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Lamb Chopped
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Has anyone here ever heard of a condition where someone just can't bear having things on their head because of pain? Mr. Lamb just went in for a hearing aid consult and we are running up against the everlasting lifelong problem--he can't wear a hat or glasses or a neck-ID-chain or now, apparently, the lightest of hearing aids, because inside of one minute they give him a headache. Which explains how the man manages to lose ten pair of glasses inside a year.
He's been this way from childhood, and certainly as long as I've known him. I think the only thing I've ever seen on his head in any weather is possibly a hoodie--and that's a bit doubtful, I'm not sure he keeps THOSE on for long either.
It's a major problem as he's not able to use the helps you need for deafness or bad vision. And I don't think he's snowing me about the pain--he's been anti-hat etc. forever.
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My godmother (widowed, living alone near London, adult children but not living anywhere nearby) was recently killed in a road accident. The police, or authorities anyway, managed to notify her children quite quickly. Does anyone know how they know that there are people to contact, and where to get hold of them? I don't think she had one of those emergency bracelets: I suppose she might have had some addresses on her, or of course numbers on her 'phone.
I asked my Police friend. If there's no ID, the first thing they do is contact the Missing Persons Bureau. This may take a few days as it could take a while for someone missing to be reported. If there's no success there, then they have to resort to fingerprints and/or dental records.
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L'organist
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Lamb Chopped
Have you tried hypnotism? I only ask because a family friend who used to hyperventilate and then pass out when wearing any sort of strap or safety harness went to a hypnotist when it became clear they couldn't be in cars, even as a passenger, without wearing a seatbelt. It took about a dozen sessions but they got to the stage where it was possible to go for very short journeys (c5 minutes) and has since built up to being able to go from London to Norwich - c2½ hours.
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Has anyone here ever heard of a condition where someone just can't bear having things on their head because of pain?
A friend's son has something like this. I've never asked her for medical details, she always describes it as a "sensitivity disorder."
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Originally posted by Adam.:
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Originally posted by Lamb Chopped:
Has anyone here ever heard of a condition where someone just can't bear having things on their head because of pain?
A friend's son has something like this. I've never asked her for medical details, she always describes it as a "sensitivity disorder."
A friend posted a link to this article yesterday. It's a mother writing about her child, and a very severe case indeed, but she describes some similar symptoms and names them as 'sensory processing difficulties'. Someone else in the comments below speaks about 'Sensory Processing Disorder'. I don't know if any of it will ring a bell with you.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by Spike:
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Originally posted by Albertus:
My godmother (widowed, living alone near London, adult children but not living anywhere nearby) was recently killed in a road accident. The police, or authorities anyway, managed to notify her children quite quickly. Does anyone know how they know that there are people to contact, and where to get hold of them? I don't think she had one of those emergency bracelets: I suppose she might have had some addresses on her, or of course numbers on her 'phone.
I asked my Police friend. If there's no ID, the first thing they do is contact the Missing Persons Bureau. This may take a few days as it could take a while for someone missing to be reported. If there's no success there, then they have to resort to fingerprints and/or dental records.
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Lamb Chopped
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I don't think it's sensory processing disorder, as it's very narrowly confined (head and neck only) and he shows no other signs of any sensory issues. I'm kind of wondering about some of the nerves that serve the neck and head. (And wondering what I'm going to do if it turns out that nothing helps and he simply chooses to go ungracefully blind/deaf rather than put up with constant headache, leaving me to cope with his lack of interface with the world, including me).
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LC--
Re Mr. Lamb losing lots of glasses each year:
If you're having to pay for them, you might check out some of the online optical stores. I get mine from Zenni Optical. Prices are as low as $6.95. They've worked well for me. (I occasionally lose them, too.)
FWIW, YMMV.
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Originally posted by Albertus:
My godmother (widowed, living alone near London, adult children but not living anywhere nearby) was recently killed in a road accident. The police, or authorities anyway, managed to notify her children quite quickly. Does anyone know how they know that there are people to contact, and where to get hold of them? I don't think she had one of those emergency bracelets: I suppose she might have had some addresses on her, or of course numbers on her 'phone.
