Monday, June 29, 2020

Raptors' Fred VanVleet says 'terrible timing' for NBA to restart, but will play

Toronto Raptors guard Fred VanVleet said it was difficult to decide whether to take part in the NBA restart to its season amid the coronavirus pandemic and protests for social justice.
Ultimately, though, he decided to play.
"It sucks," VanVleet said in a conference call Monday of having to make such a choice. "It's terrible timing. But that's been 2020 for us. We all know the right thing to do is to not play, to take a stand. Morally, yes, that makes sense. But life goes on. We're all young, Black guys. None of us want to give any money back. I don't think that we should. I think that money can be used in a number of different ways.
"This is not going to end this summer regardless, or over the next couple of months. This issue, racial injustice, social injustice, police brutality, all these things are not ending anytime soon. Our fight was long-term. That was part of my decision.
"But if the league, or more of my guys would have come together and said we didn't want to play, I would have sat out as well. I wouldn't have even fought it. I think most of us decided to play. It's something we'll have to live with. I trust that my heart's in the right place, and I'm doing enough to make change."






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Saturday, June 27, 2020

Vermont census response lags behind US rate

My friend was telling me that she saw this somewhere...
saw this article about Vermont and Windham county

BENNINGTON — A month after most U.S. households were invited to respond to the 2020 census, nearly half of the country has already done so. That's 69 million households.
But when you zoom in to Vermont, the participation numbers aren't as encouraging. As of Thursday afternoon, only 37.2 percent of Vermont's 354,000 households had responded — about 10 percentage points below the national rate of 46.7 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's online tracker.
This places Vermont at No. 48 among all the states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. 
The Vermont Complete Count Committee, formed to ensure a complete and accurate statewide population count, believes Vermonters have gotten distracted by the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has led to massive job losses as well as a scramble to secure daily necessities like toilet paper.
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Windham and Bennington counties, in particular, rank in the lower half of the state's 14 counties. Windham is second to the last at 24.9 percent, and Bennington County is in ninth place at 30.8 percent as of Thursday afternoon, according to Vermont's census response tracker.
Windham County has around 30,400 households; Bennington County, 21,100, according to Census Bureau estimates.
When asked how the current response rates match expectations, Moser said it's difficult to compare this year's figures with those of the 2010 census because of the newly launched online response platform.
For the first time, the 2020 census offers U.S. residents the option of filling out their census forms online — besides the traditional paper and phone methods. The online response site, my2020census.gov, which officially launched March 11, is responsible for gathering nearly 90 percent of the country's total responses so far.
Lowest rates in Vermont
A big concentration of the Vermont towns or cities with the lowest response rates can be found in the southern part of the state. As of Thursday afternoon, the lowest numbers statewide can be found in Bennington and Windham counties. 
Stratton is at the bottom of the ladder at 1.4 percent. Dover is one step above at 3.3 percent, and Winhall is just another step higher at 3.4 percent. Rutland County's Killington (4.1 percent) and Peru (5.3 percent) round out the bottom five.

 this may be the hardest census since the first one in 1790..and Vermont is "leading" the way

 The good news: "I've never seen elected officials taking the census so seriously," said Clarence Anthony, CEO of the National League of Cities. "It seems like there’s a greater commitment to reach the historically hard-to-count residents."

Community leaders are concerned that historically hard-to-count residents will be even harder to count in this year's census, thanks to technological hurdles and increased distrust in government. 
Why it matters: The census — which will count more than 330 million people this year — determines how $1.5 trillion in federal funding gets allocated across state and local governments. Inaccurate counts mean that communities don't get their fair share of those dollars.



 lowest rates of response in this county...

New York 33 thousand..New York=33











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funny thing ...
 notice they created a permanent office on 3/6..36..census=36








 he lives here by chance

he was born...





 he lives in Windham County...




from this story to his 53rd b-day....

the town gets $4,000......



 81+81=162
reason for the response slow...



This places Vermont at No. 48 among all the states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. 

48th most responsive state to the US census
Population
 (2010)
 • Total12,046
 • Density375.3/sq mi (144.9/km2)
12,046 x 4,000..48 million 184,thousand


let's look at the first leader of the Census Bureau....

Merriam's final accomplishment was appropriate for a banker and businessman who could work well with both people and numbers. He was director of the twelfth national census and later persuaded Congressto establish a permanent Census Bureau, where he served as its first director. Merriam never returned to Minnesota, but retired instead to Florida, where he died in Port Sewall[1] at age 81.


 born with 33 numerology...









born in '49...died on the 49th day 











 100 is 10 x 10
Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution mandates that an apportionment of representatives among the states must be carried out every 10 years. Therefore, apportionment is the original legal purpose of the decennial census, as intended by our Nation's Founders. Apportionment is the process of dividing the 435 memberships, or seats, in the U.S. House of Representatives among the 50 states, based on the state population counts that result from each decennial census.  The apportionment results will be the first data published from the 2020 Census, and those results will determine the amount of political representation each state will have in Congress for the next 10 years.



from his last b-day to the formation of first census bureau...

223/48th prime....