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Everett Education Assn v. Everett School District
On April 28, 1976 the Everett Education Association (hereinafter referred to as "Association" or "Petitioner") filed a Request for Unit Determination with the Public Employment Relations Commission seeking a ruling as to the includability of substitute certificated employees within an existing bargaining unit comprised of full-time and regular part-time certificated employees of Everett School District No. 2 (hereinafter referred to as "District"). A hearing was held in Seattle, Washington on November 11 and 16, 1976 before William G. Jeffery, Hearing Officer.
The District serves some 11,000 students. The Association and the District are parties to a collective bargaining agreement in which the bargaining unit is described as:
"All education employees, as defined by said act, of the Everett School District No. 2 who are on contract, whether full or parttime, excluding substitutes as provided herein and excluding personnel who serve in positions in the District which fit the following categories defined by EERA:
1. Chief executive officer;
2. Chief administrative officers;
3. Confidential employees;
4. Principals and assistant principals;
5. Supervisors.
"It is agreed that current positions in the Everett School District which are therefore excluded from the bargaining unit are:
A. Superintendent;
B. Assistant Superintendents;
C. Directors;
D. Principals - Instructional Leaders;
E. Vice Principals - Administrative Assistants - Associate Administrators;
F. Coordinators;
G. Supervisors;
H. Assistants to the Principal - Deans - Activities Advisors.
"It is understood by the parties that the Association is currently seeking from the Public Employment Relations Commission a unit clarification as to whether substitute certificated employees should be included or excluded from the bargaining unit.
"While said clarification is being determined, substitutes shall not be considered to be included in the bargaining unit. If it is finally legally determined that substitutes are to be included in the bargaining unit, the parties agree, upon request of either party, to immediately begin bargaining relative to the wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment of said substitutes; any agreements concluded from said bargaining shall be added as addendums (sic) or amendments to this Agreement.
"The parties agree that these educational employees who are on leave in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement are recognized to have contractual rights in accordance with applicable provision of said Agreement."
The Association contends that substitute certificated employees of the District share a community of interest with the full time and regular part time certificated staff, and that the Association has bargained on their behalf; so that substitutes should be included within the existing bargaining unit.
The District contends that the petition in this matter is inappropriate, and requests its dismissal. Further, the District argues that substitute teachers are not employees within the meaning of RCW 41.59.020(4). The District contends that substitutes lack a community of interest with the District's full time and regular part time employees, and that they should not be included within the scope of the existing bargaining unit.
The petition in this case was filed prior to the adoption of rules for the processing of representation and unit clarification proceedings before the Commission. The District bases its request for dismissal on the decisions of the National Labor Relations Board which hold that a unit clarification petition is inappropriate where a question concerning representation exists, or where the disputed classification is not new but was in existence at the time of the election which resulted in the present unit. 2/ The situation here is compounded somewhat by the enactment of a new collective bargaining law and the repeal of the law (including the unit determination provisions, such as they were) which was in existence at the time the bargaining relationship between the District and the association was established. The record discloses that the substitute classification had been in dispute for some time prior to the enactment of RCW 41.59, and there is some evidence to indicate that the Association has acted as the representative of the District's substitute teachers. The language of the present bargaining agreement between the parties evidences a mutual intent to remove this dispute from the bargaining table and to present this matter to the Commission for determination. The District's procedural arguments are, therefore, rejected.
RCW 41.59.020(4) defines "employee" in terms of all certificated employees, with some specified exceptions. The District does not argue that substitutes are non-certificated employees, but rather relies upon the definition of "employee" found in the National Labor Relations Act. 3/ The NLRA definition has been interpreted to include anyone who works for another for hire, unless specifically excluded from the Act. 4/ and the record here clearly indicates that the substitutes perform work for the District for compensation. There is no statutory exclusion of substitute teachers from the definition of "employee" or the coverage of RCW 41.59 and they must therefore, be considered employees for the purposes of RCW 41.59. Under the NLRA, unit placement does not flow automatically from holding status as an employee, and it remains to be determined whether substitute teachers should be included in a unit with full time and regular part time teachers under the EERA.
The legislature has given the Commission the following guidance:
"41.59.080 Determination of Bargaining Unit--Standards.
