Deidre in GA
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i ordered one a week or so ago from Dealextreme.com.
they must ship via a slow boat from china but the price was right. warning - this site is dangerous. cute little gadgets are so inexpensive you surf for a very long time!
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i have a few different photo albums up. the one containing pictures of my homelife and family is only visible to the 'friends' i put on a custom list. that capability plus other privacy settings has made all the FB friending more comfortable for me.
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i was involved with an inclusive homeschool group. if the topic of religion came up we were tolerant and polite. mostly it didn't come up. the founder (a christian) moved away and turned the group over to a woman who was a member and understood the nature of the group. a few months later she began harassing a member family because of an innocous pagan t-shirt the mom once wore. long story short, she decided the group's definition of inclusive meant inclusive of all christian religions. so the pagan families, the jewish families, the spiritually undefined families, and the more open minded christian families left and formed another group.
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overall, i agree with the general sentiment about tip jars though, like i said, my perspective has changed a bit since working at Starbuck's. i do now, as a customer, put some change in the jar. tips at Starbuck's are split weekly among all hourly workers. there is little skill involved in bringing over a cup of brewed coffee but it's been an eye opener for me to be learning what it takes to pull off the multitude of expresso, frappaccino, and tea drinks especially when you take into consideration the level of customization many people ask for. your barista (goodness, who makes up these words!) has gone through a fair amount of training if they are at a company store. it is a service though not table service. as a worker and a customer, i take the tip jar as a suggestion but not a requirement or even an expectation; i continue to be surprised at how many people do tip.
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Wow! i've never seen a tip jar at a tire shop, hardware, gift or anything like that. those are not tipping service industries and i would not tip. i used to not tip at places like Starbuck's - until i started working there! now i do but it's only loose change, i don't think about what percentage it is and at counter type places i don't think one should be expected to.
btw, tip jars are seeded and yes, that establishment wants you to believe customers are regularly leaving $20 tips. at my Starbuck's the jar starts off with a few dollar bills and some coins.
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there are a number of PDAs that support eBooks that are a heck of a lot cheaper than an iPhone and do not require a data plan. i read eBooks on my Palm TX. this particular Palm can connect via wifi but i usually load ebooks to the TX by downloading them to a computer and then transferring the file.
i'd love an iPhone; can't afford the data plan. i'd love a Kindle; bit too pricey right now. when my Palm TX dies i will seriously consider an iTouch. PDAs that utilize eBook readers can probably be found for $100 or less.
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Hmmm ..... I suspected that the reason it was being rejected was that my address and the "address" for the card holder was not the same. Also, I entered the name on the card as "Gift Card Recipient" as it states. Maybe I should change that?
my brother gives me an American Express Giftcard every year that i use at Amazon and i do put the name as Gift Card Recipient.
are you certain you are entering it as a credit card and not a debit/check card?
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what model of Linksys do you have? all routers do not have that kind of flexibility. i have a netgear wgr 614 that gives me some controls over the network overall but i cannot set individual access and timers. that capability would be very useful.
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i didn't know the Grammies were on last night but when i heard the Krauss and Plant had won album of the year, i had to smile at millions of young people around the country going "who?"
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on food items alone, maybe not. but i get my glasses, some prescriptions, jeans for my son, and gas for the car. those things and food make the membership worthwhile for me. i also charge everything on my costco/american express card. the bill is paid in full at the end of every month but i get 1% - 3% rebate for what i charge with the card including 3% on gas purchases anywhere except supermarket gas stations like walmart/murphy's or kroger. the rebate is paid once a month in february. my costco is also 10 miles away so i only go once a month.
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from an npr feature today, it's good. a bit scary - 3D mom wants to prevent girl from living with the real mome - so the reviewer said it didn't qualify as a family film but i think most of the ages of your kids would be fine.
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if i'm moving faster than i walk - it's running to me!
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Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, etc., courses will now be called Math I, Math II, Math III, and Math IV. The new standards integrate algebra, geometry and statistics at all levels. I think I like this idea. It is what my beloved BJU Math has been doing all along for its elementary-level courses. Now I'm wondering, though, if there is a homeschool-friendly publisher besides Saxon (I know they integrate geometry into their other courses) that also does this this for high school math courses.
when i saw your subject line my first thought was "oh no, let her not live in GA!"
the implementation new math is a NIGHTMARE!!!!!! once again, GA has messed up and the class of 2012 are the guinea pigs that will pay for it. sorry if i seem extreme. i am absolutely distraught over this. my son entered public school for the first time last August. he has always struggled with math but we had had great success with Teaching Textbooks Algebra. probably finished 80% of it - if school had started in September like our homeschool did we would have been done.
all the info i had indicated he would start with Algebra I; a review for him but i thought that would be fine given the adjustment to conventional school. but noooooooooooooooo! GA implemented Math I. there were 3 sets of texts the schools could choose. the Carnegie Learning Series was chosen by Decatur High School.
when i looked at his books (3 of them for Math I) i was totally perplexed. it's one thing to look at a book to find the methods for arriving at an answer. with these books i couldn't even figure out what the questions were. practically no explanations of how to do anything.
i'm going to stop myself now. as evidence of how totally BAD the state mandates are - for the second semester the school has dumped the books altogether. they have no textbook. the teachers are looking at the standards the state wants them to meet and devising worksheets.
if you google georgia math you will probably find hits on articles and letters from parents around the state in a fit. at curriculum night last week, the principal again apologized for the mess the math department is caught in and assured us they are trying to figure it out.
i think it's a promising idea to mix the disciplines. georgia is implementing it poorly.
