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Barb, let's me through that link but, won't let me through a search.

Weird!
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Barb, I can't find anything, not even her profile. The ear pulling question comes up but says it can't be found.

Hmmm?
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Polar, I wonder if MILHell was advised to take down her posts by law enforcement or a legal advisor. Her other post (about her problems with the AL) are still up. I sent her a DM, wishing her well and telling her I hope she's safe.
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What happened to the thread about the wife who got her ears pulled then spit on by her husband? It disappeared. Why? Admin?
I sincerely hope she is safe.
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BOJ: Spot on! Three cheers!
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I still hate seeing every comment on a thread appearing in my feed! I often unfollow just so i can see what else is there.
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Good advice Bundle!
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hugs from me, to all! :)

this comment is about stress. many people have psycho-somatic symptoms from the huge stress they’re under.

i just saw some very good advice on the internet.

i post it here, because maybe it helps:

“It wasn't until I started to focus on shedding the anxiety that my health started coming back. 

How did I shed the anxiety?

(A) Going to bed early. Quitting T.V. Waking up early.

(B) Talking to my loved ones every day, every chance I had. 

(C) Stopped eating any junk, removed all processed foods from my life. Removed all toxic people from my life. Anyone who took advantage of me, didn't give me credit, or gave me a funny, anxious feeling, I let them go. 

(D) Focusing on the now. Every time my mind wandered, I focused on my breath. I focused on my hands typing, the water hitting my face, how the pillow felt against my cheek....I started to live. 

(E) Forgetting the past. Acknowledging that the past had no power over my life (this moment). This moment was all I ever had. 

This isn't easy, it sounds easy but it takes effort. I had to realize that I did not need the anxiety, the T.V., the junk food...I did not "need" anything. 

The current moment was the most precious gift in my life. The only thing I actually needed.”
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Not a network engineer, a PIO.
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Thanks for that information Glad!

Drugs are also known by the names:
Imiprimine (Tofranil)
and
Olanzapine (Zyprexa)

This won't be the first time efforts were made to get approval from the FDA on an older drug for a new use.

When a drug brand expires and the generic becomes available at a less expensive price, there is very little incentive financially to get approval for a new use.

However, this is promising research! There is hope, not a cure, but a treatment I am thinking.

🤗
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I was so carried away by hockey last Friday I did not watch the season finale of come dance with me. Streamed it tonight. My faves won that too! Go Kennedy and Justin!👯👯💃💃💝👣👣,

Justin, dad, is a network engineer.
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Landeskog had his daughter drinking juice out of it!

And they estimate 500,000 people at the parade today! News originally guessed 200,000 would attend. They were off by a bit.😁😁

And absolutely no civil unrest! The police had prepared for all.

Live coverage of parade and party, four hours worth!
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Glad, I saw that on the news. Funny! One of the players dropped it on the first night during their team photo too! I wonder if that old cup will last the summer. LOL
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Each member of the Avs gets to spend a day with th Stanley cup. The first day it goes to the captain. The keepers of the cup originally tried to deliver it to the wrong house! Landeskog's house was still a couple of houses down the street!😁😁❄❄⛄⛄🐧🐧

https://kdvr.com/news/local/stanley-cup-shows-up-at-wrong-house/

And landeskog helped out at Raising Kane Chicken yesterday! Busy, busy place. Parade today!
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When people come to the forum and ask if the medication they've been given will help the answer often is probably not, but it never hurts to try. While they might not be curative it's nice to see a study that proves at least some of them really can be effective.
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Promising new research.

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/cu-anschutz-researchers-identify-drugs-curb-alzheimers-symptoms/?intcid=CNM-00-10abd1h
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TN - what a blessing you are to that boy! You will do it right as you are doing it right. We called my oldest grandson the bumless pit - it started as the bottomless pit and morphed from there. I can see you are getting great enjoyment from watching him flourish. Long may that last.

I always buy at least slightly used cars. The you know they are in decent running order. A colleague at the college bought a new van and had troubles with it right from the start. They kept working on it till the warranty ran out and then he was stuck with a lemon - at great cost.

The flooring for the condo is in transit from Ontario and we are hoping it will yet be delivered today as rain is forecast for tomorrow the only rainy day in two weeks!!!
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TN, I know you won't ever age him out.

At least you learned your lesson and now you know what is what with your lungs. I think we all tend to believe it will get/be better tomorrow, I have to be at the end of whatever is going on, etc, until we end up at the doctors /hospital because it just didn't go away. I know I am so guilty of that MO.

Super nice to have mechanically inclined family to check over used vehicles. We joke that my truck is so old it is able to legally purchase alcohol. Runs great, husband can fix anything going on with it and I can buy lots and lotslots of fuel for the cost of insurance alone.
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The most expensive vehicle I ever purchased was $16,000 for the truck I gave my nephew as a college graduation present (when he was in high school and I wasn't sure he would go to college). The car I drive now I paid $1,800 for, spent about $1,000 getting new tires, springs, muffer, spark plugs, and a good cleaning. Been taking it from 86,000 miles to its present 98,000 miles with only a couple of window motor replacements. I expect excellent service for years to come. I typically find a good used car for $2,000-10,000, although I am aided by a brother and a nephew to go over the car for mechanical issues. I cannot even buy the replacement batteries for a EV for that much!

