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INSIDE THIS EDITION: UNC CHARLOTTE STUDENTS AND FACULTY PREPARE FOR HANDLING WINTER WEATHER AFTER AN ICY WEEKEND PG. 3

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QUICK TIPS ON HOW TO ACTUALLY KEEP TRUE TO YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS IN 2017 PG. 11

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Students need to get ‘NinerReady’ for winter weather

Department of Emergency Management encourages students to be aware of weather conditions after icy weekend, know different operating conditions ALEXANDRIA SANDS NEWS EDITOR

With an icy weekend kicking off second semester, the Department of Emergency Management is asking that students prepare for the season.

Director of Emergency Management Chris Gonyar says that Charlotte is expecting an above average amount of precipitation this winter, with the most snowfall between now and the first week of March.

“Anything over about four or five inches in Charlotte is a substantial snowfall, for one event,” Gonyar said.

The University orders three different operating conditions in severe weather: Conditions One, Two and Three. Campus was in Condition One throughout the weekend, meaning that the University was open but with reduced operations.

In Condition One, classes remain in session. Once in Condition Two or Three, classes are canceled.

Condition Three is the most unlikely and severe.

The University uses the National Weather Service, trusted local meteorologist and graduate level meteorology students to come to a decision on operating conditions.

The Department of Emergency Management has recently put out a new webpage, NinerReady, where students can check to see the University’s operating

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Sidewalks and roads on campus covered in slush and ice after a night of snowfall in Charlotte. Photo by Alex Sands

condition in a winter weather event at: emergency. uncc.edu/ninerready.

Besides the webpage, students have multiple other resources from which to receive this informationincluding an e-mail sent to UNC Charlotte accounts, a banner message on uncc. edu, Facebook, Twitter, and a weather hotline.

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expects students and employees to use good judgment when deciding whether or not they can travel to campus. If a student doesn’t think they can make it to campus safely, it is up to their instructor to decide what accommodations can be made for the missed class.

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conditions for their current location as well as their destination. The webpage also encourages drivers to slow down in adverse weather. Excessive speed is the number one cause of crashes in winter weather, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Gonyar advises students to always be aware of conditions and to keep a

safety kit.

“Having a kit in your car with warm clothes, water, some snack type food goes a long way to your preparedness, additionally within your home. Be prepared within your residence for if we lose power and your 72 hours without power- do you have food, water, warm clothes” Gonyar said.

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CONE 336 BECOMES ‘PEACE HAVEN’

Chancellor approves plans for a meditation-prayer space on campus ALEXANDRIA SANDS NEWS EDITOR

After 10 years of student advocacy, UNC Charlotte will be opening it’s interfaith meditation-prayer space Tuesday.The Muslim Student Association (MSA) along with many other organizations joined together in November to advocate for an interfaith-meditation space.

Muslim students, who pray five times a day, had been reserving library rooms to pray in for the past year.

After writing a six-page executive proposal and holding a demonstration on campus, Chancellor Philip L. Dubois agreed to the students’ request- giving them a dedicated space in Cone 336.

They’re calling the space “Peace

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Haven.”

“I was a little surprised that it was a quick turn around from the Chancellor,” said President of MSA Abrar Al-Shaer. “Just in about a week and a half he had replied back saying that he’s moving forward with the approval.”

The space also got full funding from the Chancellor’s Office and Student Affairs.

Interfaith Niners, the organization that was asking for the room, agreed to open up the space as it is now and to start renovations in May. Abrar is working with an interior designer to plan the renovations.

She says she wants to take down the office walls in the room to open up

the space and make it bigger.

“If we had started renovations right now, it would be closed all semester,” said Al-Shaer.

Some MSA members are donating prayer mats. The University has agreed to purchase pillows and yoga mats.

There have been multiple attempts made by students for this room over the past 10 years, including an organization entitled “Bonnie Cone’s Dream” that advocated for the space in 2014 but found no success.

“I kind of understood why the previous attempts failed,” said Al-Shaer. “Reason being, a lot of the times the previous leaders or students that tried to advocate

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for a space didn’t understand how to correctly advocate for it. The difference between what we did is we reached out to many different student organizations. We made it a student body initiative … We got support all across the board.”

