Trouble Maker

Yup. Everyone I know who's gotten a red light ticket has said the same thing. They were 100% sure they went through a yellow light. Then they go and watch the video and it was 100% red when they went through it. Go look at the pictures/video before you start thinking about how to fight it. I think the red light cam thing is BS, but I'm sure this has already gone to the Ohio Supreme Court so you probably don't have any legal ground to stand on if you actually ran the red light.

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I do, but if someone eats a lot of HFSC, they probably just need to cut out the junk, processed food, sweets instead of just buying stuff with sugar instead of HFSC. Even if it's 'better' for you to eat sugar instead of HFSC, it's still not healthy. I'm not going to do it myself or suggest someone to do it either in the vein of eating healthier. The last part of my statement is still completely true and I don't need to watch any video to tell me that.

Probably not any if you just replace it with the same processed foods with sugar in it instead of HFCS. Key is to actually eat healthier (less processed foods, less sugar/HFCS).

It's not in food you make. One piece of advice I got was to stick to the 'outside' of the grocery store. All of the processed food is in the middle aisles. Sugar or HFCS or just processed food in general is not very good for you. I've been eating like shit for a while but am trying to go the healthier route again. I've done it before and I spent a lot of time looking at labels. My lifestyle, and probably most of everyone's here doesn't allow us to completely get away from processed foods. You can find processed food that doesn't have HFCS in it. Check out the 'organic' section. Most of that food uses sugar instead of HFCS. Not that it will be that much healthier for you, but if you are only trying to avoid HFCS it's one way to do it. The food itself I find to be 'better' also. You'll pay for it though. I like taking some tuna fish for part of my lunch. Instead of the crappy tuna fish in the cans I get some tilapia and cook it in a little olive oil in a pan. Add some (light w/sugar and not HFCS) mayo and relish and you've got a much healthier alternative to canned tuna (with lots of salt). The light mayo and relish are also lower in sodium usually. It taste much better too! I do up a pound at a time on the weekends and put it into small tupperware containers. It makes about enough for me and the g/f for the week (she will only take it 1-2 days a week). Probably could do healthier but that's the level of effort I'm willing to put into it, it's not that hard and it's much healthier than what I was eating. We've made our own granola bars and it was pretty easy. With probably less effort than you think you can cut out a lot of the crap and eat much better food (not just for you, but more enjoyable). It's much cheaper than the healthy/organic alternatives too, and probably at best cost as much as cheap alternatives which are much worse tasting and for you.

You have solutions for that where you work right? Sucks about getting robbed, I can't quite imagine how that feels.

Did you punch her in the face? Because it sounds like she could have used it.

I'm just going to assume that completely changes when it's a business of renting the vehicles to a customer and not just a private individual letting another private individual borrow their car. Let's just ignore regular vehicle insurance and you put it on the renter to have insurance. I would guess you would need some pretty good insurance as a business renting out those cars to people for liability reasons.

I didn't even think about that. Hopefully they have some cool commercials with both cars in it (old and new), playing off of that theme.

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What are you doing with your current notch?

I bet he meant to put $2,700....

I've not been following all of the changes and debate lately, but isn't a reduction in frivolous medical lawsuits one of the goals of this bill (in order to reduce cost and these situations you are talking about)?

Our landlord is an older couple that owns a few places. They travel relatively often and I believe they are out of town right now actually. They always put one of their sons in charge when they are out of town and we have their numbers also. I don't know if they need to do all of this, but it's nice.

But in this situation I agree with the first thing LJ said, she should just find a legit place and move. There is no reason a landlord, no matter how big or small, shouldn't have rental agreements. You can find blanket documents online. The laws and general workings are there to try to protect both sides.

I don't know the details, maybe LJ or someone else can chime in, but this is my understaindg. You can't just stop paying the rent. There are certain basics 'needs' that a landlord needs to provide by Ohio law. Things like clean water, livable conditions (i.e. water leaks, unsanitary conditions), heat. Things that without you wouldn't be able to live. If these things aren't taken care of and the landlord won't fix them you can hand your check over to the somewhere at the county and they will put it into an escrow. When the issues is resolved the landlord then gets their money. I'm sure LJ's link has the details.

I was talking to a friend the other day. Before I meet him he had back surgery for some broken/degenerative bones in his spine. He had three different insurance plans and it took him a year to get them to pay for his surgery. He has a friend how graduated recently and can't find a job. He will be losing his insurance soon. He has diabetes and will no longer be able to afford his medication. When he does find a job I'm sure his insurance will call it a pre-existing condition. http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t5/brendan13_photo/buckwheat/donnelly/39231d1176332568-funny-strange-rand.jpg Tell me the health care system doesn't need reformed because you are worried about your taxes going up a little or some [bigot]god damn illegal getting free health care[/bigot]. Only because you've been lucky enough to never need a little help. People shouldn't be dying in our country, supposedly the greatest country in the world, because they can't afford health care.

