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I didn't get to jump, but it was great to go down to SD and see you all!

Hmm... JB I can help with: Changes in Attitudes Coral Reefer Caribbean Soul ParrotHead Changes in Lattitudes License to Chill Floridays Jamaica Farewell Sunny Afternoon Boat Drinks One Particular Harbor Jolly Mon Euphoria (the name of Jimmy's first boat) Coconut Telegraph Pink Crustacean Fins Five O'Clock Somewhere Captain Tony Cheeseburger in Paradise Havana Daydreamin' Manana Nautical Wheeler Incommunicado And one that's kinda skydiving and JB: Defying Gravity

Only time I ever blacked out was because I missed something I should've blocked when I was sparring. Was only for a second or two, though.' Drugs and alcohol...I find them both a bit scary, so I've never been anywhere close to blacking out from drinking too much. I don't like putting myself in a situation where I couldn't defend myself. That'd really freak me out, I think.

I think there are fewer, mostly because most of the RW folks now wear close faced helmets.

If you want to go to hawaii, I'd strongly suggest Kona rather than Honolulu/Waikiki. Kona is a small town on the big island, about two hours from Hilo (big city like honolulu) and about two hours from Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. I've been to Oahu, Kaui, Maui, Lanai, and Hawai'i, and the big island (Hawai'i) is by far my favorite. There's so much more to do there, and Kona is the most wonderful laid back little town. Everything you need is pretty much within walking distance, the King Kamehameha hotel puts on an awesome luau, and there's the coolest kava bar in the middle of town. You don't have to put up with the god-awful traffic in honolulu (Hilo's bad, but not nearly as bad as honolulu/waikiki) and the people are so incredibly friendly. I spent a week and a half there, and I could've stayed another month and still not run out of things to do. There's even a tour that will take you snorkeling/scuba at night to swim with manta rays. I've travelled hawaii pretty extensively, and if you're going to go there, go to Kona.

I've hit plenty of guys, but it was all in karate class or in self defense, which are the only times I believe it's appropriate. In the studio, gender doesn't matter; they're simply an opponent, and everyone has the right (and IMO, should have the ability) to defend themselves. Hitting in anger is just stupid.

Well, since you're being the grammar police: Your first semi-colon should be a comma, and there shouldn't be an apostrophe in "summers." It was "summers" plural, not "summer's" possessive. In the second to last sentence, she'd need a comma before "though." Use a semicolon when you link two independent clauses with no connecting words. Use a comma before an afterthought or contrasting element.

Is it on the outside or inside? if it's on the outside, squat, and extend that leg outward, keeping your foot flat on the ground and your toes pointing forward, not outward.

Stand a few feet away from a wall. face the wall. lean forward towards the wall, catching yourself with your hands on the wall, and keep your heels on the ground. Stretches out the back of your calf.

Happy birthday, Michele!

Easy enough to put a lock on the computer or to take the DSL/cable modem with you to work. For dial-up, change the password and don't tell the kid what it is.

The fire department might.

I'd like to see them enforce litter laws on california freeways. The lit cigarettes that get tossed out the window are a major fire hazard here if they end up in the brush on the shoulder of the road.

Registered libertarian here who opposes socialized/nationalized heath care, thinks the FDA tends to unethically ignore scientific evidence in favor of their own job security, and owns a gun.

It impacted my food! The restaurant I went to for lunch was closed because they didn't get their delivery. The place I went to for dinner only had about 1/3 of their menu because they didn't get their delivery either.

I love both CSI vegas and Law and Order SVU. I couldn't pick both on the poll, though.

You haven't been on DZ.com long enough to remember the Lutz discussions. For a while a Lutz is how someone refered to someone who was jumping that shouldn't be a jumper, period. Someone who would probably femur while bowling. Actually, I do remember some of those discussions. However, if the programmer is using a standard spell check dictionary, lutz would probably be in there for the skating reason, not the skydiving one.

Lets - allows Lutz - a figure skating jump A bit odd that they don't have "Let's" (let us), but I guess it is one of the more rare contractions. Or, the programmer took it out to prevent us from having to read sentences like "The pilot let's us take inflatable rafts out the tailgate."

Depo Provera stops menstruation in most women, and the shot is given once every 3 months. That would be an option for women in those kinds of conditions. However, I think you've made a damn good point.

