An aquarium director kisses an octopus goodbye before setting it free in the ocean to mate before dying. Larger version of photo here, along with the beautiful story behind it. (Image: Kitsap Sun / Thanks, Steve Silberman!)

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Photographer Jane Fulton Alt’s latest series is called Crude Awakening. She writes on her web site:

Living on the shores of Lake Michigan, I am acutely aware of the disastrous toll the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has taken on all forms of life, especially as our beaches opened to the 2010 swimming season. This environmental, social and economic catastrophe highlights a much larger problem that has inflicted untold suffering as we exploit the earth’s resources worldwide.

We are all responsible for leading lives that create demand for unsustainable energy. We are [

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Water Polo to be wound-up at Clissold (until someone else takes the time?)

What the republished note below doesn’t cover is the lack of support from LBH and London Swimming. The ASA has been top-dog in swimming for so long by making sure that no uppity upstarts get too ‘above their station’ with innovative projects and initiatives that are not directly attributable to the ASA, even if they are initiatives that they eventually advocate.

People are not allowed to see the contract for the management of Hackney’s leisure assets and nobody [

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………be careful of what you wear:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8484116.stm

I must admit I’m at a bit of a loss as to why the good burghers of Cardiff prefer to shop in their pyjamas, but why not? They don’t look much different to a tracksuit. As far as bare feet are concerned, what’s the problem? Shoppers aren’t going to handle the produce with their toes, and if some find the sight of feet offensive then what about those who, like myself, wear sandals? The only difference is that sandal wearers have a sole ‘twixt foot and floor. As [

continue reading If you go down to Tesco’s today…… – by Wildswimmer-Pete

“PHOENIX, Arizona, January 12. SPAIN’S Rosa Sallares celebrated her 100th birthday in grand fashion last week, setting a new FINA Masters world record in the 50 backstroke.

Sallares, who turned 100 …”

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Do you care to be dunked? I can’t say I do. So why would a swim teacher or even a parent dunk a [

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