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PAA Parent Survey 2017
Some of our nation's leaders claim to know what parents care about. They use the term "parental choice" to promote privatization of our public school system through charter schools and vouchers. Their agenda depends on the idea that parents want to shop around for a school the way we do for a cell phone provider.
We do not agree with this characterization of parents' interests and concerns. We have prepared this brief survey to hear directly from parents about what really matters to you in public education. We will share this information with our elected officials and other policy makers, and we will continue to work to make parents real voices heard in decision making that affects our children's education.
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Suzuki Inazuma GW250 spotted in India for the first time
15/04/2013 - 10:06 | Suzuki Inazuma, Suzuki, Spy pictures | Nithyanandh K
The Suzuki Inazuma GW250, a parallel twin naked bike is more a sort of a comfortable commuter rather than a true blue sportsbike.
Media reports have suggested over the last two years that the Inazuma 250 is India bound.
And the bike has been spotted for the first time in India and guess who was astride it! It's none other than Bollywood action hero Salman Khan! The spyshot is a courtesy of Powerdrift.com
Salman Khan is Suzuki's brand ambassador in India so he could very well be promoting the bike either in one of his upcoming movies or may be even filming the TV commercial of the bike. If the latter is true then you can really be excited!
The Inazuma GW250 is powered by a 248cc parallel twin fuel injected engine which puts out 26 bhp and 24.2 Nm of torque which is adequate if not surplus. The power goes to the wheel via a chain drive from the 6-speed gearbox.
Suzuki doesn't want to lock horns with the Ninja in a performance fight but instead has positioned the Inazuma as an adequately powerful and comfortable city bike. A high-set wide handlebars, relatively longer wheelbase (1,430mm), sufficiently upright riding stance and a long seat iterates the objective of the motorcycle.
The front suspension adopts the traditional telescopic suspension while the rear gets a mono shock setup. Both wheels are retarded by disc brakes. At 182kg, the motorcycle is heavier than the competition, but then it is not designed for a traffic signal drag race. Fuel tank can hold 13.3 litres of petrol.
Suzuki Inazuma's meaty tires and chunky styling gives it a big bike feel. It will appeal for someone who need a robust 250cc motorcycle with comfort as a priority over outright performance.
The company hasn't confirmed whether it's going to bring the Inazuma GW250 here or not, but we say, bring it on Suzuki!
[Source: Powerdrift.com]
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Бангладешско-угандийские отношения — двусторонние дипломатические отношения между Бангладеш и Угандой. Взаимодействие стран, в основном, осуществляется в сельскохозяйственном секторе. Ни у одной из стран нет постоянного посла.

Визиты на высоком уровне
Бывший вице-президент Уганды Гилберт Букенья посетил Дакку в 2009 году.

Бангладешские НПО в Уганде
В Уганде действует ряд бангладешских неправительственных организаций, которые оказывают влияние на развитие страны в социальной сфере. BRAC, базирующаяся в Бангладеш, в настоящее время является крупнейшей неправительственной организацией, работающей в Уганде. BRAC Uganda, основанная в 2006 году, занимается в стране микрофинансированием, развитием малого предпринимательства, образованием, сельским хозяйством, животноводством и птицеводством, здравоохранением и расширением прав подростков. По состоянию на 2013 год, BRAC имеет представительства в более чем 74 округах Уганды и имеет 150 филиалов по всей стране.

Сотрудничество в аграрном секторе
Бангладеш и Уганда подписали Меморандум о взаимопонимании и сотрудничестве в области сельского хозяйства. Чтобы обеспечить продовольственную безопасность в будущем, Бангладеш арендует земли в других странах для выращивания продуктов питания, которые будут экспортироваться в дальнейшем в Бангладеш; Уганда для азиатского государства едва ли не приоритетное направление. С этой целью несколько бангладешских компаний сдали в аренду неиспользуемые возделываемые земли в Уганде для ведения коммерческого сельского хозяйства.

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William Robert Proffit
Obituary of William Robert Proffit
Dr. William (Bill) Robert Proffit of Chapel Hill, N.C. passed away on Sunday, September 30, 2018.
Dr Proffit served as the chairman of the UNC department of Orthodontics from 1975-2001, and was still actively involved in teaching and lecturing at UNC and worldwide up until the time of his death. In 1992, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Board of Trustees honored Dr. Proffit by naming him a W.R. Kenan Distinguished Professor, which is considered one of the University's most prestigious honors. His other accolades include: the 1994 American Dental Association Norton Ross Award, the 2005 American Board of Orthodontics Albert H. Ketchum Award, and the 2017 inaugural American Association of Orthodontics Lifetime Achievement Award in Orthodontic Research. Dr. Proffit's incredible expertise and unprecedented influence on orthodontics, not only in the United States but around the world, earned him global recognition as one of the leaders in orthodontics. He authored "Contemporary Orthodontics", considered the definitive text for pre-doctoral and post-doctoral orthodontics students, which just recently was completed in its sixth edition and is printed in 12 languages. During his career, Dr. Proffit published more than 200 scientific papers, 20 book chapters and invited contributions.
He is survived by Sara, his wife of 65 years; three children, Lola Baker (Mike), Ed Proffit (Melissa), and Glenn Proffit (Laura), eight grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, an endowed chair at UNC is being created in his honor. To make a memorial contribution to the Dr. William R. Proffit Professorship, please send donations to: The Dental Foundation of North Carolina, UNC School of Dentistry, 1090 First Dental Bldg., CB #7450 Chapel Hill, NC 27566-7450, or https://giving.unc.edu/gift/proffit
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Understanding Liability in Food Poisoning Claims
In the wake of the massive egg recall that began earlier this month, the FDA has reported that more than a half-billion eggs have been recalled and destroyed which were linked to more than 1,000 cases of salmonella in the United States. Although officials have come...
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Grütter, Rolf; Helming, Iris; Speich, Simon; Bernstein, Abraham (2011). Rewriting queries for web searches that use local expressions. In: 5th International Symposium on Rules (RuleML 2011), Barcelona, Spain, 19 July 2011 - 21 July 2011, 345-359.
Users often enter a local expression to constrain a web search to ageographical place. Current search engines' capability to deal with expressionssuch as "close to" is, however, limited. This paper presents an approach thatuses topological background knowledge to rewrite queries containing localexpressions in a format better suited to standard search engines. To formalizelocal expressions, the Region Connection Calculus (RCC) is extended byadditional relations, which are related to existing ones by means of compositionrules. The approach is applied to web searches for communities in a part ofSwitzerland which are "close to" a reference place. Results show that queryrewriting significantly improves recall of the searches. When dealing withapprox. 30,000 role assertions, the time required to rewrite queries is in therange of a few seconds. Ways of dealing with a possible decrease ofperformance when operating on a larger knowledge base are discussed.


