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Yeah, like it equally implies they could all be on the lower figure. Quote:
Probably because he is talking about more than one average. Unlikely he saw all the figures just the average figure for each grade (and yes there was only one person in the top grade, so that's not an average, but all the other grades had more than one person in them). There is an average salary for each level. Not all people at the same level get the same pay. All the salary averages of the different supervisor positions fall within the stated range. Let's move on.
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It sounded like you were talking about moving here unless you were intending on leaving your house and being homeless in the park. The ultimate arbiter about who is to opine would seem to be the webmaster. But if you are right, (and I am wrong) even he will answer to a higher authority, one day. It's all a pecking order; folks with kids at the top, then the dog owners, then people living close by and then everybody else. Although really it's about who is the loudest vessel. Still, it's a bit rich when people who come from afar or are only occasional users try to lecture those that live close by to be more tolerant when they do not experience the inconveniences on a daily ( or more accurately nightly ) basis.
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Re: Hamilton Park Renovation - Update
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Why would anyone object to you coming into the HP neighborhood? And why would the facts you state make any difference to that? I think there are some people here that disagree about whether there is anything better than a free public basketball court, but since it was not a voting option to keep it or lose it, we will never know if it is true democracy. [I will have to trade religious barbs with you another time as it seems my earlier response and your reply have been expunged.]
Posted on: 2010/6/3 16:01
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There is what you say and what I think you mean. What you actually said, if taken literally, is that perhaps 49.999999% of salaries are closer to $156,000 and that 50.000001% of salaries are closer to $120,000 in other words the average salary could be just higher than the mid-point (forgetting about the different possible types of averages: mean, median, mode). Is that what you meant to communicate? Didn't think so. You meant to communicate that the actual average could be strongly skewed one way, which, "given the nature of pay structures" is extremely unlikely. OK? Quote:
Yep, most likely there are different pay grades (and that is not a single figure, that is an actual range for each grade) and people in each pay grade can have different salaries depending on things like length of service, performance reviews etc. Don't know about the fire service, but that's how it works most places. Most likely, all the salaries in each pay grade are averaged first and then a total average is calculated. I imagine that is what Fulop means by talking about average salaries unless he had all the figures for every single persons salary (doubtful). Quote:
Yep, people don't always use "salary" and "income" literally and perhaps we should haul Steve over the coals if in fact he was meaning income instead of salary. Of course if he did mean salary and not income and there are overtime payments to all or some of these supervisors, well then the situation would be a whole lot worse, wouldn't it? Quote:
Unless the calculation was done for a previous year rather than a projection of the current year, it would include estimates and averages.
Posted on: 2010/6/2 19:25
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If I remember correctly, Minnie, there were a number of options residents were given of different park configurations to choose from (including some crazy-ass option to add miniature golf).
Among these options there was no proposal to remove the basketball court although there were options to remove one or both tennis courts. Effectively the preservation of the basketball court had been already decided in a smoke-filled room. It's very easy for some people here to play the race card in an effort to halt further discussion of this issue. This is about quality of life issues such as noise and disturbance on the court late at night which has nothing whatsoever to do with race. I notice that the person that was using innuendo to invoke a charge of racism does not live on the square in close proximity to the court. I hope that person and her children will continue to enjoy the use of the park but will consider the thoughts of others who may have good reason to regret the use of the park by noisy people at unsocial hours regardless of whether those noisy people are basketball players or shrieking kids in the playground.
Posted on: 2010/6/2 15:47
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Given the nature of pay structures it is extremely unlikely that one person gets $156,000 and the rest all get $120,000. You are being at least as disingenuous as what you are accusing Fulop of. If pay is variable due to factors such as bonus, overtime then it would be correct to talk in terms of average incomes (and I admit I don't know if supervisors are entitied to either). If pay raises are not awarded equally at the same time of year (e.g are awarded on anniversary of service or some other interval), being just as pedantic as you are, then it would be correct to talk in terms of average salaries. Based on this I am not quite ready to cite Fulop for duplicity or incompetence and call for his resignation
Posted on: 2010/6/2 15:02
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Thank you for the details. The illustration that FDNY typically responds with one less engine shows that this is not an exact science. A few years ago I was living in JC in a three story building where the alarm would frequently go and 3 engines would come out. So obviously "Standard" response is under constant review (as it should be). I am very grateful that brave men and women firefighters are prepared to risk their lives and I am also very relieved to know that the six firefighters that were injured in the Belmont Avenue fire are reported to be in "good" condition. In the case that I am referring to 5 engines approached the "incident" from one side. The row house had an entrance from the wider street at the back (which is the side where the incident was) but no engines approached from that side. I do appreciate the manpower argument, however.
