A sign that the Pac-12 may really not think much of the football season will be played, the conference is talking about a low-interest rate (3.75%) loan program for school athletic departments for up to $1 billion per school in the event football is cancelled. Jon Wilner has a report on it, but the crappy Mercury News site is throwing up so many popups and redirecting, so I can't see the details. Its still both encouraging, in that this is the first realistic plan to proceed without a football season, and instructive that it may be laying the foundation for cancellation in the light of an enormous number of issues that are going to be difficult to deal with safely.
We just got a letter from Vandy for tuition reimbursement insurance. Vandy does a sliding scale for reimbursement but this place does a flat 80% for the year. I think for the 70K or so it was $550/year. No 2 is on need based aide so I need to see if we would pay less.
My ballet school offers free Fbook livestreams and paid Zoom classes. Today's livestream instructor was Coral, who I had met a couple times when she subbed for my regular instructor in the Before Times. My favorite Coral moment was when she was telling us where to look--"Imagine that Alexander Skarsgard is in the corner! Or chocolate cake!"
i am no expert, but the code for comments is really old and unsustainable.
so they either have to 1) never change it 2) invest a ton to keep the old stuff 3) do something new, and that was to have bought the Coral project a few years ago.
on the other hand i agree that it hurts the engagement factor and that is the real differentiator compared to other sites.
So, why not fix the new one to be engaging? Craigslist, hasn't updated shit in 25 years, except the back end to keep it running. The forum posting software is basic beyond belief, but encourages engagement and following of conversations. It seems to me that those who make conversations harder, are not interested in the engagement of their customers.
I went to Silver and Black Pride and took a look. Z functionality is gone. Any comment replies more than 3 levels deep need to go to a separate page to read them. Comment editing has been removed.
Hmmm...the application crashed. Will have to try later. I remember seeing the outside of the Tomb when I was in the Valley of the Kings for the last time, a couple of years back after the overthrow of Morsi.
Also one of my favorite egyptological websites. You can drill down and read the Pyramid texts in English translation, describing the pharaoh Unas' journey to the afterlife.
On a slight tangent, I only learned recently about the existence of these "Freeports" (like the one in Geneva, Switzerland) where many expensive art pieces are stored (questionable as to how well) /sold/bought in tax evasion moves by rich people.
UConn (former AAC) cancels 20/21 football season. To be fair, they were a raging dumpster fire and probably could benefit from rebuilding from the ground up.
I think UConn returning to the Big East does help their much more successful (and profitable) women's and men's basketball programs. Football becoming independent is just a byproduct.
i am Oopsy. there was a Care Bear movie about Oopsy too.
in other Care Bear news. i took older one to Norway when she was 3. i told he not to bring her FAVORITE stuffed animal, so she brought 2nd place Lot-A-Lot Care Bear.
unfortunately Love-A-Lot Care Bear was lost somewhere in Norway ...
I did, because at least for purposes of children’s content I am a Brit of a certain age.
My personal favorite is Nellie the elephant - I have happy memories of singing it to my older daughter (not quite two at the time) at Thingvellir in Iceland and my father in law asking what kind of colonial claptrap I was subjecting her to...
I called my local urgent care facility and they said that providers are recommending waiting 1 week before getting tested to prevent false negatives. With that and the 5-10 day test results, I'm close to the 14 day quarantine. I'm thinking I'll do the tent in the backyard for about 4-5 days and make sure I don't exhibit any symptoms. Then maybe just stay in my room to sleep and work and only go out to go to the bathroom or grab a bite to eat, all while using a mask and staying at least 6 feet away from people.
potential exposure. When I got on a plane to fly back on Monday. Not 1 week after symptoms. I think if I had symptoms they'd tell me to go in right away.
President Trump showed no sign of admitting the magnitude of the crisis. In wide-ranging, frequently erroneous comments on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday, he claimed covid-19 was spreading in a “relatively small portion” of the country (it is spreading nearly everywhere); said children are “virtually immune” to the virus (they are not); and once again insisted the outbreak will “will go away like things go away.”
