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Grand County Emergency Medical Service has a proud and established history as a premier pre-hospital provider. The department was formed in 1970 as a Basic level ambulance provider, responding in a two Cadillac ambulances as a combination service under the sheriff's office. The ambulance service started out in a little room at the courthouse and stationed the ambulances where planning and zoning are located today. In 1974 the ambulance service became its own department. In the early years the ambulance staff diligently worked to attain a high standard of care.
These dedicated volunteers made strides to raise the bar introducing EMT-Intermediates in the 1980's and moving forward to establish Paramedics in the 1990's. With each achievement Grand County Ambulance was making a difference to give life a chance. During the first twenty years Grand County Ambulance built a strong foundation for future EMS professionals to continue serving a growing community.
Grand County Emergency Medical Service continues to grow as a prominent EMS organization. The department provides Basic Life Support, Advanced Life Support, and Critical Care Paramedic services with a small dedicated staff. The department became a full-time paid EMS Department in 2001. In 2003 the citizens of Grand County stepped in to support EMS with a 2Mill property tax. The support of our citizens has and continues to be a driving force behind GCEMS today. GCEMS has a state of the art fleet of ambulances, QRUs, and medical equipment to give life a chance. Grand County EMS continues to grow to meet the needs of the community through an array of 911 emergency point of care medical services, out of county transport services, public education, and community healthcare services. The staff of Grand County EMS proudly serves the citizens of all of Grand County and the Towns of Fraser, Granby, Grand Lake, Hot Sulphur Springs, Kremmling, and Winter Park.
Grand County EMS provides a tiered level of response. This tiered system provides the EMT-Basics greater autonomy as primary care givers. The EMT-BIVs provide emergency care with interventions such as establishing I.V. lines, defibrillation, and emergency airway initiation with the King Airway. The EMT-BIV staff are the foundation of the department providing initial patient care and treatment. The EMT-Intermediate and Paramedic staff responds as the Advanced Life Support providers to administer an even more intense patient care during an emergency.
Paramedics and the Critical Care Paramedics are equipped with state of the art medical equipment including the LifePak 15, I-Stat, IV pumps, and portable ventilators. All of the professional EMS staff are required to maintain numerous certifications including National Registry & Colorado EMTS Section EMS certifications. The EMS staff attends more than 200 hours of continuing education and training.
Grand County EMS is vigilant and takes pride in providing a security blanket of protection to the public. As a healthcare safety net GCEMS continuously trains, educates, and reviews all medical practices and reviews, researches new medical therapies. This high level of dedication to providing emergent life saving care is built on a strong education & training program. In addition to the professional EMS staff the Training & Education Division provides a diverse community education program. These programs have also garnered a public & private partnership to deploy more than 50 AEDs throughout the community. The Education & Training Division has expanded to provide initial EMT training to students of Middle Park High School & West Grand High School. The High School EMT courses provide high school seniors with job ready skills when they graduate and prepare for the world.
Grand County EMS's central station and administration is located in Granby, Grand County, Colorado. Grand County is located just West of Denver and North of the I-70 corridor on U.S. Highway 40 in the heart of the Rocky Mountains. Grand County is a destination community for more than a million visitors to the ski resorts, vast forest, rivers, and Rocky Mountain National Park. Grand County provides a host of outdoor recreational activities including hundreds of miles of snowmobile trails, hiking trails, mountain climbing, downhill skiing, cross country skiing, snowboarding, and four-wheeler trails.
Grand County is known for its world class fly fishing and game hunting. Grand County is home to the "Grand" River now today called the Colorado River. Grand County Emergency Medical Service is a state of the art ALS pre-hospital provider with small town pride. "Professional care with a personal touch"
Third Service, a department of the County of Grand and operates at the pleasure of the Board of County Commissioners.
Basic Life Support - Paramedic Advanced Life Support – Critical Care
Grand County, 1875 square miles Towns of Fraser, Granby, Grand Lake, Hot Sulphur Springs, Kremmling, & Winter Park
14,500 (More than a million visitors & guest annually)
Call Volume
2000 annually with 1400 transports
It is the mission of Grand County Emergency Medical Services to provide life saving point of care services, emergency pre-hospital care during transport, and emergent & non-emergency medical transportation, with the highest standard of professionalism, the most advanced training, and a deep sense of caring for our patients and their families.
Consistent with a commitment to excellence, Grand County EMS focuses a strong emphasis on quality emergency medical care, treating the professional EMS staff with dignity and respect as well as the citizens we serve.
Grand County Emergency Medical Services continually works to maintain excellence by investing in training and technology that enhances our professional EMS staff ability to provide the highest quality of emergency patient care, increase community awareness, and increase the value of our service.
Grand County Emergency Medical Service is Committed to the Community today and for the changing future.
Management Statement
"Provide our Professional EMS Staff with a positive atmosphere to foster quality patient care."
"It is the goal of Grand County EMS to provide quality patient care and customer care that benefits the community."
"Building on the past, perfecting in the present, and growing into the new - Excellence is Cutting edge patient care."
"Professional care with a personal a touch."
Three 24/7 Staffed Stations
Station 1 - Headquarters – Granby, Colorado
Station 2 - Fraser, Colorado
Station 4 – Kremmling, Colorado
State of the art Medic Units designed and setup as Mobile Intensive Care Units (MICU), to provide immediate lifesaving care and critical out of county transports.
Five 4x4 Dodge 4500 AEV Trauma Medic emergency ambulances
Two Chevrolet C4500 double stretcher ambulances
Six Rapid Response Medic Units
One 4X4 GMC 5500 Emergency Support Unit (ESU16) Rapid Response Medic Unit
Two snowmobiles for backcountry emergency medical response
One two-up snowmobile for backcountry emergency medical response
Two double four-wheelers for backcountry and large event all hazards and emergency medical response
One Polaris six-wheeler ambulance for backcountry and large event all hazards and emergency medical response
One Mass Casualty Response Trailer (MCI trailer)
Four VMS boards (Variable Message Boards), for emergency notification and community information
One cone / sign trailer for all-hazards response
Four static stations with a dynamic posting pattern of staging points for maximum protection. This plan utilizes station fill-in first, then pre-determined posting sites for staging of ambulances and paramedic response units.
Emergency 911 response, definitive care, and transport of medically ill and traumatically injured citizens and visitors.
Emergent and non-emergent transport and continued definitive medically ill and traumatically injured persons to tertiary care facilities.
Customer service oriented billing services. The in-house billing division provides customers with courteous and professional care after the call.
Mountain Medical Response Team
The Mountain Medical Response Team or MMRT is the department's specialty team. Mountain Medical Response Team operates as the medical support for the professional all volunteer Grand County Search and Rescue Team. The Mountain Medical Response Team provides an array of special services in a rural mountain community including:
Wildland Fire Medical Response Team
Tactical EMS
Bike Team
The EMS Education Division provides a broad range of educational and skills training in-house.
Pre-hospital continuing education site
Middle Park High School EMT Basic Course
West Grand High School EMT Basic Course
Initial training site for Adult EMT-Basic Course
National core training and education site for:
Basic Life Support Courses including CPR
Neonatal Resuscitation Course
Pediatric Education for Pre-Hospital Providers
I.V. Endorsement Course
Distracted Driving Diversion Programs
Community First Aid & CPR Programs
Car Seat Inspection Station
The Duties & Responsibilities of Grand County EMS
Protect life. Grand County EMS is a vital community service designed to intervene in life threatening emergencies with emergent medical & trauma care therapies to sustain the quality of life for human beings. GCEMS is woven into the fabric of the Grand County community and provides a blanket of protection, 24 hours a day / 365 days a year, for the citizens & visitors through a robust emergency ambulance deployment plan. The GCEMS deployment plan includes specialized emergency medical ambulances designed for the mountains equipped with the fedility medical equipment to provide rapid response, bedside and on-scene point of care by highly trained EMTs, EMT-Intermediates, and Paramedics. life support emergency medical and / or traumatic medical interventions and medical procedures, ambulance transport services while continuing to provide emergency medical and/or trauma interventions & procedures. The Grand County EMS system protects lives, prevents death, and begins the healing process. GCEMS is committed to success through active & progressive emergency medical care.
Ensure the citizens and visitors of Grand County have immediately available ground ambulance medical transport services offering Critical Care Paramedic Advanced Life Support therapies and interventions as well as EMT Basic Life Support services to tertiary medical care facilities outside of Grand County.
Furnish the citizens & visitors enjoying the backcountry recreational opportunities of Grand County with a trained, skilled, and technically equipped wilderness rescue service from the Grand County EMS Mountain Medical Response Team.
Provide the community with training and education programs for emergency preparedness and life saving emergency techniques.
Support the citizens & visitors of Grand County during natural and manmade emergencies with a functional disaster services response system.
Promote injury prevention and life saving skill through active community programs, i.e. Lifesaving Is For Everyone program, Car Seat Safety Inspection program, High School EMT course, and Open enrollment EMT courses.
Participate at community functions & events throughout Grand County making available to the citizens & visitors on-site emergency medical and trauma care by trained EMS professionals.
Support community firefighters and law enforcement officers with emergency scene safety services and immediate medical response during on-scene operations.
2018 CDPHE Emergency Medical and Trauma Services System Consultation
2018 Final Grand County Budget
Annual Privacy Notice
Mountain Medical Response Team (MMRT)