Most universities have spaces where students can go to pray, including North Carolina State University, UNC Chapel Hill, UNC Asheville, Appalachian State University, Elon University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and UNC Greensboro.

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Denny Building goes under construction Phase one of three part project starts with renovations to Denny ALEXANDRIA SANDS NEWS EDITOR

POLICE BLOTTER DEC. 16 - JAN. 6 ACCIDENT DEC. 19

• Sanford Hall Lane, while backing, driver of vehicle one struck vehicle two, which was parked and unoccupied. No injuries were reported.

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• Van Landingham Road, unknown subject removed victim’s purse from her suitcase while she was asleep in a common area of a residence hall.

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Renovations of Denny Building begin this month and will end in August. Photo by Alex Sands

Green fences surround Denny as renovations to the building start.

The renvoations are part of a fiveyear construction plan that will help the University accommodate the growing enrollment.

Denny is phase one of the Academic Complex Renovations project that began this month. The renovations include heating and air condition upgrades, sprinkler and fire alarm improvements and new windows. The inside will get new paint, carpeting and ceilings.

Auditoriums will get new fixed seating, lighting, drywall and acoustical treatments. The new brick they are putting on the outside will match the rest of the complex.

Employees who work in Denny have been temporarily moved to Cedar Building, a former residence hall.

The Denny Building is scheduled to be complete in August. After its completion, phase two will begin.

Phase two will include renovations

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to the Macy and Barnard buildings.

Phase three is scheduled for 2018 and will include renovations to Garinger and Winningham buildings.

Employees who work in these buildings will be moved to Cedar and Hickory, also former residence buildings.

The Academic Complex Renovations project is expected to be complete in December 2018.

The five-year plan has more than 40 capital projects, including the Belk Plaza revitalization and the Health and Wellness Center. The projects will cost approximately $450 million.

Facilities Management has provided a customer service phone line for the project. The number can be found on the plan’s webpage: capitalconstructionplan.uncc.edu.

There is also an interactive map that lays out all the projects that will be occuring within the next five years.

• Off Campus, officers responded to CMC University Hospital at the request of CMPD to check on an individual who was a student and possibly had tried to harm themselves.

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• Maple Hall, unknown subject removed copper wiring from a construction site.

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• South Village Deck, officer took a report of a vehicle that was vandalized.

• Cone Center, officer took a report of graffiti at the Cone Center Building.

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• Van Landingham Road, unknown subject shattered a glass advertisement window and removed a “Rent This Space” sign.

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CONSUEGRA RECORDS 100TH WIN After six years of hardwork and countless hours of practice, TREVOR WILT

Consuegra reaches the century mark

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December 30, 2016. This is a date that head coach Cara Consuegra for the Charlotte 49ers women’s basketball team will likely remember for the rest of her life.

This is the day that she earned win No. 100.

“I’m just really thankful for my family and my husband,” Consuegra said. “I think that’s the first thing that I think about, is all the sacrifices that he and my family made for me to have the opportunity to be here. He’s supported me so fiercely and I’m just really lucky.

The second thing I thought about was my thankfulness and loyalty to Charlotte. We haven’t had perfect years every season, but they always had my back and assured me that I was their coach and they supported me through that process.”

As you can tell, coach Consuegra is a very selfless person, not talking about her own dedication for her 100th win, but the dedication by the people closest to her. One of the people that coach Consuegra has been very close with for a while now is Randi Henderson, an assistant coach for the 49ers, who just happens to be Consuegra’s old teammate at the University of Iowa.

“Cara was committed to being a college basketball coach probably from the day she was born,” Henderson said. “She is an extremely competitive person and will do whatever she needs to get ready for a game. In college, if we needed to shoot extra we would do that. Now, it’s extra film, calling other coaches on how they guarded and getting different ideas on how to

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play teams.”

Preparation, as Henderson alluded to, has been a key to success for Consuegra in her six years at the helm for the 49ers, something that senior guard Ciara Gregory can testify to.