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i stopped looking long ago. things are pretty sparse on this side of town. i used to drive up to Decatur for LEAD activities.
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if the font files download in a zip archive, stuffit does need to expand them. however, once unstuffed you do not open font files; you simply drag them to the font folder. note, there are a number of font folders on a Mac. you probably want to place it in the library on the hard drive so that the fonts can be used by any user account. there are also font folders in the library for individual accounts; if you place the fonts there only that user will see them.
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i'd go with #3; #2 if money was tight.
unless you are using graphic intensive programs or heavy video editing, a MacBook Pro is overkill. wonderful overkill but overkill nonetheless for the typical home user. if you want a larger screen than the 13.3 of the MacBook, lcd monitors are dirt cheap these days and can be hooked to any laptop.
btw, last time i was in the Apple store, i thought the black ones looked fingerprint gross. my white iBook has never gotten that groody looking!
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Has anyone else every felt this way?
For those of you who have sent your high schoolers to PS, what helped you come to that decision? How do you let go? How did they adjust?
Thanks for reading,
Val
my son is in public 9th grade. he really wanted to go and tensions over schoolwork between us was really poisoning our connection.
Pros: he commutes via public transit.an hour to school. this alone has matured him greatly and has been a gift to observe. he loves the social aspect of the school. our relationship has improved immensely.
Cons: the academic standards are sooooo much lower than what i required of him. he is NOT getting what i consider a good education. though he is enjoying the vacation from in-depth work, i have found myself close to tears when i see how little they ask of him. ds has ADHD and we had coping mechanisms in place to deal with it. those mechanisms are not available to him in PS so he is now on medication.
As for adjustment, he did have to go through some bullying at first. all of the kids knew each other from middle school so he was an outsider for a long time. this is okay now. He was dealt a major blow this week when he didn't make the soccer team so that has tainted his view of school. he's working on that though.
do i wish we never started this? yes. do i want him home again? yes. will i bring him home? no, not without his consent. it would kill our connection. he could get a decent education from the school if he applied himself and aimed higher. he's 15. it's time for him to put on the big boy pants and choose.
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my son wanted to go to public high school but both of us wanted an additional year of home work. we did a year we called '8th grade advanced.' he didn't repeat anything - we continued working at the levels best for him. it really was a good decision in our case.
of course, we made this decision before we applied to any school. if you're only going to be out the application and test fee, i'd go with what your gut is telling you your son needs.
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when my son was a beginning reader he was not highly motivated to reach better fluency. we traveled a lot at that time. i told him i would pay him a penny for every word he could read to me on the billboards we passed. no repeat words, $1 a day limit. THAT was motivation to a 5 year old. his reading skills improved quickly. after about a year i told him i could no longer afford to pay him!
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Our local Apple dealer recently closed up shop. We need to find a used one in good condition and at a reasonable price... new is too much right now. Does anyone have any suggestions?
what is your budget, what are your needs, and how mac savvy are you? that information would influence what recommendations i would make.
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my son is no longer in CAP but when he was, there was a well-defined path for advancement. in fact, it is documented when a cadet is not progressing in the usual time frame.
has your son been promoted at all? promotion involves studying the materials in the different workbooks, taking the regularly scheduled tests, passing the physical requirements established for that rank, and going before the promotion review boards which happen about every two months.
the Lt. Colonel in charge of my son's squadron encouraged parent involvement especially when a cadet was not moving up as expected. we spoke a lot...
edit: just saw that you did say he was taking the tests. hmmm. even if you don't tell your son, i don't think an email to the squadron commander would hurt. it least it wouldn't in my son's squadron.
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Yann Martel, Man Booker Prize-winning author of "Life of Pi" is sending our Prime Minister (Stephen Harper) a book every two weeks for as long a he is in office (which may not be much longer). Each book is inscribed and accompanied by a letter explaining why the book was chosen.
Some great stuff here.
what an interesting list of books already sent! given the company they are placed in, i may have to check out the ones i haven't read - or even heard of.
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but I especially detest it when I discover that dh used it liberally while I was out. Or, worse yet, if he sprayed it in my car.
It's too strong for my nose, but more than that, all I can think of is, "Just what other odor was he trying to cover up?" I prefer a neutral, clean smell. So I am one that doesn't care for much of any of that scented stuff (candles, air fresheners), not just Febreeze.
this reminds me of a story about my mom. she was fanatical about spraying the bathroom with air fresher after she had a BM. she insisted it covered up the smell. i told her that it didn't really - she had merely created flowery scented poop stink.
Question for techies...printing from laptop?
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or you can get a network printer like the Brother HL2070N. its ethernet port connects to your router and then any computer on your network can access it - no other computer need be on. on sale you can find this or the current equivalent for less than $100.