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Delta Force Southampton wins coveted paintball award
Congratulations to the Delta Force paintball centre in Romsey, Southampton for claiming the prestigious Centre of Excellence award. Regarded as the premier paintball acclamation in the UK paintball industry, the Delta Force Southampton paintball centre won the award after the centre's tireless dedication to providing the ultimate paintball experience.
A day of paintball at Delta Force Southampton is more than just your ordinary paintball event – you can expect to play on movie set quality game zones with state of the art paintball equipment. Delta Force Southampton boasts some of the UK's most exciting game scenarios, including the impressive two-storey Castle Wallenberg, guarded bridge crossings, WWII armoured vehicles and even a London bus that forms the backdrop to an action-packed game. During your day of paintball you may even be fortunate enough (or unfortunate, depending on how you view it) to be engaged by the Delta Force Terminator in a one-on-one battle for paintball supremacy.
Special mention must also go to the Delta Force paintball centre in Congleton, Cheshire for their impressive performance over the last three months to secure second place in the nation-wide competition. The second place performance by Delta Force Cheshire completes an impressive 12 months for the centre with two first place and two second place trophies.
The quarterly Centre of Excellence award is a Delta Force-lead initiative where paintball centres throughout the UK are assessed on a range of criteria, including customer feedback, facilities and equipment, player numbers, health and safety and centre development. Points are awarded for each quality assessment, with bonus points allocated to top performing centres in customer service and customer satisfaction.
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Hyatt Place Herndon / Dulles Airport-East
You know what's important when arriving in a new city in the middle of the night? Knowing the name of your hotel. Not just an approximate name...the exact one. After our problems making our connection in Denver, we arrived at Washington's Dulles Airport around 2:30am, gathered our bags, and hopped in a cab. Unfortunately, my paperwork had been all shifted around when we were planning on staying in Denver for the night, so I was trying to tell the driver where we needed to go by memory. I staggered through a bunch of options..."The Hyatt Place Dulles", "The Hyatt Herndon", "The Hyatt Dulles Airport", until finally our taxi driver decided that he knew where we were going and we raced off into the night.
He didn't know where we were going.
I can't blame our driver for getting tired of listening to me mix up the names of the six Hyatt hotels that surround the Dulles airport, and I thank him for deciding that we looked like respectable enough people to drop us off at the fanciest of the Hyatts, the Hyatt Dulles. Unfortunately, as you can see from the title of this post, that's not where we were staying. This revelation occurred to me after our taxi roared away, when I turned to look at the hotel and thought to myself, "Geez, I've never seen a 15 story Hyatt Place before."
I still haven't.
Our thanks to the Front Desk Agent at the Hyatt Dulles who took the time to walk outside with us and point us to the Hyatt Place Herndon, which fortunately was just across the road and down a block or two. Nothing like a little 3am moonlight stroll pulling luggage through the streets of Virginia (Yes, I had to look that up. I had no idea where we were.) to finish your day off, but believe me with the finish line in sight, we were more than ready to get to our room. We rolled in to the lobby of our hotel at around 3:15am, grabbed our keys, and headed upstairs.
These are the moments that make me love Hyatt Place. I've never once walked into a Hyatt Place room and thought "Whoa! What a strange layout!" Every Hyatt Place we've ever stayed at has the exact same layout, and after as many nights as we've spent in them, it's like arriving back home. The kids all know which bed they're sleeping in, Lori knows exactly where she wants everything to go, and we all know how to hook our stuff up to the free Wi-Fi. It's a perfect late-night arrival hotel for us.
Sorry. Too tired to take the pictures when we arrived and the beds were made.
Of course the real reason we choose Hyatt Place is space. As a family of five, we can make do with a two queen room, but whenever the opportunity presents itself, we'd much rather have two beds and a pull out couch. This is what every Hyatt Place has, and it still leaves a bunch of floor space left over. The bathrooms are small, but there is a huge counter with a sink outside of it, allowing people to get ready without tying up the tub or toilet. Each room has a fridge and (can you hear my wife cheering?) coffee maker, but my favorite part about Hyatt Place rooms are the TV's.
Each Hyatt Place room comes with a 42" flat screen TV, which is nice, but my favorite part is the control panel. Hyatt has built a separate panel into the entertainment unit that the TV sits on, allowing you to hook up your iPads, computers, DVD players, and just about anything else you want, without having to fumble around behind the TV looking for input sockets. While sometimes Hyatt's TV channels are lacking (They very rarely have Disney channel. All hotels should have Disney Channel.), it's less of a problem when it's so simple to hook up our own equipment.
I can't think of an occasion when I've been disappointed by a stay at a Hyatt Place, and Hyatt Place Herndon wasn't the first. It was comfortable, quiet (at least until we arrived at 3am), and the staff were super-helpful in arranging transportation into D.C. for us the next morning. We slept through the free continental breakfast, but from the setup I saw when we arrived, it looked like it would be a pretty decent one. If I was headed back into Dulles, you can be assured that I'd stay at the hotel again, especially now that I've got the name of it memorized. Hyatt Place Herndon....Hyatt Place Herndon....Hyatt Place Herndon....
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Having already got two house bunnies from rescue sites, I fell in love with Duster when I spotted him on the Rabbit Rehome website.
I contacted the Fat Fluffs team and after sending in pictures of where Duster would be homed, and chatting to Chloe on the phone, I travelled to Solihull and collected Duster.
The bonding process took a little while, but with perseverance and a number of evenings spent in " neutral territory" (in this case the garage!) Duster became happy spending time with Tubby and Tez, and they welcomed him into their fold.
Duster is now firmly in charge and is quite a character. He loves to be brushed and will spend hours sitting on your lap while he is groomed. He also enjoys sitting on the settee with Tez, watching the TV. We are very happy to have him as part of the family.


I Hit Hard is a high-quality platform that demands that women* martial artists be heard, where our stories, experiences and battles are told and shared with dignity, justice and love.
I Hit Hard is born from the collective frustrations of those who are tired of women in martial arts being invisiblised, misrepresented, hyper-sexualised and patronised by the media and fellow male martial artists and fans.
Women Hit Hard, Roll Hard and Fight Hard.
My name is Ananya, and I'm a 25 year old martial arts practitioner and enthusiast based in London. I practice Bushin, MMA and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, and like most martial artists, I like to watch fights and tournaments across the martial arts I'm interested in.
I grew up with a dad who was a complete martial arts nerd, and was ushered into a Kung Fu class at the age of 8. At 16 I trained in Japanese Jiu Jitsu on the Isle of Wight, but was traumatised by the older men in my class who sexualised me. Having taken the steps to reignite my interest in martial arts on my own terms, I've found enduring sisterhood amongst other female fighters and a physical and mental empowerment that has transformed me as a person and as a martial artist.


A providential focus on mercy has this year provided the catalyst for mutual recognition and reconciliation of those who had chosen to follow the Green Cross of Saint Lazarus under differing leadership. Separated since 2004, the Order led by HE the Duc de Brissac, with its historic international seat at Boigny in France, is now united in common purpose with the Order led by HRH Prince Sixte-Henry de Bourbon-Parme, with its magistral seat in Jerusalem.
At a most cordial meeting hosted by the Duc and Duchesse de Brissac in the presence of a number of senior officers, having prayed together and embraced, the 48th and 50th Grand Masters signed and sealed documents officialising this moment of profound significance for their knights, dames and chaplains.
The warm and positive relationship of the leaders, respecting that there were heartfelt disagreements in the past, looks towards a future where all knights of goodwill cooperate for the benefit of those who are sick in body, mind and spirit. An ecumenical pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 2017 will seek the blessing and support of the Patriarchs of the Mother Church of Jerusalem, where the Order began in ancient times.


