MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 3, 2008 — FedEx Corporation (NYSE: FDX) is among the most admired companies in the United States and the world for the seventh consecutive year, according to a survey published in FORTUNE magazine.
For FORTUNE's list of America's Most Admired Companies, Hay Group started with the FORTUNE 1,000–the 1,000 largest U.S. companies ranked by revenue—and the top foreign companies operating in the U.S. They sorted the companies by industry and selected the ten largest companies in each. To create the 64 industry lists, Hay Group asked executives, directors, and analysts to rate companies in their own industry on eight criteria, from investment value to social responsibility. This year only the best are listed: A company's score must rank in the top half of its industry survey.


Now I know that my sewing room has been non-functional for way too long. Today at lunch I just had to go pet some fabric. It was an overwhelming urge. I haven't sewn anything since construction started the first week of November. I'm surprised that my hands aren't starting to shake from the withdrawal. I didn't even buy anything. My breathing calmed as soon as I stepped in the fabric store.
Lately I've been having an urge to sew clothes. This is not good. I think that the problem is that I never like anything I make after I finish it. This goes for the quilts too. That's why I give them all away. I can't stand to look at them anymore after all that work. That's how I feel about the clothes too. I also don't do well when I have to be absolutely precise. I can fake a lot in quilts but clothes actually have to fit.
There is also the lingering memory of my poor husband having to get a pin surgically removed from his big toe after a dress-making episode. Never wore that dress either.
I've never been totally thrilled by the fabric I can find locally for clothes making. So, I have another tab open searching for online clothing fabric stores. It's a sickness.
You had to go pet some fabric? Were you wearing your Freudian slippers?


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Out with the old, in with the new; that's what it's starting to be about. The end of the season is nigh, and we've...
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Long before the Dons came to town, Milton Keynes had an indifferent relationship to football. As the largest celebration of roundabouts in the UK...
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Let's cut to the chase. How much do you remember about Coventry City? It's not a trick question, honest guv! It's just that, well,...
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There but for the grace of the footballing gods go us, right? It's almost interesting ("Almost". Ed.) to see what became of sides we...
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Parents /Guardians are requested to make use of this opportunity to meet the teachers of their wards to discuss the progress of their children.
The meetings are contact meetings, because the teachers and the parents are all involved in the all round development of the child. These are occasions for the parents to let the teachers know that they pay the fees but also care to appreciate teachers effort and hard work towards their child.
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Wednesday, March 27th, 2019 at 9:16am.
Force-E Scuba Center is hosting a night dive under the Blue Heron Bridge this coming Saturday.
Recommended equipment: primary light, back up light and tank light.
Required equipment: Each dive group must have a state legal dive flag with light mounted on top.
Blue Heron Bridge has to be the best shore dive in Florida and the USA. With masses of marine life including Moray eels, Turtles, Seahorses, Frogfish, yellow sting rays, eagle rays, flying gurnards, batfish, angelfish and many more.
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Allenatori di calcio (3)
Attila Abonyi, allenatore di calcio e ex calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1946)
Attila Kuttor, allenatore di calcio e ex calciatore ungherese (Miskolc, n.1970)
Attila Pintér, allenatore di calcio e ex calciatore ungherese (Salgótarján, n.1966)

Astronomi (1)
Attila Szing, astronomo ungherese

Calciatori (17)
Attila Busai, calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1989)
Attila Dragóner, ex calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1974)
Attila Filkor, calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1988)
Attila Fiola, calciatore ungherese (Szekszárd, n.1990)
Attila Gyimesi, ex calciatore e ex giocatore di calcio a 5 ungherese (Budapest, n.1959)
Attila Haris, calciatore ungherese (Szolnok, n.1997)
Attila Kerekes, ex calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1954)
Attila Ladinszky, calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1949 - Budapest, †2020)
Attila Lőrinczy, calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1994)
Attila Mocsi, calciatore ungherese (Sokolce, n.2000)
Attila Molnár, calciatore rumeno (Cluj-Napoca, n.1897)
Attila Osváth, calciatore ungherese (Veszprém, n.1995)
Attila Pinte, ex calciatore slovacco (Šamorín, n.1971)
Attila Sallustro, calciatore e allenatore di calcio paraguaiano (Asunción, n.1908 - Roma, †1983)
Attila Simon, calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1983)
Attila Szalai, calciatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1998)
Attila Tököli, ex calciatore ungherese (Pécs, n.1976)

Canoisti (2)
Attila Vajda, canoista ungherese (Seghedino, n.1983)
Attila Ábrahám, ex canoista ungherese (Kapuvár, n.1967)

Cantanti (2)
Azahriah, cantante e youtuber ungherese (Budapest, n.2002)
Attila, cantante e conduttore televisivo ungherese (Nagyatád, n.1981)

Cestisti (2)
Attila Szabo, ex cestista rumeno (Cluj-Napoca, n.1965)
Attila Timár-Geng, cestista ungherese (Seghedino, n.1924 - Budapest, †2004)

Ciclisti su strada (1)
Attila Valter, ciclista su strada ungherese (Csömör, n.1998)

Condottieri (1)
Attila, condottiero e sovrano unno (Caucaso, n.395 - Pannonia, †453)

Discoboli (1)
Attila Horváth, discobolo ungherese (Kőszeg, n.1967 - Szombathely, †2020)

Lottatori (1)
Attila Repka, ex lottatore ungherese (n.1968)

Multiplisti (1)
Attila Zsivóczky, ex multiplista ungherese (Budapest, n.1977)

Nuotatori (2)
Attila Czene, ex nuotatore ungherese (Seghedino, n.1974)
Attila Zubor, ex nuotatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1975)

Pallamanisti (1)
Attila Horváth, ex pallamanista ungherese (Dunaújváros, n.1966)

Pallanuotisti (3)
Attila Decker, pallanuotista ungherese (Budapest, n.1987)
Attila Sudár, ex pallanuotista ungherese (Budapest, n.1954)
Attila Vári, pallanuotista ungherese (Budapest, n.1976)

Piloti automobilistici (1)
Attila Tassi, pilota automobilistico ungherese (Budapest, n.1999)

Poeti (1)
Attila József, poeta ungherese (Budapest, n.1905 - Balatonszárszó, †1937)

Politici (1)
Attila Ara-Kovács, politico ungherese (Oradea, n.1953)

Schermidori (5)
Attila Fekete, schermidore ungherese (Halmeu, Romania, n.1974)
Attila Juhász, ex schermidore ungherese (n.1972)
Attila Keresztes, schermidore ungherese (Budapest, n.1928 - Budapest, †2002)
Attila Kovács, schermidore ungherese (Budapest, n.1939 - Budapest, †2010)
Attila Petschauer, schermidore ungherese (Budapest, n.1904 - Zavidovo, †1943)

Scrittori (1)
Attila Bartis, scrittore e fotografo romeno (Târgu Mureș, n.1968)

Tennisti (2)
Attila Balázs, tennista ungherese (Budapest, n.1988)
Attila Sávolt, ex tennista, allenatore di tennis e telecronista sportivo ungherese (Budapest, n.1976)

Vescovi cattolici (1)
Attila Miklósházy, vescovo cattolico ungherese (Diósgyőr, n.1931 - Pickering, †2018)

Senza attività specificata (3)
Attila Császári,  e nuotatore ungherese (Budapest, n.1954)
Attila Kálnoki Kis,  ungherese (n.1965)
Attila Mizsér,  ungherese (Budapest, n.1961)

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import { TooltipModule } from 'ng2-bootstrap/tooltip';

import { SharedModule } from '../../shared';
import { TooltipSectionComponent } from './tooltip-section.component';
import { DEMO_COMPONENTS } from './demos/index';
import { routes } from './demo-tooltip.routes';

@NgModule({
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  ],
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    CommonModule,
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I have written often about claiming your Google Places listing. Now Facebook offers a similar service. The American Express article linked here tells you how to do it.
Facebook Places is essentially free word-of-mouth advertising for your business. When customers check in, they'll automatically be telling their Facebook friends about it.
via How To Claim Your Business On Facebook Places : Marketing :: American Express OPEN Forum.