Posted on: 2010/6/1 18:22
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There was no damage, and no appreciable smoke or fire. Can not say what happened to the sausages.
Posted on: 2010/6/1 15:24
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If it's standard response, why would I question the person that called it in?
Posted on: 2010/6/1 15:19
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This is all fine and I agree it is better to respond with too many engines than too few. The trouble was you could not fit 5 engines on the street I was living on at the time so they wouldnt have been able to provide much assistance. I have lived in other parts of the US and in densely populated areas in other countries where this response would be considered unusual. I used to work in a multi-story building in another state with several hundreds of workers which contained chemical laboratories. There were frequent alarms and only one or two engines at most responded.
Posted on: 2010/6/1 15:01
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Glad to read that the person running the fire department is somebody with a cool head who doesn't react dis-proportionately to criticism. Five engines responding to my neighbor burning the sausages on his barbecue seemed a little excessive to me but like councilman Fulop I am not a fire expert.
It's a minor point but only the year 1980 was thirty years ago and only half of that.
Posted on: 2010/6/1 14:20
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But they DO have happy hours (apparently word does not get 'round that quick in downtown). The happy hour on Thursday lasts all night(!). They also have happy hour M-F with half price on all beer and wine, unlike most other places in JC that only have happy hour for a few selected wines and draft beer or no happy hour at all. I agree that some of the food is over-priced (the lobster roll I had was a pathetic size. Come on, guys!) and some of it may need some tuning. The Chicken Bucheron I had was very good. Overall it is a great addition to the area.
Posted on: 2010/5/27 23:45
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F1 (or specifically Bernie Ecclestone) has deep pockets. Bernie slipped Tony Blair's Labour Party 1 million pounds so that F1 could bypass the tobacco advertising ban in sport in the UK. So maybe we havent heard the end of this. It's a good job nobody on the City Council would ever take a bribe.
Blair got caught and had to hand back the million, but Bernie got to keep his advertising.
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No, it doesn't and that's why F1 will not come here.
Posted on: 2010/5/5 15:32
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It's not just race day, there are endless lap tests by all the drivers to determine the grid position on the days leading up to the event.
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But the "stabbing in the back" does not just refer to Russia, it refers to the "Western Betrayal". Russia at the time had formed an alliance with Germany (Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact). France and Britain had agreements with Poland that they would come to the aid of Poland in the event it was attacked. When Poland was attacked by Germany, France and Britain declared war on Germany but did not take any significant action against Germany for some months. Meanwhile, the US did not want to get involved in a European war but aided Britain and France in re-arming. That period was known as the phony war. Later when the graves were discovered by the Nazis, the US and Britain tried to turn a blind eye and blamed the massacre on the Germans in order to keep the US-British-Soviet alliance intact. There was a deal at the Tehran conference between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin which shifted the Polish borders without the consent of the Poles. Finally at the Yalta conference neither Churchill nor Roosevelt opposed Stalin's demand to maintain occupation in Poland. The statue does not depict a Russian soldier stabbing the Polish officer in the back, it does not show who is doing the stabbing. I understand there are very strong feelings of anger and bitterness for the massacre and the actions of other countries. But to choose to create a memorial 50 years later that displays these feelings in such a graphic and permanent way does not give much hope for ultimate reconciliation and permanent peace.
