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WHAT!! You've never tp'd someone's house. We always did it when i was a kid especially on DEVIL"s night. hahah. Anyway to be more accurate you don't actually throw it over their house just in their trees and bushes especially fun if you knew it was going to rain that night! ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

and in case you're wondering newton did well on the state standarized tests http://www.shrewsbury-ma.com/TopSchools.htm Their two high schools ranked 28th & 40th in the state out of 164 schools. They had 2 of their elementary schools in the top 5 out of 213. And their middle schools ranked between 20th and 29th in the state out of 153 ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Stop getting your news from fox So fox is either saying they couldn't find the state benchmarks online (which means they don't know how to use google because here they are ) or they couldn't find the exact benchmark (which if they tried they wouldn't have because it doesn't exist). If you click on the links in the curriculme framework you will not find any benchmark such as the one fox quoted. What fox is quoting as a benchmark is in fact the districts Mission statement, and anyone who knows anything about any school districts mission statement knows they are general statements about making children better people, citizens, members of society etc. Mission statements are NOT benchmarks, benchmarks are statements based on what kids need to learn to pass the state/local standardized tests, they are a guide for what teachers need to cover. Mission statements are given to set the general mood for a district or school. For instance, a school i worked at had a mission statement of "be a peacemaker", that doesn't mean that in science and math class kids were taught "peacemaker" science or "peacemaker" math. They were taught science and math. However the entire mood of the school was set with the idea in mind that you should "be a peacemaker". ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

You are not a wimp, i was your situation last year and was a bit afraid to jump agian even though i really wanted to. Here is my

People are making too much of this election. It means nothing until our troops are out of there. Just as a thought. here is an article from 1967 Clicky U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote : Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967: p. 2) WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting. According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong. The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching here.Pending more detailed reports, neither the State Department nor the White House would comment on the balloting or the victory of the military candidates, Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, who was running for president, and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, the candidate for vice president. A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional processes in South Vietnam. The election was the culmination of a constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February. The purpose of the voting was to give legitimacy to the Saigon Government, which has been founded only on coups and power plays since November, 1963, when President Ngo Dinh Deim was overthrown by a military junta. Few members of that junta are still around, most having been ousted or exiled in subsequent shifts of power. Significance Not Diminished The fact that the backing of the electorate has gone to the generals who have been ruling South Vietnam for the last two years does not, in the Administration's view, diminish the significance of the constitutional step that has been taken. The hope here is that the new government will be able to maneuver with a confidence and legitimacy long lacking in South Vietnamese politics. That hope could have been dashed either by a small turnout, indicating widespread scorn or a lack of interest in constitutional development, or by the Vietcong's disruption of the balloting. American officials had hoped for an 80 per cent turnout. That was the figure in the election in September for the Constituent Assembly. Seventy-eight per cent of the registered voters went to the polls in elections for local officials last spring. Before the results of the presidential election started to come in, the American officials warned that the turnout might be less than 80 per cent because the polling place would be open for two or three hours less than in the election a year ago. The turnout of 83 per cent was a welcome surprise. The turnout in the 1964 United States Presidential election was 62 per cent. Captured documents and interrogations indicated in the last week a serious concern among Vietcong leaders that a major effort would be required to render the election meaningless. This effort has not succeeded, judging from the reports from Saigon. NYT. 9/4/1967: p. 2. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

they've been shut down too. http://www.yesmoke.ch/news/index.php ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Does anyone know of a good site which YOU HAVE USED to buy cigarettes online? i was getting mine from 20 bucks a carton from onlinesmoker.com but it went under. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

I don't disagree with that, but these people are being fired for smoking on their OWN TIME. not during work. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

F**king Bullshit http://www.wlns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2795880&nav=0RbQV4sd I can't believe I just heard of this and people aren't up in arms. Smokers need to unite. We are a minority of people who's been picked on too fucking long. State needs more money, raise taxes on cigarettes. Health costs too high, blame the smokers. Wife not giving you sex, hmmm well i'm sure if we try hard enough we could find a way to blame smokers for that too. Last i heard poor diet, and lack of exercise are just as harmful to your health as smoking, but could you imagine the outrage if a company fired fat people, people who eat fast food more than once a week, or people who never exercise. COMPLETE BULLSHIT! ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