In case of emergency information. There's some minor programs to get people to put the information on their cell phones under ICE. It's a second thing to do after putting the information in your wallet.
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I am lucky that I rarely have to see the doctor but this morning I had to go to the hospital. The letter inviting me said I would be seeing 'Dr. Bloggs'.
When I went in, she introduced herself as a consultant. Is this a new thing? Since when have consultants been called 'Dr'? I thought when you became a consultant you became much too grand to be 'Dr' and reverted back to 'Mr', 'Mrs' etc? Certainly last time I saw a consultant, she was 'Mrs'.
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I thought it was surgeons who were Mr/Mrs/Ms. So a non-surgical consultant would still be Dr. But as the only consultants I know are friends that I call by their first names, I'm not an authority!
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Ah, Scots Lass, I think you're right!
Thanks.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Yes, only surgeons (ie those who pass their surgical exams after qualifying, not just a doctor performing surgery) are addressed as Mr/Ms etc as a courtesy. I believe that this tradition dates back to the medieval period when we had barber-surgeons who performed surgery and who were not doctors. A consultant physician would use Doctor.
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Lamb Chopped
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I'm pretty sure that historically at least the two titles (Mr vs Dr) were the other way around in terms of "grandeur." Dr meant you'd been trained in medicine, possibly at a university, or at least through a kind of apprenticeship. Surgeons, who were basically barbers with a bloodletting sideline, did not get that courtesy.
Of course now every surgeon has the training which would allow him/her to choose as s/he pleases between the forms of address.
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whilst on a long-ish drive recently (down the M74 and M6) I noticed that all the wind turbines we drove past were turning in a clockwise direction (when viewed head on).
Is there a reason for choosing clockwise?
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I always assumed they turned the way the wind blew as they are wind powered. So maybe they were all blowing clockwise because the wind was blowing them that way?
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Wet Kipper
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no, they are able to spin round to catch the correct direction of the wind so they are always getting it "face on", and the shape of the blades will then dictate that they spin clockwise
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Is there anyone that can help me with finding a microfiche copy of a UK newspaper from the late 1970s?
The online UK national newspaper archive for this period is under embargo due to removal and digitization, and it looks like my best hope might be a friendly Shipmate at a good university library or similar in the UK.
This is a one-off request and would involve looking at a couple of dates only.
Alternative suggestions welcome, or if you can help, please PM me.
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Mili
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You learn something new every day :)And makes total sense when you think about it. Maybe they just chose clockwise as the default. I googled it and apparently they used to spin counter-clockwise until 1978 when a company changed the direction to be different from the competitors. Clockwise became more popular so now they are all made that way. I don't know if this is all true or not, but if they previously spun counter-clockwise it seems it is just personal preference, rather than any scientific reason.
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Hi! I'd like to take advantage of an Easter ham sale, but seeing as it's only my dad and me, I'd like to cut the half ham into ham steaks. Through the bone. Therein is the problem. Is there any implement of destruction for home use which will cut a bone-in ham into ham steaks?
(Unfortunately I can't ask the store meat cutter to do it since the ham is inexpensively priced because it is prepackaged and doesn't require the services of the meat counter staff. ![[Frown]](frown.gif) )
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Is this a leg joint? I think my response would be, rather than cut cross sections, to thinly slice off the bone. Or, if I wanted the meat in bigger bits, to bone the joint - keeping the bones for stock, of course.
Otherwise, a small hacksaw.
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Yes, you will find it easier to 'chunk' the ham into large bits. shove them into freezer bags and freeze them for future use. Each chunk can then be sliced into slices when you are ready to cook it. The bone should be saved separately, for soup. Trying to cut it is likely to be difficult, and lead to annoying sharp shards of bone.
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Originally posted by Eutychus:
Is there anyone that can help me with finding a microfiche copy of a UK newspaper from the late 1970s?
The online UK national newspaper archive for this period is under embargo due to removal and digitization, and it looks like my best hope might be a friendly Shipmate at a good university library or similar in the UK.
This is a one-off request and would involve looking at a couple of dates only.
Alternative suggestions welcome, or if you can help, please PM me.
Don't individual newspapers in the UK have their own morgues? Most here in the US do, usually on microfiche. Granted, you might have to go to the paper's HQ and hunt through the reels yourself.
Alternatively, locally-run papers will sometimes offload their old microfiche to the local public library to save newsstaff the bother of tending to people wanting access to their morgues.
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Porridge - a great many local newspapers are long vanished, and the only trace of their passing is the deposit copies in the National Libraries. There used to be a dedicated newspaper library at Colinton, but the British Library have been digitising the collection and relocating to The St Pancras site.* If it's a Welsh or Scottish paper, there maybe a copy in the respective NLs, but otherwise if the County Record Office doesn't have it, you're up against it.
*And there's a pretty low cap on how many microfiches you can order up in a day. And don't get me started on Reader Tickets. Bitter, moi?
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Yikes. That's dire.
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I realised this week that I am used to stations of the cross starting on the north side of the church and ending on the south, but it only occurred to me as I saw them going the other way. Is it just coincidence I've always seen them starting on the north side or is it more common to go one way or the other?
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Thanks, Firenze and Brenda. I bought the ham and am cutting it into chunks, no hack saw involved. Besides we had beef pot roast for Easter dinner, after all. Go figure.
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Originally posted by TurquoiseTastic:
Does anyone know what has happened to Susan Howatch? I am a big fan of her Starbridge books, but she does not seem to have written any novels since 2004 (after producing one every couple of years for the previous I-don't-know-how-many-years).
I believe she has effectively retired from writing - given that she is 72, this doesn't seem unreasonable. She is now enjoying spending more time with friends and family.
Some great writers are able to produce worthwhile books until they die.
For me Graham Greene, P.D. James and Iain Banks are in that category.
Some great writers just stop.
Len Deighton and Anthony Price spring to mind, and indeed Susan Howatch.
I can but be thankful for the joy they gave me.
Some writers produce a few good books, and go on producing and selling dozens more on the strength of those first books.
Alistair MacLean, Desmond Bagley and Tom Clancy are prime examples of writers who would have been wise (but not as rich) to stop after their first three or four books.
I sort of miss the anticipation of the next book by Deighton or Howatch, but probably it is good as it is.
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Wesley J
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This is about kitchen skills, and thus perhaps on the wrong thread? Does this go on the recipe one?
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I'm currently experimenting with 2 different types of frying pans, both antisticky coated, and both from the German manufacturer WMF that I want to compare. They're sturdy and fairly rugged, which is brilliant. One is aluminum, the other 'cromargan' - this appears to be a special kind of stainless steel.
Question now: Subjectively, I haven't found any big difference between the 2 types of frying pans. Does the educated gourmet chef notice a difference? Are they both for different kinds of food, and/or temperatures?
(Note: And what about 'sticky', non-coated e.g. stainless steel frying pans? - Honestly, I'm still suffering from the childhood kitchen trauma of being barely able to clean these old, sticky ones...! I've got other, non-coated cromargan pots, but not for frying, and those work very well indeed.)
Thank you for your kitchen-educational hints. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Can't speak about the WMF cutlery.
As for traditional (in other words, NOT non-stick coated) frying pans, IME the reasons for things getting stuck are various: using the wrong type of oil (something with a high smoking point like rapeseed oil is perfect); excessive fiddling with meat and fish (you need to let the bottom of the foodstuff cook before attempting to move); putting food with a high moisture content into a pan that is too cool.
My preferred pans are steel skillets I bought in France years ago which are never washed, just wiped out with warm oil. I keep the omelette pan separate, but the rest are general, all-purpose and are now nearing 40 years old.
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Wesley J
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Are those the really heavy ones? ETA: But not cast-iron? I don't think I could manage those!
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I have three different-size cast-iron skillets which have been in continuous use by various generations of cooks in my family since about 1870.
Having been perfectly "seasoned" by someone (likely my great-great-grandmother) long ago, nothing which has been correctly cooked in them (see L'organist's post) ever sticks to them. They just get wiped out and oiled. Only the largest (for cooking red flannel hash in for a table-full of hired farm hands) ever gets too heavy to wield.
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We were discussing egg and ham pie, also known as gala pie, over tea - as you do, and wondered how the egg in the middle of the slice is the same diameter all the way though, and there is always a yolk to the egg. Can anyone tell me how gala pie is made? How is the egg put in?
