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For those who struggle with issues related to alcohol addiction, there's Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), and for those affected by people who struggle with alcohol addiction, there's Al-anon. But what about those for whom others' excessive drinking is also linked to peer pressure and the struggle to fit in? Those for whom a sense of identity and moral values are still being developed?
For teenagers, there's Alateen.
On December 1, the new East End chapter of Alateen will hold its first meeting at St. Anne's Church in Bridgehampton from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. While there are currently scores of well-populated AA and Al-anon meetings nearly every night of the week at locations across the East End, until now the closest Alateen program to the East End had been held up island in Mastic.
"I see that Alateen is so needed in this area," said Alateen co-founder Patty*. Patty started going to Al-anon meetings three years ago because she said her family has a history of alcoholism and she had developed damaging coping mechanisms.
But she took a special interest in Alateen a year and a half ago in the wake of a cataclysmic family tragedy: in 2010 her grandson, who lived up island, died from an accidental drug overdose at the age of 15.
And with other grandchildren currently in high school in East Hampton, she said she has noticed a spate of "out-of-control" parties among high school students on the East End.
"Drugs are so prevalent and so easy to find," she added. "Kids need places to go to talk about their feelings."
"I think [Alateen] is an absolutely wonderful thing," said Pierson High School Guidance Counselor Linda Aydinian.
Due to a lack of outside programs on the East End that address alcohol addiction, Aydinian said she and her fellow guidance counselors can recommend private counseling for students facing difficult situations, but that's about it. Now, they have the option of offering teens the support of a group composed of their peers. Aydinian said she's already circulated fliers around the school about the program.
Alateen follows the same principals of Al-anon: it is governed by a system of rotating leadership, it is completely non-denominational and it's totally anonymous — members are strictly barred from repeating anything uttered during the course of meeting, a rule Patty said Al-anon members take very seriously.
However, unlike Al-anon, which is open to people of all ages, Alateen provides this structure exclusively for teenagers, many of whom do not deal with or internalize others' alcohol abuse the same way as adults.
"A 13-year-old isn't necessarily going to resonate with a 48-year-old," explained Jennifer*, who co-founded the Alateen group with Patty.
"It's a safe place to talk about your fears when you're witnessing a lot of drinking around you, whether that drinking is being done by your family members or your peers," added Patty.
Both Patty and Jennifer have been actively involved with Al-anon — for three and 14 years, respectively — and both sing its praises.
"I feel like it helped save my life," Patty said in an interview last week.
She went on to explain that the program provides coping mechanisms for people who have suffered or are suffering through relationships with those who have addiction problems.
She said that for many teens, addiction often leads to co-dependent behavior, which can manifest in teens taking on too much responsibility at home, lying to cover-up for other people's bad habits or generally feeling unwanted or unloved.
According to Jennifer, the biggest asset of a program like Al-anon or Alateen is anonymity.
"What we say in that room stays in that room," she stated. "We can say anything we want and it is honored."
"I could share my guts and it would be ok " — Patty chimed in — "And I have."
Jennifer, who has two young daughters herself, said a program like Alateen is desperately needed in this community.
"There are so many people out here who go to Al-anon and AA meetings, and those people have to affect the people in their lives," said Jennifer.
Having lived much of her life with alcoholics who have been close family members, she added that she wants to be able to give kids the opportunity to have an outlet and to deal with these issues before they reach adulthood.
"That's why I'm doing this," continued Jennifer. "Because I'd like to save another kid."
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The trio's favorite feature, by far, is the hands-free camera that shoots photos and video through voice commands. (Images can also be captured by pressing a small button along the top of the right frame of Glass.) They also liked being able to connect to the Internet simply by tapping on the right frame of Glass to turn it on and then swiping along the same side to scroll through a menu. That menu allows them to do such things as get directions on Google's map or find a piece of information through Google's search engine. The information is shown on a thumbnail-sized transparent screen attached just above the right eye to stay out of a user's field of vision.
Among the biggest shortcomings they cited was Glass' short battery life, especially if a lot of video is being taken. Although Google says Glass should last for an entire day on a single battery charge for the typical user, Hill said there were times when she ran out of power after 90 minutes to two hours during periods when she was recording a lot of video.
