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flyinglove @flyinglove (167) • United States 31 May 09

there are millions of patterns for knitted socks, i know. however, i am a very inexperienced knitter and a very, very experienced crocheter (about 20 years of crocheting). i have purchased a crocheted sock book and a few...

crochet

socks

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Rhoadan Interesting. I just did a search on "crochet socks" Ravelry, and got 25 pages. Also, are you aware that you can tell Ravelry to just search crochet patterns? Under the search box where it says "Personalize," you can tell it to search "knit + crochet,"...

3 Jul 09

buchi_bulla @Buchi_bulla (8298) • India 31 Mar 08

Last Monday a surgery for spaying (fixing i.e. removing the uterus) was done on my Cat Papa. She cannot have children. I thought it is good for her health. But a guilty consciousness is creeping over me, as to whether I have done...

whether right or wrong

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Rhoadan Female cats don't usually spray anyway. That's mostly a male thing. What they will do is become escape artists as they search for mates and/or get really noisy.

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saundyl @saundyl (9783) • Canada 27 Mar 08

I'm currently working on losing weight..Being slightly successful at the moment but i seem to fall off the wagon and end up going and eating a bunch of chips or just total junk food for a few days. Some things ive been trying...

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Rhoadan Not sure how to describe the taste of seaweed, but you can find it at a) Asian groceries, and b) health food stores. I think hijiki is the kind that is usually added to salads. Nori is sold in flat sheets for making sushi, but can be toasted and eaten straight...

29 Mar 08

angeljenn @angeljenn (894) • Zaragoza, Spain 9 Mar 08

Personally, i do believe in Creation...i've read the entire BIBLE, and i've known that, in the beginning, GOD created the heaven, Earth, and humans...and basically, there were proofs that have been proven that Creation really...

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Rhoadan amitaliasb2: I believe you are engaging a fallacy of large numbers. Look at this way, the odds of winning the Powerball jackpot is 1 in 146,107,962 for a single set of numbers. If 150 million people play, the odds of SOMEBODY winning is approaches 1 in 1....

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angeljenn @angeljenn (894) • Zaragoza, Spain 9 Mar 08

Personally, i do believe in Creation...i've read the entire BIBLE, and i've known that, in the beginning, GOD created the heaven, Earth, and humans...and basically, there were proofs that have been proven that Creation really...

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Rhoadan Using the Bible as evidence of Biblical creation is what's known as "begging the question" (http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/begging-the-question.html), a logical fallacy that involves assuming the conclusion in the premise. That's why scientists don't...

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angeljenn @angeljenn (894) • Zaragoza, Spain 9 Mar 08

Personally, i do believe in Creation...i've read the entire BIBLE, and i've known that, in the beginning, GOD created the heaven, Earth, and humans...and basically, there were proofs that have been proven that Creation really...

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Rhoadan Oh please, not the "If we came from monkeys why are there still monkeys?" canard. The answer to that is that we are not descended from anything like modern monkeys. Instead, monkeys and humans are descended from a common ancestor that might be described as a...

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angeljenn @angeljenn (894) • Zaragoza, Spain 9 Mar 08

Personally, i do believe in Creation...i've read the entire BIBLE, and i've known that, in the beginning, GOD created the heaven, Earth, and humans...and basically, there were proofs that have been proven that Creation really...

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Rhoadan Uhh.. I think you're conflating the layperson's use of the word "theory" with the scientific usage. See, when one is trying to understand the available data, one first comes up with a hypothesis. The hypothesis not only has to explain the existing data, it...

21 Mar 08

CatsandDogs @CatsandDogs (13963) • United States 20 Mar 08

He put me on Crestor and it seems to be helping but I'm in need of some help from my friends. I don't know what I should and should not be eating. I'm not good at nutrition and such and need some help. I just never learned this...

cholesterol and nutrition

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Rhoadan Cholesterol is found in animal products, period, both good and bad. You won't find cholesterol in plant products at all. Now, even if you cut all cholesterol out of your diet, your body will make it because you need it for fat transport, but the overall...

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lorren192 @lorren192 (90) 14 Mar 08

Oh no.. I have been told that I will need to wear glasses for reading... My question to all my lotters is would you suggest I get glasses, or contact lenses,I would like to go for contact lenses because then no one would know...

contact lenses

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Rhoadan Hmm, you've got a point about dust and smoke although there's one smoky environment where contacts might be preferable. Firefighters need a good seal on their breathing masks, and you're not going to get that with glasses.