I don't see anything wrong with a community wanting their kids books to be accurate either. But as with my milk example earlier, If there is a potential problem with milk, i don't get to vote on the solution or give money to some conservative politician to change the milk to how i want it to be. I let experts (in this case the scientific community) decide what should be done. And in your quoted reference, that statement is universally accepted by any credible scientist. The only ones who don't accept it are some who are trying to push some political agenda. As far as the constitutional issue with the sticker that only arises after you look into WHY the sticker was put in and by whom. It was put in by right wing christian conservatives to promote their agenda of including their belief system in every aspect of our lives. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Ok, I was starting to try and reply to everyone who was stating a big misconception about this but just don't have the time. If you really want to get a GOOD BASIC UNDERSTANDING of what evolution REALLY is and not just what you think it is and what the general pop. tells you it is here is a good reference http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evohome.html ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Storm i'm not trying to pick on you personally but this is one of those statements that many people use all the time and it really upsets me. In layman’s terms, if something is said to be “just a theory,” it usually means that it is a mere guess, or is unproved. It might even lack credibility. But in scientific terms, a theory implies that something has been proven and is generally accepted as being true. There is no debate about the above statement that is what it is. Let me give some definitions for everyone, since everyone has great misconceptions about science Scientific Law: This is a statement of fact meant to explain, in concise terms, an action or set of actions. It is generally accepted to be true and univseral, and can sometimes be expressed in terms of a single mathematical equation. Scientific laws are similar to mathematical postulates. They don’t really need any complex external proofs; they are accepted at face value based upon the fact that they have always been observed to be true. Some scientific laws, or laws of nature, include the law of gravity, the law of thermodynamics, and Hook’s law of elasticity. One interesting thing about the laws of gravity is that they don't work all the time. They breakdown when you start speaking of black holes and singularities, but they are still used all the time. Hypothesis: This is an educated guess based upon observation. It is a rational explanation of a single event or phenomenon based upon what is observed, but which has not been proved. Most hypotheses can be supported or refuted by experimentation or continued observation. Theory: A theory is more like a scientific law than a hypothesis. A theory is an explanation of a set of related observations or events based upon proven hypotheses and verified multiple times by detached groups of researchers. One scientist cannot create a theory; he can only create a hypothesis. In general, both a scientific theory and a scientific law are accepted to be true by the scientific community as a whole. Both are used to make predictions of events. Both are used to advance technology. The biggest difference between a law and a theory is that a theory is much more complex and dynamic. A law governs a single action, whereas a theory explains a whole series of related phenomena. An analogy can be made using a slingshot and an automobile. A scientific law is like a slingshot. A slingshot has but one moving part--the rubber band. If you put a rock in it and draw it back, the rock will fly out at a predictable speed, depending upon the distance the band is drawn back. An automobile has many moving parts, all working in unison to perform the chore of transporting someone from one point to another point. An automobile is a complex piece of machinery. Sometimes, improvements are made to one or more component parts. A new set of spark plugs that are composed of a better alloy that can withstand heat better, for example, might replace the existing set. But the function of the automobile as a whole remains unchanged. A theory is like the automobile. Components of it can be changed or improved upon, without changing the overall truth of the theory as a whole. Some scientific theories include the theory of evolution, the theory of relativity, and the quantum theory. All of these theories are well documented and proved beyond reasonable doubt. Yet scientists continue to tinker with the component hypotheses of each theory in an attempt to make them more elegant and concise, or to make them more all-encompassing. Theories can be tweaked, but they are seldom, if ever, entirely replaced. Now people also like to call creationsism a science, a hypothesis, a theory. However, CREATIONISM CAN NEVER BE A SCIENCE because no amount of evidence can falsify it. It is a belief, palin and simple. Now does this mean that one is right and the other wrong. No, one may be more factualy accurate but it doesn't make the other wrong. A good example i like to use with my students at the begining of the year (I teach biology) is this. I write the word mountain on the board. I then give the students several descriptions of the mountain. 1. An impresionist painting of a mountain 2. John Denver's Rocky mountian high song 3. A story of how the Navajos belived that their creator placed them on the land between the following 4 mountains representing the 4 cardinal directions: 4. A metaphysical discussion on whether or not mountains would still exist if no one had ever seen one. 5. A scientific explanation of how mountain ranges form. I then ask them to tell me which is a "correct" description of a mountain. Now being they are in a science class most pick the 5th one. I tell them however that they are all correct. They are simply different ways of looking at the world and for our class we are ONLY concerned with the scientific view but that doesn't mean the others are any less valid. I just wish people wouldn't go sticking their noses in on things they know little to nothing about. When politicians and the general public go spouting off on this, I just think would people take ME seriously if I went to a rancher and said, "well, I drank milk as a kid and i now have kids who drink milk so here are my ideas on how you should make milk" I believe i'd get my ass kicked if i did that. But i don't do that because i know that i know very little about making milk, so i leave it to the ranchers, and regulatiors who have studied the process and know a hell of a lot more than i do. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

