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Adams Idea Pro Gold
Posted 02 September 2008 - 11:29 AM
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Posted 02 October 2008 - 11:20 AM
I'm looking to start using a hybrid to replace a 4 wood or 3 iron (or both...I'm a 2 handicap). I've heard the Idea Pro was the best on the market but heard very little about the Pro Gold (maybe for a reason).
Anyone have any reviews or comparisons of the two?
Posted 02 October 2008 - 11:45 AM
Can, on Oct 2 2008, 09:20 AM, said:
I'm looking to start using a hybrid to replace a 4 wood or 3 iron (or both...I'm a 2 handicap). I've heard the Idea Pro was the best on the market but heard very little about the Pro Gold (maybe for a reason).
Anyone have any reviews or comparisons of the two?
I currently play the Idea Pros See Sig. I have been demoing the Pro Golds with the Matrix shaft quite a bit lately. Here are my thoughts between the two
1: Looks I love the rounded shape of the Idea Pro vs the Pro gold I just cant get used to the boxer look
2: Ball flight The Pro Gold wins here with a more boring flight and imo slightly more workable
3: Distance: almost identical to me even though the pro gold is supposed to have a hotter face
4: My own personal thoughts is any of the positive gain I can tell between the two models is really in the matrix shaft. That shaft just feels solid compared to the stock javln shaft and the Vs Poto by you in the Idea Pro. While both are solid hybrids would I run out to upgrade to the pro golds at 239 a pop no, would I spend 150 a pop to have my Idea Pros reshafted in the Matrix Altus absolutley.
5: To each is own but if I were in the market to purchase a new players hybrid the Pro Gold would definatley be on the top of my list and it is definatley worth the extra 20 bucks to get the Matrix shaft combo vs the stock Javln shaft
Edited by mbateman81, 02 October 2008 - 11:46 AM.
14.5 X Hot 3 Deep
18* IDEA PRO Hybrid the OG
RAZR X Forged 4-PW
Byron Morgan DH89 Rincon Neck deep mill
Vokey 52/56/60 200series/TVDK/TVDMgrind
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Posted 03 October 2008 - 04:50 AM
Posted 03 October 2008 - 10:13 AM
14.5 X Hot 3 Deep
18* IDEA PRO Hybrid the OG
RAZR X Forged 4-PW
Byron Morgan DH89 Rincon Neck deep mill
Vokey 52/56/60 200series/TVDK/TVDMgrind
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Posted 03 October 2008 - 02:35 PM
Edited by Can, 03 October 2008 - 02:37 PM.
Posted 03 October 2008 - 02:59 PM
Can, on Oct 3 2008, 12:35 PM, said:
No problem, now if you could point me in the direction of the money tree as it seems I now need 300$ for 2 new Matrix Altus Hybrid Shafts .
On another note a few places have the Idea Pro's on closeout and I have seen them as low as $99.99 @ Pgasuperstore
14.5 X Hot 3 Deep
18* IDEA PRO Hybrid the OG
RAZR X Forged 4-PW
Byron Morgan DH89 Rincon Neck deep mill
Vokey 52/56/60 200series/TVDK/TVDMgrind
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Posted 22 October 2008 - 03:34 PM
had the sonartec hb-001 before! sonartec`s look better, sound better and i get the same distance but the adams are way more forgiving!
first hybrid i tried with no downside to me, will stick with it...
Edited by 3puttJC, 22 October 2008 - 03:38 PM.
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Posted 30 December 2008 - 05:58 AM
Has the Pro Gold the same "NO OFFSET" as the Idea Pro has ?
Thanks for your answer.
Posted 21 February 2009 - 08:34 AM
I have the 20 degree and it is so long it has knocked my Exotics 18 degree XCG out of the bag. I am now looking at buying the 16 degree for long par threes and to tee off on tight par fours.
Great club i dont know why we dont see more of them in bags, also very workable club.
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Posted 13 April 2009 - 02:50 AM
Great long iron replacement, the specs are identical to the irons they are replacing.
Titleist 913 15(16.5) Diamana Blue 72
Titleist 913 21~24~27 Diamana Blue 82
Prototype Forged (Japan) 6-PW C-TAPER
Fourteen RM-11 50~54~60 SATIN PX
Cameron Del Mar/Milled Metal X #7
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Edited by arkstorm, 12 May 2009 - 05:18 PM.
Posted 23 May 2009 - 05:11 PM
If i have to dig one out the flight is very low for me.Maybe i should have gone Mitsi shaft.
I got use to the square look very quick and the club feels great.Very straight flight.Not a hook machine like every other hybrid i have hit.
Adams have done it again!
Posted 14 June 2009 - 12:22 PM
I am an iron player and to see my 2, then 3, then kinda my 4 iron go into the corner of the garage for retirement, was sad.
I had gotten Ping G5's to replacement long irons but they have some draw bias and for me that sometimes created a quick snap hook.
I wanted all the forgiving properties of the hybrid, i.e. low c.g., pull face, longer shaft .... more distance.
But also the playability/workability of and iron.
Adams has done that. I tried the Adams A1 or their first hybrid several years ago and decided on a Baffler because it came with a Aldila NV shaft. I never tried the Pro so I cannot compare the two. What I can say is that I have never hit a 2,3,4 or 5 iron like I hit the Pro Gold. I had the thought that 5 iron hybrid was a bad idea or something for grandpa or my wife. NO way, for the most part its a 7 iron swing and 3 wood distance. They play well off the tee, fairway, rough, deeper stuff, hard pan, sand, ... worth a try if your looking.
I have and am trying to find the perfect shaft combo.
I can say the following:
Mitsubishi Rayon Javln FX M8, S flex - fine shaft very soft tip
Mitsubishi Rayon Javln FX MH9, X flex - very low launch
MATRIX OZIK ALTUS HYBRID, S -flex - great but too soft, should have tried strong or x flex
Aldila VS Proto By You Hybrid 80 X, - one of the best still in my 4
Aldila VS Proto By You 80 X, .350, - trimmed and shimmed wood shaft to improve launch
Aldila VS Proto By You Hybrid 95 X, - very much like a steel shaft, low boring flight
Currently trying Aldila Voodoo hybrid
I can answer the adjustment question too. I think Adams goal was to make the Pro Gold much more like an iron that could be fit to the player. I have had my adjusted by Golf Smith, loft, lie, and face angle.
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Posted 20 July 2009 - 07:47 PM
i want to buy a adams hybrid but what should i choose a4 or speedline? (im 31 hcp)
Posted 20 July 2009 - 08:09 PM
Edited by arkstorm, 20 July 2009 - 09:14 PM.
Posted 20 July 2009 - 11:08 PM
arkstorm, on Jul 21 2009, 01:09 AM, said:
speedline hy fw wood
Posted 21 July 2009 - 06:52 AM
pt_golfer, on Jul 21 2009, 12:08 AM, said:
arkstorm, on Jul 21 2009, 01:09 AM, said:
speedline hy fw wood
That is considered more of a fairway wood than a hybrid. The question is what club(s) are you looking to replace? A long iron? Or a fairway wood?
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Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916), best-selling American author, playwright, and journalist wrote The Bar Sinister (1903).
It is said that Davis always retained an air of youth, his writing fiercely acerbic, buoyed by conviction. His charm and exuberance attracted many admirers, and his bravery during war reportage earned the utmost respect of his peers, though he was sometimes accused of romanticising and sensationalism. There was a time when three of his plays were running simultaneously on Broadway and many of his novels were best-sellers. He was a true renaissance man.
"In those fifty-two years he had crowded the work, the pleasures, the kind, chivalrous deeds of many men, and he died just as I am sure he would have wished to die, working into the night for a great cause, and although ill and tired, still fretful for the morning that he might again take up the fight." - Charles Belmont Davis
Richard Harding Davis was born 18 April, 1864 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Lemuel Clarke Davis, a newspaper editor and abolitionist, and Rebecca Harding Davis, conservative feminist novelist of over 500 works including Life in the Iron Mills (1861). Young Richard and his brother Charles grew up in want of nothing, their parents providing a happy home to them for more than forty years.
Rebecca provided the bulk of finances to support the family through her writing and was a well-respected and prolific author during her time. It stands to reason that Richard soon aspired to be a writer. In 1882 the dashingly handsome Davis entered Lehigh University whereupon he became a popular personality, though his academic record was poor as an "indifferent student". Sporting a foppish bowler, cane and kid gloves soon become his trademark. Davis also attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1885 he got his break in journalism as correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer where his father was editor. It was the heyday for journos, seen as a glamorous profession.
In 1889 Davis started with the New York Sun on the reporter's beat, while also writing fiction around his character Cortlandt Van Bibber. He created a lasting impression with his employer when he made a citizen's arrest of a notorious con artist. His novella Gallegher (1890), about a copy-boy who rose from obscurity when he solves a murder spawned many imitators and was followed by Gallegher and Other Stories (1891). Soon after its release he was appointed editor of Harper's Weekly but was already setting his sights on farther horizons, to become a foreign correspondent. Other works he produced around this time were The King's Jackal (1891), (made into a movie in 1924 called Honor Among Men), The West From A Car Window (1892), Three Gringos in Venezuela (1896), Cuba in War Time (1897) and Soldiers of Fortune (1897).
With America on the rise as an imperialist superpower, the Spanish-American war of 1898 found Davis as war correspondent for the New York Herald, travelling to Cuba and writing from the Tampa Bay Hotel, bringing Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" volunteer regiment to the front page. Davis rose to the task and excelled while Roosevelt, who became fast friends with Davis, lauded him to the Associated Press as one of the most courageous men there. Whilst aboard the U.S. Navy flagship New York Davis reported an early scoop to the Herald on the bombing of Mantanzas, to the ire of the government, and reporters were then banned from ships for the rest of the conflict. There was speculation at the time that Davis was involved with William Randolph Hearst's plotting to start the war in order to boost his newspapers sales, but he did have a disagreement with his publisher when articles he wrote from his Cuban experience were altered to create sensation, which Davis resigned over.
In Marion, Massachusetts, Davis and Cecil Clarke married on 4 May, 1899. They would have a daughter, Hope. After extensive travels around the world they settled in Mount Kisco, New York in 1905 in their home they called Crossroads Farm where they would often entertain with lavish parties. The same year he wrote The Lion and the Unicorn (1899).
On 22 February 1900 Davis arrived on the ship Scot in Durban, South Africa to cover the war between Britain and the Boer South Africans. The Bar Sinister (1903), "In this autobiography I have tried to describe Kid as he really is a winner of hearts." was made into a film titled It's a Dog's Life in 1955. Notes of a War Correspondent (1910) followed, and he also wrote a number of plays including The Dictator which was released in 1904, the same year his father died, and Miss Civilization (1906), and Peace manoeuvres; a play in one act (1914). Rebecca Harding Davis died at Davis's home in Mount Kisco, New York in 1910, of heart failure.
Davis wrote one of his most notable accounts when, in 1914 during World War I he was in Brussels and witnessed the Germany Army's advance. His experience there consisted of a number of close calls, accusation of being a spy, and near escapes.
"All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.... This was a machine, endless, tireless, with the delicate organization of a watch and the brute power of a steam-roller. And for three days and three nights through Brussels it roared and rumbled, a cataract of molten lead.... the column of gray, with fifty thousand bayonets and fifty thousand lances, with gray transport wagons, gray ammunition-carts, gray ambulances, gray cannon, like a river of steel cut Brussels in two."
After a quiet dinner at home with his wife and daughter, and in the midst of yet more writing, Richard Harding Davis died of a heart attack on 11 April, 1916, at the age of 51. He lies buried in the Leverington Cemetery of Roxborough, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Such noted personalities as Teddy Roosevelt, Booth Tarkington and Winston Churchill and nine others reflected on their fond memories of him in Appreciations of Richard Harding Davis.
"He was as good an American as ever lived, and his heart flamed against cruelty and injustice. His writings form a text-book of Americanism which all our people would do well to read at the present time."
Davis had lived in and travelled to many parts of the world to gather material for his writing including England, France, Central and South America, Moscow, Budapest, London, Greece, Spain, and South Africa.
An excellent source of correspondence by Davis, Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis (1917), was edited by his brother Charles Belmont Davis.
"Richard Harding Davis was the "beau ideal of jeunesse doree." a sophisticated heart of gold. He was...(the) college boy's own age, but already an editor--already publishing books! His stalwart good looks were as familiar to us as were those of our own football captain; we knew his face as we knew the face of the President of the United States, but we infinitely preferred Davis's... Of all the great people of every continent, this was the one we most desired to see...Youth called to youth; all ages read him, but the young men and women have turned to him ever since his precocious fame made him their idol...He bade them see that pain is negligible, that fear is a joke, and that the world is poignantly interesting, joyously lovable." - Booth Tarkington, 1916
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... about doing a "tour" around Palermo for a few Euro! After some bartering, we decided to take an "alternative" tour of the sights of Palermo. Wow, what a tour, down very narrow streets, which we had no idea where we were...could have been off to an organ donation centre! Saw a few markets, including seafood, meat, goods etc. The churches were a surprise. You can see the Arabic influence in the city and churches, some of the design and work was stunning. The opera house is ...
Close Encounters of the Cefalu kind!
... the town inch by inch. We got some irritated looks from the locals as we should not have been there! We got past in some places with mills to spare. Thank god we did not need to reverse! To say I was not sh8$&4!g myself is an understatement! Neil had to get out of the car (Volvo SUV) to guide us through! When I saw we had got through to the other side, I was relieved and considered getting out of the car to kiss the ground! We decided to stay the night ...
Early start to make the Ferrovia Circumennea train that goes around Mt Etna. We managed to find the train station thanks to Sue. After seeing us 4 passengers on the platform, we noticed that they pumped extra diesel into the train! At 9 we set off on a 114km journey which took just over 3 hours. The landscape contrasted from market gardens, vines, orchards to waste land of volcanic black basalt. It ...
Only on a Sunday
In the theatre, actors are warned to never work with children and animals. Here's some similar advice for cruising, never visit Messina on a Sunday. Messina is a very religious city and not the largest of cities, so on Sunday there's not a lot open. Just as well there are plenty of things to see in Messina.
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The cover of the latest issue of Auto Express in the UK features one of the first renderings of the next-generation Ford Mondeo, which as we all know will be basically the same as Ford's future replacement for the Fusion in the States. If this drawing proves accurate, it looks like the new midsize ...
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I suppose the fact that Lincoln needed to float huge loans through the Wall Street banking houses may have had something to do with his quick repudiation of G.O. 11. Eventually Sec'y Chase would work with Philadelphia banker Jay Cooke to reduce the reliance on traditional New York banks for financing the war. Meanwhile looking forward to Brooks Simpson's second volume of Grant bio, covering post-war years.
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Dear Scott S. -- I feel ignorant here. did Jews have high roles in US banks in the mid-nineteenth century? Please enlighten. Thanks, Peter
In the American experience, anti-Semitic decrees have been virtually unthinkable. Religious liberty is enshrined in the Constitution, and early in his presidency George Washington went out of his way to assure the young nation's Jews that "the Government of the United States … gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance." During the long centuries of Jewish exile, powerful officials had often promulgated sweeping edicts depriving Jews of their rights or driving them from their homes. In America, that could never happen.
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Time for one of my infrequent bloggy-type posts. Work has been busy these last few months. I got a little uncharacteristically burnt out on one particular project, which got way worse when an equipment problem erased a rather large chunk of work. That sucks for me but significantly worse than the loss of income is the damage to my reputation for reliability with that particular client. Let's leave it at that for now. What will be, will be.
Leaving that still unresolved situation aside, though, I really have done a ton of work over the last few months. In fact I've put in a lot of overtime (not that I'm paid an OT premium, as a freelancer) and have been turning away more and more work as time has gone on. I actually have not one but two published textbooks to my credit for the current year (not as the sole or even lead author for either one, but certainly as a major contributor). One of them was actually released this week, just after Labour Day (or if you're American, Labor Day).
What else have I been up to? A bit of vacationing. Since coming back from Costa Rica a couple of years ago, my wife and I haven't really had even a short vacation. We remedied that with a trip to the American Southwest at the end of July and beginning of August. \it was a chance to do some touring around, to turn off the Internet entirely, and to catch up on reading, of course, which I've been doing a lot of pretty much all summer.
I finally got around to reading Robert J. Sawyer's WWW trilogy, start to finish, which I'd had on my shelf for a few years already (awesome). I've also been reading some Bradbury just over the last few weeks, specifically Something Wicked This Way Comes and his A Sound of Thunder collection, and I've come to appreciate how beautiful his use of language is, something I didn't really pick up on when I read him as a teenager.
I've also been looking at some Asian-themed fiction of late, though no recent releases. It's been years since I've read Shōgun and I'd been thinking I should finally read Tai-Pan this year (also by James Clavell), but of course it's a bit of a door-stopper. So instead I started with the much shorter The Ronin (quite good), have just started dipping into the equally short Bridge of Birds, and have been thinking I might do Musashi after that before Tai Pan. Of course I'll be jumping around a bit, not knocking these off one after the other without a break.
(And now that I think of it, there is one recent item on my radar in this "genre": Murakami's new novel just came out. I haven't picked it up yet. I forgot about it until the last-minute and so wasn't able to place a review and, thus, didn't request an ARC.)
Obviously I've read several Heinlein books recently, for my coverage at Green Man Review and I do have one more to take care of soonish, though that's a weekend read at most.
And there's an eclectic mix of other stuff I've started or planned on starting over the last couple of months, including Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series (looking for that third volume in the second-hand stores still) and a few non-fiction titles. I've got a nice little pile on my night table, but the difficulty is when something new pops up in the mailbox and jumps the queue, as it were. Raincoast, which distributes for Tor (and many others), is one of the worst offenders for sending me big boxes of wonderful ARCs, meant to tempt me from whatever I'm doing and into a good book and, often, the ensuing, unplanned review. Of course there are worse problems to have than a surplus of delicious boks.
But, yes, I have been reading at a pretty good clip of late, and I'm pleased about that. For nearly the first half of this year, I just couldn't find the time. But I'm in a bit of a groove lately. I suppose I've cut back on the television a fair bit, since, brief vacation aside, my work hours haven't dropped a whole lot (even with the aforementioned turning down of work). Not all of my writing work is downright exciting. Occasionally it can border on (or enter right into) tedium.
