In Texas at least, technology teachers have an alternative certification route that allows for those with significant background to teach in classrooms without a BA. They do have to do weekend courses for a year for this certification, but it does allow for more qualified people to get involved with students in need. Before getting into it, please do remember that teaching a large group of people (most of whom don't want to be there) is much more challenging than teaching a group of 2 to 3.
It is fairly "easy" to pass off a variety of Egyptian currency as euros - while certainly something to be avoided, the 2 euro coin is very similar to an egyptian coin of... I think... 30 euro cents value. I am not quite sure why anyone would want to go about counterfeiting anything of such low value unless they wanted to get their coke machine cokes for 30 cents as opposed to 1-2 euro. Add on the cost of getting caught and thrown in prison on whatever the European equivalent of felony charges is and...
I can understand "insightful" or perhaps simply "overly obvious response" or even "overrated" or "underrated" - but "troll" just does not seem to fit this--he isn't asking for a response, he isn't even forming his statement in that line. He is simply offering a reasonable and expected response in a short way that does not involve spending hours looking up all the trivia nonsense the movie put together.
A poster below has noted that calling social services on the two moms might be in order. I would think forwarding their emails on to law enforcement would be a great idea... if only to determine if it is part of a marketing scheme done in extremely poor taste. I would hate to get an email at my work with this in it. Apart from feeling sick at the thought of someone doing this, the time, worry/concern spent should be handled by professionals trained for this situation rather than by me.
This is only true in certain settings - while I would agree that I have a good salary and am adequately benefited, the main issue for many teachers is not pay but class size. Teaching 35 students is possible, but it is far from the ideal situation. Part of the problem is found in unions who promote pay raises when we should instead see them promoting additional hirings.
Solid, consistent discipline in the beginning of a year usually causes significant ruffles but then as the year progresses, tensions ease and most students interact well. If your friend is willing to take significant heat for fair and consistent discipline at the beginning of a year, his problems should mitigate over time.
Average salaries are also something that should not be determined on a national level. In Texas, my 50,000 a year is reasonable and allows for comfortable living and trips for study in the summer. In Oklahoma, I would earn only 2/3 of this amount but be able to live roughly the same lifestyle. If I earned the same amount in New York City, I would have to get a second job and possibly be on government assistance (or have an hour and half each way commute).
The problem is, as a teacher, I frequently share my ideas with other teachers without expecting payment... or at least, not in money - my desire is to generate more ideas and sharing freely encourages others to do the same - the more ideas, the more good ideas (albeit more bad ones too). In terms of rights, the teachers are usually the rights-holders, but we are at the same time frequently required to hand in our planbook at the end of the year / tenure of employment.
There is frequently not a huge supply of graduates. Schools in my area offer bounties ranging from 5 to 10 thousand above the standard salary to "high needs" fields such as science, math, and foreign language. The main problem is not this, however, but increasingly low numbers of people willing to interact with students in a changing culture (which focuses less on discipline and responsibility and more on personal whims) and, to be honest, one that does not foster a high value for our education system. Funds are almost always tight and though the ideal setting for most classes is between 12 and 18 students, none of mine are even under 25 (most are in the 30s). For those who think that firing administrators is the way to go--they are not paid all that much more than classroom teachers, there are never that many on a campus, and they work far more hours than the pay increase is worth.
No, that is in keeping with my values. As a teacher, however, I often see my union lobbying the state legislature for changes to education policy that go directly against reasonable solutions, often focusing money on getting raises for teachers when the money would be better spent on having more teachers.
Further, in an age when multiculturalism has high value, the union often opposes efforts to enhance this in a positive way, and instead promotes efforts that only promote multiculturalism on the surface. Environmental efforts are likewise apparently driven by special interests rather than concern over reasonable resource management. It has also recently taken to pushing public issues that have nothing to do with education on its members and the public.
Thus, its lobbying policies and political affiliations are not to my liking. The only other union with similar insurance to which I can align myself (in my state at least) is effectively the same with only a different board of directors to distinguish it from the first.
Personally, I would have appealed this up--it is something that should have been thrown out on a technicality. The officer screwed up and you should not have to pay for this (though paying for the original ticket is reasonable).
Functionally, though, we need revisions of the various laws in place around unions and insurance. In my state, for my profession, if I do not join the union, I have no malpractice insurance. Since this also covers legal fees for when I would be found not guilty, I have no option but to join an organization that stands against most of my personal values.
Most of the features of fasterfox are found in about:config. There is no sense in installing an addon that will slow the browser down when the browser already has pipelining and prefetching (albeit disabled)
Since... you know, oceans dry up and become usable land ripe to be hit by meteorites on a daily basis. Just last week, I was reading how the Mediterranean used to be dry... though, I am thinking the Ice Age movie is probably a lousy source for current climate change events.
