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Originally Posted by ViewsofMars Precious. Evo, that's a sweet picture. I love my squirrels that steal the sunflowers from the birdfeeder in my garden. The birds perch along side them. It's a big bird feeder on top of a six foot post. p.s. I hope your Kurdt gets better soon. Awww, thank you ViewsofMars, always so nice to hear from you. I love your posts.

Some people are born teachers - can't help it. My neighbors' daughter moved back in with them after a nasty divorce and she has daughters that are 4 and 6. When we visit each other, I teach them life sciences (what birds and animals live here, which birds can survive Maine winters, how beneficial and pest insects live here and can be controlled, etc). The younger girl loves rocks, and I teach her the names of the minerals in the...

Originally Posted by Count Iblis I eat 6 times per day: Breakfast, second breakfast, lunch, second lunch, dinner, and then a meal before sleeping. In the other meals I eat in total 400 grams of bread, some meat, cheese, fruit, yoghurt etc. Also, in the above calculation, you did not account for the gravy. Even I cannot eat dry potatoes (at least not this much). I think this adds another 250 kcal. O good, you got my scared for a second !

Originally Posted by leroyjenkens And what are some examples of these cheap high calorie foods? Because the vegetables I make my salads out of and the fruit I eat is pretty cheap. Same with my cans of beans. Many canned vegetables are processed in such a manner as to have far less nutritional value and often they contain significant quantities of sodium. They are not very good for you. I can get frozen burritos for about $0.25 a piece or...

Originally Posted by Evo He can't walk upstairs in his house without being completely winded. That too is not a good sign. It sounds like something very seriously respiratory is going on other than flu. It's not something to mess with and hope it'll get better on its own, especially when he's had it two weeks and is still not getting better. Edit: Adding this for Kurdt's benefit...the bolding is mine. What else could...

Originally Posted by whs Oh really? So tell me, you get your BS in physics and you are off to teach High school. What steps would you take to dumb yourself down? Go out drinking for a few months? Hit up starbucks and tediously try to understand a lack of details? There is no such thing as 'dumbing yourself down'. Its an excuse people make that either can't teach, or don't understand these concepts. I find it hilarious that...

Originally Posted by D H That terminology is mine. What I meant by that is that to teach high school physics, one must learn how to do so without resorting to multidimensional calculus (and calculus in general!) That was the hardest part. My first year, I actually tried to teach calculus basics to my Honors class because I though it would make things so much simpler. Acceleration for example. I mean, how much easier does it get? Big mistake,...

Originally Posted by Ivan Seeking Being primarily German and Finnish, my family settled in the midwest US. I have no idea how a traditional African American dish found its way into our family traditions. Because when it's good, there ain't no good reason not to eat it. My mother somehow learned to eat corn on the cob whilst here in America. She used to claim that they didn't know what to do with it back in Germany, so they fed...

Originally Posted by Proton Soup yes, i'm suggesting higher stealing. So your opinion, then, is that lower-income people have a larger portion of criminals or people predisposed to crime in their population. I think there's some bigotry there. Originally Posted by Proton Soup i'd also suggest a lower sales volume in lower income neighborhoods that adds to the expense of doing business there. Not when they're the only...

Whether or not there is a connection between obesity and high fructose corn sweetener is still being debated but a lot of food manufactures are replacing it with regular sugar. Wouldn't replacing it with an equal amount of sugar do nothing?