Bev in B'ville
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They just use different terminology because it is more accurate. Bread flours are almost always made from hard spring wheat, and pastry flours that you use for delicate muffins, cookies, tortillas, etc. from soft winter wheat. Duram is used only for pasta.
I currently have "hard red," "hard white," and "soft white" in my basement. My family prefers "hard white" for bread, but I always sneak in a little "hard red" because it has a little more fiber.
I have the exact same wheats. My family really likes the hard red wheat and I have a loaf on my counter as we speak. I add millet and flax seed to my loaves as well for some crunch and extra fiber.
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I hugged them today because they hugged me first. They've seen how hard I've been working over the past few days and just thought I needed a hug this morning. It worked; it usually does.
Hugged my son because he's trying very hard this year to step up his efforts for high school level work. Latin is now his favorite subject!
Hugged my daughter because she is a hard working, organized kid who gives me very little grief for a teenager and has a kind heart.
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How about a social group where we only speak German? Post if you are interested!
Ich spreche etwas deutsche, aber nicht zehr gut.
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When we were at Georgia Tech visiting earlier this month, I was surprised to find out they don't allow calculators in their calculus classes. Yikes!
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Sorry, NP is non-profit. Oops.
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I plan on catching up with my reading tomorrow, after my big meeting tonight for the NP that I head. My NP is rolling out some new programs and we're in media blitz mode right now, too. I'll be glad when I hit the bed tonight. Most of the big stuff will be done and I can relax a little. I'm actually looking forward to reading The Federalist Papers tomorrow :)
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they all sound good. Just let me know which one to get.
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:grouphug: Please keep your chin up. Cancer is no longer the death sentence that it once was. The drugs and treatments they have now are amazing. I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers.
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I thought I would put this on the GB rather than the High school and Self-education because I think more people look here.
My knowledge of American history is patchy at best (1. I grew up in Europe and 2. History wasn't seen as all that important in school :eek::ack2: so I know a lot about the last 100 years or so but patchy before that) and I would like to remedy this. I would like to start reading biographies about the different presidents and use that as my spine I suppose, and then branch out from there. Does anyone have any suggestions for good biographies of the different presidents for an adult? I have a very good book for Swedish history so I thought I would do US next and then come back to Europe.
Thank you!
I like David McCullough. I don't know how many books he has about Presidents, but I have read the John Adams book and loved it. Also, Edmund Morris has written about Rosevelt. One other book about American history that I'm enjoying now is Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen. It's not so much about lies as about omissions in history.
For example, Helen Keller, who is undoubtedly an inspirational figure in history, was a radical socialist - joining the Socialist Party of Massachusetts in 1909. After the Russian Revolution she sang the praises of Russia saying, "In the Esat a new star is risen!....." She even had a red flag hanging above her desk in her study. He also looks critically at Woodrow Wilson, who was a segregationist and held many racist views, but politically could see that those views were contrary to the popular view and changed his political (but not personal) views to match. (Imagine that, a politician changing his views based on popular opinion!) I have found the book...intriguing.
Just a couple of suggestions.
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I was buying pajama's for my mom and the pre-packaged pajama set came in S, M, and L with no size equivalencies anywhere. The table on which these were packaged was situated halfway between women's and juniors! I had no idea which size to get. So, I very carefully removed the ribbons and carboard surrounding the pj's and took out the pj's. Satisfied that I had an idea of which size to get her I refolded the pj's exactly as I had found them and replaced the packaging good as new (and then I bought the same package). I see nothing wrong with this. However, I would have been irate to see children tearing open packages as if it's Christmas morning.
Along the same lines here, I no longer am tempted to taste the samples in grocery stores after seeing more than one person, and especially children, take a sample and taste it, only to put it back onto the sample platter if they didn't like it. Ewwww! One parent even TOLD their child to put the sample back after tasting it and not liking it. Say it with me, gross!
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I'd love to have a social group for this. On the Draconian social group we're doing something a little similar, but much more, well....Draconian. We're reading The Federalist Papers right now if you'd like to join. Draco's will be reading non-fiction/great literature so it would be great to have a discussion group for fiction, too.
Great idea.
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Thanks for posting this. I'm starting to look at next year and figure out what I'm doing. This may fit in nicely.
Thanks again,
Bev
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Oh I wish I had an ignore button for mine!!! :lol:
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And each one of those cents is worth a million!
Thank you. I feel like the board is a breath of fresh air this morning. I've realized how tense I've become just opening up the GB webpage to see what new political items have been posted. I hope the board stays this way tomorrow when the moratorium is over.
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Definitely some wheat bread on the agenda today and I'm thinking something chocolate, some blueberry muffins, and pumpkin bread w/ pumpkin butter. Yummm.
