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THE first time you smack your child it's as if you are losing your parental virginity. You know that nothing will ever be the same again. Chasms of hitherto unknown emotions open before you. Fury, desperation, shame and, of course, guilt.
Considering how few of us get through parenting without smacking our children, it's ironic that so many of us start with every intention of not doing so. My friend Ruth got through the first five years without slapping, but finally gave way after her oldest daughter refused to get dressed for school for an entire week. I succumbed when my naked two-year-old planted her plump little bottom in a plate of scrambled egg I was eating. There were a few seconds of mutual shock before she started to cry.
Pro-smackers argue that children crave parental approval and that a well-judged "tap" teaches them they've lost it. The child realises that the behaviour preceding the "tap" met with disapproval and never does it again. The two most obvious flaws with this theory are that, first, most children don't deduce backwards very well until about the age of 26. This is why the average 15-year-old still cannot understand that leaving empty coffee mugs and smelly trainers lying around the house drives parents crazy. Second, most children don't give two hoots about adult approval. Love and affection, sure. Attention, definitely. But approval? Come off it.
No one with an ounce of sense (and half an ounce of honesty) believes that smacking children teaches them anything other than that adults are strong and nasty. So why do we carry on doing it - especially given that children who are punished physically tend to misbehave all the more, and sometimes in school? To make ourselves feel better, of course. Smacking isn't for the child's benefit, it's for the adult's.
There's no question that, in some cases, smacking children leads to beating them up. For that reason alone, hypocritical as it may seem, I believe that a policy of ardent anti-smacking is by far the best one for parents to adopt.
Parents lash out when they're at the end of their tether. According to a recent report by the National Family and Parenting Institute, 75 per cent of parents smack their children, but only 20 per cent believe it's effective, which strongly suggests that what is needed is a public education campaign to teach parents alternative methods of discipline. I'm not so sure. Behavioural techniques may help, but the real reason why so many of us smack our children, despite not wanting to and not thinking it does any good, goes far deeper.
The fact is, we are a generation of parents profoundly, perhaps uniquely, ill at ease with discipline per se. In even the most conservative households, a powerful ethic of equality influences the way men and women relate to one another, and increasingly this pervades our dealings with our children, too.
We want to be friends with our children as well as parents to them. In fact, we want the former rather more than the latter.
Unfortunately, the role of disciplinarian is an integral part of parenting, but totally at odds with the kind of parents we want to be.
A huge burden of self-consciousness that was quite unknown in the 1950s and 1960s rests on the shoulders of parents. We are acutely aware of our actual and potential failings as parents, and highly conscious of the shortcomings of our own parents. We are the "blame-the-parent" generation, our resentments shaped and polished in two lines of iconic poetry by Philip Larkin. We place an inordinately high value on closeness and intimacy with our children. We reason with them, discuss with them, plead with them. We distract them with humour, bribe them with star charts; anything rather than just lay down the law and risk being unpopular with them.
This approach doesn't hold much water in theory and, in practice, it leaks like a sieve. With no one prepared to be the domestic bad guy, discipline quickly becomes problematic. When our children don't behave like mini-adults, when they fail to respond to our repeated requests that they stop decapitating the flowers, mutilating the cat or staying out all night, we find ourselves performing an awkward switchback from best mate to boss. The intense disappointment of not being able to get the effect we want by being reasonable often produces a far greater rage than the child's actions warrant.
My father was prone to smacking and it gained him no respect from his children. My stepfather, on the other hand, never raised a hand to a child, but he had a rock-solid authority that meant he had only to adopt a certain tone of voice and, even as teenagers, we would pay attention. My experience of growing up with these two very different men taught me that real authority (and the effective discipline that stems from it) has nothing in common with physical discipline. The latter is only a showy, ineffectual proxy for the former.
The challenge is for us to accept that we cannot but fail our children in some respect. By avoiding being parents to them, we are failing them in the most grievous way. Accepting that we have to be figures of authority would avoid those heat-of-the-moment smacks. Letting our children hate us from time to time is not nice, but necessary; not for us, but for them.
Do you smack your child?
According to a survey by the Department of Health, 75 per cent of parents smack their children and 88 per cent of them think it is sometimes necessary. Only one in five think it does any good, however, and the National Family Parenting Institute's report concludes that smacking is, in fact, next to useless. "Physical punishment does not work," the report states unambiguously. "A child may be more likely to comply with the parents' demands immediately, but he will not have changed his behaviour."


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People have often asked sceptically why we don't find fossils of kangaroos or platypuses, for example, anywhere but in Australia. Surely, they say, this means they must have evolved in Australia.
However, we don't find lion fossils in the Middle East where they are known to have lived—fossilization requires special conditions. In the biblical model, creatures such as platypuses may well have reached other parts of the world—Australia is simply the only place where they have survived. So while it is not necessary to find their fossils anywhere else, if a few such fossils were found it would support the biblical model, but would be a big blow to those who say they must have evolved here.
Now South American scientists have discovered a fossil platypus tooth in Patagonia, near the tip of South America.1 Not surprisingly, it 'has sent shock waves through the scientific community'.2 Platypus teeth are unique and distinctive, with a V-shaped, double-crested blade system. The find has been confirmed by the Royal Zoological Society in Sydney, Australia.
The question of how the kangaroo, platypus, etc., travelled to Australia is the subject of chapter 12 of The Answers Book. Whether evolutionists believe the platypus evolved in South America or Australia, they face the same question (with the same possible answers) as creationists do, namely how it crossed over the ocean.
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A Bardstown man remains hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash on Sunday afternoon.
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More than 1,000 pieces of artwork generated from Hodgenville Elementary School students have been uploaded to "the world's largest kids' art museum"– Artsonia.
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Florence AZ student suspended over picture of gun - insane?
FLORENCE, AZ - A high school student in Florence said he has been suspended because of a picture of a gun.
Daniel McClaine Jr., a freshman at Poston Butte High School, said he saved the picture as his desktop background on his school-issued computer.
A teacher noticed it and turned him in.
The picture shows an AK-47 on top of a flag.
McClaine said the school initially suspended him for three days Friday.
Since the laptop belongs to the school, the district policy states students are prohibited from "sending or displaying offensive messages or pictures," and cannot access, send, create or forward pictures that are considered "harassing, threatening, or illegal."
McClaine said he read the guidelines but does not consider the picture threatening to anyone.
"This gun wallpaper does not show anything that's violent. It's not showing anybody getting shot in any way. It's just a picture of a gun. It's nothing -- nobody getting shot, nobody getting it pointed at them, it's nothing," said McClaine.
McClaine said the gun is not his. He's interested in joining the military and said he found it on the internet.
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- Katherine 2013/03/05 08:46:27
- texasred 2013/02/07 23:04:20
- Professor Wizard 2013/02/05 16:12:53
- Danielle 2013/02/05 15:15:59
- donopolis 2013/02/05 12:33:48None of the aboveI have a feeling there is probably more to this story.
