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I thought it was funny at the end when she wouldn't put him down to walk but carried him off. I could almost hear her say, "You're in a world of trouble, young man! I'm not letting you out of my sight."
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Not to put dumb ideas for more frivolous lawsuits in anyone's head, but what about time spent commuting? I leave home and go straight to work. Is that work-related time?

Many of us do work-related things on our own time, from buying work clothes to laundering them. This is just being petty.

And yeah, even though there's a lot of gear... 15 minutes?? I guarantee I could get out of the shower and be geared up and out the door in less than 5 minutes (if I didn't have to do makeup), especially if I had to do it every day.

Anyone remember that video, maybe a year ago, of that Japanese fellow who got dressed for work in something like 30 seconds from the time he got out of bed? Full suit and tie, plus coffee and breakfast in his hand as he walked out the door. It was staged for a Japanese show I think. He could teach this German guy a thing or two.
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He has the right to process his experiences in any way he sees fit. No one has the right to tell him how to feel or act when he's doing something as harmless as dancing. Of course, that means other people also have the right to complain about it. So what? If the Nazis couldn't break this man's spirit, a few naysayers certainly won't.

That Mr. Korman survived was a blessing. That he can maintain such a joyous and positive attitude after what he's experienced is nothing short of a miracle and it is a true inspiration. I hope he has many, many more joyful years ahead of him.
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@Morris

My husband is Canadian and has pointed out several times that Canada switched to the metric system when the US tried to, since we're their largest trading partner. Road signs, product labels, etc. Everything switched over at once, at huge expense. Canadians took to the system relatively easily. Then the US gave up on idea but Canada kept it anyway.

Also, to a much smaller degree, Canada did change languages... or to be more precise, added a second language, French, as an official language. More money spent changing product labels (US companies that want to sell products in Canada have to comply), reprinting govt. forms, etc. to include both English and French.

It's safe to say Canadians are much more adaptable and easygoing than Americans in many things. Of course, they have a smaller population and less infrastructure so the transition costs are less than what it would be in the US to do the same things. Still, most Canadians are more "go with the flow" than many Americans. American stubbornness indeed.

But I think you're right. With Americans, slowly acclimating the population, starting with children, to the metric system would have been the smarter way to go.
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@lulu

Your thought is a good one except that it may be unpasteurized, i.e. raw, milk which would require him to comply with a whole host of regulations that he's probably not set up to handle or it may be illegal to sell raw milk in his state. And no, you can't even give it away (not to mention the liability if someone were to get sick from it). Some states allow the sale of cheese made from raw milk as long as it's fermented over a certain number of days. Butter, I'm not sure. But if it's cultured butter, it's possible the same regs apply.

Even if he does pasteurize the milk before removing the fat for butter and cheese, there's a different set of regulations and handling practices to sell liquid milk versus solid milk products, not the least of which is getting your product to market before it spoils. Butter and cheese are less fussy that way.

Still, I agree it does seem wasteful.
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If you're having casual sex (i.e. outside a committed relationship), yeah both partners will have to be on birth control to be sure and you'd still need a condom for STDs. It seems kind of redundant but I guess better safe than sorry.
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Agreed, she's a pessimist. Who says you need to make a *significant* contribution to agriculture? Small scale, organic farmers usually need all the help they can get to stay in business. Getting all the pants in ground or weeded or harvested in a short time period helps the individual farm a lot. Organic farming often replaces chemicals with labor. And locavores want to meet the people who raise/grow their food and feel connected to where their food comes from. It's a win-win.

Even if it's a fad that will pass, no one is being harmed by it, so why bash it?
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I'm guessing you meant 9.1 inches in circumference? At 9.1 inches in diameter, the chicken would probably have exploded.

Gobsmacked is a British term meaning, roughly, absolutely astounded or rendered speechless.
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"I've never seen the skeleton of a cat in a tree."

This nonsense again? You don't see dead birds in trees either, despite the fact that they spend most of their stationary time in them. It's called gravity.
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News flash, perverted fellas. If a woman can contort herself like that, you're unnecessary. ;)

Funny how if that were made today, I'd be wondering if it were CG in some way. Bodies just aren't meant to bend like that.

@taliesyn30 I'd imagine that even being blessed (if it is a blessing) to be that flexible, you're probably only able to do that for 10, maybe 15, years before you're just not able to do it anymore, at least not to that degree. There's a reason why Olympic gymnasts rarely compete past their mid-20's.
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You guys should really read the whole article before commenting :). One of the things they discovered was that rewarding for grades alone wasn't especially effective. Grading has a subjective component (the teacher's) and the results are not entirely under the control of the student.