Glass' speaker, which relies on a bone conduction technology, also is inadequate, according to the testers the AP interviewed. They said the speaker, which transmits sound through the skull to allow for ambient noise, can be difficult to hear in any environment other than a quiet room.
"If you are out in the street or anywhere else where there is any noise, it's impossible to hear," Lee said. "That has been challenging because there is no way to adjust it. If you could adjust the sound, I think it would solve a lot of problems."
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Glass' ability to take hands-free pictures and video has raised concerns among privacy watchdogs who believe the device will make it easier to secretly record the activities of other people. But Levy is convinced that what Glass can do isn't much different than what many people already do with their smartphones. To prove his point, Levy used his iPhone to record a conversation he was having with a friend who was railing against the privacy risks posed by Glass.
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Lee regularly has Glass with her when Maddie is around other babies and said she hasn't heard any privacy objections from other parents. That could be because she has been careful about following the social cues around her. If she sees other parents snapping pictures of their babies with their phones, Levy has donned her Glass. If no one else is taking pictures or video, though, she leaves Glass in her bag.
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Angela McIntyre, a research director for Gartner Inc., believes the retail price for Glass will have to plummet to $200 to make a significant dent. Early testers had to pay $1,500 for the device, though Google hopes to bring that price down by the time of its mass-market release next year.
Even then, McIntyre believes smartwatches, another type of Internet-connected device starting to appear on the market, will win a bigger following than Glass. "Most people are just more used to putting technology on their wrist," she said. "It's less intrusive and obtrusive to wear a watch that can serve as a second screen to your smartphone."
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Thoughts on NXT vs. RCX in competition...
From a power and weight perspective, one of the 'balancing factors' I can imagine (for now) is the number of extra sensors and more powerful motors that can be made/purchased for the RCX. If you are talking about an 'anything goes' competition, the NXT is at a disadvantage due to lack of additional sensors and motors. But we can't expect this to last too long...
Another 'balancing factor' could be the experience factor. There's a lot more trial-and-error testing with the RCX, and it could be argued that inexperience with the NXT system could help the RCX designer(s). If LEGO Education NXT releases its version in August 2006, the experience factor will last only as long as the time needed for the NXT developers to catch up - could be months... or a year or more.
If you examine the last set of challenges for the FLL, it may or may not be difficult to imagine performing the tasks with the NXT. Lack of 'hands-on' with the NXT is what keeps me from writing 'no problem' - who knows, some of the tasks for RCX may truly be difficult or impossible (?) for the NXT - and by that, I mean the basic retail kit and/or Education version.
I have no doubts the NXT is going to be a powerful robotic construction system... my question is simply whether we should even be comparing the NXT with the RCX? I still tend to think of the two as apples and oranges and, therefore, comparisons cannot be fair to either product.
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- Filip said...
I agree, but with robots competing for the same FLL challenges, isn't the comparison going be there anyway?
I obviously haven't worked with the set yet, but from what I learned, and given the Lego motto of "building your first robot in 30 minutes", I really can't come up with issues the would hurt the NXT, except for available sensors. The NXT Education kit will have two touch sensors, which will be really useful.
You are right that one could combine the motors from the Lego Racers with the RCX, but you still wouldn't have a robot driving straight.
For now, nobody has the NXT for the FLL, so it is only an issue next year. After that, the change-over period may be short, making the problem go away by itself.
- Feb 24, 2006, 4:40:00 AM
- Filip said...
Hope this doesn't sound too negative. I am off course very much in favor of the FIRST Lego League. I just wanted to point at potential issues, before they occur. I haven't been to one of these contests, but in general kids speak their mind and thinking about the answers in advance often helps.
- Feb 24, 2006, 9:29:00 AM
> You are right that one could combine the
> motors from the Lego Racers with the RCX...
I'm not sure what you mean here. The little Racers cars have very very low power motors (almost certainly powered by a capacitor), while the RC racers use the "studless" black motors. But those things draw about 5 *amps* when stalled, and even under "normal" loads pull far more current than the RCX delivers.
As to how the NXT will fair compared to the RCX in FLL issues, it remains to be seen. I'm not worried about the power, and the number and mix of sensors is set by the kit form, so both RCX-competitors as well as NXT-based teams wil have limits.
