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Clerk sentenced to six months in jail for sale of alcohol to teenWritten by Sarah Ottney | Editor in Chief | firstname.lastname@example.com
An eight-person jury deliberated for about two hours April 15 before finding liquor store clerk Nicholas Thompson guilty of selling alcohol to an Ottawa Hills teen whose friend was killed in an alcohol-related crash later that night.
Lucas County Court of Common Pleas Judge James Bates sentenced Thompson, 38, to six months in jail, the maximum penalty possible for the misdemeanor charge.
Over the course of the two-day trial, Thompson was found to have sold a bottle of vodka to Blake Pappas, a 17-year-old friend of Brian Hoeflinger, on Feb. 1, 2013, at Foxx Liquor Store on Dorr Street.
Pappas, now a student at the University of Cincinnati, and another teen, Michael Geiger, now a student-athlete at Michigan State University, testified April 14 that the three friends met at Hoeflinger's house after school, where they pooled their money and drove to Foxx Liquor to buy alcohol.
All three boys, who were seniors at Ottawa Hills High School, entered the store and chose a 1.75-liter bottle of Belvedere vodka. Pappas then purchased the liquor for about $50 without being asked for identification while Hoeflinger and Geiger browsed nearby.
Hoeflinger, 18, died from injuries sustained in an alcohol-related crash later that night. Bates asked the jury to disregard any references in testimony to the accident or Hoeflinger's death and focus only on the sale of the liquor.
ALSO: Friends of Hoeflinger testify at liquor store clerk's trial
However, in comments to the jury after sentencing, Bates referenced Hoeflinger's fatal crash and said some judges don't seem to take the crime of underage sales seriously, noting that he felt the $150 fine Thompson received for a prior offense was inadequate.
"It's not much of a deterrent," Bates said. "That's one of the reasons I imposed this pretty harsh sentence as it relates to this case."
"This man is the source of a leak," Lucas County Assistant Prosecutor Charles McDonald told jurors during closing remarks, referring to Thompson's September 2012 conviction for the same offense. "The defendant is a gatekeeper in our community, [or] should be. He's the last line of defense. … He said yes when he should have said no."
"He seems to have developed a bad habit," fellow assistant prosecutor Louis Kountouris said.
The prosecutors showed jurors photos of the five employees who were working at Foxx Liquor on Feb. 1, 2013, concluding that "by process of elimination" the clerk who sold Pappas the alcohol had to have been Thompson. Only two employees matched the white male description given by the teens and the other man, Adam Meglitsch, had testified April 14 his job was to stock shelves and he never worked the register. Meglitsch is also shorter and more than 10 years younger than Thompson.
"One by one it becomes obvious, irrefutably, that the conclusion is the defendant matches the witness description. Nobody comes close," Kountouris said.
Thompson's attorney Rick Kerger argued that someone else bought the alcohol and gave it to the teens.
"Records show Nick Thompson worked that night, records show he sold a bottle of Balvadere, but no records show as to whom he sold it to," Kerger said.
The buyer paid cash and surveillance footage from the store is recorded over every 10 days, so the footage from Feb. 1 was gone by the time investigators seized the shop's DVR machine on April 16, 2013.
Kerger also referenced the purchase of a $1.29 mini bottle of wine that appeared on the receipt with the vodka, which neither teen mentioned.
"Blake tell you about that? Michael tell you about that? Nobody told you about that. Because they didn't buy it. Somebody they gave the money to bought it," Kerger told the jury.
McDonald scoffed at the explanation of someone else purchasing the liquor for the teens, telling jurors they had no reason to lie since investigators promised they would not be charged if they cooperated in the investigation.
"Mr. Kerger has mentioned Person X — this mystery person who has never been mentioned until just now — who he claims bought the alcohol," McDonald said during closing remarks. "Why would these two young men, bright, futures ahead of them, risk everything to fabricate a story for some unknown mystery person?"
A written statement made by Thompson during the April 16, 2013, search of Foxx Liquor indicated he didn't remember the specific Feb. 1 transaction but could have sold alcohol to Pappas without carding him because he recognized him as a regular customer. That's "not a defense," McDonald said.
"The law in Ohio is that … if a defendant checks for an ID on a certain date and that person comes in again and that person asks for alcohol and if that person is a minor, regardless of how many times before he's asked for his ID, the defendant is guilty," he said.
Thompson's statement that he could have made the sale is "not proof beyond a reasonable doubt," Kerger argued.
The state called five witnesses on the first day of trial, including the two teens. Two witnesses were called by the defense on the second day: Earl Mack, a retired Ohio Department of Public Safety agent who worked in alcohol enforcement for 26 years, and Foxx Liquor part owner Andy Jarbou.
