Notices by lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net), page 120
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lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 23:24:39 EST 
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https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/2023-apr-20 Annular solar #eclipse passing near #Australia, #Indonesia, #Papua_New_Guinea
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/october-14-2023 Annular #solar eclipse passing through #USA Four Corners region ( #Arizona, #New_Mexico, #Utah, #Colorado ), #Nevada, #Oregon, #Texas, parts of #Central_America, parts of #South_America
https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/april-8-2024 total solar eclipse passing through #Mexico, #USA ( states of Texas, #Arkansas, # Missouri, and more ), #Canada
Having seen the 2017 "Great American Eclipse" from Cape Girardeau, #MO, I know that the four or five minutes of totality is worth all the effort it will take to get there. I do not know how worthwhile it will be to travel to see a partial or annular eclipse. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 20:14:40 EST
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https://nu.federati.net/url/289368 [www 12news com]
#Arizona child dies in state / county custody ...
> In the fiscal year that ended last June, about 26 children died while in the agency's custody, including from overdoses, medical conditions, natural and still undetermined causes. In the previous fiscal year, that number was 14. The figures amount to a fatality rate of about 97 per 100,000 children during that period, the most recent for which data is available.
> That rate is higher than overall deaths of children in Arizona. Nationally, about 55 children died per 100,000 children in the general population of all causes in 2020 — similar to Arizona's number.
Given how quick the child died, that screams medical neglect--and not just by the foster parents--the social worker should have checked on the child, asked him questions about his care, including his known medical needs. I'm told that in California, if something like this happens, it is a big deal ... potentially career-ending for the social worker, without even counting the potential for criminal charges.
> Blodgett said he suspects the Arizona Department of Child Safety failed in its duty to protect his son, either by not monitoring his blood sugar levels or not ensuring that Jakob had enough insulin to prevent a serious, life-threatening complication known as ketoacidosis.
> "They couldn't keep him alive for two weeks, two weeks," the father told The Associated Press while on a recent furlough from jail. "That's absolutely insane. That was my pride and joy. I'm lost. I'm completely lost. My family is completely lost."
The father's fentanyl use definitely contributed to Jakob's death, but the #AZ department of children's services decision to place the child in that particular foster care home (instead of, for example, flying him to his grandmother's house) would be a proximate cause in my estimation. If I were a juror in a court case, I would favor a minimum of $50M in penalties, to shock the state into taking better care of children in need. Having a death rate in state custody that is almost double the rate outside of state custody is a tip-off that something is desperately wrong in the state agency. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 19:51:43 EST
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For the record, I don't believe the U.S. public school system is a drain on society. I believe it significantly underperforms its potential, but I also believe that in a world of single parenthood and two-job families, substantially all alternatives rely on its existence. I also believe that our public schools are too tightly managed from the national and state capitals, rather than locally.
And what does some pointy-headed educrat in Washington DC know about the needs of students in a much less urban part of SoCal? Nothing! But because of top-down rules, the local school districts cannot respond to local needs even if they wanted to (hint: they don't want to respond to local needs; they just want to pass the next district and campus administration staff pay raises).
#sonOne graduated from a public high school that was also a continuation school. He had gone there for the continuation program after repeated fights and a couple of medical issues in the main public high school, but once he caught up, he transferred to the regular high school program. (I knew the school wasn't responsive to medical issues, because I had a friend [now deceased] who had attended there while dealing with a life-threatening condition which eventually took his life.)
#sonTwo graduated from a charter school that is funded with public dollars. He also attended a medical home school program through the same continuation school that his older brother attended, but as soon as he recovered, he wanted out because that school had too much homework. Two of his elementary school friends moved out of state partly because of the poor quality of the public middle school he attended.
I remember one time, while he was on home schooling, we went to a local McDonald's for the day. We had breakfast and lunch there, while he did his schoolwork. There was a lady doing the same thing with her little boy. The toilets weren't all that clean, so when I needed to go, I left my kid there with the lady (and a long-time employee whom I knew) watching him, while I went to a nearby store. Later on, the lady needed to go, and I watched her kid while she went to the store. (That McD's now has a sign saying that their dining room is for up to 30 minutes use only.)
#Daddy_A graduated from a different charter school that is partially funded with public dollars. He went there after his public middle school experienced several race-related fights that spread from a nearby public high school.
