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My son is pleased. He got a score high enough for an automatic admit at his top-choice school (a a 70 point increase over his June score). Now we can finish up the applications. We didn't need to wait for the scores but somehow we were waiting mentally, I think.
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I use and love onepassword
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OP I told my wife about your "problem" with excess eggs on hand from your Hens. Her immediate reaction was that you can send them to us, as I mentioned in my first reply. I like the idea of you possibly selling some of them. If they are Farm Fresh Eggs, not from Hens in an Egg Factory, they may be free of the bacteria that requires eggs in supermarkets in the USA to be in the Refrigerator? I am not sure if that is something on the Shell that does not wash off, or, if it is something on the inside of the egg. In 22 1/2 years here, I have never seen eggs in a refrigerator section of a supermarket here. When I asked when we were in a supermarket by the Timeshare Resort we were in near Orlando last year, I discovered the eggs there require refrigeration because of bacteria. So, if your eggs are bacteria free, that's a big plus when you sell them!
We all have the same bacteria the world over.
Eggs naturally have a covering called a "cuticle" that keeps out bacteria. US policies require that cuticle to be removed during cleaning so that the eggs now need to be refrigerated to keep them fresh. In other countries that cuticle is left intact and the eggs can be stored at room temperature.
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I am totally with you. My parents have plenty of room for us to visit and stay at their home and so did my MIL but my MIL replaced her car with a car that seated no more than 5 and when we visited there was a total of 6 or 7. The plan was that they would rent a car when we visited but everyone always backed out due to the expense and so we couldn't even go out to dinner all together. It was awful and felt unwelcoming.
Family is of the greatest importance to me and so we will stay in a house that will allow at least one set of visitors at a time. I would love a house with large living spaces, and just 2 bedrooms and then guest cottages on the periphery but it would be more expensive to move than stay put.
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Tracheomalacia
My son (born full-term) sounded like a baby pterodactyl when he breathed (all the time, not just when sleeping.). The doctor diagnosed it as Tracheomalacia and said that by definition he would outgrow it by age 1. He sounded like that full time for a few months and then while sleeping until he was three. He is normal and has no breathing issues today.
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My husband wears a 9.5 (he is 5'8")and I wear a 9 (I am 5'7"). Our daughters wear 8.5. My son wore an 11.5 at 15. Now at 17 and 6 feet tall he wears a 12.5
I don't think that there is any way to predict what size your son will wear in a year or two. Men grow much longer than women.
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My MIL was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in mid-July ( a few years ago) and died six weeks later. She was told 6 days to 6 months. She was really only debilitated in the last three days. She was 76 years old and in very good health before the diagnosis. I still miss her
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My husband uses one for lower back pain and gets significant, immediate relief from it.
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Check out A Man, a Can and a Microwave on Amazon. It is a cookbook of recipes from Men's Health Magazine that use primarily canned ingredients and all of them can be cooked in the microwave. It may not be gourmet or the freshest food available but it will be cheaper than takeout and healthier too.
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Is this a list of foods that you are limited to for snacks for your own child? If it is, I have an issue with it regardless of anyone's take on the "health" qualities of the foods on the list.
But yes, there are so many interpretations of what constitutes "healthy" foods and the interpretations change so often...that list contains foods that were thought to be "healthy" 5-10 years ago and are now suspect.
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Sports that can lead to cuts and bruises are a prerequisite for consideration :D
pretty much my son's requirements too, hence rugby and krav maga are his activities.
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I played Rugby and had the kid play when he was younger. Love the game! But no High School teams for Rugby either.
I guess I will need to experiment with the food. he's going to need energy, that's for sure.
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I actually played water polo in college for a year. I was at the pool doing a synchronized swimming workout on my own and the water polo team was practicing and saw me doing egg beater laps up and down the pool and the next thing that I knew I was defending a goal. It was fun but co-ed and I got tired of having cut and bruised legs.
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We inherited 5 acres of land with a house built around a single wide mobile home (it was about 1/4 of the total house) the buyers could not get a mortgage so we carried the mortgage ourselves. It went well for us.
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My son says "play Rugby"
Joking aside. I swam from 6-9 pm every night of the week for years as a 6-10th grader and ate dinner in the car on the way. We swam a mile for warm-up. I was a nationally ranked synchronized swimmer. If eating before swimming upsets his stomach figure out another plan but It never upset mine at all and I swam hard.
