Agitated about the agitos

Oh, I felt bad about being so rude about it... (Just incase you thought the logo was based on my toenails.)




The symbol of the Paralympic Games is composed of three "agitos", coloured red, blue, and green, encircling a single point, on a white field. The agito ("I move" in Latin) is a symbol of movement in the shape of an asymmetrical crescent. The Paralympic symbol was created by the Scholz & Friends agency and approved in April 2003.

The colours of the agitos with the white background stand for the three colours that are most widely represented in national flags around the world. The three agitos encircle a centre point, to emphasize "the role that the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has of bringing athletes from all corners of the world together and enabling them to compete".

The shape also symbolises the Paralympic vision "To Enable Paralympic Athletes to Achieve Sporting Excellence and to Inspire and Excite the World".

The symbol was first used in a Paralympic emblem at the 2006 Paralympic Winter Games in Torino.

 The previous Paralympic symbols were based on the traditional Korean decorative component called "tae-geuk", which is based on the ancient Chinese symbol of Tai-Chi. The ones shown on the flags were half of the tae-geuk in different colours. The colours were also the same as in the Olympic Rings: blue, black, red, yellow and green.





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Serbia or Spain?

There is a helicopter hovering overhead, surely the Queen isnt going to drop in again? Zelda took the photo for me. 'These will be days to remember'.

Thanks again!

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summertime 2012

I thought Harry should get some fresh air so he filmed it...


... he's still drying off.

Paranormally excited

Para
a prefix from Greek, most often attached to verbs and verbal derivatives, with the meanings “at or to one side of, beside, side by side” ( parabola; paragraph; parallel; paralysis ), “beyond, past, by” ( paradox ).

...And the logo is three toenail clippings????

This design-by-committee has to stop.

I know we are all broke, I know the current government sees no value in design or disabled people and doesn't it show?

Good luck to all the Paralympians, it's going to be a great 11 days.


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Spot the difference

The only difference is my weird hair doesn't have any pink dandruff. I just hope the old man doesn't use my head to clean out the pans. I can't dye it for another few months cos it might fall out again but when it has grown a bit longer I'm going to treat myself to some highlights and lowlights even. Currently it's a head full of product.

The swimming or the chlorine probably haven't helped, but right now I feel like wearing the wig again. Just like Andy

Here comes the arty bit:

In the mid-1960s Warhol carried his consumer-product imagery into the realm of sculpture. Calling to mind a factory assembly line, Warhol employed carpenters to construct numerous plywood boxes identical in size and shape to supermarket cartons. Then, with assistance from Gerard Malanga and Billy Linich, he painted and silkscreened the boxes with logos of the different consumer products: Kellogg's corn flakes, Brillo soap pads, Mott's apple juice, Del Monte peaches, and Heinz ketchup. The finished sculptures were virtually indistinguishable from their cardboard supermarket counterparts. Warhol first exhibited these at the Stable Gallery in 1964, cramming the space with piled-high boxes that recalled a cramped grocery warehouse. He invited collectors to buy them by the stack, and though they did not sell well, the boxes caused much controversy. In reference to his boxes, Warhol later said that he "wanted something ordinary," and it was this mundane, commercial subject matter that infuriated the critics. The perfectly blank, "machine-made" look of Warhol's boxes contrasted sharply with the gestural brushstrokes of Abstract Expressionist paintings.

He would have liked my hair too.


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Missing you already

Britain's Olympic athlete's have made their own version of Queen's Don't Stop Me Now to celebrate the success of Team GB at London 2012.





http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWMySZa0TzQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player



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6,700 identical bouquets

http://www.koco.com/olympics/London-flower-shop-makes-winning-athletes-bouquets/-/15411300/15930176/-/op1du3/-/index.html


And it's nearly all over.





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Why the tiny pool?

Answerer 1
Yeah, it's a hot tub. They get into them after competing so that they aren't tense for their next dive (it keeps their muscles relaxed). Also, jumping in just to get back out makes you really cold--I would be sooo happy to have a hot tub if I were an Olympic diver.

Answerer 2
Its a kittypool and they go in their to party like its 1984.





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Breast stroke

As Brighton's most enthusiastic single breasted breast stroke swimmer, it is much easier getting about in the water, rather than out of it. The 'Speedo' should be changed to 'Slow coach'. But like the tortoise, I get there in the end.




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Eat, Fast and Live Longer

If you are like the 20 million viewers who watched Mr Bolt for 9 seconds last night, then why not spend a bit longer watching this, it might be the only way we mere mortals can be as 'fast'.

Michael Mosley presents Horizon: Eat, Fast and Live Longer on BBC Two at 21:00 on Monday 6 August.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mgxf

“I decided I couldn't manage ADF (Asian Dub Foundation?), it was just too impractical. Instead I did an easier version, the so-called 5:2 diet. As the name implies you eat normally 5 days a week, then two days a week you eat 500 calories if you are a woman, or 600 calories, if you are a man.

There are no firm rules because so far there have been few proper human trials. I found that I could get through my fast days best if I had a light breakfast (scrambled eggs, thin slice of ham, lots of black tea, adding up to about 300 calories), lots of water and herbal tea during the day, then a light dinner (grilled fish with lots of vegetables) at night.

On my feed days I ate what I normally do and felt no need to gorge. I stuck to this diet for 5 weeks, during which time I lost nearly a stone and my blood markers, like IGF-1, glucose and cholesterol, improved. If I can sustain that, it will greatly reduce my risk of contracting age-related diseases like cancer and diabetes.”



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Chariots of fire

My old man finally had his moment of glory, cycling in the velodrome, in front of those lovely boys and just a few billion viewers.

It took me ages to sew the black lycra catsuit. He kept complaining about it being too tight and I had to keep letting it out. He wanted Stella to have a look but I said NO, she'd laugh at my dreadful hemming. I thought he looked very smart and I promised not to call him Il Duce.

During the ride of his life, he was terribly serious but he told me later that he was concentrating on not falling off. I was very proud. He was going for gold but when he went the wrong way those scallywags started cycling really really fast. Anyway, he had his moment of glory.

I think the sage tablets might be causing me to hallucinate, my son got them for me... ...he said they were sage pills.





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