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20's Plenty for Us
This is the Blog for the 20's Plenty for Us campaign. We are working with local campaigns throughout the UK to implement 20 mph as the correct speed limit for residential streets. We will be using this Blog for various comments made to campaigns during our work.
Blogging again
We have been very busy since my last blog in 2011. Now we have 193 local campaigns and nearly 9m people live in local authorities with a policy of giving most of their residential streets 20mph limits. We also have nearly 1,000 followers in twitter. Because of all our activity then our blogging has been a little neglected. However, here is the text of a guest blog which I was asked to contribute to the European Cyclists federation about the European Citizen's Initiative which we are involved with :-
I started campaigning for 20mph/30kmh speed limits after a cycle trip to Hilden in North Rhine-Westphalia in 2004. There 23% of their in-town trips were by bicycle after implementing a 30kmh speed limit on almost all of their roads in 1991. It was cutting the relative speed between motor cars and cyclists that was seen as the single most important thing that could be done to make cycling safer and more comfortable. And for a cyclist at 22kmh the relative speed difference with a 40kmh car is 18kmh which drops to just 8kmh if the car is doing 30kmh. That means more than twice the distance and time for avoiding each other.
But there is much more than this which makes 30kmh as a default for urban and residential streets so important for cycling. It's the fact that such a policy benefits pedestrians and drivers as much as cyclists. It's a policy which provides universal benefits to the majority of the population rather than just the minority who cycle. It's a policy that can dramatically improve the liveability of our streets with particular benefits for the young and old who may lack the mental acuity to assess the speed of vehicles or the physical agility to move quickly.
It is also a policy which questions our values about streets and how they are public spaces to be shared for the good of the whole community rather than simply roads for car drivers. It questions the benefits of driving at 40kmh+ in residential and urban roads and puts them against the wide public benefits that come from lower speeds with safer walking and cycling, quieter streets, less polluted streets and a far greater civic amenity.
Of course lower vehicle speeds inevitably requires a change in behaviour and this can best be done when it provides benefits to the people whose behaviour we need to change. The driver is the father of the child who wants to walk or cycle to school, or is the daughter of the elderly person who wants to keep on walking to the shops regularly. It's about the driver as a citizen creating better communities by understanding the benefits that driving slower brings to those communities.
Most importantly, by focussing on a single and widely beneficial initiative it brings together cyclists, pedestrians, children, elderly, disabled and civic amenity groups all in mutual support for behaviour change. It becomes the catalyst for a fundamental review of how we share our public spaces for transport.
Of course this does not displace the need for properly designed cycle facilities, but does provide a foundation for safer and more equitable transport policies in our communities.
But the universal benefit of 30kmh speed limits and the desire for change goes far beyond a single country and can be harnessed across a complete continent. And that is the purpose of the European Citizen's Initiative which is looking to gather and show support across the EU. Cyclists can make a huge difference for not only themselves but the whole of society by supporting this important initiative.
You can sign up to the initiative at www.20mph4.eu
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Reflections on a presentation made in 2005
Whilst tidying up my office I came across the transcript of the presentation I made in 2005. Much of this is still relevant today. But rather than in my presentation only being able to say that Kingston-upon-Hull was a 20mph town, we can now inlcude Portsmouth, Oxford, Liverpool, Warrington, Lancashire, Sheffield, York, Brighton & Hove, Bristol, Edinburgh, Bath & North East Somerset and Middlesbrough as being places that either have or are implementing 20mph limits for all residential roads.
Moving Cycling into the Mainstream
Rod King's address to the Streets Ahead CTC/CCN Conference in Warrington, November 2005
I would like you to meet Jane, Fred, Peter, Mary and Nigel. None of them cycle. Jane has just started at University and is home for the weekend, Fred works in a call centre, Peter runs his own advertising agency, Mary is very active with her grandchildren, especially Nigel whom she takes to the nursery each day.
They all started today variously Christmas shopping, visiting friends, taking the children swimming - without even a thought of doing these activities by bicycle. Is it our job to encourage them to cycle? How can we make it safe and enjoyable for them? If they were to cycle would it reduce congestion on our roads? Would they have a healthier lifestyle and be more independent?
None of them will become cyclists or contribute to modal shift. In statistical terms they are the five people who died on UK roads today. They all met very violent deaths - and none of them were cyclists. Some were drivers, some passengers, others pedestrians
Jane, Fred, Peter, Mary and Nigel are not the only victims. By the end of today Jill, Frank, Amanda, David and Collette will also have been killed on our roads. A hundred more will be seriously injured and disabled.
Tomorrow there will be a similar number of fatalities - and one will be a cyclist. Between now and the end of the month 180 will die and 1,800 be seriously injured on our roads. This total for 18 days exceeds the number of rail deaths in the last ten years. Only 4 per cent will be cyclists but together with pedestrians they make up over a quarter of road deaths.
As campaigners we believe that cycling is not dangerous and proclaim its many benefits to the community - less congestion, healthier lifestyle, better mobility for children, reduced air pollution. We arm ourselves with a copy of Cyclecraft, display our cycle maps highlighting the quieter routes. We take advantage of cycle lanes and specially treated junctions. We devise Safe Routes to Schools and Travel Plans, we encourage employers to install showers, we work with councils to produce cycle friendly Local Transport Plans (LTPs), we organise cycle rides for novices, we implement training schemes. Yet despite all our good work cycling declined from 4.5 billion kilometres in 2003 to 3.9 in 2004. And car use rose inexorably.
Why has there been no modal shift to cycling? The answer is that the British public is too frightened to cycle on our roads. We can argue that such fear is perceived rather than real but we must not make the mistake of denying its impact. We compound this error by our contradictory actions. It is illogical to deny the dangers of cycling while at the same time campaigning to reduce them.
Over the last 10 years much has been achieved campaigning for better highway engineering and establishing cycling within LTPs. However, to make a real and lasting difference we must address the fears of non-cyclists rather than the needs of current cyclists.
Much that we do in life involves risk and danger but is balanced by expected gain. As parents we celebrate the day when our child takes their first steps, we cheer when they ride a bike. For our children the pain of occasionally falling off is offset by the gain of independent travel.
We adults then curtail our children's rights and freedoms to ride, walk, play, run and jump in their streets. Enthusiasm wanes and anxiety increases as we (over) stress the risks. "Watch you don't get killed," "Wear a helmet, "Wear bright clothing", "Pull over, stop, dismount", and "Walk across when turning right." These dire warnings inculcate a terror of roads in our children, deflecting responsibility from the source of the danger - the motorist - onto pedestrians and cyclists.
Safe Routes to Schools seek to encourage walking and cycling by identifying preferred routes. This initiative ignores the right of pedestrians and cyclists to expect respect from drivers - wherever they are. Instead we marshal children along routes providing the minimal inconvenience to motorists. All routes are safe routes to school - it is only motorists that take away the safety. We should be asking not "What can children do to avoid motorists?" but "What can motorists do to avoid children?"
Millions of pounds are spent on cycle lanes and tracks. Yet this very visible public expenditure has not resulted in more cycling. Segregation is only useful if continuous and without intersection conflict which quickly discourages new cyclists. High urban speeds in the UK make it particularly expensive to engineer the same degree of safety for pedestrians and cyclists compared to countries with lower speeds. It costs 25 times more to make a junction safe for cyclists where a 30 mph limit operates compared to 20 mph. Why bother with £50,000 of highway engineering when £50 spent on a few 20 mph repeater signs achieves the same result, that is - more and safer cycling?
Focussing on the engineering of roads, rather than the behaviour of motorists, aids and abets the marginalisation of cycling. It supports the idea that the problem is the cyclist on our roads rather than the inequitable sharing of road space. At junctions and roundabouts cyclists and pedestrians are diverted via a circuitous route so as not to delay the motor traffic. Too often the fast, hard car gets priority over the slow and vulnerable highway user.
Motor manufacturers emphasise the safety aspects of their products. This marketing is directed at the car's occupants rather than any other highway users the car may encounter -reinforcing the view that it is dangerous to be without a protective steel shell. Every advert that extols the safety of a motor vehicle sub-consciously highlights the dangers for cyclists and pedestrians.
This neurosis is nurtured by thousands of road safety campaigners, teachers, and millions of pounds of vehicle manufacturer advertising. Cycle campaigners are also guilty. Instead of striving in vain to reduce the risks of cycling we should boldly declare, "Walking and Cycling are safe – Driving is dangerous."
Speed cameras save lives yet people still complain when they are caught breaking the law.
Lack of speed enforcement continues to favour the seat belt-protected motorist against the comatosed cyclist or pedestrian.
Fear of traffic has created a society where young people are denied independent mobility, the opportunity to expand their geographical boundaries in preparation for adulthood. Levels of independent youth travel in the UK are 20 per cent those in Europe. Our youth are frightened of riding on our roads, so have little empathy for cyclists when, as adults they acquire their own motorised transport.
Warrington is twinned with Hilden, a German city midway between Düsseldorf and Köln
where car ownership is higher than the national average. Over the last 15 years the council has implemented a systematic programme of traffic calming with the co-operation of residents. Now 75 per cent of the urban area has a speed limit of 30 kph (20 mph) and in Home Zones it is as low as 5 mph. In 1989 cycling accounted for 9 per cent of all journeys and 14 per cent of town centre traffic, in 2004 the figures rose to 14 and 23 per cent respectively. Lutz Groll, a Hilden planner concludes, "Traffic calming is a fundamental element in successful bicycle promotion."
There are similar success stories throughout northern Europe. In Britain only Kingston upon Hull has pioneered a comprehensive 20 mph speed limit. This bold experiment has reduced crashes causing deaths or serious injuries by 90 per cent and child pedestrian casualties by 74 per cent.
We must follow the example of Hilden and Hull and avoid the car-dependent culture of America. We should strive to emulate our European neighbours where citizens use the streets to play, gossip, shop, walk, run, cycle, gather and linger without fear of being killed.
Maximum vehicle speeds must be reduced in all our urban and residential areas to 20 mph. The viability, convenience, safety, directness and simple right to walk or cycle on our roads cannot be compromised in order to maintain high traffic speeds in our towns, cities and villages. We must champion the rights of all to choose their mode of transport without fear. We must stop giving disproportionate mobility rights to car owners and motorists when one quarter of all households has no access to a car.
A default speed limit of 20 mph will have only a marginal impact on journey time, on average adding one minute to a 15 minute journey - but will significantly increase safety and reduce fear for pedestrians and cyclists. It will benefit all: streets will become more peaceful, traffic will flow more smoothly, air pollution will decrease as will road maintenance costs. There will be fewer deaths and injuries for pedestrian, cyclists - and motorists. Children will reclaim the right to walk and cycle independently to school, parents will be freed from the slavery of the school run - and all at minimal cost to cash-strapped councils.
There will be several desirable side effects to a rise in cycling: more exercise, slimmer children, social inclusion, community cohesion, better air quality, less congestion. Elsewhere cycling is not perceived in such complex terms. In Europe bicycles are not expected to deliver key government policies but just get you from A to B.
In Britain those that cycle tend to be fit, brave and very assertive. Such clearly independent creatures seldom evoke sympathy. To achieve slower speeds it is vital to collaborate with a larger force, walkers. After all, we are all pedestrians – even a motorist when he steps out of his car. As pedestrians we represent the majority rather than the minority. It is better to campaign for every child in a school, everyone who walks rather than the 5 per cent who cycle. We can better promote safe cycling not as cyclists but as pedestrians who also cycle.
We must stimulate a wide public debate on the moral issues of excessive speed and the rights of individuals to enjoy their streets as pedestrians or cyclists without fear. Our stance must be pro-safer motoring not anti-motorist.
Lower blanket speeds must become the priority for pedestrian, cycle, road safety and civic campaigners. Implementation will be more beneficial than all the cycle schemes, facilities and routes installed to date. We must think very carefully whether to assist the development of segregated facilities.
We must use the media to pursue our cause through letters, articles and press releases. Remember we are not campaigning for cyclists but mainly for pedestrians who outnumber cyclist deaths by four to one. The Warrington Guardian now refers to me as Rod King, Speed Campaigner rather than Rod King, Cycle Campaigner.
We must work locally and nationally to campaign for speed reduction. We should join political parties and influence from the inside. Active support for the Twenty's Plenty campaign will move cycling into the mainstream. TWENTY'S PLENTY must become our rallying cry.
Our responsibility is to lead and influence our society towards a better future in which
everyone has the right to ride, the right to walk, the right to life. Let us not forget Jane, Fred, Peter, Mary, Nigel, Jill, Frank, Amanda, David and Collette.
Some thoughts on 9/11
Few people will have got through yesterday without being reminded of the event 10 years ago that has changed so much of our history in the first decade of the 21st century. The killing of nearly 3,000 people in a few hours in the terrorist attack on the United States both directly affected so many families of not just US workers but also foreign nationals who were victims, but also was a call to action to governments around the world to change their domestic and foreign security policies. It was an affront to democracy and the civil liberties which so many of us hold dearly.
We are all shocked by the carnage and more so because we see the images on our screens and feel for the people involved. We respect and honour their memory.
There has been much analysis and discussion since then. Western powers have been involved in wars in both Afghanistan and Iraq. We have seen further terrorist attacks in London, Bali and Madrid as well as a huge loss of life in the Middle East.
The world is indeed a changed place since 9/11. With hindsight we can see so many connected issues :- Palestine, Suni/Shia sectarianism, US presence in Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda, the "fog of war", "collateral damage", "hate crimes", the instability created in the financial markets, "the Arab Spring", etc.
And through all of these we see a commodity lurking in the background – Oil. Of course no one directly connects all of these events to the Western demand for oil as energy, but it certainly seems to be implicated in most of these issues.
Personally, I do not have the knowledge or the expertise to make finer judgments on theses connection. But my role as a Road Danger Reduction advocate means that I am aware of some outcomes that really do require consideration. I wonder if you know how many people have died on US roads in the last 10 years since the nearly 3,000 deaths of 9/11. Would it be 10,000? That would be terrible. What if it were 50,000?... or even 100,000!!!
Well the actual figure was over 390,000 people (1). All of these violent deaths came to members of US communities and all of their families were devastated by the loss of their loved ones.
Please don't misunderstand me. I am not trying to belittle the events of 9/11 or say that the event was one which we should ignore or put on some lesser level than road deaths. Nor is it any criticism of the US, its people or government. But it does show in stark reality that as communities we are sensitised to certain events and desensitised to others. The fact that those 390,000 deaths were distributed across all states and over 10 years means that the steady "drip of deaths" is not big news or a single event.
And we see similar discrepancies in the UK. We all respect the people of Wooton Bassett when they have paid their respects to the dead servicemen as they return to their homeland. And 558 have died in fighting for our values and security. Brave men and women who do what we choose not to, but do so on our behalf. In that same 10 year period 27,000 have died on our UK roads. Maybe if we could route all of those 27,000 funerals through one small town then we would see the carnage on our roads differently.
But, as I have said, this is not a claim to belittle the suffering from 9/11 either here or across the world. But if we consider the way in which governments have responded to the events of 9/11. The huge efforts and cost that went into the ensuing strategies, policies and actions, then one wonders why we cannot do the same for the way in which we share our roads. If "motorism" is the "addiction to or practice of motoring" then what is the "cost of motorism" for our communities. In the UK the Dept for Transport estimate each death as costing our community £1.4m or $2.2m. That's a total cost in the US of $858,000,000,000 over the last 10 years. And of course you can probably multiply that by 5 or 10 times to take account of the far larger number of non fatal injuries and damage only collisions.
In our Northern European neighbours they have both lower casualty rates and far more vulnerable road users as cyclists and pedestrians on their roads. In Sweden they have their "Vision Zero" strategy which recognises that every road death is avoidable and are constantly re-assessing what they need to do in order to deliver that vision. They know that whilst lowers speeds are not the sole answer they are a necessity if their strategies are to be convincing and successful. In Britain our default residential and urban roads have a speed limit of 30mph which is 60% higher than their 18.5mph (30 kph). They also have "stricter liability" laws which help address the imbalance of protection between vulnerable road users and motor vehicles. They also put real funds into protecting vulnerable road users through adequate and well designed pedestrian and cycle facilities.
Its time that our governments in both the UK and around the world recognise that whilst we do and should take care to protect ourselves against malicious attacks from enemies and terrorists, we should be equally aware that the lives lost through our "addiction to motoring" are just as tragic, and somehow the fact that no-one intends for them to happen makes them even more so. We need leadership and action. We need to "normalise" our relationship with the motor vehicle. We need to recognise that "speed becomes greed" when it takes away the choice for others to walk or cycle without fear. It does not mean banning motor vehicles and certainly is not anti-motorist. But it does recognise that we need to re-assess the whole way in which we use our public spaces for transport.
Some have made comments about governments who show the slightest regard to enforced behaviour change as being evidence of a "war on motorists". Others have pointed out that fining law breakers, taxing fuel and paying for parking hardly registers on the scale of "wars or persecutions" as they really exist around the world.
So whilst there never was a "war on the motorist", maybe its time that we did start a "war on motorism". Our governments should use this anniversary, not only to recognise the loss of life and freedom that have come from the events of 9/11 but also to recognise that there is an issue within our communities that causes death and destruction on an appalling scale and requires addressing with the same vigour, commitment and resolution that we have shown in response to those events.
(1) National Highway Traffic safety Administration
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Our video report on The 20mph City conference
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Profesor Danny Dorling on the case for 20mph Speed Limits
See Professor Dorlong of Sheffiled University in this excellent video.
Adopt a 20mph speed limit in residential areas - Danny Dorling from Matt CM on Vimeo.
An important 2 weeks for 20's Plenty for Us
Its been an important couple of weeks for 20's Plenty for Us. First we had the May 5th elections where a number of local councils had shifts in council make-up which provides new opportunities to gain support for implementing Total 20 policies.
Congratulations to Anna Semlyen, our Campaign Manager, who won a seat on City of York council and where Total 20 is now a policy of the majority party.
Last week (May 17th) saw us working with PTRC-Training and Warrington Borough Council to hold the "20mph City" conference. This was the first conference focussed solely on 20mph speed limits and attracted delegates from a wide range of local authorities, charity organisations, health and a strong presence from 20's Plenty for Us campaigners. The conference was really significant in that other conferences that had included, but not focussed on, 20mph limits had been looking at Portsmouth which was the only 20mph city at the time. With Oxford, Islington, Bristol, Warrington, Lancashire, Hartlepool and Edinburgh all now implementing and in various stages of rolling out Total 20 , this was the first "post Portsmouth" discussion of 20mph limits.
The conference first heard from Mark Tune on the 197 road pilot that Warrington Borough Council concluded last year. Mark related how he had been "genuinely surprised" at the reduction in speeds and casualties. This had changed the council's perception of the opportunity presented for a town-wide roll-out. As a result the "experimental" 20mph limits were replaced by permanent ones on all but two of the piloted roads. The Borough Council's Executive Board decided it wanted these same advantages for Warrington citizens and this is now to be rolled out to all areas.
I then presented on the way that the 20's Plenty for Us campaign is succeeding and included an update on implementations around the country. I also pointed out the great "value for money" of Total 20 with it being 6.5 times more cost-effective than speed bumps and other physical 20mph zones. I highlighted the way current "isolated" 20mph zones actually maintain high speeds on the rest of the urban and residential road network.
Duncan Price of DfT related the government's current position on its Road Safety Framework for 2011-2020. There was not much on 20mph in this and he said that a new "speed limit review" is expected in 9-12 months. Hence the current Dec 2009 guidance still applies encouraging 20mph for all residential roads.
Alan Tapp of University of West of England then looked at how Total 20 could be socially marketed. Pointing out the importance of simple clear messages and empathy with people who may want to change their behaviour. Key stages in social marketing are :-
1. Build values and beliefs
2. Appeal to self-interest
3. Counter myths and objections
He also emphasised the need to enable people to understand that their views are shared by others. With social attitudes consistently showing that people support 20mph limits for residential roads, we need to remind people that their lower speed aspirations are widely held.
We will be developing some new campaign material adopting these ideas shortly.
Lunch was a great opportunity meet with many campaigners and other delegates. After lunch, delegates heard Anna reciting our 20's Plenty for Us rap poem before more presentations. Alistair Smith (Assistant Director Transport and Engineering) and Councillor Stephen Thomas from Hartlepool Borough Council talked us through the process they had followed with a scrutiny committee to debate and gather evidence on Total 20. Alistair also remembered and related how I had placed chocolate on each of Councillors' places at the meeting I had presented at. Ending my presentation I asked them to look at the wrappers where they found that the chocolates were "Quality Streets". Hartlepool are rolling-out 20mph for most of their residential roads shortly.
John Whitelegg of Liverpool John Moores University is a former Councillor in Lancashire. Having also worked in Europe on road danger reduction he gave us a very informed view of how to win political support.
He talked about the need to express with stark clarity the costs of not changing the road environment for the better for vulnerable road users. The cost is death and injury to local people. There is probably no other area of local politics where Councillors can wield such power for good or where inaction will cost so much. In our communities we have the choice between delivering safe streets or nasty dangerous streets which kill and injure. Sweden has a "Vison Zero" policy of aiming for no road deaths.
Dominic Harrison is the joint Director of Public Health for Blackburn with Darwen and Blackburn. He looked at 20mph limits from a health perspective, particularly with regard to the benefits and also "Large Scale Change Methods". I felt that a particular slide was relevant which said :-
Evidence suggests that LSC (Large Scale Change) is an emergent process that involves:
• Articulating a vision of something much better than status quo
• Focusing on some key themes
• Tapping into and mobilising the imagination, will, and energy of a large number of diverse stakeholders
• Creating concrete, mutually reinforcing change in multiple processes and systems
• Continually refreshing the story and attracting new, active supporters
• Monitoring progress and adapting as you go
• Bringing about such deep changes in attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours that sustainability becomes largely inherent
– Paul Plsek, Director, Academy for Large-Scale Change
This resonates with the 20's Plenty for Us campaign. The widening body of professional support for lower speeds on residential roads is very much creating the moral and financial imperative for change in how we share our streets.
Professor Danny Dorling of Sheffield University approaches 20 mph limits from a completely practical perspective as a geographer. His work on morbidity was one of the first to highlight the role which the roads play in early death. Being a pedestrian hit by a motor vehicle is the biggest cause of death for children from 3 to 16. Something which if it had been a disease would be seen as the greatest challenge for the medical profession. He compared our attitudes to road casualties as being similar to the way that streets were used as open sewers till the mid 19th century. Deaths caused were seen as inevitable and it was not until this was recognised that the sewers, that today we take for granted, were built. And the 20th century had smoking which was thought to be cool, warming and even able to help soothe respiratory conditions. Yet now we all know it to be the cause of so much harm.
And he looked to the future and pondered as to how future academics will look back on the 21st century and not the dates that we finally realised that we need to change our priorities to put people above cars. His historical perspective reminds us that the large scale change is possible and that we should never give up just because the initial establishment responses are negative.
Najeed Neky from Living Streets (formerly the Pedestrians Association) talked on how 20mph limits are foundations for a more pedestrian oriented street environment. That once vehicle speeds are limited to 20mph then so much more becomes possible. Whilst he showed places where engineering had been used to create a different streetscape, it is the wide area benefits of 20mph limits which really offer a great opportunity to transform our streets.
Feedback from delegates was excellent and we felt that the conference marked an important step in our campaign. Conference slides / presentations will go on the www.20splentyforus.org.uk site.
Just 5 days later I was off to Brussels at the invitation of Keith Taylor (MEP for South East). Here I met several MEPs on the Transport and Tourism Committee who are going through the process of adopting a report on European Road Safety 2011-2020. A key amendment being added is :-
24a. Encourages the Commission to propose speed limits of 30 kmh in urban areas, with the possibility for local authorities to introduce other limits for particular cases, and of 120 kmh on highways, with more efficient enforcement;
I understand that through the discussions and compromises that inevitably take place when agreement across so many countries is required this has been softened slightly to "strongly recommend" 30 kmh on residential roads. However this will be an important recognition of the benefits of 30kph limits and its acceptance as European wide "best practice".
I was therefore very pleased to meet a number of MEPs on the committee and tell them how strongly 20's Plenty for Us was progressing. I was also able to meet representatives from the European Commission which is the administrative rather than political part of the EU. Whilst they explained that on transport the actual legislation was devolved to member countries it was useful to both highlight our campaign and the benefits from harmonising on 30kph for residential and urban roads. They also pointed to their work on comparing the record of different countries on road safety.
This was interesting because I also met up with representatives from ETSC (European Transport Safety Council) who recently showed whilst UK is the "Safest" EU country in terms of total fatalities per million inhabitants in 2009, for pedestrians and cyclists it is falling way behind other countries and the EU average. One of the key recommendations of ETSC is 30kph limits for residential roads and those shared with pedestrians and cyclists. The latest report can be found at :-
http://www.etsc.eu/documents/ETSC_Flash19_unprotected_road_users.pdf
They are also pushing the Transport and Tourism committee to recommend "strong" interventions for vulnerable road users.
I met the European Cyclists Federation who are co-ordinating efforts from EU-wide cycling organisations, including CTC, Cyclenation and Sustrans.
I also had the opportunity to sit in on one of the committee meetings, complete with translators etc. It really brought home the breadth of EU member involvement and the wide range of opinions.
The meetings were therefore an excellent opportunity to talk about the achievements that have been made in the UK in progressive local authorities implementing 20mph on an authority-wide basis. The Transport and Tourism Committee will be finalising its report over the next few weeks, and we will be continuing our lobbying of committee MEPs. Our briefing sheet is available on our web site at www.20splentyforus.org.uk/briefingsheets/30kph_good_for_UK-Good_for_EU.pdf
In conclusion, we are making great progress. Our reach is extending and more and more local authorities are looking at Total 20 as the foundation for their strategies to make community streets better places to be. We are now receiving support from a wide range of professionals including transport, health, education, social mobility and access and environment.
Of course getting Total 20 implemented is still no easy task. Large scale social change never is. And as Professor Danny Dorling reminds us, none of the major changes such as open sewers, smoking, clean beaches, etc ., were ever easy. The status quo, lethargy, complacency and vested interests all make it difficult and our progress will vary from community to community, but I truly believe that the breadth of support for our campaign, together with consistent results of lower speeds and reduced casualties wherever Total 20 is deployed, are turning heads and making wide scale adoption a realistic objective.
Comment made to Warrington Traffic Committee - 14th March 2011
On 14th march the Traffic Committee at Warrington Borough Council met to approve the Traffic Refgulation Order for nearly 200 roads being set at 20mph. This is what I said at the meeting :-
Councillors, ladies and gentlemen
It was 7 years ago that I decided to cycle to Warrington's twin town Hilden to find out what they had done to get 23% of their in-town trips made by bicycle. With another 20% of trips being made on buses they had far few cars on the road per person travelling than in Warrington.
And so on 29th June 2004, the late Councillor Lafferty, as mayor, waived me off from in front of the town hall.
Little did I know that the journey I was commencing would last many years and take in cities all around the country and even as far as Brussels and New York when I subsequently set up 20's Plenty for Us as a national campaign to support lower speed limits for residential streets. We now have over 70 local campaign groups and a growing national and international reputation.
The secret of Hilden's success in cycling, walking and avoiding congestion was the simple recognition in the early 1990's that in order to maximise the choice of citizens to cycle and walk then it was necessary to get the speeds of walkers and cyclists closer to that of motor vehicles. They reasoned that the only solution was to introduce a 30 kph or 18 mph speed limit as the default across the whole town. This was the foundation of them increasing active travel and creating a safer and better street environment for all.
Of course they were not alone in Northern Europe and in many countries from Norway to Belgium and France then 30 kph speed limits for residential and urban roads have become the norm.
Perhaps I can point out some of the things which I have personally learnt during that journey that started in 2004:-
That with pedestrian deaths 4 times more in number than cyclists then lower speed limits really are crucial to pedestrians whether they area adults or children. Furthermore the results from 20mph town-wide speed limits in Portsmouth show that motor vehicle passenger casualties reduce by some 37%. This is a road safety initiative that benefits all road users. It is certainly not anti-car, but merely pro-people.
That the more drivers themselves who live in a 20mph street then the greater will be their benefits for them and their family and also their compliance with other people's 20mph limits.
I realised that journey times are almost completely determined by how long we are stopped and that maximum speed has a minimal effect.
I learnt that Directors of Public Health are some of the strongest supporters of 20mph limits, particularly in the North West where child and adult casualties are higher than the national average.
I realised that in Warrington we injure or kill 1,000 people a year on our roads at an estimated cost of £37m per annum. And that in almost every one of those a child was involved. Perhaps not directly being injured or killed, but in the inevitable aftermath of a casualty in the family. For a child losing a relative suddenly, violently and wastefully is a huge emotional burden.
I also learnt that minds can change. That officers who maybe had been less convinced were able to take their own path through the evidence and through the Warrington pilots and then come out in support of this important initiative. And those minds are not just here in Warrington but in Portsmouth, Oxford, Lancashire, Islington, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Hartlepool and Bristol where local authorities are implementing 20mph limits on a town-wide basis. I am pleased to have been asked for a meeting with transport minister Norman Baker in 3 weeks time to discuss 20mph implementations around the country
And I have also learnt that here in Warrington, we can replace angst with action. That not only can councillors debate and decide in favour of lower speeds, but also that Warrington citizens can moderate their speed in order to make the roads a better place to be.
And for Warrington Borough Council this journey enters a new phase with the recent executive board decision to roll-out 20mph across the whole town. I note that the debate about which roads to exclude from benefiting is to be conducted at Scrutiny Committee level. This is all democracy in action. The ability to take an almost universal aspiration to make our streets better is being community led and establishment endorsed.
Finally, I would like to thank councillors and officers for their time over the years in getting to where we are today. And I would most of all like to thank you and them on behalf of the people who you will never hear about.
· The teenager who realises just in time that there is a car coming, but at a speed which avoids a collision
· The elderly person that now feels safe to walk to the shops.
· The mother who can now get by without the second family car because her children can feel safe to cycle or walk to school.
· The middle aged couple who avoided a collision because they had more time to do so.
· The 5 year child who runs out into the road and the driver who safely stops.
For these will not be the people you see in the statistics or in the news. They may not even realise that your actions today will have saved their lives or their injury. But they will all be beneficiaries of your decision to implement this Traffic Order and the future Traffic Orders on the rest of the Warrington residential roads.
I thank you for listening and encourage you to vote in favour.
I am pleased to report that the committee approved the Traffic Orders and that these will become effective on 15th April 2011.
Rod King has been campaigning for 20mph limits since visiting Warrington's twin town of Hilden (Germany) in 2004. There he found that their high levels of walking and cycling were built on a foundation of 30km/h speed limits across most of the town. In 2007 Rod set up 20's Plenty for Us as a not-for-profit organisation to assist communities wanting lower speed limits on their streets. 20's Plenty for Us now has 240+ local branch campaigns across the UK and already 13m people live in local authorities that are implementing or committed to implement a "default 20, targeted 30" speed limit policy. In 2013 Rod received an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for "Services to Road Safety".
Some of the other organisations positively campaigning for 20 mph speed limits
RoadPeace
Stricter Liability for Us
20's Plenty for Bristol
Palmerstone Resident's Association (Belfast)
www.20splentyforus.org.uk


