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I have a promo code #289112HS. I believe it's for 10% off your total purchase and it's good until Aug 30th.
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Do the Berninas no longer come with the removeable sewing table?
Just wondering. I haven't looked at them in years so I don't know what they have these days. Maybe I'll go peek at the website.
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Don't forget the ones in the garden! I cut a head of summer lettuce today that was home to a couple of dozen pillbugs/sowbugs.
Sigh, if anyone knows how to get rid of them in the garden without using poisons, please let me know.
GardenMom
I was just going to say if she can't find any roly polys this year it's because they're all in my garden eating my beans!
I would love to know how to get rid of them too, but I'm guessing I'm just dreaming. They aren't as bad as they were last year when we were experiencing a drought and they migrated to my garden for the moist soil.
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I use my free arm all the time. I would not buy a machine without it.
What features does the Janome have that the Bernina doesn't? I would probably weigh the worth of those features against the freearm. Are they practical features you would really use or do they just look neat? Think about what she will be using the machine for most and then ask yourself if you would really use them.
Speaking from experience here. I tend to get carried away by "extras". I probably only use 20% of the stitches on my Bernina 930 I've had for around 25 years!
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My dd's 12 & 13 have not read any of the Harry Potter books or seen Twighlight (actually, never heard of the movie). They are completely not interested in these kinds of things, and for that I am VERY thankful!!!
My boys were never interested in HP either, and I too was very thankful.
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Is Chicago Metallic non-stick metal?
They have both. The professional line is non-stick. Their commercial line is not. I get the commercial because I generally prefer not to use the non-stick. I do have one set of professional non-stick cake pans. Cooks Illustrated rated them #1.
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In regards to free markets, do mean where health insurance companies are free to cancel you policy for frivolous reasons, exclude you from coverage because you are too sick, or jack up your rates whenever they like despite their overwhelming profits? As it stands now many private health insurance companies are free to do this and are making money hand over fist on the backs of individuals.
Then how about passing a bill to deal with problems like this along with the other major complaints about insurance companies, like portability, instead of radically changing our entire healthcare system, which is the best in the world?
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Letting the free market decide costs is part of what got us into this mess to begin with. Research managed care.
And the Obama plan isn't a form a managed care?
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They have an MP3 audio CD that is very inexpensive. The student can listen to the book being read while reading themselves. Also, you can slow down and not do a module in 2 weeks. You don't have to do every single experiement, question, study guide, and test. As with everything else, you can tweak the assignments to meet your own needs. The difficulty of this book is trying to get everything done in 2 weeks. The material itself isn't difficult at all.
Pam, this is OT, but I have a son that lives in middle Tn. He goes to MTSU.
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Ds did this in 8th grade. He didn't find it difficult at all. In fact, he was a little bored with it. I think it depends on who teaches it and what you make of it. He did it when he was in a classical school that was on a university schedule (3 days there, 2 at home). The teacher didn't do much to make it interesting. Just had them read and do the questions. Dh did do some extra things with him at home.
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I second the Chicago Metallic. I have alot of their baking stuff and it's great, and reasonable priced. I can't say enough about their bread and cake pans.
In fact, most of it falls under their "buy 3, get 1 free" offer. I have taken advantage of this many times in the past few years as I just went through replacing my baking pans and adding some items I have been needing.
You can mix and match items as well and still get this offer.
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I believe that arguments that euthanasia is the secret motive of President Obama et al and of the proposed healthcare reform is patently untrue.
IMHO, I think that powerful vested interests want us to believe such un-truths.
I would google the Bill Moyers Show on PBS and watch the piece on Wendall Potter who was a high level private insurance executive for over 2 decades who made a decision to leave after witnessing the hundreds of people who came to a free health clinic in Tennesee because they have been deprived of health care in our current system.
I believe that the current status quo cannot continue unless we just want to kick the millions of Amercians who are un-insured and under-insured to the curbside. I also think that in 5-10 years if the status quo is maintained that our health insurance premiums will be even more un-affordable and our plans made even skimpier. In regards to rationing, health care is already rationed by the private health insurance companies through their denials of payment, cancellations of policies, by raising their premiums to astronomical levels, and exclusions of coverage.
