positive development does occur during adulthood. Recent studies indicate that such development is useful in predicting things such as an individual's health, life satisfaction, and degree of contribution to the society.
Development of the Field[edit]
Origins of the field[edit]
This field stems originally from several threads of work within Psychology. For example, Erik Erikson (1978) proposed a number of adult periods. Daniel Levinson (1978) had described a number of "seasons of life." Abraham Maslow proposed an adult needs hierarchy. Jean Piaget (Vuyk, 1980) came to agree that there were adult postformal stages beyond the stage of formal operations; his earlier theory had located an endpoint to the development of cognitive structures in the adolescent's acquisition of formal operations. John L. Horn (1970, 1979) found that crystallized intelligence, represented by such things as vocabulary size, increased in adulthood. Lawrence Kohlberg (1984) found that in early adulthood, some people come to think of moral, ethical and societal issues in multivarate terms (Systematic stage 11, the first postformal stage). They use multiple relations. During middle adulthood some people become principled reasoners about moral issues; for instance, they used abstract principles to relate systems of rights to systems of duties (Metasystematic stage 12, the second postformal stage). Likewise, Cheryl Armon (1984) found that by middle adulthood, some people could reason about interpersonal relationships at an order of complexity similar to that described by Lawrence Kohlberg.
By 1978, research on positive adult development was growing and expanding upon these early threads in a number of directions. Summaries of some of that initial positive adult development research can be found in Commons, Richards, and Armon (1984), as well as in Alexander and Langer (1990). Four postformal adult stages of development beyond the formal stage have been discovered in a wide variety of domains. The total number of stages across the life span now stands at 15. Periods and Seasons have been described. For critical discussion of term postformal thinking, see Kallio (2011). She claims that highest forms of adult cognitive development (as part of adult positive development) can be called as integrative thinking (i.e. integrating several different psychological domains as emotions, cognition etc.).
A number of edited books written on the topic of positive adult development in the 1990s (Commons, Sinnott, Richards, & Armon, 1989 and Commons, Armon, Kohlberg, Richards, Grotzer, & Sinnott, 1990), and more recently(Demick & Andreoletti, 2002; Hoare, 2006). In the past decade, researchers have turned to investigating methods to foster positive development in educational and organizational settings, rather than just describe it and/or measure it. These methods are used in organizational and educational setting. Some use developmentally-designed, structured public discourse to address complex public issues (Ross, 2007).
Directions of Change in Positive Adult Development[edit]
To determine whether a particular development in adulthood is positive or not, a value-judgment must be made about what kind of change in adult life is optimal or beneficial, and correspondingly what changes in adulthood are negative or deleterious. There are a number of competing standards for what constitutes positive development in adulthood, which can be broadly grouped into five directions (Robinson, 2012); orthogenetic (becoming more hierarchically complex), selective/adaptive (becoming more likely to pass on your genes and for offspring to survive and thrive), veridical (becoming less biased in your view of the world), eudemonic (becoming happier and healthier) and virtuous (becoming a better person from a particular moral or ethical standpoint).
Measurements in Positive Adult Development[edit]
Assessment of positive adult development can measure quantitative or qualitative change (Robinson, 2012). Measurements of quantitative change assess change on a defined continuous variable, such as IQ, reaction time or indicators of personality maturity such as authenticity or self-actualization. Quantitative change can be discontinuous, if there is a sudden step-change in value, or can be continuous, when changes occur gradually and incrementally.
Qualitative change is evidenced by a change in kind, rather than a change in amount, as exemplified by the switch from caterpillar to butterfly. Assessments of qualitative change in adulthood involve assigning written or numerical data to a stage within a defined stage model, according to defined assessment criteria. Researchers have developed a number of such instruments and methods to measure adult development stages, such as the moral judgment interview of Kohlberg, the Berlin Wisdom Interview, the Washington Sentence Completion test of ego development, the Subject-Object Interview (Lahey et al., 2011), and the Model of Hierarchical Complexity.
- Armon, C. (1984). Ideals of the good life and moral judgment: Ethical reasoning across the. lifespan. In M. L. Commons, F.A. Richards, & C. Armon (Eds.), Beyond formal operations: Vol. I. Late adolescent and adult cognitive development. New York: Praeger.