Brian Davis
- Feb 24, 2006, 11:43:00 PM
it seems that the worry is not so much about the programming as the sensors and external componanats. With out much epierence i cant definatly say which would be better, but i think that the drag and drop programming may be easyer, but less adaptable and acurate.
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|Apple Fiscal Q1 2012 Results Call : January 24, 2012
Apple provides details of its fiscal Q1 2012 (calendar Q4 2011) performance.
|4:48 - On hold. Apple is likely to be ecstatic during the call: it blew out every expectation for iPads, iPhones, iPods, and Macs.
|5:00 - Correction: not iPods, but that market is also on the decline.
|5:01 - As a side note: AAPL stock is over $450 in after-hours trading. All-time record by a wide margin.
|5:02 - The call begins. Usual safe harbor disclaimers.
|5:03 - CFO Peter Oppenheimer comes in: "thrilled" to talk about the record revenue and profits. "Very proud" of the results and momentum.
|5:03 - Strength primarily in iPad, iPhone, Mac. 14th week in the quarter helped.
|5:04 - $13.1b income. Half of the income of all of fiscal 2011. EPS of $13.87.
|5:05 - Macs: 5.2m Macs, new records both in desktops and portables. 26% YOY versus zero growth for the market overall (IDC). Average weekly Mac sales up. Strength in Asia-Pacific, up 58%. Fueled by very strong MacBook Air and MacBook Pro sales, as well as continued strong sales of iMac.
|5:05 - 3-4 weeks of inventory.
|5:06 - iPods: 15.4m. Ahead of expectations, iPod touch still over 50% of share. Still top seller in US and worldwide. 4-6 weeks of inventory, on target.
|5:06 - iTunes: $1.7b revenue. Expanded to Brazil + 27 other countries. Now over 20 million songs.
|5:06 - December 25: 140 (?) million apps and content that day.
|5:07 - iPhones: 37.04m. Very strong growth in all segments through the popularity of iPhone 4S. "Captivated by Siri."
|5:07 - iPhone inventory up 200K to under 6m iPhones in the channel, below the target of 4-6 weeks.
|5:08 - $24.4b total revenue (including accessories). Nearly all Fortune 500 supports or includes iPhone.
|5:09 - Royal Dutch Shell, Credit Suisse, Kimberly-Clark, Facebook, all use it. China and 21 additional countries now get the iPhone as of January.
|5:10 - iPads: 15.4m iPads. Versus 7.3m. 111%. "Extremely popular" with holiday buyers. Revenue up 99% to $9.1b. Sellthrough exceeding sell-out! 4-6 weeks of inventory on target. "Nearly all" the top Fortune 500 companies actively using iPads.
|5:11 - Bed Bath & Beyond uses iPads for key metrics on the sales floor. Vineyards use it for QA and soil assessments. China Airlines (?) EDA uses it for flight manuals and more.
|5:11 - 1.5m iPads in use in education (over 1,000 one-to-one). Recapping the iBooks 2 and iBooks Author intros.
|5:11 - Over 600,000 iBooks Author downloads since Thursday.
|5:12 - Talking iTunes U app. As of today, over 3m iTunes U app downloads.
|5:12 - 315m iOS device sales lifetime. 62m in the fall.
|5:13 - 550,000 apps available. 170,000 just for Apple. Developers will have earned over $4b from App Store sales.
|5:14 - Retail: new records for iPad/iPhone/Mac. iPhone sales doubled in stores, iPad up significantly. 1.1m Macs at retail.
|5:14 - "About half" of Macs sold were to those new to Macs. 4 new stores, including Grand Central and 3 in Europe. 361 stores. Average of 358 stores = $17.1m per store. Increase of 43%. Segment margin is $1.8b.
|5:15 - 110m visitors. 45% increase. Translates to 22,000 per store per week. "Incredible." EasyPay self-checkout has been a big help. In-store pickup makes shopping that much easier.
|5:16 - 44.7% company gross margin, higher than guidance. Lower commodity and product costs. Higher leverage and one-time items benefitting the quarter. Higher than expected mix due to iPhone sales. $357m stock-based compensation.
|5:16 - Cash is $97.6b versus $81.6b for the summer. $64b was offshore at the end of the quarter. Actively discussing uses of the cash balance and don't have anything specific to announce today. Not looking to burn a hole in our pockets.