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Would anyone care to comment on this? Fortunately it was located ONLY on the eggshells.
- Have you ever seen this when you cooked potatoes and eggs together?
- Is this scum some sort of reaction between the potato starch and the eggshells?
- Or does the scum always form from the potato skins and the eggshells act as a sacrificial anode?
- Something else?
It's not a big deal, but I was quite surprised to see it on the eggs when I opened the pot.
I had it happen when I cooked eggs by themselves and the inside of the eggs was a weird beige color as well. The first time I cooked eggs they were perfect the second time brown and icky. There hasn't been a third time.
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What is your genetic heritage? 30% of peoples from Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam have a genetic condition that affects how they metabolize alcohol. My husband is half Japanese and has it and 2/3 of my children have inherited it (my son is still underage so we don't know). It cause them to metabolize alcohol very quickly. My daughter gets headaches and feels nauseous after drinking as little as 1 bottle of beer. She got very sick and miserable at Easter when she had a mike's hard lemonade with lunch. They all three turn bright red and you didn't mention that symptom so that may not be it but you can read more here
I just read a little more on this and you do not have to be of asian descent to have alcohol flush, it is just much more common for East Asians than the general population.
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Well, that's the impression I get as well and that is why I am asking. Depending on what I ate etc. I can maybe drink several glasses of wine before I feel sick (I don't throw up because I lie down / go to bed at that point,) but I don't feel more than maybe slightly tipsy. I definitely would not do anything really out of character. And the change from slightly tipsy to needing to lie down happens quite fast (which is why I do occasionally get to the feeling sick part). I definitely have never felt sick the next day because of it.
What is your genetic heritage? 30% of peoples from Japan, China, Korea, and Vietnam have a genetic condition that affects how they metabolize alcohol. My husband is half Japanese and has it and 2/3 of my children have inherited it (my son is still underage so we don't know). It cause them to metabolize alcohol very quickly. My daughter gets headaches and feels nauseous after drinking as little as 1 bottle of beer. She got very sick and miserable at Easter when she had a mike's hard lemonade with lunch. They all three turn bright red and you didn't mention that symptom so that may not be it but you can read more here
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What would be the best way to utilize one? Best software or website or?
I'm TRYING to get my writing back on track. And finding that if I put it off util the kids go to bed it will NOT get done as I'm too tired to write well then. But, at that point I think I could and should be able to do other things, like ordering curriculum for the kids, doing some work on my author website, marketing, etc.
The only problem is I think of what to do earlier in the day, and then forget by the time the kids are in bed. I need a way to add things to my to-do list that I can do from my phone AND my macbook. Can't just be one or the other. If I can use Alexa or Siri to do it all the better.
Does this exist? Can utilize google calendar or ical for this? I know how to add tasks on my laptop but not from my phone. I know how to add a "reminder" to my iPhone reminders, but as far as I know that doesn't show up on my macbook anywhere, does it?
Or something else? I have executive function issues so it has to be EASY..in the sense that the time from when I think of what I need to do to the time I write it/say it has to be super short, or I'll forget. Fairly certain I have undiagnosed ADHD, but growing up it was "absent minded professor", or just "irresponsible". I was that kid that never had a pencil or paper or textbook in class, and never remembered to turn in my homework despite having done it. So trying to combat those tendencies and get things done. Help!
Reminders is an app that is built into your iphone and your mac. If the list is stored on iCloud it will auto-update on all your signed in devices. Siri can add items to it if you say "Siri remind me to order curriculum" you can add a time and/or date to be reminded. It also handles repeating reminders, mine reminds me to change my contacts every two weeks. You can also set up location based reminders. For example, if my to-do list has "buy highlighters" which is something that I need to do but is not time critical, I can set it up to remind me to do when I am near Staples. My phone gives an actual alert noise that I have a task to complete and shows me the to-do item when I drive near to Staples.
Here is a great article in getting started using reminders.
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Thank you. There is only one instate public school that offers a decent music ed degree (ok there are two, but she doesn't want to live in Richmond). It would be rpughly 20K to attend it, and again, we feel she could easily get about 3 to 4K in scholarships at this point. We have very little saved through a 529 or whatever it is called--the educational savings acct. I just don't know how we are going to do this. I guess I will be working full time.