That being said...
If the teacher felt that the image was offensive/threatening the student should have just been asked to remove it. Pehaps along with a lecture of being sensitive towards others.
- kiote1963 2013/02/05 10:55:56
- phil.olding.3 2013/02/05 10:36:59
- Broken 2013/02/05 10:15:36
- redhorse29 2013/02/05 09:23:00Yes+2This is yet again the liberal progressive socialist mind control that strips educators of any semblance of common sense. It is amazing the very people that claim to help our children to thing clearly and make good decisions are the very people that support and promote absolute rules precluding any flexibility.
- Felicity Gale 2013/02/05 07:00:41NoIts called zero tolerance... why would you post a picture of a gun.... a rock star, a sunset, a cityscape, mountains, sport star, cat maybe ... but a Gun????
- kiote1963 Felicit... 2013/02/05 10:54:38
- Felicit... kiote1963 2013/02/05 11:35:32At least it should help the authorities to be aware of where his mind(sic) might be at? It might ensure that they keep a closer eye on him and really make sure that his mom's guns are well secured!
- kiote1963 Felicit... 2013/02/05 19:33:19So are you saying everyone that likes guns are sick mentally????
- Bonita Colley 2013/02/05 04:05:53
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- CA Gal 2013/02/05 02:49:06
- rk 2013/02/05 02:44:32
- joe keeney 2013/02/05 02:36:03
- dru dixon 2013/02/05 01:24:51NoNowadays who knows anymore!
- Doc. J 2013/02/05 01:07:55Yes+4Yeah......this is more than a bit of a batsh!t overeaction.
O.K. it's a school issued computer, and they get to decide what's threatening, and offensive etc......BUT C'MON!
They could have at least warned him off the picture, or asked him to remove it....But no, let's demonstrate how nonrational we can be and just suspend him....
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- Felicit... Mel 2013/02/05 07:02:32With any luck there won't be any gun shops?
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The Dishwasher swiftly used his shift blade to shift behind The Homicidal Maniac. Johnny unaware of where his opponent went gives a slight look of puzzlement. That or he thinks he should just go get his slushy.
The Next part is when I finally have them crossing blades. I hope u all like this one.
The Next part is when I finally have them crossing blades. I hope u all like this one.
Why doesn't the Dishwasher just let Nny get his brainfrezzy?
It's an ICEE! Still,very nice picture.
umm not that i dont find dishwasher soooo cool and your drawing Nny Awsome (Please dont kill me) Who is dishwasher or is he just made up by youor something?
I like everything besides the gun. Johnny doesn't use guns. He only uses them on himself.
well if u remember he used it on one guy and had one bullet. I had orignally was goign to have it that he had one bullet in the gun shot the dishwasher with it but he got back up bc he is a Vampire. and then they fight but I decided to change it where Johnny Ditches it and uses his blades lol. but yeah Im aware man.
Johnny actually looks pretty cute in this one~~ ;D I really like his semi smug and confused expression~ LOL let's not forget the note left on his shirt <3
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If you have them you can see 'hidden pictures'. And find Waldo much quicker.
Like all things in cycling, and most other sports, if your basic equipment is set up correctly and in good shape the differences are going to be pretty small. It's often quoted that quality aero wheels can save about 1 minute an hour while time trialing when compared to your basic aluminum road wheel. That matters to some (or at least they think it does).
For me, well I build my own wheels and don't need much of excuse to start on another project.
I only use Lightweights.
You're just trying to start an argument to show how smart you are.
You buy carbon wheels for the SOUND they make as you blow past the Starbucks group, the Krispy Kreme group, and the ******* Barrel group on your weekend ride.
To be in the beer group, carbon wheels are required.
I bought Planet X wheels at Christmas and have 1500 miles on them with zero issues. $500 is hard to beat for 50mm clinchers.
I train and just ride around on openpros because they ride nice, and are inexpensive, not because they will get me further...
There have been many days when I haven't felt like riding, but there has never been a day when I was sorry I rode.
Those Planet X clinchers sure are cheap.
BTW, I like your byline- about riding- quite true.
There have been many days when I haven't felt like riding, but there has never been a day when I was sorry I rode.


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Gray is back with an all-new book starring Evernight character Balthazar. While not as engaging as other Evernight titles, this is still a good read. There is some romance and a whole lot of action, but what is missing is that hook at the beginning to reel readers in. Things do eventually pick up speed, and Balthazar delivers by the end. With a sweet yet heart-wrenching romance, this is a great book for readers who love Gray's characters and want to see what becomes of them.
Now that the drama of Evernight Academy is done, everyone can live in peace, right? Wrong! Balthazar is a vampire, and while at Evernight Academy he met Skye Tierney. Skye is very much human but possesses some special skills — she is a psychic. These powers get her into trouble, especially once she catches the eye of Balthazar's master vampire. Now it is up to Balthazar to protect Skye, all while being haunted by memories of the past. (HARPERTEEN, Mar., 384 pp., $17.99, ISBN: 9780061961182, HC, 12 & Up)
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When biologist Tyrone Hayes discovered that a top-selling herbicide messes with sex hormones, its manufacturer went into battle mode. Thus began one of the weirdest feuds in the history of science.
Atrazine has long been a mainstay of American agriculture. Registered for use in 1959, it is now used on half the nation's corn and 90 percent of our sugarcane, not to mention lawns, golf courses, and Christmas tree farms. All told, about 80 million pounds of it are applied each year, making it the most widely used herbicide after glyphosate, a.k.a. Roundup. While Syngenta, the largest producer, won't disclose its profits from atrazine, the company earned $2.3 billion in 2010 from its line of selective herbicides (those that only kill specific plants), of which atrazine is the leading product. Sales keep rising as more weeds develop resistance to Roundup: Syngenta reported a 14 percent bump in the first half of 2011.
In 1997, EcoRisk approached Hayes on behalf of Syngenta's corporate predecessor, Novartis. They wanted him to study atrazine, which at the time was going through a product reapproval process mandated by the EPA. Hayes took the gig, figuring Novartis wouldn't ask him to look into the herbicide's effects if it expected him to find anything. "My hypothesis was, nothing's going to happen," he recalls.
Yet something did. In his experiments, male Xenopus exposed to atrazine had shrunken voice boxes, which put them at a disadvantage for courting females. That was startling enough. But when Hayes examined the frogs' gonads, he discovered something more disturbing: About a third of the exposed males had malformed reproductive organs. Many were hermaphrodites, with both ovaries and testes. Some had more than two of each organ—and some of the testes produced eggs instead of sperm.
Xenopus are not naturally hermaphroditic, and no intersex frogs were found in Hayes' control tanks. But gender deformities were present among frogs exposed to as little as 0.1 part per billion (picture a thousandth of a grain of salt in a half gallon of water). That's 30 times less than the 3 ppb the EPA allows in our drinking water.
Since 1980, scientists had been reporting shrinking amphibian populations—close to one-third of known species are now in danger of extinction. Hayes was intrigued to think he might have discovered a cause for the decline. "Everybody is out there looking for dead frogs and what killed the frogs," he explains. "We're asking, 'How come there aren't any new frogs?' Atrazine isn't killing the frogs. But if they're reproductively impaired, that's killing the population."
To Hayes' surprise, EcoRisk and Novartis didn't seem as concerned about his findings as he was. He was asked to repeat the studies but wasn't given the necessary funding, he says, and EcoRisk scientists suggested statistical manipulations that made the voice box effect appear to vanish. Hayes weighed simply handing over his data. After all, this was contract work. "It's just like if I was an artist and you told me to paint you this color, and I paint you that color and you buy the painting and I'm done with it," he says.
In the end, he couldn't do it. In 2000, he resigned from the panel of scientists working for EcoRisk. He then repeated the experiment, twice, and in April 2002 published his findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. He has since published a dozen atrazine papers in peer-reviewed journals and replicated his findings with two other frog species, both in the lab and in nature. One study, published in pnas in 2010, found that when 40 male Xenopus hatched in water contaminated with atrazine at a level of 2.5 ppb, three-quarters wound up chemically castrated or partially feminized; four, like Darnell, changed genders completely. He has also tracked a population of leopard frogs in a Wyoming pond for a decade, documenting how the ratio of males to females rises and falls in tandem with atrazine levels.
Hayes postulates that atrazine affects gender by activating a gene that produces an enzyme called aromatase, which converts androgens—male sex hormones—to estrogens. In his talks, he makes sure to point out that estrogen is the same in frogs and humans. Just like frogs, we begin our development steeped in an aqueous environment: amniotic fluid. The chemical that so powerfully alters the gonads of a frog may be having an effect on us, too.
As assiduously as Hayes researches links between atrazine and hermaphroditic frogs, Syngenta attempts to disprove them, funding a stream of research that has found, variously, that atrazine exposure did not produce intersex frogs, that intersex frogs can be found regardless of atrazine exposure, and that atrazine exposure produces intersex frogs only at very high concentrations. "No reliable, replicable studies have ever linked atrazine to effects on frog sexual development," Syngenta spokeswoman Ann Bryan told me via email, noting that previous EPA reviews have determined that "atrazine does not adversely affect amphibian gonadal development." (Syngenta officials declined to be interviewed but agreed to answer a few written questions.)
Actually, atrazine's unintended effects are documented in dozens of peer-reviewed studies. Last year, Jason Rohr and Krista McCoy from the University of South Florida published a meta-analysis of research involving amphibians and fish and found consistent results indicating that the herbicide affects the reproductive and immune systems. This past year, Hayes gathered 21 coauthors for a paper in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology showing that atrazine disrupts normal hormonal function, with demasculinizing effects on male gonads in reptiles, fish, amphibians, and mammals. He and 40 coauthors from 13 countries will soon publish a literature review that reaches similar conclusions. "I'll have every scientist, with a few exceptions, who has worked on atrazine saying, 'We're together,'" he promises.
Perhaps if Syngenta had simply questioned Hayes' research in academic journals, things might have stayed focused on questions of sample sizes, lab conditions, and so on. But the company began sending staff to Hayes' research talks in the United States and abroad, where he says they sometimes passed out materials disparaging his methods and accusing him of fabricating results or refusing to share data. "A Syngenta representative does try to attend events where Dr. Hayes is speaking," Syngenta's spokeswoman confirmed. "It's in our best interest, and farmers', that we have the opportunity to counter his outrageous accusations."
Over time, these tense interactions escalated into the kind of verbal jostling you'd expect in a high school hallway. Syngenta officials, according to Hayes, have made derogatory remarks about his appearance, his speaking style, and even his sexual proclivities, which sounds implausible until you consider that Syngenta's PR firm, Jayne Thompson & Associates, once proposed a covert media campaign to discredit the court system in an Illinois county where judges are presiding over an atrazine lawsuit.
At one conference in 2005, he contends, Syngenta staff scientist Tim Pastoor accused him of "cherry-picking data" and asked if he cherry-picked his dates as well. Hayes responded in an email: "don't worry...daddy has no intentions of picking your cherry." At another meeting, Pastoor asserted that atrazine was a vital tool for US farmers. Hayes emailed him to ask, "How long have YOU been a 'vital tool'?" adding, "I've got your vital tool right here."
While there was a certain frat boy humor to this scientific smack talk, there was also an element of psychological warfare. After Hayes gave a lecture at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry confab in 2007, he received an email from Syngenta scientist Alan Hosmer, whom he knew from his EcoRisk days: "You lost and everyone at SETAC was calling you an entertaining fraud," Hosmer wrote.
Hayes felt the message was designed to arouse a black academic's worst anxieties: the fear of being seen as a buffoon or an affirmative-action mistake. This time, Syngenta reps received a six-page email response titled: "I OWN THIS: A MADMAN'S MANIFESTO." In it, Hayes bragged of his fame ("I get paid $10,000 for talking for an hour"), ridiculed Syngenta's research ("nothing you have done can touch the quality of my work"), and waxed poetic about how his kids attend the fancy "white private schools" that were unavailable to him. He also deployed his favorite phrase—"I don't give a fuck"—shortened to an acronym: "IDGAF! Come on?????...do you think I care about propriety and professionalism?...I have used the 'F-word' in my talks, have quoted DMX, Busta Rhymes, Tyra Banks, Marvin Gaye...I pack the room, have em' call out security...and have been invited back every year. That's my house, Trick!"
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how long will Obama keep is mouth going,,,the election is over....I paid my bill to watch football...not this clow!!!!
WHOOHOOOO!!! Gooo 49ers...
The last 20 seconds took forever. Keep it up 9ers!!
Jeremy, your so funny!!
Steven Ridley should never be allowed to touch the ball in the NFL again.
You CANNOT DEFEND AGAINST BRADY BY TRYING TO COVER THE RECEIVERS!!!!!!!! THEY HAVE ONLY SACKED HIM ONCE - NOT GOOD ENOUGH. YOU NEED TO BE IN HIS FACE EVERY PLAY!!!!!!
I am not happy about this turn around of events.
Why would you not start Alex Smith?
Why do u dominate a game 1 way and then go into zone prevent and give up a quick 14 points and now it's a game pretty stupid
You never ever soften on any team, especially the patriots..
Niners get too soft when they have big leads. Brady will beat them now.
Niners BLOW IT
Sure looks like it why do u change your game plan horrible coaching
How can coaches who make millions a year be so STUPID?!!!! Brady will tear you apart unless you get in his face every play - emphasis on the pass rush, NOT the receivers
The goal should have been to sack Brady every play - you cannot defend him by trying to cover the receivers
Here we go again - Brady will kill you
What an intense game.
Seriously james last three plays when we need some size to power thru...what is up with the offensive play calling..we got so conserverative we killed our defense
All I can say, LUCKY!