|5:18 - Outlook: revenue to be $32.5b versus $24.7b a year ago. Gross margin 42%, inc. $60m relating to stock compensation. Tax rate of 25.25%. EPS of $8.50 is the target. "Extremely pleased" with the response to our products.
|5:18 - "Extremely enthusiastic about our new product pipeline."
|5:18 - Q&A up next.
|5:18 - Ben Reitzes, Barclays: describe iPhone momentum as you ended the quarter? What's included for the iPhone in guidance? Any more detail and metrics?
|5:19 - Tim Cook: "thrilled" with 37m iPhones, 128% growth. Substantially above the 20m previous record. Breathtaking customer reception to iOS 5 and Siri the main factors.
|5:20 - Also attribute it: "Made a very bold bet" as to what demand would be. As it turns out, despite it being a very bold bet, we were short of supply throughout the quarter. Significant backlog. Situation has improved some, but we're still short in some key geographies.
|5:20 - Also attributed to delayed purchases [pent-up demand]. People were anticipating a new iPhone being announced. Made the right decision to go with a broad range of iPhones. The 14th week was part of this. Everyone knew that, though.
|5:21 - Geographically, strength in every key region, especially the US and Japan. Got going early and had many more sales days than other countries. iPhone sales in greater China, even without the iPhone 4S until January, were also good.
|5:21 - "Could not be happier." We didn't bet high enough. Customers are loving iPhone.
|5:22 - Average selling price is up. iPhone 4S was the most popular iPhone. During most launches, we tend to see this at the front end of the launch.
|5:23 - Follow-up: was it just recent country additions? Any constraints?
|5:24 - Demand in greater China is "staggering" and "off the charts" (not selling at retail due to violence). Where we launched earlier in the quarter were smaller countries. Did make progress on supply balance. Caught up in some, but others we're not.
|5:25 - Component environment? It was "favorable." We would predict that the environment stays favorable except for the tragic situation in Thailand. Apple won't have a material supply issue, but we will pay more for drives.
|5:25 - Richard Gardner: did hard drive shortages have any impact on Mac sales? Any effect on revenue?
|5:26 - No material effect on cost or supply in the fall. Don't expect material supply problems in winter, but do expect cost increases. Factored into guidance.
|5:27 - How favorable do you expect prices to be for NAND [flash], RAM? Did get better costs in the fall, particularly on displays. Still expect supply greater than demand and to favor costs. Hard drive supply issue can be navigated.
|5:28 - CFO Peter Oppenheimer steps in. We do see a healthy sequential margin, but expect it to be down. Non-recurrences of one-time items and a stronger US dollar will affect the fall. About a quarter of the upside to the guidance came from those two factors.
|5:29 - Bill Schiff (?), Goldman Sachs: Any impact from lower cost tablets? What do you think of competition from models by Amazon and others?
|5:30 - Tim: Very happy with 15.4m iPads. Very consistent with our long-term belief that this is a "huge opportunity" for Apple. Clearly believe, like many others in the company, that the tablet market will be larger than the PC market. IDC data: tablet sales exceeded PC sales in the US last quarter.
|5:31 - Ecosystem for iPads is a market by itself. Now over 170,000 apps versus "a few hundred" for the competition. People want to do multiple things with their tablets. We don't see these e-readers like Amazon's in the same category. We don't think that people who want an iPad will settle for these limited function devices. People will agree that it was the "year of the iPad" for the second year in a row.
|5:31 - Plan to "innovate like crazy" and expect to keep going.
|5:33 - Each of the iPhone models were important in achieving 37m units. Glad to cover the broad range. The iPhone 4S was "clearly the most popular." In postpaid, there's a much smaller difference that's larger in the prepaid market. Too early to tell given that we just started in October. Still, "thrilled" with the results.
|5:34 - Is the talk of cash any different than historically? Peter Oppenheimer: have always internally discussed our cash. Recognize that it's growing for the right reasons. Our discussions are "active," but nothing to announce today.
|5:34 - Any timeframe for discussions? When we have something to announce, we will.