I had one where i was out at the dropzone and people kept slamming into the ground and breaking up into neat pieces and everyone working the dropzone was like oh its one of theses days, like every now and then this would just happen, and everyone was running around trying to put the pieces into boxes before the tandem students saw them. And one of the workers looked at me like "hurry up and help us get these body parts into the boxes." Also have had several dreams where i wasn't able to pull in time but could stop my body short of the ground like on cartoons. But i could never do it quite right so i was only able to slow down and i would always hit the ground and tumble a bit but get up and be ok. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

There is a big thing in being told a bunch of religious gibberish in a public building. Yes most people can agree on that but that covers only 2 commandments that i see. George Carlin has spelled it out much better than i ever could http://www.geocities.com/bobmelzer/gc10cx.html ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

I'm sure most know of the correleation between the Redskins and the Presidential election. If it holds true I have a feeling it will be JUST LIKE THE GAME. Not close early on (Eastern States Voting first), Redskins (Bush) come back. Redskins (Bush) score game winning td in final minutes. Refs (lawyers) call penalty. Skins pushed back (recount). Skins (Bush) Lose. We may have another month of this election shit. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

I had one for 3 MONTHS!! Just like you said not constant, but would happen about 20 times a day for any where from 30sec to a couple of min. I went to the doctor after a month and he said it was caused by stress, so he told me to go home an relax ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

this diagram helped me a lot. I still suck at it but, i've gotten past the looking down and seeing a bunch of fabric and lines. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

My point is he was a moron for using that word (Crusades) when most in the Arab world believe the Christian U.S is trying to destroy Moslems. If you are going to take the time and go around to speak at mosques and say this isn't a war against Islam, as he did, then take the time to pick a better word to use in your remarks. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

hmm.. let's see what happens when we bold the FIRST part. To put it in more simple terms, the crusades were a series of military expeditions where Christians killed Moslems because they believed in a slightly different invisible man. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

it was kind of funny, but really all it did was remind me of how much of an idiot bush was when he said this (war on terror) is a "CRUSADE". Moron! Pick up a history book. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

However there are two more sets of commandments in the bible found in Exodus 34:12-26 and in Deuteronomy 5:6-21 , they are similar to each other but not exact, which shows to me that either: A. God allowed his words to be changed by whoever was writing each particular part of the bible, which if true then his words could have been changed in MANY parts of the bible or B. They are not the words of God, they are words of men living during that time who had similar ideas and values, just as if you look at the laws each state or city may have, they all say pretty much the same thing but they are a little different because they were written by different people. So what was meant. killing or murder, would someone in the army who kills be breaking a commandment. What about a judge who sentences a person to death, is he breaking a commandment? And then what about the person who actually turns on the electric chair in that case? is he also breaking a commandment? ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

Leave it to news corp. to fuck up again! ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

The best thing ever said about the ten commandments is this http://www.geocities.com/bobmelzer/gc10cx.html "It's funny 'cause it's true" Homer Simpson

Last year i had started suffering a case of vertigo which the doctor couldnt explain, basically everytime i turned my head quickly or looked up or sat up i got dizzy, so i didn't jump for a few weeks, i started feeling better and went out to the dz to do my 20th jump, got with a jumpmaster, feeling ok, got in the plane still feeling ok, as we started climbing to altitude my head just wasn't feeling right, everytime i turned it i started getting a bit dizzy, but didn't say anything to anyone. we were on jump run, the door was open and we were getting ready to start getting out. my jm and i were going to be the 4th or 5th group out, just before the green light came on i turned to him and said i wasn't feeling good and wasn't going to jump. ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin

I JUMPED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Went out today and made a s/l jump, it went great so gald to be back up there. Thanks to everyone who posted here, it really helped. Now i just have to do a hop n pop and then back up to jumping from 13k ___________________________________________ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin