Thursday, April 16, 2020

Spring in the Yard


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  1. Interesting article in The Economist For some time now US military recruits have been predominantly middle class. [Click] In addition to possible changes in political inclinations, it means that the role the services used to play as a way into the middle class for disadvantaged recruits has become considerably diminished. [N.B.: The writer and editor make a rather glaring error for a magazine of such a name—they confuse family annual income with wealth.]

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    1. 3 of the deaths are from a nursing facility one town over from me.

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  3. I have added a new link in the Links list out front!

    COUNTDOWN TO 2020 ELECTION

    https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/election?p0=263&iso=20201103T00&msg=2020%20US%20Presidential%20Election

    200 days and counting!!!

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  4. OHIO: Confirmed COVID cases, 8,414 - deaths, 389. And still DeWine (R) is starting to talk about opening businesses 5/1.

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  5. Military orders investigation into how a third of sailors on Charles de Gaulle were infected [Click] That’s easy enough to figure out; the crew was given shore leave about a month ago.

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  6. Profit over people, cost over care: America's broken healthcare exposed by virus [Click] Why, imagine that! Who ever heard the like? [Personal note: Once upon a time I worked at a self-declared upscale (religiously affiliated) hospital, and it was very obvious that the first and most important test was the wallet biopsy.]

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  7. Gavin Newsom may be the most underrated governor in the country right now. [Click] It certainly is odd that Cuomo is currently being lauded for doing such a poor job in comparison. I figure it is because the major news organizations are in New York; it is the center of their world.

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  8. Pritzker joins with the governors of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky in a compact for joint reopening plans. That same day Evers extends Wisconsin's stay-at-home order through the end of May.

    Yesterday Illinois saw its highest number of Covid deaths ever. But deaths is a trailing indicator.

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  9. 'Spectacular' artefacts found as Norway ice-patch melts [Click] “Discoveries exposed by retreating ice include snowshoe for horses and bronze age ski”

    Well, signing off now. Time to get some work done on my beginning printing class projects (two) and then cut back a vine spilling over the fence from the neighbors' back yard.

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  10. Woo! Have an actual working internet today. For the whole of the last week, was lucky if I could load one page a day. . . . Good to be back.

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    1. You might not want to take a full dose of the news straight off; just kind of ease in... [grin]

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  11. I am making progress at redistributing the contributions I had been making to Bernie. The area food bank was an easy first choice. Next up the local junior college food pantry. I sent one small donation to AOC.

    My white-line wood block print is coming along; the printing is slow going because it has to dry frequently. So I am getting a start on my intaglio printing, using acrylic instead of a copper plate, so it can be printed by hand. I figure to color the second print by hand, which I discover is a species of "aquatint," which makes it sound considerably fancier. Well, time for dinner and then some.

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    1. I have just signed up to continue my monthly contribution to Bernie. The campaign may be over but the movement continues. I won't be contributing to the Greater Chicago Food Depository. About a year and a half ago I intended to contribute $30 but accidentally hit the key twice and contributed $330. I tried to contact the Depository about the excess contribution, but got no answer. So I assume they already have my contribution for the next decade. I have contributed to Meals on Wheels, though. I usually contribute once a year.

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  12. California to provide food industry employees with two weeks paid leave [Click] Workers in the food sector include [but presumably are not limited to] farmworkers, agricultural workers and those working in grocery stores, fast food chains and delivery drivers.

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  13. A New Statistic Reveals Why America’s COVID-19 Numbers Are Flat [Click] “Few figures tell you anything useful about how the coronavirus has spread through the U.S. Here’s one that does.”

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  14. After Social Distancing, a Strange Purgatory Awaits [Click] “Life right now feels very odd. And it will feel odd for months—and even years—to come.”

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  15. It had been looking a bit like rain coming, so I checked the weather prediction [at weatherunderground.com] and discovered that something new had been added: a coronavirus report. It says now 295 cases (confirmed, I suppose) and 7 deaths.

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