[Watching Shakespeare movies is not going well. Need suggestions.]

With my boys, it was a several stage process, even though they are language-based students. First we read a children's version. Then we watched the animated versions (BBC productions, many available on Youtube). Only then did we watch the films/see the live play.

 

Now that Calvin has seen quite a few, he understands what is going on without the preamble.

 

Laura

 

 

Thanks. We've read the children's version in the past, and I had her re-read it this morning. I'll try the animated version.

 

 

Is the accent an issue?

 

 

Yes, definitely. Subtitles would be great, but this film doesn't have them.

[Watching Shakespeare movies is not going well. Need suggestions.]

I'm just starting a unit on Shakespeare with dd, 16. Our plan is to cover Richard III, Macbeth, Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, and The Tempest. I had planned to have her read a few and watch the rest. This morning we started a BBC version of Macbeth. After 5 minutes neither of us had any idea what was going on. Mainly we couldn't understand what the actors were saying.

 

I took a Shakespeare class in college and read most of these, although I don't remember much other than the basic plot. I did review the Sparknotes for Macbeth and gave dd a synopsis before starting the film. It didn't help.

 

Anyone else have this problem? Dd and I are both math/science, not language people. But I've seen other Shakespeare plays and was able to follow them okay.

 

Should we read each play before trying to watch it? Is this just a bad version of the play? Are there any others that are particularly easy to understand? Where do you find them? Our library only has these BBC DVDs.

 

All suggestions welcome.

[Obscure or common knowledge (no googling before answering)- Ergotism]

Yes, but only because I've taken classes in toxicology.

[Math experts, help me solve this problem (CC-Combinations content)]

 

It would be 2^5 = 32. You're just missing a few of the 3-combinations. One thing you might notice is that the 3-cominations and the 2-combinations should be the same in number. They will be complements of each other.

 

ACD ACE ADE BDE

 

So that brings you to 31. And then the last one is the one with NO girls in it, the 0-combination. You probably wouldn't make a picture like that, so just 2^5-1 = 31.

 

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I knew I must have been leaving something out.

Duh. Loved stats. Hated probablility.

[Math experts, help me solve this problem (CC-Combinations content)]

No, it's not 18!. You could add up all the 17 groups, 16 groups, and so forth, but there's actually an easier way to think about this one. For each girl, ask yourself, is she in the picture or out of the picture. Two choices for each girl. Doing that all possible ways for each girl will give you every possible picture combination. Two independent choices for each of 18 girls is 2^18. Now that includes the picture where every girl is OUT of the picture. Probably you wouldn't include that choice, so 2^18-1 = 262,143.

 

I had considered this, but then I tried writing it out with just 5 girls: A,B,C,D, and E

 

I got

ABCDE

ABCD ABCE ABDE ACDE BCDE

ABC ABD ABE BCD BCE CDE

AB AC AD AE BC BD BE CD CE DE

A B C D E

 

For a total of 27 groups. But using binomial coefficients that would be 2^4 = 16, which isn't right. What am I missing?

 

Obviously, 5! didn't work either. :o

[Math experts, help me solve this problem (CC-Combinations content)]

 

Please specify: does it matter in which order the girls are in the photo, or is girls of the same photo group switching spot considered ONE choice?

No, order doesn't matter.

[Math experts, help me solve this problem (CC-Combinations content)]

I have a group of 18 girls. I want to know how many possible combinations of those girls I could make for photos. (It's a theoretical question, I don't plan to do it :laugh: )

 

So I would have one photo of all 18 girls. Then I would have 17 groups (I think), each group with one girl missing. Then I would have a bunch of groups of 16 girls, on down to having a photo of each individual girl.

 

Is it 18! ?

 

Thanks!

[how would you handle this - teen smoking]

I agree with Joanne, but I also think it's fine to tell him that you're disappointed. It might be nice for him to realize that someone has high expectations for him.

 

But he isn't necessarily doomed. Lots and lots of people experiment as teens and then quit.

[Keep this kitchen cabinet or build open wall shelves??]

I don't like too many decorative things in my kitchen because they collect grease and that collects dust. And greasy dust is a pain to clean. I like your cabinet.

:iagree:

If I wanted to display things, I'd use cabinets with glass doors.

[Another major life change. A sad one...]

I'm sorry.

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

[Tell me that my kids need me.]

Oh Julie. :crying:

 

Yes, they need you very much. It will get better. I promise.

 

Have you seen your doctor? There are things that can help you get through a crisis.

 

:grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug: :grouphug:

[What can I do with chickpeas besides make hummus?]

Indian Chole

 

Our favorite chickpea recipe. In fact, we just had it last night for supper.

You can (obviously) use dried instead of canned; we've done it both ways. We also often add some pineapple and/or coconut milk to change it up a bit. Oh, so good!

 

I'm doing low carb and have been craving Chole. It's going to be the first meal I have after I'm done with this induction phase.