- Commons, M. L., Armon, C., Kohlberg, L., Richards, F. A., Grotzer, T. A., & Sinnott, J. D. (Eds.). (1990). Adult development: Vol. 2. Models and methods in the study of adolescent and adult thought. New York: Praeger.
- Commons, M. L., Richards, F. A., & Armon, C. (Eds.). (1984). Beyond formal operations: Vol. I. Late adolescent and adult cognitive development. New York: Praeger.
- Commons, M. L., Sinnott, J. D., Richards, F. A., & Armon, C. (Eds.). (1989). Adult development: Vol. 1. Comparisons and applications of adolescent and adult developmental models. New York: Praeger.
- Alexander, C., & Langer, E. (Eds.). (1990). Higher stages of human development: Perspectives on adult growth. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Demick, J., & Andreoletti (Eds.).(2003). Handbook of adult development. New Jersey, Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
- Erikson, E. H. (1978). Adulthood. New York: W. W. Norton
- Gidley, J. M. The Evolution of Consciousness as a Planetary Imperative: An Integration of Integral Views, Integral Review: A Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Journal for New Thought, Research and Praxis, 2007, Issue 5, p. 4-226.
- Hoare, C. (Ed.). (2006). Handbook of adult development and learning. New York, NY: Oxford.
- Horn, J. L. (1970). Organization of data on life-span development of human abilities. In L. R. Goulet & P. B. Baltes (Eds.), Life-span developmental psychology: Research and theory (pp. 423–466). New York: Academic Press.
- Kallio, E. 2011. Integrative thinking is the key: an evaluation of current research into the development of thinking in adults. Theory & Psychology, 21 Issue 6 December 2011 pp. 785 - 801
- Kohlberg, L. (1984). The psychology of moral development: Essays on moral development. San Francisco: Harper & Row
- Lahey, L., Souvaine, E., Kegan, R., Goodman, R. & Felix, S. (2011). A Guide to the Subject-Object Interview: Its Administration and Interpretation. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
- Levinson, D. J. (1978). Seasons of a man's life. New York: Knopf.
- Robinson, O.C. (2012). Development through adulthood: An integrative sourcebook. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Ross, S. N. (2007). Effects of a structured public issues discourse method on the complexity of citizens' reasoning and local political development. Dissertation Abstracts International B, 68 (02). (UMI No. 3251492).
- Vuyk, R. (1981). Overview and critique of Piaget's Genetic Epistemology. 1965-1980, 2. Volumes, Academic, New York.


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After the traumatic year of 1968, when the American Left lost Civil Rights leader
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
, and anti-war presidential candidate Senator Robert F. Kennedy to assassins, culminating in the Poor People's March on Washington, the police riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, and the election of Richard Nixon, a supporter of the Vietnam War, as president,
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briefly flirted with giving up singing. Instead, he grew a beard and, adopting the "Think global, act local" philosophy, helped build the sloop Clearwater, which sailed the Hudson River, advocating the cleanup of that polluted waterway (which runs beside his home in Beacon, NY), and ecology in general.
's changes of appearance and focus were not reflected in his 1969 Columbia Records album Young vs. Old, a collection of disparate tracks in some cases dating back several years, and then he went uncharacteristically silent on the recording front for a while. Two years on, however, he was back with
Rainbow Race
, which, starting with a cover picture that shows him in his beard and sailing cap, standing with guitar in hand before a body of water, is very much the work of
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the Clearwater captain. Not that he's given up his usual concerns, however. That becomes clear as the music starts with "Last Train to Nuremberg," the first eight out of ten
originals on the LP, in which he demonstrates that he's been reading the papers since his last album by drawing a direct line between Nazi war crimes and the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, and from there to the then-current political regime in Washington, D.C.
is one with the outrage felt by those on the left at the turn of events in the late '60s, identifying with the confused and dismayed radical longhairs in "Our Generation" and, in that song and "Uncle Ho," even going so far as to find common cause with the "enemy" in Vietnam. But war protest is not his only interest here; ecology is at least as well represented. Even in "Our Generation," he begins decrying a world in which people are "knee-deep in garbage," and on his own "Sailing Down This Golden River" and Georgia Tech English teacher Bud Foote's "The Clearwater"
explains what he and his crew intend to do about it.
is a natural optimist who, like those with whom he shares a political philosophy, has been going through a trying time, and despite his determination, that comes out. The lovely, poetic "Snow Snow" is a wistful song reflecting on death, and much the same can be said of the album closer, "Hobo's Lullaby," a song
used to sing with
Woody Guthrie
. Still, in "Old Devil Time" (heard in 1970 as a theme song for the movie Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon) and the title song "My Rainbow Race," he declares that he will fight on: "And because I love you," goes the chorus of the latter, sung with a choir of children, "I'll give it one more try/To show my rainbow race/It's too soon to die."
