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Great title! 😄
Congratulations on your handsome son! What a cutie!
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I'm so sorry. 😞
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Dd will attend grad school locally and live at home. It's still not clear how much, if any, will be in-person classes.
Ds will be a freshman and moves into his dorm in mid-August. His schedule is a hybrid, and unless it changes, he only has in-person labs and such on Mondays and Tuesdays - engineering major.
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It is wrong for followers of Christ to disobey the law when that law doesn't contradict God's laws. Most Christians -- including, it would seem, your current pastor -- don't seem to realize this. I guess they haven't read the Bible. Or they're not thinking straight.
Regardless, I wouldn't stay. I understand your concern about your daughter, but in the long run, seeing her parents choose to obey the law as commanded by God is more important for her than seeing her friends at church. Obedience often involves sacrifice. (I don't say this lightly. Dh and I decided to leave a church because of its pastor and staff openly disobeying the Lord in "small" ways. Our kids were in middle and high school. It was hard, but I'm glad we did it.)
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Curtains like these (below) would be nice. We use similar in our sunroom, which is on the southwest side of our house. If I close all of them, it gets pretty gloomy, but dd showed me the trick of leaving a five or six inch opening between panels to let in the light and keep out (most) of the heat. It works well and looks really nice.
A tip: We have some friends who use outdoor curtains on their patio to block the summer sun. They threaded chains through the curtain hems to weigh them down, though it is a good idea to tie them back when the weather is stormy. They also close them completely during our mild (Texas) winters to make another room in their house for holiday gatherings and such.
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5 minutes ago, caayenne said:
I just did! 😊
Thank you. I should have read further down. 🙃
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3 hours ago, caayenne said:
The masks my family got are very comfortable for all-day wear, and they have head straps rather than ear loops, which also helps quite a bit.
Do you mind sharing where you got your masks?
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I think this looks like a cool option for older people:
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Someone here posted the great idea of buying some grocery store gift cards to make it easier for friends and neighbors to shop for you.
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I am praying for this man and his family.
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I am praying for you.
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DD will graduate next month and immediately begin graduate school. Dh and I are paying for room and board, but we wanted her to figure out student loans to pay tuition/fees/books, which we told her about a year ago. (We hope to be able to help her pay off any loans she takes out, but we can't front the money right now.)
She has not pursued her options very well, which is frustrating. She only filled out her FAFSA a couple of weeks ago after some prodding from me. Anyway, her school is offering Unsubsidized Stafford Loans and I don't really understand how they work. They will release enough money to pay her fall tuition and fees, and what's left over should be enough to pay for textbooks and a parking pass.
I'm trying to learn about these loans because I want to guide her if she continues to struggle.
Does anyone know how repayment works for an unsubsidized Stafford loan? I can't plug numbers into an online calculator because I don't know the term of the loan. I have suggested that she email the financial aid office and ask about repayment and how interest accrues, etc., but I'd love to hear anything you've learned that you're willing to share.
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30 minutes ago, square_25 said:
I'm not must of an optimist, I guess :-(. I'm kind of staring fall in the face and not seeing how things are going to better, so I'm just... sad. Sorry to take that out on you guys.
So, are you saying that you think more than 15k students of the 69k will need to be tested immediately?
And, no need to apologize. I know the numbers don't look good, but I have an Aggie, and I'm happy the school is offering this option. I don't expect ds to be tested unless he has symptoms or knows he has been exposed to someone who has symptoms or has tested positive. I know the university is ramping up for contact tracing.
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1 hour ago, square_25 said:
With the current outbreak in Texas, it's hard to imagine that would be enough...
I just kind of thought it was positive news. You know, a step in the right direction.
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Saw this today: Evidently, TAMU will send 15,000 tests to each of their campuses each month. The university system has about 153,000 students in total, with about 69,000 at the main campus in College Station.
Texas A&M to provide free COVID-19 testing for all students, faculty, and staff
Texas A&M University has announced it will offer free COVID-19 testing for all students, faculty and staff at its 11 campuses.
Each campus will have a central testing location in which people will use a mouth swab to test for the novel coronavirus, university officials said in a news release.
People will be required to register online before going to the testing site. Once they arrive, trained personnel will monitor individuals as they perform a self-administered test.
People are encouraged to get tested if they experience symptoms related to coronavirus, or if they suspect they have been exposed to someone with COVID-19.
University officials say although the tests are free, people with insurance are encouraged to use their primary care physician to access the test so that their test can be paid for by insurance.
"Facilitating increased accessibility and availability of COVID-19 testing will help us mitigate the spread and help to protect each other by taking preventative and proactive measures," said John Sharp, chancellor of the Texas A&M University System.
