Cash-Monitary paper
cache-hidden storage
Collar– neck attire
Caller–someone who called
Cannon-weapon
canon-body of work
Capital-most important
Capitol- government head city
Cell-a biological unit
Sell-the opposite of purchase
Censor- examine literary material for banning
Sensor-a device that detects
Cereal-yum, yum breakfast food
Serial-a serial number/killer
Course-route
Corse-corpse
Coarse–rough
Cymbal- percussion Instrument
Symbol- shows an idea
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
Make a bucket list and check things off. Obviously I want you to have travel destinations on that list, but it should also include other things things that you are passionate about–maybe you’ve always wanted to go skydiving or you want to repair a relationship in your life. I recommend keeping an actual working list, making your bucket list tangible increases the likelihood that you will check things off. Something that I have on my list is living in alternative housing at some point–perhaps one of those shipping container homes that are becoming so popular in China. Anyway, write a list and plan to check off and add at least one thing each year.
This year I checked off visiting the fifty states and I hope to one day check off visiting the seventh continent. I hope to offer you a few things from around the world that left me amazed in the hope that you may one day check them off your bucket list.
The Galapagos:
The Galapagos in a chain of nineteen islands that stand as a national park of Ecuador. If you are interested in amazing experiences with wildlife or gorgeous plants, this is an amazing place to visit. You don’t need to be an ecological junkie to fall in love Galapagos. The small towns you find on the major islands will leave you feeling extremely relaxed–like the real world can just take a break.
Apart from being a beautiful spot to visit species like the endemic tortoises and flamingos, the blue, red, and black footed boobies, iguanas, sea lions, black tip sharks, and many other rare species, the islands are also a UNESCO World Heritage Site which means that they are full of education and will hopefully stay beautiful for a long time!
South Africa:
Cape Town may be the favorite city that I have visited. If you are looking for a fun retreat from the cold north-eastern winters, head south–way south. It’s summer during in South Africa during our winter. Cape Town is a great place for surfing, but it’s also the best place in the world to jump into Shark Week (you can weight that out for yourself). The city its self is gorgeous and modern, many movies are filmed there and many movie stars have homes on the beautiful mountain backdrop.
Did I forget to mention some of the world’s most amazing views from the top of Table Mountain and the Twelve Apostles, or the fact that the Western Cape of South Africa is its own floral kingdom, one of six in the world (the others taking up entire continents).
South Africa is not just Cape Town. Go visit Johannesburg and find out what life is like for the average African. Visit Soweto a city in Joburg and one of the poorest areas in the country. Here you can learn about the rich history of the country, about Nelson Mandela, and the people’s struggle to freedom and equality.
Also while you are in South Africa, go on a safari! Spot the big five, pet a cheetah, have a blast!
Penn State is one the largest universities in the world, and at times that becomes a problem. Anyone in the Penn State community can tell you that communication between departments can prove an issue for the university. Even within departments effective communication, decision making, and enforcement can become a major issue. This is the case with the bag policy that was rolled out this year. In light of the Boston Marathon bombing that took place this April and a number of other security concerns the university came up with a bag policy for its sport and event venues that mirrors that of the National Football League’s. This policy states that, “One clear plastic one-gallon plastic bag per person will be permitted,” however, “No other bags are permitted.” This is the universities official policy, and it should be followed at every Penn State venue, however poor communication and a the word of many different athourities has left the policy show up in many different forms across campus. This confusion leaves fans angry and possibly choosing not to return. An overhaul in the way we view event security and uniformity across the campus is needed in order to effectively enforce the policy.
In many ways the bag policy is being read like the Bible. It all depends on how the reader interprets the text. Supervisors of different venues are acting as leaders of different denominations. Beaver Stadium acts like Bible belt conservatives it that it takes the policy very literally with very few to no exceptions. Another venue like Pegual Ice Arena takes the policy more liberally, allowing some things to slip. This becomes an issue when someone comes to Beaver Stadium yelling, “Well, they let me do it at Hockey!”
Penn State needs to compare their policy to other major institutions across the country. Disney World allows bags in after they have been checked. And even though the policy was modeled after the NFL’s it is more strict than the NFL’s.
Penn State needs to take a hard look at how it views security and how it communicates if it wants to continue to keep its fans.
Customer relations at Beaver Stadium in reference to Bag Policy
Introduction to the problems, bag policy
Enforcement
Comparison
The Wrong way of approaching security
Solution
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http://www.gopsusports.com/facilities/bag-policy.html
http://www.nfl.com/qs/allclear/index.jsp
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/news/campus/article_4604c454-3537-11e3-9fc8-0019bb30f31a.html
http://www.gopsusports.com/tickets/m-footbl-how-to-buy.html#singlegametickets
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/faq/parks/restricted-personal-items/
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At the beginning of the 2013 Football season Penn State, rolled out a new bag policy.
Interview with Jennifer James–Assistant Athletic Director/Operations:
Customer relations at Beaver Stadium in reference to Bag Policy
Introduction to the problems, bag policy
Enforcement
Comparison
The Wrong way of approaching security
Solution
“We’ll pee when we get to Kansas!”
-My Dad
If you have the patients for it, road tripping can be an extremely rewarding experience. I have visited forty-eight States by means of road trip. Over all that entailed spending hundreds of hours driving around the country. Along the way, I have seen every kind of terrain in the continental United States and met thousands of people from all walks of life. Road tripping educates people–it makes people more aware of how culture can vary from state to state or from city to suburb.
