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Go to Perris, of course. Two words: Wind. Tunnel.

1. I'm going to Morocco this summer 2. I have a star trek uniform hanging in my closet 3. I love MS Windows

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I had the worst landing of my life because of a missing lens. Sunset load, we'd already had a go-around, so it was getting dark, but not too bad. I lost a lens on exit (tube dive) and when the tube broke and I went to check altitude, I found I couldn't read my altimeter. Had no idea how high I was, and didn't want to risk getting unstable to try to look at the alti with the other eye (I had 29 jumps). I saw the person I was jumping with way below me, and we were last out, so I just pulled. At about 8K. Had a long canopy ride, and landed in the dark with no depth perception because I could only see out of one eye. Flared about 30 feet too high. Realized it and let up, but had no momentum left to flare again. Got some of the worst bruises I'd ever had in my life (and after 17 years of karate classes, that's saying something)/. Walked away, and vowed to never jump with new goggles until I'd tested them in front of a fan (if you can feel a breeze across your eyes, you'll probably lose a lens)

There's a brand new lens out called Bio-Curve. It's just slightly more rigid than a standard soft lens, and it's much better for your eyes. It works better when staring at the computer for hours, and it slows down the speed of changing prescriptions. Costs about the same as regular soft lenses.

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That's my favorite too. Toro also.

If you're choosing the opportunity of a one-night stand over furthering a relationship with a girl you really like, you're not ready for a relationship. Stop leading her on.

Any of the ladies in the JFTC Calendar.

Maturity is the ability to take responsibility for yourself and your choices, and the consequences of those choices.

I used to work for the City of Los Angeles' cable regulatory agency. The majority of cable lines are run under public streets, in most places. We did surveys of major cities all over the US. In most places, there is simply no way to get cable from one place to another without either running it under a public street at some point, or placing a pole on public property.

My post #28 stated the same quote you supplied. That there are three types of kids that get diagnosed, and only one type is truly ADD. Problems with diagnosis happen, and many times HMOs won't cover the extended testing required to rule out other causes. This is from the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement : "Primary care and developmental pediatricians, family practitioners, (child) neurologists, psychologists, and psychiatrists are the providers responsible for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of most children with ADHD. There is wide variation among types of practitioners with respect to frequency of diagnosis of ADHD. Data indicate that family practitioners diagnose more quickly and prescribe medication more frequently than psychiatrists or pediatricians. This may be due in part to the limited time spent making the diagnosis. Some practitioners invalidly use response to medication as a diagnostic criterion, and primary care practitioners are less likely to recognize comorbid (coexisting) disorde rs. The quickness with which some practitioners prescribe medications may decrease the likelihood that more educationally relevant interventions will be sought." http://www.healthyplace.com/communities/add/nimh/diagnosis_treatment_2.htm

"Effective treatment depends on appropriate diagnosis of ADHD. A comprehensive medical evaluation of the child must be conducted to establish a correct diagnosis of ADHD and to rule out other potential causes of the symptoms. ADHD can be reliably diagnosed when appropriate guidelines are used. Ideally, a health care practitioner making a diagnosis should include input from both parents and teachers. But some health practitioners diagnose ADHD without all this information and tend to either overdiagnose the disorder or underdiagnose it." -National institute of Mental Health http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/helpchild.cfm

I linked my sources.

Unfortunately, there are many cases where a doctor has heard a parent's frustrated anecdotes and seen the kid for five minutes, writes out a prescription, and that's the end of it. Diagnosing ADD is a complicated process.

The word "marriage" doesn't appear in the constitution.

There are probably many people who have ADD who are undiagnosed, but, as the studies above indicate, many times when parents think their kids are ADD, they may not be.

The Supreme Court has held that a dog sniff doesn't constitute a search, so the K9s should be just fine.

sigh. The difference between "activist judges" and "good judges" seems to be whether or not one agrees with the result of the ruling. It's the job of judges to interpret the federal and state constitution and laws. The judges looked at the constitution and said "there's nothing here that says gay people can't get married. If you want to prevent gay people from getting married, amend the constitution to indicate that." That's not being activist. That's doing their job, and it's why we have the ability to amend our state and federal constitutions.