Jarbou, who was among the five employees working Feb 1, 2013, testified that Thompson always wore a hat and glasses, facts Kerger noted the two teens did not mention in their initial descriptions of the clerk. Jarbou also testified that after the September 2012 Foxx Liquor sting in which Thompson sold alcohol to an underage patron working undercover, he was suspended for four weeks and retrained on checking IDs. Reminders to check IDs were also posted by all registers, Jarbou said.
"I don't care how many signs Mr. Jarbou [posts]," Kountouris said during his closing remarks. "There's signs everywhere [on the road, but] does everybody follow the signs? No."
Mack testified that when he worked as an agent he was not permitted to wear a mask during store searches or interviews as Agent Michael Hakeos did at Foxx Liquor during the April 16, 2013, search. Thompson's lawyers had questioned whether Hakeos, who testified April 14, had intimidated Thompson by leaving his mask on while interviewing him. McDonald noted that Mack's boss at the hotel where he now works as a part-time security officer is one of the part owners of Foxx Liquor.
Kerger said he accepted the verdict, but questioned the judge's sentence.
"The jury didn't accept our explanation. Their verdict is their verdict," Kerger said. "The thing that's odd is during the trial [Judge Bates] kept out all references to the Brian Hoeflinger crash and then he used that as the fact to enhance the sentence. Seems like if it was in for that it ought to have been in for the trial."
Even though the accident wasn't the focus of the case, Kountouris said he hopes the verdict will bring the Hoeflinger family some closure and also set a precedent for other cases involving the sale of alcohol to minors.
"It's a huge problem and this unfortunate incident brought the whole thing to light. It was magnified by the loss of the Hoeflinger youth," Kountouris said.
Hoeflinger's parents, Brian and Cindy Hoeflinger, were in the courtroom both days along with their children. Brian said that although nothing will bring back their son, they hope the sentence will send a strong message "that institutions that sell alcohol can't sell to minors and expect to get away with it without having consequences."
"For us it was important because it's a first step in a chain of events that have to keep happening to stop kids from gaining access to alcohol," Brian said. "Our son died and it was alcohol-related and we can never bring that back, but we can certainly try to stop it for the future.
"It does send a message and I think the judge did want to send a message and I think the prosecutor's office wants to send a message that this won't be tolerated," Brian said.
Cindy said she is frustrated and heartbroken that her son and his friends were able to obtain liquor so easily.
"If they would have checked IDs or whatever and found out they weren't old enough, we would have then found out, and then we could have taken steps as his parents to discipline him or take care of it," Cindy said. "I have a right to believe my children are not allowed to buy alcohol until they are 21. That is a law. So I should have a reasonable expectation that my son can't walk into a state liquor store and buy alcohol.
Although noting his son was still the one who chose to drink the alcohol, Brian said he agreed with McDonald's description of liquor store clerks as gatekeepers.
"That source that provided that alcohol was the first step in a whole chain reaction that led to our son's death," Brian said.
"We have no way of predicting, but if they wouldn't have gotten that alcohol that night I think it's reasonable to assume that perhaps he would not have gotten in that accident that night," Cindy agreed. "At the end of the day it doesn't matter, but at least the message was sent out today that it's not acceptable."
Since the accident, the couple have founded an organization Brian Matters, www.brianmatters.com, and become national advocates against teen alcohol use and abuse.
Foxx Liquor had its liquor license revoked in August 2013, but still sells beer and wine.
Tags: Andy Jarbou, Brian Hoeflinger, Charles McDonald, Cindy Hoeflinger, Earl Mack, Foxx Liquor Store, James Bates, Louis Kountouris, Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, Nicholas Thompson, Rick Kerger


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- MED (Media EDitor) is a program designed to facilitate the transcription of digitized soundfiles into textfiles. It was written by Hans Drexler and Daan Broeder, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. [...] The aim of MED is to facilitate the transcription of sound into text using a single program. It works on the principle of the coexistence and interaction of two basic elements, the waveform display window and the text window. [...] This means that you no longer need to use both a sound editor and a word processor at the same time in order to transcribe digitized speech files. Instead, you can directly type the sound you hear (and see) via MED into the text window. Furthermore, you can directly link sound portions of the waveform display window to text portions of the text window, so that you can easily locate and listen to the original source of your transcription once the links have been set. In this function the waveform display window and the text window virtually interact with each other.
