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It would be easy to go from Omnibus to Wikipedia. Any scanned copy could be copy and pasted. If it sounded good, it would be left in Wikipedia.
I don't know if that happened in this case
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Yeah, I'd looked through those. The first look it seemed like there was nothing worthwhile. The overt political theme turned me off. The second look, it looked like some good books in there. What does everyone else think?
I had been hoping that series from last year, would be continued in this year's.
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One thing I've been wondering about lately is did he go there to kill her? I always thought he did, but then I thought maybe he just routinely spied on her and when he found Ron Goldman there he just went totally psycho. I still go back to the fact that he had a plan to be out of state when the bodies were found, so yeah he probably intended to kill her from the beginning. Hours earlier he had been at a recital for one of their kids (I think) and on video camera he looked cool as a cucumber. Cold as ice killing just a few hours later.
When they were married he would sometimes lock her in a closet then open the door to beat the .... out of her and then lock her in again. Or was it kick? So, killing her in a rage wasn't a stretch.
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More likely she didn't notice how he paid so much that he separated out his groceries from his non groceries to make it easier on the cashier. Some times the system auto sorts but some don't and you have to pay for the food stamps items and then they ring up the other items to pay what ever other way.
But yeah. Usually I'm too busy keeping track of my own monkeys to notice other people's circus.
I've shopped at Walmart while on Food Stamps and WIC. I don't remember how WIC worked, but I do remember that the food stamp money was loaded on a card. You scanned the food stamp just like a credit card and it took off the allowed amount. Then you used another method to pay for the remaining. The process was precisely the same as if you used a gift card that didn't cover the entire amount. I don't know why anyone would know unless the purchaser said something, or flashed the card.
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My dad likes to watch court cases. In fact, he'd planned in retirement to actually go watch court cases after he met an old couple doing that while Dad was on a jury. Now, he watches CourtTV from his chair at home. I was visiting my folks when the court case that threw him in jail was happening. That was seriously the best court case ever. Practically everything was on video. So, it was like watching one of the crime re-enactment shows except it was the actual people actually doing it. I remember video of the police investigating in the hotel room and them talking to each other. I'd think, "no one would actually say that." Then I'd think, "Well, yes they really did."
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I remember my first movie with DH because it was memorable, but not first date movie. First with DH was Mel Gibson's Passion movie. He is fluent in Latin. When the soldiers are beating Jesus Christ, he chuckled. I was aghast,. I'm not one to talk in a movie or strike anyone, but he got a sharp elbow in the side and I said something to him. He didn't understand why I was upset at first, then he did. What he was chuckling at was the inane normal things the soldiers were saying to each other. Things like, "How is your wife?" "She is good." "We need to get this done, I need to go do..."
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Also, to get extra Horse Time, you might see if there is a horse rescue near you. The one near us is always up for someone to come groom and love on the horses.
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One thing i did with my recent batch of mama pads, was to make them with an insert like some of the fancy cloth diapers. The layer next to my skln was an old t-shirt of DH's that needed to die. The insert was microfiber towel sewed into an accordion shape, by sewing down the folds. Bottom was an old washcloth with snaps at two opposite corners. I went with the insert method because it was ooky the way no matter how long I tried to get all the blood out, I could always get a little more it seemed. The rest most likely came out in the wash, but this way I knew for certain.
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There are VASTLY more available scholarship for academics than athletics.
And, the renew-ability of an academic one is within your control. Whereas with an athletic scholarship, the other team can target your child for injury and then be SOL for money when can't play anymore.
According to my husband, if you are good enough to make a club team monetarily worthwhile you need to be the star player. If so, the team will be willing to cover any of your part you can't pay.
That isn't to say that people shouldn't be on a club team, there can be other reasons.
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Check the weather a little more often during a watch. Warnings stay home and relax. Pile into the master bed if the sirens go off and gather some flashlights.
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Curious: is this purely and American thing? Most of the rest of the world, unless it's for religious reasons, seems to be okay with men staying in a natural state.
When my husband was a young teenager, his niece and nephew lived with them. He helped change diapers. Later when he saw a girlfriend without hair down there he rejected her because it made him think of his baby niece. To this day you can't convince him that a guy that likes baldness isn't a closet perv.
