Not that they were competing but James Brady and his buddies who jumped from the new WTC tower inevitably invoke comparison with Philippe Petit's tight rope walk between the two towers. The accomplishment of Petite is unfathomable.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Monday, March 24, 2014
A Chesapeake Homecoming - NYTimes.com
Twelve years ago Travis Croxton and his cousin Ryan took over the family oyster beds in Virginia. Business is booming. on the Rappahannock -gwc
A Chesapeake Homecoming - NYTimes.com:
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by Julia Moskin
TOPPING, Va. — When Travis and Ryan Croxton first went to New York City in 2004 to market their homegrown oysters, one of the few seafood places they had heard of was Le Bernardin, so naturally they just showed up with a cooler at the kitchen door.
“We really Forrest Gumped it,” said Travis, 39. “We had no idea what we were doing.”
Chesapeake oysters were so rare then that the chefs wanted to try them on the spot. But neither Croxton, both of whom had master’s degrees, knew how to shuck an oyster. “Finally the chef took it out of my hands and did it himself,” Travis said.
Oysters had almost disappeared from the Chesapeake Bay when the Croxtons, first cousins and co-owners of theRappahannock Oyster Company, graduated from college. And after decades of bad news about pollution, silt, disease and overfishing in the bay, many locals wouldn’t eat them raw. “A whole generation of Virginians grew up without virginicas,” said Peter Woods, the chef at Merroir, the Croxtons’ oyster bar here, where the Rappahannock River empties into the bay. “For oyster roasts, oyster stuffing, all these traditions, you just couldn’t get your hands on them.”
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Friday, March 21, 2014
Following in Dylan Thomas's Wake
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| The Boathouse where Dylan Thomas lived |
The tides and topography of Wales call me still - though I've never been there. Ondine Cohane did take those steps, Following in Dylan Thomas's Wake:
Climbing along a steep coastal path through a forest in southern Wales, with russet red and tawny brown autumn leaves crunching beneath my feet, I reached a crest where the trailhead looked back onto a long estuary lined with salt flats. The River Taf ran through the headlands before me, its glacier-cut course unmistakable alongside the grass-covered cliffs on either side. The sea spread out before me, a moody canvas of blues and gray. White-topped gorse and cherry-red currant bushes gave color to my panorama, the plaintive chorus of sea birds the only soundtrack.
I’d come to Wales, and to this spot specifically, to follow in the footsteps of Dylan Thomas, the Welsh-born poet who made this walk famous in his 1944 “Poem in October.”
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| inside the shed where Dylan Thomas wrote daily |
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Is fitbit fit to use?
I'm a convert to. The Fitbit gives me a goal. I like that it spurs me to get my 10,000 steps/day. - gwc
Tracking fitness one step at a time
FiveThirtyEightScience
by Carl Bialik
I’ve become a skeptical convert to step-counters. Though they produce imperfect data, some information is better than none at all. And if they give me credit for taking steps when I’m actually sitting down but, say, clapping or pumping my fists? Well, sitting and clapping is better than just sitting.
Tracking fitness one step at a time
FiveThirtyEightScience
by Carl Bialik
I’ve become a skeptical convert to step-counters. Though they produce imperfect data, some information is better than none at all. And if they give me credit for taking steps when I’m actually sitting down but, say, clapping or pumping my fists? Well, sitting and clapping is better than just sitting.
Monday, March 17, 2014
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Charlie Porter, an Adventurer Who Reshaped Climbing, Is Dead at 63 - NYTimes.com
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| Charlie Porter, solo, Baffin Island, 1975. He ran out of food and hiked back 10 days on frostbitten feet. |
Charlie Porter, an Adventurer Who Reshaped Climbing, Is Dead at 63 - NYTimes.com:
When Charlie Porter showed up in the Yosemite Valley in the early 1970s and started forging new climbing routes up the famously imposing monolithic rock wall known as El Capitan, he was something of a mystery man, a stranger to the clubby group of mostly Californians who had made Yosemite the center of the climbing world.
He was from the East somewhere — Massachusetts, it turned out — and he had not grown up in the sport the way just about every other accomplished climber had, but his skills seemed otherworldly.
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9/11 - from space
taken from the International Space Station, 9/11/2001
by Astronaut Frank Culbertson
I first saw the towers after the second plane hit. Watching from a Newark office building where I was representing a client in a Social Security disability hearing, I saw the second plume of smoke rising before it merged with the first, curving south in a light breeze against a clear blue sky. - gwc
by Astronaut Frank Culbertson
I first saw the towers after the second plane hit. Watching from a Newark office building where I was representing a client in a Social Security disability hearing, I saw the second plume of smoke rising before it merged with the first, curving south in a light breeze against a clear blue sky. - gwc
Expanded search for Malaysian Jet
This map shows all the landing places the Malaysian jet could reach from its last known position. If they don't find it on the bottom of the sea or in a himalayan valley there will be nveer ending speculation.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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