Bantario: Police officer charged with impaired driving!
A rookie Toronto police officer faces impaired driving charges after he allegedly crashed his vehicle into a parked car while off duty.
Police were initially called to 443 Adelaide St. W., near Bathurst and King Sts., at 6 a.m. today after they were told a vehicle had driven into a parked car.
They arrested the driver of the vehicle and charged him with impaired driving.
Charged is Const. Chaitanya Joshi, 24, who has been part of Toronto Police Services for 18 months.
Joshi currently works out of 23 Division, which covers the northern half of Etobicoke.
He is scheduled to appear in court at Old City Hall on Aug. 11 at 3 p.m.


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Q: Octal to Decimal multidigit in C I have a program I am writing that converts Octal to Decimal numbers. Most of it works.
(more code above this, assume all variables are properly declared).
for(i; i > 0; i--)
{
   decimalNumber = (decimalNumber + (number['i'] * pow(8,power)));
   power++;
}

The code correctly shifts over to the right to do other digits but it doesn't change the number it is working with. For example, entering 54 in octal results in an output of 36, 4*(8^0) + 4*(8^1) when it should be outputting 4*(8^0) + 5*(8^1), or 44.

A: 'i' is a constant. You probably meant just i. Also, << 3.

A: As Ignacio pointed out, 'i' is a constant and will cause you to access the same out of bounds array element on each iteration of the loop. Since I assume you start with i equal to the number of digits in the array (you didn't show that code), you want to subtract 1 from it when you use it as an array index.

A: You're traversing the string in the wrong direction.
Or, better, change your logic:
5 -> 5*8^0
54 -> (5*8^0)*8 + 4
543 -> ((5*8^0)*8 + 4)*8 + 3

A: number[0] is 5
number[1] is 4
decimalNumber is 0
power is 0

i = 1 downto 0 do
  decimalNumber = (decimalNumber + (number[i:1,0] * pow(8,power:0,1)));
  power++;
do end

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Halloween Costume – 90% off!
I bought this on eBay long before Halloween, but since it came from China, it just arrived almost a week after Halloween.
LegoGuy went with the family to the NBA Cavaliers vs 76rs game in Philadelphia today. Pretty eventful with the kids' favorite team (Cavs) winning, and their favorite player Lebron James becoming the youngest player to reach the 25000 career point during today's game, and one of the kids catching a tshirt shot into the crowd from the court!


Posted by Andrew Jackson under corporate income tax.
Further to my earlier post critiquing the recent Mintz study - which argued that cuts in corporate tax rates are not significantly denting corporate tax revenues – I looked up the effective corporate tax rate (income tax paid as a percentage of taxable corporate income.) Here is what shows up on CANSIM 180-0003.
Does anyone detect a trend?
>>Does anyone detect a trend?
Yes. A rate which is absurdly high by OECD standards was even higher a few years ago.
just checked out data on corporate taxes on OECD website (OECD Tax Database, C. Corporate and Capital Income Taxes, Basic (non-targeted) corporate income tax rates).
Your statement did not bear out. Corporate taxation in OECD countries ranges from 12.5% in Ireland to 39.5% in Japan. Note that in Greece the rate is 20%.
Would you like to live in Greece or Ireland?


We are a body of believers commited to following Jesus, no matter the cost. We are devoted to His Word, devoted to fellowship, and devoted to seeing the lost and hurting encounter His life giving power.
What we believe centers around the Savior Jesus Christ. It always has been and always will be all about Jesus! He is the Savior and Redeemer to all who will call upon His name. He is the only true source of salvation and through His selfless demonstration of love and sacrifice, we have hope (John 14:1-6) (Hebrews 9:22) (John 15:13).
We firmly hold to the Scriptures as our standard for living. The Bible is source for wisdom, direction, and strength. It is the inspired Word of God and we stand resolute in obedience to its message (John1:1) (Proverbs 30:5) (2Timothy 3:16).
We rejoice that the Holy Spirit is alive and present with us today. As the Savior ascended to the right hand of the Father, our Comforter and Counselor descended to reside within us. He is, without restraint or limitation, God within us (Acts1:8) (John 14) (John 16) (I Corinthians 12)!
We desire to honor God by glorifying His Son. We do this through the equipping and empowerment of His Holy Spirit. All disputable matters aside, we are a church fully devoted to loving Jesus with our entire being, loving our neighbors as ourselves, being fully surrendered to His Spirit, and seeing souls set free in Jesus' Name!


