angus77

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by angus77 16y ago
If you follow the link to 颱 from the wikipedia page to the wiktionary entry, you'll find that: a) 台 is the simplified version of 颱 in modern Chinese b) there is nothing in the entry that suggests it means "great" or "big", and that, in fact
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by angus77 16y ago
Actually, the first character in typhoon is 「台」, which means something like "stand" or "platform". It's also the first character in "Taiwan". I've read before that the word "typhoon" was of Arabic origin and came to Japan from Chinese, but
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by angus77 16y ago
Now, isn't that so Canadian? The headline mixes metric and imperial.
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by angus77 16y ago
That's correct.
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by angus77 16y ago
Yeah, whenever there's a quake sizeable enough to feel it, just turn on the TV---they're on it before you even have time to tune it.
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by angus77 16y ago
I hope that's 30 + (celsius degress * 2), otherwise he's older than my parents!
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by angus77 16y ago
It was a trap set to catch people with no sense of humour.
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by angus77 16y ago
Japan was a highly industrialized and highly educated country that happened to be down in the dumps 50 years ago due to WWII. For instance, the city I live in (Shizuoka) was pretty much obliterated by napalm. Then they rebuilt. China's n
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by angus77 16y ago
There are proposals to increase immigration in Japan to offset the projected population decrease due to low birth rate. It's expected to drop by over 50 million people before stabilizing without increased immigration.
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by angus77 16y ago
I'm trying to figure out how old you are if you use both. Older than me (33), as I haven't the slightest clue what the temperature in Fahrenheit is, but younger than my parents (mid-60s) who insist on talking to me in Fahrenheit (and I sti
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by angus77 16y ago
I was scheduled to go there tomorrow with my little girl. So now you know the full extent of the disaster.
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by angus77 16y ago
There are the air raid sirens. They use them all the time: for typhoons, for missing persons. Oh, and for earthquakes.
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by angus77 16y ago
It was on Japanese TV news almost immediately. We were watching it in the office while we were still shaking.
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by angus77 16y ago
Miyagi is a prefecture. Like a state or province.
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by angus77 16y ago
It was felt by most of the population of Japan. And there was actual damage done in Tokyo.
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by angus77 16y ago
"Look up at the url bar!" I'm using Conkeror, so I had to look down.
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by angus77 16y ago
While this is definitely true, it's also true that teachers don't generally work right through summer vacation, either. I'm from Ontario, not Rhode Island, but I had a teacher who was telling the class about the construction business he ru
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by angus77 16y ago
Could someone please explain how teachers' unions protecting "bad teachers" from being fired is in the best interests of the teachers unions? They get accused of that a lot, but I can't see how that would work for them. If my coworkers wer
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by angus77 16y ago
If the tests are asking little enough, then why are the teachers complaining they have no time to do anything but "teach to the tests"? Aside from calling them outright liars, I mean. Maybe that's what you're doing. And I don't think scho
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by angus77 16y ago
You spat out: "So what about 'engaged' in the article by the third grade teacher?" but didn't bother to answer it. You say you and I are in agreement; I thought I was in agreement (on that point) with the author; you imply you are in disag
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by angus77 16y ago
Then you're safe! No management role for you!
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by angus77 16y ago
So is there a big gap in the scores of Northerners and those in Southern border states? If there isn't, then it's not the illegal immigrants that are the problem. And how do they get into school if they don't have citizenship or visas? Y
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by angus77 16y ago
Nobody's saying that tests should be abolished. There've always been tests and there always will be. The problem is putting all effort into passing tests while letting all other aspects of education go by the wayside. How do you measure
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by angus77 16y ago
Should I have spelt it "R-ing TFA"? Are you asking me to explain what it means, or are you saying it's an invalid thing to have typed because it's not in your Webster's?
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by angus77 16y ago
Most Japanese kids end up going to cram schools to make up for what the school system (both public and private) lacks. The system sucks---long hours, Saturday classes are being reintroduced this spring, and the cram schools are usually at
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by angus77 16y ago
The "insignificant" gap gets more significant when you remember that the US spends on average more than $3000 more per student per year. It says that the US could cut costs by a third without hurting education in the least. Just where i
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by angus77 16y ago
Canada has the highest per capita immigration rate in the world. Ever been to Toronto? Almost half of the population there is foreign born. Look up Demographics of Toronto on Wikipedia for some stats.
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by angus77 16y ago
AAARGH! Of course, I meant DON'T have to pay for health insurance.
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by angus77 16y ago
You talk as if there were never test scores to think about before. There always have been. You can take that strawman and smoke it. "Engaging" is far, far more important than you realize. Kids who are bored will absorb less and be distra
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by angus77 16y ago
Except that what seems to be the most biting issue for her is being forced to teach for test scores. Throwing money at that won't make the classes any more engaging. Try actually RingTFA next time.

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