Cousin lived in ND for a while supervising a job site. He told me that all the cars have block heaters (I only installed a block heater in ONE car that I owned).
And, that NO ONE forgets to feed the parking meters -- apparently they don't even need "meter maids"; there is an electric outlet on the meter for you to connect your block heater. When your time on the meter expires, the electricity is shut off!
Sounds like an excellent, self-enforcing incentive!
Agree.
Guessing 25F light wind, 5MPH, daytime and sunny.
The night before during the storm, sweatshirt.
I've been told, humidity makes a huge difference. It's humid in the NE so we feel the cold more.
But what do you do when there is no electricity available to run the heater??? On my brother's OTR rig we fixed that problem and the bunk heat problem by installing a propane RV water heater in the heater hose.. Whenhe was "home" up at Ripley in the winter the truck had to stay out by the road, and prior to installing the heater the rig idled all weekend, or there was no way it would start.
With the propane heater he could fire it up for two hours before leaving and have a warm cab AND an engine that started like it was May. ( and he could overnight with the engine shut down on the coldest night and be comfy in the bunk, and be assured the truck would start in the morning)
We are tucked down between the great lakes - so yes, it can be quite humid here too.
think extension cables. they work well
Many interfaces have limits on just how far they can be "extended" and still function properly (or, at the desired speed/bandwidth).
E.g., SCSI3 cables are limited to 3m total length -- this includes ALL of the cable in the link (including any wire INSIDE an enclosure). It is also very sensitive to faults in the cable, impedance "bumps" at each connector interface (so, inserting an "extension" -- if they even make such a beast -- adds two more bumps to the signal path).
USB has a ~5m limit (I use almost 4m of that for my scanners) so extending those means using an *active* extender. If you are delivering POWER to the peripheral over that interface, then you also have to consider voltage drops in the line.
DVI cables running 1600x1200@60 are theoretically limited to about
*1* meter.Other issues apply to specific peripherals on specific interfaces. So, it's not just extending a POWER cable...
Hydrionic mouth to mouth resuscitation.
Per Dan Espen:
Bunch of years ago the church leaned on us to put up a couple of kids that were touring with a choir from Minnesota.
One kid said their farm had been snowed in for something like 2 weeks before he left and the other was talking about temperatures in the high teens being the norm.
This was Philadelphia in December: maritime climate, temps in the low forties, fairly high humidity.
Both kids said they had never felt so cold in all their lives.
Growing up on the gulf coast, I believe that.
When we have those cold, crisp days, with lots of sunshine in the winter, it just doesn't seem bad at all.
However, when we have "Indiana" winter days, cold, grey, and gloomy, it feels much colder
Glad you made the weddding. My friend has international airplane tickets for next month. He has travel insurance though.
Good luck.
Not entirely true, in Ontario, Health Care is paid as a separate insurance item on the income tax form for those who earn more than $20,000 in a year, employers pay a portion for each employee directly, and the balance is paid through federal and provincial tax contributions. This is only for items covered, which is quite a lot, the rest we pay ourselves or have a separate Health Care Supplement insurance. Over 65 years of age, our Medicare covers some additional items and prescription drugs.
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I don't know if it's what Don Y posted but I find that's true of many places. They don't like their boss; doesn't have any field experience; doesn't have a clue what they are doing. They see the inside as the source of problems or see things that don't make sense to them. Or they like being outside, it's what they are equipped for and used to.
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How else can they sell buses and Athletic Dept's?
I used to walk 2.4 miles (uphill both ways) to the elementary school. Supposedly the limit was 2 miles. Didn't bother me.
Now the kids are driven by the parent to the end of the driveway and if not picked up within 5 minutes call the bus dispatcher and ream them out.
"It's for the kids"
Uncle Monster posted for all of us...
+1 The brim is the problem. When I was a FF we used the newer style helmet which didn't have much of a front brim but the face shield would pivot up and one could still see. The problem was with the SCBA. couldn't see much peripherally. Now thermal imaging cameras work wonders.
I'm sure I can look this up, , but easier when the horse is on hand! :>
Neglecting, for a moment, the "Supplement", is your "Health Care" a "single payer innsurance"? I.e., all health care "providers" are independant entities (businesses) that *bill* the "Central Government" for the services that they provide?
Or, is it more like Britain's -- where the providers are actually EMPLOYEES of the government? As such, the government is providing the service instead of just "underwriting" it?
The "Supplement", presumably, covers things that "Health Care" doesn't. Is it really an insurance policy? Does it use the same providers as the aforementioned? (gummit vs private sector) Said another way, does this cover things that the aforementioned CAN'T cover (chooses not to have the capabilities to provide)? Or, does it cover things that yo (as a society) have decided aren't "rights" but, rather, optional privileges?
