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I have "rant of the ages" about College Board (won't repeat it here - it really requires its own thread, LOL), but suffice to say, in one portion of the rant, CB literally lost one of his SAT2 tests. LOST. THE. TEST. Not only that, they lost HIM. They had no idea who he was when I called.
And then they had the gall to hem, haw, lie, and then give him a score that was the exact mean for the scores that test day - as if nothing had ever happened. Oh - like no one is going to notice something fishy about a kid who has completed college biology with an A only managing to score in the low 600s!
Call them on it. Sure, some kids simply bomb their tests. But CB are also @ssholes.
asta
We've discussed and considered, and have decided to pay to have them rescore the tests (and probably to get the frq booklets as well). There are just enough things that don't add up that it's worth it for the peace of mind if nothing else. I am just hoping that I don't have to get into it with CB over this. If it comes to that, asta, I want to hire you to be my Confrontation Consultant, lol. I'm way too lily-livered when it comes to this kind of stuff.
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He's a senior this year, and needed a 4 or higher on both exams to place out of the core economics requirement - which was why he was taking both exams.
I tend to agree that if it were only one test with a poor score it would be more likely to have been a scoring error - but the scores are worse than he did on Dr. Richman's final exam, after which he started doing test prep in order to improve. I would chalk it up to unsuccessful prep except for the fact that he felt very confident coming out of the tests. I suppose it's just a life lesson for him. I do wish the class continued further into the spring, however - I think test review within the class would have been a helpful thing.
At the very least, he's got a solid economics foundation that will hopefully help him with his core requirement next year. The mom with the checkbook just wishes she weren't paying tuition for this all over again, heh.
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Okay, I have what feels like a really dumb question, but I'm hoping there's some Hive wisdom out there. DS took AP Economics this year with PA Homeschoolers. It wasn't his favorite class ever, but he liked the games and ended the class with an A-. He prepped with the Barron's book and aced the practice test. He took both Macro and Micro tests, and came out feeling like he had been well prepared and was confident about his scores. He's taken AP's before, and gotten 5's, so he's familiar with what it takes to score well on these tests. This morning he got his scores - both 2's. He is kind of shocked because he was not expecting those scores at ALL.
Has anyone ever had this situation? I keep wanting to think that perhaps there was some scoring mistake, although I realize it's unlikely. But it's just so bizarre - he really felt like he had probably gotten 4's on both tests, and now he's discouraged and disappointed. Should I investigate this with CB, or will that just make both of us look foolish? If this has happened to your kids, what did you do (besides pick up the pieces and encourage them that it wasn't the end of the world)?
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Finally, I drove to the parking lot, said "I love you. Grow up" and drove off. She survived.
This made me laugh out loud this morning, thanks!
We are in the same boat here with DS. He's not a big fan of transition/change, so I have been prodding a lot. "Would you like me to order your summer reading book for you?" "Have you checked your portal to see if there's any new information on roommates?" "You should really be checking your college email address more than oh, once a month." :glare:
I know he's not ambivalent about going, because he's going to school 8 hours away even though his girlfriend would like him to stay closer, so. I think he just doesn't want to deal with any of it because it's boring, it's summer and he'd rather play Minecraft. Sigh.
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I hope they have an adult around shooting sports, at least! Our Troop has an annual shooting sports weekend, and they are very strict about the training the adults have to have in order to be in charge of any of the shooting activities.
The area director is a 20-something who's been in charge for a couple of years, but I'm sure there are times when the director is gone for a period and the scouts are left in charge, and as far as I know they handle themselves quite ably. Everyone on the shooting ranges, regardless of age, takes safety VERY seriously, and if they weren't deemed responsible enough they wouldn't be working there. My guy, who in everyday life is a pretty major goof-off, gets really fracked at scouts and especially ADULTS who don't listen to instructions and then get irritated and mouthy with staff when they get kicked off the range for the week.
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This was our ds. But achieving the rank of Eagle is a great accomplishment and something worth being proud of!
Ds finished his last merit badge just a couple days before his 18th birthday - the music mb. At his Eagle Scoutmaster conference, the scoutmaster was wondering why ds had never done the music mb, since pretty much his whole life revolves around music. For some reason that sparked ds into whipping through it and finishing it in the car on the way to summer music camp. :D
This is my son - his whole life revolves around robotics, and he has one requirement left to finish for the Robotics merit badge. However, since everyone (in good fun) has given him such a hard time about it, now he refuses to finish the badge. :rolleyes: He figures he earned his Eagle rank, has enough mb's and time to get a couple of palms before he ages out, and so he's all good. I figure it's his experience, so I just work on keeping my mouth shut. Sort of, lol.