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- The two papers included in this volume have developed from work with the CHILDES tools and the Media Editor in the two research projects, "Second language acquisition of German by Russian learners", sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, from 1998 to 1999 (directed by Ursula Stephany, University of Cologne, and Wolfgang Klein, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen) and "The age factor in the acquisition of German as a second language", sponsored by the German Science Foundation (DFG), Bonn, since 2000 (directed by Ursula Stephany, University of Cologne, and Christine Dimroth, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen). The CHILDES Project has been developed and is being continuously improved at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, under the supervision of Brian MacWhinney. Having used the CHILDES tools for more than ten years for transcribing and analyzing Greek child data there it was no question that I would also use them for research into the acquisition of German as a second language and analyze the big amount of spontaneous speech gathered from two Russian girls with the help of the CLAN programs. When in the spring of 1997, Steven Gillis from the University of Antwerp (in collaboration with Gert Durieux) developed a lexicon-based automatic coding system based on the CLAN program MOR and suitable for coding languages with richer morphologies than English, such as Modern Greek. Coding huge amounts of data then became much quicker and more comfortable so that I decided to adopt this system for German as well. The paper "Working with the CHILDES Tools" is based on two earlier manuscripts which have grown out of my research on Greek child language and the many CHILDES workshops taught in Germany, Greece, Portugal, and Brazil over the years. Its contents have now been adapted to the requirements of research into the acquisition of German as a second language and for use on Windows.

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It's winter time again and you know what they say about Oklahoma weather, if you don't like it just wait awhile and it will change soon. We never know what the weather is going to be or how much of it we may get. I would like to give out a few safety tips and a checklist to keep in mind this winter.
Before making a long trip always check your tires. This will only take 5 minutes or so. Check the tire pressure and make sure each tire is filled to the vehicle's manufacturers suggested PSI. This should be listed in your owner's manual and on a label inside the driver's door. Keep a tire pressure gauge in your vehicle at all times and check pressure when tires are cold meaning they haven't been driven on for at least three hours. Look closely at your tread and replace tires with uneven wear or insufficient tread. Tread should be at least 1/16 of an inch or greater on all tires.
Every vehicle handles somewhat differently; this is particularly true when driving on wet, icy, or snowy roads. Take time now to learn how to best handle your vehicle under winter weather driving conditions. Practice cold weather driving when your area gets snow but not on a main road! Practice on an empty lot in full daylight. Drive slowly. It's harder to control or stop your vehicle on a slick or snow-covered surface. On the road, sufficiently increase your following distance so you'll have plenty of time to stop for vehicles ahead of you. Know what kind of brakes your vehicle has and how to use them properly. In general, if you have anti-lock brakes apply firm pressure, if you have non anti-lock brakes, pump the brakes gently. If you find yourself in a skid, stay calm and ease your foot off the gas while carefully steering in the direction you want the front of your vehicle to go. This procedure, known as "steering into the skid," will bring the back end of your car in line with the front.
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Carry items in your vehicle to handle common winter driving tasks, such as cleaning off your windshield as well as any supplies you might need in an emergency. Keep the following on hand. Snow shovel, broom, and ice scraper. Jumper cables, flashlight and warning devices, such as flares and markers. Blankets for protection from the cold. A cell phone, water, food, and any necessary medicine (for longer trips or when driving in lightly populated areas).
If you are stopped or stalled in wintry weather, follow these safety rules; Stay with your car and don't overexert yourself. Put bright markers on the antenna or windows and keep the interior dome light turned on. To avoid asphyxiation from carbon monoxide poisoning, don't run your car for long periods with the windows up or in an enclosed space. If you must run your vehicle, clear the exhaust pipe of any snow and run it only sporadically, just long enough to stay warm!
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HAZARD — Kristy Epperson and her family make their home in Perry County, but as of this week, she says her children will not be attending school in the county come August.
Epperson was one of several parents, along with students, teachers, and Principal Jeff Castle, who attended a special-called meeting of the Perry County Board of Education on Thursday, hoping the board would opt against closing her children's school in the Big Creek community. Though she noted she was heartbroken when the final vote was tallied in favor of shutting down Big Creek Elementary for good, she wasn't surprised.
"I felt in my heart that would be what would happen," she said. "But I was praying with everything in me that I would be wrong."
Big Creek Elementary was one of the county's smallest schools in terms of enrollment, and was slated for consolidation with the Willard and A.B. Combs schools in the coming years. At the end of the 2012-13 school year, only 128 students attended classes at Big Creek, which represented a 26 percent decline since 2009. With another expected decline, officials were already looking at the prospect of several split classes, where two different grades would be taught in the same room, for the upcoming school year.
