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Monday's SEASIDE SCOOP By Peggy Fisher

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January 17, 2005 Triaging Time Time is your most precious resource. How you use it will determine the quality of your life. —Seaside Scoop reader Bob Beard in Detroit, Michigan, who checks the column online on the Global Lifeguard website daily; more tips from Bob to come in future editions. You may have noticed the title of this new feature has evolved from the alliterative, tongue-tripping Trapping Time: Tips & Tricks to Triaging Time. My overactive Muse, who pursues with ideas like a harpy on the warpath, chattered in the shower this weekend that TTTT is weak. Time—our most precious, non-renewable resource deserves a stronger “T” headline. Triage describes perfectly the feeling of time’s essence slipping through the hourglass of our days, weeks and lives. There is never enough time for all our hopes, desires and dreams, let alone all the demands on our attention and lives in our fast-forward 21st century. All we can do is triage—doing out best to take care of not only what is continually urgent, but also what is important—where we dream of going, whom we hope to become, and how we aspire to change ourselves and our world. Triage tells the tale: tri·age Pronunciation: trE-'?zh, 'trE-" Function: noun Etymology: French, sorting, sifting, from trier to sort, from Old French -- more at TRY : the sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors; broadly : the assigning of priority order to projects on the basis of where funds and resources can be best used or are most needed ******************************­******* Welcome! Welcome to Seaside Scoop, strengthening our word power and memories incrementally while linking friends and wildlife supporters across Florida and the globe. Seaside Scoop readers span Florida, 35 states, Guam and 15 countries abroad. (Your email address is safe. Seaside Scoop will never sell, rent or disclose your email address to third parties.) Georgina’s Golden Globes Gander (Do control & click on this hyperlink and see what happens; more details below on this cool new tech tool, thanks to email training from Virtual Agent Gayle in Wisconsin) ******************************­************ Word-for-the-Day earwig EER-wig verb : to annoy or attempt to influence by private talk Example sentence: "[He] earwigged the big man at the Labour conference, asking him to take the lead in banning tobacco advertising from newspapers." (Stephen Cook, The Guardian [London], October 1986) Did you know? Earwigs are small insects that were once thought to crawl into the ears of sleeping people. This isn't true — earwigs prefer moist, dark places under leaves and rocks to human ears — but the superstition led people to name the insect "?arwicga," Old English for "ear insect." Over time, people connected the idea of having an insect in one's ear to situations that involve whispering or speaking privately into someone's ear. The noun "earwig" came to also mean "a whispering busybody" (though this sense is now considered archaic), and the verb "earwig" evolved to refer to the acts of such meddlers. ******************************­****** Peggy’s Pet Parade ?Mentor Al in Ft. Lauderdale drove all the way to Ocala to find a new Scottie buddy for his pal Maggie; late-breaking scoop from Al—Maggie, an only child for so long, doesn’t want to share her toys with Jack! (pictured); check this PPP star out closely; in the next Seaside Scoop, they’ll both be featured. See if you can ID who’s who: ?From Carl Peterson in Guam: Pets bring much love and wonder: And they make you laugh! ?From New Year cat collection sent by Laura in Atlanta, Geri in Port St. Lucie, Regina in Sarasota, mentor Al in Ft. Lauderdale and Management in Vero Beach—these are most popular felines: Share time with friends & family ? From Lydia Sacher in Miami : Work together as a team ? From N. Beach Civic Ass. President Bill Glynn Greetings from the Artic If you have digital pics of your pet stars, please email them; once they join “Pets in Waiting,” Seaside Scoop stardom awaits via Peggy’s Pet Parade. ******************************­***************** Cartoon Cavalcade Please email cartoons that give you a smile to share. ******************************­***************** From Virtual Agent Gayle’s Double Clicker enews, a great Googling tip: Tips and Tricks by Gayle... Google Alerts! Every business needs various tools and information to succeed. Recently, I was introduced to a very handy tool that can help you find leads and even help you keep an eye on the competition. It’s called Google Alerts. To access Google Alerts: Go to http://www.google.com/alerts?h­l=en Enter your search criteria Enter your email address Enter how often you’d like to receive alerts (I do mine daily) Signing up for Google Alerts is free. I have about 10 different search criteria and have my alerts delivered to my email on a daily basis. The searches can be just about anything; like the name of a major competitor, a particular keyword for an industry you target, or even phrases. One of my search criteria is my own name so I can see where the articles I’ve written come up on the web. Once you have your alerts set up, Google will automatically do a web search each day and report