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As an educator, we are constantly dealing with professional development. Sure, as someone who has taught for over a decade and taken years of classes, it can get mind numbing. But every once in awhile it helps me look at something from a different perspective, or it gives me a bit of energy towards trying something new. The key is to use your experience to filter out the garbage, but keep an open enough mind to catch anything you may be missing. 86 hours is not a whole lot for a new career, after all. Given the physical nature of personal training, I'd say that is a fair requirement. My wife has a degree in kinesiology, and it cost a lot more in both time and money to get that thing. But if you don't have a passion for helping others get fit, it probably isn't the right choice for you.

I'm a fan of Jason Momoa, so I look forward to Aquaman. Not sure on Wonder Woman. I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, so I will wait and see.

Sorry to hear about your dad, Calax. Woldan I think you should go for it. Why waste your time with a job you don't have a passion for? I'm not sure what is required in Austria, but in the US they have some pretty basic certification classes that can set you on the road. Good luck.

Yes, I'm sure the immigrants that travel for days over remote deserts and mountains will encounter a fence and be like "oh no, a fence, better turn around now." Those fences need to be heavily patrolled in order to be any use at all. Why are you so quick to burn money on stupid projects like this? Take some fiscal responsibility, show me the proof that this will somehow help the American economy in any meaningful way.

Well it's not like the wall would mean no more trade between us and Mexico. It doesn't seem odd to spend billions of dollars building a fence between us and someone we do a tremendous amount of business with? How much money do we think we will save by building this 2,000 mile long barrier? Of course, Trump also wants Mexico to foot the bill, which sounds insane. I just don't see how anyone can justify this in economic terms. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/09/this-is-what-trumps-border-wall-could-cost-us.html I know it's not breitbart, so WoD won't trust it.

Decided to pick up Undertale after reading some gushing praise on Game Informer (I get it for free, alright!) I think I made a big mistake. edit: Well, not big. I made a $10 mistake.

It's pretty weird to think of our second largest trade partner as an enemy. Of course it is also weird to talk about building a massive militarized wall between our 3rd largest trade partner. Actually when you look at our trade with Mexico, what stands out is how much we export TO them. China is practically a one way relationship, whereas Mexico is buying nearly as much as they are selling. So yeah, let's build a wall with the country that takes in over 200 billion US products a year. Yay for diplomacy.

Whelp, some people were worried about the Warriors after dropping 2 of 3. They seem to be doing ok against the Cavs.

Today my tire pressure light went on. I had it happen about a week ago, and I knew my tires were getting bald and the alignment was a bit off, so I figured it was time to go to the shop. At first the guy quoted me $650, but then the owner came over and talked in his ear a bit. It pays to be a regular, they dropped it to $400 for tires and alignment. Still, I have paid about $1500 in auto maintenance costs this month across my two cars and rv.

Geez, that donor chart makes Jeb Bush look really silly. Trump and Clinton both have the same issue, in that they will not be able to pull many voters from the other side of the aisle. I mean it would be great if people actually took that into account when going through the primary, but most people who obstinately vote for one party all the time don't tend to do a lot of independent thinking.

I bought my 5-year old son a game called Splatoon last week. I had kept him offline for he first week, but yesterday he convinced me to let him play online. I was pretty worried, it is one thing to beat up on his mom and sister, but I know that online multiplayer can be pretty cutthroat. The nice thing about Splatoon (and the Wii U) is that it designed around a young audience, so that keeps the language clean. But there is no way to protect him from getting owned. My fears were unnecessary. He has been tearing through games, winning matches, shooting baddies, and is up to level 10. It's pretty crazy to watch. I do wonder how old the people he is playing are. I doubt there are that many 5-year olds playing.

I'm a bit surprised they went with paperback for that wheel of time. I would think hardcover would hold up better.

Cruz is probably the guy at the bottom of my list. I am not sure if I share any common ground with him. Trump and Rubio at least have said a thing or two that I agree with.

There are actual limits to freedom of speech (yelling fire in a crowded theater) but quality control is not a part of that. If you don't think Charlie Hebdo is a good choice as an advocate for this stuff, then you are free to speak your own piece, to publish your own voice. They don't need to be censored in order to create a better dialogue. I think I am misunderstanding some of what you are saying though, so maybe I'm off here.

Whoa. Maybe Trump is just the greatest comedian ever, and this is just a very elaborate bit? He's outdone Andy Kaufman.

We disagree on stuff pretty regularly, but I don't think I've ever been this completely opposed to your post. What the heck?

Ending the drug war would help too. No drug war, less demand for foreign suppliers; which means less money to be made smuggling drugs into the US. With less capital, the criminal cartels can't smuggle as many people into the country and they would have less reason to do so anyway. This would also lessen the worst elements of those immigrating here illegally. EDIT: This would also help Mexico as the criminal cartels would become much less powerful over time as one of their primary sources of income would be crippled. Agreed. I'm pretty frustrated by the lack of progress in Mexico, both economically and in regards to organized crime. I have a fair amount of family back there, and it is pretty bleak right now. I think most expected it to get worse before it got better as the government seriously went after the cartels, but we are nearing a decade and the gains don't seem to be outpacing the losses.

Maybe we need a grassroots campaign with commercials where people show a MADE IN MEXICO label like they did for USA made products awhile back. I get that there are a lot of economic issues here, and many of them stem from corruption issues within Mexico. But the healthiest way for everyone to put an end to illegal immigration from Mexico would be for Mexico to develop a strong economy.

In response to the 1980 video I posted with Bush and Reagan, I see it as a failure by the government of both countries. Sure, it's easy to blame the immigrants sneaking across the border in search for a better life. They are an easy target, they can't really defend themselves while working minimum wage jobs and avoiding INS. But really, there has been a huge failure between the US and Mexican governments. The US is supposed to be 'the most stable economy in the world'. Why the heck do we share a gigantic border, and yet we can't find a way to help Mexico become a fully developed nation? I read a good article awhile back about how devastating the growth of China's economy has been to Mexico. Basically all the major corporations that were starting to build in Mexico ditched those plans and went to Asia. But hey, corporations gonna corporate.

Getting my wisdom teeth out was the worst experience of my life. It ruined the joy of eating for weeks. Even beer didn't taste as good.

Yeah, unfortunately the artists and programmers don't digitally end up with food on the table when people digitally duplicates their work. You bringing up crowd funding is ridiculous. You don't want to pay for a digital product because it can be duplicated for free, but you want to pay someone to create a digital product with little guarantee that it will be completed? Okey Dokey. The publisher model may stifle creativity, inflate costs and create a general mess, but it gives both the developers and consumers security in an open market. It may change as we move to a more digital age with crowd funding and other factors, but it most likely is not going away.

I thought this was a fun look back. Man, the Republican party has changed.

To be fair, Paul Blart 2 was pretty much the same as the original, so I wouldn't vote for worst sequel. It was a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, this was an entertaining moment: I think I like them more because I worked as a security guard in college, and the career people were pretty much all like this. It's a fairly accurate portrayal.

I don't get it. Why are Walt White from Breaking Bad and blue haired Roger Ebert behind the fence?