"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 | …and what do the young people see parents, teachers and admin-staff eating? Have you seen the size of many teachers and school admin staff? Have you seen the cakes, chips and kebabs taken to staff-rooms at lunchtime? The tins of Quality Street and boxes of Roses in the school office. At every school function school-raffles mean head-teachers hand bottles of wine and scotch to staff and parents and boxes of chocolates are everywhere in front of the same kids humiliated in every lunchtime stop & search. Witness the amount of kids walking to school with [ continue reading “Junk food fills children’s lunchboxes” – SO WHAT! ] “The average American is both overweight and spends more than 100 hours per year commuting, that vast majority of those hours being spent in a car. Are those numbers correlated? Could we help reduce our societal weight gain by encouraging more commutes by bike or foot? Our latest Transparency is a look at the number of active commutes in several countries, as compared to those countries obesity rates.” I Love Charts – “The average American is both overweight and…. They look happy off their bikes. A drummer is going to make you love journey-time. Bike your Drive — The outdoorsy types at REI have a free app specifically for bike commuters. It uses the iPhone’s GPS to calculate how far you’ve gone, how many calories you’ve burned and how much gas (and money) you’ve saved by ditching the car. It also tells you how much carbon you’ve offset by hopping on two wheels instead of four. The app is simple, with a self-explanatory interface and the option to submit multiple rides for comparison. Too bad the GPS [ continue reading Five Commuter iPhone Apps You’ve Gotta Try ] A new academic report called 'Analysis and synthesis of evidence on the effects of investment in six Cycling Demonstration Towns' has been published and provides a summary of evidence on changes in cycling and physical activity in six towns following the first phase of the Cycling England / Department for Transport Cycling Demonstration Town investment programme between October 2005 and March 2009. click here for more: People are healthier in Cycling Demonstration Towns Bike For All >> The essential resource for everyone who cycles… or is thinking about it.. In the countryside, riding a bike, Spinning wheels take you off where you like; Whereas, here at the gym, Where you cycle to slim, You see less than you would on a hike. call on me, call on me call on me, call on me call on meeeee, I’m the same boy I used to be It’s that time again … Autumn – season of mists and mellow fruitfulness -and suffering. Hill climb time trials are an exercise in masochism. I love the indifference shown by the photographers in the image above. Voyeurs wanting to see the national championships do not have far to go from Sheffield this year. Details on the South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire CTC site here National Hill Climb Championship at Combing my hair….. Say if I only could, I’d make a deal with God, And I’d get him to swap our places, Be running up that road, Be running [ continue reading National Hill Climb Championship at Combing my hair…. ] “Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls” (Bob Weir, Grateful Dead) Some describe the climb as a sprinter’s climb. The start is pretty much flat for the first 150 yards but soon starts to climb once you pass the driveway on your right. All then goes quiet for while until you can hear the roar of the crowd and the voice of Doug Bond commentating. Once you pass the road sign on your left the lactic kicks in and from there till the end is a non stop effort to the line which is right outside the Monsal Head Hotel. The course record is held by Malcolm Elliott with an amazing [ continue reading Monsal Hill Climb, Sunday 11 October ] Too much car – but pretty good via YouTube – Leo Houlding Climbing in Peak District. Joules, the Tandem Bike Robot that Pedals for You (Video) : TreeHugger. Ok people say my posts are eclectic and disjointed – they aren’t – the world is. This thing will not encourage you, push you, chat to you, pass you toffees and dates, and directions like a McNeill junior. Both my daughters have been the best stokers anyone could ask for and I can only remember one unplanned dismount with each of them. Thanks to Boing Boing again for sending me here. “Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world” (Grant Peterson) The daily misery of hunting for a space in the railway station car park and being charged up to £20 for the privilege will soon be over for thousands of commuters — if they switch from petrol to pedal power. The Government will announce today that it is creating 10,000 additional secure cycle spaces at stations as part of a commitment to “put cycling at the heart of transport policy”. Hundreds of stations will get cycle stands monitored by CCTV cameras or with cages accessible by swipe cards. Ministers have not yet ruled out reallocating spaces from cars to bikes. [ continue reading Thousands more parking places created at stations – but only for cyclists ] but the 1:5 ‘Winnats’ half an hour later beat me to a stop, too much water in the bidon probably what did it! The percentage grade is the slope, written as a percent. To calculate the slope you divide the rise by the run. In your example the rise is 80 ft over a run of 3280 ft so the slope is 80/3280 = 0.024. Written as a percent this is 2.4 %. 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 ] Exercising together appears to increase the level of the feel-good endorphin hormones naturally released during physical exertion, a study suggests. A team from Oxford University carried out tests on 12 rowers after a vigorous workout in a virtual boat. Those who trained alone withstood less pain – a key measure of endorphins – than those who exercised together. [LINK] Mountain rescuers have criticised a father who carried a two-year-old child to the top of Snowdon in bad weather. Rescuers said the child was believed to have been showing signs of hypothermia. Gale force winds of 60mph and driving rain had forced the cancellation of the train carrying visitors to the cafe on the summit on bank holiday Monday. click here This has taken a lot of mulling and considering. It is impossible to walk into any climbing shop and not see child-packs for sale and warnings seem to be in short supply. Given the choice between a [ continue reading Criticism over child on Snowdon ] | 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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