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Using, not losing, your head
Cycle helmets are a good thing, aren't they? It's obvious. They protect your head. They must be a good thing: it's common sense. Why then is the cycling community, in the face of proposed mandatory helmet legislation, fighting internecine helmet wars?
Before going into the details of this argument, let's start by putting this into perspective. Cycling is actually a very safe activity. Nothing, of course, is absolutely safe. Last year, in Britain, 114 cyclists were killed. Of those, 95 (83%) died as a result of collisions with motor vehicles. But that's out of millions of cyclists, covering billions of miles. In fact, according to the National Statistics Office, there is on average one fatal accident for every twenty one and a half million miles cycled. Twenty one and a half million. If you were to cycle ten miles every single day, it would be nearly six thousand years before you had a fatal accident.
At the same time as those 114 cyclists died, over three thousand people died from accidents and mishaps in their own homes. Do you think your home is a dangerous place to be?
Of course, in the modern world, there are dangers other than accidents. We live highly stressed lives in which opportunities for exercise get fewer and fewer, and opportunities to eat and drink become more and more available. We get fat. We get unfit. And our health suffers in consequence, with the incidence of illnesses such as obesity, heart disease, osteoporosis and diabetes increasing rapidly. Cycling is a good general exercise both for the cardiovascular system and for the limbs. Unlike walking, jogging or running, the movement is smooth and so does not cause impact damage to the ankles, knees and hips. Yes, there is a finite risk of accident when cycling but it is nevertheless undoubted that if you cycle regularly not only are you likely to live longer but you're more likely to enjoy a fit, active and healthy old age.
Got that? Good. Now let's talk about helmets.
Use no hooks: or, A box for a computer
In the more tragic and more bloody wars of the Democratic Republic Congo, many warriors wear or carry lucky charms which they believe will protect them against bullets. We sophisticated westerners read stories of this and we think 'how quaint, and sad, and ignorant, are these uneducated child soldiers going into battle, believing superstitiously in the protection of lucky charms'. And then we cycle off into the traffic, wearing our cycle helmets.
This note was written as a web page. If you're reading it on a web page, you're reading it on a computer. I'd like you to stop for a moment and think about that computer. When it arrived from its maker - possibly when you bought it - it was packed in a strong cardboard box. Inside the strong cardboard box was almost certainly some polystyrene foam packaging material. Probably at least 40mm of it, surrounding and protecting your computer from the inevitable bumps it would incur in transit - bumps like being dropped from someone's hands onto the warehouse floor, or thumped up against another, similarly packaged computer.
By and large, for these sort of bumps, the packaging works, and your computer probably arrived home safe and sound.
Now think about your bicycle helmet. Like the packaging your computer came in, it is worn to protect a very valuable object - your brain. Like the packaging your computer came in, it is made of polystyrene foam - and typically it's a good bit less than 40mm thick.
Putting the boot in
I would like you to stop again, and think about the box your computer came in. I'd like you, as a thought experiment, to imagine taking your computer, putting it back it in its original box, and placing the box in the middle of the street. Now I want you to imagine getting into a car and driving into the box at just thirty miles an hour. You've imagined that? Good. Now do you think you would be able to use the computer afterwards?
Polystyrene foam is just polystyrene foam. Polystyrene foam is a light, weak, compressible solid which rapidly becomes brittle with age and is easily damaged by solvents. It doesn't become magically stronger just because it's formed into a cycle helmet. The same foam that didn't protect the computer in the thought experiment is equally not going to protect your head in similar circumstances.
Ticking the box
Nor do the manufacturers, nor the standards writers, believe it should. The European test for cycle helmets involves dropping the helmet, containing a dummy head weighing not more than 6Kg, onto a flat surface from a height of 1.5 metres. I don't know about you, but I'm 1.88 metres tall and I weigh 82Kg. If I just fall over from standing upright, I already exceed the impact which cycle helmets sold in Europe are tested to protect against - and exceed it by a very substantial margin. And that's before I've even got on my bicycle and started moving.