About 15,000 test kits will be sent to each campus every month, according to university officials. Testing could start as early as late this week, though the tests will not be available to the general public.
Texas A&M is partnering with Curative Inc., a national testing company based in California. According to a news release, Curative provides results within 30 hours from when a sample arrives at their lab.
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On 7/10/2020 at 11:20 AM, Christina78 said:
Yes, definitely! UT is also requiring masks on campus.
So are TAMU and Blinn.
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8 hours ago, Pen said:
I assume my area’s supermarkets have AC.
I would think that filtration in AC systems (or heat systems with blowing air aspects) would also matter.
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2 minutes ago, Shellydon said:
I completely disagree with this reasoning. That's like saying that 10-year-olds need to watch violent video games because everyone else does.
I think it should be age appropriate. I also think much can be accomplished through reading and discussion, but it doesn't sound like your dd has much choice. I missed the detail that she's taking a dual credit class in which the whole series(!) is required. (That's a lot of TV for a college course. Sigh.)
It doesn't sound like she has much choice in the matter.
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3 minutes ago, Homeschool Mom in AZ said:
Graphic images, blood, violence and rough languages are reality older kids need to see in a controlled and appropriate context as part of their preparation for living in the world. That's why we have holocaust museums. No, those images can't get out of our heads, because we need them in our heads as a reference point for what human beings are capable of doing if we're not careful to avoid certain ideologies. We need to feel that visceral reaction at the appropriate time in a developmentally appropriate exposure situation because it's a protective measure for society.
See, I think hearing bad language repeatedly doesn't add anything to our learning about avoiding evil. I think it just makes it more likely we'll repeat that language ourselves. The graphic images, blood, and violence absolutely can help us maintain an awareness of just how evil any of us might become in certain circumstances.
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6 minutes ago, Homeschool Mom in AZ said:
The bolded is the same reason my former pastor's wife used to keep her teen sons from watching Les Miseables. There was that cleavage, which doesn't honor God. (Agreed, it doesn't honor God.) Never mind the story is one of the greatest life applications of Christian living ever on screen. How could anyone get anything out of it if there is cleavage on display?
You might well get something out of it. That's great! People have found ways to apply Christian ideals to their lives for centuries without seeing Les Mis.
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It was a fantastic series, but there was so much profanity in it, particularly the F-word, that I didn't want my son to watch it. I just don't want those words to be repeated, even by actors, again and again in my house. My sister chided me for thinking I could protect my boy from the language, but that wasn't the point. He's heard it all. We are Christians, and I hope he will continue to choose to keep the birds from buildling a nest in his hair, so to speak. For myself, I avoid media containing bad language if I can, so I rarely watch movies or television, and I am choosy about the books I read. It's not that I haven't heard it, or that I haven't used it myself in the past, it's just not God honoring, and I don't get to a place again in which is doesn't shock me (just a little bit).
The violence bothered me far less than the bad language because, as others said, it's a war movie.
We read the book instead. The language is addressed in the book, though the profanity itself rarely makes an appearance.
Jmo.
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8 minutes ago, square_25 said:
But is going to the beach really like going to the mall?? Is swimming in a public pool like working in an office building for a week?
Well, obviously, I don't know, but I'm sometimes surprised at one thing being statistically more dangerous than another. I didn't look too far past the chart, but they may have published the data behind it. There are lots of activities on the chart that I'm not doing right now. I just thought it was interesting.
beach - mall? Probably correct. Malls are indoors, but at least around Dallas, they are mostly DEAD, and have been so for quite some time. The better malls are sort of crowded at Christmastime, but any time I've ventured into a mall in the last several years I've wondered how they manage to stay open.
pools - offices? The few public pools I've passed in the last couple of weeks have been too crowded for my comfort. A number of offices are sparsely populated at present, so maybe that's behind the ranking in those cases.
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21 minutes ago, square_25 said:
I wonder if those are right... they are very specific, and I would think that some of these depend heavily on whether something is inside or outside.
I don't know... I think most of the listed activities are pretty easy to classify as being indoors or outdoors, and many of us know that moving an activity outdoors probably mitigates some risk, all other factors remaining constant.
A chart like this that's too general isn't very useful, and one that's too specific won't fit onto a single page. 😉 I think they published it in the interest of educating people who may not be particularly interested in nitty-gritty details. There are a lot of us, even here in Texas, who want to be educated about relative risk.
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Covid risk associated with various activities (source: Texas Medical Association Covid-19 Task Force):
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Ohio Governor Mike DeWine tests +, edited now -
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This. Also, though I purchased a couple of boxes of disposible masks for "emergencies", I dislike throw-away stuff when I have access to reusable things.