Lucky? I think not. The 49ers got complacent in the second half. The fault here lies in the defensive coordinator. As for the weather conditions not being helpful to the Patriots, that is a stretch. Remember, the 49ers had to play in the same weather condition. This ain't no video game, folks. Kudos to the 49ers for waking up during the last quarter otherwise they would have given the game to the Patriots. Yes, there were some blown calls but they went both ways. The Patriots did get away with some, too. Personally, I don't think Bill Bellichick should be coaching in the NFL given him being caught cheating. I think the owner, Bob Kraft, wields a lot of power in the NFL. So, yes, the 49ers were not lucky. if they were lucky, they would not have blown a lot of defensive plays.
As a Patriots fan, it may have been good that they lost tonight. They've won 7 in a row. I'd rather have them lose one before the playoffs....gives them better odds.
Brady's the biggest baby in the NFL. When you play the Patriots, your playing against the refs too... I love a good football game, but there's nothing that gets under my skin more then conceded inconsiderate deuchebags. AKA - "The New England Patriots."
Not a Brady fan. Where did the 49ers find their quarterback? This guy shows greatness. Im always happy to see bellichek and company go down in flames.
Why does the defense always change their plan when they have a big lead--allowing the other team to score when they were stymied for the whole first half! It's maddening! Anyone who follows football should know that the Patriots do not fold, no matter how far behind they are. If the Niners could hold them to 3 points for the first half, why change what was working? GRRR
49ers looked tough and resilient. That one stretch in the second half where they were playing 11 against 16 was tough, but they managed to weather it.
Would also like to see unsportsmanlike conduct penalties called when players like Brady throw at hissy fit and show up the refs. Slamming the ball in the ground and turning and yelling at the refs and chewing them out when the niners called time out was not only childish it was grossly unsportsmanlike.
But, hey, it's the Pats in Foxboro. They can do what they like and the NFL won't mind.
with what's going on in newtow Ct I can't believe the ignorant comment about our president. like football is really alllll that important, PLEASEEEEEEEE......MORONS
Remember pro wrestling and pro boxing. In the NFL a referees flag here for holding or pass interference changes a game dramatically and dramatics sell tickets and fill stadiums.
Great game - both sides showed why they are probably the best two teams in the NFL. In end, 49ers made the big plays and Patriots made too many mistakes. Don't think either team comes out of that wanting to see the other one again if either should make the Super Bowl.
As opposed to most on here, I wish my QB showed as much fire as Brady does. There's a reason why he has been so successful, and it's not just intelligence / preparation / talent. The guy always competes.
The 49ers seem like they've got a good one with their young QB. He simply made huge plays when they needed them, plays that it seemed Alex Smith was unlikely to make.
I wouldn't be surprised in the least if these two teams met again for the Super Bowl. I haven't seen anyone better than either.
It was certainly a surprising victory by the 49ers, but they almost gave it away.
As for the guy who said "I Paid my bills to watch football". Sorry dude the game was on FREE TV which means you did not pay for the channel, while it may have been on your cable, it was certainly not paid by you.
I watched it through a metal coat hanger with a digital box attached to it. So it was FREE.
And don't be a douche bag. 20 kids died and six educators. Be more respectful.
Why is everybody talking about tom brady ? did any of you notice the other QB ?
Both QB played one hell of an game my team lost well they were shut out all the first half time to move on San Fran congrats to you not many teams beat pats at home
one of the biggest christmas gift calls all season that could only be called for the patriots....... without that gift patriots don't make a game of it....
Randy has to be one of the 3 best receivers of all time.Nevermind his likeability, Randy reminds me of how I am. He will never show 32 teeth, so the media will never like him. Randy feels that he gets paid to catch the football, and few have done it better.
If there wasn't such a double standard in football, the patriots should still have one of the leagues premiere receivers of all time, Randy Moss which probably would have resulted in a Patriot Victory.... If Moss
had acted spoiled like the brady Brat, Moss would probably have been ejected.
People are still too dishonest, to appreciate the talent of a Robert Griffin lll, who throws as well as any qb and makes the paytons, morenos, and bradys, and romo's seem like they are glued to the turf. well its true any hoooo anyhow.
I tried to watch the game on NBC website. After having to download their Silverlight feature, I was informed there was a problem and they were working on it. While waiting, Obama finally finished talking and the game resumed on TV. Over 20 mins. from the time I logged in and I didn,t see one play on their website. It's been 45 yrs. since the "Heidi" game and they still can't figure it out.
The only reason the Patriots "rallied" was because the 49ers Defensive Coordinator made the decision to switch from man-to-man coverage to zone defense and to stop blitzing. (Shades of Art Shell, "prevent defense") This decision would have cost them the game if not for the Special Teams performance (the Rookie Kick Returner) and "Kap's" skill in getting the ball to Crabtree, and Wide-Receiver Par Excellance. They had better be careful with their interference which they call managing/coaching.
hey Cal Dude2N, it is called "prevent defense" only thing it prevents is putting the other team away.
mac looked scared to death on that run
Thank YOU ...
... and thanks for cogent comments from Patriot fans. Sporting and sportsmanlike. The Niners were lucky.
They're off to Seattle. Oh, my! The Patriots are off to Jacksonville. Good luck to both teams -- 9ers need it more, I suspect.
Again, good luck Patriots fans, and thank you. See you in the SB?
6:47 pm 14-3 49ers, 2nd quarter, 6:04 left - Slight but important correction. A) ball did not hit Ted Ginn (replays clearly showed), Call was holding on Niners. Pats challenge didn't hold up.
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Very strong and beautiful sense of color here. In this case, I think the transparency really helps illustrate the image as a dream!, especially with the girl, and with the sun beeking out behind the horse.
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Beautiful use of color! It is so bright and enchanting!
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So the big question: Why fake a pregnancy in your senior year of high school?
I really wanted to do a senior project that would impact my school; I wanted to do something that would not only teach me something but teach my fellow classmates something too.
Did anything else factor into you coming up with this idea?
Yes, I was taking into consideration how my mom has been my number one support system my entire life because my dad was never in the story. I was thinking about how strong she was as a single mom — how she had to fight and struggle for her kids. My mom taught me to be strong for myself. I had all of that in mind when I came up with my project.
Did your mom really help you make your fake-pregnancy belly?
Yes, she did. My mom and I stretched clay over a half of a basketball and then used wire mesh to make it. It was the kind of clay used in sculptures. There was a sponge over the clay too. Behind the wire was cotton. We just kept adding cotton as the "pregnancy" went along.
What was the hardest part physically about faking the pregnancy?
Pretending to have all the different emotions and morning sickness, as well as having to carry out the illusion of me gaining weight.
Any moment where you thought about abandoning the project?
Several times in the beginning, especially with some of the negative comments I was getting and the rumors being started about me. It was disappointing, because I worked so hard my entire life with my education to be the best student I could possibly be, and then all of sudden people thought I wasn't going to go to college or graduate … or do anything with my life.