In practice, cycle helmets are expected to be helpful in accidents up to about 15mph (24Km/h). You might (common sense) expect a 30mph impact to be only twice as bad as a 15mph impact, and you might think that something which offered reasonable protection at 15mph would offer some degree of protection at 30mph. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. Firstly, the force of the impact scales with the square of the speed, so your 30mph impact is four times, not twice, as severe as your 15mph one. But secondly, and even more scarily, it is widely accepted that the probability of injury scales with the fourth power of the speed. So your 30mph impact is sixteen times as likely to cause injury than your 15mph impact.
And that's before you consider what happens to polystyrene foam when its design load is exceeded. It snaps. It suffers 'brittle failure'. You can do this experiment quite easily with the foam packing your computer came in. Take a piece of the foam about as long as your helmet, and about as thick as your helmet. Try to crush it between your finger and thumb. It's surprisingly strong, isn't it? You can squeeze it very hard and it doesn't deform a lot. Polystyrene foam is quite strong in compression, that's why it is used. Now take your piece of foam and snap it between your two hands. That's amazingly easy, isn't it? It takes far less force than crushing it does... which means it has absorbed far less force. When a helmet breaks, it offers no further protection. The more an impact exceeds the helmet's design parameters, the more likely it is to break, and the less likely it is to offer any protection.
You saw the whole of the moon
But let's step back a bit. Let's suppose, for the moment, a helmet provides 100% protection for the part of the body it covers. Because, let's face it, the part of the body a cycle helmet protects is the scalp. What happens to the rest of the body in a 30mph, or in a 60mph accident? Is it really going to be much comfort to your grieving relatives to learn that your hair-do survived OK? Do you believe that because your scalp is protected, your neck and your chest will be protected, too? Or, if not, that your magically preserved brain can be magically plugged into a new heart and lungs? Of course you don't. And of course you know that an impact which has enough force to do severe damage to your skull is likely to do severe damage to other vital systems too. In thinking about protection it is no use protecting one part. It's not enough to see the crescent: you have to look at the whole of the moon.
He's dead, Jim
But it's worse than that. Not only do helmets not provide adequate protection in road speed accidents: they may actually make things worse. In fact they must do so, because in whole populations, as helmet wearing rises, so does the rate of cyclist deaths. Yes, you read that right: the more cyclists wear helmets, the more get killed.
I don't know why. No-one knows why. Two main mechanisms have been suggested: 'risk compensation', the willingness of people to do more risky things when they believe themselves protected, and rotational injury.
The fact that people do do riskier things when they think they're protected is to some extent obvious. Indeed, Bell cycle helmets have been sold with the slogan 'Courage for the Head'. Could cyclists really be using up all of the safety benefit that helmets provide by taking more risks? It's possible. Could drivers, thinking helmeted cyclists are protected, take more risks around them? That's possible too.
But the more worrying possibility is this: wearing a helmet makes your head bigger. It increases the diameter by about 50%, which means it increases the area by about 125%. Now, is it easier to hit a target if it's more than twice as big? You bet it is. Your head being effectively bigger means that it's more likely to get hit; but again it may be still worse than this. Because we have evolved over millions of years of falling to tuck our heads in. We have reflexes which know - without our thinking about it - just how far we need to tuck our heads in to avoid an impact. By making the head bigger we may possibly defeat that instinctive protection mechanism. And it gets worse: larger diameter means more leverage, more angular acceleration. It has been suggested - and so far this is no more than a suggestion - that helmet wearing may increase rotational injuries to the brain. Rotational acceleration tears brain tissue and causes much more severe brain damage than linear accelerations of the same magnitude.
So not only do helmets make you (very slightly) more likely to get injured; they may also - but this is not proven - significantly increase your risk of the most frightening sort of injury, brain damage.
So: it's junk, then?
Does all this mean you shouldn't wear a helmet? Not in my opinion, no. I have a helmet, a MET Parachute, and I do wear it. When I think it will do some good.
