Here and Now...What's Happening?

[TargeT]

Posted by avid (here)
why not just cut out the chicken armour apparel and play rugby/ruggers like real men ‘old chap’? 😜

especially when you look at the rates of injury/concussion in US "foot"ball.

Those "real men" get seriously injured WAY less due to the lack of padded/armored costumes; which is hilariously ironic... IMO.

[Flash]

Mini Flash was back from Switzerland 2 weeks ago, noise in the house again. Her boyfriend flew in yesterday, went to pick him up at the airport - he is here for 2 weeks, vacations between two semesters at his Swiss university.

And.... I had organized a surprise birthday party for Mini Flash 21 years. She truly did not know. I do not know either how I could keep it secret lolll.

A bunch of very nice young people at home yesterday, pleasant, chatty, half stayed to sleep home and had breakfast this morning, sooooooo different from the empty nest syndrome. I love this life around.

[RunningDeer]

Full discloser: I’ve never watched an entire football game, only parts with now ex-husbands, boyfriends, family and gatherings at sports bars. I enjoy and collect football movies.

• The Replacements with Keanue Reeves
• Heaven Can Wait with Warren Beatty
• Necessary Roughness with Scott Bakula
• Friday Night Lights with Kyle Chandler, Taylor Kitsch
• The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock
• Crooked Arrows with Gill Birmingham, Brandon Routh
• Jerry Maguire with Tom Cruise
• Leatherheads with George Clooney, John Krasinski
• Draft Day with Kevin Costner
• School Ties with Brandon Fraser, Ben Affleck, Chris O’Donnel, Matt Damon
• Little Giants with Rick Moranis, Ed O’Neill
• Gridiron Gang with Dwayne Johnson

I checked out this page and there are some I forgot to add to my list: Top 50 Football Movies

[RunningDeer]

Fawn Rescue - 27 seconds

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=QqKWuCt8esU

Fox cub comes to people for help - 44 seconds

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tj6quKEn3dw

Baby elephant gets stuck in the mud - 2:20 minutes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=18srVaQwwjg

Baby Elephant's First Steps - 52 seconds

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JDH87sdkJ04

[Mike]

Posted by RunningDeer (here)
Full discloser: I’ve never watched an entire football game, only parts with now ex-husbands, boyfriends, family and gatherings at sports bars. I enjoy and collect football movies.

Paula you might like 'Any Given Sunday' then. Probably the most realistic - and disturbing - football movie I've ever seen.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=RN7sKvaHDlA

'Rudy' is great too. Total opposite end of the spectrum. Very inspirational and uplifting.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=rB0k21sGT_A

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Mike (here)
Paula you might like Any Given Sunday then. Probably the most realistic - and disturbing - football movie I've ever seen.

Thanks, Mike. I’ll check out Any Given Sunday. Lots of big names in it. I forgot to add to my list A Tribute To Rudy. It’s a good one, too.
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[GMB1961]

I am stretched out on my day bed, contemplating the news, listening to the ever increasing amount of sirens on the highway behind the railway line at the back of my house. I can hear and see helicopters moving along the coast, the sounds of which i never settle completely with. I am contemplating two forms of ego, one medical and the other just a healthy sense of self esteem. I love my parents, i love my children.
Consider this....violence breeds violence, repression breeds retaliation and it would be a huge undertaking and cleansing of our society and the world, for that fact, to eradicate this sickness from our souls.
Creeping into our every day life is another type of violence, it is just traumatic and deadly and that is the bombs that explode in crowds of innocent people that we see all to often in our media that is conditioning us into its normality.
This, it would appear, is the violence of institutions, indifference and inaction. This effects every one and undermines the relationships between men and woman whose skins may be a different colour and religious backgrounds. Im thinking about Robert Kennedy. Im upset with how things are run and I am sick and tired of people telling "Life is full of sadness" because i don't think it has to be. I will play my crystal singing bowls and send healing intentions to the planet and to you all. Cede Nullis = Yield to no one !

[RunningDeer]

Funny (ignore the commercial part)

Do the Math and Switch to Sprint

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DBx2gmFz1Yg

[RunningDeer]

Posted by GMB1961 (here)
I am stretched out on my day bed, contemplating the news, listening to the ever increasing amount of sirens on the highway behind the railway line at the back of my house. I can hear and see helicopters moving along the coast, the sounds of which i never settle completely with. I am contemplating two forms of ego, one medical and the other just a healthy sense of self esteem. I love my parents, i love my children.

Hello and welcome to the Here and Now thread, Glenn.
I enjoyed the videos of you playing on your message board. Here's one more from your YouTube channel.

At Last, By Etta James

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nn1x5P4ZJC4

♡

[GMB1961]

Thank you for your kind words about what I do , I love music, its the one that stops the noise in my head and clams me down. Very pleased to meet you and again, thank you for watching and listening to the videos i posted, Faithfully Glenn in Australia.

[Foxie Loxie]

LOVED! "At Last"!

[Melinda]

Came across this today...

https://video.nationalgeographic.com...e=relatedvideo

The video had a lovely, calming atmosphere. Love hearing about the trees from the tree people. I wrote out a transcript below, in case that's easier for anyone than watching the vid. (Some people knit... I like to audio-type. Think maybe I was a record-keeping monk in a former life, scribbling in the Book of Kells.)



Iceland Is Growing New Forests for the First Time in 1,000 Years

Video Description :

The landscape of Iceland has changed a lot in a thousand years. When the Vikings first arrived in the ninth century, the land was covered in 25 to 40 percent forest. Within a few centuries, almost all of the island’s trees were slashed and burned to make room for farming. This rapid deforestation has resulted in massive soil erosion that puts the island at risk for desertification.