And when a flash flood hit the school on June 17, leaving several inches of standing water inside the main building and damaging the septic system, it was just another a blow for a transitional school where any funds expended to exact repairs would have to be met first with state approval, noted Superintendent Jonathan Jett.
But while the flood was a factor, Jett said it was only one that led to the board's decision to ultimately close the Big Creek school before the upcoming year. He cited the prospect of split classes as being the main issue.
"My big concern as superintendent has to be the educational environment," Jett said after Thursday's meeting. "I don't feel like split grades would put the students in the best educational environment. With the new standards and accountability system, I just think it's not fair to the students, it's not fair to the teachers."
The board approved the closure by a margin of 3-1, with Debbie McIntosh, whose district includes Big Creek, casting the sole "no" vote. She said after the meeting that while she understood her fellow board members' reasons for voting to close the school, it wasn't a vote she could cast herself.
"When I ran (for school board member) I promised I would protect that school, and I keep my word," she said.
The school's damaged septic system was of particular concern, board members noted after the meeting. It was working but in need of replacement before the flood, and damage sustained on June 17 was going to represent a significant cost in repairs. Even then, there was no guarantee, they said, the system would last the entire school year. Had it failed during the year, the board would have been forced to close the school then.
"I feel sorry for those parents and kids, I know it's emotional, but we have to look at all the factors that's involved in this," said board member Jerry Stacy. "As board members we've got to vote what's best for the entire district."
Within the district, Big Creek students will have the option to attend either the A.B. Combs or Willard schools, though board member Charlene Miller noted several Big Creek students had already registered at the new East Perry Elementary School even prior to last week's flood. She said the school at Big Creek would have been lucky to have had 100 students when the new year begins.
Regardless, Kristy Epperson said she won't send her children to either Willard or A.B. Combs, and plans to enroll them at Leslie County's nearby W.B. Muncy school. She expects many other parents will also send their children to either Leslie County, which is just a few miles from Big Creek, or to the Hazard city schools.
Principal Jeff Castle said he also expects students to enroll outside of the district, but he understands the board's decision to close the school was based on several factors, including the expected loss of enrollment and the consolidation plan that board members say could result in a new school within three years.
"And then the flood on top of all that, it was just too much to overcome," Castle said. "When they've (the board) got a vision for the district to move forward, you have to support what they're doing."
No staff member at Big Creek will lose his or her job as a result of the closure, Jett added, noting that "everybody is under contract with us for the school year." A principal's meeting is scheduled for next week, he said, and he expects officials to work on personnel issues relating to the staff at Big Creek for the rest of the week.
That may be some relief for parents who on Thursday called the teachers and principal at Big Creek the best in the district, but for them there will still be something missing once the new school year begins.
"I feel sorry for these teachers and Mr. Castle," Epperson said. "We're all one big family, and now that family is being split up."


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An important topic seldom talked about!
I never knew about this section of the forum. Nobody ever goes to it. It seems everyone mostly goes to nutrition and exercise. But I honestly have to state that the psychology of exercise science is an extremely important topic that is usually overlooked or not given enough attention to. I say exercise science and sports training because I don't think the topics discussed on the forum are limited only to bodybuilding. But weights and strength training are used for most sports. A lot of knowledge that comes from certain sports training can be helpful for bodybuilding and knowledge from bodybuilding can very well be useful for training or dieting for other sports.
When we think of psychology of sports training we often think of what kinds of things motivate you to become successful, but I think there is a lot more to it than just that. For one thing, what factors determine what type of program you will use? And why do you think it is the most suitable for you? Differently, why do some people spend all their time pondering on different training styles and trying to figure out which program is the best, instead of just staying focused on one program and working hard on it for a while to get the best results? After all, its action that makes things happen.
Although I don't agree with Mike Mentzer's belief that there should be one single best way to train for everyone, I think he hit it right on the button when he talked about the importance of being rational about designing our training programs. The problem is that humans aren't rational creatures; instead we are emotional. As much as you won't want to believe it, human beings typically make their decisions and perform actions based on emotions. Thats just how the human mind happens to work. So just as an example, it has been proven over and over again that you can make excellent gains off less workouts per week. Many people have reported to have done it over the last 100 years and more. Yet there are many people out there who still continue to believe in high volume training. Take Arnold Swarzenegger for example. His idol, Reg Park, used to only train three times per week. Yet for some reason Arnold still felt a need to train 2-3 hours at a time twice per day and six times per week. Thats emotions. He wanted it so badly so he did the extra work that he thought was required to get there. But there is no rationale for it. I have yet to see a study out there that proves one strategy to be better than the other. The only things we do have is studies that support one strategy or the other where people then go on to extrapolate that data in order to try to use it as proof of their own beliefs. And there is a saying that what the thinker thinks the prover proves. Give someone enough money as a scientist and ask them to find out more about a certain strategy and they will find things to support what you are looking for.