Anzio, 40km south of Rome, was at the centre of ferocious WWII fighting in the wake of a major Allied landing on 22 January 1944. Nowadays, it's a likeable port town popular with day-trippers who come to eat at its seafood restaurants and hang out on its sandy beaches.
Begin the tour with a pickup from your accomodation in Rome. Start your 1,5-hour drive to Anzio and Nettuno, observing the landscape as you go. You will visit the Port of Anzio, the beaches of the landings and pay a visit to the war cemeteries: the commonwealth war cemeteries and the Sicily Rome American Cemetery. The tour include also the visit o one of f the largest WWII collection in Europe located some 30 miles south of Anzio. The Piana delle Orme museum is a great museum with reconstruction of the Italian Campaing from North Africa to Rome and diaromas in grand scale collected by one person and testimonial today of the second world war in Italy.A 5 hours Licensed Guide Expert in World War II Central Italy Battelfields is possible to add to the Tour.Free time for a light lunch with local products before returning to Rome. Once you have finished your meal, the driver will bring you back to your accommodation in Rome.
The meet and greet the guide for your Ponza & Palmarola full day boat excursion begining at 7:00 am at Piazzle Ostiense 12, right next to the entrance of the "Piramide" metro stop. As soon as all of our guests have arrived our private transfer will be ready to take us on a hour long drive to the port of Anzio. Once arrived at Anzio we will have some extra time to have a coffee while we wait for the fast ferry to start the embarking procedure. The fast ferry will take approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes to arrive at Ponza. Our boat excursion starts immediately around the island of Ponza where you will be taken very close to the "Pilato's Grottos" an ancient hand carved cistern where the Romans would fish farm eels. As you slowly navigate around the island of Ponza you will have the first swimming spot just next to the remains of an ancient Villa. The guide will also explain the volcanic origin of Ponza & Palmarola and also point out small herds of wild goats that populate the islands. If you are lucky maybe a pod of dolphins might decide to pay you a visit. The boat excursion continues to the charming island of Palmarola where you can hope off the boat and walk and sun bathe on the pebble beach. Once on board again to return back to Ponza a pasta lunch will be served with as much white wine one desires. Back to Ponza you will catch the fast ferry back to Anzio where our driver will take us back to the exact meeting point of the morning.
Meet your tour leader directly at the port in Anzio just in time to check-in for your 1,5 hour ferry crossing to the island of Ponza! You'll meet the rest of your fellow travelers and will be briefed on what to expect in the day ahead. After a fast and comfortable ferry crossing, we'll set foot in the stunning port of Ponza. The Port is lined with colorful homes, cafes, restaurants and more to explore. You'll have a very brief amount of free time to get oriented before we depart on our circumnavigation of this special island. Our boat trip for the day, shared with vacationing Italians and Ponzans alike -- will be an exciting trip through history, unique geological formations and little adventures to be had. Most of the day is spent in the water, swimming & snorkeling (optional - bring your own gear!) through grottoes, observing Ponza's rich marine life or just enjoying the marine breeze. Your captain, a native Ponzan will be sharing history, tales and legends about the Island throughout the trip - and your English speaking tour leader will be on hand to translate into English. Lunch is a simple picnic style pasta lunch and is prepared freshly on board by the captain and his first mate. Lunch is served with bottled water, table wine and even espresso coffee -- all directly on board in a spectacular setting. The boat excursion lasts 5 hours and concluded in the port, where you will have circa 1 hour of free time to explore, shop or just enjoy a traditional Italian aperitivo along with your group. Departure time from the island is circa 5:30PM. The ferry ride back is also 1,5 hours.


The Arizona Hotshots are a professional American football team based in Phoenix, Arizona and is the 5th team to join the upcoming Alliance of American Football. The Hotshots were the 5th of 8 teams announced for the new league, which is set to play in February 2019.
Hotshots – "The Arizona Hotshots pay tribute to the elite, highly-trained teams of firefighters organized by the United States Forest Service and other federal, state and county agencies that bravely battle the most serious wildland fires around the country," the AAF said in a press release Tuesday. "The Hotshots will have a profound appreciation for fearlessness, skill and honor and will selflessly play together as a team each week.
The Arizona Hotshots are a professional American football team based in Phoenix, Arizona and are charter members of the Alliance of American Football.


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Chapter member Ben shares his perspective on the benefits of the ISOC Fundamentals training program to his local community
Post author By dmiloshevic
A member of the UK Chapter attended the ISOC Fundamentals training program on encryption. Here, he shares his experience and perspective on benefits of the ISOC fundamentals training program to the local community:
During April, I attended the Internet Society's programme of ISOC Fundamentals webinars. Each touched on a different ongoing ISOC project, from establishing international traffic routing norms to educating users on the value of strong encryption. Inspired by this latter project, I set about organising a series of events for my local community.
By the end of 2020, my city was home to over 100 people awaiting the outcomes of their claims for asylum here in the UK. Hailing from all over the globe—from Iran and Iraq to Eritrea and El Salvador—they await news of whether they shall be granted leave to remain here, or whether they shall have to return home. For their first six months in the UK they receive less than £6 per day to live on, are not eligible to work and have no access to formal English tuition. As a result, a patchwork of charitable and voluntary organisations up and down the country endeavour to provide this vital support where the government does not The City of Sanctuary (CoS) movement began in Sheffield in 2005, with the city declaring itself the first official City of Sanctuary in 2007. Our own CoS organisation was formed in 2015 and provides a range of educational and pastoral services to both asylum seekers and settled refugees, from English lessons to football coaching. One such service offered is the provision of laptops and tablets—often donations from local community groups or individuals—which proved to be crucial during the pandemic lockdowns, as all activities moved online to Zoom.
However, given their diverse backgrounds, our students' level of familiarity with ICT can vary widely; some have plenty of experience and know exactly what they're doing, whilst others come from more rural areas and may have limited (or no!) prior exposure. Even those who are more comfortable with their devices struggle with some of the terminology in English. Though I had recently joined the group to teach English, we soon decided that it would be well worth me putting together some ICT lessons for the students.
The first of these pilot sessions primarily covered identification and navigation. With six students from the beginner English class, we covered vital vocabulary—'mouse', 'laptop', the names of various keys on the keyboard, etc.—and how to orient oneself on the home screen and start menu, as well as briefly touching on how to create strong passwords. Used to teaching more advanced English speakers I found it a little difficult to adapt my delivery, but luckily one of their usual teachers was present to help, such as by pausing me to ensure that the students understood the word 'device', which I had been using freely without considering that it may be unfamiliar jargon.
For the second session, I was keen to introduce the students to the Web and to a handful of services in particular that I thought would be particularly valuable for them (i.e., the Simple English Wikipedia, NHS.uk and Duolingo). To do so, however, it would be necessary to also cover the topic of staying safe online; with great power comes great responsibility, after all. Given the aforementioned language difficulties, though, this would be tricky—it's not so easy to talk about multi-factor authentication, for example, without the words 'multi', 'factor' or 'authentication'.
To work around this, I focussed on hands-on demos wherever possible, such as getting the students to look up directions on their own devices for various modes of transport, or directing them to a non-HTTPS site to demonstrate how they can recognise the difference. I was aided in this by some really useful tools, such as How Secure is My Password?, which helped me to demonstrate visually, in real-time, the way in which certain tweaks can affect the strength of a password. Similarly, getting the students to enter their passwords into Have I Been Pwned helped to demonstrate the risks of password re-use better than me describing them could have (though I had to wave away the peculiar spelling in the title).
Given our time constraints, I also relied on the NCSC Web site to provide more in-depth explanations for the students to read through in their own time; the information provided is uniformly simply-written and clearly-presented, even when dealing with complex topics. Though it was presumably intended to assist non-technical readers, this proved equally useful for those for whom English is a second (or third, or fourth) language; as with all accessibility efforts, something intended to benefit one group usually ends up unexpectedly benefiting others, too.
In spite of the expected teething problems—missing projector cables, Wi-Fi troubles, etc.—I think the sessions went well, and the students commented afterwards that they felt more comfortable with their devices now, which was our key goal. Alongside that, my attempts to teach technical online safety topics—HTTPS, password entropy, etc.—with as minimal a reliance on language as possible were mostly successful, and something that I will certainly be bearing in mind for future iterations of the lessons, or when attempting to convey complex information to non-technical users of all stripes.
← Webinar and Roundtable Invitation: understanding the UK Online Safety Bill → The threat to DNS ( Pan-national Infrastructure) a joint BCS/ISOC Panel


