That's what the teenage years are for: refining social development. It helps to have the basics down in grade school, but why in the world wouldn't you want to take advantage of a time period when the peers of gifted kids haven't yet figured out that it's easier to bash the smart kids than to do the work in order to give the gifted kids the broadest, deepest base you can manage? In my (limited) experience, a group of gifted kids is no more indulged than any other group of well-loved children and they are certainly not selfish; they'll often try to arrange charity projects well beyond their reach and love to help other kids with their school work, as long as the other kids are putting in a sincere effort.
There was another recently published study that demonstrated that autistic children (and not just Aspies, the sitting in the corner rocking types as well) have a significantly higher brain volume around age two than their neurotypical cohorts due to more convoluted cortical folding and a slightly larger head to match, though the circumference was only greater by perhaps a third of an inch. So taking these two studies together, there could be a convincing argument made that having too many brain cells is in fact of greater detriment than benefit.
Are you including retirement savings in your estimate of average savings account value? I certainly have more than 20k in my retirement accounts, but due to some recent medical crap I'm happy to have a few hundred in my day-to-day savings and heck yeah I put the cat's most recent vet bill on my credit card to preserve that little cash cushion (though my interest rate on that card is under 10%).
I think he's nuts, but I do happen to be one of those who's main concern is for the farming practices and not for whatever 'health benefits' might accrue.. proper soil takes a long time to make, we should conserve it as seriously as we should conserve clean water. So there are some out there who buy organic and aren't completely (organic pistachio) nuts!
My cardio hasn't yet felt a need to put me on KCl and I'd rather avoid it if I could. First we're trying diet, then if needed I'll go off my birth control pills, and only if that doesn't work will we move on medications. Right now it appears the diet changes are working. I really, really don't like bananas, but they're starting to grow on me... a bit like mold, but still. It's easier to eat a plain raw banana than a plain raw potato:-)
I'm growing a naga jolokia this year - for some reason I cannot get most peppers to grow hot in my garden so I figure if I start off with something that overexpresses capsaicin like a mofo I might end up with an acceptable jalepeno-ish level of heat. I'm trying to cut sodium out of my diet as much as possible and hot sauce is a very nice way to provide an edge similar to salt to your food for those days you get tired of garlic or lemon..
Kindle offers orientation changing (though not automatically like the iPad and not with a single button press). The page buttons aren't as nice as what you're describing, though.
I do actually have one - it was an unwanted gift from my mother in law. She's very nice. The only use I've had for it is using it to demo the accessibility features for a radio show I do for vision impaired people. I rather like the author portraits it displays in standby mode and would be sad to lose those to ads, esp. if only for a $25 discount.
Sorry for jumping on you. The education comment is true sadly. My father in law and brother in law are both very, very smart men, but they would rather die than admit it. So they go out and do amazingly stupid shit to prove that they're just as ignorant as their buddies - including drugging themselves down to lowest common denominator status. I wonder how much of our drug culture is due to similar effects.
Also a Kentuckian here, and you are showing your Louisville bias. Quit stereotyping. You're in no danger of being shot. No one appreciates being told to their face that they're wrong and stupid to boot and most Southerns are quite sensitive to the various ways that can be done; if you pay the slightest attention to the signals that show when you've pushed an issue too fast you'll encounter no problems, and even make significant progress quickly. It does, however, involve taking the time to make yourself part of the community. And that does _not_ happen overnight, or even in the course of three or four months. Once you're in, though, you're golden.
*pft* They can't even give us a way to only show a limited range of hours on the calendar - not even presets, not even for a paying F500 customer- and you want a magnitude adjustment slider? Yes it would be very nice though!
There are a few places now that offer exactly that, such as http://www.anylabtestnow.com/. The traditional rationale for requiring a prescription was that mere patients couldn't interpret the results correctly and lacked context, leading to either over or under reaction to a given result or a failure to account for possible seemingly unrelated complications - which was true before the advent of reliable medical information online. There's also the idea that only medical interventions are effective in all cases; since you would have to go to a doctor for a prescription anyway, there was no harm in requiring a visit for the lab test too as a way of establishing the patient-doctor relationship. Lifestyle and diet modifications have historically been minimized in terms of disease management but those can be very effective in many cases and should be first line responses.
I was waiting for someone to mention Heifer. Good org, one of my very few recurring donations. They also teach sustainable farming suitable for the recipient's locale, not just animal agriculture. Work in the US, too - there are a couple of projects in my region, one for rabbits and one for bees.
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well you know, someone has to go confirm these things..
That's what the teenage years are for: refining social development. It helps to have the basics down in grade school, but why in the world wouldn't you want to take advantage of a time period when the peers of gifted kids haven't yet figured out that it's easier to bash the smart kids than to do the work in order to give the gifted kids the broadest, deepest base you can manage? In my (limited) experience, a group of gifted kids is no more indulged than any other group of well-loved children and they are certainly not selfish; they'll often try to arrange charity projects well beyond their reach and love to help other kids with their school work, as long as the other kids are putting in a sincere effort.