Accidents of the sort cycle helmets won't help with - high speed impacts with something solid - are, fortunately, incredibly rare. When people fall off bicycles, they mostly do so at low speed and very often on tricky, off-road tracks. On tricky, off-road tracks you're very rarely travelling at very high speed and what you hit usually isn't moving at all. Indeed, you mostly fall off in the trickiest sections (or at least, I do) and that's when you're going slowest. Of course, such a fall is unlikely to kill you, but it can leave you with nasty bruising, grazes or even concussion. And a cycle helmet will protect you from bruising and grazing on the part of the body it covers, and may help a bit with concussion, too. So I wear my helmet when I'm doing tricky off-road stuff, particularly if I haven't ridden the particular route before. I should say here that although I've fallen off mountain bikes by now literally thousands of times, I've never hit my head at all - it's almost always my hips and elbows that get it. So even on a mountain bike a helmet isn't essential, and I often don't wear one.
And I don't wear one on the road. Ever. There really isn't any point. I haven't fallen off a bike on the road since I was sixteen, and that's thirty-three years ago. I'm an experienced road rider, and I ride with good awareness of traffic; I know how to protect myself from many of the ways motorists can kill you. Of course I can't protect myself against a motorist who is driving too fast and genuinely doesn't see me, but in that case I do not believe a helmet offers any useful protection. Indeed, on the basis of the available statistics and the simple physics I've described above, I know it cannot.
So cycle helmets are not junk. They are genuinely useful under some circumstances. But pretending they can save your life in traffic accidents is at best mistaken and at worst dishonest. To be fair, helmet makers do not pretend this; but there are still ignorant or misguided people who do - indeed, the opinion that it isn't safe to cycle on the road without one is very common. This common misapprehension is what leads to occasional campaigns for the wearing
of cycle helmets to be made compulsory, by law. It's to counter this misapprehension that I've written this article.
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In her third year on the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour, Amy Anderson forges ahead along a challenging path. While she's poised to move into the upper tiers of pro golf, titles and rich purses are not her motivation.
Anderson was raised in Oxbow, south of Fargo, in a family that emphasized work, faith, education and service. Her parents are Mark and Twyla Anderson, members of Cass County Electric Cooperative.
As a young girl, Amy took up golf, and supportive family members and early coaching enabled her to excel. A home-schooled student, Amy graduated from high school at age 16, then entered North Dakota State University. In her collegiate career, Amy set the NCAA record for most career match victories (20), earned league golfer of the year honors four straight years, and earned academic all-American honors. She graduated from NDSU in 2013, with a degree in accounting.
In 2015, her second year as an LPGA player, Amy exceeded $130,000 in earnings, and ended the playing year as the 81st ranked player. A highlight of her year was twice shooting 65 in tour events. While playing the 2015 tour, Amy successfully completed the rigorous certified public accountant exam.
Amy's results through the first half of the 2016 LPGA season have produced a little less success than she had hoped to achieve.
"I was sort of struggling with my swing, and I was at a plateau and wasn't making progress," she says. She said a helpful short game coach has moved into her full-time coach position, and they are making some adjustments to her swing. A best-ever finish in a event – tie for 52nd at the U.S. Women's Open in July – is a sign the adjustments are working. "My swing is in transition now, but I'm really excited going forward," Amy says.
As excited as she is about playing progress, Amy says this in not her primary focus.
"My value as a person doesn't come from my performance on the golf course," she says. "My character is so much more important to me than my golf score. Whether I am at the top succeeding, or if I am struggling, I am going to treat people with the utmost respect. I am going to be kind," she says.
Late last year, Amy seized another big opportunity – across the globe to the continent of Africa.
She joined a team of LPGA players participating in "Golf Fore Africa," a project dedicated to bringing clean water to African villages and remote areas. "Golf Fore Africa" is a foundation led by LPGA Hall of Fame member Betsy King, who was part of Amy's team. While in Africa, the LPGA players viewed how modern wells are delivering healthy water to villages that have long suffered with contaminated water supplies.


