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When is it too old for nap time?

Some children happily head to their rooms for nap time while others fight it daily. When should nap time be discontinued?

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We talked about this in my psychology class and really there is no age limit for naps as long as the child is still going to bed at a reasonable hour and sleeping through the night. Some kids may stop taking naps and then when they start school they may start taking naps again. If the child is tired land needs a nap let them take it.

11 23

You are never too old for a nap. I still take a nap and I am 28! If your child is tired let them take a nap and I feel as long as they still go to bed at bedtime it is fine. Children under 12 need like 10-12 hours a sleep a day so sometimes a nap helps out to make sure they get enough sleep. I wouldn't force a nap if they aren't tired. My daughter fights it but when she is fighting me about everything I know she needs it. You know your child best.

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There is no age limit on nap taking. Sometimes it is healthy for an adult to take a nap if needed. Sleep is necessary process for the body. Children don't 'fake' tiredness, it is a natural reaction in their body telling them that sleep is required for any number of given reasons. If your little one is tired then let them rest. It could be during a time of growth, or a time when the body is warding off an infection and needs to recouperate or it could just be that they haven't got as much rest is required for their little body and need a boost. =) Sleep is healthy!

2 11

if my baby is tired i am giving my child a nap. i dont believe there is a age limit sometimes i need a nap..

3 7

My almost nine year old daughter stopped at 11months. However, my 6 yo triplet boys are totally different! The oldest one takes a nap maybe once a month usually on the weekend and has no problem going to bed that night just like an adult. The middle one can fall asleep any time of the day take a good 2 hours and still wants to lay down at 8. And of course the youngest one stopped napping at 2 and hates going to bed....All depends on the child is my answer! If YOU feel the need for a break by all means intitute "quiet time" for an hour in the bedroom with dim lighting and books or lovey NO TOYS as it is not play time. If they are tired they will fall asleep if not it usually takes the cranky edge off:) But my rule was always to sit down myself for quiet time so I could recharge too.

75 4

I'm 36 and 9 weeks pregnant and I've just redisovered how wonderful naps are. Why did I ever stop them????

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I am worried that my daughter, who will be in pre-k in August will continue to need a nap well past kindergarten, and they don't allow them to nap in kinder. She falls asleep in the car if we are still out during her nap time. I think a child should get to nap regardless of their age. If they are tired, let them sleep.

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Ive noticed at times my son will fight the nap but thats just that busy body dont wanna miss anything attitude, but if he does he is just so much moodier! So I dont find an age limit to naps as long as you keep them around the same hour each day, early enough, and they still sleep through the night.
Jesse just has such a greater day after a nap!

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I think if a child is tired he will nap. My sons will be 5 in August still nap most of the time. If they are not napping, I at least make them go for some quiet time for one hour. So i think it depends on the child.

0 0

My son's 4 and he still naps. If he misses a nap then he's very moody in the evening and doesnt sleep through the night.

0 0

I don't believe there is an age limit. It really depends on the child. My oldest, 8, stopped at about 2 years old because of the issues we had with sleeping at night. We stopped and he started to do better. My 3 yr old is still napping and only beginning to show signs that SOME days he doesn't need one and on others he needs a nap. My one year old can barely make it to nap time without falling asleep early but does great the rest of the day. So even among my own boys I've noticed how different kids and be and how different their needs can be.

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About a year-and-a-half ago, I was preparing my daughter for Kindergarten and was informed that naps are not taken in Kindergarten. I guess things have really changed since my Kindergarten days (we took naps). Not only were there no naps, but there were also very high (academic) expectations for entering Kinder. I was so thankful that I had placed her in Pre-K so that she would be up on all of those requirements. Her preschool was very helpful with weaning her off the naps, although they did remind me, constantly, that State requirements were that ALL children under the age of 5 were required to have a nap/rest period. But the pressure to have her weaned from naps prior to starting Kinder were greater than complying with the "State". We compromised. She would be allowed to sit quietly on her cot while the other kids slept. She didn't like not taking her naps; she loved her naps! All of this being said, I would say that at least 2-3 of the 5 days/week that my daughter attended Kinder, she would fall asleep during the car ride home, or she would collapse on the floor or her bed once we arrived home. Now, we are preparing for 1st grade, and my daughter is home for the Summer. She loves her naps but I have to limit her on when and how long she may nap. She gets plenty of sleep over night, and she has been checked out by the pediatrician who gave her a clean bill of health. He explained that [some] kids continue to take naps well into elementary school, and that as long as her academics are not suffering, just continue what we're doing. Personally, I think naps have become a necessity for everyone due to the demands we have. Technology has made it possible for us to do at least twice as much work as we used to do, but at what price? All of that input overload might be too much for our minds. We're tired!! I think schools could shave off a couple of minutes here and there and offer students a 15-20 minute "power nap" period. They might be surprised at how much more refreshed and attentive kids might be!

