"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up." We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do. Wisdom - that part of knowledge that isn't only true, but also happens to be helpful. Wisdom speaks softly... Thereafter the volume increases proportionate to the level of ignorance A punctured bicycle
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Will nature make a man of me yet? All designed objects are propaganda for a certain way of life. Sometimes we need to stop analysing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens. We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence." --Napoleon Bonaparte The best designed clothes: invite being removed but reward being kept on. It's that you just can't take the effect and make it the cause | What rattled his cage? Surprise, surprise, at the end of the day it’s the clubs’ fault. Funny how clubs are dismissed so easily in statistics thrown out before coffee and biscuits. It’s only ‘one club’ after all, and it wouldn’t do to call it, ” a minimum of three or four hundred young swimmers, a hundred masters swimmers, and forty or fifty water-polo players – per year!”, would it? A positive note for the assembled with the ASA ‘dissing’ its membership and then, “mine’s a custard cream”. In parts of London facilities have been made difficult to use with [ continue reading The Leisure Review: March 2011 – WTF! ] РАЭ-54 с борта НЭС “Академик Фёдоров” from North Pole on Vimeo. We tend to think of submarines as being a particularly 20th century object when we imagine the nuclear powered, nuclear missile carrying versions. Obviously however, they feature in the Jules Verne classic, ‘20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea’ and are, as such a definitive Victorian piece of technology, or to use the term currently in vogue, ’steampunk’. Although the idea of a submarine began as early as the 16th century, it was in the Victorian era that the modern cigar with periscope form was developed with France’s Gymnote in 1889. Included here is a picture of the [ continue reading victorian submarines ] I have not been drawn to architecture in a long while, but this is my local swimming baths and such a lovely, old building, I thought I’d give it a go: (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Urban Sketchers Heeley Baths: .) A specially upgraded Russian Akula class submarine has been caught trying to record the acoustic signature made by the Vanguard submarines that carry Trident nuclear missiles, according to senior Navy officers. Russian subs stalk Trident in echo of Cold War – Telegraph. Another year gone, ” above us the waves no more”. The Kursk – courtesy of Wikipedia Ceremonies are being held in Russia and on board its naval vessels to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster. The submarine, one of the Russian navy’s most advanced vessels, sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August, 2000 with the loss of all 118 people on board. An explosion of fuel from an old torpedo caused the disaster. BBC News – Russians remember Kursk submarine disaster, 10 years on. [ continue reading Russians remember Kursk submarine disaster, 10 years on ] Fish are not like bison or farm-raised cattle. They’re out of sight—in floating net pens, spawning on coastal shelves, or swimming through unregulated offshore waters. So when you hear about collapsing tuna stocks, underwater feedlots, or certified sustainable salmon, it’s hard to appreciate what’s actually going on with the world’s fisheries because because fish are found in unseeable reaches of the world. In his book Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, the journalist Paul Greenberg combs the ocean to examine the fish that most frequently end up on our dinner table: salmon, bass, cod, and tuna. [ continue reading Will All the Wild Fish Be Gone by 2048? ] An aquarium director kisses an octopus goodbye before setting it free in the ocean to mate before dying. Larger version of photo here, along with the beautiful story behind it. (Image: Kitsap Sun / Thanks, Steve Silberman!) (CLICK HERE FOR MORE »» Boing Boing Octokiss: .) Photographer Jane Fulton Alt’s latest series is called Crude Awakening. She writes on her web site: Living on the shores of Lake Michigan, I am acutely aware of the disastrous toll the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has taken on all forms of life, especially as our beaches opened to the 2010 swimming season. This environmental, social and economic catastrophe highlights a much larger problem that has inflicted untold suffering as we exploit the earth’s resources worldwide. We are all responsible for leading lives that create demand for unsustainable energy. We are [ continue reading Photographer portrays swimmers in the oil spill region ] YouTube – Lebron James Nike Commercial – Swimming Pool. Simply put, it’s a swirling mass of plastic in the middle of the Pacific ocean that is big enough to qualify as the planet’s largest landfill. Roughly located in an area between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N, much of the world’s trash has accumulated into this part of the Pacific Ocean based on the movement of ocean currents. The Pacific Garbage Patch Explained – Planet Green. A rose any other name applies to the Pacific Garbage Patch – you’ll also hear it called the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” [ continue reading the Pacific garbage-patch explained ] Sea Pool. from Jason Wingrove on Vimeo. from Hackney Swimmer’s wavemachine Water Polo to be wound-up at Clissold (until someone else takes the time?) What the republished note below doesn’t cover is the lack of support from LBH and London Swimming. The ASA has been top-dog in swimming for so long by making sure that no uppity upstarts get too ‘above their station’ with innovative projects and initiatives that are not directly attributable to the ASA, even if they