Hurlshort
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Says the guy who logged a thousand hours on Skyrim.
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The only issue I see is some of the early season stuff doesn't match up. Logan and Billy are clearly taking part in the more recent narrative stuff at the start, it seems a stretch to say they had the same stuff 30 years ago.
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Huh, when I was at Universal Studios last week, they were doing heavy renovations to The Mummy ride they have at the park. I was surprised they weren't just replacing it with something more current, but it makes sense that they are trying to relaunch it with a new movie coming. Looks a bit more serious than the previous iterations.
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That seems like a pretty good theory to me.
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I am pretty curious how the lack of common core support on a Federal level will play out. But then I just remember that everything in education is cyclical, and it is no surprise that the big new thing is about to become the old thing as we move on to the next big new thing, which will be replaced in 5 years by the next big new thing which looks remarkably similar to the big new thing that is now an old thing from a few cycles ago. Meanwhile my job is always the same, and that is simply to push kids to use their brains.
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The bigger the union, the bigger the problems. Of course that goes both ways, the bigger the school district, the bigger the problems.
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Except that public schools don't make a difference in those areas, they just warehouse kids until they're ready for prison. Did you feel good about this when you typed it? Because it is terrible. What is? That he said it or that this is truth and nothing is done about it? If your solution is the burden of fighting GANGS on PARENTS (sic?!) then clearly I'm baffled. You sound like the old post soviet gov. clerks that claimed that without them the country will collapse. Are you by any chance involved in public schooling? I think you misunderstand the situation inner city schools deal with tremendously. There are a fair amount of kids in these schools that are second or third generation gang members. Even those that are not involved in a gang community are often dealing with other serious issues at home. However that does not mean we should just write them off as future prison inmates. That's a terrible was to think and unnecessarily jaded. People regularly do come out of these difficult schools and make something of themselves. It's the best tool we have to break the cycle. It should be something we continue to work hard to improve.
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Okay, assuming these are the problems, what is the solution? ...And is the first step fighting the DeVos nomination? ...Or can you come up with *gasp* a compromise? I would submit the weakest point is the billionaire non-sense. You can get traction attacking her dearth of experience in public education as anything other than an advocate, but the best argument is to come up with a solution that has enough broad appeal to pass. ...And, if we're really talking about DeVos, what's the strategy for keeping her out of the cabinet, or is it all over except the grousing? Wife's a teacher of some three decades, so I get hell over this specific issue all the time, so I understand all about compromises. I'm not all that worried about DeVos. As a parent, student, or teacher, the list of authorities that you should concern yourself with go School > District > County > State > Federal. A great school, of which there are many, will be great no matter what weird stuff gets done in Washington. Is it a good sign that Trump put a billionaire with no experience in an actual classroom in charge of education? Of course not. Here are some articles on charter schools, as promised. I'll tear apart private schools a little later. As a teaser, let me tell you that on average teachers at charter schools make less and have less education. http://billmoyers.com/story/failing-test-charter-schools-winners-losers/ http://www.commondreams.org/views/2015/07/06/growing-evidence-charter-schools-are-failing http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/04/16/california-virtual-academies-is-online-charter-school-network-cashing-in-on-failure/ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/for-detroits-children-more-school-choice-but-not-better-schools.html?_r=0 http://inthesetimes.com/article/18352/10-years-after-katrina-new-orleans-all-charter-district-has-proven-a-failur The list is fairly endless, really.
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Except that public schools don't make a difference in those areas, they just warehouse kids until they're ready for prison. Did you feel good about this when you typed it? Because it is terrible.
