“I never really try to throw an air but I tried to throw one. I didn’t land it; landed on a shark instead and he decided to take a bite out of me,” Walsh told Orlando News 6.
“It felt like a freight train hit me and the first thing I could think of was to literally push him away from me and as soon as it happened. I grabbed my board and started to paddle as fast as I could.”
If ever you're visiting Scotland and happen to see a double-decker bus with a big highland cow and stag painted on the sides, then you better try hopping on and going on a tour around Edinburgh while being served some delicious Scottish meals.
Dubbed the "Bustourant", it tours around Edinburgh and the Lothians in two different tours: an afternoon tea and an evening tea tour.
The team behind the restaurant explained they had decided to give "Robert the Bus" a new lease on life. They say: "We found him bored and miserable because of his everyday work, but he was a sad bus with beautiful dreams.
"He wanted to take people on an unforgettable journey around Edinburgh and during that trip he wanted to serve the best food people have ever tasted.
"Luckily he met us! We decided to pour our heart and soul into his dream and together we made it real! You have never seen such a happy bus in your life! Please meet Robert the Bus.
Bees can sometimes be annoying and at other times, they could be scary when they get in your face. But they are a natural part of the environment and as one movie illustrated, removing bees can disrupt the dynamics within that environment.
Every creature living in an ecosystem plays a role in maintaining the balance and stability of the natural world. And though we may be tempted to swat or even kill those we consider pests, there could be great consequences in doing so.
Learning more about the importance of bees in pollination, Chaney Kwak gradually grew to love and care for them until he became a beekeeper himself.
I had no eureka moment or activist manifesto. Over the years I read about the bee’s crucial role in pollination — and therefore human survival — and slowly began daydreaming about lending them a spot to live: my idea of low-commitment community service, perhaps.
I read a few beekeeper blog posts, fell into a YouTube rabbit hole, and took a weekend class. Once I was reasonably confident, I answered a call to adopt a hive.
It's a small gesture if we think about it but it makes a big impact on the world we live in. He tells more about his journey of becoming an amateur beekeeper on the Saturday Evening Post.
I like playing video games, board games, and any other type of game because games foster an environment of friendly rivalry with others in a way that would enable you to connect with them by sharing a certain passion.
In games, you can unleash your inner competitive side without having drastic consequences, most of the time. However, there are times when people overstop the boundaries and that's where games can become toxic spaces instead of fun ones for people to enjoy.
In the book Woke Gaming, several essays explore the various dimensions within gaming, intersecting it with issues like social justice, oppression, discrimination, and domination.
Woke Gaming contains fourteen essays and is divided into five main sections: (1) ethics, violence, and oppositional gaming; (2) the political economy of gaming; (3) feminist gaming; (4) gaming and resistance; and (5) inclusive gaming and empathy—a lot of sections considering the total number of chapters.
The book wishes to move “beyond the critical examination of the virtual pedagogies of racism, sexism, and homophobia” (p. 13) to explore video games as spaces where violence and domination are normalized, “as sites for the consumption of worlds that privilege the American empire, militarism, and white male heroes” (p. 14).
This perspective is particularly focused on a US context, building upon a US history of video games, game design, and game cultures. This US-centric approach somewhat limits the book’s applicability, though it does provide two chapters that explore gaming in Asia and a critical reflection on Western imperialism.
Many people would like to get into shape and to have the ideal body image that they have for themselves, whether it be just for appearances' sake or for health reasons. At one point or another, we've considered working out or have worked out to trim our bodies.
But when you do it as a profession, like in the fashion industry where models are expected to be at tip top shape to get booked or cast, the pressure is double. And for some, it works out and they become successful at it, but for others it can be too much. All the same, the realities of modeling are harsh. It can and will affect one's lifestyle.
An anonymous ex-male model shares his perspective on the relationship he's had with working out and how it became simply a monotonous routine, one which he had to do instead of wanting to do.
I don’t have to tell you that modelling is strict about weight. One time I flew out for Milan Fashion Week just after Christmas and my booker took me into a side room and made me take off my top. “You overdid it a bit,” he said, and cancelled half of my castings.
The modelling industry and eating disorders are often spoken of in the same breath. I did not have an eating disorder when I modelled but modelling certainly disordered my eating. I never experienced anything pathological, and the majority of models won’t, but modelling definitely created a heightened anxiety over what I was consuming.
During the Vietnam War, the CIA mobilized an isolated community, the Hmong Tribe in northern Laos, to fight the Viet Cong. More than forty years after the war ended, they are still waiting for someone to save them.
In 2008, Al Jazeera's Tony Birtley trekked uphill for more than two days through dense forests in search of the Hmong who were left behind. He found a settlement of fewer than 200 people, most born after the war but still living as their ancestors had. He was the first outsider they had seen in 32 years.
The unending forest fires which have ravaged the largest rainforest in the world have put us all in a crisis and prompted Brazil's president to send warplanes to dump water on the state of Rondonia in order to put out the fires.
President Jair Bolsonaro authorised military operations in seven states on Sunday to combat raging fires in the Amazon, responding to requests for assistance from their local governments, a spokeswoman for his office said.
A video posted by the defence ministry on Saturday evening showed a military plane pumping thousands of litres (thousands of gallons) of water out of two large spouts as it passed through clouds of smoke close to the forest canopy.
The British Parliament has two months left before the deadline for a Brexit deal to be passed, starting the transition period for the UK to leave the European Union. At the moment, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is considering a no-deal Brexit.
Nearly 100 companies have relocated from Britain to the Netherlands or set up offices there to be within the European Union due to the United Kingdom’s planned departure from the bloc, a Dutch government agency said on Monday.
