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There's always some sort of read-alouds going on each week. I do it for logic, science, and sometimes history, although far less for that than back when it was SOTW. DW reads aloud a LOT. We're deep into Canterbury Tales at the moment. Before that, it was letters from Helen Keller. Before that...uh.....you'd have to check the list on DD's blog. It's long.
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We swear by IXL, but this is (I think) our 3rd or 4th year with it, and DD did have to sort of get into a groove. She does it each Friday after 4 days of Saxon. I like that it's state-alligned, just so we can confirm where we are.
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This is just a year too early! DD is doing an archeological dig on India, but not until next fall. Well, anyway....
I'd suspect westerners have vague ideas about the historical caste systems, with a side order of misconceptions. Is it still rigid and formal? Is it fading with subsequent new generations? Somewhere in between?
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We've had an HP Laserjet 1300 for years and it just keeps kicking. Not fancy, but fewer things to go wrong. I think the model might be dicontinued, but should be an eBay thing.
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Olive Garden, 15; The French Laundry, prob a bit more.
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Not wanting to start a dh bash, but I'm curious...
Here, and on that other thread with the dh not wanting dd to study nursing. Is this a thing? I mean is there a trend of husbands asserting, IDK, more conservative boundaries on their kids, or maybe on their daughters?
If so, why is that? A heightened sense of protection that dads have about kids, and esp daughters? If not, then I'm just picking up on coincidental threads.
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Saxon. You can always get the DVD for help. A membership to IXL.com is great for practice.
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As I sit here inside a sleeping bag, the wood stove is pumping heated air into the three rooms we've walled off with quilts hung from hooks - DIY zoned heating. I also built interior storm windows to cover the leaky double-hungs.
On days like this, school is on the floor in front of the stove.
Good excuse to bake.
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I just stumbled on an excellent piece in The Guardian that is quite even-handed. On my phone, so sorry for the long link:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2008/nov/14/religion-darwinbicentenary
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How did I not find this gem from NdGT before?
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson
That right there is bumper sticker material.
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Siding might be possible, but...
Since siding expands and contracts, they leave little expansion gaps under the trim. I'm not sure how they'd estimate that gap when the siding is already cold and in its "shrunken" state. Not saying it can't be done, but you'd need a contractor who has done it before in the cold. Things like air lines for their nailers will be affected by cold.
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I'd get a painting contractor to write something like "you're nuts" that you can show to the attorneys on both sides.
If they don't budge, rent a sprayer and water down some cheap Home Depot Behr paint and slap on a single coat, knowing you'll just have to scrape it off later.
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Don't even attempt it in winter. Not only will the paint not function correctly, the wood sinding it going to expand a bit next spring. Adhesion problems will be mighty indeed.
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Even the Vatican astronomers don't buy ID. The Vatican...the one in Rome...not exactly a lefty hotbed by any measure. Well, there is the caveat that Pope B. up and fired the guy in 2005 for buckinv the party line, but it says something when a guy who is near the top of his chosen profession, working at the Vatican itself, which for a priest must be a seriously plum gig, THAT guy says ID is on the wrong track, and that faith and science can coexist:
The Rev. George Coyne, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, said placing intelligent design theory alongside that of evolution in school programs was "wrong" and was akin to mixing apples with oranges.
"Intelligent design isn't science even though it pretends to be," the ANSA news agency quoted Coyne as saying on the sidelines of a conference in Florence. "If you want to teach it in schools, intelligent design should be taught when religion or cultural history is taught, not science."
(nbcnews.com)
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Bill Nye does not hold an extreme position.
But he does accept a major theory supported by decades of imperical evidence from multiple disciplines, and accepts that, like all theories, it may one day be revised or disproven by new evidence. On the other side, we have a belief supported by divine infallibility, which I'm guessing could never be altered or disproven.
This is my fundamental beef with the framing of the question. One does not "believe in" evolution any more that one "believes in" particle physics. Science is based on accepted theories that can, and are often disproved. Belief systems gain and lose followers over centuries, but I'm not sure those are evidence based trends. Believe, or don't, in the god of your choosing, but don't mix up theology and science.
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I'm drinking a slurpee. If I spike it with vodka, is that too Honey Boo Boo?
Is it bright blue and/or in a big gulp cup? One of two qualifies?
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So are they debating theology or science? Seems a bit like asking a violinist and a cardiologist to make brie.
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Interesting book review here. The guy has one wheel in the sand.
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Check with your local or regional orchestra. Many run concerts for kids (one hour, no intermission works well), and some may even have teacher material. Leonard Bernstein did an acclaimed young person's guide that might be on DVD at your library, and there are similar newer versions if you poke around.
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This is exactly why all the threads on how to get the food budget cheaper bother me. We spend less than ever before on food.
I've found statistics rarely move discussions, because it's too easy to assume one's own situation is typical, and therefore the graph must be off, plus there's a general trend to misinterpret stats, which someone dubbed innumeracy. We, as the superpower, also tend not to compare ourselves globally, so it's less-than-comprehensible to grasp just how different any given situation/priorities/thinking might be on another continent.
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Just remember that a higher salary in a higher COL area means a higher pension in the long run, which is worth consideration.
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No one mentioned Long Island (I'm thinking Hamptons $$$$).
Questions about India? Happy to try and answer them.
in The Chat Board
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Actually, the dig will come to us. There's this retired archeologist who does them for ps and hs groups, mostly in NY, NJ, and eastern PA. I think DD has done ten digs so far.
The artifacts are real (if not quite museum grade), the tools and techniques are real, using grids and brushes, and they go down about 3 feet, so by day four, all the kids are lying on the ground to reach the bottom of the dig.
It's pretty neat.