yes.

There's an obvious risk of injury, and then there's a less obvious risk of body conditioning. Football is more about short bursts and strength than about long slogs, which can be a handicap if you later on decide to try endurance events like cross-country skiing or running the marathon.

Don't really know what you mean by a jump bike...

Generally speaking a MTB is intended to be fairly versatile, and it will usually have gears enough both for slow slogs uphill, for going along the flat, and for powering downhill. Something like a dirt bike is usually adapted to run in pretty much one condition only, so taking it on a longer trail with both uphills and descents is likely to be heavy going.

Any individual who has worked in the software industry for at least 2 years will invariably agree with the fact that, we all slog. Most of our estimates miss the target by quite a bit and the whole team slogs like crazy during the last 2-3 months of the project and finish the delivery. The cause could be scope increase, attrition, or because of any numerous other possibilities. But, almost always, the reason is bad estimates. The team that estimated this work, underestimated the complexity and allotted much less time that what would be required to finish this. So, the eventual result is, the team members slog their backsides off to finish the project.

If I were project manager, I will do everything in my power to ensure that my guys don't have to slog it out in the end…

Any individual who has worked in the software industry for at least 2 years will invariably agree with the fact that, we all slog. Most of our estimates miss the target by quite a bit and the whole team slogs like crazy during the last 2-3 months of the project and finish the delivery. The cause could be scope increase, attrition, or because of any numerous other possibilities. But, almost always, the reason is bad estimates. The team that estimated this work, underestimated the complexity and allotted much less time that what would be required to finish this. So, the eventual result is, the team members slog their backsides off to finish the project.

If I were project manager, I will do everything in my power to ensure that my guys don't have to slog it out in the end…

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According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 677 words with the pattern -L---. That is, five letter words with 2nd letter L. In alphabetical order, they are:

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