The Big Spliff

Not so hard to found.

We're fairly new to the area and need some info regarding Central Private.

My daughter, for a variety of reasons, typically does much better in a private school setting compared to a public school setting. We have found that even with the best of public school districts, the sheer size of the school (even if the class size is reasonable) is enough to make her extremely uncomfortable to the point of intolerable. It is something we have tried to work through with outside counseling, etc with really no progress.

I know Central Private holds some less than desirable reputation in its early days. I'm not so interested in this. I am more focused on today. What is the current state of Central Private - the politics within the school, the interaction between teachers and students, teachers and parents, administration and teachers, administration and parents, etc. How are the academics compared to other relative private and even public schools?

Another consideration that we have is that my daughter has a very rare medical condition. In our experience, even though public schools are legally required to provide accommodations for our daughter (which by the way are not all that involved), the private schools seem much easier to deal with. So this is another reason we are looking into Central Private.

So any insight anyone can give about the school will be helpful. We're also aware that rumors have been around for years that the school may close and isn't viable long term. I'm not sure if that's just talk or real. If we start her there, we'd like to be there long term.

Thanks.

Shania Twain: "The best thing about a big-headed woman"

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Would it be legal to wait until dead period is over to name DC? So they can have contact with prospects?

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You are Les aren't you?

I'm curious to know from those who have done a side by side comparison how improved the audio soundtracks are on movies with the Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats compared to the older/compressed DD5.1/DTS formats.

I'm looking to upgrade my receiver or add a processor and use my current receiver simply as an amplifier but want to make sure this is worth the expense.

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It's not new, but I'm shocked it didn't make it on the main album, but was left to the EP. Pretty decent song here.

Oh, by the way, I noticed they released a new single for the movie Unbroken today called Miracles.

Miracles

For crying out loud - when did shopping for bed sheets become this complicated? There's a million different types, styles, brands, material blends, etc. to choose from. I thought this was going to be a slam dunk, but apparently this is just another setup for ole Spliff to fail hard at.

And I learned quickly not to read reviews on amazon, etc. Half the reviews people love the product and the other half hate it. it's like tigerdroppings' membership has reviewed every bed sheet ever made.

FYI for those looking into buying a home theater receiver, particularly on the upper end with the better bells and whistles.

Onkyo has acknowledged quality control issues on many of their receivers and are dealing with repairs/replacements and have actually extended their warranties in response to the number of failed units.

I've never owned an Onkyo but was considering one for my next purchase while also considering the alternative of separate preamp/processor and amplifier combo, not to mention other receivers.

My habit of over-researching came across the following link that discusses the problems at length. Add to it that Onkyo has dumped the Audyssey feature that allows for a fairly good room calibration of your audio system in favor of less than impressive knockoff feature. Reason for this appears to be driven by the Onkyo processor's inability to handle the workload and the company's unwillingness to add a dual core processor to make it a non-issue as other manufacturers have done.

This is fairly frustrating because Onkyo does have a couple of options with the latest and greatest HDMI "standard" for 4k video pass-through that some of the others do not.

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Be sure to do your homework before pulling the trigger on these.

we've got turkey and a ton of other stuff going at the house this thanksgiving but the wife wants ham as well and I just don't see us having the time and space to prepare it in time.

Any suggestions for getting a quality one already prepared? We can plan to pick it up the day before or morning of (preferred of course if at all remotely possible).

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