Even so, that the subpoena was not rescinded and that there was at least some discussion between lawyers indicates that the party in power is not the problem in itself. The government's general impression of late that it can do what it wants when it wants seems to transcend parties. What happened to the 10th amendment and all the other restrictions on the fed's power?
What bothers me about all of this is that even if he wants to limit google to just headlines and an intro paragraph, he can do this easily by putting the articles in different files than the headlines / summaries. He can then simply nest multiple pages together and block the folders the articles themselves reside in via robots.txt. He really could have precisely what he wants with minimal change to the form of the webpage and no need to deal with google at all--which, of course, brings the lie to it all.
This won't save on heating costs, which is what I thought was a major part of the issue for the Vermont town. A number of houses were built in Virginia with the system you envision (minus the plants) back in the 1700s. Without a powered blower, the heat loss / gain from the system is not sufficient to cool / warm the house. In the end, the home owners tended to seal the vents to avoid the "cold drafts" felt during winter.
Assuming we want to avoid any kind of problems with changing weather patterns (since we dont really know the implications of beaming massive amounts of power down), as long as we have an 18000 mile long cable, couldnt we just run the power back down the inside of the insulated elevator cable?
Aside from the parent being ridiculously offensive, has it ever bothered anyone else that the term refers to people from Niger and possibly Nigeria because of high influx from that region during the slave trading period and is for whatever reason used to refer to anyone with African heritage?
The tying of the marriage-partnership debate to discrimination is unfortunate and, as near as I can see it, inaccurate. Marriage has long been understood to be between man and woman. What the LGBT movement seeks to promote is an arbitrary change to a long standing cultural custom without regard for those within it, thinking only of an idealized version of it connected in perhaps only a small way to the traditional viewpoint. The other side of the coin seeks to oppose this, ignoring the innate value of all humans in favor of limitation. Regardless of my personal position on the "rightness" of one side or the other in terms of "homosexuality/heterosexuality," it would seem best to promote a situation where the dignity of people is affirmed while not stepping on the toes of tradition unecessarily. Redefining marriage (for this is what the LGBT movement promotes) is not necessary. Preventing people from doing as they will, while certainly within the religious sentiment of the situation, does not fit within the law and thus "partnerships" with any other name besides marriage will not affect the established tradition nor arbitrarily change it. Perhaps we could call the LGBT marriage equivalent fribishlit or some other word not already in common usage. Anger has mounted on both sides with unfortunate words said by both parties.
As I write this, I realize that there will be parts objected to by both sides. This is unfortunate. I also realize that cultural movements need not in themselves be bad. The common reference to racial discrimination should be avoided by both parties in order to promote a dignified solution rather than simply trying to piggy back on emotional responses from previous generations. It might be akin to mentioning Hitler in a forum post... wait... argh... on to the submit button.
The problem with this analogy is that LGBT couples already have the same rights in many states as any other couple. One of the principal hot button issues at the moment would appear to be a desire on the part of the LGBT couples to change this status so that it is not just legally equivalent but really equivalent (marriage vs. partnership in California et al). While many might oppose those who would restrict the LGBT couples to "partnerships," the "marriage = man+woman" crowd have a foot to stand in areas where traditional marriage is accepted alongside partnerships. Greater difficulty is met in areas where partnership is not found to be legit.
Given the composition of the "clay minerals" in my area, I'm going to have to agree with the gp here. Organics leave a lot of mess behind. My yard is composed primarily of limestone based clay--which has a significant amount of carbon whatnot in it
might I suggest... branching out? The best material I've read lately has been modeled after older styles (Name of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, etc. all tie in to older literary styles, not trying to hold the mold of "sword and sorcery" or even more broadly, "contemporary fantasy"). Charles Dickens seems a lot better than he used to... as does George MacDonald, et al.
There is, unfortunately, legal precedent against this recently in the implied right to privacy given to companies (beginning, after a quick google search with Santa
Clara Co v Southern Pacific Railroad in 1886).
Lithium batteries are recyclable almost completely. Lead-acid batteries have been recycled by law in the US for several years (decades?) with a fee if you try to avoid recycling them. The issue is not the impact of non-recycled lithium batteries but rather the impact of their initial production (which involves mining in Canada, shipment to China for processing, shipment to Japan for battery assembly, and then shipment to the US / Canada / Wherever for installation into the car / shipment to point of sale). This is based off of a Forbes article and a recent discussion with an engineering friend, so I may be off on some of the details.