It is swap season in the AFL and the carousel continues to spin as the 18 clubs of the AFL now focus on improving their lists in the pursuit of better results in 2019, or keeping lists intact in the case of the clubs that did well in 2018.
Not long ago, it seems a more or less certainty that Dylan Shiel was intent of going to the Hawthorn Hawks, but he surprised more than a few when he informed Greater Western Sydney of his wish to play for the Essendon Bombers next year.
If Shiel is enough to move Essendon into the top eight next year from the 11th where they concluded in 2018, he could be a hero. If not, well then he might regret turning down better offers from the Hawks, Carlton Blues and St. Kilda Saints.
Wingard is less than satisfied with his job with Port Adelaide, it might be challenging for Hawthorn to sway him in their direction, although it might require the Hawks to make some significant draft concessions to get themselves in a position to secure Wingard.
The Western Bulldogs hold the seventh pick, with Hawthorn further back with the 15th pick, which would seem to give the Dogs an edge.


Well today's the day! And as usual, I am so excited about going "home" that I didn't sleep. By the time you folks read this, and since I am a "morning person", I'll have hit the road and be on my way to CT. Hope I remembered everything. If not, as my Joe says, "stop and pick it up".
Did you know that it's about a 3 hour drive just to get out of Virginia from where I live? And what about those rest stops that states are closing or have already closed? What is a little old lady like myself supposed to do??? Especially me, because I DRINK water...a lot of water!
The drive is about 10 hrs to my mother in law's house, so my ETA should be around 4pm as long as I don't dawdle when I stop to walk around. One time when I did this trip solo, I got lost...oh it was horrible. It took me 13 hrs to get up there and everyone was worried sick. However, I didn't have my trusty British accented GPS back then and I got off the "business" route by mistake. So, while driving through the city, I found the local police station and asked directions. Seemed like the smart thing to do, right? WRONG! The officer said follow route # whatever and it parallels the highway. Well it did, however the speed limit was 30 mph less than being on the highway!
But, I've got my magic GPS now and she's (I named her Liz because she speaks with a British accent...fact is, I'm waiting for her to say, "cross the pond and take a left"!) only gotten confused a few times. Got the iPod, got the laptop...good to go. Although,, my best friend sent me a text over the weekend telling me to buy a push-up bra and wear something low cut to the reunion, so I guess I'm really not ready as I have neither of those with me!
Talk to you from my old stomping grounds!