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Top 10 Card Games You Should Play in 2023
Card games have been around for decades. They are now being played worldwide in different forms after being invented in the Far...
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Card games have been around for decades. They are now being played worldwide in different forms after being invented in the Far East. The games have convened families, friends, and strangers around dining tables, campfires, and bar tops to play friendly and not-so-friendly cards. This could be attributed to its speed, portability, and easy game play.
Believe it or not, the main purpose of playing cards is not to perform magic and cardistry. In fact, they're called playing cards for a reason, and that is for card games.
And the cherry on top is that most companies nowadays design various versions of the same game to accommodate different audiences, tastes and preferences.
Plus, if you like, you can play them either online, at home physically with friends and family or in a casino, when you feel lucky.
And today, we're going over my personal top five best card games of all time. You can play these games anytime, anywhere, and with any deck of cards. As I said before, this is my personal list. I grew up playing cards and I played games with my friends and family throughout my youth.
In this guide, we'll discuss some of the most popular card game options you should try if you haven't previously.
1. Hearts Game
Have you heard of the trick-taking category of card games? Games of heart fall there. Hearts is a unique card game where you try to avoid collecting tricks depending on the cards in a pile. Hearts are viewed to be wrong as to the notorious queen of spades. The game is mainly played for 100 points, and the person who gets 100 becomes the loser as the one with the lowest points marges the winner. A heart is a point each, while the queen of spade is 13 points.
There is more to hearts about the history, rules, and how it has transformed. But the morale behind it is to avoid taking tricks with particular cards.
2. Poker Game
Poker is predominantly an American card game. Its betting factor has, however, made it unique from any of its antecedents. Poker became the go-to diversion of cowboy lore in the 1820s when they were tired of breaking horses and driving cattle and needed entertainment around the campfire.
The game involves luck and skills and is more competitive and friendly than many other card games. And the best is that it is very easy to learn how to play poker online USA even if you have never played it before. The card game has gained popularity with different variations and ranking systems. If you want a game for big gatherings, poker fits in perfectly.
3. Cribbage Card Game
The cribbage card game has been a darling of many for centuries. Though it involves a board, it is a card game of mainly two people—it can accommodate three to four people with a slight difference. The board helps you to track the points you have accumulated easily. It is among the most enjoyable games if you know how to play it right.
Cribbage was popular with mariners hundreds of years ago before it became a favorite game of college students through the previous generations. However, most analog games have fallen out of favor. Many folks may know the game but don't know how to play it since it does not adapt to digital play.
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For a quick game, card games are frequently easier to get out and play. Additionally, they are typically lighter and more portable for family vacations. Additionally, purchasing a variety of card games won't break the bank because they are frequently less expensive than board games.
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I understand that there are a plethora of games out there. So if you have any awesome card games that you think I left off this list, please be sure to comment them below, because I would always love to learn a new card game.
The games you have heard about are just a few among many that you should know. Though digital and online gaming is gaining momentum daily, cards remain the pioneers in the gaming world. You can give card games a try.
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ulcer factory
CEO vs Workers Income Gap
S Bengi
Location: Massachusetts, Zone:6/7, AHS:4, Rainfall:48in even Soil:SandyLoam pH6 Flat
Iterations are fine, we don't have to be perfect
Tyler Ludens
Location: Central Texas USA Latitude 30 Zone 8
https://inequality.org/facts/income-inequality/
Idle dreamer
For those curious why CEO pay started to explode in the 90s, Planet Money has a great podcast going over the mechanics of how that came to be. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/06/22/622646316/episode-682-when-ceo-pay-exploded
I learned a long time ago that it is never a good idea to count other people's money.
Wealth is what you are born into, one didn't have much to do with it. However
Year after year multi-million dollar income is money that is "stolen" from workers, that are paid an unjust wage.
It could also be said that it is stolen from consumers who are charged an unjust purchase price.
Before Mom&Pop supermarkets owners used to be paid 20x the avg worker.
Now after merger/market takeover. They are hired as Store manager making 20x the avg worker.
But now also forced to extract even more money from workers to send to headquarter (CEO/owner/district manager/regional manager)
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/08/07/for-most-us-workers-real-wages-have-barely-budged-for-decades/
Scott Foster
Location: 6a
Location: Maine, zone 5
I really wish people would switch from using averages to using median values. They tell the story much more accurately (and show the situation to be even worse).
Permaculture...picking the lock back to Eden since 1978.
Pics of my Forest Garden
What does all this matter?
There are so many things that I have no control over in my life. I have no control over what nationality I am, to what parents I was born to, to how poor they were, to where I was born and brought up,...I could go on and on about difficult situations in my life that were unfair, unfortunate, or labeled me as poor and dumb...and thus I could whine and whine, but the truth of it all is, none of that matters.
What matters is that today, in 2018, I can make choices for myself in a free country that allows me to prosper.
I have done that, by staying out of debt, building my own houses, retiring early, and using time instead of income to build net worth. There is a host of other things, but it all boils down to doing something about my situation to change it for me in a favorable way.
Today people want to complain and compare, instead of acting.
Tired of making 20 times less then a manager? Then be a manager. It really is that easy! It is a free country. But wait, people want the money of a manager, but do not want the resposnisbilities of a manager, or in terms of farming, they want the money a middleman would get, but not do the work a middle man does...being a cattle dealer for instance.
Or in another example, people want to escape the city and be on a homestead, but whine and complain that they cannot afford to buy a farm. REALLY? Are these people getting off their duffs, getting out on the back roads of rural America and asking about the litany of farmhouses that are abandoned? Most are not listed, but if people approach the right people, deals can be made in private sells, financing and leases. Sure there will be 50 no's before someone says yes, but people are not willing to do the work, or fix the farmhouse up, or put up with soil that is less than 100% in PH levels and NPK. Sure a realator can find all that for you, but its an expensive (and often unobtainable way) to get there.
It is interesting that this is on the Ulcer Factory because that is just how ulcers are formed: people dwelling on issues. The antedote? Stop the dwelling and doing something about it.
Travis, I don't disagree with anything you have written. That said, I see this a little differently. The bootstrap theory does work for some people but for some, it's not an option. Not everyone can be successful that is just the way it is.
What concerns me more than an individual having the ability to raise themselves up is the breakdown of the system.
I fear that the disparity in income is a sign of something much larger and more sinister.
When I look at things like the way laws are made in this country, how decisions are made about what scientists can research, the condition of our food system, The condition of our educational system, the condition of our drinking water, the way we dispose of hazardous waste, the way media does or doesn't cover issues, where taxes go, where subsidies go, the ability of a country to be at war continuously for over 100 years, the exponential increase in lobbyists, the movement of politician to and from corporations, the ability of a country to go to war to make money, the erosion of our constitutional system, a corporately run prison system where states build more prisons than universities, a country where children are killing themselves, a country of self-prescription of medication. Corporations are not in check and they run our country. Corporations have no borders and that isn't a good thing for a sovereign nation. There are two sets of rules, one for the corporations, and one for the masses. We are told what to think on a regular basis and we buy into it. Part of the problem is materialism. I'm not a religious person but to a certain extent we have done away with spiritualism and put in its place a golden calf. A corporation is not a feeling thing, it's a machine built with one end goal, profit at all cost. Consider this, those machines are building our future. It's not just in the U.S., this is a global issue.
I wish people would stop reacting to hot-button issues and start paying attention to what is really going on.
We are on a path to much less freedom than we had before and it is getting worse.
Stacy Witscher
I don't think we are in a terribly free country anymore, if we ever were. That's just rhetoric.
This kind of information is useful in deciding to what extent you want to engage with modern economic society. Some people want to work in the system and some people choose to work a different way, because they know the system is rigged.
I could just as easily say when people lose their retirement due to companies folding or a stock market crash that it out of your control so why worry about it.
We all make choices, more information is always better.
Living a life that requires no vacation.
Chris Kott
Location: Toronto, Ontario
This is a problem. The historical outcome of this kind of inequality is revolution. How do we bring this about without the accompanying collapse?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
-Robert A. Heinlein
wayne fajkus
Location: Central Texas zone 8a
I would guess that industry consolidation is the reason for the gap. This is my gut talking, i cant back it up. When you go from 1,000 mom and pop stores to one walmart with one ceo, of course the numbers will be skewed. If the ceo is now accountable for 1000 stores instead of 1, should his pay be higher? More headaches, more responsibility, etc.
If you were paid to harvest cucumbers and the farmer had 3 more fields compared to one from last year, wouldnt you want more money?
Sometimes the answer is nothing
To follow that up, a percieved unfairness can be quantified using math . Take the excess pay and divide it out by the total number of employees. I dont know the answer (never did the math).
If the overpay amounts to $10 extra a year per employee is it a blatant underpaying of employees? $10 a week? $10 a day? $10 an hour?
I guess im asking what real impact would it have if it was redistributed. At my low point you might say the pay is unfair but would make little/no impact on the employees. As the scale moves up the impact increases.
The math may say the anger is warranted and some rebalancing is warranted. It may also say its actually minuscule.
I am not sure about what the exact numbers look like.
But the usual 80/20 rule applies.
80% of the population/workers is clawing and struggling for a tiny 20% of the money.
While the top 20% of the population is sitting on 80% of the money.
It's not just a America/Western 1st world problem.
It seems like the 80/20 rule is pretty universal and it happens in "every" country.
But I say that it is mostly okay. Studies seems to say that as long as I make $80,000/yr I will be super happy.
Also life is all about being like Jesus/Buddha/Holyman X and suffering so I rejoice at the injustice in life and live for my future afterlife with God+Holy People.
I am being a bit cheeky but seriously I dont want to be apart of the rich 20%.
In fact I want to limit the amount of off site money and working that I have to do.
If I could have my housing, heating, food, water, sewer, etc, etc all done with as little money being traded, that would be best.
The 80/20 probably applies when referring to all workers. I may have taken the topic too literal. I compared ceo's vs all other workers. CEO's are such a small % of the total workforce. Because of that, i speculate that a division of a ceo's "excess" pay (divided among all workers) might be very minimal.
Mick Fisch
Part of the reason for larger salaries may be that the CEO's are simply on the top of much larger pyramids. If you own a company with 100 employees, you simply can't bleed as much off for yourself as you can if you have 100,000 employees. The last 20 or 30 years have seen lots of companies coming together under larger and larger corporate umbrellas. Another reason may be that the CEO deals only with the upper management just under him and other CEOs. He doesn't rub shoulders with the unwashed masses and doesn't really see the disparity between his pay and the janitors. Instead, he sees the disparity between himself and that other CEO who just got a big raise, another yacht and a new trophy wife with a mistress or two on the side and thinks "I do a better job than him, I need a raise!"
Everyone has a right to basic necessities. Then we can argue what are the basic necessities. I'm not sure internet, a cell phone, or a tv are necessities. The "poor" in the US are almost all in much better shape than the "middle class" of a few centuries ago (clean water, flush toilets, reliable food sources, better medical care, less violence, easier access to education and libraries). When I was getting my engineering degree, the vast majority of my classmates were from east Asia, the subcontinent or the middle east, with a smattering from africa, south america, and maybe an odd european or american in the bunch. When I talked to them, I almost never found any of them who were willing to go back home. When I pointed out how, with their education they could help their countrymen and would be in the top levels of society they were unmoved. The general response was,"So what, I would need to hire a bodyguard and put up with 5 power outages a day. I can have a much better life as middle class american than a rich man in my home country." This was so even though most of them were from wealthy, connected families (street kids from India rarely get to come to the US and go to college, it takes money and connections)
I don't think things are much different in most of the world. In almost any society I know of that is larger than the village, there are the really rich and the poor (even a village chief is usually in a lot better shape than the poorest villagers). The wonder is that in part of the world we have a group in the middle. So let's not burn the house down because someone else is setting closer to the fire than we are.
That said. I am not a fan of corporate greed. I agree the CEO and upper management salaries are rediculous. It's not a new problem. It's pretty much a problem in every culture (beyond subsistance farming or hunter/gatherer). Not sure how to fix it.
Rufus Laggren
Location: Chicago/San Francisco
I think Mick nails it. The "problem" is just people being people. As the alligator said: "We have met the enemy, and he is us!" I can see where perhaps one might wish to change our "cultural wiring", annnnd... we're already working on it! That's what our constitution, churches, organizations like the BoyScouts, etc. etc. are all embarked on. Doesn't seem like there would be harm in additional effort all around, however...
As somebody who once did invoke some serious events that affected the whole world (but I don't actually know if I, or even he, would claim he _changed_ the world) said: "The poor will always be with you." And I just read an article in this month's Atlantic which described the philosopher Nietzsche's argument that health in human beings is NOT the same as comfort. That pretty much sounds right, to me and correlates well w/my personal experience. There's always going be lots of folks seriously upset about something, and often with good reason.
And a last quote (not sure to whom to attribute this... anyone?): "Virtue begins at home." Which Permies is taking a stab at right as we speak.
I'm all tasted up for a BLT! This tiny ad wants a monte cristo!
Greenhouse of the Future ebook - now free for a while
https://permies.com/goodies/greenhouse
anti-capitalism hostility
Spirituality - Things vs. People
Survivalist Vs. Permaculture/Resiliency approaches
identifying bees vs. yellowjackets
Fava vs Broad Vs lima vs butter beans :-)
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Q: GWT - ScrollPanel in TabLayoutPanel not working properly if not selected I have a UI setup where I have a TabLayoutPanel, each tab corresponding to a panel, wrapped inside a ScrollPanel. Basically this is a chat program, with users able to post messages which will appear in the panels; this means that messages can appear in tabs which aren't currently focused.
Now what I wanted to do (simplified for here) is to have the ScrollPanel scroll to the bottom whenever a message arrives, basically to keep the newest message always in view. This works fine in the selected tab, but there's a problem in the tabs that aren't.
Basically, when the amount of messages in the tab gets enough that the scrollbar is needed, it doesn't seem to register until the tab is selected. I can call getVerticalScrollPosition() and it will return 0, even though I know there's way more there than would fit; and if I switch to the tab, the scrollbar is resting at the top. If at this point I switch away again, it will work from this point, so the problem is when it goes from not showing the scrollbar to showing it, which doesn't seem to register until the tab is selected.
Does anyone have a suggestion for getting around this behavior? I've tried simply setting the scrollbars to always display, but that didn't help at all.