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Will 'sex tourism' laws apply in this case?
This story originally appeared in the Sunday, January 31 print edition of the Connecticut Post. Click here to subscribe.
The man who had seemingly worked tirelessly to help desperate orphans through a charity in Haiti had been charged with sexually preying on those same boys.
This is not the case against Douglas Perlitz. Rather, it is a description of charges filed by Canadian law enforcement officials last October against John Duarte, a former Roman Catholic priest who worked as a missionary for Hearts Together for Haiti. He is accused of plying teenage boys in Port-au-Prince with gifts in exchange for sex.
And there's more. In December, Armand Huard, once praised in Canada as a "Father Teresa," and Denis Rochefort were sentenced by a Canadian judge to three and two years in prison, respectively. The pair admitted sexually abusing young Haitian boys while volunteering at an orphanage in Les Cayes, just outside Port-au-Prince.
In 2007, 108 Sri Lanka soldiers assigned to the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti were sent home for buying sex from young girls.
Haiti has been the backdrop for five recent sex-crime cases involving foreigners who engaged in charitable or religious work. Haiti and other Third World countries with only embryonic social services and an overwhelming need for charitable missions have proven to be a fertile ground for abuse.
"Pedophiles come here because they know a lot is tolerated that would not be tolerated in our countries," said Liam Pigott, a Canadian retiree who lives part of the year in Haiti.
The United States now is attempting to apply to cases such as Perlitz's a fairly recent law aimed at "sex tourism." Perlitz has been charged under the law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2003, designed to crack down on those who travel abroad, typically to Third World countries, to engage in sex with minors.
"Sex tourism victims are particularly vulnerable to predators who lure them with the most basic human needs, then rob them of their innocence," said John Morton, U.S. Department of Homeland Security assistant secretary for immigration and custom enforcement, following Perlitz's arrest.
Perlitz's lawyers have challenged the indictment. David Grudberg and William F. Dow III said the indictment falls short of meeting a key requirement of the sex-tourism statute -- specifying the date their client traveled to Haiti and allegedly engaged in illegal sexual conduct.
"The omission of more detailed allegations about the defendant's alleged foreign travel is more than a mere technicality, and instead strikes at the heart of the constitutional indictment requirement," they claim in their 27-page motion to dismiss the charges. "Likewise there is no way to tell from the indictment whether those counts are multiplicitous -- improperly charging a single offense in multiple counts."
They point out that Perlitz, while a U.S. citizen, was hardly a "tourist," having lived for 11 years in Haiti.
"It is quite possible that months or even years could have passed between any foreign travel and the sexual misconduct alleged in the indictment," the defense maintains.
As of September 2009, the Justice Department had arrested 67 people under the travel law, which carries a maximum federal prison term of 30 years. The foreign travel law is just a subsection of a larger federal statute that encompasses all travel to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
Perlitz is not the first Connecticut case being prosecuted under the travel law by Assistant U.S. Attorney Krishna Patel.
Edgardo Sensi, a 53-year-old former vice president for a travel company based in Stuart, Fla., is accused of traveling to Fairfield County to have sex with an 8-year-old and to Nicaragua to have sex with a 4-year-old. He is awaiting trial.
Prosecuting American citizens who commit these crimes in foreign countries presents challenges, said Drew Oosterbaan, chief of the U.S. Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in Washington, D.C.
"Evidence can be problematic," said Oosterbaan. "It is not always collected in a way that makes it admissible in an American court."
There's the possibility that witnesses or victims in impoverished countries might change their stories for money. In those cases, Oosterbaan said, U.S. investigators may work with their foreign counterparts to help prosecute that crime in the country where it occurred. In instances where individuals have assisted offenders by arranging travel, prosecutors can bring conspiracy cases in the U.S. against foreigners.
Then there's maintaining and protecting the security and location of child witnesses.
"They have to remain available, not just to the prosecution, but also the defense," Oosterbaan said. That means the Justice Department has to be aware of where a witness is going and when.
The first man prosecuted in the United States under the law was retired Army Sgt. Michael Clark, then 70, who traveled to Cambodia and was accused of paying two young boys for sex.
Clark's lawyers attacked the constitutionality of the law, claiming the law enforcement arm of the U.S. could not extend into a foreign country. But in a split vote, judges on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected that claim. Clark was sentenced to eight years and one month in prison.
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Tarantula Waltz: The Best of What's Next
By Philip Cosores | June 20, 2013 | 12:33pm
It's common to hear people proclaim that technology has made the world smaller, but even before the World Wide Web was spun around the planet, we had Microsoft Encarta, Encyclopedia Britannica, National Geographic and the beloved TV to introduce us to our relatively close neighbors. Five miles from my home in Buena Park, Calif., you can pay $92 for the privilege to travel in a slow-moving boat while 437 representatives from around the world proclaim this truth in song, their audience mostly bored teenagers sending self-destructing photos to the opposite coast from the palm of their hand.
Yet, in 2013, trying to have a phone conversation with Markus Svensson in Stockholm, Sweden, a little more than 4,800 nautical miles away, Earth has never felt so large. Our interview is similar to what one imagines ground control suffers through when conversing with an astronaut on a space walk. We struggle through delays of 10 seconds or more, and I try to speak in long, continuous stretches, hoping my messages find their destination in the cold, loneliness of space where Svensson seems to call home.
After all, that outer space comparison might not be such a stretch when you hear Svensson, who has recorded under the name The Tarantula Waltz since 2007, describe his home. His third album, the yet-to-be-released Tinderstick Neck, finds Svensson looking close to home for inspiration.
"'This is the first album that is actually about Scandinavia and Sweden and my surroundings," Svensson says, "I actually only realized this when I was in New York, but a lot of my lyrics are about Scandinavian themes and what's going on here. "
The New York trip happened just the previous week. The trip marked his first time in the United States and featured performance at the Mercury Lounge and Glasslands. The Tarantula Waltz already has two LPs released, and though he has been signed since he was 18 in his home country, the trip is an attempt to stir up interest from American labels in hopes that Tinderstick Neck will be his first album to have an American presence. Svensson thinks the material is finally good enough to make this leap, and a sample of four songs from the collection supports this.
"The album has two major themes," Svensson says. "One is death and the fear of dying. I wanted to make something creative of these negative feelings and it became this album. Growing up my father was a priest, so I grew up with a God figure in my life, but now I have abandoned that in favor of science and facts. I am not a believer anymore, and that makes it hard to cope with the fact that I am going to die someday. My father died when I was 16, and my grandfather killed himself when I was 14. I think that is why I developed my hypochondria. I think a lot about it and have a constant fear, and I wanted to get that out there on this album."
Svensson is 27 now and is able to speak of these past traumas without much sentimentality, and on "17," a standout from the early sampling of Tinderstick Neck, it becomes clear that the emotion might be saved for his music. "I know that I will die, it scares me but sometimes it gives me peace," he sings before a chorus finds him reaching as far, or even farther, than his voice is capable. There is a thrill to listening to a song that isn't a slam dunk, where the singer's failure and success are even bets. And its difficulty makes "17" all the more affecting.
"That's what I had in mind when I wrote that song," he says about the grasping vocals. "In Sweden we have an artist called Håkan Hellström, he's probably the biggest pop star here that sings in Swedish. He's a brilliant songwriter and lyricist and he always gets a lot of shit for not hitting the right notes. He often writes about teenage love but without being corny or cliché'. '17' was an attempt to try and write a Håkan Hellström song in English."
The second theme The Tarantula Waltz explores on LP3 is the concept of light and dark, something fellow Swedes Shout Out Louds notably worked in thematically earlier this year on Optica, and to hear Svensson describe life there, it is no wonder that this concept keeps creeping into art.
"It's darker for eight months out of the year in winter," Svennson explains, "but we are used to it and people tend to stay in. It can be very depressing, though. When the sun finally comes back in April, people tend to get even more depressed, and the suicides are actually highest in April. The first single from my album is called 'Scandinavian Minds,' and it's about that phenomenon; how the darkness is in a struggle against the light and what happens when the light finally comes."
"So, it's like we live a double life," he continues. "During winter we are not very nice to each other and stay inside. And in the summer, everyone gets happy, but the in-between, April, everyone wants to kill themselves. The last couple years I've started to think about this concept and I don't know if we really understand the impact the darkness has on us."
Still, despite his rooted interest in Scandinavia, Svensson writes in English and feels at home amongst American audiences. He cites influences ranging from Bob Dylan to his friends, fellow Swedish natives/English language performers The Tallest Man on Earth and Idiot Wind, the latter of which appears as the only guest on Tinderstick Neck.
"They are very inspiring people," he notes. "I think Kristian (TTMoE) is one of the greatest songwriters of our time. It's very inspiring to hear him write songs like he does, that will live longer than we will. He was very supporting and encouraging when I recorded the new album and if it wasn't for him the album still wouldn't be finished."
As The Tarantula Waltz, Svensson doesn't want to be lumped with the singer/songwriter patriarchal tradition, akin to The Tallest Man on Earth and his hero, Jason Molina.
"I'm extremely tired of the stereotypical 'cry in the beer,' male, singer-songwriter," he states. "It's very important for me to be aware of how I use the language in my lyrics. A lot of male songwriters tend to portray women as beautiful, passive, and, like, a homogeneous group of people. I hate that and I don't wanna be a part of that tradition. In Sweden gender equality is a hot topic and that's good but we still have a long way to go."
With the third album release imminent once a label is found, The Tarantula Waltz is faced with the awkward preparation for both success and for not making the transition to international artist. The importance, though, is not that The Tarantula Waltz makes it, but for what songwriting means for Svensson.
"Each year I realize how much songwriting means to me and that I write songs cause I need this for my own well-being," he notes. "I will never stop. If other people like my songs then that's a huge bonus and I'm very thankful cause the music gives me the opportunity to travel."
With his American fate so out of his hands, the world must feel just as large to him as it does to me. And however it turns out, and whether you can draw a line of cause and effect, or it seems like fate or divine intervention in the end, music has a remarkable ability to find an audience, even if it feels like throwing a glass bottle into the ocean or launching the Voyager to the edge of our solar system.
It's a small world after all.
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A play on the word "attorney", this domain name is tailor-made for the legal sector.
The word "attornee" contains eight characters and three syllables. Leading companies using three syllable names include Microsoft, Mastercard and Grammarly.
Attornee.com is a .com domain. Dot com domains are synonymous with websites. Once you own a .com, it will be much easier to rank for your own name in Google.


