The Ocean Is Not A Grocery Store
Posted by Michelle Moquin on June 3rd, 2010
Good morning!
Doug sent this to me the other day and I wanted to post it today. (Thanks Doug!) This is a video from a Ted conference. Brian Skerry, the guest speaker, who has a love for the underworld and all of its beautiful life, is an amazing photographer who gives us a peek at the ocean’s glory and horror. If you are a lover of the ocean and all its beauty, like I am, and how can you not, I think you’ll enjoy and appreciate Skerry’s perspective.
I titled my write this morning, from a quote that stuck with me that Skerry said in his talk. “The ocean is not a grocery store”. I never thought of it that way, and yet we treat it that way. This is how we treat the life that sustains us…by taking and taking and taking as if there will always be more to take…an endless supply, as if ‘someone’ is going to continue to stock the sea for us. But there isn’t and there won’t be unless it’s us – unless we give back to the ocean by not taking.
The ocean, and all that lives there, doesn’t have time to replenish itself and thrive because of the impact we make by our take. And just what are we giving back?
Readers: It’s our time to give back. Thoughts? Blog me.
Zen Lill: I’ll have to check that website out. Thanks for the gratitude. :) I miss writing those to my friends and family. I so enjoyed it when I did. I was hoping that it would get paid forward in some way and I think it did. Speaking of gratitude, I see many of your admirers showed you some gratitude. :)
Una: Thanks. I’ll keep that in mind. :)
Mike: That is a great question. I’m sure MSNBC is but you know FOX isn’t addressing that question. And I find that our society moves so quickly that people only take notice of what is currently being repeatedly said. To blame Obama for this is just ridiculous. Opinions can be so short-sighted and lazy. ‘Selective’ memory comes to mind too.
Beatrice: My Intro for the day was all about ZL. And while I don’t doubt you are a hot chick, I posted her photo because Zen Lill is a regular visitor to my blog and I thought Zen Lill’s admirers would like a peek at her prettiness.
Anon: Believe me, I know. But to answer you, ‘No you are not being shelved for ZL.’ She is just a good pal – Plus ZL’s has voiced she’s not into women. Besides that, I don’t believe either of us are each other’s type. Hmm…do I have a type? Not sure if I do – I appreciate all women in their glory – Anyway…So if I am yours, make yourself known. :)
Homer: Good point. Typical stance for hypocrites isn’t it?
Frances and Connie: I can not imagine what it must be like to live there. Katrina was more than enough, and now this. I feel for you and everyone there. Perhaps this hard lesson will lead us to a cleaner source of energy sooner.
Gary: Do you see me smiling as I read your write? I am. Thank you for your kind words – such a delightful read.
Sylvia: Thanks for posting that very informative article. I hope the best for your brother.
Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my ‘loyal’(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)
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June 3rd, 2010 at 9:48 am
Why is Obama talking to the governor of Alabama about that racists law? This is the white side of his heritage coming out.
Why give credence to such obvious insensitive concern for the anguish you are placing on another race to appease the concerns of another?
Whites have historically shown that they could care less about what OTWS experience as a result of laws they pass to convenience their lives. It seems that as long as whites benefit from the laws they pass, thats fine with them.
Helena
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:51 am
This is just a reminder to us here on the island that we still have to take precautions to prevent mumps.
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GUAM – School is out for many people, but with summer programs and summer schools starting up, not to mention summer travel, now is not the time to let your guard down about mumps.
Right now, 4-5 cases of the often painful illness are reported to health officials every day.
Since January on Guam, there have been more than 300 cases. That’s a high number given our population. And now, there’s added concern that the viral illness might spread even more with the onset of summer.
“Just with visiting relatives, close contact, crowded conditions,” said Department of Public Health’s Annette Aguon. “Here on Guam or whether you travel off island, those are some of the concerns that you may not have the symptoms when you leave the mainland and you never know if you were exposed to someone who had the mumps.”
Health officials are actively reaching out to those summer programs. Public Health is also waiting for results of an intervention they conducted with the Centers for Disease Control. The intervention was when a third dose of the MMR vaccine was given to students at seven public schools, to determine if that helped contain some of the spread.
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Hafa adai
Anna
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:52 am
Keys to a Successful Garage Sale
Sharon Huxford
A successful garage sale can convert your clutter into cash. An unsuccessful garage sale, on the other hand, can be a frustrating waste of a weekend. How to increase the odds that your sale will go well…
AVOID THE BIG MISTAKES
These missteps could doom your garage sale…
Picking the wrong weekend. Don’t plan your sale for a holiday weekend. Most potential shoppers will have other plans.
Ignoring local regulations about signs and sales. Confirm with your town offices that it is legal in your area to attach signs to streetlamps and telephone poles.
Making signs that are illegible from the road. Use a thick black marker and large print and arrows to steer drivers toward your sale. Make sure that your address and the sale hours are written large enough to be read from a moving car.
Failing to provide clear prices. Many shoppers will walk away rather than ask for a price on an item.
Selling junk. No one wants broken, unusable garbage.
Overpricing. Garage sale prices must be low enough that bargain hunters cannot pass them up.
Not having enough change. Get a stack of singles and a roll of quarters before the sale.
ITEMS THAT SELL
Some items sell much better than others at garage sales. Top sellers typically include…
Decorative items for the home in good condition.
Framed prints.
Cookbooks.
Kitchen appliances that work.
Needlework, such as embroidered or crocheted items.
Tools.
Fishing gear.
Houseplants, including rooted cuttings.
Items in good condition that evoke past decades are always popular, particularly if they date to the 1960s or earlier. These might include vintage decorative items, fashion items or even ordinary household items.
Caution: If your older items are potentially valuable antiques or collectibles, a garage sale is not the best place to sell them. Few garage sale shoppers are willing to spend more than $10 to $20 on a single item, particularly in rural regions. Look up your items in a price guide or see what similar items have fetched on eBay. If something is worth significantly more than $20, you probably would be better off selling it on eBay or through a local antique shop.
Clothing does not sell well at garage sales. Most shoppers will not share your size or taste in clothing, and even those who do are likely to think twice before buying used clothes at a garage sale where they cannot first try them on. If clothing is in good shape and in style, it is likely to bring a better price at a consignment store.
Exception: Children’s clothing sells well at garage sales if it is priced well — parents know that their children will grow into these clothes.
Strategy: Consider combining a bake sale with your garage sale. Baked goods are very popular with garage sale shoppers hungry from a morning spent driving around.
HOW TO ADVERTISE
Place classified ads in local newspapers starting at least a few days prior to your sale as well as on sale day. Your ad should include the hours and location of your sale and a few of the categories of merchandise that your sale will feature.
Example: “Garage Sale. Saturday. 8 am–1 pm… 789 Smith Lane, Jonesville… collectible glassware, quilts, houseplants, kitchen appliances, women’s clothing sizes 8 to 12, more.”
Hang flyers advertising your sale on community bulletin boards, such as those found in the entrances of supermarkets. On the morning of your sale, also hang signs along busy roads near your home to attract drive-by customers.
If you live in or near a city, you also can advertise your sale for free on Internet classified ad Web site Craigslist (www.craigslist.com).
BEST TIMES
The best time to hold your garage sale is a weekend when there are several other sales advertised in your neighborhood. A concentration of sales encourages garage sale shoppers to come to your part of town and visit them all.
Helpful: One large sale can attract crowds just as well as many small ones. Invite your neighbors to join you in a multifamily or block-wide garage sale.
The majority of garage sale purchases are made within the first three hours that the sale is open, typically on Saturday morning. By Saturday afternoon, most garage sale shoppers are heading home — they assume that anything worth buying has been bought.
Best: Schedule your sale for Saturday between 8 am and noon or 1 pm, and you still will have most of the weekend to do other things. Or, consider starting your garage sale Friday evening between 5 pm and dusk, then continuing it Saturday morning. You will have far less competition from other garage sales on Friday evening, and you may attract shoppers on their way home from work.
