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Stage 3: Gently suggest that Gov. Abbott help us. Stage 4: Gently suggest that Gov. Abbott help us, but with a bit more emphasis and a more urgent tone. Seriously, 20 admits (maybe per day?) over a rolling 7 day period was the trigger they were worried about last week that would eventually saturate our hospitals. At the time the number was 13.
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Here's a picture from the Austin ISD police department of some of their vehicles, I always though this was a little excessive for a school police department:
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Longhorn Band has a history of the Eyes of Texas posted here: https://longhornband.org/school-and-fight-songs/ The short version is that in 1902, Lewis Johnson, a UT tuba player, wanted to have an original song for the students of Texas. He asked John Lang Sinclair, another band member, to write a song just for Texas. Sinclair's first attempt was called “Jolly Students of the ‘Varsity'” and he ripped off music from "Jolly Students of America" for the song. Oh, the day was made for study, but the night for mirth and song; Let us all go down together, all you fellows come along. What’s the use to grind and cram for ev’ry little term exam? If the Prof intends to bust me, let him bust me as I am! For we are jolly students of the ‘Varsity, the ‘Varsity! We are a merry, merry crew. We’ll show the chief of all policemen who we are Rah! Rah! Rah! Down on the Avenue. And ev’ry day you find us in the classroom or the hall. You’ll find us on the campus and we’ll hear you when you call. We’ll hear you when you call, but when night begins to fall, You’ll seek in vain because we’re not anywhere at all! For we are jolly students of the ‘Varsity, the ‘Varsity! We are a merry, merry crew. And almost everyone who sees us says we are Rah! Rah! Rah! The best they ever knew. It premiered in May of 1902 and it probably sucked, because Johnson asked Sinclair to try again in March of 1903. And this time Sinclair wrote this poem: They watch above you all the day, The bright blue eyes of Texas. At midnight they’re with you all the way, The sleepless eyes of Texas.The Eyes of Texas are upon you, All the livelong day. The eyes of Texas are upon you, They’re with you all the way. They watch you through the peaceful night, They watch you in the early dawn, When from the eastern skies the high light Tells that the night is gone.Sing me a song of Texas, And Texas’ myriad eyes Countless as the bright stars That fill the midnight skies.Vandyke brown, vermillion, Sepia, Prussian blue, Ivory black and crimson lac, And eyes of every hue. This poem was then changed into the song we know as the Eyes of Texas and made into a joke about Prather's use of the phrase "The Eyes of Texas are upon you" when talking to the students. It debuted at the minstrel show in May with these lyrics: I once did know a President A way down South, in Texas. And, always, everywhere he went, He saw the Eyes of Texas. The Eyes of Texas are upon you, All the livelong day. The Eyes of Texas are upon you, You cannot get away. Do not think you can escape them At night or early in the morn – The Eyes of Texas are upon you Til Gabriel blows his horn.Sing me a song of Prexy, Of days long since gone by. Again I seek to greet him, And hear his kind reply. Smiles of gracious welcome Before my memory rise, Again I hear him say to me, “Remember Texas’ Eyes.” The article has a bit more history, but that's some additional background on the origin.
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Ask the same folks if they are ok requiring pants to be worn in public. Lots of people just don't want to wear pants .... too much communist government control ... it's too hot for pants ... what if I have to go and I've got these darn pants in the way. Freedom man, feel the breeze.... I see my time has expired....
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All things Apple, the tech not the fruit
Texas Jeff replied to sachick's topic in Business and Markets
I predict they will switch to something derived from their phone silicon, maybe an ARM CPU paired with a GPU. They will start with the lowest end MacBooks and work their way up from there. It makes it easier to develop MacOS and iOS and it will cut cost out of the Mac lineup. I think you'll see low end Windows laptops that are essentially the same thing. Essentially your laptop is becoming a big phone. -
Texas's antibody tests so far have shown about 4% positive. That number has been flat over the past few weeks. Keep in mind that the population is somewhat self-selected. You have to have the desire and time to get a test, the knowledge of where to get it, and maybe the money to pay for the test. Or maybe you were having another medical procedure so you were tested. Only about 1 in 260 people in Texas have had an antibody test and maybe 2-3 thousand people per day are getting antibody tests in Texas. Also some are saying the test may not be accurate. So, the current answer is 4%. In my non-scientific opinion, there has not been enough random testing with a proven test in a large enough population to draw conclusions.
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Travis County's website shows a breakdown by zip code and shows an ethnic breakdown of who is in the hospital. Since April, the percentage of hospitalized that are Hispanic has risen and the number of cases in poorer zip codes is larger than counts in wealthier areas. North Austin, south/southeast Austin, and Pflugerville have the largest counts. If that is true, then cases may be rising among folks that have to do physical labor to survive. They are also the least able to afford masks or have healthcare. A positive test means no work, which means no money. We aren't set up as a society to give this population paid time off to let the virus burn out, and they are choosing to work and take their chances with COVID. If we could magically change the world tomorrow so that a positive test resulted in an automatic two week paid vacation for anyone, I think we would see the spread slow below the 1.0 rate and cases start to drop to zero.
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Trump finally got his wall, just not in the original intended location:
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About 4% of the antibody tests done so far in Texas have come back positive. That does not mean 4% of Texans have been exposed, it just means that 4% of those with access and desire to get tested have had a positive result. That result is too low for us to be anywhere near herd immunity. It would be nice if our health care folks were randomly testing people for antibodies so that we can get some idea of how many people might have been exposed.
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Launching humans into space again from America - Space X
Texas Jeff replied to Tailgate's topic in Daily Texan
Ship floating in calm water -- feed good. Ship being blasted by space rocket falling from the sky -- feed bad. Ship no longer being blasted -- feed good. It is possible there is some correlation ... they need another camera some distance away. -
Just a guess -- Fauci and Birx told him that yelling blows the corona off the mic -- they're now masked up somewhere in the White House laughing their asses off.
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Launching humans into space again from America - Space X
Texas Jeff replied to Tailgate's topic in Daily Texan
here's what I think I know, but I'm not an expert: It's the first manned launch for this platform, which I think is the first new launch platform since the Space Shuttle in 1982. This gives us the ability to send people to space from our own soil, something we lost when the shuttle was retired. Before this, they flew similar equipment on the Crew Dragon Demo-1 flight, but it travelled unmanned to the space station. Then they had another test flight to prove the emergency escape systems would work. The important step for this flight, named Crew Dragon Demo-2, is to add a two-person crew. There is another flight planned for August called USCV-1, similar mission to this flight except with a full four person crew instead of a two-person crew. After these first flights, there will be more to ferry people to and from the ISS. Boeing is also developing a capsule similar to SpaceX's Dragon for similar missions. The long term plan is to return to the Moon, relearn what we knew how to accomplish circa 1973, and eventually plan a trip to Mars. -
Launching humans into space again from America - Space X
Texas Jeff replied to Tailgate's topic in Daily Texan
C-SPAN2 is showing it. Channel 226 on Spectrum in Austin. -
Kayleigh McEnany is Terrible at This Job
Texas Jeff replied to Patrick Bateman's topic in Cloak Room
Notice that she's standing in the back and not seated in the press area. She's not part of the normal press coverage, she is just standing behind them so that she can be called on to offer up the friendly question of the day. Then the question gets answered with prepared stuff and the press secretary exits stage left. -
Forget it, he’s rolling...
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Some elementary schools in Austin are around 200 kids in a school built for maybe 600. For example, on the east side you have Sanchez (268 kids) and Metz (212 kids) being combined. Right now all of the kids are at Metz while they build a new Sanchez Elementary from the ground up. Sanchez and Metz are about seven blocks apart. After they build the new school, all of the kids will end up at Sanchez with room to spare. Metz will close, saving maintenance cost on the building. Zavala Elementary, which is four blocks from Metz, will remain open. Class sizes K-4 are limited to 22 or fewer kids, so class sizes will not go up until the 5th grade.
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I was referring to the original plan, which was much more of a re-org. I think maybe 12 schools were involved but I can't remember. There was push back and the list was cut down to just four schools. There was a lot of push back against that change. It is really hard to close a school. BTW, I totally support the modernization efforts and I will vote for bonds to support improving Austin ISD schools. They need a lot of work and in many cases, a do-over. There is an issue of under enrolled schools and a lack of efficiency in keeping a building open with low enrollment, especially when it is old and expensive to maintain.
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The majority of losses are in the eco-dis population, to charters and suburbs. Austin ISD's student population is becoming smaller but wealthier. Not as wealthy as the western suburbs, but it is changing. Declining enrollment could be managed by school consolidation into modernized schools, but they tried that last fall and backed off after the public complained. Right now they have too many buildings that are too old and it's politically difficult to change. Frisco ISD operates about 70 schools for about 60,000 students. Austin ISD operates 129 schools for about 81,000 students.
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The United States, with 4.2% of the population, now has more cases than the bottom 206 countries on the list combined, representing 85.8% of the world's population. Team USA has completed 11.1 million tests compared with the bottom 206 countries' combined 23.9 million tests. That may mean there are more unfound cases in the smaller countries, but we are still way in the lead.
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What dystopian book/movie does 2020 most represent?
Texas Jeff replied to Parliament's topic in Daily Texan
I'm going with "Red Dawn", with really really tiny Soviet invaders. Kids are at school, invasion happens, no more school ... they flee to the woods. They are OK but the adults are being rounded up and they don't look so good. Hopefully not everyone dies in the end. -
Crazy idea ... maybe there is a reasonably moderate path to walk so long as cases start to drop and keep dropping. Somewhere between mask-free rave mode and staying in your bathroom covered in hand sanitizer. Right now, cases in Texas are not dropping (which is bad) but the number of positive test results is low (around 5%, which is good). rt.live has our R number at 0.84 (good, less than 1, a path to no disease) but epiforcasts.io has it at 1.2 (moderately bad, a path to a big problem). The truth is probably in the middle somewhere. We have a problem and it it is likely slowly growing. Some projections show it slowing down in the future but right now the numbers are still going in the wrong direction. We are on a slowly rising plateau looking at two futures, one where cases slowly drop and one where they rise until they are out of control. You, my fellow Texan, can help make the problem go away. Spread out, wear a mask when appropriate, and wash your hands. You don't have to, but if you do it will help. Stay home if you feel sick and especially if you know you have come in contact with someone who has it. Not forever, but for a little while. Ask your neighbor how they are doing. They might be sad, lonely or just need someone to run to the store. A five minute chat across a front yard might cheer them up. Every little thing you do reduces the chance that one person will infect another person, which reduces the size of the problem. It keeps that R number just a little bit lower which makes the problem go away faster. Doctors and nurses have less emergency work to do in a less risky environment and can work more on the other problems we have. You'll never know if you saved the life of a kid or a grandma, but maybe you did. I see a risk in our polarized society that we will start choosing extreme paths on one side or the other, regardless of the data, based on which leaders we like. And that we will be too critical of each other for being on the other side. I would instead ask you to do what you are willing to do and watch those case numbers. If they are not dropping, consider doing more until they are.
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I'm more interested in the logistics of the process than the political side, although you probably can't keep politics out of this for long. Sorry if it goes CR but that was not my intent. We have a run-off election coming up that will be lightly attended. It's a chance to try to adapt to current conditions without large voting numbers. Hopefully our election officials will learn from the experience.
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