As a first year teacher, you'll probably get stuck teaching physical science and life science, because you're low man on the totem pole here and those are the classes other teachers don't want. Unfortunately, the really good, experienced teachers generally end up teaching the honors classes, which, while good for the honors kids who would probably learn in spite of the teacher rather than because of the teacher if they needed to, it leaves the kids who struggle in the hands of the most inexperienced teachers, and those are the kids that really need quality teachers. That's one of the main reasons that new teachers burn out. They get thrown into classrooms that they do not have the classroom management skills to handle. In an ideal world, every kid would have an experienced, quality teacher, but in reality, that's not possible, and the newer teachers get the hardest kids to deal with, while the veterans get the honors kids that really want to learn and generally aren't discipline problems regardless of the teacher's management skills.

I think most of it, at least on the front page (I didn't look further) is art... However, porn can be art. I don't think they're mutually exclusive. A lot of those photos have interesting lighting, nice framing, and have a good balance between empty space and filled space.

Before you devote your time and energy to getting a credential, keep in mind that most new teachers burn out within three years. Getting a credential is expensive and time-consuming. I'd suggest you try to substitute teach to get yourself a taste of what you're in for. I was a teacher for a year. The kids were wonderful. The parents were a total nightmare. Putting up with their shit just wasn't worth the money they were paying me (which, by the way, was not enough for me to be able to move out of my parents' house and live in the same county as the school). If you're prepared to do everything you possibly can to get a kid to succeed, including giving up your after school time to tutor, the kid refuses to do anything, you send home one progress report a week (which come back signed) and make a phone call home per week, and get told "we'll talk to him" and nothing changes, and then, when the kid fails your class, you have the parents in your classroom screaming at you, writing nasty letters about you to the principal and superintendant, and firmly believing that their kid should be getting good grades because they volunteer in PTA, and demand that the kid's grade gets changed to a B, even though the kid has done nothing but write his name on his tests all quarter, and then freak out and go visit the superintendant when the principal and teacher refuse to change the grade. I wouldn't set foot in a classroom as a teacher if they paid me a million bucks a year. I loved the kids, and most of the time I loved my job, but it's just not worth it to be completely underappreciated, underpaid, and blamed when kids don't suceed, even though you've done everything you possibly can to help them. Schools and politicians don't always care what the kid's been through before they get to you, even if they're in eighth grade and can't read, it's your job to get them up to standards even if they've got an abusive home life that everyone knows about but nobody can prove, when the kid has to go home and take care of four brothers and sisters until eleven o'clock at night when his single parent comes home from their second job, so of course the kid has no time to do their homework and comes to school exhausted and falls asleep in class. Nevermind that you only see the kid for a 55 minute class period a day, if that kid doesn't succeed, it's YOUR FAULT. If you can deal with all that, and can manage to not cry, go home and spend your afternoon writing lesson plans, your evenings grading papers, and your summers doing additional training hours that your principal or credential require even though you have to pay for the training and the school doesn't pay you for your time, then, maybe, you might want to be a teacher.

I don't have flash installed, so it won't let me look at it. They should have a link to the old site at the bottom for people on dial-up or who don't have flash.

From snopes: The editorial critical of military pay raises alluded to above and the irate response to it penned by an airman at Hill Air Force Base are genuine, but the author of the original editorial has been Payback time! mistaken for her her much more famous namesake. Cindy Williams, who starred in the hit 1973 film American Graffiti and portrayed sweet, lovable Shirley Feeney on the popular 1970s sitcom Laverne & Shirley hasn't been writing newspaper articles denouncing our "overpaid" servicemen. Back in January 2000, a different Cindy Williams — one working as a senior research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was once assistant director for national security in the Congressional Budget Office — contributed an op-ed piece to The Washington Post (not the Washington Times) in which she criticized a proposed 25% pay increase for military personnel (on top of a 4.85% raise that had just been enacted). In her article, Ms Williams maintained that claims that servicemen in the military suffered a 13 percent "pay gap" relative to the private sector were inaccurate, and that military personnel were already well paid compared to the average American. The response quoted was indeed drafted by the airman named, although it was not published in The Washington Post. In early 2002, one small change was made to the e-mail: "But, tomorrow from Kabul, I will defend to the death your right to say it."