2 3

My son stopped taking regular naps 1 week before kindergarten started as half day doesn't do naps. He is 6 and still takes them as needed for attitude/tiredness. It really depends on the kid though as to how old they are when they stop taking naps.

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That is what Jada does too. She is also six.

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my whole life even to this day i take a two hour nap after work or at that time school. as long as its at an appropriate time i believe that your never too old for naps.

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I'm definitely not an expert but I think this is dependent on the child and their needs. My now 10 yr old weaned himself off of naps at about 3 years old while he was at home but still took naps here and there at preschool til about 4 yrs old. Two naps were non-existent by the time he was one year. My daughter on the other hand, now 15 months, still takes two naps (thank goodness!) but the morning nap is getting shorter. If naptime is becoming a fight and both mom and child end up in tears it's time to reassess those naps and come up with a different plan. Maybe quiet time would be a better solution.

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My son who is now 17 quit taking naps all togehter at 9 months old! It was more of a hassle and struggle to get him to try to take a nap than it was worth and he never seemed to have melt downs later in the day so I quit trying to get him to take a nap.
On the other hand, my daughter, who is now 10, took two naps a day until she was 4yrs. old and took 1 nap a day until she was 6yrs. old.
Even now if my son seems to be getting stressed he will go for a walk by himself and he is good by the time he gets back home. My daughter can just be sent to her room for some alone time and in about an hour she is fine. She just stays in her room and plays.
Each child is different so I wouldn't worry about it.

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My issue is that my 7 year old ADHD/ADD son is constantly fighting nap time. He will FINALLY go to bed around 11 pm and is up between 6-7 every morning!!! My daughter who will be 4 will take naps as long as I can get her settle down long enough. I am going to be 27 and still a nap or I get grumpy. It is complicated for my household. So somethimes I let my son play his DS or read books for "quiet time" while everyone else naps.

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I say you just know your kids and you know what they can handle and what they need. Every child (and mom) is so different that you can't really put an age on it. I know some kids who still take naps at 4 years old. For me, my kids always have been good night time sleepers. My twins stopped napping at about 2 years old. They go to bed by 8:00 and wake up between 7:00 to 8:00 am. My single child is just barely 2 and I have been making her not take naps unless she really needs it or just falls asleep on her own (unless it is too late in the afternoon, then I do whatever I can to keep her up until at least 7:00). I love having my kids awake all day and then having all the freedom I want from about 8:00 at night. When my kids start school I may have to adjust their bed time though, for getting up earlier.

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I don't her lay her down for a regular nap. She just goes all by herself if she feels she needs one.

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My daughter took 2 naps a day until she started kindergarten. Sometimes she wants to take a nap after a long eventful afternoon, and she's 8! LOL My girl is like her Mommy, loves to sleep!

7 12

never, I still take naps and i'm 32

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i love nap time mine are 2 and 4 my two year old loves his nap time. my 4 year old will nap some time when she cranky. she starting preschool the 29th half day. we will see how if she needs naps again

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I don't think there is an age to stop naps, I still take one everyday even if I don't go to sleep I lay there to just get a peice of mind, my children are 14, 5, and 2 and they all still take naps the two younger ones will sleep from noon til 2 longer if I allow and since the 5-year old is in school he doesn't get nap time anymore so when he gets home from school I have to keep him busy so that he doesn't fall asleep before dinner and bath time. But on the weekends he still takes his nap I feel that he gets angry easier if he hasn't had a nap.

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Maddy stopped naping about 3 months before she turned 4. When I tried to get her down all she would do is lay in her bed and sing or stare at the ceiling until I told her it was ok to get up, but then again I know some people who have kids her age that still nap... So I think as long as your child is getting enough sleep at night they dont need one... Although I do wish she still took one so I could!!!

6 0

I am 33yrs old and I still have to get a nap at lunch time and those 30mins. are great

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I agree follow your own instincts as a mom. You know your child best. My daughter is 4. She still sucks her thumb, still carries around a blanket and still takes naps. Kids in general will give up their loveys naps and everything else when and if they are ready. Just let them be.

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I belive my daughter still needs her naps i belive it help recharge her little batterys and makes her a lot happer toddler she may only have two hours but tht makes a big differance to the way she is during the day if she wants it let her have it n as for whn she starts prschool her body will go wiv it ....

