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  2. Fans will be returning to KBC starting 3/20 versus Boston

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    2 minutes ago, Zamboni said:

    Are we starting the “you don’t agree with me so instead I’m going to passive aggressively insult you to make myself and my point seem more important and valid than your opinion” stance? Because that crap has been done to death. You’re better than that. 
    Reality check on opinions, You couldn’t care less about mine, and me, yours. 👍🏼 Or are we pretending our opinions matter to each other? 😂

    No, but as a scientist, it's always interesting to see non-scientists try to justify their opinions as valid based upon nothing but their feeling. I have trained plenty of PhDs, MDs, and MPHs, too.

    But your opinion of safe is ... not safe. And would stand the likelihood of increasing spread through the population into people who choose not to attend. The safety choices are, by the looks of it, the best we could hope for, but it's not infallible. A PCR test can easily be negative one day but the person's already infected.

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  11. Updated: Pegulas and arena/hospitality workers

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    On 3/24/2020 at 1:15 PM, PASabreFan said:

    Is the jig also up on expensive brick and mortar colleges and universities?

     

    14 hours ago, Neo said:

    Megatrends ... this will accelerate great change.  Much was already in the works.

    3).   Bloated secondary education is taking it right in the gut.  Brick, mortar, dorms with spas, gyms and pools, and curricula that requires debt but can’t repay debt (a cocaine and hookers and meth party that’s nearly two generation old).

    I’d be interested in the thoughts or observations of others ...

    Assuming that Neo means post-secondary education, so lumping both of these together.

    Honestly, this has done nothing so far to show that distance learning is in any way superior to in-person classes. I'm currently teaching out of my basement, recording lectures and assigning readings to be worked on asynchronously by the students. It's impossible to recreate the dynamic of having students in class to discuss what we're talking about; message boards don't allow for rapid conversation, student's home schedules don't allow for twice or three-times weekly in-person chats online. There's no way to go off on an interesting tangent after a student asks a thought-provoking question in the same way. Frankly, I'm doing my best, but it's nowhere near my usual standard. My juniors and seniors in my Cancer Biology course, I worry less about since they'll know to message me or email me and we can have some form of dialogue, albeit lesser; my first year students, who are still scared of even coming to office hours, I worry about them and how well what I am doing is preparing them for the more challenging 200-level class they will be taking in the fall (hopefully!). As for the teaching lab - not even close. The instructors are trying our best to put something together that makes a rough approximation of what the students would have been doing in lab, but it's not the same as hands-on experience. We just feel fortunate that they've had *most* of the experiences a little bit. But these are your future doctors, physical therapists, physician's assistants, pharmacists, medical technologists and science researchers; hands-on is kind of important for them.

    Maybe it's different in different fields and different sized universities, but for a small/medium sized college in biology, there's no comparison: this is hugely sub-optimal and says nothing other than "let's get back to in-person as quickly as we can."

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  14. Looking for numbers/name plate for blank jersey

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    I got one done at the Sabres store about 18 months ago (a Moulson --> Dahlin). Took them about 2 weeks and cost less than fifty bucks if I recall.

    It was a Reebok and this was after the Adidas rebrand and they had no problems with it.

    I did call up Dave and Adams before going to the Sabres store, and they said they'd do it for about the same price, but I think the wait time was longer.

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