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We had an encouraging update today. Carrie is still on the vent, but the drs are going to start removing some of the equipment around her head. Over the next couple of days, they are going to bring her out of the coma, so she will hopefully be awake by Wednesday. I don't think they know yet what to expect in terms of brain damage. Please continue praying for a complete recovery. Thanks!
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I've been to Michael's. Have you been to Holly's? I cannot remember exactly where it is. (Somewhere on the way to the shore in Maryland.) Great crabcake sandwiches.
No, I'm not familiar with Holly's.
Have you been to Bay n Surf in Laurel? Gibby's in Cockeysville?
Towson Deli has the best shrimp salad subs!
This thread is making me hungry. :tongue_smilie:
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Seafood - Michael's in Timonium, MD. Their crabcakes are amazing.
http://www.michaelscafe.com/home.asp?page=home&Type=list-week
Subs - Maria's in Parkville, MD. It's a dive, but the food is soooo good. They import their pizza sauce from Greece.
http://local.yahoo.com/details?id=12599761
Steak - Angus Barn in Raleigh, NC
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You have to have a few miserable days of forcing yourself to get up early, then your body naturally adjusts.
Not me. I've tried, I can't adjust. I get constant, severe headaches when I have to get up early for an extended period of time. Well, I get them on day 2, but they don't go away with time.
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I miss Baltimore's food, too.
My DH works for a company located in Cary, NC. Every few years they threaten to relocate us to Cary.
Have they told you what Cary stands for?
Containment area for relocated Yankees, or
Containment area for relocated yuppies.
Which one depends on who you ask.
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I grew up in Accident, MD. Well, actually, I grew up on a farm 5 miles from Accident, MD. Accident had a whopping population of 251 back then, but they've grown to about 350 now.
Then I lived a year in downtown Baltimore while going to college.
Next, 3 years in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Florida is just too dang hot and I was happy to leave.
I lived in Okinawa 3 years and loved it. South China Sea on one side and Pacific Ocean on the other.
Then I went back to Baltimore for 11 years. Finished college, got married, started having kids. Baltimore definitely has the best food of any place I've lived - similar to NYC.
I've now lived outside of Raleigh, NC for 9 years. Love the lack of crime, pollution, and traffic jams, but miss Baltimore's great restaurants and sub shops.
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Thank you, Beth and Jean.
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I think animals are treated with more care than are humans when it comes to lyme. When I had it two years ago, there were no rapid tests (took a month to diagnose), and the doctor was really chintzy with the antibiotics. You'd think we'd be beyond that here in CT where it is an epidemic, but they still refuse to treat it seriously.
Same situation here in the Triangle. I've lived here almost 9 years, and it still amazes me that people come here from all over the world for medical care. I know someone whose dd is severely and permanently disabled because her doctors missed Lyme disease.
LD runs rampant here; my pastor's wife has had it 3 or 4 times. The weather was warm here this week and the ticks are already out; my 6 yo had one on her head. :ack2:
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Wordmp3 still has these on sale for $69.00 in mp3 format. I decided to listen to a free mp3 from the set before ordering the set. So I am listening to Nancy Wilson's talk on Preparing Your Child for the Logic Stage. The entire talk is about preparing boys for leadership. There is zero content on girls or academics. I am wondering if all of their tapes are like this. I have only girls, so if VP has a bias toward training/teaching boys, their talks will not be useful to me. Also, this particular talk is more about parenting than teaching or homeschooling, and parenting advice is not what I am looking for.
Thanks for your input!
Correction: After 40 minutes of talking about boys, Nancy switched and talked about girls for 13 minutes.
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Thanks to all who responded and also those who prayed but didn't respond. I will post an update when I know more.
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I would serve rice with it.
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I got 100% but it was challenging!
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Please pray for my friend Carrie who is still in critical condition after a motorcycle accident last Sunday. They are continuing to keep her heavily sedated due to the amount of swelling of her brain. Please pray for a miracle and a complete recovery for her. She has 3 kids and her youngest is just a year old. Also pray for her husband who is feeling guilt on top of everything else because he was driving the motorcycle. Thank you!
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When I turned 25, my sister and her family took me out for dinner, and the waiter gave me a kids menu. I looked much younger than I was until I hit mid-to-late 30's. People usually still think I'm a little younger than I actually am, but I don't look drastically younger like I used to. I hated it then, but I sure would like to look younger now!
