Family requests that life of Great White Shark be spared

Victim's family call for shark to be spared

I came across this story published in the Daily Telegraph, UK, yesterday. I thought my readers would be interested and you can make your own judgement

Australian authorities have called off their hunt for a shark believed to have killed a swimmer after the victim's family said he would not have wanted the predator to die.

Last Updated: 12:54PM GMT 28 Dec 2008

Australian authorities have called off their hunt for a shark believed to have killed a swimmer. Photo: GETTY IMAGES

Police suspect that avid diver and fisherman Brian Guest, 51, was taken by a large shark as he was snorkelling with his son near Rockingham, south of Perth on Australia's west coast, on Saturday.

Witnesses saw flashes of fins and blood in the water and nothing has been found of Guest except some shreds believed to have come from his wetsuit.

Fremantle Water Police, who were searching the area for any remains over the weekend, said there would be no attempt to hunt the shark.

"There's no way of knowing which shark it would be," Senior Sergeant Greg Trew said. "We could hunt down every shark from here to eternity without knowing whether we had the right one."

Mr Guest's family and friends said he had a deep respect for the ocean and its hazards and would not have wanted the animal killed.

Guest's 24-year-old son Daniel, who had been snorkelling for crabs with his father, said his father was aware of the risks of the sea.

"Dad loved and respected the ocean environment," he said.

Writing on a fishing website forum, Brian Guest made clear his love of the water and its creatures, saying in 2005 he did not think sharks should be killed to reduce the risk to swimmers.

A year earlier he had written: "I have always had an understanding with my wife that if a shark or ocean accident caused my death then so be it," national news agency AAP said.

A helicopter searching for Guest spotted a large shark about 200 metres off Perth's popular Cottesloe Beach early Sunday, forcing its closure and that of surrounding beaches.

But leading shark researcher Rory McAuley said despite the idea perpetuated by Hollywood movies such as "Jaws" that sharks repeatedly attack, this view was not held up by science.

Top 10 quotes of 2008, Oh so funny

Associated Press and posted on MSNBC
Dec 29, 2008

I came across this list and once again I think my readers will have fun reading these.

The Top 10 quotes of 2008, as compiled by the editor of the Yale Book of Quotations:

1. "I can see Russia from my house!" — Comedian Tina Fey, while impersonating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on the TV comedy show "Saturday Night Live," broadcast Sept. 13.

2. "All of them, any of them that have been in front of me over all these years." — Palin, responding to a request by CBS anchor Katie Couric to name the newspapers or magazines she reads, broadcast Oct. 1.

3. "We have sort of become a nation of whiners." — former Sen. Phil Gramm, an economic adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, quoted in The Washington Times, July 10.

4. "It's not based on any particular data point, we just wanted to choose a really large number." — a Treasury Department spokeswoman explaining how the $700 billion number was chosen for the initial bailout, quoted on Forbes.com Sept. 23.

5. "The fundamentals of America's economy are strong." — McCain, in an interview with Bloomberg TV, April 17.

6. "Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency." — the Treasury Department's proposed Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, September 2008.

7. "Maybe 100." — McCain, discussing in a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire, how many years U.S. troops could remain in Iraq, Jan. 3.

8. "I'll see you at the debates, b------." — Paris Hilton in a video responding to a McCain television campaign ad, August 2008.

9. "Barack, he's talking down to black people. ... I want to cut his ... off." — Rev. Jesse Jackson, overheard over a live microphone before a Fox News interview, July 6.

10. (tie) "Cash for trash." — Paul Krugman discussing the financial bailout, New York Times, Sept. 22.

10. (tie) "There are no atheists in foxholes and there are no libertarians in financial crises." — Krugman, in an interview with Bill Maher on HBO's "Real Time," broadcast Sept. 19.

10. (tie) "Anyone who says we're in a recession, or heading into one — especially the worst one since the Great Depression — is making up his own private definition of "`recession.'" — commentator Donald Luskin, the day before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, The Washington Post, Sept. 14.

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I came across this article that is making a lot of buzz online and I am my lady readers would be interested in this products. I am sure men can also use it too...why not..

By Tammy | December 27, 2008

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John Lennon makes a commercial 28 yrs after his death

Lennon in TV ad 28 yrs after death

28 Dec 2008, IST, REUTERS

an article published by Reuters in NY
Through the use of digital technology, the Beatle urges people across the United States to support a campaign by “One Laptop per Child” to deliver tough, solar-powered XO laptop computers to the world’s poorest children.

“Imagine every child no matter where in the world they were could access a universe of knowledge. They would have a chance to learn, to dream, to achieve anything they want,” a voice and video image of Lennon has been created to say.

“I tried to do it through my music, but now you can do it in a very different way. You can give a child a laptop and more than imagine, you can change the world,” says the musician in a play on one his best known songs — 1971’s ‘Imagine’.

Lennon was shot and killed as he and his wife, Yoko Ono, arrived at their Manhattan apartment building on December 8, 1980.