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Max naps at Daycare but no longer at home (except on longer car trips) unless we have really worn him out. If he goes down too late in the afternoon, bed time is much later. I don't think there should be an age group, each child and each household pattern is different. If your child is still willing to sleep for a short time during the day, lucky you. Some parents use this time as down time ie. reading in room (espically if younger children are still sleeping). I would image you would need to get them out of the habit before they start school.

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I let my 2yr old dictate when she needs a nap. Some days she is energetic all day and doesn't need one, other days she is sitting cuddled next to me rubbing her eyes. I don't think there is any harm in letting your child take a nap when they need it - whatever their age

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You are really never too old for naps. Children as well as adults at some point need to recharge those internal batteries. I try to get my son down for a nap almost everyday because I know he needs one. He has a better attitude and is happier after getting some good mid day rest. He may not want to go to bed and may fight it some days but some children really do need it.

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My husband works nights and I have MS so our whole family takes a nap right after school. My boys are age 6 and 4 and are healthier and happier when they get enough sleep, bed time is at about 10pm so this way everyone gets enough sleep. I have never had an issue with them all laying down at 3pm for a couple of hours and then they are not cranky during the evening hours. My husband and I have always taken naps and I guess the boys have just adopted this. He sleeps with one and I sleep with the other one, nice bonding time too.

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i think your never to old to nap it your tired your tired right......my son is 3 some days he wil nap but either way he has quite settle down time :) but i do say there aretimes for naps...

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I know I would love to still take naps, my 3 year old doesn't take naps every day. When he is starting to get really crabby I make him lie down, but it has to be before 3 or he wont go to bed that night until 12. But if he doesn't get a nap that day then he is asleep by 8 that night and stays asleep all night until 9. So my vote is no nap.

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Games Workshop is one of the most successful miniatures game companies in the world. Their best known properties are Warhammer Fantasy Battles (recently reborn as Age of Sigmar) and Warhammer 40,000. Both of these game systems feature head to head battles using dozens if not hundreds of detailed miniatures representing the forces of various factions. From time to time, Games Workshop releases self-contained games, where all you need to play is in one box. Recent examples are Dreadfleet and Space Hulk. Assassinorum Execution Force (AEF), released earlier this year, is the latest of these standalone offerings.

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for the dip:
1 small shallot, grated
8 oz fresh blue crab meat
3 oz shredded sharp cheddar
3 oz cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 tablespoons sour cream
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1/2 tablespoons Old Bay Seasoning
1/2 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon Dijon mustard

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3/4 oz active dry yeast
1 1/3 cups flour
1/2 cup warm water
1 tablespoon sugar PLUS 1/8 teaspoon
1 tablespoon melted butter
1/2 teaspoon salt

pretzel topping:
sea salt

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Before you begin, make sure you pick out any bits of shell or cartilage that might have been over looked in the crab processing process. In a large bowl, mix all ingredients together. Make sure all ingredients are evenly distributed. Refrigerate before use.

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Dissolve yeast into water with the 1/8 teaspoon of sugar, let stand 5 minutes. In a medium bowl whisk together the flour, remaining sugar, salt and butter. Add the dissolved yeast and then pour the mixture into the bowl of a stand mixer and knead until a smooth, elastic round ball forms. Add a little more flour or water a tablespoon at a time if the dough looks too wet or dry. Alternately, knead by hand on a clean, floured flat surface. Place in an buttered bowl, cover with a tea towel or plastic wrap and allow to rise in a cool place for 1 hour or until the dough has doubled in size.

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Place the giant pretzel on to a parchment or silipat lined baking sheet. Allow to sit for 5 additional minutes. Bake for 8-10 minutes, until pretzel is golden brown.

Remove from the oven. Top with a generous amount of crab dip. Sprinkle with cheddar then stick the pretzel back into the oven for 1-2 minutes to melt the cheese. Serve hot. I suggest placing it on a cutting board and allowing people to slice off chunks with a bread knife to eat off of an individual plate.

Yield: 1 giant crab pretzel (serves many as an appetizer)

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Coming back from an Eastern Shore vacation where not a day went by when blue crab didn't pass my lips, I still hunger for crab.

The crab pretzel is dish that is found on many menus throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Basically an extremely large soft pretzel covered in a Old Bay-spiked crab dip, the crab pretzel's origins are unclear although several restaurants (perhaps most adamantly, the Silver Spring Mining Company) claim to have invented it. Soft pretzels are extremely common and popular in the Mid-Atlantic and up to New York and crab dip is particularly Baltimore and Maryland favorite, though both have found national fans, so perhaps it isn't surprising some enterprising soul brought them together. I know the pairing of the two sounds unlikely but it totally works-the soft, saltiness of the pretzel complements the creaminess of the dip and is a nice alternative to crackers or chips. Some places cover the dip with a large amount of cheddar but for my homemade version I added just a sprinkle to avoid overpowering the crab. This homemade version is a bit lighter and fresher tasting than many of the crab pretzels sold in restaurants and I think, even more delicious.