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Yeah, no. That is dumb. It is the equivalent of moving out of your house because it is dirty. You know, instead of doing the logical thing. Do yourself a favor and look at how charter schools are a failed experiment. I disagree with the analogy. Putting money in failed public schools is like putting a bucket under the leaking pipe and wiping the floor instead of exchanging the pipe. As for research: http://www.usnews.com/opinion/knowledge-bank/2015/03/19/new-study-shows-charter-schools-making-a-difference-in-cities I don't see a failure from this report and it's fresh - 2015. Also charter schools in nearly all countries are better than public ones. I never saw any studies that showed charter or private schools doing worse than public ones. If you have such I would check them out. In my opinion instead of giving the taxpayers money to schools it would be far better to give them to students in a form of voucher or bon. This will allow for the parents to choose the best school for their kid and competition between schools to recruit and keep the students will only benefit the quality of education. I'll get to the evidence a little later, but as wonderful as it sounds to have parents choosing the best schools and having competition for recruitment, in reality is just means you are going to create a much greater divide between the have's and have-nots. The biggest problem in public education is not the teachers, the facilities, or even the bureaucrats running the districts. The biggest problem is the parent communities themselves. When you have a strong parent community that supports the school and the students, you will have success. When you have a school in the inner city dealing with gangs, drug abuse, teenage pregnancy, etc., it is because you have that in the home. Vouchers aren't going to solve any of these problems, and instead will take away the scant resources that these schools have to try and make a difference in these troubled areas.
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Yeah, no. That is dumb. It is the equivalent of moving out of your house because it is dirty. You know, instead of doing the logical thing. Do yourself a favor and look at how charter schools are a failed experiment.
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SW: The Old Republic - Episode VIII (May RNG Be With You)
Hurlshort replied to Blarghagh's topic in Computer and Console
I've been playing through some more storylines. I got my trooper up to level 65 to join my Jedi Knight. I'm enjoying the fact you can level through the content by simply sticking to the class storylines now, that moves the game along at a nicer pace. Although I still have moments where I wish they would open up space and let us fly around a bit. Also why can I fly in WoW but not in a game already filled with flying vehicles? -
Pilsner Urquell sounds very familiar, I am pretty sure I've had it. It has been along while though and I don't remember any details. I'll have to put a list of Czech-style pilsners together for an episode. Maybe do two imports and two from the US.
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Natty light was always popular in my colleg days. That and Colt 45. I mean, I never drank it (I think) but you could get like 24 for $5.
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I am super stoked that Ninkasi retweeted my podcast. They have like 40k followers.
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That seems very dramatic.
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Except that they do check and you can find plenty of investigations into voter fraud over the last 20 years. The allegations typically don't pan out. It makes for great headlines, both sides can yell and claim they were wronged. It makes all the losers feel better and the winners feel more smug. http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/default/files/legacy/The%20Truth%20About%20Voter%20Fraud.pdf
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I should probably emphasize lifelong here. I have a problem with any one individual holding onto power like that indefinitely with no balances.
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There are a number of alternatives to becoming a lifelong dictator, I imagine. I just don't get the need to defend the guy. There are very few presidents I would defend in such a way. I can't think of one, actually.
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Who cares, they lost. I do think it is dumb that they are bothering with a recount in Wisconsin. But there is no evidence that a ridiculous amount of illegal immigrants voted in the election. We went over this whole voter fraud thing a few weeks ago. There were handfuls of people in many states (Pennsylvania was the most common) that were either improperly registered or voted twice. They are still a drop in the bucket. This 3 million number is insane and not a good look for the guy who won and is supposed to lead the country in a couple months.
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Winning with grace.
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The Avery Vanilla Bean Stout was pretty fantastic, although I noticed the vanilla a lot more after drinking the much stronger bourbon flavored Stout. Always interesting how our taste buds can jump around like that. It also wasn't cheap though. Gingerbread stout sounds pretty good. I am thinking about a Christmas theme for next week, Jubilale from Deschutes will probably make that cut, and I'll have to look up a few others.
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Yeah, I'm all for term limits in congress too.
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In regards to the whole "The US does bad things, too" response when criticizing Castro. The big difference I see is that US Presidents only have 4-8 years to do messed up things. Congress only has 2-6 years to do messed up things. Then the people get to vote to remove them, and despite what the media likes to cling to, those elections are remarkably fraud free. So you have a shared responsibility for the terrible things that the government does, and they face constant criticism while doing it. Castro wielded absolute power and put himself above criticism. That's an incredibly dangerous position for anyone to be in.
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I've got episode 4 the the History of Hops Podcast up and ready for listening. We drink Porters and Stouts, and I talk about the Great London Beer Flood of 1814.