|5:36 - Is the loss of leverage significant? Oppenheimer: sequential decline will come from loss of leverage vs. fixed costs (one less week affects relative costs). Highest high that Oppenheimer has seen since he's been at Apple. Don't see the margin going up sequentially like it did last year.
|5:37 - Asking about TVs. Everyone has a connected TV. From a high level, how should we be thinking about your strategy in the living room?
|5:38 - Tim Cook: Apple TV is doing pretty well. A bit above 2.8m Apple TVs sold last year, quarterly record of 1.4m in the fall. Still classify it as a hobby. Continue to add things to it. "Couldn't live with out it." Continue to "pull the strings" to see where it takes us, but other than that I have no other comments.
|5:39 - Keith Bachmann, BMO: how are you framing opportunities for dividends and buybacks. Examining "all uses" of our cash balance. What we might do in the supply chain, acquisitions, and otherwise. No perspective to share today other than we're "actively" discussing things [repeating again].
|5:41 - iCloud effect: over 85m users. "Incredible" that this happened in just a few months. Solved a lot of problems that people were having and made their lives easier. Fundamental shift recognizing that people had numerous devices and wanted the bulk of their content in the cloud and easily accessible. Seeing the response.
|5:41 - iCloud isn't just a product, it's a "strategy for the next decade."
|5:41 - Chris Whitmore, Deutsche Bank: iPhone distribution in the quarter and its outlook? Where are you in distribution, including expanding reach in China over the next couple of quarters.
|5:42 - Over 130,000 iPhone points of sale, up 35% YOY. Consistently added. Including adding carriers as well as key retailers which are particularly important. Added carriers with KDDI and Sprint, both of whom will speak for their own results. Extremely pleased with both.
|5:43 - Incumbents also did incredibly well. China Unicom is still a good partner. Nothing to announce on expansion there today, but China is an "extremely important market" for us.
|5:44 - iPhone revenue expected to be significantly up YOY, but down sequentially. Same for iPad. Mac and iPod down consistent with seasonality.
|5:46 - Recapping why revenue is likely to be down more than usual sequentially. Lack of 14th week, won't be included in the March quarter this year. Would have loved to have had the week. Increased iPhone channel inventory 1.7m and benefited the quarter. Fall quarter benefited from iPhone 4S; significant pent-up demand. Year ago quarter was second full quarter of iPhone availability, so there's differences here.
|5:46 - US dollar strength against the Euro affects it; US and Euro were flat last year.
|5:47 - On Anobit: sometimes we buy companies that have great engineering or talent, early technology, or IP. Tend to do several a year. "Very very disciplined." Track record here has been very strong.
|5:48 - Tim Cook: we don't believe in a lot of divisions like other companies. The semiconductor team works for Bob Mansfield. Engineering for the whole company. Integrating Anobit into that team. Has some "fantastic technical talent." Fortunate to have them join us.
|5:49 - Ambitions for future carriers in the next 12-18 months to get the rest of the 500 carriers worldwide (285 so far)? Retail presence expansion in India and Russia?
|5:50 - Tim Cook: in India and Russia, both through carriers and reseller partners. Tried to be clear that we have a "ton more energy" in the China market today. Doesn't mean that there's a lack of effort or focus on the others, just that we want China.
|5:50 - Next on the list is Brazil: "huge opportunity" for us there. Don't envision Apple retail being there in the near term.
|5:51 - India: presence is small, but revenue is up 3X. Beginning to see traction there. Getting to a large revenue like in China. Nothing to announce on carrier expansion, but we have the same list you do. Would like to get into "all" countries over time.
|5:52 - Do you think Apple benefited from these lower-cost tablets by using them and deciding to trade up to the iPad? And do you see this year's ultrabooks like tablets last year?
|5:54 - Cook has heard from customers who went in looking at some devices and come out with an iPad. "No obvious change in the data" for iPad sales from cheap tablets. iPad still cannibalizing the Mac, but we "love" that trend. Enterprise... education sales doubled, and we saw more iPads sold than Macs.
|5:55 - Think we will win a few deals. Sold over 55m iPads to date, and we've only been shipping since April 2010.
|5:55 - Are you seeing accelerated refresh rates? Quicker iPhone updates, Macs?
