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TWU Earth Day
Happy Earth Day, TWU!
Commuter Coffee Stops: ASB and Tennis Court Parking Lots 7:30-9am
Free coffee and re-usable travel mugs for students while they last!
TWU Facilities Display: CFO 2nd Floor 9-11am
Facilities Management will have multiple demos and displays of TWU sustainability efforts. Please stop by to learn more!
Annual Tree Planting: TWU Gardens: Texas Pond 10:30am
This year, Facilities will be planting a River Birch tree at the Texas Pond (across the street from the Greenhouse) to celebrate Earth Day.
Reception for Earth Week Exhibition: Pioneer Center for Student Excellence (Library 2nd Floor) 4-5:30pm
Highlight students who have completed class projects related to sustainability of natural resources.
'Trash'-ion Fashion Design Contest winners from TWU will be modeling outfits during reception
Annual Events
Apartment Fair
Each November & March, apartment complexes throughout Denton come to TWU to showcase their properties. To view pictures or a list of participating vendors please visit our Apartment Fair site!
TWU Salutes Veterans
Each November, TWU hosts a variety of events to celebrate Veteran's Day.
This year our Veteran's Day Program will be held November 11th, on the Downtown Denton Square at the Old Court House.
In addition to events on Veterans day, Commuter and Non-Traditional Services, in conjunction with other campus partners sponsors a variety of events for veterans throughout the year.
Commuter Breaks
Twice a month, Commuter Services provides free snacks, bottled water, games, and prizes for commuter students from 4:30-6:00pm, typically in MCL or ASB.
Commuter Appreciation Week
Every October and March, Commuter Services dedicates an entire week to you! Events typically include a Commuter Lunch, Commuter Breaks & Breakfasts, give-aways, and other events designed especially for commuter students!
Non-Traditional Student Week
Non-Traditional Student Week is a national event held the first full week of November each year.
Holiday Gift Program
The Holiday Gift Program was established several years ago to assist TWU student families with financial needs by providing gifts for their children during the holiday season. Applications to participate in the program as a recipient or a donor are made available in October each year.
eLounge Online Chats
As a busy student you may not have the time to explore all the support services that are available to you on campus. No problem, just meet us online in the eLounge and we will bring the information to you! Login and Join the eLounge chats.
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President Barack Obama has officially nominated his chief of staff Jack Lew to replace Timothy Geithner as Treasury Secretary. On his way out, Obama credited Geithner with having a "steady hand" throughout the past four years while he navigated rocky waters of economic turmoil. He touted bailout and stimulus spending saying a large portion of loaned money has been paid back.
"When history books are written, Tim Geithner is going to go down as one of the finest secretaries of Treasury," Obama said.
In choosing Jack Lew to take Geithner's place, Obama is confident.
""I trust his judgement, I value his friendship, I know very few people with greater integrity than the man to my left," Obama said. "My loss will be the nation's gain....Jack has my complete trust."
Obama called on the Senate to confirm Lew as quickly as possible, but given the latest rumblings on Capitol Hill over his nomination that's unlikely to happen.
The top Republican lawmaker on the Senate Budget Committee fired a warning shot Thursday as President Obama prepared to tap Chief of Staff Jack Lew for Treasury secretary, vowing to oppose the nomination over a "false" statement Lew made about the national debt.
"Jack Lew must never be secretary of Treasury," Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said, calling Lew's comments nearly two years ago "so outrageous and false" as to disqualify him.
Sessions was referring to a bitter Senate hearing from February 2011, when Lew attempted to defend statements he and Obama had made claiming their budget blueprint would get the country to a point where "we're not adding to the debt anymore."
Those statements, at best, stretched the truth. The White House budget plan at the time showed the public debt (which isn't the entire debt) soaring from $11 trillion that year to nearly $19 trillion by 2021, driven by year-after-year deficits.
Yet Lew, appearing at a Senate hearing, tried to justify the claim that the government was not adding to the debt. He said the administration was merely referring to "primary balance" -- or federal spending that does not count interest payments.
He repeated the claim before the Senate. "Our spending will not add to the debt," Lew said. "It's an accurate statement."
As Guy wrote yesterday, Lew is a disaster.
