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" Brand: The First Years / Type: Bouncer "
When my baby got to six months and loved feeling his feet on the floor, I felt that it was time to get some new toys that would help him explore the world from this new found position. I had always been nervous about over the door bouncers and their safety (I know that they are perfectly safe, but am a neurotic first-time mummy!). When a friend of ours gave us their Tigger door bouncer, I was very grateful and gave my son a go in it.
The bouncer is really cute and looks just like tigger, being bright orange in colour. It is complete with a stuffed head on the front (which has a bell in it that tings when hit or when bouncing hard) and curly tail on the back - adding to the cuteness factor. The bouncer is supported with a purple belt and plastic attachment that helps the bouncer move up and down as baby jumps. The bouncer is attached to the top of the door frame with a giant metal pincer that clips and fastens over the top of the frame. This feels very secure and safe.
The bouncer should only be used once baby is able to support their own head well and cab be used up to a weight of 25lbs. Our baby is quite big, so he is getting towards the upper weight limit at 8 months, but with a lot of other babies this would have a much longer life span! Looking around online, this seems to price at between £20 and £25 which is about standard for this type of product.
My baby loves this bouncer and really enjoys bouncing about in it. It can be noisy when he does so as the attachment moves up and down. I find it difficult get baby into the bouncer as he has to be put in through the top when the bouncer is in place, and equally difficult to remove him afterwards as his feet get tangled up in the bouncer. That aside, it is a really great toy that is very enjoyable for baby and is also good for mummy as I know where he is and that he is safe. It is also great exercise for baby before they start to crawl as it encourages baby to use their legs. I usually leave baby in there for around 10 minutes as I don't want him to tire himself out too quickly, but it can be used several times in a day and he is always happy to go in there.
In my opinion, this is a great toy for baby to have when they are discovering their feet. It is good value for money and really well made, I would definitely recommend this.
My six month old son David is a miserable little sod, it's a shame really because he's so inquisitive and it's usually frustration at not being able to do/see/reach something that sets him off. He's not really old enough to play with toys yet and even for such a young baby there is only so much excitement to be had by banging a rattle about, I knew he needed *something* to keep him occupied - and I knew I wanted that *something* to be a door bouncer.
I paid £14 for this Tigger door bouncer brand new from Ebay, mine is actually branded as a Disney Store product but I have seen the exact same bouncer available under the First Years and Lindam brands too. I presume it's one of those products that is manufactured and then sold on to the various baby companies for them to pop their own label in and package to their liking.
The bouncer looks great; the seat is printed with tiger stripes and there is a decent sized cuddly Tigger head attached to the front, plus a long tiger tail at the back. The seat is very roomy, too roomy for David at the moment actually and I keep having to pull him upright again as he keels to one side every so often. To be fair, although he's quite a chunky babe he is only at the minimum recommended age for the bouncer so at least the large seat will provide him with plenty of growing room. Actually, as far as I know there is no specified minimum recommended age for this product and parents are simply advised to use it only when baby can hold their own head up without any floppiness. For David this was at around five months, and although he wasn't able to actually bounce by then it pleased him as sitting so upright in the bouncer gave him a different and more exciting perspective.
The bouncer attaches to the door frame by way of a large clamp, I find this clamp extremely tough to open and being short I usually have to ask Mark to put it up anyway. The clamp needs to be tough to hold the weight of your child without any risk of it becoming detached from the door frame - I do get frustrated that I can't put it in place myself, but as a safety mechanism it does work perfectly.
Over the last couple of days David has started to bounce himself, rather than just hanging there like a spare part. In the early days I used to gently swing him while he sat in the bouncer, I must point out that this is not recommended (in fact using the bouncer as a swing is forbidden in the bouncer's safety notes) but providing you've attached the clamp securely and are very careful about what you're doing there shouldn't be a problem.
As a bouncer (rather than a swing) this is a fab product. You can adjust the 'dangle length' to suit your baby's height, I like to have it so that David's feet are flat to the floor without too much bend in his knees as I find this position encourages him to use his (not insubstantial) weight to bounce. Talking of weight, there is a 25lb weight limit with this bouncer, although in all honesty I doubt your little one will want to be in such an immobile position (bouncing notwithstanding) once he starts crawling and/or walking anyway.
The seat is apparently washable, I say apparently as for the life of me I can't work out how to detach it from the main body of the bouncer so in my house it remains a wipe-clean only item.
I have a 8 month old son called jack and from an early age he would kinda push up and down on my lap imatating bouncy movements, due to him being in hospital alot of his little life we have had to find ways of entertaining him by his bedside and I just use to bounce him on my lap.
When he was just over 4 months old my sister in law brought over this tigger doorway bouncer for jack to use, I was a bit wary of them at first as I wasnt convinced of how safe they were.
So this product is tiggers head and even his tail at the back (which I think is quite sweet) and it has bouncy ropes that at the top there is like a big clamp type thingy that just clasps on the wall ledge over the top of the doorway.
This is structured where you just slip your baby into it like a seat and you can adjust the height of it so they can touch the floor with their feet and bounce away.
This is suitable from 4 months plus.
If I was to buy this it would of cost me about £25- £30 which I think is a reasonable price for what it offers.
Also the saddle bit the baby sits in can be removed for washing.
You can find this on amazon, ebay, tesco and other good retail sites.
I think this is a very attractive and creative product as it is very eye catching for the baby thats in it, and another plus note is that tigger is a favourite character, and as you would expect this is a bright orange tigger with black stripes.
Before you put your baby into the seat please make sure the clasps are in the centre of the doorway to avoid any accidents of them bashing into the door.
So when I first put jack into this he was 4 months old and looked at me kind of confused as if to say "what you doing mum" lol but once he was in and I adjusted the height so he could just touch the floor, he just started bouncing around, he absolutely loved it!!!
4 months on and hes still bouncing around in it like a nutter lol.
He bounces really high and loves it, the only negative is that he twists around and he can get a bit muddled up and stuck so you have to make sure they are never left unattended.
He also seems to get his arm stuck between the bouncy ropes. When he gets really excited he bounces really high.
Now this does seem to squeak an alwful lot when hes bouncing but that might be because it was used before and given to us, I think it needs a bit of wd40 lol
It is quite hard to get them in and out I find as when im trying to put jack in it it swings about and jack also moves his legs so its a bit of hit and miss. Getting him out is also a challenge as you lift him up by his arms and kind of hold him close and then pull the rest of his body out with one hand but although I have said quite a few negatives it shows its secure. Please dont let these bad points put you off because jack just loves this and it helps him use his strength of his legs and feet to bounce which I think is good for them.
The good thing is that jack likes to watch my 2 year old and 9 year old playing as they dart from room to room and with this bouncer he can just turn himself around into each room to continue watching them.
Of course there is no time limit on how long a baby should be left in here but I find after about 20 minutes of bouncing jack gets a bit bored of it so we do it little and often.
So all in all I would definatly reccomend this to parents with babies 4 months and over as they love it.
I will give this 4 stars because its great and it only lost a star for the few negatives I pointed out.
Most of us can remember contraptions such as this from days gone by and it is good to see that they are still going strong, albeit updated and of course, like everything thesedays....branded!
This particular model is striking in its appearance in that it comes in the form of Tigger, the well-known Disney character. We recently bought one for our first grandchild and he loves it to bits (I have heard that some tots are frightened of it)
It is suitable for babies who are capable of supporting their own head unaided - typically from about 4 - 6 months old. Such an item would not be allowed to be marketed and sold had it not passed stringent Health and Safety tests. It can safely support weights of up to 12 kgs and is safe and easy to fit and use.
It certainly doesn't take long for most kids to learn. From an initial dangle and with a little encouragement from Mum, they quickly move to a gentle bounce and this brings lots of happy burbles and smiles.
As Baby becomes more confident and bounces more energetically, you will want to make sure he stays safe so it is not somewhere to dump Baby whilst Mum gets a bit of time to herself.