And here is where it gets even more crazy. You take a guy and let him for what ever reason put years and years into a certain belief system, training in a certain way, maybe even doing research to support it, and the more time he has spent working on it the harder it will be for him to break out of that belief system because the stronger his beliefs will be. That will even hold true regardless of evidenced or any sort of rational thought. And that explains why there was people who had a lot of arguments over previous decades over which was better, volume or HIT. Because they were belief systems.
Another important factor to consider is that I think people often focus on the wrong things when it comes to their exercise or when trying to find out more about exercise science or even do some research. I don't know why we do that, but we just do. Its like when we get stuck doing one thing for a while, especially as a society, we tend to stick to it and things don't change much. Its so easy for people to ask questions such as what exercise is better or how many reps or sets should be done instead of how hard should they be working. I think if people focused more on how hard they were working and gave hard work the attention it deserves, they would be making much better gains.
These were just some general thoughts that I thought of for my first post in this section, not to make it about any singular one of these specifically. But I just wanted to give examples of what kind of phenomenon goes on that often affects people in their training positively or negatively. And that if one knew how to focus their attention in the right areas they will get much better results from their training. These factors are nothing that should be ignored. It can make a difference as to wether you will be successful or not. And it can make a difference as to if you will be training optimally or not. Additionally, our thinking about exercise science and sports training in general (including what studies are done) can make a difference as to what kind of information is available for those who want to learn about it and take a path to athletic excellence without confusion.
So thats just one post out of more to come. Lets see if anyone else comes up with some good topics for this section. And perhaps I'll try to follow up with a thread on a specific topic that will be of use to fellow forum members.
HMM the Arnold thing.... he used to do powerlifting so maybe he figured on his own he responded best size wise by high volume, plus if correct and arnold only used AAS for pre contest like he says, maybe he felt it made more sense to train like an animal while testosterone is high and he can still recover from it.
Well, that wasn't exactly the point of my thread. But it was just an example.
As I understand it from Arnold's autobiography, he always trained high volume. He always did 2 workouts per day when he lived back home. And when he was in the army they made him workout for 6 hours per day instead of his normal job that would be greasing the wheels on the tanks, because they said that was what he was meant to do.
There is no reason why high volume training wouldn't work. Any amount of volume of training will work as long as you work hard and try hard. And as I understand it, while on AAS your gains are going to be better no matter if you are training less or more, again so long as you work hard.
So if both work then a lot of it boils down to factors such as how you like to train and obviously your recovery levels. I have heard of old retired bodybuilders who still train 6 days out of the week. I can also remember Tom Platz for example who claimed when he was competing he simply didn't have as much time to train as often as he used to so he had to make every workout he did count. He used to train legs once every 10-14 days, but as I understand it his leg workouts were unbelievably brutal.
I think with athletes such as Arnold Swarzenegger and Tom Platz we are talking about two guys who truly trained passionately no matter what their style of training was. They each made an art out of their training, not so much a science. Because where is the science? Other than knowing the fact that if you work a muscle hard it will grow, I simply don't see the science behind what they were doing. Each was different in their own ways. But the fact that holds true about both of these guys is that they knew what they wanted to accomplish and they both found ways that worked in order to get what they wanted. They found their own unique ways to design their programs such that it would give them the results they were looking for. Thats art. Thats passion. And without the right mental strategy there would have been know way they could have made it to where they are. They were both highly imaginative individuals who could imagine themselves being champions and do what it takes to get there. It takes mental drive and passion. There isn't a lot of people like that.
This all reminds me of some writing I read by this old champion olympic lifter John Davis:
I think its like that for most sports, but people always some how try to make it into more than it really is. People argue and ponder so much about different theories, but when you recognize the fact of how much differently some of the champions trained, you realize it doesn't really matter so much. Also, as I understand it, AAS makes such a big difference in the gains you make that even further it won't matter as much how you train. Train harder 3 times per week or train harder 6 times per week, you can still gain up to 30 lbs. And you can still cut and gain muscle at the same time. Clarence said he did it once. While on AAS he cut close to 10 lbs of fat off while gaining a few lbs of muscle.
I wonder if we should/could consciously raise our adrenaline levels before our workouts. This came about from one day when out job went bad and when I jumped out of the machine to sort things out I was pumped and ready to go. No need for a warm up just lifting steel beams and get things sorted. It would be nice to be able to do that, without drugs, before every workout.