He is working camp staff this summer (and having a blast), where yes, as a 17 year old he is helping teach the Archery MB. Our camp has scouts as staff, and plenty of them do a fine job. Some of them are a little rough around the edges but leading a MB is part of their learning/leadership experience, too.
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A flying squirrel is not like a bat; it wouldn't be able to fly out of the toilet. They can only glide from tree branch to tree branch.
If the OP should find themselves in this situation again, I recommend putting on heavy gloves, throwing a towel over the animal, and quickly transferring it to a bin or box. Yes, it's hard, but it only takes a few seconds. If you can't handle that, put on gloves, lower a small container into the toilet, let the squirrel climb in, and quickly cover the container with a lid or piece of cardboard. Take the squirrel outside and let it go.
Squirrels feel fear and pain just like we do. :sad: I'm surprised people think this is funny.
Meh. I don't care what kind of rodent it is, frankly. It's fear and pain don't trump the fear, potential for pain and potential for property damage of the humans in my house. Different strokes.
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I used to think I was all big and bad until one day when I was living in my first apartment as a student. I saw a rat and went in there to think about how to trap it. Suddenly it ran over my bare foot. Next thing I know I'm standing on top of the kitchen counter, screaming. Never did figure out how I got up there.
At that point I called the custodian who collected the critter and set him free outside.
However, the OP's situation is that she woke up in the middle of the night and found a rodent in her toilet. Now, that's wrong on so many levels. You're tired, you might need to go to the bathroom, you don't want to alert your kids, you're a little freaked out. And if you're me, there is no man around to delegate this matter to. I'm thinking there is no 24-hour humane pest rescue service in the local phone book, though I could be wrong.
And although the critter probably could not actually fly in the condition it's in, the fact remains that this is a FLYING critter IN your bathroom.
But I suppose a person on the true path toward Nirvana would go find some safe way to transfer this writhing, biting creature into a container and take it outside and somehow release it without getting bitten. That would take a fair chunk of time and be a challenge to do without waking the kids, but sure, it's a noble thought.
But flushing - that's tough love. And sometimes tough love is what a flying squirrel needs. Fwoooshhhh.....
Okay, this is hilarious. :lol: And fwiw, I am totally with you. Compassion would pretty much be the last thing on my mind if I found a flying rodent in my toilet in the middle of the night. <shudder>
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We voted at a church within walking distance of my house. The lines were long but it was full of neighbors visiting and strangers helping each other navigate the confusing line system. It felt real, and democratic, and patriotic. I am sure that mail in ballots are convenient, but I wouldn't trade my neighborhood polling place for anything.
Wish there had been a bake sale, though, that would have made the 40 minute wait easier to handle. ;)
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Five robo-calls Saturday, six yesterday and seven today. I'm pretty sure I'm taking the phone off the hook tomorrow so we can get schoolwork done. On Wednesday I can turn the phone back on and un-hide quite a few people on Facebook.
There just needs to be a sea change in how elections are done in this country. It won't ever happen, but I can sure dream.
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Agreed. A gazillion thanks to the powers that be for keeping this a political free zone - it is such a relief.
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Thanks! Listening to my new tunes right now!
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When my boys were younger teens, I came to the realization that they would eat carbs from the moment they crawled out of bed until the moment they crawled back in - and never, ever be full. Plus they were scrawny and not particularly energetic. So, I decided to get rid of the empty carbs, and it made a huge difference. They actually eat LESS because they are filling up on protein and fat instead and it keeps them full longer. I took the toaster out of the kitchen and put it in storage, and they get a loaf of whole grain bread a week which is enough to keep them in sandwiches. Otherwise they get full-fat homemade yogurt (to lower the sugar content), veggies, string cheese, stuff like that. We are all happier.
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Me! We lived in a little isolated neighborhood in small town central MA - it wasn't a high plowing priority, and we had no school, so my friends and I spent the days cross-country skiing up and down the streets and dragging each other around on sleds. My folks still have a picture of my dad up on a ladder digging the 4-foot deep snowdrifts off the roof. I don't remember losing power or anything, but it was a fairly new neighborhood with underground cables so we might have been okay. I remember the travel restrictions, though.
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This image from 8:30 EDT this morning looks like the outer bands are pretty near Chicago already. We got quite the winds in GA, and it was never anywhere near us.