Despite the public schools failing all three of them, the alternatives they used existed because we have public funding for schools. In each case, for different reasons, completely home schooling the child was not a realistic alternative, nor was getting into one of the area's paid and privately funded church schools. Even so, I did know a woman who was able to get grants and part-time on-campus work to send her three sons to a church school instead of the public middle school after her oldest got mononucleosis and the school demanded that he return to campus despite not having recovered. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 18:27:15 EST
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https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/self-driving-cars-carbon-emission-b2263481.html [www independent.co uk] Computers in autonomous vehicles could cause as much carbon emission as all of the world's data centers. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 13:03:28 EST
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Last night ( 2023-01-18 06:06:13 UTC ), there was an #earthquake in the Molucca Sea area of #Indonesia. Initially rated M7.2 by #USGS, it was downgraded to M7.0. This happened about 12 hours ago.
Pager is green for low economic loss and few to no fatalities. https://eathquake.usgs.gov/
No #tsunami was expected. https://tsunami.gov/ -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 12:46:38 EST
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... Accidentally sent before it was complete. ...
So anyway, Rich is difficult to deal with, but being aware of what he's come through makes it a little easier. I've been telling him that with his history, he needs to get something where he has full medical / dental / vision care and limited travelling, so he doesn't have a catastrophic health crisis. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 12:31:04 EST
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I have occasionally supervised a guy named Rich. Rich is an older White guy who was homeless and a drug & alcohol abuser for over a decade after his divorce. He somehow got sobered up, got into a Microsoft certification program, started a computer repair shop.
Now, Rich travels around the country for $EMPLOYER, managing IT support staff.
Because of his history, there are a lot of things Rich isn't willing or able to get through his head, and thus he repeatedly bumps heads with supervisors / co-workers / subordinates.
My co-worker and friend S recently had a run-in with Rich. I don't -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 12:09:25 EST
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@fu At least two of my sisters still work in the school system. I'd be cool with their unions striking, as district administration takes large pay increases each year, while classroom teachers go years at a time without raises or with raises below the inflation rate. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Jan-2023 12:00:54 EST
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@fu I don't know how current this is, but https://texasview.org/why-texas-teachers-cant-strike/ says that teacher strikes are illegal in exas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, while being explicitly allowed in Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Vermont. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 20:41:37 EST
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https://floss.social/@mattj/109666686416465083 #Prosody !xmpp server gets new #unified_push module -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 16:06:06 EST
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It isn't just #cryptocurrency. Theft occurs all the time in regulated financial institutions. https://caymanmarlroad.com/2023/01/16/usain-bolt-fears-losing-retirement-funds/ [caymanmarlroad com]
Though sometimes, regulators have a fund that can partially reimburse lost funds. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 15:05:24 EST
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I should emphasize that there's no known flooding issue in my municipality or its neighboring municipalities. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 14:51:50 EST
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We’re starting to have water rescues on this side of the mountains now. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 14:01:29 EST
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https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/airline-passengers-video-captures-last-moments-before-nepal-crash [www fox35orlando com]
Deadly plane crash in #Nepal -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 13:52:11 EST
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https://www.al.com/hurricane/2023/01/tropical-storm-in-january-its-not-impossible.html [www al com]
There was a rare, January Atlantic storm ⛈️ that may have been a subtropical cyclone 🌀 … now in #Canada 🇨🇦. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 11:22:51 EST
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> The Tesla and SpaceX chief financed his $44 billion deal to take Twitter private in October by securing the huge debt from a syndicate of banks led by Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, and Mitsubishi. The $13 billion debt is held by Twitter at a corporate level, with no personal guarantee by Musk.
The article isn't clear about the installment terms. $1.5B/year could be in annual, semiannual, quarterly, or monthly payments.
I cannot imagine how various big banks allowed themselves to be suckered into that deal. From the outside, everything about it seemed unsound from the beginning. And as a lender, I certainly would not have allowed the loan to be collateralized by Twitter itself. It would either have been pledge your ${NASDAQ_[TSLA]} #Tesla shares and #SpaceX shares, or some other way of lending it directly to Elon Musk himself.
Maybe bank regulators need to investigate how these banks got into a clearly unsound situation ... and maybe push these banks' top management executives entirely out of the industry. -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 11:10:02 EST
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https://nu.federati.net/url/289353 [arstechnica com]
$1,5,000,000 payment on the #Twitter purchase is due soon. Will there be a default? -
lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 11:06:27 EST
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@clacke It's been a while since I saw that use of DDR. But I can understand.
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