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Compared with the tantric staying power of my loyal BlackBerry, the shiny, glamorous new iPhone started yawning before teatime
It was all foretold in Toy Story. My battered, reliable, much-loved BlackBerry, an old loyal cowboy in the Woody mould, was cast aside by me, the spoilt child, in favour of an iPhone, with its Buzz Lightyear glamour of shine, design and quite an ace camera.
It was one of the first batch to come to the UK. And although I cooed over its sleek shape and enjoyed stroking it into action, as opposed to the frantic mini-punches the BlackBerry demands, I knew early on that I had been hasty.
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Good Matt Damon
Matt Damon played auctioneer and helped to raise $90,000 (including $9,000 he forked over himself) at a children's foundation auction in Rochester, Minn., this past weekend. The star of "The Talented Mr. Ripley" saw bids for four autographed "Good Will Hunting" posters that he had donated -- signed by Damon and his fellow costar and co-screenwriter Ben Affleck and costar Robin Williams -- reach $10,000 each. Damon bought a Labrador puppy for $3,000 and an autographed Shjon Podein jersey for $6,000. Podein, whose children's foundation the auction benefited, is a Rochester native and Colorado Avalanche hockey star.


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CENTERVILLE, Mass. (AP) - It was a cold, dreary March afternoon when Liz Kurtz walked toward the door where 6-year-old Makenzie Davis was waiting on the other side. "My sister is here! My sister is here!" Makenzie, now 10 and snuggled in Liz's arms, recalled four years later.
"All day at work, I said, 'Oh my god, I'm going to meet my little sister, I'm going to meet my little sister,'" said Kurtz, as she painted Makenzie's fingernails pink.
Four birthday cakes, countless Friendly's sundaes and many homework sessions later, the 53-year-old Dennisport resident has become as much of a help to Makenzie's grandmother as she has to the fourth-grader.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters volunteer Liz Kurtz, right, of South Dennis, Mass., paints a leopard print design of the fingernails her little sister Makenzie Davis, 10, of Centerville on April 27. Kurtz is one of eight Massachusetts volunteers named 'Bigs of the Year' by the Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation of Massachusetts Bay.
"She sometimes calms me down," Makenzie's grandmother, Susan Davis, 59, said of Liz.
"She's my little sister 'cause I'm older than she is," Susan said.
It is because of her ability to pitch in on tasks as banal as cooking dinner and as festive as sewing on Halloween - all manifestations of her seemingly unlimited capacity to love - that Liz is one of eight Massachusetts volunteers named "Bigs of the Year" this week by the Big Brothers Big Sisters Foundation of Massachusetts Bay.
"It's not hard, it's fun," Liz, who works in her brother's Dennis auto appraisal office, said of her work with Big Brothers Big Sisters. The organization has nearly 1,500 volunteers statewide, was founded in New York and got a foothold in Massachusetts in 1919.
For a long time, Makenzie had wanted a sister, and not long before that March day when the two first met, the child had been separated from her mother and two little brothers.
Makenzie, who occasionally sees her biological mother and one of her brothers, refers to her grandmother as "Mom."
"Her and I went through hell for three years," Susan said of the child who has seen much ugliness in her first decade of life.
So she and Liz work together to see to it that Makenzie has a bright future.
"What do I say that's really important to do?" Liz asked Makenzie, now sitting on her big sister's lap.
"Do well in school," Makenzie replied.
"We want you to go to college," Liz said.
Liz taught Makenzie to ride a bike. She drives her to hip-hop dance class on Monday nights. She makes albums each March commemorating their year together. Their bond fills a deep void.
"I've raised my kids and let's face it," Susan said, "I'm going to be 60 this year, so my patience isn't what it used to be."
Makenzie was one of about 2,000 children in Massachusetts who were "Littles" in 2010, according to the organization's website.