A mathematical model has been proposed for investigating the flow, heat, and mass transfer in Williamson and Casson fluid-flow over a stretching surface. For controlling the temperature and concentration fields we considered the space and temperature dependent heat source/sink and homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions, respectively. Numerical results are carried out for this study by using Runge-Kutta based shooting technique. The effects of governing parameters on the flow, heat and mass transfer are illustrated graphically. Also computed the skin-friction coefficients for axial and transverse directions along with the local Nusselt number. In most of the studies, homogeneous-heterogeneous profiles were reduced into a single concentration equation by assuming equal diffusion coefficients. For the physical relevance, without any assumptions we studied the individual behavior of the homogeneous-heterogeneous profiles. It is found that the rate of heat and mass transfer in Casson fluid is significantly large while equated with the heat and mass transfer rate of Williamson fluid.
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Chamka, A. J., MHD flow of a uniformly stretched vertical permeable surface in the presence of heat generation/absorption and a chemical reaction, Int. Comm. Heat Mass Trans. 30 (2003), pp. 413-422.
Raptis, A., Perdikis, C., Viscous flow over a non-linearly stretching sheet in the presence of a chemical reaction and magnetic field, Int. J. Non-linear Mech. 41 (2006), pp. 527-529.
P. M. Patil, P. S. Kulkarni, Effects of chemical reaction on free convective flow of a polar fluid through a porous medium in the presence of internal heat generation, Int. J. Thermal Sci. 47 (2008), pp. 1043-1054.
Ali, M. E., The effect of variable viscosity on mixed convection heat transfer along a vertical moving surface, Int. J. of Thermal Science, 45 (2006),1 pp. 60-69.
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Raju, C. S. K., N. Sandeep, and S. Saleem. Effects of induced magnetic field and homogeneous-heterogeneous reactions on stagnation flow of a Casson fluid. Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal 19.2 (2016) 875-887.
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The Golden Age of Hollywood glamour may be gone, but it's certainly not forgotten by today's celebrities who bear more than a passing resemblance to Tinseltown's bygone stars. This reminded me of those old Spy Magazine "Separated at Birth?" books and thats why I liked it. See more pic pairing from The Daily Mail UK
The famous Second Avenue Deli will return in time for Christmas '07... on 33rd Street and Third Avenue. Um... Lost City has more
There was a huge fire on West 34th Street yesterday right around 5 o'clock. No one was hurt and FDNY snuffed that shit out with the quickness. I hear apartments in the building are going like hotcakes though. Goodnight everybody! Try the veal.
Ok, relax Sid and Nancy. Please tell me Amy's on her way to the Hostess Cake outlet.
"I am really looking forward to getting under a duvet.", you and me both, pal: UK man stays awake for 11 days... wacky stunt book SURELY will follow.
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TOKYO: Hopes for the release of three American citizens imprisoned in North Korea got a big boost by the news of a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Suspects are often arrested when they try to leave North Korea. Warmbier, who was charged with anti-state crimes and the attempted theft of a propaganda banner, and Tony Kim were taken into custody at Pyongyang's international airport, Kim Hak Song while on a train on his way home to China.
In an interview in Pyongyang, the capital, just before his 2016 release, Bae told The Associated Press that he was moved from the work camp to a hospital because of failing health and weight loss. He said he was then sent back to the work camp, which he believed was located not far outside Pyongyang.
He said he did a lot of digging and farm-related labor.
North Korea claims that releasing American prisoners before they have completed their sentences is a "humanitarian" decision that must be made by Kim Jong Un himself. So, without any US diplomats or legal advocates on the ground, getting a release often requires a trip by a senior US statesman.
Joseph Yun, the top US negotiator with North Korea at the time, was the official who went to get Warmbier.


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Sanford Ballard Dole (April 23, 1844 – June 9, 1926) was an American-Hawaiian lawyer and jurist. He lived through the periods when Hawaii was a kingdom, protectorate, republic, and territory.  A Hawaiian-born descendant of the American missionary community in Hawaii, Dole advocated the westernization of Hawaiian government and culture. After the overthrow of the monarchy, he served as the President of the Republic of Hawaii until his government secured Hawaii's annexation by the United States.

Early years
Dole was born April 23, 1844, in Honolulu to Protestant Christian missionaries from Maine in the United States. His father was Daniel Dole (1808–1878), principal at Oahu College (known as Punahou School after 1934), and his mother was Emily Hoyt Ballard (1808–1844).  His mother died from complications within a few days of his birth. Dole was named after his maternal uncle, Sanford K. Ballard, a classmate of his father's at Bowdoin College who died in 1841. He was nursed by a native Hawaiian, and his father married Charlotte Close Knapp in 1846. In 1855 the family moved to Kōloa on the island of Kauai, where they operated another school, which Sanford attended.

Dole attended Oahu College for one year and then Williams College in 1866–1867. He worked in a law office in Boston for another year, at this time in the United States admission to the bar was by reading the law in an
apprenticeship under a lawyer and may have not required an examination, and thirty years later he would receive an honorary LL.D. degree from Williams, in 1897, in recognition of his service as the first and only elected president of Hawaii.

In 1873 he married Anna Prentice Cate. In December 1880 he was commissioned as a Notary Public in Honolulu. Dole won the 1884 and 1886 elections to the legislature of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a representative from Kauai, serving from 1884–1887, during which time he was active in securing the constitution of 1887.

Bayonet Constitution
In June 1887 local businessmen, sugar planters, and politicians backed by the Honolulu Rifles forced the dismissal of the cabinet of controversial Walter M. Gibson and forced the adoption of the 1887 Constitution of the Kingdom of Hawaii. The new documents limited voting rights to the literate males of Hawaiian, European, and American descent, while imposing income and wealth requirements to be eligible to vote for the House of Nobles. This effectively consolidated power among the elite residents of the island. In addition, the new Constitution minimized the power of the Monarch in favor of more influential governance by the cabinet. Dole and other lawyers of American descent drafted this document, which became known as the "Bayonet Constitution".

King Kalākaua appointed Dole a justice of the Supreme Court of the Kingdom of Hawaii on December 28, 1887, and to a commission to revise judiciary laws on January 24, 1888. After Kalākaua's death, his sister Queen Liliuokalani appointed him to her Privy Council on August 31, 1891.

End of the monarchy

The monarchy ended on January 17, 1893, after the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii organized by many of the same actors involved in the 1887 revolt. Although Dole declined to officially be part of the Committee of Safety, he helped draft their declaration.

Dole was named president of the Provisional Government of Hawaii that was formed after the coup and was recognized within 48 hours by all nations with diplomatic ties to the Kingdom of Hawaii, including the United Kingdom.
His cabinet (called the "executive council") included  James A. King as minister of the interior, William Owen Smith as attorney general, and banker Peter Cushman Jones as minister of finance. Dole acted as Minister of Foreign Affairs himself until February 15, 1894.
Later Samuel Mills Damon would serve as Minister of Finance.

With Grover Cleveland's election as President of the United States, the Provisional Government's hopes of annexation were derailed for a time. Indeed, Cleveland tried to directly help reinstate the monarchy, after an investigation led by James Henderson Blount. The Blount Report of July 17, 1893, commissioned by President Cleveland, concluded that the Committee of Safety conspired with U.S. ambassador John L. Stevens to land the United States Marine Corps, to forcibly remove Queen Liliuokalani from power, and declare a Provisional Government of Hawaii consisting of members from the Committee of Safety.

