Photographer Rachel Hulin’s shots of her ‘flying’ son Henry. Now, wait, before you call social services:

If you’re worried about Henry’s safety, you’ll be relieved to find out that he’s not in any real danger. “I never throw him, and I never move him into a place in the frame that he wasn’t in to begin with,” Hulin said. “I like Henry to fly the way he feels like it, I never pose him in a specific way. Sometimes he’s graceful and sometimes he’s a little hunchback.

“Everyone is very interested in how Henry flies, but it’s really quite straightforward. I’m not sure if telling you exactly makes it less magical, but yes, Photoshop is involved, but only slightly. He never gets tossed. The frame you see is very close to the original picture, Henry just has no assistance in the final shot.”

Mother Photographs Her Flying Baby (My Modern Met)


Wingsuit flyer Jeb Corliss recently came to grief, breaking both legs during a squirrel jump off Table Mountain in South Africa. He’s OK, (in fact, better than OK as HBO are currently making a documentary about the whole thing) but this multiple-angle footage of the accident is terrifying.

He recently wrote on his Facebook wall:

I was going for a black balloon that was basically laying on the rocks and was going to try and kick it with my foot. In order to do this I had to fly low and flat between boulders. My left foot clipped a boulder that dragged me into a flat ledge that I took at the waist at full speed. If I had not clipped that boulder I might have made it, I might have still impacted. It’s very hard to tell from the footage. Everything happens very fast. But when you go for a flight where inches are the difference between making it and not making it well impact is very possible. I knew this and took the risk and paid the price for pushing way to hard. I take full responsibility for my actions and am just happy I still have legs to do rehab on.

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The Perfect Endings Peanut Butter Cup Cake ($63.75): a 20cm diameter, peanut butter, French artisan butter and fresh cream filled, chocolate encased gutbuster is not available for international shipping.

So you can’t have one.

It’s probably for the best.

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Speaking at the launch of the new Pathways To Work initiative yesterday:

Mr Kenny said the plan was about ensuring that when economic recovery came, those who lost their jobs in the recession were not left behind.

The aim is to get 75,000 long-term unemployed people back into the workforce by the end of 2015. Listing areas in which there are job opportunities, including IT, the meat industry and fishing, the Taoiseach warned: “In the 1990s we had a culture where there was an assumption that particular kinds of employment were off limits to Irish people, but that shouldn’t be so in the future.”

He cited the example of a nursing-home owner who told him she interviewed 24 Irish women for four jobs but none would accept the work at a rate of €10.50 an hour. As a result, the employer said she would be hiring four Polish women.

Polish women.

Can’t be having that.

Taoiseach says jobless must be ready to take up any work (Irish Times)

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