Mcp Puns

As we enter a second week of discovering no bus service less than an hour before we’re supposed to send our kids out to catch said buses, MCPS really needs to start rotating this pain/inconvenience.

My kids’ bus lines have been consistently impacted. We’ve gone from a happy bus household, to juggling dropping off two kids to two different schools during morning rush hour. Not to mention we’re in the DCC, so this involves multiple drives by the Beltway, and it’s on ramp back-ups. This blows. I’m ready to be maliciously compliant with MCPS’s liberal leave policy, whereby kids won’t be marked absent due to lack of bus service. Rotate the inconvenience, MCPS.

End rant.

Here is the full letter from MCPS. In pertinent part it says:

“Possible Future Transitions to Virtual Learning To determine if any individual schools will transition to virtual learning in the future, MCPS will be looking at trends in: staff absences; unfilled substitute teacher requests; student absences; unserved bus routes; and positive case rates for students and staff over a 10-day period. See a visual example of these key factors. When a school is high in multiple areas as compared with other schools, MCPS will confer with the Department of Health and Human Services and then convene a team including central office representatives, the school’s principal, staff representatives, and parent leaders at the school. This team will make a recommendation to the Superintendent’s Cabinet.“

According to this statement, I believe they’re saying: “As long as the metrics are equally dismal and unsafe across all schools, we won’t even look at any school to determine whether any school should move to virtual learning.”

Got the text alert that 90 bus routes are unable to be serviced this morning due to drivers calling out. I’m guessing they tested positive for COVID or have symptoms. I think people forget that schools need support staff just as much as they need teachers. I know I’m in the minority here but I really wish MCPS would go virtual for two weeks. Yes, I get it, not all parents can stay home but I believe trying to push through this surge is going to lead to more community spread which will lead to schools eventually going virtual even longer than two weeks.

On Wednesday, January 5, Montgomery County Public Schools handed out masks to MCPS staff. While these masks are marked "non-medical", they also are marked as KN95s, showing that they supposedly meet the Chinese standard of capturing 95% of tiny particles.

Up until mid-2021, the CDC maintained a site that lists all the non-NIOSH-approved masks on the market, and gives the ratings that they were able to find when they tested these masks. In many cases, these CDC tests showed that some masks actually only captured a much smaller percentage of particles than were claimed. I was curious to see if the masks that MCPS provided were rated highly by the CDC.

The masks provided by MCPS are labeled as Shenzhen Ende Medical Technology, manufactured by Shenzhen Enbide Electronic Technology, with the product line saying they are KN95 GB2626-2006 Non-medical EN-05 masks. However, when you try to look this mask type up on the CDC site, the company does not come up at all.

At first, I thought this was because the CDC stopped doing the tests a few months ago, and maybe this company only just now started making masks. But they were making masks as early as March 2022 2020 according to the FDA. So why did the CDC not ever bother testing this company's masks?

It turns out that in April 2020, the CDC caught the company falsifying records where they claimed to be NIOSH approved. While I can't say for sure that this is the reason why the CDC never bothered to test their masks afterward, it is suggestive that they tested hundreds of different masks and never once bothered to test any of this company's masks over the past two years.

While this in no way should be taken to mean that the masks that were distributed are necessarily bad, it does show that the company making them are acknowledged as mask counterfeiters by the CDC in the past, and that the CDC never even bothered testing the masks to see if they held up to their claims.

(I tweeted about this as I was researching this a few moments ago, if you're interested in seeing what the MCPS twitterverse had to say about it.)

EDIT ON JAN 14: The above post references the m

Spent 1.5 hours of them sticking to talking points and not addressing the main questions from the community. Over 2000 questions were submitted and they refused to address directly questions about temporary hybrid or online option. It was madness

This letter is an address to the concern of virtual learning, masks and other bussing issues in MCPS. https://mocoshow.com/blog/mcps-community-message-for-jan-9-includes-details-on-kn95-masks-for-students-revised-quarantine-guidelines-for-staff-bus-service-and-more/

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Montgomery County Public Schools sent the following message to parents and students on Sunday afternoon:

" Dear MCPS Community,

The past week has been extremely challenging for everyone in our community. Evolving COVID-19 guidance, bus staffing shortages and inclement weather caused disruptions to teaching and learning and school operations. While the circumstances leading to these disruptions are beyond our control, we should have done a better job communicating with you about these challenges and clarifying our response. I apologize for any stress this caused our staff, students, and community members.

