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10 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:
I’m not sure if funding is the same in all States but here in California the public schools get money based on Average Daily Attendance…or in other words per kid. So if the kid leaves the money goes with them. The public school district is no more damaged by a kid going to charter school than they are if that same kid moves to Arizona. Or, if they just suffer from declining enrollment (as many are) from demographic shifts.
Most rural school districts here are so small that they cannot afford to lose another kid. And I can tell you from my own experience (my kids went to a pretty large suburban/rural public school district here in Lubbock, but had a number of friends in smaller rural districts) that the teachers and administrators in these small schools make tremendous efforts for a lousy salary.
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36 minutes ago, Orlando Tim said:
I am fully in support of school vouchers but want to make sure everyone is aware of the issues that they cause parents. One is that the good schools become overcrowded quickly and depending on situation causes the quality to drop. In FL we have school choice but school only has to take kid if the school is not at capacity, which every good school is at "capacity", such as my high school is at capacity at 720 per class but 2 years ago had a graduating class of 1200 before relief school was opened. Secondly who has responsibility of transportation, in most of country that becomes a real issue. Lastly what is response to kids who miss a large amount of days due to transportation issues? These are the issues that popped up in FL recently. For most parents it is easier to move to a good district then deal with this rigamarole.
Here in West Texas we have a long-standing opposition against school vouchers, driven by an unlikely coalition of rural republicans and democrats who fear that vouchers would take money away from the public school districts which badly need it. In most parts of the country here, there is just no private school within 50 - 100 miles.
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King Crimson with John Wetton on bass and vocals: "Easy Money"
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From the guy who played with nearly everybody... My favorite Adrian Belew song is "Lone Rhinoceros"
I know the zoos protect my species
They give me food, collect my feces
But I can't help it, I miss the past
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The Black Keys - "Oceans and Streams". From their album "Attack and Release". Many critics consider their next album, "Brothers", their "master piece", but I personally favor "Attack and Release".
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4 hours ago, ArdmoreRyno said:
I have a question for you... my youngest daughter graduated from high school in Oklahoma in 2021. One of the best public HS's in the state. Her credentials...
Top 10 in her class (finished 3rd out of 120 or so)
4.18 GPA
29 ACT
Academic All-State cheerleader
Member of the National Honor Society
Established debate team at her high school
FCCLA
Class President
- Outside school, she established a foundation (Lauren's Lemonade Stand) when she was in the 4th grade and raised money every year to help wounded veterans. Managed to work with people like Miranda Lambert, raised THOUSANDS. Did this every year up to graduation.
- Member of the Chickasaw Nation (she has a CDIB card)
She applied at Michigan... denied. Texas.... denied. University of Chicago... denied. Yale, Princeton, Cornell... all denied. Got into Oklahoma State, Oklahoma and Ole Miss (where she is a 4.0 pre-law student).
Why did she get rejected by so many? Was in just because of the the post-covid year? I was following a parent on a FB page where their kid spent his whole life wanting to get into Purdue. 4.2 GPA, 32 ACT, everything. Got rejected by Purdue.
Still shocked my little one, who is technically a minority with such a strong academic record, got rejected to schools like Michigan and UT.
While there are many things wrong with Texas (a very recent example: Ken Paxton), one thing they got right: a quota for gifted students, whatever their color may be. If your kid graduates in the top 10% of his/her high school class, every Texas ***** university has to take you (well, UT Austin got an exemption: they only need to take the top 7%.) Couple that with in-state tuition of about $6,000 per semester even for the best universities (such as Austin), and you have a real bargain.
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To me, a paddle board seems to be ideal for spontaneous, relatively short-term excursions on quiet water. When my then girl-friend, now-wife and I lived in Rochester, we preferred going downstream on fast creeks and very easy white water, mostly with a canoe, but sometimes when we had a third person with us, I would switch to kayak. But that requires lots of planning most of the time and using two cars. But we had lots of fun in the Adirondacks, the Alqonquins, and the Finger Lakes (the most daring trip was down the Canisteo). Sadly, here in Lubbock the boats are just hanging in the garage.
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10 hours ago, SoCal Deek said:
The Social Compact: I was going to start a thread on this topic but I’ll bring it up here. It seems to me we’ve lost sight of the Social Compact that civilized societies struck many many years ago. Here in the US we had the days of the Wild West in which people protected their lives and homes and property on their own. Law enforcement was virtually non existent. As a society we decided to trade away that system for a system of taxation in which we now pay others (police) to protect and serve us. In parts of Europe that social compact has gone so far as to completely disarm the citizens. The result is that the entirety of personal protection has been ceded to the State. Now we appear to be in a precarious tipping point in which criminals no longer fear that enforcement, and/or when some demand that the enforcement mechanism stand down in lieu of enforcing it. What happens next?
Interesting point from a historical perspective. However, the George Floyd aftermath seems to show that a general population which is allowed to carry arms is not able to prevent such riots.
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A few days ago on one of the cooking channels they showed a rerun of Andrew Zimmern's "Bizarre Foods" episode on the Ozarks. One dish they featured were bacon-wrapped crow breasts. As it turned out, "eating crow" is not always as disgusting as it sounds.
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Let's start with a nice cap...
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2 minutes ago, Buffalo716 said:
I think you get DQd for knocking them over so they might not of gotten the points
good on her
From the NCAA rules (the IAAF rules are similar):
Can you touch hurdles in track and field?
