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    Why Hiring Professors With Conservative Views Could Backfire on Conservatives

    Well, when your Econ Prof had actually worked on The Hill and was near the economic advisors for the Republican party it is a pretty good bet he was not liberal by any sane definition. But undergrad I had a biology prof who I considered conservative who had been blacklisted in the McCarthy era.
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    I got caught in a monsoon in Australia. It blew through so fast that I never made it to shelter, even though I was on a city street. It was clear just before that, though it was a mixed day, which is why I had an umbrella before it hit. After I had a mess that had once been an umbrella. In...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    With all the camp staff work I did there is only one time that I recall where there was a death anywhere close to me. For over a decade I went on an Easter trip to Lake Mohave. We would start at Kathrine's Landing and head to a campsite closer to the damn. (When I started as a preteen some of...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    As I mentioned earlier I worked at over a half dozen different YMCA camps. I also worked at one commercial camp. Counselors or leaders were those who had direct contact with the campers. Sometimes that terminology applied to those in charge of an area like horseback riding, go karts or rifle...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    I mentioned earlier that I worked at several YMCA camps. At least 2 of them used hand cranked WW II surplus air raid sirens as the regular way of calling assembly. That was basically 3 times a day. E.g. for each meal. In that more pure camp setting (e.g. no neighbors besides perhaps one other...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    > That’s why I have mixed feelings about kids having phones in school. If there’ some sort of tragedy, they can’t call for help. There are several reasons in a situation like this not to have phones that do not apply to a school setting. Remember the vast majority of the camp will be several...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    I would hardly call this camping. Everyone had a bed in a very solid building. I just read an article where one of the girls describes her experience. A key item is that these were thunderstorms, and lightning was striking near them. She also described girls running from one building to...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    Actually, quite a bit can be done about a wall of water flash flood. But it has to be done beforehand. You need to know where there is good high ground (which means shelter) and have plans in place to get there well before any flash flood. Do note Camp Mystic has 750 girls. Trying to move a...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    2 or 3 decades ago there were news reports regarding a fire near Mulholland Highway that I think caused 2 deaths. The reports said that The Motion Picture Hospital and parts of Calabasas were being evacuated. I was on a group bike ride that went out over Old Topanga Canyon Road and Mulholland...
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    As Texas Flood Deaths Rise, Officials Blast Faulty Forecast by National Weather Service

    I worked with the YMCA as a camp leader for several years, which included a couple of times as an assistant director. I went to camp as a camper for years before that. Because of professional staff transferring to advance I worked with over a half dozen different YMCAs. The campers and parents...
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    Poland to launch shorter working week pilot programme

    I was in Germany last year. A huge percentage of those working in service industries are Poles. (Thinking back it seems that perhaps those under 50 years old who did not speak at least passable English might well have been Poles or other non-Germans). I have to wonder if perhaps the proposals...
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    Poland to launch shorter working week pilot programme

    Actually, that is all but a quote of something Ebeneezer Scrooge says.
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    Poland to launch shorter working week pilot programme

    You might want to read 'Beyond This Horizon' by Robert Heinlein. It is easy to skim over the part that makes it clear one can exist quite nicely on just the Government dividend. (It seems that perhaps a major consideration is keeping it low enough that there is some incentive to work). It also...
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    How Dangerous Was The Covid - 19 Vaccine

    I almost never have a reaction to a vaccine. But a couple of days after my second dose I experienced some pain in my right arm. The interesting thing is that I received that dose at Dodger stadium in my LEFT arm. No way could I be confused, this was early in the process and you did not get out...
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    How Dangerous Was The Covid - 19 Vaccine

    Doh! getting tested and getting vaccinated are 2 entirely different things. Typically testing meant a nasal swab, e.g. an ordinary q tip stuck up your nose. This sort of report however is not that unusual.
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