gramie

u/gramie@lemmy.ca
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on Wix Alternatives · c/buycanadian · 3 pts · 3d

https://crocweb.com/ is a Canadian company (based in Cornwall, ON, datacentre in Montreal).

I have accounts with them for Drupal and WordPress hosting. They migrated everything over from the previous (American) hosting company with little fuss. I agree with other responses that these things are much more complex than a sitebuilder. CrocWeb has a sitebuilder (called SitePad) as well, but I haven't used it so I can't tell you how capable it is.

I have had excellent experience with their sales and technical support, and their prices are very reasonable (starting at just over USD $1/month).

My experience in the classroom last year was that the kids in grades 7-9 were terrible discipline problems (most likely due to COVID).

The younger ones are better behaved, but are learning far less than kids used to. Reading is a particular problem.

That expectation was never true for the whole Japanese economy (and referred to large corporations, not the small companies that did most of the work on contract), and is even less true now.

Those certainly were appalling and destructive events. But why give them some special status over other bombing raids like the March 9 fire bombing of Tokyo, which also killed over 100,000 people in one night? Dropping 1 bomb vs. dropping 1,600 tons of conventional bombs in 3 hours?

I'm just pointing out that there is no corroborating evidence. As for what the mother witnessed afterwards, we still only have the sister's book, not any direct statements.

Douglas may well have raped her, that would have been in keeping with the times and the power dynamics.

My recommendation is actually the opposite of what you are asking for. Language Transfer is a series of audio files where you hear a teacher speaking to a student in a kind of Socratic dialogue.

Everything is completely free. You can find it on YouTube, SoundCloud, download MP3s, or use the simple but very effective app. I have been supporting it with monthly donations for about 5 years.

There are courses for French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili, and for Spanish speakers wanting to learn English. British Sign Language and Japanese are coming. Some of these are introductory courses, others are more complete.

In addition to my native English,I have learned one language in school, and three more by immersion + lessons) self-study. I have to say that Language Transfer is the best system I have ever used.

The emphasis is on internalizing, and developing strategies for retrieving information in your brain, rather than wrote memorization. I found that I retained knowledge much better, and it has lasted longer.

on *Permanently Deleted* · c/asklemmy · 6 pts · 17d

I was married already when I met my now wife. My first wife lived overseas and we hadn't been together for about 8 years.

Our two children lived with me, but we didn't have a separation or legal custody agreement. Doing all of that internationally, getting all the documents professionally translated, court dates, etc. was extremely challenging.

So we waited several years until both kids were legally adults and we just had to deal with the divorce (which itself took almost 3 years) before making things official.

That said, my case is much less typical than a guy just lying about his domestic circumstances.

Vehicles are much more complicated than alcohol, though. There are assembly plants and parts suppliers on both sides of the border, and there is a transfer back and forth about six times in the production of a single vehicle. There is no way that Canada could simply ban American vehicles without jeopardizing our parts manufacturers as well.

I'm not going to criticize her for what her grandparents did either, but the accident of birth is why she is where she is. Her father made a sizable investment (hundreds of thousands of dollars) in the record label she signed with, and the family moved down to Nashville to start her career.

Not something I could have done for my kids, and there is apparently no evidence to substantiate the rumor that her father bought tens of thousands of copies of her first record to make it a success.

My mistake was only watching the final game live. Turned out to be a real snoozefest, with very, very few even mildly exciting moments.

How bad was it? Spain had 12 shots on net. Argentina had 0. Zero.

I think that any other game in the tournament would have been better to watch.

I slipped on ice this winter, and hurt my knee. I thought it was going to get better, but it didn't, so the next day I went to the emergency room. This is in Quebec, the province with one of the highest waiting times in Canada.

I saw the triage nurse within 5 minutes, had an x-ray 30 minutes after that, and the doctor came to see me 30 minutes after that. I total of 90 minutes after arriving, I was walking out the door with a (free) leg brace and a diagnosis that the knee was only strained.

I didn't even have to pay for parking, because my small local hospital doesn't charge.

Okay, this was an unusual case because the weather was pretty bad so a lot of people who would have gone to the hospital didn't. The normal wait time would probably have been about 4 hours. I like our rural healthcare!

Anyone care to guess how much I would have owed had this been in the States somewhere?

on Selling shovels · c/linkedinlunatics · 1 pts · 25d

As noted grammarian Dave Barry notably said, the purpose of an apostrophe is to alert the reader: "look out, an 's' is coming!"