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Mailbag: What to Expect From Venus and Federer in 2019, and the Charm of Different Slam Formats
In this offseason mailbag, Jon Wertheim fields questions on the Slam final-set formats, Venus and Federer, mid-match coaching and more.
By Jon Wertheim
Hey everyone, hope you're enjoying the off-season…
HOUSKEEPING
• Our most recent podcast guest, Mike Bryan, is now reunited with his brother as he tries to win his third straight Slam.
• We'll do one more pod before the year's out.
• One of you suggested that it's been a while since we did a contest. Well, last week I ran into a reader on the streets of New York who suggested a pitch for Netflix: "BAGGY & THE BIG CAT," a lightly scripted reality series where Miloslav Mecir and Marcos Baghdatis drive a tricked-out Yugo up and down the Balkans in search of unsolved crimes and uncharmed locals."
Send in your best scripted idea for a Netflix tennis t.v. show. (They're buying, we hear). We'll send the winner some swag.
• Nadal fans in particular: here is a tremendous piece of tennis writing.
Have a question or comment for Jon? Email him at jon_wertheim@yahoo.com or tweet him @jon_wertheim.
I sure hope your defense of no coaching by saying it's been disallowed is tongue-in-cheek.
Here are a few things folks might have said before the custom changed:
Women have always been prevented from voting.
U.S. citizens have always been allowed to own slaves.
Honorable men have always been allowed to end disputes with pistols.
Disabled folks have always had to fend for themselves.
Men have always been allowed to beat their wives.
The U.S. has always been part of the British Empire.
I'm sure all your readers can come up with their own lists, but you owe it to us to be a bit more thoughtful.
—Elsie Misbourne, Washington, D.C.
• "Hey, we should change our approach to voting! Enough of these career politicians, these eggheads who are informed about issues and have legislative experience; we should elect a new kind of candidate. You know, more of an incurious, impatient, impulsive, humorless, fact-hostile, reality TV bully type."
"Let's change our position on this stifling, regulation-heavy European Union and go at it alone. We're British, dammit. What could go wrong?"
"Let's change our menu to go beyond hamburgers and start, I don't know, serving McRibs and filets of fish. And we'll drop the "f" from "of" to seem even more progressive."
"Let's switch this Coke formula we've had for a century and introduce—wait for it— a New Coke."
"I'm going to change my band and play these drums elsewhere, because you—Paul, John and George—are never going anywhere. Go ahead and replace me with a guy named Ringo, if you like."
"Enough with this search engine. That's getting old. I'm thinking we change our focus and offer Google glasses."
Look, we can all cherry-pick examples of good change, bad change, overdue change and ill-conceived change. (The term "captain hindsight" exists for a reason.) The issue with on-court coaching: is it progress, like Elsie's examples? Or is it an abdication and a contamination of the core product, a bit of change we'll come to regret?
Jon: Serena Williams in 2019. Buy, sell or hold?
—Peter, Long Island
• A) I just saw Maria Sharapova's favorite comedian, Judah Friedlander last night. He wonders if the guy that gave Long Island its name was really all that good at measuring.
B) I just wrote about Serena. From the double-dipping, cutting/pasting department:
For as much as we talk about Serena Williams—the celestial being around whom all other figures in women's tennis revolve, it sometimes seems—we sometimes overlook this fundamental point: she is still an extraordinary player, endowed with much power and more will. While she won no major titles in 2018, she did reach the finals of two of them, coming within one match of achieving her long-avowed goal of tying Margaret Court's all-time record.
Even playing an abbreviated schedule—stars in their late 30s are entitled, encouraged even, to take this license—she finished the year ranked in the top 20. Serena is in some ways rebounding from what was already a comeback season. Go ahead suggest that, at age 37, she is over the meridian of her prime. The response: boneyards are filled with the remains of those who have doubted her through the years.
What is your take on the regression of Venus Williams and Roger Federer this year? For sure each is dealing with the impact of age on an athlete's body. But I am left wondering if the 2017 absence of key rivals (Serena and Novak Djokovic), who had smothered them for a number of years, allowed them some headspace to step back into the spotlight. And, thus, the re-emergence of these two players in 2018 has taken up residence in their head and has pushed them back off center stage. What do you expect for Venus and Roger this coming year given the re-emergence of Serena and Novak? Thank you!
—Prasant
• Oh, how we wish we could isolate variables in tennis. Was Federer's regression in 2018, a function of age finally doing its dark tarantella dance? Or the ascent of Djokovic? (Yes, they only played twice in 2018.) Or the absence of rivals the previous year? Was Venus—who reportedly split with David Witt this week, by the way— finally dealing with 38 years on her odometer in 2018? Or was she catching bad draws and benefitting from the absence of a rival in 2017? For that matter, how much of Djokovic's decline owed to injuries? Some of this hard to quantify; some is simply impossible to quantify.
A data-free thought: Venus and Federer both played marvelously in 2017. Success begat success. Confidence begat confidence. They would have won almost regardless of the opponent. In 2018, they both backslid. Both saw a sip in their quality. And it was more about their personal level dropping than who was or wasn't in the draw.
What do we expect in 2019? Rationally and coldly, we know at some level that, inevitably, there has to be a decline. It's as immutable as the laws of gravity. I wouldn't be surprised if the declines continued. But by the same token, I'm not predicting it. Federer and Venus (and Serena and Nadal, too, for that matter) are wisely, doing everything to stave it off, to distort their ages. There are 1981 cars that have been driven Dukes of Hazard-style. There are 1981 cars that have been handled with care, had their oil changed regularly, and kept in climate-control garages. Both cars are 37 years old.
