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Polar bear killed after 300km trek |
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Posted by: surfing on 06/05/2008 12:01 PM
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Polar bear killed after 300km trek
Article from: The Daily Telegraph
GRAPHIC footage of the first polar bear seen in Iceland in 20 years being shot dead by police has been posted on the internet.
The bear, an adult male weighing around 250kg, was presumed to have swum some 300km from Greenland or from a distant chunk of Arctic ice to Skagafjordur in northern Iceland.
It was planned to sedate the animal and move it back to Greenland but the police decided it was safest to kill the bear immediately.
"There was fog up in the hills and we took the decision to kill the bear before it could disappear into the fog”, said police spokesman Petur Bjornsson.
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Tu sera un homme mon fils.... Rudyard kipling |
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Posted by: surfing on 03/27/2008 06:35 AM
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Tu sera un homme, mon fils !
Si tu peux voir détruit l’ouvrage de ta vie,
Et sans dire un mot te mettre à rebâtir,
Ou perdre en un seul coup le gain de cent parties,
Sans un geste et sans un soupir,
Si tu peux être amant sans être fou d’amour,
Si tu peux être fort sans cesser d’être tendre,
Et, te sentant haï, sans haïr à ton tour,
Pourtant lutter et te défendre,
Si tu peux supporter d’entendre tes paroles,
Travesties par des gueux pour exciter les sots,
Et d’entendre mentir sur toi leurs bouches folles,
Sans mentir toi même d’un mot,
Si tu peux rester digne en étant populaire,
Si tu peux rester peuple en conseillant les Rois,
Et si tu peux aimer tous tes amis en frère,
Sans qu’aucun d’eux soit tout pour toi,
Si tu sais méditer, observer et connaître
Sans jamais devenir sceptique ou destructeur,
Rêver, mais sans laisser jamais ton rêve être ton Maître,
Penser sans n’être qu‘un penseur,
Si tu peux être dur sans jamais être en rage,
Si tu peux être brave et jamais imprudent,
Si tu sais être bon, si tu sais être sage,
Sans être moral ni pédant,
Si tu peux rencontrer triomphe après défaite,
Et recevoir ces deux menteurs d’un même front,
Si tu peux conserver ton courage et ta tête,
Quand tous les autres les perdront,
Alors les Rois, les Dieux, la Chance et la Victoire
Ne seront à tout jamais tes esclaves soumis
Et, ce qui vaut mieux que les Rois et la Gloire,
Tu seras un Homme, mon fils ! |
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Peaceful Warrior’s 21 Teachings |
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Posted by: surfing on 03/06/2008 12:24 PM
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Peaceful Warrior’s 21 Teachings
Knowledge is Not Wisdom - Knowledge is theory (know how to do something), wisdom is practice (doing that something). How many times you find yourself in this situation: you now how to do something good for you and others, but you don't do it. Let's give an example: you know that exercising daily is more than good for your body and mind, even for your relationship, but you find yourself often not doing it.
Happiness doesn't Equal cash, sex, power, glory … - you can have these all and be unhappy at the same time. You can have these all and still feel empty inside.
The Highest Purpose: Service to Others - There's no higher purpose than this one. I think this statement might be the answer to all strivings for the meaning in life.
Slow Down. You might taste something!
Listen to Your Own Intuition!
Get rid of all Useless/Negative Thoughts - learn to throw out every thought you don't need. The useless and negative thoughts not only are bad in themselves but they prevent useful and positive thoughts to manifest and weaken your focus on your goals.
Be fully Aware about What is Going On With You and Around You Right Now - clear your mind of past and future thoughts and concentrate on what you are doing right now. This is the key for excellence and performance in any domain. It applies successfully to any goal you have to achieve. Focus only and only on the task you have to do right now in order to achieve your goal and you will succeed. But for this we have to be devoted 100% to the experience we are having.
You Make a Decision Every Moment - be conscious about your choices, be aware of the options you have at a given moment, because from that moment on your life can take very different tracks. And once you chose an option you exclude others, so be careful! Your repeated choices will become your habits.
There are No Ordinary Moments, because always something happens - we miss a lot of beautiful things that happen around us just because we think nothing happen, but there are going on a lot of things if we are able to see them.
Be Aware of Attachments and Addictions - there are two approaches to escape these two weaknesses: one way is to fight them the other is to just let them go. Use both.
Everything have a purpose, find it or create it - the first and most common way to find your meaning in life is to seek and discover it. This way presuppose that purpose or meaning is somewhere there (someone put it there or it grew there by itself) and all we have to do is to discover it. The second way is more uncommon and imply that out there, in reality, is no purpose or meaning at all and what we have to do is to create it and follow it.
Meditate to Find Answers and Peacefulness - stillness and silence are the best ways to find what you are seeking for.
Most people Don't Live at all - busyness doesn't equal living.
Assume your imperfection, vulnerability and defeats!
There is only Doing, no starting or stopping! - our life is like a fluid flow with its own drive and energy or engine, all we have to do is to choose the best track at any given cross-road.
The Trickiest Trap: When I get what I want I'll be happy! Even when you get what you want you still suffer because you can't hold the moment forever and get bored soon. And boredom is suffering. Gold is an illusion and also it brings you the fear that you may lose it. Living in fear that you might fail.
You are Something Exceptional either way, even if you win or lose!