I know some people find working with yeast daunting but this is really a great, soft and easy to handle dough. Practically fool-proof yet very impressive. Who makes homemade pretzels anymore much less one covered in crab?

If crab pretzels are not quite your thing the pretzel recipe is perfect for making plain soft pretzels (divide it into 4 more normal sized pretzels if you'd like) and the dip is delightful on its own. Crab dip is normally served hot so I'd spoon it into ramekins or a small baking dish, sprinkle it with cheese and bake at 350 for about 10 minutes before serving.

A note about the crab meat:
Some restaurants boast that the crab meat on the crab pretzel is "jumbo lump" which is lovely stuff but very expensive (too expensive to make dip with in my opinion) and some times hard to find outside of the region. I find that backfin/generic "lump" crab meat works just as well and frankly is what many restaurants use in their crabcakes and crab pretzels even if they do claim to use jumbo lump-they just hope you don't notice.

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Check out my recipe for Baltimore-style Sour Beef & Dumplings or the local variation on cheesecake, Smearcase. Or if you want something super simple, try lemon sticks, another Baltimore classic.

  1. What a wonderful and DELICIOUS looking recipe! I wish I had some to much on right now!Thank you very much for sharing.

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  2. Of course, you know Koco's uses the real lump. You can feel it on your tongue.

    I have never before seen (never looked for, though) a recipe for a soft pretzel, and I have to say that it will take us far. I bet it's like making your own pizza dough—to me, there's no better pizza.

    Have you had the shrimp salad at Dead Freddie's? the best thing about it is the pretzel bread. I'm now considering this for that.

    Great recipe. Everything looks right, and the pictures are yummy, too.

  3. Fun recipe! I've never made pretzels. I may just have to give it a try.

  4. This looks fabulous! I love crab pretzels - they are such an indulgence though. I'll have to think of a valid reason to splurge on this, but I'm sure I can find one!

  5. This...looks...amazing. My mouth is watering just looking at the pictures!

    I was born in NJ, but raised in the Seattle area. Whenever I go back to NJ I ALWAYS indulge in foods they have, which we don't in WA. My uncle introduced me to soft pretzlels with MUSTARD...and that just blew my mind. I refuse to eat pretzels with anything else, now.

    Thank you for sharing this!

  6. I can't believe I live in Maryland and have never heard of this! It looks amazing. Thanks!

  7. I thought it'd be in the shape of a crab, darn it!!

  8. Ooooh! We love crab pretzels. Usually we cheat and er, uh...use the frozen soft pretzels you can buy in the supermarket.

    I have to admit, I really like using hand picked claw meat for crab dip. The flavor of the crab is more assertive and works well with cream cheese.

  9. Looks so good! Will definitely have to make!

  10. This looks delicious. I'm going to make the dip, for sure. The pretzel will take some motivation. Maybe I can buy some at Aunty Annie's! Just kidding.

  11. I'm so excited to find this recipe! I absolutely LOVE the crab pretzels from Silver Spring Mining Co. I can't wait to try it out, especially since I would have to travel 1000 miles to get the real thing.

  12. Have you tried dropping the pretzel in water/baking soda solution? are the right texture without doing so?

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Oo-wee! Have you looked at the Fox Theatre's upcoming schedule lately? The Fox, one of Boulder's largest and most iconic music venues, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this March, and it has pulled out all the stops in booking just about the best musical month I can remember seeing in a long time.

I mean, they just added Robert Randolph and the Family Band for March 24. Have mercy. The hard partying starts March 2 with local big timers 3OH!3 kicking off the 25th anniversary festivities. What follows includes two nights of String Cheese, Greyboy Allstars, G-Love, The Motet and more. Big Gigantic's show on the 16th is already sold out!

Just do yourself a favor and run over to the Fox Theatre website, foxtheatre.com, and see who they've been scheduling. Now might be the right time to snag your tickets if you don't want to miss out on shows during this epic month.

Gassed up

March will be off the chain at the Fox, but don't overlook what's happening in February.

One of the Boulder area's best bands that boasts a fervent following is releasing their new album on Valentine's Day at the Fox. The Gasoline Lollipops sound like "Johnny Cash on steroids," their fans would say. That's the best genre descriptor I've ever heard. Not "They sound Americana, kind of," or "Uh, they have this rock/country mashup thing going on." It's "You'll feel like you're listening to a Johnny Cash concert after Johnny's had a hit of acid and a hit of ecstasy and done 100 pushups backstage." Or whatever. The message is that the singer's voice reminds you of Cash — the heart and soul of his type of music is there, but the energy is also huge and sometimes takes control of the band and the audience at the same time.