The early lead glass domed snow globe with knob finial on an ebonised circular ceramic plinth base with remnants of gilding having a ceramic(?) ebony representation of a church amongst water within, survives from the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
The globe has not been repaired or restored in any way, the gilt decoration to the base has worn commensurate with its use, having been picked up, shaken, and put back down again countless times. The original water within has now reduced to about two centimeters deep due to natural evaporation over more than a century and what would have been the snow chips are now remnants of dirt ,but the fact this globe has survived is quite remarkable.
It is unclear when the first snow globes were invented, but they began to appear in the early-nineteenth century in France. It is possible that they were designed as a successor to the glass paperweight, which had become common at the end of the eighteenth century. Snow globes became extremely popular following the Paris Universal Expo of 1878 and within a year there were already half a dozen companies in Europe producing snow globes. Originally, snow globes were made from a heavy lead glass dome on a sealed ceramic base, filled with water. The snow was created from fine pieces of porcelain, sand or bone chips.
The earliest snow globes are excessively rare and this proves a truly enchanting object. Surely nobody ever outgrows a snow globe?


Ok I want to start working on a mod, create my own. Where do I start?
This is a Hammer Mapping forum. Killer-Duck or SRAW might know.
Start here. You need a copy of the Source SDK. This kind of thing is difficult, by the way; be prepared to be frustrated. You need to know C++ and have familiarity with level design, model creation and texturing. Amongst other things.
I think you can script plug-ins for CS 1.6 with "AMX MOD X".


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What Is the Difference Between 3G-SDI and HD-SDI?
Cindy May 30, 2018 Leave a comment
It is known that SDI interfaces can be roughly divided into three types: SD-SDI (270Mbp, SMPTE259M), HD-SDI (1.485Gbps, SMPTE292M) and 3G-SDI (2.97Gbps, SMPTE424M). It is seen from these standards of division that the rate is an important index. For HD-SDI and 3G-SDI, as the commonly-used two types in the radio and television industry, maybe there are still many people unfamiliar with them and what difference between them. Then in this article, there will be an introduction to the difference between HD-SDI and 3G-SDI.
Before the introduction to HD-SDI and 3G-SDI, to understand them better, it will be better to know what SDI is. SDI (Serial Digital Interface) is a digital video interface standard made by SMPTE organization. This serial interface transmits every bit of data word and corresponding data through a single channel. Due to the high data rate of serial digital signal (a kind of digital baseband signal), it must be processed before transmission.
What Is 3G-SDI?
3G-SDI has been widely used in the radio and TV industry. With the continuous development of the security industry, its advantages, high speed and without digital uncompressed, are gradually found. At present, a large number of 3G-SDI series products have been introduced in the market, including SDI conversion equipment, SDI digital switching matrix equipment, and SDI distributor. These devices use 3G signals, and can also be compatible with 1.5G signals for long-distance transmission to meet the diverse needs of users.
What Is HD-SDI?
HD-SDI is a high-definition digital component serial interface. HD-SDI is high-definition radio and television camera which is real-time and uncompressed. It is another scientific and technological progress in the security monitoring field. It provides a high-definition image source for the monitoring center. The HD-SDI camera, based on the serial link standard of the SMPTE (film and television Engineer Association), is a high-definition and real-time video camera that transmits uncompressed digital video through 75-ohm coaxial cables.
The design and production of HD-SDI optical terminal equipment is suitable for serial digital optical transmission equipment with high reliability and high performance in the TV industry. The signal format is from 19.4Mbps to 1.485Gbps, and the system supports the signals with digital TV formats such as SMPTE292, SMPTE259M, SMPTE297M, SMPTE305M, SMPTE310M and DVB-ASI (EN50083-9), so as to satisfy the requirements of industrial products. 3G-SDI digital video optical terminal device with ultra high definition is an upgraded version of the HD-SDI optical terminal device. The signal format is from 19.4Mbps to 2.97Gbps, and the system is accorded with the signal of digital TV formats such as SMPTE424M, SMPTE292M, SMPTE259M, SMPTE297M, SMPTE305M, SMPTE310M, DVB-ASI (EN50083-9) and so on.
With the emergence of standard about high-definition(HD) video standards such as 1080i and 720P, the interface is adjusted to process higher data rate(1.485Gbps). The 1.485Gbps serial interface is usually called as HD-SDI interface, defined by SMPTE292M, and uses the same 75-ohm coaxial cable. SMPTE approves a new standard called as SMPTE424M, which doubles the SDI data rate to 2.97Gbps on the same 75-ohm coaxial cable. This new standard is also called 3-Gbps (3G) SDI, which supports higher-resolution image quality such as 1080P and digital cinema. At present, the highest rate of digital products is 7K-SDI.
Above all is about the difference between HD-SDI and 3G-SDI. For SDI series products, Gigalight currently has 3G-SDI SFP, 6G-SDI SFP+, 12G-SDI SFP+ optical transceiver. If you want to know more details, welcome to visit Gigalight official website.
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Bank One Corp. CEO Jamie Dimon's salary quadrupled to $4.3 million in 2001, a year during which the Chicago-based financial giant's net income rebounded to $2.6 billion from a year-earlier loss.
Mr. Dimon, 45, received $1 million in salary, $3 million in bonuses and $332,292 in other compensation, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. During 2000, Bank One paid Mr. Dimon $1.02 million in salary and other compensation.
In addition to his basic compensation, Mr. Dimon received restricted stock worth $2 million. His compensation package also includes stock options valued at $3.6 million, the filing states. He exercised $6.1 million in stock options last year.
Mr. Dimon waived a bonus during 2000 as the company posted a net loss of $511 million for the year. Mr. Dimon, who took the top job in March 2000, cut jobs and slashed expenses by $1.5 billion during 2001. Bank One's revenue for 2001 rose nearly 14% to $15.8 billion, up from $13.9 billion in the previous year.