However, we all know how stressful parenthood can be, so although it was not designed with this in mind, the physics would suggest that it ought to be possible to launch Baby from the back door straight into the vegetable patch should he/she start to play up.
The door bouncer is fully adjustable and is designed to fit in any standard doorway. It has a fully washable and supportive saddle into which you fasten Baby. The saddle is suspended from the Tigger character, made from strong plastic. This part of the item comes with a battery which powers Tigger's bouncy sound - The Boing Boing Boing drives you crazy after a while, so you will be thankful that there is an on/off switch for this.
We would certainly recommend this item, but since it is something that Baby will outgrow in a matter of months, it's worth looking for a second hand one. There are plenty available on ebay at or around a tenner, a very worthwhile saving on the price for a brand new item.
We purchased this door bouncer when my daughter was around 3 months old. She was strong for her age and held her head up well- but this product isn't recommended for children under 4 months. Children can go in it up to 25lb - but to be honest they will have outgrown it developmentally way before then.
The product looks and feels to be particularly good quality. The material, colour and design are all very good. The front is a tigger head that rattles and the back has a tail.
It states that it is suitable for most door frames, but attaches by resting a plastic circle bit (I know that's not very technical) on the ridge of the door frame. So do check that yours are wide enough for this. Even if they are and you can fit the product safely I would never have felt comfortable leaving my daughter in this- and I always sat with her while she used it.
She always really enjoyed it. It is easy to adjust as you child grows to ensure that only their toes are touching the floor (as that's how they get maximum bounce). It is annoying if you leave it in a doorway that is in constant use- so you do really have to packk it away every time. If you think your child might be using a bouncer a lot then it might be better to invets in a more expensive free standing one. They however, do take up a lot of room. For us this was perfect and only cost £20. Which is well sorth it for the enjoyment my daughter had from it.
When my son was around 2months old a friend was having a clear out and came across this tigger bouncer and asked if I would like it, so I though I may as well and see if my son liked it. As I got it from a friend I do not know the exact price which was paid for it but after searching the internet it seems to cost around £20 depending upon where it is bought.
When we first got it my son was still a bit young to go in it but when he was around 4/5months and fully capable of holding his head up by himself we thought we would try him in it to see if he liked it and he absolutely loved it. The bouncer fits onto most interior doorways which have a minimum of a 13mm thick door frame. It attaches by prising open the clip and placing it on the door way and when you let go it closes over and remains securely in place and can be removed just as easily for when you are finished using it. The seat is padded for extra comfort for your child and is machine washable. The height of the bouncer is adjustable so that it can be altered to suit so only your child's toes touch the floor. My son loved it when he was in the bouncer and we rolled a ball to him as he would try and kick it back and want to do this over and over again.
The seat is orange with tigger's head on the front which has a rattle inside it for added fun and his tail on sticking out the back which my son would always try and catch even tho he never could as every time he turned to get it obviously the rear would turn as well so it was like a dog chasing its tail! The recommended age is for 4months and up til a maximum weight of 11.3kg (25lbs). The only problem which we had with it was that when my son got a big bigger but still able to use the bouncer the straps which hold the seat on began to get in the way and rub on his face/head sometimes. But overall a great buy which occupies young baby's and helps them to balance on there feet.
From time to time my nephew comes to visit and when he does I have to be prepared with activites / things to do as he can get very restless! One of the things I bought to keep him occupied as a young baby (he was about 4 months) was this 'Firth Years Tigger Door Bouncer'.
I bought it from argos at a cost of £15.99 as it was on offer, which I thought was a very reasonable price and was more than happy to pay it, though I think the normal price may be around £19.99.
It is a door bouncer, so the idea of is to attatch it to the door frame and simply allow the baby to bounce in it, however, I think the baby should always be watched or to be somewhere you can see the baby out the corner of your eye.
I really like the design of this one, which is one of the reasons as to why I picked it, it is a dinsey tigger theme, which means it is nice and fun for babies - though I am sure that they don't really care!
It is a lovely vibrant orange, with thick black stripes and tiggers head at the front, though if the baby is not in the door bouncer I do suggest you tqake it down as my nephew seemed to be mesmorised by tiggers head and kept on pulling at it and I was terrified that the whole thing was just going to fall on him.
As soon as he was in this his little face would really light up though, when it was purchased, due to it being from 3 months, he couldn't walk so it is a very great way to strengthen their legs and to encourage their gross motor skills.
Their are 4 straps attached to the seat and they seem very strong and sturdy, however are ever so slightly stretchy, so do allow for the baby to 'bounce' in it.
The seat itself was quite padded and around the top had a thicker rim which was very padded to keep the baby safely in place and to provide support. The seat also tends to stretch with the baby, so when you first buy it isn't huge on the child, however when the child begins to grown it does sort of stretch with the child and provide a snugger fit.
I would definitley reccomend this as it does provide endless hours of entertainment for the little ones and is great for is you have jobs to do, such as cooking or cleaning up as you can attach it to the door frame closest to you so can keep an eye on the baby and know that they are safe!
When I was younger I'm told I loved my door bouncer as a baby. I used to sit and bounce in it daily and used to get ever so excited (apparently!) when it was brought out! Knowing I loved it so much, my father thought that it might be genetic and bought my little boy a Tigger Door Bouncer when he was very young to play on. He paid £18 for the bouncer from a supermarket, which I believe was on offer at the time. For that amount, and the amount of enjoyment my son had out of it, I think it was well worth what my dad paid.
The bouncer consists of a harness which is decorated with the face of Tigger which I think is very cute, and has an orange and black tiger stripe pattern. Attached to this are some tough elasticated bouncy straps, which are blue in colour. The orange and blue colours are suitable for boys and girls, as the blue is a very pale colour, so this was good as it meant I could reuse the bouncer later when my daughter was very young too.
The Tigger Door Bouncer is attached to the top of the door frame by clipping the hook clamps to the door's frame. The bouncer comes with full instructions for fitting, as they are clearer than my description! Either way, once the bouncer is attached to the door, it's very secure and a hard solid tug will not shift the bouncer.
The bouncer is designed for babies up to 25lbs in weight and over 3 months old, and as my son was well under that weight, and around 5 months at that time, he was of a great weight to try this out.
When we first put him in the bouncer, with his legs through each one of the holes in what is basically a bouncing pair of pants, he didn't really have much of a clue what to do at first. After bobbing him up and down a little bit though, he eventually figured out that bending his legs would power him to bounce up and down. As soon as he figured this out, he bounced up and down constantly for half an hour, giggled solidly for most of it and completely tired himself out. Getting him out of the bouncer was not a problem for me either.
The supports around his legs on the bouncer were nice and soft and didn't dig into his legs at all, meaning he had a comfortable bouncing experience, which he always thoroughly enjoyed.
I'm not sure how many months it was before he was too big for it, but after a while, I noticed that the belt didn't come as high up his waist as it used to, and he was bouncing a bit too vigorously by that point. It was then I'd decided he'd outgrown his much loved Tigger bouncer.
==Tigger Door Bouncer==
The Tigger door bouncer was given to me by one of my best friends as she had had great success with the thing for her two children and as they are a little bit older than Jack it was the perfect age for him once they had grown out of it.
The bouncer itself would have costs around the £25 to £30 region so I did offer her some money for it but being good friends she didn't want anything for it and was happy to see it go to a good home. I couldn't wait for Jack to go in it as it looked to be such a fun item, and I wasn't wrong.
The door bouncer is a simple yet great item which can be fixed easily to the top of any door frame by simply clipping the large set of hook type clamps on the upper part of the wall above the door. These then rest slightly on the frame and Jack being a rather large baby I was concerned about him pulling off the frame and landing in a heap. This didn't happen but the frame did appear slightly more wobbly after using it than it did before but I would always check it before, during and after use and it still seemed very secure and unlikely to break off.
