U.S. Companies Cancelling Conferences, Restricting Travel Over Coronavirus Concerns

U.S. Companies Cancelling Conferences, Restricting Travel Over Coronavirus Concerns:

U.S. companies are canceling conferences and restricting business travel amid concerns over the coronavirus.
The American Physical Society (APS) canceled a conference scheduled to begin on Monday in Denver, Colorado, over “concerns relating to the spread of the coronavirus disease,” according to a post on its website. The society represents 55,000 members including physicists in academia, national laboratories, and industry in the United States and throughout the world. It’s April 18-21 meeting in Washington, DC, has not yet been canceled. Approximately 10,000 people were scheduled to attend the conference.

How to Measure the Temperature of the Earth - American Thinker

How to Measure the Temperature of the Earth - American Thinker

• As concerns man-made climate change:

"The temperature of the Earth" is an ambiguous term that cannot mean anything.  
At any given time it is possible to measure the temperature of some very small part of the Earth, such as, perhaps, a shot glass of water.  
At that same moment, other temperatures of the Earth that could be measured will show a variation from the temperature of molten rock (1,300 to 2,200°F) to polar ice (32 to -76°F).  

• Daily variation of the same place on Earth can be 50 to 60°F.  
• Seasonal variation can be well over 100°F in high latitudes. 

Conceptually, we could imagine, but not actually measure, every possible place and thing, at every possible time through all the seasons, and then average these data.  
To detect "global warming," we would have to modify these data to include the specific heat of every thing measured, as well as the latent heat of all the things that change phase such as water, which appears as liquid, vapor, and ice.
Conceptually, yes; actually, no.  
Not possible..."
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Interesting article but READ the comments!!---Why Aren't More Schools Teaching Students How to Balance a Checkbook?--Intellectual Takeout

Why Aren't More Schools Teaching Students How to Balance a Checkbook?

• An important skill that hardly anyone teaches anymore

• "Penelope Finkelstein How about how not to wreck the environment, the importance of native plants, not misusing pesticides and herbicides, and just being less of a parasite to the planet in general.

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  Rebecca Ridgeway My high school offered a choice of either bookkeeping or record keeping (along with several other courses). I don't understand why they say there isn't enough time. A school day and year is pretty much the same. Is it because they are still teaching reading and basic arithmetic in high school because they won't hold anyone back?

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  Norbert Smith A more important set of skills that schools don't teach any more is how to safely handle a firearm.

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  Lou Kitz Because then they would understand how taxes work and how they hurt the middle class.

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  Alex Ray I'm 28, 10 years in workforce, own a house, own a car. I've written maybe two checks in my life. Broadly speaking, there's little use for a checkbook anymore.

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  John McDermott I have not written a check in 5 years. Maybe the skill is obsolete, or nearly so.

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  Laurence A. Nadeli Why aren’t medical schools teaching students how to bleed you to cure the common cold?

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  Jacob Laughbon Not necessary anymore. I used checks most of my life, but now checks are merely a debit transaction. There are no wait times now that would require a balance sheet. You can just look-up youf balance as you go. Financial planning is different. And in today's crazy economic world of non-math, it's almost literally impossible to keep it accurate.

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  Fred Bates Why not? Too busy teaching gender diversity and revised history... Heaven forbid they learn something useful.

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  Tanner Terry-Pruvost They do teach that. Usually an optional course.
  This is hardly the big picture issue tho lmao

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  Rachael M. Tillman Do schools not have Consumer Math anymore? I took that as a useful elective senior year and along with chequebook balancing, learned about interest rates, the stock market, budgeting, and taxes. I liked it actually, had good teachers. Anyway, a lot of kids took CM and as I worked all through college and opened my own bank account at 18, my Mum made sure I knew the basics of check writing and such.

Lunch video-----Why Are so Many Young People Unhappy?

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Devin Nunes: Democrats Paid Operatives In Ukraine To ‘Dig Up Dirt On The Trump Campaign’ | The Daily Caller

Devin Nunes: Democrats Paid Operatives In Ukraine To ‘Dig Up Dirt On The Trump Campaign’ | The Daily Caller:

Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes on Friday pointed a finger at Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party after being asked if a new Ukrainian investigation into former prosecutor Viktor Shokin has any relation to President Donald Trump’s July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“The issues in Ukraine, as always, go back to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democrats,” Nunes told “The Story with Martha MacCullum” on Fox News.

Canadian Health Care: A Warning, Not a Beacon | The Heritage Foundation

Canadian Health Care: A Warning, Not a Beacon | The Heritage Foundation

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• All Americans, regardless of political party, want access to timely, high-quality health care. The question is how to get there.
• Sanders's sanitized version of Canadian health care doesn't remotely fit the facts.
• Canada's system of socialized medicine has created high taxes and suffering patients. That's not what Americans want or deserve.

"...Do we harness the power and innovation of the private sector, or do we hand it to the government and hope for the best?
Canada has chosen the latter route, and at one of the most recent debates among Democratic presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders once again touted its government-run health care system as a model for America.
Alas, Sanders's sanitized version of Canadian health care doesn't remotely fit the facts.
No more out-of-pocket expenses?
In reality, Canadians' out-of-pocket health costs are nearly identical to what Americans pay—a difference of roughly $15 per month.
In return, Canadians pay up to 50% more in taxes than Americans, with government health costs alone accounting for $9,000 in additional taxes per year..."
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Fak-checked-True!

CNN End of Snow: “Climate change is threatening winter sports’ very existence” | Watts Up With That?

CNN End of Snow: “Climate change is threatening winter sports’ very existence” | Watts Up With That?

"As much of the USA experienced an abundance of the white stuff, CNN picked this as a good time to make an “end of snow” prediction.

Climate change is threatening winter sports’ very existence

By Derek Van Dam, CNN Meteorologist--Updated 1904 GMT (0304 HKT) February 29, 2020

(CNN)A warming planet has major ramifications on winter snowpack across the globe, including a long-term drying trend for many. That’s a concern for winter sports enthusiasts and communities that depend on snow throughout the year. 

Not many understand this better than the climate advocacy group known as Protect Our Winters (POW). The group is an organization of professional athletes and like-minded individuals fighting for policy to protect winter sports and mountain communities.

“Increased temperatures are melting away both my sport and my livelihood,” professional ski mountaineer and POW representative Caroline Gliech told the US Senate late last year.

This year has been a prime example of what is becoming more common. Snowfall has been abysmal in California this winter. The state-wide snowpack is running far below average to date and there is little relief in sight before the season ends...

But wait, there's more!

One for the books: February ends up tied as snowiest month ever at Breckenridge Ski Resort

#1 Song this day 1950-----Red Foley — Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 1950

Leftist Strategy Focuses on the Local Level

Leftist Strategy Focuses on the Local Level
"Why are wealthy left-wing donors across the country, the abortion industry, and national gun control groups more interested in your local school board and city council races than most of the people who live in your own town?
Because they’re funding efforts to ensure their far-left agenda pervades our entire society—from getting their abortion curricula into our schools to changing our election laws—and they want to make sure that no city, no town is left to stand against them.
National left-wing organizations are collecting and funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to flip local city councils, school boards, and county prosecutors’ offices to the left. 
They are flooding small elections with big money, and it’s giving them unprecedented influence over our local affairs and greater access to our children..."
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About time! (but TDS keeps media/Libs on the side of commies)