The interwebs are your friend. Your mileage mar vary widely by state, but you should be able to find the School Accountability Report Card (SARC) for each individual school in each school district in which you are interested. In California, these are incredibly detailed and, by law, must be online. They will tell you a whole lot about the population of each school including ethnicity, language, academic performance, even physical fitness performance, etc. It will also tell you about educational status of the teachers, how current the textbooks are, physical maintenance of the buildings, and a whole lot more. If that doesn't give you what you need, contact the individual school district or the county Superintendent of Schools office. It's all public information.
Dear Coward, you are quite wrong. You have obviously never actually been around or in a car with gull-wing doors. It's all about where the hinge line is. You would be correct if the hinge line was located where the top of a conventional door is. However, that is never the case. The hinge line is far inboard toward the center of the roof. Thus when the door is opened, the bottom of the door moves out very little. Gull-wing door are actually more practical than conventional doors for parking lot ingress and egress. The main problem is they are more costly than conventional doors.
The one number that gives you a quick read on an elementary school is the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced cost school meals. This number is readily available. While this is a socio-economic index, it is reliably inversely proportional to the amount of parental involvement you can expect to find in the school population; and parental involvement is one of the most important factors in elementary education. (Yes, my family is full of educators.) While there are obviously going to be exceptions to this, it is a good, quick measure of the school. If you have a choice of one school with 25% free and reduced and one with 85% free and reduced, pick the former. Far more of its kids will be going to college. Far fewer will have parents strung out on methamphetamine or what have you. Far fewer will have serious behavioral issues that disrupt education for everyone.
You can't do that with AT&T as a new subscriber any way that I can find. All their data plans require a 2 year commitment (i.e. contract) regardless of whether you get a phone subsidy or not. Presumably, once you come out the other end of that, you can bring your own iPhone to the party. I've done that with T-Mobile and my string of Blackberries. Another problem with AT&T here in the SF area is that there are so many iPhones that the network is saturated and just crawls.
I agree. It start with an intriguingly imagined world with interesting characters. Sadly it all gets lost in the middle, as if he couldn't really figure out what to do with them. He does have some good descriptive language skills, but I think this book suffers terribly from the lack of a good editor. Sometimes you see that in big name writers who think they are too hot to listen to an editor, but this guy doesn't have that status. Too bad; it could have been really good.
Some of us science geek/nerd types are actually biology/botany nerds. This is definitely in the "stuff that matters" category for us. Computers exist to do plant synecology simulations and model plant community migrations in geologic time.
"Okay, lets get this over with. Assume the position."
Not quite sure why this was modded Troll. The fact that Sony has promoted the guy in charge of the most recent (of many) customer-hosing screwups definitely says a lot about their attitude toward said customers. They ought to start shipping some lube with their products.
Sadly it is true that the old, mechanical Zeiss projectors are going away. The redo of the Morrison Planetarium in Golden Gate Park replaced theirs with an all digital projection unit. It's very cool though, but in a different way.
Almost all of the exoplanets detected seem to be close to their star with short orbital periods. Obviously these two go together. I know enough about these projects to know that there are a variety of methods used to detect exoplanets, but not much more. Are all of these methods biased toward detecting rapidly moving planets more easily, or does it seem that there really are few planets at any greater distances from their primary? Intuitively, it seems that detecting something like Neptune would be harder than detecting what we have seen so far. Is there an expectation that more distantly orbiting planets will be found?
so, if a camera was placed on the street corner aimed at your front door, you'd have no problem with it?
Nah! I can hit it with a paintball or pellet gun easy. Or, pay the neighbor's kid to smash it with a hammer. Or, just wait two days for someone to steal it.
Same here. In addition to being user friendly, it was, in my opinion, rock solid stable. Mandrake is what got me using Linux not just playing with it. It was never right at the cutting edge; always one back from the latest release of KDE or Gnome or what have you. I stuck with it through the change to Mandriva and still use it on a couple of machines. I'll miss it if it folds.
Why is Iran doing this to itself? It's so needlessly self destructive.
Super simplified answer is, "They're Shia." It is essentially doctrine that everyone's out to get them. They don't trust anyone. Also, the country is run by religious zealots who truly believe that's it been all downhill since the Fatimid Caliphate in the 900s. The educated class is seen by the leadership as both traitors and heretics who must be rubbed out.
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Haven't talked to too many Pentacostalists then?
The interwebs are your friend. Your mileage mar vary widely by state, but you should be able to find the School Accountability Report Card (SARC) for each individual school in each school district in which you are interested. In California, these are incredibly detailed and, by law, must be online. They will tell you a whole lot about the population of each school including ethnicity, language, academic performance, even physical fitness performance, etc. It will also tell you about educational status of the teachers, how current the textbooks are, physical maintenance of the buildings, and a whole lot more. If that doesn't give you what you need, contact the individual school district or the county Superintendent of Schools office. It's all public information.
Dear Coward, you are quite wrong. You have obviously never actually been around or in a car with gull-wing doors. It's all about where the hinge line is. You would be correct if the hinge line was located where the top of a conventional door is. However, that is never the case. The hinge line is far inboard toward the center of the roof. Thus when the door is opened, the bottom of the door moves out very little. Gull-wing door are actually more practical than conventional doors for parking lot ingress and egress. The main problem is they are more costly than conventional doors.
Or just take two hits of this shit. You'll hear things on that album you've never heard before.
Um, it says "speaker"...
Yes, so it does. I still stand by my weasel comment though.
I vote for rabid weasels.
Yes, we all know he was engineer for Pink Floyd, but seriously, isn't his name most known for his own stuff? (Eye in the Sky, etc)
My thought was, "This guy has the same name as the Alan Parsons Project guy." Studio musicians on an album I might know. Engineers? Meh!
The one number that gives you a quick read on an elementary school is the percentage of students who qualify for free or reduced cost school meals. This number is readily available. While this is a socio-economic index, it is reliably inversely proportional to the amount of parental involvement you can expect to find in the school population; and parental involvement is one of the most important factors in elementary education. (Yes, my family is full of educators.) While there are obviously going to be exceptions to this, it is a good, quick measure of the school. If you have a choice of one school with 25% free and reduced and one with 85% free and reduced, pick the former. Far more of its kids will be going to college. Far fewer will have parents strung out on methamphetamine or what have you. Far fewer will have serious behavioral issues that disrupt education for everyone.
You can't do that with AT&T as a new subscriber any way that I can find. All their data plans require a 2 year commitment (i.e. contract) regardless of whether you get a phone subsidy or not. Presumably, once you come out the other end of that, you can bring your own iPhone to the party. I've done that with T-Mobile and my string of Blackberries. Another problem with AT&T here in the SF area is that there are so many iPhones that the network is saturated and just crawls.
I agree. It start with an intriguingly imagined world with interesting characters. Sadly it all gets lost in the middle, as if he couldn't really figure out what to do with them. He does have some good descriptive language skills, but I think this book suffers terribly from the lack of a good editor. Sometimes you see that in big name writers who think they are too hot to listen to an editor, but this guy doesn't have that status. Too bad; it could have been really good.
Last I checked, streaming doesn't contain ads. However, the newest releases can't be found there.
Neither can most of the older releases worth watching, sadly. Almost everything I search for turns up DVD only.
Some of us science geek/nerd types are actually biology/botany nerds. This is definitely in the "stuff that matters" category for us. Computers exist to do plant synecology simulations and model plant community migrations in geologic time.
"Okay, lets get this over with. Assume the position."
Not quite sure why this was modded Troll. The fact that Sony has promoted the guy in charge of the most recent (of many) customer-hosing screwups definitely says a lot about their attitude toward said customers. They ought to start shipping some lube with their products.
Techie shoe fetishists?
Yep, TSA alright.
Sadly it is true that the old, mechanical Zeiss projectors are going away. The redo of the Morrison Planetarium in Golden Gate Park replaced theirs with an all digital projection unit. It's very cool though, but in a different way.
Are you calculating with cubic or hexagonal close packing of the ping pong ball spheres? Max density is approximately pi/3*sqrt2 if I recall.
Can't they just burn it?
The following come to mind:
Plus it's sitting in the middle of a Marine Sanctuary.
Apparently the group has become self aware!
Nuke from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!
Once again I feel I have to point out. THAT DIDN'T WORK! So it is not a way to be sure.
Clearly not enough nukes were used. You have to turn the target area into a sheet of radioactive glass.
Almost all of the exoplanets detected seem to be close to their star with short orbital periods. Obviously these two go together. I know enough about these projects to know that there are a variety of methods used to detect exoplanets, but not much more. Are all of these methods biased toward detecting rapidly moving planets more easily, or does it seem that there really are few planets at any greater distances from their primary? Intuitively, it seems that detecting something like Neptune would be harder than detecting what we have seen so far. Is there an expectation that more distantly orbiting planets will be found?
so, if a camera was placed on the street corner aimed at your front door, you'd have no problem with it?
Nah! I can hit it with a paintball or pellet gun easy. Or, pay the neighbor's kid to smash it with a hammer. Or, just wait two days for someone to steal it.
Sadly, the image seems to be obscured by smoke from the smoldering server.
Same here. In addition to being user friendly, it was, in my opinion, rock solid stable. Mandrake is what got me using Linux not just playing with it. It was never right at the cutting edge; always one back from the latest release of KDE or Gnome or what have you. I stuck with it through the change to Mandriva and still use it on a couple of machines. I'll miss it if it folds.
Why is Iran doing this to itself? It's so needlessly self destructive.
Super simplified answer is, "They're Shia." It is essentially doctrine that everyone's out to get them. They don't trust anyone. Also, the country is run by religious zealots who truly believe that's it been all downhill since the Fatimid Caliphate in the 900s. The educated class is seen by the leadership as both traitors and heretics who must be rubbed out.