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Does anyone have a listing of online classes that are available? Secular would be great.
Thanks for the help!
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I would not consider a HOA a business, but are the emails being sent to actual businesses? If you are emailing, say, an accountant that you pay to work for the HOA, I would expect a reply of some sort within 24 hours. Same with an attorney. If the email you sent included detailed questions, it might take longer.
I am sending emails to a business(es) that we currently have business relationships with.
If you were emaing potential business relationships (you need repairs done, for example) I would expect that might take 48 hours. If you were emailing homeowners, volunteers, etc, I woukd expect to have to follow up in a few days.
I am sending emails to a business(es) that we currently have business relationships with.
Yesterday was a holiday so I would not expect a response then.
As a business, I would say 24-48 hours.
I didn't expect an email response yesterday. I had some downtime and wanted to get a jump start on the week. I was expecting to hear a response to a particular email much earlier in the day today. Prior interactions with this person have been much more prompt, but I don't think he's very happy that he'll now have to be dealing with me regularly. I've tried very hard to be pleasant, but he's been very dismissive in emails prior to my being on the board.
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If you send a business email, what should the turn around time be on a reply?
I've sent a number of emails today and yesterday, and it seems to be "radio" silence as far a response. There are separate emails to different people.
If I receive an email what is the appropriate amount of time to respond? This isn't an official business office, but a HOA. I'm the new president of our HOA board, and I want to make sure I'm following proper etiquette procedures as well as expecting them.
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I would think cereal would make reflux worse not better.
I have no advice about an alternative. Good luck, hope baby feels better soon.
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Congratulations!
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I did not say how I felt about it or whether I would do it. I am telling you what the law says because that is what you were asking about. The law is not actually murky, IMO. But, I am not assigning a value based judgment to my statements. :) I have no intention of policing anyone else's conscience. I have enough of my own issues to deal with! LOL
I wasn't specifically asking about the law more about the "rules" and commonly accepted practice. I suppose I wasn't very specific in my original question. No, the law isn't murky, but the issue it self is, IMO.
My conscience is quite capable of policing itself which is why I was asking the question. Sometimes it would be a lot easier to think a lot less.
Thanks for the info. The articles were indeed very interesting.
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It is also illegal to copy an entire book to read at home, even if it is for your personal use. You may copy portions, but NOT entire books. There are a few exceptions to this rule. If an older work is out of print, then a librarian may make an archival copy. The particular person you spoke to was not well versed on copyright law-that is an example of an exception.
I edited my above post. I guess my question is now, do you feel the same way if you're not using the item more than a single time. I certainly don't have any intent to compile a giant library of audio books. I just want to be able to listen to them on my ipod.
BTW, I do think that a major issue is the intent of the use, regardless of what the law actually is. For example I could continue to check out the same CD over and over again and keep it from another patron. Or I could put it on my ipod and return it because it might take me 8 weeks to listen to instead of the 4 allotted.
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I just had to post again. What Mrs. Mungo said was making my conscious itchy. I called and spoke with the local librarian. Her explanation was that it was similar to making a paper copy of something that you've checked out from the library. If it's for your own personal use than it's fine. If your intent is to distribute than it's not fine. She was clear in saying that if we didn't want you to make copies we wouldn't have copy machines in the library. She also said that was also true of their digital content.
ETA: I hadn't read the entire article yet. I didn't realize that it dealt directly with libraries. Our library system is huge and I spoke with the librarian in the main office, it seems to me this is just a very murky issue. In most cases I wouldn't have more than a single use for these items anyhow. Some items I would like to use or listen to over a more than 4 week period however.
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Thanks for the article.
I'll be at the library today and also check with them about their rules and regulations.
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You should check out audible, if you listen to lots of audio books.
I've briefly looked into audible, but I honestly wouldn't pay for an audio book. This is just a perk of using the library and I was trying to figure out the rules.
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I'm not trying to do anything dishonest with the CDs we just don't own a CD player outside of the computer. While I know it's just a technicality, I do want to respect the rules. However, it does seem silly to delete something just because I've returned it. It's not as though I'm keeping someone else from using it, or taking income away from the person selling it. I wouldn't have purchased it in the first place.
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If I check out a book on "tape" cd from the library can i put it on my iPod or other device? Is there some way it would have an expiration date?
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Years ago when I was growing up we had many puppies, and bought many puppies. Back then it was thought that it was very important to get a puppy between 7 and 8 weeks, because it was an important time for developmental milestones. Beyond 8 weeks was not considered ideal.
As with everything, times change. Personally I don't think a puppy that is seven weeks is too young to come home. Expect a lot of work and lost sleep.
I have two dogs that I've purchased as puppies that we're between 10 and 12 weeks. I think they were too old. Even though I knew better I probably shouldn't have purchased them, but I couldn't leave them either. Both of these dogs while super healthy have fears that were developed before they were in my home. Had they been home with us when they were younger they probably wouldn't be a problem.
Also, it's super important to see the facilities that the puppies are being bread and raised in. Are they clean, are the adult dogs happy, clean, well taken care of? Have the adult dogs had all of the appropriate screenings before breeding? Is there a health guarantee? What shots have they had?
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This is slightly off topics, but we live very close to where Thomas comes every year. We took our older boys once when they were little. For the price, especially if you have to travel, it's not all it's cracked up to be.
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I lived there for 15 years before moving to the eastern shore. I can say that commuting from over here (about 45 minutes east of Annapolis) is much easier than it was commuting from within Annapolis and immediate outlying areas. That's to Balt/DC/NoVA from here, vs living just outside the city limit and working inside Annapolis.