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Jammer Art – Friends
Category: Awesome Jammer Art, Celebrations
The month of February is the Friendship Festival in Jamaa. What better way to celebrate your buddies than by drawing them? Here are some of our favorite works of art featuring Jammers and their buddies. And it goes to show that sometimes, even Phantoms need buddies.
Thanks to Wretched Scaryhero, Snickety Major Claw, Little Icyfriend, Princess Prettywolf, Fauna Thewolf, and Precious Shiverdeer for sending in art of their friends. Happy Friendship Festival!!


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Normal people: crying cause I really miss you.
Ed Sheeran: I don't get waves of missing you anymore, they're more like tsunami tides in my eyes
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Ed Sheeran: tell her that she turns my cheeks the color of my hair
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, plans to resign soon, a White House official said on Monday, as he prepares for a potential campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012.
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Lahore, Pakistan -- (ReleaseWire) -- 01/16/2014 -- 1 Minute In Out Forex Trading System has been developed by Eddie Clark. 1 Minute In Out Forex Trading System can easily detect sideways market where no movement is happening. This system only trades strong trends on the 1 minute timeframe. Trading on the fast paced 1 minute timeframe is not easy. There is a lot of noise and false signals on the 1 minute timeframe. However, Eddie Clark has developed a very powerful indicator for trading on the 1 Minute timeframe. This indicator only trades on the 1 minute timeframe. The stop loss used by this system is very tight and small. The reward to risk ratio for the trades is usually 2:1, 3:1 and even 4:1 which makes this a very profitable system. Trading requires a lot of patience. However with his system, Eddie is going to show you how to be impatient when trading.
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TransLink 101: Where does TransLink get its funding… and how do we spend it?
For February 2013, we're going back to basics with TransLink 101—explaining TransLink and its work!
One of the questions we often hear is, "How are TransLink and the transportation network funded?"
People usually think first of transit fares as one source of revenue, but fares make up just one piece of the revenue pie. So, as part of our TransLink 101 series, we're looking at TransLink's existing revenue sources, and where our revenues are spent. Let's go!
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Our revenue sources are broad and diverse, which is a benefit because it makes us better able to weather a changing economy, and gives us the capacity to deliver stable and predictable transportation services.
It also comes out loud and clear in our credit ratings – TransLink has maintained an "AA" credit rating even in the face of the financial pressures we've faced recently. This means investors, who take into account our revenue sources along with our governance structure and management, rate our organization well and consider our organization stable and well-managed.
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The wheel turns. The seasons shift, and we celebrate our connection to the earth.
In the North, things are beginning to grow. That which was planted early may already be showing through the dirt. For some (like those of us in Colorado) it still looks very much like winter, with snow falling to the ground and a harsh chill in the air. But the storms are different than they were in January, and we trust that this weather will not persist for very much longer. Summer will come soon.
In the South, the opposite is true. Things begin to slow. The long heat lessens, and there is evidence of a colder season on the currents of the wind. It is a time to double-check the storehouse of food one may have begun preparing on the Fall Equinox, and to continue making preparations for the coming winter. It is just around the corner.
One need not be a deeply religious person to participate in this rhythm, but one might be inspired to become one because of it.
Today the May Cross Quarter High Day liturgy is made available here on solitarydruid.org. The liturgy seeks to serve those in the North and the South, and to do so there are also two new devotionals available as well — a Beltane devotional and a Samhain devotional.
ADF Druidry uses these names for the High Days, but acknowledges that in some hearth cultures they are called something different. You should feel free to customize these devotionals to reflect the language that is common in your tradition. They are simply meant to serve as tools in your own solitary observance of the Cross Quarter.
As always, these liturgies are free. You are encouraged to download them, read through them, mark them up with pen and pencil, and allow them to work their way into you. Let them inspire you into a deeper level of engagement with your solitary practice. If you are celebrating Beltane (or a similar mid-spring holiday), explore the ways that you can infuse your solitary observance with color and movement and joy! If you are preparing for Samhain (or a similar mid-fall holiday), open your heart to the awareness of your ancestors, and find new ways to honor the lives they have led, as well as the life that you lead now.
The words of the SDF liturgies are not doctrine or dogma; they are not the stuff of rigid religion. No – they are flexible, changeable, and workable. They are intended to be sparks of inspiration, which serve to ignite something real and relevant in your life. If they are missing something that you require, write it. If they are voiced in ways that don't quite resonate, change them. Whatever you do, act from a place of conviction and purpose. Be who you are becoming, and own the fullness of your solitary practice.
You are one, and we are many. You are not alone in this, even as you observe in solitude. There is a multitude of solitary Druids, Pagans, and non-identified folk who are joining you in the use of these words. We are a congregation in solitude.
We are the solitaries of the Fellowship.
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Chinese dissident Hu Jia released from jail
Prominent Chinese dissident Hu Jia has been released from prison and reunited with his family, his wife says.
Mr Hu, 37, served a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence for "inciting subversion". His term had been set to end on Sunday.
There is a heavy police presence outside Mr Hu's Beijing home and he now appears to be under some form of house arrest, a BBC correspondent says.
Mr Hu's release coincidentally follows that of artist Ai Weiwei last week.
Mr Ai's detention in April had prompted a global campaign for his release. The Chinese authorities say Mr Ai, 53, has confessed to tax evasion offences.'Malicious rumours'
Mr Hu's wife, Zeng Jingyan, said in her Twitter post that her husband had been freed at 0230 local time on Sunday (1830GMT on Saturday).
"We are fine and happy. Need to rest for some time. Thank you everyone," the message said.
Hu Jia's release, like that of Ai Weiwei, is not a sign of any relaxation in China's ongoing crackdown but shows instead that the Communist Party is expanding it, determined to silence critics even when they are released from custody.
He was released because he has finished his jail time. No leniency has been shown to him - quite the opposite. Around his compound there is a huge police deployment, uniformed officers at every gate, plainclothes security filming people. Unmarked cars followed us, then security men told us to leave.
Hu Jia's sentence included, in China's legal jargon, being "deprived of his political rights" for 12 months after release. That means he can't talk to the media, publish anything, attend any public rallies or set up or join any form of organisation. He may also find his ability to work, to move freely and to live a normal life are restricted.
Mrs Zeng later told Reuters news agency that they did not want to give interviews at this stage, as it "might cause problems".
There is a huge security presence outside Mr Hu's compound, and journalists are being kept out, the BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Beijing reports.
It appears that - like Ai Weiwei - Mr Hu has been silenced, put under close surveillance and banned from talking to the media, our correspondent adds.
Rights activists have repeatedly expressed concern that Beijing may impose tough restrictions on Mr Hu after his release. The Chinese government has so far not commented on the move.
Sophie Richardson of the New York-based Human Rights Watch group said earlier this week that "Hu Jia should never have been imprisoned in the first place".
She also urged Beijing not to put him under informal house arrest.
Mr Hu was convicted and imprisoned in 2008.
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The charges related to five articles Mr Hu had written as well as interviews he had given to journalists in which he was critical of the Chinese authorities.
China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported at the time that he had "spread malicious rumours, libel and instigation".
Mr Hu became particularly outspoken in the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics, publishing an open letter to the Chinese government titled The Real China and the Olympics, which called for an end to human rights abuses in the country.
He had also campaigned for Aids sufferers and for protection of the environment.
In 2007, he was placed under house arrest after he and his wife made a documentary about their experiences of living under constant police surveillance, and posted it on the internet.
Mr Hu has won the European Union's top human rights award, the Sakharov prize, and is considered by Amnesty International as a former prisoner of conscience.
While Mr Hu was serving his jail time his wife was also under regular police surveillance, often prevented from talking to journalists.Disappearances
She says pressure was put on her landlord to force her out of her home recently, and pressure put on any potential employer to prevent her from working.
Her treatment echoes that of Liu Xia, the wife of the jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo.
She is not known to have been charged with any crime. But she was picked up soon after it was announced that her husband had won the prize and has not been seen since.
Amnesty said in a statement that at least 130 activists "have been detained, forcibly disappeared, harassed and imprisoned within their homes since February".
China's government says the country is governed by law, but human rights campaigners say the police are increasingly using methods that appear to be outside the law, our correspondent says.
Around two dozen people have, this year, been seized and held at secret detention centres, including Ai Weiwei, several lawyers and activists, he adds.
Most of those released have refused to talk, apparently pressured or intimidated into staying silent. Some are still missing.
Mr Hu's release comes as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is visiting Europe, where Beijing's human rights issue is expected to be raised among other issues.
On Sunday, Mr Wen is due to meet UK Prime Minister David Cameron and visit a Chinese-owned car plant.


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Thanks a lot for your past support of KidSport. We think it's a pretty amazing partnership that we have with the sport associations in the Tri-Cities! Last year was another year of record high demand. In 2013, we gave 635 registration grants worth over $131,000...just in the Tri-Cities. Ninety percent of our money is raised right here in the Tri-Cities.
Our next big fundraiser is our Summer Used Equipment Sale from 10am-2pm on Aug 16th at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex in Coquitlam.
We always have a lot of quality equipment left over, so we're really trying to get as many people out as possible. It's a fantastic opportunity for your members to not only get a great deal on very high quality used equipment, but to also to do something positive with all the old equipment taking up space in their basements or garages. Please help us so that we can help more of your members.


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Awake from a peaceful nights sleep to your favorite tunes playing on your iPod through our iHome . Jump start your morning with a caffeine boost right in your room with your Keurig one-cup coffee maker and then make your way to the refreshing, chef prepared and complimentary breakfast buffet . Our complimentary Wi-Fi will keep you connected with the office in your room, in the modern laid-back lobby or business center, so sneak outside and awaken your senses with the extraordinary Colorado air . Tour award winning microbreweries right here in Longmont, bike along the greenway, take a hike in the mountains or free-fall with Mile-Hi Skydiving - the ultimate adrenaline rush . When the weather turns cold, its time to ski or ride the Rocky Mountains or take in the invigorating beauty with some snowshoeing . At the end of the day, kick off your shoes and channel surf through more than 100 channels of DirecTVs residential experience on your 37 inch-HD LCD flat-screen television .
Whether you come here for work, for play or maybe a little of both, the goal is to make you feel right at home . From the ENERGY STAR quiet mini-refrigerators in every room to keep those local microbrews, water and snacks cold, to the full-service staff, relax, you are covered .
The onsite restaurant, Harolds, is an American eatery whose menu focuses on fresh, seasonal, and healthy cuisine . The Bayonet Room features an American craft cocktail lounge .
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Anyway, Amanda Bynes. She's had several run-ins with the law (that part of her Wikipedia page is overwhelming) like driving under the influence and an alleged hit-and-run. Of course now things like being on the phone while driving is less common the the most recent throwing a bong out a 36 story window. She has decided that the best way to deal with the eviction for this incident is to sue the police for, and I quote, slapping her vagina. I have no opinion on whether or not that actually happened.
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That wasn't expected, was it? The pang of sympathy you just felt for this obviously crazy person who's actually on the other end of this. It's weird to think about, that someone who seems like such an entertaining "I don't care" character is struggling. I don't know, this isn't a public service announcement, I do too many of those, this is just a thought.
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A recurring issue on this blog is how to deal with out-of-control children in the classroom. Hundreds of you responded to the story last month on the police handcuffing of a 6-year-old kindergartner in Milledgeville, most expressing support for the school's decision to bring in police.
This new AJC story did not take place in the classroom but it neatly reflects the dilemma of how to handle kids who may be endangering others. In this case, the other was a cat recovering from surgery in the waiting room of a north Fulton's vet office. The story speaks to how conflicted we are as to what to do about kids whose parents either can't or won't restrain them.
My husband and I debated this story this morning. He contends that the frantic cat owner crossed the line when he swatted the 4-year-old who was allegedly harassing the man's sick cat.
As I have said many times, I don't believe in corporal punishment at home or in school. Beyond nostalgia, there is nothing that suggests beating kids produces better behaved or healthier human beings. In fact, the research suggests the opposite. There is hardly a child in juvenile lockup who was not raised by the belt, cord or switch.
But I don't have a problem with a pet owner lightly swatting a kid's backside because the child is sticking his hand in the cage of sick animal and will not heed warnings to stop. Nor is the parent, for whatever reason, stopping the child. The child's actions posed a danger to himself and the sick animal.
