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A Classic Childhood Pastime Is Fading
Kids on bikes once filled the streets. Not anymore.

Walk down a quiet American street a few decades ago, and chances were good that you’d come across a vision of the Spielbergian sort: a gaggle of school-age children charging down the block on bikes, armed with a steely sense of purpose, and without any protective headwear.

You’re less likely to catch that kind of scene today. Over the course of the 1990s, an average of 20.5 million children ages 7 to 17 hopped on a bike six or more times a year, according to data from the National Sporting Goods Association, a sports-equipment trade group. Only a few decades later, that number has fallen by nearly half, to about 10.9 million in 2023. Of those kids, according to the association, just less than 5 percent rode their bikes “frequently.”

With this decline, kids are losing more than a potential mode of transport. Biking supports children’s independence and overall health in a way that many activities cannot. It’s a great way to get moving and build strength, and can improve coordination and balance. Like many types of fitness, it can help reduce children’s future chances of cardiovascular disease and diabetes. But compared with some of the other ways that children get exercise, such as team sports, it’s much more affordable (especially if you buy a used bike) and, crucially—once kids are trained—doesn’t require as much effort from adults.

The thought of their kids traveling solo might get some parents wringing their hands, and for good reason. Biking can be risky, and finding an appropriate place to practice can be tricky in the city or in the suburbs. But if parents can find safe environments for teaching their children to navigate streets confidently on their own, the amount of freedom those kids will gain is invaluable. On a bike, a child gets to choose where to go and how to get there without having to check in with a parent, which lets them practice making decisions. As they ride more, the activity can even start to rewire their brain, helping them form spatial maps of their neighborhood and develop the kind of competence and knowledge that can seed lasting resilience and self-esteem.

Kids aren’t the only ones who benefit when they start getting around on two wheels. When enough children bike—or simply get outside—whole neighborhoods can be transformed. Research has shown that when children play in the open, whether they’re riding a bike, kicking a ball, or merely puttering, parents feel more of a connection to their neighbors, and many people begin to feel safer.

As fewer kids venture out, however, neighborhoods can lose those social ties. Many people blame smartphones for this trend. But as Esther Walker, the research leader at the nonprofit youth-cycling organization Outride, told me, “I’ve never read or heard a student say they just would prefer to be on their phone.” Kids do want to bike, Nancy Pullen-Seufert, the director of the government-funded program the National Center for Safe Routes to School, told me—but conditions on many streets don’t exactly inspire confidence. Walker regularly speaks with middle schoolers in Outride’s programs, and she told me that although they crave mobility, many also say that the traffic in their neighborhood makes riding too dangerous or that their parents won’t let them go on their own.

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There was weird flickering of a very, very faint bit of image on a black screen, now even that is gone. Still have audio. Connections seem OK. I assume it's toast. It looks like my only option now is some flavor of "smart" TV. Pickings are slim because the only size that will fit the available space is 32". I don't need 4K for the kind of stuff I watch, so I'm thinking 1080p is enough. I will probably also make it "dumb" by not connecting it to my network. It will be connected to a cable box and an AppleTV. It looks like I can get a Samsung 1080p model for about $200.

Any thoughts?

I'm new to Zoom. I'm on my iMac.

I have the latest version of Zoom app.

How does it work to record zoom meeting audio? I set up the meeting and am the admin.

We have tried twice to record yet no recordings exist. In fact the folder documents/zoom does not exist.

JD Vance will broke the Couch

so a few months ago there was very little activity in terms of new users signing up for MRF. After the conversion from Phorum to MyBB, I noticed every day a few new users. The latest one is mentioned on the main page.

How come? why are people coming here now? are these old users creating new accounts?

The union at Sleep Tite Sleepwear is negotiating for a seven and a half cents an hour raise in The Pajama Game 1955 (70 years ago)


Seven-And-A-Half Cents Lyrics

I figured it out
I figured it out
With a pencil and a pad I figured it out!
Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn't mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that's enough for me to be living like a king!
I figured it out


He figured it out!
I figured it out
He figured it out!


With a pencil and a pad I figured it out!
Only five years from today!
Only five years from today!
I can see it all before me!
Only five years from today!
Five years! Let's see..thats 260 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time
and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $852.74!
That's enough for me to get
An automatic washing machine,
A years supply of gasoline,
Carpeting for the living room,
A vacuum instead of a blasted broom,
Not to mention a forty inch television set!

(Chorus)
So! Although!
Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn't mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that's enough for me to be living like a king!


Only ten years from today,
Only ten years from today,
I can see it, clear as daylight,
Only ten years from today!
Ten years! Let's see..thats 520 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at time
and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $1705.48!
That's enough for me to buy
A trip to France across the seas,
A motorboat and water skis,
Maybe even a foreign car,
A charge account at the corner bar,
Not to mention a scrabble board with letters made of gold!


Only twenty years from today


Twenty years! Let's see..thats 1040 weeks, times forty hours every week, and roughly two and a quarter hours overtime.. at
time and a half for overtime! Comes to exactly.. $3411.96!
Wow!


That's enough for me to be
A sultan in a taj mahal
In every room a different doll!


I'll have myself a buying spree,
I'll buy a pajama factory,
Then I could end up having old man Hasler work for me!

(Chorus)
So! Although!
Seven and a half cents doesn't buy a hell of a lot,
Seven and a half cents doesn't mean a thing!
But give it to me every hour,
Forty hours every week,
And that's enough for me to be living like a king!

he posted on reddit:

"I tried the password reset this morning and it once again told me that my email was invalid."

https://youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?si=aPAZMqrCj2FiBGBF

Holy hecking heck… just finished a second read of the book… I love Andy Weir’s work. And this trailer looks close…

Needs a year for all the CGI…

https://www.fastcompany.com/91354942/sec...rd-passkey

authenticator and passkeys instead.