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For me, I don't believe in evolution. I accept evolution as the best answer we have to date. Could that change? Absolutely. When there is enough evidence that has gone through the rigors of being observed and tested. Belief has nothing to do with evolution.
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Beat me to it. "Accept" vs "believe" are important linguistic distinctions I always come back to. Believe whatever you wish to, or not, based on any faith, or not. Theories are accepted, or not, based on aggregate empirical evidence.
It's apples and oranges.
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Your Slate link is only bringing me back to this thread. I wanted to read it because I'm interested in finding out if evolution is really a religion or belief system in any way, or if that's said as a debate tactic.
Why so it is!
My bad on the cut n paste.
Try THIS link.
Edit -- here's the long URL: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/02/05/creationism_debate_should_we_engage_anti_science.html
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Slate ran several opinion pieces, but I found this one to be rather level-headed, and breaks it down further by trying to define just whose religion are we discussing, and why is it, or how did we get to the point of science and one portion of one religion being at odds anyway?
He mentions Pope JP II,"....who, one must admit, was a deeply religious man—saying that evolution was an established fact. Clearly, not all religion has a problem with evolution. Given that a quarter of U.S. citizens are Catholics, this shows Ham’s claim that evolution is anti-religious to be wrong."
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Nahhhh. Wrong chemistry to put the two star students together. Harry gets the stability of the extended Weasley family, Hermione gets rumpled a bit and Ron cleans up a lot. Win Win Win.
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RadioLab did a piece on controlling dreams and profiled a guy who did indeed stop a years-long recurring dream.
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Rittenhouse Square is desirable, but I haven't found it to be that expensive. I remember when we were shopping for a weekend condo there, I was absolutely shocked at how low the prices were, compared with when we were buying a similar place in Manhattan. Rentals are a lot cheaper, too, so I think LMA might be able to find something if she shops around a little.
You're right. I must amend my earlier assessment of The Square. $70 a night is a steal...unless of course the building is a dive, but there do seem to be some hidden studios about.
All those hospital residents must live somewhere...I mean...when they're not on shift.
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Well, at least my Yervoy infusions from a full year ago are still doing...something, since I was in the hospital for a week in January with immune-mediated pancreatitis. Something like 1% of patients in the trials got that, and none were a year out, so yeah, I'm an outlier, just as I was with the immune-mediated neuropathy in November. I suppose SOMEONE has to be that dot that screws up the graph.
Recovery from the pancreatitis is ongoing, but progressing rather quickly. The downside is that the minor chest irritation I had, and which I thought was from the hospital endoscopy, has bloomed into bronchitis, so I'm doing a 10-day of antibiotics.
Otherwise, nothing on the scans is making us jump up and down, so will re-scan in two months and see what path to take at that time.
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Smithsonian has a great article linking to some of the previous such debates -- way back to 1986 and Phil Donahue. The really interesting parts are links out to studies about how people react to factual information in altering their opinions (spoiler -- it doesn't work). A short quote:
"In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when misinformed people, particularly political partisans, were exposed to corrected facts in news stories, they rarely changed their minds. In fact, they often became even more strongly set in their beliefs. Facts, they found, were not curing misinformation. Like an under-powered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger."
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How long is the train ride into NJ? How often does it run?
From near Jefferson to the second-to-last NJ stop (Ashland), about 25 minutes. $6 round trip on a re-fillable swipe card.
Schedule info HERE.
If you're looking around Rittenhouse Square, just know that is the most desirable luxury neighborhoods in Philly and you'll pay accordingly. Hospital area is prob cheaper.
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I believe it. It's like driving in Boston. That's why I don't want to stay too far.
Interesting. My experience is the opposite for that part of Philly. Once you're off I-95 at the Callowohill exit, you're near Old City, by the Liberty Bell. Smaller streets, slower, tourist-y traffic. But then, I'm comparing it to driving in Manhattan, which is a whole 'nuther story. Philly seems infinitely more drive-able in that comparison.
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OK, the Rock School. That's Little Italy -- decent neighborhood. I'm most familiar with a neighborhood just 1 mile north of that, near Jefferson Hospital and Medical School, where I've stayed many times (most recently two weeks ago). The Holiday Inn Express on Walnut is excellent, with adjacent parking at $25 a day flat rate. LOTS of restaurants in the area frequented by bleary-eyed but clean-cut medical students.
I've also walked that one mile down Broad Street, and it's safe -- mostly residential. A few blocks east of the Rock School is Fantes, so if you cook, be sure to make a pilgrimage there. Yes, you could take the Metro subway a whopping two stops down Broad, but it's a mile, and the blocks are shorter in the north-south direction.
