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How To Print T-Shirts For Fun And Profit
But with advanced techniques, you can print the t-shirts in your home. There are many DIY methods to print t-shirts, which is great fun and enjoyable. Moreover, t-shirt printing is a popular way to earn nowadays. People get fun working with t-shirts and have the platform to practice their talents which helps in enhancing their

How to Make Air Hockey Table Slide Better
Learning how to make your hockey table slide better is essential to ensuring that you continue to enjoy using your table for a very long time. This is mainly because in making the table surface slippery, you’re inadvertently maintaining the table too. This then results in an increased lifespan of your table and a greater

How To Clean Air Hockey Table
This post on how to clean air hockey table is really for the game’s devoted fans. The air hockey game offers enough fun, just like the most popular sports games. Back then, in the 1970s, when it was created, an ice hockey fan, Bob Lemieux, was one of the major advocates. Unlike ice hockey and other

How Much Is An Air Hockey Table
How much is an air hockey table remains one of the questions on the lips of the newest players to the game. After playing it for the first time and getting caught up in the excitement, most people just can’t wait to get a table of their own – this points to just how great a

How Do Air Hockey Tables Work
Air hockey is a very exciting game that is played for fun and does not require outdoor presence, but there is still a very common question of how air hockey tables work. Beyond the fun and excitement, players need to understand how this table works to play better or manipulate their way around the table. Air hockey tables usually

What Is The Difference Between A Hockey And Figure Skates?
When it comes to winter sports, you can find two types of skates— figure skates and ice hockey skates. Figure skaters will use figure skates, while Ice hockey players will use hockey skates. Though both skates are for use on the ice, they have a few differences that set them apart. Besides, they perform different roles

A Beginner’s Guide To Duck Hunting: Hunting Ducks In The Wild
Hunting is one of the fun hobbies you can get into. When it comes to the sport of hunting, duck or waterfowl hunting is widely considered to be one of the most difficult. Hunting by itself can be a very intimidating hobby. No amount of reading or research will properly prepare you because important knowledge can

How To Choose The Right M.2 2230 SSD
Are you looking for a new SSD? M.2 2230 SSDs are the latest and greatest in storage technology. They offer speeds and performance unmatched by any other type of drive. If you want to upgrade your computer, an M.2 2230 SSD is the perfect solution. With an M.2 2230 SSD, you can experience faster boot

Canberra: the post-ceremonial city
A nice processional route, like the avenue of Rams on the way to the temple of Karnak, is handy in a city. Ditto for set pieces, like the piazza framing views of St. Peters in Rome (hi to all of the students who have come with me to that spot to analyze Bernini’s fine tricks

Design new cities around cycling to make mothers’ lives easier
My box bike (or bakfiets in Dutch) can go where no pedestrian or vehicle can go. It could traverse slopes that would hurt peoples’ ankles if they walked. It can fit through gaps that vehicles are unable to fit through. It is safe enough and clean enough to be ridden indoors. And it can shrink spaces that

New York set to see some Italian style cycling
As one of the few cities I’ve ever lived in long enough to require a non-tourist Visa or enroll my children in school, I have a sense of how things could play out in New York when their city-bike scheme has had time to shake down. I’ll be there in a month to welcome an envoy

Bike Plans For Cities That Cycling Forgot
A renaissance in urban cycling is forging ahead in many cities, generally, ones that are dense, flat, and that have a wealth of building stock predating the age of basement garaging. But what if the city you live in isn’t like that? What if your city happens to be one of the thousands worldwide that grew late,

Living car-free yet using more cars—how we can solve this dilemma
If you haven’t read my blog in a while (or ever), the last few posts explain my decision to work within the literary genre of Utopian writing. Utopian visions have always precipitated new paradigms in urban planning. It is unimaginable that such a thing as a purpose-built bicycle city could even come into existence without

Imagining Plato’s Ideal Republic of Cycling
Books have been written about the wild enthusiasm with which the architectural community approached the possibilities presented by cars in the twentieth century (1, 2, 3). None, though, have mentioned a gaping hole in one piece of their logic that doesn’t tally with their espoused claims about rationalization. Whether designing a town plan, a house,

