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although I wish it were a little more PG.
Now I'm watching Farscape. It's not as good as Firefly, because the writing isn't as good; however, it's good enough, if you watch the first show and skip the next 6 or so, then start watching it again. The writing takes a huge jump in the quality of the storyline. The first show sets it all up. The next 5 or 6 shows, at least of the few I watched, are all about the cast of prisoners getting to know each other and setting their boundaries and rules..
After that, the writers get really creative in the plots and story lines and the show really takes off. I'm really enjoying it.
But when comparing it to Firefly, it's just missing a little something extra.
I also enjoyed the two Stargate shows streaming on netflix. Stargate, the Ark of Truth and Stargate Continuum. I think I got that right.
Goodluck!
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God bless him. I'll be praying for his speedy recovery.
Kimberly
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I think BP deserves the bulk of the blame because, at the end of the day, it's their well and they are ultimately responsible for its safe operation. I also believe that they pressured TO and Halliburton to cut corners. We know that BP refused to perform the Cement Bond Log and Schlumberger got its workers out of there 6 hours before the explosion. If BP had performed the CBL, 11 people would be alive and the whole gulf coast wouldn't be threatened.
I agree with this. I believe that BP is solely responsible for the death of those people and they are liable in every aspect for every mistake they made, willful and otherwise. They are also responsible for the clean-up, regardless of the role played in this by Transocean and Halliburton.
BP has an awful track record and they are responsible on so many levels, down to the turtles and birds.
So I agree with you on pretty much every aspect.
My only concern is that in an attempt to hurt BP, by boycotting them and punishing the company by making them pay for the moratorium imposed by President Obama, the people that are employed by BP are going to be hurt. The people invested in BP are going to be hurt. Those with their pensions in BP are going to be hurt. (Btw, I'm not in that group.)
BP should be held responsible, including legally. But revenge against BP isn't the answer.
As for Transocean and Halliburton, they too need to be held responsible for the roles they played, if any, in this oil spill. Going after BP because of their track record should not let these others companies off the hook. They should be made to pay up. BP didn't drill that rig alone. And whether or not they pressured other companies to act irresponsibly isn't really an issue. Those companies are run by grown men and women and are responsible for their actions regardless of what BP did.
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IMHO, BP deserves its bad reputation. It has had a long string of safety violations, accidents and releases of pollutants. If I lived in Texas City (near a big BP refinery), I'm sure I'd thoroughly detest BP. I can understand how Amoco workers feel about being taken over by a company which stands out in its industry for its lack of concern for worker and community safety. Not all oil companies are irresponsible, but BP has repeatedly shown that it can't be trusted.
They do deserve their bad reputation, and they should pay for the situation they have caused. But enough details are not out about this spill to indicate that they actually caused it. What about Transocean and Halliburton? They are involved and could have actually caused the problem of the rig not failing safe, even if BP is the cause of the explosion.
Also, Obama is trying to make Bp responsible for the loss of income to workers caused by his 6 months ban on offshore drilling.
That is just ridiculous. BP can't or shouldn't be held liable for verifying that other companies aren't going to cause problems similar to the one they find themselves in. If they do, they'll destroy the company, which is made up of people. And all of those people who are guilty of nothing but working for BP will lose their jobs and their pensions and their savings.
Revenge against BP isn't going to make the leak go away, but it will make the income and pensions of many regular innocent people go away.
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They are profit-driven, amoral entities, by definition.
This I don't understand.
As an experienced chemical engineer, I am aghast at the stupidity of the assumptions that led to the gulf environmental disaster.I totally agree, but at this point, I'm refraining from blaming BP, although they are legally responsible. I do understand from the media information that's been released so far that they had no back up plan at all. And that is inexcusable. Who ever put together the regional spill plan will probably be fired. I can't imagine someone making those types of mistakes. They're simply inexcusable.
What I can't understand or find on line is did BP actually cause the leak? Why didn't the system fail closed? What role did Transocean play? What about the cementing done by Halliburton?
I realize that legally and morally BP is responsible for the operation of that oil rig, and they are responsible for not having the systems in place for dealing with a spill. But did they actually cause the spill or even the explosion?
I don't think anyone knows this right now. But the media and every assumes BP caused the problem.
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People knee-jerk react when one of these accidents occur.
I'm actually very concerned about all of the negative attitudes toward BP at this point. The knee-jerk reactions while understandable could cause the people that work for BP to lose their jobs.
