None of us really have control over that. Subject: Mike Fisher answers questions from fans. MF: Christmas Eve we kind of do a fondue thing with the family and then have a big turkey dinner Christmas Day. We may have that Christmas Eve this year. Yeah, just spending time together and playing games and hanging out. One question came from a mother whose year-old son is having trouble at the rink. The hockey mom asked Fisher how he mentally tries to get out of slumps and build confidence.
Mentally, you try and get it into your mind that you can score and just visualize. I try and do that. Try and relax as much as I can and not get uptight, and know that eventually everyone goes through it. Sometimes through slumps you learn a little bit more and you do the little things that will benefit you more when you get out of them. Huguette Robillard wondered how Fisher and other players feel when playing against former Senators who were traded or signed with other teams.
Does he spend time with them before or after the game to catch up? Usually the night before. If we stay over the night of the game, yeah we can hang out. Pat L. I just train at my cottage in the summer and do workouts times a week and skate on into August to get back on the ice.
Candace asked a popular question - who is your roommate on the road? He likes reading and talking to the wife. Martin Walker was wondering if there was any reason Fisher chose 12 for his jersey.
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In certain places, such as Alvarado ISD in Texas which does not use CP at the elementary level at all , it has been reported that most of the district's frequent paddlings take place in grades 9 through Some anecdotal accounts suggest that these students, especially if male, can expect to be paddled a lot harder, stroke for stroke, than younger recipients: "It does hurt pretty bad," says an Alvarado twelfth-grader in this video clip about visiting the office to bend over the chair for three "pops" in lieu of suspension.
There are several others which do not say so but for which it can be inferred from the official statistics that the same policy applies. We might note in passing that the minimum school leaving age in Texas was increased to 18 in Remarkably, with effect from it has been further increased to In most of the other paddling states, it is still 16 or Varsity football at Ozen High School. Players are subject to paddling by Coach. Beaumont Enterprise. Corporal discipline seems to be particularly prevalent in the case of , and year-old high-school "athletes" members of sports teams in small-town Texas, where there is a tradition of sports coaches wielding the paddle on behalf of the school, even when the offense is not sports-related such as for failing grades , as reported in this May illustrated news item about a year-old footballer paddled at Ozen High School in Beaumont ISD.
Indeed, some school districts in Texas -- where high-school sports are a really big deal, often dominating the headlines of local newspapers -- produce an "Athletic handbook", separate from the main student handbook. This often states not only that sports coaches may administer CP to team members, but also that "athletes" are held to a stricter standard of behavior than other students.
They are thus more likely to be spanked than their non-athlete peers if they break the general school rules, let alone the extra rules especially laid down for their team. The legal position relating to students who have reached the age of majority 18 in most states, though it is 21 in Mississippi seems to be a bit of a gray area. Does the school cease at that point to be in loco parentis? Common sense would suggest that it should then be for the student him- or herself to accept or refuse a paddling, without reference to the parents.
But that is not how the judges saw it in this Texas case. Jessica Serafin was 18 years old when she was paddled for a summer school rule violation at the School of Excellence in Education, a public charter school in San Antonio. Her hand "suffered minor, temporary injuries" when she improperly failed to keep her hands away from her bottom while being disciplined.
Serafin sued. The three federal judges ruled unanimously in October that "having voluntarily chosen to attend classes after her eighteenth birthday and remain enrolled, she was not free to disregard school rules".
They added that "the Texas statute governing the use of corporal punishment in schools makes no differentiation between adults and minors, stating that all students are eligible to receive corporal punishment". In the US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal against this decision.
Accordingly, at least in Texas, by continuing in school after becoming legal adults, year-olds make themselves "eligible" to be spanked, even if they would prefer ISS or another form of discipline. Once he or she turns 18, can the student sign a form opting him- or herself out of paddling? Texas law says "parents" can sign the opt-out, so the answer is probably not. Conversely, what if a parent of a high-school student signs a form exempting the student from paddling but then the student turns 18 and would prefer swats to ISS; do the young adult's wishes override those of his or her parents?
They surely ought to do in logic, but it is unclear. But such questions arise only very rarely, if ever. Informed sources report that the age of majority makes no difference in practice: year-old students in Texas, legally adult, are just as likely as or year-olds to opt for a spanking in preference to some other penalty; it happens quite frequently at some senior Texas high schools and is clearly accepted as normal by the students concerned as well as by the local community.