“She’s always watching film. When we are on the plane or at the airport, she is watching film,” Gregory said.

“She’s just always doing something to prepare us for the next game.”

Coach Consuegra got her first job in basketball as the director of operations at Penn State before heading to Marquette for seven years as an assistant coach, helping pave the way to Charlotte. Judy Rose, the current athletic director at Charlotte who earned 93 wins as the head coach with the 49ers women’s basketball team, was passed this season by Consuegra for second alltime wins at Charlotte.

When asked if there were any milestones she set for herself as a coach, she humbly said, “I have the same philosophy for myself as I have for my team and that is just to get better everyday and every year. I think for me, looking back over the course of my career and these wins, I think about the coach I was in year one and the coach I am in year six and it’s dramatically different.”

In year two, Consuegra’s coaching career got dramatically different after her team’s win on Feb. 10, 2013 in Philly against Saint Joseph’s, a game that created a sense of belonging for her as a coach.

“St. Joe’s was a very good team,” Consuegra said. “At that point I kind of felt like my team was pretty

good but we hadn’t really been tested. We ended up winning (7166) and I remember being in the locker room after the game and just getting really emotional. I had been coaching for about a year and that was one of the first times that I felt like this is the type of team I want to coach. A team that has heart and wants to win. That was the first moment that I told myself, ‘We are getting there.’ That’s one that I will never forget.”

When coaching in college, hours are limited between games and watching film is extremely important, but Consuegra knows when enough is enough and when she needs to put time aside for other things that are important as well.

“On game day, I try to stop watching film and kind of let my mind clear,” Consuegra said. “I spend a lot of time on game day preparing my pregame speech, which is something that is very

important to me.”

Many coaches have little tactics that they do throughout games to stay composed and help their team execute throughout the game, and the same goes for coach Consuegra.

“Something that I started to do a couple years ago was a little note card that I keep in my pocket during the game to help me stay focused in games. So I will just kind of write on the note card some controllable’s for myself. I’ll also write down some keys to the game that I can focus on and that will help keep my team focused.”

So with win No. 100 under her belt, the next milestone would be her 176th win, which would put her as the all-time win leader at Charlotte, ultimately passing Ed Baldwin.

But with those type of accolades not exactly high on her list, coach Consuegra’s focus is just on one thing, “How can I be the best leader for my team.”

Cara Consuegra talks to the team on the bench. NT File Photo

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NEW YEAR, SAME NINERS?

Last three games took an “L” but the 49ers might bounce back KATHLEEN COOK SPORTS EDITOR

After starting conference play with a win, the Charlotte men’s basketball team has failed to convert the next three games to a win and they hold a 1-3 conference record two weeks into the new year.

After falling to ACC foe Maryland, Charlotte ended 2016 with a 101-76 victory over North Texas. The tripledigit performance was aided by five Niners with 10 points or more.

Leading the charge was sophomore Andrien White who totaled 20 points, right behind him was the other sophomore Jon Davis with 19.

With high hopes, the 49ers laced up to face Rice. A 23-point game from Davis was not enough for Charlotte, and they fell to the Owls 89-70. Rice out-rebounded the 49ers by ten, 46-35.

The team then hit the road for a weekend trip through Kentucky and West Virginia.

Their first stop was WKU, where they took the game into overtime but failed to capitalize on the opportunity, losing 82-80. White started out strong, heading to the locker room with 10 points under his belt, finishing the game with 20 in total. The sophomore also lead the team with eight rebounds.

To finish out their road trip, the 49ers took on Marshall in Huntington, West Virginia, Anthony

Mark Price leaves the court against USC-Upstate. Photo by Chris Crews

Vanhook stepped up, tallying a career-high 22 points in the 11093 loss to the Thundering Herd.

Vanhook made it a double-double after snagging 10 rebounds. Despite the loss, Charlotte had seven players with 10 or more points. The 110 points put up on the Niners was the most by an opponent since 1991 against Southern Alabama.

Though the 49ers haven’t opened their conference schedule up in an idealistic manner, don’t write the Charlotte team off yet.