When asked whether she would have clicked so well with any Big Sister or whether Liz was special, Makenzie's reply at first startled her tall, trim Big Sister.
"I would have loved anyone," Makenzie said.
Then she looked up at Liz.
"But I love you," said the spritely girl with shoulder length, straight hair.
The two do a lot of their bonding when they sing showtunes and chat in Liz's car. As Makenzie has grown older, so have their topics of conversation. But Liz was unprepared when Makenzie brought up her eventual wedding day.
"She asked me, when she gets married, if I would walk her down the aisle with her grandmother," said Liz, fighting back tears.
Of course, she said yes but added that her feelings won't be hurt if Makenzie changes her mind.
The pair has been busy preparing for the awards ceremony Thursday at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, which they will travel to in a stretch limousine provided with a steep discount by Kon Limousine Service in Osterville.
Liz and Makenzie recently traveled to Boston, where they visited the Public Garden and answered questions on camera for a video that will be shown at the awards.
They were asked how far into the future they see their relationship. Liz said "always," because she couldn't think of any circumstance when the two wouldn't have some sort of relationship.
Makenzie, on the other hand, prefers "eternity" to "forever."
"Because eternity is longer than forever, and I know I'll be with you longer than forever," she told Liz, who was holding Makenzie in her arms.


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A woman suffered a leg injury when she struck by a car on Sheridan Drive near Delaware Road about 3:45 p.m. today.
Town of Tonawanda police were still at the crash scene this evening.
The woman was taken to Erie County Medical Center for treatment of her injury.
No charges have been filed and the incident remains under investigation.


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Through our years of talking with women about ministry, we have observed a frustration from some—working with men who don't understand or value them. Consider with us the question, "Can men and women really be friends," and if so, "What would that relationship look like?"
Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan immortalized the popular (mis)understanding of male-female relationships in the hit movie When Harry Met Sally. When Harry makes a pass at Sally, his fellow coed, she turns him down with the familiar words, "No, Harry . . . we are just going to be friends, OK?" Harry responds: "Friends? You realize, of course, that we could never be friends." The rest of the conversation proceeds like this:
Sally: Why not?
Harry: What I'm saying—and this is not a come-on in any way, shape, or form—is that men and women can't be friends because the s*x part always gets in the way.
Sally: That's not true. I have a number of men friends and there is no s*x involved.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: No, you don't.
Sally: Yes, I do.
Harry: You only think you do.
Sally: Are you saying that I'm having s*x with these men without my knowledge?
Harry: No, I'm saying they all want to have s*x with you.
Sally: No, they don't.
Harry: Yes, they do . . .
Sally: How do you know?
Harry: Because no man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have s*x with her.Their argument continues, with Harry maintaining that all male-female relationships are doomed because "the s*x thing" is "already out there." Sally remains dubious but concludes regretfully, "That's too bad because you are the only person I know in New York." Poor Sally! What a choice when it comes to men—romance or nothing. Why not "just" friends? Is a pure, nonromantic relationship really impossible between a man and a woman, or is Harry wrong? More specifically, how does Harry's theory relate to men and women who follow Christ? We believe that Christians, indwelt by the Spirit, will prove Harry to be wrong. Men and women really can be friends. In Christ, they can be more than friends—they can be sacred siblings, and the implications for ministry are enormous!In our recent publication Mixed Ministry, Working Together as Brothers and Sisters in an Oversexed Society, you can find more on this topic. In the year ahead, we will discuss this topic further, hoping you will wrestle with us to bring clarity to an important issue in ministry today. We believe men and women can be friends but admit it's a complex topic. What do you think?
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Seth Word is a 24-year-old from Sacramento, California.
Word is a happily married man and father whose Mormon faith is very important to him. A role model in every sense of the word, Word never takes the easy way out. Acting under his motto, "put family first," Word is determined to lose weight and see his 18-month-old child grow up healthy. He is a product of his own hard work in sales and wants to take care of himself, once and for all, by hitting his goal weight.