Mystery, Permanent Change and Humor - these are what life is all about!
The journey (process) is what gives you happiness, not the destination (results) - the destination is often just a pretext for a journey.
Control your Mind & Body; try not to control the external world, that which is beyond your control.
All we have is Present, all we are is this Moment, all we do is Here & Now - this is the only thing that matters! |
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What Is Global Warming?
Article from National Geographic
The Planet is Heating Up—and Fast
Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace. It's becoming clear that humans have caused most of the past century's warming by releasing heat-trapping gases as we power our modern lives. Called greenhouse gases, their levels are higher now than in the last 650,000 years.
We call the result global warming, but it is causing a set of changes to the Earth's climate, or long-term weather patterns, that varies from place to place. As the Earth spins each day, the new heat swirls with it, picking up moisture over the oceans, rising here, settling there. It's changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon.
What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope with the changes we've already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the face of the Earth as we know it—coasts, forests, farms and snow-capped mountains—hangs in the balance.
Greenhouse effect
The "greenhouse effect" is the warming that happens when certain gases in Earth's atmosphere trap heat. These gases let in light but keep heat from escaping, like the glass walls of a greenhouse.
First, sunlight shines onto the Earth's surface, where it is absorbed and then radiates back into the atmosphere as heat. In the atmosphere, “greenhouse” gases trap some of this heat, and the rest escapes into space. The more greenhouse gases are in the atmosphere, the more heat gets trapped.
Scientists have known about the greenhouse effect since 1824, when Joseph Fourier calculated that the Earth would be much colder if it had no atmosphere. This greenhouse effect is what keeps the Earth's climate livable. Without it, the Earth's surface would be an average of about 60 degrees Fahrenheit cooler. In 1895, the Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius discovered that humans could enhance the greenhouse effect by making carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas. He kicked off 100 years of climate research that has given us a sophisticated understanding of global warming.
Levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs) have gone up and down over the Earth's history, but they have been fairly constant for the past few thousand years. Global average temperatures have stayed fairly constant over that time as well, until recently. Through the burning of fossil fuels and other GHG emissions, humans are enhancing the greenhouse effect and warming Earth.
Scientists often use the term "climate change" instead of global warming. This is because as the Earth's average temperature climbs, winds and ocean currents move heat around the globe in ways that can cool some areas, warm others, and change the amount of rain and snow falling. As a result, the climate changes differently in different areas.
Aren’t temperature changes natural?
The average global temperature and concentrations of carbon dioxide (one of the major greenhouse gases) have fluctuated on a cycle of hundreds of thousands of years as the Earth's position relative to the sun has varied. As a result, ice ages have come and gone.
However, for thousands of years now, emissions of GHGs to the atmosphere have been balanced out by GHGs that are naturally absorbed. As a result, GHG concentrations and temperature have been fairly stable. This stability has allowed human civilization to develop within a consistent climate.
Occasionally, other factors briefly influence global temperatures. Volcanic eruptions, for example, emit particles that temporarily cool the Earth's surface. But these have no lasting effect beyond a few years. Other cycles, such as El Niño, also work on fairly short and predictable cycles.
Now, humans have increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by more than a third since the industrial revolution. Changes this large have historically taken thousands of years, but are now happening over the course of decades.
Why is this a concern?
The rapid rise in greenhouse gases is a problem because it is changing the climate faster than some living things may be able to adapt. Also, a new and more unpredictable climate poses unique challenges to all life.
Historically, Earth's climate has regularly shifted back and forth between temperatures like those we see today and temperatures cold enough that large sheets of ice covered much of North America and Europe. The difference between average global temperatures today and during those ice ages is only about 5 degrees Celsius (9 degrees Fahrenheit), and these swings happen slowly, over hundreds of thousands of years.
Now, with concentrations of greenhouse gases rising, Earth's remaining ice sheets (such as Greenland and Antarctica) are starting to melt too. The extra water could potentially raise sea levels significantly.
As the mercury rises, the climate can change in unexpected ways. In addition to sea levels rising, weather can become more extreme. This means more intense major storms, more rain followed by longer and drier droughts (a challenge for growing crops), changes in the ranges in which plants and animals can live, and loss of water supplies that have historically come from glaciers.
Scientists are already seeing some of these changes occurring more quickly than they had expected. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, eleven of the twelve hottest years since thermometer readings became available occurred between 1995 and 2006.
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Created on 05/08/2007 04:26 PM by surfing
Updated on 05/08/2007 04:40 PM by surfing
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| Le poeme du jour |
"Du côté de Saucats"
Partez pour la grande ville : je reste ici
Dessous l’ombre du pin illuminé
Déambulant à l’heure fraîche
Dans les artères souriantes d’une cité
Mariant sa langue aux accents de la nature.
La mer s’est retirée depuis longtemps :
Le sable en murmure encore la légende
Quelques lieux avant l’Atlantique.
J’arpente d’un pas égal
Les rues anonymes de la forêt.
L’arbre n’est pas déserté d’oiseaux.
La mémoire animale a toujours en cette terre
Son chant et ses furtifs représentants.
Partez si vous voulez pour les grandes villes
Et revenez-en une fois finie votre errance.
Un ciel chaleureux a étendu ici sa couverture.
Du côté de Saucats je choisis de rester.
Marc Blanchet
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