Category: Just A Thought
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How to Host A Carnival
Several posts are flying around my head but the most urgent is based on a comment in this week’s Carnival of Family Life by next week’s hostess Little Mummy– she’s understandably nervous at hosting her first carnival. Hosting is fun and easy (we all write don’t we?) but takes a lot of time. If you…
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Ethanol in Gas
My environmental posts come from a lot of research into scientific papers. This doesn’t. (I’ll research it later, but if anyone has a clue, I’d love to know about it.)  I’ve been driving in NYC lately. This doesn’t usually give me blinding headaches. NYC has had ethanol in it’s gas for a long time but now…
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Physics and the School Play
Taking Pictures at School I attended a school play a few days ago to take pictures for a friend. Conditions were perfect. I’d gotten there early enough to get a slightly off-center shot of the stage, far enough back to get everything in my wide screen shots and close enough to zoom. The stage was…
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Telemarketers, Scammers or Political Operatives?
Since March hordes of people have been getting calls recorded in Spanish on their cell phones. Those that played along were either told that they reached a wrong number or that they’d won a contest. One caller reportedly was able to keep an operator on the line for 20 minutes feeding her phony credit card numbers…
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Mad Cow Disease Safeguards
I can not tell you how pleased I am that in 2003 the FDA was able to find the one cow in the US with Mad Cow disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)). (Actually they found all three, but who’s counting?) I am only a tad nervous that our friends to the north have recently found…
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Protect Your Child From A Shooting – Read
This week started with a trio of tragedies: floods, the massacre in Virginia, and the death of a local senior on a charity trip to Ghana. The following are my thoughts on how to protect your child. There are some things in life you cannot protect your child against – airplane parts falling on your…
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Poisonous Plant Picture Gallery
Spring is in the air (sort-of – it’s still very cold here) and I’m looking for new disasters to discuss. In my travels I found this lovely Rutgers site  showing the poisonous/harmful plants in New Jersey. Thank goodness it is Mother’s Day and and not Sister’s Day coming up or I could see every cub scout…
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The Sweets of Spring
Spring is a time for growth and reflection on our hopes for the future. There are many signs of this. More4Kids gives a list of things to teach our kids in preparation for Earth Day. Scribbit is sponsoring a growth carnival. I attended a Seder, the Jewish meal that commemorates God’s role in freeing the…
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Fox on Steriods
Fox Viewers Agree – Just Like Anyone Brainwashed Recently I’ve read a number of articles on the consistent alignment of Fox viewers in polls. Basically the polls say that Fox viewers are more likely to support a conservative agenda than any other demographic group. This is backed up by at least one study shows that…
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NetFlicks Prize Contest – One Million Dollars Just Waiting
a plan. My husband comes up with a plan. I should win the one million dollar Netflix contest to develop a better way for Netflix to recommend movies. No problem.