Tired_Old_Man

Go out of your way to make the breakup as civil as possible. The children will benefit from the reduction in stress level. Your "X" will benefit and most of all, you will benefit (in the long run). Getting even for past grievances may sound good and may be the popular thing to do, but the resentment that builds and lingers will only eat away at you and the children. Forgiveness (believe it or not) benefits the forgiver more than the one forgiven. It is in vogue to be strong, but some tenderness may actually show more internal strength and the children will be watching. I have seen a lot of breakups and the ones where the couples acting like adults and were civil and compromised usually resulted in happier people down the road. Couples who fought the hardest usually brought all the hatred into their next relationships. TOM PS: I am not saying to lay down and to allow your self to be taken advantage of.

I agree with much of what you say, Kare. However, these are two separate issues. Of course we as voters should do all that is possible to force our schools to root out waste. We must however look at "waste" with open minds. Many schools have eliminated P/E and music programs as "waste" because it was not the "3 R's". In the long run, our children will suffer from the removal of those programs. You say that progress reports are a waste "because the teachers so often don't have time to have enough things graded every single 6-weeks". Well maybe teacher's aids could help with some of the rote work that teachers do. My daughter-in-law was first a Catholic school teacher and then a public school teacher, and she had to bring home tests to mark and did many other teaching related chores while "Off duty". Maybe e-mail might be a better way for progress reports. Maybe the money saved through reduced mailing costs could be used for hiring teacher's aids to free up the teachers to make the reports (and other more important chores). As voters and people who control local school boards, maybe we can influence the boards in that type of change. We definitely need to influence our state representatives and governors to remove this stupid testing system. It may sound good at first glance, but what we really have is an enormous amount of time wasted teaching people to take "the test" rather than any real learning going on. My grandson was a C+/B- student in Brooklyn public schools. He is a A student since we moved to Florida. He did dot get any smarter. In many districts in the state of NY, parents are allowing their children to boycott these tests. Here in Florida, if the students at “School A” have high FCAT scores, then “School A” gets more money next year. If the students at “School B” have poor FCAT grades, then “School B” gets less money in next year's budget. BuSh's rational is "why reward ineffective teaching?" Maybe the low FCAT scores were caused by lack of nutrition or the low scores could have been caused by many other variables or reasons which might be grist for another thread. But to remove help from those who need it most is a sick policy. If two people fell off opposite sides of a cruise ship, one an x-Olympic swimmer and one a person who could barely float, and there was only one life preserver available, by BuSh's logic, they would throw the life preserver to the Olympian. As voters we have to push our legislators to dedicate tax dollars to schools. This year's SAT scores were appalling . 503 doesn't sound that bad until you realize that you get 400 points for signing your name. So 503 on a test that goes from 400 to 800, really means 103 out of 400 or about 25%. That was the average test score on the one of the SAT's sections this year. The USA is producing children who pass the mandatory tests, but are functionally illiterate. We complain about the good jobs going overseas, but our children will not be able to perform the good jobs with the educations that they are getting even if the jobs stayed here. The USA will soon be a third world country with a Super Power Military if we do not wake up soon. The town where I live has two types of job available. Real estate (including construction and contracting) and retail sales. When all the lots are sold and filled with homes and stores, there will be only retail jobs left. How can people pay quarter of a million dollar mortgages on Wal-Mart and Home Depot sales associate's wages?

There are three generally accepted versions of the 10 commandments: Protestant Version: 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the Water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy Manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 5. Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbor's. Catholic Version: 1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. 2. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain. 3. Remember thou keep the Sabbath Day. 4. Honor thy Father and thy Mother. 5. Thou shalt not kill. 6. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 7. Thou shalt not steal. 8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods. Hebrew Version: 1. I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 2. Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; Thou shalt not bow down unto them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me; And showing mercy unto the thousandth generation of them that love Me and keep My commandments. 3. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath in honour of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 4. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work. But the seventh day is the sabbath in honour of the Lord thy God; on it thou shalt not do any work, neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 5. Honour thy father and thy mother; in order that thy days may be prolonged upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. 6. Thou shalt not kill. 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 8. Thou shalt not steal. 9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor. 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house; thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. However, I defy anyone to show me anywhere in the Bible where 10 commandments are laid out and numbered 1 through 10. In both Exodus and Deuteronomy, there are what most people would call the basis for the Ten Commandments, but Exodus 20 takes verses 2 to 17 to spell out the Ten Commandments, while Deuteronomy 5 needs verses 6 through 21. That is 16 verses in each book to spell out 10 commandments.

Who is they? The reason that removing recess is being discussed is because of budget constraints. The reason for budget constraints is that it is almost impossible to raise taxes for the schools without a politician being called that ultimate dirty word: LIBERAL. We have to make up our minds. Do we love our children and want them to have a good education or is it more important to keep taxes down? No one likes paying taxes, but if the alternative is children who can't read, children who can't do math, children who are fat and out of shape, and most of all, children who when they become adults are too out of shape to live a long healthy life and who are too ignorant of the world to be able to cast an intelligent vote, I'll pay the taxes. And I don't have children in school, but I will pay the taxes for my fellow Americans' children.

Maybe I am just too old, but the girls in #4 & #5 looked like kiddie porn.

Why not keep both shops and Heath Education? If we love our children as much as we claim, why should they have to make the sacrifice? We should sacrifice by forking over what ever it takes to give the children a formal education and good health education.

Within the past few years, I have seen TV shows like 20/20 and Dateline NBC do segments on discrimination. They did things like send people to a car dealership, or to rent a house, to apply for a job, etc. When one person was better looking, (s)he got preference. When one person was white and the other Black, the white person got preference. When one person was slimmer, (s)he got preference. For buying cars, the men got a better deal without even trying to bargain. When one woman was blond, she got preference. What was funny, was that people tend to discriminate against one group, even when they are in another group that gets discriminated against. In other words, don't expect a Black person to treat you fairly if you are fat and your competition is slender. Just because a person has experienced discrimination, doesn't mean he can see it when he does it. If you have not seen the academy award winning movie "Crash" yet, I suggest that you see it because this theme runs throughout the movie. But getting back to the thread, we as people of weight, need to clean up our own act and maybe even get together with other discriminated groups so as to be more aware of each other's situation and also because there is power in numbers.

To Protect HER MAN!!!

How about the "Silencer"? :clap2::faint:

Knock on wood:nervous

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I can eat toasted white bread, but not untoasted white bread. Sour Dough type breads are the worst.

A small step. But every journey starts with a small step. "One small step for Spain, one giant leap for body image"!!

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Learning to eat slowly is so difficult to learn. Just think, If we had been able to master eating slowly, we may never have gotten ourselves into the situation which required us to have Lap-Band surgery.

I think I just substituted food for things that were missing in my life as a child and I was never able to break the bad habits. The earlier a habit is initiated, the harder it is to stop. No excuses, just my weakness.

6 weeks, I think.

Welcome Brad to the LBT forum. The Lap-Band has two wonderful benefits. #1. It is a great tool for both losing and keeping off weight (though, you will have to be vigilant). #2. You will be surrounded by women.

Aussie Chick: Thank you for being so brave to share these very personal pictures. If and when I get near my targeted weight, I will want a tummy tuck, but I have enough excess to make up a child's weight. I hope I will be brave enough to take pictures, though I doubt I would share them.

Regarding the research quoted in the opening post. Statistics are wonderful, but if they are ahderred to too tightly, no one would ever hit the lottery.

Great costume BTW. And the your son is really cute.

Halloween?? They already have Christmas decorations on display here in Florida stores.

I agree 100%. If I were King , I would ban all parades and celebrations that celebrate racial, religious or ethnic differences. When people talk about how wonderful the xxxxx are, they are saying either that the xxxxx are better, not American in my mind, or the xxxxx are just as good as everybody else, a waste of words, in my mind.

The doctor and you should put your heads together to determine your fill schedule. Many doctors have a minimum waiting time between fills. You will probably get one soon if you are 6 weeks post op. I got my first fill at about that point.

My doctor told me. "Take nothing except a sip of Water for 6 hours prior to the fill". Only exceptions: Heart & Drug Pressure Medications.