The Iron Ring

In light of something that came up in class yesterday, I thought I would mention ski
helmets.

I found some statistics from the 2007 International Symposium on Skiing Trauma and Safety

"Helmet use been estimated to be about 40 percent of users and has been increasing about
5 percent annually over the past several years....the use of helmets reduces the
number of head injuries by 30 percent to 50 percent, ......non-helmet users were
greater than two times more likely to have died of head injuries among accidents in which
helmet use was known."

And in case anyone was wondering if wearing ski helmets is 'cool' I assure you that the
percentage is much higher than 40% on Aspen Mountain (perhaps the pinnacle of 'cool' as
far as skiing is concerned, no pun intended). I will allow the celebs I witnessed in
helmets to remain nameless.

In other news, my plant is coming along nicely although it still has no company in the
long silver pot ......