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If you are trying to organize a carpool with a group of people that you already know, not find a ride or carshare, then Carpool Party, KarPooler or Carpool School edition will help.
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Congratulations! I know how great that feels. My son has 2 totally in and 2 almost finished (he just needs to finish essays) He is only doing those four so the end of the tunnel is near. I cannot imagine the number of essays your daughter is having to do.
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cook it to 165 and then eat.
Heating to 165°F destroys Salmonella, "the most heat resistant pathogen of public health concern in raw poultry," states an NACMCF report issued in March. The temperature is also lethal for Campylobacter bacteria and avian influenza viruses, the USDA said.
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I thought this was funny (and accurate for me): “If your first reaction to the Four Tendencies is to think, ‘Well, I question the validity of your framework,’ you’re probably a Questioner.â€
Me too, that's why I said that I probably wouldn't read the book. I'm not sure that I agree with the premise
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I have never heard of her or the book. I took the test and I am a questioner, which doesn't surprise me at all.
Ironically enough, I am not sure that I care enough to read the book.
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You make a good point. It's something I will have to mull over. My initial thought is, isn't it true that we deem some people incapable of enjoying a certain right due to past behavior? I have a relative who is now a registered sex offender because he abused his position of authority with a minor. His rights to do many things are now severely curtailed and will be for a decade.I think it sucks to be him in some ways, but I'm also okay with that being the consequences of his actions.
yes, in his case his rights are curtailed because of actions that he actually took against another. While suicide is horrific and should be avoided, we go too far if we curtail someone's rights because they MAY injure themselves.
Obviously this leads to some challenging questions about individuals with anger management issues or that lash out at others when frustrated. I would assert that we, as a society, may have an interest in and right to curtail rights IF a person has shown that they cannot control that anger and will kill another person. I do not think that we have a right to curtail their freedoms because we are afraid that they may kill someone or because they have hurts someone in the past. As awful as it sounds I don't think that we can take away someones lawfully protected freedom to own a gun because they have beaten their wife in the past. Yes, that means that someone may get hurt but another right that we have in this country and that I know we ALL want to see protected is our right to be innocent until proven guilty.
None of these are easy questions and on some level they are particularly hard because we want to save everyone, to protect everyone from every feeling any pain or sadness and that is just not possible. It sucks to say that and people here will argue that we should try. and I agree we should try but I think that we need to very careful to ensure that we do not begin curtailing the freedoms of individuals because we are afraid of what they MIGHT do.
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Thanks for contributing that. I know your time is limited taking care of the budgie.
I think this part of the article seems circuitous:
I would personally like to see it be more difficult for a person with a history of depression/suicide attempts/mental unwellness to ever obtain a gun in the first place. Could not regulations on obtaining a gun make it less likely that this population will have a gun handy when the demons turn up? ( I don't mean literal demons, FTR.) There may be little that can be done about depressed people who already have guns, yes. But we could stem the tide for the future, no?
This issue is quite personal to me. I know someone who took his life impulsively and this person had apparent signs for several years of being mentally unwell. I wish he could have had no access in that moment to a weapon that is so swift and certain. Might he have taken his life anyway through another means? Yes. But - swift and certain. A pistol is unmatched in it's "ease" to be completely deadly.
I agree 100% with the sentiment expressed here (I too would like to see an end to impulsive suicides) but I disagree with the conclusion that you have come too.
We can not take away a person's fundamental right to control their own life and make their own decisions because they have a history of a suicide attempt.
People who have attempted suicide are not criminals and having had some experience dealing with mental health care I would not want anyone's future determined by the diagnoses they receive. It is not at all unusual for diagnoses to change.
People diagnosed with anorexia are often suicidal due to the feeling that they have lost control of their ability to feed themselves. Once the malnutrition is addressed and they are recovered from anorexia they are no longer suicidal but may have an official diagnosis of major depressive disorder. It is a violation of their fundamental rights to say that such a person should be unable to share the same rights as any other person in our society.
I know that many feel that its not a big deal, it's only the right to own a gun and on some level I agree. I don't want to call "slippery slope" but on some level I am not sure that is not accurate here. We have a right in our country to own a gun, whether you agree with that right or not and to remove that right from a person because they MAY try to kill themselves is a step that I do not want to see taken.
edited to add: laws about drunk driving or smoking are different because they are not taking away a right based on a possibility. You can still smoke and drink, you are simply punished for doing such in a way that we have deemed unsafe. To extend that comparison to gun we could say that you can own a gun but if you try to kill yourself with it, you will be punished. The Catholic church did that for many years and received some "bad press" as a result.
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I am not opposed to it being passed but I do want to point out a viable, non-threatening use for such a device.
The bump stock was built as adaptive equipment for people who can not cycle the rifle on their own due to weak arms or missing arms. My son and husband shoot rifles competitively. One of their fellow competitors is a veteran who lost both arms in military service and he actually shoots with his feet. (he sits on a table) He uses several adaptive devices that allow him to participate in the sport.
I would love to see a legal way for people who actually need such devices to be able to access them. I realize that there are probably very few people in his situation and that we do not need blanket access to them and I am sure that some people will feel too bad, so sad he can simply find another sport but I think that we should aim to allow all handicapped individuals as much access as possible to any sport of their choosing.
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Where can you possibly live where going 10 mph over the speed limit is a felony?
I'm calling shenanigans, I seriously seriously doubt that is possible.
