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I generally know what is in fridge and rarely open it for inspiration. Usually I have an idea what I want to make before I open door. Not the other way around.

How many miles is 10,000 steps ?

So when he hauls some "junk" home, it takes up space and you just hope he'll sell it off --eventually? Does he focus on certain types of items? Or he is assigned to a certain limited space at home?

Listen to each piano note drop, A life melts away, silent Quiver and now still. A long life composition dribbles away in blast. Raining in tears. --Apr. 13, 2024 My thoughts on today's attacks.

I think everyone is okay about cellphone use (or Apple watch) kid use outside of the classroom for parental communication. The big debate is kids have cellphone on them while sitting classroom which for some kids can be distraction from focused learning.

B.C. and Alberta govn'ts are ramping up training enough wildland firefighters plus checking/renegotiating the watersharing agreements so is appropriately balanced. Yes, we did get several snowfalls this winter. Not enough. The river that runs from Rocky Mountains, through heart of our city, is very low this spring. I can see pebbles on the river bed. under the cold river water. That's way too low. You usually see that in middle of summer, not early spring. Alberta really has major concern 'cause our population in last 12 months has grown with additional: 202,000+ people moving in from other provinces and internationally. Alberta's population surged by record-setting 202,000 people. Here's where they all came from | CBC News Experts warn B.C. needs to better track water use amid drought | CBC News

Last 6 days: 9 kms. of walking 46 kms. cycling On certain days, did short bike rides and then later, same day used transit, walked on uni campus to see/do stuff. Yea, sure I figured out a bike route which unfortunately is different from another easier route now blocked by major road construction to fix collapsing road section due to river water seeping underground. Am not still convinced is worth a bike ride via major fast-moving arterial roads and a long hill climb, with large art canvas boards and heavy wood easel case with paints, etc.

Who is that?

Set off for a bike ride to get onto a bike path section not cycled since Dec. Unfortunately completely blocked by major reconstruction of a section. So that kiboshed a 32 km. ride. Instead I rode 18 km. elsewhere. Have to replan this other destination by a different route another day later this month.

So interest by art rep. is for what art? Your photography or?

Deep fake porn photos among teens, if a teen did it, is all about exercising power AND exclusion of a person, by disrespecting them completely. Outcast and send them to the social margins but now, advertise it all across the Internet. An image that can't be removed easily. We are so desperate in our teens to be accepted, included in a circle of friends. Or who we thought was a friend. And here...we STILL want to be accepted by enough friends.

****So are all parents at home preventing their young children from not viewing photographic pornography ...on the Internet at home? I would consider that far more disconcerting...photographic images. None of that library book stuff is photographic. I believe that poster of yours is overstating for all of CAnada. Decisions are made by: each local school board for their school libraries. Each school librarian probably handles it differently... some may require the student to request book from librarian. So the librarian can keep strict tabs on use of the book. It is possible such books, also can only be viewed in the library. Understand girls menstruate as young as 11 yrs. old. (Gr. 5) I did. I had to be told though not accurately by mother what this means and can lead to at wrong time in life, with wrong guy. Yes, too much info. Too bad. That's reality.

It is the libraries. Not in-classroom study of books for a subject in elementary schools up to Gr. 8. For CAnada. Back to Romeo & Juliet. I studied that play in my English class in Gr. 9 (14 yrs old). We were taught that in Shakespeare's time, that's when people had kids, fell in love, blah, blah. Children SHOULD learn the mores/values of several centuries ago. Then there could be an interesting class discussion to compare with today. We cannot just know 1 society, 1 culture, 1 century of behaviour. MY GOD, I knew as 12 yr. child that baby girls were sold off or rarely, killed in China if a very poor family couldn't feed mouths. And I also knew that girls got married off against their will/ had babies as teens. This is from early 1900's backward for centuries in China. (Yes, we do have to thank the Communists for abolishing infanticide and selling off children. I do credit this 1 good thing of them.) **********So did you study Romeo & Juliet in high school several decades ago? Ask your daughters what they think of Romeo & Juliet/if they studied it as teens in high school. Back to cross-dressing and acting: Chinese opera has been around for centuries/dynasties. In Quin dynasty (1644-1912), the emperor was more conservative. It was deemed that female characters in all Chinese operas, had to be performed by male actors. So they did the falsetto singing, etc. So there is this Eastern cultural tradition --like Shakespearan times. Probably because women shouldn't be in travelling acting troupes all over the country to villages/cities and stay at home to become mothers/caregivers. Traditionally, all roles—female dàn roles included—were performed by men. This came about because the Qing imperial court prohibited women from performing on stage, seeing it as detrimental to public morality. As a result, it was men who originated the female roles, singing in falsetto and developing a characteristic quick-footed gait meant to imitate walking on bound feet. Of course, this gendering is no longer the case, but the most famous dàn performers of Peking opera are still Méi Lánfāng, Chéng Yànqiū, Shàng Xiǎoyún, and Xún Huìshēng—all men who specialised in playing female roles. Chinese Opera: A brief history of its culture and meanings | Localiiz The West has celebrated male altos in classical music canon...for centuries. Musical voice in drag. Here is famous living German alto in the baroque classical chorale world. Baroque music time period in Europe: 1600s to mid 1700s. Appreciate how he hits the notes.