|5:56 - Tim Cook: in enterprise, we've seen the iPhone be the catalyst for iPads, and then iPads sometimes trigger Macs. Difficult to put our fingers on it, but all our customers are pointing that out. We've seen that before with the halo the iPod created for the Mac. Not a phenomenon that is new to us.
|5:57 - Android versus iPhone like Mac vs. Windows? Wouldn't characterize it like the Mac vs. Windows market. Mac has grown faster for over 20 quarters, but still single digits. iOS, meanwhile, is over 60m just in the last quarter.
|5:58 - Look at NPD data: in the US, iPhone was at 43% and Android at 47%. Nielsen: 45% iPhone vs. Android at 47%. comScore: iPhone 42% and Android 41%. US data shows that it's a "very close race."
|5:59 - On the iPad side: all of us inherently believe that the iPad is "way ahead." No comparable product to the iPod touch. iOS is doing "extremely well." Not a two-horse race: there's a horse in Redmond that's always running. All we can count on is innovating and making the best products. Ignore what others are doing.
|6:00 - Screen sizes: has the popularity of larger screens changed or impacted your view? What about 4G?
|6:00 - Wouldn't comment on the future roadmap: I'm sure that's a shock to you. We just sold 37m iPhones and could have sold more with more supply. Lots of people out there currently love what we're doing.
|6:00 - Call concludes.


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A man who was acting as Santa Claus at a festival in Toronto was fired for telling a young boy that the Maple Leafs suck. The Santa apparently showed up 30 minutes late for his gig at Lowe's Toronto Christmas Market and then proceeded to insult a 3-year-old boy. "The first thing he tells my son is, 'Oh, you look like Paul Bunyan,'" the child's mother told the Toronto Sun. "Really? Is that appropriate? "Then he said, 'Oh, you're wearing a Toronto Maple Leafs tuque, you shouldn't be wearing that, they suck.'" The mother took the insults as a clear sign to leave. She says her son was crying all the way home and asked who Paul Bunyan was. The mother says all she could tell her son was that Santa was having a bad day. Upset over the issue, the mother went on the festival's Facebook page to complain. She was told the person acting as Santa had been fired for his conduct. And here we were thinking this sort of thing only happened in movies. This is the exact sort of thing that could scar a poor child for life. Stick tap to Backhand Shelf via Puck Daddy
Good for her. Good for the organizers to apologize. Great for the fireing of Santa.
I agree, good for her saying something! I applaud for the firing of Santa!
" Good for her" ? Good for what ? How will she react when something really BAD happens. ?Complain on another Facebook page . We are turning into a bunch of over sensative cry babies.
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" only happens in the movies " ! OMG ! I hope not. What would it be called " SANTA says U suck ". A movie with a running time of about 5 minutes, then everyone , including that 3 yr old will have compleatly forgotten . Who is the guy who wrote this dribble.? WOW !
Am I missing something? Is Paul Bunyan a derogatory slur, now?
Yeah, I didnt get why she was torqued about that either. Maybe her kiddos chubby and she thought Santa was picking on him?? No idea.
That's what I was wondering!
I made an account just so I could let the world know we both wonder the same thing!
I mean to tell you, Tell the kid Paul Bunyan was a worker, and lumberjack. Not the best way to handle a kid though. I guess the guy missed that day in training as to " How to Handle Kids"
not the most intelligent thing Santa has ever done, but hey, the Maple Leafs DO suck.
wow- this mom over re-acted ... is that a money hungry lawsuit i smell-come on you fat bitch......
I am sure she will try... Good thing for the kid is that he will not remember this next year... Unless mommy dearest keeps talking about it.
Ummm, they have laws that prevent frivolous lawsuits such as these in Canada.
She never seems to explain why the Paul Bunyan reference was so insulting to her. Probably cuz it isn't. Sounds like she's the kind of person who just likes to complain. and the Leafs DO suck.
When i was a kid Paul Bunyon was a fok hero.
OMG ! SCARED FOR LIFE ! You mean this kid will never be right AGAIN! Until the day he dies ?! You have GOT to be kidding! Do you think that little of that kid to think that his ENTIRE LIFE is now over because a mall santa said his hockey team sucked ?AND : Paul Bunyan is a lumberjack figure in North American folklore and tradition. One of the most famous and popular North American folklore heroes!! His mother could not tell her son was a HERO instead ? Come on people.