The GasPops, as fans call them, will be releasing the last album in a trilogy — this one is called "Resurrection." The first two were seven-song EPs named "Dawn" and "Death" respectively. Underlying the wonderful story of our local bands recording and producing albums is the fact that, like Boulder's Monocle Band (my column subject two weeks ago), the Gasoline Lollipops just successfully concluded a crowdfunding campaign online. This campaign allowed the finishing touches to be put on "Resurrection," and you can hear the result and get a taste for that GasPops energy at the Fox on Feb. 14.

Honorable mention

Other shows I wouldn't miss in February include Boulder "livetronica" legends and national rising stars Sunsquabi on the 4th at the Fox. On Feb. 18, the drum and electro badasses of Break Science will tear the room up. Break's drummer, Adam Deitch, is also the drummer of funk/soul sensation Lettuce, and I hear Deitch recently moved to Denver. Break Science playing here more often is great for our scene.

Soon after that show, on Feb. 22, a fellow named Billy Strings is coming to visit. Your future self will thank you for snagging those tickets and witnessing this virtuoso in action.

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50 Comics Positives In 2012: Dan Zettwoch Continued To Occasionally Make Process Posts

There are no posts more fun on the entire comics Internet than posts where Dan Zettwoch presents a portion of his process, and comics continues to be enriched by how talents like Zettwoch bring unique creative perspectives to the medium. In addition to Dan Zettwoch's work being that much fun, this one stands in for all of the odd quirks of the comics Internet, and how we find things to enjoy on an almost daily basis that we might have only seen five, six times a year a couple of decades ago.
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Live Action Akira Put on Hold

It’s been a rough road for Warner Bros.’ live-action adaptation of Akira, but the project seemed to be moving steadily forward after receiving the green light from the studio last October. Today, however, The Hollywood Reporter has word that pre-production has been halted so that the film’s budget can be reworked, bringing the current $90 million pricetag down by at least $20 million if the project is to move forward.

Famously adapted as an anime in 1988, Akira is based on the original manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, depicting a sci-fi cyberpunk dystopia. The new version is said to relocate the action to “New Manhattan” rather than “Neo-Tokyo.”

To be directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, the live-action adaptation features a script from Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, Gary Whitta and Steve Kloves. Though Garrett Hedlund is the only attached actor, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristen Stewart and Ken Wattanabe are all said to be up for parts as well.

Collet-Serra will work with the producers to try and drive down costs as the script is finalized over the next two weeks, but if that doesn’t happen to the studio’s satisfaction, the project could be off the table entirely.


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Crunch Time For Fair Elections

Written by Mary Boyle on March 31, 2014

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As the deadline to finalizing New York State's budget ticks down to midnight tonight, Common Cause New York is wrapping up weeks of phone banking, rallies and organizing to pressure state lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) to include funding for a statewide public financing system.

Cuomo reportedly cut the full program over the weekend, yet included a pilot program for the state comptroller race. Activists are converging on Albany this afternoon to make a final push for Fair Elections that would put elections back in the hands of voters, not donors.

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Rep. Ryan's Free-Market 'Death Panels'

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The consequences of three decades of anti-government Reaganism and free-market extremism are now coming clearly into view, a cruel and brutish America split sharply between a few lucky haves and many desperate have-nots.

As Rep. Paul Ryan proudly declared in unveiling the Republican budget plan for fiscal 2012, “This is not a budget; this is a cause.”

It is the “cause” advanced in the modern era by President Ronald Reagan and economist Milton Friedman. It calls for further slashing the tax rate for the richest Americans by another ten percentage points, from 35 percent to 25 percent, while enacting a wide range of domestic spending cuts, including phasing out the Medicare health program for the elderly as it has existed since the 1960s.

Under Ryan’s plan, senior citizens in the future would have to select a private health insurance policy with the government paying “premium support” worth about $8,000 to the company, thus shifting a heavier, even crushing, financial burden onto the elderly.

And, since Ryan’s plan also would repeal President Barack Obama’s health reform, which prohibits insurance companies from excluding coverage of “preexisting conditions,” senior citizens suffering from chronic illnesses might find themselves unable to get coverage of those ailments and likely consigned to a premature death.

As medical writer Sheila Guilloton noted about Ryan’s plan, “What is not clear or even addressed is the problem of putting eligibility to purchase health insurance back in the hands of the health insurance industry.”