The only public transportation is within the city limits, or a commuter bus from Parole to the New Carrollton metro station... There's probably one to the nearest Marc stop, for B'more, as well.
With the exception of living in the historic district or Eastport (major$$$$), Annapolis is not a walking or biking town. It is like a massive suburb in itself: too spread out to walk or bike, few pieces of infrastructure to make either safe, and very little in the way of pubic transport. It is very much a surface road driving city, and the traffic can be amazing, especially when the population goes from around 45k to 500k during tourist and events season.
Actual suburb areas aren't that much more affordable.
I don't mean to sound like a Negative Nelly. Annapolis is beautiful and I enjoyed my teens and early 20s there, as well as when we go into town for errands (though that isn't often because my husband works in Annapolis and does most of them on his way home). I would never choose to live there again unless I lived downtown, and even that would be a major thinking process.
This had definitely given me more information. He does drive to work now, but wouldn't mind taking public transport. If it doesn't exist, I suppose he could drive. We're definitely in the beginning thought process. There's a job he is interested in with his current company. I would love an adventure but I've never lived more than 20 miles from where I grew up.
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I do want to point out that if your lease allows for it, you can rent it out for Commissioning Week for several month's rent.
I just saw this. Very interesting.
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We currently live about 40 miles from my husbands job. The commute stinks and we'd love to live closer, but we could do it again if we had too.
What is public transportation like? He doesn't take the bus now because we don't live on a direct route and it takes three buses and two transfers.
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Examples of available housing in the Annapolis area: http://www.redfin.co...gion_type=6&v=8
We used Redfin extensively to find out about available housing before we moved to Maryland from Missouri---it helped us to compare the relative costs of a house in one area versus another. Property taxes tend to be highish here, too, depending on the county you end up in.
I'll definitely take a look at that. We will be renting, not buying. We've lived in apartments before and would be fine with a higher end one with some amenities. It doesn't need to be super fancy, but updated and very clean.
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It's a nice enough area, especially with the water. Annapolis is a nice town. It's very busy, though, especially if you're west of Annapolis, toward DC, and it's very expensive. I think MD is not too bad for homeschooling (though we left before our DD was old enough to need to be registered). If you have the option of a bit of a drive, you might want to look south of Annapolis; we lived in Prince George's County, about 45 minutes from Annapolis, but it was quite a bit cheaper (it was 10 years ago that we bought there, though). Also, I'm not sure if across the Bay from Annapolis would be less expensive, but it might be a bit.
When you say expensive can you give me an example? We live in a 1650 square foot home now, 3bd, 2 1/2ba, plus a small bonus area. I wouldn't need anything more, but less could be difficult. Until we moved here 4 1/2 years ago we had only ever lived in a 2 bedroom, never more than 1100 square feet.
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Homeschooling info would be great too. I've lived in the Pacific Northwest my entire life. We live in a very high cost of living area outside of Seattle. I could only find cost comparison for Seattle and Maryland, not any of the other cities that are a little closer to me.
My husband is looking at a job with a possible raise, but we're trying to figure out if we can make do there. Even though he has a good job, it's expensive here and there's not a lot left over at the end of the month.
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My dd has a facebook account and she lets us use it to monitor what our relatives and friends are putting out there. We recently had a problem with 4-H parents posting pics of 4-H events that had visitors there without image releases. Even with image releases, this is for MSU, the extension office, and the leaders only. It's not carte blanche to post pics of other 4-H'ers just because your kid looked cute working on a project. We issued a "You have 24 hrs. to take those off the web" memorandum. We then reminded parents that they must have the consent of a parent of each child in any picture in order to post them on their facebook page.
My SIL is a huge offender and my dd reported her to facebook so many times that she finally got kicked off. She thought nothing of giving identifying information about other people's kids.
GRRRRR.....who knows what is on other sites. We try to keep track of myspace for pesky 4-H photos as well and of course, youtube. But, I don't know what else I need to watch for in order to keep the kids in our club safe.
Faith
I especially don't like when other people post pictures of my kids. Even if it is family.
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My 11 year old is exactly like this (he is 11 going on 25...KIMW). I told him no comments. Somehow he weaseled his way into getting me to ease up on that. I think I misunderstood him and he was going to be able to at least control the comments. Well then he told me the other day someone made a comment like "that was so stupid you should kill yourself". I said yeah well see THIS is exactly why I don't want comments. People are stupid mean jerks and don't care about saying some random mean thing to some random person on the internet. So I said NO MORE COMMENTS. He was upset, but I don't care. Life is hard enough without that crud.
You are doing the right thing and you aren't the only mean mom. So you can tell him that.
I may not have taken "raising teenagers isn't for wimps" seriously enough. He'll be 13 in 6 weeks. For the most part he's so much easier now than he was as a 5-10 year old. This week is NOT easier!
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I'm okay with pictures or videos that are appropriate. I am not okay with names.
The problem I'm running into is that his friends have also posted videos that I don't have access too.
The even bigger problem is that you think the world was coming to an end. Every time I try to make an offer to fix the situation it's not good enough. The only thing that appears good enough is to have exactly what he wants, which isn't going to happen. He is extremely strong willed and not very happy right now.
I wish there was some kind of happy medium. If he only realized how much leniency he has in comparison to some other people....
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Just to be clear, I agree with everyone. The amount of anger and behavior that is resulting from this seems disproportionate to the issue.
I told him that all videos with names needed to be marked private until they could be edited and changed.
Help me search ... Online Classes
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I'm sure there must be a list somewhere. Can someone find me a list of online homeschool classes offered.
Specifically, I would love a science class. I know that IEW offers classes, write at home, veritas press, AOPS, but who else?