Why Iggy’s not covered
But why not insure Iggy? “It’s a very common to take occupation into account when assessing risk,” says Tina Shortle, marketing director at Swiftcover. “We won’t insure people in the entertainment industry, because historically the cost of [injury] claims is much higher among that group.” Other exclusions include models, professional sports people, gamblers, bailiffs and bodyguards.
(Via Guardian Unlimited Music)
Copenhagenize.com – The Copenhagen Bike Culture Blog: Copenhagenizing Copenhagen & Denmark
While the U.S. Congress debated whether to include less than $1 billion in funding for Amtrak in the stimulus package, the Danish parliament has put all its economic stimulus eggs in one basket: transportation. The small Nordic country of 5.4 million people will spend 94 billion kroner, or about $16 billion, by 2020 to improve transportation. Two-thirds of that money will be used to make public transit even better than it already is.The government will invest billions in high-speed intercity trains that will cut travel between northern Jutland and Copenhagen by a third, install light rail systems, expand the Copenhagen Metro, and widen and
lengthen city bike lanes.“We are making public transit a lot more attractive with massive investments to increase capacity, improve on-time performance and lay brand-new railroads. We are also making the biggest push to promote cycling in recent memory,” said Transport Minister Lars Barfoed.
For Copenhagen, already one of the world’s most bicycle-oriented cities, that is a very tall order. The oil shocks of the 1970s inspired Denmark to build a vast network of bike lanes in the hope that Danes would start driving less and biking more. Three decades later, the strategy has borne fruit in Copenhagen, where a third of the inhabitants, or more than 500,000 people, now bike to work every day.
Related:
Walk, Baby, Walk,
Cycling for Everyone
Warm day. 60ºF. Felt like a Spring day, like April. Took a walk and should have left the jacket at home.
Practiced guitar for a couple of hours. Didn’t mean to play for that long, but it felt great. Played the Villa-Lobos piece from Leaning into the Night about a dozen times. I am getting to an interesting place with it. I haven’t listened to other guitarists’ performances of the piece in a long while, because I am trying to let the music develop in my hands.
Seed: The Amazing Race
The Linguists depicts a round-the-world race to make audio recordings of dying languages, giving us a glimpse of how technology can promote language diversity.
For M.C.
Since the last post was about formulae…
40% new quintet.
And, 50% of the new members played with us before… years ago.