Today, the Icelandic Forest Service has taken on the mammoth task of bringing back the woodlands. With the help of forestry societies and forest farmers, Iceland’s trees are slowly beginning to make a comeback. Watch this short film by Euforgen to learn more about how their efforts are working to benefit Iceland's economy and ecology through forestry.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=pnRNdbqXu1I

Þröstur Eysteinsson - Director, Icelandic Forest Service, EUFORGEN National Coordinator :

(Transcript)

“What I love about working in forestry is the chance, every once in a while, to get out of the office and walk in the woods. To see the forests growing, to see that we're actually doing some good is a very rewarding thing, a very satisfying thing. But Iceland is certainly among the worst examples in the world of deforestation.

It doesn't take very many people or very many sheep to deforest a whole country over a thousand years. Iceland used to be much more wooded. The people coming brought sheep and cattle and swine. Land needed to be cleared and their grazing prevented the forest from coming back, and after a long time the thin vegetation cover that's left is susceptible to disturbances like frost heaving and storms in the wintertime. It basically rips open. The soil is exposed in part, it starts washing away or blowing away. That's what we see in very, very large parts of Iceland.

My mission is to support growing more forests and better forests. To make land more productive and more able to tolerate the pressures that we put on it.

There are other needs for forests : biomass, lumber, lots of different things. We started using exotic species because the native Birch simply isn't productive. Knowing which trees to plant is actually harder than you'd think. We plant about 3 million seedlings per year in Iceland. Most people have simply, until now, used what you have. Here in Iceland it's the native Birch. Plant them and you'd expect that they grow. And then the climate changes.

The winters have become milder. Many of the trees that we planted in the 1950s, especially Siberian Larch, are literally dying after several decades of being reasonably good. Sitting there, dead in the landscape, and it's difficult to find the money to do something else with the land. Becomes a problem.

Our aim is to produce the seed that we need here in Iceland - that it will eventually all be of genetically well-adapted material. The genetics of forest trees are important. How much heat they need in the summer to grow, how tolerant they are to drought, when they know to stop growing in the autumn. These are all things that are genetically determined in the trees. And through the years we've found the species that we can use. And now we're selecting individuals that are best adapted, bringing them together in a seed orchard and using their offspring in forestation. The seedlings are produced in modern tree nurseries with greenhouses. They're all containerised seedlings which are very easy to plant, and we produce all of them here in Iceland.

Right now I am optimistic for forestry in Iceland. The trees are growing. People call us at the forest service and say “I've got a shelter wall that I want to build”, “I need some cladding for my summer cabin” or “I want to build a pagan church...” “Can you help us?” And we say “Well yes, we can.”

We're producing wood now, we're producing boards and planks, we have the trees in the woods and we can cut them down. But the forests are growing better than anybody ever thought. People will more and more look at them and say “Hey, this is something that's worth having.”

This is not something that was obvious to Icelanders only a few decades ago. That's a great cause for optimism.”

Some still shots from the video. Beautiful Iceland...



It would be ideal to get to a place where we barely cut them down at all. Once again growing forests rich in diversity that can live to be ancient. Enriching the spirit of the world. With their connection to the earth, and to the heart and breath of community around them.

[Valerie Villars]

Runningdeer, those videos of the animals made me sing from the heart. What is the meaning of life? To help each other.

Glenn, I never realized how bluesy that song was until I heard you play guitar. Music was the one thing that saved me (other than my faith) during my awakening. It was literally my lifeline. Yes, it stops all other chatter. Beautiful. Thank you.

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Villival (here)
Runningdeer, those videos of the animals made me sing from the heart. What is the meaning of life? To help each other.

I sent the fawn rescue video off to friends and family. I lost count of how many times I’ve watched it. It’s no surprise it has over two and a half million views.

I caught this series a couple of weeks back. For those short on time, the first two videos are cuts of the longer version below. The Honeysada Youtube Channel has fun videos. His cat and dogs ride around in his RV.

Man Saves Abandoned Baby Deer - 3:27 minutes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=siOh2Q0xG78

Baby deer a year after the rescue and release - 3:19 minutes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=GvRcix5-qVs

Baby deer rescue and release - 17 minutes

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eStXV_TYFFw

honeysada
Published on Sep 28, 2015

A deer doe abandoned one of her twin fawns, the fawn had injured leg and could not keep up with the mother.
I do not support keeping wild animals as a pets, but this was special situation. The baby deer was healed and released back to her real mother.

Update: The doe and two her fawns is still around, we seen them through the summer and the autumn.

Here is follow up video one year after release: https://youtu.be/GvRcix5-qVs

Here is few videos how she learn to drink milk and bathing:
https://youtu.be/-KNY_UXHc44
https://youtu.be/dgNJ05cRXdo

[Valerie Villars]

Thank you so much. Those videos just make me happy.

[Melinda]

Love your animal vids RunningDeer

To accompany your selection, thought I’d give a shout-out to another canine collaborator.

Can’t recall if this guy’s been posted here before. He’s a bit of a legend.

Moki just Chillin’

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hxyfYgn7tOs

Moki on the Road
(First minute gives you the gist. After that you’re just in it for the ride.)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=V7P0wz4Z4rg

[Valerie Villars]

God I love animals.

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Science of a Chain Reaction

This is quite amazing: travelling through a chain reaction.

If this looks like a jumble of random things cluttering a desk... think again.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hmb0Q0Q_7jo

https://www.sciencealert.com/kaplami...s&limitstart=1

[Foxie Loxie]

Too cool!! Blue Marble

[RunningDeer]

Posted by Star Mariner (here)
This is quite amazing: travelling through a chain reaction.

Posted by Foxie Loxie (here)
Too cool!! Blue Marble

Too cool + another too cool from me.

For the photography aficionados, the first three minutes in this 4-in-1 compilation is way cool.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=CxunCt-rd2Y