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AASHTO standards don’t yet include protected bike lanes, and the fact that MnDOT has endorsed NACTO gives extra comfort for working engineers wanting to have the best practices in urban environments.” Adhering to standards in engineering culture For lots of great reasons, the field of engineering is closely aligned with standards. They ensure that streets are uniform across the state,<a href=" " target="_blank">cheap jordans online< a>, and are built to handle certain volumes and weights of traffic. But the way that standards work with actual on-the-ground designs seems to be changing. Charles Marohn is a professional engineer who practices in Brainerd, Minnesota,<a href=" " target="_blank">amassdenver< a>, and founded a nonprofit group, Strong Towns,<a href=" " target="_blank">cheap jordans for sale< a>, aimed at changing how cities are designed and built. 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But this may have a special resonance in this election season — one that Ellison and other Muslims say has elevated some of the nastiest anti-Muslim rhetoric they have ever heard. In Ellison’s ideal world, he’d be spending his time talking about, say, a higher minimum wage rather than responding a colleague’s criticism that he hasn’t sufficiently renounced sharia law. But in a year when each week seemed to bring a fresh controversy surrounding Islam,<a href=" " target="_blank">cheap jordans for sale< a>, and you’re one of two Muslim members of Congress, you don’t have much of a choice but to engage. 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