When an insurance company denies payment they are not denying the treatment, just payment for it. I still have the option of paying for it myself in some way. Not all will be able to find another way, but I would argue that most will. With nationalized healthcare, no one will not have that option.
As far as "powerful vested interests", who fits that description more than the government? In fact, I don't believe this has anything to do with caring about people getting good healthcare. If this passes, they will have unprecedented access to our personal records and control over our lives. IMO, it will be the end of our living in a free society.
BTW, I live in TN, and there is already a huge problem here with TennCare and medicaid fraud.
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When I was a kid I used to sleepwalk all the time. Apparently, my favorite thing to do was make phone calls. Long distance phone calls. I especially liked to call my grandmother at 2 or 3 in the am. I'm not quite sure how she reacted because I don't remember any of it. I do know my mom started hiding the phones at night. That must have been a real pain to do every night.
My bff used to get on her bike in her pjs and ride around the block, then go back to bed. No one knew until one night when she decided to stop and visit the neighbors. Her parents ended up putting an extra lock way high up on the door where she couldn't reach. We actually had to do the same thing because our middle ds was a rabid sleepwalker/talker and would always try to get out the door. To this day, we're not quite sure just where it was he was trying to go.
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My middle ds has done WWII reenacting since middle school. They used authentic weapons (nothing live, of course!). The strangest thing I've ever said to one of my kids was to him:
"Andrew, please get the grenades off the kitchen table!"
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I'm a diehard Bernina person. After sewing on a Sears/Kenmore that caused me more aggravation than I care to remember, I decided I had had enough and upgraded. A good machine will make or break your sewing experience, even doing simple stuff. If I couldn't have a Bernina I would get a Viking (Husqvarna).
You should be able to get a good used machine for a decent price. I know Bernina, and probably others, make basic machines and people will trade them in to upgrade all the time. My local dealer has lots of used machines and they certifiy them. Depending on where you get it they may even offer classes on how to use them.
Do you have a JoAnn or something similar near you? Many, if not all of them, offer basic sewing classes if you are interested in that.
Hope this helps. I used to sew a lot of my clothes, but now mostly make quilts and simple things like skirts, which I have a hard time finding lately, at least ones I like!
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I really like Foerster's texts. We used him for Al II and then for Pre-calculus with Trig. They are generally considered to be good tough math courses, I believe they are often used for AP or honors level courses. We thought they gave thorough instruction in the text and lots of application in the problem sets.
Do you know if they do the trig in AL II or in pre-calc? I'm thinking that because they list a pre-calculus course they will probably do Trig as part of that, which is good, because the trig in the older AL II book doesn't involve the graphing calculator in the way it is generally expected these days. Foerster's Pre-calculus book does do it that way because it is a new text.
HTH and good luck to him!
You bring up an interesting question. The book says it is a 2yr book with algebra II and trig, but I believe the course description was for both this year, but I could be wrong about that. Hmm, I'd better go check. Seems like an awful lot for one year.
When you say the "older AL II book" what year(s) are you referring to? I'm not sure what edition they are using. Guess I'd better go check that too.
Okay, I found the answer. The course description says it is indeed a two year book and it is also used for pre-calc, so I'm assuming trig is the second year.
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I'd be interested to find out how it goes. Someday I'd like dd to do an online class, but she's not that interested yet.
We did 6 classes last year; Omnibus III prim and sec, geometry, biology, comp I, and Latin II. It went very well. We were impressed by the quality of the teaching and the curriculum used except for maybe biology. Ds15 wished it had been a little "meatier". No problem with that in the other classes though. Plenty of "meat" there.
Ds15 also loves using the computer and the live class format is perfect for him. So much more interesting than watching prerecorded videos, although they are available if you miss class.
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This year ds15 will be using this when he takes algebra II through VP Scholars. Since 4th grade he has only used Saxon and Jacobs.
I'm not very familiar with Foersters (sp?). Has anyone used this? Anything to watch out for, unique about it, etc?
Just want to be prepared!
Thanks.