Oh well, it was worth a try… Here's the text, it's a bit hard to read in the image, screen grabs are not the clearest of things.
perennial sweet peas have burst into flower, the rowan tree is heavy with berries, the jasminoides is having a spiral flower moment – I thought it had died in the winter – the leeks have joined the flower party as have the alliums and the stipa tenuissima in the front.
Here are the photos in a Gallery instead. If you click on them you should see them full size.
This entry was posted in Garden on 19/07/2011 by Joanna.
sometimes I feel I should spend more time improving a few things in the blog, but…. never seem to be able to do it.
Too bad the mail thing did not work, I bet you spent a lot of time struggling with it – but the photos of your garden are gorgeous, you live in a wonderful spot!
That's a pretty neat bulletin board layout. It was worth a shot to try. Maybe there is still a way?
I could look at your garden pics all day. I love your flowers. Allium are cool flowers, like something you'd see in a Dr Seuss book. The berries on the Rowan tree are gorgeous, would make a good decoration piece in the house, maybe in a dried flower arrangement. The violet flower has such an interesting shape before it opens, almost like a slipper or a curved light bulb or something. It is hot and very humid here today, might rain.
I thought it looked neat too, never mind :) Thanks for reading Mel! Alliums are great fun, and they became very trendy here in recent years, big star burst ones, little tiny ones and some come up every year, and the slugs leave them alone. I love them too!
I might try that with the rowan berries, though I don't know much about drying them for display. The tree is a young one and it's so full of berries right now I'm worrying the branches might snap.
The violet flower is a perennial sweet pea, they produce 'peapods' but not of the edible sort.
Lovely photos. Your place looks like fun. My husband bought me two books on blogging yesterday. Isn't he a dear? My eyes glazed over looking at the covers.
I do so enjoy your bloggy experimentation!
I am stuck in the blog mud- and very rarely do anything new.
Mainly because I'm still almost illiterate about computers.
Your garden is lovely- mine has be invaded and eaten down by a large animal- I'm thinking a deer.
It is sad- but at least I can feast my eyes on the internet!
I thought your blog was looking beautiful and sunny the other day in its new theme!
Computer literacy is at various levels and I hover around 'false beginne/lower intermediate' level most of the time. I don't want to learn html, my eyes cross over with all those brackets and little symbols, but I have learnt a few bits from posting on forums and leave myself little stickies on my computer telling me the bits I might want to use. I try making myself helpful files with info in them, but I forget where I put the helpful files and then I make new ones… sort of reminiscent of a not very clever squirrel.
Fun photos. I always enjoy seeing what other people do in their gardens. I have self-sown tomato plants in my borders! I have about 10 of them, none setting fruit, but I think it's so funny that these turned up from my homegrown-composted soil. Now why can't there be some carrots, or jalapeño chili peppers or some black Manolo Blahniks growing in there, eh?
I have self sown thistles, sticky bush, dandelions, borage, granny bonnets, hellebores, geraniums, creeping jenny, ground elder, convolulus, stipa and other grasses that come up, and little hazelnut trees everywhere where the squirrels have buried the nuts. We rescue the trees and pot them up and give them away to people. The ones with the red leaves are so pretty.
We have 3 or 4 baby oaks growing here and there in the garden. One we left in-situ a few years ago, and now I regret that because I think we'd kill it if we moved it. I'm going to Google granny bonnets. Not sure what that is….OH! Now I know! Is it the blue or red variety that you have?
Granny bonnets are the local name for Aquilegia or Columbine. They come in double flowered sorts and spurred sorts and are notorious for not breeding true, but you can get all sorts of interesting mixtures if you plant different sorts. I have black and dark red doubles, and some blue doubles, I have had a lovely dark purple and white spurred one in the past. I adore them ! The garden at Hadspern (when it was run by the Popes) had drifts of aquileigia in all manner of shades of colours. They were colourists par excellence.
They sounds lovely! I adore my "Love in the Mist" or "Nigella" that reseed themselves all over the border near the patio. Peder's always trying to pull them out as weeds, which they are, but I think they're gorgeous. Did you know that you can use their seeds as poppy seeds for baking?
Are they similar to the Nigella Sativa (kalonji) black onion seed, as it is popularly called? That's the one I know from baking, the seeds are quite big and triangular, used on naan breads and Turkish breads, or at least that's what I associate them with.
I think they are two different nigella's. Confusing isn't it?
We are having our worst summer ever – actually, we're not having summer yet – the rains continue when in a normal year they would have stopped by July 1st – and the slugs have grown so fat in the continuing rain, that I fear they could wipe out the entire garden overnight! The only good thing about this is that while the entire rest of the U.S. is suffering under unbearable heat, we've yet to have one day that broke 80 degrees F – I can't decide it this is good or bad.
Shame your design didn't upload properly – it's very pretty and I love the push pin detail. Not as pretty as your magnificent garden though! I often wish I was more of a green thumb.
Hi Keely, now the garden is a bit older and the plants so much bigger it's quite easy to look after, big plants, mulched chipbark = less weeding. We don't put in many annuals (apart from seeds) or bedding plants, in fact I haven't bought any this year – simply haven't been near the gardening centres, staying out of temptation's way.


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Mahamrityunjaya mantra is one of the maha mantras from Vedas, one of the most ancient scripture of humans. This mantra is greatest weapon for humans to ward off the evil impacts which can become threats to one's life and health. In vedic horoscope, there are some yogas named "aristha" and "anishtha" which are very harmful for the health of the native as well as these yogas are even life threatening. If balancing impacts are not found in a horoscope, then these yoga could lead to make native short-lived and could cause death. Mahamrityunjaya is the most effective mantra to cure such yogas in the horoscope.
Apart from health and longevity of life, Mahamrityunjaya is the effective remedy against the most dreaded yogas like Kaal sarp yoga, yogas formed by rahu placed in 8th house of vedic horoscope, sarp dosh and pitra dosh.
On the spiritual side, This mantra also frees the chanter from the bondages caused by ill placement of the planets. This frees the chanter from the death and rebirth cycle and provide "moksha".