In short, the answer is yes. Athletes can’t deliberately knock down a hurdle in a race, but they can touch the hurdle.
So, if an athlete is running a hurdles race and attempts to clear the hurdle while jumping over it in a “hurdling fashion," but clips the hurdle or even knocks the hurdle over, they can continue running. The athlete wouldn’t have deliberately knocked over a hurdle in this case, as they are genuinely attempting to clear the hurdle and complete the race.
Now if an athlete knocks over the hurdle in a race, without attempting to clear it at all, it would be deemed a non-hurdling action, which is deliberate and a violation of hurdling rules.
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Just last weekend, at the European Team Championship in Track & Field, both Belgian 100 meter hurdlers were injured, and they needed a replacement to prevent the team from being disqualified. A shot-putter/hammer-thrower volunteered. She needed more than twice as long as the winner, but she got two points for the team and saved them from disqualification.
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1 hour ago, Einstein said:
Mahomes vs playoff teams without Anuromo: 33.1ppg
Mahomes vs playoff teams WITH Anuromo: 23.5ppg
That is a MASSIVE difference.
Visit the Chiefs forum and you will see a fan base that shudders at the mention of Anuromo’s name. They fear him like we feared Belichick for 2 decades.
He is your favorite but can't even get his name right? His name is Lou Anarumo. And was there not just another long thread that we should not again hire a defensive guy as HC?
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Last year I suspected that we might have a pair of curve-billed thrashers nesting in our backyard. Finally, about a month ago I saw them bringing little sticks and other nesting material into the largest tree in the backyard, a live oak, and found the nest.
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24 minutes ago, muppy said:
now this I really like. JJ Cale is just COOL. always has been always will be. Fun cover. Eric Clapton sitting in. Look at his guitar. I cant even imagine how many guitars a guy like that owns. Rooms full.
My favorite JJ Cale song: "Same Old Blues", here performed by Cale and Leon Russell.
There are a lot of cover versions, including Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bryan Ferry, and ... Captain Beefheart.
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14 minutes ago, WhoTom said:
How long does it take a genius to win his first Nobel Prize?
That by itself is a very interesting topic. If we just take into account the "hard" sciences, chemistry, physics, and physiology/medicine (the Nobel Peace Prize was once awarded to a 17-year-old, Malala Yousafzai), the youngest one was Lawrence Bragg in physics at the age of 25. The oldest one was also a physicist, Raymond Davis Jr. at 88. The one who had to wait the longest was another physicist, Ernst Ruska. He built the first electron microscope in 1933 and was rewarded with the Nobel Prize 47 years later in 1980.
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One of my favorites of the Beatles near the end of their career as band: "The Ballad of John and Yoko"
This song actually had a sort-of sequel in Lennon and Ono's (otherwise pretty forgettable) album Some Time in New York City, called "New York City". The tempo is much faster, and it has some nice guitar (1:30) and piano work (3:00). The backing band Lennon and Ono were using at that time was a NY band, Elephant's Memory. While Elephant's Memory on their own never put out anything remarkable (back in Germany, I actually found one of their LPs in the bargain bin of a record store, and the song-writing was thoroughly disappointing), but they had some excellent instrumentalists (Wayne Shorter on Guitar, Gary Van Scyoc on bass, Adam Ippolito on keyboards, and Stan Bronstein on sax). Interestingly, for a short time at the end of the 1960s, Carly Simon had been a member of EM.
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5 minutes ago, Big Blitz said:
Lol what? I wanted to post the tweet about the song. I knew what attendance for the game was I included tweets in context re what happened pre game.
That post was not a “look how few people showed up” post.
Well, then next time you should make this clearer. Your post essentially contained 4 tweets, and the one you claim was most important to you was buried as number 2 our of 4.
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It often amazes me how unfairly bicyclists are treated. Here is a clip from the under-23 Giro d'Italia where you can see the bicyclists helping cars and motorcycles up a steep mountain pass. Can you imagine that they were all disqualified?
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40 minutes ago, B-Man said:
Their Friday Night attendance is always higher than the other nightsWell, this is true. I will even acknowledge that the attendance last night was less than Pride Night a year ago or the regular attendance on Friday nights; these numbers are around 52,000. Thus, the attendance yesterday was about 6% less than normal. However, the pic shown by right-wing bloggers and in Big Blitz' post suggests that there is less than 10% attendance while the stadium "should be packed". And this is clearly propaganda.
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17 hours ago, Big Blitz said:
Well, you fell here in some right-wing propaganda trap. From Forbes, regarding the Pride Night game:
"The Dodgers recorded an attendance of 49,074, slightly higher than its league-leading average of 47,800."
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1 hour ago, redtail hawk said:
fantastic! Was this from a movie. If not, whose idea was pajamas?
Very impressive. This is from the musical comedy movie "The Ghost Goes Gear", released in 1966. This means that Winwood was about 17 when it was filmed.
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There are not many live concert videos where you can see both brothers together. Johnny and Edgar Winters - "Tobacco Road"
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While this thread was certainly very entertaining, the football-relevant content is best summarized by this song by the 1960's underground rock band The Fugs: "Nothing". As a bonus, the singer looks a bit like (Albert) Einstein.
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Share some music thread
in Off the Wall
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Paint - "Plastic Dreams". Paint is the solo project of Allah-La's guitarist/vocalist Pedrum Siadatian. Siadatian writes lovely "simple" songs that remind me of a guy who had a career 50 years ago: Kevin Ayers.