Well, first off, I said that ADD exists. Most experts agree that it's overdiagnosed. "Three types of children are labeled with ADD. Some truly have a neurobiological quirk, causing them to think, act and learn differently. This is true ADD. A second group of children have what I call "situational ADD," a problem in their environment or a mismatch between child and school that needs to be corrected. A third group doesn't have ADD at all. They are just bright, energetic, creative children who act and learn differently." http://childrentoday.com/resources/articles/addp1.htm A study was done tracking students who were diagnosed ADD. The students were divided into three groups. The first exhibited ADD symptoms at school and at home (pervasive ADD). The second exhibited ADD symptoms only at school (Situational School ADD: teachers felt student was ADD/ADHD, parents disagreed), and home only ADD (opposite of school only ADD). The students were followed for several years. "At follow-up, a higher rate of ADD was found in the Pervasive than in the School Only ADHD probands (37 vs. 13%) but it did not reach significance. School Only and Home Only ADHD groups did not differ in prevalence of ADD (13 vs. 7%, respectively), with neither group being differentiated from the normal comparisons (3%). In contrast, the prevalence of ongoing ADD was significantly higher among the Pervasive ADHD group than the Home Only group (37 vs. 7%)... Based on the Isle of Wight data, Schachar et al. (1981) found that, among hyperactive 10- 11-year-olds who were reevaluated at ages 14-15, 88% were situational, and only 12% pervasive...It would appear that a diagnosis of ADHD should not be ruled out in cases where teachers report behaviors consistent with the diagnosis but parents do not. At the same time, parent reports of ADHD that are not corroborated by teacher reports are unlikely to represent the same disorder." http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0902/is_2_30/ai_85500252/pg_2 Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology Karate isn't always a high stimulation environment. There's a lot of theory and discussion time as well, at least in many kenpo classes. You talk about what techniques you would use when and why, analyze what works best and why, and learn katas (which tends to bore kids out of their skulls; they'd much rather be sparring). Kids only learn one or two techniques a class, and spend time practicing them repeatedly. A karate school isn't always a fast paced, physical envronment. Students were even required to read Ed Parker's books and write book reports. There also seems to be a strong connection between a child beginning martial arts training and their grades improving. It seems that if kids can learn self discipline in a fun environment, it can transfer into less fun environments such as education.

The sink had a sprayer attachment because we used it for cleaning sparring gear. Wasn't a usual bathroom sink, more like a sink that would be found in a janitor closet. He kinda stood on his tiptoes and put the affected parts over the edge of the sink and grabbed the sprayer.

I had several students who were diagnosed ADD/ADHD when I was teaching karate. The interesting thing is that they were ADD when they walked in from the parking lot, and ADD when they walked out, but they were not ADD in my class. I think that's partially because karate classes are run with very strict rules and immediate consequences for breaking the rules (rules need to be followed in contact sports, or someone can get hurt badly). The kids knew what was expected of them, and they knew what would happen if they didn't follow the rules. After about two weeks of getting used to it, they became some of the most attentive students I taught. Don't get me wrong, I believe ADD does exist. However, it is also extremely overdiagnosed, mainly because it enables people to use medication instead of discipline to control children. I saw it as a karate teacher, and I saw it as a school teacher. In the school where I was teaching, we had about four hundred students. One out of four was on ADD drugs. I'm sorry, but 25% of children is WAY too high a percentage (according to CHADD.org, average is 3-7%). The interesting thing was, that many of these students came from homes where either both parents worked long hours and the kids were left with a sitter, or the parents didn't provide structure, rules, and consequences for their children, and consequently, the children never learned self-control. ADD does exist, and for those who really have it, it can be a major problem. One of my students who really needed the medication said "when I don't take the medicine, life is sorta like watching tv when the cat's sitting on the remote. the channels keep switching too fast to follow what's going on. I get a little bit of everything, but can't concentrate on something long enough to figure it out." ADD can have a real impact on a student's grades, because they can't focus long enough to grasp a concept, and, because they get bored and frustrated due to a lack of understanding, they can become a behavior problem. www.chadd.org can be a great resource for parents/family/teachers of children with ADD. edited to add: I used my karate students as an example, because they were the most striking difference between home and school, but most of the teachers at the school I was teaching at agreed that many kids were not ADD or hyperactive in our classrooms, just a bit energetic, but the parents considered them ADD.

A guy in my karate class managed to get tiger liniment (like tiger balm only an oil that's about ten times as strong) on himself... he put it on his shoulder, and then, without thinking, reached inside his pants to adjust his cup. About two seconds later, he was shrieking, ran into the bathroom, didn't bother closing the door, he was in such a hurry, dropped his pants and flopped it in the sink. After washing it off, he realized the whole class was staring at him.

You have just answered your own question.