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We'd like to transfer our old photos (black and white from when we were kids, color from every time else) onto CDR's. What should we ask the photographer or photo lab? Is this worth doing? Will the technology last? Can we make scrapbooks out of digital photos?
The color photos are fading, the black and white ones are fine. The color negatives are fine, and we don't own the black and white negatives.
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Rather than talking to your children, listen to them. When they come to me with a problem, I sympathize, then tell them a similar problem I had when I was their age. Then I give them my full confidence that they can handle this situation. Kids need to see that their parents trust them to make mature decisions, and to let them make mistakes too.
Honestly, I couldn't have done this without dd's coaches. Coaching has changed so much in the last decade. It is preparation for life now. The kids dd trains with treat each other with enormous respect. I just don't see them making silly mistakes in romance.
Ds is going a different way. He is not the slightest bit interested in sports, so I hope he finds adults to help him.
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What do you do when your neighbor parks in your driveway without asking? We don't have a car, so this neighbor may think that we don't need the driveway, but we do occasionally get fairly large deliveries. We have a contracting business, and if the supplier can't take the supplies to the place we are working, he brings them here and we store them until they are needed. We aren't going to get any deliveries any time soon, but I still don't want our neighbor to park here. We have spoken to him and told him he could rent our parking space by the day, but we walk out in the morning, and he is parked there.
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She is insecure and feels unloved. Love her anyway. SHE'S YOUR SISTER.
My mil was the same way, and you know what? I miss the constant nagging and one-upping. I know she cared about our family now, but I didn't see it when she was alive. If I could do it over again, I would do it differently.
Accept people for who they are, and don't think that you can change someone's basic nature.
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because of prosperity. Many of them eat meat now, and richer, more expensive fats. They aren't nearly as fat as Americans though. The young people just look meatier than their parents did. In India, obesity isn't a problem... yet.
Anyone else buying crates of honey mangoes right now? I could live on these all summer. Forget pineapples and watermelons, strawberries and cherries. Honey mangoes in season are the most delectable. We can buy them in boxes of six at the Indian stores for the next month or two.
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First of all, Islam can be very tolerant of homosexuality. Several small cultures within Islam practice homosexuality. The Pashtuns of Afghanistan even take young boys as lovers (which most people DO consider to be a heinous sin), yet it was only when the Taliban entered their area that they started punishing the warlords who took boys. Homosexuality is much more tolerated in Islam than you are led to believe.
Second, the punishment is not necessarily death. One of the punishments is to have a mud brick wall falling on you. If you survive, you go free. As anyone knows who has made a brick path or wall, you can get much worse from very hard baked bricks, and get away with a bad bruising.
The third point is that Greek probably didn't have a word for homosexuality. I am supposing this only from a linguistic point of view. Cultures tend not to have words for things that are common. The French don't have a clear word for food, for example. 'Nourriture' and 'cuisine' are not as clear cut as 'food'. One talks around these words. So if Christians are making certain words to mean other words, it is a misinterpretation.
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What was the best decade for you, and what was the worst, and why?
The 50's are the best so far for me, because I am confident and doing what I wish, living where I wish, and I know now I've done a good job with the kids. My menopausal hormones have stabilized. Dh and I have survived severe health and financial problems, and that gives us confidence. The 30's were also wonderful because the kids were little.
The teens and forties were the worst, because of hormonal problems, and also because the kids were going through the scary teens.
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Why didn't Jesus ever give a sermon against homosexuality, or even mention it? He condemned tax collectors, money changers, politicians and lawyers, yet Christians never condemn them. In fact, many Christians are lawyers and politicans, and want their kids to become lawyers and politicians.
Rebecca, look up those two words in some online dictionaries. They have very different meanings.
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and were still quite poor, so we both were taught to be ultra-frugal. I still feel guilty if I don't use a piece of bread to clean off the gravy left on my plate. We live around a lot of people from the Caribbean and Africa and India, and they do the same thing! It is quite funny, because if they are prosperous, they are the first generation to be that way.
The hard part for all of us is to have money. We have had to learn to use our resources wisely. If we happen to be in an interesting part of the world, we use our money to travel. We invest in the highest quality education for our kids. I find out about all sorts of food, and buy quality food (I don't mean gourmet food, but food that tastes good and is good for you). Junk food seems to be an American and European phenomenon.
Our parents were in their 80's and 90's when they died, and they loosened up in the later years and learned to enjoy the money they had. Dh and I were both happy to see that.
There is a very good book for people whose parents learned their money smarts from surviving the Depression. It is good for anyone who has a wealth of money or education or time or resources or love for the world. The book is Silver Spoon Kids, about how to manage your excess, how to talk to your kids sensibly about money, how not to spoil your kids with too much money, education, etc.
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Dh is reading a book on aging, and the author makes this claim. He says that one must guard against this.
I certainly feel more even-tempered now than when I was younger, perhaps because our kids are getting older and we are becoming more financially stable. It is a real relief.
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I would prefer my children to be older and financially and emotionally stable before marrying. Financial stress is hard on young couples and young families. Fortunately dd isn't even slightly interested in boys, despite the article's claims. She has her head in the right place. She trains around lots of gorgeous guys, but they are just friends.
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but if your husband is skilled, I would recommend living a town or two away from a university town. You can get top dollar and good business at a university town because nobody wants to work with their hands, and few people know how to do it. Housing is usually expensive in those towns, but a couple towns away it is more reasonable.
Dh and I were academics, and got to know academic towns all over the world. We used to pay a lot for plumbers, electricians and carpenters, and had to wait days for the repairman to come. Now we have retrained in the trades and have our own business, but we still have the international contacts, so we are able to do very well, move where we wish, and work when we want.