Another 325 companies worried about losing access to the European market are considering a move, the Netherlands Foreign Investment Agency said.
Coral bleaching has affected many reefs all over the world due to warmer waters and there's no sign that it will stop any time soon as our ocean temperatures continue to rise.
Corals are integral parts of the marine ecosystem, providing shelter and food for fish and other marine organisms. Without them, the system will become imbalanced, causing many species to find other breeding grounds or food sources and for those on land, losing a natural physical barrier for when big waves come crashing.
The gaming industry, much like the wider tech industry, is dominated by males, mostly because women aren't being given opportunities to break through and unleash their potential in the industry.
Though video games aren't made just for guys, since there are a lot of girls who also like gaming, many obstacles stand in the way of women in tech and specifically in the video game industry to become successful or at the very least, to enter the industry.
However, there are initiatives to include more women in several aspects of video game development and the summer camp Girl Makes Games tries to target the issue at the root, by teaching young girls how to make their own video games.
In a room full of light and laughter, 20 girls work together to make video games. They are aged between nine and 16 and organized into teams of four. Their games span genres like platformers, top-down RPGs, and narrative adventures, exploring a range of themes including global warming, empathy, and friendship.
This is Girl Makes Games, a summer camp in which children work with mentors to create their own video games. Celebrating its fifth year, the program is an attempt to convince and reassure girls that game design is a potential career.
Each of the teams in camp has its own name and its own counselor. Often, the counselors are young women who were once enrolled as campers in Girls Make Games, or who have ambitions to work in games. Most are taking some kind of game-adjacent course at college, such as computer science or game design.
There is a lot of potential for women to create more diverse and innovative games in the industry. And I think it's needed now more than ever. Despite experiencing a boom, the gaming industry has been stagnating in terms of original video game releases for the past several years.
Other factors may contribute to this effect but it is also possible that injecting some fresh ideas could help developers reach a wider audience and produce more engaging and novel game ideas. And bringing more women into the industry could definitely help in doing that.
It must be a refreshing and nostalgic feeling for someone who has been living near nature to reflect on how things have changed throughout the years. Living near rivers, mountains, and lakes must bring a lot of memories to mind and remind us of things past.
In her new book "the lake", Robin Layton captures several breathtaking photos of life in, on, and around Lake Washington and shares her experiences and unique perspective of the place in which she has spent most of her life for the past decade living and working.
Tabletop games are fun but they can also be educational. You can bond with your friends over a really good board game, whether it be one featuring social deduction, deception, or just simple good-natured cooperation. But a new edition of Monopoly parodies the classic game by featuring the theme of socialismin the worst possible way.
In a lengthy Twitter thread posted on Wednesday, historian Nick Kapur graciously subjected himself to the game’s superficial political insights, noting that “Monopoly: Socialism” consists mostly of glib, extremely lazy jokes about veganism, environmentalism, and “an all-winners school.”
And rather than featuring gameplay based on, y’know, actual socialism, the game seems like a Republican fever dream about the imagined great red menace: players pay money to private banks, wealth is simply destroyed at one point rather than redistributed, and voting is roundly mocked.
Data can be read in many ways and it can be used for a lot of different purposes. And it's not just the things we type, post, watch, listen to, or sites we go to, but seemingly insignificant details such as the amount of time we hover over a link or stay on a page can give insight into what we think or feel at that moment.
A huge amount of information is tracked, documented, and stored in the form of digital “exhaust” — metadata that is constantly generated by our online activity. Although digital exhaust may not seem so affectively revealing, it nevertheless amasses its own stores of feeling.
Digital exhaust receives less attention in conversations about online privacy than our trails of intentionally published content. As Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier write, it includes “where [users] click, how long they look at a page, where the mouse-cursor hovers, what they type, and more.”
In other words, digital exhaust is shaped by unconscious, embodied affects — the lethargy of depression seeping into slow cursor movements, frustration in rapid swipes past repeated advertisements, or a brief moment of pleasure spent lingering over a striking image.
There's no surprise that we are now able to analyze and make sense of this data now with the technologies we have. It's a byproduct of the way we use our gadgets and devices, inexplicably linking ourselves onto the digital world in more personal ways than we can imagine.
Though there are risks to all the data we create online, it just goes to show how our interaction with technology and the footprints we leave behind reveal more about us and what we might be feeling at a certain point in time than what meets the eye.
With summer winding down, here’s a sampling of what Michelle and I have been listening to — some new, some old, some fast, some slow. Hope you enjoy. pic.twitter.com/BS5ri1lvxz
A couple of days ago, former President Barack Obama posted a list of some songs that he and former FLOTUS Michelle have been listening to this summer. If you're stressed and you just want to listen to something to clear your mind and relieve some stress, check out their list and jam along with them.
Internet memes have the power to unite and bring people together, albeit in different ways. And in expression of their resistance to recent political moves being made by the government, protesters have adopted Pepe the Frog as their symbol.
When Dota 2’s premier tournament, The International, started on Monday night, the English-language broadcast featured an analyst desk full of experts. Among them was Croatian analyst Dominik “Lacoste” Stipic, who was wearing a Pepe the Frog pin. Considering that The International 2019 is being hosted in Shanghai, that pin is more important than you might think.
Pepe the Frog has a very complicated history. In America, and much of the English-language internet, he’s gone from a harmless meme to a hate symbol and back — depending on whom you ask. In Hong Kong, his recent history has been just as complicated, albeit in a different direction. Over the last several months, Hong Kong protesters have adopted the meme as a symbol of resistance.