Bicycle-tech: architecture, planning, clothing and customs
Whatever happened to raincoats? On rainy days when I was in school, all the kids turned up in yellow. All our houses had hooks in the laundries or inside the front doors, loaded with yellow plastic raincoats for all of the family. Another must-have in everyone’s wardrobe was a huge pair of Wellies or gum

How will office buildings adapt to more cycling?
First, a little extraneous background to the history of the office building as a type. We could go back to the Greek stoa or Roman basilica, but that would be stupid. The earliest critical interval of significance to the evolution of the office building as we know it today was the rebuilding of Chicago in

Healthy Green Transport for a Small City. 2.
Map all the existing and potential routes for bike paths that are nowhere near cars against the redundant industrial sites those bike paths could unlock for bicycle-oriented redevelopment. For about a year now, I’ve hypothesized that that is the first planning step toward making bicycling oases in cities otherwise overridden by cars. The cities we

How To Make Bunch-Rides Safe — And Cycling Safe, Generally.
My last post arguing that groups of cyclists have an ethical entitlement to ride 2 abreast, or indeed take up the whole road the way cars do, got a few thousand hits in a few days. It’s a hot topic, clearly—not in all countries, certainly not Holland, but definitely hot in countries where many cyclists find themselves

Postcard From An Asphalt Ikea
It is hard to believe smart bohemians of the early twentieth century had a mental image of Australia like the image many of us now have of Sweden or Denmark. In a dog-eat-dog world, this newly federated nation and trade-union stronghold on the other side of Asia somewhere promised to be an ongoing project in social justice.

Building For Bikes In Car Cities
Among those of us batting for bicycle transport, many hold a quaint misconception that travel mode choices are made voluntarily. They suppose that the whole city will swap cars for bikes when they have their awakenings. Those holding onto such hopes make the inductive fallacy that because they personally choose to ride bikes, everyone else

Will The City Of Tomorrow Have Driverless Taxis Or Bikes?
During her 6 years (2007-2013) as Commissioner of New York’s Department of Transportation, Janette Sadik-Khan partially restored 317 linear miles of 19th-century streets so they could be used for a similar kind of non-motorized mode (cycling) to the mode for which they were laid out (horse-drawn transportation). 317 sounds like a lot. Like a revolution, coupled with statistics showing

Summary Of Bicycle Urbanism Design Lab Experiments In Recent Months
For the past year, I have been leading teams of MA and Ph.D. students at the University of Tasmania, Australia, in a range of pure research and research-by-design projects. One of the questions we have been asking is, “what might a purpose-built bicycling city actually look like?” Would it have streets, alleys, or free-flowing ground

You can’t say utopia on the radio
Don’t you hate when a media outlet preps you with questions, you spend an hour or two writing responses on paper, preparing your mind for the big moment, then when the interview comes, it is about some other topic entirely? A producer for ABC Radio National Drive got in touch last week and asked what

The elegant device as a paragon for city planning
This might seem arcane, but it’s obvious that every architectural or urban design act refers back to a pinnacle. In Renaissance times, it was the body. Whether through analogy (e.g., the civic administration building is the head, the church is the heart, the neighborhoods are the hands, etc.) or simply by copying proportions, architecture and

Blue Maps – The Recycle Space Map
Here is a mapping technique highlighting the possibility of bicycling heterotopias in just about any city. It has been designed to help people imagine greenways built along non-vehicular easements (waterways and rail corridors, for example), unlocking potential new redevelopment districts where bike-friendly building types like the one below would be the basis of a new kind

Toward a critical regionalist approach to bike planning
Pedestrian advocates will never tell you that life as a walker invariably leads to one thing: public transport. Driving always struck me as a very expensive way to get fat. As for life as a car-free pedestrian, I gave it a shot, first when I lived in Singapore and later when I lived in New

Cycle Specific Attire: The good, The bad And The Worth Owning
Riding a bike in the city wearing business attire is like walking a dog in Central Park. It’s an innocuous, necessary act for some people, but one that they obviously love for the opportunity afforded to parade yuppie status. If carrying a mug of tea made at home past all the cafes is too gratuitous,