Everythng but teeth, scorpions and bugs for me. My grandmom's parents were small grocery owners with a butcher shop in back, so she grew up using alot of organ meats in cooking. Tongue, tripe, and brains are all good if prepared well. From what others are saying the canned versions aren't bad either.
I had a mini notebook that didn't have enough RAM to run Windows smoothly. The RAM was not upgradeable in this laptop, so I installed Linux. It works great. It's like getting a new notebook without spending $1000.
I'm not a techy kind of person. All the info I needed was available on line. Do it on your day off when you will have time to invest. It could done quickly by someone who's done it before, but your first time will be a learning experience. It's worth the time invested to get a laptop that works great. It would take a lot more time if you tried to earn the money to by a new computer.
Actually, it is quite false that private schools, on average, spend more per pupil than public schools. However, a large chunk of public school per-pupil spending goes for meeting the needs of special needs students (disability, ESL students, etc.), whom the public schools are legally obligated to accommodate. Another chunk goes toward the necessarily larger administrative overhead; whether it's 10 elementary schools or 100 to coordinate, it's going to cost more. Finally, I believe public school teacher salaries are actually higher on average than private schools. So it's really an apples-to-oranges comparison.
The "all comers" aspect of the public schools makes it difficult to compare outcomes. There couldn't be a worse selection bias if you tried! There is evidence, though, that when you control for socioeconomic factors, private school students perform the same or in some cases worse than matched public-school counterparts.
That said, the answer to your question is surely "it depends." On where you live: there are places, for example, with both a reasonable cost of living and very decent public schools. Places where the public schools a mediocre but there aren't better private alternatives. Places where the motivated parent can get their child into a specialized public education setting for free, such as a magnet or charter school. On your kids: are they academically inclined? do they have special needs? what setting are they socially most comfortable in?
... allocating a load of memory (80meg, in this case), which forces windows to send anything which hasn't been used for a while out to disk ("page it out to disk"). If you then bring those apps to the front and use them again (the ones which were paged out), it has to reload them before they run, which means they start slower.
Swings and roundabouts.
Another method is to minimize apps you are not using. This does almost the same thing.
So yes, it WILL free up some memory, and make the "front" app run quicker, but not for long. I'd recommend going out and getting more ram, to be honest - you'd get more benefit from spending $60 on another 512meg of ram.... :)
In particular, if candidates A and B are roughly equal, but you're uncomfortable with candidate B because of race, religion, or gender, it might make it easier to avoid going through the mental gymnastics necessary to find an excuse based on their qualifications. Avoiding that effort would reduce the chance that someone who's conflicted on the issue to realize that he's discriminating, and that's a bad thing.
On the other hand, if the candidates are roughly equal, it's always possible to find some qualification-based excuse to go with your prejuduce (with a bit of effort), so in cases where the guy isn't already conflicted, I doubt if it's likely to change the result in a negative way.
Still, you're right. It is in precisely those cases where someone realizes that he's conflicted that there's an opportunity to make progress toward becoming comfortable chosing somebody who looks different. I'd be sad if my thinking here were used as an excuse for people to make less progress.
As some background, I attended private parochial schools through eighth grade, a small public high school and a small private college.
I think private schools are worthwhile for children. The biggest reason is that no one tends to get "lost in the shuffle." Public schools have fewer resources, normally, and that lends itself to educating to the middle of the group. Those that lag behind get left and those that excel get bored. Private schools are better able to give individual attention to all levels during the education process.
It builds up a great credit rating: But you must make sure you pay your balance every month. Do not use money you don't have or you'll end up with mountains of debt.
It's quick and easy: It depends on where you use it. Actually credit card could be the cause of long queue if signature is require from cardholders. The machine jam, the phone line slow to get the approval, etc.
It's great for accounting and spending reports: I envy you for having a credit card that categorizes your spending. i guess most of the issuers do not bother to do this.
I don't need to carry cash: I am more comfotable with cash. Not all places accept credit card. What if the credit card machine down and you're unable to get approval? I am carrying at least a few hundreds minimum.
Automated billing is great: Yes and no. It could be harder to claim back your money if there is any dispute.
Almost everybody takes Visa: Disagree. It all depends on which part of the world you are. In Malaysia for example, MasterCard is more popular.
Frequent flyer miles: If you fly frequently, this is great. But I hardly fly, so this is not an advantage to me. Anyway, you'll be better off getting a frequent flyer credit card if you are serious about accumulating fast airline miles. Frequent flyer gives you more power for your money, so you can fly more frequent with deep discounts.
This does not means I am against credit card. I love credit card to be honest. Credit card is the most convenient tool a human every created for the dynamic of globalization.