A: Not 100% sure but I guess the problem is that display:none of the hidden tab might be the reason why getVerticalScrollPosition() returns 0.
As a workaround you could add a SelectionHandler and call getVerticalScrollPosition() in that method whenever you switch to the tab with the ScrollPanel

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Let's discuss these two boards, and what makes them different. There is the true blue Penny on one hand, and the lower cost Kryptonics on the other. If you are comparing the two, it is probably because you want a Penny style board without the full price. That's a valid concern, and here we are going to take a look at both and explore the differences in construction and handling that make the difference in the price.
made of a proprietary plastic blend that promises a strong, but flexible platform. These boards are coming from the manufacturer at a little under 100 dollars, and are ready to go once received. Included with the board are 59mm 83A moderately soft wheels that ride on Abec7 bearings. Competitors have a lot to live up to, in terms of the great performance and aesthetics that Penny offers out of the box.
Kryptonics offers the Torpedo. It is a fair sight cheaper from the initial purchase, and as such as many people asking if the difference is worth the price. This is a semi-rigid board molded in polypropylene that comes in at 40 to 50 bucks. The Torpedo comes ready to use with 62mm 83a wheels mounted on Abec5 bearings. Like the Penny, these boards come in a variety of colors and finishes.
Such a large difference in the price has to come from somewhere. For starters, the Abec7 bearings on the Penny are more expensive. For casual users, the difference in Abec5 and Abec7 can be a little modest. Abec5 are good quality bearings that offer good performance and the sensation of low friction, while the Abec7 bearings offer a near-frictionless sensation. So, there is a part of the difference- better bearings out of the gate.
Another difference is the actual handling of the board. It is not quite an easy thing to talk about the differences in handling. Overall, people that try both seem to keep coming back to the Torpedo being a bit more sluggish to turn. If the Torpedo's handling is an issue, the trucks can be bushed or replaced.
All in all, the Kryptonics Torpedo is a solid board for beginners, or people that just want a little board to cruise around on. The Penny comes with higher-grade bearings and better trucks, but the difference in price is enough to have two Torpedoes in the place of one Penny.


