This just reminded me of Alice in the Vicar of Dibley who was recounting how she didn't know how to vote in an election ...so she put a big X by the name of the guy she didn't like to indicate NO, NOT HIM.

The Vancouver paper only has a small text box in the margins: Hilary Clinton makes history at convention The National Post leads with the Australian children detainee abuse scandal & below the fold has a column titled: "Walkout mars Clinton's historic night" (no picture) Globe & Mail led with BC's tax for foreign real estate buyers. Below the fold they have a picture of people celebrating on the convention floor with the title "Clinton seals historic nomination" The actual story is inside.

I used to have a job marking for a high school English teacher. I'd do all the fill in blanks, spelling, short answers & the first run through of long answer essays (those she would go through again & assign a final score). We always marked like the purple pen on this: http://immeasurableriches.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/1/3/48138217/2958108_orig.jpg That's how my work was marked when I was in hs too.... (I'm in Canada) fixed link. I hope. http://immeasurableriches.weebly.com/uploads/4/8/1/3/48138217/2958108_orig.jpg

and they put the 'tick' mark beside wrong answers???

I sort of feel like that but it's hard when you see something dangerous enough that it could cause death; like if you saw someone bikejoring with a pug in hot weather - how can you not say something? Another really contentious issue is dogs in cars. Some of us drive & drive responsibly with dogs in cars, arranging for appropriate ventilation, using AC even when the car is parked, using ventlocks, shade cloths, temperature monitors etc. But there's this vigilante move on now to break car windows on all cars with a dog inside.... (eta, because there are idiots who leave their dogs in cars & kill them) It just seems hard to find the mid road, kwim?

Honestly, I'd speak to a professional grief counsellor. in the meantime, just tell him she was very ill, much sicker than you all knew and nobody was able to help her. If he asks, tell him you're not sick and that if you were, you'd get help from a doctor. Hugs. Terrible tragedy.

Even if you'd made it vegetarian or vegan it still could serve as a main dish. I don't get the distinctions between various dishes.... But then I'd be ok with eating a dessert for dinner too :D

whoa. I've never seen that done. Are in North America? Every teacher here either doesn't put anything by a correct answer or puts a tick/check mark by correct and an X by incorrect. In dd's college classes, markers often write down the number of points earned on each question in addition to or instead of the tick marks. These symbols: http://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/000/091/065/original/correct-and-incorrect-signs-vectors-free.jpg

Dogs dehydrate much faster than people. I don't know if anyone has ever tested it but I think panting makes them lose much more water. the thing is, sweating doesn't require tons of water - it just needs a bit to get on your skin & then the evaporation is what cools you. Dogs cool almost exclusively by panting (though they can also lose excess body heat by convection, by laying down on a cold tile floor for ex). They pant, they drool. They're also almost always smaller than us and are working much harder than us. Our stroll is frequently their jog (or with a small dog, it might even be a trot). Exercise induced dehydration and hyperthermia can quickly lead to death in dogs. Hard panting, red gums are danger signs to stop, get in the shade and get the dog cooled down. If gums appear grey or purple and/or the dog looks uncoordinated or confused, that's an emergency requiring immediate race to the vet. Even milder heat exhaustion can trigger a blood coagulation problem which can be fatal several hours later.... http://www.agilityfusion.com/2014/07/how-to-avoid-heat-stroke-for-you-and-your-dog/

try this https://www.thedodo.com/how-to-tell-if-the-pavement-is-too-hot-for-your-dogs-feet-1242363093.html

have you actually done that on yourself or on a teen female? Because that's actually quite a short skirt. I don't think I have unreasonably short arms, and that would not be a skirt I'd wear to an office.....

they don't complain about the sidewalk until they've burned their paw pads off... ie until it's too late. There's a handy way to tell if it's too hot. https://www.thedodo.com/how-to-tell-if-the-pavement-is-too-hot-for-your-dogs-feet-1242363093.html Definitely good idea to stick to shady and grassy areas in this heat. One thing is that when left alone to do what they want in this weather, most dogs will hunker down in a shady spot and not move. They will get up, pee and go right back to lie down in the shade. So yeah, while I understand apartment living requires a pee break, I'd make daytime ones very quick & do your longer walks at pre-dawn or post-dusk. edited to fix link ...again...

