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-Benjamin Franklin
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Trego School Adopted New Salary Schedule
The Trego School board adopted a new salary schedule during the meeting on Wednesday, January twelfth. The new salary schedule will be applicable starting in the fall of the upcoming school year. The schedule is split into three sections, by number of teaching endorsements. Single Endorsement BA BA+10 BA+20 MA MA+10 Experience yrs $33,920 $34,598 Read more
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Phone Centric Identity
We are extraordinarily reliant upon cell phones to prove our identity. Is this really you? Type in this code within ten minutes. It turns out this has a lot to do with mobile identity software. Essentially, your cell phone is used as a proxy to determine if you are a real person (and the person… Read more
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Red Cross Blood Shortage
The Red Cross has declared a blood shortage– the number of people donating has dropped 10% since covid began. The majority of blood drives are college campus associated, so covid has led to a decrease there as well, especially with recent cancellations due to an increase in the omicron variant. This combines with a typical Read more
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My Privilege
Yesterday, the ophthalmologist shared the news that I have the beginnings of macular degeneration. My first response was a stab of fear – macular degeneration took Dad’s sight, so I have some familiarity with what it can do. The second response was the same as I had for colon cancer – I’ll get home, pull Read more
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Why Frost Heaves
Frost heaves – back when I was teaching engineering uses of soils 40 years ago – were explained by osmosis, compression and fine-grained soil. So think clay, or even better, glacial silt as your fine-grained soil. For compression, remember that just ten or fifteen thousand years back there were some thick glaciers on top of Read more
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The Old British Currency
As a kid, I read quite a few books that had British authors. Most of the time, I understood what they had written. Fortnights gave me a bit of a problem – but I figured out that meant two weeks. Furlongs weren’t much of a problem – an eighth of a mile is 220 yards Read more
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