You all seem to over look that this is a 3 year old. If Santa was gonna tell the boy he looked like paul bunyan than maybe he should have told him who he was and why he said it. And to tell a 3 year old his team sucks. If its his favorite team then its important to him. Don't under estimate the power of a bad experience. Santa was an ASS and deserves what he got.
Can YOU remember what you were doing when you were 3 now? 3 year olds are a lot more durable then you give them credit for. UNLESS his stupid mother keeps reminding him of this, the child will have forgotten of in a few weeks.Ya act like this guy gunned down his parents right in front of him. geeze.And yes, I have 2 boys now over 25yrs old, so I know what I'm talking about.
I have to agree with YourKidding. Considering the boy was 3 years old, why couldn't they just put a Santa hat on a pig and call it Santa Claus? It would probably save the mall a lot of money, and it sounds like that's really all they did, anyway. Since it's apparently not right for a mall to fire any Santa until he has traumatized a child for life, a Santa hat on a pig saves a lot of people having to even worry about that.
yeah, I can see if Santa told the kid he looked like Saddam Hussein...but what was wrong with Paul Bunyan? anyway, Santa could have been more diplomatic and said something like, "well kid, if you play for the Leafs, I'm sure they're gonna be undefeated."
You "KNOW" what you are talking about? What you "KNOW" is what's in YOUR family and trying in vain to cast a broad shadow over EVERYONE else.It's a scientific FACT that, albeit far and few between, some people can remember when they were still in their Mothers womb."I" certainly remember 71 years ago at only TWO years of age.Pearl.And just one year later,a Man KILLED by ejection from his vehicle.I did not KNOW what I was seeing but DID 2 years later.Speak for "YOURSELF" as you don't "KNOW" diddly about what OTHERS can remember.This incident CAN scar that toddler for the rest of his life.It just don't mean he will be dysfunctional.This is a 3 year old "NOT" a full grown naive,ignorant Adult."YOU" want the WORLD ro revolve around YOUR 2 Boys.It CANT happen and WONT happen.I have 2 Boys over 36 to 43 and 3 girls over 38 to 45 and I "DON'T" guage the WORLD by them.Get the drift?Lastly--You "KNOW" what you are talking about with regard to YOU and YOURS only.You have NOT the levity to SPEAK for everyone else.
Your comparing mass murder with a 3 second " your team sucks". I guess your right, now I'm scared for life from your over reacting rant.
At least santa??? told the TRUTH! Unlike many people who say lets go see santa?? The fake santa told the truth big deal. They should tell the child santa is fake and he got fired for telling the TRUTH! Poor kid for believing santa that is fake in the first place.
Why are we so hard on the Santa? What is Santas main thing to say? Dont tell lies and be nice. Well he may not have been nice to the 3 year old but he didnt lie. The Leafs do suck and have for many years.
nicely said.
Well truthfully? A 3 year old having a favorite team in any sport? I believe they are only copying their parents views. The 3 year old wasn't offended I'm sure. Now he was probably upset because he could sense his mother's mood. This woman was miffed because of the wait, and perhaps she does not even know who Paul Bunyan is... so she was set up for a frustrating experience. People need to relax, everyone stresses out so terribly during the holidays.. Yeah, the Santa may have not been the perfect "storybook" Santa that we portray as an over blown myth to children until they get too smart to believe it anymore, but I do not believe this warrants any kind of compensation for a "scarred for life" lawsuit or such. Merry Christmas everyone.
First of all Santa is not real; parents should stop this falsehood; children would not be "scared" for life if parents would not let this lie live on; just tell your child the "TRUTH"; parents teach their children to tell the truth yet once a year parents lie to their children about some man in a red suit that is going to make their Christmas the best ever; please stop the lies!!
boo to those who want to say she over-reacted.......mommy's are over protective.....duh....that's what they do......3 years old.....that boob deserved to be fired for being so insensitive.....Oh, Gee, golly but SANTA is supposed to make kids happy - NOT TO MAKE THEM CRY......
This should be the perfect time to tell the kid that theres no such thing as santa, just some asshole dressed like a fat candy cane. Then tell the boy the true meaning of CHRISTmas, JESUS knows if youre good or bad and you pray to HIM for requests not a drunk bum dressed like a freak!