Are you still with your boyfriend after asking him to go along with your fake pregnancy?
We'll be together four years this February. But that time was really hard for him and his extended family. They were confused as to why I did it. His immediate family was just so relieved that we were not pregnant — that we could go onto college, get married, buy a house and then start having kids.
What is your message to teen parents following your story?
My message is that life does not have to come to an end become you get pregnant young. Teen parents should find the strength for their children and push themselves further to succeed in life. It's not the end of the road.
What's your take on reality programs like "Teen Mom"?
I think they're useful. They show the struggles of being pregnant as well as having to manage school and babies and everything else that goes on in life at a young age. But I think it would be helpful if they minimized some of the drama and focused more on the informative side of teen pregnancy. It's not only about the drama.
So how do you feel about having your life made into a Lifetime movie?
It seems so unreal. I was even an extra in the movie, in the scene where the fake pregnancy is exposed. The whole time I was thinking, How do I act here when it was my story?! Between scenes, Alexa Vega would ask me about my emotions and how I was I feeling in those moments so she could connect to the story more. I thought that was amazing.
Who did you imagine playing you in the film?
My boyfriend and I joked around a lot with friends and family about it. For my boyfriend, I thought Wilmer Valderrama. For me, it was always Selena Gomez or some other Disney actress.
What are you up to these days?
I am studying psychology in college and looking into child development. I'm going toward that route.
How do you think this project changed you and your future?
Having all this life experience under my belt made me more mature going into college. It helped make me more comfortable talking about myself and speaking with people in general. I've done the "Today Show," and after that, it's no big deal speaking up in a college class.


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Pursuant to Section 2(b) of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, 15 U.S.C. § 16 (b), the United States submits this Competitive Impact Statement relating to the proposed Final Judgment submitted for entry with the consent of defendant American Bar Association ("ABA") in this civil antitrust action.
A. The Complaint
On June 27, 1995, the United States filed a civil antitrust suit alleging that the ABA violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act in its accreditation of law schools. The Complaint alleges that the ABA restrained competition among professional personnel at ABA-approved law schools by fixing their compensation levels and working conditions, and by limiting competition from non-ABA-approved schools. The Complaint also alleges that the ABA allowed its law school accreditation process to be captured by those with a direct interest in its outcome. Consequently, rather than setting minimum standards for law school quality and thus providing valuable information to consumers, the legitimate purposes of accreditation, the ABA at times acted as a guild that protected the interests of professional law school personnel.
The United States and the ABA have agreed that the proposed Final Judgment may be entered after compliance with the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act. Entry of the Final Judgment will terminate this civil action, except that the Court will retain jurisdiction for further proceedings that may be required to enforce or modify the Judgment, or to punish violations of any of its provisions.
B. Law School Accreditation
The Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar ("Section of Legal Education") administers law school accreditation. It was created in 1893 as the first Section of the ABA and assumed the role of an accrediting agency in 1921.
ABA approval is critical to the successful operation of a law school. The bar admission rules in over 40 States require graduation from an ABA-approved law school in order to satisfy the legal education requirement for taking the bar examination. In addition, the ABA is the only agency recognized by the United States Department of Education as a law school accrediting agency.
In 1973, the ABA adopted its current Standards for the Approval of Law Schools ("Standards"), setting forth the minimum requirements for legal education that must be met to obtain and maintain ABA approval. Law schools were required to be in full compliance with the Standards commencing with the 1975-76 academic year. The Standards and their Interpretations covered many aspects of the operation of a law school, including its salary structure, student-faculty ratios, faculty leave policies, faculty workloads, and physical facilities.
The Section of Legal Education is governed by its Council, which has supervisory authority on all accreditation matters. The Council has established a Standards Review Committee that reviews the Standards and their "Interpretations" and recommends changes to the Council. The Council has also established an Accreditation Committee, which closely oversees the inspection of new law schools and the sabbatical reinspections of previously approved law schools, and makes the initial recommendations regarding ABA approval.
The Accreditation Committee enforces the Standards through extensive on-site inspections of law schools. Provisionally approved law schools are inspected every year until receiving full approval, and fully approved law schools are inspected every seven years, except for an initial visit three years after first gaining full approval. Site inspection teams prepare detailed reports for the Accreditation Committee. The Accreditation Committee may "continue" the accreditation of an approved law school, require additional information from a law school in actual or apparent non-compliance with the Standards or about whom the Accreditation Committee has "concerns," or require a show cause hearing for law schools in apparent non-compliance with the Standards or their Interpretations.
The day-to-day operation of the ABA's accreditation process is directed by the ABA's Consultant on Legal Education. The Consultant prepares "Action Letters" that inform the law school deans and university presidents of the Accreditation Committee's findings and conclusions.
At trial, the United States would have proved the following:
A. Anticompetitive Standards And Practices
Legal educators, including current and former law school deans, faculty, and librarians, control and dominate the ABA's law school accreditation process. Approximately 90% of the Section of Legal Education's members are legal educators. In substantial part, this is because of the Section of Legal Education's Faculty Group Membership Program, under which ABA-approved law schools may obtain a group discount on dues for their faculty. Many law schools pay their faculty's dues and the faculties of about 145 of the 177 ABA-approved law schools hold ABA membership through the Faculty Group Membership Program.
All current members of the Standards Review Committee and a majority of the current members of the Accreditation Committee are legal educators. The typical site inspection team has 5-7 members, all or nearly all of whom are legal educators. The Consultant's position has traditionally been held by a legal educator. The incumbent has served as Consultant for over 20 years and is a former dean and a current law school faculty member.
ABA Accreditation Standard 405(a) required that faculty compensation be comparable with that of other ABA-approved schools. In practice, this Standard was extended to cover deans' and professional librarians' salaries. The ABA collected extensive, detailed salary information, among other data collected, in annual questionnaires that ABA-approved law schools were required to complete. Often, the comparable schools consisted of a "peer group" of schools chosen by the professional staff of the inspected school. The "peer group" could be and at times was manipulated to include higher-rated law schools or law schools located in higher-cost areas. Law schools also at times were placed on report under Standard 405(a) by the Accreditation Committee because of unfavorable salary structure comparisons, not because of poor faculty quality.
The ABA prohibited an ABA-approved school from granting any transfer credits for courses successfully completed at state-accredited or unaccredited law schools, but permitted a law school, under certain conditions, to allow credits for courses taken at a foreign law school (Standard 308 and its Interpretation). The ABA also prohibited ABA-approved law schools from matriculating graduates of state-accredited or unaccredited law schools, but permitted, under certain circumstances, the matriculation of graduates of foreign law schools (Interpretation 3 of Standard 307). The ABA rejected a 1979 amendment that would have allowed law schools the discretion to admit any bar members to their graduate programs. In practice, the ABA permits only the law school, and not the affected individual, to apply for a waiver of the Interpretation, and such applications have been denied. Standard 202 prohibited the accreditation of proprietary law schools. The ABA has never approved a proprietary law school and the Accreditation Committee twice recommended against approval of one proprietary law school.