Being an animal lover does not mean that you cannot open or start some pet businesses. The best way to open up a business is by starting from something that you love. If you love food then you open a food business, if you love to travel then you open a travel business, and if you love animals then you open a pet business. For your information, there are so many households which at least have one animal or pet in their house nowadays. The most common pets should be cats or dogs but some households even have unique or exotic pets. With so many people raising pets at their home, this can be a huge chance for you to open up a business. If you are interested but you do not know what kind of pet business you should start, keep on reading this article.
The first pet business which you can do is pet sitting. For your information, pet sitting is considered as the most popular pet business. The reason why pet sitting is so popular because almost all busy people need this kind of service. Usually, people with a busy schedule will bring their pets while they are going to work and drop them off your place. In another case, you can come to their home and take care of their pet until the owner comes back. In the second case, you can combine the pet sitting business with house sitting.
We all know that dogs are animals which can be trained unlike cats but dogs can also lack obedience if the owner is too busy to train or discipline their dogs. If you are confident enough to train or discipline dogs, you can start or open a dog training business.
The next pet business which you can do is this pet finding business. If you love to solve puzzles or problems or you wish to be a detective, then you can open up this pet finding business. Losing pets can really make the owner becomes crazy and will do anything to find their pets back. You can help them find their pet and you can get a lot of money.
One thing that the owner is too lazy to do it is grooming their pets. Not to mention if they have a busy life with no rest in it, they will likely rarely groom their pets. This is why pet grooming business is so popular among pet owners. You do the work like bath their pets, trim their pets' nails, give their pets massage, and then you give the pet back to their owner. You get the money and the owner is happy.
The last pet business will be opening a pet café. Nowadays, many people love to go to cat café or dog café to rest their minds by playing with the cat and dog. This business is also not limited to cat or dog only. You can open other pet cafés with other animals.


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Men's soccer looks to improve their 3-2 record so far this season
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By Josephine Emanuelli
The Drew University men's soccer team comes into their 2016 season looking for redemption after a difficult end to their season last year. They suffered an overtime loss in ECAC semifinals after not making Landmark Conference playoffs for only the second time in the 9-year history of the conference. They are led by head coach Lenny Armuth in his 23rd season for Drew, having just finished their 24th consecutive winning season. They seek to improve on their 12-5-3 record from last season, especially improving their conference record of 3-3-2 to secure their spot in conference playoffs this year.
After graduating only one senior, they are hopeful for the upcoming season, and are approaching it with a new sense of dedication, focusing on winning conference playoffs. In addition to returning ten starters, their top five goal scorers last season are returning, setting the team up for a winning season.
The team is led by three captains, Ian Pavlak ('17). Dylan Hammer ('17) and Eduardo Martinez ('18). Martinez is returning after battling injuries last season, and seeks to be a threat for Drew's aerial attack, both in corners and set pieces. They seek to lead the team's 39 players, including two Landmark Conference Second Team Selection: forward Benjamin Audi ('18) and goalkeeper John Marques ('17). Goalkeeper Marques had an impressive season that he is looking to build on, with seven shutouts and a per-game goals scored average of less than one. In addition, Drew is welcoming back their leading assister, Joe Sollod ('17) for his final season.
This season, the Rangers are welcoming 11 new players onto their squad. Their incoming class is an impressive one, including Jason Adamo ('20), an all-state goalkeeper from Roxbury High School in New Jersey. They also welcome midfielder Eddie DiPietro ('20), an all-League selection from Pennsylvania.
Their season is already underway, having played five games, winning three of them including their season opener against FDU Florham. In their Fall Fest tournament, they fell to Hood College in a close 1-2 game but rebounded the next day to decisively beat College of Mount Saint Vincent 6-1. In the first game, Zach Lipshitz ('19) scored the loan goal. The next day, against College of Mount Saint Vincent, Andy Imoh ('20) recorded his first two career goals. Goals were also scored by Lipshitz, Cole Leckburg ('17) and Harrison Gassert ('18) who netted his first career goal as well.
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Women's Lacrosse Keeps Playoff Hopes Alive
Softball Continues 10 Game Skid With Loss Against Cross-Town Rival FDU
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26. "That man should be shot"
All the Poles at the Imp were in a state of turmoil.
"That man should be shot."
"Don't give him your details. No – not even your name."
"They infiltrate everywhere, the bastards."
What had happened? Schneeberger, the local rep of the International Red Cross, had been exposed as a Communist spy. He had been compiling lists of Poles washed up at Akasul. No doubt the KGB would be paying calls on their relatives back in Poland. He was offering Red Cross help to repatriate them. But that was a trick. A dirty trick. He was a Soviet spy.
"Ask Mrs Mazowiecka. He invited her to his office to discuss her repatriation. She told him she would never go to a Soviet-occupied Poland. He had no idea what Russians were like. Schneeberger had smiled and pulled a photo from his drawer. It showed him as a young man – in Russian uniform!
"He says he is Swiss, but have you heard him speaking Russian? His Russian is perfect. I can tell. I did Russian at school. And that uniform…."
"But why would he expose himself like that?"
"Who knows? To intimidate us, perhaps?"
Kowalski demurred: "But I see him at mass every Sunday."
"That just shows how cunning they are, these Bolsheviks."
The agitation among the Poles percolated through to the other Imp community – the German Jews. Naphtali, the Red, shook his head: "But he is a virulent anti-Communist. I had a flaming row with him. He said Stalin was the anti-Christ."
"Well, if you are naïve enough to believe him!"
Zbyszek pushed forward. A sardonic smile had crossed his handsome face. The late and lamented consul had a point, he thought: We are ignorant peasants.
"Listen," he said "that uniform in the photograph – did you look at it? I mean, look at it properly? Did it show a Soviet star? Or the hammer and sickle?"
No, Mrs Mazowiecka had not bothered with such piddling details. It was a Russian uniform. It certainly was. Schneeberger had admitted that himself.
"I thought so. Do you want to know why he spoke such good Russian? I can tell you. He'd been brought up in Odessa – if you know where that is. His father was some sort of specialist. The czar had brought him in from Switzerland. That was years before the Communist revolution… years before. So the son went to school in Russia. Later they sent him back to Switzerland for his studies – agriculture, I think. And then, when civil war broke out, he went back to Russia. You want to know why? He went to join the White Guards. White, do you understand? White not Red. He fought against the Bolsheviks."
Young Abie listened, fascinated. "He told me he'd served under an admiral. Kollenberg or some such name."
"Admiral Kolchak?" offered Zbyszek.
"That's right. That was the name – whoever he was."
Well, Zbyszek didn't expect the kid to know, but from his fellow-Poles he had expected more.
"Admiral Kolchak", he lectured them, "led an army of White Guards against the Communists. He wanted to restore the Czar."
Mrs Mazowiecka retired to her room humiliated, closing the door behind her with a crash:
"Bloody know-all!"


