Yesterday Creates Today & Those Tomorrows

Everyone has areas, which they treasure.  I am not sure about you but I have just recently looked at where things are within the Olympics and I am not as taken by it as I was within the past.  I do love the stories behind the scenes.  The stories of what took one person to leverage there determination.  There truly is something to be said within physical education within the United States of America.  From grade four as a rather little kid – I never really got into athletics.  Yet that all being said we all started within a regime of physical education right from nearly the day we walked within the first years of our schooling.  At the age of nine, I had the hardest time.  I was timid and ironically, my gym teacher never got that.  Often he would exemplify myself as being mediocre.  He didn’t realize that I was a kid that was just shy at the time.  Before heading off to middle school, I thought I would prove to “Mr. Marasse” that I could do things as after there was a situation where he wished to make an example of me and have me do a jump handspring over the horse.  I never forgot the manner that went for it.  Yet I landed on my lower back rather than my feet.  Secondly, there is nothing like having the wind taken out of you that is you can't breath as your lungs have collapsed to then having emerge care.

This was probably a turning point within my training as I had one concussion as well as breached on lower vertebrae.  This gym teacher of mine didn’t know much about me.  Yet all things changed when a decorated man walked while I was within a bed within the nurse’s room.  I think that most all American’s know what I am speaking of – there was a Health room.  I remember my father walking in within his full uniform and pardon the pun.  The shit really hit the fan.  Even, Mr. Marasse whom was probably ordered to come and see me, as they knew that there was a possibility of some legal action.  Family took me to the military hospital.  I had nearly broken my vertebrae on my lower right side.

The folks never told me until I was older on what they were close to doing but they didn’t which to create bad waves for me while I was in school.  The rest of the last year within elementary school, I had a great relationship with my teacher.  Thereafter, I began to train on my own, as I wanted to be the best that I could be.  When it came to middle school, I was within the best shape.  I enjoyed wrestling; every segment of junior high school was tremendous.  The key was in looking forward to gym and then after school had ended inter-mural sports.  At that time, as a kid – I was the top of my class.  At that time a "Mr. White” of Gillette Road Middle he had high hopes for me and would push me within a different manner than I had previously been.  The one thing I could relate to was his manner that he would be hard yet would reward. Ironically, he had been within the Marines.  Moreover, if there is anyone within sports and athletics – Mr. White had pushed me in a good way.  I topped all divisions from wrestling most every area.

At this time, I was a student within Aikido, after my father saw the episode that I went through during elementary school he took me to a class as two whom worked for him as air traffic controllers were within the Art.  When I saw it, I was taken by it and would train, train and train.  Now Sport versus Art.  I did them both.  The foundation of training came by way of the experience of a semi fractured disc to then taking the summer between elementary school & middle – and literally taking three hours of my day in training as I promised myself I would never have a situation of the likes within my early childhood.

I have been back to Gillette Road Middle – four times within my life and it was tremendous to go back and see Mr. White as well as others whom had shaped the basis of they physical side of what I would go on to continue not in the direction of sport but within that of an art called, Aikido.  At a certain point I knew within junior high I could literally kick this Mr. MarASSE’s  but  yet I didn’t have to secondly my father would have laid into me as the merit of what he saw right was of that which a son does respect.

In entering Canada – with the exception of hockey there really was not the same physical activity within the school system.  It was electoral and didn’t even come close to meeting the requirements of that within the education system within America.  The reasons I am not sure – yet I built my own gym as well as the first Aikido Dojo – in Western Canada.

The Merit of the story was two fold as it shapped my tomorrows as well as within the day.

 

 

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Chalking it up for another Day

Everything seems to be running well on here. So I believe I shall read more than write for now. Again tomorrow I shall have to look at this yet I had talked with my internet server as well as have done this and that and when it comes down to working on a machine. I can't say it's that of my envy.

So for a while as time allows I shall read some blogs more than I have been doing as I don't wish to crash this computer entirely. Of recent there was some posts which were from what I assume was a pledge to keep Multiply as a blog? I can't say I have had the chance to really take an indepth view. So for a while I shall just read.

Peace there YOU.

 

 

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London 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremonies

Amazing the fireworks which took place within the Opening of
these games. The commencement of sport of they olympiad
within London has a history of hosting the Summer Olympics
three years within a row.


Spectacular it is.

The Summer Olympics – London, England - 2012

Which are about to start within one hour – the ceremonies that is.  I thought I would write my own thought on the Olympics.  That of my own way.

Within the Olympics, there have always been the pros and the cons as to how we see this.  What I find aside of the monies and all the banter that goes on within most of the sites.  The Olympics stand for something, which is more about the challenge of the athlete.  I was very taken by the last winter Olympics – it was done within such a way that I could relate with.  Yet as we approach a time which these games are taken on for a within London.  There has been much that has been placed into this. As well, there is a huge history of a city, which hosted the games for the third time.  Most games within the past with the exception of a few have broke e

ven.  There is a thought that the Olympics are redundant.  I honestly believe that this is one of those areas, which have been an event that has endured the test of time.  The rewards are within the city, which hosts the games.  Yet the amount of athletes which train day in and day out just to reach the chance and opportunity to show their skills and win.  Yes, this competition has brought us so many athletes.  I can only think of the athletes, which I would have not come be interested if it was not for the Olympics.  Ali – the one that floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee.  Sugar Ray Leonard – the one within a lighter class within boxing which really was one that to see his hands were a blur, which was fascinating.  The last time I really did consume the Summer Olympics was within 1976. As a kid I was driven by Nadia they Romanian – gymnastic flair.  While I was training within Aikido and my own goals as a kid.  Here was a young athlete that I could relate too.  The agility and fluid movements done so fast were certainly something that brought a push for me to raise my own training to a higher level.  I would sit as a kid in the front of the television and in awe see someone, which had carved her body into a symmetrical manner.  There were not many within those times, which were ripped as Nadia was.  Sure she was only 13 yet she took those games and if there was one that came out of them defining the 1976 Olympics one of a couple but that of a few – Nadia took the entire games by a storm.  One tends to forget names yet no one ever for gets the impact.  It’s true that we live in very different times since that – yet the Winter Olympics in British Columbia brought about a return of interest within the games.  I would dare to say the Vancouver with a theme – “I Believe” brought the Olympic flair on why?  Maybe we wished to have a rest of all, which we had seen within the past, and to watch completion between different athletes was better than watching anything else.