With Wimbledon going to a final set tiebreak at 12-12 and the Australian Open considering a match tiebreak in the final set, why not use the U.S. Open model and play a tiebreak in all sets at 6-6? If the tiebreak is good enough to decide the other sets, why not the deciding one? What are your thoughts?
—Andrew Krouse, Reading, Penn.
• I think most of us are in agreement that because the sport—all together now—"has never been more physical," we need a finish line. That so many players support this ought to be the most ringing endorsement. I rather like 12-12, especially on grass. The message: "We're giving you one additional overtime set, folks. If you can't close it out, we gotta intervene and go home."
And one of you pointed out that all four majors now have a different exit strategy in the decisive set.
Australian Open: 10-point tiebreak at 6-6.
French Open: Play it out. Win by two games.
Wimbledon: Conventional tiebreak at 12-12.
U.S. Open: Conventional tiebreak at 6-6.
I see this less as maddening inconsistency and more as charming differentiation. The four Slams are all different in their own way. Different surfaces, different times of year, different host cities, different vibes. I have zero problem with this twist. I also feel like we need to point to the data. Fewer than three percent of all main draw singles matches have gone to 6-6 in the decisive set. This is a fun issue to discuss. And it obviously has some extra resonance after the Anderson-Isner Wimbledon semifinal marathon. But let's do acknowledge that it reflects a very small subset of all matches.
Hi Jon,
This is the time of the year when many countries have their annual sports awards. Netherlands is no exception. We have awards for male, female & paralympic athletes, teams and coaches. All five categories have a shortlist with three nominees. This year, there is a bit of an uproar because Raemon Sluiter is on the shortlist for coach but Kiki Bertens is not on the shortlist for female athlete. As Sluiter said in an interview, how can he possibly be this year's most successful coach when his player was apparently not deemed to be as successful?! In his opinion, you can talk of teamwork and award a player and his/her entourage a prize. But at the end of the day, it's the player who had to hit the balls in the right spot, not the coach (as you know, Raemon is not an advocate of on-court coaching).
So, what's your view on the coach's role in a player's achievements? And can a coach be more successful than his/her player? Yes I know, rum lot, those Dutch!
—Tineke van Buul, Amstelveen, Netherlands
• Good on Raemon Sluiter. What a gracious response. With any athlete/team in any sport, the role of the coach varies. (This week in particular, Green Bay Packers fans like Pete Holtermann know what I'm talking about.) In many cases, tennis coaches are integral. In other cases, they are consultants, babysitters and even bystanders. In still other cases (Federer in some years; Kyrgios; currently Simona Halep) they are non-existent. So ascribing a role is difficult and case-by-case. But to the reader's point, it's counterintuitive—especially in an individual sport—to shortlist a coach but not an athlete.
I'd add especially so in this case: It's not like Kiki Bertens was always a natural talent who simply needed the right motivator to come alone. She orchestrated this mid-career elevation. And should be praised accordingly.
WERTHEIM: Mailbag: Simona Halep Goes Coachless, Justin Gimelstob Arrest and More
One of my favorites and what a class act he was from start to finish! Best retiring statement I've ever seen!
—@JimBarber
• Jim was referring to Max Mirnyi, whose announcement means the Tennis Beast population is reduced.
And long as we're here, it's Marina Erakovic for the win.
And, beyond the super-awesome retirement announcement, let's tip a cap to an underrated career.
SHOTS, MISCELLANY
• You want a tennis book to give as a holiday gift? Look no further than The Circuit by Rowan Ricardo Phillips:
• Here's Louisa Thomas on Caroline Wozniacki and David Lee.
• The Volvo Car Open has added two new players to its field and now has seven of the world's top 25 players competing in its 2019 tournament. 2017 French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko and World No. 12 Elise Mertens are the newest additions. the Volvo Car Open for the first time next year.
• Writer/philosopher Julian Baggini writes "Aristotle and Confucius, Federer and Nadal".
• Brazilian tennis player Diego Matos has been provisionally suspended from professional tennis by independent Anti-Corruption Hearing Officer Prof.Richard H McLaren.
The suspension relates to an investigation by the Tennis Integrity Unit into alleged breaches of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program and applies with immediate effect.
This means that Mr. Matos is prohibited from competing in, or attending, any sanctioned event organized or recognized by the governing bodies of the sport for the duration of his suspension. The 30-year old is currently ranked 247 in doubles and 1270 in singles.
• Last week Cam Bennett wrote about his desire to see every Grand Slam champ. This week he writes:
"I missed the opportunity to see Thomas Muster during his career, so I found myself keen to see him late in an afternoon's tennis when he returned for the Legends Doubles in 2011. After seeing a good few other matches during the day, my mates and I headed to Court 2 to watch the old guy play and strike him from my list. We were giving up the opportunity to watch one different match in the then-ticketed Hisense, so we found a few friendly faces who were lining up to get into a court and offered them our seats inside so they could see as much tennis as possible for the remainder of their day. They happily accepted our offer, and then…went inside and saw the longest women's match in Grand Slam history, when Schiavone saved six match points before defeating Kuznetsova 16-14 in the third after four hours and 44 minutes! We laughed as we kept up with the scores, laughed as Muster and his mates goofed around while showing off their skills on Court 2, and still laugh about it today—talk about giving some random tennis fans a story! Cheers, Cam.
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What i need, is to add to value of each dictionary key  combination of
($(NF-2)/($(NF-2)+$NF))*100 " out of"  $(NF-2)+$NF