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Metamaterials are artificial materials that have unique properties due to the structure of in homogeneities infused in them and which are not readily found in nature. These materials allow their users to design their own atoms, thus giving them access to new functionalities such as invisibility and imaging with unlimited resolution. This report primarily talks about the global metamaterial market and its trend over the next twelve years.
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"My husband has been diagnosed with ADHD, and we are planning to start a family soon," one reader writes us. "My big concern is bringing a child into our household, which is like a roller-coaster ride. Though my husband is well-intentioned, his moods and actions are unpredictable, and he's easily distracted. He has many qualities that will make him a great father, but I'm unsure about what to expect once a child arrives."
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One thought: Your husband's moods may not be due to ADD/ADHD. They might be a separate issue to be addressed by a professional. Many people with ADD/ADHD also have co-occurring conditions. Mood issues such as bipolar disorder may explain the "roller-coaster ride" you reference.
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My View on Wrestling Today and How to Improve it
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Hello everyone I decided to write another blog while I wait for a response for the next Blog Wars. Also I am planning the first ever Blog Wars King of the Ring. It is an 8 man tournament for the title king of the blogs it will feature guys who have been on the show, are champ if he wants to go on it, and anyone interested. I will have more on it soon I hope. But to the point I want to give my view on wrestling today.
I watch WWE, TNA, and ROH. ROH is still Indie so I won't discuss much on it. I don't think anyone should compare them really because they are at different levels. I think as a fan I try to support each company because competition drives out the best in entertainment. Back during the Monday Night Wars, each company had tons of viewers. We had more guys, more titles, and more competition. They both gave us a second show to try to make more money and get more views and the writing had to be good all around to keep people from changing the channel.
Today, we mainly have WWE and TNA and I will give some points on how I think they could improve.
Put over more talent or hire more established guys- This important to keep viewers watching the whole time. Instead of have commentators take up time in the ring, give some younger guys a chance to prove themselves to fans. If we get more variety in competition then we can have more feuds and maybe another title return (I vote European). The 90s had tons of guys to appeal to different members in the audience. I am not saying bring back the Attitude Era because I don't think that's not but diversify but add character to the roster.
Help Younger Fans Connect with the Past- Help younger fans be able to recognize some past greats. When you have a PPV, show some highlights to get them to understand the prestige.
Storylines- Right now I think they could add a few storylines to keep their guys busy. Don't just have a random match with no meaning, use the time to build up guys so they can draw a bigger crowd reaction.
Build the Divas- They are getting better but we still have a lot of misused potential here.
Use the Roster Wisely- They have a huge roster with some great talent. They just have to many guys. I think we need a second show to show off some other guys like Pope, Gunner, Abyss, Joe, etc. I do not care if they get WWE talent because that is good business sense to take big or misused talent from the opponent. But not if they will only be relevant for a month or two.
Tapings- I understand if they can't go live yet but for now do more tapings out of the Impact Zone. If you want more consumers for your product then you need to introduce it to more people. Going to new places is great because you can get new fans and their live shows and house shows are great from a personal experience.
Time- Something both companies struggle with. Impact is more understandable since they only have one show. But I think they are doing a lot better in their new year since since BFG ended. They are pushing more original talents and building up some new guys (Sorenson, Gunner, Crimson). I just think we need a 3 hour Impact a little bit more often.
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Written mainly for parents, but the information in it is also for other people, including other family members.
You are entitled to have copies not just to view them! Remember to view them is free anyway
For any one asking for their copy Social Services files:-
Access to your Records
1.Make sure you ask for?
2.Important Notes
3.For any one asking for their copy Social Services files
4.Your Right to Access
5.The Data Protection Act
6.Information which may be withheld?
7.If access is denied?
8.The Freedom of Information Act 2000
1.Make sure you ask for:-
1. Copies of all records, handwritten AND computerised.
2. Copies of all e-mails, faxes, letters etc. E-mails are very important. The SS do not expect you to ask for these. It is amazing what you can uncover.
3. Copies of all telephone messages
4. Copies of all internal memo's.
5. Copies of all contact logs from any contact centres that you or your family have attended
6. Copies of all "Running Sheets". This is the day to day log of what is happening in your case - (like a diary). You can tell if any are missing as they are numbered. You MUST ensure you get copies of these. Check them against the reports that SS have given into court.