Rewarding for behaviors that students could directly control (being on time, wearing uniforms, reading books) did, however, increase objective test scores. Also, rewarding smaller amounts more frequently ($2/book, delivered immediately upon completing a quiz about the book) was more effective than larger but less frequent payments.

Also note, as TA mentioned, these experimental programs took place in schools/areas where kids were doing the worst academically. These programs were funded "from the outside." Parents didn't pony up the dough. The school administrators did. The article mentions parents who were suddenly more interested in their child's education because they had both a monetary incentive and a frequent, direct indication of how their child was doing in school, based on if the check amount went up or down. Now you have parents who are involved, even tangentially, in their child's education which is never a bad thing.
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I haven't owned many cats but every one would have freaked out when the box started moving and would probably have tried to get back out the door. Does the door lock while it's in motion? How do you train a cat not to jump out while it's moving? Granted most cats won't be harmed by jumping or falling from 10 feet but still.
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Two words: human arrogance.

Two more words: willful ignorance.

Watch the documentary The Cove. Even though it's about the killing of smaller dolphins, a small bit talks about the kind of $$ the Japanese "fishermen" get for animals sold to aquatic parks all over the world.

If you have any love or respect for animals, what happens to the dolphins will break your heart. If you have half a brain in your head, what the humans are willing to turn a bind eye to will astound you.
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I gotta say, I'm really heartened by the majority of the responses here. So how do we get ourselves into positions where we can influence these policies?

I'm Asian-American, born and bred in the USA, graduate of UCLA and a lawyer, not an engineer, CPA or math professor. I majored in religious studies and minored in business administration. Well-rounded Asians do exist :). At UCLA, being Asian was not unusual, although in hindsight I don't think there were many Asians in my higher level religious studies classes. At law school, I was surprised to find that there was an affirmative action program for Asian students, although I didn't find out about it until after I was admitted.

@Weoei: tenure isn't the proper metric for determining if there are Asian students in the humanities programs. Professorial positions are a pretty rare beast and tenured positions even more so. Jac's right in that you'd have to get the class rosters to determine the actual percentage of Asian participation. Eyeballing it is hardly conclusive.

@esu, you're right that the SATs are not racially biased but, at least when I took them 25 years ago, they were culturally biased. Being a completely Americanized Asian, I had more trouble with the quantitative portion than the verbal, ironically. I guess they've been periodically updating the verbal portion of the test to try to remove the cultural bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAT#Cultural_bias) but I believe it would still make a difference to students who are recent immigrants. There are significant differences between Asian and western cultures, extending beyond the language difference; the Asian emphasis on education is only the tip of the iceberg.

I don't think additional subjects on the SAT will make a difference. From a practical standpoint, I don't know if high school students are ready a multi-day bar exam type ordeal plus it would increase the costs of administering the test which would drive up the fees and perhaps prevent some students from taking it. Besides SAT prep courses will simply add materials covering these new subjects and Asians again will study twice as hard. I doubt a test can be designed for which a prep course can't prepare a student. The fact that you get a score means there's an answer that's right or at least more right than another, which means you can learn what that answer is beforehand. If you make it a subjective assessment, we're back to cultural biases unless you add non-white evaluators and get the tests of the non-whites in front of them. And it just gets messier from there. You've increased the costs of the test and the prep courses and ended up in the same spot.
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I'm with OddNumber, Elle and Leah. We make almost everything from scratch so processed, premade foods aren't on our menu often. In the summer we garden and eat our own fresh, organic produce.

Where we save grocery money is I check weekly fliers for the stores near us. Every store, even our locally-owned grocery stores (granted they have multiple stores in town so they're not "small"), has their flier available online. Albertson's even has their weekly sale items available via RSS feed.

I check for sale prices more than coupons since staples, fresh produce, meat and dairy tend to be on sale more than they'll have a coupon. Using Firefox and the Morning Coffee add-on, it's a no brainer to have most markets' fliers set for Wednesday and Fred Meyer's set for Sunday, which is when they put out the new fliers. Neatorama is set for everyday in Morning Coffee ;)

Also, we mainly shop Fred Meyer which has a rewards program so we get a small percentage back quarterly, in the form of gift certificates. From spending ~ $50-100 weekly, we'll get back $10-20 each quarter for shopping at the store we'd normally shop anyway. Free money and I don't care if they track my purchase history. It's pretty boring stuff anyway.

Like Melissa says, make a shopping list, stick to it, and don't shop when you're hungry.

For saving $$ on meat, we have a locally-owned butcher shop that offers mixed cuts and mixed meat (beef, chicken, pork) packages that are pretty cheap per pound and locally-sourced which makes me happy.

Finally, Costco has the best prices on certain staples. Just do the math and see if the annual membership fee is worth it for your family. If you buy enough at Costco, the executive membership may be worth it because of the rebate. Our annual membership is essentially free after rebate.
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