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I was gifted a bag of mushroom ‘coffee’ that I am surprised by how much I am liking it. Adding in my normal flavored creamer and it tastes great to me without the acid, love the warm cup, and it has a rich creamy mouth texture like an expensive latte.
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I would add another vote for red light laser therapy as a possible non-invasive help. This seems like a really good list of ‘all the things’ that I have pretty much ever heard for pain.
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It is so hard to try to figure out what to do. Good luck on whatever you decide!!
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Thanks for the link, I’m going to go check that out.
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I am currently trying to apply for a ‘youth arts program coordinator’ for a local organization like of like a community center.
i have a BA in Business and an MBA - both over 20 years old at this point. I have a few other jobs, but the only ‘real professional’ job was pre-kids which is almost also 20 years old. Lol. Other then that I have been a very active homeschooling parent. Did years of Foundations/Essentials/Challenge A tutoring for Classical conversations as well as organizing a couple of 4 week student exchange programs. But I feel like I have a pretty good handle on how to present those experiences.
But if I don’t get the youth arts program job - I need to start applying for ‘anything’ because we need money coming in ASAP.
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I am needing to go back to work after being out of the workforce for about 18 years. It is really daunting for me. Anyways, I am trying to figure out how to put some of my volunteer experience into the resume/job box.
I have started and am running a meetup.com support group for about 200 families for the past 7 years. We have weekly park days and all kinds of field trips and activities and classes that an active support group might do. I have also during that time dealt with much of the behind the scenes family drama that occurs with running such a group. This is the back story to what I am trying to showcase for a hiring manager who knows nothing about homeschooling.
Here is what I have so far:
Started and manage a local homeschooling support group for about 200 families in (named local) area. Organize field trips to local venues. Teach interest-based classes and coordinate community building events. Run technical background to publicize events ran by other hosts in the group.
Help me please, I know it’s not very good, but I don’t know what to change
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My husband does. It is a small private college that participates in a tuition exchange as well. So it is not only the college he works at (that our kids have no interest in attending) but the other ones that participate in the exchange as well. We are hoping to be able for our first child to participate next year. I’m am not positive of all the hoops to jump thru, but I am sure there are some.
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Does the line go ‘in’ you could put putty into it and then spray texture over it to blend it in.
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20 hours ago, klmama said:
One of my dc has sensitive skin, but tolerated a low dose of Accutane. The highest dc could tolerate was 40 mg total each day. It took longer, but it did clear dc's skin. ETA: Dc was very diligent to use the lip balm, moisturing cream, and eye drops. They weren't needed at 20 mg daily, but dc's skin didn't clear up until 40 daily. The doctor wanted to go higher, but the back pain was too much.
What kind of back pain?? My dd just started a course and is starting to say that it hurts when she takes a deep breath. I’m just wondering if they might be related?.?.?
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4 hours ago, Lady Marmalade said:
My DS has retired.
After years of being bullied by the very girls who count on him as a partner, he decided he wasn't spending his senior year in a toxic situation. So he quit. He decided he didn't want to dance for a career after all, so there was no point in spending all the $$$ for a final season of dance.
Nutcracker was harder for me to watch than it should have been, maybe. He would have been the Cavalier this year. His solo would have won awards at competition season. And he legit could have made it as a pro in no time at all.
But he is happy now and he's not just putting on a happy face to please his teachers and his mom. He misses the teachers more than anything. A few of them he's been with for most of his life and not having that regular interaction with them has been different.
Interestingly, after he quit one of the male teachers at his studio commended him for deciding to be happy instead of muddling through, and then promptly turned in his own two week notice!
I always wondered how those moms of seniors could let their kids make a different choice for their senior year and then it happened to me. If I had known the last time I saw him dance was going to be the last time I saw him dance, I might have soaked in the moment a bit more. Now I'm just super proud of him for recognizing just how much those girls affected his happiness and making a better choice for himself.
That is some amazing self awareness!
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Our dancer has been doing in-person auditions for Summer Intensives. She now has several acceptance notifications and we need to figure out which one she is going to attend. I am kind of annoyed because I feel like the websites are not giving real information about living situation, vax status requirement/recommendation, testing requirement/recommendation, masking requirement/recommendation and are basically pretending like it does not exist. However, I know for a fact that they do know it exists as some are located in cities that are in the news about local/state requirements. So, yeah. Several are not saying anything about even the cost of housing - am I to take that to mean there is NO housing provided, or just what?? It is frustrating because I feel like if they would give out the info, we could then make decisions and move forward. But without the info, I’m not sure how to move forward.
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23 hours ago, Pam in CT said:
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OP, when you first started the thread...
... what was in your mind when you kicked off with the bolded? When you asked "is this supposed to be a permanent thing..." what did you envision as the "this"?
OP here, I started this thread after seeing this particular flier. So originally I guess this is what I was thinking of ‘this’.
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1 minute ago, Bootsie said:
Also, I have found the term "vaccine passport" is being used in many different ways, not simply as something that needs to be shown to enter a bar or restaurant. Some are using it as showing vaccine proof to go to school, some to grocery stores, some for travel, some for bars. Some are talking about an app that digitizes the CDC card without providing any additional level of security. Others are talking about a standardized, government veriified system. Without more specificty of what is being discussed and what all it would encompass, it is difficult to have a meaningful conversation about (1) what is possible with the data we have and (2) should we do that.
I totally agree with your two points. I’m not sure how to go about having that conversation, I guess defining terms would be a good start - but what terms even to use?
