Can he mimic the whiteboard with post-it notes? There's a certain satisfaction in removing and throwing away ones when you've completed the tasks written on them.

Dies is usually masculine.

Is there a way to preview it? Wheelock (and all Latin books, for that matter), depend on having good formatting of tables and charts, and I've heard bad things about how some versions of Wheelock have been converted to the Kindle.

This is your sailor? Then certainly: "Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea", by Robert Massie All about the naval battles of WWI, and the impact of the new dreadnought class.

At the end of her undergraduate career, I assume that she'll either want to get a job, or go to graduate school. In either case, her undergraduate resume will be important in that next step. Generally speaking, I'd advise her to add the Math minor, all other things being equal. With the minor, her resume will say "I'm not willing to do the bare minimum to pass, I'm interested in multiple things and willing to work hard". Perhaps if the minor prevented her from getting a summer internship, or research position (which I doubt), then I'd be less inclined to suggest it. It is more likely that an internship or especially research position would benefit from having a stronger math background. She will have access to and interaction with more professors seeing her work at a higher level, which can be useful for recommendations and research. I would also advise her that the more advanced math classes tend to be very different than the introductory math classes -- abstract algebra can require very different skills than calc.

High technology improves by leaps and bounds and a robot that is so expensive today that it can only replace a $15 an hour worker will probably be improved in a few years, and be able to replace a $1.50 an hour worker soon. Then what?

I don't know why. I sure don't think there was a collective loss of willpower or morality between the 1950s and now surrounding food. And I don't think there's one smoking gun reason. I think there's a lot of interlocking factors. One explanation is in this book: https://www.amazon.com/End-Overeating-Insatiable-American-Appetite/dp/1605294578 which explains that as big agribusiness got more efficient at producing food, it needed to figure out how to sell more to each person. Food scientists have gotten much better at mixing sugar, fat and salt in addictive combinations that trigger and change our brain chemistry to eat more. The amount of sugar in yogurt, like you mentioned, is a perfect example of this.

Do these recipes show a yield? I wonder how many people a whole chicken was expected to feed then?

I've noticed this again and again, when you look at photos of everyday Americans from the 1950s, how skinny almost all of them looked. I think portion control is a much bigger culprit than whether we are eating "good" foods or "bad" foods. Looking at the menu from 1950s McDonalds, they only sold 7 ounce sodas (of course, with no refills), a single-patty hamburger, or if you wanted to splurge, a single-patty cheeseburger, and a single size of fries smaller than today's "small" size. I'm not blaming McDonalds here, they just make it easy to compare across decades. I bet these portions where similar to what people were eating at home, and today's larger fast food portions are the new normal, and correspond to home-cooked portions.

There's also abebooks.com, which is exactly what you are asking for, although they are now owned by amazon.

I wish our Thanksgiving dinner table conversation could have been about politics. Instead, we got detailed descriptions of stomach-turning illnesses and surgeries, lists of barely-known acquaintances who had lost pregnancies in the last decade, hopes of admittance to a college because "they keep sending me email", long complaints about the failings of ex-spouses, and other subjects I have put out of my head.

My local grocery store just got new automatic checkout machines that accepts change very quickly. I love the fact that I can dump a handful of coins (including pennies!) into the machine, and it counts it all up quickly. I'm trying to use credit cards less, but accumulating loose change is annoying, and this is a good way to get rid of it.

I don't know that there has been a court decision, but there was bipartisan agreement that John McCain, who was born in the Panama Canal Zone, when there was such a thing, counted as a "natural born citizen", and was eligible to be President.

But half of the top ten are either DC or in New England, which isn't the kind of rural that most people think about when they are talking about ignored-by-the-elite fly-over states. Don't get me wrong, I certainly think the Electoral College isn't the best way for the US to select a president (and not because of this election), I just think that portraying it as "the protector of the rural" isn't quite correct.

I think people are getting caught up in the rural vs. urban distinctions because of the most recent election. But I don't think the EC really breaks down that way -- consider Washington D.C., with 3 electoral votes and 600k residents, I wouldn't consider DC rural, or many other tiny eastern states, but they are disproportionately represented in the EC, just like states we'd consider mostly rural, like Wyoming and Montana.

My hands and feet get cold in the winter if I'm sitting around too much. Mom called it "poor circulation", but I'm not sure that's medically correct. Nevertheless, a good brisk walk, even when it is cold out can help tremendously.

Perhaps, instead of spending the last six years wasting time and money proposing and voting on 60 bills to repeal the ACA, knowing that they'd get veto'ed, some of this time and money could have been spent thinking about how to improve it, instead of political grandstanding.

The good news is that even you pronounce Latin "wrong", you are unlikely to be impaled by a native Latin-speaking centurion for your offense. And, indeed, as the Romans didn't have TV, radio, or snapchat, there were likely pretty strong regional accents across the range of the empire. The even better news is that we modern Latin enthusiasts are so few, yet so fervent, that we are happy to run into a kindred spirit, and certainly aren't going to look down on anyone for a mispronunciation. Especially since we aren't so very sure ourselves.

"ue" is not a diphthong in Latin (there aren't many), so the "u" and the "e" are pronounced separately, and are in distinct syllables. /too/ /eh/ /ree/

Agreed. But, (and I know this is unpopular), I think that a, say, two year universal service requirement, where you could choose from many different kinds of service: military, peace corps, Americorps, civil conservation corps, teach for america, etc. would be a good idea.

There are several dialects of ancient Greek, the main ones are Attic, Homeric and Koine. They aren't enormously different from one another, especially when starting out and learning the basics. It looks like FFG teaches mostly Koine, and calls it "Ancient Greek".

So jealous! While there are lots of experts here at the WTM forums, if you have specific questions, I know there are other Internet forums dedicated to helping ex-pats. You may want to check those out for suggestions and ideas. I'm sure three months will fly by. One thing I'd plan for is inter-European travel -- Because it is so easy, I'd also be planning side-trips to France, Italy, etc. I'd also use the trip as an excuse to do crash immersion German language training for your boys. While you can easily get by without speaking a word of German, it is much more polite and fun to try to learn at least some bits of the native language and culture.

The important upshot of this is that when you memorize a Latin noun, like, say, agricola, you need to memorize the Nominative Singular form (agricola), gender (masculine, in this case), and the Genitive singular form (agricolae), as well as the english translation. If you've only seen the 1st and 2nd declension nouns, you might think that all nouns which end in -a are 1st declension, and all nouns that end in -us or -um are 2nd declension, but it gets trickier as you learn more grammar. So, even though there's no good reason yet, you will be better off if you memorize all the nouns in this way. Good luck!

If you are flying from one small town on one side of the country to another small town on the other side of the country, two connections may be the only way to get there. Still, I'd work hard to find a schedule that doesn't require flying the last flight of the day on the last step of the 3 legged journey. That's just asking for trouble.

Not that diagramming is the be-all and end-all of grammar instruction, but note that if you diagrammed these English sentences, the adverb would be in the same place relative to the verb, no matter where it lands in the English sentence.