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Mo Williams G #52
Full Name: Maurice Williams
Current Team: Cleveland Cavaliers
Born: Dec 19, 1982 (33 years old)
Birthplace: Jackson, Mississippi (United States)
Nationality: United States
Height: 6-1 (185cm) Weight: 198 (90kg)
Hand: Right
Website: http://www.mowilliams.org/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/mowilliams
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mogotti25/
Current NBA Status: Under Contract (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Free Agent: UFA-2017
Current Agent: Mark Bartelstein
Draft Entry: 2003 NBA Draft
Early Entry Info: 2003 Early Entrant
Drafted: Round 2, Pick 18, Utah Jazz
Pre-Draft Team: Alabama (So)
High School: Murrah High School [Jackson, Mississippi]
Mo Williams News
Mo Williams Changes Mind, Decides To Retire
The Cavs owe Mo Williams $2.2 million this season.
Mo Williams Decides Not To Retire, Returning To Cavs For One More Season
Mo Williams is under contract with the Cavaliers for one season at $2.2 million.
Cavaliers Expect Mo Williams To Retire
The Cavaliers decided not to waive Mo Williams to stretch the $2.2 million they owe him next season over three seasons.
Mo Williams Strongly Considering Retiring
Mo Williams' injury concerns and desire to eventually coach have factored into his thinking.
Mo Williams Out For Next Two Weeks With Knee Injury
Mo Williams will be out for the next two weeks as he continues treatment and rehabilitation on his left knee (Chondromalacia).
Mo Williams, Cavs Agree Upon Two-Year, $4.3M Deal
Mo Williams gets a player option in Year 2 of the deal.
Mo Williams Interested In Return To Cavaliers
Mo Williams is seeking a multi-year deal.
Russell Westbrook, Mo Williams Named NBA Players Of Week
Russell Westbrook averaged a triple-double as he led the Thunder to a 2-1 week.
Hornets Acquire Mo Williams, Troy Daniels From Wolves For Gary Neal
Mo Williams and Troy Daniels will go to the Hornets, while Gary Neal will be traded to the Wolves.
Mo Williams Available In Trade Talks
Mo Williams signed with the Wolves in the offseason and the club is looking for draft pick compensation.
Al Horford, Mo Williams Named NBA Players Of The Week
Al Horford and Mo Williams have been named the NBA Players of the Week.
Mo Williams Agrees To $3.75M Deal With Wolves
Mo Williams averaged 9.7 points per game last season for the Blazers.
Mo Williams To Opt Out Of 14-15 Season On Contract
Mo Williams said he is searching for a multi-year contract.
Mo Williams Likely To Miss Game 3 With Groin Injury
Mo Williams is bothered by a groin injury.
Damian Lillard Initiates Blazers' First Team Meeting Of Season
Earl Watson, Mo Williams and Dorell Wright were among the players who addressed the team.
Mo Williams Will Opt Out Of Deal With Blazers In Offseason
Mo Williams will opt out of his $2.7 million deal with the Blazers for the 14-15 season.
Bogut, Williams Suspended One Game By NBA For Altercation, Aldridge, Matthews, Green Fined
LaMarcus Aldridge has been fined $45,000 while Wesley Matthews and Draymond Green have been fined $20,000 each.
Mo Williams To Sign Two-Year, $5.6M Deal With Blazers
Mo Williams will sign a two-year, $5.6 million contract with the Portland Trail Blazers, a league source told RealGM.
Grizzlies Remain In Talks With Mo Williams, Udrih
Mo Williams and Beno Udrih are both seeking a deal above the veteran's minimum.
Mo Williams To Meet With Grizzlies Monday Night
Mo Williams is flying to Memphis to meet with the Grizzlies' front office on Monday night
Mo Williams Receives Interest From Spurs, Heat
Mo Williams spent last season with the Jazz.
Grizzlies Interested In Mo Williams
Mo Williams does not have a clear frontrunner up to this point.
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Bulls Targeting Mo Williams, Will Bynum For Guard Help
The Bulls have shown significant interest in Mo Williams and Will Bynum and have started exploratory discussions with the representatives of the free agent guards, league sources told RealGM.
Mo Williams Demands To Start For Jazz If He Re-Signs
Mo Williams will not re-sign with the Jazz unless he remains the starting point guard next season.
Mo Williams Undergoes Successful Procedure On Thumb
The Utah Jazz are 18-11 this season without Mo Williams, who on Wednesday took a first step toward returning.
Mo Williams Undergoes Successful Surgery
Williams underwent successful surgery on Friday and will be re-evaluated in six weeks.
