Wisconsin.

Sorry, I just realized she isn't writing numbers on her own yet. Guess this wasn't helpful. :tongue_smilie:

When my kids were in Montessori, they made their own. Get her a roll of receipt tape, a pencil, and a number chart. My kids could do this for hours. They were so proud of themselves too!

I should clarify-- our roller skating rink is disgusting. Our ice skating rink is wonderful.

Thanks. I'm also wondering if it wouldn't be better to get a Nook, since some books are available on one but not the other.

While I am the main Kindle user, my dh and kids would like to use it too. I'm thinking of getting a second one that they can share. Can we put it on the same account so all the books are on each device?

If they serve food, the health department would be inspecting. But generally they only inspect the food preparation area, unless there are specific health concerns, like rats or an infestation. If it's disgusting but not a public health issue, they may not be able to do anything about it. It wouldn't hurt to call them. Our skating rink is filthy too.

Maybe she realized she was out of line and was embarrassed. Her behavior reminds me of how I react when I realize I've said something idiotic. Which seems to happen fairly frequently. I think inviting her over is a great idea. If she's embarrassed she'll be relieved and maybe she'll stop running her mouth.

I don't like him either, although I've read all the Alex Cross books. They are hard to put down once you start, but they aren't well written. I also like Tess Gerritsen, Elizabeth George, Ruth Rendell, Laura Lippman, Margaret Maron, Jonathan Kellerman, John Sandford, and Minette Walters, if you're looking for mystery/detective/crime fiction.

I've never frozen zucchini before. I'm finding some recommendations to shred it and blanch, and some that say it's fine to freeze it raw. I plan to use it for zucchini bread and in soups or sauces. What has worked best for you?

Other. My bed is made every day. The kids make theirs most days, but not every day. I wish they would but it's not a hill to die on at my house. But I don't feel in control of my day until my bed is made and the sink is scrubbed.

My 3 kids had it last year and none of them had any problems with it. Meningococcal meningitis is an awful disease. Even though the risk of getting meningitis is fairly low, the consequences can be terrible. For me, the benefits of the vaccine far outweighed the risks, and it was an easy choice. Just an fyi- there are 5 strains of the bacteria that cause meningococcal disease. The vaccine only covers 4 of them. There should be a vaccine for the 5th strain coming in the near future. So don't be surprised if your dd gets the regular vaccine, and then is told she needs another one in a few years. That would be to cover the one strain that is currently not included in the vaccine.

Here is a list of all ingredients by vaccine, and here is a list of vaccines by ingredient, from CDC. All of these ingredients are on the package inserts for each individual vaccine. None concern me. I don't know where that information comes from, but I don't think it's accurate. As far as I know, there aren't any vaccines that use sheep red blood cells. Vaccine ingredients do change over time, so maybe this was true in the past. Anyway, I don't know all the ingredients of every single vaccine culture medium, so I could be mistaken. There are several culture media that contain materials obtained from cows. Basically, when vaccines are made, you are taking some sort of infectious agent ("antigen"), changing it somehow so that it doesn't cause disease, and then vaccinating a person (or animal) with it. There are a number of ways to produce vaccines, and the method depends on the type of infection. Influenza vaccine is produced differently than hepatitis vaccine or MMR, for example. To make the vaccine, you need large quantities of antigen (the infectious part). This is often done by growing it in eggs or in cell culture. Viruses can't grow on their own, and have to be grown in living tissue. For instance, influenza virus is often grown in chicken eggs. After sufficient virus is grown, it is washed and purified and then inactivated to make it safe for use in the vaccine, but it's possible that tiny residual amounts of egg proteins remain. This is why people with severe egg allergies have been advised not to get influenza vaccine grown in eggs. It's not that the egg proteins are put into the vaccine as an ingredient, it's just that it's (currently) impossible to be sure that there is no remaining egg protein left over. Yes, it is on the package in some form. At the end of the second link I posted above (here see page 6), there is a list of culture media (the stuff the antigen is grown in). Some of those are the names of cell lines. You would have to research each one to know exactly what's in it. I don't have a good link for you, but this summarizes several of the more common cell lines. Here is the patient information provided by Merck for Varivax: So yes, the information is there. Here is some information about the fetal tissue cell lines. I don't know if you were here last year during the swine flu threads, so I apologize if you already know this, but my background is in infectious disease epidemiology (my research was mostly related to influenza) and I have some experience with vaccines. People have frequently asked whether I practice what I preach, and the answer is yes- my kids and dh and I are fully vaccinated and up to date.

Chickens? Birds don't get rabies. Weird.

Here is what the Advisory Council on Immunization Practices says: Canada has changed it's policy and doesn't recommend routine vaccination when bats are found in the bedroom. I'd call your local or state health department for guidance.

Are you near Iowa? I'd take him!

Had he recently eaten a fatty meal? Sometimes the blood in the tube will have a white milky layer, and it's said the sample is "lipemic". Lipemia (increased lipids in the blood) is most often associated with high triglycerides (which is a lipid, but is not cholesterol). After eating a meal really high in fat, the blood will often be lipemic, which means you can actually see the fat floating in the blood sample. In order to tell whether it was transient lipemia because of diet, or whether his triglycerides are high chronically, he needs a fasting blood test.

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Very interesting perspective. Thanks for posting this.

I'm loving this thread. :lol: A sandwich short of a picnic. From the shallow end of the gene pool. Somewhere, a village is short an idiot.

Those sayings are just cracking me up. Can we start a collection of some of your favorites?

No, I don't really think it's appropriate to incorporate the identity property in this situation. While 3000+300+90+2 is a good way of representing the number 3392, I think you are trying to do too many different things with the problem. 3000+300+90+2 doesn't really have anything to do with the actual addition problem. If you want to demonstrate place value, I'd be doing it differently: Add the Ones: 2+6+4 = 12 Add the Tens: 30+50 = 80 Add the Hundreds: 100+200 = 300 Add the Thousands: 3000 = 3000 ------ 12 + 80 + 300 + 3000 = 3392

I'm not really following... where are you getting the 2? In general, I wouldn't be using a problem like this to discuss the identity property of addition. I'd think it would be confusing.

Tempura or curry.

:grouphug: Cat bites are very prone to infection, and can cause all sorts of problems. Tetanus cases are often a result of animal bites, so it's important to get the tetanus shot, and I'm glad you did that. But-- Tetanus doesn't cause skin infections. The tetanus bacteria produces a neurotoxin that damages neurons and causes muscle spasms. It takes days to weeks (rarely months) to show up, with symptoms beginning on average 8 days after exposure. So while it's really important that she got the tetanus shot, you don't need to worry that the signs of infection at the site of the bites were caused by tetanus.