It's very disturbing.
But aside from the knee-jerk reaction, the incident seems to bring more media scrutiny and disdain for the industry as a whole.
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I'm wondering now about the dispersant that are now being used on the oil. I am thinking it would probably be better to let the natural oil exist rather than adding the chemicals.
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There tends to be an "antiprofit" bias and the expectation that companies/people must be doing something wrong if they are "that" monetarily successful.
I can agree with this. And it makes sense.
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I ask because I had a very close friend that I worked with at Amoco Chemical before it was purchased by BP (she was in the computer deportment) and she thought chemical companies and oil companies were bad, very bad. (I can't quote her because I don't remember what she said.)
Anyway, after the BP incident, it seems the media is really anti-oil companies in general. And the pres. seems inclined to use the bp incident as an opportunity to regulate the industry more. Not some I disagree with, but I don't know that I actually agree with it either. I'm more in the camp that if we just enforced the rules we have, we'd have fewer problems.
Anyway, just wondering if the dislike is really there or if it's in my imagination.
Kimberly
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I've bought it at the grocery store, HEB, at the old house, and ordered at Amazon.
We use it too. My ds7 is allergic to deet.
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I'm here sometimes, when I feel like chatting. Most of my IRL friends have moved away, and recently, so have I.
If you have any questions, you can pm me.
Kimberly
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Especially, if you're dressing up for success, mais no?
Btw, I like the way you use no. It reminds me of my cajun childhood. Every sentence ended with, yeah 'chile, and , mais no. It seems like a distant memory now, but I remember when I read some of your posts.
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I think Mr. Pudewa uses the name based on his vision of what he is creating, which I believe is appropriate.
I have used some of his products for co-ops and for my own kids, and from listening to him and observing him from afar (I've never seen him in person), he seems to be creating an institute.
I think he is collecting and marketing the best writing and literature based resources (from his point of view) and making them available to the homeschool market. In his materials, he admits that his writing program is based on the work of his mentor, a professor. He is also now working with authors of other curriculum, Teaching the Classics and the Lost Tools of Writing as well as some others, I suspect, to assist them in getting their products developed and out on the homeschool market.
I am sure they work together and plan the direction of their business endeavors and the curricula content, creating and supplying resources that help homeschooling parents.
And I think he's doing a good job.
Do I agree with all of his methods, no. Shucks, I don't even agree with all of my own methods.
I think Institute is appropriate for his vision.
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People these days are overly sensitive to racism and sometimes call things racist that aren't.
It's a shame because everyone should have the right to choose and make choices about what's best for them. And as long as that choice doesn't hurt someone else, it's no one elses business. Pick who you want.
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Wow!
I don't know any physics majors in real life only engineers and chemists, so I'm not sure what options there are with physics so I'd have to do research, or rather he will have to do the research.
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This sounded cold and I'm not really that cold and impersonal, I was trying to be quick. I should have added that I totally support a liberal education or an art degree as long as you can support yourself while you do it.
I have an extremely athletic son who may want to be a swimmer and go for the Olympics (not true now) and if he did, I'd encourage him 100%. But I'd also try to focus on how do you earn a living after you're finished with swimming. Would you have your own business? Would you coach? Just job specific.
Hope I didn't sound like a dream squasher.
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I am encouraging my children to prepare for jobs in the real world. So I would never encourage my children to get a liberal arts degree. The objective is to get paid and earn a living. So I ask my kids now, What do you see yourself doing when you're an adult? I have to explain to them what I mean. So I say, When you imagine yourself working as an adult, do you see yourself working with computers or in a hospital helping sick people. (So far my middle son wants to work at Outback Steak House, but he let me know I still have to pay if I go to eat there when I visit him.)
My oldest son says he wants to study astronomy, I hear physics, both are a little too abstract for me. I will encourage him to pick a job and prepare for the job not just learn the material.
So I wouldn't study liberal arts or physics unless there is a job title associated with liberal arts or physics. If you want to teach, then you study to be a teacher and not just study the abstract field of education. If you want to study chemistry, that pretty much assumes work as a chemists, though not always. If you want to study art, then what job are you going to perform with that art degree and make sure you are prepared for the job while you're studying art.
People have to eat and earning a living comes first. If you can't eat off the degree, then I don't see the point. And I'm not talking about being rich, I'm talking about survival.