Wow, that's an amazing picture! We're under the outer bands now according to that image (explains where the sun went, heh), but no wind yet. Under a wind advisory later today though.
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National Weather Service seems to think so:
NORTHERLY WINDS WILL INCREASE ON AND NEAR LAKE MICHIGAN THISAFTERNOON AND TONIGHT AS THE REMNANTS OF HURRICANE SANDY MOVE
WESTWARD ONSHORE ACROSS THE NEW JERSEY SHORES. WINDS COULD GUST
AS HIGH AS 50 MPH NEAR THE INDIANA LAKE MICHIGAN SHORE LATE THIS
AFTERNOON AND THIS EVENING. WIND GUSTS COULD INCREASE FARTHER TO
NEAR 60 MPH LATE TONIGHT NEAR THE LAKE SHORES. THESE STRONG
NORTHERLY WINDS WILL ALLOW WAVES TO QUICKLY BUILD ACROSS THE
SOUTHERN END OF THE LAKE...WITH WAVE HEIGHTS REACHING 18 TO 25
FEET BY LATE TONIGHT. THESE LARGE WAVES WILL LIKELY IMPACT AREAS
IMMEDIATELY NEAR THE LAKE...INCLUDING LAKE SHORE FLOODING AND
BEACH EROSION.
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I'm just hoping Pat Robertson has laryngitis :D
+1. :thumbup1:
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Congrats!! How exciting!!
I'm a young(ish) grandma too, and it's so much fun. Our little guy is 16 months old now and has just started saying "Mum!" to refer to his mama or me (or any adult woman ;)). He and I were out at Target the other day and he kept shouting, "Mum!" as he pointed excitedly at things on the shelves. I got some mildly shocked, disapproving glances from other shoppers, lol - because I'm not THAT young. :lol:
Grandpa and I have already started itching for him to be old enough that we can take him to do all those fun "kid" things. Don't get me wrong, he's a busy little guy that still wears us out, heh, but we're still young and active enough that I think we could handle an afternoon at the Children's Museum.
Enjoy that new baby!!
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Heh...I sometimes catch myself by using "arse" when I mean "ass". :blush:
Like somehow it's less crass because fewer people will be familiar with what I mean, or something. Hey, I never said I was logical.
Agreed that around here "bum" would be considered less coarse than "butt", a word that seriously grates on my nerves. Only mothers talking to small children use "bottom".
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Were 'Fall' and 'Autumn' used interchangeably in Britain before America was colonised? Or is 'Fall' a later coinage?
Laura
Hmmm... I don't know the etymology myself, but the internets say:
fall (n.)
c.1200, "a falling;" see fall (n.). O.E. noun form, fealle, meant "snare, trap." Sense of "autumn" (now only in U.S.) is 1660s, short for fall of the leaf (1540s). That of "cascade, waterfall" is from 1570s. Wrestling sense is from 1550s. Of a city under siege, etc., 1580s. Fall guy is from 1906. and:
The alternative word fall for the season traces its origins to old Germanic languages. The exact derivation is unclear, with the Old English fiæll or feallan and the Old Norse fall all being possible candidates. However, these words all have the meaning "to fall from a height" and are clearly derived either from a common root or from each other. The term came to denote the season in 16th century England, a contraction of Middle English expressions like "fall of the leaf" and "fall of the year".
So it would seem that interchangeable use came into usage in Britain sometime in the 16th-17th century, right about the time of American colonization. Are the terms used interchangeably now? Or is "autumn" used exclusively?
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We use some of these (wonky, queue, flat), but I mostly attribute that to our love of Harry Potter, Top Gear, Sherlock and Dr. Who. ;) I've always used the word "autumn" interchangeably with "fall", I'm not sure that's terribly uncommon.
Interesting!
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It took me a couple of months to be back at 100%, but I started to feel steadily better pretty soon after starting supplements. I was taking Vitron-C by the time I saw the hematologist, and she was pleased when I told her that was what I was taking - she said it used to only be available by prescription and was what docs would prescribe for their anemic patients. Also avoids that "drinking rust" taste you get from Floradix. :ack2:
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Gala or Empire.
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U of Chicago was sending stuff for awhile but I think they gave up. ;) But Rensselaer has been pretty persistent for months.
In search of a great turkey or chicken salad recipe
in The Chat Board
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This is our favorite recipe (I use mayo instead of Miracle Whip - personal choice). It's a little salty right away but it gets better as it sits. I make a double batch because my teen boys take huge mounded bowls of it!
http://www.food.com/recipe/charlies-famous-chicken-salad-with-grapes-53508