According to the Department of State (DOS) website (https://careers.state.gov/office), the mission of a U.S. diplomat in the Foreign Service is to promote peace, support prosperity, and protect American citizens while advancing the interests of the U.S. abroad.
To become a Foreign Service Officer (FSO) you must undergo three grueling tests or assessments. Search the internet and you will be find the stories of many who have tried and a few who have tried and succeeded.
General information follows, but please refer to the official DOS website for the latest and official informaiton. The info below is not guaranteed to be correct and up to date, so use it only as a starting point and for discussion purposes.
Again, nothing but a few video links. This is for practice, not the initial teaching of the topic.
I am about to swap out my motherboard and processor (Intel D955Xcs and Pentium duo). I want to reuse those in a new computer case. OS is Win 7 and Opensuse 12.1 dual boot. In order to be safe, I am creating a bootable USB with Opensuse.
First step is to go see this "silent" video: http://youtu.be/sRzVxw2tI5o (2:20)
Besides moral and/or religious grounds (not that one needs more rationale than morality/religion), can one tell a high school that sexual activity during high school has consequnces? First, we need data to see the current landscape. I found the following data from the CDC {Youth risk behavior surveillance—United States, 2011. MMWR 2012;61(SS-4).} You can find it on the CDC website, but restated here for convenience:
Many young people engage in sexual risk behaviors that can result in unintended health outcomes. For example, among U.S. high school students surveyed in 20111
Sexual risk behaviors place adolescents at risk for HIV infection, other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), and unintended pregnancy:
I had to delete all posts in order to purge the spam comments! I had not realized internet bots were such an issue!!
Another anime as I search for something as good as Full Metal Alcheist. Chaos; Head has plenty of promise: a blossiming love story, mystery, and a unique weapon (the DiSword). However, it's only 12 episodes long. If you would like to watch this series, go to: Chaos; Head on YouTube.
My favorite Anime of all time is probably Full Metal Alchemist. Anime enthusiasts know there are two versions: FMA and FMA-Brotherhood. Both are great, but Brotherhood had a complete story, following the original story line of the original author. More on FMA later. Today, I wanted to mention Chrono Crusade, the latest Anime I found in my search to find an anime that I enjoy as much as I enjoyed FMA. You can find episode 1 (of 24) with English subtitles here: Chrono Crusade on YouTube. Wikipedia has a great summary of everything you might want to know here: Chrono Crusade on Wikipedia. My review to come later.
I had a very interesting conversation with one of my PreCalculus students. He had been working on a paper for another course that was investigating the achievement gap in education in America. He asked me if I had any opinions or thoughts about it. Of course, I did. During the ensuing conversaiton, we spoke about the effect of the increasing number of children raised in single-parent homes. I got curious and later looked up some statistics.
A live reaction---at least the version of which I am writing---is a video of yourself "reacting" live and in real-time as you watch an anime. Others can then play back your live reaction as they watch the anime, and it's is like having you in the room with them.
I went to a Joomla powered website I had created (that was previously working just fine) and was redirected to an error screen that had the line:
Class 'JLog' not found in error.php on line 339 jimport
There was a long site-specific directory path before "error.php". I searched several Joomla sites looing for a solution. Most involved saving the MySQL database and re-installing. However, I found one forum that suggested the Class JLog was part of a definitions file in the libraries/joomla/log directory of the installation. The actual file was named "log.php". The post also referenced ftp errors common during an installation process.
I searched ("googled") the pharse, "What should I do if I can't afford college, even with loans?" Here's a great thread that does not give an answer but certainly raises some points to consider, especially one's attitude. I found it at CollegeConfidential.com at the following URL:
No explanation. Just two video links that will teach you L'Hopital's Rule in Calculus AB/BC fashion and even give you some practice applying it.
Watch videos on intro to RATIONAL FUNCTIONS
PBS's Need To Know re-braodcast on Sunday April 21(perhaps original air date was a few days earlier) presented a program on Financial Literacy. It highlighted a program in Missiissippi directed at educating kids (as young as 1st grade) and their parents about developing savings habits and the importance of having a bank account. I got curious about the statistics. The FDIC published results of a survey in 2011. The information that follows comes from that survery, which you can find here: 2012 Underbanked Survery (or go to
http://www.fdic.gov/householdsurvey/2012_unbankedreport.pdf ).
Click for a larger graph.
My golden rule when watching anime is to never watch a series that is unfinished. By that I mean, only watch series that have ended. This allows me to binge-watch or at least to always have the next episode available. I suppose this satisfies a sense of control. However, I think more important for me is that this way I do not have to wait a week for the next episode. Like all of us who enjoy good movies or stories: I want to find out what happens next.
I had a Win XP crash due to a bad disk. Since I would have to re-install XP on the new disk, I figured I might as well install a newer OS... WIndows 7 (and dual boot Opensuse Linux, but that's not relevant here). Then I wanted to keep all my mailboxes in Thuderbird as they were. I found the solution here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=1774485
Watch:
Have you seen the College Board's 9th Annual AP Report to the Nation? The numbers are a bit white-washed and curated. However, one can gleen some interesting trends. For examaple, 29.2% of Maryland's high school graduates of 2012 scored a 3 or higher on an AP Exam while 8 States had 10% or less. The USA average was 19.5%. Although currently, the College Board is a not-for-profit corporation, its CEO earned over $1 million in 2009. It is my beleif that, ultimately, this report is about increasing or maintaining the College Board's intake of money. Still, given that the College Board's standardized exams do act as a gate for access to the best of USA society, being knowledgeable about the demographics of success on these exams is important. Here's the demographic that I recall the most (click to see a pop-up larger version):
Every now and then, I do try to practice playing my guitar. I am just good enough to be bad. I have learned that when I do practice, using a song or music that I actually enjoy works best. No matter how badly I play it, in my mind, it still sounds like the song I enjoy. Thus, I have fun practicing.
Recently, I was in the mood for classic 1960's Brittish Invasion Rock-n-Roll. I found "No Milk Today" by Herman's Hermits on YouTube:
I used the tab music at tabs.ultimate-guitar.com. About two weeks later, I ran into this version of No Milk Today by Joshua James & The Forest Rangers, which played in The Season 3 Opener of Sons of Anarchy:
Enjoy.
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