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Ds15 is taking 7 classes through Veritas Press online Scholars:
We're one of the "guinea pig classes" for
Omnibus IV primary
Omnibus IV secondary
Also:
Composition II
Logic II (class was cancelled last year, so we're making it up this year)
Rhetoric I
Algebra II
Chemistry
This is the most he has ever taken online We'll see how it goes.
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I think that it is fear mongering to call UHC marxism. Is our dear military, roads, libraries, police and fire-fighters marxist? I don't think so at all. In my book that sort of argument does not hold water at all.
UHC is redistribution of income. Paying salaries to police, military, is not. Totally different situations.
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I don't understand how taxes are stealing. And it would seem to me that insurance companies far more fit the thief role than would taxation. Insurance companies promise so much, yet deny claims constantly, seemingly based on a numbers strategy. You may *think* you have good insurance, until something horrible happens. Such is the way with insurance companies, at least in what I've witnessed. A child needing surgery wasn't covered for a friend of mine, so she had to resort to public pleading and fundraising to cover the payment the hospital wanted. This was for life saving surgery. Cancer victims find the same thing. Theft seems far more the case with private insurance companies than with the Canadian health care system.
Are all taxes stealing? Or only for things you disagree with? I mean, I pay taxes for public schools, and none of my children attend. Should I call that stealing?
I think the big difference in this debate is that it seems folks who've never been touched with serious medical issues are comfortable being against UHC, whereas those who have experienced the devastation huge hospital bills can wreak are for it. Its easy to say that folks should always have insurance when you've never been in the situation where it was impossible. Its easy to believe that insurance will cover what you need...until it doesn't.
No parent with a seriously ill child should have to worry about financial ruin as well.
The flaw in this comparison is that taxes are forcibly taken from me. With private insurance, I have a choice whether or not to purchase it and abide by their decision. At least with private insurance, I have the option of paying for the refused treatment/surgery myself. With the government plan, if they turn me down for a needed procedure, I will not be allowed to do so.
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You may believe there can be a better system but why does it have to be paid for by those who earn more than $X per year?
Why should John Doe work hard his whole life to have the privilege of paying some total stranger's medical bills?
My point is that individual property is still that-personal property. What is next step? Now that I'm an empty nester and have paid off my mortgage does the government has the right to decide that my house is too big for my little family of 2? So they will seize my house that a lifetime of work has paid for and reassign me to a smaller home adequate to my "needs" and give my "big" home to a larger family. Taking my cash is no different than taking my house, my car or my TV set. It is still my property.
Take the education system. Theoretically that is universal. Yet there are constant complaints that schools are better in wealthier districts because they are able to raise more taxes. If in all the years we've had publicly funded education no one has been able to fix that problem, what do you think the chances are that UHC has a shot?
The health and insurance system may be broken but the principles behind this fix are certainly un-American. While you may feel that the wealthier have a moral obligation to help those who are less fortunate that doesn't equal a need for federally legislated theft.
:iagree: Amen and great post!
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Our reps are against, thankfully, but I am contacting them anyway to make sure.
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I agree that downgrading medical care isn't immoral. The practical details are going to be hard to iron out though. "Basic care," especially in cancer care and other expensive care (transplants and so on), means that more people are going to die than do now. If things are arranged right, hopefully that number will be small, but that's not going to go over well.
Agree with you 100% here too. I'll also note that Medicare is an offender here, from what I've seen in our family. There's no way that Medicare will have the money to give quintuple bypass surgeries for 85 year olds by the time we're 85.
Wow. I'm sorry, but I find this attitude frightening.
I wonder, if that cancer patient that died was your child or the 85 yo who was denied the surgery your parent or grandparent, would you feel the same way?
My very old bread machine just died.
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I've had a Breadman for 12 years now. I had to replace the pan and paddle one time each. It has a dispenser for add-ins which has been very convenient, although I haven't used it much the past few years.
When it goes, though, I will definitely replace it with a Zo.
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I believe the Zo is considered to be "the best" because of it's powerful motor and double paddles whereas other models only have one paddle. Also the Zojirushi name is known for excellence. I have one of their rice cookers and I absolutely love it. It does much more than just cook rice and everything I have used it for has come out perfectly. Top quality.