The RAPIR motion detector module allows scenes to be selected automatically via movement. In factory default setting, the unit will select scene 1 and off, with a timeout of 5 minutes and is ideally suited to office and residential applications where automatic scene selection is required.
When configured with the RASOFT Pro programming software, it is possible to select which scene is activated and modify the timeout period. The RAPIR also listens to RCM wall plates, to enable and disable the PIR motion function when not required. Mounting is via a 64mm diameter ceiling cutout, where a plastic collar is fitted.


scope, nor necessary for this proposal.
>> > Live Messenger and even Win8 MSN.
>> isn't displayed for the other person?  I would expect that to work.
>> each other's buddy lists?
>> just now... but it's supposed to.
cache an emoticon they can use it?


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Q: error: C2248: 'QGraphicsItem::QGraphicsItem' : cannot access private member declared in class 'QGraphicsItem' I encountered the error described on the post title in Qt.
I have a class call "ball", and it inherits class call "tableItem" which inherits QGraphicsItem.
I'm trying to use prototype design pattern, and thus have included a clone method inside the ball class.
Here's my code snippet:
For ball header and class
#ifndef BALL_H
#define BALL_H

#include <QPainter>
#include <QGraphicsItem>
#include <QGraphicsScene>
#include <QtCore/qmath.h>
#include <QDebug>
#include "table.h"
#include "tableitem.h"

class ball : public TableItem
{
public:
    ball(qreal posX, qreal posY, qreal r, qreal VX, qreal VY, table *table1);
    ~ball();

    virtual ball* clone() const;

    virtual void initialise(qreal posX, qreal posY, qreal r, qreal VX, qreal VY);

private:

    table *t;

};

#endif // BALL_H

and the ball class:
#include "ball.h"

ball::ball(qreal posX, qreal posY, qreal r, qreal VX, qreal VY, table *table1):
    TableItem(posX, posY, r, VX, VY),
    t(table1)
{}

ball::~ball()
{}

/* This is where the problem is. If i omitted this method, the code runs no problem! */
ball *ball::clone() const
{
    return new ball(*this);

}

void ball::initialise(qreal posX, qreal posY, qreal r, qreal VX, qreal VY)
{
    startX = posX;
    startY = posY;
    setPos(startX, startY);

    xComponent = VX;
    yComponent = VY;

    radius = r;
}

the tableItem header:
#ifndef TABLEITEM_H
#define TABLEITEM_H

#include <QPainter>
#include <QGraphicsItem>
#include <QGraphicsScene>

class TableItem: public QGraphicsItem
{
public:
    TableItem(qreal posX, qreal posY, qreal r, qreal VX, qreal VY);

    virtual ~TableItem();

    qreal getXPos();
    qreal getYPos();
    qreal getRadius();

protected:
    qreal xComponent;
    qreal yComponent;

    qreal startX;
    qreal startY;
    qreal radius;

};

#endif // TABLEITEM_H

and the tableitem class:
#include "tableitem.h"

TableItem::TableItem(qreal posX, qreal posY, qreal r, qreal VX, qreal VY)
{
    this->xComponent = VX;
    this->yComponent = VY;

    this->startX = posX;
    this->startY = posY;

    this->radius = r;
}

TableItem::~TableItem()
{}
qreal TableItem::getXPos()
{
    return startX;
}

qreal TableItem::getYPos()
{
    return startY;
}

qreal TableItem::getRadius()
{
    return radius;
}

Googling the problem and searching the stackoverflow forum seems to indicate some of the qgraphicsitem constructor or variables are declared private, and thus give rise to this.
Some solution indicates the use of smart pointer, but that doesn't seem to work in my case.
Any help is appreciated.

A: Providing your own copy constructor may help.
The default copy constructor tries to copy all data members from your class and its parents.
In your own copy constructor, you can handle copying of the data using the most appropriate way of copying.


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July 17, 2017 Northwatch Uncategorized
Concerns about CNL nuclear waste mound project aired
The Hotel Pontiac at Fort William was packed Saturday morning with cottagers and residents concerned about Canadian Nuclear Laboratories plans to install a Near Surface Disposal Facility in Chalk River. They felt it would be located too close to the Ottawa River for comfort.
FORT WILLIAM, QC – Cottagers and residents alike packed the Hotel Pontiac Saturday morning to voice their concerns about Canadian Nuclear Laboratories' proposed Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF).
The meeting was organized by the Old Fort William Cottagers' Association.
Despite assurances from CNL officials the NSDF design is a safe and proven technology which would be used to mainly store low and intermediate-level waste generated at the Chalk River site, few people seemed convinced it was a good idea in the first place to locate a waste facility anywhere near the Ottawa River.
Property owner Mark Jennings said it just makes sense one would want to avoid being near the water.
"It should be clear that being next to a fast moving river is the last place one would want to locate a nuclear dump," he said.
Marvin Flood voiced the same question, wondering why, since Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. owned 10,000 acres on its Chalk River site, did CNL pick a handful of acres which were located so close to the river.
Algonquin elder Gilles Dupuis questioned the wisdom of locating the NSDF below the hydroelectric dams on the Ottawa River, which historically had flooded the area. He wasn't assured by talk the site would be monitored regularly over the long term to ensure any potential problems would be detected quickly and fixed.
"We don't want to monitor the bad event, we want to prevent it from happening in the first place," he said.
Others said they were confused by the definitions of "low" and "intermediate" waste, and wanted an accounting of exactly what would be stored there, the amount of radiation it was emitting and how long would it remain that way. Some commented on wanting to know how the NSDF's contents would impact their health and their family's health over the long term.
Several brought up the question of liability in case the facility failed, and several times the design itself was criticized.
Kurt Kehler, CNL's vice-president of decommissioning and waste management, said the design is sound and in use at facilities around the world. It is based on multiple layers of defence including waterproof liners to prevent it from leaking into the ground, plus having a water treatment plant on site to deal with any water which has worked through the engineered containment mound to reach that base liner.
He said what would be allowed into the mound would be strictly controlled and will not contain anything highly radioactive, such as spent fuel.
"That will not be going into the NSDF," Kehler said, which is being built and operated specifically to protect people and the environment.
He said the project has gone through a risk analysis to ensure it can survive intact from anything – earthquake, tornadoes, floods and the like. The site itself is elevated well above the historic flood plain, and a lot of analysis and study has gone into the decision to locate it at the best possible site.
"This property is probably the most studied tract of land in Canada," he said. "We believe if you look at all of the aspects of it, you will find this is the best site for the NSDF."
Kehler said CNL is not making any money off of this disposal site; instead, they are spending money to take care of legacy wastes by cleaning up and disposing of them safely. He said that is in the employees best interest, too, that they do this to the best of their ability, as they also live and play and use the water of the Ottawa River.
As for liability, Kehler said the property and all issues related to it remains in the hands of AECL and the government of Canada. CNL – a consortium of four companies – is contracted to operate it. He said if something went wrong, the Canadian government would go after CNL for redress, but the main liability is owned by Canada.
Kehler said their proposal is so technically sound "there is no Plan B," as they don't think any would be necessary. The ultimate ruler on this would be the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), who will need to approve and licence the project. That agency will also monitor and ensure compliance with it.
Pat Quinn, CNL's director of corporate communications, said a lot of the more detailed technical information people were seeking is spelled out in their Environmental Impact Statement, which details the project. It is submitted to the CNSC as part of the approval process, and is available online.
According to CNL, the NSDF is to be used for the disposal of mostly low-level waste and a small amount of intermediate-level waste, mainly contaminated soil and building debris resulting from the decommissioning and demolition of more than 100 buildings and structures at the Chalk River site – a necessary part of revitalizing the site – and to provide a safe and permanent disposal for waste from 65 years of science and technology and the laboratories' continuing operations.
The majority of the NSDF's contents, some 90 per cent, is already stored, or would be produced, out of activities at the Chalk River site. Of the remainder, about five per cent would be waste originating from the Whiteshell Laboratories, in Manitoba and other AECL sites, such as the prototype reactors Douglas Point and Gentilly-1; and less than five per cent would be commercial sourced inventories for example from Canadian hospitals and universities, a service that has been underway for decades.
It will be built to operate for 50 years, after which it will be capped and effectively sealed off. The site will continue to be monitored for at least the next 300 years after it has ceased operations, or longer if government regulators determine that time period needs to be extended.
Those objecting to the NSDF have stated they feel it is too risky, its design not proven to be safe over a long period of time, is located too close to the Ottawa River and is being rushed ahead unnecessarily to meet a 2020 completion deadline.
The public has until August 16 to comment on CNL's draft environmental impact statement (EIS) regarding the disposal facility. If approved by the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, construction would begin in 2018.
To date, no public hearing has been scheduled to deal with the application for approval, which is part of the process, but one is expected to be set up sometime in 2018.
By Stephen Uhler, The Pembroke Daily Observer, Monday, July 17, 2017 8:57:46 EDT AM as posted at
http://www.thedailyobserver.ca/2017/07/17/concerns-about-cnl-project-aired
Plan to bury Whiteshell nuclear reactor faces questions
Unclear if local govts will host sites for N-waste disposal in Japan


