We do chicken about twice a week, vegetarian about twice, red meat (incl. sausages/bacon) twice, and fish once.

Well I would think it would be worth a complaint - if just to say that the protocol is pretty poor if it results in the student being unable to complete the exam. I would think that if no fast-forwarding is allowed, then the student should not be allowed to change any of the exam done so far (i.e. they don't get a second go at the stuff they've already heard), but be given extra time so they can listen to all the audio and complete the paper. Or else allow the proctor to fast-forward the amount of time that's already been taken (i.e. if you're 45mins in, then fast-forward 45mins) and give the player to the student to finish the exam.

But we also say "lyre" which doesn't have the same pronunciation as "lyric" etc. I say a long i sound in "lyre" but short i in "lyric", "lyrical" or "lyricist", which would give the name "Lyra" the pronunciation "Li-ra" not "Lie-ra" or "Lee-ra", which sounds really odd.

I would go with Lira if you want the Lee-rah pronunciation, everyone I know would pronounce Lyra as Lie-ra. In Europe everyone would pronounce Lira right, because that was the spelling and pronunciation of the the pre-Euro Italian currency :laugh:.

Snap! Actually, it's only since I was 5 because my mum cut it when I started school. I didn't get it cut apart from the fringe and small trims for 10 years after that.

I haven't used the upper levels yet, but there's always MEP, which is free (a good price for a supplement!), and has the answers available. It would probably take a bit more work to find the problems you need to match up with Saxon though.

When you say he can "put together sounds that he sees" do you mean he is trying to blend? If so, then learning to read could well help his speech - this was how we got DD talking when she was 2. I don't think she had a significant delay though, so YMMV. She was very reluctant to talk though, and had about 10 words at 2yrs 2 months. By 2 yrs 6 months she was beginning to read simple phonics readers from the library (stuff like I See Sam) and talking in sentences. We started with playing around with magnetic letters, and moved on to a lot of oral blending.

We don't have broadcast TV or cable or satellite. We do have a TV set and DVD player, and it can access the BBC iPlayer. But mostly we use the TV for the kids, maybe 30mins of DVD or iPlayer a day. DH likes Dr Who and Masterchef on iPlayer. In the last month I've only watched a 1 hour documentary in order to get through some tedious ironing.

If you bought the CDs from Amazon, then for quite a lot of albums they give you the MP3s for free; might that explain some of them?

The BBC has just posted an article on some unusual English local customs, which might be of interest: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29742774

In England it was traditionally Bonfire Night/Guy Fawkes Night/Firework Night on 5th November that was celebrated with bonfires, burning the guy, and fireworks - celebrating the failure of the Gunpowder Plot. But in recent years (by which I mean "sometime since I was a child", probably mostly the last 10-15 years or so) Halloween has taken over. The cynic in me thinks this is because the shops can sell stuff for it (you can't exactly sell bonfires or guys). We have a family tradition of having a meal out at a restaurant that night in order to avoid any trick or treaters.

But to really make a difference it isn't the schools where things need to be done, is it?

The installer may not work, but that doesn't mean you can't use the program. Just create a link on your desktop to http://program.kwtears.com - the installer is entirely unnecessary. (I assume, but can't check since I don't use Windows or Mac) that that's basically what the installer does for you.) This link would also allow students to use the program at home, but they would all first need to enter the 'pin code' for the master account (can't remember exactly what it's called). I've done this on my in-laws computer when we were visiting there.

Surely they will have to watch it on all flights, not just once? How would you be exempted if you'd watched it already? Air travel around Europe is rather like internal air travel in the US - many people fly multiple times a month on business, and frankly those people would pay as much attention as they do to the video telling them where the emergency exits, and the whistle on their lifejacket are!

Surely because most international flights have almost zero likelihood of having anyone exposed to the virus on board? It seems pretty pointless for all flights within Europe - say Ireland to Spain, and Denmark to Norway, Poland to Germany etc. to waste people's time on this.

Also, I don't understand why people are needing to re-install the progam. We use Linux, so the installers for Windows & Mac don't work, but we just point our web browser at http://program.kwtears.com - that seems to works everywhere. DD showed it to her grandparents at their house on their Windows PC this morning.

We've had a couple of times when we couldn't log on, but they were only temporary (and given our time zone, they were in the middle of the night in US time zones, so might've been scheduled maintenance or something similar). I don't think the being unable to repeat lessons is a particular problem (at least with the grade 1 level we're using) because there's a lot of repetition between the different activities, but we're not that far through yet, so we'll see, I guess. I also watch E while she's doing it, so I've got an idea of how she's getting on.

But what was he supposed to do when the hospital wanted to send him home? Camp out at the reception desk and insist on being admitted? What do you think would have happened if he had made a huge scene at the hospital? I would think the most likely scenario not that he would be admitted, but that he would be hauled away by the police (which of course would have put more and different people at risk - police, cell-mates etc. etc.) I think that generally most people trust doctors, so if they say you're fine to go home, then most people would believe them.

I agree if works are in print. But I think since US copyright is going to be extended again, and again ad nauseam (thanks to Disney et al), then so much interesting but no longer profitable work will be lost because it will go out of print; things that went out of print 50+ years ago are highly unlikely to be reprinted, but will probably never come out of copyright. I'm also not sure how much right great-great-grandchildren should really have to profit from their ancestors work!

I'm in the Knitty group, 'cause I used to be on the Knitty board before it moved over to Ravelry. me -> to join WTM group...

Histograms are actually different from bar charts. </statistics pedant> In a histogram the x-axis needs to be a continuous quantity (not categories like 'cars', 'buses', 'taxis' etc.) and the 'bars' may be of different widths to one another, so the area of the bar is what represents the number of the data. e.g. example histogram with different width bars from Wikipedia. (I'm sorry that wasn't very well explained, but in early elementary maths, I bet the bars are all the same width anyway).

Photographs or diagrams? I guess nowadays you could photograph equipment, but I certainly drew diagrams of equipment set-ups for some lab reports at school and at university (back when you would write all your work by hand, because it was way easier than trying to include equations word-processing).

I don't intend to ever give it up - but then my DH and I have read aloud to each other (alternating chapters) since before we were married!

I would keep all of it, but probably cook the meat today or at latest tomorrow (that's always how I'd treat meat from the butcher - as opposed to supermarket nitrogen packed stuff).

It certainly wouldn't have worked in my last job - I worked in a lab, and Quality Control would fall apart if you didn't know exactly who was around and able to do particular work, which needed to be done quickly in order for product to go out of the factory to customers. My compliance role was a bit more flexible, but still had deadlines. We would have needed to overstaff by quite a bit (I'd guess perhaps 20-25%) in order to cover the work; especially in the school holidays, as most people had children, and would obviously take extra time off then if they could. My current 'job' is doing admin for my husband's business, and if we just went on holiday at random, we'd go out of business. As it is, our last holiday was shortened so DH could deliver a session, and often he's missed 'family' holidays in part or entirely. I guess in large enough organisations or teams it could work, but I can see lots of roles that wouldn't ever work (how about police, doctors, nurses, or teachers?)