The Pendleton Panther

Writing in the Pendleton Panther this year was certainly a blast. I was able to share news, sports recaps, and opinions that I thought would make a good read. It is also great to see what my fellow writers are writing about, because I am able to learn

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more about them as person through writing. It’s a great way to keep with the news and events happening in the world, and I hoped to give a different and unique view on the topic I was discussing. This was challenging at times, because the topics can be very one-sided and pretty straight forward. I truly enjoyed taking on this task however. It also prepared me for someday deciding what I would like to do after college. This is must like being a reporter, and it gave me a great taste of what that would be like. I hope you all enjoyed reading what I and others wrote, as much as I enjoyed writing!

In a recent study in 2007, 22% of women now make more money then their husbands. This is a huge difference from a study done in 1970, where only 4% of wives made more than their husbands. This is not as big of a shock to me as I think most people would see it. If you look at it in the perspective of in college there are many more girls than there are men, it would seem to make sense. This

Bringing Home the Bacon

however, goes against what the common person thinks of when they look at a marriage. Tradition holds that the man “brings home the bacon,” when really it can go both ways. It depends on what areas each person has their talents in as well. If the women has a talent in something that is higher paying, she will simply make more because of that. So, remember everyone, the man is not always the only one “bringing home the bacon.”

After beating the Miami Heat in 5 games, only losing one game on the road, the Celtics are pretty confident. They are, however going against a tough opponent.  The Cleveland Cavaliers are a stacked team lead by NBA superstar Lebron James, and are provided some inside game by none other than Shaquille O’Neal. However, Lebron is suffering from an elbow injury which should slow down his outside game and allow the Celtics defenders to back off.  The Celtics are still considered the “underdog.” But, for this

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Celtics team they are extremely excited about having that title, and thrive off of that to help them compete and win games.  This year’s team if full of league veterans who know how to take outside energy, and use it to help them be motivated, which in turn, helps them win games. The first game is this Saturday at Cleveland, game 1 is a very important game to set the tone and mood for this series. With, the Celtics being on the road, they are looking to take at least 1 of these two games so that if they take care of business at home, they should be able to take the series.

Last Tuesday night the Pendleton Varsity baseball team traveled to Seminole high school to play them at a 7:00 start.  We had very high hopes of winning this game as the our varsity team has never lost at Seminole.  In the first inning of the game we scored an early two runs.  Casey Mulholland took the mound and dominated.  The players on Seminole were lost at the plate.  We

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manufactured another run, as Joe Daru scored, after he reached base on a laser single up the middle.  It seemed as though we were coasting to a win with a three run lead and our Ace pitcher dominating on the mound.  But, in the sixth inning after two hits and a walk, the bases were loaded.  A high fastball was thrown to the next batter who connected and hit a grand slam.  This was obviously very devastating, but we were able to get out of the inning only down one run.  We had one last chance to score a run to at least tie it.  After Dillon Moyer walked and reached first the next three batters struck out and we lost.  We were very disappointed in our loss, but we knew we gave it 100% and left it all out on the field

Since I was in middle school I have always seen kids in my classes walking around with organizational planners. In these planners they write down their homework along with all other stuff they have to get done for that day, week, month etc. While I can see why

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people like to be organized, and I understand that everyone has their own way of doing that, I think planners are pointless and a waste of time. I can very easily write down on a sheet of paper what I need to get done for the day. Even still, half the time I don’t need a piece of paper I just remember it all in my head. I think that everyone has the ability to do this, and people just use planners as a security, which ends up actually being a huge waste of time.

Each year, Florida hosts the “Florida Strawberry Festival” for the month of March. This festival consists of a lot of people, rides, food and much more entertainment. The festival opens at the very beginning of the day and goes through out the night. At around 7:00

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each night there is a different performance from a relatively popular name. Two weekends ago, I attended the Florida Strawberry Festival. I spent the day eating the food, and riding the rides and ended the night with a concert by Darius Rucker. It was a really fun time, and there were an insane amount of people there which made it all the more fun. I think that it is a really cool and fun tradition that Florida keeps up each year, and this year being my first, I definitely got a great impression. I would love to go back sometime this March, but if I don’t get the chance I will absolutely find time to attend the festival again next March.