The product is suitable for babies aged four months and over and the seat gives a good bit of support for the child's front and back making them safe and snug once you have actually gotten them in the thing which was a little tricky at first. Once I had gotten the hang of getting Jack in there after a few goes of it, it did become easier and faster to do. I found the best way was to get the door bouncer set up and in place and then pick Jack up and slot him in the bouncer as you would do a baby swing.
The Tigger bouncer looks as good as the actual use of the thing is as there is a large soft toy Tigger head and it even has a little tail sticking out of the back. The Tigger head makes a little jingle noise as there is a little bell of some sort inside it which also makes another area of interest for little minds to investigate. The bright orange colour is appealing for baby's and the soft material that the item is made from makes sure it is very comfortable to use and easy to clean.
When Jack was in it he seemed to have such fun bouncing around but on occasions did find it has to get the bouncing technique right. The bouncer seemed to swing one way more so than the other from time to time but this didn't stop him having a great time in it. You d have to still keep a watchful eye on the child and it is not like you can leave them there hanging about and bouncing without someone there to make sure they are safe and not getting all twisted up.
The fact that Jack had so much fun in the item, albeit for a relatively short period of time meant that I though this item was a great one and I would have been happy to have purchased it myself. I have kept this item along with only a few others in anticipation of the next child (when we have enough money to have another one) and I found it one of the few baby items that was actually rather good.
All in all I think a 4 star rating for this product is fair. The one minus mark is that it can get twisted up a little if the child tries to spin around in it and it may well have done a touch of damage to the top of the door frame (not that you would really notice this though).
I do hope that this has been of some help/interest to you.
Many thanks for taking the time to read
Following my Winnie The Pooh theme, my brother in law purchased this for my daughter when she was around 4 months old. I had mixed feelings about the door bouncer. I thought it would be fun for her but on the other hand I was worried about how safe it would be. After all, it hangs from the door frame and it has to support a childs full weight.
I got it out of the box to see this little Tigger style seat for your child to sit in with a 3D Tigger face on it and 3D tail sticking out the back and then the seat is covered in Tigger style colurs. The seat has two holes for your child to put their legs through. It has blue straps which connect to the spring bit which you clip over your door frame. You do not need to assemble this or put it together it is all already done for you. The bouncer is fully adjustable to different heights so you can find a height you and your baby are most comfortable with.
Please note before putting your child in this that they must be four months and able to hold their head up alone. If not, this item is not suitable. The bouncer can be used until your child weighs 25lbs which is the maximum weight this product can hold.
Once it was secured to the door frame by my husband, we put our daughter in it. I hated every second she was in it, terrified that it would come down with her in it. Luckily for me, my daughter was not very impressed with the bouncer and decided to cry everytime she was put in it! Instead of bouncing and screaming happily, she was screaming with dislike so we took her out of it for her to never use again.
Whilst it is very well made, stitched together nearly and sturdily. The straps appeared to be nice and strong too but I was still glad when my daughter didn't like it because I wouldn't have been able to fully settle in my mind with her being in it.
It costs around £22 from Amazon.co.uk and I do think it is down to the individual parent as to whether or not they would want their child to use it.
I got this Tigger door bouncer for my 4 month old son 2 weeks ago and I have to say it is the best thing I have got him so far. He is constantly wanting to be on his feet and those parents out there will know that having to hold a baby constantly when they want to stand up can be time consuming!
When I first got this I checked it all as soon as I got it out the box. Initially I thought that it looked very well made with no faults. It came in a compact box with a set of clear instructions.
This bouncer is very easy to put up and adjust using the adjustable strap for height. It is very secure and I have no worries about it at all. Once I put my son in this he absolutely loved it. The colours are lovely and bright with a face and tail on the body which makes it more fun for the child. My son has used this non stop since I got it. I like the freedom it gives him to feel independent whilst still being safe. i have not had to wash it yet so cannot comment on how easy it is to remove the fabric seating part to wash- I will keep you posted!
The only couple of problems i have found is that it does not fit easily on all my door frames, this may be due to the previous owners of my house putting sliding doors everywhere though! Also it can be difficult to get your child out again due to the plastic bouncer part in the middle- I find you have to lift out very strategically to ensure your child does not hit their head! Despite this though it was a great purchase and I have already had more than enough usage out of it to make it value for money.
We were given one of these as a hand me down, and to be honest, I'm glad we didn't pay for it, as I found it's life span to be quite limited. Either your little one is too small to sit in it comfortably for anything over 5 minutes or, after a few months, they are ready to walk and don't want to sit still in something that restricts their movements.
Sure, it is a fun product to have around, it looks cute and makes a slightly less annoying repetitive noise than most of the similar toys on the market (the whole turn down the volume till it is just a vaguely irritating background noise was a winner for me) and you can have minutes of hilarity watching their little face light up with the joy of bouncing- but trying to move it out of the way everytime you wanted to go out of the room was irksome.
All in all, a fun product that will last a few months and give you some laughs, but not something to invest in if you want a toy which will keep them entertained for more than 10 minutes.
My parents brought this for my daughter for christmas. I was really excited because I had one of these when I was younger and even more excited because it was tigger - my all time favorite Disney character.
I got it out of the box straight away and got my dad to hang it on the door so my daughter could have a go.
At 5 months old she wasn't that interested and didnt really know what she was supposed to be doing but she soon got the hang of it and was soon jumping up and down!!
I was quite concerened about her little feet as I wasnt really sure how high or low she was supposed to be hanging and how flat on the floor her feet should be as there was no guide but she seemed comfortable so I let her get on with it.
After watching my dad hang it up and I knew how to do it I found it really easy to get on and off the door and it seemed really sterdy and safe. I had no fear of her falling out or it coming unattached as it simply was not possible. I did fear that she would get a little too over excited and bang into the door frame but it seemed her little legs wernt strong enough to swing that hard anyway.
Although I was really pleased with the product I found it really hard to get her in and out of it and sometimes she got caught and it even became dangerous. As I lifted her up I would bang her head on the plastic bit that was holding it all together and I couldnt seem to get her feet out of the holes and we had all sorts of trouble. It was really hard and I soon stopped putting her in it if I didnt have an extra pair of hands to help me get her out of it!
The swing is really steardy and as I said before I cannot tell you how safe I felt when she was in there. It is very soft around the legs and baby always seemed really comfortable in it.
The bouncer can be brought in various places and many popular high street stores such as Tesco. It is around £20 but can be picked up cheaper.
The weight limit is 25lb but I would suggest 20lb max as my daughter is not 22lb and she is far too big for it. She could easily topple out of it now as the belt does not come up high enough and there is no way to harness the baby in completely. The straps can obviously be adjusted according to babies height meaning she can bounce as high as she likes. The suspension is not too much though so it wont become dangerous as baby gets more mobile.
The baby gets really tired using this bouncer which is an added bonus as when she comes out she wants to sleep. It has certainly made her little legs stronger and she gets very excited when she sees tigger coming out - or at least she did until she got too big for him :( recommended!!
My sister had one of these for her little girl and it was fab, i had to go out and get one for my little lady too and boy did she love it.
we bought this at around 6/7 months when she was learning to pull her self up so i figured that it would be good for her to use her feet a little more and get use to been stood up and bouncing.
she really loved it! it gives excellent support thanks to how it fits and the noise's encouraged her to move about and jump more and more,it was great to see.
we used it well over a year and passed it onto a friend when my little one had outgrown it and its back in use again for another baby to give even more enjoyment to someone else.
excellent value and lots of fun a great buy
I bought his item when i was about 8 months pregnant. It has a funky 'tigger' design and is bright in colour.
It says ont the box that it is suitable from 3 months upwards, but it all depends on your child, I would reccommend it to be used once your child can hole thier head up, and can sit supported.
The bouncer can be adjusted to different hieghts to siut your baby and your door frame.
There is a clamp wich snugly fits over the top of your door frame, the added bonus being that there is no assembly required. It can easily be put up and removed. the seat part fully supports your baby, and thier weight. Because of the deisgn it should not (when used correctly) cause any damage to your door frame. It can also be easily cleaned. The spirngs (for the bouncing effect) are encased in a sturdy plastic so your little ones will not hurt thier fingers. Because the bouncer is so light and compact it can be easily transported around (very handy for going to grandmas!).