I’ve been talking about road-tripping in North America, however road tripping can be a viable option all over the world. Things to consider when considering road tripping overseas:
You might be wondering, “How can I road trip in another country?” Easy, rent a car. When my family was road tripping America we twice flew out west, once to Los Angles and once Las Vegas. In both cities we rented cars and from those cities we traveled to all the surrounding states in a loop and returned the cars to the airport when we were finished. A nice feature that most large car rental companies have is the ability to return the car you rented at a different location than where you picked it up, this can eliminate back tracking if you are flying home anyway.
Things to consider in a rental car:
Make a plan. My dad would make itineraries for our road trips before we left. This doesn’t necessarily mean reserving all the hotel stops along the way, but rather leave with an idea of what you want to see to help you keep on schedule. I also recommend leaving some time aside to follow your nose, you never know what you might find.
Make it fun. When my family travels we have lots of traditions and and games that we play along the way. One of them is referenced in the quote, my dad decided that he wanted to pee in every state and that is the only reason that we stopped in Kansas.
Ending advice: Don’t road trip with people you don’t like.
Sporting Event Policy’s
“You can get in anywhere if you go to serve.”
― Brother Andrew
I am currently taking a class at my church titled Practical Participation in the Great Commission. This class focus on Christian missions throughout the world and on effective ways to serve. This class along with my recent experiences with Global Brigades have taught me quite a bit about travel through service. A service trip will most likely be very different than a traditional adventure, but in no way should it be less rewarding.
Global Brigades’ mission is: “To empower volunteers and under-resourced communities to resolve global health and economic disparities and inspire all involved to collaboratively work towards an equal world.” And the Biblical Great Commission is found in Matthew 28:18-20 and reads, “Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
Although both mission statements sound rather different they both hold some of the same core values. Both are inherently demanding that anyone who wishes to complete the mission must go out into the world. Biblical context and Christian doctrine shows that one of the best way to “make disciples” of unreached people is essentially by essentially fulfilling Global Brigades mission in the name of God.
Service trips can come through religious organizations, non-profits, the government, or self planning. I covered those mission statements because service trips usually have a mission. My definition of a service trip includes any trip in which one focuses less on exploration and more on serving a local community no matter what size. These trips often keep the traveler in one location for an extended period of time where the traveler is going some kind of work. A service trip through the State Department might be a summer internship in Shanghai working with business executives to help strengthen US ties to Chinese markets, one with the United Nations could include going into an active war zone in Syria to get kids with polio to hospitals, and another one could be acting as a paid au pair in Cape Town. All these are in very different environments and require very different set of skills, but they are all united by several core values.
Service trips should feel rewarding. Serving others is incredibly rewarding and having the chance to travel to a new part of the world and learn about it while you are there is just an added bonus! Some places in the world can only be visited through service. Missionaries are being encouraged to go to university to learn services that they can apply overseas rather than theology, because many countries will only accept people who are going to be practically helpful. (And especially not missionaries.)
I recommend that everyone look into a service trip. They don’t have to be long and are usually inexpensive.
Students and Alumni would be better-off keeping a distance
Brianna Basile uses an editorial in “The Daily Collegian” to argue that, “it’s time for a meeting of the minds.” She argues that Penn State students and alumni need to come together for the betterment of the University. I cannot and will not accept this theory. Basile may be correct to suggest that there are many disagreements between current student leadership and some members of the alumni body, but it would be remiss to bring together the largest alumni base in the world with one of the largest student bodies. Apart from being impractical, any meeting between these two groups would be downright dangerous and potentially destructive. This is why I recommend that Penn State students and alumni take extra precautions to ensure that they never meet, especially not to discuss matters that are important to them.
With nearly 200,000 people in the the Penn State Alumni Association and another 45,000 plus students at University Park the logistics of such meetings would be nearly impossible, if anyone would even come. With a quarter of a million people to pull from it seems that one of theses meetings could never have a safe amount of attendees. Penn State already has a low tolerance for gatherings of people. If the event brought anywhere from ten to a few thousand people, which it could, where could they be hosted? Penn State just doesn’t have any commonplaces, meeting rooms, classrooms, or auditoriums, to host groups of people.
With many alumni no longer living in the State College area how could such meetings occur successfully. Some might recommend turning to technology to connect alumni through email or even video with something like Skype. That might sound reasonable, but in today’s fast paced world technology has become so confusing to use that is just impractical.
As a community we must also be ever cautious of person to person connections outside of the University–good never comes out of them. In the past student’s connecting with outsiders has brought things like THON and Lion Ambassadors and we can see where they have gotten us. Students and alumni must be careful when interacting, one never knows what they might cause.
Toward the end of her plea, Basile asserts that, “We’re all on the same side, really.” No, we’re not, I don’t agree. I recommend that she gets the students and alumni together and ask them if they agree before she makes an assertion like that.
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/opinion/editorials/article_76116f8c-3085-11e3-840d-0019bb30f31a.html
Stephen Colbert works extra hard to ridicule the New Fox News Deck. Colbert compares the Fox “infromation specialist” to his own “information sherpas” to make the point that term “information specialist” doesn’t mean anything. Colbert also makes fun of Fox’s gigantic size and Acronym by comparing it to his own which he ends up calling bullshit.