Next Step Toastmasters Sunday Jan 14, 2024 Meeting Announcment

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[Video] Are Employers Desperate to Hire Nerds? (2023)

Thirty minute video on whether technology employers are desperate to hire nerds as suggested by pervasive and perennial STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) worker shortage claims. Updates and extends earlier videos on the topic for 2024.

Selected References

STEM Shortage Articles Dated 2023 or so

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1883726 (reference from Ron Hira article above)

JOURNAL ARTICLE
Dynamic Shortages and Price Rises: The Engineer-Scientist Case
Kenneth J. Arrow and William M. Capron

The Quarterly Journal of Economics
Vol. 73, No. 2 (May, 1959), pp. 292-308 (17 pages)
Published By: Oxford University Press

https://doi.org/10.2307/1883726

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2023/09/13/stem-workforce-shortage-semiconductor-manufacturing-race/70721967007/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stem-workforce-shortages-myth-ron-hira/

https://www.uschamberfoundation.org/education/addressing-stem-workforce-shortage
October 2022

https://defensecommunities.org/2021/02/dib-report-reveals-u-s-stem-shortage-as-major-vulnerability-to-national-defense/ (Feb 16, 2021)

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/report-pentagon-says-stem-education-deficit-weakening-america-177680 (Feb 7, 2021)

https://www.csis.org/blogs/perspectives-innovation/us-should-strengthen-stem-education-remain-globally-competitive

https://web.mit.edu/dikaiser/www/CWB.html

American Physics and the Cold War Bubble
by David Kaiser MIT

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11111899/

David Kaiser video
https://youtu.be/LccErLv1ugE

https://hbr.org/2020/02/how-to-be-the-purple-squirrel-employers-are-looking-for

MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE ARTICLES ON STEM SHORTAGE CLAIMS

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Next Step Toastmasters Meeting Dec 10 2023

NextStep Toastmasters Meeting December 10, 2023

Meeting Time: 2nd Sunday of each month, 2:00 – 4:00 pm

Next Step Toastmasters hosts educational workshops on a bi-monthly basis. These educationals are conducted by an advanced member, a speaker from District 101 or a Toastmaster who is a recognized expert. For sessions that don’t have scheduled educationals, we provide the opportunity for longer and more speeches by members and additional speakers.

1:45 pm: Registration
2:00 pm: Educational session (if applicable)
3:00 pm: Club meeting, with advanced speeches and evaluations
4:00 pm: Adjourn / Socialize

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For meetings without an educational, we will have a normal club meeting from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.

We have a new in-person meeting location:

The branch library is closed on Sunday, however the club meets in the community room attached to the library. The door to the community room is on the far left edge of this photo below.

Community Room, San Jose Public Library, Willow Glen Branch
1157 Minnesota Avenue
San Jose, CA 95152
https://www.sjpl.org/locations/willow-glen/

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[Video] Israel Nova Massacre: Apache Helicopters or Fire Damage?

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Short video on claims Apache Helicopters and sometimes Hellfire missiles from Apache Helicopters required to explain fire damage to cars in images and video from the Israel Supernova (Nova) music festival massacre. Examples of parking lot fires from around the world are shown as well as a discussion of my personal experience with a fire bombing of my apartment complex in Mountain View, CA years ago.

Links to articles on the August 2016 music festival in Portugal parking lot fire which reportedly destroyed over 400 cars:

https://www.boomsbeat.com/articles/109192/20160804/422-cars-burned-down-at-a-music-festival-parking-lot.htm

https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/fire-in-car-park-of-dance-festival-destroys-422-vehicles/39065

https://www.9news.com.au/world/festival-fire-destroys-more-than-400-cars/9b978069-0420-4789-a405-2e89c2c090a4

https://www.firstpost.com/photos/portugal-fire-at-music-festival-destroys-cars-forces-evacuation-of-4000-people-2936104.html

https://www.news24.com/life/car-nage-music-festival-fire-burns-hundreds-of-cars-20160804

Yes, even RT, the Russian government outlet and source of some of the video that I question, covered it in 2016.

https://www.rt.com/viral/354785-festival-car-fire-andancas/

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[Video] Evacuate Gaza

Evacuate Gaza to Minimize Loss of Civilian Lives

Short video on evacuating the Gaza Strip in Israel to minimize loss of civilian lives.

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My Response to Ambassador McFaul’s Tweet on Gaza

(Former) US Ambassador Michael McFaul’s Tweet

The short twitter feed answer:

Evacuate the civilians before using force. Cut off food and water slowly to force them to leave. Provide food etc. only outside. Search everyone who leaves for weapons. Detain Hamas fighters who try to sneak out. Only use force after all civilians are safe.

The longer non-twitter feed answer:

Evacuate the civilian population from Gaza before using force. Establish checkpoints at the border and search everyone leaving for any weapons. Tell them not to bring any weapons including guns, long knives, incendiary materials etc. Set up tents in the desert with plenty of water, basic food, vitamins, other amenities and some sort of benign entertainment as well as medical facilities etc. etc. Cut off food and water as is already being done, perhaps slower however, to force the civilians to leave. Identify and detain Hamas fighters and officials who leave. Those who cannot be linked to war crimes should be prisoners of war. Those culpable for war crimes — murder of civilians etc. — should be arrested and stand trial in some credible international court, not Israel judiciary. Wait until ideally all or most of the civilians are out of the way. If Hamas is not willing to surrender at this point or earlier, then attack. Civilians should be free to return to their homes after Hamas surrenders or is destroyed.

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[Article] CDC Recommendations Paper Published

Recommendations for Improving the United States
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Data Practices
for Pneumonia, Influenza, and COVID-19 (Click Here)

CDC FluView Interactive: https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html

CDC Leading Causes of Death Report (2017):

See Table C on Page 9 of PDF Report

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_06-508.pdf

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[Video] “Conspiracy Theory”: CIA Slogan or Liberal Mantra?

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Twenty minute video on the original of “conspiracy theory” as a pejorative slogan meaning a crazy, crackpot idea unsupported by facts or logic that any sane person would and should immediately dismiss. Did the CIA create “conspiracy theory” as a pejorative slogan in 1967? Does a declassified CIA memo from 1967 prove it? If not, where did the slogan come from?

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[Video] Boost Sales with AI

Introduction to using Math Recognition Artificial Intelligence (AI) to boost sales at no extra cost by estimating the combination of ad expenditures that maximizes sales for the current ad budget. Demonstration using sales and advertising expenditure data from McDonalds (restaurants) annual reports. About 9 minutes.

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[Video] Pitch to win Workshop Announcement

Brief announcement of a public speaking workshop “Pitch to win” at Next Step Toastmasters in Santa Clara, CA on Sunday, August 13, 2023 from 2-3 PM PST.

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