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I had never thought about the eternal egg, but I looked it up and found this from the Guardian website, of all places:
In my less troubled maturity, I discovered that the infinite egg is a simple trick, particularly if you consider the sort of ingredients to which a craftsman pork butcher has access. A quantity of eggs are separated and the yolks loosely beaten together before being poured into a narrow gauge of sausage skin - perhaps the sort of casing used for chipolatas. After a few minutes in hot water the yolk "sausage" can be peeled and then carefully inserted into a larger skin along with the combined white, for a further poaching. Of course the creation of the authentic unappetising grey ring around the yolk is, and must ever remain, a trade secret.
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Thanks! Easy when you know how ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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A question brought about by me drinking coffee when I should not have drunk coffee - decent-tasting decaff coffee available in the UK? Instant if possible, and fairtrade/ethically sourced would be a bonus. I like a strong roast.
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Wesley J
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My favourite brand of decaff is Swiss La Semeuse, paradoxically enough - the country's not exactly known for its coffee, generally! However, from what I can see, there's no UK distributor ATM. Shipmate Smudgie (or someone she knew) once tried this coffee and was pleasantly surprised. It is full-bodied and rich, without being bitter.
US site: link.
Main site: link
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Wesley J
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Originally posted by Porridge:
I have three different-size cast-iron skillets which have been in continuous use by various generations of cooks in my family since about 1870. [...]
Thank you, everyone, for your skil(et)ful, carefully pan-ned out advice! This is really helpful (and sticks to my mind).
I now think my pan-cleaning trauma may've been due to wrong usage of non-coated pans by my forebears. Good to know more here. The weight issues I had with cast-iron could simply be because I haven't owned any for most of my adult life. (I'd still be afraid to bring it crashing down on a glass-ceramic coopktop, though...)
While thinking about my questions, I'm afraid I have to admit that I've finally checked Wiki, and lo and behold, there are a lot more insightful points in these articles. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
Still: do you notice a difference between a non-stick aluminium and a non-stick stainless steel pan?
Thank you again. I'm learning a lot on this thread!
Wesley J, Chef Non-Extraordinaire
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Albertus
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Originally posted by Pomona:
A question brought about by me drinking coffee when I should not have drunk coffee - decent-tasting decaff coffee available in the UK? Instant if possible, and fairtrade/ethically sourced would be a bonus. I like a strong roast.
Clipper coffees, which are fairtrade, are IME not bad, and have a certain amount of oomph (unlike Cafe Direct, which seems to be specially blended to go with melamine cups in church halls). Percol are also pretty good, and have a fairtrade range. Haven't tried either's decafs, though, as I never drink decaf by choice.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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How about Taylors of Harrogate ? I haven't tried their decaff but regularly drink some of their others as it is available in Waitrose. The have a mix of certificates, not all the coffees are certified fair trade but their ethical policy is good.
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Thanks!
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
How about Taylors of Harrogate ? I haven't tried their decaff but regularly drink some of their others as it is available in Waitrose. The have a mix of certificates, not all the coffees are certified fair trade but their ethical policy is good.
I drink Taylors' decaff regularly, it is really good.
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I've had their decaff (filter/cafetiere), and agree it's good.
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I've no idea whether it's good or not (not being a coffee drinker) but Oxfam sell decaff, fair-trade instant coffee.
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I know the POTUS can only serve two terms, in office. Is this the same for Senators and Congress people, Mayors and other elected politicians?
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Originally posted by Huia:
I know the POTUS can only serve two terms, in office. Is this the same for Senators and Congress people, Mayors and other elected politicians?
No, some people have served more than fifty years.
There is a move to set term limits; it's making some progress.
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Term limits are a double-edged sword, though.
Pro, it may help rid the legislative body of its more incompetent or tinfoil-hat members (though I have my doubts about this).
Con, learning the ropes of how to get things done legislatively takes considerable time, so you run the risk of sweeping experience & knowledge out with the tinfoil.
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There are no term limits for lobbyists. Term limits for legislators ensures that they will be less experienced in their roles than the lobbyists dealing with them, hence increase lobbyists' power.
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