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Q: Counts of numbers of date for service use in each month I'm currently re-arranging a health service data. My data frame includes the start and end dates of service use for each individuals
id <- c("A", "A", "B")
start <- c("2018-04-01", "2019-04-02", "2018-09-01")
end <- c("2019-04-01", "2019-04-05", "2018-09-02")
df <- data.frame(id, start, end)

 id        start          end
  A    2018-04-01   2019-04-01
  A    2019-04-02   2019-04-05
  B    2018-09-01   2018-09-02

I want to do the following things: (1) calculate the number of dates in each month for each service use; (2) calculate dates of service use for each individual; (3) construct new columns for all possible months; and (4) generate a new data frame. The ultimate goal is to construct the following data frame:
 id  2018_Jan 2018_Feb 2018_Mar 2018_Apr 2018_May 2018_Jun ... 2018_Sep ... 2019_Sep
  A     0        0         0        30       31       31   ...     30   ...     1
  B     0        0         0         0        0        0   ...      1   ...     0

The lubridate package and function command should be helpful in this. My question is similar to this post Count the number of days in each month of a date range, where it counted the number of days in each month. However, I'm not sure how to apply it to formulate the data frame that I want.
I will be really grateful for your help on this.

A: Here's one way.  First I make all combinations of id, and year-months from jan 2018 to dec 2019.  Then, I summarize the data by id and year-month.  Finally, join the two datasets together (to make sure you capture the months where nothing happened) and then pivot wider.
library(dplyr)
#>
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#>
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#>
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union
library(tidyr)
library(lubridate)
#>
#> Attaching package: 'lubridate'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#>
#>     date, intersect, setdiff, union
id <- c("A", "A", "B")
start <- c("2018/04/01", "2019-04-02", "2018-09-01")
end <- c("2019-04-01", "2019-04-05", "2018-09-02")
df <- data.frame(id, start, end)

all_dates <- expand.grid(id = unique(df$id),
                         month = c("Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"),
                         year = 2018:2019) %>%
  mutate(yrmo = paste(year, month, sep="_")) %>%
  select(id, yrmo)

df <- df %>%
  mutate(start = ymd(start),
         end = ymd(end)) %>%
  rowwise() %>%
  summarise(id = id, obs = 1, dates = seq(start, end, by=1)) %>%
  mutate(yrmo = paste(year(dates), month(dates, label=TRUE, abbr=TRUE), sep="_")) %>%
  group_by(id, yrmo) %>%
  summarise(obs = n()) %>%
  full_join(., all_dates) %>%
  mutate(yrmo = factor(yrmo, levels = all_dates$yrmo[which(all_dates$id == "A")])) %>%
  arrange(id, yrmo) %>%
  pivot_wider(names_from="yrmo", values_from="obs") %>%
  mutate(across(everything(), ~ifelse(is.na(.x), 0, .x)))
#> `summarise()` has grouped output by 'id'. You can override using the `.groups`
#> argument.
#> Joining, by = c("id", "yrmo")

df
#> # A tibble: 2 × 24
#> # Groups:   id [2]
#>   id    `2018_Jan` `2018_Feb` `2018_Mar` `2018_Apr` `2018_Jun` `2018_Jul`
#>   <chr>      <dbl>      <dbl>      <dbl>      <dbl>      <dbl>      <dbl>
#> 1 A              0          0          0         30         30         31
#> 2 B              0          0          0          0          0          0
#> # … with 17 more variables: `2018_Aug` <dbl>, `2018_Sep` <int>,
#> #   `2018_Oct` <dbl>, `2018_Nov` <dbl>, `2018_Dec` <dbl>, `2019_Jan` <dbl>,
#> #   `2019_Feb` <dbl>, `2019_Mar` <dbl>, `2019_Apr` <dbl>, `2019_Jun` <dbl>,
#> #   `2019_Jul` <dbl>, `2019_Aug` <dbl>, `2019_Sep` <dbl>, `2019_Oct` <dbl>,
#> #   `2019_Nov` <dbl>, `2019_Dec` <dbl>, `NA` <dbl>

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A: Here's a {tidyverse} solution.

*

*Use dplyr::summarize() and seq() to generate the full range of dates for each observation.

*

*I include end - 1 in seq() to not include the end date in the count, consistent with your example.

*Convert these to months using lubridate::floor_date(unit = "month") (technically, changes each date to the first of the month).

*dplyr::count() up month-days for each id.

*Because you want columns for months with no observations in your output, I wrote a function to add unobserved months based on tidyr::complete().

*Finally, tidyr::pivot_wider() to get a column for each month.

library(tidyverse)
library(lubridate)

complete_months <- function(.data, month, ..., fill = list()) {
  month <- pull(.data, {{ month }})
  firstday <- floor_date(min(month, na.rm = TRUE), unit = "year")
  lastday <- ceiling_date(max(month, na.rm = TRUE), unit = "year") - 1
  allmonths <- seq(firstday, lastday, by = "month")
  complete(.data, month = allmonths, ..., fill = fill)
}

month_counts <- df %>%
  mutate(across(start:end, ymd)) %>%
  group_by(id, obs = row_number()) %>%
  summarize(
    # use end - 1 in seq() to omit end date from count
    month = floor_date(seq(start, end - 1, by = 1), unit = "month"),
    .groups = "drop"
  ) %>%
  count(month, id) %>%
  complete_months(month, id, fill = list(n = 0)) %>%
  mutate(month = strftime(month, "%Y_%b")) %>%
  pivot_wider(
    names_from = month,
    values_from = n
  )

month_counts

# # A tibble: 2 x 25
#   id    `2018_Jan` `2018_Feb` `2018_Mar` `2018_Apr` `2018_May` `2018_Jun`
#   <chr>      <int>      <int>      <int>      <int>      <int>      <int>
# 1 A              0          0          0         30         31         30
# 2 B              0          0          0          0          0          0
# # ... with 18 more variables: `2018_Jul` <int>, `2018_Aug` <int>,
# #   `2018_Sep` <int>, `2018_Oct` <int>, `2018_Nov` <int>, `2018_Dec` <int>,
# #   `2019_Jan` <int>, `2019_Feb` <int>, `2019_Mar` <int>, `2019_Apr` <int>,
# #   `2019_May` <int>, `2019_Jun` <int>, `2019_Jul` <int>, `2019_Aug` <int>,
# #   `2019_Sep` <int>, `2019_Oct` <int>, `2019_Nov` <int>, `2019_Dec` <int>