Even today, people just shy of Medicare’s 65-year-old threshold find themselves either shunned by insurance companies or paying exorbitant amounts. Yet Ryan envisions thrusting Americans over 65 into that same predicament, only worse because they are more likely to have health problems and are less likely to be under a company plan.

“For older people the prospect of getting and paying for private health insurance is daunting,” Guilloton wrote “For instance, in Connecticut a PPO with a $5,000 deductible would cost a 60-64 year old and spouse between $1,400 and $1,900 a month. And that cost presumes that they either are part of a company group plan or have no pre-existing conditions.

“The plan to return control of access to health insurance companies without addressing the issue of eligibility and cost control is simply to return to the very pattern of abuse in place before the attempt at health care reform.”

The elimination of Obama’s health-care reform also would remove requirements that insurance companies devote a high percentage of their premiums to medical services rather than diverting the money to higher executive salaries and greater profits.

In other words, Ryan’s plan would fatten the insurance industry's bottom line by squeezing the elderly on health care. In effect, the plan would create a free-market “death panel” by forcing many senior citizens to skip necessary care.

Ryan also would “save” large sums by turning the Medicaid program for the poor into a state block grant system, which would leave states little choice but to also turn their backs on many sick and disabled.

No Balanced Budget

Yet, even as Ryan touts his goal of cutting government spending by more than $6.2 trillion over the next decade, compared to Obama’s budget, Ryan’s plan would still not result in a balanced federal budget for nearly three decades, let alone pay off the accumulated national debt.

That’s because Ryan would accompany his steep spending cuts with lower tax rates for the wealthiest Americans. And those lower tax rates – based on an ideological devotion to Reagan’s “trickle-down economics” and Friedman’s “free-market” extremism – have been a principal cause of the debt problem.

Remember just a decade ago, after President Bill Clinton and the congressional Democrats raised the tax rates modestly, the U.S. government was running a surplus and was on a path to eliminate the entire federal debt.

Then, President George W. Bush and congressional Republicans began enacting tax cuts again.

Those tax cuts – combined with Bush’s two wars and the financial crisis caused, in large part, by inadequate federal regulation of Wall Street – flooded the U.S. government ledgers with trillions of dollars in red ink.

So, the logical remedy would seem to be to combine some reasonable spending cuts with a surtax on millionaires and billionaires. There also could be huge savings if the United States shifted to a “Medicare-for-all” health system that eliminated the expensive private insurance middlemen.

But that would go against Reagan/Friedman dogma about giving virtually all power to corporations and trusting in the “magic of the market.” Therefore, Ryan’s “solution” is to savage domestic government spending, weaken government regulatory powers and pass more tax cuts for the wealthy.

Since he unveiled his budget plan this week, Ryan has been widely hailed by the mainstream U.S. news media as a “courageous” visionary, a thoughtful guy who is brave enough to make the tough choices.

In watching the correspondents on CNN and CNBC – not to mention Fox – it’s almost as if the revenue side of the budget crisis is non-existent. “Political courage” only comes from destroying the remnants of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal and Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, if not Theodore Roosevelt’s progressive era.

Why not repeal the entire 20th Century and take the nation back to an era of two Americas, a few living in the lap of luxury and most living hand-to-mouth?

Most media talking heads appear to be either devotees of free-market economist Milton Friedman or careerists who know that no one ever lost a promotion by promoting the anti-government doctrine of Ronald Reagan. (Reagan, of course, got his big start in politics in the 1960s by decrying Medicare as socialist oppression.)

The Cost of Reaganism

The American people are now paying the price for the lack of nearly any critical coverage of the Reagan presidency, as was apparent last February in the hagiography broadcast and written about the 40th president around the centennial of his birth.

The syrupy handling of Reagan and his legacy has had a powerful impact on the judgment of the American people. According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans rated Reagan the greatest president ever, five percentage points ahead of Abraham Lincoln, who came in second.

When the Reagan mythology is combined with the powerful influence of the right-wing media, it shouldn’t be a great surprise that many average Americans don’t blame Reagan and his anti-government policies for why their incomes have stagnated or sunk over the past three decades.

Instead, many Americans, especially white men, have been encouraged to blame “guv-mint” and its supposed favoritism toward minorities and the poor. So, some don “revolutionary war” costumes and join Tea Party groups, which are often quietly funded by politically savvy billionaires.

Unlike the duped average guys, the billionaires – the likes of the oil magnate Koch brothers and media mogul Rupert Murdoch – are keenly attuned to their class interests. They know the only serious check on their extraordinary powers would be a democratized and energized federal government.

So, they invest in the faux populism of the Tea Party and Fox News to rile up the white guys with anti-government rage.