It is no secret that flipping houses can be incredibly profitable. Unfortunately, what many real estate education programs have failed to teach in the past is how to manage the closing process to turn your deals into dollars.
Learning where and how to find great deals on properties as well as how to market to buyers are certainly essential real estate investing 101 lessons you need to pick up. However, there are many complex parts that make up a real estate transaction and unless your real estate education teaches you how to manage the closing process you could find it becoming frustrating fast.
Part of the complexity of real estate closings comes from the large number of people involved. This includes; buyers, sellers, you, appraisers, inspectors, lenders, title companies, attorneys and real estate agents. Good real estate education courses will tell you the importance of creating a system and maintaining a superior level of contact with all parties involved, every step of the way. There are many personalities involved and anyone of them can be freaking out for no reason whatsoever because they are nervous or have other issues affecting their decisions and performance. Keeping well oiled lines of communication open at all times is critical. It is also important to keep growing your level of real estate education by gaining a deeper understanding of anything that can creep up and delay or destroy your closing.
A big part of effectively managing the closing process for your real estate investing business is to make sure that all parties understand that you need to know about any issues that arise immediately. All too often lenders and real estate agents bury problems and do not notify you because they are embarrassed, afraid or just hoping that it will solve itself. If there are new underwriting conditions that arise or problems with last minute title searches you need to know the moment they develop so that you can take positive action to make sure the deal closes on time. Make sure your entire real estate investing dream team is on the same page.


Up and coming fabric designer Jennifer Adams struck an exclusive deal with Costco to distribute her home fabric line, but needed a way for customers to easily order swatch samples. We implemented a form that pops up from the Costco website and allows customers to quickly and easily order up to 3 samples from drop menus and enter their shipping info.
On the back-end, the distributor (Covington Fabric) receives order details via email with a database backup. Because of the uptime required by the client, a complete mirror of this site is maintained and is ready to go at a moments notice.


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Research to understand attitudes to manhood and what programs work to improve wellbeing.
Positive attitudinal change
Programs that engage with role models and young people about what it means to be a man.
Targeted interventions
Designing, piloting and evaluating interventions for men and boys at-risk.
Advocacy, news and resources
Advocating for healthier masculinities based on grounded research and experience.
The Men's Project
The Men's Project aims to support boys and men to live respectful, accountable and fulfilling lives free from violence and other harmful behaviour through new approaches that improve men and boys wellbeing so that we see more good men, respectful relationships and safe communities.
Unpacking the Man Box
Unpacking the Man Box is based on a survey of 1,000 young Australian men aged 18 to 30. The report builds on the findings of The Men's Project's 2018 reportThe Man Box.
The initial Man Box report found that young Australian men who believe in outdated masculine stereotypes were themselves at higher risk of using violence, online bullying and sexual harassment, engaging in risky drinking and reporting poorer levels of mental health.
The new study finds young Australian men's belief in rigid masculine stereotypes has a stronger impact on whether they will use violence, sexually harass women, or experience mental ill-health themselves, than other factors including their education levels, where they live or their cultural heritage.
The Man Box research
Led by The Men's Project at Jesuit Social Services, The Man Box is the first comprehensive study that focuses on the attitudes to manhood and the behaviours of young Australian men aged 18 to 30.
Our research found that men in the Man Box experience negative life outcomes themselves and they're more likely to engage in behaviour that harms others. Men in the Man Box (top quintile) are 20 times more likely to sexually harass a woman, six times more likely to use physical violence and more than twice as likely to experience suicidal thoughts.
Men must be part of the solution to gendered violence
There is not sufficient focus on the underlying drivers of sexual assault, harassment and other types of violence. Instead of people reverting to phrases like 'boys will be boys' to explain or excuse a hurtful comment or action, as a society we must do more to understand where these behaviours originate and work to prevent them.
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The Men's Project is working to promote positive and healthy masculinities to reduce violence and other harmful behaviours prevalent among boys and men. We do this through:
Research to understand attitudes to manhood and what programs work to improve wellbeing;
Positive attitudinal change about what it means to be a man;
Building and delivering effective interventions; and
Our news and advocacy.
Since The Men's Project was established in 2017:
We have surveyed over 2,000 men and boys through our Man Box research to understand perspectives on what it means to be a "real man" and the impact of stereotypical masculine norms on their lives.
Our Man Box research findings have been shared with thousands of people with coverage in mainstream media, influencing community understanding of the impact of stereotypical masculine norms
We have engaged with over 500 boys and men across schools and workplaces to raise awareness of Man Box rules and their impact on behaviours including the use of violence and mental health.
The Man Box research has informed VicHealth's Healthier Masculinities framework and featured prominently in OurWatch's Men in Focus report.
We have developed and implemented an evidence-based program – Modelling Respect and Equality (MoRE) to produce a shift in stereotypical masculine norms.
MoRE has equipped over 100 role models – teachers, sports coaches and social workers to decrease adherence to stereotypical masculine norms with the men and boys they work with.
We have designed and are in the early stages of piloting early intervention programs for boys with behavioural challenges at two primary schools and adolescents who have used violence at home in both Victoria and New South Wales.
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Building and delivering effective interventions
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Submission to consultation on addressing sexual harassment in Victorian workplaces
Submission to Victoria's Gender Equality Strategy 2022
Submission to the National Plan to Reduce Violence against Women and their Children Consultation
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Federal Budget provides welcome support for some, leaves others behind


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This section provides several srvctl commands and SQL queries that can be used to validate your Oracle10g RAC configuration.
Adding and deleting node level applications.
Setting and unsetting the environment for node-level applications.
Starting and stopping a group of programs that includes virtual IP addresses, listeners, Oracle Notification Services, and Oracle Enterprise Manager agents (for maintenance purposes).
Which Instance am I Logged In To?


Metalcraft — As long as you control three or more artifacts, Spire Serpent gets +2/+2 and can attack as though it didn't have defender.
A mirror to draw its eye, a rod to rouse its rage, and a sword to break its bonds.
6/1/2011 Spire Serpent still has defender if you control three or more artifacts, although it will be able to attack.
6/1/2011 If Spire Serpent has been declared as an attacker, and you stop controlling three or more artifacts later in combat, Spire Serpent continues being an attacking creature until combat ends.


We do not deal with rescue cats directly ourselves so as not to compromise our hygiene precautions and to protect our boarders.
However, here is a list of rescue contacts both local and national.
Don't forget to contact your local vet also.
LOCAL CONTACTS ~ please bear in mind these are NOT national helplines (see national contacts below) and can provide assistance only in and around the Glasgow and Ayrshire areas. Many of these are staffed by volunteers, often operating from their own homes. Please remember this if phoning.
We do occasionally foster cats for Pet Fostering Service Scotland. This is a charity providing emergency care for (usually) elderly peoples' pets while they are unable to care for them, most often due to hospital admission. Periods vary from 5 days upward to 6 months but in each case it is very important to that person that they have a pet to return home to.
More volunteer foster homes are always welcome. Could you care for a budgie for a week or two? All types of pets are included in the service. Food and vet costs are met by the owner. If you know someone who loves animals but does not want the long-term responsibility or potential costs of owning their own pet, this may be an answer.
PFSS coordinates short-term foster care for companion animals throughout Scotland.


