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Giulietta
By Giulietta
Giulietta Coolidge
High school teacher living in Chicago. I thought I was moderate, but it seems I'm conservative now. Delighted to be here.
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Since Trump’s 2016 election (and perhaps earlier), the assumption here in Chicago is that everyone is liberal and on board to rip Trump to shreds or at the very least, listen indulgently while someone else does it for you. That shredding session might take place in an Uber, the grocery store, while picking up your […]

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Recommended by Ricochet Members Created with Sketch. A Most Unusual Working Life

RushBabe49
By RushBabe49
RushBabe49 Thatcher
Born & raised in WA, work in aerospace industry. I play violin.  I'm Business Survey Chair of ISM-Western WA.
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I graduated from college in 1971 with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Back in junior high school, a psychiatrist had helped me a great deal, so I decided that I wanted to be a psychologist when I grew up. Since you can’t do much with a bachelor’s degree, I applied to graduate schools to get a master’s in counseling psychology. I got accepted to exactly one school, the University of Minnesota, so that’s where I went.

Getting there was way less than half the fun (driving an old car that broke down on the way, by myself, knowing no one), but eventually I made it. I found a place to live not far from campus and started my studies. Little did I know that I had chosen the school described as a “Bastion of Behaviorism,” but it sure turned out to be. 

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Clifford A. Brown
By Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown Contributor
Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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This is both a brief story in itself and preface to another tale, “Strategic Logistics Work.” The point of observation: the Valley of the Sun, Maricopa County, the population center of Arizona. The time: summer 2018 and last weekend, March 21-22, 2020.

Foreshadowing: It was a normal summer Saturday afternoon in 2017. Which is to say, it was a dry heat in the Valley of the Sun. I was out for a 2.5-mile brisk walk when I got the urge to sprint. Nevermind that I had not done a wind sprint over a year, I just had the urge. Pulling up at the end of a 200-yard dash, I noticed something was a bit odd. My heart rate was not slowly dropping. I got indoors, sat down, and drank water. No change. In fact, I was getting increasingly light-headed, even with my head down, so I had someone dial 911.

The fellows in the ambulance were quickly on the scene. I had had a complete cardio workup the summer before, and had been pronounced fit as a fiddle. Now the lead paramedic was coaching me through something called a vagal maneuver.

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GLDIII Temporarily EssentialJoined in the first year of Ricochet Ricochet Charter Member
By GLDIII Temporarily Essential
GLDIII Temporarily Essential Reagan
Skipped the young and liberal portion of development, currently a practicing aerospace engineer, mesmerized as a 11 year watching Neil walking on the moon, married my high school sweetheart (currently @ 35 38 years), have one boy still in college, the eldest is an employed accountant and engaged, and they seem to be avoiding the mushy headed stage as well. Have had a lifetime of restoring things (Vettes, Camaros, British buggies, & Fiats), and building things from scratch (several homes, an… [more]
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This little missive provoked a lot of likes in the running commentary we call the PIT at Ricochet.

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Clifford A. Brown
By Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown Contributor
Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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Just to be helpful, and because there was white space in the monthly theme calendar, I give you my first cut at the Social Distancing and Self Quarantine Playlist.

Let’s start off nice and easy, with a tune from those quintessential boys of summer:

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Clifford A. Brown
By Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown Contributor
Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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In all the hype and happy talk around the latest coronavirus to cross over to humans, keep an eye on this number in America: 498,000. That is the number of people this novel coronavirus will have to infect to cause as many deaths as the annual, seasonal flu. I tried to make sense of the numbers around notorious coronavirus, a.k.a. COVID-19, in a post about a week ago now.

I now note that the presidential proclamation, suspending travel from certain countries, referred to COVID-19 as “SARS-CoV-2.” The CDC page explains the reason for the changing names. This prompted another look at the numbers, with this math-challenged scribbler doing a bit of stubby pencil, back-of-the-envelope figuring. Check my math as I work through the numbers; hopefully it is better than Ma and Pa Kettle’s.

SARS last time had an 9-10% mortality rate. It was nothing like influenza, including the worse known version in 1918-19, because the number of people who actually contracted SARS was so much lower than the number of people who get the flu globally every year. Think about it: if the flu regularly kills 1 in 1000 infected, and SARS killed 1 in 10, then you can see that SARS would have to infect 1/100 the number of flu victims to reach the same death count.

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KentForrester
By KentForrester
KentForrester Moderator
I grew up in the 50s in the blue-collar city of Compton, California, just before it turned dangerous. I spent my youth in pool halls and bowling alleys. I had no interest in school. To make money, I delivered newspapers, set pins in the bowling alley, kept score, and even shined shoes in dive bars on Compton Boulevard. I was drafted into the Army in 1958 and spent 18 months in Germany, where I started thinking hard about what I wanted to do with my life. So I returned to Compton Junior College f… [more]
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Thomas Carlyle, the conservative Victorian proselytizer for the idea that hard work is man’s highest virtue, would strongly disapprove of my current idle and unproductive life.