The chair features a 3D head, (of Tigger) on the front and his tail on the reverse. Which will keep your child entertained, (though my son did try to eat his and lent forward, but he never fell out).
All in all this is a great product and will keep your child boucing and happy for a good couple of months before they outgrow it.
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NCSE's executive director Eugenie C. Scott received an honorary degree from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, on December 17, 2006, in recognition of her dedication to promoting the sound teaching of science in schools across the country. The citation read in part:
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"Pay a visit to the Biologic Institute and you are liable to get a chilly reception," Celeste Biever wrote in New Scientist (December 15, 2006).
Writing in the Guardian (December 13, 2006), James Randerson evaluates the recent attempts of creationists to sabotage evolution education in Britain's public schools.
"Today, scientists were told that an epic battle is raging -- and they must don their armor, head for the trenches and join the fight." Thus a report on Nature's newsblog from the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology, where Barbara Forrest and Kenneth R. Miller were presented with Public Service Awards on December 10, 2006.
In the latest from the United Kingdom, the Guardian (December 7, 2006) reported that the British government is preparing to "write to schools telling them that controversial teaching materials promoting creationism should not be used in science lessons." The materials in question, which include two "intelligent design" DVDs, were sent to the science heads of every secondary school in the United Kingdom by a new creationist group styling itself Truth in Science.
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Donahou said eight hang-gliders came and flew off the mountain, which drew a lot of people. He also said about 100 people came to Sunrise Point to watch fireworks going off down in the Arkansas River Valley.
"Now that the Fourth is actually over we'll still have a lot of campers and people staying in cabins," Donahou said. "The park will still be busy, but it will be more of a normal busy. We do have lots of visitation going on right now."
Donahou said the swimming pool is open and that visitors are always welcome at the park.
Lake Dardanelle State Park also received several holiday visitors and expects many visitors for the weekend.
"Our campsights are full," park superintendent Andy Thomas said. "We've had a tremendous amount of picnickers and people coming out to enjoy the weather."
Thomas said this was some of the best Fourth of July weather he's seen in all of his years at the park.
"Tuesdays and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m., we feed the fish in the aquarium at the Visitor Center," Thomas said. "It's a neat place. You can spend a whole day in the Visitor Center learning about the critters in the area."
"We welcome people to come out and fish and picnic and have a good time," Thomas said.


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Discussion in 'Science Fiction & Fantasy' started by FordSVT, Sep 28, 2009.
And "Mad Cow lead to Mad People led to Mad Zombies."
Maybe the zombies were easy to kill because the movie wasn't really about zombies.
I wouldn't be surprised if they push it a bit. It was, surprisingly enough, originally planned to air on NBC before they shelved it.
Here's a little about the graphic novel the series is based on: The Walking Dead.
The 'Zombies' were not dead, they just had a very bad disease and thus still humanly vulnerable and easier to kill. Still, remember the 'Double Tap' rule
..but my God,
Spoiler: cameo
How much of Bill Murray's ass were they going to kiss?
I would have found the original cameo they had planned far better though, but it would've been sad to see because of recent events.
Patrick Swayze was the original cameo that was planned and they were going to do a homage of his scenes in ghost at the pottery wheel.
Saw it today.
Awesomeness. Just awesomness.
Oh, and Emma Stone. Hotnesssssssssssssss
Okay, that was a frakking awesome movie. And I'm not usually all that into zombie flicks. Woody Harrelson was just hilarious, and that cameo!
I liked Jesse Eisenberg, too. He gets compared a lot to Michael Cera, but Cera's shtick just feels phony. Eisenberg can actually do more than just act like an awkward, gangly kid all the time.
And Emma Stone is 100% pure zombie-killing hotness.
I hope we see another adventure in Zombieland.
Eisenberg does a better Cera than Cera.
Yeah, Eisenberg certainly has range. His roles in Roger Dodger and The Squid and The Whale have proven that.
Kick ass movie. Most fun I had in theater in a long while. Taking my grandfather to see it on the weekend.
Oh really!!!
I didn't know that.
Yeah, that wouldn't have come off funny anymore.
Yeah it was mentioned on one of the talk shows (I think the TV Guide talk show - no I don't watch it I was looking at the listings and didn't have the internet up) that he'd been approached but said no.
What they'd had planned was that one of the characters would have been unwinding and playing with a pottery wheel they found in a house they were hiding out at. While the character was working with clay the Swayze zombie would come in behind them and sit down and work with the clay then try to bite her.
I think the Swayze zombie would've been funnier now.
*shrug* But I'm like that.
If it was me, and I got a terminal disease, and the filmmakers came to me and said 'maybe we won't do that,' I would've been like, 'NO! We have to do it now, and if I die, promise me you'll leave it!"
^ Considering he had a lot of trouble with many of the scenes from the movie Ghost I don't think he'd want them in. A few days ago E!'s stupid news show had an audio recording from one of his tapes where he said that he could barely sit through the film because he had a lot of trouble with seeing himself on screen dead and that he couldn't sleep after he watched himself die.
just finish watching it and I have to say I loved it. funny!! even my wife who hates zombie flicks enjoyed it. but I have to say I'm surprised they lived at all with all the dumb ass mistakes they did (talking inverse that is)
I have never seen ZOMBIELAND..and I want too. Is it appropriate for an almost 8 year old kid to see? My son has already seen movies like DIE HARD and ALIENS and loves them, with the cussing and all, and he hasn't been affected in a bad way at all. (Okay, he called his sister shithead one day, but ..she was)...
If he's seen Die Hard and Aliens then Zombieland isn't likely to contain anything worse than either of those movies, although I wouldn't exactly say this movie is appropriate for an 8-year-old.
Nudity: None other than a stripper (with pasties on the nipples) during the opening credits sequence. No significant nudity during the main nartative of the movie.
Violence: Lots of it, but it's over-the-top violence/blood and only in the movie's "action sequences."
Language: Strong, but not much worse than movies like Die Hard.
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LONDON Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Tuesday (Jan. 8) it has demonstrated working silicon of two quad-core x86 system-chips intended for ultrathin notebooks and convertible tablet-notebooks. Both chips are believed to have been implemented using a 28-nm manufacturing process.
Codenamed Temash and Kabini, AMD demonstrated applications and games running on a Kabini-based ultrathin notebook and on a Temash convertible tablet-notebook at Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Both system chips are scheduled to ship in the first half of 2013, AMD said, but the company did not provide details of the chips' maximum clock frequencies or power consumption.
AMD said it expects Temash to be the highest-performance SoC for tablets, with 100 percent more graphics processing performance than its predecessor, called Hondo. Kabini will be shipped in two- and four-core versions, and AMD said it expects the chip to deliver an increase of more than 50 percent in performance over its earlier processor called Brazos 2.0. Both chips are expected to include GCN-based graphics. GCN graphics core next is the basis of AMD's SIMD-based GPUs.
Announced last February, Temash combines AMDs Jaguar x86 core, graphics processor and a south bridge in a 28-nm SoC, the first integrated tablet chip created under AMDs new executive team. It competes with Intels Atom-based Clover Trail which debuted in September with about a dozen design wins.
AMD also introduced a 32-nm APU, codenamed "Richland," which it is currently shipping to OEMs. AMD said it expected to ship Richland with bundled software for gesture and facial recognition. The follow-on to Richland will be the 28-nm APU, codenamed "Kaveri," which is expected to begin shipping to customers in the second half of 2013.
--Rick Merritt contributed to this report from San Jose.
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Assorted bests and worsts from college football's week that was:
• Best throwback (see what we did there?): Can't go wrong with a classic, can we, Aaron Murray?
• Unofficial Heisman winner of our hearts: AJ McCarron, but not for the football-related reasons you might think. No, Alabama's quarterback won our undying allegiance much earlier in the day, after dropping this little number on GameDay:
AJ McCarron to ESPN on handling wrath of Saban: "I always mess with him. I always say it kind of makes you feel as small as him."