In determining, modifying or combining the bargaining unit, the commission shall consider the duties, skills and working conditions of the educational employees; the history of collective bargaining; the extent of organization among the educational employees; and the desire of the educational employees, except that:
(1) A unit including nonsupervisory educational employees shall not be considered appropriate unless it includes all such nonsupervisory educational employees of the employer. . . "
"41.59.110 Commission, Rules and Regulations of--Federal Precedents as Standard. (1) The commission shall promulgate, revise or rescind, in the manner prescribed by the administrative procedure act, chapter 34.04 RCW, such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary and appropriate to administer the provisions of this chapter, in conformity with the intent and purpose of this chapter, and consistent with the best standards of labor-management relations. (2) The rules, precedents, and practices of the national labor relations board, provided they are consistent with this chapter, shall be considered by the commission in its interpretation of this chapter, and prior to adoption of any aforesaid commission rules and regulations." (Emphasis supplied).
The Commission has not adopted an administrative rule regarding the status of substitute certificated employees. The Commission has looked to, and relied upon, the rules, practices and precedents of the National Labor Relations Board in its decisions on cases coming before it.
The recruitment and hiring of substitute teachers are conducted in a manner quite different from that used for the 600 or so regular certified employees of the District. The Everett school district receives various support services from the Educational Service District (ESD) for its area, including the processing of substitute teacher applicants. Persons seeking employment with the Everett district as a substitute teacher must annually complete an application at the ESD office and must register a teaching certificate and a health certificate with the ESD. The application form is designed to determine the subject, grade level and school district preferences of the applicant. The ESD then compiles and distributes a list of available substitutes to each of the
school districts which it serves. Of some 284 persons recently registered with the ESD, 112 had no desire to work as a substitute in Everett, 147 indicated a willingness to teach in Everett along with the other school districts in the area, and only 25 desired to teach only in Everett. Between 1973 and 1976, some 297 persons worked for the District as substitutes, but only 97 (or 25.60/0' of those employed) worked as a substitute in the District for more than a single school year. It appears that State certification requirements for substitute teachers are different from the requirements for regular certificated employees. See: Chapter 28A.67 RCW and WAC 180.80.250.
The District has long maintained two distinct classes of substitutes which, for purposes of this discussion, are denominated "daily substitutes" and "long term substitutes". These classifications are discussed separately here.
Daily substitutes serve on an "on call as needed" basis. Members of the regular certificated staff of the Everett district are expected to notify the District between 6:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m. on a work day on which they will be unavailable to perform their regular assignment. Using the list provided by the ESD, the "substitute calling secretary" attempts to locate a replacement for the absent employee. The secretary proceeds down the list until a suitable substitute is found who is available and willing to serve. As additional substitutes are needed, the secretary continues down the list, resulting in a constant rotation of the starting point for substitute calling. A person who is on the substitute list need not accept a daily substitute assignment when called in order to maintain eligibility to be called in the future.
The variation of assignments places daily substitutes in a variety of classes, school buildings and teaching situations. This tends to restrict the development of knowledge of student capabilities and educational needs. Daily substitutes are not required to prepare and implement a lesson plan, but rather follow the lesson plan developed and left by the regularly assigned teacher. Such substitute teachers are not required to participate in extra-curricular activities and they do not participate in faculty meetings. The working hours of daily substitutes are standardized throughout the District as 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and each such substitute must report in and out with the building administrator. Daily substitutes are also required to leave a report of their activities for the regularly assigned teacher.
Pursuant to past unilateral policies and the current collective bargaining agreement, the District compensates its regular certificated staff according to a salary schedule which recognizes differences in both training and experience, and provides its regular certificated staff with a variety of fringe benefits, including a medical plan, liability insurance, retirement contributions, life insurance and salary continuation insurance. By contrast, daily substitutes are compensated on a flat daily rate basis and do not enjoy any of the fringe benefits available to the regular certificated staff. The daily substitutes have also historically been excluded from the various leave provisions made available to the regular certificated staff.
Historically, a daily substitute has been converted into a "long term substitute" upon the completion of 20 consecutive work days in the same assignment. Long term substitutes have a regular schedule of hours comparable to that of the regular certificated staff, and they perform most, if not all, of the functions of the regular staff member they replace. This includes planning, attendance at faculty meetings and work on individual student needs. Long term substitutes are compensated under the regular certificated employee salary schedule.
None of the substitute teachers are employed pursuant to a written teaching contract with the Everett School District. They enjoy no tenure rights and do not acquire any right or preference for regular teaching positions.
The Association was selected as the representative of the District's certificated staff in an election held in 1966. The Association's representation status was re-affirmed in an election held in 1975. Obviously, both of those elections were conducted under RCW 28A.72.030 prior to the existence of the Commission. Substitute teachers did not vote in either election, nor were they included within the scope of the bargaining unit.
