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Devana

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  1. Devana

    WHY are people voting for McCain?

    Yes, thanks Gadget. On the homeschooling subject: In our province parents get a small amount of money for homeschooling, but it doesn't come anywhere near the PPOC (price per pupil operating cost) of publicly schooled children. Every so often someone will make noises about eliminating the right to home school, but then they realize that the enormous cost of moving all those children into the system would make it unfeasible. And in our school district there is simply not enough room to handle all the extra students without physically expanding the schools or building new ones.
  2. Devana

    WHY are people voting for McCain?

    I'm somewhat of an outsider to your election, so there are things I don't understand. Terrified out of your gourd and scared to death are very strong emotions. Can you tell me what you think will happen to the country if Obama is elected that makes you feel so strongly?
  3. Devana

    Demonstration of the new Hurricane Ike Guitar

    Totally cool, Steve! I loved your other two sample tracks as well.
  4. Devana

    Intestinal Parasites

    Hunny, health food stores will have parasite programs. They usually involve herbs like wormwood and cloves. If I remember correctly, you have to take quite a few capsules of them for about a month.
  5. BJean, I'm glad you're alive. What a helluva thing to go through.
  6. Hi gettinn, if you got here from the "Latest Lapband Forum Postings" you probably didn't see that this thread is in the "Rants and Raves, Enter at your own risk" section. This is the place for gripes and bellyaching as well as debates and it's actually a small part of LBT. There are so many supportive threads here and it's easy to stay on them and avoid R&R if you chose. All the best on your journey!
  7. Devana

    Published my first article!

    Congratulations! It was a worthwhile read. Do you have things published elsewhere or do you aspire to?
  8. Devana

    E mails to subscribed threads

    Same problem here. I would post on a thread and then think I had killed it because I didn't get further posts mailed to me.
  9. Devana

    Vaniqa

    Pam I just cut them off with a good sharp pair of cuticle scissors. I've been doing this for years with no ill effects. Some are pretty vascular so be ready with a tissue.
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    Getting pregnant with PCOS

    Ok guys, here's an almost sure way to get pregnant. Worked for me and for 2 other people I told about it. Get yourself some dong quai capsules. You'll want to take about 6 or 7 size 0 or 00 caps a day. Lots. If you're not having any periods, find out when your best friend starts hers and start taking the caps on the first day of her period. Keep taking them for 14 or 15 days and stop. If you were going to have a period, assume you would have it in another 14 to 16 days. Get yourself a pregnancy kit and test your self about a week after it says you can. That is, if it says you can test so many days after the first day of your missed period, wait a week and then test. This is because with this the positive tests aren't always really clear when they should be. If you are having periods, start taking it on the first day and continue for 14 or 15 days and then stop. If you miss your next period, follow the same instructions for a pregnancy test.
  11. I have much less time to spend here than I used to. There are a number of members here whose posts I really enjoy and often find thought provoking. My previous forum behaviour would be to find out what they were up to by clicking on their names and checking in their profile to see where they had last posted. That would be, with my limited time, where I would go first. However, I have discovered, to my dismay, that now every time someone visits another person's profile, their name comes up as having visited. So I have just stopped doing this. I feel somewhat self conscious about it and feel a bit like a stalker. Anyway, this is a very small complaint. As for all the changes, LBT has become so much more popular that I think that Alex has done a great job in managing all this. Many thanks to you, sir.
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    Spanking

    I wonder if these two guys even have children.
  13. Devana

    Betrayal is a BITCH

    Sage and wonderful advice, Phoenix. Tina, the only thing I can add is to exercise like crazy. Walk every where and hit the gym every chance you get. It really is a good way to help the grief dissipate.
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    I hate it when people post just to post.....

    I haven't read this whole thread, so this may be inappropriate but.......Boo Boo, your PS made the wrong choice with your breasts?????????? What on earth does that mean?? Yikes.
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    Spanking

    I have read some works of both of those men, however it was many years ago. One title I remember most was something like "Raising Your Child God's Way". It belonged to a friend of mine when my son and her oldest were much younger. Both these guys advocate discipline by hitting with an object, something hard enough to hurt, but not leave bruises or marks. They suggest starting this at 18 months. Scary. Ezzo states that the child will have guilt for it's misdeed and that corporal punishment will get rid of this guilt, otherwise that child will carry it for life. Scary. Dobson says that physical discipline is the way to instill Judeo-Christian moral values in children. Scary. My friend Jeanette was very conflicted when her children were young. We discussed this often. She had her friends from church who followed these principles (she even got a special whacker instrument for hitting from one of them) and she had us who didn't. She also saw that our children were very well behaved even though we practiced attachment parenting principles. Ezzo had some early infant practices that were very parent centred rather than meeting the infant's needs, which included letting them cry for what I considered to be long periods and rigid scheduled breast feeding. Jeanette ran into trouble with her second son who would not settle and wanted to be held more than what was considered acceptable. He was just fussy and considered to be strong willed. Her milk dried up with the feeding schedule. She had taken him to her MD who was a supporter of these practices, and he told her to persevere, and basically condition her baby to her will. At 19 months she took him to see a different pediatrician and within 10 hours her son was having heart surgery. After that, she gave up a lot of those parenting practices, including the hitting. She says she feels that if she were not applying those principles that her son's distress would have bee more quickly identified as something wrong. She maintained some of the others, like consistency which happened to be similar to what we, as attachment parents, were using. I had forgotten all this until a couple of years ago I began to see, in my office, younger Moms who were real advocates of these methods. I was kind of hoping it would fade away. They really feel that their children will turn into ungodly brats if they don't hit them.
  16. Obese people are contributing to the world food crisis and climate change, experts say. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine calculated the obese consume 18% more calories than average. They are also responsible for using more fuel, which has an environmental impact and drives up food prices as transport and agriculture both use oil. The result is that the poor struggle to afford food and greenhouse gas emissions rise, the Lancet reported. It comes as the World Health Organization predicts the obese population will double by 2015 to 700m. In the UK, nearly a quarter of adults are classed obese, twice as many as there were in the 1980s. The team found that obese people require 1,680 daily calories to sustain normal energy and another 1,280 to maintain daily activities - a fifth more than normal. The higher consumption of food has a two-fold effect, researchers said. First of all the increasing demand for food, drives up production. This means that agricultural processes are using more oil to meet demand, which contributes to the rising cost of fuel. The cost of fuel is then passed on in the cost of food, making it more difficult for poorer areas to afford it. Prices What is more, the researchers said obese people are likely to rely on transport more and put more strain on that transport because of their mass, which again drives up prices and usage. But the researchers said there was a solution. Phil Edwards, who co-authored the article, said: "Urban transport policies that promote walking and cycling would reduce food prices by reducing the global demand for oil and promotion of a normal weight. And they added: "Decreased car use would reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "Transport and food policy and the importance of sustainable transport must not be overlooked." But Dr David Haslam, of the National Obesity Forum, said it was "stretching it a bit" to blame the obese in the way that the study appeared to do. "Really, it is discriminatory towards obese people. They are an easy target at the moment, but I think the causes of climate change and rising food prices is much more complex."
  17. Devana

    I feel like a stalker

    Thankyou, alex.
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    Spanking

    I know some families who are followers of the principles of child discipline set out by a couple of guys called Ezzo and Dobson. I find this stuff downright scary, especially Ezzo
  19. I'm pretty good at keeping my head straight, thinking the good thoughts etc. However, I've just spent the night in a state of existentialist despair, and I'm still feeling pretty bleak. My mother in law died recently. I loved her dearly and still miss her very much. As much as I liked and enjoyed her, though, I still am amazed at the wing-nut children she raised. My husband is like the designated driver of the family, he just doesn't sleep while the rest are sociopaths. One sibling doesn't speak to anybody, the other two don't speak to each other, only to my husband, and there has been much bad behaviour. I'm involved with the governance of a non profit organization. The president of the board is out of town for a couple of months, so I was talked into becoming temporary acting president. It was supposed to be an easy job, sort of holding down the fort for awhile. Well, all hell has broken loose and I'm dealing with a situation that's scary and has legal implications and I feel like I'm way over my head. And I can add to that the house, the car, the kids kind of stuff (my car got majorly smucked among other things). Normally I would be able to handle all this with dignity and aplomb, however, I've blown a disc in my neck. These things take time, even with the very good care I'm getting, but I'm hurting and it's making me cranky and impatient. So there's my rant. I know that there are people on this forum that are dealing with very serious health and personal issues, and I know that it won't be too long before I can put this all in perspective and stop whining.
  20. Thanks, you guys. And thanks for the hugs IndioGirl. You know, Jack, that kind of does feel like me since I'm often the one taking care of things. I think things would be a crisis if I couldn't see an end in sight.
  21. Hi there and welcome. I'm glad you are posting. I lurked for about a year before I actually joined. Have you had your surgery yet?
  22. Devana

    RE- introduction

    Coyotegirl hi there! I've been here only briefly over this last year as well. It's nice to see you back. There are so many changes here, it's turned from a village into a city, with neighbourhoods where people hang out. I'm sorry about all your losses, especially your mother. I know things grief can certainly derail you for awhile. However you're still 135 lbs down so congratulations for that. Don't stay away so long this time. Come and make new friends.
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    Obese blamed for the world's ills.

    It's heartening to see reactions to this article that are similar to mine. It came off the BBC site, by the way, I forgot to put that in there.

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