The Navigator Company is now one of Portugal's leading players on the world stage.
The Navigator Company is the leading European manufacturer of uncoated printing and writing paper and bleached eucalyptus pulp.
The forest is one of the most important pillars for the sustainability of The Navigator Company's business, acting at all times in keeping with a set of principles and rules on responsible management, which conciliate environmental, social and business concerns.
The Company is committed to its growth strategy, supported by an industrial structure that sets international standards for size and technological sophistication.
The Navigator Company's Human Resources and Social Assets Policy is based on a set of values which inform its operations and investment in human capital.
The Navigator Company's communication policy seeks to cultivate a close relationship with customers, to provide a permanent response to market needs and to build loyalty with fundamental stakeholders.
The Navigator Company is today one of the world's leading players in the pulp and paper industry. This is an achievement of which Portugal can be proud of and which is crucial to the country's economic and social development. The high standards handed from one generation of workers to another have created a culture of success, which with careful nurturing will enable us to face the challenges of the future.
This positive culture of achievement and leadership, honed in very different areas of experience and expertise, is the Company's main capital, making it able to stick to a promising path in a challenging economic environment, at home and internationally.
It falls to us to prove ourselves worthy of this and to show the ability to map out a way ahead, based on the strict values which have enabled the Company to establish itself as exemplary in its dealings with all the community.


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import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { RouterModule, Routes, CanActivate } from '@angular/router';

import { HomeComponent } from './home/home.component';
import { FactsListComponent } from './components/facts/fact-list.component';
import { FactUploadComponent } from './components/facts/fact-upload.component';
import { FactDetailComponent } from './components/facts/fact-detail.component';
import { RegisterComponent } from './authentication/register/register.component';
import { LoginComponent } from './authentication/login/login.component';
import { UserComponent } from './components/user/user.component';
import { PageNotFoundComponent } from './page-not-found/page-not-found.component';
import { AuthenticationService } from './authentication/authentication.service';
import { AuthGuard } from './guards/auth-guard.service';

import { AdminGuard } from './guards/admin-guard.service';
import { ManageDeletedFactsComponent } from './admin/manage-deleted-facts/manage-deleted-facts.component';
import { ManageUsersComponent } from './admin/manage-users/manage-users.component';
import { BlockedUserGuard } from './guards/blocked-user-guard.service';

const routes: Routes = [
    { path: 'facts/all', component: FactsListComponent, canActivate: [BlockedUserGuard] },
    { path: 'admin/users', component: ManageUsersComponent, canActivate: [AdminGuard] },
    { path: 'admin/facts/deleted', component: ManageDeletedFactsComponent },
    { path: 'home', component: HomeComponent, canActivate: [BlockedUserGuard] },
    { path: 'upload', component: FactUploadComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuard] },
    { path: 'facts/fact/:id', component: FactDetailComponent, canActivate: [BlockedUserGuard] },
    { path: 'register', component: RegisterComponent },
    { path: 'login', component: LoginComponent },
    { path: 'user', component: UserComponent, canActivate: [AuthGuard] },
    { path: '', redirectTo: '/home', pathMatch: 'full' },
    { path: '**', component: PageNotFoundComponent }
];

@NgModule({
    imports: [
        RouterModule.forRoot(routes, { useHash: true })
    ],
    exports: [
        RouterModule
    ],
    providers: [
        AuthenticationService,
        AuthGuard,
        AdminGuard,
        BlockedUserGuard
    ]
})
export class AppRoutingModule { }

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[QODBC-Desktop] What can I do with Employee Earnings (EmployeeEarning)?
Note: You MUST specify PayrollInfoEarningsPayrollItemWageRefListID in the delete as the example.
If you run the query as per: DELETE FROM EmployeeEarning WHERE ListID = '300000-934380930', you may get an error "invalid bookmark value".


ysabetwordsmith | Poem: "the chain of cicada shells"
Poem: "the chain of cicada shells"
This poem was commissioned by rebelsheart to fill the "dragons" square in my 1-1-16 card for the Dark Fantasy bingo fest. It belongs to the series A Conflagration of Dragons. It is the fourth of the Six Poems of the Fall.
Warning: Mass destruction and mayhem.
"the chain of cicada shells"
Tanka is a form of poetry often written with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables per line, but characterized by many other features as well. These may be chained together as verses within a longer poem. Traditional, this form focuses on lovely topics and avoids violence. As a result, it's less graphic than most of the other poems of the Fall, and filled with odd moments of beauty amidst the mayhem. Learn how to write tanka.
Kigo are words with seasonal connotations. They often appear in the tanka form. Here is a list of kigo sorted by the seasons. This poem uses kigo from summer. An interesting technical point is that kigo should progress in chronological order: once a time is marked, kigo from earlier times may not be used in subsequent verses. This poem progresses from mid summer to late summer.
rice planting (taue, mid summer).
green bamboo blind (aosudare, all summer).
green paddy (aota, late summer).
The dragon's name, Utsusemi, means "cicada shell." Cicadas are important in Japanese culture, representing death and rebirth.
burning [hot] (yakuru, late summer).
In this setting, a river deer is an amphibian resembling a musk deer. It grows up to two feet tall, with long legs for running and jumping. It has green skin dappled with black and white, and a malodorous musk gland. Long venomous fangs protrude from the mouth, but these are used primarily for defense, as the river deer feeds on plants, snails, slugs, insects, and crustaceans. Both the musk gland and the venom are harvested by the Hachi for use in various products. Male river deer have a throat pouch with which they sing to attract mates, and it also inflates for alarm calls.
afterglow (yuuyake, late summer). Lit. 'burnt evening'.
thin clothes (usumono, late summer).
The Hachi territory consists primarily of wetlands, including marsh (dominated by soft plants) and swamp (dominated by woody plants) areas. Wetlands are often classified by their geologic origin and/or plant communities. Among the plants mentioned in this poem are rice, reeds, bamboo, and straw. Many animals live in wetlands. Featured here are ducks and geese. Know how to navigate a swamp.
Most Hachi cattle resemble the Brahman, a tough breed known for its high tolerance of heat and mud. They also have some water buffalo and a few milk cows.
I'm glad you liked this. The tanka form comes from Japan.
I like the moments of beauty interspersed in this one. It makes an interesting contrast of mood to some of the others.
I'm glad it worked for you. I was hoping that this would give a slightly different flavor. I don't want it to sound like telling the same story six times, even though the opponent is a dragon every time.
Yes. This captures my reaction too.


Wynn Resorts is attempting to overturn two district court orders directing it to hand over documents to Japanese gaming mogul Kazuo Okada as part of a long-running dispute over his ousting in 2012.
Okada was removed from Wynn's board in 2012 after it was revealed he was being probed for corruption, and was forcibly made to redeem a 20 percent stake in the casino operator.
The documents in question contain information used by the Wynn board of directors in February 2012 to determine that Okada and his related companies were unsuitable parties that could jeopardize Wynn's gaming licenses.
According to a report from Las Vegas Review, Attorney Todd Bice representing Wynn Resorts has argued that Clark County District Judge Elizabeth Gonzalez erred when she required that some information used by the board in its decision be turned over to Okada.