If there is a reason to work harder on your sets, you can and will. And those are the workouts that will give you the best results.
Yes there's the coach trying to rev up the team bet I don't think you get that with a track runner or a shot putter. Not that I've had anything to do with those but there are times when I am able to think something as I'm going into the gym that raises my body (adrenaline?) ready for a workout. It would be nice to do it at will.
Hope you guys post more on this topic.
For example, I can remember a few years ago when I was training to compete in powerlifting I was only training 2 times per week. That worked for me and my team mates and I actually had a lot of trouble keeping the extra weight off during that time period. When I told that to a friend he said he thought 2 workouts per week wasn't enough. And this was coming from the same guy who said I was too big. My simple argument was that if I was already big enough then what purpose would extra workouts serve me?
What's typical? Its generally thought that people should train at least 3 times per week. Thats just what people do and it works. So I can't argue with that. But just as another example, if ones goals don't consist of gaining muscle then there really is no point in training more than once or twice per week, at least with weights that is.
I can remember years ago I had a friend ask me about how to lose weight. He claimed he wasn't interested in getting big muscles either. I don't remember what I told him, but you can be sure weight training was one of my recommendations. I was a bit younger then and less knowledgeable on the subject.
The funny thing is that a lot of people who don't know much about weight training always assume that it has to be about getting huge. Perhaps to some it is. And perhaps someone with only a bodybuilding background might recommend weight training in such a way that makes you bigger.
But if someone asked me the same question right now, someone who wasn't interested in getting huge, I'd probably recommend weight training only once per week specifically for the purpose of preserving muscle, and then perhaps a few more other types of exercise such as running. I think that idea would definitely sound more attractive for such an individual and they would be more likely to give it a try. Because perhaps gaining muscle isn't wanted or needed for some people. But muscle perseverance is important for long term leanness and good health.
The funny thing about this is I recall reading a recent fitness book that referred to an author who taught doing aerobics as the best form of exercise for fat loss. Although he did recognize that ones lean body mass will make a difference, earlier in his career he didn't give weights the attention they deserved as a means to maintain muscle mass as ones age.
The thing is that a lot of weight lifters and strength athletes are thinking on the other side of the spectrum. Some preach avoiding cardio like its the plague. And keep in mind that when guys use steroids, it makes it much easier to keep the fat off while building muscle, or even cutting while maintaining muscle.
Although I've never done much aerobics myself, all the guys I've known who have done it regularly out of pure enjoyment consistently for years, they've all been ripped to shreds. Studies even show that running for example actually helps preserve muscle as opposed to what most people think. For your average 150 lb joe it will, but probably not for a huge bodybuilder because that simply isn't what's required to have muscles that big. But it probably is enough to hold a little bit of small muscles in the legs.
I never would have guessed it myself. And perhaps it doesn't surprise me why all these so called sports scientists haven't figured it out either. Clarence Bass says that the best way to go in order to be ripped is to do both weights and cardio and give equal attention to both. I'm convinced. And I'm giving it a try. Maybe it will keep me from being as strong as I can, but I'd rather have it that way than be a fat slob.
But I actually doubt a certain amount of cardio will hinder strength gains, unless one overtrains. I had a friend who loved both weights and cardio and worked hard on both. He even used to mix them up in the same workouts. For example, he would do jump ropes in between sets of weights. He was about as strong as me and 25 lbs less. Yeah, cardio is bad for your muscles and for strength. Right. Maybe if you overdid it, and starved yourself; in that case it would. I'll try it for myself and find out the truth.
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Kind of like how anytime someone says anything contrary to their religious beliefs, they go all fanatic.
I joined TOL specifically because someone came here, saying there was a discussion on UNIVERSALISM going on there (also the Hell Test), and were seeking some from Tentmaker who could discuss ON BEHALF of the doctrine of the Salvation of All... "Peacemaker" and myself from Tent went over there, as far as I know PM is still there... not sure....willieH
Sadly, peacemaker was also banned....(Now why would a peacemaker be banned????) I say "sadly", because I appreciated the deepness of his posts, and am saddened that others will not be granted the privilege of reading them over there!
There's only ONE TEACHER!
I actually agree with the ancients who said that HELL although false SHOULD be taught to keep the 'simple' believers in check...Because if they believed God was going to save everyone, they wouldnt be following Him...They cant follow God out of love, they can only do it out of fear. (Perfect love casts out fear by the way). And pay God 'lip-service'.EVERY ET believer so far I have spoken too...the FIRST thing they have said to me was...."We should just all throw away our bibles and go out doing as much sinning as we can then if Universalism is true...Why bother being nice?"Er....Et'er....You MISSED the point. Big time.