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In Texas at least, technology teachers have an alternative certification route that allows for those with significant background to teach in classrooms without a BA. They do have to do weekend courses for a year for this certification, but it does allow for more qualified people to get involved with students in need. Before getting into it, please do remember that teaching a large group of people (most of whom don't want to be there) is much more challenging than teaching a group of 2 to 3.
It is fairly "easy" to pass off a variety of Egyptian currency as euros - while certainly something to be avoided, the 2 euro coin is very similar to an egyptian coin of ... I think... 30 euro cents value. I am not quite sure why anyone would want to go about counterfeiting anything of such low value unless they wanted to get their coke machine cokes for 30 cents as opposed to 1-2 euro. Add on the cost of getting caught and thrown in prison on whatever the European equivalent of felony charges is and...
I can understand "insightful" or perhaps simply "overly obvious response" or even "overrated" or "underrated" - but "troll" just does not seem to fit this--he isn't asking for a response, he isn't even forming his statement in that line. He is simply offering a reasonable and expected response in a short way that does not involve spending hours looking up all the trivia nonsense the movie put together.
... if only to determine if it is part of a marketing scheme done in extremely poor taste. I would hate to get an email at my work with this in it. Apart from feeling sick at the thought of someone doing this, the time, worry/concern spent should be handled by professionals trained for this situation rather than by me.
A poster below has noted that calling social services on the two moms might be in order. I would think forwarding their emails on to law enforcement would be a great idea
This is only true in certain settings - while I would agree that I have a good salary and am adequately benefited, the main issue for many teachers is not pay but class size. Teaching 35 students is possible, but it is far from the ideal situation. Part of the problem is found in unions who promote pay raises when we should instead see them promoting additional hirings.
Solid, consistent discipline in the beginning of a year usually causes significant ruffles but then as the year progresses, tensions ease and most students interact well. If your friend is willing to take significant heat for fair and consistent discipline at the beginning of a year, his problems should mitigate over time.
Average salaries are also something that should not be determined on a national level. In Texas, my 50,000 a year is reasonable and allows for comfortable living and trips for study in the summer. In Oklahoma, I would earn only 2/3 of this amount but be able to live roughly the same lifestyle. If I earned the same amount in New York City, I would have to get a second job and possibly be on government assistance (or have an hour and half each way commute).
The problem is, as a teacher, I frequently share my ideas with other teachers without expecting payment... or at least, not in money - my desire is to generate more ideas and sharing freely encourages others to do the same - the more ideas, the more good ideas (albeit more bad ones too). In terms of rights, the teachers are usually the rights-holders, but we are at the same time frequently required to hand in our planbook at the end of the year / tenure of employment.
There is frequently not a huge supply of graduates. Schools in my area offer bounties ranging from 5 to 10 thousand above the standard salary to "high needs" fields such as science, math, and foreign language. The main problem is not this, however, but increasingly low numbers of people willing to interact with students in a changing culture (which focuses less on discipline and responsibility and more on personal whims) and, to be honest, one that does not foster a high value for our education system. Funds are almost always tight and though the ideal setting for most classes is between 12 and 18 students, none of mine are even under 25 (most are in the 30s). For those who think that firing administrators is the way to go--they are not paid all that much more than classroom teachers, there are never that many on a campus, and they work far more hours than the pay increase is worth.
No, that is in keeping with my values. As a teacher, however, I often see my union lobbying the state legislature for changes to education policy that go directly against reasonable solutions, often focusing money on getting raises for teachers when the money would be better spent on having more teachers.
Further, in an age when multiculturalism has high value, the union often opposes efforts to enhance this in a positive way, and instead promotes efforts that only promote multiculturalism on the surface. Environmental efforts are likewise apparently driven by special interests rather than concern over reasonable resource management. It has also recently taken to pushing public issues that have nothing to do with education on its members and the public.
Thus, its lobbying policies and political affiliations are not to my liking. The only other union with similar insurance to which I can align myself (in my state at least) is effectively the same with only a different board of directors to distinguish it from the first.
Personally, I would have appealed this up--it is something that should have been thrown out on a technicality. The officer screwed up and you should not have to pay for this (though paying for the original ticket is reasonable).
Functionally, though, we need revisions of the various laws in place around unions and insurance. In my state, for my profession, if I do not join the union, I have no malpractice insurance. Since this also covers legal fees for when I would be found not guilty, I have no option but to join an organization that stands against most of my personal values.
Most of the features of fasterfox are found in about:config. There is no sense in installing an addon that will slow the browser down when the browser already has pipelining and prefetching (albeit disabled)
Since... you know, oceans dry up and become usable land ripe to be hit by meteorites on a daily basis. Just last week, I was reading how the Mediterranean used to be dry... though, I am thinking the Ice Age movie is probably a lousy source for current climate change events.