Watch the weather reports during the week, and delay your sale to a future weekend if rain seems likely for sale day.
PRESENTATION
Your merchandise will sell better if it is placed on tables rather than on the ground. Clothes sell best if they are hung on hangers, not folded or piled.
Place larger items, such as furniture or lawn mowers, out front where they can be seen from the street. Someone driving by might stop if he/she sees something of interest even if he had no intention of visiting your garage sale. Small items will not attract drive-by customers because they are not visible from passing cars.
PRICING
How much you charge for your merchandise depends on the item, its condition, your region and — most important — your goal for the sale. If your main priority is to clean the clutter out of your attic, set your prices so low that any visitor will think, “How can I afford not to buy?”
If your main priority is to make money and you do not mind hauling unsold items back into your home, price merchandise at what you might pay for it yourself if these were things that you needed or wanted. Garage sale shoppers like to haggle, so do not price your goods at the lowest amounts that you are willing to take.
Write prices on small pieces of masking tape and stick them to the merchandise, or purchase small colored stickers and make up a sign explaining what price each color represents.
If you know something about the condition or history of the item, include this on a sign or tag as well.
Examples: “Works fine” on an appliance…. “Only worn once” on an item of clothing…or “circa 1950” on a vintage item.
Don’t be too chatty with shoppers unless they seem interested in speaking with you. Some garage sale shoppers do not wish to be slowed down by small talk. Do say, “Good morning,” and answer shoppers’ questions. If an item seems to be of particular interest to a shopper, provide more information about it. Offer to plug in electric items so that the shopper can see that they work.
Bottom Line/Retirement interviewed Sharon Huxford, coeditor of Garage Sale & Flea Market Annual (Collector Books). Based in Covington, Indiana, she has been writing and editing books on garage sales, antiques and collectibles since 1974.
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:53 am
Hafa adai
We may yet get what white America takes for granted.
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GUAM – Congresswoman Bordallo is hoping the the fourth time is the charm when it comes to war claims.??The Guam Loyalty Recognition Act has cleared major hurdles according to Bordallo, including the U.S. Senate’s concern that it would open the floodgates for P.O.W.’s to file claims. But there still remains uncertainty about whether members of the Senate will support it this time around. Senator Carl Levin did not fulfill his commitment to hold hearings on the war claims. And the recent cut of $300 million from Guam buildup funding leaves war claims and Guam’s war survivors again hanging in the balance between the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
Bordallo noted, “and when it comes to the war claims, the last time around, they promised they would have a hearing. Now we had a hearing in December, so the House has taken care of everything but they have yet to call a hearing. We were hoping they would and they may yet, but time is running short. But we will go into conference and we’re gonna fight for everything that we asked for so I’m sure we’ll come out alright. I’m optimistic.”
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But don’t count on it.
Peter
June 3rd, 2010 at 9:56 am
So does that mean you won’t post my picture?
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:01 am
Gary, you asshole. I introduced you to this blog. You said that you had sworn off women since my sister cheated on you.
Now, you are flirting with a married woman. Michelle would NEVER give you the time of day. I on the other hand extended my sympathies when my sister did you wrong.
Men
they suck.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:03 am
I hope I’m not too late to comment on Zen Lill’s fine legs. You have gotten me started, now show me some more.
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:09 am
It’s about time Guam got Digital Television. I can’t wait till it comes to Chalan Pago.
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GTA TeleGuam Expands Digital Television Coverage to More Guam Homes
GUdTV is 100% digital television; offers more channels, HD programs, sports
TAMUNING, Guam–(BUSINESS WIRE)–GTA TeleGuam Wednesday announced it has expanded its digital television coverage into two additional neighborhoods with about 350 homes in the Guam village of Yona.
“This is real, natural competition and works best to the benefit of all.”
The latest service expansion into the Baza Gardens and Windward Hills communities in Yona brings to more than 36,700 the total number of homes and businesses on Guam with access to GTA TeleGuam’s IP-based, 100 percent digital television called GUdTV, short for Guam Digital Television.