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1 hour ago, Faith-manor said:
This. I seriously doubt that homeless folks are trying to attend a Detroit Symphony Orchestra concert, a Lugnuts game, or a Broadway Show all of which are optional activities that no one has a legal entitlement to much less a human right. These groups can require it, and that is also their right, the logistics of implementation falling on them. Don't like it, don't go. We are not talking about proving vaccination status in order to go to the hospital.
But we are talking about showing it to go to the gym or a restaurant or shopping mall. Which I think is a different order then the symphony or a professional sports game. And is it different if a government says it is required or if the establishment says it is required??
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29 minutes ago, TCB said:
Are there really so many unvaccinated people who are willing to lie about it and forge documents? Is there no honor among the unvaccinated? I find that a little difficult to believe.
But on the flip side - if it is an unlawful law that is discriminatory- is there not honor in fighting against it?
* I am not saying this is ‘my’ position, I am curious, and think this is worthy of debate in democratic society.
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Wow, in the US we either don’t have those numbers, and/or those systems do not talk to one another.
For example, my state did one of the vaccine lottery’s, and ended up with doing two. One for people who had received theirs through the Dept of Defense or Veteran’s Affairs, and the other for those who had received it through the testing sites available to anyone. And my state does not include does given through the DoD or VA in their ‘% vaccinated’ data because they are not given it. Which can be a serious issue in multiple counties that have major military presence.
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On this very board there was a link to an official US government website where there was the electronic file to ‘print your own’ official CDC covid vaccine card. It has been verified to me multiple times in person and multiple venues that there were stacks of cards available to pick up (or not). Then we had multiples of people posting their cards ALL OVER social media with lot numbers. If you want a fake card, it is super easy to get one. And now where I live health departments are debating making patrons show this to go inside various places. I’m truly not sure how this is supposed to make the community ‘safer’ when they are SO easy to fake if one is inclined.
And do we even know what is fully vaccinated anymore? One shot, two shots, three shots?? More???
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I’m sorry to hear about your mom. Sending lots of caring your way.
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1 hour ago, Melissa Louise said:
My concern re passports is the low paid workers who have to 'enforce' them. I've already got a family member assaulted by a member of the public at her workplace when he wasn't pleased with her answer.
I think this is another angle that really probably needs to be considered, especially in the US.
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11 minutes ago, Dmmetler said:
The local NBA franchise has announced that proof of vsccination or a negative test within 3 days is required to go to games (college or NBA) and concerts/etc at that arena. I suspect there will be more, not fewer, such declarations in the future.
Is there a difference if a particular business wants to make this a policy vs. the government (and what level city, county, state, national) saying that the business MUST have this policy?? How much does this really help with the overall level of safety (vs people accessing their own personal risk and attending or not) when we know that vaccinated people can and do in fact still spread Covid?
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In places (not the US obviously) that have the infrastructure in place to do things like track the vaccine status of everyone - if it is required for admittance- is there a way for exemptions to allow allow the person admission (natural immunity, medical, religious, etc,)? If so, who decides when and how those are entered into the system? Also, how are visitors brought into the system? Does this mean that to go to the movies/restaurant/bar/place where it is being requested - you have to have access to a smart phone or computer and printer or how is it verified??
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Yes, I was asking for opinions, thank you so much for sharing yours!
I was simply trying to contrast the opinion shown by you and the opinion shown by MEmama which was why I tried to quote both. They seem different to me by different degrees and I am trying to consider all the opinions offered.
I certainly feel like I am living in a cornerstone time of history.
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Is this level of input into the proposed potential system mean that it is now a ‘forever’ system though? Who decides what routes would qualify a person? How does the technology for this work? The logistics seem almost mind boggling to me that a society would put this much effort into something that everyone thinks is only temporary.
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22 minutes ago, MEmama said:
I feel like you’re fishing for something, but I’ll try to take your question-without-opinion-or-backstory in good faith.
I'm in favor of them, primarily because they simplify a process that I think ought to be happening more. We just got back from Ireland, where proof of vaccine is required for all indoor dining. We opted to only eat outdoors, but I watched plenty of people be asked at the doorways of restaurants, pubs and cafes for their QR code and never once did anyone so much as blink. It was just a total, complete non-issue. After months of true lockdown (of the likes no American came close to experiencing) everyone was truly glad to be able to be out and about—“living their lives freely” as some people here like to say—and vaccination allows them to do that.
Will they be required *forever*? Of course not. But *right now* the entire world in the middle of a pandemic. I don’t care a whit whether I’m asked for a code on my phone in the future, but I sure would feel safer doing so for now.
8 minutes ago, gardenmom5 said:We've already encountered them in our state. I expect them to be around until covid is "over". If it ever is. . . .
I am personally just trying to think through these perspectives, if Covid is going to be with us ‘forever’.
17 minutes ago, Bootsie said:Vaccine passports go beyond simply a requirement for a proof of a particular vaccine to participate in an event. For a vaccine passport to be worthwhile, we would have to have some centralized, official recording of vaccines. At this point we do not have that in the US. Different states record vaccines differently. Different providers record vaccines differently. I do not see us getting to that type of standardization and centralization of medical records in the US any time in the near future.
When I look around I also see this. And if the US is going to put the effort to get from this current state to one where we have vaccine passports, well that is going to be a LOT of work.
Debate curriculum or ideas?
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I have a group of 8-10 high school students who have been meeting twice a month and giving speeches. They would like to branch out and start doing actual debates in class with each other. I am looking for resources on how to teach them to actually debate, not just argue. They are already pro’s are the arguing part, lol.
What I can find on-line seems to mostly be lists of debate topic ideas or joining national debate organizations. Any suggestions on places to look or resources for me to use in class?