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I think they only way to really see what terms are serched is to use keystroke logging software.
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My house has a terminal case of Plateausis - that common condition in which every horiztntal surface is covered with stuff. Sure, you can clear a space now and then, but it only prolongs the inevitable.
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Do you mean Windows 8? Not my fav either, which is why we bought DD a laptop with 7 installed instead. Yes, it can be done, but I haven't done it. You can buy Windows 7 online, probably at widely varying prices. For the install, I'd google it and find a thorough tutorial. I've seen them.
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There's a Narnia series out there read by some heavyweights - Patrick Stewart, Lynne Redgrave, Derek Jacoby, etc.
Jeremy Irons reading James and the Giant Peach is also super, as is Mr. popper's Penguins, read by the author.
Pretty much anything on the wtm reading list can make for a good listen too, as long as the reader is good.
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The "Horrible" series of science books is super for all subjects gross. We got the whole boxed set.
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That measurement is corner to corner, but I still find it impossible to gauge screen sized unless I stand in front of them. I'd put a 19 in a small room, but it's a bit small for a family-type room.
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Thanks for posting those, but . . . there's nothing there I didn't already know. I think I have a good grasp on how the water cycle works, and the effect an exploding world population has on the finite amount of fresh, drinkable water we have on earth's surface at any given time.
But my question remains unanswered, unless I'm truly being overwhelmingly dense and just not "getting" it -- how will my conserving of a few gallons of water a day here in my little corner of the U.S., where water is not (as of right now) in short supply make things better for someone in another party of the world where water is in short supply? My conservation isn't going to make that water magically appear in another area where it's desperately needed. And if I use a few extra gallons (as opposed to conserving it), aren't those gallons used going right back into the water cycle?
Your conserving a few gallons will indeed have no effect by itself, just as your single vote will have no effect by itself. The idea is that large swaths of the population have to each do the same little thing (conserving, voting, etc) and there will be a larger collective effect. It's the old think-global-act-local idea. The water cycle is global, so it's quite possible a few water molecules in the ice cubes in your fridge were once inside a glacier in Greenland, just as the electrons in your thumb were once inside a supernova.
True, your gallons go back into the cycle, but if the outflow exceeds the ingo, our upkeep will be our downfall.
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Believe it or not, an ability to do math "backwards" like that will be a huge asset on the SAT. I wish more of my students were comfortable with it.
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Does PA really stand so far above other states in regulations? Personally (I live in PA) the thought of moving to New York would put me in a panic--it seems like so much more paperwork. But maybe it is just the legalese.
Right across the Delaware here in NJ, we have zero HS regs, so to me, PA and NY look a LOT different.
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October, August, September, March.....wait, wait, August, November, October.....wait, wait. I got this....I was standing in front of him mouth open, dumbfounded. He finally started at January and was able to easily recite all 12 months to my decided relief!
Backward thinking, he was. Plain to see, it is.
A Jedi, you have raised.
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Okay, I must be really thick today, or not caffeinated enough. Explain to me in kindergarten terms what difference that makes, and how my conserving a few extra gallons of water a day would matter.
In the spirit of "show, don't tell" as an effective rhetorical practice, I've got two vids for this topic:
and
(Both are kid friendly)
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There is a great article here referencing a TED talk by Louise Leaky (yes, of that Leaky family), that talks about our ingrained ideas of protonatalism:
"The current bedrock of social and cultural conditioning rests in pronatalism - a set of beliefs that is pro-birth, encourages reproduction and exalts the role of parenthood. Pronatalism promotes the denial of the realities of population growth today."
It makes sense, even in light of the "quiverfull" movement, of which the Duggers are a part. Taking it a step further, if you're world view is already somewhat insular, adding 20 kids would seem to push you farther down that insular path past the point where introspection and questioning are possible (if they ever were it begin with). We are still tribal, and hang out with the tribe members who agree with us. Then again, it could also be that Michelle is addicted to babies, or that she feels a certain martyrdom she must fulfill. The psychological possibilities are boggling.
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Okay - so I guess it might be a "guy" thing. He's happy with blank walls - it's Mom that finds it depressing. So I guess I'll just let it go........again!
Myra
I dunno. My roommate and I got quite gaudy by senior year. Did I mention the huge Union Jack I painted onto a queen flat sheet that we hung from our ceiling? We also had loft beds made from antique porch posts that put us up to only about 2 feet from said ceiling. Then there was the curbside couch we brought in loosely twined to the top of my hand-me-down Dodge Omni. We were odd kids.
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Tom, are you a Blue Hen?
Yup -- (BA '87). You?
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My dd hasn't hung anything on the walls because she's afraid of messing up the paint. She has hung her wall scrolls on the headboard and footboard of her bed. Since they are designed to be loftable, the frames go up very high.
That's why it was great when dorm walls were cinder blocks painted public-school green. A little Crest toothpaste would hide any ding or holes.
:coolgleamA:
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Last week, DD just finished her ninth HS dig in 7 years, working with retired archaeologist and master storyteller, Geoff "Big Dog" Purcell, who runs dothedig,net. Geoff is based in Albany, NY, but has done student digs throughout the northeast.
The artifacts are real, as are the techniques participants learn -- more brush and less shovel. Geoff essentially recreates an actual dig, from, say the Lamanai site in Belize, but compresses what was a site of 10 or more feet deep into a more manageable 3 feet. It takes a dozen or so kids three or four days to carefully find, map, remove, and clean or reassemble all the artifacts. All the while, they work to come up with viable theories, based on the context under their boots, as to what happened, to whom, how, and why.
It's awesome, and addicting "alive" world history. Has anyone else done a "Big Dog" dig?
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#3 -- We do tend to accumulate tote bags to use at the library. The best part is when the staff there gets to know your kid by name. That's nothing but a good thing.
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Cook's Country Chicken Chimichangas rock! (or HERE to get around the paywall). Not hard, and you get bean protein and grains all in one package. The recipe does not call for leftover chicken, but I think it would work fine.
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Yes, you can set up several users. I think the max may be five.
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Spelling Workout by Modern Curriculum Press -- we've gone all the way through and are now in the last book!
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Check out the Mindbenders series. DD liked those a lot. We're doing Critical Thinking now, which we like, except for the first chapter. This one gets into more of the stuff I remember from high school, like what is Ad Hominem, etc.
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I consumed a fair amount of Dannon yogurt in high school, and started collecting the cardboard inserts that sat inside the tops (back when containers were still waxed cardboard). Each top had a different outer band of color to match the flavor, but the centers of each top were white. It was these centers I painted with glow-in-the-dark nail polish. Using over 100 yogurt tops, and lots of tape, my roommate and I outlined a giant UD on our ceiling, which, of course, glowed at night.
Those were such simple times.... :laugh:
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I wouldn't call 1.6% *much* bigger.
It's bigger when you count in the depth of snow -- it's a cubic volume thing.
Serious question about the Duggars...
in The Chat Board
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Well said. Shanta Devarajan, World Bank chief economist for Africa said:
"Twenty-five of the 28 high-fertility (more than 5 children per woman) countries are in Africa. This and related facts have revived the concern that Africa will miss out on the “demographic dividend†–the rapid economic growth rates associated with declining fertility, as experienced by many countries in Asia. But Africa is also the continent with the slowest economic growth in the past. And, as The Economist (and others) pointed out, economic growth is probably the best contraceptive. "
I would also refer everyone to the series on The Girl Effect. (now if only I could figure out how to embed a vid :huh: )