20 Mar 08

Marie Anne @Ldyjarhead (10233) • United States 2 Mar 08

Most of us have seen the commercials about the guy creating the soups and the idea comes to him to use sea salt. Do you use sea salt? Would you? Do you know if there really is a health benefit over regular table salt? Does it...

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Rhoadan Oh, I forgot to mention that rock salt is simply large crystals of salt, as opposed to tiny granules like you get with table salt or the flakes that you get with kosher salt (technically that's koshering salt, i.e. salt for koshering meat; basic table salt is...

18 Mar 08

Marie Anne @Ldyjarhead (10233) • United States 2 Mar 08

Most of us have seen the commercials about the guy creating the soups and the idea comes to him to use sea salt. Do you use sea salt? Would you? Do you know if there really is a health benefit over regular table salt? Does it...

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Rhoadan Actually, most sea salt apparently doesn't have significant iodine it although you'd think it would. It does contain other minerals that aren't as prone to sublimation. My reading indicates that while sea salt may taste different from table salt, you can't...

18 Mar 08

webeishere @webeishere (36313) • United States 12 Mar 08

Ever since I can recall I was a salt fiend putting tons on my food to flavor it. Now since my dad was diagnosed with congestive heart failure I have had to reduce his intake of sodium (salt) severely. I still use salt for me not...

alternative

congestive heart failure

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Rhoadan It probably is stress. BTW, salt really doesn't have much impact on most people's blood pressure. It's something like 20% of the population that has to worry about it.

18 Mar 08

TerryZ @TerryZ (22076) • United States 17 Mar 08

For lunch I had one of those instant dry packets of soup. Well it tasted like it had alot of salt in it so I put alot of crackers in it. Like that would help!LOL So now I cant get enough of water to drink. I should have just eaten...

soup

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Rhoadan "why IVs are at a specific salt concentration." Preview is your friend.

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Pigglies @Pigglies (9329) • United States 16 Feb 08

Would you recommend contact lenses? For a long time I wore glasses. I never was able to get the right prescription. Then later I found out that what I needed was a tint to my glasses and that really helped. Now tinted contacts...

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Rhoadan Someone needs to point out to that professor that wearing vision correction isn't a matter of manners, it's a matter of health and capability. Can you talk to him about that? Also is there someone you can file a complaint with. There should be an office that...

16 Mar 08

Rhoadan @Rhoadan (42) • United States 26 Jan 08

I've noticed that you comment on someone's initial post, and you can reply to a comment on the initial post, but you can't reply to a comment on a comment. Other services, like LiveJournal, do allow comments on comments. I'd like...

features comments

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Rhoadan And it appears that the posting software won't let me add indents to the beginning of lines. Everything after the letters "OP" was supposed to be indented to reflect the comment level. A way to turn off auto-formatting would be nice too. CompuServe used to...

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Rhoadan @Rhoadan (42) • United States 26 Jan 08

I've noticed that you comment on someone's initial post, and you can reply to a comment on the initial post, but you can't reply to a comment on a comment. Other services, like LiveJournal, do allow comments on comments. I'd like...

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Rhoadan Actually, this does rather make my point for me. If you look at the comment tree, your second comment is a reply to your first comment, not my comment. FTM, this comment is a reply to your first comment, not your second one even though that's the one I want to...

26 Jan 08

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egr134 @egr134 (192) • Argentina 26 Jan 08

What do you think about it? Does the history of the world make sense about that? I mean, species are supposed to adapt to their environment but all the animals are adapted to their environment now. Could it be real that this has...

science

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Rhoadan I wouldn't consider the physical limitation on the size of an infant's head to be a limitation of evolution; it's a selective pressure. You'd be surprised at how often evolution comes up with novel solutions to problems. As it is, infant heads are somewhat...

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Rhoadan @Rhoadan (42) • United States 26 Jan 08

I've noticed that you comment on someone's initial post, and you can reply to a comment on the initial post, but you can't reply to a comment on a comment. Other services, like LiveJournal, do allow comments on comments. I'd like...

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Rhoadan How carefully did you read the OP? I've noticed that you can comment on a top-level comment like the one I'm replying to, but if there's a way get more than two levels of comments on a post, I'm not seeing it. That's what I want, a way to get three or more...

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cher913 @cher913 (25782) • Canada 23 Jan 08

my hubby can be done a plate of food while i am still eating/chewing my second or third bite...now my daughter has picked up this habit. i remind them that they need to chew each bite at least 20 time and that its not healthy to...

eating

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Rhoadan You could put chopsticks on the table instead of forks. This will require you to pre-cut food, but using chopsticks will force someone who's not accustomed to them to slow down.

25 Jan 08

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