Let's be afraid of what's different and people with middle eastern looking names... shudder... more acts like the patriot act... seize all freedoms from the American people. Well lets be glad you aren't running the country then. It's not that it pisses me off, but it's short sighted and a horrible way to go about things. That isolationism and not they way that things need to be in a free society. It also would probably stop very little if any terrorist attacks. The terrorist would just find different ways of doing things. The easy finger to point right now, after this and Fort Hood, is at the lack of communication in the intelligence community. IMHO. The only way to attempt to stop terrorism is to 1) stop what's causing it and/or 2) systematic, targeted programs via the intelligence community to root out things like this while they are brewing before they happen. The important thing to realize is things like this will never stop because we are all human, we can only attempt to reduce the likelihood.

Like I said, maybe I'm wrong. Just seems young at first glance. Do you know of anywhere or anyone who works with children this age? I'm sure it could help with the right program. I don't think me starting to play at 10 held me back at all from doing everything that I possibly could in the field. Which wasn't much, but I think I developed as much as I possibly could. I could see it helping to stimulate overall learning development if done correctly. At 3 I was probably busy eating dirt and running in circles around my house. At 5 or 6 I was busying playing the woods. I don't believe in 'teaching' kids in a traditional sense at that age. At 3 I think they are best taught reading and language by being read to and they they are best taught music by hearing. But like I said, I'm no expert in the field and I don't have kids. What does teaching look like at 3 years old? I don't exactly know but I don't think it's piano 'lessons'. I should state that I'm imagining lessons in the traditional sense. Starting with basics, these are the notes, then moving onto timing, scales, etc. Your traditional teaching structure where you start with basics as we know them and build up. I would think something that would be productive for a 3 year old would have to be much different and purpose built with a ~3 year old in mind. I will go a little further and say I don't think you need to worry about having a 3 year old in piano lessons. Maybe that's a more appropriate, even if blunt way to state what I was trying to say before.

IDK, I'd say wait until she is a few years older. 3 seems really young, at least to someone without kids and not in any related field. Maybe there is someone or a program out there built around teaching kids this age. That's the only way I could imagine it working. Me and my brother and sister all played instruments. Me and my brother started in late elementary school. The school we were at started stringed instruments in 4th grade and winds in 5th. Sister might have started a little sooner, but not much. She played piano so it was private lessons, so they could have theoretically started her whenever. There is probably a reason that the school we were at waited until around that age (do schools still wait until then)? At 3, unless your kid is some savant I can't imagine 'lessons' being very productive.

Me and the misses bought ourselves a Wii and Wii Fit. Founde set from IKEA, nice cast iron powder coated stuff Very nice Makita circular saw and also got a finishing blade. I'm really looking forward to doing some wood working with it these plastic nesting stem ware glasses. Yeah, no more drinking wine out of paper cups while traveling! Another top base layer for winter. Can never have enough of these. Pineapple slicer (love fresh sliced pineapple). Julian cutter with interchangeable blades (should make prepping veggies a lot easier). C02 inflater and gloves for biking.

70 during the day and 65 at night. You can get a programable thermostat at home depot starting at $20 or so. I think I spent $30 or so on ours to get one that you can have different programing on each day to have a during the week and weekend setting. They are very simple to hook up. This one is more difficult to program than connect. Which is probably what you get for the more expensive ones (bigger display and easier to program because you get more info on screen and sometimes a touch screen). Jesus I would burn up at the temps some of you guys keep your places at. Having said that and to address what pdqgp said, it also really depends on how your thermostat reads too. Our old one was a mercury switch style one. It read about 2 degrees higher than this one, just based on keeping the same comfort level and the temps of our new one compared to our old one. Our place is not well insulated due to shitty windows, but our temps are not high. A/C temps were around 72 and 74 or 75 at night with the new thermostat, but that was only for a few weeks after we got it. It was probably a little low and I will reprogram it a degree or two higher when warm weather returns.

Did anyone ever notice that WNCI plays shitty music that no one with taste listens to? What are you, a 40 year old woman or tween? I can't imagine anyone else listening to it. CD101 is good. I do really need to get an aux port in my car now that I have an iphone. Pandora FTMFW. The speaker in it was loud enough to hear driving at 75-80 in my mom's car when we drove it back from Florida. But she has a 2007 or 8 RAV4. My 2001 Sunfire has a little more road noise and the built in speaker is not loud enough at high way speeds.