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1,853: Anthony Breznican's Favorite Star Wars Memory (Summer Rewind!)
In the last of the summer rewind episodes this week, I'm re-sharing an interview I did with Anthony Breznican at Star Wars Celebration Orlando in 2017, where I asked everyone I interviewed what their favorite Star Wars memory was. His answer was one of my favorites... Punch it!
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1,852: Anthony Breznican Interview, Part 2 of 2 (Summer Rewind!)
In this, the second of three summer rewind episodes (which is also the second of a two-part interview), Anthony Breznican - former senior writer for Entertainment Weekly - shares his experience as host at Star Wars Celebration Anaheim, gives insight into the inner workings of Celebrations, and much, much more....
1,851: Summer Rewind: Anthony Breznican Interview, Part 1 of 2
In honor of Anthony Breznican's tenure as senior staff writer for Entertainment Weekly, which came to an end earlier this year, here's the first of three interview episodes with him, where we start off by talking about the planning that goes into Star Wars cover stories, and it gallops off into unexpected directions...
1,850: A Galaxy's Edge "Interview" With Polygon's Charlie Hall
Charlie Hall and a team of folks for Polygon did an extensive array of articles about Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, including the most complete guide to Dok Ondar's Den of Antiquities published to date. Unfortunately, he wasn't available for a real-time interview, but he very generously answered questions via email. On...
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Thanks to some very polite notes from Sarah Hess, Andrew Keen, and Johnny Orme (as of press time), I'm sorry to say that there were errors in yesterday's episode of the show regarding the availability of The Mandalorian and Clone Wars season 7 on the Disney+ service. Today, a Department of Corrections episode, where I...