Between 1971 and 1975, any negotiations which took place occurred under the "meet and confer" provisions of RCW 28A.72, and any negotiated agreements were incorporated in a District handbook for the school year rather than in a written and signed collective bargaining agreement. The first appearance of a provision for substitutes occurs in the 1971-72 handbook. 6/ However, that provision was simply a restatement of prior District policy, and there is no basis for a conclusion that its incorporation in the handbook was the result of collective bargaining or even the meet and confer process. The record does indicate that the Association played a part in obtaining an increase of the daily substitute compensation rate from $25.50 to $27.50 in the Spring of 1973.
Negotiations during 1974 resulted in the inclusion of a negotiated provision in the 1974-75 Handbook restricting the scope of employment for substitutes. 7/ It is noted that the 1973-74 Handbook contained a provision limiting the function of auxiliary personnel (teacher aides). 8/ At no time has the Association represented teacher aides, and these provisions concerning substitutes and aides appear to indicate an overall purpose on the Part of the Association to define and protect the scope of work of regular certificated personnel.
6/ Section 6 provided: "The compensation for substitute teachers shall be on a daily rate of $25.50 per day, unless the substitute replaces one teacher for more than twenty (20) successive days. In that event, the daily rate of compensation shall be increased to contract rate starting with the 21st day. If the regular teacher goes off contract through leave or other causes, the replacing teacher shall be hired at regular salary rate. In any event, no two teachers will be under contract for the same position. Principals shall be responsible for keeping the record of days taught by the substitute and shall notify the payroll officer when the 21st day of substituting shall begin. Everett School Dist No. 2, 1971-72 Handbook, p.43
7/ It was provided: "Substitutes serve in the absence of the regular certificated staff members. The District will not follow the practice of using a substitute who is not filing in for a specific regularly contracted staff member except on the occasions of:
1. Enrollment uncertainties at the beginning of a school year, or
2. Resignations of regular staff that do not allow sufficient time
for the District to employ an immediate replacement. "On either of the occasions identified in the subparagraphs 1. and 2. above, the District shall employ a full-time regularly contracted staff person within a reasonable time after the initial substitute began the assignment. All substitute teachers, K-12, will be called from the main office." Everett School Dist No, 2, 1974-75 Handbook, p.32.
8/ It was provided: "A. Auxiliary personnel shall not assume or be
given responsibilities assigned to certificated staff--such as the following:
1, Responsibility for deciding each child's program of instruction,
2. Diagnosis and evaluation of pupil's progress,
3. Reporting to parents or guardians of student, and
4. Responsibility for making decisions in curriculum or program development.
Everett School District No. 2, 1973-74 Handbook, p.59.
Finally, the evidence indicates that the Association sought the recall of long term substitutes who acted in sympathy with the Association and the regular certificated staff during a work stoppage in the District in 1976 and that these persons were subsequently reemployed.
There presently exists only one bargaining unit of nonsupervisory educational employees within the District, and there is no pending request for creation of a second bargaining unit. A substitute teacher called as an Association witness testified that she was among a group of substitutes which sought out the Association to represent them in the Spring of 1973. The record is devoid of evidence of the extent to which members of the substitute teacher classes are presently members or supporters of the Association.
The Act requires consideration of four basic criteria in determining unit questions, the establishment of no more than one unit of nonsupervisory certificated employees, and consideration of the consistent precedents of the National Labor Relations Board. Although the parties have tended to treat the substitutes as a single class, the evidence establishes the existence of two clearly distinct and identifiable situations. Reading of the statute and the referenced precedents in harmony with one another results in a conclusion which does not embrace the all-or-nothing approach of either party.
As the evidence amply demonstrates, there is a strong dissimilarity in wages, hours, and terms and conditions of employment as well as other collective bargaining interests between the daily substitutes and the regular full time and regular part time certificated employees of the District. The NLRB generally finds that "on call" employees who are employed sporadically, with no established pattern of regular continuing employment, should be excluded from bargaining units as "casual" employees. 9/ Under the NLRB decisions, the option of
9/ Glynn Campbell, d/b/a/ Piggly Wiqqly El Dorado Co., 154 NLRB 445
(1965); G. C. Murphy Co., 128 NLR6 908 (1960)
employees on a list subject to call to accept or reject offers of work militates in favor of a finding of casual employment. 10/ The record demonstrates some bargaining history by the Association with respect to substitutes, but this history has been far from regular and continuing and may even be interpreted as including provisions contrary to the interests and opportunities of substitutes. The NLRB will not give controlling weight to a less than effective bargaining history. 11/ The undersigned is persuaded that the NLRB would exclude the daily substitutes from the bargaining unit as casual employees, and that such an exclusion is consistent with both the EERA and the best standards of labor-management relations.