On November 16, 1893, Albert Willis presented the Queen with Cleveland's request that she grant amnesty to the revolutionists in return for being restored to the throne. This request she flatly refused, stating that the revolutionists should be punished and should have their lands confiscated. According to Willis, she recommended that they be put to death. Though she later denied ever having recommended any such thing, her alleged attitude lost her the goodwill of the Cleveland administration, which thereupon recognized the Republic of Hawaii on July 4, 1894.

The Morgan Report of February 26, 1894, concluded that the overthrow was locally based, that it had its origins in monarchical corruption, and that American troops had not tried to bring about the monarchy's collapse: rather, that the troops had acted merely to protect American property and citizens. Not long afterward, the Provisional Government held a constitutional convention. On July 4, 1894, this convention proclaimed the formal establishment of the Republic of Hawaii.

President of the Republic of Hawaii

Lorrin A. Thurston declined to run for the presidency of the Republic of Hawaii, and Dole ran instead, winning election in 1894. Dole would serve as the first and only elected president of the Republic of Hawaii from 1894 to 1898. Dole in turn appointed Thurston to lead the lobbying effort in Washington, D.C., to secure Hawaii's annexation by the United States.

Dole's government secured diplomatic recognition from every nation that had recognized the Kingdom of Hawaii, and weathered several attempts to restore the monarchy, including a January 1895 counter-rebellion led by Robert William Wilcox. After being defeated, Wilcox and the other conspirators were captured and sentenced to death, but had their sentences reduced or commuted by Dole. Queen Liliuokalani abdicated and, under duress, swore allegiance to the Republic of Hawaii, declaring, "I hereby do fully and unequivocally admit and declare that the Government of the Republic of Hawaii is the only lawful Government of the Hawaiian Islands, and that the late Hawaiian monarchy is finally and forever ended and no longer of any legal or actual validity, force or effect whatsoever." She later provided a more detailed accounting of the events from her perspective in her book, Hawaii's story by Hawaii's queen, Liliuokalani.

Governor and federal judge

As president of the republic, Dole traveled to Washington, D.C., in early 1898 to personally urge annexation of Hawaii by the United States. On July 4, 1898, the U.S. Congress passed a joint resolution to annex the Republic of Hawaii. Known as the Newlands Resolution after its sponsor, U.S. Representative Francis Newlands (D-Nevada), it came into effect on August 12, 1898. A formal ceremony marking the transfer of Hawaiian state sovereignty to the United States was held that day on the steps of ʻIolani Palace where the Hawaiian flag was lowered and the American flag raised in its place.

Under the terms of the Resolution, Dole retained the powers he previously exercised as President of Hawaii while Congress developed a new Hawaiian territorial frame of government. Later, when one was established through the Hawaiian Organic Act, President William McKinley appointed Dole as the first governor of the Territory of Hawaii. Dole assumed the office on June 14, 1900, but resigned November 23, 1903, to accept an appointment by President Theodore Roosevelt as judge for the U.S. District Court of Hawaii after the death of Morris M. Estee. He served in that post until his retirement on December 16, 1915 and was replaced by Horace Worth Vaughan.

Dole also served on commissions for Honolulu parks and the public archives. He died after a series of strokes on June 9, 1926. His ashes were interred in the cemetery of Kawaiahao Church.

Family and legacy

Dole's cousin, Edmund Pearson Dole, came to Hawaii to practice law in 1895, and became Attorney General of Hawaii from 1900 to 1903. Another cousin, James Dole, came to Hawaii in 1899 and founded the Hawaiian Pineapple Company on Oahu, which later became the Dole Food Company. James' father Charles Fletcher Dole also came to Hawaii in 1909.

Dole Middle School, located in Kalihi Valley on the island of Oahu, was named after him in April 1956, about a century after his father founded the school in Kōloa.
In the film Princess Kaiulani, his role was played by Will Patton.

In Hawaiian, the pale and hair-like Spanish moss is called ʻumiʻumi-o-Dole, meaning "Dole's beard". His wife Anna  had the bird species Ciridops anna named after her.

References

Further reading
 William Michael Morgan, Pacific Gibraltar: U.S.-Japanese Rivalry Over the Annexation of Hawaii, 1885-1898 (2011) pp 200-1; see online review.