These Standards, Interpretations, and their application have unreasonably restricted competition in the market for the services of professional law school personnel. The salary Standard and its application had the effect of ratcheting up law school salaries. The Standard relating to proprietary law schools erected an unnecessary barrier to competition from these schools, which often provide their professional staff with lower salaries and fewer amenities than do ABA-approved schools. The restrictions on enrolling graduates of non-ABA-approved schools, and on offering transfer credits for course work completed at those schools, were unreasonable restraints of trade aimed at deterring effective competition from law schools that are likely to pay less in salaries and benefits to their professional staffs.
B. Other Accreditation Standards And Practices
In its Interpretations of Standards 201 and 401-405, the ABA declared that a student-to-faculty ratio of 20:1 or less is presumably in compliance with its accreditation standards but that a faculty ratio of 30:1 or more is not. While the Interpretation counts a part-time student as two-thirds the equivalent of a full-time student, the ABA has counted only full-time, tenure-track professors as "faculty," thereby excluding from the count administrators who teach, emeritus or senior faculty who teach, some visiting professors, joint-appointed faculty (faculty holding appointments in two departments in a university) who teach, adjunct professors, clinical and other instructors holding short-term contracts, and tenured faculty teaching part-time because of family responsibilities. Although part of the policy supporting reduced student-faculty ratios is the desirability of smaller classes and increased student-faculty contact, the ABA did not measure actual class size or effectively measure actual student-faculty contacts. The growth of full-time faculty at ABA-approved law schools substantially exceeded the growth of student enrollment at such schools in the past 10 years.
Standard 404 sets a maximum 8-hour-per-week teaching load or, if a course is duplicated, a 10-hour load. In practice, an hour was defined as 50 minutes.
Standard 405(b) required that faculty members be afforded a "reasonable opportunity for leaves of absence and for scholarly research." In some instances, this Standard has been applied in practice to require paid sabbaticals, summer stipends, and other forms of research compensation.
While Standard 301 requires a law school to maintain an educational program designed to qualify its students for admission to the bar, Standard 302(b) prohibits a law school from offering a bar preparation course for credit or requiring one for graduation, even for students identified as being at risk of failing the bar examination. A bar preparation course cannot be offered as a required course, even when a law school meets the ABA minimum credit requirements without counting the bar preparation course.
Standard 701 requires an "adequate" physical plant. Nearly all ABA-approved law schools occupy new facilities or have made substantial renovations to existing facilities since the new Standards were adopted in 1973. Despite this, over one-third of all ABA-approved schools were put on report for "inadequate facilities" by the Accreditation Committee in 1994, including law schools of recognized distinction.
Standard 201 requires that a law school have the necessary resources to provide a sound legal education, and Standard 209 requires adequate resources to sustain a sound educational program. These Standards have been applied at times by the Accreditation Committee to place law schools on report for alleged shortcomings. In 1994, about 50 law schools, including many of recognized high quality, were on report for allocating inadequate resources to their law school program.
Some of the Standards, Interpretations, and other factors described in paragraphs 4 through 9 may reflect relevant considerations in assessing the quality of a law school's educational program. At times, however, they too have been applied inappropriately to restrict competition in the law school labor market.
Prohibited Conduct. The proposed Final Judgment prohibits the recurrence of conduct that is plainly anticompetitive. Specifically, the Final Judgment will eliminate the adoption or enforcement of any Standard, Interpretation or Rule, or the taking of any action that imposes requirements as to the base salary, stipends, fringe benefits, or other compensation paid to law school faculty, administrators or other law school employees. The Final Judgment also will eliminate the collection or dissemination of compensation data for deans, administrators, faculty, librarians, or other employees, and the use of compensation data in connection with the accreditation of any law school. In addition, the Final Judgment eliminates any Standard, Interpretation or Rule prohibiting the enrollment of a member of a bar or a graduate of a state-accredited law school in a post-J.D. program, or the acceptance of any transfer credits from state-accredited law schools. The ABA is also prohibited from accrediting only law schools organized as not-for-profit institutions.
Additional Relief. The proposed Final Judgment also contains structural provisions to ensure that the law school accreditation process is governed by persons other than those with a direct economic interest in its outcome and that the process is brought more into public view. As the Complaint states, it is the view of the United States that during the past 20 years, the law school accreditation process has been captured by legal educators who have a direct interest in the outcome of the process. Most of the process, as it applied to individual law schools, was carried out by the Accreditation Committee and the Consultant's office and was kept from public view and the supervision of the ABA's Board of Governors and House of Delegates. In addition, the individuals who served on the Accreditation Committee and in the Consultant's office had been in these positions for many years. Finally, the Interpretations of the accreditation Standards were in some cases more plainly anticompetitive than the Standards themselves, yet their adoption was not subject to the same public comment and hearings requirements as amendments to the Standards.
Accreditation matters for individual law schools often remained before the Accreditation Committee because it required repeated reports from law schools under review, thereby lengthening the accreditation process. At one point in 1994, 56% of ABA-approved law schools were under continuing Accreditation Committee review and 16% more were undergoing sabbatical reinspections that school year.
As remedies, the proposed Final Judgment provides:
Special Commission. The ABA has established a Special Commission To Review The Substance And Process Of The ABA's Accreditation Of American Law Schools. A number of subjects of the accreditation process raise legitimate educational policy issues, but were applied at times to achieve anticompetitive, guild objectives, as discussed in Section II above. These subjects are: faculty teaching-hour requirements; compensated and other required leaves of absence for faculty and other staff; the manner in which the ABA calculated the faculty component in calculating student-faculty ratios; physical facilities; the allocation of resources to the law school; and bar preparation courses. The Special Commission will review these subjects and report to the Board of Governors no later than February 29, 1996. Upon completing its review, the Board will file its report with the United States and the Court. The United States may challenge any proposal in the report within 90 days of the Commission's report. Any such challenge will be decided by the Court applying an antitrust analysis. This is novel relief in a government antitrust case, resulting from a recognition that some accreditation practices implicate both antitrust and educational policy concerns. Since the ABA had initiated the Special Commission in response to academic criticism of its accreditation process and its perception of possible antitrust problems, the United States has agreed that the ABA may first attempt to reconcile antitrust and educational concerns through its Special Commission.
Section 4 of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 15, provides that any person who has been injured as a result of conduct prohibited by the antitrust laws may bring suit in federal court to recover three times the damages suffered, as well as costs and reasonable attorneys' fees. Entry of the proposed Final Judgment will neither impair nor assist the bringing of such actions. Under the provisions of Section 5(a) of the Clayton Act, 15 U.S.C. § 16(a), the Judgment has no prima facie effect in any subsequent lawsuits that may be brought against the defendant in this case.