A different situation is recognized with respect to the long term substitutes. It is clear from the record that the long term substitutes perform the same functions as the employees within the existing bargaining unit, albeit on a tenure arrangement which is different 1-rom members of the regular certificated staff. Even at that, regular certificated staff members are employed under individual employment contracts for only one year at a time, and face the possibility of nonrenewal following the completion of any school year. The differences in tenure, standing alone, are not sufficient to destroy the mutuality of interest which other-wise appears to exist between the long term substitute and the regular teacher. The Association, as the exclusive representative, has historically showed some interest in the definition and preservation of the work of its unit, and will continue to have that interest in the future. Where it is known at the outset of an absence of a member of the regular certificated staff that the absence will be of a long term nature, or where it appears during such an absence that the absence which started out as one of short duration has or will become a long term absence, the position should be regarded as a bargaining unit position and the individual hired to fill that position (and all or almost all of its duties) should be entitled to the rights and protections which flow from coverage of the Act and representation by the Association. The past practice of the Everett School District clearly establishes the recognized point for long term substitution as 20 consecutive work days, and reliance on any different period here would, under this record, be purely arbitrary and speculative.
lo/ Rollo Transit Corp., 110 NLRB 1623 (1954): M.J. Pirolli & Sons, Inc.
II/ See, eg., Duke Power Co., Lee Steam Station, 191 NLRB 308 (1971) Heublein, Inc., 119 NLRB 1337 R-9-58)
On the basis of the above and foregoing, the Executive Director makes the following:
1. Everett School District No. 2 has recognized Everett Education Association as the exclusive representative in a unit of full time and regular part time certificated employees of the Everett School District.
2. A dispute has arisen as to whether substitute certificated employees are to be included in or excluded from the bargaining unit consisting of full time and regular part time certificated employees of the Everett School District.
3. Everett School District employs two distinct classes of substitute certificated employees. Daily substitute certificated employees have distinctly separate duties, skills and working conditions as compared to full time and regular part time certificated employees of the District. Long term, substitute certificated employees have duties, skills and working conditions generally comparable to those of full time and regular part time certificated employees of the District.
4. Daily substitute certificated employees of the District are employed on an on call basis, with an employee right of rejection of offers of employment without penalty of forfeiture of future employment opportunity, and are casual employees.
5. Positions vacated by a member of the District's regular certificated staff for a period in excess of 20 consecutive work days have been recognized as calling for the performance, by a long term substitute teacher of most, if not all, of the duties of the regular staff member being replaced, and such positions are regular part time positions.
1. The Public Employment Relations Commission has jurisdiction to resolve in these proceedings a dispute concerning the scope of the bargaining unit described in finding of fact number 1.
2. Casual employees are to be excluded from bargaining units, but regular part time employees are to be included in bargaining units created under RCW 41.59.080.
1. Substitute certificated employees employed by the District on a daily basis on call as needed are not included in the appropriate bargaining unit in which Everett Education Association is recognized as the exclusive representative of certificated employees of Everett School District No. 2.
2. The appropriate bargaining unit in which Everett Education Association is recognized as the exclusive representative of certificated employees of Everett School District No. 2 is hereby clarified to include the occupants of positions, also known as long term substitutes, where it is anticipated or comes to pass that a member of the bargaining unit will be absent from his or her regular assignment and will be replaced in such assignment for a period in excess of 20 consecutive work days.
DATED at Olympia, Washington this day of 1977.
MARVIN L. SCHURKE, Executive Director


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A recent market analyst report ranked Google's Android project as the least open project on its self-describe Open Governance Index, but did the report's sponsors get direct benefit from the findings that knocked Android down a peg or two?
Last week, VisionMobile, a UK-based firm that researches and analyzes the mobile technology sector, released the report "Open Governance Index--Measuring the true openness of open source projects from Android to Webkit." The 45-page report delved into the background of free and open source software and laid out a ranking based on this Open Governance Index, which VisionMobile described as being based on these factors:
- "Access: availability of the latest source code, developer support mechanisms, public roadmap, and transparency of decision-making
- "Development: the ability of developers to influence the content and direction of the project
- "Derivatives: the ability for developers to create and distribute derivatives of the source code in the form of spinoff projects, handsets or applications
- "Community: a community structure that does not discriminate between developers"
Based on those criteria, Android ranked the lowest among eight examined free and open source software projects, which included notables such as Eclipse, Mozilla, and Linux. Android's index score of 23 percent was manna from heaven for Android detractors, since it validated the negative impact of Google's decision to selectively release Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) source code to a few major manufacturers and not to the general development community. That the report was widely touted in the press as being sponsored by the European Union was just icing on the cake.