External links

 The Morgan Report (full-text, scanned images and additional commentary); supports Dole
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Five or So Questions on Dinosaur Princesses
Hi there! I have a new interview today with Dana Cameron and Hamish Cameron on Dinosaur Princesses, which is a fantastic new game on Kickstarter! Please check out their answers below on this nifty project!
Tell me a little about Dinosaur Princesses. What excites you about it?
Dana: What is there not to be excited about? First, Dinosaur Princesses is also a colouring book—actually colouring and drawing is one of the most important parts of gameplay, in my opinion. One of the first things you do is draw and/or colour your dinosaur princess. As part of that, what I think is really great about the game is that it taps into the limitless and boundless imagination that we had a kids. The colouring and drawing parts are great at breaking down barriers that we often have as adults which tell us to reign in our creativity to make it fit within certain perimeters of consistency and probability; it gives permission to just have fun. It is meant to be able to be played by kids, but I think it really shines when adults play it.
Dinosaur Princesses is also very friendly to folx who are completely new to table-top RPGs. When I have run it, I have often had a high percentage of folx who have never played a ttrpg before. The system is very rules-lite, so players have very little stress worrying about system mastery. It's also so fun and easy to run that it acted as a gateway to get me to finally get over my extreme social anxiety and be able to run the game myself!
Finally, I think of it as a queer game. Princesses are explicitly stated to be of any gender. "Dinosaur" is also a pretty open descriptor; you can be a t-rex or velociraptor, but your dinosaur can also be a cat or train. It's subtly stating that what we see as rigid boxes, descriptors, or roles are actually malleable and able to be questioned. One can take those boxes and, if they want, subvert them to express other identities—and that is totally an acceptable and good thing to do. It's a freeing experience.
What were the inspirations for Dinosaur Princesses, and how did you come to the point of making a game plus coloring book from those inspirations?
Hamish: The main inspiration for Dinosaur Princesses are the kids of a couple of my best friends in New Zealand. At the time, their favourite things were Dinosaurs and Princesses, and my friends were joking about finding a game they would both like. I said I'd write it and a few months later they playtested the first version! They were 4 & 6 at the time, so that'll probably be my youngest playtesters for a long time! Beyond the origin story, I had a lot of discussions with those same friends about the kind of things that the game could do that other games don't. The idea of the central mechanics being cooperation and problem solving came out of those discussions.
(Following on from Dana's comment about it being a queer game)
One of the fundamental design principles is that the rules should provide enough structure to help children tell stories that feel like an after school cartoon--with all weird and wonderful characters that involves!--and that, within the confines of a game about cooperative problem solving, the rules should never block them from imagining who they wanted to be while they play. I didn't want an 8 year old telling their younger sibling that they couldn't play a cat or a dragon or whatever because it's "against the rules."
Dana: I can tell the story about how it became a colouring book! Hamish was already working on it, but I didn't know much about it at the time. We were in a small bar in Wellington, NZ a couple years back and he was telling a friend about the game. He said he wanted the rules book to look like a kids book and that he was also thinking of the character sheets as something for people to draw and colour on. I made the logical leap and (probably) shouted, "THE RULES BOOK SHOULD *BE* A COLOURING BOOK!!!!!!". I guess that was my first touch on the game. I didn't really start working on it actively until earlier this year.
What are the mechanics like in the game, and how do players interact with each other and the world?
Hamish: Dinosaur Princesses uses an opposed dice pool mechanic which is set up so that if a Dinosaur Princess tries to do something on their own, the odds are against them. After they assemble their dice pool, they ask their friends, the other Dinosaur Princesses, the most important question in the game, "Will you help me?" Then their friends build dice pools and hopefully overcome the problem together! Dinosaur Princesses has a GM who rolls the opposing dice pool, but it's a very low-prep role that brings in a lot of the Powered by the Apocalypse ethos of encouraging player participation in worldbuilding and player-driven narratives. The players come up with the story together at the table.
[Brie Note: The collaboration encouragement here is SO GREAT.]
How do players choose their Dinosaur Princess, and what do they use to assemble their dice pool?
Dana: Players have a character sheet, some of which of have colouring-book style line art of typical dinos (t-rex, triceratops, etc) and some of which have the picture space blanks so folx can draw their own. Players decide on what type of dinosaur they will be—there is an example list in case someone has a hard time coming up with one. However, it's important to note that we use "dinosaur" in a loose sort of way; I have played a cat and platypus "dinosaur"! Similarly, players then choose what type of princess they will be. This can be any sort of profession-like thing, such as doctor, aquanaut, news caster, and so forth.
They assemble their dice pool by describing how they use their strengths as a dinosaur and as a princess to help their friends. The mechanic is set up so that if a Dinosaur Princess tries to do something on their own, the odds are against them. It's important that the player starting dice pool asks their friends, the other Dinosaur Princesses, the most important question in the game, "Will you help me?"
Hamish: There are sample lists of types of dinosaurs and princesses in the book and on the character sheets, but they're supposed to be inspirational, not restrictive. Players are encouraged to be as inventive and imaginative as they like in choosing who they will play.
What kind of stories do you tell in Dinosaur Princesses? How do you keep it interesting?
Dana: The sorts of stories being told in the game are as unique as the Dinosaur Princesses that the players create at the table. The world-building and story plot directly grows from that foundation. I have had games where the plot revolved around the Dinosaur Princesses trying to find their Houses & Humans game miniatures, and I have had games where the Dinosaur Princesses rode around town on the monorailasaurus to try to uncover the mystery of the queen's roving teapot. I have had games that took place in an abandoned mall and ones that took place in space. It really is a game where everyone's boundless imagination shapes play!
Hamish: Dinosaur Princesses is designed to be played as a one shot, it takes about 2 hours to play a game, and it draws on the creativity of everyone at the table; so it spreads the cognitive load of coming up with new stuff and people can usually keep the ideas coming over the short length of play.
Awesome! Thanks Dana and Hamish for the interview! I hope everybody enjoyed it and that you'll check out Dinosaur Princesses on Kickstarter today!
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Q: Adding Exchange Multi Tenant to an existing Exchange Network I currently have an Exchange 2010 SP1 server in house, and due to some changes, it looks like i will need Multi Tenant support for a few extra domain names. Looking at the documentation i have found so far, it only mentions multi tenant support when upgrading from 2010 RTM -> SP1, and not what you do if you have already got 2010 SP1 installed.
So, from what i can gather, i have a few options:

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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...
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A: Do you really need Multi-Tenant suuport or do you only need to add some additional domains to your Accepted Domains? Are these domains for different customers/users who need segregation or are these for your company alone and you're just adding some new domain names that the company has acquired?