Given the facts as reported, the arrest of the pet owner seems an extreme response.
I had a conversation this week with a parent who wanted to complain about the attitude and comments of a teacher who took her daughter's phone from her in class. I asked if phones were allowed in the classroom, and the mom told me they were not. I told the mom that there was nothing else really left to discuss. Whether the teacher was abrasive in how she took the phone or in the tone she used to the errant student didn't matter to me if the kid was in open violation of a classroom policy.
I find an increasingly odd attitude among parents: Yes, my kid did something wrong, but you weren't nice in how you responded and that's what we ought to be fixing.
A woman who called police to the scene said she had brought a family pet into the clinic, and was in the waiting room with her 4-year-old son. The mother told an officer that "she was having trouble controlling her son," the police report said.
Trouble began when the boy reached for a cat in a carrier. The cat belonged to 42-year-old Russel B. Baughcum. The cat recently had surgery, and the Suwanee man was there to pick it up. Baughcum told the officer that the youngster repeatedly reached for the animal, the incident report said. The man said he told the child to stop, but the boy grabbed hold of the cage and tried to pull it off a chair. The man said he shouted, "Stop! Stop! Stop!" and struck the child lightly on his lower back and buttocks.
"Mr. Baughcum demonstrated that he struck the child in a back handed fashion, and that the contact was light enough that he didn't think the child knew he had been touched," the police report said. Two clinic employees said they witnessed the man strike the child on his rear when the boy tried to play with the cat, according to the incident report.
The boy's mother insisted on pressing charges, so Baughcum was arrested and charged, police said. He was taken to the Fulton County Jail Alpharetta Annex. The veterinary clinic kept the cat for him to pick up later. Jail officials told Channel 2 that Baughcum posted $1,000 bond and was released Tuesday morning.
–From Maureen Downey, for the AJC Get Schooled blog
May 2nd, 2012
9:27 am
The mother should apologize to Mr. Baughcum and offer to buy him dinner for his trouble.
Honestly? It's the same thing that teachers have to put up with on a daily basis. Kids are behaving poorly and it's the teacher who gets reprimanded.
May 2nd, 2012
9:29 am
When I was in school, an out of control student would be hauled to the principal's office and a paddling would be administered.
Nowadays, trial lawyers swarm like locusts and if you even look at someone wrong, you get sued.
You get what you pay for.
May 2nd, 2012
9:34 am
Momma would need the cops alright, but only because she was scared poopless of me. GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!
May 2nd, 2012
9:37 am
If she was having trouble controlling her snowflake, she should have left the vet and come back another time. Good grief, what if the child had been taunting a large dog and gotten bitten? A swat on the rear would have been the least of their problems.
May 2nd, 2012
9:38 am
Maybe the guy can press charges against the mother for animal cruelty. The boy attacked a sick pet fresh out of surgery.
May 2nd, 2012
9:43 am
The mother who pressed charges is a fool and will surely be "rewarded" for her foolishness down the road.
May 2nd, 2012
9:44 am
I agree with dood. Think what this kid must be allowed to do to his own pet!
As the pet owner, I would have asked the clinic staff, loudly, toput my animal's cage behind the desks so the little devil could not get at her.
But, Ms. Dwoney, this is par for the course.
May 2nd, 2012
9:46 am
And, Ms. Dwoney, the attitude now is, "I was not there but I say my kid did not do what you saw him do, and even if he did, you should not have handled it the way you did because it was someone else's fault!"
May 2nd, 2012
9:49 am
I am in a state of confusion how author cannot be in favor of another, non-relative, adult striking someone's child but not be in favor of "capital" punishment.
I can tell you as a teacher that I despise parents who do not address the situation and the problem. The problem being what their child did wrong and not that the teacher executed school policy. However it is also the duty of a parent to disciple and protect their child. No one should ever lay a hand on another person's child in any situation. The man could have reacted by picking up and moving his cat. Granted, the mother should have addressed the situation the first time the child was told no. Both adults are at fault here.
May 2nd, 2012
9:51 am
What a waste of police time when they need to be looking for the real criminals!! The Mother of this child should be sent to Prison for Child Abuse!!!
May 2nd, 2012
9:54 am
Exactly. This is prevalent in the special needs parents to a ridiculous degree. Some kids aren't capable, but many higher-functioning ones could live more independent lives if they actually suffered some consequences and some type of discipline was enforced.
Ms. Downey:
I think you would see the opposite trend among current inmates in the system regarding corporal punishment. We have gotten so Dr. Spock on kids in the last 20-30 years that it's a bit ridiculous.
May 2nd, 2012
9:58 am
It amazed me from story even though woman admitted having problems with her out of control 4 year old she did nothing to stop it. The cat owner repeatedly told the child to stop yet again parent did nothing. It is unfortunate she did not leave child in car .. then the staff could have reported her for child cruelty and she could now be the one in jail facing charges.
May 2nd, 2012
10:01 am
Dear Mom, You have just announced to the world that your child will be protected from the world for his own wrong doing no matter what he does. This is a warning for his future teachers, the juvenile system and the parents of children that he will interact with. I am so tired of seeing parents that have no control over their children. No matter how you teach them, children need to learn very early in life the consequences of their actions. Unfortunately, this child has already learned.
May 2nd, 2012
10:02 am
If it had been my cat this little brat had tried to play with, he would have pulled back a bloody stub and it would have served him right.
May 2nd, 2012
10:05 am
This 4-yr old will soon be the troubled teen and then the adult who ends up in jail. WAKE UP, MOM!
I think the guy had a reflex reaction to protect his vulnerable cat, fresh out of surgery, not unlike a parent might have to protect his/her child. He was WRONG to touch the child but there was no malice. This Mom is incompetent. This poor guy went to jail for doing HER job. If I'd been in his shoes, I would've had the same reaction he did. My husband says he should've swatted the Mom! How's that for perspective?!
May 2nd, 2012
10:06 am
The cell phone issue in high school is HUGE. Cell phones are not allowed to be on from 8-3 but enforcing that is a monster issue. I sent an E mail to a parent just yesterday about her son's use of his phone and her response was that *I* needed to do a better job enforcing the rules because according to her son I was "picking on him" and not asking other students to put their phones away. What happened to "thank you Mrs. So and So — we will handle this at home" ? I rarely get that response anymore which is why I dread contacting parents — so many of them are combative.