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https://www.ctpost.com/policereports/article/Overturned-vehicle-closes-Merritt-Parkway-north-14584160.php
Overturned vehicle on Merritt Parkway in Stratford cleared
By Tara O'Neill
Updated 10:00 pm EDT, Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Photo: Contributed Photo / Connecticut State Police / Contributed Photo
UPDATE: 9:57 P.M.
STRATFORD — The site of an overturned vehicle on the Merritt Parkway's northbound lanes in Stratford has been cleared.
There was no immediate word still on any injuries sustained in the crash, or whether more than one vehicle was involved.
STRATFORD — One lane of the Merritt Parkway's northbound lanes in Stratford has since reopened.
The state DOT reported that the left lane of travel has reopened to motorists.
STRATFORD — The Merritt Parkway's northbound lanes in Stratford are closed Wednesday night as crews work to clear the site of an overturned vehicle.
The crash was reported on Route 15 north between Exit 53 and Exit 54 around 8 p.m., according to the Connecticut Department of Transportation.
Initially, only the left lane was closed to traffic. But by 8:25 p.m., the parkway's northbound lanes between Exit 53 and Exit 54 were shut down.
By 9:06 p.m., the CTDOT reported that the parkway's northbound lanes were congested for more than three miles, between Exit 52 and Exit 54, because of the crash.
There was no immediate word on possible injuries sustained by those in the vehicle.
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Let The Mocking Begin!
By Rob Hessing Apr 27, 2008, 9:54pm PDT
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I'm going to preface this by saying that mock drafts are generally a crap shoot, and mock drafts done two months before the actual draft are a colossal waste of time, especially given that the order of the first 14 picks has not yet been determined, not to mention the fact that underclassmen that have declared for the draft but not hired an agent can still change their mind and go back to school. So I begin by telling you to take these draft selections with a silo of salt. I also warn you that due to the volume of "information" (that's what I'm calling it, you can call it what you want) this story will take on a rather pookeyesque nature as it pertains to quantity, if not quality. So get comfortable - this could take awhile.
The main reason that I put this together at this time was to get some player profiles in front of you, a sampler platter of sorts. While a lot of variables will change things over the next couple of months, the players (to paraphrase Denny Green) pretty much are who we think they are. A couple of them will move up or down based on their pre-draft workouts, but most of them will confirm what has already been stated about them (good and bad).
My research was based on watching a lot of college ball, as well as scouring the internet for information. I am far less knowledgeable on the international players and had to rely more heavily on what I could pick up on the 'net.
So with all of that said, let's put the Miami Heat on the clock...
1) The Heat select Michael Beasley, 6'9", 235 lb. power forward, Kansas freshman. Beasley was the consensus #1 prior to the NCAA tourney. K-State got bounced, Memphis went to the finals and now Beasley and Derrick Rose share the #1 slot. Miami could certainly use either guy but in my draft they opt for Beasley, who can score all the way out to NBA 3 point range and finish at the rim with either hand. He is at his best facing the basket, has a great first step and very good hands. Only 6'9" but gets off the floor well and has a pretty good wingspan. If Marion stays in Miami this incredibly athletic forward tandem would cause a myriad of mismatches. Most of the questions regarding Beasley's attitude and work ethic seem to be a thing of the past after a stellar and blemish free season.
2) That gives the Seattle Sonics Oklahoma City TBD's Derrick Rose, 6'4", 195 lb. point guard, Memphis freshman. Durant/Green/Rose...yikes! The most consistent comparison on this kid seems to be that he is a faster version of Jason Kidd. He needs to become a more consistent shooter, but how many 19 year olds don't? He is a baseline to baseline player that will make his teammates better. I can't envision a scenario where Beasley and Rose aren't gone after the first two picks.
3) Minnesota takes Brook Lopez, 7'0", 260 lb. center, Stanford sophomore. The T-Wolves could have Jerryd Bayless or O.J. Mayo here, but they have Randy Foye at the point (remember, that's why they waived Beno Udrih) and Kevin McHale will see visions of Parrish/himself dancing through his head with Lopez/Jefferson (hey, it's his head). Lopez could be a nice player for Minnesota, but his selection at #3 will make Kings fans feel even better about getting Spencer Hawes last year at #10.
4) Memphis springs the first minor surprise of the day when they select Anthony Randolph, 6'10" power/small forward, LSU freshman. O.J. Mayo has an uninspiring workout for the Grizzlies, so they opt for Randolph, who they see as a bigger version of Rudy Gay, an eventual Lamar Odom type player. This won't fix Memphis, but having Conley, Crittenton, Gay and Randolph on the floor at the same time will make them fun to watch.
5) Donnie Walsh takes what he perceives as the surest thing here and drafts Eric Gordon, 6'3", 215 lb. shooting guard, Indiana freshman. Deciding not to take a chance on Mayo, Walsh instead opts for Gordon. The comparisons to Ben Gordon are a little too easy. Eeric Gordon is really built more like Mitch Richmond with better hops. I think that he could be a lot like MItch in his ability to get to the free throw line, though I don't know that he will ever be a better than average defensive player.
6) The Clippers can't believe that O.J. Mayo, 6'5", 210 lb. point/shooting guard, USC freshman has just fallen into their laps. Mayo has a lot of developing left if he is to become a legitimate point guard in the NBA, but worst case scenario he should still become a pretty fair two guard. He reminds me of both Chauncey Billups and Antonio Daniels when they came out of college, and both of those players needed some time to develop.
7) The Jerryd Bayless slide continues as Milwaukee opts for Danilo Gallinari, 6'10", 220 lb. small forward, Italy, 19 years old. The Bucks have Mo Williams on a long term deal at the point and see Gallinari as a versatile swing man that can help them right away. Choose from Toni Kukoc, Detlef Schrempf or a young Hedo Turkoglu for comparisons.
8) Jerryd Bayless, 6'3", 185 lb. point guard, Arizona freshman lands in Charlotte. The Bobcats have other needs, but Michael Jordan feels that Bayless is clearly the best player left on the board and can't pass on him. Bayless can play the 1 or 2 so he can be on the floor with Raymond Felton or Jason Richardson. MJ puts a picture of Monta Ellis under his pillow and hopes for the best.
9) The Chicago Bulls tend to their front court needs by drafting Kevin Love, 6'9", 260 lb. power forward, UCLA freshman. Paxson foresees a front line of Joakim Noah and Love maturing by the time Drew Gooden's contract expires. Noah's raw athleticism and Love's solid basketball fundamentals should complement each other nicely.
10) New Jersey selects DeAndre Jordan, 7'0" 260 lb. center, Texas A & M freshman. Yes, the Nets have both Josh Boone and Sean Williams. But Jordan can become a legitimate NBA center, while Boone and Williams are really power forwards that help out at center, and Nenad Krstic continues to have health issues. So the question is, will Jordan develop like Andrew Bynum or Patrick O'Bryant? Jordan is pretty raw and needs to work on his strength and conditioning, but the always craved "upside" is certainly there.
11) Indiana selects D.J. Augustin, 5'11", 180 lb. point guard, Texas sophomore. Larry Legend needs a point guard and likes the size of Russell Westbrook but opts for the pure point guard skills of Augustin. I've seen Augustin regularly compared to Jameer Nelson, but I liken him to T.J. Ford, except that Augustin is not made out of glass. The Hawks probably would have loved to have had Augustin at #11 last year as opposed to Acie Law IV.
12) The Kings mull over Darrell Arthur, Donte Green and JaVale McGee, but in the end they select Russell Westbrook, 6'4", 190 lb. point guard, UCLA sophomore. Westbrook is a defensive oriented guard that still needs to polish his point guard skills a little, though he is a good ball handler. The Kings draft him with the idea of playing him behind Beno Udrih for at least a year or two. I would compare Westbrook to Rajon Rondo, though he is a better finisher and has much more potential to become a good shooter.
13) Portland jumps on Donte Green, 6'10", 225 lb. small forward, Syracuse freshman. This is a bit of a project pick for Portland, but they're OK with that as they will be spending a lot of time working in Greg Oden this year. They will hope that Green starts to show flashes of Rashard Lewis type talent by the time Martell Webster packs his bags. Green needs to get stronger and could stand to be a little more agressive on the floor.
14) The Warriors round out the lottery by selecting Darrell Arthur, 6'9", 230 lb. power forward, Kansas sophomore. Chris Mullin sees a guy that can help them in the low post. Don Nelson sees a guy that will see less playing time than Brandan Wright saw last year. Kings fans implore Geoff Petrie to figure out a way to ship Artest down I-80 for Arthur, who just might become Antonio McDyess with good knees.
15) Phoenix (from Atlanta): Chase Budinger, 6'7", 210 lb. shooting guard, Arizona sophomore. Good perimeter shooter that has the athletic ability to thrive in Phoenix's up and down game.
16) Philadelphia: JaVale McGee, 7'0", 240 lb. center, Nevada sophomore. See DeAndre Jordan (#10), though McGee is a little better conditioned than Jordan. Also, if he does not bulk up a bit he's probably more of a power forward than center.
17) Toronto: Mareesse Speights, 6'10", 250 lb. center, Syracuse sophomore. Remember Darryl Watkins, with his offensive game that was > than Justin Williams and his defensive game that was < Justin Williams? That's what I see in Speights. He has the potential to be more than that, but he's a way from realizing that potential.
18) Washington: Hasheem Thabeet, 7'3", 265 lb. center, Connecticut, sophomore. Now I have to think that if Thabeet perceives that he will fall this far in the draft he will go back to school. But the Wizards would love to land this shot blocking machine here. He is on a par with Desagnia Diop and Adonal Foyle as a shot blocker. Unfortunately he also possesses their limited offensive games.
19) Cleveland: Nicolas Batum, 6'8", 210 lb. shooting guard, France, 19 years old. Batum draws consistent comparisons to Rudy Gay, though he is not nearly as polished. He was a potential lottery prospect last year but did not enter the draft.
20) Denver: Tywon Lawson, 6'0", 175 lb. point guard, North Carolina sophomore. Lawson may go back to school if he feels that he is going to drop this far, but the Nuggets would love and could use this true point guard. You could draw comparisons to Raymond Felton. Lawson needs to develop a much better jumper to succeed at the NBA level.
21) New Jersey (from Dallas): Chris Douglas-Roberts, 6'7", 200 lb. shooting guard, Memphis junior. Imagine if this kid becomes the next Jerry Stackhouse, meaning Rod Thorn got this kid and Devin Harris for an aging Jason Kidd. Hey Memphis, you taking notes?
22) Orlando: Roy Hibbert, 7'2", 275 lb. center, Georgetown senior. Yes, the same Roy Hibbert that was a projected top 10 pick last year. Oops.
23) Utah: Robin Lopez, 7'0", 255 lb. center, Stanford sophomore. The other white meat. Take Brook Lopez, sift out the offensive ability, add crazy hair and presto! Instead of being chosen 3rd and drawing comparisons to Brad Daugherty, you're drafted 23rd and compared to Anderson Varejao.
24) Seattle Oklahoma City (from Phoenix): Kosta Kofous, 7'0", 250 lb. center, Ohio State freshman. You can take the team out of the emerald city, but that doesn't mean that they're going to stop drafting centers in the 1st round. Kofous could still return to school and he probably should. He has the potential to become Mehmet Okur, but he needs to develop a (any!) right hand and needs to get stronger.
25) Houston: Brandon Rush, 6'6", 210 lb. shooting guard, Kansas junior. Wow, a pretty nice player for the Rockets here. Could provide an Eddie Jones type spark off the bench.
26) San Antonio: Ante Tomic, 7'1", 240 lb. center, Croatia, 21 years old. I've only seen a little of Tomic, and what I've seen is a less athletic Pao Gasol. I think that he can make a contribution on the offensive end but he may get pushed around a lot defensively. And he's 21, so his physical development has less upside.
27) New Orleans: Ryan Anderson, 6'10", 235 lb. small/power forward, California sophomore. Would he go back to school if projected this low? If not, his game might work well behind Peja Stojakovic and David West.
28) Memphis (from L.A. Lakers): J.J. Hickson, 6'9", 235 lb. power forward, North Carolina State freshman. I have to think that Hickson goes back to school if he projects this low. He has upside and could become a Chris Wilcox type. Of course, he could also become a Cedric Simmons type. Another year in school would probably benefit him.
29) Detroit: Bill Walker, 6'6", 230 lb. shooting guard, Kansas State freshman. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but he may opt to go back to school. Compared to Ruben Patterson both physically (good) and emotionally (not so good). A slashing wingman with good finishing skills and a lot of upside.
30) Boston: Joe Alexander, 6'8", 220 lb. small forward, West Virginia junior. Vaulted himself into 1st round consideration with a great NCAA tourney. He's got a pretty good skill set, but I can't shake the feeeling that if he is going to make it in the NBA it will be in the Austin Croshere/Eduardo Najera/Matt Barnes mold - a guy that does the little things (and sometimes nasty things) to help his team win.
And a dozen for the 2nd round (the KIngs have picks at 42 and 45): centers DeVon Hardin (Cal) and Alexis Ajinca (France), power forwards Joey Dorsey (Memphis), Richard Hendrix (Alabama), Serge Ibaka (Congo), Jason Thompson (Rider) and D.J. White (Indiana), small forward Davon Jefferson (USC), shooting guards Wayne Ellington (UNC), Courtney Lee (W. Kentucky) and Kyle Weaver (Washington St.), and point guard Mario Chalmers (Kansas).
I'm sure that I left somebody out and I'm sure that someone will announce that they are going back to school 30 seconds after I post this, but as I said, this is a starting point. Let the draft conversation begin!


