"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 | 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 ] YouTube – Lebron James Nike Commercial – Swimming Pool. “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 ] 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 ] Tonight is a really big night for Clissold Swimming Club competing the National Arena Swimming league at Clissold Leisure Centre. A big leap for a small club on the up!! Seems strange to be so far away (for ‘strange’ substitute any of many words). A seventh place from the Clissold – well done. Architectural and Design Team leadership services are required for the restoration of the Haggerston Baths, a public bath house in the London Borough of Hackney via Haggerston Baths restoration | News | Architects Journal. So according to this we, (the mouthy community described by LBH councillors and officers alike as misguided, fanciful and alarmist), were pretty damn accurate in our calculations for the costs of Clissold Leisure Centre. We said almost £50,000,000 they said, “nowhere near that”. This figure in the Freedom of Information disclosure won’t include officer-time, precautionary redundancy costs*, auditors’ fees, consultants’ fees, lawyers’ fees, recruitment costs, either! Mr Pipe is not expected to apologise to anyone anytime soon. Can anyone explain why the out-of-court, ‘no-blame’ settlement remains confidential? (This calculation also makes no mention of the additional £10,000,000 windfall grant [ continue reading well you could push our ignorant arses over with a soft stick – we were correct! ] Because it would be so popular with people who live and work in Hackney, if made more affordable, the Council has ring-fenced London Fields Lido as an upper middle-class, swim-snob’s playground. The Council, dutifully, works hard to support the GLL business model and their ‘seemingly’ low staffing levels. At last people are beginning to wonder about this only to be told, “oh if we did that the Lido would be used too much”. As the Council has made a mess of swimming pools for so many years and now does whatever its contractor requires to help them withhold [ continue reading London Fields ‘Swim for Some’ scheme questioned ] “Swimmers never die they only tread water” – “Only when the tide goes out can you see who was swimming naked” – “It’s a good idea to begin at the bottom in everything except in learning to swim.” – “If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?” – “Seven days of no swimming makes one weak. ” – “In water: the only place an Englishman can dance happily” – “Swimming: From the outside looking in, you can’t understand it. From the inside looking out, you can’t explain it.” – “He who burns his bridges better [ continue reading swimming ] “ Shockvertising at its best from Australia. [via disruption, Osocio, Ad Blog Arabia, Oddee and Alistair Why] “ (CLICK HERE FOR MORE -> bookofjoe Watch Around Water: .) “It’s not too cynical to wonder why USA Swimming, which has financial ties to Speedo, didn’t push to ban the high-tech suits until Speedo was eclipsed by Jaked and other companies. Speedo, which also has sponsorship ties to FINA, was silent on the issue for months, possibly thinking the newer suits — sometimes likened to flotation devices — would be banned. Speedo issued a statement last week saying banning bodysuits ‘is a retrograde step that could be detrimental to the future of swimming,’ and said its LZR suit helped popularize the sport. ‘Certainly you’ve got people scratching each other’s [ continue reading Suits making a mockery of swimming championships ] “A woman pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool. Police in Middlefield, Ohio, said surveillance video showed 41-year-old Christine Newton-John pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs and preventing him from leaving. Mason had a heart attack on June 2 after the extended swim session.” (Via Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – Wife pleads guilty to exercising husband to death case: .) | 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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