And in such a case their parents, if they get involved at all, hardly seem likely to protest. It is not clear to what extent this applies in other, less well documented paddling states. It may do in Mississippi, where in any case the age of majority is In Louisiana and Tennessee one gets the subjective impression that school CP is more often thought of as appropriate mainly for younger students, but further research is needed into this topic.
Racial disparities. Opponents often claim that corporal punishment is racially discriminatory because statistics show that black students are more likely to be spanked than white ones, pro rata to the population as a whole. In fact, though, the same applies to suspensions and other kinds of punishment, so while there may be a "racial problem" in school discipline overall, it is not specifically a "corporal punishment problem".
The article notes that many black people strongly support CP, and some view it as a valued part of their cultural heritage. But on closer inspection it turns out that Mississippi is the only really dramatic example of this phenomenon.
In some other states, notably Texas and Alabama and Tennessee , the official statistics show that black students are slightly less likely than white ones to get a paddling.
Rules and regulations. Many US school districts as well as some private schools nowadays lay down more or less detailed rules for the administration of CP and publish them in their school handbooks or, in some cases, in a separate "Code of conduct". For a very early example, see this May news item. These often specify such things as the offenses for which a paddling may be meted out, the permissible dimensions of the paddle, the part of the body to be targeted usually "the buttocks" but sometimes "the buttocks area", "the lower posterior" or "the seat of the pants" , who can administer it and where and in whose presence, what "due process" is required e.
Nowadays it is most often three, sometimes only two, occasionally four but five or six in some Louisiana and Mississippi districts. This is normally taken to mean "swats per paddling incident", but a few school districts lay down a separate maximum per student per day. An occasional variation on this is to prescribe a larger number of swats divided into multiple spanking sessions spread over consecutive days, such as at Jim Ned High School in Tuscola, Texas, where students who reach step 5 of the "discipline ladder" receive no fewer than "9 swats 3 per day for 3 days or 3 days of ISS".
Similarly, in Eldorado High School in Schleicher County, Texas, increased its penalty for a sixth tardy per semester from six to no less than 10 swats, to be delivered at the rate of two swats per day for 5 days.
Getting paddled every day for five consecutive days can hardly fail to provide the student with a bright red and very sore posterior, but then it is the student who chooses that option instead of five days in ISS. Flippin High School in Arkansas offers students incurring a third office referral the choice of minutes' detention or "ten swats with a paddle", with the proviso that "Any total of more than five swats will be spread over two days".
Anecdotal evidence suggests that there are at least a few other high schools that operate such a policy without saying so in the handbook.
Many school handbooks also lay down specific penalties for particular offenses, with different numbers of swats applicable according to how seriously each offense is regarded. The gender issue.
It has become quite common, though it is still not universal, for the rules to stipulate that the paddling must be delivered -- or, failing that, witnessed -- by a staff member of the same sex as the student, especially at high-school level.
This probably reflects unease in some quarters about the idea of men spanking teenage girls. For example, in the Texas Association of School Boards TASB inserted a new provision in its model school policy: "Corporal punishment shall be administered only by an employee who is the same sex as the student".
Many school districts adopted the revised policy without paying any attention to the new provision. This ended up embarrassing Springtown ISD when a male administrator at Springtown High School, following time-honored practice and unaware that the rules had changed, spanked two girls in September see these illustrated news reports with video clips.
The girls' mothers complained, and a widely publicized brouhaha ensued. This included a lively public meeting of the school board at which other young ladies who had been disciplined at the high school with the male vice-principal's paddle stood up and defended the practice: "I've had swats from him before, and they hurt, but that's why we have parental consent", declared Ms Bartee.
Springfield ISD then rescinded the policy change so that a male administrator could again paddle a female student, provided a female staff member was present as a witness. When it became clear that the new TASB model text was merely a suggestion and not a legal requirement, quite a few other school districts followed suit, perhaps because in a small district there might not be enough administrators of both sexes to make a same-sex requirement practical.
We are unaware of any Texas ISD that since has imposed a "same sex" restriction if it was not already included in the local policy. By contrast, many ISDs have removed such restrictions that prior boards had adopted. To this extent, there has been a reversal in Texas of the general national trend towards having a same-sex requirement for paddling.
In the "tardy room" at Waxahachie High School in Texas, the table is strewn with tardy slips -- and a paddle March Repeatedly arriving late for school or for class is a spanking offense in many districts. The range of offenses that can be punished with a paddling varies very widely from one place to another. Some handbooks spell them out in great detail, while others leave the matter vague. It can be difficult to see why certain violations merit a spanking and others do not, especially when different school districts sometimes adopt almost diametrically opposite policies.