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I spent my first 27 years growing up in rural america. The 80's weren't Mayberry but it still felt like many of the same qualities existed. Small family stores and friendly neighbors were the norm. Moving to the largest city in Ohio some 8 years ago was originally a bit of a shock. Navigating the highways, one way streets and the larger 4 lane variety didn't initially come naturally. Sure enough, with time my comfort level raised and now life in the big city is the norm.
On this primary election day, I can't help but think about the parallels with the political side of things as well. While many people I grew up with continue to live in same general area, fewer of us moved on to a different life. When I see friends in different geographic areas express absolute positions on a number of hot topic issues and arriving at different conclusions I can't help but attribute it in part to perspective – specifically geographic and economic perspective.
I feel privileged for the opportunity to have experienced both rural and city life. Extreme conservative, bible loving farmer? I understand where they're coming from. Ultra liberal, over educated career academic? I understand them too. With perspective comes understanding. It's funny to look at the wide array of opinions from my Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram friends. I'm not exaggerating in saying they cover every position on the board.
Without getting extremely political on this I'll just say this – I respect whoever you vote for. However, I'd also like to say I hope that person is not Trump.
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But, we also could just use "master" by itself couldn't we?
I don't think so. It's too general and too vague. It could indicate being in a relation of mastery with a person; it could indicate being higher-level somehow; it could indicate being the first, or most important, unit of the same class; and so on.
It could indicate being in a relation of mastery with a person; it could indicate being higher-level somehow; it could indicate being the first, or most important, unit of the same class; and so on.
It's a weapon special, so none of those others make any sense. At the very least it means the weapon is somehow higher-level or important or has mastery over others. Which is basically true.
"Master" arguably gives more information than "plague", "swarm", or "drains" which could mean all kinds of things, and we're not talking about changing those.
Edit: Though, actually, I am fine with leaving it as "marksman" too.
"Prowess" and "proficiency" were suggested before and both sound better and less generic (in purely aesthetic terms) than "master" in my opinion.
I like proficiency(or proficient?), since it rather straightforwardly suggests that the unit is especially proficient with that particular weapon.
I agree I also like proficient it sounds good for a weapon specials name. Though after considering further I believe master would not be a bad name. Master does suggest a generic skill set more appropriate for an ability than weapon special but if it was instead Mastery it would convey, like proficient, a particular skill in a certain weapon.
Either would be am improvement, but I do not think that marksman is terrible.
Another point against "master"/"mastery": the Master at Arms will not have the weapon special, so its name will become vaguely ironic.
True, and the Master Bowman, Drake Blademaster, Dune Spearmaster, Dwarvish Runemaster, Gryphon Master.
It is better to use a new name that would create confusion.
I dislike 'proficient,' only because there are many other units proficient at their weapon of choice yet do not have this special. It also does not explain anything on its own. 'Accurate' is simple, self-explanatory, more logical, and can be used for both melee and ranged attacks.
My personal opinion is that the marksman tag doesn't bug me at all on melee attacks, but I would be perfectly fine with an alternate identical tag as well. Aren't there already abilities in wesnoth that do the same thing with different names?
I will propose a name. "Hawk eye". Hawk has an image that captures the target accurately and attacks it. I know that this name means that the hit rate is high and I think that we do not limit the type of weapons.
I think the hawk eye is more about the ability to spot even small and well disguised things from a very high distance.
There is also the word unerring in my mind, but it is not quite aestetic. I'd go for accurate.
* "Accurate" applies just as well to ranged weapons. Better, even - since there's more aiming involved and accuracy is more important.
* "Accurate" applies either to piercing weapons or to small ones. You're going to call a guy with a club accurate? Or a Dwarf with a battle axe? An undead's touch? No.
* That's not even particularly related to weapons. That could apply to anything - it's very vague.
* "Proficient applies just as well to ranged weapons.