— Jon Solomon (@jonsol) November 3, 2012
• Saddest coaching development: Being reportedly already deprived of the can't-miss combo of John Calipari and Bobby Petrino operating at the same school. Football's trickster gods are capricious and cruel and NEVER WANT US TO HAVE ANY FUN.
• Closest call we didn't even know was a close call at the time:
Upon further review, No. 2 Chris Brown and No. 2 Bennett Jackson were both on the field when Pitt kicker Harper missed the game-winner.
— Irish Illustrated (@NDatRivals) November 4, 2012
If the Irish had been flagged (they were called for this against Purdue for double No. 15's), it would have been first down Pitt.
— Irish Illustrated (@NDatRivals) November 4, 2012
• Nick Florence Award: Putting up monstrous numbers in a loss this week (and last week, actually): Marqise Lee, with 251 kick return yards against Oregon.
• Most welcome and feared reversal of fortune: We have pretty much been waiting for this to tear our West Coast family and friends apart for like six weeks now, and it's finally here, with UCLA outranking USC for the first time since 2001. (It's only a fun rivalry if the other team gets to swing back, y'all.)
• Best imaginary bowl bids: Who wouldn't love to see an Aggies-Longhorns Cotton Bowl or a postseason Backyard Brawl? Haters, probably.
• Grape Job, Big Bunch Edition: This week's Grape Job! sticker is awarded to Hebert the Elder, for getting himself tossed out of the Death Valley press box, and Hebert the Younger, for going on about Les Miles' 20-sided-die playcalling like it is a new and surprising development. (Friend of the program Run Home Jack, on Bobby: "AT LEAST HE'S NOT A BLOGGER.") Taking the top spot for Week 11 on our LSU parent-child tandem leaderboard: The mother-daughter beer pong team spotted by Andy Staples before the game.
• Funnest fakeout: Had to make another best bamboozling category just so we didn't have to leave out Cincinnati's jump pass:
• Best new gameday drink. Let it not be said that the Tennessee-Troy game was good for nothing but gray hairs and broken records.
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(Note – this post is from March 2008 – things have changed. Please see the bottom of this article for links to more recent wind power posts )
Don't look now but it appears residential renewable energy systems and wind power technology are getting cheaper. California based Freetricity's E2D Windmaster is a roof-mounted small residential wind turbine that comes with an affordable price tag. Though it sports a small propeller that could prove hazardous to hummingbirds and the like (though its size and roof mounting will reduce bird and animal interactions) and it doesn't look like it could withstand hurricane-force winds, the price and benefits may make it worth exploring. (some comments below indicate otherwise)
From their press release (via: newswire)
"Freetricity introduces the all-new WindMaster, a roof mounted micro wind turbine that can generate enough energy to turn your electric meter backwards. Reasonably priced the WindMaster is small enough to be used in urban areas yet powerful enough to lower electric bills 25%-50%, or more.
WindMaster is available in four different power packages. The Grid Connects unique design is the most convenient system and supplies the most kilowatt-hours of power of all the packages. Simply mount the wind turbine to your roof, wire it to the grid connect inverter, and wire the inverter into the supply panel. The power generated by the WindMaster is supplied to your homes supply panel first; however, if it generates more power than you are currently using it will spin your meter backwards. Your electric company will then give you credit or cash for the power you generate.
The 12-Volt, 24 and 48-Volt packages are battery-based systems. They charge the battery first then supply the users home with the stored voltage and current through a DC to AC inverter. The 12-Volt Basic package is the starter system and because it is easy to regulate the output of the WindMaster, it can be upgraded to any other E2D system. This upgrade ability applies to all system packages and is unique to the renewable industry.
The WindMaster is weather-resistant and constructed of high-impact, powder-coated steel and comes with a five-year warranty. This unique system can also be used as a stand-alone backup system for electrical blackout and /or brownouts."
The larger 48volt model produces 300 to 400 kwh per month with 6 hours of 12mph wind a day. Models range in price from $1,399 (12v) to $2,299 (48V) @ freetricity.com
Note: There have been some questions by readers regarding this company's business practices – see comments.
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powerhouse wind's single blade residential turbine
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Swift Wind Turbine- quiet rooftop windpower
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Bradley drawing rave reviews in first camp
Highly touted prospect constantly working at improving defense, offense
By Ian Browne / MLB.com
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Watch the Red Sox take batting practice on any given morning during Spring Training and you will notice the usual clusters of players gathered in the outfield, making small talk and occasionally throwing their glove toward a lazy fly ball.
Then there is Jackie Bradley, who is standing by himself in center field, playing a little game within the game. Bradley is measuring the angles, lining up where the ball is going to be and making sure he's there before it lands.
"It definitely helps," said Bradley, who is ranked the Red Sox's No. 2 prospect by MLB.com. "I'm constantly working at it. I just don't do it for fun. I'm actually working on something while I'm doing it. I'm just trying to get better in any different facet of the game. That's part of my routine. Just like you have a hitting routine, I have a defensive routine. That's what I do."
Selected by the Red Sox with the 40th overall pick in the 2011 First-Year Player Draft, Bradley, who played his college years at the University of South Carolina, is in Major League camp for the first time. He seems primed to roar through the farm system and could have a full-time job in Boston by next season, particularly if Jacoby Ellsbury leaves as a free agent.
In the confines of the clubhouse, Bradley is located in nearly the exact same spot as Will Middlebrooks was last year. Bradley is in the far back corner, where he knows his job is to be seen and not heard.
Middlebrooks is now entrenched as the starting third baseman in the position to appreciate the way the 22-year-old Bradley is handling himself in his first camp.
"He listens," Middlebrooks said. "I think that's one of the most important things to do when you're here and it's your first year. Just open your eyes and your ears and watch what everyone else does."
In the quiet of the morning, Bradley has eagle eyes as players like Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia go through their morning routines.
"I'm picking up a lot of things, certain routines, even starting from in the cages in the morning," Bradley said. "I watch guys' work ethic in the weight room. It's just something that you can always pick up and learn. You don't even have to have much conversation or dialogue, but just by watching and seeing what certain players do, because, like I said, they've been in this league for a long time, so they know the ropes and the tricks and the trades to how to do it the right way."
Bradley seems to grasp the balancing act of toning down his typically outgoing personality but still interacting when he needs to.
"I don't think I completely suppress it. I feel like I'm still an outgoing guy," Bradley said. "I'll still ask questions. If you don't know, it's better to ask questions to people who do know so that way you won't make a mistake or something like that. The thing is, you don't want to run over anybody's toes.
"You try to get in here early and stay out of their way, because they have their routines as well. We develop our routines, and once we become the veteran guys that they are, then we can have that little bit of leeway of when we can do stuff when we want."
Every time Bradley gets on the field in a game -- which has been quite a bit so far -- he makes something happen and makes someone take notice.
"Every time he's stepped on the field, he's done something very positive. For a young player, he's sound fundamentally," said manager John Farrell. "Defensively he takes outstanding routes to some difficult plays in the outfield, even in the early going here. And he's hit both left-handed and right-handed pitching. As we said yesterday, for a young player to make a positive impression in camp, he's gotten off to a very good start."
Watching Bradley play the outfield, sometimes it seems as if he has a tracking device attached to the bill of his cap.
"We talk about it in the staff room -- you'd think he's been working at this a long time, because your eyes are trained to follow the pitch and then you see contact, and it almost seems like before contact is made, he's already on the move," Farrell said. "It's been impressive to see that. If you just time the sheer foot speed, it's not like he's a world class sprinter where he's going to outrun the baseball. His instincts and his routes are exceptional."
For all the talk about his defense, Bradley can hit. He projects as a top-of-the-order type of left-handed hitter with the ability to wear out the gaps and hit the midteens in home runs.
Entering Wednesday's game against the Pirates, Bradley was 8-for-17 with five runs scored.