Last season after starting 1-3 in conference play, the 49ers bounced

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back to an even 9-9 record and made a run in the conference tournament.

The pursuit of a banner was ended in the second round of the tournament by a Middle Tennessee that went on to win the conference title.

So what’s the problem?

Offense is not an area in which Charlotte struggles. The 49ers put up an average of 79 points per game.

In 10 of the 49ers games this season they have scored over 70 points. In four of those games, Charlotte has claimed over 100 points.

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have aided in the scoring increase, such as freshman duo Najee Garvin and Quentin Jackson and the two transfers Hudson Price and Austin Ajukwa. When coupled with the veterans like Braxton Ogbueze, Vanhook, Davis and White -Charlotte is a force to be reckoned with offensively speaking.

Where the 49ers lack is the defensive side of the ball.

Coming into the 2016-17 season, it was evident that there would be a void in the rebounding column.

Speculation arose throughout the 49ers’ season. Throughout their 15 games, Charlotte has only outrebounded their opponent once -against WKU. The season is still young, however, and there is a chance that a defensive power can still be undercover. With conference play still young, the 49ers have time to work out the kinks and come out of this season with a winning record.

The Charlotte team is stronger in Halton Arena this season, holding a 6-2 record while at home. However, the 49ers tend to get homesick while traveling to games, having a 1-6 record.

This bodes well for the Niners as they enter into a three-game home stand, beginning this Thursday with Louisiana Tech at 7 p.m.

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RELIGIOUS MYTH

Why we must understand violence in Israel and Palestine as a colonial conflict rather than a religious one

CASEY ALDRIDGE OPINION EDITOR

I wrote a piece at the beginning of the school year that promised to be “the first of several in a series in support of Palestinian liberation.”

The latter half of 2016, however, had different things in mind. Between the Charlotte uprising, Standing Rock and the presidential election, my largely personal reflection on last summer’s two-week delegation to Palestine took a back seat. Now, it appears, the occupation of Palestine is back in the news with enough force to come back to it to start 2017.

The Modern Language Association voted last week against adopting the academic boycott of Israeli universities. This came not long after the United States abstained from a UN Security Council resolution condemning illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Trump, who appointed a chief strategist with an anti-Semitic history, has at the same time voiced support for far-right plans to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and loudly denounced the U.S. abstention at the United Nations. Trump’s policy towards Israel might come across as paradoxical without a proper understanding of the anti-Semitic assumptions of Christian Zionism, perhaps a theme for a future article.

If your social media network, like most people, is not full of Palestinian solidarity activists, your encounter with the struggle for Palestinian liberation in the past week may have been limited to Sunday’s truck attack in Jerusalem. A Palestinian man, Qunbar, killed four Israeli soldiers and wounded 17 more.

Qunbar’s attack received far more media coverage than the incident one day earlier in which Israeli soldiers shot at the car of Asaad Al-Ramlawi, the Palestinian deputy

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minister of health in the West Bank.

Outside of the headlines, however, I think that I as a writer have an obligation to tell the stories that marginalized people have graciously shared with me. One thing every Palestinian I met (and many Israeli solidarity activists as well) insisted is that this is not a religious conflict.

Folks in Aida Refugee Camp, Nabi Saleh, Bethlehem, Yaffa and Jerusalem were all adamant that theirs was a fight for liberation, land and rights, and that any Jew or Christian who fought for those principles was welcome among Palestinians freedom fighters.

Whether you think violence is sometimes permissible as a form of resistance or never acceptable at

all, it is crucial that we understand Qunbar’s attack as a political response to occupation, and not as religious zealotry. Israeli retaliation, too, is political, seeking to control, corral and eliminate an occupied population.

The conflict in Israel and Palestine is hardly a conflict. A conflict entails two sides of equal military capacity; but this “conflict” is a heavilytilted process of settler-colonialism.

Settler-colonialism, according to Patrick Wolfe, necessarily seeks the elimination of the native - in this case, the Palestinian.

