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Might be a lot more by tonight. 40+mph winds between 11pm and 12 midday tomorrow.

Sat in a restaurant trying to do the math on whether I can manage a completion before I have to go home. Its very tight. Best I can do is push on and see how the hills pan out.

Cp2 to Galway was very fast and flat.

Saturday

I'm not going as well as hoped but, as my fitst of this kind of ride, I'm happy with what I've done so far.

Into the sixth day and so far only ridden through three light rainshowers. I think if ever there was a year to do if, its this one.

At CP2.

Been struggling on the hills now. They're not massive but punchy and relentless. Taking a long break and seeing what tomorrow brings.

Had a chat with Vin at the start and he wasn't planning a competitive ride. He's not been keeping on top form recently.

I'm one of the blue ARs and Mrs TSK is one of the pink ones.

All registered and live on the tracker. Weather is a bit warmer than I would like but not unbearably so.

The barriers start at school age. There's still a lot of gender bias in teaching which directly affects what sort of post school decisions women will make.

By the time you get to the hiring stage, the competition from women for positions that familiarity is probably one of the greatest forces working against women getting employment.

I'm not sure what "the industry" can do as a whole. The majority of mechanics are employed in a commercial setting and the majority of that is small, independent businesses. I'm not aware of any bodies offering oversight of those businesses as a regulatory or membership organisation.

Where to start?

Approach BC and any women's trade teams to offer traineeships to women riders and at a minimum aim to have all women riders supported by a female mechanic.

I'm attending a community forum on Monday and will be arguing against easing parking restriction in a local shopping area.

Can anyone point to a UK study that supports that making an area more pedestrian/cycle friendly is good for business? I've found some overseas ones but a UK one would carry more weight in an discussion.

I'm Cycling Tiger. My other half has not, as far as I know, frequented this forum. We're Andrea and Andrew Rodgers. Not sure what the numbers are yet, probably going to be released the day before as trackers get assigned at the briefing.

http://trackleaders.com/transatlantic18f.php

For the dot watchers.

Looking back at the betting chat, I can't help wonder if Dave's had his budget slashed on account of Froome's lung candy habit and he's called sandbagging orders so that he can stick a wedge on at Paddypower.

Zoncolan can be explained by either Froome getting it mixed up with the name of a new inhaler or Dave panicking because the team cars were getting a bit low on diesel.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-44174853

Aye, go on then, I haven't done this in a while. Just for the funsies, cite your ridiculous sources.

#PleaseLetItBeJimInhofe

but the situation isn't quite as desperate as many journalists report.

I disagree on this.

The volume of energy consumption on a global scale is still a very real concern, particularly while significant portions of most developed nation's energy is derived from non-renewable sources. It's an additional load that we weren't bearing through our combined systems. Environmental impacts simply don't observe boundaries.

Claiming that the Bitcoin mining powered through the Three Gorges Dam power supply is clean is all well and good. However this ignores the important knock on effect that this has. Yes, power is generally localised in supply and usage. However, it is also generally networked across grid structure systems. Therefore, all of that power used for cryptocurrency mining is then no longer available to be used by other customers who are peripheral to the TGD power generation position and thus have to be powered by other power generation sources. Even if those sources are themselves renewable, the ongoing chain effects are at some point going to lead to power demands that aren't supplied by renewable sources.

Claiming all is good for this bit of cryptocurrency because its powered by renewable effectively castigates the customers of adjacent non-renewable energy sources such as the simple householder wanting to heat their home because its winter. What do they get out of it? Basically nothing but a kicking.

Now if we take a look at those currently most vulnerable to climate change, those living in under-developed nations without the capital standing to invest in environmental defence mechanisms (against things like rising sea-levels and desertification, the ensuing civil and militarised unrest caused by scarcity of resources, etc), where do they factor in the cryptocurrency environment? Not at all. The vast majority of the global population that is going to suffer from climate change first operates in a cash economy and they remain largely dependent on foreign aid which is funded through taxation. Taxation that itself is diminished through the rising use of cryptocurrency on that limited volume of its use in transactions.

Are there any cyrptocurrencies that are, in some form, putting back into the communities they are taking from? Because, environmentally, this has become an absolute shitshow.

If that were achieved, how much would that reduce the overall average per unit energy cost of any given cryptocurrency?

This is one of those things that I find fascinating and horrifying in equal measure. Unlike the majority of currency formulation, where resource capital could be highly variable, cryptocurrency was far more predictable. At the advent of Bitcoin, did anybody actually bother to look into the projected environmental impact?

Use of the phrase "libertarian nerds" aside, cryptocurrency does seem to be becoming more the preserve of selfish asshats. Does anyone have a good reason that the endless mining of alt-currencies at the expense of the environment should be considered acceptable?

https://grist.org/article/bitcoins-energy-use-got-studied-and-you-libertarian-nerds-look-even-worse-than-usual/

Ha, jokes on you. You'll just be shitting light while doing bird in Russia.

I'm still doing this. Training has been suffering from rash life decisions but hoping to get around in 10 days.

Will post a tracker site as soon as I know what it is.

That's really going to depend on the actual pension fund first and foremost. You're going to have to speak to the fund management company about it.

Today's effort is Kolach, a Bulgarian bread.

It's supposed to come up as a ring so I think I may have gotten the yeast proportions a bit wrong from fresh to dried. Probably should have also made a bit of a bigger circle out of the dough before baking.

I'm definitely too new to the game to answer that. I'll try and remember to ask the boss this evening.

That's the trade off. The further you get from a long aged starter, the closer you get to a plain rye flour loaf.

Our starter is pretty stiff and after about 6-8 hours we get a good flavour from it. We don't fridge ferment though. Might do if we do the sourdough version.

The commercial version that I bake is done in a day. Make the starter in the morning, mix, proove, shape, prove, cut and bake in the evening.

We are thinking of trialling a sourdough version which will take two days.