DISQUS

"Anyone in the great state of Maryland receive any FAR scores??? Took my exam on 4/22 and haven’t heard back yet."


Maryland has only released BEC scores so far...I'm not thinking it's a great state anymore :-P

I contacted MD about audit, and I received the generic "it takes 16 weeks" response. They apparently tell everyone who asks them that, so don't freak out and think it will take that long. I then remembered (I don't know how I forgot) that I do have a contact on the MD board, whom I quickly emailed. He said it should be rolling in any day now (he's not directly involved with the score reporting process), and that if it's not in by next week I can email him again and he'll try to see if he can expedite the process.

My scores were released around 11 am and 12:30 pm. Everyone else that I know has received their scores around the same time. The latest time I've heard from anyone is 3 pm. In short then, I wouldn't expect to see scores from Maryland at night.

Aud-MD

Not sure why, but in my experience Maryland is a little slower than the other states in posting scores (I have passed two sections, waiting for audit to be my third). I know several people who have taken audit in the current window, and everyone is still waiting...

Jeff,

I am going insane (in case you couldn't tell)...

I emailed MD, asking when I could expect to see my audit score when I sat for it on April 1st. The response I received? "13 weeks"

Please tell me this is a generic response, I will be bald at age 23 if I have to wait until the very end of June...

I see someone else has already answered, but they do report through their own website and not through NASBA.

Still no Audit in MD...

Jeff, I would file this in your knowledge bank that MD is slow in sending out exam scores compared to other states. I even went back to previous exam windows to compare when you said scores were released to when I actually received mine. It was 2-3 days later. Ridiculous!!

Also waiting for MD audit, at least the three of us are not alone...

Audit is out...but not in Maryland yet. Does MD lag behind the other states in posting scores???

No audit in MD yet...and I sat for it on April 1st...

Funny you are only helping this creep MBC.

Hello my name is Craig and yes i do play the tuba. I used to have exactly the same view as you of tuba players until i got into college because i play the tuba. I dabbled in several other instruments but apparently i was kinda good at tuba. what you dont realize is how gorgeous the instrument can sound when played correctly. Its one of the warmest instruments around and can really sound beautiful. Its not your fault that you have the conception that you do. Its merely the image the tuba gets because when students are just learning it sounds fucking atrocious and generally the kind of kid that plays the tuba is the one that isnt good at anything else. But to fight the stereotype i will say that a) i dont get nearly enough money for the work i have to put in because there are virtually no tuba players in our music department, and b) that i played jazz tenor sax all through high school and was the lead tenor in our jazz band. I would challenge you to listen to a tuba player not in a marching band or a street performer playing polka as those are not the true sound of the instrument.

Swap Lennon and 8mill for Bentley b4 Spurs change their minds

Thats horrible :(

I also liked Tina Fey in SNL
The premise of this movie, that having children makes you happy, is untrue.
Studies show that having children doesn't make you happier, but being in a stable long term relationship does.

In April '92, Clinton camp called Brown victory "impossible"

Is this something that we're looking for?


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Sen. Barack Obama accused Sen. Hillary Clinton of stoking anger in Florida and Michigan over the Democratic Party's decision not to recognize the states' primary votes.



"They weren't stirring it up when they didn't need the delegates," he said. "Let's not sort of pretend that we don't know what's going on. This is, from their perspective, their last slender hope to make arguments about how they can win."



Obama, speaking to reporters on his campaign plane late Saturday, also took on Sen. John McCain's suggestion that Obama's lack of military service makes him unqualified to criticize him on veterans issues.



"I will cede to no one the ability to talk about veterans issues," Obama said. "My grandfather was a veteran. Those veterans benefits helped my grandparents to raise my mother. I have veterans throughout the state of Illinois that I've been fighting for since I came into the United States Senate."



Obama returned to his home base of Chicago, Illinois, Saturday night after a campaign swing through in Puerto Rico, which holds its primary June 1, and spending three days in Florida.



Obama said he wants a resolution of the controversy over the seating of the Florida and Michigan delegations so that they "feel that they've been treated fairly and they're seated."



"I want to be looking at them when I'm standing on the stage in Denver in August," Obama said.