I still say dame Edna had so much class and good behaviour . The actor was highly honoured in Aussie land. They are proud of him .. he died a few years ago. I forgot about Shakespeare. Since there is x- dressing in 1 of the plays.

But they will have their archaeologists-linguists to spend the next 50 yrs. figuring out our code. Or create a brand new legend about its discovery to pass on down to next 2 generations. Not sure why we even want to reach out to other alien species anyway. We should tend our own garden of screwed up relationships on Earth.

No. I do have a close local friend she used to join a bunch of gal friends (who had more money than she) where they flew somewhere in North America ..for a golfing vacation. When she told me this, it sounded so novel. Well, yes she has a set of her own irons. But guess it's no more novel, than shipping one's bike overseas for a multi-wk. bike trip.

More to add to space debris eventually. Engineers attempt to fix a computer glitch on Voyager 1 | CBC Radio In another few years, the RTGs on both Voyagers are expected to run down to the point where the spacecraft will no longer be able to communicate with Earth. They will just continue to drift in silence among the stars of the Milky Way for billions of years. However, there is one item on both Voyagers that will continue to function, the Golden Record, which carries a message from Earth to anyone out there who may find the spacecraft in the future.

It's the choice of the parent to bring a child or not at the public library. At least the adult could explain to the child when accompanying. We already saw the famous drag queen on TV from Australia...Dame Edna (her stage name). A lovely character on TV. I was a teen and my youngest sibling saw it she would have been under 10 yrs. old. We saw several series of the show and enjoyed it. Lots of people loved the show because it was funny and dignified in behaviour.

Locked boxes, rotary phones and app controls: Canadian parents try anything to curb kids’ phone use - The Globe and Mail The need to limit and delay smartphone use among kids, particularly when it comes to social media, has never been more clear, says Elia Abi-Jaoude, staff psychiatrist at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children. In a paper published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 2020, Dr. Abi-Jaoude and colleagues reviewed more than 60 studies on the relationship between young people’s use of smartphones and social media and mental health. Epidemiological studies have been fairly consistent in showing associations between these platforms and mental health struggles of all sorts, including anxiety and depression,” he says. Dr. Abi-Jaoude and his fellow authors recommended kids spend no more than two hours a day on digital devices. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Half of kids in Canada between the ages of seven and 11 own their own mobile device, while 87 per cent of kids ages 12 to 17 own one, according to Statistics Canada. James Smith’s eight-year-old daughter began asking for a phone when she was six, saying her friends had them. Instead, he recently bought her an Apple Watch. The watch allows Mr. Smith and his partner to keep tabs on their daughter’s whereabouts, and its Walkie-Talkie function means they can speak to her, says Mr. Smith, a social media specialist who lives in Vancouver.

Sounds like the least hassle solution for her to fly out to mother's bday.

Anyway, those recent grads, newly employed have much to adjust ahead. Reality will hit like a brick in about a decade or more, when they want to advance in their career but still stay within uni. I enjoyed chatting with them. 1 of them brought along her mother to exhibit viewing, who recently retired as a special education teacher.

Wonder how long it takes for an internal work order to be acted on there at said university. Might depend on requested service. Yea, shelving replacement is simply that....but one doesn't know if they have their own internal business procedures right for facility management. We did have to gently persist internally every few days and of course, ensure we used the online system with generated work order number and online approval of our manager for evidenced work order -- If it was non-emergency, meaning not an OHS hazard which would get reported separately as OHS incident in writing), it may take several days. That's ok since there was only a few staff for a building housing 2,000 staff across 12 floors. There are ranges of reasonable service response. In the end, the public has many avenues to scrutinize and criticize (rightly or wrongly) a municipality for its service/work, etc. 311, city council meetings, committee reports posted on website, freedom of info., etc. There is genuinely alot more transparency for the public..including govn't employees on front line in service delivery all over a city. But a university is mysterious to majority of public to understand some of its operations and services. It has mysterious buildings where there is teaching and mysterious research work ...to the public. The real (audit) lever....could be govn't that funds them, faculty and students who pay fees. But who listens to students --who themselves don't necessarily have real knowledge nor time to understand certain business operations and services --yet? We have to remember university heads of faculties or down the chain, aren't "business" oriented. They teach and research, instead of boring administrative/management stuff.

Where are u going?

Apparently some people have structured their portfolios so well. They only check weekly or monthly.

I can still see some parents defending their child if did harass in this way. As just a “joke”.