This Sunday I went to Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida. The hour drive getting there was irritating, but in the end the trip was extremely fun and successful. When I first got there, I started with the biggest and most popular roller coaster. It was filled with

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speed, turns and steep hills, which made me love it even more. Once I got off, my other friends and I decided we had to do it again, and proceeded to do it five more times. After this we went on to many other roller coasters that the park had to offer. I had an all you can eat pass, and so I of course took this to my advantage and ate everything that looked appetizing. Along with the rides, Busch Gardens has a ton of animal exhibits and I was able to see gorillas, elephants, birds, monkeys and more. So, pretty much the day was awesome, and I love Busch Gardens and expect to go back many more times.

Last Friday & Saturday Men’s Varsity Baseball was scheduled for two games and both of them were rained out.  This makes me extremely irritated, because to begin with we don’t have very many games in a season. This also makes me hate rain. Whenever it

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rains, nothing good comes out of it. You can’t go outside without being soaking wet, and in my life, I can’t do the one thing that I enjoy doing. The best part about these rainouts is that on Saturday it was perfectly sunny and warm and there was literally no reason for the game to be rained out. As much as this made me mad, our coaching staff was to able to get Friday’s game rescheduled to this coming Monday. Even though I would have way rather had the game on Friday, I’ll settle for this rescheduling because one game is better than no games.

This video is an excerpt from a show called “Cheaters” by Maury. I think it is hilarious. In this video, a man cheats on his girlfriend and then proceeds to kick out her window, and punch her in the face. This is completely ironic, because he cheated on her, yet she is getting decked in the face. If you continue to watch the video, you will notice that the cops show up and the boyfriend flees the scene. I think that while this video is hilarious, the boyfriend is completely messed up. The girlfriend didn’t even do anything to deserve getting yelled at, never mind beat up. The boyfriend is completely in the wrong, and when the cops find him he will probably be in some serious trouble. I thought stuff like this only happened in movies and soap operas, but I guess it turns out that people are actually that messed up.

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According to a recent study and test, people who napped daily performed better then those who do not, on a test given by Matthew Walker. According to Dr. Matthew Walker “The brain’s ability to learn information is not stable across the day.” Apparently the part of the brain that stores memory can get clogged up through out the day. Napping seems to allow the brain’s memory storage area to make space for more information. The testing involved an initial test, then the group of 39 people was divided into two groups. One group got to nap, and the other had to stay awake. Dr.Walker gave the test for a second time later that day. The group of people who did not get a nap earlier in the day did 10% worse then in the beginning of the day when they first took it. The group that got to nap, improved their scores by 10%. I wish I had time to take a daily nap, maybe IMG should start influencing naps daily, I would have no problem with that, and according to this study, it might even make me smarter!

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This week as everyone knew there is was major Junior International tennis tournament taking place on Campus. For me it was the first time I had taken part in any event of this size. As a fulltime tennis player in the Academy, you could not miss the hype created all over. The site had been tended to such a level to make it immaculate. There were juniors competing from fifty different countries, and I was lucky enough to be taking part for the first time. As an experience, I couldn’t compare it to anything else I had been to. The level of competition was extremely high and the environment was electric. However, what impressed me the most throughout the tournament, was the level of support and friendship that existed between the players. It was unexpected in a way as everyone was competing against each other. With tennis being an individual sport you would think that ‘each man for themselves’ would apply. However, walking around the campus and the courts this was not true, there were players supporting each other all over. It added so much to the atmosphere. For me it was definitely a ‘first’! It was strange to hear friends from tennis or school call out my name in support and cheer me on, but it was very effective. Especially when you are in the middle of a ‘battle’ with your opponent, to hear friends supporting you with encouraging words it definitely helps.

With my experience, I’ve both listened too and shared, experiences in my life. Now whenever someone approaches you, or vice versa, there is a high chance that they are about to tell you what went wrong. Some of the time someone wants to brag about something th

It’s hard to keep track of how many drinks you’re consuming when there are so many festivities involving people offering to fill your cup. We already know that drinking too much alcohol is detrimental to your health and your waistline. Not to mention, many dietitians and personal trainers would suggest cutting it out of your diet completely while doing any weight-loss program. This doesn’t mean you have to start condemning your social life to knitting at home with your pets just yet. Drinking is so commonplace in our society that it is the one thing many dieters struggle with the most. They can cut out junk food and sodas, but when it comes to saying no to the party juice, it becomes a bit of a struggle. What exactly is drinking in moderation? According to Moderation Management and numerous healthy drinking resources, this means having no more then two drinks a day for a male.For a lot of social drinkers, this is almost impossible to maintain for every occasion. That being said, there is a way to keep alcohol in your life while at the same time maintaining a healthy weight.