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Q: So what is meant by the ``equivalence of pointers and arrays'' in C?
A: Much of the confusion surrounding arrays and pointers in C can be traced to a misunderstanding of this statement. Saying that arrays and pointers are ``equivalent'' means neither that they are identical nor even interchangeable. What it means is that array and pointer arithmetic is defined such that a pointer can be conveniently used to access an array or to simulate an array. In other words, as Wayne Throop has put it, it's ``pointer arithmetic and array indexing [that] are equivalent in C, pointers and arrays are different.'')
Specifically, the cornerstone of the equivalence is this key definition:
A reference to an object of type array-of-T which appears in an expression decays (with three exceptions) into a pointer to its first element; the type of the resultant pointer is pointer-to-T.
That is, whenever an array appears in an expression, the compiler implicitly generates a pointer to the array's first element, just as if the programmer had written &a[0]. (The exceptions are when the array is the operand of a sizeof or & operator, or is a string literal initializer for a character array. [footnote] See questions 6.23, 6.12, and 1.32, respectively.)
As a consequence of this definition, and in spite of the fact that the underlying arrays and pointers are quite different, the compiler doesn't apply the array subscripting operator [] that differently to arrays and pointers, after all.[footnote] Given an array a and pointer p, an expression of the form a[i] causes the array to decay into a pointer, following the rule above, and then to be subscripted just as would be a pointer variable in the expression p[i] (although the eventual memory accesses will be different, as explained in question 6.2). If you were to assign the array's address to the pointer:
p = a;
then p[3] and a[3] would access the same element.
This harmony of access explains how pointers can access arrays, serve in their stead as function parameters (see question 6.4), and simulate dynamic arrays (see question 6.14).
See also questions 6.8, 6.10, and 6.14.
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Olivia Hallisey, a 16-year-old Greenwich, Conn. student won the Google Science Fair with a project on a way to detect Ebola.
A high school junior who developed a new ebola test, has won the Grand Prize and a $50,000 college scholarship in the online Google Science Fair competition.
Olivia Hallisey received the award Monday at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, where she and the approximately 20 other global finalists presented their projects this week.
Hallisey, 16, a student at Greenwich High School in Greenwich, Connecticut, and her fellow entrants shared some of the spotlight earlier Monday with Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Teaxs boy was was arrested after bringing a homemade digital clock to school.
"Nothing exists in isolation," Hallisey has said of her research. "What affects one country affects everyone. We have to work together to find answers to the enormous challenges that threaten global health, our environment and our world."
Hallisey's ebola test can be done on a four-channel card, where substances known as reagents would react with a patient's ebola antigens. A silk film would keep the reagents at room temperature, avoiding the need for refrigeration. The test could be done with a sample like saliva within 30 minutes, at a cost of $25 — a financially feasible option for health care providers in developing nations in West Africa, where the disease is epidemic.
Hallisey's research is the result of her own ideas, analysis of others' research and guidance from her science research teacher, Andrew Bramante.
"Take a very special pride in knowing that each of us has helped shape this tremendous young lady into the student that she is," Bramante said in an email Tuesday to Greenwich High colleagues.
In July, Hallisey and fellow junior Margaret Cirino qualified for the 90-student regional finals of the Google competition.
Before their success in the Google competition, Cirino and Hallisey had already won acclaim for their research. Both earned places in May at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh, and Hallisey won a first-place award there. They were two of a school-record five students to go to the fair.
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Discouraging cycling – a low-cost, healthy and environmentally-friendly form of transport – is bad for public health. A recent study found that people who cycled to work had 41% lower death rates overall and had a 46% lower risk of developing heart disease and a 45% lower risk of developing cancer.
Wearing a seatbelt in a car is nowhere near as inconvenient as wearing a bike helmet – you don't have to carry it around when you park the car, it doesn't mess up an expensive hairdo, it doesn't make you hot and uncomfortable in what would otherwise be considered superb cycling weather and there's no additional weight to strain the neck or make the head feel heavy.
There's a big public health downside to discouraging cycling that more than outweighs any possible safety benefits of helmets. Is the same true of cars and seatbelts?
The trouble is that helmet laws reduce cycling, and that in the eyes of politicians means there's no need to build expensive infrastructure!
You are ignoring the fact that making cyclists feel obliged to wear helmets discourages cycling so politicians are less willing to spend money on cycling infrastructure.
Even worse, with fewer cyclists to campaign for and help design the infrastructure, what gets built is often more inconvenient and less safe than cycling on the roads, so even more people are discouraged from cycling.
I've seen more examples of inconvenient bike paths (where cyclists have to give way at every intersection so it takes twice as long as cycling on the nearby road and cyclists are exposed to even more car pollution) and dangerous bike lanes (that force cyclists to ride in the car-door-opening-zone, or cross many driveways were cars reverse out without looking for cyclists) than good facilities.
You seem to be confusing helmet use (where cyclists are allowed to choose whether or not to wear a helmet) with the sort of fixation discussed in paper that discourages cycling by making cyclists feel obliged to wear helmets, or worse still results in helmet laws.
Knock on wood so far I've been very glad to have a helmet during a hand full of off-road crashes. General urban riding, and path riding, I recognize that going without is probably ok. I have worn mine so long it feels natural.
Actually it's been proven in other countries that when you mandate helmets ridership plummets. Countries with high ridership also have low rates of helmet use.
The united states as a whole may be spread out, but that's not the case within cities where most utility riding happens. In many major cities the streets also predate the automobile so they in fact could not have been "made for car travel".
No good reason to wear a helmet. Just look at the Netherlands. They have far more people riding and very few wear helmet. Yet the injury rate is vastly lower then the united states.
No real harm in wearing a helmet, although on very cold days here in Toronto I'll wear my thick furry hat instead. I very rarely fall and sometimes falls are of the slow 'bike starting to slide out from under me' sort. That being said, protected bike lanes are the best way to go. But Toronto is mired in car culture as deeply as any other North American city so our bike lane system is a patchwork.
The real question would be forcing everyone in a car to wear a helmet. Guess how far that would go? And yet it would vastly reduce the number of head injuries (if helmets are indeed effective) for road use. Far more than cyclists.
Because the peril of sitting in an auto surrounded by padding and airbags is similar to that of sitting on a bike surrounded by asphalt, concrete, and steel?
Those stats about lower death rates and better heart health are deceiving, I'd say, because the population of bikers selects for healthier people from the get-go.
In other words, the benefits were seen in people who didn't have any longstanding illness, diabetes, hypertension, CVD, cancer, or depression at the start of the study.
As the authors say, the most likely explanation is that regular cycling keeps people healthy.
On the other hand, there is plenty. So much so that in Denmark among other places they stopped promoting them.
In Australia making them compulsory led to numbers dropping 40% as soon as the cops started enforcing them. This fact is well known and quoted worldwide to refute calls for mandatory helmet laws.
The calls for helmet promotion will continue as long as helmets are a demonstrable safety improvement, which is the case. I haven't heard the "constant calls for a law" you refer to, though I'm sure some have that opinion. There is no "direct effect" of helmets increasing pollution or damaging public health — you are talking about very unsubstantiated indirect effects at best. In the busy city I live in, I ride more often because I have a helmet than if I didn't, and I am not the only one. I appreciate having the option not to, but I also wouldn't weep if it were a law. Were it a law, you could feel free to take the risk of not wearing a helmet. You would just add the possibility of a fine to the chance of traumatic head injury. To each his own head and wallet!
Correlation does not equal causation, mon ami! There are many cultural and infrastructural issues that vary widely between Holland, say, and Australia. If the Dutch passed a helmet law tomorrow, there would be resistance, but if it happened people would wear them (or risk a fine) and there would be no negative impact on safety levels. There would probably be a decrease in head injuries. The culture of bikes as a serious form of transport alongside bike-focused infrastructure and separation from cars is what keeps people safe there. The lack of said infrastructure and respect for cycling in many other more car-centric countries has nothing to do with helmets or lack thereof. This is all classic red herringism at its finest.
Haha. Is that your website? It's an utterly one-sided website that focuses on repeating and promoting old studies, some with merit, some with less, that have something bad to say about helmet use. There are many more studies showing the positive health benefits of wearing helmets, which are conveniently ignored. Funny that!
So when the cyclist fell and hit the pavement, what was that, your linguistic highness?
No, they are the cause of concussion. One type of brain injury. The article is interesting — the perspective of a couple of smart guys — but it is not an anti-helmet piece. They are talking about a design issue that helmets are made to project against massive trauma like skull fracture and brain contusion (another more serious type of brain injury) but less so concussion. The article also mentions the Swedish MIPS technology, which I have in my helmet, which was made purposefully to address rotational forces that may cause concussion. So, yes, some food for thought but no argument against helmet use here.
Exactly! The cycle helmet industry is now worth billions, for a product that doesn't work and can't be taken back when it fails; literally a licence to print money. The msm is full of stories about how dangerous cycling is, when the risks are the same for distance travelled as walking.
They're doing the same with ski-ing helmets now, with the same result; no safety improvement but billions in someone's bank account.
Perhaps if you actually read it, you might be able to make a sensible comment about it. Far from being one-sided, it includes all the available evidence, from both sides of the argument, both pro- and anti.
If you had any in-depth knowledge at all, you would have realised that the studies showing massive benefits from helmets are short term, small scale, use the least robust methodology with researchers who are blatantly biased. The research showing no benefits or an increase in risk are long term, whole population, robust methodology with disinterested researchers.
If you're going to post nonsense, at least make it vaguely credible.
And no, it isn't my website.
Honestly though, all you do is share and re-share that same tired link (and a few others) over and over again. It contains some interesting stuff but it's a one-sided propaganda site with an anti-helmet bias. Whoever runs it has cherry picked studies they hope will convince people that helmets are not only useless but dangerous. I am aware of those studies but also of the many other studies that show the benefits of helmet use. But at the end of the day my take on this and my personal decision has to do with pretty common sense stuff: as a cyclist who has seen bad crashes, taken unhelmetted friends to hospital, and had my own run-ins and wears a well-designed MIPS helmet it's just basic. You will say "oh your anecdotes don't prove anything," and maybe you're right. The problem is getting at the science of helmet use in broad studies is very tricky. It's one thing to use a machine to show the protective abilities of helmets. But when you start getting into the various complications of large studies of helmet use, injury types, cycling rates etc. with all kinds of confounding factors, it becomes a very muddled landscape from which different researchers and different readers seem to be able to choose the conclusions they want to draw. I am not a die-hard pro-helmet lobbyist, but I really have yet to see or read anything that would begin to convince me that not wearing a helmet would be the better choice.
Any chance you could sum that diatribe up in rather fewer sentences so that I could be bothered to read it?
Wearing a helmet is as important as using the seat belt while driving a car. It costs a life than not choosing a helmet. Head injuries can be avoided by 85% by using a helmet by a study.I have found an online store in the U.S for different types of helmets including mountain bike helmet, light cycling helmets and many more.


