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[Figgy1]

 

[Figgy1]

@ajrwdwgirl , sorry to be the bearer of bad news:

Popular NYC-based ice cream chain Ample Hills files for bankruptcy

Popular Brooklyn-born ice cream chain Ample Hills Creamery has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a report said. Ample Hills, with 14 locations across the city, told The Real Deal that the filing was…

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[John park hopper]

@John park hopper Hope you are not in too much pain or discomfort today.

Just woke up-- much sorer today going to try not taking any of the oxy for pain really not one for taking pills
Thank you for asking as I posted the governor of SC all hospitals canceled elective surgery lucky I got it done --I'll let you know if I still feel lucky if the pain gets worse Ha Ha Thanks you for asking---- Stay virus safe

 

[Figgy1]

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I had the boys do the ceiling fans while I hid downstairs in the basement. Didn't help I still wound up sneezing

 

[John park hopper]

My son's knee replacement surgery has officially been cancelled. My son is so annoyed. It seems like forever he has been waiting for this. It seems he get's close to his date, and something always gets in the way. He is a mechanic by trade, but he needs to find a job. I do not know where he would be, if we had not been able to let him crash in our basement. No fun with your almost 50 year old son moving back home. It's putting a huge strain on our entire household.

Sorry to Hear about your sons canceled surgery

 

[Figgy1]

Just woke up-- much sorer today going to try not taking any of the oxy for pain really not one for taking pills
Thank you for asking as I posted the governor of SC all hospitals canceled elective surgery lucky I got it done --I'll let you know if I still feel lucky if the pain gets worse Ha Ha Thanks you for asking---- Stay virus safe

I'm sorry you're a bit too sore. My mil said the pain peaked and then went away rather quickly. I'm wishing the same for you. The quickly part I don't know if this will help but I made through labor with no meds by walking(not sure that will help you) and watching something enjoyable. Jammie and fun movie day is my suggestion

 

[Figgy1]

I love Jack.

X2

 

[John park hopper]

It's going to be a Disney channel day. Got to catch up on all the animated movies the granddaughters have watched. They ask me Poppa John did you watch XYZ and now I 'll be able too say sure did

 

[Figgy1]

My son's knee replacement surgery has officially been cancelled. My son is so annoyed. It seems like forever he has been waiting for this. It seems he get's close to his date, and something always gets in the way. He is a mechanic by trade, but he needs to find a job. I do not know where he would be, if we had not been able to let him crash in our basement. No fun with your almost 50 year old son moving back home. It's putting a huge strain on our entire household.

{{HUGS}}

 

[Figgy1]

For Jack

 

[Figgy1]

For @Mr Ferret 88 and @MinnieM123

 

[John park hopper]

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That looks so good

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Is "Warsh the car" something Goofy does ?

And every single person in Baltimore.

My dad tells my to go "Warsh the dishes in the zinc"

 

[Songbird76]

@Songbird76 This is making me crazy
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I'm sorry! Yesterday you were 16, though right? So you're moving up!! I have to buy them because my library doesn't have them. Their English section is not well-stocked. I have more books at home than the public library has in English. Granted, that's not surprising since this isn't an English-speaking country, but I've gotten used to just buying the books I want to read. I'd lend you my copy, but shipping alone would kind of cancel out the benefit of getting it from the library. Then you might as well just buy your own copy.

 

[Songbird76]

Heat will kill it, but it will only be that warm for two days. Our Thursday and Friday will be in the 70’s. Then it drops to high 40’s for Saturday.

It has to be 60 degrees CELSIUS to be hot enough to kill the virus. Your body temperature is already around 90F....if 70 could kill it, no one would be sick. So unfortunately, the sun is not going to kill it.

 

[Songbird76]

Ha laughed at this because that’s what I was thinking. I met with him briefly tonight to get some of the districts and my supplies back from him and I was more polite than I was feeling. But I think he got the point when I told him he needed come in any more even though we (teachers)are reporting to school next week.