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Most people are ashamed and embarrassed of being seen crying. This is especially true for younger people because in front of your peers, it would seem totally “uncool”. As you grow older however, you will start to understand that crying is normal and that it is just another expression of your emotions. Whenever something bad happens you may start to cry, most of the times, without your intentions of doing so. Although it is embarrassing, scientists say that it is a healthy activity, if done moderately. Crying relives built up emotions and tensions, and it is one way of cleaning your deepest emotions that no words can describe. Research shows that people who try to hold back their tears tend to be more tense and moody while people who cry at times seem happier. This makes sense because if you keep filling yourself up with anger and sadness and conceal them from everybody, you will just become more unhappy. However, if you let everything out at once, you will be clear of the negative energies. You might not think it is credible but you have got to admit that after a bad day, crying makes you feel surprisingly better. 

Hitler

One day, I was with my friends at the beach. We were talking about life and a lot of things we have passed by.  I love to talk about life and to learn things about other peoples experiences.

One of my friends made a question that I still think about today.  The question is if you have the opportunity to know a person your admire or curios about, who would it be?  It´s hard to choose just one person, because each one of us want to know a lot of things and take out our doubts.

For me it´s kind of interesting to know Hitler and to ask him a lot of questions. I don´t understand why he did what he did. What did hat man have in mind? So for me I would love know Hitler´s point of view.

Now ask yourself the same question and think who is that person you want to know.  Hopefully you will have a great time thinking about it.

2000 years ago in todays Ireland, the United Kingdom, and Northern France, the celts would celebrate their new year on November 1st.  They had believed that this day was the end of summer and the begining of a new dark and cold winter.  They thought that the winter time was often associated with human death. Celts believed that on the night of OCtober 31ts, they would celebrate Samhain, believing that the ghosts of the dead returned to earth.  During the celebration the celts wore costumes sometimes waring animal heads and skins. I think that most people now days have forgot the purpose of halloween and it has evolved into something different, but it is interesting to know the origin of halloween.

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When i first arrived in Florida at the end of August, I thought that training is this heat and humidity is absolutely ridiculous! It was extremely boiling, and within 30 minutes into training I felt like I was on the brink of passing out. I couldn’t even do half the amount of running that I could usually do. I wasn’t use to such immense heat and humidity at all, since I had been in England for the past year.

Now it seems like the temperature is decreasing and we are slowly arriving at winter. Generally, I am a “sunny weather” kind of guy. I normally always prefer hot weather, but Florida is just insane! How the temperature now is ideal. It’s still hot, just slightly more comfortable and managable. Especially for sport, it is much easier to train and push yourself in this slightly cooler weather. The only problem is that it won’t stay like this for long. Next thing we know, it’s going to be winter and then we going to be complaining about how cold it is and that we’d much rather have the hot weather. If only it could stay at the temperatures of fall throughout the whole sport season. In summer, however, the hotter the better!

Dreams hold endless possibilities.

So being the weird kid we all know I am, I thought I would share with you what I learned and found interesting during class on friday in Psychology with Mrs. Mayberry. We started learning about consciousness and our DREAMS! So, ill admit I have a pretty perverted mind and oh boy, for the life of me I couldn’t stop laughing during this module in the chapter. I learned that throughout a woman’s lifetime 4% of what she dreams connects with her thoughts of sexuality, 44% aggressions, 42% friendliness, 33% misfortune, 8% success, and 10% failure. The part in which I thought was funny was that males actually dream 7% more about sex than women do. They dream about their sexuality 12%, aggression 47%, friendliness 38%, misfortune 36%, success and failure 15% of the time. The best part during this class was, we talked about a very well recognized psychologist. Sigmund Freud, who some called gifted, talented and just plane twisted! He created a type of story line for our dreams. He believed that our dreams represented unconscious wishes of fulfillment. He had a theory that certain objects symbolized a certain desire such as: climbing up a stairway, crossing a bridge, riding an elevator, or walking down a long hallways symbolized sexual intercourse. That if we dreamed about apples, peaches, or grapefruits (round objects particularly fruit) it symbolized the images of breasts. Bullets, fire, snakes, sticks, umbrellas were an interpretation of male sex organs. For interpreting female sex organs we envisions boxes, caves, bottles, ovens, maybe even tunnels. Now these are all just one mans interpretation. Dreams are very complicated and psychologists still do not understand why we even sleep as creatures, why we need it and why we dream. However, all these crazy speculations, theories, and unsolved questions just seem to make it all so much more interesting!