Mo Williams To Undergo Surgery On Right Thumb
Mo Williams will be reevaluated in six weeks.
Mo Williams Out Indefinitely With Severely Sprained Thumb
Mo Williams is out indefinitely and will miss Wednesday's game against the Warriors because of a "severely sprained" right thumb.
Mo Williams Sprains Right Thumb
Mo Williams will undergo an MRI to determine the severity of the injury.
Mo Williams Agrees To Trade To Jazz
Mo Williams has decided to pick up his player option for the 12-13 season and accept a trade to the Jazz.


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Pre-Nursing Student Juggles School, Busy Pageant Schedule
Although Jasmyn Wilkins was born into a family of NBA royalty – you might have heard of her father, Gerald, or her uncle, Dominique – she discovered in high school that she was more interested in playing in the band than playing basketball. On June 3, the pre-nursing student will be vying for a crown of her own in a very different kind of national competition: the Miss USA Pageant.
Wilkins, 22, had never even seen a beauty pageant on TV until early 2011. One night as she watched a pageant – her first – with roommates, one of them remarked that she could see Wilkins competing in something like Miss USA. Although Wilkins dismissed the idea at first, a seed had been planted, and eventually she looked into it.
"I was like, 'Well, you know, why not?'" Wilkins says. "I just thought it would be a fun thing to try. I didn't even think that I would make it past Miss Georgia [USA]."
The self-proclaimed geek sold her saxophone to help raise money to cover the cost of her Miss Georgia USA entry fee, eveningwear and training with a pageant coach. Her goal was to make it to the top 15, which she thought would be pretty impressive for her first pageant. At the competition in November 2011, Wilkins' was the last name called in the top 15. Hers was also the last name called out of the five finalists, and last announced of the evening as the new Miss Georgia USA.
Since she won the title, it's been a whirlwind of public appearances, community service work, modeling and pageant prep for Miss USA. Now that she is competing on a national stage, she has sponsors that cover everything: shoes, gowns, makeup, pageant coaches, stylists, personal trainers and more. In the midst of all this, of course, she is going to school. Wilkins, who hopes to go into nursing or respiratory therapy, transferred to GSU from Clemson at the start of the 2011-12 academic year.
"I don't really have a social life" right now, Wilkins says. "It's pretty much just school and pageantry."
Balancing just those two things can be a challenge, particularly when her Miss Georgia USA schedule has her traveling out-of-state for USO appearances or crisscrossing the state to speak to students or civic organizations. One of the issues Wilkins is promoting to the latter is organ donation; her mother has received two liver transplants, without which she might not be alive. When she speaks to high school and junior high girls, she focuses on staying true to oneself.
Wilkins believes that ideal helps her stand out from many other contestants. "There are a lot of girls out there who are like Pageant Patty, who have been doing pageants their whole lives, and they're beautiful, but they're mechanical," Wilkins says. "Nowadays they're looking for someone who can relate to the modern woman, and that's not someone who's manufactured."
Gregarious and articulate, Wilkins says that her strength lies in the interview portion of the pageant. Learning to walk in sky-high heels and heavy beaded dresses for the eveningwear competition, however, has been more of a struggle. "I'm so tall that when I put on 5- or 6-inch heels, my center of gravity is really off," she says. "There really is a technique to pageant walking!"
In her six-month career as a beauty queen, Wilkins says she has grown personally, particularly in the areas of poise and confidence. She never imagined she would be at ease parading across a stage in a bikini or be able to speak in front of millions of people. "It's helped me mature a lot," Wilkins says of her role as Miss Georgia USA. "I don't even feel like I'm 22; I feel like I'm a 30-year-old."
While Miss America is known as a scholarship organization, Wilkins says that Miss USA, a separate pageant track under the Trump Organization, focuses more on the individual.
"Miss USA is really about – I know it sounds cheesy, but – really about the empowerment of women," Wilkins says.
This pageant will be only her second competition, and, unless she wins and goes on to represent the country in the Miss Universe pageant, it will be her last. She is grateful for the many opportunities her year as Miss Georgia USA has brought her, but sees Miss USA as the pinnacle of pageants.
"I wanted to find my own place in life," Wilkins says of her Miss Georgia USA experience. "I'm still on the hunt, but I think that pageantry is leading me in the right direction."