are initiatives that they eventually advocate. People are not allowed to see the contract for the management of Hackney’s leisure assets and nobody [ continue reading RIP Clissold Water Polo – (tumbleweed rolls across pool-deck) ] This unique outdoor heated swimming pool, which is owned and managed by Hathersage Parish Council, is set in a lawned enclosure with a covered veranda to one side. It gives users the opportunity to swim in the open air, amidst the glorious Peak District scenery and in beautiful warm water, which is heated to 84°F / 29°C. Regular users take advantage of the uniquely warm water and swim throughout the season from 27 March to 25 September 2010. Our refurbished changing-cubicles and hot showers will add to this pleasurable experience. We look forward to welcoming you to Hathersage pool this [ continue reading Hathersage Pool – it’s a comin’ ] “Mining phosphorus for food fertilizer is consuming the mineral faster than geologic cycles can replenish it. Urine is a potential source of the mineral. So far, there is no indication that Bill Gates wants to monopolise world supplies of urine: this may be because it’s complicated to do so. To capture, value, and reuse urine requires a multi-dimensional transformation in how we think about and treat sewage. Technologies, regulations, business models – and especially attitudes and behaviour – all have to change.” Read more at: ‘The challenge of system change – analysis of Sydney’s sewer system’ in Design Philosophy [ continue reading they’re taking the piss! ] The Lion of Runcorn! ………be careful of what you wear: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8484116.stm I must admit I’m at a bit of a loss as to why the good burghers of Cardiff prefer to shop in their pyjamas, but why not? They don’t look much different to a tracksuit. As far as bare feet are concerned, what’s the problem? Shoppers aren’t going to handle the produce with their toes, and if some find the sight of feet offensive then what about those who, like myself, wear sandals? The only difference is that sandal wearers have a sole ‘twixt foot and floor. As [ continue reading If you go down to Tesco’s today…… – by Wildswimmer-Pete ] “PHOENIX, Arizona, January 12. SPAIN’S Rosa Sallares celebrated her 100th birthday in grand fashion last week, setting a new FINA Masters world record in the 50 backstroke. Sallares, who turned 100 …” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Swimming World Magazine Rosa Sallares, 100 Years Old, Breaks FINA Masters World Record: .) “What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. What we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables. There is only the inevitable.” Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk Kuroshio Sea – 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world – (song is Please don’t go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo. Should baby swimmers or infant swimmers be dunked as part of a swim lesson? This is a common question parents ask about swimming lessons for their swimmers. “Dunk” is even a term used by some swimming instructors as part of a learn-to-swim lesson. Before I answer the question, “should babies be dunked during a swim lesson,” let’s clarify the meaning of the term ‘dunk’. My definition of dunk is to abruptly push a person underwater. Fair enough? Do you care to be dunked? I can’t say I do. So why would a swim teacher or even a parent dunk a [ continue reading swim lessons and dunking infants and dunking baby swimmers ] “Children are being banned from paddling in water during school trips under new health and safety guidelines.” (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> Telegraph News | UK News No paddling on school trips children told: .) pearls of something nothing good ever happened after 10pm alcohol makes everyone ugly nothing that is advertised is ‘needed’ all occasions when women wear hats are utterly pointless it’s easier to keep up than catch up hard work will always beat talent always eat a ‘starter’ course trouble always starts as fun weather always looks worse than it actually is when it is viewed from behind a pane of glass The pleats on a cummerbund face ‘up’. squeezing spots does make them worse respice prospice love conquers all bread in supermarkets is rubbish wasps never sting unless attacked every intelligent [ continue reading best advice I was ever giving or receiving: #11 ] water: the great democratiser I posted this image this morning and have spent all day wondering at my motives. It’s a challenging picture and not at all cheap or exploitative, I think. In swimming we are all almost or actually naked and unable to hide ourselves so we are all rendered ‘the same’ if not ‘equal’ … and yet by donning expensive costumes, branded hats, tans, and other ‘stealth wealth’ accessories many people separate themselves from the herd, in appearance. You can either swim beautifully or you cannot. If you can’t, and you are over eight, you [ continue reading conjoined swimmers ] | Shirdi Sai Baba: "Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?" Well known fact that any kiss where one or other party is in control of heavy machinery doesn't count for quality assessment purposes. There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. The honest heart that's free frae a' intended fraud or guile. However fortune kick the ba', Has ay some cause to smile. Life consists in replacing one worry with another, and one desire with the next, what the Buddhists call ‘grasping’ or upādāna in Sanskrit "Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." "Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die." A wrong decision isn't forever; it can be reversed. The losses from a delayed decision are forever; they can never be retrieved. heavy words thrown lightly And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.” |
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