Let's Discuss Capital Cities -- and recreate the PFB

[belfastuniguy 18]

Yeah....what abcvs said lol

We call them timetables here. We give them that term for both school and university as well of course to travel timetables showing departure place and times at train/bus stations both electronically and paper format

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: abcvs

Period one Maths

Period two English

Interval

Period three...  American English for beginners...quote>

Yeah, my schedule wasn't that simplistic in high school. 

Spring of junior year:

1) CP Chemistry

2) CP English 11

3) CP US History

4) Weight Training

5) Psychology

6) Resource

7) CP Algebra II

Fall of senior year:

1) CP Physics

2) Resource

3) Weight Training

4) Drafting

5) Survey of English Literature

6) CP Pre-Calculus

7) Italian 1

Spring of senior year:

1) CP Physics

2) Resource

3) Civics

4) Drafting

5) Survey of English Literature

6) CP Pre-Calculus

7) Italian 1

Anticipating a few questions...

"CP" stands for "College Preparatory". Many classes are offered in two versions: CP and Honors (honors being more rigorous). I was lazy, so I never took any honors courses.

"Resource" is essentially a study hall period.

As for where lunch fits in there, it doesn't get its own period, it's half a period in length and it comes either before, after, or in the middle of period 6 depending on what class you have then. Which explains, then, why it's longer:

1) 7:25-8:18

2) 8:23-9:11

3) 9:16-10:04

4) 10:09-10:57

5) 11:02-11:50

6) 11:55-1:14 [lunch wave 1: 11:55-12:16, wave 2: 12:21-12:43, wave 3: 12:48-1:12]

7) 1:17-2:05

The other quirk of where I went to high school was that the first five periods rotated. So, depending on the day of the week, I had classes in these orders:

M) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

T) 2 3 4 5 1 6 7

W) 3 4 5 1 2 6 7

R) 4 5 1 2 3 6 7

F) 5 1 2 3 4 6 7

Which was nice because it meant you could be late for your first class every day and still not build up enough tardies to fail.

(The way that works is that you're allowed 7 absences before you fail, and 3 tardies add up to an absence. There were only 10 or 11 weeks to a quarter, so you'd even still be allowed 3 absences after that...)

Finding ways to exploit and/or abuse the system is fun.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

My sons school only has four periods a day - 90 min each.

Period 1

Period 2

Interval

Period 3

Lunch

Period 4

Oh and no bells, or tones...   you use your watch.

Only he will not wear one so he just follows the crowd...   

Oh and the rain in Spain falls mainly in Madrid...

[Boggy1 45]

This is my current timetable.

Unlike in America, every secondary school aged kid (11 years old to 16 years/11 years old to 18) has the same timetable for the entire year, and it doesn't change each semester (or term as we call them.)

As I am in the last year of school, I only take three subjects, which I chose. Last year I took four subjects, which I chose (+six key skills subjects which I didn't choose), and the year before that I took 13 subjects, though 9 were compulsory, and then the two years before that to the time I started school I took 14 subjects, and all were compulsory.

Oh, and the above Timetable is set out, so that the subject name is on the top, the teacher name is at the bottom - as we have two teachers for each subject - and the room number to the side.

Free periods arn't really 'free' per se, you are expected to do coursework and study in them. Friday has to be an hour shorter, because apparently the school board told us that our school was above the limit for teaching time. To make up we cut an hour off Fridays.

And this timetable is exactly the same for all years, at every age, except that younger ages (pre-16 year olds) don't get Free Periods as they have to take a hell of a lot more subjects.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Free period (cough)

Library (cough)

School Computers (cough cough)

ST chat room / MSN (cough cough cough)

[Schulmanator 5,812]

While we are busy posting away... back to capitals:

Tennessee: Nashville

Schulmania: Wirt

North Carolina: Raleigh

Egypt (Akenaten): Amarna

Persian Empire: Persepolis

Macedonia (Alexander/Philip): Pella

United Federation of Planets: San Francisco

Andorra: Andorra La Vella

Scotland: Edinburgh

Aztec Empire: Tenochtitlan

Western Australia: Perth

[Schulmanator 5,812]

BTW... as far as views are concerned, I deduced a while back that not only does your view count not increase when the user stays in the thread but also does not increase when one leaves the thread and comes back later in the same session. Say I close out Schulmania but do not log out of ST or shut down the computer, then open a new window to check up on it later.... no new view is recorded. If I stay in the same session the whole weekend and go in and out, it still counts as 1 view.