A 100 F??? Holy cow that's like 37C right? Ok, so I probably would not be walking my dogs much in that weather. For one thing, pavement can burn their feet at those temps. When we go on summer vacay to the sunny and roasting hot part of the province, the dogs get long walks very early in the morning when it's about 20C and then in the rest of the day if it's that hot, it's just short pee breaks and walks down to the doggy beach. I probably would leave a dog at home rather than take them for an errand such as this. It's illegal to tie up dogs outside in my municipality. If you do it outside a store and Animal Control sees, they will take the dog & you'll have to pay a ticket. Dog friendly stores all have water bowls set out. Also, it depends on type of dog. Any brachycephalic dog I would be extremely careful about taking them out in such weather.

It is indeed a historic moment!

I am! but I'm not sure I want to see it on the big screen. They've been getting more violent. Or I'm getting more wimpy? I don't know. On one hand Matt Damon on the big screen! Otoh, much violence on the big screen! I can't decide whether to wait it out or not. I'm excited about the new Jack Reacher too but have same issue...

Only a matter of time before a guy wears a skirt & then tptb freak out. Just saw a story last month how some schools in the UK are putting out gender neutral language in their uniform policies so anyone can wear pants or a skirt/pinafore. Then there was the story about boys who weren't allowed to wear their gym shorts in school even though there was a heat wave so they wore skirts instead.... Snarky ds just recently suggested why not have schools put kids in prison-style jumpsuits right from the start.

see this thread. Fwiw, I'd proceed very carefully, & I wouldn't assume it's a cheap hobby. http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/618563-hermit-crabs/

I already was vegetarian when I read that but dh wasn't. I'm actually pretty sure a main reason he switched to veg*n with us was that he got tired of decontaminating the kitchen after prepping his own meal.

Ok, this is why I hate eating at other people's homes. And this is why if you travel, the locals are all fine but you get sick eating the same local food. You build your own internal resistance to your own germs but you'll infect newcomers. And the whole 'we survived' thing is not funny to people who didn't, or to people who lost kidney function due to ecoli. This such an extreme form of confirmation bias trumping the measured evidence ....

I agree. That sounds like ineffective anesthetic. in future, you need to put your hand up and stop the procedure. Tell them you're experiencing pain. They need to add freezing or consider different methods such as iv sedation if you're resistant to local agents.

I know some people here use taxis to ferry private schools & after school activities. You can pre-pay them or set up an account. You just book them to be at a certain place and time. I wouldn't Uber but I would use a licenced, insured proper taxi.

so how is that not about 'modesty' then? Why can't someone wear clothing that's 'poured on', like leggings or a gymnastics unitard or a spandex onesie? Because I'd say to get rid of the vagueness of "that's too tight/that's too baggy", you have to go to extreme ends. Either spandex unitards for everyone, or giant billowing robes for everyone.

I think the issue here is partly a difference of what one shares with friends in the first place. There are many things that I would tell only a counsellor or a physician. Or the internet back when it was more anonymous :P

I'm very close to my dh. I tell him pretty much everything except for when I worked and had a mid-high security clearance. I didn't tell him that stuff. I don't think it's wrong. If someone was adamant I couldn't not tell anyone, I would ask them not to tell me. I never make those kinds of promises to not tell. Seems to me they inevitably involve things that need to be told to someone... True story - Someone once told me they were planning a break up a few weeks later. I knew the spouse was planning some big social stuff in between now and then. After a couple hours of shock (and yup, after discussing it with dh), I called the breaker upper and said "tell the spouse now or I will" They did so I didn't have to but I would have....

I'm LOL'ing at all the people with the air mattresses. Dh got one for me the first year I was camping with a nursing baby. The idea was that baby & I would be all comfy and snug and warm. The darned thing leaked, and I sank to the center of it, with child attached to boob. Dh was blissfully sleeping on his thermarest off to the side, and snoring like crazy but I couldn't reach him to hit him because I was essentially enveloped by the sides of the air mattress. My hip was freezing since it was right on the ground, the kid would fuss if I tried to move to much, and dh snored while I tried to throw things at him in the dark. I was pretty cranky in the morning. He suckered me in again the following year. Leaks all sealed! It's fine now! Yeah, no. Never again. I get the thermarest now. He got himself a new air mattress which he tops up every night. He also spends a lot of time trying to convince the dogs that they can't share it with him.... :P I do bring my memory foam orthopedic pillow though.