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6 reasons bicycle helmets shouldn't be any government's policy
September 23, 2016 September 23, 2016 by Cian Ginty
Bicycle helmets are one of the most debated elements of cycling safety, but here's 6 reasons bicycle helmets shouldn't be any government's policy:
This article is not about personal use of helmets, it's about public policy and what governments and other state bodies focus on and spend money on. If you want to wear a helmet or get your child to wear one, please do so. Public policy, however, should be based on facts.
1. Countries with lower helmet wearing rates have fewer cycling-related deaths
As the above graph from cyclehelmets.org shows, if we're really worryed about decreasing the amount of cycling-related deaths, helmets arent a good place to look.
The Netherlands have the lowest level of helmet wearing and a very high level of cycling, but a low level of deaths per km traveled by bicycle. The response to this is usually something along the lines of "but we don't have their segregated cycle paths"… sure, but helmet policies have not been successful so-far, so maybe it's time to start to copy the Netherlands and build more segregated cycle routes of their standards?
Public policy should take emotions into account, but, at the end of the day, it needs to follow what's proven to be effective — the research behind helmets is often problematic and sometimes contradictory, while effectiveness of Dutch-like street and road design is proven at a population-level.
2. Helmets don't prevent concussion
From articles to comment sections to Facebook, you'll find loads of stories that "a helmet saved my life", but maybe more worrying are the claims that the helmet was so good it stopped all injury. The problem is that we have come across more than a few examples of where people were challenged in close-knit communities, where their peers advised them to seek medical attention, and where they reported back that they had a concussion without knowing it.
As outlined in this recent Ted Talk video, helmets don't prevent concussions. But the fact helmets cannot prevent concussions is not new — for example, have a look at this 2012 Scientific American article: "Why Don't Helmets Prevent Concussions?"
At a very basic level: The outside shell of a helmet can't stop the brain bouncing or stretching around inside a person's skull after an impact.
3. Helmet promotion can mean less cycling
Mandatory helmets law in Australia are linked with a fall in the numbers of people cycling and this effect is proven because it happened first in Australian states which first introduce local helmet laws and followed country-wide when the law was expanded.
As the Bicycle Helmet Research Foundation states: "The average for all states with enforced laws at the time of the 1991 census was a reversal of the trend of increasing percentages of people cycling to work. In contrast, the percentage cycling to work in states with no enforced helmet laws continued to increase, the sharp decline occurring only in the 1996 census, when helmet laws were enforced throughout Australia."
But beyond mandtory laws, there's also some signs — even if only tentative — that promotion without a law can slow or even decrease the numbers of people cycling. Strong helmet promotion by Denmark authorities was claimed to be the reason why the percentage of Copenhagen residents who cycle fell from 37% to 35% between 2008 and 2010.
While it is tentative in one respect, it is well known that that many teenagers, particularly teenage girls, have issues with wearing helmets. This is shown across countries and forms part of official feedback to Irish smarter travel programmes which look at getting more people walking and cycling.
It is not unreasonable to believe this effect goes beyond teenagers (for example, there's many stories online of non-cycling partners getting their partners to wear helmets). But is it all fashion and convenience above safety? Not when the effectiveness of helmets is so questionable.
4. Extra injuries can be caused by helmets
Speaking about research funded by the Irish Road Safety Authority, the head of the School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at UCD, Professor Michael Gilchrist, said that "in some cases you can get increased angular accelerations wearing a helmet". In a paper Gilchrist wrote: "There are many studies linking head angular acceleration with brain injuries, especially diffuse axonal injury, as this is caused primarily by head angular acceleration"
There's also UK research showing drivers passing cyclists do so closer when the cyclist is wearing a helmet, although this is disputed by pro-helmet researchers.
And there's what's called "risk compensation", or as one study put it: "increased cycling speed and decreased risk perception in a helmet-on compared to a helmet-off condition among cyclists used to wearing helmets." This, like much of helmet research on both sides, is also disputed.
5. Too many issues with pro-helmet research
The problems with pro-helmet research are numerous — including low sample sizes, not taking population growth into account, and publication bias and time-trend bias — but possibly the largest problem with the research is bunching all sorts cycling and conditions together.
Cycling in fast traffic isn't the same as cycling with limited or no traffic and downhill mountain biking isn't the same as cycling to the shop… so how these be comparable at all? That's not something a larger percentage of pro-cycling research can overcome.
6. Helmets are a distraction from a real debate on safe cycling
IMAGE: Cycling in Amsterdam is an "everyday thing that people can do in everyday clothes whether you are eight or 80 years old"
This is best left to Chris Boardman to explain. Boardman had to defend himself after appearing on BBC, he wrote: "the reaction to my riding a bicycle in normal clothing, looking like a normal person was greeted by some with cries of horror" and said this was "understandable and unfortunate because it obscures what I believe are the real issues."
"I understand why people wish to use them. But these actions seek to deal with an effect. I want to focus the debate on the cause and campaign for things that will really make cycling safe. That is why I won't promote high vis and helmets; I won't let the debate be drawn onto a topic that isn't even in the top 10 things that will really keep people who want to cycle safe," said Boardman.
He added: "I want cycling in the UK to be like it is in Utrecht or Copenhagen and more recently New York City – an everyday thing that people can do in everyday clothes whether you are eight or 80 years old. I want cycling to be a normal thing that normal people do in normal clothes. Is that wrong?"
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But this is exactly the sort of low cost, quick fix that [non-cycling] decision makers dream of! How could we possibly deny them this opportunity?
Here's an interesting study which some of you may not be aware of http://www.drianwalker.com/overtaking/overtakingprobrief.pdf
Other Paul
Your first point is invalid because of the many significant confounding factors. point 5 (and point3) is invalid because there's too many issues with helmet wearing research in general, that bath study is almost anecdotal.
Cian Ginty
@Other Paul: What are these many significant confounding factors? Do you even have a sample of the main ones?
What exactly is wrong with point 5?
And what exactly is wrong with point 3?
And that still leaves us with three other points.
Agoodbottleofplonk! (@NIEating)
I suppose International Professional Cycling organisations have it totally wrong insisting on the professionals wearing helmets. I was hit by a pedestrian last year went over on my back and my head impacted the ground. It was quite a thud. I am absolutely sure there would have been cranial damage if I hadn't been wearing a helmet. Whilst it might not absolutely prevent concussion, a helmet will stop greater injury due to impact.
If compulsory helmet wearing stops a person getting on a bike, I would question whether that person is motivated to ride safely in the first place, which should be the priority of all cyclists. Good thing then they stay off the road.
The first reason as someone has already stated is not statistically relevant as there are too many variables to take into account.
@Agoodbottleofplonk! — international professional cycling organisations are as relevant to sporting cycling as international professional motoring organisations are to people who drive to work.
Re: "if I hadn't been wearing a helmet" — did you miss the "a helmet saved my life" bit in the article?
Re: "Good thing then they stay off the road" — The Dutch don't think so. There's between 10-16 million people in the Netherlands who are regularly on bicycles and the helmet wearing rate is less than 1%…. how many million trips a year do you think would be worth it in terms on lower health benefits, higher congestion, higher impacts on the environment etc?
Re: "The first reason as someone has already stated" … maybe you noticed the Other Paul has yet to answer what the many significant confounding factors are? Maybe you could say what the many variables are?
Citizen Wolf
**If compulsory helmet wearing stops a person getting on a bike, I would question whether that person is motivated to ride safely in the first place**
What utter tosh. I'd better get onto the Dutch embassy and let them know millions of their cycling citizens are intent on cycling dangerously.
Even aside from Dutch people, your inference is a total load of utter horse-dung. People who don't want to wear plastic bike hats are intent on riding dangerously!? Whaaa…? Why the flying F*ck would anyone want to actively endanger themselves when they get on a bike!?
I cycle for a couple of hours every single day, to commute back and forth to work. I never wear a plastic bike hat. Why? Because cycling isn't dangerous. And I've also no inclination to cycle in a dangerous manner. What an asinine conclusion on your part.
I've also lived in NZ which does have a compulsory plastic bike hat law, and I HATED having to put that useless piece of plastic crap on my head every time I wanted to go somewhere. When I left NZ to go and live in NL, I happily I threw that piece of plastic crud in the bin.
MJ Ray
About those International Professional Cycling organisations – I assume this means the UCI and its members, who regulate sports cycling.
Even ignoring whether cycle-sport has anything much to do with everyday cycling, look at how they forced cycling helmets onto top-level racing: not based on solid research evidence or anything like that, but by piggy-backing the rule introduction on the tragic deaths of two racers in particular, in racing crashes that there's very little public documentation about – which might be understandable, to spare the families from distress, but this is something that has been used to require helmet use by many thousands of people since, so there's a public interest question of whether helmets would have made a difference to them and whether subsequent racers have actually been injured by helmets directly or indirectly.
Anyway, racers still die from head injuries, at what seems like a similar rate, albeit a low rate in a relatively small population, so change would be hard to spot – this is sometimes known as the Saving The Unicorn problem – unicorns don't exist in enough numbers to measure, so would do you know whether rules to save them are working?
It seems surprising that the UCI doesn't appear to be publishing any research about the effects of its helmet rule on cycle-sport. I wonder whether the sponsorship by various helmet sellers from POC to Lidl has anything to do with that.
But fundamentally, cycle-sport is very different to everyday cycling, so all this is of very limited interest.
Tony franklin
With all due respect, sporting cyclists should be banned from wearing helmets, it's pretty clear that the risk taking in competitive cycling or those riding for cycle sport (sportives/club cycling et al) are ALL taking far far greater risks now than before helmets became a thing. I've seen this in action time and time and time again. You only need watch the pro ranks have crash after crash after crash and even the amount of deaths are greater in the helmet years since compulsion compared to the same period previous.
Also children are greatly affected by risk compensation but are still at very much low level risk for head injury sans helmet compared to other aspects in life.
UK had 6 child cycling deaths (non provable to be prevented by helmet even IF they were wearing anyway because helmets simply can't prevent death) and yet we had over 300 head injury only child deaths in the same year, a significant portion of which are in the home, out at play and importantly in motorvehicles.
the damage done to people on bikes (& society as a whole) by helmets is massive and not in a good way, next to the motorvehicle itself it is the second biggest safety issue. As per the article, it detracts away from the real issues that will actually prevent death and serious injury, it criminally puts the onus on people doing no harm to defend themselves against massive kinetic forces (that helmets simply cannot protect against anyway) and absolves/deflects away from the criminals their actions. it helps police, government even other people on bikes to point the finger of blame at victims for their demise (you only have to look at the recent Michael Mason case and the disgusting met police 'investigation' to see a prime example of victim blaming).
Even with all that in mind that we see greater head injury rates elsewhere in activities (walking/pedestrians) and that the root cause of the largest proportion of head injuries are in motorvehicles despite airbags, crumple zones, ABS/powersteering/fat tyres, seatbelts/antiskid and computers to avoid all these incidents, so surely by definition if you wear a helmet cycling and promote their use you must use it elsewhere otherwise you are a rank hypocrite with double standards.
As I mentioned on an Australian thread, 280 drownings in 2016 (around5 times the number of all cycling deaths which aren't head injury only as we know), there should be compulsary life preserver wearing for the bath, swimming pools, canals, swimming in the sea etc.
there is simply no logic behind helmet laws and even individual choice makes you subject to a higher risk factor because of all the reasons stated and proven.
30+ years no helmet as an adult and nearing 200,000 miles, not wearing one has saved my life. Only the once mind as I don't crash that often unlike my helmetted breatheren whom seem to manage to crash a lot and have their life saved several times over by their plastic hats despite the death toll in years gone by just not making that statistically remotely possible
Wake up people!!
nlaldm
I'd, ride a bike if i didn't have to wear a helmet. Not because i want to ride dangerously but beacause i hate the feel on my head & love the feel of air through my hair when riding. The fact that injuries went down is because less people ride in Australia.
agorrilla
Thanks for this well researched and compiled piece of rational journalism. To understand the merit of wearing a bicycle so called helmet one should have some understanding of it's design and capability. Brian Walker is one of the leading experts on the mechanics of helmets, his company Head Protection Evaluations is the principal UK test laboratory for helmets and head protection systems of all kinds up to and including F1 racing helmets. http://www.cyclehelmets.org/1081.html
Further Dr Charles Tator is a leading Canadian Neurosurgeon and Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Toronto, this is what he has to say about the ability of these styrofoam hats to prevent brain injury, https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/bike-helmets-should-address-concussion-risk-scientists-say-1.1367454. If you want to understand brain injury WRT typical bicycling injuries an excellent source is William Curnow's BICYCLE HELMETS: A SCIENTIFIC EVALUATION ISBN: 978-1-60456-288-0. The facts do not support the notion that styrofoam bike hats increase safety at all.
gary pedro
While I think helmet usage is a good thing and I always wear one when on a workout or mountain ride. I dont feel it should be required if I want to run to the store on a old slow bike. There has been many times when i have hit my helmet low tree limbs and a few times on the ground. I will always wear a helmet while mountain biking.
If big government want to recommend we wear helmets all the time I am ok with that but to pass a law and take away ones choice is wrong.
Kenneth Green
Some years ago I met a road science engineer from the Netherlands. We talked about his work. He said that his research department in the government had discovered that to reduce speed of cars, and reduce accidents, they cobbled the road and made it narrower, and allowed pedestrians to mix with the traffic. Funnily, some years later, I am living in Spain where my local town has just such roads. When a vehicle approaches, pedestrians let it pass then continue walking in the narrow road. In the tree years I have been here there has never been an accident.
On the subject of helmets, I once spoke with a medical person who said that the helmet saved the head but moved the injury to the neck. He was, though, speaking of motorcycle accidents.
Cobbles are not good for cycling. If I had to cycle on cobblestones on a regular basis I would certainly wear a helmet.
When my commute did involve a short section with cobblestones I found that while cars might be slowed down to 30 I was slowed down to 15 and they still crowded me to get past, only now I was far more uncertain of my ability to maintain a straight line.
Mike McKillen
The issue I have is with the judiciary and legal profession and the insurers who will do their damnedest to show contributory negligence in any court case where the injured cyclist is seeking damages if the rider was not wearing a helmet (or hi-vis).
The messaging about cyclists' safety and helmet and hi-vis wearing emanating from the Road Safety Authority and Garda does nothing to allay my fears over this issue.


