Amy in NH
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I need to make travel arrangements for a trip I have to take in three weeks. We don't have the money to pay for this expense immediately, and we also don't have a credit card, so I will be applying for one tonight. I plan to pay it off when I get a lump of cash at the end of November. We don't do Disney, but I do like Amazon. Does anyone have an Amazon credit card, or want to recommend a card they particularly like? I'm not too keen on supporting the big banks like BOA or Citi...
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With recommended annual balancing and rotation I've gotten the full life out of my past set of tires. That is the first set where I was vigilant, and the others did not last their full life. I guess it does make a difference!
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Ingredients:
1 ½ C milk (warmed)
6 Tbsp butter (melted)
6 Tbsp sugar
1 1/3 Tbsp salt
2 Tbsp yeast
3/4 C warm water
1 3/4 lb general purpose flour
Directions:
- Combine 1st 4 ingredients.
- In a separate bowl, slowly add yeast to water stirring constantly in one direction until it is dissolved. Add this to the milk mixture, making sure it is not too hot.
- Add the flour and stir until mixed.
- Place dough on board and knead about 10 minutes.
- Place dough in buttered bowl in a warm place, and let rise until doubled (approx 1 ½ hours).
Punch down and let rise again (about ½ hour). - Make into rolls (cut into pieces, fold under until smooth, dip in butter), cover,
and let rise again before baking.
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes.
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Have I missed a discussion or other note about this? Someone has posted a threat to a Philadelphia-area "university" for tomorrow at 2pm EST. FBI and ATF are on alert. My college student in Philly doesn't have classes at that time, but it makes me worry for everyone else.
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Yep. :iagree:
This is what I said about my history education in a different thread:
"Social studies" was taught erratically all through my public schooling. A semester drilling state capitals then two weeks celebrating Presidents' Day then a month learning about the history of Hawaii (we were in Michigan, not Hawaii) then two months learning about Hopi Indians then three weeks focusing on Plymouth Rock...I was an attentive, hard-working, profoundly gifted student and yet I never had a clue how any of it fit together.
That went on all through elementary and middle school, and then I filled my history requirement in high school with one psychology class and one history class which covered American History from 1776 until we ran out of time which ended up being around Nixon's election...we never even found out the plot twist at the end of that story.
By the end of my schooling I did not have gaps in my history knowledge, because gaps implies something solid in which there are just small missing pieces. My history knowledge was not swiss cheese with gaps, it was outer space with a few specks of knowledge floating in an abyss of ignorance.
Wendy
100% accurate
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We didn't have history (that I remember) until state history in 4th grade. I think we covered the founding of the colony through maybe the Revolutionary War. I know we discussed a few Native America tribes. 5th grade was American History and I don't remember what we covered, just that we sat in a circle taking turns reading paragraphs aloud from the textbook.
In 6th or 7th grade we covered a bit about ancient Athens and Sparta. I don't think we covered Mesopotamia, Egypt, or Rome. 8th grade was more poorly taught American History. 9th-10th was Global Studies. I remember doing some outline maps of Europe and learning about the 5 pillars of Islam. Whatever else we learned didn't stick (whereas I remember much, much more of what we learned in science classes). 11th grade was AP American History with a "dirty old man" teacher who loved to entertain us with stories about the time he stopped at the strip club "just for coffee."
In short, I don't think I ever had any sort of compehensive study of history of any period where the "story" of history was made clear. It was all "This happened and then that happened. Memorize these names and dates." I guess it's amazing that I got a 4 on the AP test with such poor teaching.
This was pretty much my experience as well. Aside from one year of western civ and one year of global geographical land masses, we only ever covered American history and never past Reconstruction after the Civil War. Pilgrims, Pilgrims, and more Pilgrims. Learning and forgetting names and dates related to Colonial America is what I remember most. About the time I starting having children I wondered how the heck we got where we are in geopolitical terms. Homeschooling has been an amazing education for me. Thank you, SWB!
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I think the answer is in the idea of "a well regulated militia". Right now we just have guns. We don't have "well regulated" at all.
I think the ideal would be for all gunsowners to need to be part of a regulated group with regular meetings, rules, trainings, etc. Basically a civilian version of the National Guard. If you dont' want to put that much effort into it then fine, don't have a gun. But the 2nd ammendment isn't about protecting your home from robbery, it's about a freaking militia to defend the people against the government. If you want to preach 2nd ammendment to the rooftops, feel free. But remember that part about well regulated militia.
My hope is that if you are showing up to regular trainings, passing a pysch test maybe, etc you would get noticed if you were a freaking pyschopath and reported before you did harm.
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I would say a good middle ground is to allow the people who want to be armed, to be armed. Not every teacher should carry but if they want to be armed then they should be able to carry. There should be no gun free zones.
That is not a middle ground - IMO it is a very extreme view.
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The funniest thing is the inverse correlation between wedding cost and marriage length.
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It happened on a gun-free campus.
So they have a bubble over the campus with search teams checking to make sure people don't have guns?
This is really quite meaningless in the US.
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I am a pacifist, and I admit that I have mixed feelings about gun rights. For non-Americans, the US Constitution states: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The reason for this is so that citizens will have the necessary arms and training to keep the government from instituting military law and oppressing citizens. And looking around the world, both historically and in the present, there are places where citizens who don't have access to the most up-to-date weaponry are massacred by their tyrannical military-controlled governments. So I get that argument, but I hate the gun culture. Can't we just keep them all in local armories with restricted/limited access, controlled by local weapons councils? Or something? The other part of the problem is that in order to make changes like this the US Constitution would have to be changed, and the gun-lobby is too powerful for that to happen without major changes to campaign financing, which will only happen if the US Constitution is changed. It's so complicated it just feels hopeless.
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http://www.newsweek.com/45th-mass-shooting-america-2015-378803
This says that it was the 45th mass shooting not that it makes any difference. People are dead. I really had no idea the count was so high.
Could be both for all I know. The article where I read "45th school shooting this year" doesn't give a reference.
But it's not even the only one today.
When are policymakers going to wake up?
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This is the 45th school shooting in 2015. so far
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I don't tolerate it. Violent communication is not okay. Bickering requires immediate mediating intervention to get young children to actually listen to each other and respect each other's words and feelings. IMO, this is the time to practice Joanne's get off your butt parenting to develop prosocial communication and relationship skills. I'd have them face each other directly in front of me and take turns actively listening to each other.
Calling names is also not allowed. Spending time playing with siblings is a privilege which will be removed if they abuse it.
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Darn. I was hoping it was the other kind. 😀
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What makes grapes so special that they need to be tested for quality, unlike all the other produce people buy?
Sometimes they are super-sour if they are picked before they are ripe, and there's no way to know without tasting one. I don't have that problem when buying other fruits.
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I've gone through checkout to buy one banana before, so my kid could eat it while we shopped for our full grocery list.
Our local stores give out free cookies at the bakery, and each kid has a card good for one free apple per shopping trip.
I admit to trying one grape from a bag to make sure they are worth the price whenever I buy grapes.
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Farmer Boy
The kids don't remember the last time we read it aloud, and they are enjoying it very much.
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I'd quit my job and start homeschooling now, apply for income-based repayment on the student loan, and get a part time job in the evenings to make payments on the loan. Life is too short to focus on money.
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We do three to four 1,000 piece puzzles each winter here. We work on them together. We have a dedicated puzzle board in the living room that sit on the ottoman when we're working on it, but can be slid under the couch if we need the space. The board has a very small lip around the edge to prevent pieces from sliding off.
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With Amazon I think the problem is bait and switch. I have little sympatny for Amazon and their War on Small Business.
There was a place on that page linked above to make a comment. I did send a comment about the bait and switch pricing, and sent it under their "misleading information" comment category.
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Some sort of food allergy?
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It's ALL a big scam. The government pays a majority of pharma R&D, pharma gets rich, the poor and elderly suffer.
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Recommend a Credit Card?
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