As the farm director with the Indians, Farrell witnessed the first professional steps of center fielder Grady Sizemore, who emerged into a superstar before injuries started to derail his career.
Any similarities?
"Similar temperament. Nothing was ever taken for granted," said Farrell. "They hustled every play, turn down the baseline every chance at the plate. Everything they had was all out. We've seen that from Jackie. Both had good defensive capabilities. Jackie's got a better throwing arm. The one thing that came late with Grady was his power. He didn't hit for much power in the Minor Leagues, but that blossomed later on."
Part of the rite of passage for any prospect is being compared to someone else, but Bradley won't worry about any of that stuff.
What fulfills him is being on the field.
"I love it. I really enjoy it," Bradley said. "Playing on the field itself, I enjoy the game as a whole and being able to do the offensive and defensive side of the game, it elates me."
Bradley has made an impression on pretty much everyone who has watched him.
"Very impressed," Middlebrooks said. "He looks really comfortable out there. A lot of guys are pretty nervous their first camp, and he really looks really comfortable."
Spend even 30 seconds talking to Bradley and you get the impression that nervous isn't an emotion he's all that familiar with.
"I've never really been the type of person to ever get nervous or shy away from anything," Bradley said. "I know I can play the game. I know I can play it at a high level. Playing up here, usually when you play at a higher level, you try to step up your level of competition and your competitiveness. That's what I've been able to do, being able to compete at the highest level so far."
As for when Bradley will get to compete at the highest level on a full-time basis, nobody really knows.
What was Middlebrooks thinking at this time last year?
"I was thinking later in the year," said Middlebrooks, who was in Boston before April was finished. "You never know. Be ready."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The Texas Longhorns already have one offensive line commitment for the 2014 recruiting class, with Demetrius Knox giving Texas a pledge in late November of last year. The Longhorn coaches continue to evaluate other top linemen both in the state of Texas and out of state, and Jasper center Terrell Cuney is squarely in the mix.
Texas offensive line coach Stacy Searels stopped by Jasper High School on Monday, and Cuney is scheduled to attend a Texas junior day in February.
"They just came by the school today. They cant really talk to me so they mostly talked to my coaches," Cuney said. "They can't talk a lot, so I just don't bother ask a lot of questions. I just said hi. They didn't give me a scholarship offer but I'm thinking one could be coming soon. I hope so."
Along with Texas, the 6-3, 260-pound Cuney is hearing from the likes of Oklahoma State, Texas A&M and LSU. The Longhorns invited Cuney to attend either their February 10 or February 23 junior day, and the center prospect plans to make his way to Austin for the latter event.
"I guess I'm fitting in pretty good with Texas. They seem to show a lot of interest in me," Cuney said. "It's great getting that from Texas. I like Texas.
"Oklahoma State, Texas A&M, LSU and Texas - those are the main ones that are showing interest. Texas of course is standing out because they come down and show a lot of interest. Oklahoma State too. I get letters every day from them."
One of the state's top offensive line prospects, Cuney said it's his on-the-field mentality that he feels is grabbing the attention of college coaches.
"I just play with total violence. I play hard. I say I have an alter ego. I turn into a different person on the field and play with a high motor," Cuney said. "I don't stop. Once I get locked on to somebody, it's a wrap. You're going for a ride.
"I actually had one guy in a game that asked me where we were going. I told him to the fence and that's where I took him. I couldn't laugh because I was in beast mode, but he actually asked where I was taking him. I just got locked on perfectly and pretty much took him off his feet.
"That's when I think people started watching on film. Off the field, I'm the nice Terrell that everybody knows. On the field, I just love the violence."
Cuney is already highly-regarded in the eyes of college coaches, but he knows there is still room to improve.
"I can get better with my technique. I try to be a technician," Cuney said. "I stay after practice, do steps, do my drills and then do it all over again. I try to perfect it. When I work out, everybody else goes home, then I'll go back in and do an extra set. I want to make it so bad. I don't fatigue, don't get tired. I just keep going."


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IKE: Gill Rea
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This unit is the first of two in the Clinical Studies Cluster: Year 1. Aligned with quality and safety principles opportunities are provided for students to explore and develop nursing knowledge and foundational skills for the provision of person-centred care. Key concepts to be addressed include assessment and management of patient functional status and potential for risk and injury. In addition promotion of patient comfort will be explored. During a one (1) week clinical placement students will have the opportunity to further develop and apply relevant knowledge and skills learned in this and other units.
Assessment task 1: Online tests 3 x 20 minutes (equivalent 1000 words) 40%
Assessment task 2: Clinical assessment: 40 hours pass/fail
Assessment task 3: Examination (2 hours) 60%
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Skills (equivalent 500 words)
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In accordance with Department of Human Services policy, all students are required to undertake a National Police Record Check prior to clinical placements in each calendar year of their course.
In accordance with the Department of Justice 2007, Working with Children Act 2005, amended 2017, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at the commencement of their course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check and a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of clinical placement will not be able to undertake clinical placement and this will impede progress in the course.
Students may also be required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student's immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation.
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- Berman, A., Snyder, S., Levett-Jones, T., Dwyer, T., Hales, T., Harvey, N., Langtree, T., Moxham, L., Parker, B., Reid-Searl, K. & Stanley, D. (2018). Kozier and Erb's fundamentals of nursing (4th Australian ed.). Melbourne: Pearson.
- Tollefson, J. & Hillman, E. (2016). Clinical psychomotor skills: assessment tools for nursing students (6th ed. revised). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning
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Looks like Emma Watson is less of a wallflower than her new movie would have you believe.
During an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, the actress, 22, shared footage of a dance rehearsal from her new movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower, which inspired Fallon to ask her if she could teach him a few moves.
"Yeah, for sure," a confident Watson responded, adding, "Are you down?"
The pair then made its way over to the Late Night stage, where Watson broke down some of cinema's most iconic choreography, including jazz hands from Singin' in the Rain, the carnival sequence from Grease and the Dirty Dancing lift.
But while the idea may have been Fallon's, it proved to be a memorable moment for the star as well.
"Danced with [Jimmy Fallon] tonight. #anotherboxticked," she later Tweeted.


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Dior Homme Les Essentiels 4 Parka & Shearling Overcoat
Dior Homme presents its reworked Officer Green color palette classics, the Parka and the Shearling Overcoat. A highlight of the Autumn/Winter 2012 fashion show, this Officier Green water-resistant nylon gabardine Parka ensures a chic, sportswear look, with a high collar, a hood and zipped back with linen braid detail.
The Officer Green water-resistant woollen belted Overcoat guarantees cutting-edge styling with its shawl collar, detachable white shearling inserts and double-breasted 6-button fastening.
You can purchase the Parka here and the Overcoat here, both directly from Dior.
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So this "little" chappy wandered into my house through an open window tonight and it looked unusual.
Ive never seen a spider that looks like this before and it sparked my intrest, it may just be a house spider but its marking looked intresting!
so If anyone knows what it is I'd love to know!
(escuse the shoddy paintwork)
It's a garden cross spider, Araneus diadematus - very common. The ones in my garden are nowhere near adult yet but yours looks a bit bigger (from its proportions). Even so, it's probably not quite adult.
What awful paintwork!
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Reading that article it says he's going on an academic scholly rather than an athletic one. Doesn't that mean that if he sets foot on the field he'll count towards the 85 limit? Something in my mind is telling me yes, that this is a similar situation to the Bryant Scholarship.
I've read the end of The Book and I know who wins!
Wasn't recruited so it won't matter
Nothing like his brother football wise.
You got his name wrong, it should be Mosley not Mosely.
Maybe he'll turn out to be another Rashad Johnson.
These sort of people are very important to the program. You do have a lot of 5 stars, a lot of people apparently destined for the NFL, but you need people that are there just simply because they want to be.
Apologies if I said anything that could be construed as a personal insult.