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It's inevitable that we will make mistakes here and there. However, your business doesn't have to fail. In fact, it can thrive. Building and maintaining a business takes hard work, sweat, tears, and a completely insane sense of motivation.
Numero Uno – Launching before you are ready!
Opening up your shop or company is a time to celebrate and cut the ribbon. Be careful though. Make sure everything is ready first. 20% of new companies close down within the first year in business. Entrepreneurs are no doubt super excited to unleash their products to the world. They have so much anticipation and passion to make it work. Steady yourself though. Careful thought has to placed into the design, structure, and strategy of your new business.
What value are you going to bring to consumers?
Just exactly who is it you are trying to reach?
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It's incredibly vital in business to offer products and services that consumers will be truly excited to purchase. Why should they buy your coffee mugs, when they can go to Target? What is it about your Sales Strategy that would drive people to your webinars to learn from you? Have you found that thing that people don't know they need and will bring tremendous value to them? The Brands that I truly appreciate bring meaning and enjoyment to my life. Your business needs to find that "thing" that works and performs better than other impostors out there already.
Say what you want about that fruity logo with a bite taken out of it. You know, that one that shines brightly at every Panera and Starbucks table across the world. The one that doesn't put things on sale, because they don't have to. Yes, that one. Discover the right Niche to offer the world. If you do that, your Brand will sell itself.
They say there isn't anything new under the Sun. What an overused cliche. That's not true at all. There is an opportunity is to give people something they didn't even realize they needed.
Getting your target market to notice your product is the challenge. That definitely hasn't changed since time began honestly and it never will. You have to advertise. You have to market your stuff. But, at the same time, you can't just throw money away thinking the more you spend will equal higher sales. Nah, it won't work like that.
Create a strategic marketing approach that will be efficient and effective at the same time. Make use of all the FREE options you can and then pay for only the truly brilliant advertising campaigns. Social Media Marketing has been huge over the last few years. With the explosion of Facebook Ads, Instagram Stories, and YouTube Channels, marketing your products has created an unlimited potential for sharing your business.
The Content of your Ads is more important that you Advertising Budget. Any and everything you put out for consumers to digest on the internet, on the radio, or on television needs to be the most innovative and fulfilling content you can come up with. Your business should have a marketing strategy that consists of targeted goals on a continuous basis. Plan ahead and be very consistent with your delivery and focus.
Choosing the right talent and skilled people to join your workforce is a big deal. Yes, they need to show up on time and actually work, but a whole lot more thought needs to go into who you hire. And, they don't necessarily have to be in person either. There is a huge wave of virtual assistants and remote professionals just waiting to be found. The talent pool is global.
Give each candidate a thorough interview that discovers if they have what it takes. Question them and test them so you know exactly what they are really good at. Make sure they fit your business culture. Give them an assignment to work on to prove their worth. Let your GUT instincts help you choose the right people too.
Keeping the right people around your business will elevate growth and define your Brand.
Huge companies eventually file for bankruptcy and go out of business because they do not innovate. Even if their products were at one time the talk of the town and annual profits beat expectations year after year, without innovation and creativity, eventually their success will fade. Blockbuster, the big rental video store, is a prime example. Had they made time for R&D and looked forward as technology changed, perhaps they could be doing what Netflix is doing now.
Continuous improvement of product design and a commitment to the needs of consumers will enable long-term success for any smart business. You don't have to be able to see the future, but you definitely better predict where it's going. Keep a good thing going, but don't settle for just that.
Oh, and as a business owner, keep improving your own abilities. Surround yourself with creative people. Stay on top of how commerce is changing. Be creative. Think outside the box every once in a while.
Businesses only fail if those who run them let them fail. May your business succeed and be very profitable.


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