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Q: SQL FOR XML PATH: attributes not staying in the node I have:
(SELECT TOP 1 '01' AS '@language', 'a description' as 'data()' FROM @tmpData AS  FOR XML PATH('description'),ROOT('course'),TYPE),
(SELECT TOP 1 '2016-CRS' AS '@code' FROM @tmpData as t FOR XML PATH('course'),TYPE),

This shows:
<course>
        <description language="01">a description</description>
</course>
<course code="2016-CRS" />

But what I really need is:
<course code="2016-CRS">
        <description language="01">a description</description>
</course>

I know it is simple but I cannot achieve it. Thanks for any insights!

A: Your example is not all clear, as you are using a data source FROM @tmpData without using it at all, but this would return the result you seem to need:
SELECT '2016-CRS' AS [@code]
      ,'01' AS [description/@language]
      ,'a description' as [description]
FOR XML PATH('course')

The result
<course code="2016-CRS">
  <description language="01">a description</description>
</course>

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Tone for oscillator 2 is manually set to 78.
High-pass filter cut-off frequency is manually set to 471.61Hz (175).
Low-pass filter cut-off frequency is set to 1035.87Hz (129) and is modulated by Note Vel, LFO 2, VCF Env.
LFO 2 direct modulation amount for low-pass filter cut-off frequency is 18.
VCF Env direct modulation amount for low-pass filter cut-off frequency is 30.
Filter resonance is statically set to 100% (255).
Unison detune level is manually set to ±30 cents (153).
Oscillator 2 pitch is set to -7 semitones and is modulated by LFO 1.
LFO 1 direct modulation amount for oscillator 2 pitch is 131.
Patch Creepy Filter is transposed by -12 semitones.
Effect 1 level is manually set to 0. Effect 2 level is manually set to 100. Effect 3 level is manually set to 100. Effect 4 level is off.