"Everybody that chooses to go to the game should stay there and support the team for the game." - Nick Saban
Glad to see James follow CJ's footsteps. Never know how James will turn out. We've had the younger Castille brother on campus for a few years now. Sounds like he is pretty intelligent also. Never hurts to add to that team GPA and graduation rate. Welcome home James.
I don't know the kid personally but Ive watched him. James is a darn good athlete and was one of the best players in the Mobile area and that's saying something. I would not be surprised to see him earn a scholly in a couple of years and play at Bama. He's an exceptional player and he will be a true leader. Keep your eye on this one in the future.
Welcome, James!
"...Defense shut 'em down! Offense make plays! Hey, let's go be champions, boys!"- Greg McElroy
Not surprising that he does so well in the classroom. C.J. always excelled academically, as well.
Even if not recruited, IIRC, if he plays in the first two years, he counts against the 85. Damn, I hate the crooks and turns of the anti-Bryant rule, or, at least, this one...
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. - Ellen Parr"
'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' - Steve Jobs
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Traditions Club is the private golf club and residential community in Aggieland! Nestled among majestic native hardwoods, rolling hillsides, the natural banks of the Turkey Creek, and the new Texas A&M Health Science Center, Traditions has a setting like no other in the Brazos Valley. In the center of 900 acres, you will find the Jack Nicklaus and Jack Nicklaus II Design championship golf course. This provides the perfect backdrop to the luxurious club amenities and is home to the Texas A&M Men's and Women's Golf Teams. Additionally there are homesites that range from a fourth acre garden site to sprawling estate sites over an acre in size.
In addition to being recognized as one of the best golf courses in Texas, Traditions Club includes a family swim center with beach-like wading pool for the little ones, a sport and leisure pool, and a 25-meter junior Olympic lap pool, and casual dining. Fine dining is available in the Clubhouse, which offers the Century Ballroom, Twelfth Man Dining Room, Sul Ross Room and, wine cellar, and outdoor terrace. Our Men's and Women's Locker Rooms finalized our Club development with a February 2011 opening.
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Groups set up leash lending stations for dog owners
BOZEMAN, Mont. - A group of Bozeman dog lovers wants to help dog owners avoid getting a ticket for not using a leash.
Folks with Bozeman Parks and Recreation have teamed up with the Gallatin Valley Land Trust, Dee-O-Gee and the nonprofit Run Dog Run to put up leash lending stations around town. "I really liked how it was a collaboration of city government and nonprofits and a local business all working towards the same goal, regardless of what industry or area that it's in. It's unique when those three entities can come together for a common cause," says Dee-O-Gee Owner Josh Allen. Folks with Run Dog Run tell us similar stations have been put out in Missoula with great success. We spoke to folks with Dee-O-Gee, which donates the leashes. They tell us they wanted to get involved with the community. "The hope is that you can use them to jog with your dog and walk it or run with it and you normally would if you had your leash with you, not just a cheap little thing that you can't really use. So, it was our hope that we would contribute something valuable," explains Allen. Areas the group found with the most citations for dogs off-leash are the areas around Peet's Hill, Bozeman Ponds and south of town in Tuckerman Park, Sourdough Trail and Sundance Springs Trail. So far there are 10 kiosks up. The group aims to put up another 10 to 15.


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Monday, overcast and raining, the trees are budding and even before the rain the street sweats. Spring waits behind the clouds. Austin being a vain city who always likes to brag to those who come for South by Southwest it's always perfect here. Have you ever been here for SXSW? It's a big music festival that fills the town with people who pack the bars and clubs to see hundreds of bands who come from all over the world to play for next to nothing in the hope that they will be discovered and become the Next Big Thing. For a week music is the front page story in the paper and every public address system in Texas blares from any open space that can be found that is in reach of an extension cord. Not a bad way to celebrate spring, really. My only critique is that while the hotels, clubs, cabs, shops, restaurants and alcohol sellers all have a very profitable week the whole party gets paid by the musicians, who as I said before get paid about $100 bucks per band. And the local pickers get run out of their home gigs and lose their paycheck to the music pilgrims who might spend their whole nest egg to come and play to an empty room for 40 minutes. Don't get me wrong, it's a great party, but I wish some of the cash could trickle down to the players that make it happen.
But all that is far from my mind as I take stock of this last weekend. The band played down at the Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos on Friday, One of Texas's great sounding rooms (when the train isn't passing just a few feet beyond the wall, although that does sound really cool). On Saturday night, Ian and I drove up I-35 to Dallas to play at the Uptown Theatre in Grand Prairie doing a song swap with Darrel Scott and my buddy Jon Dee Graham that kept us all in stitches till the end when Jon Dee led us into the crowd to sing "Dreaming of Mohammed Ali". All of us left the theatre bouncing on the balls of our feet.
Home at 3 am, up in the morning to head out to visit my friend Don Ford, and his family, south of Austin to pick a little music and pick a little greens in the garden. Don has run farms of all sorts for years, but still plants a plot with a hoe "to keep close to the ground". I'm chewing on some broccoli from his patch right now, but my daughter didn't even wait tell we got it home, just walking down the turn-row pulling greens off the plants and stuffing her face. I hope whoever wins the Next Big Thing crown has some way to keep their feet in the dirt, partly for their sake, and partly for ours, as there seems to be a strong connection between the earth and what I have come to know as good music. Colin Brooks, guitar player and songwriter who holds up his end of the Band of Heathens said the same to me, on some farm in Europe that had been invaded by drunken festival patrons. It's something about the scale of the seasons, the stooping to touch and take from the ground, the faith in the land rewarded that gives soul to man, and through music that soul is shared and celebrated. Happy spring everybody, we made it another year.


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When Bill Foot arrived on the fourth floor of MPR, he took me to a window to point out a building on Minnesota Street where his grandfather started a shoe factory. Bill now works as the manager of IT support at Red Wing Shoes - and yes, his name is a 'perfect fit.'
Bill is a part-time singer. And he's sung in some terrific ensembles and in really cool spaces - with the Minnesota Chorale and the Red Wing madrigal Singers, a group that performed with Garrison on Prairie Home, but also in college ensembles singing unusual literature that took him to the stage of Carnegie Hall.
In fact Bill brought a stack of programs to his Music with Minnesotans chat to share. Clearly proud of those days.
The result for us, though, is an unusual playlist of music we don't listen to often on Classical-MPR. Including movements from Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky" and Vaughan-Williams "Dona Nobis Pacem."
Bill keeps up his piano too and particularly loves playing piano four hands. It's chance to really get to know your partner well and find how much personal space you can live without!
Bill loves listening to classical - it enriches his life - but being it and making music is his greatest joy.
And mine is the chance to hear some new music he shared today!
Bill Foot's playlist:
Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky Suite: Arise, ye Russian People - Gergiev/Kirov
Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms: I - Bernstein/NY Philharmonic/Camerata Singers
Witold Lutoslawksi, Variations on a Theme of Paganini - Argerich/Freire
Francis Poulenc, Sonata for Two Pianos - LaBeque sisters
Frederic Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Dona Nobis Pacem: Dirge for Two Veterans - Shaw/Atlanta
Gabriel Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine - Best/Corydon Singers
Arnold Schoenberg, Friede auf Erden - Ericson/Stockholm Radio Chorus
Next week, hypnotist Daniel Andersen joins me. When he was a teenager, a friend invited him to her house deep in the woods. When he arrived, he was welcomed by a piece being hammered away on the piano that just stopped him in his tracks. Ever since, he's been a classical music addict.


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$chk_dt=date('Y-m', strtotime('-1 month'));
$chk_dt=date("Y-m", strtotime("this month -1 month"));
If you run now, it would return : 2013-11.but it must be 2013-10.
So whats the fix for this? i could not find a solution in google. please help me.
Why would it be 2013-10? We are in December, one month ago is November....
sorry, again messed up.
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this returns 2013-12 instead of 2013-11
Ah, I was wondering.I noticed some problems when trying to use "month" years ago, and had some hope it had been worked out by now, apparently not
It seems that what I consider to be a month varies, i.e. 30 days, 31 days, 28/29 for February, from what PHP considers to be a "month", i.e. "30 days" regardless.
