Mystery Character

I am a white male in his late twenties.

I have fair colored skin with slightly noticeable red freckles.

I am thin with a small frame and averaged height for a male.

I have a combination of blue and green color eyes with reddish brown hair.

The texture of my hair is slightly curled, and short.

You will never see me with a bread because I am always clean shaven.

My signature look incorporates a hooded sweatshirt which you will never see me without, t-shirts, blue jeans and tennis shoes.

I usually do not wear bright colored clothes and always stick to neutrals.

I am quiet, shy and awkward.

I sweat and turn bright red when I am nervous.  

I am learning Chinese right now..... Who am I?

MYX Video Review

Lead Exercise #1

Lead 1) A 2.2 magnitude earthquake shook Santa Clara County today in the foothills off Alum Rock Falls Road but no injuries or damages have been reported.

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Lead 2) The nine hour closure of U.S. Highway 9 yesterday was caused by a blockage of several fallen trees.

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In my own humble opinion #1

In the news recently Lindsay Lohan after serving a very short jail sentence and attending yet another rehab facility tweeted on  her twitter page that she failed her first out of rehab drug test.

Yet again she has another warrant for her arrest after the judge revoked her probation on Monday.  

Meanwhile in New York Ms. Lohan also withdrew her law suit against E-trade on Monday as well.

In my own humble opinion Lindsay Lohan's erratic behavior is a product of her home life.  

Having two divorced parents on opposite sides of the fence and both using her for their own benefits.

Her estranged father, Michael Lohan has been in trouble with the law before and was giving interviews to the media about his daughter needing help.

These pleas are not with good intention but rather selfish intention because the media will capture him going out with other celebrities and trying to run in the "A-list" crowd.     

Her mother who encourages this behavior by denying that Lindsay has any issues in  her life is sadly making a huge mistake.

The mother Dina who also has another little girl, Lindsay's younger sister is setting a negative image for her younger daughter to follow in.  

Hollywood is a place of temptations but if Lindsay had a strong family foundation her future could have been drastically different.

I do not know what it will take for Lindsay to get her act together and stop this horrible behavior.  

She is 24 years old and a public figure which makes her a role model to other young girls.

Meaning because she is a Hollywood starlet she is not a normal person and should be upheld to these higher standards especially since she influences other people's lives.  

This is the article pasted below and the link:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/lohan-drops-lawsuit-but-other-legal-trouble

Lohan Drops Lawsuit but Other Legal Troubles Persist

By DAVE ITZKOFF

Al Seib/Associated PressLindsay Lohan in court in July.

Lindsay Lohan continues to keep the nation’s legal system busy on two coasts. According to a filing made Monday in a Manhattan court reported by The Associated Press, Ms. Lohan, the 24-year-old “Mean Girls” star, withdrew her lawsuit against E-Trade over a Super Bowl commercial for that online brokerage that she believed was taking aim at her. In the advertisement, a baby with an adult’s voice asks another infant whether he’s been visited by “that milkaholic Lindsay.” A lawyer for Ms. Lohan wrote in an earlier filing that the babies “were actually portraying” Ms. Lohan “and her grown-up friends,” but a lawyer for E-Trade responded, “No reasonable person would connect” the actress with the commercial.

Ms. Lohan may instead be marshaling her resources for her legal woes in California, where a Beverly Hills judge on Monday revoked her probation and issued a warrant for her arrest after she failed a drug test, The A.P. reported. Over the summer, Ms. Lohan served less than two weeks of a 90-day jail sentence and spent 22 days in a rehabilitation facility after missing a probation hearing in May stemming from her 2007 arrests on charges of drunken driving and drug possession. The warrant has been stayed until a Friday hearing to determine if Ms. Lohan’s latest actions violated her probation.

Word of the Week #10

Word: usurp

Source: "Local Politics, A Practical Guide to Governing at the Grassroots," second edition by Terry Christensen and Tom Hogen-Esch, chapter four, pg. 98.

Sentence: "In particular, the principle of Dillon's Rule usurped earlier principles of local sovereignty."

Definition: usurp: (vt., vi.): to take (power, a position, etc.) by force.

My sentence: In my career I hope I will never have usurped a position but earned it because of my qualifications.

Word of the Week #9

Word: titular

Source: "Local Politics, A Practical Guide to Governing at the Grassroots," second edition by Terry Christensen and Tom Hogen-esch, chapter five, pg. 113.

Sentence: "Political leadership could not surmount this fragmentation because the office of mayor was, by the very nature of the system, little more than titular."

Definition: titular (adj.): 1. of a title, 2. having a title, 3. in name only.

My sentence: I was a treasurer of an organization and the position was definitely more than titular with numerous responsibilities.

Word of the Week #8

Word: perfidy

Source: "American Media History," second edition by Anthony R. Fellow, chapter four, pg. 104.

Sentence: "It had not been able to stop the war, although it had amply exposed its perfidy."

Definition: perfidy (n.): betrayal of trust; treachery.

My sentence: I sensed perfidy when my best friend started talking to my boyfriend ever night on the phone.