"Would you be able to defend yourself and your loved ones if someone were to physically attack you? It's a question most of us don't want to consider, but violence is, unfortunately, a fact of life. Thankfully, regardless of strength, size, or previous training, anyone can learn several effective self-defense techniques. Here's how to prepare for and stay safe in common real-world violent situations..."read here
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Basic Self-Defense Moves Anyone Can Do (and Everyone Should Know)
"Would you be able to defend yourself and your loved ones if someone were to physically attack you? It's a question most of us don't want to consider, but violence is, unfortunately, a fact of life. Thankfully, regardless of strength, size, or previous training, anyone can learn several effective self-defense techniques. Here's how to prepare for and stay safe in common real-world violent situations..."read here
Friday, July 29, 2011
Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening - Robert Frost
photo![Robert Frost [8G6830]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_usJ0VOAv6EbaL3Z4Txa0YXaonKd7dMPCnuXUIaxZ87RBapAsAgvXMpsNM8f9kwxwEShb79Sv4pbeIdjX_xWP6S6ry8ojvC72WyMupD8BTPwU976R8KcfsQiCu06pQr938rTiFRusc=s0-d)
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. http://www.online-literature.com/frost/751/
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound's the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep. http://www.online-literature.com/frost/751/
Crocodile safaris
"Saltwater crocodiles are arguably nature’s most terrifyingly efficient killing machines. Getting up close to them is generally a very bad idea but, in Australia’s Northern Territory, the “big salties” have become a major tourist attraction. And as last week’s incredible photograph of a jumping crocodile, above, shows, visitors can get very close indeed to the toothy monsters..."Read Here
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
"Rogue kangaroo" attacks 94-year-old woman in Australia
elderly ladyPolice used pepper spray to subdue a boxing kangaroo that attacked a 94-year-old Australian woman in her Outback town backyard.kangaroo with beer
News DeskJuly 25, 2011 23:45
A 94-year-old Australian woman was forced to box a kangaroo when the animal attacked her in her Outback backyard as she was hanging out the laundry.."I thought it was going to kill me," Phyllis Johnson told Australia’s Courier Mail from her hospital bed. "It was taller than me and it just plowed through the clothes on the washing line straight for me."
The inexplicably furious roo knocked Johnson to the ground outside her home in the remote Outback town of Charleville, Queensland, and kicked her repeatedly, but she fought back.
"I happened to have a broom nearby and I just started swinging at it. I bashed it on the head but it kept going for me, not even the dog would help, it was too frightened," Johnson told the newspaper.
She eventually managed to crawl under a fence to escape indoors, and police arrived at Johnson’s home a short while later.
But the boxing kangaroo, described as a “massive” male, continued to fight. It charged the police officers, who had to use pepper spray to subdue the animal, the Courier Mail reports.
(More kangaroo news from GlobalPost: "Gas-less" kangaroo holds clues to cutting greenhouse emissions)
It is unusual for a kangaroo to attack a human, and Johnson said she had fed bread to friendlier roos in her area before.
“I'm okay, although the roo took a chunk of flesh out of my leg and there's a chance they'll have to operate," she said.
Wildlife rangers later trapped the "rogue kangaroo," the Associated Press reports http://ht.ly/5Ndzy
Monday, July 25, 2011
Walk honours missing, murdered aboriginal women
Sophie Merasty-photo, Richard Marjan
Myrna LaPlante's aunt disappeared four years ago from her home on an acreage north of the Kawacatoose First Nation.
"She was living her last years with her dogs and one day she wasn't there," said LaPlante, chair of the Women Walking Together (Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik) group and local organizer for the Walk4Justice cross-Canada trek.
LaPlante said her aunt, Emily Osmond, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. She is now one name among dozens of Saskatchewan aboriginal women who went missing or were murdered during the last several decades...Read Here
Look East by Eekwol
"She was living her last years with her dogs and one day she wasn't there," said LaPlante, chair of the Women Walking Together (Iskwewuk E-wichiwitochik) group and local organizer for the Walk4Justice cross-Canada trek.
LaPlante said her aunt, Emily Osmond, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. She is now one name among dozens of Saskatchewan aboriginal women who went missing or were murdered during the last several decades...Read Here
Look East by Eekwol
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