| Dear Panhinda and lucky.
This is an interesting discussion. But, have you checked out the prices of a bicycle lately ? Recently, I wanted to buy a bicycle for my 8 yr old daughter and checked the price of a kids bicycle with side wheels. It was Rs 6,000/- I was stunned. Anyway, I was thinking of buying a bike for myself for exercise purposes. A recondition mountain bike sells between 12,000 and 20,000 depending on options. A basic 'poor man' bicycle is around Rs 8,000. So, you must be able to fork out quite a capital to buy the poor man's vehicle. Now, these are the types of industries that we can probably have in Sri Lanka. It would probably generate employment while at the same time lowering the prices. .
Sheppard Industries Group to implement Lawson Software's Lawson M3 ...
Lawson Softwarehas signed a contract with Sheppard Industries Group.
The Sheppard Industries Group is a bicycle designer, contract manufacturer and owner and distributor of the popular Avanti brand, as well as distributor of the global specialised brand to the AvantiPlus retail bicycle store network consisting of over 80 stores throughout Australasia.
Under the deal, Sheppard Industries Group will deploy the Lawson M3 Enterprise Management System along with Lawson Business Intelligence suite and related maintenance and services. The contract was signed in Lawsons second quarter of fiscal 2008, ending 30 November 2007.
Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Sheppard Industries Group also sells and distributes casters and wheels across New Zealand for use in furniture, as well as in industrial and medical equipment such as hospital trolleys.
For Bellingham’s Mark Wheatley, the bicycle is way of life
Sitting behind a computer all day is Mark Wheatleys job. But his passion is outside out anywhere he can get to on two wheels. Im not the kind of guy who really likes to sit still, says Wheatley, 53, an instructor and systems engineer who bikes often from his home in Bellingham for overnight trips to his job in Bellevue at computer-training company SQLSoft. I like to do something bigger, he says, getting out and seeing a big horizon. In that spirit, Wheatley takes his bicycle everywhere: he rides it to and from work, on tours and even on vacation. He spent a week before and after a Microsoft conference in November 2006 in Barcelona to tour Europe on his bike. Its sustainable transportation, and I never feel like a road trip (in a car) is at all satisfying to me, he says of his work-and-play biking habits.
Claims about climate change rebutted
CAFE standards literally saved the American auto industry from itself. They were producing gas-guzzling lemons in the 1970s. When the Arab oil barons decided to insert the reamer up America's collective kazoo, Americans turned to Japanese-built cars that got better gas mileage. CAFE standards forced our automakers to build a better product and made them viable again. Then they circumvented the CAFE standards by selling light trucks as passenger cars or sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Judging from their sales trends, it's only a matter of time before they come crawling again, hat in hand. Citizens in USA produce an average of 24.3 tons of CO2 emissions per year while the average for the world is 5.6 tons of CO2 per person per year. Global warming deniers refuse to face these facts because of gluttony, greed, fear, and stupidity.
Ghana 1-0 Namibia: Agogo earns ANC win
Junior Agogo scored the only goal as Ghana laboured to a 1-0 victory against dogged Namibia in the African Nations Cup on Thursday. The hosts seemed to struggle to get into gear as the Brave Warriors put up stubborn resistance in the Group A clash in Accra, with Agogo's 41st-minute strike proving the difference. The win put Claude Le Roy's team on six points and in a strong position to qualify, while Namibia remain pointless after losing their opening game to Morocco, but it was a much improved performance from the Southern Africans. Ghana predictably made the early running and Sulley Muntari hit a spectacular bicycle kick early on which flew straight at Attiel Mbaha from the edge of the penalty area and brought the crowd to life. Four minutes later Laryea Kingston's teasing cross from the right was well struck by Quincy Owusu-Abeyie from eight yards, but Mbaha pushed the danger away superbly with his feet.
Cruel defeat snuffs out European dream
IN THE end, the emotions were not so much mixed as scrambled to the four corners of Hampden. We had seen Italy score in 70 seconds, we had seen them dominate the early minutes with some chilling football that not only took the fire out of the home support but also shocked Alex McLeish's team to the core. But in the final stages of the game it was the world champions who had the heat coming on them, their lead wiped-out by a scrambled Barry Ferguson goal just after the hour, their assurance of before in danger of being stripped away. With ten minutes remaining, Scotland drove forward once again, the substitute Kenny Miller linking with James McFadden and sending the most delicious ball across the Italian penalty area. The Azzurri were at sixes and sevens, Fabio Cannavaro and Gianluca Zambrotta, two of the game's pre-eminent defenders from two of the world's most glamorous clubs, were over-run.
Records: Sunday, February 24
8:15 a.m. Chippewa County Finance Committee, Courthouse Room 108.4 p.m. Chippewa River Industries Advisory Board Meeting, Chippewa River Industries Large Conference Room.5:30 p.m. Village of Lake Hallie, Special Planning Commission, Village Hall.6 p.m. Common Council of the City of Bloomer, City Hall.7 p.m. Chippewa County Board of Supervisors, Courthouse Room 200.Wednesday, Feb. 278 a.m. Chippewa County Highway Committee, Highway Office.Thursday, Feb. 281 p.m. Chippewa County Information Technology Committee, Courthouse Room 108.3:45 p.m. Chippewa County Economic Development Committee, Courthouse Room 108. .
Our view: Topsfield should get on rail-trail bandwagon
Wonder whether those who proposed laying down the first street grids had to deal with the same fears that arise anytime someone proposes turning an abandoned rail line into a bike trail? Probably not, or else we'd all still be walking everywhere. Topsfield is the latest focal point in the debate over rail trails. Creating such pathways makes sense for several reasons — encouraging people to ride their bicycles rather than get in their car whenever they need to get someplace, is good for the environment; providing people with a place to ride, run or walk is good for their health. Yet inevitably the cry goes out that such trails will attract hooligans and predators. Such protests usually come from those whose homes abut the abandoned rights-of-way. They certainly wouldn't want trains running along those old tracks again, but they'd prefer they not be used for any other purpose either.
Very risky to fiddle with the squiggle
Oh dear. The marketing boffins at the ABC have got their hands on the squiggle because they believe it doesn't communicate effectively in the 21st century. The iconic brand identity with its superb design represents an organisation with a reputation for excellence and leading-edge intelligence. By all means play with the brand identity as it is expressed in different media and enjoy the flexibility that the mark allows, but please don't go back to the drawing board to create other designs that will only undermine the squiggle. That would be an act of corporate suicide, as it will only create confusion among those of us who instantly recognise and respond to the brand mark. BMW makes engines, cars, racing cars, bicycles and motorcycles, and you only ever see the one BMW badge.
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