The health and well-being of our students and staff remain our top priority. We continue to believe that in-person learning is the best way to meet the educational, social, and emotional needs of our students and will continue to prioritize keeping our school buildings open. Switching any school to virtual learning—even for a short period of time—will be a last resort and that decision will be based on the best information available and the guidance of national, state, and local health professionals.

The remainder of this message outlines what steps we are taking to ensure the safety and well-being of our students, staff, and families; updates to school operations; and when we will consider switching a school to virtual learning. This includes information about:

• The distribution of KN-95 masks and rapid test kits to all students and staff;

• New isolation and quarantine procedures for staff, based on revised guidance from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC); and

• An update on school operations, including bus service and the resumption of extracurricular activities;

• An upcoming community conversation to discuss school system operations; and

• How you can help us make informed decisions about keeping schools open.

*I know that many of our families are struggling with the impact of the pandemic right now, and that includes my family: I tested positive for COVID-19 early last week. Thankfully, my symptoms have been mild, and I am working at home while isolating.  Together, I know we can make it through this difficult time. Our community is strong and ou

As a teacher at a middle school in MCPS, I wanted to pass along some info my Content Specialist sent me. If anyone could take a few moments to reach out and help us be heard by the Board of Education, it would be so appreciated!

Edited for clarity: today the boe changed the mandate they created on how to decide what school should be going virtual in order to stop transmission of the virus. This was a policy they created and explained on January 3rd. As a teacher I see the clear impact that virtual learning had on most of our students last year and I am a firm believer that it is not ideal. However, changing to a 14-day virtual system would greatly reduce the numbers and control the spread. It would also allow MCPS to get us actual KN95 masks.

“Hi everyone! Hopefully you saw the message from MCPS stating that they are completely disregarding the percentages previously set to determine if a school needs to go virtual because of high Covid cases. MCEA leadership needs our help. Please email the board, and county council. MCEA is meeting with them at three and our voices need to be heard!”

boe@mcpsmd.org

county.council@montgomerycountymd.gov

marc.elrich@montgomerycountymd.gov

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Hello All!

Christmas this year saw me being gifted the MCP starter set and Venom from my wife. Really excited to start playing the game properly (played with the starter stuff a couple of times to get my head around the rules).

Growing up I loved the Spiderman cartoon in the 90s and favourite character was always Venom, so with that in mind I've decided I want to lean into the Web Warriors affiliation. So I picked up Miles and Gwen at my LGS and I really like the control/objective based strategy they seem to lean towards as a group.

So I was wondering if I could get some advice on:

1 where to go next in terms of characters? 2 any advice from experienced players when using these? 3 any resources online I can read/listen to to get a better understanding of the affiliation?

Thanks in advance!

Some changes in my life have left me with less time than I’d need for full scale games mixed with some unexpected expenses

Have:

• AoS 3.0 core rules ($30)
• Fungoid Cave Shaman NiB ($25)
• Orruk Warclans Warscroll cards NiB($25)
• 25 Outriders/Pistoleers sub assembled with some paint ($65)
• Kill Team Chalnath Tau NoS with instructions and rules book ($65)
• Kill Team essentials- Core rules, compendium, measuring tools, dice, cards($85)
• Malign Sorcery models only(built)($50)

Stormcast Eternals. SOLD

• 5 Stormdrake Guard-3 sub assembled with lances and 2 NiB
• Kngiht Draconis- sub assembled $45
• Yndrasta $20
• 6 Annihilators with hammers built $50
• 3 Annihilators with shield $25
• 10Vindictors built) $18 per 5
• 3 Longstrikes with aetherwings built $25
• Bastian Carthalos built $25
• Guardus $20
• knight Incantor built (soul wars model) $15
• Knight Arcanum built x2 $15 ea
• Lord Imperetant $20
• Lord Castallent $20
• Lord Cellestant $20
• 3 Prosectors with hammers $20
• 2 Ballista $15 ea
• Lord Arcanum on Gryph $20
• Lord Relictor $20
• 5 Castigors $20
• 5 Liberators $15
• 8 Sequitors $15
• Tome(code unused)

Also willing to negotiate. And willing to look at trades for non core set MCP or Bolt Action.