Some of you MEN are so completely stupid! You have no self-control or common sense in anything anymore, especially when it comes to the well-being of children.
This is a 3-year-old CHILD. He was there to have a happy day and see Santa Claus. He was there to listen to what the child wanted for Christmas. This IDIOT Santa was out of line. He wasn't hired for what he did You jerks trying to take up for this loser are unbelievable! I can't believe some of the posts here. I've lost faith in you guys.
You must protect your children nowadays. And personally, I wouldn't take my kid to Santa -- too many weirdos out there trying to get next to our kids to hurt/destroy their innocent lives.
SANTA YOU WERE A JERK! I'll bet this Santa is a bum in the first place and the employers had a feeling he wasn't right, and this incident just proved it to them, so he got axed!
Great going!
Wasn't there a song.....never mind.
Wow! Some civic pride in a youngster. What a horrible thing... Doesn't matter if it's due to parents influence or not. Geez, when did it become wrong to support the home team? A Toronto Maple Leafs fan in Toronto - who would have thought? Santa was grossly in error to say anything derogatory to the tot. He's Santa. And "sucks?" When the hell did that become acceptable language to use around a pre-schooler? If there's some need to remark, then it should have been a jovial "hope they have a better year!"
And, as for the mom? I feel sorry for the 3 year old growing up in a household already ingraining class warfare and 'station.' That she would be aghast that her young white collar prodigy could be confused with a hard working blue collar legend is concerning. She specifically mentioned the 'GAP' jacket, like it was an entitlement to special treatment.
There is no santa it's a lie. Tell the TRUTH and the TRUTH will set you free of all these horrible things that happen. If we just tell are kids the truth then this wouldn't have happened! Hello!
Who is the dope who wrote the "scared for life" line at the end of the article. Larry Brown ? He's as much to blame for all this BS.
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Yeah, I saw this a while back and I wanted to build it but I didn't have very many of the required pieces at the time so I had to completely redesign it. It actually worked very well except for the fact that it swayed from side to side so much that it would fall over after about 10 seconds of walking. I called it "The Drunken Walker"!
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Funny name nxtmonger!! This walker is so cool and walks incredibly smoothly! Incredible use of gears and beams to create a smooth walking action.
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I built that a while back, but was unable to get it to walk. It was a lot of fun to build though. W/ the NXT on it the legs had too much weight on them - I was told to try NiMh batts instead of alkaline, but moved onto another project. W/out the NXT the legs moved well, but my gears would get bound up or skip and the legs had to be calibrated frequently.
I HIGHLY reccomend Isogawa's Tora No Maki download book - It's incredible!
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I've been fiddling about with a variant on this for the last month or so, hoping to finish it in time for the NXTlog challenge. Failed in that objective, but probably just as well as the design was fairly heavily "inspired" by this one!
Mine seems a bit sturdier than the original, but so far seems resistant to actually walking properly. I'll post pics and vids if I ever get it going.
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As his online entertainment business became successful, founder David Ellington needed more employees with mid-level technical skills. Filling those jobs with well-trained young people of color became this entrepreneur's way of giving back to his community by creating a model program that benefits everyone. Not only that, he's creating wealth as he brings disadvantaged youth into the high-tech mainstream with good salaries and stock options.
When every start-up you're involved in grows quickly and you're working all the time, how do you manage to squeeze in philanthropic activity? Searching for a way to support his community, a company president got together with other successful business owners to establish the Austin Entrepreneurs Foundation. They endowed it the same way they rewarded employees, consultants and investors: with equity. And, as a result of their business success, the AEF now has plenty of options.
When you get out there thinking you're the most important member of the team, you're headed for failure, says Wally Amos. The founder of Famous Amos Cookies found out the hard way that you can't just indulge your whims and let the chocolate chips fall where they may. How he developed a spiritual understanding, recovered his good name and started a new, more successful company serves as a great recipe for other entrepreneurs.
The founder of a software development business had already agreed to be acquired by one company and was ready to sign the documents. Then another company came calling with a better offer. Loyal employees and a working partnership with the buyer turned out to be the crucial assets constituting the value of the business. The author concludes that you need to shop around and negotiate to find out what your company is really worth.
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