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Busy Police Weekend & Local Crime Stats

After seeing a news item that highlighted a "busy weekend" for local police, I ended up doing some research into local crime statistics. I'm not sure why it was busier than usual recently. I began looking into the statistics to see if I could answer that question. Turns out the statistics didn't help me there... but they did inspire an interest in the statistics themselves. To try and find stats on daily incidents, I looked into the crime statistics published on their website. I looked at the two most recent monthly stats ( Oct and Sep ) as well as the most recent year end summary ( 2021 ) and didn't find any way to see a summary of incidents per day. Having looked for this information, I ended up seeing what I would think is the obvious "dashboard overview" part of their crime statistics... the last column of the year end summary report which compares the current year to the average of the past five years. It highlights better than average in yellow ...

Let Him Fly

LYRICS Ain't no talkin' to this man Ain't no pretty other side Ain't no way to understand the stupid words of pride It would take an acrobat and I already tried all that So I'm gonna let him fly (Gonna let him fly) Things can move at such a pace The second hand just waved goodbye And though the light has left his face But you can't recall just where or why So there was really nothing to it I just went and cut right through it I said, I'm gonna let him fly, ooh yeah, yeah There's no mercy in a live wire No rest at all in freedom Of the choices we are given It's no choice at all, oh-huh The proof is in the fire You touch before it moves away, yeah But you must always know how long to stay and when to go And there ain't no talkin' to this man He's been tryna tell me so Took awhile to understand The beauty of just letting go 'Cause it would take an acrobat and I already tried all that I'm gonna let him fly I'm gonna let him fly, f...

The Littlest Hobo

The Littlest Hobo - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Littlest_Hobo The Littlest Hobo 1958 original movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUBfwbhAX_s The Littlest Hobo Season 1 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyMIVzy133V0JiDV32UmYYU_N4D5RGhFn The Littlest Hobo Season 2 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyMIVzy133V2wBR3XbHfcZqmkk1uQ5IA7 The Littlest Hobo Season 3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyMIVzy133V0MH8ZOc2XHIOr7qPTBAlfN The Littlest Hobo Season 4 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyMIVzy133V1mG6fSIp7Z1TI0gkCGO6Zo The Littlest Hobo Season 5 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyMIVzy133V0N4E9stW43z10t747LRjuQ The Littlest Hobo Season 6 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyMIVzy133V13aWagxHjqfsiuezJ-Z7dz

Hobo

"When it comes to train riding, you have to give that train all of your respect, but the train will never give you any. You can't rely upon the train to get you where you're going or to be a smooth ride or a safe one. I have a great concern about equipment failure. I have a concern about human error with regard to rail operations. These kinds of things I have no control over. You never know when you're going to be on a train that has a crew that's gone to sleep at the throttle and the next thing you know you're in a big pile up at the bottom of a hill." https://youtu.be/9ytesoB7gBI?t=2693 This is a great metaphor for just about anything that we depend on but can't control... a family, an employer, a government... as well as life itself. === Hobo - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobo watched, The American Hobo: History of the Railriding Worker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ytesoB7gBI Hobo (1992) - Full Documentary https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Jordan Peterson lecture clip about men's interest in psychology

YouTube recommended this video to me and it motivated me to find the source material because I could see jump cuts in it that made me sceptical of it's full integrity. The Simple Reason 90% of Men Are Lost in Life | Jordan Peterson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI__r2U8jX0 Here is the full lecture playlist which the clip was taken from. 2017 Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief (University of Toronto) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL22J3VaeABQAT-0aSPq-OKOpQlHyR4k5h Specifically, it is taken from the 2h20m mark of the 11th video in the playlist. Here is a link to that direct spot. I personally find the original raw video more satisfying than the mashed clip. https://youtu.be/T4fjSrVCDvA?list=PL22J3VaeABQAT-0aSPq-OKOpQlHyR4k5h&t=8440 After viewing this, my own comments about what he's talking about are that I think there are more women in the psychology field because women want to learn how to care about others, but there are more men watching his psychology ...

I'm starting to really listen to other people

I was in a conversation recently where we were talking about an experience many of us have of being in a social situation where someone talks long beyond what is considered normal in a casual social situation. My own view of situations like this is that it is unproductive to interrupt the person when they are doing this because what they are demonstrating is that they have a strong need to be listened to. Not everyone agrees with me on this, and after the conversation I felt a bit unclear about it... but I strongly believe that there is a better way of dealing with this situation than to simply interrupt the person and stop what they are doing, so I consulted the material I trust about it. I found an item which helps me stay clear about why I am motivated to find a better solution to this problem. Real Love Resource Index https://real-love-saskatoon.blogspot.com/p/real-love-resources.html Real Love Radio #007 (link will open playlist - select item 007.mp3) https://app.box.com/s/k9na3gh...

Brother's Advice

I found this video on TikTok... Brother's Advice https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMFk4yGCt ( F. BigEagle (@mr.rezguy80) | TikTok , https://www.tiktok.com/@mr.rezguy80 ) The creator of it talks about his experience working on drilling rigs and the advice he got on how to survive that environment due to the fact that there are people in it who clearly have serious problems. He refers to them as "racist motherfuckers". The people he's talking about are psychologically disturbed. They are broken people. They are biased people. They are angry people. They are harmful people. However, the bottom line is they are people... and they are able to exist because we don't have an effective way to deal with them. I have been one of these people... and still am in many ways. People like this don't know how to take care of themselves... let alone understand how to treat others. Not only are these people allowed to be out there amongst others, they are actively depended on for our econ...