Thanks verification

still have a few Warhammer things I need to get rid of. Mostly looking to get rid of everything as a lot. Have a gloomspite gitz squig army in various states, army comes as shown as well as some black library books I never got around to reading, as well as the old s2darkness battle tome. Price does not include shipping unless buying the lot. Will wait a few days before splitting the squigs. Thank you

Squig Lot shipped SOLD

NiS portion: 25x bounders or hoppers 1 mangler squig 1 loon boss on giant cave squig

Built and Primed: 5 Bounders built 8 Squigs and 1 handler primed wraithbone 1 handler painted 4 squigs painted 1 mangler squig primed wraithbone

Stripped models taken out for pictures:

1 loon boss on giant cave squig 10 hoppers in the process of being stripped, 10 squigs and 2 handlers being stripped

Black Library Books: 50$ shipped Necromunda: Karl Jericho Omnibus: 25$ Legend of Sigmar:25$ Carcharodons: red tithe SOLD Carcharodons: outerdark SOLD

S2D tome: 10$ + shipping

Verification post: https://imgur.com/a/jMli90D

Hi community I am wanting to get started on MCP to play probably on the more casual side with friends and my wife. Myself and the friends that will be playing are very familiar with table top mini games and to an extent so is my wife. I am working on what I want to get for my first comp and I have come up with the following

Star Lord She-hulk Dr. Strange Angela Rocket Groot Scarlet Witch Blade Moon knight Gamora

I am still reading through online resources but wanted to get an outside opinion on these hero’s. I am a fairly competitive player at heart so I am mixing in hero’s that I like with ones that I think are good.

Any suggestions are appreciated as well as best first steps into the hobby.

https://imgur.com/a/RsI0KSI

HAVE

SOLD 4X oop metal fiends 25

SOLD 1x oop keeper of secrets 25

10x seekers nos 40

1x GSC half of shadowthrone NOS 80

1x GSC atv NOS 10

SOLD RECAST 1k contemptor (no weapons)

10x RECAST Tech thralls with las locks 20

10X FEC Ghouls NoS 10

SOLD Eldar guardians w/weapon platforms

SOLD Eldar autarch, eldar fire dragon exarch

SOLD of eldar bits and weapons

Cities of Sigmar warscroll cards free if you buy stuff

WANTS (open to recasts)

Rockgutz troggoths

Marvel crisis protocol sets

1x moirax knight

1x taurox

1x Valkyrie

30x imperial guard troop/scions

Spore mines

Cursed city bats

Hello folks,

As I'm going through flight training and have some quick questions I'm hoping you can help me out with as I study here:

First on the list is why we care about % MCP? What does it mean to us in the air (or on the ground planning?). I'm going through Kings online ground school and they breeze over it giving only the simple explanation that it's "maximum brake horsepower"... which means pretty much nothing to me.

Thanks in advance folks!

https://www.uol.com.br/esporte/futebol/colunas/mauro-cezar-pereira/2021/11/29/flamengo-define-quanto-pagara-para-ir-em-busca-de-novo-tecnico-estrangeiro.htm

"O departamento de futebol deseja voltar ao que era destinado ao treinador e sua equipe antes da pandemia. Algo em torno de 4 milhões de euros e 5 milhões de euros por ano, ou aproximadamente R$ 30 milhões por temporada .

Caso o presidente Rodolfo Landim dê sinal verde para que seja oferecido algo nessa faixa ao futuro técnico, contatos acontecerão. Obviamente alguma sondagem extraoficial pode ocorrer a qualquer instante. Mas só quando o valor for definido poderá ser apresentada uma proposta."

30 milhões de reais por ano, (2.5 milhões de reais por mês) dá para pagar um Paulo Fonseca , um Marcelo Gallardo....ou até o André Villas Boas se este aceitar uma redução na sua pedida.