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I saw this air multiplier fan on YouTube, and  I didn’t believe it! But it is true! This fan is a bladeless fan, that is to say there is absolutely no blades! The Dyson Air Multiplier™ fan works very differently to conventional fans. It uses Air Multiplier™ technology to draw in air and amplify it 15 times, producing an uninterrupted stream of smooth air. With no blades or grill, it’s safe, easy to clean and doesn’t cause unpleasant buffeting. The one big issue is that it is very expensive, it costs around $400 each!

Everyone has probably heard of the saying ” the truth hurts”. I hear it all the time but I have now come to disagree with this quote. I think this is such a negative saying and it discourages people from looking at the truth. If you think about it, the truth does not hurt, it is the denial from accepting the truth that hurts. For example, if you are sick and you keep ignoring and denying the fact that you are sick, you would never get well again. However, if you look at the truth, you would go to the doctors and get the medicine you need in order to get the right medicine and get well. The truth does not hurt at all, it helps you. Whenever something bad happens and you deny it and push it back, it will only end up hurting you but if you look at the truth and accept it, nothing will ever hurt you. The truth or the reality is really just a signal that helps you from getting in deeper troubles and letting yourself out of the pain and difficulties. This is an advice for those people who are trying to stay ignorant when the whole truth is right in front of you to help you. This should apply to everything bad that happens let’s just face the truth and deal with it.

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do nothing, say nothing, be nothing to escape criticism

Criticism is something that can be used in a helpful way or something used to put a person down. There are always people who will try to put you down to make themselves look or feel better. It is just one of those things that you have to learn to deal with when someone is trying to help or put you down. Going to a school with so many great athletes and coaches makes it a little hard to realize when they are trying to help. There are plenty of times when my coach has told me I am doing something totally wrong and that I need to work on it. Instead of getting mad and frustrated I noticed that he was only telling me this so that I can make my game just that much better. The hardest time to realize whether someone is there to help or to hurt you is when a kid say something bad to you. Sometimes your own teammates will try to help you but most likely, they are trying to act better than you. When it comes down to those moments you will just have to use your own best judgement, but you should not automatically assume they are trying to put you down. There are very few times that someone will be putting you down at IMG because they are all there to help you achieve your greatest potential.

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I have two little brothers and a little sister. James is 12, Sean is 10, and the youngest Sophie is 16 months. My brothers can be a bit of a handful but I love them to death! They are two of the funniest jokers I have ever met. I can’t believe some of the funny things that come out of their mouths. When we were younger we struggled to connect because of our gender and extreme age differences. But now that my family has moved down to Florida and I am able to see them more often I realize how much I had missed them and love them. My brothers always have my back. My little sister on other hand I am still trying to figure out and connect with. She is very attached to my mom and doesn’t really know much of who I am I think at this point. But I am looking forward to helping and learning how to raise and get along with her.

My mom and dad mean so much to me, even though sometimes they get on my nerves.  I feel like they protect me too much but it’s all out of love.  My parents do anything for me and have my back to the fullest.  I love my parents because they take care of me and they know whats best for me sometimes. My dad is the type that keeps me on track, keeps me in line and tells me when I am off track and is kind of the discipline guy. My mom takes the laid back approach.  She tells me and teaches me how to cook, clean and take care of women the right way.  She sometimes takes the bad cop only when something serious.  Most of the time, the bad cop is my dad. I love my parents, they have my back and I trust them to the up most.  Family is all I have.  Thanks for reading.

Marketing is a very strong concept. We market products, services, and market ourselves when interviewing for a job or when we just want to make a good impression on someone else. In the end, all of us have needs and wants. Within the needs, we can name food, clothing, traveling, knowledge, electronics and many other tangible and no tangible needs. These needs have a counterpart, which are the individual and collective wants, making marketing a very important concept for business, especially those that are in the mass market products like food and beverages.

Peoples needs and wants change over time, and companies need to constantly listen to customers and observe their consumption habits. Businesses do research to better understand what people really think. Good information or data bases are imperative for better communication with the customer. For example, in the fast food business, which now they call quick service restaurants, competition is strong. Having a good or great product or great tasting food alone will not necessarily make it a success. The service is sometimes even more important. Good service means not only a friendly attitude towards the customer; it means the entire whole experience. Good selection of employees and proper and continued training makes the difference. Disney is a great example for this.

 The concept of marketing is very strong in that it is said to be used to create the customers, to keep the customers and to satisfy the customers.