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Quote from: Langue_doc on May 11, 2025, 04:32:59 PMHooboy! Talk about the ethical and legal issues involved, let alone common sense.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5ell3gkxvo

But it probably already has a golden toilet.

And a golden shower! Ha!

Good morning!

Got the pangram and a bunch of words so far, but it's a short puzzle again.  Yesterday I got pancaked right away but took most of the day to get kneecapped.  Argh! We both had issues all day with imagining that other letters were present, like h or w, and coming up with great words including those nonexistent letters.  Oh well! We had to go to 1LL for the final word, nankeen, which is a constant sorrow.

Hope your colds get better, minervabird!

Ciao_yall, I swear injurious-swatch was also a 2fer before...

Happy solving!

Quote from: Hibush on May 10, 2025, 06:36:02 AM

Quote from: selecter on May 10, 2025, 05:50:58 AMJohnson & Wales
https://www.highereddive.com/news/johnson-wales-university-91-layoffs-faculty-staff-deficit/747604/

Operating deficit of 34.1 million. Roughly 40% decline in enrollment over 15 years.

I think their model was rapid expansion into short-term opportunities, and they are pulling back as those terms end.

One of their big strenghts is in hospitality and culinary. While there are a lot of jobs in those areas, many of them don't pay anywhere near enough to justify private-college tuition. "Chef schools" are some of the priciest around, yet many graduates risk being cooks at $15 an hour.

Looks like they're a little business school that expanded dramatically in recent decades.  They appear to be just a little step away from being a big for-profit trade school.  They're technically not-for-profit, but their executives reportedly make millions.

Recent rains have kept the bird activity muted where I've been.  I did see a big blue heron at the city park this morning, for the first time in a while.  Good to see the big guy (or girl?) again!  First time I'd ever seen a heron perched on the railing of a fishing pier and walking along it.

The red cat brought in two chicks yesterday, of different species. The bigger one didn't make it, but the smaller one did. I've been feeding it (wet cat food soaked in water). Two shreds at a time yesterday; this morning it cheeped at me and ate four shreds. We'll try bringing it to a bird rescue society later.

Poor thinglet.

Good morning!

QBwH for kneecap(ped) LB had a 2fer b4ss then after fooling with it all day, realized it could have been injurious-swatch.

Gah.

Happy solving!

Another day with very little time, so I'll aim for a little more T4 reading and writing.

Quote from: MarathonRunner on May 11, 2025, 05:16:58 PM

Quote from: kaysixteen on May 09, 2025, 07:42:33 PMSome populated areas of Canada are nonetheless so sparsely populated AND remote from anything resembling an urban area, that methinks at lease some provinces or territories, and/or the federal govt., must have some sort of program incentivizing qualified teacher applicants to go to those places to work?

Education is a provincial responsibility, so there are no federal government incentives for teachers. Teachers may choose to move to more rural/remote areas because there are jobs there, but they don't do so because of any incentives in the provinces I'm familiar with. I do know a lot of BEd grads who start as subs because there aren't any full time permanent jobs, because we pay our teachers well and they have excellent pensions in most provinces as well. And again, you need a BEd or a teaching-focused MEd to teach in the public system in Canada, and many private schools want that as well. Even though I have a PhD, I would not be hired to teach my subjects in elementary or high school, unless I went back and did "teacher's college."

In addition, in Ontario, (as an example; other provinces are probably similar), to teach high school, teacher candidates have to have two "teachable" subjects; i.e. two subjects in which they have a major or a minor, in addition to the BEd.

So, to add to MarathonRunner's point, even a PhD in history wouldn't qualify someone to teach physics, or vice versa.

Quote from: Langue_doc on May 11, 2025, 04:32:59 PMHooboy! Talk about the ethical and legal issues involved, let alone common sense.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy5ell3gkxvo

But it probably already has a golden toilet.

Quote from: Parasaurolophus on May 11, 2025, 08:41:01 AMWill probably be low on time again today. Hoping to do a little T4--some writing, some reading.

Snuck in a quick 400 words and bit of reading, but really had no time--about 40 minutes, tops.