I wasn’t always this way. I used to be as busy as Joe Biden’s hands in a roomful of women. As a kid, I shined shoes in bars, delivered both of LA’s newspapers on a bike, and set pins in a bowling alley. As an adult, I installed telephones for Ma Bell, spiked my way up telephone poles for the Army, studied hard enough to get a Ph.D., and taught English full-time in two universities for thirty years.

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OmegaPaladin
By OmegaPaladin
OmegaPaladin Moderator
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The most commonly cited OSHA standard is 29 CFR 1910 Subpart D, Walking-Working Surfaces. It’s not surprising: the biggest causes of death in construction are falls and being struck by an object, both of which the standard tries to prevent.

Like much of the OSHA regulations, it tends to spell out the common sense approach. Railing, scaffolds, ladders, etc need to be well put together and guard against objects rolling off and smacking someone. People high up need harnesses and safety lines so they are not one slip away from a splat, and the harnesses need to be inspected just like a parachute. Lots of explicit listing of just how big a railing needs to be and what the spacing needs to be, etc. Like nearly every standard, it begins with a set of definitions for all of the words / concepts specific to the standard. For example:

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By Aaron Miller
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In game design, “grinding” is a term for performing a repetitive action in pursuit of a long-term reward. Some people use the term without reference to fun. But “grind” is more commonly employed by players to identify a redundancy that becomes boring or burdensome, though it is tolerated because the goal is sufficiently enticing. Some […]

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Clifford A. Brown
By Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown Contributor
Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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All right folks, let’s get workin’. There are many open days left on this month’s theme “Working.” You really don’t want me to break out the Charmin Bears, outhouses, and disco music! All you need do is write a short post to start the conversation. Perhaps you could ask a question or two to get […]

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Clifford A. Brown
By Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown Contributor
Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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“Nice Work if You Can Get It” is a George and Ira Gershwin song composed as part of the sound track for the 1937 song and dance movie A Damsel in Distress. It was first sung by Fred Astaire with backing vocals by The Stafford Sisters, led by Jo Stanford, who had a long career […]

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Clifford A. Brown
By Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown Contributor
Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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Let’s start off March with some of the soundtrack of our lives, songs about work and working. Here are a few tunes that come to mind for me. Are some of these songs that come to mind for you as well, and do you have other tunes in your mental soundtrack?

Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Sixteen Tons” is the first song that comes to my mind. It is a working man’s lament at a rigged system, while also boasting of great physical prowess, a man among men.

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Clifford A. Brown
By Clifford A. Brown
Clifford A. Brown Contributor
Retired from the U.S. Army Reserve as a Colonel after 30 years of active and reserve assignments. M.A. Political Science, M.S. Strategic Studies, Army War College, JD. Served in 1st Armored Division in West Germany when the Berlin Wall came down, in 2nd Infantry Division in South Korea during the regime of Kim Il Sung, and commanded a logistics battalion in Iraq 2003-2004. Wide-ranging public policy interests. Occasional home brewer and infuser of alcohol spirits.
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When a friend’s uncle from North Dakota first saw the Pacific Ocean, he stood there and gazed at it for a long time. Then, he said “Just a-workin’ all the time!” – @rushbabe49 With record employment and wage growth, on the one hand, and all manner of hijinks and skulduggery on the other hand, the […]

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RushBabe49
By RushBabe49
RushBabe49 Thatcher
Born & raised in WA, work in aerospace industry. I play violin.  I'm Business Survey Chair of ISM-Western WA.
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I was too busy. I just arrived home after working a twelve-hour day. Tomorrow is the last day of our fiscal year, and I had a lot of work to catch up on. I got dozens of line items released. I trained a planner to take over part of my “old” job. I pulled a […]

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RushBabe49
By RushBabe49
RushBabe49 Thatcher
Born & raised in WA, work in aerospace industry. I play violin.  I'm Business Survey Chair of ISM-Western WA.
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By age 68, many people’s lives are slowing down. At that age, most of us have had a full working life, raised and sent on their way their beloved children, and are ready to leave the work force and retire. My generation, the “baby boomers” was the first cohort whose women found before them the […]

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L’affair Weinstein helped me resolve to let go of a long-time employee who was good at their job, but a bully. This person had a long history of second chances with my predecessor (I am still pretty new) who I guess kept hoping against hope they would change. It didn’t seem likely that would happen. […]

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Victor Tango Kilo
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Tomorrow, a lot my former colleagues in the National Capital Region will have the day off; possibly much of the week off. I’ll be at work since this part of “Flyover Country” was not affected by the Big Blizz. And you know what? That’s perfectly fine. Since leaving the NCR, I’ve discovered that the office […]

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Tom Meyer, Common Citizen
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Tom Meyer, Common Citizen Contributor
Conservative libertarian, former Ricochet East Coast/Morning Editor. I post on Twitter @tomdmeyer
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[Scene: The Meyer Household, morning. TOM is at his desk, reading through the member feed of the website that he works for mornings. Preparing for the final sip of his coffee, he swirls his mug when he is interrupted by simultaneous ringing and vibrating noises coming from multiple mobile devices. Figuring out which of this is his phone, […]

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