Even so, that the subpoena was not rescinded and that there was at least some discussion between lawyers indicates that the party in power is not the problem in itself. The government's general impression of late that it can do what it wants when it wants seems to transcend parties. What happened to the 10th amendment and all the other restrictions on the fed's power?
What bothers me about all of this is that even if he wants to limit google to just headlines and an intro paragraph, he can do this easily by putting the articles in different files than the headlines / summaries. He can then simply nest multiple pages together and block the folders the articles themselves reside in via robots.txt. He really could have precisely what he wants with minimal change to the form of the webpage and no need to deal with google at all--which, of course, brings the lie to it all.
This won't save on heating costs, which is what I thought was a major part of the issue for the Vermont town. A number of houses were built in Virginia with the system you envision (minus the plants) back in the 1700s. Without a powered blower, the heat loss / gain from the system is not sufficient to cool / warm the house. In the end, the home owners tended to seal the vents to avoid the "cold drafts" felt during winter.
Assuming we want to avoid any kind of problems with changing weather patterns (since we dont really know the implications of beaming massive amounts of power down), as long as we have an 18000 mile long cable, couldnt we just run the power back down the inside of the insulated elevator cable?
Yet, we still do have a word for it, or ... two words: "Flash flood" anyone?
Did you read the post last week? it's 2020, there was a math error discovered by some Dutch researchers.
Aside from the parent being ridiculously offensive, has it ever bothered anyone else that the term refers to people from Niger and possibly Nigeria because of high influx from that region during the slave trading period and is for whatever reason used to refer to anyone with African heritage?
The tying of the marriage-partnership debate to discrimination is unfortunate and, as near as I can see it, inaccurate. Marriage has long been understood to be between man and woman. What the LGBT movement seeks to promote is an arbitrary change to a long standing cultural custom without regard for those within it, thinking only of an idealized version of it connected in perhaps only a small way to the traditional viewpoint. The other side of the coin seeks to oppose this, ignoring the innate value of all humans in favor of limitation. Regardless of my personal position on the "rightness" of one side or the other in terms of "homosexuality/heterosexuality," it would seem best to promote a situation where the dignity of people is affirmed while not stepping on the toes of tradition unecessarily. Redefining marriage (for this is what the LGBT movement promotes) is not necessary. Preventing people from doing as they will, while certainly within the religious sentiment of the situation, does not fit within the law and thus "partnerships" with any other name besides marriage will not affect the established tradition nor arbitrarily change it. Perhaps we could call the LGBT marriage equivalent fribishlit or some other word not already in common usage. Anger has mounted on both sides with unfortunate words said by both parties.
As I write this, I realize that there will be parts objected to by both sides. This is unfortunate. I also realize that cultural movements need not in themselves be bad. The common reference to racial discrimination should be avoided by both parties in order to promote a dignified solution rather than simply trying to piggy back on emotional responses from previous generations. It might be akin to mentioning Hitler in a forum post... wait... argh... on to the submit button.
The problem with this analogy is that LGBT couples already have the same rights in many states as any other couple. One of the principal hot button issues at the moment would appear to be a desire on the part of the LGBT couples to change this status so that it is not just legally equivalent but really equivalent (marriage vs. partnership in California et al). While many might oppose those who would restrict the LGBT couples to "partnerships," the "marriage = man+woman" crowd have a foot to stand in areas where traditional marriage is accepted alongside partnerships. Greater difficulty is met in areas where partnership is not found to be legit.
Given the composition of the "clay minerals" in my area, I'm going to have to agree with the gp here. Organics leave a lot of mess behind. My yard is composed primarily of limestone based clay--which has a significant amount of carbon whatnot in it
might I suggest... branching out? The best material I've read lately has been modeled after older styles (Name of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, etc. all tie in to older literary styles, not trying to hold the mold of "sword and sorcery" or even more broadly, "contemporary fantasy"). Charles Dickens seems a lot better than he used to... as does George MacDonald, et al.
There is, unfortunately, legal precedent against this recently in the implied right to privacy given to companies (beginning, after a quick google search with Santa Clara Co v Southern Pacific Railroad in 1886).
Lithium batteries are recyclable almost completely. Lead-acid batteries have been recycled by law in the US for several years (decades?) with a fee if you try to avoid recycling them. The issue is not the impact of non-recycled lithium batteries but rather the impact of their initial production (which involves mining in Canada, shipment to China for processing, shipment to Japan for battery assembly, and then shipment to the US / Canada / Wherever for installation into the car / shipment to point of sale). This is based off of a Forbes article and a recent discussion with an engineering friend, so I may be off on some of the details.