May 2nd, 2012
10:10 am
Bottom line: we're surrounded by a lot of morons "raising" kids.
May 2nd, 2012
10:12 am
This story is exactly what is wrong with the children today. The mother should have made her child leave the cat alone. What if the cat had attacked the child. This mom has some nerve pressing charges. The man should press charges against the mother for having an out of control child. I would have pinch the kid when the mother wasn't looking. LOL
May 2nd, 2012
10:14 am
If that mother cannot control her 4 year old son now, what does she think she is going to do when he reaches 10, 14 or 16? The man was protecting his sick cat from the boy. The mother was not protecting her son from the cat. I bet if the cat at bitten him or scratched him she would be sueing the man for abuse. If she cannot control him now, she is in for a rough ride in the years to come. She just might want to take his approach.
May 2nd, 2012
10:17 am
It's silly that this woman is pressing charges. However, you should never ever hit someone else's kid.
May 2nd, 2012
10:18 am
wow…really?! What was the mother doing? Sitting there looking at the little brat run around terrorizing people. There is a 50/50 chance that when the child gets to be an adult that someone will do worse than swat him on the bottom…
May 2nd, 2012
10:18 am
@Rob, I agree. Both adults behaved stupidly and selfishly. One couldn't be bothered to exert the control that was her responsibility and the other decided to take on that responsibility instead of sticking to his own and moving his cat. If arrest is appropriate for one, I really don't think that the other should get off without a harassment or negligence charge.
Of course, the real loser here is the child, who at four is rude and on his way to being unmanageable.
May 2nd, 2012
10:19 am
Good for him! My mother would have jerked a knot in my behind for misbehaving in public and this broad should have taken control of her kid the second Mr. Baughcum asked him to stop bothering the cat.
Not everyone wants to help discipline your precious snowflake, folks!
May 2nd, 2012
10:22 am
The mother should apologize to Mr. Baughcum and offer to buy him dinner for his trouble.
"Honestly? It's the same thing that teachers have to put up with on a daily basis. Kids are behaving poorly and it's the teacher who gets reprimanded."
This blogger is stating what so many people are feeling. This is not a new problem. There have always been people who feel that their rights supercede all others' rights. They do not have to respect boundaries. They do not have to tolerate rebuff, reprimand, or any type of complaint from those whose rights they've violated. I think that it is time to open a national dialogue on civility. I don't mean George Bush's 'kinder, gentler nation." I want to see a conversation about how parents should behave toward others when their chldren violate others' rights. The focus on their rights, their children's rights, with no concern for the rights of others, is a sickening part of our society.
May 2nd, 2012
10:27 am
The parent overreacted and now a man protecting his pet will have to endure humility, disgrace, and ridicule for trying to correct a child's behavior. Kids learn through cause and effect, action and reaction. Physical punishment worked on me and many other kids thoughout history. Parents should explain to their children why certain behavior is wrong before applying the appropriate punishment, physical or other. This teaches them what behavior is and isn't acceptable while also teaching them what reactions and effects can reasonably be expected. The pain endured during physical punishment or embarassment of public scolding serves as a marker for memory recall during a person's life.
May 2nd, 2012
10:28 am
We are living in an upside down world. People can be beaten in the streets by gangs of thugs and the police do nothing about it. A 4-year old receives a slight tap on the rump and the man protecting his animal is arrested. We have gone way too far with the idea of what assault is. I received many 'whippings' 50+ years ago and my esteem was not harmed nor was I physically harmed. Moreover, I learned from those lessons. What are these children learning now?
May 2nd, 2012
10:32 am
Doesn't shock me at all!!! Not my little Johnny/Susie!!!!
May 2nd, 2012
10:33 am
first she should be charged with not controlling her child in public, second she should be charged with being an idiot parent. yeah the guy maybe shouldn't have swatted the kid as any cop will tell you that is considered assault, yeah i know stupid but its the law and he probably should have stood up and held the crate up or asked the staff for help. but even though the woman was ticked at the 'swat' she shouldn't have called the cops on the guy, it was her non-actions and the bratty actions of her 4 yr old that start all the trouble the guy was just sitting there waiting. she should drop the charges.
May 2nd, 2012
10:34 am
What a horrible mother and horrible child. Can someone find out what this woman's name is and provide it here so we as a community can run her out of town.
May 2nd, 2012
10:34 am
I can't believe this actually happened. If the cat had bitten the child, the cat owner would have been sued and the animal taken away and probably put down. Parents need to be protective but also their children need to learn the consequences of their actions.
May 2nd, 2012
10:40 am
I'm amazed people are ok with someone striking, even if mildly, someone else's kid. That is TOTALLY out of line. Arresting him is a little excessive, but he was flat out wrong. If he had moved the animal, or in necessary, moved the child and interposed himself between the child and cat that would be one thing. Hitting the mom would have been less out of line than striking someone else's child.
May 2nd, 2012
10:43 am
If the cat had of somehow scratch or bitten the child, the scenario would have been different. So we are suppose to believe this woman couldn't keep her child from the cat. A firm hand from the mother would've been appropriate. This mother obviously thinks her child should be able to do what he wants…bad mistake. This man was trying to protect his pet who had just had surgery and probably was a little apprehensive and really didn't need the clamor of this child. This child needs to meet some of the mothers and grandmothers from my generation…..little swat would have become a blistered bottom. Of course we were taught to behave in the presence of company and around other adults. Something that is missing in todays little angels(sic).
May 2nd, 2012
10:44 am
This would be good argument to support aborton and removal of the ovaries…
May 2nd, 2012
10:45 am
Hey Teacher @ 10:06 if you came to Morrow HS in Clayton county and taught 10th grade honors classes or Latin beginning in August; the response you want is what you would get from me and my husband! We support our children's teachers, it started with our adult children and will end in 2019 with our youngest. Then I guess we will support teachers of our grandchildren.
You teachers do an awesome job and need that support.