[Eʟᴇᴍᴇɴᴛ 273]

Another PFB test??? Wow it really does get confusing

[ecoba 28]

Capital Wise, Katima Mulilo is the Capital of Caprivi Administrative Region, Namibia (Suidwessafrika)

[Eastwinn 6]

I've only been to a few capitals. Annapolis and D.C. are among them.

Hey, what if I delete my own post instead of an admin doing it? Maybe the forum software goes through a different procedure when a regular user deletes his or her post and that discrepancy leads to the creation of the bug. I'll await an Ski's approval for this so if it does have an effect she won't lose count.

[Boggy1 45]

Eastwinn: We've already done that theory, good suggestion though

Test edit - abcvs

I appear to have been Test Edite'd.

[Strategist01 0]

Well, I had the same timetable throughout the year, and it only changed every year...from grade 5 I got a time table. We had bells, and in primary school, we sat in the classrooms and waited for the teacher to get to us, now in high school we alk to each class room. Our timetables only change in the number of subjects in grade 10.....Well that was an overview of the schooling system in South Africa. Any questions?

EDIT: Here's a link to my school, S.A.C.S

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

Originally posted by: abcvs

School timetables?  

quote>

Uh oh...  here we go again...

You know 

Period one Maths

Period two English

Interval

Period three...  American English for beginners...quote>

Hmm... what was my high school schedule last year?

1st period: Government (US)

2nd period: AP Calculus

3rd period: Study Hall

4th period: Physics

5th period: Band/Lunch (1st nine weeks), Lunch/Band (the rest of the time)

5th period is split into two sections.

6th period: Industrial Arts IV

7th period: Economics (1st semester) Study Hall (2nd semester)

8th period: English IV

I think in the March-April area 5th period went back to Band/Lunch for a little bit due to preparing for the Florida trip... The only band related thing we did in Florida was march in the Magic Kingdom parade, the rest of the time just was going to various areas of Disney World... and the beach.

As for the marching? lets just say it was hot with the full uniform, which just happened to be nearly all black. Good thing I had a fastpass for Splash Mountain for the time just after the parade...

By the way, Tallahassee is the capital of Florida.

[Strategist01 0]

Oh yeah, Durban, Cape town, and Bloemfontain are the capitals of South Africa...don't ask.

[belfastuniguy 18]

Oh yeah, Durban, Cape town, and Bloemfontain are the capitals of South Africa...don't ask. quote>

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

Here's mine:

1st: Chemistry

2nd: Spanish 5

3rd: AP Psychology

Lunch

4th: Algebra 2

It's good to only have 4 classes

[Eastwinn 6]

Originally posted by: Boggy1 Eastwinn: We've already done that theory, good suggestion though quote>

Ah, okay.

"Ah, okay" is not the capital of anything AFAIK.

[R30hedron 28]

hmm, the classes at my school are on block schedules with "A" and "B" days, with an "A" day then a "B" day and an "A" day and a "B" Day and a...
Back on topic, Bolivia has two capitals, Sucre and La Paz, I'm unsure why...

[hamsterTK 93]

Who knows, maybe the error is a mistake in the software code where a value relating to post and page counts starts at "1" instead of "0" or whatever is mathematically correct

Anyways,

Singapore is the capital of Singapore. It is the world's only microstate to be ruled by a mecha merlion robot built in Japan from pieces of progressive rock band ELO's former concert stage

[hamsterTK 93]

I found a skittle on my desk and ate it

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK I found a skittle on my desk and ate it

quote>

 

Please be specific... we need colour, age, relative S^Q (Stickiness Quotient)...

[hamsterTK 93]

Please be specific... we need colour, age, relative S^Q (Stickiness Quotient)...quote>

Skittle Data Sheet

Color	Red, ambiguous
Age	14 days or more
SQ	very high

[Jay Ess 15]

Ouagadougou is the capital of Burkina Faso and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic center of the nation. It is also the country's largest city, with a population of 1,475,223 (as of 2006). The city's name is often shortened to Ouaga. The inhabitants are called ouagalais.