The “religious myth” is that Jews and Arabs have hated one another since the dawn of time. This myth, which is demonstrably false,

precludes any kind of peace and asks us to take sides based on our identities, not our principles. But I have met Jewish IDF refusers and Christian liberation theologians and Muslim protest leaders in Palestine who reject this notion entirely. When we call the violence that stems from the occupation “an ancient religious conflict,” we obscure the decidedly modern roots of our situation. And if we seek a just and peaceful future that accommodates all, not just a select few, we are required to listen to Palestinians and their allies and discard the language of “religious war.” At best, it’s inaccurate; at worst, it makes excuses for obscene inequalities and the structural violence of settler-colonialism.

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50 YEARS OF MARTIN SCORSESE A chronicle of the director’s best work in anticipation of “Silence” JESSE NUSSMAN STAFF WRITER

Few filmmakers have had a resume like Martin Scorsese. The 74-year-old director has not only given the world a wide array of iconic feature movies but also numerous documentaries, concert films, shorts and even television episodes. 2017 marks a huge year for the director, having now been making movies for 50 years. It’s also the 10th anniversary of his long overdue Best Director win for “The Departed” as well as the wide-release of “Silence,” the filmmaker’s longbrewing passion project about Jesuit missionaries facing persecution in 17th century Japan. The film was given a limited run at Christmas to be eligible for awards season.

Best Crime Movie: “Goodfellas” Of the many different types of movies Martin Scorsese has brought us over the last 50 years, it’s his crime pictures that have come to be considered his bread and butter. Depending on whether or not you consider “Gangs of New York”

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and “The Wolf of Wall Street” to be among those considered (I do), Scorsese has made six pictures dealing with groups of men involved in crime.

Of these, “Goodfellas” is arguably the crowning jewel. Based on the story of New York mobster Henry Hill and his experience in the East Coast crime syndicate, it’s a perfect match of director and source material. Scorsese grew up around crime in his neighborhood of Little Italy and understands the world of these pictures like few other filmmakers. “Goodfellas” also allows Scorsese to be at his most free stylistically, incorporating voice-over, fourth wall breaks, freeze frames, elaborate tracking shots and clever music drops into the picture. It’s two-and-a-half hours long, but speeds by like a coked-up roller coaster. Like all of the director’s crime pictures, “Goodfellas” highlights the attractiveness of crime: money, power and women, but never fails to remind audiences of the harsh consequences JAN. 10, 2017 - JAN. 16, 2017

within that world. At any moment the character’s rock star lifestyle can erupt into a shell of bullets and blood.

Quintessential De Niro Collaboration: “Raging Bull” Has there ever been an actor/director partnership quite as great or fruitful as Scorsese and De Niro? The pair made eight movies together and all, except maybe “New York, New York,” are classics. Both would go on to do fantastic work with other people, but let’s be real, Scorsese was at his best with De Niro and De Niro his best with Scorsese. So how do you narrow down just one film to represent such a fruitful partnership? First, how iconic is the film in question? Second, how essential is De Niro’s performance to both the film and his career?

Finally, how much does Scorsese’s filmmaking enhance the picture and how does it stand against the other work in his career? From there, two

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movies seem to move to the forefront: “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull.” However, “Taxi Driver” really was a three-way collaboration between De Niro, Scorsese, and writer Paul Schrader, who at the end of the day is the real architect of that film. “Raging Bull” on the other hand was a film that originated with De Niro. The actor tried numerous times to get Scorsese interested in the biopic about boxer Jake Lamotta but it wouldn’t be until after a lifethreatening cocaine overdose that the director budged. The two put all their energy into the project, with Scorsese fearing it could be his last movie. De Niro’s performance would win him an Oscar for Best Actor and he is now looked upon as a pinnacle of method acting. Scorsese, on the other hand, pulled out all the bells and whistles using his signature style to create some of the most breathtaking boxing sequences ever put on film. “Raging Bull” never feels like a traditional Hollywood biopic or sports movie; it’s a raw, ugly, and a surprisingly poetic portrayal of a deeply flawed human being.