Who keeps telling him these things, or is he just hearing voices in his head?
Having lived in Georgia when I was a Fortune 500 exec for a couple of years after my MBA I can say that Paulding County is a weird place. I lived in Gwinnett County...
Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall has defeated former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in the Republican Senate primary. GOP sends a stronger candidate to the GE.
Biden continues the "don't do/say/write anything and let opponent beat himself" approach to campaigning. Unlike Hillary, you want to continue it if it works.
I hate to amplify a Furdie, but: https://twitter.com/jaxel222/status/1290347338142224386?s=20
"This is Katie Ledecky swimming the length of a pool without spilling a single drop of the chocolate milk balanced on her head."
It's ridiculously impressive.
FBI raid the house of controversial social media influencer Jake Paul
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jake-paul-home-raided-fbi-controversial-influencer-175134707.html
while he seems like an ass, what's the purpose of this?
A sign that the Pac-12 may really not think much of the football season will be played, the conference is talking about a low-interest rate (3.75%) loan program for school athletic departments for up to $1 billion per school in the event football is cancelled. Jon Wilner has a report on it, but the crappy Mercury News site is throwing up so many popups and redirecting, so I can't see the details. Its still both encouraging, in that this is the first realistic plan to proceed without a football season, and instructive that it may be laying the foundation for cancellation in the light of an enormous number of issues that are going to be difficult to deal with safely.
We just got a letter from Vandy for tuition reimbursement insurance. Vandy does a sliding scale for reimbursement but this place does a flat 80% for the year. I think for the 70K or so it was $550/year. No 2 is on need based aide so I need to see if we would pay less.
Apologies if this has already been posted elsewhere:
https://www.sportico.com/2020/leagues/college-sports/cal-bears-financial-troubles-1234609207/
VOX implements new comment module "Coral" that it bought from Mozilla into SBN. People react predictably to loss of functionality.
https://coralproject.net/
Related only because of the name:
My ballet school offers free Fbook livestreams and paid Zoom classes. Today's livestream instructor was Coral, who I had met a couple times when she subbed for my regular instructor in the Before Times. My favorite Coral moment was when she was telling us where to look--"Imagine that Alexander Skarsgard is in the corner! Or chocolate cake!"
Today's class, for those who are curious: https://www.facebook.com/BerkeleyBalletTheater/videos/320824112291063
Why do they keep doing things to hurt the functionality of the product? Do they really want no engagement with the audience?
i am no expert, but the code for comments is really old and unsustainable.
so they either have to 1) never change it 2) invest a ton to keep the old stuff 3) do something new, and that was to have bought the Coral project a few years ago.
on the other hand i agree that it hurts the engagement factor and that is the real differentiator compared to other sites.
So, why not fix the new one to be engaging? Craigslist, hasn't updated shit in 25 years, except the back end to keep it running. The forum posting software is basic beyond belief, but encourages engagement and following of conversations. It seems to me that those who make conversations harder, are not interested in the engagement of their customers.
I went to Silver and Black Pride and took a look. Z functionality is gone. Any comment replies more than 3 levels deep need to go to a separate page to read them. Comment editing has been removed.
Also it looks like new comments don't show up in yellow.
Baby bird mimics poisonous caterpillar as a defensive camouflage
https://gfycat.com/snoopyflatdevilfish
Wow! Virtually explore Ramses IV's tomb here:
https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=NeiMEZa9d93&mls=1
We also use Matterport for my work
Very cool, and you can leave the wooden walkway and walk on the dirt!
Hmmm...the application crashed. Will have to try later. I remember seeing the outside of the Tomb when I was in the Valley of the Kings for the last time, a couple of years back after the overthrow of Morsi.