But let's take a look at that icing and the cake underneath.
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Let's be clear: I would be the last one to hold up Android as a bastion of openness. But fair is fair. It's important to understand the source and their motivations to put reports like this one in a better context.


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What's the best way for a teen to recover from disappointing A Level results?(31 Posts)
One of my nieces will bet getting her A Level results today and she is in quite a panic as she is convinced she has done badly. Quite a few emotional upsets occurred during her revision and this lingered until the time of her exams, so that may be why she thinks she has done badly. Both myself and her mother have tried to reassure her that as long as she has done her best then that's all she could do. That doesn't seem to be enough as she was hoping to get into uni and now thinks that may be jeopardized. Any ideas on how we can be more reassuring towards her?
Not been through this with mine too young. I think you and her Mum need to remain outwardly very calm and say let's find out the facts and go from there, whatever happens we can sort something.
I'm lurking on the results thread as taking notes for for my friend next year. Has she applied to go to University this year ? If some of the offers for places are currently showing.
Headlines this morning are that it's a good year to be applying and looks like there may be more places in clearly thn usual. Think the main thing is to keep calm, speak to the school if they aren't what needed and get advice in how to move forward .
Hopefully someone who has been through it will be along soon, if they haven't already whilst I'm typing this.
Clearing, gap,year, retakes and a complete change of direction are all options if she hasn't met her grades. She's not the first and won't be the last.
How can you help? By enabling her to understand that it isn't the end of the world and that there are always choices and alternatives.
As Purple said.
10 years ago today I found out I had failed my A levels in a spectacular fashion. At the time it was terrible but once I calmed down school helped me g through clearing and I ended up on a course I was better suited to.
My mum and dad were v disappointed and I still remember that awful feeling to this day. Just be kind, listen to her and be supportive. If she has messed up she will be disappointed in herself all you can do is help her see it doesn't mean the end of the world.
Probably a bit late now, but we had a celebration cake here last night - to celebrate the effort put in, regardless of results today.
Good luck to your niece, as others have said, there are lots of alternatives.
Well, within the next hour I guess she'll know.
She might just be a natural born worrier, and have done fine.
She might have not done as well as she hoped, but still get offered a place.
She might not have got a place at her first choice, but might still get her 'insurance' place.
If she's not got that - the staff at school will be there to support and advise.
The main broadsheets have guides of what to do on results day.
She will have had information from UCAS about what to do on results day.
She's not alone.
If she's not got what she hoped for, it will seem like the end of the world to her today, but it really isn't - it's just not meant to be, and there are LOTS of options available, but let her cry and be upset and get it out of her system, as that's perfectly natural.
Reassure her that A Level results are really NOT the end of the world. Many many people do extremely well, with or without A Levels. Today it seems to these young people that the results are the be all and end all and that is very sad. A year down the line and she will either be at uni or doing something else she likes. Honestly, I speak as a mum who has been there and got DC working in very well paid careers.
Meant to add, the careers are following pretty dire A levels!
25 years ago I found out (unsurprisingly) that I had cocked up (E, E, N). Got a clearing place on a slightly different course. Went to a former poly. Loved it, have built a successful career on it.
Poor A level results is not the end of the world; think of it them as a new opourtunity.
It will all work out.
DS girlfriend has " failed spectacularly " today. Grade much lower than expected and rejected from chosen course. Has already got a replacement course that she will love via clearing.
We've just found out that ds1 hasn't got the grades he needs for either of his first choices.
He still did really well (I think, anyway- BCC) and has been offered a place on a kind-of-related course at his insurance university, but he really doesn't want to do that particular one, so has phoned them to ask for a place on a different course entirely (although still one of his A level subjects).
He is quite philosophical about it- he also had a major emotional crisis (his dad died in April)- and we had already talked about the possibility of a year off to retake (if he wanted), or other career options.
Son's best friend did badly, went to college for an HNC/HND and applied via that route.
Now at probably a better uni than he would have been if he'd got his expected results.
Shodan that is an amazing achievement for your DS, a very brave young man.
Thank you Agggghast .
I am very very proud of him- he put in an enormous amount of effort, despite being knocked sideways.
I found with ds1 this morning that what he needed was clear direction- so "Let's go and get those results and see what we're working with, then go from there." Once he had a plan in mind he was able to work through.