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Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis! We've been through all of the Star Treks and while the kids loved them, we had to remember to skip certain episodes and there were scenes in them we'd rather have skipped. SG is family friendly all the way through. SG-1 is a bit cheesy at first. They seemed really happy to have obtained the movie soundtrack license!!! It settled down by the 2nd or 3rd season though.
Little Big Shots just started and the kids look forward to every episode.
Can't wait for the MacGyver reboot!
Mythbusters
Good Eats
Brain Games
Quantum Leap - I would put it on your list for the future. Many episodes require the good kind of discussions ;) One of my oldest's favorite episodes is about an interracial couple in the middle of the Watts riots.
Agents of Shield - I've heard good things, but only watched the first episode
The Librarians? - Hulu has a tv show based on the Noah Wyle movies. I've had them in my list, but don't know the content. Worth checking out if they are!
We really enjoyed the Librarians
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We were able to use the homemade stuff even with cloth diapers. But, every cloth diaper had a type of pre-treatment done to it during changing. Before the pre-treatment method, washing the diapers took more effort even with store detergent. Ammonia-remover is an amazing thing for cloth diapers. You get it in the fish section at the pet store, put some in a spray bottle and dilute it with distilled water (or any clean water) our water was nasty where we lived and distilled was cheap. Then you spray that on the pee area of the diaper. When the pee turns into ammonia that stuff takes care of it. What it turns into is mild and easily washed away. For poop, we kept a spray bottle of ezyme pre-treatment that started breaking down the organic material right away. With those pretreatments, we didn't use the lid on the diaper bucket. We also never had to strip the diapers again.
I also found an excellent way to prepare the homemade laundry detergent. I started with the recipe on ICanTeachMyChild, but I think that is a standard one. I add extra Borox because my water was nasty when I first started making this. Then instead of making up the big batches of liquid detergent, I put the powder in a ziplock bag. Then I make the liquid detergent in small batches in misc glass jars, e.g. iced tea containers. I put two cups of water in the container then I use an iced teaspoon to add in a heaping spoonful of detergent. Microwave for 2 minutes, stir. Microwave for another minute, stir. Drop iced teaspoon into container. Let cool. Before using, give the container a shake and the spoon rattles around in there and helps to stir.
Before the glass jar method, I tried using the old detergent containers but that was a MESS.-
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I guess this depends on interpretation. Lucy is pure slapstick and not meant to be taken seriously. And when you watch the Honeymooners, and Ralph "threatens" his wife, you will notice that she never, ever looks worried that he would ever do it, or even impressed by the "threat" at all. She just stands there and looks down her nose at him. If anything, I think the gender relations in the Honeymooners is problematic for the opposite reason, that it portrays men as stupid buffoons who need their wives to keep them straight (as do far too many of the modern sitcoms). But I don't bother interpreting it that far, because it's the Honeymooners, for crying out loud.
I have always truly loved I Love Lucy. But, I couldn't watch it for several years after watching a show about Desi, and they mentioned that their marriage was really like that. Including the spanking for being bad. I felt like throwing up the next episode in which he spanked her. Actually, I don't think I ever went back to watching it.
We like Scorpion, including DD. I think because it has a kid as a major character on par with the adults.
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Whatever you find make sure it doesn't have commercials- it seems no matter what the rating of the show, the commercials can be completely inappropriate. I don't like having to explain Cialis commercials to children while watching football! We are about to cut the cord and go straight streaming the commercials have me so steaming mad.
I've found an improvement on that. I built one of the computers mentioned by this guy
http://mymediaexperience.com/htpc-builds/performance-htpc/
Then I got a lifetime subscription to PlayOn with PlayLater and Ad skip. So, the playon software records the show off the streaming site, and then it skips the commercials at playback. Most of the legal streaming sites still have the national commercials on the stream, and they try to force you to watch them. Also, they take episodes off after a couple of weeks.
At least a few times a week I still say "Bah! We showed you, you commercials!"
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I think they have their place. Although, I looked in many preschool activity books and so many of the activities were 95% teacher effort. Only one worthwhile is the one WTM recommends, but DD was beyond that. One nice thing about homeschooling is that DD can do an arts project without an example. I have been pleasantly surprised at the results. Like before Easter I'd read on Kiwi Crates DIY projects about wrapping white paper around a chocolate bar, drawing a bunny face on the front and cutting out bunny ears and glueing them on. I told DD and then bit my tongue when put the bar horizontal instead of vertical. (I am a rule follower, which is I deliberately didn't show her the picture) Hers were even cuter, and more her.
