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Like others have said, it is what you make of it, like any city.  Vegas can be the craziest, wildest, most dynamic, and exciting city you have ever lived in.  On the flipside though, most of us live in a different world than the 40 million visitors who visit a year.  Contrary to what many people think, Las Vegas is a pretty much normal town with many churches, schools, libraries, parks, and recreation.  We go to school or work, attend our kid's softball games, and rarely venture out to the Strip, usually when relatives are in town.  Most times we just sit in our mostly new, stucco and Spanish-tile roofed houses, like average folks in our easy chair, enjoying the benefits of modern air-conditioners while the temps in the Summer climb to over 115 degrees.  One of the great things about living in Vegas is the 24-hour access to great restaurants, nightlife, and even shopping at 3 in the am (seriously do you know how many people I have seen at Walmart shopping for groceries when the rest of the world is asleep?) .  Because there are a lot of residents that work in the hospitality industry at all hours of the day and night, it is not unusual to see people at a car dealership looking at prospective vehicles at 2 in the morning, especially along Sahara Ave. The traffic is bad, I won't lie, but it depends on when and where you are.  The freeways like the 215 beltway on the west side of town between Durango north all the way to Summerlin Parkway, usually moves fast and is rarely clogged.  Others like I-15 from Tropicana north to Charleston, is frequently jammed and every day it seems like the news warns us about an overturned semi or a suicidal jumper near the Spaghetti Bowl.   In the other direction the 215 going from the west to Henderson, is not bad a lot of the times, but tends to back up off of Paradise and the Airport Connector.  Most of the surface streets are laid out well, with wide lanes in a traditional urban grid pattern.  During rush hour, it is very easy to hop off of the backed up freeways and take surface streets to your destination.  Some major cities like LA and San Fran are a nightmare to navigate when you do this, and you could spend hours taking one road after another just to get back to where you started.  Downsides to life in Vegas:  After graduating from high school and college from here, I have a unique perspective about the educational system.  It is in a word, 'bad,' we have the highest drop-out rate, the highest teen pregnancy rate, the lowest percentage of students seeking college degrees, the lowest per pupil spending, and the lowest student-teacher ratio (often with classes of 35 or more students crammed into modular classrooms squeezed onto campus).  Some teachers here have a frequent habit of getting into inappropriate sexual encounters with students, and a lot of the times, background checks the CCSD performs are superficial at best, and at worst, borders on incompetence (my opinion anyhow).   Sex is everywhere here.  On billboards on and off the Strip, strip clubs seem to be omnipresent, and more women are involved in the sex trade then almost anywhere else in the world, except maybe Bangkok.  Sex trafficking of minors is a big problem in Vegas, as many teenage runaways come here from Iowa in hopes of living life in the fast lane.  Areas to avoid are Charleston near Downtown and the Stratosphere, and Mojave and Eastern in the northeast.  Politics and Corruption:  Back in the day, Vegas was notorious for the mob, and still today political officials frequently get busted for bribery and extortion.  Other than that, the mob is no longer here (maybe trash services).  Cabs and Public Transportation:  Taxis are everywhere here and most visitors know what its like to be at a casino and have thirty cabs waiting to take them to the next destination all lined up in a row outside a casino.  Cabs near the Strip often take visitors to the best strip joint in town, being paid by the various strip clubs to take them there with the claims of each one being better than the rest.  The CAT bus system is pretty good for residents, and usually on time with professional and courteous drivers.  The double decker Ace bus is great.  Obviously there is no subway system here, and most people own a car, but the plus side is that unlike LA, Vegas is not that spread out, so it doesn't take long to get from one end of town to the other.Anyway, for more info about what it is really like to live in Vegas, check out my blog.   Thanks for reading (:  -Michael

Most likely because if it is a terrorist attack, the terrorist will proudly state that. In this case, it was a distraught woman in a bad situation. She unfortunately thought it was a way to deal with her problems.

Departments of education and school districts always have to make decisions about what to include in their curriculum.  There are a lot of life skills that people need that aren't taught in school.  The question is should those skills be taught in schools?I teach high school, so I'll talk about that.  The typical high school curriculum is supposed to give students a broad-based education that prepares them to be citizens in a democracy and to be able to think critically.  For a democracy to work, we need educated, discerning citizens with the ability to make good decisions based on evidence and objective thought.  In theory, people who are well informed about history, culture, science, mathematics, etc., and are capable of critical, unbiased thinking, will have the tools to participate in a democracy and make good decisions for themselves and for society at large.  In addition to that, they should be learning how to be learners, how to do effective, basic research, and collaborate with other people.  If that happens, figuring out how to do procedural tasks in real life should not provide much of a challenge.  We can't possibly teach every necessary life skill people need, but we can help students become better at knowing how to acquire the skills they need.  Should we teach them how to change a tire when they can easily consult a book or search the internet to find step by step instructions for that?  Should we teach them how to balance a check book or teach them how to think mathematically and make sense of problems so that the simple task of balancing a check book (which requires simple arithmetic and the ability to enter numbers and words in columns and rows in obvious ways) is easy for them to figure out.  If we teach them to be good at critical thinking and have some problem solving skills they will be able to apply those overarching skills to all sorts of every day tasks that shouldn't be difficult for someone with decent cognitive ability  to figure out.  It's analogous to asking why a culinary school didn't teach its students the steps and ingredients to a specific recipe.  The school taught them about more general food preparation and food science skills so that they can figure out how to make a lot of specific recipes without much trouble.  They're also able to create their own recipes.So, do we want citizens with very specific skill sets that they need to get through day to day life or do we want citizens with critical thinking, problem solving, and other overarching cognitive skills that will allow them to easily acquire ANY simple, procedural skill they may come to need at any point in their lives?

Spend less time using your blocked Internet to ask questions on Quora, andTravel back in time to when there was no curfew and you were playing Super Mario Kart, and instead, fill out your exam form.

I was selected for a summer internship 2016.I tried to be very open while filling the preference form: I choose many products as my favorite products and I said I'm open about the team I want to join.I even was very open in the  location and start date to get host matching interviews (I negotiated the start date in the interview until both me and my host were happy.) You could ask your recruiter to review your form (there are very cool and could help you a lot since they have a bigger experience).Do a search on the potential team.Before the interviews,  try to find smart question that you are going to ask for the potential host (do a search on the team  to find nice and deep questions to impress your host). Prepare well your resume.You are very likely not going to get algorithm/data structure questions like in the first round. It's going to be just some friendly chat if you are lucky. If your potential team is working on something like machine learning, expect that  they are going to ask you questions about machine learning, courses related to machine learning you have and relevant experience (projects, internship). Of course you have to study that before the interview. Take as long time as you need if you feel rusty. It takes some time to get ready for the host matching (it's less than the technical interview)  but it's worth it of course.

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