Fields like engineering, which is my background, are either all in or all out. My poor husband has to be at the refinery when needed; he can't just call in if there are problems with the equipment and they need technical support. So for my kids I plan to encourage to choose fields where they will have flexibility, especially for my daughter, so she can work if she wants to and still homeschool her kids, if she wants to.
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My dh does this with our kids all the time. He gives them problems that they have to think to figure out and he doesn't tell them how to do it. Children are amazing, they can do it if given the opportunity.
Fred is awesome. And all the information they need to do the problems is there. It is okay for them to get the wrong answer and then learn from the mistake. In fact, they should be getting wrong answers sometimes and they should have to work at understanding. Knowing that they missed it before, sometimes, makes the information stick when they see how the problem should be done.
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I am so sorry for your loss. May God bless you and your family as go through this. I will be praying for all of you.
Kimberly
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I don't know, but for us we're doing Megawords.
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If you opt of the ER, which isn't necessarily a bad idea, I'd at least call the doctor and ask about alternating motrin and tylenol. They are different medicines and can be given at the same time but on alternating schedules.
So motrin works for 8 hours, but at the 4 hour mark give Tylenol. This is what the ER told us to do for our daughter which she had an illness with an extremely high fever. As you can see, we did do the ER.
Always call the doctor first.
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I don't think anything is perfect, and neither do a lot of parents. That's why so many use two math problems. I'm one of those parents, but I tend to go back and forth between books overlapping on some material for the purpose of review. (This is at the early years, we're just starting algebra.)
I wouldn't put all my eggs in the TT basket. I would be more inclined to put all my eyes in Art of Problem basket, not unless I see that they teach the logic behind the equations and not just the application as does Dolciani. (I haven't review AoPS enough to know whether or not they do this.)
Math should be and individualized the way 8fillstheheart said she does for each of her kids.
At our home, the goal is to start stretching them. For our kids, it should not always be easy. So once they're comfortable, stretch 'em to the next level with something harder.
Other than that, each parent has to decide what is the best fit for each child, based on self esteem issues if there are any or learning style as needed.
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From what I see of MUS and TT, they're fine. But if you want your student to be able to handle more difficult math, then you have to work them from where they are to where you want them to be.
We're not there, because I wasn't there. I had to make a committment to do the hard work too. I have the benefit of being somewhat good at math, so I'm not too scared, just a little scared.
It's all about what your student needs and where you are going. I think as a parent I have to decide that for my students, at least until they get older and so no I'm not doing x, I'm doing y instead.
So we're doing baby steps.
Karen, I think that's who said it, is doing algebra twice with her daughter. That's a good idea. But the second time, use a harder program. Or add problems from a harder program with it. Or do like Elizabeth mentioned and add the Math Olympiad problems on top of what you're doing.
Our plan is just to start stretching our students, a little at a time. Basically, it's cause it's all I can handle.
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I got a pm asking what I was going to do with my kids. Well, I've decided to take the hard road. I want my kids to learn how to eat the elephant one bite at a time.
We're doing Dolciani algebra along with LofFred algebra for 7th grade. The Dolciani we're using is the 1975 version that mixes logic with algebra. We will probably add some Art of Problem solving books along the way.
I really don't want to limit my kids by taking the intimidation factor out of the way and making it too easy. (Btw, Fred doesn't do this, the author does however put the math in context to make it understandable.) I want them to learn to think through the problems logically without too much handholding. I want them to learn, but I want them to work at it, too.
My dh agrees with me. He it the technical advisor to a bunch of young engineers. He says one of the problems is that some of them don't want to think. They want to be told how to get the problem. But the problems they're dealing with aren't that simple. Part of learning is learning how to overcome when all of the information isn't provided or is laid out in a format that isn't easily recognizable. That is real world learning.
Basically, I want material that makes my kids eyes glaze over and then I want them to learn how to demystify it and attack it. Math isn't the only subject that teaches this type of reasoning--foreign languages do it too. But math is a subject that lends itself too easily to real thinking to overlook it.
Help! Television / Movie ideas
in General Education Discussion Board
Posted · Edited by Kimber
Another good series is Dead Zone based on the Stephen King book. I never read the book, but I caught the series on some old reruns years ago. Stephen King is normally a little too spooky for me. But the TV series is based on the idea that a man has a near death experience and comes back after being in a coma for years. Then he wakes up to find that anytime he touches anything, he can see in the past and the present associated with the object. He helps solve crimes and is trying to halt the end of the world. But of course, no one believes him.