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Inline Skating in Finland - Features links to information about aggressive skating, local clubs, organizations and places to skate in Finland.
On Sport in Finland - An overview of sports in Finland.
Finland By Bike - Provides a guide to cycling tours from Northern Ostrobothnia to North Karelia, including booking information.
ProArm Professional Arm Wrestling Tournament - Event information, photos, video clips, results.
Electric Wheelchair Hockey Finland - Information, links, and photos about electric wheelchair hockey in Helsinki. [Information section of site in Finnish only.]
Finnish Greyhound Racing Association - Covers tracks used, fixtures, betting tips, historical overview, and dogs for sale.
Simo Salanne - Flyer and stunt kite designer with photos and technical articles.
Mike Emery - Personal home page of a stunt kite flyer. Includes information about kites that he has owned.
Jussi Vakkala's Digiscoped Bird Pictures - Digiscoping gallery from Finland and Estonia and information about the technique using a Nikon CoolPix 995 and Kowa TSN-823 scope.
Teepakki Climb - Crag information, gear shops, photos and archive of mailing list for climbers in the Helskinki area.
Suomen Latu - Umbrella organisation that arranges and supports outdoor sports and health activities and pursuits to promote physical fitness, health and recreation. Provides a brief intorduction, contact details and brochures.
Arctic Golf Finland - Information about the northermost golf course in the country, at Rovaniemi. Includes green fees and course map.
Mountain Biking Pictures Finland - Pictures and video clips of many mtb xc bikes, mountain biking trails and dirt jumping.
Finnish Sports Federation - Includes history and a directory of member organisations.
Finnish Baseball and Softball Federation - Includes photos, game schedules and contact information.
Finnish Darts Organization - Features a brief introduction and contact information.
Golf.fi - Provides a directory of courses and guidelines for guest players.
Finnish Gymnastics and Fitness Association - Provides a summary of the organisation's activities, with contacts.
Finnish Petanque Federation - Includes club directory, photos and event information.
Finnish Rinkball Federation - Provides an introduction to the sport in English.
Team Nokia - Biographies, race calendar, links to sponsors and latest news for the adventure racing team.
Greyhound Racing Liito - Includes an introduction to the sport, and a club directory.
Finnish Volleyball Association - Features history and contacts.
Finnish Sports Federation (FSF), Ostrobothnia Region - Regional sport organization with contacts and a summary of its activities.
The Finnish Association of Sports for the Disabled - Provides a brief introduction to the activities of the organisation.
Rhonrad in Finland - Information about wheel gymnastics. Includes events and photos.
Play with Dirt - Pictures and videos of freeride dirt biking in Finland.
I think of my wife and I think of Lot, and I think of the lucky break he got. Love is stronger than justice. -- Sting In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from. -- Peter F. Drucker Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. Recreation and Sports There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, you can't take part. And you've got to put your body upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the lev "Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock 'n roll." (Shigeru Miyamoto, game designer for Nintendo) "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) Recreation and Sports Happiness is nothing more than health and a poor memory. -- Albert Schweitzer To be able to say how much love, is love but little. -- Petrarch .. I am indebted to the cat for a particular kind of honorable deceit, for a greater control over myself, for a characteristic aversion to brutal sounds, and for the need to keep silent for long per A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Recreation and Sports In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Recreation and Sports Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. -- Anton Chekhov "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. -- Ralph Mars Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. -- G. K. Chesterton It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett Recreation and Sports Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. -- Bertrand Russell "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none." (Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881) Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard Recreation and Sports There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. -- Michel de Montaigne Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes A friend is a gift you give yourself. -- Robert Louis Stevenson When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick Recreation and Sports If we don't change the direction we are going, We are likely to end up where we are heading. -- Chinese saying The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful theory by an ugly fact. -- Thomas Henry Huxley The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people looks back on at Recreation and Sports Hell is paved with good samaritans. -- William M. Holden Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. - George Eliot Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce Recreation and Sports The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854) "... adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them." (Theodor Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, 1904-1991, quoted in his obituary, Time) Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. -- Alfred Hitchcock Recreation and Sports "Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing." (Oscar Wilde) Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's family does too. -- Anonymous That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort Recreation and Sports Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. -- D. H. Lawrence Recreation and Sports "The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour." (Karl Marx) We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." (Gore Vidal) Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Recreation and Sports There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Working mothers are guinea pigs in a scientific experiment to show that sleep is not necessary to human life. Education ... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan Recreation and Sports In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley blah "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure." (Thomas Alva Edison) There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for. -- Fred Hoyle "A new baby is like the beginning of all things--wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities." (Eda J. Le Shan) "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) Recreation and Sports That government is best which governs least. -- Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience, 1849 Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown "Man was born free and everywhere he is in chains." (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher, The Social Contract) Recreation and Sports Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. -- Groucho Marx No other success can compensate for failure in the home. -- David O. McKay, Encyclopedia of Mormonism, Advice to parents at General Conference of he LDS Church, April, 1964 I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out next morning it was someone else. -- Rogers Recreation and Sports The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. -- Oscar Wilde I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -- Gandhi Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes. -- Norman Douglas Recreation and Sports "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) Women: If they're not turning down your proposals for marriage, they're accusing you of suspicious behavior in the women's lingerie changing room. -- Cliff Clavin, character on "Cheers", U.S. Televi "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz Recreation and Sports That is the best -- to laugh with someone because you think the same things are funny. -- Gloria Vanderbilt Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software. -- Arthur C. Clarke Recreation and Sports Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. -- Louise Hay One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it. -- W.S. Gilbert "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." (William Shakespeare) The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved. -- Mother Teresa Recreation and Sports Marriage is a thing which puts a ring on a woman's finger and two under the man's eyes. blah "The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965) "The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one." (Joan Baez) Recreation and Sports
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