84 in a 75 to pass is perfectly reasonable; it doesn't matter what kind of car he is driving. Furthermore, in some situations, the person going 75 in a 75 is making the more dangerous decision because the going rate on that road, for whatever reason, is 80+, and people have to keep passing the slow driver (passing is a lot more dangerous than everyone just staying in their own lane).
I think that the poster may be mistaken about a felony but here is Virginia driving over 80 mph or more than 15 mph over the speed limit (as long as it is less than 80) is a class 1 misdemeanor which is punishable by jail time.
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Never had. Haven't missed it
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I did it yesterday. The IRS link wasn't working so it took a little extra time, but I was done in 45 minutes.
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It was a doozy, 4 required essays but no recommendations needed (we can and probably will submit one but the school says that they traditionally have very little impact on the admission decision)
​Application 2 has one of two essays finished and will be submitted on Friday.
We are still in the process of deciding if applications 3,4, and 5 will even happen.
This is starting to feel like we can accomplish it.
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Our HOA chooses our garbage service provider as we are not in city limits. We have a big rolling container for trash that gets picked up twice a week. Bins for recycling get picked up once a week and yard waste (leaves, grass clipping, branches) get picked up once a week. We live about three miles from the dump so we take large items and hazardous materials there ourselves. I don't know how others handle those things
edited to add: we don't sort our recycling
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Our dojo emphasized that black belt was only the beginning but sadly it did become a "graduation" for both of my children.
My daughter started TKD her freshman year of high school and got her black belt one month before high school graduation. As an engineering major she had neither the time nor the money to continue studying TKD at college.
My son got his black belt at age 14 and was working toward a second degree as well as beginning to study Shishikhan when the dojo he was at closed. His instructor began teaching out of a families basement while trying to secure funding to start a new school. We did that for a year. But at 15 my son was 6 feet tall and 200 lbs of pure muscle, the school was mainly 12 and under so there was no one for him to spare that was actually a challenge except the 6 ft 2 instructor and the two of them couldn't spar in someone's basement without taking out a wall. We sadly left our beloved instructor to find another school that had some space and older students but on our area the TKD market is flooded with after-school programs and the schools are full of children. The schools that have adults really lean toward MMA which we were not interested in. We finally found an adults-only Krav Maga school that auditioned him and allowed him to join due to his proficiency and size. He has thrived there. I do feel a little bad that he never made it to 2nd degree.
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My son plays rugby (started at 16) His team is nationally ranked in the top 20 club teams (in the US) and in the last 3 seasons of play his team has had 2 concussions (from rugby) and many broken bones and stitches. Here the kids don't begin playing contact rugby until high school. Middle school is touch only.
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grilled chicken and zucchini fritters with nectarines and plums.
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That happened with with my second baby. It went on all night and stopped as soon as I got up in the morning. I was fried. I finally begged them to break my water. The midwife told me how much that would increase my chances of interventions etc. I insisted. They broke my water at 4:00 pm and my daughter was born at 4:45 pm (the same day)
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My sister had an ectopic pregnancy for her very first pregnancy.
Then she had a baby boy born at 22 weeks gestation who died.
At that point they diagnosed her with a clotting disorder (16 years ago)
Then she had a full term health pregnancy (Son #1) after giving herself blood thinner injections each day
Got pregnant again and went into preterm labor (water broke) at 25 weeks and had a baby boy (son #2) who is 100% healthy and normal today and is 13 years old (no blood thinner, they decided that wasn't the right dignosis)
Got pregnant again and started dilating at 10 weeks, got a circlage and went on full hospitalized bed rest at 12 weeks. Left hospital at 36 weeks and had son #3 at 38 weeks.
Got pregnant again and had a circlage at 12 weeks and ended up on full, hospitalized bed rest at 16 weeks. Son #4 was born at 27 weeks 5 days and is a totally healthy. normal 7 year old today.
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Until nice colors I would have said Costco. Their towels are fabulous but the color selection is limited.
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I like plantoeat.com. It stores my recipes, allows me to plan them by dragging and dropping and creates a shopping list based on what I plan to cook (you can also add items individually)
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I am really not sure how any kid could pay their entire way through college especially not if they are not eligible for pell grants and live in a high COL area.
We paid what we could for college for both our daughters, they both have loans of around 1/3 of their annual salary.
One of my daughters has decided to back to school for a nursing degree (BSN) which will take her two years full-time. She is on her own for that. We cannot pay. We live in a high COL area. Tuition at our local 4-year is $11,300, she will not not receive any need-based aid as she is under 26 and we make too much). We calculated that she needed $13,000/ year to support herself in our area if she lives with us free-of charge (that is not a fancy life either) To live in a shared apartment with 2-3 others will cost her $28,800 per year.(once again, very low-key living)
Working 20 hours per week she would need to make $23-$38/hour in order to pay those bills.
It is great that your son is making it work but you may have trouble finding a lot of other families that have the right set of circumstances to make that scenario possible.
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TAMU application opened July 1 this year, He might want to get on those essays.
He is working on them. He is a concrete, fact based person and these emotional essays are hard for him. You are the third or fourth person to mention this. It is not rolling admissions. The application is open until December 1 why are we in such a hurry?
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Yes, the kindle app supports iOS voice-over. Here are the instructions. https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201244940
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I use care fresh in a litter box for my bunny. Mine bunny is confined to her large cage right now while we work out some plans to gate her into one room as she developed a taste for my baseboards and furniture in the living room.
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If you rely on a meat thermometer to cook . . .
in The Chat Board
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The thermoworks Thermapen is what you want. I love mine and use it every single day.