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Sensei: Now when fighting it is imperative that you have a stable position, and the best way to achive this is to ensure you are standing on one leg.
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About Historic Conservation
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- Efficient use of resources in an age of scarcity
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Steps 3-5: Three public hearings are held on the proposal for the designation of a local landmark or district. The first hearing takes place before the Historic Conservation Board, which makes a recommendation to the City Planning Commission on the designation. The City Planning Commission holds the second public hearing and forwards its recommendation to City Council. City Council holds the third and final public hearing and acts either to designate or not to designate the property or district, including its boundaries and conservation guidelines.
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Some parents were caught by surprise last week when they received a letter from their childs school.
The letter was from the U.S. Department of Justice and was a short questionnaire that had to be signed and sent back to the school.
The Department of Justice on your child(rens) address, the letter states.
The questions asked on the form include students full name, parents names and street address.
Sherry Micheau, whose daughter attends Waccamaw Intermediate School said she thought it was strange such a request would be coming from the Justice Department. She contacted the district office asking for an explanation.
She said she was sent a questionnaire because when the filled out her daughters form an abbreviation for circle was used rather than spelling out the word in her address. Its still odd, she said.
Georgetown County School District spokesman Ray White said each year the district has to provide the DOJ a list of the names and addresses of all students.
They check them and sometimes they have questions about some of them, White said.
White said about 200 students across the county received the questionnaire because of some issues noticed by the DOJ. He said most things were minor, such as misspelling a street name or using a Post Office box rather than a street address.
They want a physical address, White said.
He said some of the students may have been selected at random by the DOJ to receive the form.
They did not tell us why they want to check them, but they do, White said.
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Congrats to you and the Mrs.!
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Congratulations Roo-Jay! It's a Jedi Knight!
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Congrats, RooJay! Man, that kid is going to HATE Star Wars when he grows up.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
"In Brooklyn, a castle, is where dwell I"
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Do I forsee a Luxo costume for Halloween soon? Congrats!
"I went to Star Wars Celebration VII in Anaheim, and I didn't get even a lousy t-shirt."
I've got our next 12 years worth of Halloween costumes planned out already. No Luxo, though, but now that I think about it I might have to adjust the plan to include either Buzz and Woody, or Mike and Sully...
In honor of the 10th Anniversary, here's mine...
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Lecco - Cuneo
Lecco have very good form, and Cuneo have lost four out of their five last away matches. Their three last meetings have ended in draws, but I believe Lecco will win this match.
Lecco to win.
Biellese - Lumezzane
Lumezzane won their last meeting 2-1. Lumezzane have a pretty bad form at the moment, and Biellese are a bit better.
This could end in a draw.
Alto Adige - Nuorese
Their last meeting ended in a 0 - 0 draw. This is a match between number 1 and 2 on the table, and should be interesting.
Lucchese - Padova
Padova has a very good form, while Lucchese's form is not to good. Their last meeting ended in a goalless draw.
Padova to win.
Pro Sesto - Ivrea
Pro Sesto have a very bad form at the moment. Ivrea won their last meeting 1-0, and is in the best form of the two teams. Pro Sesto have lost their last three home matches 0 - 2.
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Thursday, May 1, 2014
Vic Radcliff is out as North Augusta High Schools baseball coach.
Head coach for the past nine seasons, and volunteer assistant for 16 years before that, Radcliff has been around the Jackets baseball program for a quarter-century and was relieved of his duties on April 29.
I wouldnt be telling the truth if I said I didnt care, Radcliff said. I know God is in control, and Im not going to be bitter about this change.
The North Augusta baseball team struggled in Radcliffs final season, finishing with a 10-8 overall record and a 3-7 region record.
This season marked the first time in Radcliffs tenure the team didnt make the playoffs.
Looking back at it, this season has been like a roller coaster, Radcliff said following the season finale against South Aiken. We come out one game and we look good, we look like were putting it together, then we come back again and look like we dont know what in the world is going on.
Kyle Smith, currently the Paul Knox Middle School principal, hired Radcliff as baseball coach during his time at North Augusta High School.
Smith commended the work Radcliff did during his time at North Augusta High School.
Coach Radcliff did a great job at NAHS during his tenure, Smith said. He led the 2007 squad to the state finals and always had well-coached teams. More importantly, Coach Radcliff is a gentleman and always was interested in helping his players become better people.
John Murphy, principal at North Augusta High School, wants to have a baseball coach that has direct responsibilities in the school.