That is, "month" seems to work OK most times, except for "beginnings/endings" if you know what I mean.
Perhaps it would be better to use something other than "month"?
Thanks for the explanation to the bug. i understood now. require a concrete solution as my project is all about time sheets :rolleyes:
what about this solution ? it shows correctly.
echo date('Y-m', (strtotime('-1 month')-86400)); // seconds in a day = 86400
That works today because you are on the 31st. But if you were on the first of December, that'd fail too.
Here is my quick test on a way to resolve this, and it seems to work, but there are a variety of solutions.
If you always need to get to the last day of the prior month, the below code works:
$today = new DateTime('2013-12-31'); // remove the date string if you want to use today's date
$todaysDate = $today->format('d'); // Get today's date, so you know how many days to subtract
$lastDayOfPriorMonth = $today->sub(new DateInterval("P{$todaysDate}D"))->format('Y-m-d'); // Outputs last day of prior month
Here is my test for the entire calendar year of 2013
$dayOfTest = new DateTime('2013-12-31');
$today = new DateTime($dayOfTest->format('Y-m-d'));
$todaysDate = $today->format('d');
echo 'Day of Test: ' . $dayOfTest->format('Y-m-d') .
'One Month Ago: ' . $today->sub(new DateInterval("P{$todaysDate}D"))->format('Y-m-d') .
'
';
$dayOfTest->sub(new DateInterval('P1D'));
} while ($dayOfTest->format('Y-m-d') != '2012-12-31');
Also note, you can read the "number of days within the given month" to use in the subtraction, but that won't give you the results you want. As seen in the test below: 2013-12-01 then goes to 2013-10-31.
$dayOfTest = new DateTime('2012-12-31');
$today = new DateTime($dayOfTest->format('Y-m-d'));
$todaysDate = $today->format('t'); // line changed
echo 'Day of Test: ' . $dayOfTest->format('Y-m-d') .
'One Month Ago: ' . $today->sub(new DateInterval("P{$todaysDate}D"))->format('Y-m-d') .
'
';
$dayOfTest->sub(new DateInterval('P1D'));
} while ($dayOfTest->format('Y-m-d') != '2011-12-31');
Thanks cpradio for the valuable code.ill check it and feedback.
mean time following code also works today. but not sure any feature bugs will arise.
$d = new DateTime(date( 'Y-m-d' ));
$d->setDate( $d->format( 'Y' ), $d->format( 'm' ), 1 );
$d->modify( '-1 month' );
echo $d->format( 'Y-m' ), "\
Yes, that looks like it works in the edge cases too.
This code too seems works well for me.
tx for the confirmation
Not a problem, so now you have two pieces, one that will give you the last day of the prior month and the other (which you found) gives you the 1st day of the prior month. Both seem like they may suit you just fine


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Sustainable urban lawns
Concern for the homogenization of America's urban landscape prompted a recent research study into the care and maintenance of residential landscapes. The study demonstrated fewer similarities than expected but the concern, according to researchers is that "Lawns not only cover a larger extent [of land] than any other irrigated 'crop' in the U.S., but are expected to expand in coming decades. The researchers go on to point out that the potential homogenization of residential lawn care has emerged as a major concern for carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and water flows."
Published in in this week's issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), ecologists Colin Polsky of Clark University in Worcester, MA, Peter Groffman of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY, and colleagues from 10 other institutions are the lawn care habits from 6 cities representing various native environments including desert, plain, mountain and coastal.
"The approach in this study can be used to test other ideas about how people who live in cities--now more than three-quarters of Americans--decide to manage their yards," says Henry Gholz, a program director in NSF's Division of Environmental Biology.
"This should open a new phase in the field of urban ecology."
The scientists "homogenization hypothesis," theorized and tested that despite local environmental conditions, urbanization produces similar human land management behaviors. The study used the results from 9,500 residents in San Diego, Miami, Philadelphia, Chicago, Phoenix and Levittown, NY, questioning irrigation and fertilization habits in the similar style neighborhoods.
Of the respondents, 63 percent fertilized their yards and 79 percent watered within the last year. There were some similarities as well as differences in lawn care practices from city to city.
For instance, in Los Angeles, 66 percent of younger residents fertilized their lawns, while 73 percent of older residents did. Minneapolis-St. Paul demonstrated similar breakdown with 68 and 76 percent, respectively.
The concern however is ecosystem sustainability and the most widespread indicator may be immediately in front of us each and every day. Because lawn fertilizer contains nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen that wash into waterways, unwanted and ecologically detrimental blooms of algae can and will rob fish and other aquatic species of oxygen and degrading water quality.
And while according to Polsky, "responding to lawn care-related environmental challenges may require locally-tailored solutions in more cases than we thought," Groffman adds that suburban and urban lawns now "occupy an extensive area in the U.S. and have effects--good and bad--on environmental quality, and on human quality of life" making residential landscapes critical to sustainability science.
Read more at the National Science Foundation.
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Fallen firefighter suffered medical condition
Police investigating the death of a Victorian firefighter on a Tasmanian bushfire ground are believed to have ruled out an accident, or suspicious circumstances.
The Gippsland man, aged in his 60s, was found dead on Sunday in forest country near Waterfall Bluff on the Tasman Peninsula, police said. He is believed to have suffered from a medical condition.
He had been preparing for a backburn about 2 kilometres from the front of the fire that burned through Dunalley and other nearby towns, destroying about 170 properties.
His death was discovered when workers were sent to the area after the man failed to make a scheduled call-in, and police are now preparing a report for the coroner
Tasmania Fire Service chief officer Mike Brown said the help of people from interstate services had been key to the firefighting effort.
"To have one of these people die on the fire ground is absolutely tragic news," Mr Brown said.
Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings said she expressed her deepest condolences to this brave Victorian's loved ones.
"I hope that his family can gain some comfort from the sincere gratitude we feel for his willingness to assist us during this bushfire crisis. I thank them, and our thoughts are with them at this most tragic of times."
"This incident highlights the extreme circumstances all firefighters and emergency service workers and volunteers face when working to control bushfires."
The Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment said the firefighter's family had been notified and no further personal details were available.
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Sharjah Chamber of Commerce & Industry was established by an Amiri decree issued in 1970 by His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah in order to effectively and vitally participate in the organization of economic life and the prosperity of its trade, industry and professions sectors on all levels and in cooperation with the concerned establishments and bodies and local departments.
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Reese tracks down kidnapped Finch in the season two premiere
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The Contingency Plan
Reese tracks down kidnapped Finch in the season two premiere
Bad Code
Reese uncovers shocking details of Root's past.
Reese must protect the privileged daughter of a diplomat.
Reese & Finch decide whether to save a killer.
Bury the Lede
Reese covertly protects an investigative reporter.
The High Road
Reese goes undercover in the suburbs.
Reese & Finch get more than they bargained for.
Til Death
The numbers come up for a husband and wife.
Every passenger is a suspect for a NYC cab driver POI.
Shadow Box
The FBI redoubles their efforts to catch Reese.
2 Pi R
Finch goes undercover to protect a teenage prodigy.
Prisoner's Dilemma
Carter plays a dangerous game with the FBI to help Reese.
Dead Reckoning
Reese is abducted by a former acquaintance.
One Percent
Reese & Finch meet their match in a tech billionaire POI.
Booked Solid
Reese & Finch help a hotel maid (MIA MAESTRO) in danger.
Reese tracks his counterpart who works for the Machine.
Reese & Finch are trapped in a storm with a faceless killer.
All In
Reese & Finch help a down on his luck card sharp.
Trojan Horse
Finch follows an exec who may be sabotaging her own firm.
In Extremis
Reese and Finch have 24 hours to save a poisoned man.
Zero Day
When the Machine gets a virus, the POI team is jeopardized.
God Mode
Reese & Finch race to save The Machine in the season finale.
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