May 2nd, 2012
10:49 am
By no means should another American citizen spank, swat, hit another American citizen. So, moving the childs hands wasnt a choice? or how about moving the cat? Dear journalist, your personal opinion is encouraging illegal thoughts by those who do not read any other documents. Please keep your opinion to yourself. By the by, I havent read anything from people who are having challenges with children of their own. Are you only publishing the comments that agree with yours? The man is supposed to be an adult, if the child cant touch, then where is our American law says that he can. Once again, I am saddened by the responses of American citizens, are we not aware of the ten year old war, the starving and homeless here in American which is the richest country in the world. But yet you are so emotional over a 4 year old, to which the adult should have, could have moved the cat. WWJD? Blessings to you all.
May 2nd, 2012
10:50 am
The man did the correct thing. The cat could have really hurt the child! My own cat scratched me Sunday and it is already infected. The parent should have controlled her child to keep him away from the other animals. Chances are if the animal is at a vet's office it is sick even for a well check-up they are very nervous. A sick, scared and nervous animal is very hard to control. The cat could have scared that child for life!! I am a mother of 3 adult children and 4 grandchildren. I would prefer any of my family get a swat on the bottom rather than a cat bite or scratch!! When are we going to start holding parents responsible for their children's actions. The parent should have been arrested also!!
May 2nd, 2012
10:57 am
Children are so out of control today, Parents are out of control as well,I have seen so many mother's acting a fool because of what there bad Kids tell them, So many Parents are best friends with thier kids and not teaching them right from wrong. So many kids don't even RESPECT THEIR Parents, so how will they respect others. That mom should have told that lil boy to stop and leave that cat a long,I really think the man had a reaction, but she called the police. She can't control that little boy!!!!!!!! HE'S GOING TO KNOCK HER BUTT AROUND IN A COUPLE OF YEARS, WONDER IF SHE'S GOING TO CALL THE POLICE THEN!!!!!!!!!!
May 2nd, 2012
11:00 am
@ say what? — thanks for being supportive! We need more parents that don't view teachers and the school system as the enemy.
May 2nd, 2012
11:01 am
I am not opposed to corporal punishment (which is NOT the same thing as beating), but it's obviously a bad idea to swat someone else's kid.
That said, I'm not sure what else the pet owner could have done. Was he supposed to just sit there and let the kid injure his cat?
May 2nd, 2012
11:01 am
I bet a nickel that
1) Momma is a "single parent", and
2) Little snookiekins runs the show at home as well.
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May 2nd, 2012
11:06 am
When I was growing up, everybody raised us because my mom and dad knew the neighbors, the teachers, the grocery store clerks, etc… It took the village but the village of people taught us to be respectful and encouraged us to do more than they did through education and serving. Now, it seems that children are raising adults. And, they are not learning any moral values because the adults don't want to crush their spirits. I am amazed at how the 'precious little ones' never does wrong. And, how offended parents become when they are corrected.
This is why teachers are being forced to parent, teach and then being held accountable for everything. Teachers should have to discipline your child. They can't run a classroom without you, parents, enforcing the value of respecting rules and others and an education. Stop listening to your child and actually sit in the room with him and the teacher. This will be your deer in headlights moment if you are a good parent.
Neither should anyone outside of your home have to discipline your child. But, when your precious little one does not understand the meaning of 'NO', STOP or 'Break laws or rules', then either you or he needs to be disciplined. Stop blaming others for the mistakes you are making by being a bad parent and letting your child look to others as role models. I feel sorry for us, society/community, because we are going to have to pay for the entittled, ill-mannered, poorly focused children being raised. Talk about unethical leaders of the future.
May 2nd, 2012
11:08 am
When my daughter was in the hospital having her appendix out, there was a man there with cat scratch fever (yes, it is a real thing). His arm was badly swollen, he had been in the hospital for a number of days. What if little snowflake had gotten that?
Off topic, this reminds me of when the stone mountain man was arrested for slapping the kid in walmart. I remember at the time he was being held without bond while there were murderers out with ankle bracelets. Not that I condone hitting others' children, but let's keep things in perspective.
Several years ago there was a kid at my childrens' daycare who was misbehaving so badly at the dentist's office that they told him never to come back again.
May 2nd, 2012
11:09 am
Fear is a powerful motivator and kids today have no fear. In many cases, they run the household and not their parents. Some chores and the occasional fanny busting would cure a lot of what ails today's kids.
May 2nd, 2012
11:15 am
It's not like the man walked up out of the blue and hit the child. He was swatting the child away from his sick cat after the child failed to follow simple directions to get away from the cat. A 4-year old should know better. My children certainly knew better at age 4. This mother is a failure. Why was she not disciplining and watching her own child? Too bad you can't arrest a woman (or man) for abysmal parenting! The mother even admitted to the offer that she was having trouble controlling her own son. Why didn't she remove him from public? As a parent, in the rare case my child misbehaved and didn't change his attitude, I promptly took him outside so not as to disturb others. She certainly wins "Loser Mother of the Year" award!
May 2nd, 2012
11:17 am
@ Horrible. I know moms and dads that are the worst offenders of their precious little one. Especially if this is an only child or children of career driven older parents. And, they are successful, educated parents. This has nothing to do with single or married. It has to do with the moral values parents teach their kids and discipline – like in your south park example. If parents are slackers and feed into their childrens entittlement then the children are usually very agressive to them and others.
May 2nd, 2012
11:24 am
Get PETA involved, arrest the parent for animal abuse for knowingly putting her child into a situation where the cat can be harmed.
May 2nd, 2012
11:29 am
Absolutely pathetic!!! Can't imagine what will happen when the little darling grows up and gets a job. What's he going to do the first time he gets dressed down by his boss, call mommy and have the police intervene? I hate to break it to all the breeders and their offspring, but the world is a cold, ruthless place. Better learn how to deal with it, or be prepared to have 5 generations living together under one roof for fear of the outside world.
May 2nd, 2012
11:29 am
But yet you are so emotional over a 4 year old, to which the adult should have, could have moved the cat. WWJD?
As best I recall, even Jesus opened up a can of whup@ss on the moneychangers in the temple.
May 2nd, 2012
11:31 am
@APS Parent,
"This has nothing to do with single or married" – sure, mom, you keep telling yourself that.
I'm sure a diligent search of literature wouldn't turn up ANY negative information showing a positive correlation between single parenting and educational achievement, drug & alcohol abuse, criminal activity, or premature sexual activity. None, nada, squat, zilch.