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More cars on the road, and more distracted drivers, lead to a jump in U.S. traffic deaths
By Mary Wisniewski
| LEIPZIG, Germany
Rush hour traffic crawls along on the west bound I-55, Stevenson Expressway, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. The United States is leading the world in increased traffic deaths, and distracted driving is a primary cause, according to a new study of 29 nations. (Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune)
The United States is leading the world in increased traffic deaths, and distracted driving is a primary cause, according to a new study of 29 nations.
Only 5 of 29 countries saw a jump in traffic deaths between 2010 and 2016, and the U.S. had the highest rate of increase at 13.5 percent, said a study by the International Transport Forum, which had its annual summit in Leipzig, Germany, last week. Argentina had the second-highest increase in traffic deaths, at 9 percent, and Chile experienced a 5 percent increase.
The United States also saw the highest jump in pedestrian deaths during the time period, at 39.2 percent, and a 34.8 percent increase in cyclist deaths. In contrast, Norway saw a 37.5 percent drop in pedestrian deaths during this same period, while Israel saw cyclist deaths cut in half.
The increase in deaths in the United States appears to be tied to two main factors — more cars on the road due to a better economy, and distracted driving, said Fred Wegman, chair of the International Road Traffic Data and Analysis Group, a division of the Transport Forum.
"Distracted driving is more prevalent and prominent in the United States than in other countries," said Wegman.
The study found the United States also had one of the highest rates of road deaths per capita, with 11.6 out of 100,000 people losing their lives to motor vehicle crashes, compared with rates of 2 to 5 deaths per 100,000 in countries such as the United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, Germany, Spain and Australia.
Starting with Sweden, many nations and municipalities in the past two decades have committed to a Vision Zero strategy for reducing traffic deaths and serious crashes. More than two dozen U.S. cities, including Chicago, have also agreed to a Vision Zero program. The initiative tries various ways of reducing deaths, including designing safer roads, greater enforcement and education.
Worldwide, traffic fatalities in 2016 were down 3.6 percent compared with 2010. If the United States, with its large population, were excluded from this statistic, the decrease in deaths would be nearly 15 percent, the study found. Preliminary data also showed deaths were down in all countries studied in 2017, the study said.
However, while the number of deaths worldwide has continued to fall, it has gone down at a slower rate in recent years, the study found. Four factors could explain this: the economic recovery, which puts more cars on the road; the increased popularity of cycling, associated with higher numbers of cycling deaths; slacker enforcement of traffic laws due a shift in police force priorities; and the rise in distracted driving, the study said.
Derek Kan, the U.S. undersecretary of transportation for policy, said the United States started a safety data initiative last year to predict and better understand what causes traffic fatalities.
"What does the data tell us — are there specific intersections, are there specific weather conditions, specific events where we see a spike in traffic fatalities?" Kan said in an interview at the International Transport Forum summit. He said the U.S. is working with local police and state transportation departments to examine causes.
Kan said the U.S. also wants to know just how significant distracted driving is as an issue in traffic deaths — the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that the number of crashes due to texting or talking on mobile devices actually fell in 2016.
"Is there a measurement error?" Kan said. "Maybe we're not capturing this data correctly."
As for the spike in pedestrian deaths, Kan said the U.S. is examining whether that is because people are walking more, or more people are walking while distracted, or other reasons.
Kan noted that fatalities in the U.S. differ widely by region — while only 19 percent of Americans live in rural regions, those areas see 50 percent of traffic deaths. This runs contrary to the stereotype of the peaceful country road.
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Gents Notes w/e Sunday 5th December 2021
Club Competition Sat /Sun Nov 27/28th 13 Hole Stableford
Winner: Martin O Driscoll (17) 30pts b7, 2nd Joseph Troy (25) 30pts
Last weekends 13 hole competition has been extended to Friday Dec 10
Weekly 9-hole November 29 – Dec 3 Front 9
Winner: Dennis Conway (14) 23pts
Monday Dec 6–Friday Dec 10th – Ongoing 13 hole stableford competition.
All proceeds will be donated to Lions Club Christmas hamper appeal.
There will be no 9 hole competition this week.
Saturday Dec 11/Sunday Dec 12th – 13 hole stableford and start of 2022 Winter League. Competition will run up to and including Friday Dec 17th.
Sunday Dec 12th. Christmas 3 person Scramble. Teams can be ladies gents or mixed. Draw for playing partners on Wednesday night Dec 8.
Winter League 2022
Teams for the Winter League will be selected on Wednesday Dec 8th. Members wishing to play in the league can contact the office up to 1p.m on Wednesday. Rules and format for the competition along with the teams, will be posted on the noticeboard on Thursday Dec 9th. The Winter League Committee is Jimmy Murphy Pat Power and Eoin Prendergast. Members not in the Winter League are welcome to play in the weekly competitions and are eligible for weekly prizes.
Christmas Fun Scramble
All are welcome to play in our Scramble on Sunday Dec 12th. Shotgun start at 12.30pm. As this is the first social event of the new season we would like to see a big turnout in support of our new captain lady captain and president. So if you haven't already done so please get your name in to the office by 1pm on Wednesday.
Dungarvan Lions Club Hamper Appeal
You can support the appeal by playing in our 13 hole competition any day up to Friday Dec 12th. If you can't play you might put a donation in the entry box. This is a very worthy cause with the proceeds going to help the needy in our community this Christmas. Your support is greqtly appreciated.
Mens Committee 2022.
The new committee was elected at our AGM on Wednesday 24th November.
Captain: Denis Herlihy, President: David Condon, Hon Secretary: Maurice Hallahan, Treasurer: Ray Bannon, Handicap Secretary: Tony Ruane, Competition Secretary: Jimmy Murphy, PRO: Pat Power, Junior Officer: Gary Smyth, Committee: Eddie Stack, Eoin Prendergast, Bertie Hallahan, Brian O Halloran, Diarmuid Horgan,
Ex-Officio Edward Hickey.
Winter Rules Golf
As some rules may vary depending on weather and course conditions members are asked to check the notices on the board and also on the first tee.
2021 A Memorable Year for Seamus Power
Seamus has received many accolades during the past year and must surely be in the reckoning for the most improved player in 2021.Five top-10's and four top-20's along with his breakthrough win has to be acknowledged as an amazing achievement for the West Waterford man. The 34 year old picked up his maiden PGA Tour win at the Barbasol Championship when he overcame JT Potson in a six -hole playoff to become just the sixth Irishman to win on tour. He sealed the victory with a Shot of the Year in his approach to the 18th on Sunday. Needing a birdie, he stitched his approach to three feet over the water with everything on the line. In 2021 Seamus has risen from 434th to 70th in the Official World Golf rankings and made it to the first stage of the FedEx Cup playoffs. The victory at the Barbasol Championship granted Seamus entry to the Players and PGA Championship in 2022. Seamus first event of 2022 will be in the Sentry Tournament of Champions which is the calendar-year opening event of Golf's PGA Tour season. The tournament was founded in 1953 and the field is restricted to golfers who won a tournament on the tour during the previous calendar year. Remember the date January 6-9th 2022 in Hawaii. In the meantime Seamus will have enjoyed a break with his Dad and the family and will be refreshed as he begins the next chapter in his amazing career to date.
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Гія (Георгій) Гвазава ( ) — грузинський футболіст, захисник.