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We pay the mortgage off with some clearance. We have lived and worked a lot internationally, so we don't see any point in taking a vacation to someplace we will probably be working in soon anyway, plus we live in a paradise right now. We manage to pay for dd's athletic training with an Olympic level coach (about 150 US dollars/week), and we are saving for ds to go to college or whatever he eventually wants to do. We haven't owned a car for decades, so there is no expense there. Dh and I need to talk about this, and I was just looking for ideas.
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For those of you who have lost your parents, what did you do with the inheritance. Did you put it to your child's education, invest it, help pay off the house, take a vacation, buy something you have needed or wanted for a long time, or what? Would you do the same again? Were you happy with your decision?
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It is a good choice for the subject.
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Dd knows some coaches, lots of track and field athletes, and a few gymnasts going. One coach in particular (the coach dd trains with) tends to get medals in three different fields, so we'll be watching for him and his athletes. It is very exciting, isn't it?
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There are many Indians where we live right now, and so I make lots of Indian food, watch Bollywood movies, which are the movies in the cinemas, and buy Indian clothes. I love Indian people and their culture.
I've lived in and visited many places, so India is next on my list. I'd like to live in Egypt too, and some western African country. There are lots of west Africans here, and, again, I make lots of African food and buy African clothes. Africans are wonderful people too. They know how to party in a family-friendly way.
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It was on Yahoo answers:
What is the difference between a "grain" and a "seed"?
Some "grain-like seeds" are used as grains like Quinoa, Amaranth, Buchwheat and Millet. Wheat, spelt and oats are clear-cut grains. Sesame and pumpkin seeds are, well, "seeds". But these all sprout if you put them in water. What is the technical difference between a grain and a seed? By biological standards and culinary standards.
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Technically, a grain is a fruit with a single seed fused, while a seed is an ovule (think 'egg') with an embryo enclosed within.
In the case of wheat, the flour we derive is mainly the ground up fruit part of the grain, the wheatgerm being the seed part fused within the grain.
In the case of, for instance, the Millet, the ovule part of the seed is so 'meaty', comparatively speaking, it has properties reminiscent of the fruit part of grains, and in culinary terms we therefore treat them similarly to a grain.
In seeds like peas and pea-likes, parts of the seed's embryo, the food starage ones that allow the embryonic plant to push up to reach the surface when planted and germinated, are, when the seeds (peas) are dried, so mealy in their properties, we can grind them up to produce 'flour' (like chickpea gram flour, for instance), i.e. a substance that, in culinary terms, reminds us of the properties of grain flour and so we treat them as though they were actually ground up grains.
Hope this helps.
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unless you are the sort of person who rubs your education in other people's faces. It is always nice to talk to people in your own field or your own educational level, but that doesn't preclude you from being able to talk to richer or poorer, different cultures, different educational level, different field of study, etc. That is what makes life interesting.
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I thought the grain of the plant was the seed, but I bought some samo seeds today, and I was told that it was a seed, not a grain, so it is appropriate for fasting in India. Samo or moriya is a millet that grows in India.
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Is anyone here going to Beijing for the Olympics?
Do you know anyone who is going (any of us mortals, I mean)?
Do you know any athletes or coaches who are going?
Do you know any Olympic athletes or coaches who are going?
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We have a house in the US and rent it out. Our tenant has been doing repairs witout our consent. He does things like replace the toilet and doesn't bother to tell us or our house manager. Our manager tells us if there is any repairs over 100 dollars, and he gets qualified workers in who have workmen's comp, guarantees of work, and that gives us a tax break because our US income is so low. We don't get any of these benefits with our tenant.
What exactly are tenants' rights and duties in the US?
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Thirteen pages of discussion about his race! What is it ML King said about judging a man by his heart and not by the colour of his skin?
Obama has an ADVANTAGE because he lived overseas and was able to see the US through others' eyes. The US is shackled by its history of slavery, and Obama is the only one who can get beyond that. I find it incredibly sad that Americans are still having lengthy discussions about irrelevant points like race 200 years after the end of the slave trade.
Americans looked down on South Africa under Apartheid because someone who was only a small fraction African was considered to be Black or Colored, and discriminated against because of that, but the USA is exactly the same way!
I dearly wish Americans would change, but it isn't going to happen without a leader like Obama who can see through the crap.
parking in our driveway
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We can't really put a beach chair on the driveway. We live in a resort area, and who knows what people would think. I will consider all the other suggestions though, nails to cookies to towing. We live near a hospital, and they charge for parking. Even their staff has to pay $120/month for parking. I hate the idea that staff and patients must pay to park. It is wrong, but that is one of the reasons parking is at a premium in this neighborhood. This particular neighbor has more cars than parking places.
To DB in NJ-- we have just never owned a car as a couple. We had cars when we were young adults straight away from home, but then we were poor academics, quite literally living hand to mouth, paid by lecture class, and a car was WAY out of our budget. Now we move with the jobs. We spend six months on a job, then move to another country. We always scope out the job first to see if it is close to a library and doctor and other things. We have a list of things we must be within walking distance of, otherwise we reject the job. Some places are easy for car-less people, other places are horrible. We made the mistake of not scoping out one place beforehand, but fortunately it was a short job.
We walk and bike and have taught the kids to do the same. Dd has to take a bus to the place she trains. I have a pushcart I take to the stores. It means I have to go to the stores pretty often, but that means we get fresh produce all the time too. Neither of our mothers had cars, so I guess dh and I grew up this way anyway. I came from a big family, and we all learned to cope without a car. We are all still car-less.
Right now, I am glad we have adjusted to life without a car, because it is terribly expensive to own one with the gas crunch. We have seen this happen twice before while we were car-less.