Meanwhile, on the opposite side, American progressives have tended to be ineffective in presenting a consistent or coherent message to the people.

Though many progressives recognize the practical value of reforms like Medicare in making the lives of average Americans longer and more fulfilling, some on the Left preach an unrealistic perfectionism that finds little value in imperfect reforms. They almost invite the worst social pain as the only route to some “revolution.”

The combination of these factors – a well-organized Right against a largely disorganized Left – has brought a bleak future into sharp focus.

It can be seen through the lens of Paul Ryan’s budgetary "cause." It would leave sick elderly to die and the nation’s domestic infrastructure to decay, while insurance companies would reap more profits and the super rich would be taxed even less.

It’s an outcome that would have put a crooked smile on the lips of Ronald Reagan and Milton Friedman.

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Robert Parry broke many of the Iran-Contra stories in the 1980s for the Associated Press and Newsweek. His latest book, Neck Deep: The Disastrous Presidency of George W. Bush, was written with two of his sons, Sam and Nat. His two previous books are Secrecy & Privilege: The Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq and Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & 'Project Truth'.

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Virtually, Anything Goes with Online Education

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State officials are allowing tax dollars to underwrite K-12 virtual disasters.

The sounds of September: school bells ringing, loose-leaf binders snapping open and shut, sneakers squeaking on gymnasium floors. Next to apple pie, what could possibly be more American than these familiar sounds and the local public schools where we hear them?

But times change. Blackboards and chalk no longer grace every classroom. Even pre-kindergarteners in the best-equipped schools gather around interactive smartboards and tap away on tablet computers. With the Internet, we can share lessons across borders.

In the new Information Age, are local public schools becoming obsolete? Do we need a new model for educating our young? Some sort of revolution in teaching and learning?

Questions like these demand thoughtful and patient democratic deliberation that we're not getting. In today's deeply unequal United States, we're rushing to an educational future that profits our awesomely affluent few — at the expense of the rest of us.

The most striking manifestation of this rush: the near quarter-million elementary and high school students enrolled full-time in taxpayer-funded "virtual schools" that for-profit companies now operate in 27 states. These schools have no physical classrooms, no playgrounds — and no in-person teachers.

How does learning take place? In these online "academies," even the youngest of students sit in front of their home computers. Their parents serve as "learning coaches," following instructions they read on screen. Remotely located teachers monitor and grade the students. One of these remote teachers at the elementary level can have as many as 60 students.

The educational results from this "learning" process can be ugly. A New York Times investigation concluded that K12 Inc., one of the nation's top two corporate virtual schoolers, squeezes profits "by raising enrollment, increasing teacher workload, and lowering standards."

In Tennessee, about 1,800 kindergarten to 8th-grade students "attended" K12's Tennessee Virtual Academy last year. Virtual Academy students, notes the state education department, "performed in the bottom 11 percent of schools statewide." Other studies show similarly dismal academic results.

How could state education officials allow public tax dollars to underwrite these virtual disasters? Don't we have rules and regulations designed to protect students from commercial exploitation?

We do. But in more and more states these rules don't apply. What one analyst described as a tight-knit network of "right-wing millionaires and billionaires, bankers, industrialists, lobby shops, and hardcore ideologues" is carving out an ever-growing space where "virtually" anything goes.

In Maine, for instance, the state's right-wing governor Paul LePage, has "formally embraced" a 10-point plan that effectively sweeps away hard-won protections for students — and taxpayers.

The governor's plan eliminates "restrictions on online student-to-teacher ratios" and requires taxpayers to pay online providers by the same per-pupil funding formula that covers students in regular brick-and-mortar public schools.

The text for an online education executive order the governor issued earlier this year, the Portland Press Herald recently revealed, came directly from a Florida think tank funded by the virtual school companies "that stand to make millions of dollars" as the governor's new initiative goes forward.

These same corporations are also spending a bundle on lobbying and political contributions. And behind them lurk a host of super-rich conservative ideologues with a deep animus toward traditional public schools, what they call "islands of socialism in a free-market sea."

Meanwhile, regular public schools are facing massive budget shortfalls. In 35 states, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities just reported, state school funding has dropped below 2008 levels. Local school districts have had to eliminate over 328,000 jobs — at the same time the nation's K-12 student population has increased by 535,000 students.

In today's depressed economic times, schools don't just have more students —they have more poor students. But corporate-friendly education "reformers" don't like to talk about poverty.

For good reason. If you don't talk about poverty, the absence of wealth, you don't have to talk about wealth's concentration — and the political power this concentration inevitably forges.

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Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the Institute for Policy Study's online weekly newsletter on excess and inequality.