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I have bookmarked several of the sites here. This has to be one of my favorite threads.
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What a nice post, Bev! And Michelle, I am surprised that you are drinking so early in the morning, unless that is coffee in your toasting mugs.
Best to you my friends,
Jane
It's coffee, I swear (that's my story and I'm sticking to it). :lol:
Not much of a color show on the coast. The sassafras and gums produce some color but many of the leaves just turn brown. We won't even do our major raking until Thanksgiving after the big hickories give up their leaves.Laurel and live oaks do not shed their leaves until the spring. I'll never forget my son at age three dancing around the falling laurel oak leaves and singing "It's fall--it's fall!" Semi-deciduous trees can be a bit confusing but these trees give our landscape some green color year round.
Jane (who is warming up the house a bit by baking a peach coffee cake this morning)
We have color here. It's 48 degrees(F) here and actually hitting the 30's in the coming week. I love the colors of autumn (which is a running theme in my home).
Peach coffee cake? Yummm. I'll bring the pot of coffee and head over to your place.
Bev
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another favorite thread.
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and she found some lovely, fluffy soft blue/purple/teal colored yarn with sparkles (NOT glitter, Elaine! :) ) in it and made a scarf for one of her other sisters. I'm going to encourage her to get more yarn and make scarves for her grandmothers and two aunts, and for her other sister, of course. It turned out very nice.
I bought one of those jar mix cookbooks a few years ago and I may make quite a few jar mixes to give out. I have seen and received so many of these mixes over the years, and some of them quite creative (and yummy): scones, cookie mixes, quick bread mixes, and soups. I may focus in on putting together some soup mixes. There are some nights when I'm clueless for dinner, and I'll see an old Christmas gift of a soup mix in the cupboard and - - - voila! Dinner is served!
I have so badly wanted to learn to knit or crochet and have attempted a couple of times in my life. The problem is/was that I have a hard time mirror imaging what I see when people try to teach me. Most people teach to knit or crochet right handed and I'm a lefty. It gets very confusing trying to knit "upside down" basically. I wish I could find a lefty to teach me. :sad:
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and in an effort to get back to those things we think are important, I have a suggestion.
There have been several threads of late (recipes, crafts, Christmas ideas, movies, etc.) that were lost rather quickly amongst the political threads. Search them out and give them a bump.
Let's get back to what's important to us and why we all come to this board in the first place: Embracing home schooling and encouraging one another no matter what our political/religious/national differences. The one thing we all have in common is home schooling and love of our children.
As always, just my $.02.
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this thread in light of our moratorium, and in an effort to get back to those things we all seem to enjoy. Please find your favorite post as of late and bump them, too. Too many of these threads have been lost amongst the political banter before their time.
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Any chance we can lock the current threads?
At this point people are strongly for one candidate or another and no amount of discussion is going to sway either side.
For those who are undecided, well, they can use the search option - we've certainly given them enough to read here - or they can go elsewhere and search out candidates' positions for themselves.
I vote for a moratorium on all political discussions - including those that relate to government in schools - until well after the election (a cooling off period). The anger and divisiveness over this election has harmed people's relationships on this board. I found myself using my ignore list for the first time ever.
I think one of the problems is trolls. One of the banned people has been encouraging people (most of whom don't even homeschool or have kids) to register here to ignite posts with their political/religious rhetoric. By eliminating the political threads for now, hopefully these people will just go away; can't fight what you can't post.
I, too, am looking forward to getting back to discussions about home schooling, recipes, crafts, and genuinely helping one another be better home schoolers on the general board.
Just my $.02.
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enough evidence either way to form a strong opinion, but I did note that part of Berg's evidence is a signed affadavit from Obama's sister, Maya. She's swearing he was born in Kenya.
Why would OB's team file a delay in the court proceedings rather than provide a birth certificate? If this were me and my birth residency were being questioned I would have had one of my many lawyers (OB has several) waltz down to the courthouse and provide a copy. It would have been a deal closer, done, final.
I guess we'll have to stay tuned to see what happens.
SAT, SAT-II and reports
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I apologize if this has been discussed before, but my search of old threads did not yield an answer for me.
My dc will be taking several SAT-II's in addition to the SAT. Those scores are reported to the colleges/universities they indcate on their forms when they register for the test; that much I understand.
Here's my question: Will the SAT (reasoning test) and all of the SAT-II's (subject tests) be reported on one form? If, for example, I need the SAT-II's and the SAT sent to another university not selected at time of registration, do I need to submit a request for each SAT-II individually and the SAT individually, or are all the scores on one report?
TIA for your assistance in clarifying this for me.