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1. I wonder how many statues to Columbus there are in Poland. Maybe they have no particular reason to have them. 2. I certainly would have little problem if the Katyn Memorial was in LSP although it is still ugly and has an in your face political message that is directed as much at ally as enemy. If people don't know why this is, I suggest they acquaint themselves with the Katyn story and its aftermath and the nature of the western response in 1943 when the graves were discovered. I am sure there was plenty to criticize the US and UK for but is it the right place in a war memorial to the dead? 3. Columbus may never have set foot in America but he is a very significant figure in the history of America. 4. Does the Columbus statue have any particular political message?
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That would be far too relevant to JC and the people that live here. Better to pick something that happened in another place over 50 years before and has no connection to the vast majority of people living here. Have you noticed that all the other Katyn memorials around the world (particularly the ones in Poland) are tasteful monuments that honor the memories of the people that were slaughtered without having to make political statements to people that could not have prevented what happened? Here is a computer visualization of a new Katyn giant memorial to be built in Poland. It consists of 20,000+ figures of all of the victims, each with a name and a hole in its head (coz that's how they were killed, folks, not with bayonets). The video takes a while to get going but if you are patient at around two or three minutes in, you will see the Bayonne vagina. http://video.google.pl/videoplay?doci ... 264069519938250476&hl=pl#
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People are better drivers in Manhattan because: (a) they have to be (b) they know there is more enforcement
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Here 'much' means 'a lot'. I recently got rid of my car so now I walk everywhere in JC. That's what I would call 'much' or 'a lot'. I didn't say you rarely walk anywhere, did I? I am sure you walk less than me and maybe a lot less than me Quote:
There's absolutely no admission in what you originally wrote that most drivers are not keeping to the speed limit. I do thank you for conceding the point now, though. I hope you drive less angry than you blog
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You guys have no clue. I have been 50% or more across the crosswalk (with the lights in my favor) and had drivers turn into the street I was crossing, without looking, causing me to take evasive action. One guy even stopped and came at me again, obviously thinking that I should back up and let him pass in front of me. It was in a clearly marked crosswalk. The guy was turning out of another street where there was a stop sign. There were no parked cars obscuring his view. Unfortunately these are regular occurrences. Some of you people clearly dont walk much or you would have experienced something similar yourselves. Quote:
Most drivers are not driving at 25mph. On Jersey or Marin (where it is clearly posted), they are driving considerably faster. In the case of Marin at 8th and 9th most of the drivers are hitting 50mph.
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Most of us use computer displays all day long without noticeable probs. I didnt say the iPad will replace the Kindle. I said the Kindle would lose business to the iPad. In fact it's already happened because people have postponed buying Kindle while they waited for this announcement. People who do not already own a Kindle and are thinking of getting an iPad will not buy a Kindle as well.
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since I am able to read books on my iPhone, I am now reading a lot more. Very convenient and comfortable either through a free app like Stanza. Stanza lets you download many of the classics for free from Gutenberg and many individual books are available as free apps. No way I would buy a real book that is available like this (or buy a Kindle for that matter).
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The Kindle will lose a lot of business to the iPad. Kindles are way over-priced
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I wouldnt say that the Shoe Bomber or the Underwear Bomber showed even average amounts of resourcefulness, intelligence or competence, which is very fortunate for us. The Underwear Bomber did not check luggage which should have really tipped off security for extra screening if they were following post 9/11 procedures (Remember that you said earlier you would 'absolutely' like to go back to pre-9/11 levels of security. In his case because procedures were not followed, we effectively had pre-9/11 security and he was nearly successful). In the case of the Shoe Bomber he did, just as you said, return the next day after he was initially turned away by security to try to fly again the next day. The extra day is thought to be why the explosives did not detonate.
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Do you think it's easier or harder to get a box cutter on a plane as a result of changes since 9/11? Would you prefer to going back to the level of security before 9/11?
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+googol Of course how could you know if you were traveling with someone who had refused a search at another station? Maybe someone should start a website where people can post pictures of people who refuse to take the search (like they do for the food pigs).
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Christian morality did not seem to matter so enormously to Dorothy L Sayers to prevent her from having sex outside marriage, becoming pregnant and then using subterfuge to give the child away anonymously so she could continue her writing career. There are some that argue she was also anti-semitic. That may not be entirely germane to the discussion but perhaps it, along with her apparently blatant hypocrisy, should be part of the lens through which we view her writings.
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