[Small pimple-like bumps that come and go]

Molluscum

[What sort of doctor should I see?]

A family doctor or internest. They are more general and will consider all organ systems. The problem with going to a specialist is that they are only (ok, mostly) going to think about their organ system. If you go to an orthopod and it turns out to be a cardiac issue, it will probably take a lot longer to figure that out. The generalist is in a better position to figure out what specialist you might need.

[Dipping Sauces for Vegetables]

Curried mayonnaise

[Iowa people? Or just good people locatorers?]

I'm in Eastern Iowa if you still need help....

Me too!

[What would you expect from your doctor?]

I would be very grateful the doctor was respectful of my time and ability to do some research, especially if he already knew I was a vegetarian, and therefore, conscious of what I was consuming.

I really doubt that the doctor is calling in the script out of respect for the patient's time. Treating a borderline high cholesterol without any further discussion of treatment options, consideration of the patient's desires, need for possible further testing, (among other issues) is not only DISrespectful, it's not good medicine.

 

Being considerate of patients' time is nice, but not if it compromises the quality of care.

 

 

 

I really feel sorry for doctors nowadays. No matter, how they try to help, the patient is ungrateful. .... It is now chic to bad mouth some doctor, no matter what the outcome, good or bad.

 

This, I totally agree with.

[What would you expect from your doctor?]

As far as we know there is no genetic predisposition to high cholesterol. Last year when he had the draw his numbers where at the low end of normal.

I'm not opposed to medicine, but I'd never start a statin based on one blood test, especially when it is inconsistent with all previous tests. I also wouldn't start a statin without looking carefully at any lifestyle changes I could make.

[What would you expect from your doctor?]

I see what you are saying, but I can't get past why not retest first. Our fat comes from olive oil or things like nuts and avocados. Those things aren't high in cholesterol. I'd just think the anomaly might be the test, not dh. Why all of a sudden would someone start producing excessive cholesterol? High cholesterol doesn't run in his family.

 

It is just so off that to not explore more options is boggling my mind.

 

Dietary cholesterol doesn't cause high cholesterol.

 

The following are remarks from Dr. Dwight Lundell. I totally agree with them, although he has a somewhat shady background and isn't the best spokesman. But it's well written and easy to understand, and is consistent with what most LCHF people are saying.

 

 

Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease ~Dr. Dwight Lundel

 

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.

 

I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labelled "opinion makers." Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.

 

The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.

 

It Is Not Working!

 

These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

 

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

 

Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.

 

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.

 

Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.

 

Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's natural defence to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.

 

What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.

 

The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.

 

Let me repeat that: The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.

 

What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.

 

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. you kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.

 

Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.

 

While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.

 

How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?

 

Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.

 

When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.

 

What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.

 

While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator -- inflammation in their arteries.

 

Let's get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6's are essential -they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell -- they must be in the correct balance with omega-3's.

 

If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.

 

Today's mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That's a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today's food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy.

 

To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer's disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.

 

There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.

 

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.

 

One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.

 

Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated. Forget the "science" that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.

 

The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.

 

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.

 

 

I don't know much about vegetarian LCHF. I think it would be doable but more work than non-vegetarian LCHF. Off to google...

[What would you expect from your doctor?]

How many carbs is he eating? Have you looked into Low carb/High fat? I'd suggest Gary Taubes' "Why We Get Fat" if you haven't read it already. He talks about cholesterol and heart disease quite a bit.

 

The more I learn, the more I'm convinced that the low fat recommendations of the past are a huge cause of the obesity epidemic. (I'm not saying your dh is obese, just that the dietary recommendations of the past were misguided. :) )

[What would you expect from your doctor?]

C

[VENT: Laws I have to follow b/c other people are stupid.]

Where do you live? Have you checked your state law? I live in Iowa, and we don't have a law:

 

Law Summary

 

Iowa does not have a specific law addressing unattended children in cars. Please note, however, that even if a state does not have a specific law prohibiting adults from leaving children unattended, state and local prosecutors have the discretion to criminally charge adults under existing child endangerment laws.

 

 

I'd check your state law, and if it isn't illegal (and it probably isn't) I'd email the school that you've decided it's safer to leave the kids in the car. CPS has way more important things to do. They aren't going to get involved in this.

 

Check your laws here

[Dr. Hive--enlarged Adam's Apple in a woman??]

Seems high to be thyroid but I'll be getting that checked.

 

It's all attached though, so if your thyroid is enlarged or inflamed it can make the Adams's Apple feel sore also.

[Practical, casual centerpiece]

If I don't have fresh flowers, I have a wooden bowl filled with fresh fruit.

[Do you like other non-family women calling you "honey", "sweetheart", etc?]

Really, not much irritates me. But I'm not enjoying aging and those things get under my skin more than usual.

 

 

I feel like it's a veiled "hello, older woman that I don't really respect." It's the fact that people are subtly commenting on my age. It was very, very rare for anyone to call me hon when I was younger. And then it was only by people much older than me.