Ouagadougou's primary industries are food processing and textiles. It is served by an international airport, rail links to Abidjan in C

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

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Brad: It seems that we found a new bug--

Brian: --it seems it eats post bugs...

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: abcvs S^Q (Stickiness Quotient)...quote>

That's some pretty odd notation there. Typically, if not just an abbreviation ("SQ"), you use subscript in variables, never superscript. "S^Q" reads as "S to the power Q"

Personally, I'd notate "Stickiness Quotient" as Q_S.

...then again, in what way is it exactly a quotient? Methinks "Stickiness Coefficient" or perhaps even "Stickiness Constant" (C_S, either way) would make far more sense.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Originally posted by: Duke87

Originally posted by: abcvs S^Q (Stickiness Quotient)...quote>

That's some pretty odd notation there. Typically, if not just an abbreviation ("SQ"), you use subscript in variables, never superscript. "S^Q" reads as "S to the power Q"

Personally, I'd notate "Stickiness Quotient" as Q_S.

...then again, in what way is it exactly a quotient? Methinks "Stickiness Coefficient" or perhaps even "Stickiness Constant" (C_S, either way) would make far more sense.quote>

 

...and since when has anything we have discussed, dissertated or otherwise discerned  in this premier thread of rampant robust reasoning or any to wit of it's predecessors ever made any sense?

I am appalled that you may have thought otherwise.   

^{(ST 5.0 screenshots... available now at rock bottom clearance prices... for a strictly limited time!  Last chance to get em while they're hot!  Strictly no  refunds or returns.)}

Oooh I thought I was in the Change is coming to ST thread...  nevermind...  whatever works!

[GMT 389]

Originally posted by: Duke87

[...]

1) 7:25-8:18

2) 8:23-9:11

3) 9:16-10:04

4) 10:09-10:57

5) 11:02-11:50

6) 11:55-1:14 [lunch wave 1: 11:55-12:16, wave 2: 12:21-12:43, wave 3: 12:48-1:12]

7) 1:17-2:05

[...]quote>

but... uhm... they were technically possible to give you even odder times, weren't they?

hell...

and I thought I was screwed with the new times when I changed schools and all of a sudden, everything happened half an hour earlier...

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: GMT

but... uhm... they were technically possible to give you even odder times, weren't they?quote>

Meh, that's public school for ya. You've got 6½ hours to divide up into 7 periods, that's what happens.

Still, most kids didn't have the start and end times memorized, beyond that school begins at 7:25 and ends at 2"05. You didn't need to, you just needed to know that when the bell rang you had 5 minutes to get to your next class.

The early dismissal schedule was a bit less odd:

1) 7:25-8:05

2) 8:10-8:45

3) 8:50-9:25

4) 9:30-10:05

5) 10:10-10:45

6) 10:50-11:25

7) 11:30-12:05

Now, at Manhattan College, it makes more sense. Day classes typically occupy one of the following time blocks, or two back to back:

8:00-8:55

9:05-10:00

10:10-11:05

11:15-12:10

12:20-1:15

1:25-2:20

2:30-3:25

3:35-4:30

4:40-5:35

Night classes are less uniform. My introductory religion class freshman year was 6:15-7:30. My night chemistry class was 6:00-9:00. Night engineering classes are typically scheduled 6:30-9:20, but most professors won't ever use up that whole time.

Ultimately, classes (with a few exceptions) are either one hour (actually, 55 minutes) three times a week, an hour and a half twice a week, or three hours (maybe a little less) once a week.

Of course, in college, there's no bell that rings, so everyone (students and professors) has to keep their own time. And, for whatever reason, the engineering building has no clocks in any of the classrooms. My professor for Calculus III didn't wear a watch and would always ask how we were doing on time. 

On the other hand, though, it's not like you're going to fail the class or get detention if you show up late too much, so it's not as big of a deal. There's one guy in my year I know who's almost never on time for anything. We (okay, mostly I) make fun of him for it, but he gets away with it penaltyless.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Chartered in 1839 as the capital of the Republic of Texas, Austin became the state capital when

[Easy Bakes 253]

^^^ Thats wierd. Try to edit that and it always reapeares as that ^^^

Chartered in 1839 as the capital of the Republic of Texas, Austin became the state capital when