I have no doubt someday EV technology will work out and/or fossil fuel technology will improve to greatly reduce environmental impacts. Just like the world was never buried in horse manure as predicted before the invention of the automobile. The power grid is not able to handle charging a lot number of EVs at present and I prefer the private sector pay for that build out - just like they did for gas stations. Big cities with air quality problems may benefit from EVs, semi-rural areas like mine to not. With the hills around here, there is not an EV on the market that can make it to either nearby major city and home again (Ashville or Knoxville) in the same day - going up hill for miles drains the battery too fast. A trip we frequently make to visit relatives or shop for a day or attend a show. Its just not practical here yet. Hybrids do not fair much better as the braking mechanisms used to recover potential energy screw up the handling on snow while driving on an elevation. At best you will need a fossil fueled backup vehicle. And lets not even get into the work trucks my nephew needs for his construction business.
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GA - I too bought into the shtick that EV's too new, too experimental and too unsuited to a northern climate until I did a little research, check out what has happened in Norway!
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My son and stepson both have BMW E10's and love them. They've had charging stations put in at their homes.
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sp19690, many people aren't aware that currently (no pun intended) electric car batteries are very heavy and they cause the tires to wear out twice as fast. And who knows how hard they are on the wear of the roads. One of our clients is a "smart home" designer. In researching the field I'm learning that most cars right now sit unused 90% of the time. Many high-end home owners (in sunny states like TX and FL) are using solar to collect power and storing it in batteries in their garages for use "on demand" or selling it back to the grid. Electric car batteries can power most things in our homes in the event of an outage.
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Another thing people aren't considering is that electric vehicles are not environmentally friendly and they use child labor to get the toxic materials for the batteries. Not to mention the electric grid in the USA needs major upgrading if they expect everyone to be charging their cars. Plus life span of said batteries and cost to either replace battery or just buy another car means more waste. Ironic they had some festival i think it was last weekend where they had an EV charging station which was being powered by diesel. Lol. This is like the CFL light bulbs that are filled with toxic mercury. Not really saving the planet but most people don't care as long as they feel good about thinking they are doing something.
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Just a thought on gas powered vs. electric vehicles: the latter are still in the testing stage, and there have been problems, just as there were and still are with gas powered vehicles.

But one aspect which I haven't seen addressed in the hullabaloo over EVs is how everyone below certain income thresholds are going to be to afford these w/o going into great debt.

I couldn't possibly afford one; I don't even buy new cars; I can only afford used ones. An EV is and would still be entirely out of my reach, for the rest of my life, UNLESS the prices came down drastically, as in by tens of thousands of dollars.

I've been thinking about moving to the country and getting a horse with a small pull behind trailer instead.
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BTW: I do not expect him to age out. My comment about looking at this as an 8 year commitment was more about me looking at my health and being able to commit to being here for him. As doctors warned me my years of focused goal oriented living in spite of how much congestion I mained in my lungs (mostly from working in smoke filled offices until my 40s) has caused some right side heart failure. I'm recovering from a serious spell that devoped while I cared for my Mom during the covid scare. I'm doing well and probably have a good 20 years left; unless I do something stupid like I did in the last months I was taking care of Mom. I developed lung congestion normally associated with spring/fall and couldn't understand why I had ongoing problems or why it wouldn't clear, not realizing until after Mom died and I finally went to the doctor the congestion was fluid collecting in my lungs! I almost died of stupidity. I will be around for the kid as long as the Lord allows and I just pray it will be enough.
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Real, I skated in my younger years but now my arthritis bothers so much I afraid if I fell I wouldn't be able to walk for weeks! I skate a little in the basement and under the basketball goal to encourage the youngins but otherwise my skating days are behind me.

I do remain one of the few adults that will take the kids skating for an entire 3-4 hour session. I even took the kids to an overnight skate when the oldest (at the time) was 13. We have a good skate ring but I knew there would be older and more people so the deal was I go and stay if you want to attend. Unless I'm taking the "littles" (kids under 12) I usually just do drop off and pick up these days.
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TN, I always said my nephews had hollow legs, the amount of food they could consume was impressive. Watermelon is such a great snack. What a great way to reaffirm that his needs are important. It's the small things that make great impressions.

Skating is a great way to get exercise and build stamina. Did you skate? :-) I love to and am happy we have a rink in my city.

It sounds like you are on a wonderful journey and having a great time with your son. Cuz ya know, you are going to be his mom forever, that's what a loving, secure base does for these youngsters that have lost everything and were blessed enough to find someone like you and your family to be their new family. They don't age out when a relationship has been created.

God bless you for what you are giving him.
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TNtechie: What a wonderful opportunity you have given this foster son! Hats off to you!
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