There are some tremendous sites and new technology that one can enjoy these games now. 

From the Volerdromes, to some other tremendously neat technologies there competition and the pursuit of the best is still the merit from all the countries which are apart of these games.  The costs certainly are something, which are questioned.  Yet within these times which we live in, I believe that it still comes down to the athlete.

This shall be probably the most secure Olympics we ever have seen within our time.  Yet that’s the cost to enable the Olympics.  I look forward to a British theme of what made the Winter Olympics so pre

valent around the world.  As well, I look forward at an era of athletic competition.  The new “Mo” Ali’s and Nadia’s.  There is something to be said for the ceremonies beginning to end.  As within the art of athletic competition the time and amount hours for years before these games start.  There are those exceptional ones, which are within the “backyards” of their countries training to a manner, which takes a dedication which most of us would never experience.  The vision of these games is not far from the one of the past yet within a traditional English manner which has had the experience of hosting these 2012 Olympic Games for three times.

 

Hello England, Hello London most of all Hello World

~ I BELIEVE ~

 

 

 

The Summer Olympics – London, England - 2012

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Other

The Summer Olympics – London, England - 2012
Which are about to start within one hour – the ceremonies that is. I thought I would write my own thought on the Olympics. That of my own way.

Within the Olympics, there have always been the pros and the cons as to how we see this. What I find aside of the monies and all the banter that goes on within most of the sites. The Olympics stand for something, which is more about the challenge of the athlete. I was very taken by the last winter Olympics – it was done within such a way that I could relate with. Yet as we approach a time which these games are taken on for a within London. There has been much that has been placed into this. As well, there is a huge history of a city, which hosted the games for the third time. Most games within the past with the exception of a few have broke even. There is a thought that the Olympics are redundant. I honestly believe that this is one of those areas, which have been an event that has endured the test of time. The rewards are within the city, which hosts the games. Yet the amount of athletes which train day in and day out just to reach the chance and opportunity to show their skills and win. Yes, this competition has brought us so many athletes. I can only think of the athletes, which I would have not come be interested if it was not for the Olympics.

Ali – the one that floated like a butterfly and stung like a bee. Sugar Ray Leonard – the one within a lighter class within boxing which really was one that to see his hands were a blur, which was fascinating. The last time I really did consume the Summer Olympics was within 1976. As a kid I was driven by Nadia they Romanian – gymnastic flair.

While I was training within Aikido and my own goals as a kid. Here was a young athlete that I could relate too. The agility and fluid movements done so fast were certainly something that brought a push for me to raise my own training to a higher level. I would sit as a kid in the front of the television and in awe see someone, which had carved her body into a symmetrical manner. There were not many within those times, which were ripped as Nadia was. Sure she was only 13 yet she took those games and if there was one that came out of them defining the 1976 Olympics one of a couple but that of a few – Nadia took the entire games by a storm. One tends to forget names yet no one ever for gets the impact. It’s true that we live in very different times since that – yet the Winter Olympics in British Columbia brought about a return of interest within the games.

I would dare to say the Vancouver with a theme – “I Believe” brought the Olympic flair on why? Maybe we wished to have a rest of all, which we had seen within the past, and to watch completion between different athletes was better than watching anything else.
There are some tremendous sites and new technology that one can enjoy these games now. From the Volerdromes, to some other tremendously neat technologies there competition and the pursuit of the best is still the merit from all the countries which are apart of these games. The costs certainly are something, which are questioned. Yet within these times which we live in, I believe that it still comes down to the athlete.

This shall be probably the most secure Olympics we ever have seen within our time. Yet that’s the cost to enable the Olympics. I look forward to a British theme of what made the Winter Olympics so prevalent around the world. As well, I look forward at an era of athletic competition. The new “Mo” Ali’s and Nadia’s. There is something to be said for the ceremonies beginning to end. As within the art of athletic competition the time and amount hours for years before these games start. There are those exceptional ones, which are within the “backyards” of their countries training to a manner, which takes a dedication which most of us would never experience. The vision of these games is not far from the one of the past yet within a traditional English manner which has had the experience of hosting these 2012 Olympic Games for three times.

Hello England, Hello London most of all Hello World


~ I BELIEVE ~

Within a Mornings Stride

Nearly every day I am on this routine of mine. I opted place things within this Album as for the moment it's the most plausable manner.
I do like originality - yet we live within a "timeless" sphere. What I do
mean by this is that pictures are sent within a timeless linear manner.

Thus this is where I am.



Along this path which I have taken
I have come to see what is near
And what is far
Things evolve
And things converge
Within this stride
I have found more within
Myself as a reflect of several views
From the crop dusting plane
Which appeared
The next steps shall proceed
it's all within a sphere
As what goes up
Shall come around
The vision is precise
Yet with a content partition
That one of apart of my day

~jgs~

The Top Nine – Strangest Streets of the World

The Top Nine – Strangest Streets of the World

1.Shortest Street in the World - Ebenezer Place, Scotland

Ebenezer Place, in Wick, Caithness, Scotland. The Guinness Book of Records as being the world’s shortest street at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) credits it. In 2006, it surpassed the previous record (5.2 m, 17 ft) set by Elgin Street, Bacup, Lancashire. The street has only one address: the front door of No. 1 Bistro, which is part of Mackays Hotel.The street originated in 1883, when Ebenezer Place was constructed. The owner of the building, a hotel at the time, was instructed to paint a name on the shortest side of the hotel. It was officially declared a street in 1887.

2. The Narrowest Street in the World Spreuerhofstraße, Germany

Spreuerhofstraße is the world's narrowest street, found in the city of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It ranges from 31 centimeters (12.2 in) at its narrowest to 50 centimeters (19.7 in) at its widest. The lane was built in 1727 during the reconstruction efforts after the area was destroyed in the massive citywide fire of 1726 and is officially listed in the Land-Registry Office as City Street Number 77.

3. Most Complicated Interchange in USA - Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange, Los Angeles, USA

The Judge Harry Pregerson Interchange is situated in Los Angeles, CA and is one of the most complicated interchanges in the country. It permits entry and exit in all directions between the I-105 and the I-110. It’s a stack interchange with layers of bridges making a complicated network of roads allowing smooth flow of traffic though both the interstate highways. This interchange was opened in 1993. It is a four level interchange with a restricted access lane that can be used by high-occupancy vehicles.

4. Most Crooked Street in USA - Lombard St, San Francisco, USA

The street is famous for a small section near the top of Russian Hill, between Hyde and Leavenworth streets. Here the hill is so steep (27°) that it would be too dangerous for most vehicles, so between 1922 and 1923 this part of Lombard Street was transformed into a switchback with eight sharp turns Cars can only drive downhill, east-bound towards Leavenworth Street.The crooked section of the street, which is about 1/4 mile (400 m) long, is reserved for one-way traffic travelling east (downhill) and is paved with red bricks. The speed limit in this section is 5 miles per hour (8.0 km/h).

5. The Steepest Street in the World - Baldwin Street, New Zealand

Baldwin Street in a suburban part of New Zealand's southern city of Dunedin is considered the world's steepest residential street. It is located in the suburb of North East Valley, 3.5 kilometers (2.2 mi) northeast of Dunedin's city centre. A short straight street a little under 350 meters (1,150 ft) long, Baldwin Street runs east from the valley of the Lindsay Creek up the side of Signal Hill towards Opoho, rising from 30 m (98 ft) above sea level at its junction with North Road to 100 m (330 ft) above sea level at the top, an average slope of slightly more than 1:5. Its lower reaches are only moderately steep, and the surface is asphalt, but the upper reaches of this cul-de-sac are far steeper, and surfaced in concrete (200 m (660 ft) long), for ease of maintenance and for safety in Dunedin's frosty winters. At its maximum, the slope of Baldwin Street is about 1:2.86 (19° or 35%) – that is, for every 2.86 meters travelled horizontally, the elevation rises by 1 meter.

6. Widest Street in the World - 9 De Julio, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Buenos Aires, Argentina, features the widest avenue in the world. At over 300 feet wide, 9 de Julio Avenue occupies a gap of an entire block in the city grid, hence its incredible width. Crossing the avenue at street level often requires a few minutes, as all intersections have traffic lights. Under normal walking speed, it takes pedestrians normally two to three green lights to cross its twelve lanes of traffic.

7. Longest Street in the World - Yonge Street, Toronto, Canada

The Longest Street in the World is Yonge Street pronounced “young”, referred to as "Main Street Ontario", connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto in Canada to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes. Actually, it starts on the Toronto lakeshore and winds its way northwesterly along Highway 11 to Rainy River, Ontario, at the Minnesota border. Yonge Street is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest street in the world at 1,896 km (1,178 mi), and the construction of this street is designated an Event of National Historic Significance.

8. Largest Roundabout in the World - Putrajaya, Malaysia

World's Largest Roundabout Putrajaya is in the south of Kuala Lumpur. It is a new political center, the loop length of it is 3.4 km. The roundabout is situated around a beautiful hill and green parks.


9. Most Confusing Roundabout in the World, Magic Roundabout – Swindon, United Kingdom

The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England was constructed in 1972 and consists of five mini-roundabouts arranged in a circle. In 2009, it was voted the fourth scariest junction in Britain, in a poll by Britannia Rescue. To be fair, once understood this intersection is amazingly functional and actually designed to reduce overall congestion. However, it is certainly an urban wonder and highly perplexing to the uninitiated.

Political Games Addition to Problem

Canada’s latest crime numbers are down despite the hype caused by recent shooting in Toronto and in the Unites States.  This might just be an indication of how complex is the problem of violence in the 24/7 information age.  Data from Statistics Canada offered little that was new.  Violent crime numbers generally have been declining for more than a decade.  Yet the hysteria over the level of crime continues to rise, fed by a political class hungry to capitalize on any incident worthy of making the news.  No sooner, had the Stats Can report been released - Public Safety Minister Vic Towes was crediting last year’s decline in crime.  Even though it was passed AFTER most of the data was collected, the conservative majority rammed a new bill through Parliament, which remains to wrote into law.  The full impact of the changes to the criminal law provisions in Canada have yet to be placed into law. 

It isn’t just in United States where hypocrisy rules the political class; it’s been a situation within Canada’s government as well – not to mention Europe. 

In the wake of Aurora, Colorado’s shootings, United States politicians have been dancing around Americas absurd gun ownership laws.  New York City Mayor Bloomberg demanded to know what President Obama and Republican contender Romney intend to do to curb the availability of military- style automatic weapons with the high capacity clips.  In past lives both had advocated for stricter gun control, but with the presidency on the line, neither wants to go up against the National Rifle Association.  The NRA’s opposition to gun control not only affects America.  Its impact affects counties on both side of the border. 

The majority of handguns and military-style weapons used in crimes in Mexico and Canada come from the United States.  While Canadians might get outraged about the American gun laws, meanwhile, the Canadian is trying to derail or at least water down an attempt by the United Nations to  construct an effective international treaty to govern global arms trade. 

Now that’s two side of the coin – not just one. Where Canada sits within all of this?  It does not support mandatory reporting of ammunition, parts and components, as well as technology and equipment transfers. 

One would wonder why Canada would oppose a freight gun control when gun violence at home provides such a handy debate for politicians.  In the wake of a meeting between Toronto Mayor Rob Ford and Prime Minister Harper.  Harper blamed the courts and immigration for Canada’s problem with violence.  While wide-open gun laws may make certain incidents worse, strict gun laws don’t stop the violence either.  That has been clear in Europe, where mass killings have occurred in Finland, Norway, Britain, Germany, and France in recent years.  Many experts suggest that many factors give rise to violence.  Which include; mental health issues, poverty, isolation, radicalization, cultural tolerance – yet most of all – ACCESS.

As long as politicians exploit Violence as a Weapon to Promote their own agenda and degrade their opponents’ policies, it shall be a hard to adopt an approach to combat the problem. 

Whatever happened to LEADER-SHIP?

 

 

Sade - No Ordinary Love

Love is never ordinary. That is what makes love extraordinaire.

Sade is one which has that class and manner. As well within
her song of the ordinary way of not.

The People We Run Into

It’s amazing the people the people that come within our sphere.  The other day I had went out to a lake with some friends.  Myself and around fifteen adults and children.  After all some good laughs and all that goes along within this place called “Spring Lake” – which was a very small yet quaint lake. 

It was great to enjoy the time.

After a great barbeque, four of us which just sat back and shot the breeze.  George seemed to be a regular guy – a little older yet that of a nature which goes along with his age.  Then there was Ed whom as well was a little younger – yet between both of them, there was a hoot of a time within shooting the breeze.  We enjoyed talking about everything under the sun and then it came apparent that the two of them as regular as they were opened up a little more.  George had owned and entire fleet of trucks which ran through all of Canada and right down to Texas.  Not to mention other things that as the evening carried on one just knew that he was very ordinary – yet extraordinary with what he had done achieved within his life. 

 

Then Ed, seated to my left side slowly as the evening went on indicated that he had just purchased his own island.  He had just sold off an island up north – a fishing island for some 25 years.  Ed just sold it last year and to see him in jeans and all – here too was one that with no doubts had rendered some extremely good gains.  Within my travels, I have always been amazed with those, which never have to show what they have.  They are just ordinary folk that have not been lucky they have been wise in what they started doing and once the momentum at mid age – it carried them into things which goes beyond the average.

This older person George – did have one loss that of a son within a car accident so he decided to sell off everything and was very satisfied in living in another “bedroom” community – and has placed monies into other areas, which is within more of a humane manner.  George was at that age where he still had some areas within life, which he wished to fulfill.  I am sure that there have been many people, which have benefited by this gent. 

As for Ed – he was at that stage of winding down yet at that stage where he is still ambitious with some of the ventures – mind you, I was blown away with the fact that he had his own private island just for himself.  My point here is that in what I have found more often than not is that those whom flaunt it – usually don’t have it, and those that remain silent usually are the ones whom do have it.  In this case, it was within a material sense – but it could be within any area.

My lucky of the day was I was out and while heading back from today’s daily routine.  I ran into a lady.  Right off the bat, we just started talking and for some reason, I have the richness of being able to hit it off within a sincere manner. The lady was just around my age and what started with a hello – nice day – led into hour talk within the sharing of our lives.  She was gorgeous within her own manner – but more so within her personality.  Midway within our talk, she asked me where I was from and that’s always a lengthy explanation.  She thought I was a tourist from the states as it must be my demeanor of the manner, which I talk.  Now what was so ironic about her was that she was a teacher and then decided to take some time off as her husband had just passed away seven months ago.  After a lengthy conversation, we decided that we would get together again as she lives in a new home ironically in a town called, Lucky - out near this area near Spring Lake.  We exchanged numbers and that made for a fine day.  I, myself have always been confident yet I will admit that I never rush into anything yet I was lucky or things just happen by coincidence.

Lucky or not, it amazes me to this day of the people one comes to meet as it's a small world out there.

 

The Cove Movie

The Documentary Advocate Story – The Cove

THE COVE follows an elite team of activists, filmmakers, and free divers as they embark on a covert mission to penetrate a remote and hidden cove in Taiji, Japan. The documentary shines a light on a dark and deadly secret. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide. The result is a provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure, and arresting imagery, adding up to an unforgettable story that has inspired audiences worldwide to action. Besides winning, the Oscar for Best Documentary the Cove has won numerous awards around the world including the Audience Choice Award at the Sundance Film Festival. What initially motivated Flipper trainer, Ric O’Barry, was not mercury contamination. Ten years of training dolphins for Flipper taught him that these highly intelligent creatures are also sentient enough to commit suicide. After portraying Flipper for several years, Cathy swam into Ric’s arms and closed her blowhole, refusing to take another breath.
A paradigm shift overtook him that guided his actions for the next 40 years. Ric urges people to stop visiting dolphinariums. “It’s all about demand. If there is no demand for captive dolphins, or for dolphin meat, there will be no dolphin slaughter.” There are 200 dolphinariums around the world with Japan having the most with a total number of 36. Followed by Mexico at 21 and Spain at 10. Japan runs three of the most hideous dolphin slaughters in Taiji, Okinawa, and Fuito. Jacques Cousteau while alive indicated, “There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.” O’Barry concurs. “They get depressed. They get sick. These are free ranging animals that often save humans.”
One story told is by a surfer who found himself being tracked by a shark. Out of the blue a dolphin “T-boned the shark,” giving the surfer time to escape. Marine biology students may be interested in saving dolphins, but O’Barry isn’t looking for any apprentices. One teammate was murdered in Japan, while O’Barry sat in jail. Upon his release, he learned she had been strangled.
Saving dolphins requires big heart, steady nerves, and perseverance in the face of murder, arrest, corruption, and government-industry collusion. Through stealth, talent, and sheer tenacity, Ric O’Barry finally launches his 38-year-old campaign to ban dolphinariums with a spectacular film by the Oceanic Preservation Society. The Cove is as exciting as any spy film. Most of all, it’s real life, about real heroes, that, if effective in reaching the public, will save real humans and real animals. The cinematography is breathtaking. Be warned though within a few minutes into the advocate film one will see slaughter like no other of its likes. Only the truth will set these intelligent, free-range animals free. Ric O’Barry is certain that once the public is made aware of the issues exposed in the film, the entire dolphin industry can be shut down. Because boycotting Japan as a strategy is not the answer, most all Japanese people don't even know that there are these coves, which are carrying on this slaughter to Dolphins daily. Yet the government and participants within Japan's fisheries do. In fact, we believe that armed with the facts they will take this fight on themselves.

Instead, reach bloggers in Japan to break thru the media blackout on the dolphin industry and end this hidden slaughter.

I watched this documentary and it was unbelieveable what takes place in 3 very secret slaughter areas within the coves of Japan.


http://www.takepart.com/cove

The Documentary Advocate Story – The Cove

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Movies
Genre:	Documentary

THE COVE follows an elite team of activists, filmmakers, and free divers as they embark on a covert mission to penetrate a remote and hidden cove in Taiji, Japan. The documentary shines a light on a dark and deadly secret. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide. The result is a provocative mix of investigative journalism, eco-adventure, and arresting imagery, adding up to an unforgettable story that has inspired audiences worldwide to action. Besides winning, the Oscar for Best Documentary the Cove has won numerous awards around the world including the Audience Choice Award at the Sundance Film Festival. What initially motivated Flipper trainer, Ric O’Barry, was not mercury contamination. Ten years of training dolphins for Flipper taught him that these highly intelligent creatures are also sentient enough to commit suicide. After portraying Flipper for several years, Cathy swam into Ric’s arms and closed her blowhole, refusing to take another breath.

A paradigm shift overtook him that guided his actions for the next 40 years. Ric urges people to stop visiting dolphinariums. “It’s all about demand. If there is no demand for captive dolphins, or for dolphin meat, there will be no dolphin slaughter.” There are 200 dolphinariums around the world with Japan having the most with a total number of 36. Followed by Mexico at 21 and Spain at 10. Japan runs three of the most hideous dolphin slaughters in Taiji, Okinawa, and Fuito.

Jacques Cousteau while alive indicated, “There is about as much educational benefit to be gained in studying dolphins in captivity as there would be studying mankind by only observing prisoners held in solitary confinement.” O’Barry concurs. “They get depressed. They get sick. These are free ranging animals that often save humans.”
One story told is by a surfer who found himself being tracked by a shark. Out of the blue a dolphin “T-boned the shark,” giving the surfer time to escape. Marine biology students may be interested in saving dolphins, but O’Barry isn’t looking for any apprentices. One teammate was murdered in Japan, while O’Barry sat in jail. Upon his release, he learned she had been strangled.
Saving dolphins requires big heart, steady nerves, and perseverance in the face of murder, arrest, corruption, and government-industry collusion. Through stealth, talent, and sheer tenacity, Ric O’Barry finally launches his 38-year-old campaign to ban dolphinariums with a spectacular film by the Oceanic Preservation Society.

The Cove is as exciting as any spy film. Most of all, it’s real life, about real heroes, that, if effective in reaching the public, will save real humans and real animals. The cinematography is breathtaking.

Be warned though within a few minutes into the advocate film one will see slaughter like no other of its likes. Only the truth will set these intelligent, free-range animals free. Ric O’Barry is certain that once the public is made aware of the issues exposed in the film, the entire dolphin industry can be shut down. Because boycotting Japan as a strategy is not the answer, most all Japanese people don't even know that there are these coves, which are carrying on this slaughter to Dolphins daily.

Yet the government and participants within Japan's fisheries do. In fact, we believe that armed with the facts they will take this fight on themselves. Instead, reach bloggers in Japan to break thru the media blackout on the dolphin industry and end this hidden slaughter.

Movie Trailer below:


http://initiativestain.multiply.com/video/item/637/The-Cove-Movie?replies_read=1

~ Daily Ponders and Wonders ~

 

Over the weekend, I was thinking of what philosophical questions I did come up with a few. 

Often there are few of the friends on here, which do post a daily question. 

There are areas which I to ponder.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What if there were no hypothetical questions? 

 

Is there another word for synonym? 

 

What would you do if you saw an endangered animal eating an endangered plant? 

 

Can an atheist get insurance against acts of God? 

 

What was the best thing before sliced bread? 

 

Why isn’t evaporated milk an omission of gas? 

 

How is it possible to have a civil war? 

 

Why hemorrhoids are called hemorrhoids instead of asteroids? 

 

Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds? 

 

Why is abbreviation such a long word? 

 

If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? 

 

If you could make a 30-second speech to the entire world, what would you say? 

 

If you had all the money in the world but still had to have some kind of a job, what would you do? 

 

How do you really KNOW anything for sure?

 

 

 

Out of Breath

Yet I said a small blurb while walking uphill - small and simple as
it is.

Morning till Afternoon

Apart of my sphere where I have bought a new hiking bike and as I venture out on a new trail I found more than images - yet the renders are that of which were apart of my dillegence.

A great week ahead to all - just arrived home from an entire day at this tiny lake. Wishing you a very good week ahead.

Bare Naked Ladies - One Week

A "Fun" Band. :)

~ The Entitled Youth ~ Do we live in a society - where the youth of today feel that they have a special privilege? I would like to hear your take if you deem it fitting.

"Be Not to Overcome Evil with Evil, Overcome Evil with Good."

In Mexico City, criminal gangs are kidnapping rich people and their families for the lucrative ransom money.  On the advice of his lawyer, Mexican businessperson Samuel Ramos (Marc Anthony), like other wealthy people, hires a bodyguard to protect his nine-year-old daughter Lupita "Pita" Ramos (Dakota Fanning), and to be able to renew the family's ransom insurance.  The head of an executive security firm, Paul Rayburn (Christopher Walken) suggests that Ramos hire Rayburn's old CIA friend John Creasy (Denzel Washington).

Ramos is impressed with Creasy's résumé, which includes a variety of counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism activities.  However, Creasy has since become uninterested in life.  He is burned out from all the deaths and horrors he has been involved in.  Creating alcoholism to ease Creasy's past burdens.  Creasy is not interested in bodyguard work and even less with the youngster, but he needs a job.  Creasy's initial impatience slowly fades as he finds himself opening up to the child.  He replaces her parents in their absence, giving her advice and coaching her in her swimming lessons and competitions.  He helps her overcome her fear of starting guns, turning it into an eagerness to move at the sound of one.  Pita gives Creasy an emblem of St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes, saying she bought it for him with her own money.

Shortly after delivering her to a piano audition, Creasy notices a suspicious vehicle driving past and a pair of police cars blocking off the surrounding street.  As Pita emerges from the building and freezes, Creasy pulls out his gun and fires a shot into the air, similar to a starting gun, startling her to running away.  During the gun battle, four of the attackers are fatally shot, including two corrupt police officers.  The battle leaves Creasy seriously wounded and unconscious, allowing the surviving kidnappers to grab the child.  Shortly after the kidnapping, gang leader Daniel Sanchez demands a dead drop ransom of ten million dollars in exchange for Pita.  The drop goes badly, a corrupt police gang called “La Hermandad” ambushes the kidnappers, and the money is stolen.  "The brotherhood" exists within most all municipal police forces.  Sanchez notifies Pita's parents that the child will not be released, and everyone assumes she is dead.  It is during this time that the police chief while unconscious in his hospital bed, claiming he has murdered two judicial police officers, makes Creasy into public spectacle.  Rayburn shows up at the hospital after hearing the news and aids in helping Creasy escape to a safe house to further recover from his injuries.  After Creasy recovers from his wounds, he returns to Pita's home and promises her mother that he will kill everyone who was involved in, or profited from, the kidnapping.  Creasy kidnaps and tortures several "La Hermandad" members, forcing them to reveal the names of the people involved in the kidnapping ring.  In addition, Ramos admits setting the whole kidnapping up in order to get insurance money, as he was bankrupt.  He then commits suicide with a gun provided by Creasy.  With Rayburn's help, Creasy buys a variety of guns, explosives, and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.  He uses the weaponry to kill a number of corrupt Mexican police officers and high-ranking law enforcement officials who were involved in the kidnapping.  After Creasy learns where Sanchez lives, he fights his way into Sanchez's apartment.  Although Creasy is wounded in the gunfire, he gains the upper hand, and captures and tortures Sanchez's brother and ex-wife.

To save his brother, Sanchez admits that Pita is alive, and offers to exchange her for his brother and Creasy - A Life for a Life.  Creasy agrees, and travels with Pita's mother to a remote rural area to make the exchange.  After Pita runs to her mother, Creasy is hustled into a car, which speeds off.  As Creasy succumbs to his gunshot wounds, he drops the emblem of St. Jude that Pita gave him.  An epilogue reveals that Sanchez was killed during a police raid that same day, his location discovered by special operations police who were electronically following Creasy's movements and actions.

The movie was filmed in Mexico City in the 1980’s – they government of Mexico placed a ban on the movie for five years after its release.  The story is a true one.  There is a child that is kidnapped nearly every day.  Denzel’s character of Creasy is relevant to a man, which had done the very same actions and was from a similar background.

To this day, it’s my favorite movie as there was more within this movie and although it came out as labeled as fiction – yet after its release it was obvious that the character of Creasy had existed.  The areas of this movie that I truly love are the bond Creasy had with Pita – which ironically brought him back from his own plights.  As well as the indication of gangs which are within all areas and walks of life.  Most of all the conviction that Creasy had in doing justice within a country where there is no justice.  I don’t think he was the lamb that was lost.  I think that Creasy and the story were a true one - by the means of ethics of integrity & humility.

Again John Creasy was not a lost man he took care of a situation within Mexico that would have taken much more man power than one.

The merit within this movie was of merit and how this man found himself while he was a bodyguard for a sweet angel. As the quotation up above indiates,

 "Be Not to Overcome Evil with Evil, Overcome Evil with Good."

 

 

 

KISS - Hide Your Heart

KISS - Hide Your Heart


Johnny saw her riding on a street car named desire
His fate was sealed
She could see him coming like a hundred other liars
It was no big deal

Rosa had a lover on the shady side of town
Tito, he was king of the streets
And she was his possession like a jewel on his crown
Johnny better run, better run

Better hide your heart, better hold on tight
Say your prayers, 'cause there's trouble tonight
When pride and love battle with desire
Better hide your heart, 'cause you're playing with fire

The ride was over but the story doesn't end
He took her heart
She looked him in the eye and said they couldn't meet again
You could see the trouble start

The word went out that Rosa's messin' with someone
It was on the street
Tito looked for Johnny with a vengeance and a gun
Johnny better run, better run

Better hide your heart, better hold on tight
Say your prayers, 'cause there's trouble tonight
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/k/kiss-lyrics/hide-your-heart-lyrics.html ]
When pride and love battle with desire
Better hide your heart, 'cause you're playing with fire, come on

Yes, Johnny's holdin' Rosa on a rooftop in the night
As time stood still
They couldn't hear him coming 'til he had them both in sight
You could feel a chill

A shot ran out like thunder and the blood was on her hands
With nothing won
When someone lies dying, lovers finally understand

Baby hide your heart, better hold on tight
Say your prayers, 'cause there's trouble tonight
When pride and love battle with desire
Better hide your heart, 'cause you're playing with fire, come on

Better hide your heart, hold on tight
'Cause when pride and love battle with desire
Hide your heart, 'cause you're playing with fire
Hide your heart, hold on tight
Say your prayers, 'cause there's trouble tonight
Yeah, yeah, yeah

Pride and love battle with desire
Hide your heart, 'cause you're playing with fire
Hide your heart, hold on tight

Very sad day...... http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/07/20/denver-shooting-movie-premiere.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/photos/2780/#igImgId_46104

Bradley Hit a Wall

Wall’s question during a Western Canadian & American meeting came in a direct address to President Obama.  The question that he made was which president within history has ever had Canada’s interest at heart.  My guess is that he would say Ronald Reagan.  Since he's had a particular fascination with the former President Reagan, whose relationship with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney was a particular source of pride.  In fact, some of Wall's closest political colleagues and advisers argue to this day that Reagan was America's greatest president because it was Reagan's emphasis on massive, debt-accumulating military spending that bankrupted the communist states and ended the biggest threat to the globe from potential nuclear war.  The theory is interesting and has some validity, but it ignores the fact that the threat to world peace didn't exactly end as predicted, and that debt-plagued Reaganomics has had serious implications for the American and global economies ever since.  For Canada and Saskatchewan, the outcome of Reaganomics included a recession that made our oil less profitable and increased U.S. protectionism in the 1980s that produced massive tariffs on softwood lumber exports, uranium, and potash.  It is with this perspective that we should explore a remark Wall made in Saskatoon on Monday about President Barack Obama at the Pacific Northwest Economic Region Summit.  People think in this country, perhaps they do, that the Obama administration is good for Canada... The facts say something else.  Clearly, the premier could and should have been wiser with his words to reporters, especially since his tone can so easily be interpreted as injecting a personal bias into the democratic affairs of Canada's biggest trading partner.  That said Wall’s slights hardly constitute an international etiquette.

There is no doubt that Wall was playing to his audience of right-wing American and Canadian political and business types at the conference held in Saskatoon.  His actual PNWER speech was considerably more diplomatic and made the point that a premier should make.  Yet I would surmise Ottawa, Canada's capital had Wall's phones and staff given a cordial Canadian kick in the behind.  There are trade irritants between our countries.  Canada-U.S. relations may not be the worst in decades.  A claim by former Mulroney chief-of-staff and Canadian ambassador to the U.S., Derek Burney, which even Wall disputed Monday.  However, it also would be nonsense to suggest, as current U.S. ambassador to Canada David Jacobson did, that relations have never been better.  Which they have but in the recent years, there has been more progress between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama.  Whether it's been trade challenges against the former Canadian Wheat Board, or the George W. Bush administration's mostly politically motivated response to the discovery of BSE in Canada, to the embarrassment of protectionist U.S. farm bills under every U.S. administration or those 1980s tariffs, Canadian politicians have spent decades struggling with protectionism by U.S. federal and state legislators.

The "Obama Protectionism" to which Wall refers seems more of the same.  In that vein, the premier acknowledged that the Keystone XL pipeline delays are likely a temporary condition related to U.S. election year politics.  This doesn't mean that Wall isn't legitimately frustrated by American environmentalists' misguided view of "Dirty Canadian Oil," or that Obama's “Buy American Rule” in the most recent U.S. stimulus package isn't unfair to Canadian suppliers.  However, is this something unexpected or unusual?  In addition, does it make Obama bad for Canada or worse than any other recent American president?  It's at this point that Wall's argument lacks any historical perspective.  Exactly what constitutes a good American president for Canada is unclear.  However, one would think it would involve a U.S. leader making the world more peaceful, allowing trade and avoiding the kind of protectionism that makes commerce more difficult.  Perhaps Obama's record is hit and misses on both fronts, but that puts him on par with most of his predecessors in the White House.  It certainly doesn't prove that the Obama’s administration is any worse for Canada than any other U.S. administration that Wall might find more appealing politically.  

Yet Brad Wall hardly handled it in a more diplomatic manner.  He came out intentionally as the word is that he will be running for the next Prime Minister of Canada.

 

Interview by James Gormley with Brad Wall attached in mp3

 

 

 

Attachment: Premier Wall joins John Gormley Live to talk PNWER.mp3

Part of The Equation

With good weather, I took another trail – one that I had started on when I first arrived here. Things were tremendously hard then. I did a fast tapper off a medication – but I force my mind to look at nature. As of yesterday, I knew there was a change of plans where I will move at the beginning of August.

Yet when I went on my three-hour journey – I looked back at how I had walked, and then ran a path, which was cold and covered with snow. These are a few pictures without the need of an editor, which I do miss, as I love to watermark them.

Outside of that from today, I looked afar and I could not believe that there was a person dressed in all winter apparel doing what he had done. When I stood at one local – I sat and looked at everything and again there was the earth, wind, and sky.


I was just a part of the equation I learned.

Rod Stewart - Rhythm of my Heart

Rod Stewart can be regarded as the rock generation’s heir to Sam Cooke. Like Cooke, Stewart delivers both romantic ballads and up tempo material with conviction and panache, and he sings in a warm, soulful rasp. A singer’s singer, Stewart seemed made to inhabit the spotlight.

The London-born Stewart’s long-lived career extends back to 1964, when he cut his first record the blues standard “Good Morning Little Schoolgirl". Soon after, he began turning up in mid-Sixties R&B bands: as Long John Baldry’s Hoochie Coochie Men, Steampacket, and Shotgun Express. Stewart really came into his own as the singer with the Jeff Beck Group, the guitarist’s post-Yardbirds ensemble, formed in 1968.
From there, Stewart graduated to the Small Faces. He and guitarist Ron Wood joined founding members Ian McLagan, Ronnie Lane and Kenney Jones in the wake of Steve Marriott’s departure, and the Small Faces - which soon adopted the shortened name Faces - became an enormously popular touring group, rivaling the Rolling Stones for rollicking, good-natured rock and roll.

In concert, twirling mike stands and kick soccer balls into the audience while strutting across stages in flashy garb. Though critics occasionally looked askance at his music and persona in the wake of his Atlantic crossing, the public stood by him every step of the way. Stewart charted hit singles and platinum albums in nearly every year from 1970 through 1995, and his paced has slowed only slightly since then. He has proved a remarkably durable talent who has been single-mindedly committed to his music, touring tirelessly and recording prolifically.

Coffee Talk

I thought I would dabble into a little – Coffee Talk.  You know, I’ve been accused of being a wise guy from time to time and I suppose I am.  However, not really.  Here are some areas with a coffee at the side to think about and enjoy.  They are points to consider now rather than points these could be considered perspective angles.

 

 

 

Too bad wise guy and wise man don’t mean the same thing. 

When you say there’s a slim chance or a fat chance of something happening, it means the same. 

However, when stars are visible we say they are out and when lights are out, they are invisible.  English doesn’t make sense sometimes. 

The plural of house is houses but the plural of mouse isn’t mouses.  (Duh)

Two moose are the same as one moose but more than one tooth becomes teeth. 

Now why is that?

More than one booth isn’t beeth.  However, an extra goose makes geese. 

They say birds of a feather flock together except a bunch of geese is a gaggle. 

A writer writes but a grocer doesn’t groce. 

A vegetarian eats vegetables but a humanitarian doesn’t eat humans. ( None that I know of ) .........Although I guess, a humanitarian could theoretically be eaten BY humans in some jungle or other. (Which brings me to New Guinea) 

Perhaps in Guinea where you won’t find Guinea pigs because, they don’t come from there and they aren’t pigs in any case.  And if staying there you do wish to have a good head sense or it may cost the top of your head.

English muffins don’t come from England and French Fries aren’t from France. Now where do these things originate? 

In the meantime be careful if someone offers you sweetbreads which are meat and not sweet.  

 

Out on a Limb

Apart of half of my day within this town I took a few shots in a easy going manner. Thus I was out on limb, which turned the wheels
within my jaunty travels within the day.

The Tenacious Secretary of State

Two summers ago in announcing the end of the combat operations in Iraq, President Obama told the United States it was time for America to devote itself to problems at home.  At the first glance, his speech seemed exceptional.  Nevertheless, it left one high-ranking American official privately uneasy.  That person’s name is Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State.  From what she took into account from former aides - which had served within the position, Obama’s speech may be overly interpreted and inclined to be sending wrong message.  She thought the address as a in apt.  From the meaning of President Obama’s speech,

The United States was relinquishing its role as the worlds’ dominant power. Which was in contradiction to the global manner which America would pursue international relations.  Eight days later, she would deliver her own speech. Those two speeches managed to capture the subtle contrasts of outlooks between Obama and Clinton.

Behind the scenes, the irony that I find is that Hillary had lost the Democratic presidential nomination to Obama.  Primarily due to the liberal image which the Democratic placed together within its platform.  Hillary was type casted as a stern traditionalist.  This was in contrast to the foreign policies, which were adapted by the Democrats - as advised by Senator Pelusi.  In short term, Hillary would place out her own speech.  The irony was subtle yet the contrast was two very different outlooks in the aftermath of Iraq.  Clinton’s views have not changed within the three years while holding the position of Secretary of State.  As at this time, there is a strong relation and respect between Obama and Clinton.  I would tend to think that Obama is more reliant and open minded to the decisive rather than some in which have been within his caucus.  As you never hear either party criticize her.  This leads me to believe that Hillary’s work does not have much leverage from which to criticize from either side of the coin in Washington.  That's the Clinton and Democratic Advantage.

Hillary’s various speaking engagements as well as meetings abroad focus more on a new American movement where the nation is laying down a long lasting American foundation for years to come.  Ironically, Mitt Romney has borrowed several of Senator Clinton’s ideals.  One, which was his first campaigning platform, titled; “This is an American Moment”.

There is no question that that there are differences within the emphasis between the President and the Secretary of State. This might be a reflection to their underlying outlooks and roles within governing. 

President Obama views himself as an instrument of change.  Whereas Hillary Clinton forms the equation.  Formulating while in the pursuit of seeking continued strength while based with a traditional denominator.  The two former rivals have worked together surprisingly smoothly.  A rather good combination between these two within Washington, D.C.