And, of course, the toughest question of all (one that *I* would be as clueless to answer as you may be), what sorts of things fall into this Supplemental coverage?
To pick on more outrageous examples:
- if I broke a hip and was 97 years old, would that be covered under the "basic"? Or, would I have had to have purchased supplemental for it? presumably, if I broke it when I was 62 it would be part of basic coverage (but, at 97, your policies may have decided that the expected value of the repair don't significantly improve my REMAINING quality of life)
- if I wanted a sex change operation?
- breast augmentation/reduction? (with or without medical justification)
- IVF at 55 years of age? 65? 25?
(see where I'm going with this? i.e., what has your society decided are the "rights" to health care and for which portions of the population?)
Keep in mind, the US has the *best* health care, bar none! (tongue planted firmly in BOTH cheeks!)
Nobody ever told anyone over 60 to act their age
I walked about the same distance to high school, but it was uphill only one way. Going home we had to go down that slippery slope.
On school days it was always raining with 40 mph winds too.
The hospitals are locally run and government funded. Doctors bill the provincial health system directly The Old Age "supplement" covers things like most perscription drugs that pre-65 folks pay for themselves or hold private supplemental insurance for.
There is no official cutoff age for any surgery - Hip and knee replacements, heart valves, bypasses etc are covered as long as a "quality of life" arguement can be made for it.
Cosmetic surgery is not covered unless it is "medically necessary"
Not sure about IVF or sex change - I'm pretty sure a sex change at 93 would not be covered!!!!
Not wanting to split hairs, but... my point is, are the hospitals "for profit" entities that compete with each other -- just "billing" the government for the services they provide?
Or, are their budgets set *in* the government -- there's no "extra money" that they can glean from providing services?
If I hire someone to make me a sandwich, they will presumably make a profit on that activity. OTOH, if I make a sandwich for myself and have to dip into "petty cash" for the funds, my "budget" only sees the cost of buying the provisions for that sandwich.
So, they are not *employees* of the health system?
Said another way, if one doctor can get by paying his office staff 10% less (so, his cost of providing a service is 10% less!), does he end up making 10% more than the practitioner who pays a better wage (or, is less efficient in providing care -- possibly because they provide BETTER care?)
But there are limited resources. Who decides that the quality of THIS life justifies these dollars whereas the quality of THAT life may not be AS JUSTIFIED?
I'm thinking of a discussion I saw on TV in Manchester (England) many years ago. An example that they put forth was: do we fix an 84 year old's *hip* (expecting that 84 year old to be nearing or past nominal life expectancy) OR use the SAME FUNDS to vaccinate a bunch of toddlers?
Presumably, the gummit doesn't just "bill the populace" (via taxes) for the costs of the past year's health care. So, there are some sorts of limits in place that RATION coverage?
A limit case: imagine a pandemic (or something similar) that suddenly and dramatically increases the monies outlayed for health care in a given year (AIDS, SARS, Hepatitis, etc.). Does anyone get turned away? Or, does the service just operate at a deficit? What happens to the tax levy NEXT year? Is it automagically increased to make up for the deficit incurred in the previous year? Or, are benefits adjusted??
A friend is suffering from heart failure. An LVAD could extend his life for some period of time -- at some significant expense (have to also factor in expected complications and cost of treating those). But, hes already "outlived his genes" by 30 years. If those monies are coming from a gummit fund, somebody is potentially losing SOME benefit...
What's the calculus that's performed? Is it an actuarial calculation or a "heart strings" one?
They are not "for profit" entities.
The hospitals set a budget and apply to the government for funding. They are not SUPPOSED to run a deficit.
The doctors own or rent their own clinics, and pay their own receptionists and nurses, and buy their own equipment - all paid out of what they charge the provincial healthcare system.. There is a limit as to how much a doctor can bill the system. There is a limit to how many procedures he can perform. Surgeries are done at the hospitals where the doctor has "privileges"
- the hospital gets paid for the use of the facility, and the doctor gets paid for doing the procedure. Anything not covered by the provincial health care sydtem is charged to the patient or his/her private supplemental insurance provider. Some billing is direct to the insurer - some is billed to thepatient who submits to the insurer for re-imbursement
If a doctor owns his own clinic building and it costs less than leasing, he makes more than the doctor who leases. There are standards in place that limit how much different the "profit" of one doctor is than another - but some doctors do "make" a lot more money than others under the same system - efficiencies are rewarded - and if they cut too many corners trying to make money, the "college of physicians" will discipline them (self governing professional body)
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