Most Underrated Movie: “The King of Comedy” At the time of its release, “The King of Comedy” was a flop. Perhaps audiences just were not ready or just didn’t get the humor, but whatever the reason, it remains one of Scorsese’s funniest and most satisfying projects that far too few have seen. Coming straight off his Oscar win for “Raging Bull,” De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring comedian obsessed with a late night talk-show host played by Jerry Lewis.

What plays out is a dark satire on fame and celebrity culture with Pupkin’s obsession growing gradually more unnerving. In an interview for the book “Conversations with Scorsese,” the director mentions how unsettling he finds the picture even to this day. In many ways, Pupkin is similar to the character of Travis Bickle, whom De Niro played in Taxi Driver. Both are delusional and psychologically unstable. Yet, what makes Pupkin such a marvelous character is the layer of politeness over his threatening demeanor. With his clownish looking suits, chubby cheeks and goofy mustache, it’s easily the best of De Niro’s comedy performances.

Most Fascinating Misfire: “New York, New York” Most filmmakers have at least one misfire in their career. For Martin Scorsese, that misfire was arguably the musical “New York, New York.” In an interview for the book “Conversations with Scorsese,” the director talks of how, in hindsight, the project was probably doomed from inception. The idea was to do a massive classic Hollywood musical with the acting techniques of new Hollywood. In the end, the mixture of having lavish sets requiring precise blocking and coordination did not mesh well with a script that was almost 100 percent improvised.

Mix in the fact that Scorsese was having an affair with lead actress Liza Minnelli and nearly everyone involved with the project was high on cocaine, and it is easy to see why the massive undertaking quickly spiraled ACROSS 1 Rides for hire out of control.

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43 No-frills sleeper 34 Place for an earring 44 Fire pit particles 35 Grand-scale poem 45 ‘70s-’80s band with a 5 Rapids transports 36 Pres. between FDR and steering wheel on their debut DDE 10 Toothed tonsorial tool album cover 14 Treaty partner 39 Sandy shade 47 Google success 15 Open courtyards 40 Flushed, as cheeks 49 Employ stalling tactics 16 “So that’s what you mean” 41 Down the road 55 Pro on camera 17 Shakespearean king 46 Magician’s syllables 18 “Just handle the problem!” 59 Like some rays outside the 47 Pays tribute to visible spectrum 20 Jam session jammer 48 “My schedule is wide open” 60 Take into account 22 Signs of sadness 50 Works with flour 63 Fill fully 23 Upstage one’s co-stars 51 Cup for café or thé 64 Qatari ruler 26 Tavern brew 52 Blowing one’s top 65 British unit of length 27 Some motorcycles and 53 Lead or zinc 66 Hall of Famer Musial pianos 54 Blissful regions 67 Relaxed gait 32 Lawn-wrecking pests 55 Cain’s victim 68 Old West search party 36 Sewn edge 56 Commando garb 69 Narrow-bodied swimmers 57 Stumble 37 __ president 38 Big sale, where you can 58 Kiddie lit monster find the starts of 18-, 23-, 49- DOWN 61 Mischief-maker 1 Brings peace to and 60-Across 62 Modernist’s prefix 2 Native Alaskan 42 Mongolian desert

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HOW TO: KEEP YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS Remember why you wanted to change in the first place.

HAILEY TURPIN LIFESTYLE EDITOR

It’s that time of the year again. Time to hear everyone’s typical New Year’s statement: “New year, new me.” You really want to have a New Year’s resolution, but each year they seem un-fun, unattainable, or you never finish them. We’ve all been there, but this year it could be different. Here are some tips to help you set, work at and even accomplish your New Year’s resolutions: 1. Keep yourself accountable This tip is the easiest and the hardest. It’s important to keep yourself in check so that you know what you want to accomplish and how you want to.

Even by writing yourself some sticky notes with your goals to remind you of your resolutions could be beneficial, and after a while will not be so much of a chore.

2. Keep an accountability partner If you struggle with doing things yourself, have someone close to you help you out. Have your friend go to the gym with you if you choose to get fit in

2017. Make a pact with your significant other to save more money for fun dates or for that big vacation over the summer. Whatever you have chosen for your New Year’s resolution, have a person (who you know deep in your heart will keep you on track) stick with you throughout the year so that you will accomplish what you want to.