So i want awk to calculate all math , then compose string and put it as dictionary value.  I already tried with some combination of spaces and brackets  but still no luck.
Vars are filled from input stream  :
$2 - host , not unique in input stream
$3 - partition , not unique in input stream
$NF - space avail
$NF-2 - space used
$(NF-2)+$NF - gives you overall capacity of partiton

Output is
80% host1@/local/1

Output expected:
80% host1@/local/1   out of 112G

----------------------Solution-----------------------------------
With  good catch below , i resolved this. Issue was that i did int() in printf part, that truncated output. Though, further i faced other problems with my wrap-around shell part, therefore my  final code was different than i expected it to be asking question.
'{key=($2 "@" $6 " out of " int((($(NF-2)+$NF)/1000)/1000) "GB" ) ; dict[key]=($(NF-2)/($(NF-2)+$NF))*100 } END {for (a in dict) {  printf "%s ,  %d :" ,  a, int(dict[a]) }}'

I`ve moved "out of " and capacity part to dictionary key ,  because dict value cannot be string  in my case,  futher i will compare it with INT.

A: The concatenation is working fine. It's not the problem.
The problem is that you are calculating the int() of the dictionary value when you print. Since the value is a string, the result is truncated. If you need to use int() do it at the time you perform the calculations rather than at print time.
By the way, if you had provided some sample data it would have been a lot easier to test your code and provide an answer. This is especially important since it's sometimes the case, as it is here, that the problem is in a place that is not where it was anticipated.

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Pro-European groups endorse Liberal Democrats in Oxford West and Abingdon to stop hard Brexit
Conor McKenzie | 2017-04-26
Open Britain, the European Movement and Britain for Europe have endorsed Layla Moran, the Liberal Democrat general election candidate in Oxford West and Abingdon.
Remain supports across Oxford West and Abingdon have been urged by the organisation to support the Liberal Democrats to over-throw the current MP who is supporting Theresa May's drive towards a hard Brexit.
Layla Moran, Liberal Democrat Parliamentary Spokesperson for Oxford West & Abingdon, said:
"Every Liberal Democrat MP elected is a blow to Theresa May's Hard Brexit agenda.
"If you want Britain to remain in the EU, we are the only party offering a way to do that
"62% of people across Oxford West and Abingdon voted to remain in Europe, yet our current Brexit-backing MP, Nicola Blackwood, doesn't represent us.
"By voting Liberal Democrat in this election Oxford West and Abingdon can send a message to Theresa May that she is driving this country in the wrong direction.
"With a large number of pro-European Liberal Democrat MPs, we can make sure the British people get the final say on the Brexit deal in a referendum."


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Firstly, our website clearly says that we invested INR 700 Cr. to build our Silo Grain Storage infrastructure. This project was envisaged by GOI under the National Policy on Bulk Handling, Storage & Transportation in 2000. Global tenders were invited by the Food Corporation of India in 2003. The Adani Group being the most competitive, was awarded the contract in 2005. The project was commissioned in 2007 for a concession period of 20 years. Therefore, it is important to understand the fact that the project came up in 2007 and is successfully serving its purpose for the last 13 years. But some motivated elements with an agenda to hold back India's development are misrepresenting facts stating that the Adani Group was gifted funds from the ruling government to set up this project.
Secondly, given our legacy of operational excellence, the Adani Group has worked with existing and earlier government to fortify our facilities' footprints in Punjab, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, WB, Bihar, UP etc. All the Silo projects are awarded to the company by the FCI on a competitive bidding basis. Apart from the Adani Group, there are over 10 more companies who are working with FCI in this field. All such projects come up only under the guidelines of the Ministry.
Most essentially facts are being misrepresented citing the strategic growth of our Ports & Logistics portfolio. For the record, Adani Agri Logistics Ltd. (AALL) was established in 2005 much earlier than the ruling government came into power. The Adani Group's legacy stands testament of working towards national goals with multiple governments over the past 3 decades. AALL was acquired by Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd from Adani Enterprises Limited, the flagship company of the Adani Group in 2018-19. The acquisition was a part of APSEZ's vision to become Ports to end-to-end Logistics Company in India.
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Several tenants now utilize space at the Huron Campus on Endicott's North Side. (Photo: Bob Joseph/WNBF News)
A specific site for a lithium ion battery manufacturing plant on Endicott's Huron Campus may be selected within the next two months.
A consortium called Imperium3 New York plans to develop a facility that will produce batteries at the property that once was home to the sprawling IBM complex.
Broome County-based C4V is a member of the consortium preparing to set up the factory. Its president, Shailesh Upreti, said engineers have been looking a various buildings on the Huron Campus.
Upreti said the consortium's engineering team has been working with Huron representatives to find the location on the campus that will be best suited for the factory.
Upreti said a site for the operation likely will be chosen by the end of the year.
Chris Pelto, president of Huron Real Estate Associates, said the new factory could occupy between 200,000 and 400,000 square feet of space on the campus on the North Side of Endicott.
Although the production facility is to be set up in an existing building, new construction could be considered based on the consortium's future needs.
Upreti said the first lithium ion batteries should be manufactured at the site in the fourth quarter of 2019.
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Milan Hejduk (ur. 14 lutego 1976 w Uściu nad Łabą) – czeski hokeista, reprezentant Czech, trzykrotny olimpijczyk.