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Open the House protest -- the view from the stairs
A small but vocal group of protesters came out in support of Occupy NL's rally at Confederation Building today. As part of the demonstration, Occupy NL delivered a letter to all MHAs with a list of topics we feel the house should be addressing. For more background on the rally, please see our previous posts, as well as the CBC article and the NTV video about the protest.
Today's protest (incidentally) comes on the heels of the release of the provincial Auditor General's report. In one section of special interest, titled "Refusal of Access to Required Information: Infrastructure Strategy", acting Auditor General Wayne Loveys notes that five government departments refused to provide his office with material. See also a story from The Telegram on this report.
Along with Occupy NL's rally today, another group of protesters, from the May Day Coalition, made their voices heard at the Canadian Coast Guard base in St. John's. They are angry about the looming closure of the Maritime Rescue Sub-Centre. CBC news story on today's May Day protest here. There was also a protest by CAW unionized workers at Caterpillar on Kenmount Road. The Telegram news story on CAW protest here. Quite a day for the 2011 person of the year, the PROTESTER!
Below are some images and video from the Occupy NL Open the House protest. If you have other photos, videos, stories, etc. from today's event, please send them our way. Thanks to everyone who came out today! Check back again soon to hear about more upcoming Occupy NL events...
Terry leading a cheer!
Thomas hosting the event as MC
Occupy NL all smiles and solidarity on a chilly day!
A clip from a speech given by NDP MHA Gerry Rogers, discussing the Auditor General's Report. Does this seem like something that should have been said in the House of Assembly?
Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Party leader, Dwight Ball, joins in the call for the House of Assembly to be opened!
Watching you watching me...
CBC news' David Cochrane sprightly striding past up on his way to the "news scrum" with the Premier. Premier Dunderdale, while being in the Confederation Building, did not deign to grace us with her presence. Perhaps her response to the issues of the day will come, as usual, on the 6 o'clock news?
Update: added link to letter sent to MHA's, a link to the NTV video of the protest, and link to CBC article on protest
Labels: audotor general, dwight bell, gerry rogers, march on confederation, occupy, open the house, protest
tbaird said...
Do we have a copy of the letter to post?
if someone can leave a link to a google doc version (or whatever) it can be added to the first paragraph of the post
letter linked above. go team!
Even more reason people should be demanding that the House be opened...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2012/01/17/nl-legislature-sitting-days-117.html
CBC reported that "the chamber at Confederation Building was open for debate just 33 days in 2011" and that the "house of assembly sat, on average, fewer than 45 days annually over the past eight years."
Kathy Dunderdale claims that "the major responsibility of the house of assembly is to enact legislation, that's our job. And so when the house is open there has to be legislation on the floor of the house of assembly. There's not much point in having the house of assembly open if there's not legislation..."
12 minutes into this http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/Canada/NL/Featured/2169456094/ID=2190530672
How can there be no legislation to debate?? Very appalling track record...
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