Dogs are animals of integrity. We have much to learn from them.
Tag: Reflections
One man’s mission to stop the killing and capture of dolphins.
A dolphin is one of the most beautiful creatures on this planet.
I was going to write a very long Post setting out the reasons why everyone who cares for these creatures needs to get involved. But, in the end, a few links and extracts achieve that much more effectively than several hundred words from me.
Dog love
The following is a guest post from Daniela Caride. Daniela is the publisher of The Daily Tail, a Blog about her life with animals. To use her own words, “life with three dogs, three cats, her husband and the countless other animals she meets.”
Dogs inhabit my very first memories. I grew up with dogs as part of my family. They, too, got goodnight kisses from Mom.
In my early years I realized dogs had their own traits, just like humans. While our old boxer China quietly roamed around the house looking for love, Colita, our crazy Dachshund, tried to pee on everyone’s legs. If unsuccessful, the green rug under the dining table was an agreeable option. I don’t blame him. It looked just like a big square of grass.
An old Saxon church and echoes of world wars
Recently, the children from our small school in Breamore started their day with a Harvest Festival service in the old 
Saxon village church which is over 1,000 years old.
Rural life has not changed much for generations.
The Breamore Estate, set in beautiful Hampshire countryside has some 300 inhabitants, many of them living in old thatched cottages. The main Breamore House is where General Patton stayed in the run up to the D-Day landings.
What, You Think The Savings Rate Can’t Go Higher?
This Post is entirely indebted to others. It is too important a message not to warrant dissemination on this Blog. (But read to the end to see a valuable tutorial from our own Dr.Jarrell.)
So thanks: First to Naked Capitalism for providing the link (Yves does such an amazing job). Then to Business Insider for the actual article, which is the bulk of this Post, as follows. Finally to David Goldman who provides the data behind the chart.
The article starts thus:
This chart should give chills to anyone hoping that Americans will stop saving and start spending again.
In praise of thoughtful, articulate people who reason their way through life.
Let me say that I know no more about the person who is Neptunus Lex than anyone else who takes the time to read his Blog. And after I justify the sub-heading of this Post I will give you those links to Mariner Lex.
If you have come into the topic just now, then you may want to read the two Posts on fate.
The first Post was published on October 6th, the second Post the next day. In a sense, these Posts connect with the Carrier series by PBS that you can link to here.
A theme about flying, pilots and fate.
Many, many pilots whether civil or military or private, have read the book by Ernest K. Gann entitled Fate is the Hunter. Ernest Gann was born a little under a hundred years ago, on October 13th 1910 and died, aged 81, in 1991. He
is known, in the main, as an aviation writer and airline pilot pioneer but achieved much more besides.
Fate is the Hunter is a book about the workings of fate. And this Post is more than a reminder of Ernest Gann’s book and the message it carries, it is also about fate, as Part Two published tomorrow reveals.
Fate or serendipity has happened along to cause a number of recent Posts to be about flying. We had the Post about low-level RAF flight training in North Wales – Mach Loop. Then we had three Posts about air carrier operations prompted by the PBS Series, the first one being published on the 2nd October. Today, circumstance brought me to the Blog of another naval aviator, published by Neptunus Lex. More about him and links to the Blog later.
I want to set the scene by using the words of Ernest K Gann as he starts the preface to his book.
A personal reflection on the emotions stirred by the PBS series on the USS Nimitz
The last three days have seen Posts on the USS Nimitz. On the 2nd there was the first part of air carrier operations specifically looking at the challenges of a pitching deck. On the 3rd came the second part as the pilots and crew operated into night, still with the deck of the USS Nimitz pitching significantly. Yesterday, the Post carried links to background information including the excellent web site that PBS have on the USS Nimitz series.
So why raise the question of integrity?
Important lessons from former East Germans.
Have you ever noticed how the most ardent supporters of capitalism and free markets are those who’ve experienced a world without them?
How those who speak out most poignantly against health care reform in the U.S. are those who’ve experienced nationalized health care? No?
If you can, then, take a moment and think back to the coverage, the news, the sound bites. Take a look, perhaps a second look, behind the headlines and I venture that you will find endless examples of this phenomenon. It is those who have done without freedom of choice, free markets, and self-determination who treasure it most, who most understand its value, who’ve lived with the consequences of its absence.
We need look no further than Chancellor Angela Merkel and her recent victory in Germany’s national election.
Chancellor Merkel grew up in communist East Germany and is now leading Germany out of recession with tax cuts and reduced government spending.
We should be listening to what the world is telling us. Very hard, and very quickly. We don’t want to have to lose it before we appreciate what we have.
By Sherry Jarrell
How clear, crisp September days echo 1940.
I was born in London some 6 months before the end of World War II. The echoes of that tragic event in human history rang around the torn roadways and ripped buildings of London for many years, certainly for sufficiently long that I was able to remember as a young boy, away on his bicycle, the bomb sites and and the gaps where once buildings had stood.
Sometimes, when the September weather is as it was during the Battle of Britain, it’s almost as though those echoes can still be faintly heard. Maybe all Londoners over a certain age hear them?
Expansion or replacement of the traditional book?
My guess is that most people still value the convenience and sheer pleasure of holding and reading a traditional paper book. It is difficult to think of a more pleasurable activity than browsing the shelves of a book-store or library. But the eBook also is carving out a valuable niche, it appears.
Thus it was a delight to come across a ‘store’ devoted to eBooks. Based in Paris, that virtual store is called Mobipocket. New to me but, perhaps, not to many others (I can sometimes be a little behind the new technology drag-curve!)
Nevertheless, a veritable labyrinth of virtual book shelves with prices often well below print prices. Here’s the WikiPedia background.
By Paul Handover (who has no commercial interest in promoting Mobipocket, not even a cent is earnt if you click through.)
Learning from Dogs 