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Blind visitor meets with Peaslee students

Northborough – Judy Graham from the Massachusetts Association for the Blind reads a story in Braille Oct. 21 during a visit with fourth-graders at Peaslee Elementary School.

Graham visited the students to explain what it is like to be blind. She shared with students how she identifies dollar bills, labels clothes and food, plays softball, tells time and other ways she has adjusted to being blind.

The program was sponsored by the Peaslee Parent Teacher Organization.

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Album: Killa Season
Label: Diplomat Records, Asylum
Producer: BBanga of Headbangaz Entertainment

"Touch It or Not" (also known as "Suck It or Not"), the creeplife sex anthem off Cam'ron's 2006 album Killa Season, found Cam slinging filthy come-ons over triumphant horns from producer B-Banga. Cash Money star Lil Wayne shows up in verse three and damn near steals the show with lowbrow one-liners like "Stand back and catch my amazing graceness" and "Chilling like Scarecrow, looking for some brains."


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Minecraft creator Markus Persson wants to make Psychonauts 2.

How do we know? He said so on twitter.

If that sounds like the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard, I don't blame you. Still, it's true and Psychonauts fans have been given just a sliver of hope that maybe they'll get a sequel to the cult classic. It's a kind of a long story (not really), so let's start at the beginning...

Last week, Double Fine chief Tim Schafer told Digital Spy that he's pitched a sequel to his cult classic, Psychonauts, multiple times but hasn't been able to convince a publisher to fund the project.

Upon reading that information, Markus Persson, A.K.A. Notch, creator of Minecraft,  answered the challenge that Schafer never realized he'd issued, tweeting bluntly:

"Let's make Psychonauts 2 happen."

Notch, possibly realizing that a single tweet wouldn't necessarily garner a serious response, followed up with a second tweet confirming to Rock, Paper, Shotgun that he was "serious" about the idea.

Schafer has yet to respond publicly to Persson's offer. He responded to all of the commotion on Twitter, saying: "Hm. This is interesting."

Since then, neither Schafer or Persson has tweeted much. Hopefully that means they're getting down to the nitty gritty and working out a Mojang/Double Fine partnership.


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This is the kind of place that has valet parking and VIP valet parking. Say what? The indecision causes a single-file line of cars to spill out onto Peachtree, creating untold traffic problems. Since Frank Ski's is named after the famous morning radio host of the same name, everyone knows the deal: No one really cares about the food or drinks; everyone wants to meet Frank and get discovered. Every clown in the building is a part-time artist, part-time producer, and full-time hustler. Child, please.


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AMZER ShatterProof Screen Protector is super thin urethane film at only 0.2 mm thick, ShatterProof certified by the ASTM (American Society for Testing and Materials) having passed D1004 Tear Strength, D2240 Hardness and D4329 UV Light Discoloration Tests. The protector is scratch resistant, stress resistant, drop resistant and a has special self healing capability with dissipative functioning embodied - it is virtually indestructible making your iPad 2/ New iPad unbreakable!. The AMZER ShatterProof Screen Protector is a revolutionary product innovated to provide the best protection to the next-generation of wireless devices. AMZER ShatterProof Screen Protector's extreme grade protection making the iPad 2/ New iPad shatter and shock proof. ShatterProof has a unique shock dissipative function - unlike any other product in it's category - ShatterProof uses the physics concept of dissipation, dissipation embodies the concept of a dynamical system where important mechanical modes, such as waves or oscillations, lose energy over time. ShatterProof does exactly the same to protect devices from drops and shocks, drops and stress which wireless devices usually don't survive - which is why the name ShatterProof.

General Information

Product Type Screen Protector
Manufacturer Part Number AMZ94931
Manufacturer Website Address
Manufacturer Amzer
Product Name ShatterProof Screen Protector
Product Line ShatterProof
Brand Name Amzer

Technical Information

Device Supported iPad
Features Dust/Dirt-free
  Scratch Resistant
  Shatter Proof
  Stress Resistant
  Drop Resistant
Display Type Supported LCD

  • Apple iPad 2
  • Apple iPad 3
  • Apple iPad 4
  • Apple iPad 4 with Retina Display
  • ATT Apple iPad 2
  • ATT Apple iPad 4
  • ATT Apple iPad 4 with Retina Display
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  • Sprint Apple iPad 4 with Retina Display
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  • Apple iPad 4 with Retina Display
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Limited Warranty 1 Year

This product is shipped only within Canada and Warranty valid for Canada only.

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Please note: Computer Valley reserves the rights to accept and cancel any order at anytime due to pricing error or any other reason. An email will be sent as a confirmation of the order status.

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