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Some fables never lose their relevance, no matter how old or simple they may be. Like the fable of the tortoise and the hare.
The well-known moral of the story is how patience and persistence can win out over speed and arrogance. Right now in the Winnipeg mayoral race, we've got a classic tortoise-and-hare battle going on.
Playing the hare is former city councillor Gord Steeves, who has dominated headlines over the past month with a series of bold pledges that have included plans to sell city assets to fund infrastructure, a property-tax freeze and a plan to use more police cadets to control disorderly conduct downtown.
Steeves' campaign has been intense and interesting, but it has also been at times tactically foolish and mathematically challenged. As a result, he has been regularly criticized in the media.
The rough ride is unlikely to end for Steeves following revelations late last week his wife, Lorrie, had, four years earlier, posted a racist rant on Facebook about downtown panhandlers. She issued an apology the same day, but the controversy will likely continue in earnest this week.
Steeves is not expected to comment directly on his wife's rant until Tuesday. He also declined Sunday to accept an offer to hand out food to the homeless with Althea Guiboche, the so-called Bannock Lady, who has gained acclaim for her selfless devotion to the city's poor and hungry.
Rebuffing Guiboche and waiting until Tuesday to deal with this mess demonstrates a lack of judgment on Steeves' part. This fire needs to be put out right away, and forcing the media to embrace delayed gratification is a sure way to turn up the volume on his wife's preposterous comments.
Steeves has certainly done his part to inject some life into what is a typically quiet period of the campaign. Most mayoral candidates wait until after Labour Day to fire the big policy guns. Steeves and his team have bucked that tradition by trying to get out in front of the other candidates over the summer, command media attention and secure a place in the minds of voters he hopes will remain safe until October.
To date, none of the other candidates has matched the frequency or magnitude of Steeves' announcements. University administrator Robert-Falcon Ouellette has been steadily making pledges; however, the biggest headlines he has garnered were about how his name was misspelled in one of his own news releases and how his former manager overspent on an event, crippling his campaign finances.
Former MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis has run a very safe, very predictable campaign. She announced a formula to set future property-tax increases early in the campaign. Since then, it's been a whole lot of minor nips and tucks that have landed with a deafening silence.
Coun. Paula Havixbeck and lawyer Brian Bowman have also been slow, steady and unremarkable. Of greater concern, their announcements are disjointed, over-generalized and poorly costed. All in all, a bad effort by candidates with high hopes but low profiles.
Funeral director Mike Vogiatzakis has been intriguing, but for the wrong reasons. Entertainment booking agent Michel Fillion, silent since spring, and citizen watchdog David Sanders, who entered the race last week, haven't yet offered us much to criticize.
And that seems to be what last week prompted chatter on social media and on the comments section of the Free Press website. In other words, has Steeves been punished for being the only candidate to campaign with some intensity during the summer?
First, all the announcements by mayoral candidates have been covered by the Free Press. No one has been ignored. Having said that, only certain announcements by certain candidates received attention from columnists and editorial writers. Steeves has received more of this additional coverage than any other candidate.
It is also fair to say we commentators spend more time writing about the things we don't like than things we do like. So, it's true Steeves has taken more lumps than his fellow candidates, at least in this space.
However, this is a long campaign, and by the time voters are ready to go to the polls in October, every viable candidate has usually received his or her fair share of attention -- some positive and some negative. The Free Press will eventually endorse candidates based on the entirety of their campaigns, and not on whether they were quick out of the gate or more methodical.
Steeves has been very busy campaigning to divert attention from other candidates. This would have been a laudable tactic if he had shown some logic in his fiscal mathematics and steered clear of controversy.
In the fable, the tortoise always triumphs because, as mentioned above, slow and steady wins a long race. Still, a candidate can go hard early and win the race, as long as that candidate remembers one very important fact: Whether you're the hare or the tortoise, try not to say stupid things on Facebook.
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Hello World
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from bottle import route, run @route('/:name') def index(name='World'): return 'Hello %s!' % name run(host='localhost', port=8080)
To start Bottle, just simply run it using python
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FastCGI is a great way of interfacing with Bottle (from lighttpd, nginx, etc). To use it however we must hook Bottle into something. For a simple example, let's use FLUP (for python2.x)
Install the python-flup[broken link: package not found] package.
And now for our hello world application:
from bottle import route, run, FlupFCGIServer @route('/:name') def index(name='World'): return 'Hello %s!' % name run(host='localhost', port=8080, server=FlupFCGIServer)
more details on alternative servers here
By default, Bottle does not support reloading of files. However there is an option to allow such a feature. Bottle does this by starting a new server in parallel to the one currently running, switching over to it, and then removing the older version.
from bottle import route, run @route('/:name') def index(name='World'): return 'Hello %s!' % name run(host='localhost', port=8080, reloader=True)
and to set the interval in which it reloads itself (default of 1 second):
run(host='localhost', port=8080, reloader=True, interval=0.5)
My application works, but only locally
Be sure if you are using Bottle directly as a web server (good for development, not recommend for production) to set the host to the ip address it will be accessed from and not 'localhost'
run(host='192.168.2.3', port=8080)
Bottle isn't automatically reloading when I make changes to one of my files!
The Bottle reloader checks on which applications have changed by monitoring the imported files. Make sure that you are globally importing the application modules that you want to be reloaded.
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Despite a slew of writing and producing credits on some of TV's biggest shows, audiences might not recognize Drew Goddard's name. But the critical and commercial success of his directorial debut "The Cabin In the Woods" earlier this year has brought him out of the shade and into the Hollywood sun.
Goddard, who helped steer such hit shows as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "Alias' and "LOST," teamed with friend and collaborator Joss Whedon to pen the script for the genre-busting "Cabin," deftly mashing together a knowing send-up of horror conventions with authentic scares and a wildly original backdrop. As the film makes its bow on Blu-Ray, Goddard talks the making of the movie and how one fresh, well-received film can be a major career game-changer.
Where did "The Cabin the Woods" concept come from?
Well, I think it just came from a place of love. We just love horror movies, and Joss [Whedon] and I were talking about making a horror movie. And it really just came from there. Because we didn't set it up with a studio first – it really just came from a place of two guys messing around and seeing what happened. We equate it to musicians jamming and seeing if a song comes out of it, and that was really how it started, just talking about movies that we love and if we could do anything, what type of movie would we make. 'Cabin' was the answer to that.
How did you reign in all the crazy ideas you had for this type of genre film?
Well, I'm not sure we did reign it in! At the end of the day we got all of those crazy ideas in, in the third act. That was the fun part about the structure, it allowed it us to throw the kitchen sink at the viewer by the end of it. So I don't think there was any crazy idea that we didn't get in there that we really wanted to put on the screen.
How encyclopedic was your horror knowledge? Were you the guy who knew everything about the genre, or was Joss that guy?
I would say between the two of us we can hold our own in a horror contest. We sort of fill in each other's gaps. He's very, very old, so he knows the older-school horror stuff, whereas I'm a child of the '80's and so I know sort of '75 on. And between the two of us, he only knows 'Nosferatu' and things like that because, again, he's very, very old.
You were able to strike two different tones in the film: the send up element but also moments of genuine emotion and scares. How tricky was that on set, figuring out how to walk that tightrope?
Without question, maintaining tone was the hardest part of the job. Without question. That's always the hardest part, but in particular with 'Cabin,' I just knew that I was trying to thread a very, very small needle with this one, so it was what I was doing all day every day on set. The hard part about tone is that there's no manual for it. There's no right or wrong. It just comes down to your own personal taste. So much of it is just me communicating with the crew: 'This is okay, but this is not,' and getting everyone on the same page.
The movie is lean and mean, budget-wise, up until the finale. Was that part of the plan, saving a little bit up front so you could go crazy in the end?
Without question. I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but I would imagine seventy five percent of our budget is in the last thirty minutes. It's funny, it's sort of a pet peeve of mine as a screenwriter, because what happens when I go around as a script doctor and see movies, studios trying to fix movies, the first thing unquestionably whenever they say the budget is too high, they always go, 'Well, let's trim the ending.' I always say, 'That's the most important part. If you're going to trim anything, trim the middle. Take the money out of the middle or even the beginning. If you trim the ending, that's the best part of the movie.' So, with 'Cabin' we definitely made sure to protect…because they're always trying to trim the budget and we always said, 'Okay, whatever you do, we just cannot trim this ending because that's the most important part.'
Can you talk about your experience of working with, first, a group of stars in the making as far as your actors, and then also a couple of ringers in your veterans?
It was interesting because the way that the schedule worked, they don't have a lot of scenes with each other, so we shot sort of all the kids stuff first and then shot, I think, what I called the 'grownup' stuff second. So, it really felt like we were making two entirely different movies. I mean, even the sets weren't the same. Even the tones weren't exactly the same. So, it was fun because just when you start to get tired of one movie, you get to switch gears and have this whole other team. With the kids, they have that youthful energy and it was fun to sort of play with that, but the surprise was that when the grownups showed up, I think that they had even more youthful energy than the kids. I think that Bradley [Whitford] and Richard [Jenkins], maybe that's just how they are, or maybe they don't get to do this sort of thing a lot, but they were just so excited and so enthusiastic that it gave just the entire production a kick in the ass, all of us. Once we saw those guys show up and be so game to try anything, it made all of us raise our own game.
What was Joss's role once production began?
He was always there when I needed him. He has the Bat-phone and I can call him at any time and he would swoop in, whenever we had a producing problem. Like, we showed up on set the first day and it's snowing, so then he can get on and figure out how we're going to move the schedule around to accommodate the lost day. Things like that he was great at, and just always sort of being around whenever I needed him. He's a busy man, so he was flitting back and forth between Vancouver and Los Angeles, running 'Dollhouse' at the time, but never far away.
What were the aftereffects of this movie on your career, once Hollywood got a sense for what you'd done and how the audience responded to it?
It's been great. It was fun to see not just the audience's response, but the town's sort of response. I got a lot of dream-come-true phone calls from heads of studios that I never thought that I would be getting. People sparked to the movie. It just sort of opens doors that weren't already open.
Is horror a genre that you still have some ideas in, or did you get them all out in this movie?
I definitely felt like I got most of them out for now, but I love the genre, and so I've learned to never say never. You never know what…inspiration is a strange entity. You never know where it's going to strike. So I would imagine that I get back to horror sooner or later.
"Cloverfield," which you wrote, was also having fun with a tried-and-true genre. Is that something that interests you: moving on to the next genre, picking it apart and putting it back together in a loving but knowing way?
It's interesting. That IS what happens with my films, but I never set out…I guess I'm not particularly that interested in deconstructing genres. It just sort of happens organically as I get bored with the story, I suppose. It always starts from characters. Just as a writer that's just what interests me, and then you sort of expand outward from there. So I never know, but I guess it does sort of happen, doesn't it, with my movies. I don't know – I guess I need to go into psychoanalysis to figure it out!
Given that Joss has kind of got the keys to the kingdom with the Marvel Cinematic Universe after "The Avengers," is that a territory that interests you?
I mean, certainly. Look, I was definitely a Marvel geek growing up. I had embarrassing amounts of comic book characters hand-painted on my wall, even until I was 18. It's why I got no girls growing up, let's be honest. It's definitely a playground that I would love to play in if we could find the right fit.
Who was your character when you were a kid, the one you were most obsessed with?
As a kid, 'The X-Men' unquestionably were like the ones, but that whole Marvel Universe. I would say it was X-Men and Spider-Man and Daredevil. Those were the big ones that I was obsessed with.
Given your TV roots, is TV still in the picture?
Absolutely. I'm sure I will get back. There's just something so exciting about every eight days you have to make a new episode. You're not allowed to second guess yourself the way you are in movies, because you just don't have a choice. I sort of miss that energy.


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Royce White tells Real Sports he will fight to play
Suspended Houston Rockets rookie forward Royce White told HBO's Real Sports he understands he may never play in the NBA because of the complexities of his generalized anxiety disorder, yet said, "I'm not going to accept it without a fight."
In the nearly 16-minute segment, which airs on HBO Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET (and at 10 p.m. PT), White admitted to reporter Bernard Goldberg that he has shown up for some team activities.
"I have not always showed up for practice, but every time I didn't show up for practice, it was a medical reason," White said.
White, who has dealt with mental illness for much of his life, compares his mental health to physical health, saying there is no difference between a player with a sprained ankle and player suffering from an anxiety attack. Neither are available to play or practice, White reasons.
"I'm sure they wouldn't want to hear that (Rockets guard) James Harden broke his ankle either." White told Goldberg. "But there's a health reality that exists."
The Rockets selected White No. 16 overall, committing $3.36 million in salary to him this season and in 2013-14. So far, White has not played a regular-season game for the Rockets, and when the two sides hit an impasse, Houston suspended him without pay on Jan. 6 "for refusing to provide services as required by his Uniform Players Contract."
The Rockets knew of White's well-document anxiety disorder before they drafted him, and both sides believed they could make it work. However, White wants the Rockets to agree to a medical health protocol, which calls for a neutral doctor to make decisions based on what's best for White's mental health.
White reveals a passionate defense of mental health and courageous willingness to fight what he believes is right. He has done that often on Twitter in the past two months. But he has also frustrated fans – and the Rockets – with his adamant position.
The Rockets, who have remained very quiet about the situation, have declined to accept White's terms. They are committed to making it work.
White has a fear of flying and told Real Sports: "I get nervous when people even talk about planes. That's how bad my plane anxiety is actually."
However, White traveled by plane for several of his games for Iowa State last season, including a preseason trip to Italy in the summer of 2011. White maintains he had complete trust in the Iowa State staff. He does not yet have that same trust with the Houston Rockets.
Goldberg said that if Houston agreed to the mental health protocol, White said it's likely he would be available for every game.
"If I was to play in the NBA now as it is without the protocols, without the safety measures, I would be risking my health. I would be risking my life," White said. "What comes along with mental health that goes untreated? Alcohol abuse. Marijuana abuse. Suicidal behavior. Homicidal behavior. Those are things I'm not willing to risk to play basketball, to have money, to have fame."
Considering the Rockets (22-21) are fighting for a playoff spot – in eighth spot in the West, one game ahead Portland and one game behind Utah – they will take their time resolving the situation, potentially waiting until the offseason to establish a fresh start with White.


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Author: Alice Bullimore, Integrated Producer, BBH London
What would happen if you asked everyone in the world to take a video of their life on the same day?
Well, it's happened. The day was July 24th 2010 and people from 120 countries uploaded over 80,000 videos. Life, in a Day.
The raw footage itself is powerful. As Alexandra Coghlan comments in her great review, "what is perhaps most extraordinary and exciting about this project are its leftovers", and on the 'explore' tab at youtube.com/lifeinaday the guys at Google have made all this footage available for us to filter and view, the many stories untold.
But then there's the film.
Kevin MacDonald & Ridley Scott at RSA undertook the ambitious curatorial job of creating their story of the world, Joe Walker took on the crazily gargantaun mission of editing.
Over 4500 hours of footage reviewed, complied and cut into a coherent 90 minute film.
The film's not bad either.
It was well received at Sundance, Berlin and SXSW film festivals, Total Film have given it 4 stars and it currently enjoys a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
But what was it like laying down this challenge?
What if no-one had entered anything?
What if most of the crowd sourced footage was unusable?
With so much footage to go through, how do you choose what story to tell? An individual's? The world's? The editors'? Just whose agenda is at work, and what are the implications of a film like this?
Well, we're privileged to be able to get a bit closer to some of these answers with a preview screening & live Q&A with the editor, Joe Walker, at BBH in London this wednesday 15th June at 5.00pm.
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Come Dine with Me: Reality game-show where five people who live in the same town but do not know each other each host a dinner evening in their own home for the other four. At the end of the evening the four guests mark their hosts performance as a Chef and a Host. Over a week each will host once. The highest marked will receive a prize of Ł1,000 in cash.
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Ed Hayes at home in Manhattan, March 2012
How do I describe Ed Hayes? Legendary New York lawyer? Really, he is just legendary. Tom Wolfe dedicated Bonfire of the Vanities to him:
"Doffing his hat, the author dedicates this book to counselor Eddie Hayes, who walked among the flames, pointing at the lurid lights"
I was having drinks with a few menswear enthusiasts the other night - a couple of them legends themselves - and someone mentioned "Fast Eddie". I asked who is this, how do I not know them?! Well, it was Ed Hayes they were talking about (only good stuff, Ed). He knows just about everyone, and has seen just about everything. Lucky for us he wrote a memoir a few years ago so we can get the whole story: Mouthpiece: A Life in -- and Sometimes Just Outside -- the Law
I was introduced to Ed thru Sven Raphael Schneider of the Gentlemen's Gazette, who featured him recently, along with a selection of my photos. It gives a lot more background and context than I will here at The Dandy Portraits, so do check it out. Here, I want to show you the clothes, the colors, the ostentatious details, the overflowing closet, the character, and the charm of Ed Hayes.
It's what's on the inside that matters. Purple satin.
Heading up to his closet to change, Ed walks passed a painting by his friend the late Richard Merkin, and vintage black and white crime scene photos.
No space is wasted in Mr. Hayes closet.
Vibrant colors, braces, and the dimple in his tie - always the dimple.
The tips of these bespoke shoes are monogrammed with the initials of his children
Just a cast iron dragon at his front door. Better make an appointment.
He has his tailors build the collar so it does that thing he likes - kinda curve a bit.
He asked me if I wanted to see the first shoes he ever had custom made. Sure do. With years of care they still wear well. Ed started spending his money on clothes as soon as he had any.
Finishing touches..the pocket square and a few hard looks in the mirror.
A photo hangs in his bedroom of the late Richard Merkin, Hayes, and Tom Wolfe. Below is a framed letter from Tom Wolfe signed "Your herald, Tom"
Back to the business...dueling smart phones, calming the rich and powerful and in trouble.
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I've never known someone, perhaps with the exception of Drudge himself, who had more of a savant's sense of media, old and new — but especially new. In the early days of the Drudge Report there was a lot of talk about how Drudge made the news, and that was often true. But he could only do that by understanding the news and how it worked at a visceral instinctive level. Matt saw this same gift in Andrew, which is why he hired him. The two of them changed the course of the massive river of news for literally billions of people. That's no exaggeration, even venerable enterprises and institutions that despised the Drudge Report and pretended it didn't exist had to change course because of it.


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Yesterday was the honours student's birthday, and I didn't know until I decided to indulge in some Facebooking tonight. Now I feel terrible! We'll have to have a ... what are those thing called? A pinata? I've never seen one before except in weird TV shows... I felt really bad today because a few of his lizards died and he nearly cried.
So anyway today I discovered that the major issue I've been having with my equipment was NOT a hardware fault, but a SOFTWARE problem. I think. so there is hope that I might actually be able to leave, and take all the readings that I need. There is hope!
The masters student also wanted to measure the colours of the paints she's using before I go away (potentially taking the specs with me), so she went off today and bought a ton of different paints. She had tried to go the scientific route and use a paint company that measures their colours that could match it more exactly, but they messed up, so she picked out a whole bunch of colours and then we measured patches of each one and picked out the right colours, or chose which ones to mix and stuff. It was quite fun actually!
So, to get to the actual point of the story, one of the colours was supposed to be a light orange. It turned out to be a super-hectic lumo orange! It practically glows. I was completely in love with it right away (bear in mind, my hair has gone from blue to fire-engine red in less than 2 months, and the last shoes I bought were bright yellow... I like bright colours!) so I decided to make a sign fr the door with it. I ran out of inspiration though and ended up just painting random abstract symbols on a piece of paper (yes, I have two degrees. Your point being?). I also repainted the practice model lizard by adding orange stripes. It looks like he's been outfitted in camo-gear now! with orange eyes and nostrils. He's scary!
So after I'd walked Luke to his car and had enough of fighting with the equipment, and not feeling like playing with the honours student's data yet (I said I'd have a look, because he's totally stuck), so I boiled to kettle for chai tea and then caught sight of the tube of orange paint. If it was a movie there would have been alternating shots of my eyes, the paint, me, paint, me... in quicker and quicker succession. With the music doing a dramatic crescendo.
So while the kettle boiled I found a paintbrush and painted my nails with the bright orange paint.
It was a messy job, but I figured it's just acrylic (or so I thought) and I could just neaten it up with some wet paper towel. When I tried I succeeded in smearing orange paint all over my palms, a lab coat, the sink, my tea-mug my lower arms and possibly my face (no mirror in the lab and the honours students next door were looking at me oddly, but I have no way of figuring out if that was a result of paint on my face, or paint all over the rest of me. It's also pretty much indelible. Whoops.
So I went outside and chatted to the honours students, and they were all stressed out,. so I felt all patch adamsish because they couldn't look at me without giggling. The plus side was that I didn't want to touch my keyboard until the paint was totally dry! I'm just hoping I can soak the orange off when I get home. Whoops. Oh well, live and learn I guess! and it is a VERY funky orange, so maybe if I paint over it with clear nail polish when I get home. Actually I have clear nail polish here, from the skeleton-reconstruction it ended up in my dissecting kit... I'm going to go and do that now!
Fun times!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Why do I do these things?
Yesterday was the honours student's birthday, and I didn't know until I decided to indulge in some Facebooking tonight. Now I feel terrible! We'll have to have a ... what are those thing called? A pinata? I've never seen one before except in weird TV shows... I felt really bad today because a few of his lizards died and he nearly cried.
Posted by Helen at 6:57 pm
Labels: Exciting stuff, random, weird
3 comments:
- SuvvyGirl said...
LOL Well at least you were cheap entertainment for people :P
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- Kath Lockett said...
...aw come on, surely we could have some photos???
- 3:41 am
- Helen said...
I'm sorry, I didn't have my camer a with me! and I had to take the roange off because it scared my birds and they wouldn't let me put them into the cage to sleep until I removed it!
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Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington strike a pose as they arrive at a photo call for their film Django Unchained held at the Hassler Hotel on Friday (January 4) in Rome, Italy.
The 45-year-old actor and Kerry, 35, were joined by cast mates Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Franco Nero, and director of the film Quentin Tarantino.
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"Sitting at the airport. About to take this #Django @UnchainedMovie GLOBAL," Kerry wrote on her Twitter account. "Looking forward to meeting some international #GLADIATORS too."
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This training course, organized by the Border Security and Management Unit of the Transnational Threats Department in close co-operation with the Spanish National Police (Policia Nacional) is part of a multi-year initiative aimed to strengthen co-operation mechanisms between border security and management agencies of the OSCE Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation (PfC) and participating States (pS). It will focus on risks at the borders and ways to be used to tackle contemporary challenges, ranging from transnational crime and terrorism to irregular migration flows both at land and maritime borders.
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Last night I had the opportunity to listen to Professor Tom Wright (a.k.a. N.T. Wright) give his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity here at the University of St Andrews. Professor Wright has actually been at the university a year now and has previously given major public addresses here, but I guess this one is more official.
I share here my notes from the lecture. Please be aware that the following is based on rather skimpy hand-written notes, and so does not do justice to Wright's elegant and precise handling of the English language, but I hope I have preserved the thrust of his arguments. The speech was entitled: "Imagining the Kingdom: Mission and Theology in early Christianity."


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Disclaimer: I am not an avalanche expert. I have made mistakes in the mountains and unfortunately may again. I am always trying to learn more about the mountains through mentors, classes and experience.
Time often plays a critical role in the mountains. Below are simple examples where paying attention to time can reduce your risk in the mountains. These are big picture ideas that will not help you analyze the dangers of an actual slope but they can help you decide when to plan backcountry trips.
I rode Mt.Timlin in late-April, the prime time window for big lines in Alaska. Photo - Jeff Curley
The backcountry is generally more dangerous from November to February. The longer days in the spring give the snow more time to settle. It is common for a persistent weak layer to all but shut down any serious lines for the first few months of season. A small avalanche in a shallow, early season snowpack can also be more dangerous because of the potential of getting dragged through rocks. Don't be the early season hero that hurts themselves before spring. The best lines happen in March, April, May and often June. Early season is a time to get your legs strong.
The first time I rode this face in the Fairweather Range, AK we camped at the top of the peak so that we could drop in at the very first light of the day. For this descent, we started hiking at 3 am, topped out at 7 am and dropped by 7:30 am. Photo - Seth Lightcap
I always like to ride serious lines in the morning and on a clear day. If something goes wrong you have all day to execute a rescue. A sprained ankle or broken leg can be a relatively minor rescue at 10 AM, but can be life threatening at sunset because you will most likely have to spend the night in the mountains. Riding lines in the morning is also crucial because as the day warms up cornices become more likely to break, avalanche danger often increases, rock fall increases and you use more energy in the heat of the day then early in the morning.
The first day after a massive storm in the Eastern Alaska Range we stayed around camp and watched natural avalanches pour off all the peaks around us.
90% of Avalanches happen during or within 24 hours of a storm. If there is more then a foot of new snow I do not start really evaluating avalanche danger until two days after a storm. The first day after a big storm I typically expect everything to slide and go powder surfing in my neighborhood.
Tom Burt is one of my mountain mentors. He was the guide on the Deeper expedition to the Fairweather Range, AK in 2010. Between the two of us we had 45 years of experience riding in Alaska. Photo - Seth Lightcap
There is no substitute for time in the mountains. Avalanche courses can give you much needed knowledge for traveling safe in the mountains, but if you have only been traveling in serious terrain for a few years you are a beginner. Find mentors who have 15 or more years of time in the mountains. Ask questions, observe and listen.
My worst injuries have come early in a trip. I am caught up in the excitement and forcing the issue. Looking back at my six years of shooting Deeper, Further and Higher I have realized that all the serious lines that you see in the film happen late in a trip between day 15 and day 25.
Corrugated was the last line we filmed for DEEPER and it went down on the last day of the 2010 AK expedition - Day 25. It took all the experiences we had that previous month to ride this line with confidence. Photo - Jeremy Jones


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The British singer was linked to Lohan last year after a night of partying in New York, which ended with the Mean Girls actress' arrest on suspicion of assaulting a fellow club-goer.
She even met his parents after spending the New Year in London, but at the time George insisted reports of a blossoming romance were false.
However, the hunk has now confessed their relationship wasn't purely platonic.
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Some days ago I made an interesting find, seeking the Great SF&F pages for Walter Jon Williams. I found that there had been, in 2008, a topic
on him in the Author Suggestions Forum, consisting of just one post by David Tate and one comment by owlcroft.
I was delighted to read that David Tate (like me) had valued the Metropolitan series, and ((like me) regretted the missing, crucial third novel,
but (unlike me) had queried Mr. Williams himself about the sake, and learned that the reason had been a disagreement with the publisher -- not (as I
had thought) an "Avram Davidson": getting bored with the theme. I wrote to the Webmaster asking if I should write as RE this old topic, which promptly
disappeared. So let's start a new one.
I like all the novels by Williams which I have read. But now, after reading the Dread Empire's Fall trilogy (which I'll call Praxis Trilogy for
shortness' sake) I think it the best space opera since Vance's Demon Princes, and arguably even better, because of the better plot.
Superficially the Praxis trilogy is military science-fiction. Both the hero and the heroine are space navy officers, and there are space battles
galore. But there is so much more, too. There is the richly detailed multiracial society, its intrigues of crime, matrimony, politics, and religion when
it slides toward civil war and fights it. I dare to recommend it highly!
The later Dagmar Shaw books are near future thrillers, well plotted and written, and Dagmar is a pleasant heroine. I recommend them to those
who like, say, William Gibson's latest novels.
I have written a letter to Mr. Williams, and he has promised to write a sequel to Praxis novels, about Lady Sula on Earth.


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Announcing the launch of:
Logo by me - hopefully adequate and not too corny.
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- shed massacre follow-up work
- the big investigation group thing
- Report: A Question Mark Over Yarmouk
(The following content may be re-arranged into new posts in time)
CIWCL signatories as of June 19 (alphabetical):
- Stewart Dredge,
Edinburgh, Scotland
- Maximilian Forte
associate professor of anthropology, Concordia University
Montreal, Canada
- Petri Krohn
Chairman, Finland without Nazism
Helsinki, Finland
- Adam J. Larson
blog administrator: libyancivilwar.blogspot.com
Spokane, USA
- Peter Schönfeld, Cologne, Germany
- Myra St. Clair, Spokane, USA
Active Members: Krohn, Larson, Schönfeld
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Lips 106 or Lips 106 FM is a radio station in Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories. It plays Top 40 music, and is the favorite radio station of the Yakuza in GTA III, since if the player jacks a Yakuza Stinger, this station would be heard inside. In 1998, (the setting of Liberty City Stories), the station is hosted by Cliff Lane with Andee as his "sidekick". By 2001, (the setting of GTA III), Andee is the only DJ. Cliff was likely fired due to the perverted lust for teenage girls he expressed in Liberty City Stories.
The station's headquarters can be found in Staunton Island, and its call sign is KBDDF, according to the GTA III website. Lips 106 is possibly based on WBLI 106.1, which plays Top 40 in New York City.
GTA III Tracklist
- Fatamarse - "Bump To The Music"
- April's in Paris - "Feels Like I Just Can't Take No More"
- Lucy - "Forever"
- Boyz 2 Girls - "Pray It Goes OK?"
- Da Shootaz - "Grand Theft Auto"
- Funky BJs - "Rubber Tip"
- Marydancin - "Wash Him Off" (removed from the final version of the game)
GTA Liberty City Stories Tracklist
- Rudy LaFontaine - "Funk in Time"
- Sawaar - "Love is the Feeling"
- Sunshine Shine - "Mine Until Monday"
- Credit Check - "Get Down"
- Cool Timers - "Tonight"
- Nina Barry - "Bassmatic"
- The Jackstars - "Into Something (C'mon Get Down)"
- Rudy LaFontaine's and Sunshine Shine's singles can be seen advertised on billboards throughout Liberty City in GTA Liberty City Stories, and in safehouses and bars in Grand Theft Auto IV.
- All of the station's songs are available as ringtones in GTA IV.
- The album for "Tonight" by the Cool Timers can be seen on a shelf in Luis' safehouse in The Ballad of Gay Tony.
- Boyz 2 Girls is likely to be a reference of American RnB group Boyz II Men, one of whose songs are played on CSR 103.9 in GTA San Andreas.
- "Funk in Time" by Rudy La Fontaine is a crude reference to "Fuck in Time".
- During an advertisement previewing some of the songs that are played on the station, "Rush Rush" by Debbie Harry is one of the previewed songs even though that song never plays on Lips 106, but on Flashback FM. This probably proves that Rockstar were originally planning to have that song play on Lips instead.
- Rockstar Games have released the entire GTA III and Liberty City Stories playlists of Lips 106 on iTunes for download, including the cut song "Wash Him Off" by Marydancin.
- In GTA Liberty City Stories, an ad for the station proclaims, "Who needs a Top 40 countdown? Pop stations only have to play six songs." However, the tracklist for Liberty City Stories has seven.
- On this radio you can hear a news about Carcer City and its corrupted police chief who was cleared for corruption charges. The same news reports that Carcer City is "nearby" to Liberty City.
- Before the song "Feels Like I Just Can't Take No More", Andee will advertise a Trance night at Sex Club 7, hinting that the establisment is also a nightclub besides being a strip club.
- In GTA III this is the Yakuza's favorite radio station, alongside MSX FM & Rise FM.
- Lips is a slang word for the inner and outer labia, the fleshy folds that protect the woman's clitoris and vagina. This is another example of Rockstar Games' crude humor.
- It's possibly also a parody of real life top-40 LA based station KIIS FM
- "Bump to the Music" is one of Franklin's ringtones for his phone in Grand Theft Auto V. It is also his default ringtone once you first play as him.
Grand Theft Auto III soundtrack:
GTA Liberty City Stories
GTA Liberty City Stories soundtrack
External links
- Official website
- 'Grand Theft Auto III - Music from Lips 106' on iTunes
- 'Grand Theft Auto - Liberty City Stories (Music from Lips 106)' on iTunes


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Beer Pairings: What to Drink With S'mores
Beer and food are better together.
Editor's Note: We're trying to find the best beers to drink with our favorite foods. Certified Cicerone Michael Agnew is here to help.
The general rule when pairing beer with desserts is to keep the beer sweeter than the dessert. But of course, rules are meant to be broken. While sweet-to-sweet match-ups are nice, s'mores are such a super-saccharine treat that this approach can easily become too much. The bitterness brought by roasted malts or coffee provide a tasty counterpoint to all that sugar. Beers with a bit of fruit and acidity will also work. In either case, though, an ample amount of residual sugar is still required or those contrasting flavors come off as harsh.
Pairing Pointers
A Belgian Quadruple is a perfect match for this summer bonfire classic. The high levels of residual sugar are more than enough to stand up to the intense sweetness of s'mores. Notes of chocolate and dried fruits add interesting depth to the pairing. Massive alcohol and a medium-dry finish offer some welcome relief from all that gooey richness.
To amplify the sweet s'more flavors, another option is to go with a chocolate stout. While it sounds like too much chocolate, there is just enough roasty bitterness in the beer to maintain some balance. But you need to choose a stout that's big, sweet, and boozy. A lesser beer just ends up tasting thin and chalky.
Sweet versions of fruit lambics are great with any dessert containing chocolate. (Think raspberry truffle or chocolate ganache cake with raspberry puree.) The zip and zing of fruity acid cuts through the amped-up sugar to bring some welcome balance. But these beers are back-sweetened so they have enough sugary oomph to hold their own.
Coffee and Imperial stouts provide a bitter balance. Desserts that work with coffee also work with coffee stout. The coffee's bitterness is great for cutting through the sweet. Imperial stouts work similarly, with the coffee flavors and bitterness coming from roasted malts instead of actual coffee. Chocolate notes add a needed tie-in. If you're like me and you prefer your marshmallows burnt, these beers provide the perfect mirror to that charred sugar taste. But as with the beers above, you need a bigger, sweeter version of either to stand up to s'mores. Too much bitterness, especially from hops, will make the beer seem harsh.
Michael's Beer Picks
Belgian Quadruple
Boulevard Sixth Glass Quadruple Ale: The combination of the beer's sugary sweetness, chocolate, and dried fruits with the s'mores brought out interesting flavors that weren't apparent in either by itself. High alcohol cut through the sweetness.
La Trappe Quadruple: I call this "candy beer." It's strong and sweet with luscious, raisiny dark-fruit flavors. The cotton-candy character of Belgian yeast combines seamlessly with the melted marshmallow.
Chocolate Stout
Southern Tier Choklat: At around 10 percent alcohol this is a bruiser of a chocolate stout. It's like drinking dark chocolate syrup from the bottle. It's more than sweet enough to hold its own against s'mores. The combination is total chocolate overload, and that's a good thing.
Sweet Fruit Lambic
Lindemans Framboise: By itself Lindemans Framboise drinks like raspberry soda-pop; pink, fizzy, and sweet with just a touch of tart in the background. In combination with s'mores, though, the acidity is amplified, making it a great contrast to the saccharin sweet.
Timmermans Strawberry Lambic: Easy-drinking and refreshing, Timmermans lambics have a bit more acid and funk than Lindemans, but only a bit. It's still plenty sweet to work with s'mores. Strawberry is a softer fruit than raspberry, giving the combination a little less tang.
Coffee and Imperial Stout
Lagunitas Cappuccino Stout: This was the best pairing of our test. It provided one of those revelatory food/beverage experiences. The combination was a study in both complement and contrast. Cappuccino Stout is a big beer with plenty of residual sugars to stand up to the dessert. The coffee was bold and bitter enough to cut through both. The combination revealed barleywine-like flavors that sent the pairing over the top.
Surly Darkness: Despite its cult status, I'm not a fan of this beer by itself. It's too thick and syrupy for my palate. But that's just what's needed with s'mores. It has the dark and bitter roastiness to contrast and the residual sugars to complement. Chocolaty flavors help to hold the pairing together.
About the Author: Certified Cicerone Michael Agnew is the lead educator and owner of A Perfect Pint. He conducts beer tastings for private parties and corporate events. His beer musings can be read in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, his own Perfect Pint Blog, The Hop Press at Ratebeer.com, the City Pages Hot Dish Blog, and in respected national beer magazines.
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In Windows, I could have cleaned registry, removed un-necessary services, use msconfig to tune etc.
With the usage and all the Apple updates, looks like the OS is sluggish. Any pointers to resources online will be helpful. I tried clearing Browser cache, flush DNS etc.
Thanks for the responses, I have used Onyx and it helped ..
I have also replaced hard-drive with SSD and the machine is much faster. (Unibody 13 inch Macbook 5,1 ~ 2008)
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text: Bill's back! I am pleased beyond measure to present the first video in Engineer Guy Series #4, in which Bill Hammack and his Engineer Guy production team at the University of Illinois unravel the key technology of digital photography: the charge-coupled device. Most of you will probably have a sense of the CCD as a grid of very many, very tiny semiconductor sensors, each of which corresponds to a single pixel in a raster digital photograph. That's essentially correct. But my intuition, at least, of the more subtle engineering aspects—How does the camera read information off the grid? How does it detect color?—turned out to be dead wrong on both counts. Watch the video, now, and you too may be delightfully surprised, and in any case delighted. Bill's work is always a pleasure to behold, even if you already know this stuff. Or think you do. [Thanks, Bill!]


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This is a Bevelled Slab - but here the Bevel is actually the majority of the sculpt! The rest of the Slab just forms the flat floor of the tray.
Again I made the curves in Inkscape, and imported to make my model in Curvy. The render is also Curvy (But using Post-Processing rather than raytracing for the reflection!)
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U.S. Postal Service employees are covered by the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA), which provides workers' compensation benefits to civilian federal employees who sustain work-related injuries or an occupational disease. The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP) administers workers' compensation and provides direct compensation to providers, claimants, and beneficiaries. The Postal Service later reimburses OWCP in what is known as "charge-back billings."
The Postal Service is the largest FECA participant in the federal government. It paid $1.2 billion in workers' compensation claims and $67 million in administrative fees in charge-back year 2011. In addition, its estimated total liability for future workers' compensation costs is about $17.5 billion. The Postmaster General noted in testimony last year that when the Postal Service revalues its liability to reflect current interest rates, it creates significant non-cash fluctuations in its bottom line. For this reason and others, the Postal Service has pushed for comprehensive FECA reform legislation.
Providing gainful employment within medically defined work restrictions is in the best interest of both employees and the Postal Service. The Postal Service uses its limited duty program to assign available work for those employees who are temporarily unable to perform their regular functions. Limited duty employees retain the discipline of going to work every day and recuperation may also be accelerated if they are as active as possible. Early return to the regular job is the ultimate objective of the limited duty program. However, with diminishing mail volumes and limited resources for proactive case management, the Postal Service faces significant challenges in providing adequate work.
The Health and Resource Management (HRM) staff and other officials play an important role in administering the injury compensation program and reducing related costs by returning injured employees to work as soon as possible and, in part, pursuing third-party liability. The Office of Inspector General (OIG) intends to assess whether the Postal Service's HRM staff, supervisors, and other officials have all the necessary resources to successfully return employees back to work. And if not, what tools do they need to facilitate the return to work process.
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Saturday, October 23, 2010
If you are living here at the coast with the ocean as your front yard, there is a good chance either you or members of your family will be in or on the water frequently. But even if you are a visitor there are things we can ALL do to lessen the chances we will meet a shark too.
I found this information that I wanted to share...
Swimming and surfing in an ocean filled with sharks is possible to do safely. The important thing is to use common sense when doing so. Sharks are at the top of the food chain in the ocean and must be respected. While no advice is going to keep you 100 percent safe, here are some tips to minimize your risk of being attacked by a shark.
Before You Swim in the Ocean
1. The first step to staying safe from shark attack while swimming is to stay out of the water during the sharks feeding times. Many species of shark are known to come closer to shore during dusk, dawn, and night time hours. Do not swim or surf during these high risk time frames.
2. Make sure that the beach you are going to swim at is patrolled by lifeguards. Having a lifeguard present and looking out for everyone in case of emergency can make a huge difference.
3. If a particular beach is known for shark attacks, take a pass on swimming there. The odds of you actually being attacked by a shark are slim, but why take a chance if you know they are around?
4. Leave Fido at home. A dog swims just like a meal to a shark and will attract attention. Make sure that you leave the pets at home for your beach trip or at least keep them out of the water.
While swimming in the ocean
1. Always swim in the ocean in groups. Sharks are predators first and foremost. They will seek out prey that is isolated more quickly than those that are not.
2. Make sure that you are not bleeding at all. Any open sore, cut, or even a menstruating woman will be like a beacon to any shark in the area. It only takes a drop for them to notice you.
3. Stay away from the channels and anywhere where the water is murky. This can lead to the most common type of shark attack. Sharks generally do not target humans. Most often the shark mistakes people for their normal prey, seals. Thus, murky water can lead to a misidentification.
4. Do not wear highly contrasting clothing or shiny jewelry in the ocean. A shark sees this quite well and will be attracted to the contrast. Wear dull colors that are of one color.
5. Avoid Swimming or Surfing alone.
6. Avoid swimming at dusk, at night, and at dawn. These are times when many sharks hunt, and although humans are not their natural prey they can make a mistake and bite you.
7. Avoid areas where fish gather, like piers or docks. Many sharks feed in these types of places. Also avoid swimming where there are schools of small fish. Sharks may be swimming through the fish feeding and accidentally bite you.
8. Do not thrash around in the water. Sharks can detect the magnetic fields and electrical signals given off by living and moving things using a subcutaneous sensory network system called the ampullae of Lorenzini. This sensory ability helps them to orient to their prey. Thrashing movements mimic weak or wounded fish, which are very appealing to sharks.
My intention with this post was to share information and not to scare. I love the ocean and all it's creatures, but we truly are in their world when we step off the shore and into the sea.
I've written about another danger that's related to the shark that you will want to read here if you spend time at the ocean, to keep yourself and your loved ones safe.
♥ lori
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lori...my husband john has surfed since he could walk...he was glued to this too...what a sad story...that young boy..taken like that...ReplyDelete
our sympathy is with his family, as well
My sympathy to that family. This is a terrible tragedy. We are taking our family to Hawaii for Christmas this year. This is just the reminder I needed to do all that we can to be safe while in their world. I re-read the sting-ray story and will pass the shuffle along. Thank you.ReplyDelete
Lori, I was talking with KJ last night and brought this very thing up to her...because I thought of you, your DH and now your two boys off sufring in Central America....ReplyDelete
You and I live with Sharks (especially Great Whites) in our coastal "backyard"....but, as you have stated, if you love the water, you can "share" with Sharks and other "dangerous creatures" whose home IS the ocean.....being aware at all times is the key.
My heart goes out to the family....such a tragedy....
Thanhk you for posting this reminder for us all.
♥ Robin ♥
thank you lori.ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry for the family, Lori, and I understand why you posted this information. When the unthinkable happens, we all wonder how we can increase the safety of our love ones and ourselves. It's good information too. I have gone swimming just at the times you are suppose to be on the lookout. Imagine!ReplyDelete
Hope all is well with you and your family. My college girl is settled in New England, while her mom sits at home missing her- and she's making her costume by herself!
Lori, This is so sad, I love sharks, but they are so dangerousReplyDelete
and like you said must be respected. I would add to your list not to swim or surf where there are a large number of seals, as this is the sharks favorite meal. Love and prayers for the family. xoxo
Lori, We were shocked here as well. My husband has surfed that beach, he has seen great whites at Coho further north and Jalama beach.ReplyDelete
Its unspeakable for the family.
My heart goes out to them.
Good advice, Lori. Sad that this happens; but, nature is full of dangers if we are not alert.ReplyDelete
Oh gosh, what an incredibly sad story, Lori. I will be remembering he and his family and friends.ReplyDelete
I've been so out of the loop on blogs these past 2 weeks which is why I emailed you. Of course you would have heard about this before us on the other coast. How tragic for all who love him.ReplyDelete
Prayers and blessings go out to the family. May he have a peaceful journey♥
I saw that story and was sadly shocked at the tragedy. Your warnings and advice are very good.ReplyDelete
Lori, this is just heartbreaking. Having grown up in Southern California, I've known many surfers, and I have many friends whose sons and daughters surf and scuba dive in those same waters. This is one of those times that make you stop and remember that we are stepping into their world, and different rules always apply. I am so very sad for this family. What a terrible loss. xoxox PamReplyDelete
I thought of you and my brother as soon as I heard the story. Awful, awful and my heart goes out to his family. It sounded like he was boogy boarding - isn't that in shallow water?ReplyDelete
I always do the shuffle whenever in the water - I'm terrified of sharks and crabs and stingrays. And that story of you and your ankle! wow - that must have been awful also, but a test of a new boyfriend right?
Oh, I am so sad for this family! News like that always comes as such a shock to all of us who leave near the ocean - especially because it happens so rarely. My heart sure goes out to this family! And to you!! Love, SilkeReplyDelete
Really horrific. :(ReplyDelete
Good thing you are so caring and wise to post those life saving tips. ♥♥
Good morning Lori...ReplyDelete
It's sad whenever we here of someone being killed by a shark.... devastating news for the family and friends of the victim.
I don't remember where, but I read about this attack and thought of you because of the location.
I am relieved to read that it is not anyone that you know, but of course still feel sad for all those effected by such a tragedy.
take care
and those are great tips that you have listed and ones that I adhere to as I am a real scaredy cat when it comes to the ocean, but I love it ;)
xx Robyn
- AnonymousOctober 23, 2010 at 6:11 PM
You are a gem. It is just like you point out in this post, if we use the ocean wisely then we have a good chance of being safe. I have had a couple of close calls with both sharks and crocs when I lived in the islands up in the tropics. They are so big and powerful we have to be very respectful of their territory.ReplyDelete
Hugs for you.
sorry to hear about the shark attack; that is such good advice you share. people kill far more sharks than sharks kill people though, and generally they do it by mistake. Sharks and crocodiles have some things in common! xxReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 24, 2010 at 2:22 AM
oh I am so sorry to hear of this, my heart goes out to the grieving family. I grew up on a small island and was very familiar with respecting the ocean and its creatures and that its is always so much bigger and more powerful than you. We too have shark attacks occur here in Australia, being very populated on the coastline. Education is really the only thing we can do to try and prevent too many attacks.ReplyDelete
♥lori. i'm sorry for this young man and his family and i'm sorry that your vigilence is naturally raised when something like this happens in your waters.ReplyDelete
i love you lori and am sending a thin protective bubble for use when needed for you and your family.
How sad. I am so sorry to hear about his young man. I too think of how his family is feeling and like you if it were me would wish to be swallowed up by the shark too. Thank you for sharing this information...much that I didn't know since I don't live anywheres near an ocean but love visiting them whenever I get the chance.ReplyDelete
My deapest sympathy to this boys family and friends. XX
I felt much sadness when I read of this young man. I too thought & prayed for his family.ReplyDelete
Lori~ I am grateful for your advice and hope that it will help so many of your readers to respect the oceans as well as keep them safe. Although I did knew much of this, I never thought that swimming with a dog would alert a shark (although that makes such sense!) Many summers I remember as a child playing in the Texas coast with my Grandparents Dogs!
lori - this is so so sad - what a terrible tragedy --ReplyDelete
my condolences to this family.
how good of you to post this important information - hopefully it will help someone stay safe while surfing and swimming in these waters.
So very sad. Thanks for this info, Lori. I am in love with sharks (I was thisclose to becoming a marine biologist) and your post was very balanced in pointing out what people can do to avoid and prevent shark attacks while being careful not to demonize them. Such a tragedy to lose such a young boy to this accident; I hope his family is going to be okay. My thoughts are with them right now during such a difficult time.ReplyDelete
Lori - Thank you for turning a tragic event into an opportunity to educate. I'm so sorry for that family. Your post might save others from such a horrific incident. I also read about your stingray encounter. Oh my! You really suffered girl! I never knew they were so dangerous!! As you can tell I don't get into the ocean that often. The water here is usually pretty cold even in the summer. But I do love the ocean even with it's scary creatures and I truly appreciate your educational posts. Thank you!! ♥ReplyDelete
I read this story with alarm. How horrific. I thought of you and your family and sent prayers that you will all be protected.ReplyDelete
I'm new here (just found your blog yesterday) and just wanted to thank you for writing this.ReplyDelete
First, I live in LA, and have a son a little older than the boy who was killed and the whole thing feels so horrible and tragic and difficult. My heart goes out to the family and friends, especially the young man who was with him, who obviously couldn't have done anything.
Also, thank you for writing the tips. I grew up on the Atlantic and the rules (and animal life) are a bit different.
oh no :( that's awful :(ReplyDelete


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My grandfather passed away before I was born, but I've come to know him over time through his favorite phrases and sayings that my mom now repeats. One that she quotes most often is: "Education is something no one can take away from you."
Born in 1906 and orphaned at the age of 4, it took my grandfather until he was nearly twenty years old to complete high school. His college education was interrupted by both the Great Depression and the deaths of his siblings, but he ended up earning his B.S. from Marquette University in 1938 and went on to teach biology, chemistry, and history in the Milwaukee public school system.
My grandfather valued his education as a way to make smart decisions about life, something he placed such importance on that he used his education to give others in his community access to the same knowledge. It's in this context that I heard Rick Santorum's recent comments that President Obama is a "snob" because "he wants everyone to go to college." (The president isn't trying to mandate college education – he's just interested in making it more affordable, and thus an option for more Americans who would choose it.)
More people than ever are attending college and earning degrees, recognizing that having a college degree is the best path forward to career advancement and financial security. At the same time, for many people in our country, a college education is an unattainable, unaffordable part of the American dream, and student loan debt threatens to cause another financial crisis.
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After months of hard work, the commercial is done, just in time for flu season.
I'm making a documentary about the yarn graffiti movement and I'm writing about it here.
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ANANSI'S PARTY TIME by Eric A. Kimmel, illustrated by Janet Stevens (Holiday House)
"I didn't know it was a costume party," said Turtle.
"You know now. Go home and get a costume." Anansi slammed the door.
A little while later:
Knock, knock, knock! Turtle knocked on the door.
"Hippity-hop!" Turtle said when Anansi opened it. "Hippity hop! Guess what I am!"
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"I told everyone to bring a dish."
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Another lively animal story with folkloric influence.
Blinking back a tear, Foo replied, "I learned that I am nothing but a very small frog in a very big world."
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