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Can't express how much I love this story.
I had no idea people would like my toilet story so much. Either you guys are geeks too, or I tell it better in print. Not many people know because I get the "you have two heads" look normally.
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I graduated in 1988, but my first prom was also my first date in 1986. I wore a white organza gown with a giant skirt that could have also served as a debutante dress, or a Queen's coronation of a small country. It was an amazing dress. I also had some of the pastel and lace things as prom dresses. But it is that white one I still love. We went shopping late because I met the guy late. I think the only reason it was still available was because it was on a mannequin and no one else asked for it to be removed.
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DD has a tutu skirt with tulle and sequins that can be neither washed NOR dry cleaned. The instructions say to gently spot clean only. (sigh) It was super cute and cheap and still left at the end of a convention center sized kid's clothes consignment weekend. So, I should have known better. She has also had two dresses that I washed, but they shouldn't have been washed. The outer fabric shrunk and the lining fabric didn't. But, I'd do the same thing again because she had many dresses that said dry clean only, that looked great after a washing. I remember one in particular, used from ebay. It still had the dry clean cleaner tag on it. It looked even better after being washed and hung to dry.
I've had a couple of silk shirts and suits that have to dry cleaned. But, with shirts I'll only wear once, and the dry cleaning damages them eventually.
I'm reminded of back when I was a waitress. A regular brought a date in. I was pouring wine and the towel slipped and a drop of water got the dates raw silk dress. She went a bit hysterical. Both the guy and I thought that she thought it was a drop of wine. But, no, she knew it was water but as she shrieked, "It is raw silk" He was NOT impressed.
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OP, I totally understand the question. I was even born in '70, and knew, liked and appreciated his music. But, when he died my reaction was, "Why all the fuss? I never knew him so why should mourn him?" He seemed like a good guy from little filtered into my brain about him. But. still, he was basically a random person. His thing was music and he was really really good at it. But, it isn't like music is particularly important.
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I am so happy that the dress was OK! That is an amazing dress, and a labor of love. This wasn't a one-use dress like some people are with their wedding dresses. She risked trashing it.
I say that as both a sewer and someone that has let DD (aged 5) get totally soaked in a fancy dress many times. But, that is because I bought the dresses used for $5, and no matter what the label says, I am washing it.
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I've played Coup, and it was a neat game. I little old for my 5-year old so I'll wait to get it.
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Yeah, that is because we didn't learn ourselves when we were youngins.
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I had this crazy notion as a kid that in order not to be poor, you could only wear something once every two weeks. So If I wore a shirt on the 5th, if I weren't poor, I couldn't wear it again until the 19th. I am pretty sure I got this idea from a Sweet Valley High book that I read around age 9/10 - there's a rich girl and she's saying something like, "I can't wear that, I just wore it last week!"
Anyway it was a huge part of my clothing consideration when I was a preteen and young teenager.
Kids get weird ideas sometimes. It may or may not have anything to do with reality; you cold say I was traumatized by not always having 2 full weeks worth of shirts I liked to wear, but really I just had a weird idea I'd picked up somewhere and taken as gospel truth.
When I was a teenager, the daughter my age of a guy that worked with my dad actually kept a journal of her outfits so that she never wore the same outfit twice in an entire school year.
Many of the people my dad worked with would fall into the Middle Class shame discussed in that thread. Where they had debt but looked wealthy.
Dumb Question about "pulling an all-nighter."
in The College Board
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I did several. It usually wasn't procrastination. I would do them to every now and then to get ahead on my work. Mainly because I could get a lot done at once with no distractions. With enough caffeine, you are awake anyway. No one calls and there wasn't anything on TV. Main thing, though, was working without interruptions. It was like the time I worked as an Engineer in 24/7/365 manufacturing, on what I called the noon to whatever shift. I would get much more work done after 5 pm then before. Also, when I was young it was no big deal to stay up all night. I'd be perfectly fine the next day, and a little off on the one after. Now that I am older, even staying up for a couple of extra hours one night makes me almost worthless for two. Of course when I went back for my masters as an adult I didn't spend many hours a week drinking beer, so I had extra time to study.