I also discussed the benefits of a year out with him- time to save up for uni, more time to learn how to cook , greater maturity etc etc. And also emphasised that really, a year is nothing at all, even though it might feel like it to him. (It's only when you get older you fully realise that!)
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I am a university lecturer, and out of nosiness, I was seeing what the 2014 clearing situation was, with a bit of a professional eye. I was interested to see that there are many places left on some terrific courses and some excellent universities.
I spot checked types of History degree course as this is a popular subject, and DS has been muttering about applying to do it, and I found Medieval and Early Modern History at Bangor, Medieval History at Queen Mary, History, Ancient and Medieval at Birmingham, Arts and Humanities with a Foundation Year at Leeds (looks great for a wobbly student with special circumstances) and a number of interesting history-related courses at Scottish universities, who seem to be happy to take on English students as they effectively come with a fee dowry (like non-EU students in England). Aberdeen seems particularly hungry for English students. All of these places would be great experiences and you would leave with a valuable degree.
I think the take away message from this for me was that even dropping two grades in your subjects this year need not be a problem if you have your wits about you.
From personal experience at each place where I have worked, we have let students swap onto courses that require higher offers if it becomes clear early on that they have the capability and enthusiasm to do well on another course. A Levels are only a blunt instrument when it comes to assessing potential and the ability to cope with university work.
I have also turfed students out in the first term when it is clear they can't cope, but this is almost always because they are incessant pot smokers or can't speak English properly. For the others, if they read all the books, attend all the lectures and seminars, and do all the assignments, they leave with a degree. Miss out one of those factors and you start to compromise your results from day one.
Another factor in all this is being comfortable with the level of competition. It's frustrating if all the other people on the course are less academic than you, and less scholarly, and it is also frustrating if they are all far more bookish. It's important to try to find your tribe, even if that means taking a year out while you reapply. University is stressful enough at times, without people having an academic identity crisis. There is really no rush at all. if it was down to me, I would ban anyone under 20 going to university anyway, as it's more fun when you are a bit older, and people tend to do better.
FWIW I got CDD at A Level (stopped working after I got an unconditional offer from music college, although some of the teaching was fairly flaky anyway, looking back), and I went on to have a pretty serious academic career and have worked at top universities. A Levels are only a stepping stone, not the final destination.
Thank you for your message BoffinMum. I am struggling with disappointing results for DS. He was going to take a gap year, but now has to decide what to do. He could go to a lowly ranked uni, but because he wants to study an academic rather than vocational subject DH and I think he needs to re-sit.We are not sure whether DS will want to do that and just don't know what to do next. I know they are not my results but I feel somehow responsible and at a loss. Please don't flame me - I am being as supportive as I can with DS but I needed a space to express my own feelings.
TheAwfulDaughter- thank you. We have read that it is a possibility, but he is not banking on it and actually seems rather excited about his new course now! So fingers crossed.
Thanks for your reply.
I will pass on your message. Thanks.
Thanks for your supportive message. I will pass it on.
Thanks. I will pass on your message.
Thanks very much for your supportive message. Comforting to know that someone else has gone through emotional upset. Will pass your message on.
Good news. Thanks.
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eagles2069 wrote:So I have been following the thread and I have a couple questions now that you used it for the first time. First off it did you feel safe? Did you flare any birds? Was shooting out of it difficult?
It's a cool idea and thank you for sharing.
Let me start by saying this was most definitely a "can I do this" then a marketing project. So... We rushed into it without really putting much testing into it.
So as for safety. Absolutely, 110%, no doubts safe. Imagine being in a shark cage (if you've ever been) you have so many cross members around you for support, so no part of your body is "open". Also, the pontoons, I purposely tried to sink them by laying on them... Not only do they not sink, but they don't hold water at all. I weigh 185.
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Intelligent, relaxed, naturally self-deprecating, inclined to reflection, courteous to strangers, aware of irony, conscious of his own physical prowess without feeling the need to get all narcissistic about it, he is the living rebuttal of the criticisms directed at the vast majority of contemporary pugilists.
Lewis does not bite people, or wrestle them to the floor, or hit them after the bell. He likes to win fights by the application of what he calls, in that over-used phrase, "the sweet science". A Lewis fight would be conducted in strict accordance with the Queensberry rules, and would probably not feature bloodstains on the canvas. It would be decided by the accumulation of points, reflecting superior technique.
Nor does Lewis display the personal eccentricities so prominent among his contemporaries in the game. He does not break down in tears in the middle of a fight or hold prayer meetings before each workout. If he is a soldier in God's army, he is content to keep the information to himself. When the nature of his sexuality is called into question, he responds in such a way as to ensure that the interrogator is the one who ends up feeling foolish. At all times, his smile comes more easily than his scowl - if indeed his repertoire of facial expressions includes a scowl, for which there is little evidence.