You might see if she will take another look at Richmond. My daughter, (with similar stats to yours) attended college there and received good merit aid. She took subsidized student loans only for three of five years (so a total of $20,000) and between the loan and her merit aid we paid less than $400 tuition and fees every semester. We did have to pay room and board but she lived off campus (her choice) and our annual cost was about $10,000.
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I have no issues with transgender individuals at all. From a feminist point of view there are two issues arising out of the increased visibility of trans individuals in our country that particularly irritate me and worry me.
The first is MtF trans models. As a whole we as women have been told that we are not good enough for a long time. Most models are not women, but children. Women stop growing in height at 12-14 years of age but continue growing in weight and fat (secondary sexual characteristics) until age 21 but our runway models are all 14. They are children, unrealistic goals for us to achieve. Print media is all photoshopped to be thinner and blemish free and now we have transwomen models. So now not only are most of us not good enough as women but biological men are better at being women than us.
The second is in sports. Particularly high school sports. While hormone treatment will change the fat/muscle percentages on MtF trans athletes it cannot change that the fact that men and women have different bone structures and that those very structures affect performance. In addition, the increased q-angle caused by a woman's hip structure puts her at increased risk for knee injuries in all sports that involve running. So our biologically female athletes are not as good at being athletes as a biological man either.
I am surprised that feminists are not more outraged about these kind of issues. We came a long way with Title 9 and now we are backpedaling in a uniquely 21st century fashion.
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I need to write a counselor recommendation for my son for college applications and I do not even know where to start. I didn't have to write them for either of my older kids. Is anyone willing to send me a copy of theirs to see?
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I'm a crier. I cry too easily, from stress, from sadness, from feeling overwhelmed. Once I cried while quitting a job, thus convincing my manager that I didn't really want to quit, even though I did want to, very much - I was just overwhelmed by the process. I hate it that I cry so easily.
But I would not cry over notes left on my car. I have been flipped off and had things yelled at me in anger. That doesn't make me cry. I guess I would be embarrassed if someone left me a note about parking badly, if indeed I had parked badly. I've been tempted to leave a note when someone parked badly such that it would inconvenience someone else trying to park. But I never have. if I did, I wouldn't use foul language! I wouldn't want to make someone else cry.
This is me exactly. Thank You for saving me a lot of typing.
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I really liked the fact that you can choose from several different books. I also liked that statistical analysis is included. I hated the DVD lessons. I can live with "whiteboard style" lectures but the experiment sections were literally photographs. Sometimes annotated but still photos. Video would have been effective and not technologically difficult.
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Why "Yuck?" I realize that it is rather stressful, but you know what activities your kid did better than anyone else would. In our case, we helped dss write their resumes by reminding them of various things they had done and forgotten about. When they were filling the activities record out, there were frequent questions about what a question meant. Verifying the record took about 90 seconds.
The counselor recommendation did take some thought, but again, there wasn't someone else in a position to write it. We don't use a charter school or umbrella organization. I kept it brief (one page or less) and stuck to answer the questions and using specific examples.
You will probably be wading through the counselor side of the Common Application and doing other counselor recs if they are required. Once you have one written, it is less difficult to tailor it to specific situation you are completing at that moment.
Okay, certifying the outside activities is not a big deal and yes, I am certainly the most qualified to do it (oh the miles and hours I have logged due to extra-curricular activities!)
The counselor letter is daunting. Neither of my other students needed them and my son is not applying to any common app schools and I don't even know where to begin. For one thing I cannot imagine a high school counselor knowing any thing at all about their students (I want to three different high schools, a public one, a private one and top-ranked public magnet school and I never even met my counselor more than once) so I cannot imagine how to even begin writing a letter that will not stick out like a sore thumb because I do actually know my son.
Early Decision?
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I know that Early Decision is binding but what about financial aid numbers?
My son wants to attend Texas A&M. It is his top choice. He just got an SAT score high enough for an automatic admission. However, as a resident of Virginia he cannot attend unless he receives an in-state tuition waiver (which requires $4000 in annual scholarships from the university).
We would both love to apply ED and be done but if he applys ED and doesn't get the scholarships he needs are we still committed?