But please remember rule #1 : Do not use the money you don't have.
Here in CA there have been different Hawai'ian BBQ places popping up, to the delight of everyone who goes there... L&L, mostly.
I also try to hit up this giant Asian grocery sometimes when I'm going to my parent's house. Koreans love all kinds of food considered strange my western standards, like pine or melon rind. This grocery also sells live bullfrogs, in a carefully labeled tub which reads "for consumption only".
This can be a bummer if you earned too much money last year to qualify for the rebate, and is now laid off this year due to the economic downturn. I'm in a similar situation, I might barely qualify according to the explanation....I'll be spending it on necessities to help stimulate the economy!
My husband has had fried and flavored meal worms that a friend had brought back from Papau New Guinea once. Interestingly he said they tasty just like popcorn. I wonder if the silk worm, crickets and/or scorpions have similar texture (and tastelessness).
Oh and from what I hear, rattlesnake taste a lot like jumbo prawns. Canned, I'm not sure if that would be as good... but who doesn't like a nice buttered prawn, I mean rattlesnake.
Coming home from the office after an almost 16 hour day, the tip that most resonates with me is decide who has the privilege to declare a crisis. I know a lot of my stresses at work are caused by me NOT setting boundaries and this question should be one of the first things I ask before putting in a 16 hour day to meet a deadline.
but I feel like I've found a few tricks along the way that help.
First, I request receipts from every purchase throughout the day, and I spend 5 minutes every night updating my excel sheet to record the day's expenditures, along with notes as to where and what for exactly.
Second, I've gotten pretty good (and this took a loooong time) at keeping my spending low while out with friends. For example, if I'm going to Sunday brunch with friends, I eat at home first, and then simply get a cup of coffee when out with them.
Great point about how quickly $5 or $10 can add up. And by keeping track of every single penny can really slap you in the face as to what your spending habits are even when you don't want to admit it.
Just a quick reminder for those who seem to have forgotten: We are talking about photography as a *for-profit* business.
Just because you are not able to get your prints at cost for 25 cents (Which it's usually more for a professional print, by the way), doesn't mean the photographer is being greedy; It means they are making a profit.
It may seems like a large markup (even after deducting operating costs), but it's probably the going rate...
There's nothing wrong or greedy about making a profit in business!
I agree that budgeting should be taught in high school! I'm 26 and just now realizing how important budgeting is... I had no idea how to even start one until a year or so ago, and it took me a few tries to figure out which system works best for me. Starting to plant the idea of fiscal responsibility should start early!
(and not just saying "you should be smart with your money" because that teaches nothing)
I started a budget like this a few months ago. I'd like to add some comments regarding how it's going so far, from my point of view.
In theory, this budget system is fantastic. It helps me plan for future expenses, while making sure that I still have monthly money for bills, rent, etc. In practice, this is the most difficult budget system I've found (but that's exactly how you get on track with this budget - knowing every penny, in and out).
The hardest part for me is keeping track of all the expenses - especially that little stuff... And when that category gets to zero, there's no more spending unless the money comes out of a different category... Which brings me to my next point...
Tweaking the budget numbers to figure out your budget certainly doesn't happen overnight. In fact, I'm a few months in, and I'm still having trouble balancing my food/grocery money and my "entertainment" fund (which includes going out with friends, buying "want" items, etc). But it's getting closer each month.
I used to just get my paycheck, figure out what needed to be paid that month, and then the rest would suddenly disappear. I had over $500 that I had no idea where it was going, and living paycheck to paycheck. As it turns out, I was spending it on going out to eat and silly little things like magazines and candy. Not exactly where I wanted to focus my cash.
Sorry for the long rambling post, but I just wanted to say that this system is the only thing that's worked for me, and if you can tackle the hard part of keeping track of every penny, this system really helps you feel like you have control over your bank account! (finally!)
Great first post! I personally use YNAB (Excel-based budgeting client) to achieve a zero-based budget, mainly because I'm too lazy to program all the formulas into the spreadsheet myself. Zero-based budgeting is great and should be taught in all high school classes as I think it would save tons of people a lot of headaches later on in life.
Everythng but teeth, scorpions and bugs for me. My grandmom's parents were small grocery owners with a butcher shop in back, so she grew up using alot of organ meats in cooking. Tongue, tripe, and brains are all good if prepared well. From what others are saying the canned versions aren't bad either.
I had a mini notebook that didn't have enough RAM to run Windows smoothly. The RAM was not upgradeable in this laptop, so I installed Linux. It works great. It's like getting a new notebook without spending $1000.
I'm not a techy kind of person. All the info I needed was available on line. Do it on your day off when you will have time to invest. It could done quickly by someone who's done it before, but your first time will be a learning experience. It's worth the time invested to get a laptop that works great. It would take a lot more time if you tried to earn the money to by a new computer.
Actually, it is quite false that private schools, on average, spend more per pupil than public schools. However, a large chunk of public school per-pupil spending goes for meeting the needs of special needs students (disability, ESL students, etc.), whom the public schools are legally obligated to accommodate. Another chunk goes toward the necessarily larger administrative overhead; whether it's 10 elementary schools or 100 to coordinate, it's going to cost more. Finally, I believe public school teacher salaries are actually higher on average than private schools. So it's really an apples-to-oranges comparison.
The "all comers" aspect of the public schools makes it difficult to compare outcomes. There couldn't be a worse selection bias if you tried! There is evidence, though, that when you control for socioeconomic factors, private school students perform the same or in some cases worse than matched public-school counterparts.
That said, the answer to your question is surely "it depends." On where you live: there are places, for example, with both a reasonable cost of living and very decent public schools. Places where the public schools a mediocre but there aren't better private alternatives. Places where the motivated parent can get their child into a specialized public education setting for free, such as a magnet or charter school. On your kids: are they academically inclined? do they have special needs? what setting are they socially most comfortable in?
... allocating a load of memory (80meg, in this case), which forces windows to send anything which hasn't been used for a while out to disk ("page it out to disk"). If you then bring those apps to the front and use them again (the ones which were paged out), it has to reload them before they run, which means they start slower.
Swings and roundabouts.
Another method is to minimize apps you are not using. This does almost the same thing.
So yes, it WILL free up some memory, and make the "front" app run quicker, but not for long. I'd recommend going out and getting more ram, to be honest - you'd get more benefit from spending $60 on another 512meg of ram.... :)
In particular, if candidates A and B are roughly equal, but you're uncomfortable with candidate B because of race, religion, or gender, it might make it easier to avoid going through the mental gymnastics necessary to find an excuse based on their qualifications. Avoiding that effort would reduce the chance that someone who's conflicted on the issue to realize that he's discriminating, and that's a bad thing.
On the other hand, if the candidates are roughly equal, it's always possible to find some qualification-based excuse to go with your prejuduce (with a bit of effort), so in cases where the guy isn't already conflicted, I doubt if it's likely to change the result in a negative way.
Still, you're right. It is in precisely those cases where someone realizes that he's conflicted that there's an opportunity to make progress toward becoming comfortable chosing somebody who looks different. I'd be sad if my thinking here were used as an excuse for people to make less progress.
As some background, I attended private parochial schools through eighth grade, a small public high school and a small private college.
I think private schools are worthwhile for children. The biggest reason is that no one tends to get "lost in the shuffle." Public schools have fewer resources, normally, and that lends itself to educating to the middle of the group. Those that lag behind get left and those that excel get bored. Private schools are better able to give individual attention to all levels during the education process.
I've to agree and disagree on your given reasons.
It builds up a great credit rating: But you must make sure you pay your balance every month. Do not use money you don't have or you'll end up with mountains of debt.
It's quick and easy: It depends on where you use it. Actually credit card could be the cause of long queue if signature is require from cardholders. The machine jam, the phone line slow to get the approval, etc.
It's great for accounting and spending reports: I envy you for having a credit card that categorizes your spending. i guess most of the issuers do not bother to do this.
I don't need to carry cash: I am more comfotable with cash. Not all places accept credit card. What if the credit card machine down and you're unable to get approval? I am carrying at least a few hundreds minimum.
Automated billing is great: Yes and no. It could be harder to claim back your money if there is any dispute.
Almost everybody takes Visa: Disagree. It all depends on which part of the world you are. In Malaysia for example, MasterCard is more popular.
Frequent flyer miles: If you fly frequently, this is great. But I hardly fly, so this is not an advantage to me. Anyway, you'll be better off getting a frequent flyer credit card if you are serious about accumulating fast airline miles. Frequent flyer gives you more power for your money, so you can fly more frequent with deep discounts.
This does not means I am against credit card. I love credit card to be honest. Credit card is the most convenient tool a human every created for the dynamic of globalization.
But please remember rule #1 : Do not use the money you don't have.
Here in CA there have been different Hawai'ian BBQ places popping up, to the delight of everyone who goes there... L&L, mostly.
I also try to hit up this giant Asian grocery sometimes when I'm going to my parent's house. Koreans love all kinds of food considered strange my western standards, like pine or melon rind. This grocery also sells live bullfrogs, in a carefully labeled tub which reads "for consumption only".
This can be a bummer if you earned too much money last year to qualify for the rebate, and is now laid off this year due to the economic downturn. I'm in a similar situation, I might barely qualify according to the explanation....I'll be spending it on necessities to help stimulate the economy!
Thanks for the helpful post.
My husband has had fried and flavored meal worms that a friend had brought back from Papau New Guinea once. Interestingly he said they tasty just like popcorn. I wonder if the silk worm, crickets and/or scorpions have similar texture (and tastelessness).
Oh and from what I hear, rattlesnake taste a lot like jumbo prawns. Canned, I'm not sure if that would be as good... but who doesn't like a nice buttered prawn, I mean rattlesnake.
I think you're in a much better position now. I'd rather be making the money than depending on the tax rebate. Good for you.
Coming home from the office after an almost 16 hour day, the tip that most resonates with me is decide who has the privilege to declare a crisis. I know a lot of my stresses at work are caused by me NOT setting boundaries and this question should be one of the first things I ask before putting in a 16 hour day to meet a deadline.
Last time I didn't get anything because I didn't make enough money. This time, I probably won't get anything because I make too much money.
Last time I didn't get anything because I didn't make enough money. This time, I probably won't get anything because I make too much money.
but I feel like I've found a few tricks along the way that help.
First, I request receipts from every purchase throughout the day, and I spend 5 minutes every night updating my excel sheet to record the day's expenditures, along with notes as to where and what for exactly.
Second, I've gotten pretty good (and this took a loooong time) at keeping my spending low while out with friends. For example, if I'm going to Sunday brunch with friends, I eat at home first, and then simply get a cup of coffee when out with them.
Great point about how quickly $5 or $10 can add up. And by keeping track of every single penny can really slap you in the face as to what your spending habits are even when you don't want to admit it.
Berkeley is listed as part of the OCW, and I already have several of their English classes bookmarked! Woowee!
with what Olivia says. Though I do wish that our culture was more appreciative of artistic endeavors.
Margaret Garcia-Couoh
Just a quick reminder for those who seem to have forgotten: We are talking about photography as a *for-profit* business.
Just because you are not able to get your prints at cost for 25 cents (Which it's usually more for a professional print, by the way), doesn't mean the photographer is being greedy; It means they are making a profit.
It may seems like a large markup (even after deducting operating costs), but it's probably the going rate...
There's nothing wrong or greedy about making a profit in business!
I agree that budgeting should be taught in high school! I'm 26 and just now realizing how important budgeting is... I had no idea how to even start one until a year or so ago, and it took me a few tries to figure out which system works best for me. Starting to plant the idea of fiscal responsibility should start early!
(and not just saying "you should be smart with your money" because that teaches nothing)
I started a budget like this a few months ago. I'd like to add some comments regarding how it's going so far, from my point of view.
In theory, this budget system is fantastic. It helps me plan for future expenses, while making sure that I still have monthly money for bills, rent, etc. In practice, this is the most difficult budget system I've found (but that's exactly how you get on track with this budget - knowing every penny, in and out).
The hardest part for me is keeping track of all the expenses - especially that little stuff... And when that category gets to zero, there's no more spending unless the money comes out of a different category... Which brings me to my next point...
Tweaking the budget numbers to figure out your budget certainly doesn't happen overnight. In fact, I'm a few months in, and I'm still having trouble balancing my food/grocery money and my "entertainment" fund (which includes going out with friends, buying "want" items, etc). But it's getting closer each month.
I used to just get my paycheck, figure out what needed to be paid that month, and then the rest would suddenly disappear. I had over $500 that I had no idea where it was going, and living paycheck to paycheck. As it turns out, I was spending it on going out to eat and silly little things like magazines and candy. Not exactly where I wanted to focus my cash.
Sorry for the long rambling post, but I just wanted to say that this system is the only thing that's worked for me, and if you can tackle the hard part of keeping track of every penny, this system really helps you feel like you have control over your bank account! (finally!)
Great first post! I personally use YNAB (Excel-based budgeting client) to achieve a zero-based budget, mainly because I'm too lazy to program all the formulas into the spreadsheet myself. Zero-based budgeting is great and should be taught in all high school classes as I think it would save tons of people a lot of headaches later on in life.
I wonder if zombies would be distracted by the pork brains. That could be a very useful addition to the zombie survival kit.
Linsey, Berkeley has these free classes too! I used to watch the lectures online all the time.
This is one of the most useful articles I've ever read. Thank you so much for sharing your tips with us Sarah. =)
"The truth is, though, that we only have a certain number of "good" hours in us every day and that we won't work well for the rest"
This is tough to remember. We Americans just can't accept the fact that mandatory down time is an important part of productivity.
doing both man, doing both, and making calls