Also one of my favorite egyptological websites. You can drill down and read the Pyramid texts in English translation, describing the pharaoh Unas' journey to the afterlife.
https://pyramidtextsonline.com/
For those who are abreast of Cal commits, who excites you the most?
1. Kai Milner - amazing reel. I haven't been this excited since Goff. He has a special arm.
2. DJ Rogers - elite quickness in a TE sized package. He should be a mismatch vs. LBs.
3. Moses Oladejo - physical freak specimen
If Derek Wilkins commits, he replaces Oladejo
If Noah Pulealii joins, I'll start the Noah for Heisman hype train.
Just offered a guy named Jayden Wayne...
Beirut aftermath
Source: Jenan Moussa
https://i.redd.it/7balj0bry4f51.jpg
crazy.
Very good article as to why the ammonium nitrate was in the port
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/08/officials-knew-danger-beirut-port-years-200805032416684.html
JFC, what utter incompetence.
On a slight tangent, I only learned recently about the existence of these "Freeports" (like the one in Geneva, Switzerland) where many expensive art pieces are stored (questionable as to how well) /sold/bought in tax evasion moves by rich people.
What? It's been at that port for over 3 years?
Nearly 7 years.
Thanks...that was some bad skimming of the article on my part.
How awful :(
But..But...Trump said it was a terrorist attack...
A warehouse full of explosives is an inviting target.
Yeah, I wouldn't dismiss the possibility out of hand.
So maybe the fireworks fire was started on purpose to get the ammonium nitrate to blow up? I guess I could see that.
Not pointing any fingers, but it's not impossible it could be related to the wave of explosions that have been happening in another country:
https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/iran-fire-explosions-industrial-natanz-israel-gantz.html
Elsewhere in college
Eight UCLA football players test positive for COVID-19.
https://twitter.com/latsondheimer/status/1291113608743546880
F*. There's no way football is going to be anything other than a spreading event, or cancelled.
Colorado State FB allegedly discouraging CV19 testing
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/29599225/colorado-state-investigating-alleged-neglect-coronavirus-protocols
Big10 goes 10-game conference-only schedule
https://twitter.com/247Sports/status/1290999230207873026
UConn (former AAC) cancels 20/21 football season. To be fair, they were a raging dumpster fire and probably could benefit from rebuilding from the ground up.
https://www.courant.com/sports/uconn-football/hc-sp-uconn-football-coronavirus-season-canceled-30300834-20200805-sfyumzbhdreptoyvsg4m7utmyi-story.html
Yeah UConn football is a mess right now. I didn’t even realize they went independent and left the AAC. Why did they decide to go independent?
I think UConn returning to the Big East does help their much more successful (and profitable) women's and men's basketball programs. Football becoming independent is just a byproduct.
Jim Harbaugh lost a 5-star recruit and apparent NFL first-rounder because he doesn't take off his cleats.
https://www.elevenwarriors.com/college-football/2020/08/115520/jim-harbaughs-weird-insistence-on-wearing-cleats-inside-cost-michigan-a-five-star-commitment
Wonder if he had stepped on a dog pile too before entering the house....nothing worse than that with cleats or vibram soles.
Bear things
Which Care Bear are you?
Multiple online quizzes have just told me that I am Tenderheart Bear
i am Oopsy. there was a Care Bear movie about Oopsy too.
in other Care Bear news. i took older one to Norway when she was 3. i told he not to bring her FAVORITE stuffed animal, so she brought 2nd place Lot-A-Lot Care Bear.
unfortunately Love-A-Lot Care Bear was lost somewhere in Norway ...
admit it. you "lost" Love-A-Lot Care Bear somewhere in Norway...
Did anyone else know The Teddy Bears Picnic song as a kid?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZANKFxrcKU
I ask because (a) I think it's obscure and (b) I've always found it to be both melancholy and jaunty and I love that combination.
I did, because at least for purposes of children’s content I am a Brit of a certain age.
My personal favorite is Nellie the elephant - I have happy memories of singing it to my older daughter (not quite two at the time) at Thingvellir in Iceland and my father in law asking what kind of colonial claptrap I was subjecting her to...
https://youtu.be/28Rh9zRdXxA
Heh, that's the wrong version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m7tPikH0UA
I did?
I like the image you picked. It's cute.
I think the bears are playing cock.
Today in CV19
I called my local urgent care facility and they said that providers are recommending waiting 1 week before getting tested to prevent false negatives. With that and the 5-10 day test results, I'm close to the 14 day quarantine. I'm thinking I'll do the tent in the backyard for about 4-5 days and make sure I don't exhibit any symptoms. Then maybe just stay in my room to sleep and work and only go out to go to the bathroom or grab a bite to eat, all while using a mask and staying at least 6 feet away from people.
Waiting 1 week after what? Potential exposure? Symptoms?
potential exposure. When I got on a plane to fly back on Monday. Not 1 week after symptoms. I think if I had symptoms they'd tell me to go in right away.
President Trump showed no sign of admitting the magnitude of the crisis. In wide-ranging, frequently erroneous comments on “Fox & Friends” Wednesday, he claimed covid-19 was spreading in a “relatively small portion” of the country (it is spreading nearly everywhere); said children are “virtually immune” to the virus (they are not); and once again insisted the outbreak will “will go away like things go away.”
Who keeps telling him these things, or is he just hearing voices in his head?
apparently whatever form his stroke damage took, it has removed his ability to understand spoken language.
Georgia schools are open. Here is North Paulding HS in Dallas, GA
https://img1-azrcdn.newser.com/image/1312532-11-20200805061627.jpeg
Having lived in Georgia when I was a Fortune 500 exec for a couple of years after my MBA I can say that Paulding County is a weird place. I lived in Gwinnett County...
OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY
US provokes China by sending Alex Azar to Taiwan.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/u-s-sending-highest-official-taiwan-ties-cut-1979-n1235852
Kansas Rep. Roger Marshall has defeated former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach in the Republican Senate primary. GOP sends a stronger candidate to the GE.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/04/899128589/conservative-kris-kobach-projected-to-lose-kansas-gop-senate-primary
Upside is, no chance of Kobach winning.
Downside, missed chance for senate seat pick-up
Yes, that is the downside of "GOP sends stronger candidate to the GE" 😛
It sucks, but I think avoiding the risk of Kobach is at least a silver lining.
Biden continues the "don't do/say/write anything and let opponent beat himself" approach to campaigning. Unlike Hillary, you want to continue it if it works.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/04/trump-joe-biden-campaign-door-knockers-391454
Progressive Cory Bush unseats 10-term incumbent Rep Lacy Clay for DEM nomination for MO-1
https://apnews.com/36ae43993c0fe43e67bcdd9539675997
The long time demo incumbents don't realize how easy they are to primary.
They've gotten so out of touch. People are fed up and want change.
Very frustrating that congress people are so out of touch.
Oh, Lincoln Project...
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1290867644263014400
PRO
Dodgers manufacture come-from-behind win 5-2 over Padres
https://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=401225838
GBBR
A's and Rangers take tie ballgame to the bottom of the ninth and then this happens...
https://twitter.com/AmazinAsCraze/status/1290861441986297858
I understand Piscotty is a good golfer. That skill certainly helped on his blast to center field.
I knew we were going to win as soon as he hit it, but was shocked it got all the way out as cold as it was last night. 🐘💚
Giants fall 2-5 to Rockies. Gigante's #3 pitcher Gausman takes the loss.
https://www.espn.com/mlb/boxscore?gameId=401225832
CAL
GO BEARS!
👀👀👀
https://twitter.com/derekwilkinss/status/1290787863949217792
From what I can surmise is that here is a guy interested in both Cal and Nebraska who has as 4.0 GPA, 6' 5" and 240 pounds.
Wilkins is a strong lean to Cal. Would be a massive pick up on the dLine
4-star guy, too