The Validate Project function is a useful way to determine if there are any problems with your Infiniti Project. It should be the first action taken if a Project is failing somehow or doing something that is unexpected.
Double clicking on any line in the results will navigate to the offending item.
Formulas are valid (including Question References) - Variable Formulas, Data source Formulas, Page Repeat Titles, Question Default Values, Question Text, Finish Properties, Rule Formulas/Aggregates, Section Descriptions.
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Brands rallied on Thursday. Caterpillar reported quarterly details. The construction and mining equipment giant's earnings, discounting items, gained 19 percent to $1.72 per share.
Stocks retreated from Tuesday's run up. Brands rebounded somewhat to close off lows of the session. Boeing released strong earnings including a profit increase of 18 percent while data showed Thermo Fisher Scientific's Q3 profits gained 49 percent, though shares dipped 3 percent as revenue growth disappointed investors.
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Indices closed well into green territory on Tuesday. Apple led the way up in the wake of its favorable earnings as well as aggressive sales of the iPhone in China.
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SDCC: Mortal Kombat Legacy II Live Panel Footage 07/23/2013 04:19 AM EDT
By now, you'll have no doubt read our recap of the Mortal Kombat: Legacy II convention panel [full story]. Thanks to YouTube user TheGamerJulie you can draw your own conclusions by watching her amateur footage of the event [embedded below].
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Series II Coming September 2013 06/18/2013 09:08 PM EDT
Mortal Kombat: Legacy Season II is the follow-up to the 2011 live-action series directed by Kevin Tancharoen. With the debut trailer released back in February, the series can finally look forward to a confirmed premiere in September!
Legacy II star Mark Dacascos leaked the schedule through a Facebook update posted to his official fan account. The cast and crew were treated to a special screening of the series, last night. Brian Tee and Casper Van Dien were also in attendance and shared photos via Twitter.
Top Row [Left to Right]: Brian Tee, Ian Anthony Dale, Kevin Tancharoen, Casper Van Dien, Eric Jacobus, John Wusah Bottom Row: Samantha Jo, Michelle Lee, Mark Dacascos. Source: @CasperVanDien
Update: First Mortal Kombat Legacy Series 2 Cast Photo(s) 01/13/2013 02:51 AM EST
The July announcement gave fans of Mortal Kombat: Legacy a list of characters to shoot for, but today we get our first look at the costumed line-up thanks to social networking director, Kevin Tancharoen (@KTANCH).
Legacy: Photo Media Updates from Second Series Cast 12/12/2012 07:17 PM EST
As with the first series; few sources have been as valuable to the promotion of Mortal Kombat: Legacy as the cast and crew themselves! We've seen a slew of photographic previews and sneak peeks since the November shoot began -- here are a few of the most recent!


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Formation Possibilities with Manchester United's New Signings
October 12, 2020 CJ Szaz Manchester United News, Opinion 0
Manchester United received a PACKED October/November fixture list. First on October 17, United travel to Newcastle, then three days later the Red Devils travel to Paris to play PSG. Four days later, United catch Chelsea at home and RB Leipzig four days after playing against the Blues. The week after, United play Arsenal, Basakehir, and (near the top of the league) Everton all within six days.
To take away a substantial amount of points from the six fixtures mentioned above, Manchester United need to rotate their players and get the most out of the whole squad. The following is how the new signings can bolster United to get through the tough October/November schedule.
Left, Starting 11. Middle, Full Squad with Subs. Right, Second String.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer prefers the 4-2-3-1 formation and uses it most often. During project restart, Ole almost exclusively used this lineup. However, he tried using the lineup below (3-5-2) but it proved ineffective when he used it for United. One of the few changes that might appear in this lineup is the addition of Alex Telles. The Brazilian left-back possesses a great skill of crossing the ball in from wide positions. Very few fullbacks for United have been able to cross the ball in and add into the attack.
The front four players look to be constant this season. Martial, Rashford, Bruno Fernandes, and Greenwood will play the majority of games, while Edison Cavani and Donny van de Beek will play when someone in the attack lacks fitness. In a cup match, Dan James, Facundo Pellistri, and Juan Mata could get out for a chance, but probably will not regularly appear in the Premier League unless major injuries fall onto United.
Pogba and Matic are the obvious choices in the midfield double pivot. However, Matic is getting older and Pogba has been brutally inconstant. Last season, Fred and Mctominay worked well together in the pivot could easily get opportunities to win a spot back in the United lineup. Donny van de Beek may also get a few games in the double pivot if he isn't being played enough upfront.
In the back, it has been a mess. New signing, Alex Telles will compete with Luke Shaw for the starting left-back role, which ultimately Telles should win. On the right, Aaron Wan-Bissaka should be the constant starter, with the possibility that Brandon Williams gets a few games on the right and the left as a fullback.
The center-back situation is tough. Maguire is the captain, but his form has been poor. Lindelof and Bailly have been fighting for the second center-back role but they could lose it to a promising youngster. Axel Tuanzebe and Teden Mengi both could be put into the mix this season if the center-back woes continue. If Luke Shaw were to lose the left-back battle, then he might play at center-back. In net, De Gea and Henderson will continue to fight it out. The number one role is De Gea's to lose at the moment.
The lineup was used multiple times last season and will probably be used this season as well. Despite it not being preferred by Ole, he still chooses it from time to time and may rely on it more if it can guarantee results. This lineup focuses on the wingbacks to get forward and midfield to control the middle of the park.
In attack, Martial, Greenwood, and Rashford should rotate through the striker positions. However, if Cavani performs well, then he could get into the rotation more often and even become a crucial member of the attack in this lineup. Bruno should start at CAM, with van de Beek getting games in there as well.
The midfield issue is the identical to the issues in the 4-2-3-1. Ole must choose whether he is going to play who is in form, or if he can weather the storm with his current midfields.
This lineup depends on stability at the back. Telles and Wan-Bissaka will be the wingbacks in this setup. In order to win games, they will be crucial and will need to be able to get up the pitch in attack and rush back into defense. Luke Shaw will shift into a center-back role in this lineup, working on the left of Maguire. The as a center-back Shaw will bring a bit of skill to the backline. Alongside Maguire and Shaw, players like Bailly, Lindelof, Tuanzebe, and Mengi will want to get the final spot in the defense. The goalkeeper position is the same as in the 4-2-3-1.
Ole might get tricky and try to work in the 4-1-2-1-2 formation this season if he needs to. This formation requires midfielders and the fullbacks to be strong and the attackers to capitalize on their chances.
The attack is identical to the 3-5-2. Martial, Rashford, and Greenwood will get the majority of game time as strikers, but Cavani will still get put in and might get more if he is in form. Bruno is still the man at CAM, but instead of van de Beek covering him, Mata would be his backup in the 4-1-2-1-2.
The midfield will mainly feature Pogba and van de Beek in the forward pivot with Matic sitting back in the CDM. This lineup puts a lot of focus on the midfield and gives van de Beek a chance to start week in and week out alongside Pogba. The double-pivot of the 4-2-3-1 forces Pogba too deep and the 4-1-2-1-2 allows him to play forward. Mctominay and Fred should also get playtime as backups.
At the back, again Telles and Wan-Bissaka should start at fullbacks. Shaw might slide in as a center-back if he becomes out of favor by Ole. Brandon Williams should see game time on both sides of the defense. At the center, Maguire, Lindelof, and Bailly will start the majority of games. However, Mengi, Tuanzebe, and Shaw will all push for a chance of games as a center-back. Between the sticks, De Gea will continue to play, but if he falls out of form, then Henderson could easily get the nod.
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the 2013 Macbook Air uses a PCIe based interface for the SSD. a USB case costs between $60 and $100. this was simply too much money to pay for a thing that I will use exactly one time. yes, I could have purchased one, used it, then returned it claiming I bought the wrong case. which is the stuff of an ethics cards game. and I am not opposed to venturing this as a fix. I just do not make a practice of it. what I wanted was a one way trip. you know, get the thing, fix the problem, send the result back to where it came from. fixed is the operative word.
it took about an hour for Carbon Copy Cloner to make a bit image of the SSD. 4 gee bees a minute. that seems slow given the bus speed of PCI and that the SATA drive it was going to was SATA2. it should be more like 11 gee bees. hmph. with the image copied to spinning media, I cloned the clone to another hard drive that will fly away to Texas.
there might be issues with the SSD. this would explain why the MBA behaved badly. and why the SSD was slow to copy. more testing is required.
while this seemed like it took a long time my total time on the project, not counting waiting for parts to ship or copies to happen, was about 35 minutes. most of this was spent researching which benders to buy to read the SSD.
this is the link to the bender. currently out of stock but you can use it to find it from a different vendor.


