Subj : Do Not Call To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Sat Jun 22 2019 11:37:00 Hi Nancy! BM>> The stations I generally listen to barely give the highlights and BM>> seems half the time conclude anything of interest with "go to our news BM>> app for more"; almost would be better to skip the news and just look BM>> at the app. NB>> Doesn't help much if one doesn't have an app.... I do have the NB>> option (which I never use) of switching to the AM sister station NB>> to hear the full news in depth programs.... but generally the NB>> little bit I do normally get is quite sufficient.... BM> Right. If something was really of interest to you you would flip over, BM> and then wait through their other extended stories until they got to BM> the one you were interested in, At least with reading on-line can get BM> to the story of interest immediately. Not always convenient to read BM> though. NB> I'm never really that interested, to flip over to the other NB> station... but when I'm up to our camp, like now, I do end up NB> hearing the extended news, since that's what there is on the NB> station I listen to here... the classical music doesn't come on NB> until 10pm, and goes through the night until 5am when the news NB> starts again... There's various talk/news shows and music shows NB> like folk, blues, etc filling in between Morning Edition and All NB> Things Considered (the morning and evening extended news NB> programs)... Different schedules dependant on where you are. Here "Channel 6" which is the TV station I usually look at for the news and weather also has a few-times-a-day e-mail with links to their website for the remainder of the story. If something catches my eye might click for more information. OTOH if looking rather nasty outside will probably go to Weather Underground to look at what's going on - can 'pull back' and look at the bigger picture - and mostly admire all the pretty colours! BM>>> ...For some reason popped in to my head elementary (school) level BM>>> teaching styles must have changed to counter-act the easy route of BM>>> tapping and clicking to get information instead of memorizing it. NB>>> There might be some utilization of the new avenues, but I'd hope NB>>> there would also be some teaching of the basics as well... BM>> It would seem some of the "tried and true" methods would always work. BM>> OTOH not a bad idea to be exposed to various teaching (and so BM>> learning) methods and options. NB>> You might have the opportunity to find out somewhat first-hand, NB>> now that Autumn's starting school... BM> Possibly -- we'll be playing that one by ear as so far has maintained BM> a separation of school (work) and being here (play). NB> If nothing else, you should be able to get information from her NB> parents as to what and how she is being taught... :) Oh yes. BM>>> Right. Always the possibility of a phone call not being logged BM>>> properly. A single phone call could create a very low priority outage; BM>>> fifty phone calls from the same area should elevate the emergency-ness. NB>>> Or at least make it more likely that the outage could be located, NB>>> and understood to be something more widespread.... BM>> True: Barry calls and no one else, probably the transformer on the BM>> pole. Barry and a few others on his side of the street calls, probably BM>> bigger transformer at end of block. ...Barry and just about everyone BM>> in the city calls: whoa! lightening struck the substation! (That did BM>> happen years ago: except I was working. Drive over the hill and - BM>> darkness!) NB>> That must have been a shock....! Hopefully everyone else had NB>> already called it in that time.... ;) BM> Oh yeah! I don't recall when it happened but was an hour or so before BM> I got off work; someone at the store received a phone call and spread BM> from there? Was still kind of a shock: drive along normally. At the BM> top of the hill could see too much darkness but the middle of the hill BM> is a patch of woods so no lights anyway. At the base of the hill is a BM> major intersection and just beyond that I-74, so some lighting, but BM> after that - dark! NB> Good thing your headlights worked... :) That would have been really bad!! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... Did you hear about the paper company that folded? --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .