I wouldn't really call Boulder a suburb of Denver - it is definitely in the Greater Denver/Denver Metro area, but it is geographically and pretty culturally distinct.
Boulder has (or maybe more correctly, had) that same liberal college town vibe that places like Ithaca and Burlington are known for. It is nestled directly against the foothills of the Rockies which provides great recreation options with hiking trails literally starting in town (Denver is ten or so miles east of the foothills). Boulder is home to a pretty booming tech scene, so there are some very high paying jobs to be had, too.
As I understand it, the zoning regulations designed to keep the "small town" feel prevent much development. These zoning ordinances paired with Boulder being a highly desirable place to live mean that demand far outpaces supply, and home prices shoot up.
I've been out of EMS for a few years now, but these have (or had at least) fallen massively out of favor.
Effectively, you could artificially keep the patient alive by using MAST pants, but they inevitably crash when they were removed. My old service had a few pairs tucked back in a closest, but none on any of the rigs. I'm quite certain they aren't in allowable by protocol in most places at this point.
A pretty wild device, nonetheless!
EDIT: Quick edit to throw in that I have heard tales from the old heads of using them to stabilize pelvic fractures, too.
Even if they crash, couldn't MAST pants be useful in ambulances in order to deliver patients alive to the OR? Or did it somehow make them less likely to survive than not using them at all?
My girlfriend and I play with our old roommates most evenings as of late - we've gotten in the habit of turning on my gaming rig and her PS4 around lunch to suss out any updates. We are lucky to have symmetrical gig internet, but even with an Ethernet cable connected the PS4 download speeds abysmal. Those COD patches really are monstrous.
Newer games in general have these humongous updates. I’m somehow pleasantly surprised when checking that GTA V total size is 90GB all in. An open world online game with endless possibilities. Fortnite, a way simpler game, is ~70GB with monstrous patches too. I really wonder what is in those files..
I'm just here to say I read that as microbrewers and I was much more excited about that article. The brewing boom here in Colorado is outrageous. I would love to learn about the confluence of technology and brewing, and what if any tech small breweries are leveraging to give them an edge.
Thanks for digging up those links, I'll have to read those articles later!
The top comment on that third article about the brewery explosion in Vancouver could just as easily be about Denver - the story is nearly the same. As I understand it here in Denver, a change of law make it much easier for breweries to operate tasting rooms which can be quite profitable and spurred massive growth.
While I have had my far share of head-scratchers trying to find the proper setting for x, I would certainly disagree that DataGrip has one of the worst UIs. I have used it daily for the past two years with a variety of databases (MySQL, Postgres, and Redshift for the most part), and honestly it seems like the best tool out there right now.
Boulder has (or maybe more correctly, had) that same liberal college town vibe that places like Ithaca and Burlington are known for. It is nestled directly against the foothills of the Rockies which provides great recreation options with hiking trails literally starting in town (Denver is ten or so miles east of the foothills). Boulder is home to a pretty booming tech scene, so there are some very high paying jobs to be had, too.
As I understand it, the zoning regulations designed to keep the "small town" feel prevent much development. These zoning ordinances paired with Boulder being a highly desirable place to live mean that demand far outpaces supply, and home prices shoot up.