The USD fell against major pairs on Friday after US President Donald Trump tweeted that China and the EU manipulate their currency. Trade war escalation has reached a second phase at a time when American politics are having an identity crisis with the ongoing Russian interference during the 2016 elections. Steven Mnuchin will head to Buenos Aires to take part in the finance ministers G20 meeting with trade and monetary policies sure to be a topic of discussion. The European Central Bank (ECB) will announce its main refinancing rate on Thursday, July 26 at 7:45 am EDT with little expectations of a change. ECB President Mario Draghi will host a press conference at 8:30 am EDT with the market focused on his comments for insights into the monetary policy of the central bank.
The EUR/USD gained 0.28 percent in the last week. The single currency is trading at 1.1717 after a volatile week is over. The EUR rose 0.73 percent on Friday as Trump's comments on currency manipulation hit the newswires. The US dollar had fallen on Thursday after President Trump criticized the U.S. Federal Reserve for raising rates and eroding the competitiveness of American products.
In an interview with CNBC the US President said he was not thrilled with the path of interest rates, although he did mention that he would let them do what they feel is best. Earlier in the week Fed Chair Powell testified before the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee side-stepping any comments on trade spats.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has hiked two times already in 2018 leaving the benchmark rate at 175 to 200 basis points. The CME FedWatch tool shows a 86.9 percent chance of a September rate hike and 53.9 percent of a follow up in December. Both sets of probabilities where higher on Wednesday before Trump's comments were released.
The economic calendar will not feature a large number of North American indicators with the main standout being the release of the first estimate of the US GDP data on Friday, July 27. Analysts forecast a rise of 4.1 percent and could serve as an antidote to Trump's tweets. The European Central Bank (ECB) will feature on Thursday, but there is little expectation that new guidance will be provided after the June monetary policy meeting.
The Canadian dollar rose on Friday after the release of retail sales and inflation data. The USD/CAD DROPPED 0.05 percent on a weekly basis. The currency pair is trading at 1.3146 after Canadian retail sales surprised with a 2 percent rise to a seven month high boosted by auto and gasoline sales on Friday. Inflation rose 2.5 on an annual basis in June also impacted by higher gasoline prices. The economic indicators validate the decision of the Bank of Canada (BoC) earlier this month to hike rates by 25 basis points and could further pressure the central bank to lift rates higher despite growing geopolitical headwinds.
The US dollar has been on a downward trend since President Trump issued some sharp criticism on the U.S. Federal Reserve monetary policy. The comments took the market by surprise as talking about the currency is not usually the job of the President, but rather the Treasury Secretary. The statements will most likely be discussed as the G20 meeting in Buenos Aires kicks off.
The US President continued to tweet about the unfair strength of the greenback which responded by falling more than 1 percent against the Canadian dollar.
Oil prices recovered from losses earlier in the week but West Texas Intermediate will finish below $70 after concerns about the increase in supply outstripping rising demand.
The GBP/USD dropped 0.76 percent in the last five days. The currency pari is trading at 1.3133 with political headwinds keeping the pound under pressure. The confusing Brexit strategy from the UK government could end up costing Prime Minister May her job as she scrambles to call an early summer recess to avoid challenge to her leadership.
The Bank of England (BoE) held rates unchanged in June, but there were three dissenters. The economic data could support an August rate hike by the central bank, but the question now is will MPC vote for higher rates holding to its mandate, but with a high possibility that Brexit negotiations once again threaten the growth of the UK economy and the reverse action is needed. The market still believes in an August rate hike, but the GBP will continue under pressure from political uncertainty at home and abroad.


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October 5, 2006 By Rich Mueller
Tom Finkelmeier wrote the first real insurance policy designed for sports collectors. 25 years later, he's still at it.
Long before he ever started selling insurance policies to collectors, store owners and investors, Tom Finkelmeier was a collector himself.
Back in the late 1970s, he would go to shows to continue adding to his stash of cards and memorabilia. Even then, he knew had things that were of value and so did others he met including dealers with extensive inventories of vintage and rare cards. He was in the insurance business already, more than a decade removed from a tour of duty in Vietnam. Yet there were no policies available to adequately protect those unique items. And so as the 1980s dawned, he decided to do something about it.
"We had to wing it at first. I literally wrote the the policy. It had to be simple and straightforward but since then it hasn't changed much."
Finkelmeier is now President of the Wapokoneta, OH-based Cornell & Finkelmeier, a familiar name among those who've been in the hobby for any length of time. Since the early 1980s, he's insured hundreds of shops, dealer inventories and collections. A safe estimate is that C & F currently insures between $75 and $100 million worth of sports memorabilia through St. Paul Travelers, a large underwriter with $100 billion in assets.
"We have the exclusive right to market this through them," Finkelmeier told SportsCollectorsDaily.com. "It's basically a one page application and the process is done through the mail and by telephone."
Insurance quotes are easy to get. Your car, house, boat and even your life can always be insured. You pick the deductible but the insurance company will tell you what your material goods are worth. Not so in the sports memorabilia insurance business. Finkelmeier leaves that up to the person buying the insurance.
"It's hard for someone who may not know the difference between Topps and Bowman to insure a collection," he said. "We don't require an on-site appraisal. There are plenty of price guides and other ways to determine a value for a specific collection or store inventory. Placing the right value really falls back on a collector or dealer. Anyone who buys insurance doesn't want to overpay for it so they're not going to artificially inflate the value of what they have."
C & F has paid millions of dollars in claims over the years for everything from smoke damage to theft. One dealer carried about $100,000 in mostly newer wax cases. One weekend, a pipe in a bathroom at the company's warehouse burst, sending torrents of water flowing through the storage area. Most of it was a total loss, but fortunately the inventory had been insured. The policy the company sells does not cover flood, but such incidents fall under a different umbrella. Floods are considered a natural disaster resulting from the gradual overflow of bodies of water. Collections lost in Hurricane Katrina were not likely covered if the damage was done by rising floodwaters.
Another large claim turned into the company occurred when a self-storage facility in California was the victim of thieves who benefitted from a lax security system. One collector lost merchandise worth six figures but the claim was paid.
While smaller collections valued at less than $20,000 might best be served by a rider on a homeowner's policy, Finkelmeier suggests that anyone going that route learn exactly how much an insurance company will pay in the event of loss. "Homeowners insurance is often paid under replacment cost. You may have lost a 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle but they may replace that with a Mantle photograph. They don't often take into account antiquity value. The proper way to insure a collection is having a policy that defines value on a fair market value basis."
Insuring a $100,000 collection costs $690 a year with a $5,000 deductible. The cost per $100 is reduced with policies that cover more valuable collections.
Some dealers and collectors–even those with substantial holdings– resist making the investment. "There's still a flea market mentality among some dealers. They love the things they sell but many of them figure nothing will happen. For those who sell full time, it becomes doubly sad when they lose not only their inventory but their income."
Finkelmeier sold part of his collection to help pay for his children's education. That "insurance investment" paid off. Son Tom Jr. has joined the business and also handles collectible policies. Tom Sr. still owns several favorite pieces relating to his favorite teams, the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Browns as well as a number of vintage cards.
The company handles not only dealer inventories and personal collections but also insures the National Sports Collectors Convention each summer.
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"We've exchanged emails and (Sambora's) looking forward to coming, as is Alec Such," said Jon Bon Jovi during the "iHeartRadio Icons with Bon Jovi" broadcast, Wednesday, Feb. 21 at the iHeartRadio Theater in New York City. "I talked to Al as well, so they been invited to not only come and celebrate but to perform with us."
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Sambora exited the band in 2013 and original bassist Such departed in 1994.
"We took that journey together in certain times and I think it's wonderful that we can reenact that, not only for us but for the fans," said drummer Tico Torres of the Rock Hall reunion in a conference call with reporters on Friday, Feb. 23. Torres said he spoke with Such. "When you get together with old friends, there's always going to be some deep emotions."
The band's Jon Bon Jovi, Torres, David Bryan, and Hugh McDonald will also be recognized the Rock Hall. The Cars, Dire Straits, the Moody Blues, Nina Simone and Sister Rosetta Tharpe are also going in.
"I never wanted to be in anybody's club, but it's a pretty cool club to be in," said Bon Jovi in an on-stage interview with radio personality Jim Kerr on Wednesday. "Any place that Elvis, the Beatles and the Stones and all the ones who created this art form called rock 'n' roll. People who were our fans for the last three decades, they didn't waste their time, energy and faith in us not to see it come to fruition, because this is as much for those who followed us as it is for us."
Bon Jovi will also receive an iHeartRadio Icon Award during the March 11 iHeartRadio Music Awards at the Forum in Los Angeles, it was announced on Wednesday during the ICONS broadcast. The awards will be broadcast live on TBS, TNT and truTV. Fellow Jerseyan Charlie Puth along with Cardi B, Ed Sheeran, Maroon 5, Backstreet Boys and Camila Cabello have been announced as performers.
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Reps for Richie Sambora did not reply to an email regarding this story by press time. The induction ceremony will be broadcast on HBO on a date to be announced.
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Q: What exactly is meant by saying that two events had been "simultaneous in an inertial frame"? In order to address my question based on a concrete example setup let the following two separate events be given:

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*participants $A$ and $J$ encountering each other in passing (additional participants may be considered). The details of this event $\varepsilon_{AJ}$ were widely observable: participant $A$'s indication "$A_J$" as a distinctive "sparkle", and participant $J$'s indication "$J_A$" as a distinctive "flicker",

*participants $B$ and $K$ encountering each other in passing (additional participants may be considered). The details of this event $\varepsilon_{BK}$ were widely observable: participant $B$'s indication "$B_K$" as a distinctive "twinkle", and participant $K$'s indication "$K_B$" as a distinctive "flash".
Let participants $A$ and $B$ having been and remained at rest to each other (but not to participants $J$ or $K$); and (likewise) participants $J$ and $K$ having been and remained at rest to each other (but not to participants $A$ or $B$).
Let participant $M$ be identified as "(located at the) midpoint between" $A$ and $B$ (for short: as "the middle between" $A$ and $B$), and let participant $N$ be identified as "the middle between" $J$ and $K$.
Further, it is given that participant $M$ observed (the signal fronts of) (all relevant details of) both events, $\varepsilon_{AJ}$ and $\varepsilon_{BK}$, in coincidence;
and on the other hand that participant $N$ first observed (the signal fronts of) (all relevant details of) event $\varepsilon_{AJ}$, and only subsequently event $\varepsilon_{BK}$.
It can be concluded that
(1) participants $A$, $B$ and $M$ were jointly members of an inertial frame (in the sense of Rindler),
(2) participants $J$, $K$ and $N$ were jointly members of an inertial frame,
(3) participant $M$ was not identifiable as "the middle between" $J$ and $K$,
(4) participant $N$ was not identifiable as "the middle between" $A$ and $B$,
and following Einstein's coordinate-free definition of how to determine "simultaneity" that
(5) participant $A$'s indication $A_J$ and participant $B$'s indication $B_K$ were simultaneous, and
(6) participant $J$'s indication $J_A$ and participant $K$'s indication $K_B$ were not simultaneous.
Now, a phrase which seems related and which is encountered quite frequently is that
"(two) events were simultaneous in a (particular inertial) frame"and I'd like to understand whether and how this phrase might be used in case of the described example setup. Therefore:

Two specific Questions:
Regarding the given example setup would it be considered appropriate to say:
"events $\varepsilon_{AJ}$ and $\varepsilon_{BK}$ were simultaneous in the inertial frame of participants $A$, $B$, $M$" ?

And if so:
Is thereby anything implied besides the conclusions (1) -- (6) listed above, or even contradicting these conclusions (1) -- (6)
(for instance, might be implied that it is appropriate to say:

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*"participant $M$ was the middle between $J$ and $K$, in the inertial frame of participants $A$, $B$, $M$", or

*"participant $J$'s indication $J_A$ and participant $K$'s indication $K_B$ were simultaneous in the inertial frame of participants $A$, $B$, $M$", or

*"participant $N$ was the middle between $A$ and $B$, in the inertial frame of participants $J$, $K$, $N$", or

*"participant $A$'s indication $A_J$ and participant $B$'s indication $B_K$ were not simultaneous in the inertial frame of participants $J$, $K$, $N$"

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Post scriptum
for ready reference, and in response to comments by @Angelika :
The wording of Einstein's coordinate-free definition of "simultaneity" reads:

[An] observer placed at the mid-point $M$ of the distance $AB$ [...] If the observer perceives the two flashes of lightning at the same time, then they are simultaneous.   Albert Einstein, Relativity: "The Special and General Theory", Section 8: "On the Idea of Time in Physics"  (1917), translated by R. W. Lawson

In application of this definition to the example setup described in the OP above therefore

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*participant $M$, being the "middle between" participants $A$ and $B$, has the privilege and business of judging whether and which indications of $A$ and of $B$ were "simultaneous", or not; and likewise

*participant $N$, being the "middle between" participants $J$ and $K$, has the privilege and business of judging whether and which indications of $J$ and of $K$ were "simultaneous", or not.
$M$'s verdict concerning specificly $A$'s "sparkle" indication $A_J$ and $B$'s "twinkle" indication $B_K$ is:
these two indications were simultaneous; as listed in (5) above.
$N$'s verdict concerning specificly $J$'s "flicker" indication $J_A$ and $K$'s "flash" indication $K_B$ is:
these two indications were not simultaneous; as listed in (6) above.

A: I would like to bring the ladder paradox here to explain simultaneity of events.A ladder (an inertial frame) is moving horizontally with a relatively high constant speed with respect to a garage (another inertial frame). The garage has an open door where the ladder can not actually enter if the ladder was at rest in the garage's frame but that is not important. Now the two events:
1. First end of the ladder touches first side of the door.
2. Second end of the ladder touches second side of the door.
In the garage's frame of reference, the ladder undergoes a Lorentz length contraction such that the above two events happens simultaneously while in the ladder frame of reference, the door width undergoes a Lorentz length contraction and the above two events doesn't happen simultaneously.So, whether two events are simultaneous depends on your choice of reference frame.I can now think in this way:$A$ and $B$ are standing at the first and second sides of the door respectively of the garage while $M$ is at the middle of $A$ and $B$ in the garage reference frame and $J$ and $K$ are standing at the first and second end of the ladder respectively while $N$ is at the middle of $J$ and $K$ in the ladder reference frame.
So, the answers to your specific questions are:
events $ε_{AJ}$ and $ε_{BK}$ were simultaneous in the inertial frame of participants $A, B, M$ since all the indications reached $M$ at the same time in the inertial frame of participants $A, B, M$ but the events were not simultaneous in the inertial frame of participants $J, K, N$ since the indications reach $N$ at different times in the inertial frame of participants $J, K, N$.

A: Regarding your assertions:

Events $\varepsilon_{AJ}$ and $\varepsilon_{BK}$ were simultaneous in the inertial frame of participants $A$, $B$, $M$.

This is a perfectly reasonable statement and it is the sort of language used in everyday physics.

Participant $M$ was the middle between $J$ and $K$, in the inertial frame of participants $A$, $B$, $M$.

This is not entirely a reasonable statement, though, because in the inertial frame of $A$, $B$ and $M$, $M$ can only be in the middle of $J$ and $K$ at a single specific time, so you'd need to specify that. A complicated and technical way to phrase it would be

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*There exists an event $\varepsilon_M$ at which $M$ observes herself to be equidistant and collinear with $J$ and $K$; this event is simultaneous with $\varepsilon_{AJ}$ and $\varepsilon_{BK}$ in the inertial frame of participants $A$, $B$, $M$.

Less technically, you could say that $M$ passes through the middle of $J$ and $K$ at the same time as the flashes and sparkles happen, as observed in the frame of $A$ and $B$.
Note that terms like "collinear" and "equidistant" are tricky to define, because you're specifying distances to other objects which may be moving with respect to you, so you need to specify equidistance with respect to what times of observation - i.e. equidistance to events, not objects, where you observe the events as simultaneous.
Your third statement, on the other hand,

Participant $J$'s indication $J_A$ and participant $K$'s indication $K_B$ were simultaneous in the inertial frame of participants $A$, $B$, and $M$

is perfectly fine.
Your last two statements,

Participant $N$ was the middle between $A$ and $B$, in the inertial frame of participants $J$, $K$, $N$
Participant $A$'s indication $A_J$ and participant $B$'s indication $B_K$ were not simultaneous in the inertial frame of participants $J$, $K$, $N$

behave the same as the previous two.


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