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Chester Old Timers advance with win
STRUTHERS - The Chester Old Timers baseball team advanced to the winner's bracket final by defeating Warren, 8-2, Saturday at Cene Park. Bill Sattler went the distance to pick up the win for Chester (14-2). Offensively, Mark?Schwertfeger recorded a single and double, Paul?Snatchko contributed a double and Lou Ward and Sattler each had single. Chester will play Boardman at noon today in the winner brack final at Cene Park.
Junior fall tennis league forming
BOARDMAN - The 11th Annual BTC Fall Junior Team Tennis League is now taking entries. Play is at the Boardman Tennis Center on Sundays beginning Oct. 7. Tier 1 (9th grade and over) and Tier 2 (8th grade and under) play a nine-match schedule and ends Dec. 16. Players are put on teams of six or eight players. Each person plays roughly 2 1/2 sets of singles and doubles against players of similar ability in any given match. There are two bye weeks, and the league is off Thanksgiving weekend. Girls who will still be playing Ohio high school tennis may request an opening week bye. There are different entry fees depending on whether a person is a club member, non member or a non member who takes lessons/clinics there. There is a "top player" discount for players who have a USTA top 10 ranking or high school players who were No. 1 or No. 2 on their team. The entry deadline is Sept. 19 or when 128 players have returned forms with payment. Forms can be picked up and turned in at the Boardman Tennis Center located at 1223 W.Western-Reserve Road in Boardman, or can be faxed. Call 330-758-7400 or 383-0348 for information and ask for Jerry or Steve. If the club is not open, forms are available in a box by the front door.
3-D Archery shoots to be held on Sundays
NEW MANCHESTER - The Chester/Newell Sportsman Club will be holding 3-D archery shoots every Sunday during September. Registration will be from 7:30 a.m. to noon. The cost is $10 for adults and $8 for youth. There will be 30 3-D targets featuring McKenzie XT's. The club is located on Gas Valley Road behind the Green Valley Dairy. Use Green Valley Dairy Drive and continue past the farm to the clubhouse. For information, call 304-479-3456.
Calcutta Lions Club raffling Steelers package
CALCUTTA - The Calcutta Lions Club is offering a chance to win a Steelers package for the Oct. 28 game versus the Washington Redskins. The package includes:?two game tickets, $100 cash, $100 gas card and two Steelers jerseys. Raffle tickets are $5 and are available from any Lions Club member or at the following locations:?Hoge's Restaurant, Four Seasons Mini Mart, J Sabatini Shoes, Calcutta Lock Specialties, Stitch-a-Long Quilt Shop. Drawing will be held Oct. 9.
Wyandot Bowmen outdoor 3-D shoots
NEW CUMBERLAND - Outdoor 3-D Shoots will be held at Wyandot Bowmen on Tope-Florence Rd. in New Cumberland on Sept. 3. Sign-ups are from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Cost is $10 for adults, $5 youth. A $50 gift certificate or money awarded to shooter with highest combined score throughout season. For more information, call Don Barnhart at 304-564-5110.
EL YMCA fall sports league registration
EAST LIVERPOOL - Registration for the East Liverpool YMCA fall sports leagues is now open. Deadline is Sept. 9. Forms can be picked up at both the EL and Calcutta YMCA locations. For more information, call 330-385-0663.
Bowling league to hold rules meeting
EAST LIVERPOOL - The National Bowling League will have a meeting for all teams members at 6 p.m. Monday to go over the league rules. The start of the season will begin after the meeting at 6:30 p.m.
Wellsville VFD golf scramble to be Sept. 15
WELLSVILLE - The Wellsville Volunteer Fire Department is holding a three-man golf scramble Sept. 15 at Turkana Golf Course. The tournament begins 8:30 a.m. with a shotgun start. Field is limited to 36 teams. Top team receives $1,200. Steak dinner follows tournament. Contact Tony D'Angelo at 330-853-4926 to schedule a tee time.
Touchdown club to meet Thursday
CALCUTTA - The Beaver Local Touchdown Club will hold its monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday at the high school. All parents are encouraged to attend.


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Amsterdam considers measures against Islamophobia
The municipality is investigating 'whether specific measures to fight Islamophobia are needed, in collaboration with the police and the Justice Department'. This was announced in a response to questions (pdf) from GroenLinks city council members. There are no data available on Islamophobia in Amsterdam.
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