He does not even indulge much in the traditional name-calling - and when he does, it comes in a form so mild as to be highly unlikely to cause offence. The furthest he has ever ventured in that direction was during the build-up to his first fight against Evander Holyfield, last March, when he called his opponent a hypocrite for noisily promoting Christian family values while allegedly being prepared to father children outside his marriage. But even then you got the impression that the two men could have resolved the matter over a couple of beers.
No doubt Lewis is not without flaw or blemish. But his peccadilloes are not thrust in our faces, since he does nothing to draw attention to them. And in the ever sleazier world of professional boxing, that makes him a knight in shining armour, come to slay dragons.
The trouble with Lewis, however, is the fault that cost him the chance to add Holyfield's World Boxing Association and International Boxing Federation heavyweight titles to his own World Boxing Council crown when the two met for the first time in Madison Square Garden in an attempt to establish which of them had the right to be called the undisputed world champion. Having established his superiority over the first five rounds, Lewis failed to finish the job. And the cause, it seemed, was an excess of circumspection.
Fearing that the older, more experienced Holyfield was playing possum when he retreated into a crouch on the ropes, Lewis kept his distance and relied on his jab to keep the score ticking over. His analysis was proved faulty when the three judges each arrived at a different verdict - one for Lewis, one for Holyfield, one for a tie - which meant that the bout was declared a draw.
No amount of harsh words aimed at Eugenia Williams, the IBF judge who declared for Holyfield, could obscure the reality, which was that Lewis had missed a golden opportunity to become the first British boxer to hold the undisputed world heavyweight title since Bob Fitzsimmons at the beginning of the century.
The contemplation of Lewis's nature inevitably evokes the remark the great trainer Cus D'Amato made about his protégé, Floyd Patterson, almost 40 years ago. "He lacks the killer instinct," D'Amato concluded. "He just doesn't have the zest for viciousness."
Those words came back this week, when Lewis was asked whether, this time around, he would seek to settle the matter by knocking Holyfield out. "If an opportunity presents itself," he replied, with his usual level gaze, "I will definitely seize the moment."
But would creating that opportunity be his chief priority?
"I'm not going in there to say I'm going for the knock-out. Hopefully I'm going to allow the knock-out to come by itself."
Understatement is an all too rare characteristic these days, particularly in public figures, but it may not be entirely appropriate to a heavyweight boxing champion. And in conversations with reporters this week, Lewis would not acknowledge that he had been betrayed by his own lack of instinctive aggression.
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That telling phrase - "could have done and should have done" - was repeated twice more during the same interview, suggesting that Lewis privately acknowledges the flaws in his own performance, however much he might put the blame on the judge from New Jersey. Nevertheless, in public he defends his failure to capitalise on his moments of superiority, particularly in the fifth round, when he appeared to have dismantled all Holyfield's defences.
"I still say I made the right decisions at that point," he observed. "They say I should have jumped on him and finished him off. But I didn't think I'd hurt him sufficiently at that point. And I was closer to the action than anybody else."
His confidence, he said yesterday, is currently higher than it was in March. "The way I feel now, I've been through it the first time, so the second time comes easier. I feel very focused. I can't wait for Saturday."
Looking at his physical condition as he practised combinations with his trainer, Manny Steward, before the media and a couple of hundred British fans at his open work-out in the Mandalay Bay Hotel, it was easy to see how such confidence might have been generated. His shape is sleek, his skin glossy. According to Steward, his weight is around 250lb, only 1lb below the weight at which he entered the ring in his second fight against Oliver McCall, in 1997, when he was at his heaviest. Against Holyfield in New York, he tipped the scales at 246lb. Yesterday morning he ran six miles, which might suggest that he hopes to shed another pound or two before today's weigh-in.
He finished his sparring programme last Friday, having completed more than a hundred rounds during his four-month period of preparation in Jamaica and Pennsylvania. He had wanted to go a few more rounds this week, sparring all the way up to the day of the fight, the way he had seen the Cuban amateurs do. "But Manny said: 'No way.' He didn't want to take the risk of anything bad happening now that I'm so close."
Once again there is the idea of the avoidance of risk - and this time expressed by the man who had criticised him for failing to finish Holyfield off in the first fight. But Lewis sticks firmly to his belief that he made the right decisions that night in the Garden, and that he took Holyfield halfway to a career decision that will be inevitable after Saturday night.