“Guam pay television consumers now have a clear choice of television providers who are continually stepping up their programming, value added services, and overall customer care to attract and retain customers,” said Andrew Gayle, executive vice president of product development and management for GTA TeleGuam. “This is real, natural competition and works best to the benefit of all.
“GUdTV offers picture quality and programming flexibility that is not available on traditional cable television service,” Gayle said. “GUdTV offers more channels, more high definition channels, more family programming, more international programming, and more sports.”
Since the introduction of GUdTV in October 2008, more than 5,000 households and businesses have switched to digital television. GTA TeleGuam is continually working to expand its offering throughout Guam.
As a special introductory offer, GTA TeleGuam is offering new subscribers free installation plus the Showtime movie channel and use of a digital video recorder for three months. Digital television monthly rates start at $29.95. GTA TeleGuam offers monthly discounts to customers who bundle communication services like broadband Internet access, wireless and home phone service with digital television packages.
Customers can sign up for GUdTV at GTA TeleGuam retail locations in Upper Tumon, Agana Shopping Center, Micronesia Mall, Guam Premier Outlets, Navy Exchange and Andersen Air Force Base. For added convenience, customers can also sign up for service over the phone by calling the GTA TeleGuam ‘Always There!’ call center hotline at 644-4482.
About GTA TeleGuam
GTA TeleGuam provides complete communications services on Guam. These include local and long-distance telephone service, 3G wireless, DSL Internet access, and advanced digital television, or IPTV.
The company also operates a data center on Guam for offering business data storage and managed wide area networking. Based in Tamuning, Guam, GTA TeleGuam is privately owned and locally managed. Shamrock Capital Advisors, a California-based private equity firm founded as the Roy E. Disney Family investment company, and GE provide financial backing to GTA TeleGuam. The company’s website is http://www.gta.net. Phone: 1-671-644-4482.
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What’s taking so long?
Hafa adai
Laile
June 3rd, 2010 at 10:53 am
Hi Mischa, great video, love Ted.com, such interesting info there. I’m ready to just go vegan already : ) Oh hey, and listen if I had a female ‘type’ I’m pretty sure you would be on my radar, but anon, I am not competeing for the commanders attention, so yeah…make yourself known, you know…if’n you wnat to : ) tee hee…
Btw, I sent that pic bc Mischa asked about seeing the outfit that inspired the comment ‘…that’s never get old with me…’ – Troy, you were right, nuttin’ under dere : ) but they were 5 minutes earlier but they hung only a 1/2″ below the long loose top so I dropped trou. Everyone else, thanks for all the admiration, though my ego doesn’t require it. Lacy, like the honey line, sweetttt…
…and ‘disappointed’ – well I knew there’d be at least 1 of you, though I expected more : ) I don’t recall ever saying I’d look better than your blow up doll, oops, I mean, your hooker across the street. And yes, thankfully I love myself very much and think very highly of me, if I don’t who will I ask you? To love yourself wholeheartedly is the best gift you can give to others bc it is only then that you can offer up love without requiring anything at all in return, and I give out love freely, not all of the sexual variety mind you. My rap here is always to be as healthy and fit as you can be, and I think perhaps you took my reference of looking like Julia Roberts to mean I think I’m all that. Hmmm, I don’t find her to be a knock out (or myself either) but I’ll tell you what a friend said about the resemblance: there’s a nice naturalness to her prettiness and yours, but when you, like her, break into a smile and a laugh, it is all over. And so, here’s a =smile= and a laugh just for you, babe ; ) bc I can’t dislike someone bc they don’t like my looks, I’m so much more than a pair of legs it isn’t even funny, guess that’s why I have always felt that I’m a thinking mans’ woman.
The peepers will be revealed sometime soon, have a pal taking shots for this event over the weekend bc it suddenly turned into a fun paid gig and they want to see the goods as well : ) oh why is everyone so demanding…sigh…hahaha…
Ruth, loved your comment but I think you knew I’d feel that way, thank you anyway, that made my day.
Caio, Luv, Zen Lill
June 4th, 2010 at 9:44 am
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