the newest findings for that search criteria back to you. For example, if your search criteria were “financial advisors”, Google would search the web for all new sites that their bots find with those key words in it. When it finds new matches, it sends you an email with links to the sites where it located those keywords. So be creative with your criteria; enter the names of your competitors so you can see what pops up on them, enter key words for industries you want to target with your marketing, even enter your own name as a search item to see what others are saying about you. ******************************­***************** Mail Call Upali Mahanama in Sri Lanka: Thanks a lot for yr quick response which was done with the same degree of professionalism when you managed PIC at JCI. Shirley too, was equally quick & also promised to support our Project. Bless you! Upali Vernon Matthysen in South Africa: "Wonderful soreness" .... Fisher you are strange and still a "devil for punishment" Jack Pecora, Volunteer Coordinator, Global Lifeguards in Pecora, Maine: As we start this new year, Global Lifeguards starts some new projects. 1. Vote for a Talent Search Story Finalist Eight finalists will be selected by popular vote from participating Global Lifeguards website visitors. Family members and friends are encouraged to participate in the selection process. Come familiarize yourself with our contest for boys and girls! 2. Redesigned web page. Come see the new "us" and we welcome your comments on how we can improve GL's page even more, with "your" help. 3. News stories right up to date, with many that haven't even been on the tube yet! Our editor scourers the news stories from all over the world and brings you wild, wacky, wonderful and amazing scientific news. And don't forget, we are waiting for that report from you so we (your neighbors and the world) know what the conditions are in your neck of the woods.... Lee in Port St. Lucie: I almost lost your email newsletter in my new AOL Spam Folder! The AOL Spam folder is a new service from AOL and I am not quite use to it yet. I knew I was missing a newsletter from you this week so I looked in the Spam folder and there it was! Maybe you can make a note of this and share it with your readers of Seaside Scoop ...so they don’t miss one of your great newsletters in their spam folder either! I would like you to pass on this email information enclosed from the Audubon. It’s time again to remind everyone to write a note or send a quick email to our lawmakers to remind them to Protect the Artic Refuge from drilling for oil in the artic. its just not worth it. Our ONLY O.N.E. Blue planet needs us to tread lighter today ...for our own sake as well as for the future! By the way, Geri Sierra is from Port St Lucie and so am I ...I work in and around Ft Pierce to help protect our natural (beach treasures and the Indian River lagoon) but Port St Lucie is my actual home address. Hope all is well...we just GOT HIT by some nasty weather few moments ago...just about the time I was reading your Seaside Scoop weather alert. PS: Would you (once again please ) announce in Seaside Scoop Newsletter that the The 10th annual St Lucie County "Party In The Park" is scheduled for is next weekend (Saturday January 22, 2005, 10:00am-4:00pm it is held at the Inlet State Park, Ft Pierce...free admission. Please invite readers to come out and enjoy nature and the environment at the beautiful Ft Pierce Inlet State Park...O.N.E.W.I.L.D.W.O.R.L.D­TM along with other enviro and conservation groups, organizations and artist (such as the Conservation Alliance, Indian River keeper, Manatee Center , Smithsonian Marine Center, Oxbow Eco Center, Wildlife center, local artists and more will offer enviro exhibits, food, fun, entertainment , raffles, giveaways, art displays and sales and a day to celebrate nature and the environment. The party is sponsored by the SLC Conservation Alliance and the Inlet State Park. Hope to see everyone there...O.N.E.W.I.L.D.W.O.R.L.­D. will be looking for Volunteer s, families, friends, scuba divers and anyone who cares to help sponsor and assist with the upcoming coastal clean up of the Indian River Lagoon (clean up to be held Feb 12th, sponsored by the River Keeper, Cargill Foods and many others who care about the health and well being of the Indian River lagoon...a Treasured waterway in our communities. Please LOOK for us (O.N.E.W.I.L.D.W.O.R.L.D.) at booth #37! See you at the beach! Georgina, fellow writer in Coral Gables: See Georgina’s Golden Globes Gander and Movie Reviews, below; Gayle was trying to teach me hyperlinking within documents this weekend, but afraid I haven’t quite mastered it yet, so please scroll down, or do a Find ;-). Breaking News: It worked! Thank you, Gayle! To reach the Gander, select underlined text and do Control—Tech Tip—what u basically do is a book mark and then hyperlink it, but like so many Microsoft tricks, it’s a bit complicated. Will use it when I can remember all the steps! By right clicking, you can edit the bookmark and hyperlinks, copy, delete, etc., but that’s when it really gets confusing, and you may be sending your reader far away from where you’d hoped. ******************************­*********************** How You Can Help Tsunami Victims Kudos to for their fast financial