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Футбольну кар'єру розпочав у 1991 році в складі грузинського клубу «Шевардені-1906», в складі якого зіграв 3 матчі. В 1992 році переїхав в Україну, де підписав контракт з вищоліговим шепетівським «Темпом» (Ш). Дебютував у складі «Темпу» 6 червня 1992 року в програному (1:3) виїзному поєдинку 17-о туру підгрупи 1 17-о туру Вищої ліги проти запорізького «Металурга». Гія вийшов на поле в стартовому складі та відіграв увесь матч. У першому сезоні команда посіла останнє місце в групі й опустилася до першої ліги. У провальному для «Темпу» чемпіонаті Гвазава зіграв 4 матчі, а після вильоту до першої ліги залишився захищати кольори клубу. У першій частині наступного сезону зіграв по 2 матчі в першій лізі та кубку України. Проте після цього залишив Україну та повернувся на батьківщину. У Грузії підписав контракт з «Алазані», кольори якого захищав до 1994 року. За цей час зіграв у 9-ти матчах грузинського чемпіонату. Після цього дані про подальшу кар'єру Гвазави відсутні.

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Q: How to get a mentioned user's id from a message | Discord.js So I am trying to implement a warn function to my discord.js bot and I want to get a userID from a mentioned user. I have tried message.user.id, message.mentions.users.first().id and message.mentions[0].id with no avail.
All of them returning TypeError: Cannot read property 'id' of undefined
How do I do this properly?
(Edit)
I forgot to say that i want to send a DM to the mentioned user.

A: message.mentions.users returns a Collection, if there are no mentions or if the mentioned user is not cached the Collection may be empty, another way you can try is to use a regex on the message's content
const id = message.content.match(/<?@?!?(\d{17,19})>?/)[1]

The regex matches <@id> or plain id and gives the id as the match

A: That's because there were no mentions in the message, you could essentially use an if statement (or ternary operator) to fix this issue here
const user = message.mentions.users.first();
if (!user) return console.log('no user found');
const userID = user.id;

You could also use a regex so that you can use both user ID's as well as the mentions
const user = await message.client.users.fetch(/\D/g, '').catch(() => {});
if (!user) return console.log('no user found oof');
const userID = user.id;

The regex /\D/g removes all non digit characters, since a mention is made up like this in discord <@ID> the regex would remove <@> and match the ID with all available users in discord and return the promise, hence await is used. (if no user is found it would return false)

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