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I didn't respond sooner because I couldn't think of anything weird or exotic I've eaten. Then I realized that a lot of people don't hunt and would consider lots of the things I've eaten weird. So here goes:
Elk
Caribou
Squirrel
Rabbit
Venison, including the heart
Beef heart and liver (ok, that wasn't from hunting, but I grew up on a beef farm and precious little of the cows we butchered at home went to waste)
Farm raised buffalo
Chicken and turkey giblets (also not from hunting)
The grossest thing I've eaten was raw fish at a very nice restaurant in Japan. That was one of the most uncomfortable situations I've ever been in, because I didn't want to hurt my Japanese friend's feelings, but I didn't want to eat the fish, either.
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Thanks, ladies. I splurged and ordered it, but I doubt we'll use it every year.
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The more conservative Mennonites don't cut their hair.
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Here is one state, Maryland, that says it's law: http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/UnattendedChildren.html
Here is the law from the link you posted:
A child under the age of 8 years and out of sight (in a dwelling, building, enclosure, or motor vehicle) of the person charged with his/her care must be left with a reliable person at least 13 years old.
The child was never out of the mother's sight, so apparently there wouldn't have been a violation under MD law.
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But since the spot directly in front of the bell ringer is clearly marked as a fire lane, which is illegal to park in at any time, she'd have to move a few feet up(in fact!! The first article stated this!!) so she was at least 10 feet away from her car (read the article people--it states this as well).
10 feet is far enough away for something to happen. That's for sure.
Laws about fire lanes are set by state and local law. I've been in Walmarts that do not have a marked fire lane in front of the store.
When my kids go outside to play they are more than 10 feet away from me. Sometimes they are even outside of my view. We live in a neighborhood, so there could be people around. So what????? We all take calculated risks on a daily basis. The risk of a locked, alarmed car being broken into while people are nearby is miniscule.
On the risk of carjacking vs. falling - I lived in Baltimore for 11 years, where carjacking is a common occurrence. I've fallen with a baby in my arms, but I was never carjacked. I've personally known lots of people who fell in bad weather, but not a single one who was carjacked. So it's only anecdotal, but I do think falling is much more common than carjacking, even in areas where carjacking is common.
I really hope the judge reams the cop for making the arrest, but unfortunately it's more likely that the woman will be found guilty and charged a fine.
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Most countries have more obvious splits in vocational tract and college bound education and the test scores reflect only the "upper" selection of kids.
FWIW, the article said that Finland divides its students that way, but both groups took the test.
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That is just ridiculous. I hope the judge drops the charges!
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I also can't understand how people don't realize they are falling asleep while driving & pull over.
That is so sad. I cannot imagine having to face my dh and children after something like that.
One time last year after I worked all night, I was driving home and I snapped awake to find myself drifting toward to the other lane. Before that, I had never come close to falling asleep while driving no matter how tired I was. I told dh I am getting too old to pull all-nighters at work! I have a 30 minute drive, and that scared me bad enough that I will never drive home without a nap if I do end up staying there all night.
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I enjoyed reading the article and a lot of it resonated with me, even the part about "trudging to school." I had to walk 1/2 mile to the bus stop in an area that, in spite of being classified as Mid-Atlantic, gets more annual snowfall than Fairbanks or Anchorage.
We didn't have kindergarten, so I didn't start school until I was 6 1/2. Back then, at least in our neck of the woods, there were no books that told parents what their kids needed to know to succeed in K, so we started first grade by learning the alphabet and how to count to ten. The teachers used their discretion to decide what to teach, unlike my kids' ps teachers, who were told exactly what to teach and how and when to teach it.
By high school, everyone was on a college prep, general, or vocational track. My high school's vocational students actually build houses, fix cars, etc. so that graduates are prepared to get jobs.
We didn't have a lot of choices available to us, but we received an excellent basic education. In spite of being one of the most economically depressed counties in the state, the schools I attended did and still do produce some of the highest test scores in the state. The rate of high school graduation is high, but the rate of kids who go on to college is still quite low.
No, the US isn't comparable to Finland, and that was discussed in the article. But it can still be useful to look at what they're doing differently than us.
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If the salary were enough to allow us to live decently, yes, I would.
Who knows someone famous?
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I met and got a wet willy from Al Denson.
Back when dh was racing, he met Paul Newman.
I met SWB at the 2006 HEAV convention and she autographed my WTM book.
Our family is friends with Dan Breeding and his family. He's not exactly famous but he is an animal trainer who has appeared on numerous TV shows. He was on Regis and Kelly last week with Peter Gross and he hit Kelly on the butt with his alligator's tail. When dh told me about it, I just laughed and said, "How many people can say they know someone who hit Kelly Rippa on the butt with his alligator's tail?!" Dan used to train chimps and other animals that were in movies, but he found himself in an ethical dilemma with animals being trained to act like people, so he stopped doing that. Here is his website: http://www.creaturesofcreation.org/aboutus_principals.php