As provided by the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, any person believing that the proposed Final Judgment should be modified may submit written comments to John F. Greaney, Chief, Computers and Finance Section, U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, 555 4th Street, N.W., Room 9903, Washington, D.C. 20001, within the 60-day period provided by the Act. These comments, and the Department's responses, will be filed with the Court and published in the Federal Register. All comments will be given due consideration by the Department of Justice, which remains free to withdraw its consent to the proposed Final Judgment at any time prior to entry. The proposed Final Judgment provides that the Court retains jurisdiction over this action, and the parties may apply to the Court for any order necessary or appropriate for modification, interpretation, or enforcement of the Final Judgment.
No materials or documents of the type described in Section 2(b) of the Antitrust Procedures and Penalties Act, 15 U.S.C. § 16(b), were considered in formulating the proposed Final Judgment.
The United States considered other relief in addition to the remedies contained in the proposed Final Judgment. In particular, early in the investigation, the United States proposed injunctive relief eliminating: the ABA's prohibition of credits for a bar review course; the ABA's practice of attributing no value to teachers other than full-time tenure-track faculty in calculating student-faculty ratios; the maximum teaching hour limits; the faculty leave of absence requirements; and the requirement that substantially all first-year courses be taught by full-time faculty. Later the United States proposed other relief, all of which is included in the proposed Final Judgment. The United States made these proposals during the negotiating process as its investigation proceeded and as it learned more about the ABA's practices and their competitive effects.
The United States eventually concluded, on the basis of the evidence it had gathered, that mere amendment of the ABA's Standards and practices would not provide adequate or permanent relief and that reform of the entire accreditation process was needed. While a prohibition of some of the rules was warranted, as is accomplished by the proposed Final Judgment, the larger and more fundamental problem of regulatory capture also had to be addressed.
Moreover, a number of the Standards, Interpretations and practices at issue, although sometimes misapplied to further guild interests in the past, concern matters of legitimate educational concern. The United States concluded that appraisal of whether the provisions and practices listed in Section IV.D of the Complaint are anticompetitive or set a procompetitive minimum educational standard for law school programs should be made in the first instance by the ABA itself, subject to subsequent review. The United States agreed to submit the first four of the practices initially of most concern to it, along with others about which it had developed concern, to review by the ABA's Special Commission. (In the case of first-year teaching requirements, on the basis of evidence it subsequently gathered the United States abandoned its initial opposition.) If the Special Commission fails to consider adequately the antitrust implications of continuing the ABA's past practices in these areas, the Final Judgment permits the United States to challenge the Special Commission's proposals and seek further injunctive relief from the Court.
The United States had also earlier proposed that the ABA's Special Commission be separately constituted as an antitrust review committee whose membership would be one-third practitioners, judges, and public members; one-third non-law school university administrators; and one-third law school administrators and faculty. Although the Government recognized that a number of members of the Special Commission had participated in the accreditation process in the past, it also considered that the Special Commission was already constituted and had progressed in its work, that ABA leadership was now familiar with and sensitive to antitrust concerns, and that the Commission report was subject to challenge by the United States and review by the Court.
Another alternative to the proposed Final Judgment is a full trial of the case. A trial would involve substantial cost both to the United States and to the defendant, and is not warranted since the Final Judgment provides all substantial relief the Government would likely obtain following a successful trial.
Dated: July 14, 1995
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This is unexpected. It's worth discussion though. Scott Hanselman wrote a post titled Using Crowdsourcing for Expanding Localization of Products which is a very interesting discussion of issues around human v. machine translation of software documentation. This is a huge issue for many international companies. In fact writing software in a way to make messages more easy to internationalize is a worthy topic of discussion in any computer science program. It influences all sorts of design decisions and understanding of different concepts and tools. So far so good. But then the comments get interesting. For example one person says:
I absolutely agree with Erling Paulsen. If you don't know English, you're not a programmer!
I absolutely agree with Erling Paulsen. If you don't know English, you're not a programmer!
That comment and several of the comments who agree were not made by people whose first language is English. The argument in brief is that most of the documentation is in English and that English is a sort of defacto common language for programming concepts. If you search the internet using your search engine of choice you will often not be able to look up translated error messages with much success. Therefore the argument goes that for many products, especially for programmers, English should be the one language in use. Please go read Scott's post and the comments there. There should be a lot more since I wrote this post because I wrote it in advance. :-)
Wow! These are all things I as an English only speaker never thought about. I just assumed that people would prefer messages in their native language. I remember my wife working in the NYC office of an Italian company having to call Italy for translations of that company's computer error messages which were all in Italian. I always assumed that others would prefer to avoid the opposite problem.
So what do you think? What do your students think? In general what do people whose native or first language is not English think about this idea that serious programmers should (must?) learn English?
"I absolutely agree with Erling Paulsen. If you don't know English, you're not a programmer!"
This is 100% correct.
I am a Russian software developer, working in a Russian company, and the developers use English OSes and development environments, English documentation, and we write all comments for both code and TFS check-ins in English. The reason is simple: there is a large amount of technical jargon in the industry that is really only comprehensible in English. Even when we talk among each other in Russian, probably half of the words we use are English words (e.g. we use "property", "method", "query", "override", "overload", "enum", "if", "string", "float" as is, even though there are more or less precise Russian translations). Also, of course, pretty much all docs are in English - and even though MS has now made a Russian translation of VS and MSDN, what about all the third-party tools and libs we're using? What about all the blogs (with often valuable information), forums and newsgroups, and so on?
In effect, reading and writing technical documentation is a requirement in the developers' workplace here, and I do not expect this to change anytime soon. Fluent spoken English is something else entirely, though, and is rarely found.
Just talked about this with my class. Some had never though about it and some just though that in say China they used Chinese. We had a good talk about it and how it might effect them and jobs they might want.
I wonder if there are programming languages where the keywords are in something other than English. Anyone know for sure?
I agree that english is very important and in my opinion, its all about standards, english as world wide spoken language is perfect for a global trade of information/knowledge.
Thats why i think english is essential for programmers and IT professionals.


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Final Tank Closure and Waste Management Environmental Impact Statement for the Hanford Site, Richland, Washington
RICHLAND, Wash. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will open online registration for the B Reactor National Historic Landmark's 2013 tour season on March 2 at noon. Families with children above the age of 12, along with middle schools and high schools, are invited to sign up for the coveted tour slots.
RICHLAND, Wash. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will open online registration on March 4 at 6 p.m. for tours of the Hanford Site in 2013.
The newly stood up Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing will be tackling big challenges facing science and society, like climate change and energy management.
On opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean, similar work to clean up radioactive contamination is planned to be carried out during the next 40 years.
Thursday, officials from the Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that operated the Fukushima, Japan, nuclear reactors, toured Hanford to see how work is being done there to clean up contamination from the past production of plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program.
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Governor Chris Gregoire issued a joint statement on the cleanup efforts underway at Hanford.
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I love going in to tackle shops this time of year. I see the familiar faces of the guys in the shop, fishing buddies who are smiling more than they were last month when holiday bills were in our mailboxes. It's a fun time of year when we start guessing when the striped bass will arrive, the mayflies will start to hatch, and when the ponds and lakes will turn over.
