Nightingale

If you haven't been to Ireland, it's definitely worth it! I've got a blog on my website from my last trip. www.nightingalesnest.net

What happened to the rest of #7? LOL... in some parts of Europe, they use periods instead of commas in numbers.

It wasn't the BodyWorlds show. It was a copycat show that had the issues.

Yes. The issue was not with the BodyWorlds show, but a copycat show that was around for a while after the first BodyWorlds. There are no issues with bodies or consent in the BodyWorlds shows. They've actually got way more bodies donated than they can use! "Excluding a small number of specimens acquired from anatomical collections and anatomy programs, the plastinated specimens on display in Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS exhibitions stem from a unique Body Donation Program established in Heidelberg, Germany in 1982, later managed by the Institute for Plastination (IfP) established in 1993. While other exhibits have revealed that they use unclaimed bodies or bodies that had been abandoned when found, Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS has never needed to seek bodies for the BODY WORLDS exhibits. Currently, the Institute for Plastination has a donor roster of 6.800 individuals which includes around 200 North Americans. The already deceased on the Institute for Plastination's donor roster number 350. All IfP documents relating to donated bodies have been scrutinized and approved by two ethics committees formed by the California Science Center in Los Angeles and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, where BODY WORLDS exhibitions took place in 2005. Gunther von Hagens’ BODY WORLDS declares categorically that it has never used unclaimed or found bodies, or bodies of executed Chinese prisoners, in its anatomical exhibitions of real human bodies."

I'm in for 15 pounds down. Trying to add in some more exercise, but that's going to depend on if I can change around stuff that's already scheduled, so I don't want to set that as a firm goal yet.

Agreed. My friends went straight from BA to MBA, and then into the workforce after they got the MBA, so that may be why they didn't find it as valuable.

I guess I owe

I don't have one personally, but I do have three friends that do, and they've all said it was a waste of time and it would be valuable if you owned your own business, but if you're working for a large corporation like they are, they believe it was not worth the time and money, because experience is valued more than education.

I never pulled an all nighter... but then again, I never studied either. Probably would've gotten better grades if I had, but I guess it all worked out anyway.

hehe... I'm stuck sitting in court waiting for my case to be called, and I'm surfing the internet on my blackberry while waiting for the judge.

Isn't it wonderful when the scale finally drops into the next lower "tens" digit?

Yep, what he said. I can type on a laptop and on an ergo keyboard. Put me on a standard keyboard and I don't know what to do with myself. Ditto.

Couple of places in Kalispell, and a whole bunch more here: http://www.nrahq.org/shootingrange/findlocal.asp?State=MT Flathead County 4-H Shooting Sports, 465 Small Ln., Kalispell, MT 59901. Phone: 406-755-2554 Facilities include: Indoor Pistol (air 10 m), Indoor Rifle (air 10 m), Archery Range Access: Public Lester O. Bauska Indoor Target Range, 1280 Prairie View Rd., Kalispell, MT 59901. Phone: 406-755-3980 Facilities include: Indoor Pistol (50 ft), Indoor Rifle (50 & 100 yds), Rifle Silhouette, Pistol Silhouette, Muzzleloading, Archery Range Access: Public Flathead Clay Target Club, 1290 Prairie View Road, Kalispell, MT 59901. Phone: 406-755-4826 Facilities include: Trap Range Access: Public

What would be a "safe direction" to point a weapon in the cockpit of an airliner? Safe = a direction where no person is going to be hit by either a direct hit or a ricochet, so in a cockpit, probably at the floor, or locked up in the lockbox where nobody's finger is going to get on the trigger, even by "accident".

Nice! The H&K is going to be the purse gun. The Seecamp is the pocket gun.

I don't have a problem with pilots having guns on planes if they've gone through the required classes and qualifications for a CCW. The key to being competent with a weapon is training. Training to keep your finger off the trigger, training to keep the barrel pointed in a safe direction, etc...

Yep.

Sure, it's a mousegun, but .32 is pretty effective at the average range of defensive gunfights (3-7 feet). It meets the FBI minimum penetration of 12". Big guns are better than small guns, but small guns are better than no gun at all.

Yep.

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Absolutely... and if he's diagnosed ADD, you may even be able to have that written into his IEP. Edit: That's why some ADD kids do so much better in college. The education is more self-directed (don't like the topic of a class, take a different one) and there's little to no busy work. As long as the student gets themselves to class and does what's required, they'll do fine.

All my critters have done extremely well on Natural Balance. The ingredient list is really similar, though.

There's 780 available points in that class. Your kid missed out on 45 of them due to missing work. That's 5% of his total grade. If he got As on everything he turned in, he'd still have a 95%, which is an A. He's not getting an A. He has some Cs and Ds mixed in with those As and Bs. He's earned 662 points (assuming the last was supposed to be 50/50). He's got an 84% in that class now, and even if he'd done all the work and gotten 100% on the missing assignments, he'd only have an 89%, which is still a B. What you can do here is call all his teachers and ask if they would be willing to allow him to turn in the work he is missing for half credit. He'd still have an F on those missing assignments, but an F at 50% is better than an F at 0%, and his grades would be a better reflection of his ability. Sure, you're bailing him out, but in college, there isn't much in the way of busy work, so missing assignments probably won't be an issue. I missed at least half my homework in high school (mainly in classes I understood and thought the busywork was a waste of time), and didn't miss a single assignment in college, because the college syllabi tell you how important every assignment is. Missing an assignment that's 1% or 2% of your grade in high school is no big deal, but missing one that's 20% of your grade in college is huge, and kids understand this. As a teacher, I never agreed with penalizing students for missing homework if their test grades were B or better, because if they're passing the tests, they obviously don't need the practice of homework.

My cat didn't like c/d much either.

there are a few different brands of prescription diets, so maybe another brand would work?