Kariera
  HC Stadion Teplice (1991-1992)
  HC Pardubice (1993-1998)
  Colorado Avalanche (1998-2013)
  HC Pardubice (2004-2005)

Wychowanek HC Pardubice. Od 1998 zawodnik Colorado Avalanche. W maju 2012 roku przedłużył kontrakt z klubem o rok. Od 2006 asystent kapitana. W marcu 2013 ogłosił zakończenie kariery i potwierdził to w listopadzie 2013.

Uczestniczył w turniejach zimowych igrzysk olimpijskich 1998, 2002, 2006, mistrzostw świata w 1998, 2003 oraz Pucharu Świata 2004.

Sukcesy
 Reprezentacyjne
  Złoty medal igrzysk olimpijskich: 1998
  Brązowy medal mistrzostw świata: 1998
  Brązowy medal igrzysk olimpijskich: 2006

 Klubowe
  Srebrny medal mistrzostw Czech: 1994 z HC Pardubice
  Puchar Stanleya: 2001 z Colorado Avalanche
  Złoty medal mistrzostw Czech: 2005 z HC Pardubice

 Indywidualne
 Ekstraliga czeska (1993/1994):
 Najlepszy pierwszoroczniak sezonu
 NHL (1997/1998):
 NHL All-Rookie Team
 NHL (1999/2000):
 NHL All-Star Game
 NHL (2000/2001):
 NHL All-Star Game
 Pierwsze miejsce w klasyfikacji asystentów w fazie play-off: 16 asyst
 NHL (2002/2003):
 Drugi skład gwiazd
 NHL Plus/Minus Award - pierwsze miejsce w klasyfikacji +/- w sezonie zasadniczym: +52
 Maurice Richard Trophy - pierwsze miejsce w klasyfikacji strzelców w sezonie zasadniczym: 50 goli
 NHL (2008/2009):
 NHL All-Star Game

 Wyróżnienia
 Złoty Kij: 2003
 Galeria Sławy czeskiego hokeja na lodzie: 2019

Przypisy

Bibliografia

 Milan Hejduk – profil na stronie NHL

Czescy hokeiści
Czescy medaliści olimpijscy
Hokeiści HC Pardubice
Hokeiści Colorado Avalanche
Ludzie urodzeni w Uściu nad Łabą
Medaliści Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1998
Uczestnicy Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2002
Medaliści Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 2006
Urodzeni w 1976

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I hope you are well. I have been super hard at work, cranking out new imagery. And I recently updated my website and online store. https://elohprojects.com/eloh-projects-store/ will be expanding big time this coming year. Be sure to visit the homepage of the redesigned website and sign up for our brand new newsletter to receive our holiday discount and special commission offers.
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Le Createur
Le Créateur is a French term meaning "The Manifestor".
This image of the Thunderbird stands as a statement of devotion to liberty, creativity and perpetual forward movement. It whisks us away from what impedes our progress and conjures momentum toward the open heavens, the celestial realms of the imagination.
"Le Createur" aka "The Manifestor" aka "Loveology", is the second image that I have created for Suduaya. After the success of Suduaya's last full length album, "Venus", I was very grateful to offer my services again. His reach is really quite astounding for a psychedelic trance musician and so this was a fantastic opportunity to expose the community to my work yet again.
Suduaya went through a great period of psychic death and rebirth leading up to the creation of this album and so we needed to shoot for imagery that mirrored the inspiration behind the image. We discussed a "Mother and Child", a "Phoenix", and we finally settled on a Cosmic Thunderbird rising out of nebulous, pareidolic, star nurseries. The manifestation of this image hinged on my own ability to repeatedly breakdown and rebuild my own psychic structure. I experienced countless sleepless nights, dips into madness, unbelievable uncertainty, manic episodes, hopelessness, hallucinations, indescribable joy and near total confusion. But all the while I clung tightly to my faith in the creativity of the Spirit and my abilities as an artist. I remained immovably focused on completion.
So the title of the album, "Loveology", represents a somewhat scientific process of testing and trying and pushing and pulling and weaving and unraveling in order to come to a final, motivating conclusion that is not easily dissolved by disbelief. It represents passion for our craft and an ability to bring about something incredible through the certainty of unwavering faith in who we are and what we are made of. The image is representative of and inextricable from the birth and death process that generated it. It is Le Createur – The Manifestor.
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