I'm there for the camaraderie for sure, but I'm also there for a purpose: to restock my depleted gear bags. I'll take a poke through the rods and reels for sure, but for this visit I'm likely to head to other departments. I'll check out a new pair of waders to replace my old ones that have more patches than material. They're about due for an upgrade. Then I'll check out the synthetic lines and the monofilament. I run some numbers to do the math about the difference between buying a bulk spool versus individual spools.
It goes without saying that I'll pick up the usual suspects of hooks, snaps, swivels, hook hones. I'll do some damage in the lure aisle, picking out some new plugs, lures, stick baits and soft plastics. Hook hones, split shot, and another plug bag are regular supplies as are floatant, strike indicators, and maybe a new fly line. I'm sure that as I wander through the aisles I'll find some additional things. I always do.
Maybe this year I'll get a new ball cap. I've only got about 20 of 'em that are sun-bleached, blood stained, and coated with some dried fish scales, just like you.
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The Swing Town Timber Valley Modular Swing Set offers sufficient exercise and fun at the same time. The swing set keeps the children engaged in the outdoor for long. It is an excellent way to keep your children healthy and fit.
The cedar wood construction of the Timber Valley Modular Swing Set by Swing Town offers long-lasting performance. It has a cedar finish that lends a touch of elegance to a backyard or garden. This swing set features two belt swings with plastic seats. The wooden step ladder leads to the upper play deck. The wave slide is made from plastic and has a weight capacity of 150 pounds. It has a wooden eight step climber, which is an excellent way to have an all round exercise session. It also features a plastic trapeze with bar and ring type. Crafted to perfection, this set has a sandbox, which made from wood and is an ideal place for your kids' to relax or have food. The swing is non-toxic that makes it safe to use in most homes. It is weather resistant, which helps retain its quality for longer time.
The swing set is easy to care for and should be applied with a wood sealant to maintain and keep clean for a long time. It requires assembly. The swing set is ASTM and FSC compliant. The swing set proves to be an excellent addition to the backyard or garden of any home.
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Primary Material: Wood
|Number of Swings Included: 2
|Installation Type: Free-standing
|Required Surface Area: 705.67 Square Feet
|Weight Capacity: 420 Pounds
|Finish: Red
Swing Seat Material: Plastic; Other
|Hardware Material: Stainless steel
|Non-Toxic: Yes
Weather Resistant: Yes
|UV Resistant: Yes
|Rust Resistant: Yes
|Mildew Resistant: Yes
|Fade Resistant: Yes
|Fray Resistant Rope: Yes
|Swing Type: Belt swing
|Swing Positions: 3
|Swing Suspension Type: Chain
Ladder Included: Yes
Slide Included: Yes
Climber Included: Yes
|Glider Included: No
Rooftop Included: Yes
|Monkey Bars Included: No
Playhouse Included: Yes
Play Deck Included: Yes
Sand Box Included: Yes
|Picnic Table Included: No
Trapeze Item Included: Yes
Lumber Included: Yes
|Pre-Drilled: Yes
|Age Group: 5 to 6 Years; 7 to 8 Years; 9 to 10 Years; 11 to 12 Years
Recycled Content: Yes
|Eco-Friendly: Yes
|Country of Manufacture: China
Assembly Required: Yes
Installation Required: Yes
|Additional Parts Required: No
|Product Warranty: 10 year limited warranty for wood and 1 year warranty for accessories
|ASTM Compliant: Yes
|FSC Certified: Yes
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timber valley swing set Anna from Huntingtown, MD on 08/13/2013 – Verified Buyer
I bought this swing set for my grand children. It was delivered in the time frame it was promised. My Husband helped me with leveling the 4 posts of the little house and with the floor for it. From then on I was by myself. It took my about 26 hours to put the swing set together. The instructions were very easy to follow, all pieces were nicely numbered as were the screws and bolts etc. 2 broken boards were replaced without delay. I thought all went really nice. I was quite proud of myself for putting it together more or less by myself. The grand children and their friends already used it and they all seem to like it a lot.
I think it is quite a nice swing set.
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Great play set! Jennifer from Lansing, NY on 10/11/2014 – Verified Buyer
This play set is really nice when it's done. It does take a lot of assembly but the end product is worth it. My kids have enjoyed it. Cedar is soft wood so some of our boards were not straight but my husband and I got it together. The hardware is great and the instructions are pretty good. Just make sure you orient yourself and follow each step explicitly and you should be fine!
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Lovely and Fun Elizabeth from Conway, AR on 09/12/2014 – Verified Buyer
My husband put this together for our 2 year old over the course of a few days. He did a great job and our little boy loves it! He plays on it almost every night. With the exception of a few splintering boards, it looks great. I can tell the stain may fade over time, but that is to be expected. Good product, and it doesn't hurt that we got it at a great price on sale.
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well made swing set Judy from Houtzdale, PA on 05/27/2015 – Verified Buyer
my grandson loves it. was not difficult to put together.
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My grandchildren love the finished product! -- was more time consuming than I thought it should be to put it together. The directions were a little confusing-----pictures and diagrams helped.
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Huggies, pampers and costco brand were the best for me. Luvs broke out DD in an awful rash and target brand would leak every time, not even half as full as a huggie. My aunt got me into walgreens brand when DD was older but i wouldn't put them on a newborns tooshie
Its a BOY, his name is Mason<3
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Huggies is what I used for my God daughter when she lived with me from 3 months untill she was potty trained at 18 months. But all the hospitals where I live use pampers for new borns
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If you are looking for a more cloth like/hybrid diaper gdiapers are amazing too! I love them. But they are more expensive if you don't do the cloth option.


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International makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury has her hand on the pulse of what's hot in beauty through the decades spent creating unsurpassed beauty looks for her celebrity clientele. Therefore, she shared with Happi.com some color cosmetic looks for music festivals like Coachella, which kicked off this past weekend.
For example, the desert setting means dewy, creamy textures work well, rather than powder-based products which can slip off in the heat. According to Tilbury:
Music festivals are all about fringed crop-tops, and leg-baring denim cut-offs; so make like Gisele and use a moisturizing, gleam-getting, gorgeous illuminator cream to highlight your arms, legs, and décolletage. For the face, mix a high SPF with a light-reflecting illuminator like Tom Ford's Summer Skin Illuminator for glowing protection. Build up the sheen on temples, cheeks and nose to mimic where the sun would light up the face.
Create a seductive smoky eye in seconds with a crème eye shadow pen – it can be kept in a shoulder bag. Sweep over the eyelids, smudging outwards and upwards with your finger to create a winged look. For added summer sexiness, smudge underneath the lower lash line too.
Add a pop of color to bronzed, freckled skin by using a striking stain on the lips – experiment with eye-catching coral, berry and plum tones of Becca's Beach Tint. Cheat a smattering of freckles by painting them in using a soft, taupe eyeliner.
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