There was another recently published study that demonstrated that autistic children (and not just Aspies, the sitting in the corner rocking types as well) have a significantly higher brain volume around age two than their neurotypical cohorts due to more convoluted cortical folding and a slightly larger head to match, though the circumference was only greater by perhaps a third of an inch. So taking these two studies together, there could be a convincing argument made that having too many brain cells is in fact of greater detriment than benefit.
Depends on your jurisdiction. I'm not personally familiar with teh Texas situation so won't comment on it specifically.
Are you including retirement savings in your estimate of average savings account value? I certainly have more than 20k in my retirement accounts, but due to some recent medical crap I'm happy to have a few hundred in my day-to-day savings and heck yeah I put the cat's most recent vet bill on my credit card to preserve that little cash cushion (though my interest rate on that card is under 10%).
I think he's nuts, but I do happen to be one of those who's main concern is for the farming practices and not for whatever 'health benefits' might accrue.. proper soil takes a long time to make, we should conserve it as seriously as we should conserve clean water. So there are some out there who buy organic and aren't completely (organic pistachio) nuts!
My cardio hasn't yet felt a need to put me on KCl and I'd rather avoid it if I could. First we're trying diet, then if needed I'll go off my birth control pills, and only if that doesn't work will we move on medications. Right now it appears the diet changes are working. I really, really don't like bananas, but they're starting to grow on me... a bit like mold, but still. It's easier to eat a plain raw banana than a plain raw potato :-)
I'm growing a naga jolokia this year - for some reason I cannot get most peppers to grow hot in my garden so I figure if I start off with something that overexpresses capsaicin like a mofo I might end up with an acceptable jalepeno-ish level of heat. I'm trying to cut sodium out of my diet as much as possible and hot sauce is a very nice way to provide an edge similar to salt to your food for those days you get tired of garlic or lemon..
+1 informative
Kindle offers orientation changing (though not automatically like the iPad and not with a single button press). The page buttons aren't as nice as what you're describing, though.
I do actually have one - it was an unwanted gift from my mother in law. She's very nice. The only use I've had for it is using it to demo the accessibility features for a radio show I do for vision impaired people. I rather like the author portraits it displays in standby mode and would be sad to lose those to ads, esp. if only for a $25 discount.
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Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress and the subsequent books in the trilogy end up discussing this in a near-future Earth.
People now sometimes pay a ridiculous premium for any leafy green or flower which even approaches black. I don't think this will be a problem.
Nope. Not nearly enough.
Perhaps you need to update your fixtures. Much like computer hardware, early adapters tend to get buggy products.
Or maybe you need more fiber.
Sorry for jumping on you. The education comment is true sadly. My father in law and brother in law are both very, very smart men, but they would rather die than admit it. So they go out and do amazingly stupid shit to prove that they're just as ignorant as their buddies - including drugging themselves down to lowest common denominator status. I wonder how much of our drug culture is due to similar effects.
YES!!! Mycorrhizal fungi are absolutely essential for the continued existence of all plant-based ecosystems!!
Also a Kentuckian here, and you are showing your Louisville bias. Quit stereotyping. You're in no danger of being shot. No one appreciates being told to their face that they're wrong and stupid to boot and most Southerns are quite sensitive to the various ways that can be done; if you pay the slightest attention to the signals that show when you've pushed an issue too fast you'll encounter no problems, and even make significant progress quickly. It does, however, involve taking the time to make yourself part of the community. And that does _not_ happen overnight, or even in the course of three or four months. Once you're in, though, you're golden.
*pft* They can't even give us a way to only show a limited range of hours on the calendar - not even presets, not even for a paying F500 customer- and you want a magnitude adjustment slider? Yes it would be very nice though!
Agreed; I go take a look every so often and it's just shocking where it's gotten to now.
There are a few places now that offer exactly that, such as http://www.anylabtestnow.com/. The traditional rationale for requiring a prescription was that mere patients couldn't interpret the results correctly and lacked context, leading to either over or under reaction to a given result or a failure to account for possible seemingly unrelated complications - which was true before the advent of reliable medical information online. There's also the idea that only medical interventions are effective in all cases; since you would have to go to a doctor for a prescription anyway, there was no harm in requiring a visit for the lab test too as a way of establishing the patient-doctor relationship. Lifestyle and diet modifications have historically been minimized in terms of disease management but those can be very effective in many cases and should be first line responses.
Someone mod this up, please.
Of course they are, but they make one's butt wiggle so appealingly, and reduce the speed at which a hapless lady can flee unwanted attention so well.
(as a woman I own a pair, but they're only an inch and a half high and loose enough to kick off if I really need to book it).
I was waiting for someone to mention Heifer. Good org, one of my very few recurring donations. They also teach sustainable farming suitable for the recipient's locale, not just animal agriculture. Work in the US, too - there are a couple of projects in my region, one for rabbits and one for bees.