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In a book a did on buying a first digital camera, I mentioned that "if you want to spoil a child's interest in photography, buy them a camera made specifically for 'kids.'"
Invariably, these cameras use 5-10 year old technology (VGA video, for example!) repackaged to look cool.
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After watching the Employee Test Reel, am I correct in assuming that it doesn't have image stabilization?
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These are all 1911's
THE Definitive 1911 Picture Thread
And, the Army started using the gun in the year 1911, so thats who it got its name.
Heres some more info for you
What is considered a 1911? And why is it called that?
These are all 1911's
THE Definitive 1911 Picture Thread
And, the Army started using the gun in the year 1911, so thats who it got its name.
Heres some more info for you
Hey midntdrftr, I like that clip of Indianna Jones!
(Harrison Ford was sick the day that was shot, running fever, felt lousy, yet that didn't stop his sense of humor. That scene wasn't originally supposed to be a part of the moive, he just did it for the heck of it. Everyone loved it so they left it in. It was almost edited out though in the final release out of fears of not being 'politically and socially proper.' Fortunately they left it in.
Sorry to hi-jack this thread.)
That wikipedia article will give you enough of the history. Most of what we refer to as 1911s today are 1911 clones patterned after the actual M1911 and or M1911-A1 pistols that made there debut in 1911. The modern versions have kept much of the basic design, but add or change certain features. The Colt modern reproductions aren't drastically different than the original. The Springfield U.S. GI is also designed without most of the modern tweaks.
Since the patent for the M1911 and M1911-A1 designs have long since expired everyone is pretty much free to borrow from the design as much as they wish. Due to the timeless popularity of the design there are literally dozens of companies making 1911 pattern pistols. It really says something about the genius of the design that a pistol born nearly one hundred years ago is the often the most common semi-auto in shooting competitions today.
The 1911 is the gold standard that all other pistols wish they could attain.
Nighthawk series. Damn nice...
Another good site with 1911 info is http://www.m1911.org/
Thanks for shedding some light, guys. I'm wondering if the local ranges here have any 1911's for me to rent. I'd like to experience it.
Thanks again!
Think of the 1911 and a Chevy 350 engine,what do YOU want to do to it???? If you want a solid platform with parts you can get from everwhere then 1911 is the promised land,just like the 350 chevy. Thank you John M. Browning I own 2 and looking for #3 . J.R.


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Looks like a CrossBreed knockoff.
This is a discussion on Kholster holsters? within the Defensive Carry Holsters & Carry Options forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I already have my favorites for this or that, but I ran across this in another forum today. Might be some cost effective options for ...
I already have my favorites for this or that, but I ran across this in another forum today. Might be some cost effective options for those still searching for an affordable IWB holster for their favorite carry piece.
I know...I know, cheap is cheap, but options are options....right? And of course everyone seems to be having sales right now. Just an FYI.
Looks like a CrossBreed knockoff.
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I bought this holster after it was recommended by my brother. (He bought one for his father in law so he had handled one personally.) It is comfortable, easily adjustable, fits my XD 45 perfectly, was shipped quickly (two days), and saved me a little money as well. With a good quality belt (I have a Wilderness Instructor 5 stitch ordered), I think I will have a very good concealed carry setup.
Supertuck rip-off with WAY too much leather.
I'll be sticking with Crossbreed.
I agree that it appears it would be difficult to get a grip to draw. I don't like it.
It is right on the fence as far as price too with bumping up a 20 or so and getting somthing that really fits you. Looking at that if I had the materials I could probably have my 4th grade students whip up some of those holsters during arts and crafts time (only kidding).
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Wow, huge knockoff. I don't like that the smooth side leather is against the body which will cause holster saggage and like Cthulhu said way too much leather. For someone a little handy, it could be made to work...but I prefer the original SuperTuck. Someone had an opportunity here to make a knockoff that improves on the original, but instead they mess up and do the opposite.
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I think the company is based in Missouri, which I think is where Crossbreed is based.
I don't know if Crossbreed can pursue any legal option for such a blatant ripoff. I know I won't support the copycat by giving them any of my money.
Copycats..holster makers copying others work...Say it ain't so..
That is one butt ugly holster though, but I don't like the Crossbreed either.
What works for one, not always best for others..Luck.
I know, I know, you are smarter than me..just ask you..
Who cares if it is ugly, it will be IWB . The only time it will be seen wil be when not worn. Now if you were speaking of comfort or accessibility thats different. On a scale of 1-10 I would give it a 7.5 . Would consider a purchase and Doctor on it a little.
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