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Nixon is saying the nomination process needs to be changed.



May I remind people that after the 2000 election, she claimed that the first thing she'd do in the US Senate was work on pushing through an amendment to get rid of the electoral college.



Far as I'm aware that was all hot air.

I'm reading the Vanity Fair RFK article right now, not sure if it's online or not, but I found this paragraph, well....


The right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler, who had also been a ferocious critic of F.D.R. and the New Deal, welcomed the possibility that, as he put it, "some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his [Kennedy's] spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies," and J. Edgar Hoover's deputy Clyde Tolson remarked offhandedly, "I hope that someone shoots and kills the son of a bitch."



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This issue has been on the newsstands for the last three weeks (or more) and since it's the June 2008 edition, it will be on the shelves for at least another few weeks.



Hillary Rodham Nixon knows exactly what she's saying. She couldn't be as explicit as the quotes above (emphasis mine), but she knows exactly what she's doing.

kenya w, thank you for your responses.


I'm reminded of that historic day back in 2002 when Halle Berry became the first Black woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress and there were many who said she wasn't really Black and that is why she was able to win.



Hardly any of these social critics addressed the merits of Halle's performance, except to say that Angela Bassett should've won for What's Love Got to Do With It and since she didn't it proves that Halle's win had only to do with her complexion and heritage.



This discussion reminds me of that discussion and it's unfortunate.

Obama, meanwhile, plans to give the commencement speech at Wesleyan University's graduation today in Connecticut, replacing the ailing Ted Kennedy.


Obama will be greeted by an unprecedented amount of security. The ceremony will be closed to the public, and guests will have to go through metal detectors.



One presidential historian thinks Clinton's loose-lipped reference to assassination raises the danger of someone's targeting Obama.



KENNEDYS FEEL BOBBY-SOCKED

Where is that America?


President Obama.



There, I said it.

Oh :P Miyabi's heels eh? XD


(Y'know I show my Momo photobooks to my housemate who is a mum and teacher and her reaction is generally positive, she said Momo was lovely.)



*pictures some kind of Sailor Moon style loss of uniform to bits*



AFAIK in Italy when guys do that gesture it means they've seen a pretty girl... So I'm guessing the girls are saying they're pretty :P

Oh :P Miyabi's heels eh? XD


(Y'know I show my Momo photobooks to my housemate who is a mum and teacher and her reaction is generally positive, she said Momo was lovely.)



*pictures some kind of Sailor Moon style loss of uniform to bits*



AFAIK in Italy when guys do that gesture it means they've seen a pretty girl... So I'm guessing the girls are saying they're pretty :P

May I also recommend this article as the subject of an entire post.


Peggy Noonan, a white, conservative baby boomer female, gets it.



But beyond that, her writing in this piece is nothing shorty of devastating.



In one fell swoop, she makes an argument for Obama's connection to Rev. Wright and his bitter comments and she never bats an eyelash.



Loyal to Bitterness

Some writers call it the Race Chasm. I call it Appalachia. Or to put it in election jargon:


It's the eastern Mountains, Stupid.



That's where Obama's "problem" is most pronounced. That's why in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee, Obama didn't have/won't have a chance to win a plurality of votes among poor white people. Notice how much better he did/is expected to do in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and states west of Indiana inclusive and north/east of New York among that same demographic.



Appalachia has been forgotten for so long that many communities in may as well still be living in Reconstruction.



It was, after all, a Kentucky congressman that said a few weeks ago, "That boy could never be commander in chief." No media coverage.



Recently, another Kentucky superdelegate who endorsed Obama has already received more than 300 calls pressuring him to back off, some calling him a "n****r lover" and worse. No media coverage. (But progressive activists responded by raising $20,000 for his campaign in just over a day.)



Obama is expected to lose Kentucky by 35+ points. Few delegates on the line. If I'm him, I don't even campaign there outside of Louisville and Lexington. Especially not in the racially charged atmosphere being promoted around the Rev. Wright conflama.



No one has the guts to come out and say it: Poor white folks in Appalachia are hardcore bigots and their politicians, even the progressive ones, by and large echo the sentiments of that bigotry in order to get their votes.