Often, CP is deemed appropriate for intermediate "crimes", those that are neither very trivial nor very serious; but some schools say it is appropriate only for relatively minor lapses, while a few make clear that, to the contrary, it is regarded as a severe punishment for serious offenses only.
Either way, it is almost never "a last resort", despite that tired phrase still being trotted out here and there. A few schools operate a system whereby specific offenses attract a stated number of demerits , and a paddling is automatic upon accumulating a certain quota of demerits in a semester. In the case of boys, it can also include the offense of coming to school unshaven, a paddling matter in some high schools.
See also this Aug news item about 28 male students paddled at an Alabama high school for failing to get a haircut when so instructed. In addition, CP is used by many schools to enforce student compliance with other forms of discipline. Examples include paddling for missing detention, skipping Saturday school, or violating the detention or in-school suspension rules. Again, see the school handbooks pages for details in various different districts. In the modern era, in public schools at any rate, corporal punishment is usually regarded as inappropriate for poor work or academic inadequacy as opposed to behavioral or "moral" lapses.
A significant exception to this, particularly in Texas, is where sports coaches are empowered to spank athletes for failing grades, when lack of effort at school work can mean losing their hard-won place on the team.
Time of day. There appears to be a growing tendency for high schools to carry out all paddlings at the start of the first school day following the offense. For example, Alabama's Sylacauga High School reintroduced paddling a few years ago, and its handbook now provides: "Corporal punishment will be administered at a pre-determined time and location before each school day".
At Mildred High and Junior High School in Texas, the form sent to parents reads, "Your child has chosen to break the student code of conduct [ With your permission I will administer corporal punishment in the morning at a. In school systems probably a minority like Mildred ISD that require parents to approve each CP instance individually in advance, this entails the student taking the discipline slip home at night for parental signature.
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Any action the reader takes upon the information found on our website is strictly at their own risk. Nicole Buckler has been working as an editor and journalist for over 25 years, writing from Sydney, Melbourne, Taipei, London, and Dublin. She now writes from the crazy-amazing Gold Coast in Australia. Nicole bought Bitcoin in because she was told she could use them to pay for yoga lessons in Dublin.
She hated yoga but kept the Bitcoin. After a year she decided that this Bitcoin thing was going to be a thing, and she bought other cryptos too. She still thinks yoga sucks though. Australian banks have been dressing up anti-competitive behavior as regulatory compliance when de-banking crypto customers, Senator Andrew Bragg said.
Denial of banking, or debanking, is when a financial institution chooses to no longer offer banking services to a customer. No reason needs to be given, and banks have the ability to freeze an account instantly or shut it down with very little notice. This is not good enough. While ANZ denied any liability, the bank offered him a chance to reapply for a bank account. Things are changing however. According to Bragg, it will be difficult for banks to reconcile an anti-crypto position as they begin to enter the crypto world themselves.
Related: Aussie crypto companies keen to embrace regulations, says senator. Commonwealth Bank to enable crypto trading for 6. Schot-Guppy reports that fintech companies in Australia are being dropped as customers by banks at a higher rate than their peers overseas, amid fears of falling afoul of anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism laws. Entrepreneur Michaela Juric from the Bitcoin Babe peer-to-peer trading platform said she was turned down by 91 financial institutions because of her business.
China has launched a digital currency controlled by its central bank that gives it the potential for international influence that could challenge the US dollar. Facebook is trying gamely to promote Diem previously known as Libra as an alternative to a China-dominated future. Bitcoin, which is controlled by no government, has the prospect of forming an alternative trading system and shadow economy, as it is doing in Lebanon. There is an inherent cultural difference between the cryptocurrency and the banking community, too.
One of the triggers of the global financial crisis of was the banking innovation mortgage debt repackaged and resold in ways that no one could fully understand. The financial collapse, which unregulated innovation helped trigger, kicked off a steep economic recession, bringing pain to the public in the US and Europe. The nature of cryptocurrency means that its risk is increasingly carried by the public.
Encrypted, and peer-to-peer trading could cloak vulnerabilities that — like misinformation on social media -—emerge only after the technology is fully adopted. When exchanges collapse, or are hacked, or when an owner loses their crypto keys, to date, the individual often bears the risk. High-profile examples abound. She was instructed to trade her funds before to avoid losing the currency held by the exchange — in effect, a forced transaction. The uneven playing field has been criticised by no less a figure than Jackson Palmer, co-creator of Dogecoin — the currency embraced by Elon Musk.
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