help to tsunami victims as soon as the news broke of this monstrous disaster. Photo from Shirley: An upturned vehicle stands vertical against in Unawatuna, outside the southern Sri Lankan town of Galle SRI LANKA DISASTER RELIEF I’m sure by now you would have heard of the terrible tragedy that hit among other nations, the island of Sri Lanka. Our immediate family is safe but I have yet to hear from some cousins who were in the affected areas.... and I know of friends and their families who perished. You will be pleased to know that the old Jaycee training works... deeply involved in mobilizing efforts in South Florida with fund raisers especially for the long-term rebuilding and restoration of a destroyed nation. A group of us Sri Lankans living in south Florida are collecting donations to help relief efforts and have set up a bank account at Washington Mutual Bank, Pinecrest. If you would like to help—and here any amount—no matter how small, will be gratefully accepted-please send your check, made out to: Sri Lanka Disaster Relief Fund and mail it to me at 6820 SW 28 Terrace Miami Fl 33155. I will be happy to make the arrangements to have the funds channeled through the RED CROSS in SRI LANKA where the relief efforts are already underway... If you have any questions or concerns, please give me a call at 305 661 8855 or 305 335 2373. Or email: shirleypw1@bellsouth.net Many Thanks. Shirley Wijesinha ******************************­******* Attachments/hyperlinks Bill & Judy Wilson in Ocala, FL, re How To Survive a Heart Attack Alone. Seaside Scoop Web News For Seaside Scoops online, check: http://glgs.org/themes/Custom/­1/glg_articleView.asp?pid=68&t­id=14&articleid=29 ******************************­************ Georgina’s Golden Globes Gander— Beam Me Up, Oscar: Captain Kirk Flies Again. At press time Georgina was working on this so it will be in the next Seaside Scoop; however had to include the hard-learned book mark/hyperlink. An update from Georgina: Watching Backstage Access as I write this. Took copious notes. A little fact-checking left to do. Will write piece tomorrow, send it to you as attachment. Proposed Title: Beam Me Up, Oscar: Captain Kirk Flies Again. Off to finish research News at 11, as Capo Phil would say. Georgina’s Movie Reviews Bad Education (La Mala Educacion): even the title of Pedro Almodovar's latest has so many layers of meaning that you quickly realize you're caught up in a tangled web of a maze. This movie deliberately steps in and out of the present and past, keeps you guessing to the point that when you're ready to say, Aha!, you realize that you're not, after all, getting it. Almodovar's story about two thirty-something men, their relationship with each other in the present and in the past, and with the small circle of intimates that surrounds them, is a surrealistic, yet in your face, depiction of life: love, lust, greed, hate, revenge. In one word: passion. Gael Garcia Bernal -- who most recently portrayed the young Ernesto "Che" Guevara in The Motorcycle Diaries -- is nothing short of extraordinary with his multidimensional performance. The rest of the cast also delivers excellent performances -- the boy who plays Ignacio as a child has the exquisite soprano of the prepubescent: tremulous yet sure, both here, and there. This is a very strong movie: not for the faint of heart. Not seriocomic as Almodovar's other vehicles, you have to be ready to watch, to listen, and to learn. The cinematography teaches you a lesson, in and of itself: as the movie fades away, you see only one word on the screen. Pasion (Passion). That's Almodovar's ultimate message to you via La Mala Educacion. Brilliant. In Good Company: The Weitz brothers (American Pie, About A Boy) have produced another of their "coming of age" winners in this movie about a young man (Topher Grace) who becomes the boss of a man twice his age (Dennis Quaid) and learns that to be on top doesn't always mean that you come out on top. What I enjoyed most about this movie is that everyone was so believable in his/her role: Grace as the Young Turk, painfully aware that he's both a know-it-all and a know-nothing; Quaid as the older, wiser family man who has both guts and values; Scarlett Johansson (of Lost In Translation) as Quaid's sweet, savvy daughter who has a mind of her own; and CSI's Marg Helgenberger as Quaid's wife, bewildered at finding herself in the midst of middle age expectant motherhood. The supporting cast were also -- let's just call them, real people. Closer to About A Boy than to American Pie in sentiment and scope, of course, this movie kept my interest all the way through. Not spectacular, perhaps, it nonetheless depicted its slice of life spectacularly enough. Just how old IS Topher Grace, anyway? He looks like a baby! (Just checked: he's 26, his age in the movie. Good job.) 2005 Cheers from Vero Beach Peggy Writing by Fisher Vero Beach, FL (772)388-4920 Turn the wheel of your life. Make complete revolutions. Celebrate every turning. And persevere with joy. —Deng Ming-Dao Writer ******************************­************* Seaside Scoop (AKA Word-a-Day) Content Any content may be copied; please credit Seaside Scoop . I would also appreciate your publishing information on subscribing: To subscribe to free Seaside Scoop email: writingbyfisher@bellsouth.net