The weather forecast for Portland is getting milder. I've noticed that forecasts start with threats of heavy winter snow, but as the date approaches, the severity is less. Earllier it was forecasted that there would be 2.6 inches on snow on Valentine's Day, but now it's 0.36 in, and will probably be just a dusting. If anything. Oh well.
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Lesson for math teachers: students may learn abstract methods of addition in the New Math or Common Core, but that doesn't translate to practical math, which they'll need in real life. And vice versa. There needs to be a unified approach. Of course, this study was done in Delhi, so I can't say that it pertains to how math is taught in America. Why doesn't the world just copy Singapore, already? National pride getting in the way. Let's build on what works instead of trying to re-invent the wheel.
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I never heard of Hotline until today. Sounds like the BBS systems of yore, with FidoNet. This must have gotten buried until the juggernaut of the WWW. No one cared about chat and FTP, when there was money to be made on websites.
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I didn't know Portland City Hall was based on The Kremlin. Portland had a Liberty Bell replica that got blown up be anarchists. Guess the heritage of civic idiocy goes back a long way.
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Oregon's going to suffer. The federal funding freeze is going to halt all kinds of Oregon highway efforts, including EV charging stations. Public EV charging stations still don't make sense. It's just one of those things people just ignore, as if there wasn't a problem.
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Universities are going to suffer, too. One of the major funding sources are overhead costs from research grants. That's going to decrease significantly, and universities will feel the pinch. Maybe now they'll focus on merit and achievement, instead of just trying to get federal dollars. Key researchers will still get nice grants, and maybe will be appreciated more.
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The Dalles ranks 6th in the nation for the most water-consuming data center. Bad for the environment, too, but who's going to tell them?
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Legacy nurses are unionizing now, making them more expensive, adding to the costs of a Legacy-OHSU merger. Well, you didn't expect them not to unionize, when non-union nurses would be the first to get cut with the merger, in order to save costs. Now that will be expensive, as there won't be any non-union nurses to fire. It's really looking like that merger won't happen. And the nurses at all the major Providence hospitals are refusing the latest offer.
It's really sad when the top employers in Oregon, Intel, OHSU, Providence, are all hurting. And the leaders just want to spend more money on the homeless, embrace being a sanctuary state, and work to oppose President Trump. Race to the bottom.
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UW is about to have their Danny Jacobs era. Robert Jones is going to double down on DEI and oppose Trump. Some folks can't learn from others, and gotta make their own mistakes.
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