3. Start with smaller goals Taking the time to think of multiple smaller goals that contribute to the bigger goal will help the big resolution not seem so scary or unattainable. If you want to travel more in 2017, start with traveling to places that are 1-2 hours away and work your way to the bigger travels. It helps you feel like you’ve accomplished something and still gets you to your bigger goal.

However you choose to change in 2017, remember why you wanted to resolve something in the first place. Happy New Year’s, Niners!

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ANGIE BAQUEDANO ASST. LIFESTYLE EDITOR

“This year I decided I would have two New Year’s resolutions and it came down to managing my money better and playing with my dog Dex more.

His full name is Dexter and I absolutely love this dog. He’s a husky beagle mix and he’s very good with other dogs and people. I want to give him as much attention as he deserves. As for the money part, I’m planning a really big trip through upper California over the summer with my girlfriend, so I have to be really careful about my spending. We recently started a jar for it and it’s actually going pretty well. I’m so stoked for the trip; 2017 has been great so far I can’t wait for the rest of it.”

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JAN. 10, 2017 - JAN. 16, 2017

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RESTAURANT REVIEW: KID CASHEW Dilworth’s finest Mediterranean food, especially the hummus

ANGIE BAQUEDANO ASST. LIFESTYLE EDITOR

Hummus, Hummus, Hummus is the word! Perhaps it’s service, service, service too. Everything was perfect, and the hummus and service was fantastic. This was my second time stopping in at Kid Cashew, the new hip restaurant located in the heart of Dilworth that has everyone buzzing.

I have to say it has been spot on every single time and the staff is just wonderful. It’s fun, inviting and that’s just the menu.

The open floor layout of the dining area is beautifully shown off with strategically placed mirrors on the wall that truly expand the room. There is also outdoor seating and a bar area. Big windows let in a ton of sunlight, which really adds to the mood of the room. Prices are fair for the amount of food that you get, and the quality of the food is just phenomenal. Everything tastes very fresh, and they use high-quality meat for all their menu items.

The menu options are eclectic and exciting. I like to call it Mediterranean food with a kick, and you can really tell that its farm-to-table which is just another plus. “Our privilege is to stay as close to mother nature as possible.” says Giorgio Bakatsias, proprietor and James Beard ‘Best Restaurateur’ nominee.

Everything is made to order; nothing is ever frozen which is really great if you’re really looking for a place that can assure you freshness.

During my visit, I tried the hummus and this amazing chicken avocado BLT with a twist. I even got mac and cheese as my side and I have to say it was the most amazing part. How is it possible that a restaurant can make such a simple item seem like it should be complicated? The mac and cheese came out in an extremely hot cast iron pan and I really do think that’s part of the reason it was so much better. It’ll burn your mouth if you aren’t careful, but it’s the kind of tasty pain that anyone would gladly welcome.

The hummus is specially made as well, and I was actually hoping to get some my second time to Kid Cashew, but the waitress informed me that they had run out for the day. I was very disappointed, especially because it was 1 p.m. and their hours are from 11 a.m.-9 p.m. I’m assuming they only make a certain amount each day and once it’s gone, it’s gone. But I found that a little surprising being in the fact that they are a Mediterranean restaurant and hummus is essential (in my opinion) for Mediterranean cuisine. I was also a little disappointed in the fact that they did not have any sauces other than tzatziki sauce. I was given potatoes as my side along with the mac and cheese and they had nothing to dip it in. It sounds silly to be bothered by that but it’s a restaurant, and I think it’s necessary for establishments within the food industry to have variety while still sticking out among the crowd.

All in all, it was an excellent restaurant, and my waitress was so very friendly, as was the cook in the back that came forward to have his picture taken at my bidding. Unfortunately, the gentlemen who I approached about the picture/review weren’t so gracious and almost seemed irritated that I would dare ask such a thing. Nonetheless, the picture was taken and everything else was pretty close to perfect, but don’t just take my word for it, try it out yourself! Get the hummus in my honor!

Rate: 3.5/5 stars

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JAN. 10, 2017 - JAN. 16, 2017

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