13th & Locust is the second-to-last PATCO stop. PATCO will take you into NJ, which may considerably lower your per-night cost, even when adding the $6 train and whatever the station lots charge at the other end. We did a week at the Hyatt House in Mt. Laurel, and there was a Whole foods, Wegmans, and Trader Joe's all in the area. There are other NJ long-term stay hotels on that same strip that cater to the Philly commuter.
If you'd rather be mobile in the burbs and just hop into the city each day, I'd consider the NJ option.
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I get $120 for a 2-hour SAT prep session in NE NJ, and I'm a shade on the cheap side for the area.
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My 2HB Ticonderogas seem light also. I think because I prefer to use 2B.
H might stand for Hard, which will be finer. DT's #3 are labelled H and are harder. Prob good for drafting and whatnot.
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I'm not a great urban driver even thought I drive in Boston and I have driven in northern Virginia a lot. When we stayed in Philly on my husband's business trip, we stayed at the airport area but I couldn't find anything cheaper there.
I was trying to find something nearby so I could just store the car and use public transportation. I don't want a long commute for my daughter either. The school recommends a 4-mile radius for a short commute. They claim the 4-mile commute could take up to 25 minutes.
Where exactly is the event location? Airport area hotels probably aren't worth the trip down I-95, short as it may be.
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DW decided to be a band director when she was in middle school, and has been one since 1987 (first high school, now middle school). She adores her students, and is one of those teachers kids go back to visit long after college.
However...
The system is slowly, silently, irrevocably crushing whole swaths of kids into powder. With the policy-du-jour set by (mostly) male politicians whose interaction with real students and teachers amounts to the semi-annual conferences they might attend for their own cherubs, it's those few remaining veteran teachers in the 20-40 year range, who started their careers before NCLB, who remember what it was once like, but will likely never be again.
Don't even get me started on PARCC....
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You'll pay lower hotel tax in NJ, and have more DIY dining options & food stores, but add on a daily $5 bridge toll (inbound only). LAZ Parking garages in Philly are what I always use, and will run around $25 for a full day.
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EB White did an audio version that is wonderful. Such a neat voice.
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I found luggage stores tend to have boxes that are a bit sturdier. Liquor stores have sturdy wine boxes that are tall, best sized for kitchen stuff and breakables. Copy paper boxes have great lids, and usually handle cutouts. It's hit or miss at my bookstore, but book boxes can be heavyweight.
Worth going to a self storage place for some of those upright wardrobe boxes with the crossbar for hangers.
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HuffPo just reported 111.5 million viewers, for a new US broadcast record. AP had this for DD's performance with QL:
"Latifah, dressed sedately in a knee-length blue parka and a white turtleneck, shared her performance equally with the New Jersey Youth Chorus, often swirling her voice together with the singers rather than taking a more forceful lead role. The effect was lovely."
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Don't discount NJ as an option. The PATCO high speed line will get you into Center City....well...high speed. That opens you up to using one of the Residence Inn type places around Cherry Hill. We did that for a week in August.
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That's worth turning on the TV for!
Your daughter must be so excited.
This all came together only on Monday under great secrecy, so it's been a week. :rofl:
Awesome!
Do you get to stay for the game?
Nope. Rush in, wait....wait....wait, sing, rush out. Police were practicing escorting buses hither and thither during dress rehearsal Friday afternoon. I will say, security was rather impressive, and that's only the part I could see. DW and I have been on that field many times back when we taught marching band, so the venue is familiar, although the circumstances are, uh...different this time.
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....begin brag mode....
We will be dining on a boxed lunch at an offsite location, before being whisked to the stadium under NJ State Police escort so DD can perform America the Beautiful with Queen Latifah just before Renee Fleming sings the National Anthem.
....end brag mode....
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The music stores seem to have an agenda when trying to sell me a piano. Each one seems to have their own favorites and push those. My guess is those brands yield them the highest profit margin, but I am cynical that way.
Yeah, I can see that. Maybe a non-chain music store, non mall-setting. Or some old guy piano dealer with a little shop. How to find those....ask a teacher. DW gives out recs for music stores she uses for repairs, and have a known reputation, etc.
Call the main office of your local school, or email. Worth a shot.
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Very local thing here in NJ. DW's diistrict is a town that was once mostly a summer resort, with whole sections of houses on twisty lake roads, so they will close when other schools don't just because the busses can't navigate in the conditions.
How are you feeling? February?
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Yeah, I've heard that. I seem to have escaped with a not too terrible case thus far. It is definitely a unique pain.