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  1. You're making my car decision easier and easier... What features did it come with? Jen Arianna Frances
  2. I'll be there one day... but no Barbie... barbie must stay away It's gonna be a kick ass weekend!! - 40 ways - New England CRW record - check it out, its awesome! - Speed Skydiving (gee, I thought Stan was loud, can't imagine a whole bunch of you guys ) - Airspeed Member Dennis Rook organizing for the rest of us. Come on, you know you wanna Jen Arianna Frances
  3. I've been on a portishead kick lately. Currently listening to: Portishead - Sour Times. Maybe its just me, but this is a really erotic song - I hate that I'm at work right now and not home with hubby Jen Arianna Frances
  4. omg... what was the name of that movie? It's on the tip of my tongue and its driving me nuts!! Jen Arianna Frances
  5. hehe Thats cute Arianna Frances
  6. ex-f'ing-actly! If it doesn't affect you directly, who gives a rats ass what someone else is doing? Jen Arianna Frances
  7. I'm gonna have those images stuck in my head all day now! Jen Arianna Frances
  8. Seeing as I'm a product of the MA school systems and studied to be a teacher, the responsability to discipline is not on the teachers any longer. If there is a problem then the parents are called - has been since the early 80s when I entered the school systems (at a catholic school no doubt). The story doesn't go deep enough into what the school did - perhaps it was repeat hugging that was a problem? I walk up to people at the DZ and give them a hug all the time. I give people I know hugs in stores and out in the open - why is this viewed as a negative thing? Why do the schools feel the need to impose their feelings on hugs onto children who's disipline they are not responsible for? If people think that its fine that something as basic as interaction with people (through a hug) is a right to be taken away, it will be even easier to take away other basic rights. How the hell do you find that funny?? Jen Arianna Frances
  9. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156620,00.html Oregon Schools Ban Hugging Monday, May 16, 2005 BEND, Ore. — Public displays of affection are against the rules at Sky View Middle School (search) in Bend, and 14-year-old Cazz Altomare found that out the hard way. She got detention earlier this year after hugging her boyfriend in the hallway as he headed to lunch and she went to gym class. Her mother, Leslee Swanson, was infuriated by the punishment — in fact, when she went to pick her daughter up from detention, she gave her a good, hard hug. "I'm trying to understand what's wrong with a hug," said Swanson, 42. But administrators said such policies are standard-issue at middle schools across the country. "Really, all we're trying to do is create an environment that's focused on learning, and learning proper manners is part of that," said Dave Haack, the principal of Cascade Middle School (search), also in Bend. "This is not us being the romance police." Students only end up with detention after repeated warnings, he said. Outside Pilot Butte Middle School (search) on a recent lunch break, two seventh-grade girls said they disagreed with the school's policies. "I think we should be able to hold hands or hug at least," Annie Wilson, 12, told The Bulletin in Bend. "Because it's not doing anything bad." Others are more in favor of the rule, like Christina Barackman, 13, also a Pilot Butte seventh-grader. "I think they're nice to keep boundaries for kids," she said. Schools need to define and actively teach what they do want to see in student behavior, said Rob Horner, a University of Oregon (search) professor who works with schools across the nation on "building social culture that supports effective learning." "To say 'no hugging' really blows it," Horner said. "That's exactly the sort of trap that, as soon as you say that, what is the first thing everyone is going to want to do?" At home after school on a recent afternoon, Cazz, the Sky View student, described the no-hug rule as "dumb." "Hugging is like a sign of affection," she said. Her mother has told her that if she likes Sky View and wants to stay at the school, she'll have to abide by the rules. But Swanson, the mother, said she wonders if a hugging ban would fly in a more metropolitan place. For her, this is a politically charged issue. "The more people blindly accept these fundamental rights being taken away from them, the easier it becomes for them to be taken away," Swanson said. Arianna Frances
  10. Thank goodness not everyone agrees with you. It hurts nothing by keeping it. Big deal, not all the medals are awarded - I'm sure the USPA is throwing away more money every year than the cost of the medals (like any organization), so this is quite moot if your only monetary reason for its exclusion is the cost of the medals not awarded. I'm sure I'm not the only person who just recently learned that it was in jeapordy, and as a result will do more to learn how to save it - which could (probably) lean toward more people trying it, or even competing in it. Jen Arianna Frances
  11. I received 3 replies from the competition committee thus far. All of them saying they support keeping skysurfing at Nationals. Jen Arianna Frances
  12. Thanks for the list. Seeing as I'm in the northeast its looking like I'll have to travel... which makes it harder to do Jen Arianna Frances
  13. who? I recall seeing a link on SDAs website a few years ago, but its gone now... Where can we learn? From who? Jen Arianna Frances
  14. OMG - I thought it was just my cat! I came home from the gym yesterday and it was about 90 outside, adding my workout to that and I was drenched! I threw my sports bra and shirt on the floor as I jumped in the shower and I come out to see my female cat rubbin herself all over my sweaty clothes! My male cat loves to wake up my husband in the morning - even I won't do that without holding my nose Jen Arianna Frances
  15. Why should pulling the toggles down fully stall the canopy? Wouldn't that mean that every no wind landing would end with you stalling your canopy as the only way to stop it? So if you were to flare fully at about 10 feet too high the canopy would stall (which is a partial collapse right?) and dump you on your ass... which could be a very bad thing at slightly higher elevations. Doesn't make sense that you should be able to stall the canopy just from a regular flare, but I could be wrong. Jen Arianna Frances
  16. I once had a 4 hour interview at Lycos... Never got a call back though I hope your outcome is better! Jen Arianna Frances
  17. How can you build interest without a national level competition to aspire to? I've been interested in skysurfing for a long time, and look forward to trying it in a few years... I hope and pray it doesn't go away from competition, as it will never recover. Jen Arianna Frances
  18. What does it hurt to keep it included? I don't understand why it needs to be eliminated - does it cost lots of extra money to keep it or something? Jen Arianna Frances
  19. email sent [edit] to entire competition committee [/edit]... from the northeast Jen Arianna Frances
  20. Ya, not liking that much either Jen Arianna Frances
  21. I have 10 seasons on VHS... ... I was only a bit obsessed Jen Arianna Frances
  22. mailin

    rain?

    Ya - Saturday has scattered t-storms - supposed to be nice in NJ though Jen Arianna Frances
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    rain?

    Ya, its kinda a crappy day Gonna thunder and lightning in NJ on Friday.... great Jen Arianna Frances
  24. I'm leaning toward the Jetta also... ... hubby is pushing for the corolla XRS... Jen Arianna Frances