"Too much time in front of the TV reduces children’s learning abilities, academic achievement, and even the likelihood of their graduating from university, suggest three new studies. But it may be the quality, not quantity, of the programmes that really matters."

Pepsi recently rolled out its carbonated grapefruit drink Ting to UK consumers.  "Originally from Jamaica, the lightly carbonated grapefruit drink contains grapefruit Juice (6%), natural grapefruit flavour, citric acid and sodium citrate."

Jonathan enjoyed quite a few Tings during his trip to Jamaica a couple of years back.

The MS 150 Bike Tour was this past weekend.  It was my 8th tour (4 in TN and 4 in MI).  I did 107 miles on Saturday and 84 on Sunday.  The weather was good most of the time: overcast and not too hot.  Saturday was my first century.  It went OK though I had quite a bit of back and shoulder pain.

Here is someone else's blog from the ride with a bunch of pictures, etc.

Here is a picture of Kip and me after finishing the ride on Sunday.

Following up on a previous study, University of Michigan researchers have found that children who snored regularly, in comparison to those who did not, were about four times more likely to have developed new hyperactivity by the time the U-M team contacted their families four years later.