I cant talk about personnel decisions, because of confidentiality, but we are looking for someone who is a faculty member, Murphy said. That is high on our list for our next baseball coach. We would always like to employ someone in the school district or a faculty member in the school.
The next head coach will inherit a team stocked with hard workers, Radcliff said.
I think there are some really talented young men on that team, he said. They want to play baseball and work hard.
While his time at the helm at North Augusta High School is over, Radcliff can now spend more time with his family.
Now, I can turn my attention fully to my family, he said. Ive got plenty of time to spend with them and to see my grandkids play ball. Im just glad I had a chance to be with the program.
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Correction to an earlier reply of mine. I've picked up Cycle of the Werewolf to read today before I begin a literary analysis on Ken Kessey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
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Correction to an earlier reply of mine. I've picked up Cycle of the Werewolf to read today before I begin a literary analysis on Ken Kessey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Haven't exactly been on fire with the books, but since my last post on Dec. 3, I actually made 2 trips to Mexico, so at least finished "Cutting for Stone" on the Kindle. I thought this was a grand story, and enjoyed it from start to finish. The characters were thoughtfully drawn and the prose flowed seamlessly along with the story. Time well spent reading this one. A friend loaned me "Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet" by Jaime Ford; her idea, not mine, but I liked it well enough. It was a quick read and the history was interesting as there was a Japanese internment camp just north of where I live. Am now half way through "Boy's Life" by Robert McCammon (also on the Kindle). First book of his I've read and I can't wait to finish it so I can read more by him. This one reminds me a little of "Summer of Night", just because of the coming of age aspect, and that great feeling for nostalgia, but at this point, I like this story line better, and my heart is with the main character Cory, and his Dad. Sure missed a lot not being a boy!!!
I finished reading Full Dark No Stars a couple of days ago, started reading Along Came a Spider by James Patterson.
Started Mystery by Peter Straub, but can't really get into it right now. Decided to put it aside for a while, and read The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson first. I loved the movie, and I have now downloaded the book to my ipad and read a few pages. It is very promising so far!
I've got assignments I'm reading for, but as far as pleasure reading goes, I'm about halfway through the Tommyknockers, and have just cracked the door on Joe Hill's Horns. At some point, I'll need to finish The Talisman, but the story doesn't quite grab me, so I've set it aside for now.
Then I got the audio book, read it on paper again, and listened to the audio book once more, and I really love it now.
It is different, and I think I expected something else the first time I read it. I do that sometimes, expect something and then can't get into the story/music/movie until I have digested it for a while.
I just finished 'The Painted Darkness' by Brian James Freeman...a very good book with a surprise ending! A quick read and I recommend it to everyone!
I'm about two-thirds through A Book of Horrors, a short story compilation I picked up randomly from the library stacks that just happens to have a (very good) King short in it. There are a few other good ones, but it's been pretty uneven reading so far. I think horror short stories are tough, and not just any author can do them justice.
Well, I'm currently waiting for the J.F. Gonzalez and Bryan Smith books I ordered to arrive. In the meantime I'm giving Dan Simmons and his book Summer of Night a go. I've been putting this one off for a while because I've been burned off on the whole "coming of age horror tale." But I'm passing the time until my other books get here and I might actually get involved enough in this story to finish reading it. Too early to tell just yet.


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Ron Guth: 1922 was the first year in which Peace Dollars were produced at the San Francisco mint. The mintage for this year was the second largest of all the Peace Dollars, following closely behind the 1923-S. Compared to Peace Dollars made a the Philadelphia and Denver mints in 1922, the S-Mint suffers from a lower level of quality, particularly in the area of strike. Many 1922-S Peace Dollars show weakness in the centers on both sides, translating into weak hair details over Liberty's ear and poorly defined feathers on the highest points of the eagle. Many 1922-S Peace Dollar suffer from bagmarks and surface abrasions received as the coins were transported in bags from the San Francisco Mint. As a result, the grade encountered most frequently on a 1922-S Peace Dollar is MS-63. Unlike the 1922-P and 1922-D, where the populations in MS-63 and MS-64 are nearly equal, the population of the MS-64 1922-S is over 20% less than in MS-63. In MS-65, the population drops off significantly, leaving barely enough coins to satisfy collector demand. In MS-66, the 1922-S Peace Dollar is a true condition-rarity and only a few coins have earned this grade. As of this writing (10/29/2010), no MS-67 or better 1922-S Peace Dollars have been certified by PCGS. Luster ranges from flat and dullish to frosty white. Coins with hard, chrome-like surfaces are rare. Finding a 1922-S Peace Dollar that combines problem-free surfaces, a full strike, and bold luster is a real challenge.
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