I'm thinking it was just an excuse he latched onto. My mom was diagnosed with cancer halfway through my student teaching. I was taking her to appointments, taking care of her outside of school hours, and I only missed 2 days of my student teaching, which I had made up for by starting my student teaching early just in case I got sick. (That ended up backfiring BADLY. They had told us you only got 2 or 3 sick days, but most schools started up in January before University classes, so you could start early and have those days as a buffer. I did that, but because I was doing music, I had to do half at the elementary level and half at the secondary level. Because I started early, I had all those days at the secondary level, so I had fewer days total at the elementary level. My mom's diagnosis came the day of my concert for the end of my secondary level, so the 2 days I took off were at the elementary level. They told me I had to have the same number of days at the two levels, and since I had more days at secondary, I had to redo my student teaching. They weren't going to let me graduate because I did EXTRA student teaching. How logical is THAT?? My liason had to call the university and argue on my behalf to get them to agree that my taking initiative shouldn't count against me and I had gone above and beyond what was expected of me, at a very difficult time and under difficult circumstances. They finally relented) If I could get through that, I don't think worry about the coronavirus is a very valid excuse. Welcome to the world. Things will go wrong, things will happen. You aren't going to be a very effective teacher if you can't deal with stress and you shut down when something difficult comes up. So, does he effectively fail?

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

It has to be 60 degrees CELSIUS to be hot enough to kill the virus. Your body temperature is already around 90F....if 70 could kill it, no one would be sick. So unfortunately, the sun is not going to kill it.

This is some interesting information, although a hypothesis nonetheless.
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I think we all know that our bodies increase temperature when we are ill to combat viruses and bacteria that make us sick. We can get over illness quicker if we don’t take fever reducers when we have low grade fevers. I also read a study that taking ibuprofen actually increases longevity of the flu, and causes secondary issues like pneumonia. Acetaminophen is recommended for fevers during the flu b

 

[John park hopper]

It has to be 60 degrees CELSIUS to be hot enough to kill the virus. Your body temperature is already around 90F....if 70 could kill it, no one would be sick. So unfortunately, the sun is not going to kill it.

If that were the case wouldn't the flu virus also be killed as the flu virus seems to disappear in the warmer months. The mechanism of a virus once it is in your body injects its DNA or RNA into you cells and high jackets your cells replicating machinery and produces more and more virus and when there are so many viruses in that cell the cell explodes and those new viruses invade more cells and the process continues over whelming your immune system. Viruses lack the ability to reproduce on their own. They basically are packets of genetic material with a protein coat sunlight, temperature and humidity and disinfectants can destroy that protein coat when out in the open. Bacteria given a food source on the other hand can reproduce on their own they have all the machinery contained in the bacterial to do so. Sorry to run on and on----on my microbiology background got the best of me

 

[StarWarsGirl]

@Mr Ferret 88 A brief explanation of the Baltimore accent. No I don't talk this way. Sadly "Warsh" and "zinc" are not in this video.

 

[MySmallWorldof4]

I'm thinking it was just an excuse he latched onto. My mom was diagnosed with cancer halfway through my student teaching. I was taking her to appointments, taking care of her outside of school hours, and I only missed 2 days of my student teaching, which I had made up for by starting my student teaching early just in case I got sick. (That ended up backfiring BADLY. They had told us you only got 2 or 3 sick days, but most schools started up in January before University classes, so you could start early and have those days as a buffer. I did that, but because I was doing music, I had to do half at the elementary level and half at the secondary level. Because I started early, I had all those days at the secondary level, so I had fewer days total at the elementary level. My mom's diagnosis came the day of my concert for the end of my secondary level, so the 2 days I took off were at the elementary level. They told me I had to have the same number of days at the two levels, and since I had more days at secondary, I had to redo my student teaching. They weren't going to let me graduate because I did EXTRA student teaching. How logical is THAT?? My liason had to call the university and argue on my behalf to get them to agree that my taking initiative shouldn't count against me and I had gone above and beyond what was expected of me, at a very difficult time and under difficult circumstances. They finally relented) If I could get through that, I don't think worry about the coronavirus is a very valid excuse. Welcome to the world. Things will go wrong, things will happen. You aren't going to be a very effective teacher if you can't deal with stress and you shut down when something difficult comes up. So, does he effectively fail?

Very true. As an aside I have a friend who os a professor who actually teaches teachers to become teachers. This one class was for ESL teachers to be. They were supposed to do 4 days of in classroom observation as part of their grade. The class ends on Thursday, tomorrow. It is an online class. She got a text from a student saying that she couldn’t complete that assignment because the schools had closed. She also said she should pass her anyway because that assignment was only 20% of the grade. My friend was angry. She said she told them before the class began about this requirement for the class. This student was waiting literally for the last week of class to complete this assignment. She spoke to her supervisor who told her to have the student complete an alternative task.