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2.Important Notes
If a child is 12 or over, then he/she is considered Gillick Competent. The law was set out in the case of Gillick (Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech AHA [1986] AC 112). It means that the child has sufficient understanding in relation as to what is happening in a given situation and has the capacity to take their own decisions. This gives a child who is Gillick Competent the right to consent to medical treatment, instruct legal representation, request records, etc. Therefore the local authority may say that you are not entitled to have access to your child's records because he/she is old enough to request their own records and is protected under the Data Protection Act 1989 under his/her own right.
To get copies of your SS files and your children's ss files, you must write a letter to the social services asking for copies of all handwritten, and computerised data they have of you, including internal memo's, running sheets and daily logs. (Running sheets are a day to day recording of what is happening and are very important). Make sure you put in your letter "I am requesting this information under the Data Protection Act 1998". They have 40 days in which to reply. If not, re-send a letter saying if they don't reply within 7 days you will report them to the Information Commissioner (Contact details below), as they are in breach of the law.
The Information Commissioner will ensure they give you the files, and comply with the law. You are entitled to have copies of everything for £10.00. Sometimes they say you can only view them with a social worker present, but they know that this is against the law, and it is your right under the Data Protection Act to have actual copies. You must state this to them, if they try it on. Lastly, if there is information from third parties in the file, they can still give it to you but must write first and obtain permission from the person involved, i.e.. Health visitor, doctor, etc.
You are entitled to have copies not just to view them! Remember to view them is free anyway.
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3. For any one asking for their copy ss files:-
Make sure you ask for:-
1. Copies of all records, handwritten AND computerised.
2. Copies of all e-mails, faxes, letters etc. E-mails are very important. SS do not expect you to ask for these. It is amazing what you can uncover.
3. Copies of all telephone messages
4. Copies of all internal memo's.
5. Copies of all contact logs from any contact centres that you or your family have attended.
6. Copies of all "Running Sheets". This is the day to day log of what is happening in your case - (like a diary). You can tell if any are missing as they are numbered. You MUST ensure you get copies of these. Check them against the reports that SS have given into court.
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4. Your Right to Access Social Services Records
This section covers your rights under the 1998 Data Protection Act, which covers information from private and public bodies, and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which covers public bodies only. It is always worth asking for information under both Acts, although the 1998 Data Protection Act covers everything.
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5. The Data Protection Act
The 1998 Data Protection Act gives all individuals general right of access to the personal data which relates to them. These rights are known as "subject access rights". Requests for access to information about those records are known as "subject access requests". Personal data may be computerised or paper records.
To view the 1998 Data Protection Act, please go to:-
The Act gives a right of access to social work records which are held by any of the following:-
A local social services authority (England and Wales)
A social work authority (Scotland)
A Health and Social Services Board or trust (Northern Ireland)
A request for information can be made by the person to whom the data relates, irrespective of age, or by someone who is legally acting on their behalf, e.g. a parent because the child is too young. Requests must be made in writing to the local authority social services department, and they have up to 40 days in which to respond. (It is worth sending your request letter by recorded/special delivery otherwise social services may say they have not received it).
You are entitled to be given a description of the data, be told why it is held, who it has been given to, any information about the source of the data, and to be given an explanation as to how any automated decision taken about you has been made.
You are entitled to have copies of the information for a fee of £10.00. Not just to view it.
Subject Access Request Under the Data Protection Act 1998
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6.Information which may be withheld:-
If the information on a file identifies other people, then it will often be right to remove that information unless the third parties have agreed to the disclosure. (This is less likely to apply to information identifying social workers or other social work professionals unless to disclose it would cause them serious harm).
If the disclosure of the information would prejudice the carrying out of social work by reason of the fact that serious harm to the physical or mental health of the data subject, or any other person would likely to be caused.
If, in the case of requests made on behalf of the data subject, by a person able to exercise their legal rights; the data subject has expressly asked that some or all of the information should not be disclosed or if they have provided the social services department with information on the assumption that it will not be disclosed.
If it will hinder the prevention and detection of crime or the prosecution or apprehension of offenders to provide it.
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If social services are denying you access to records, or have not responded to your request within 40 days, if you are at court you can apply to the judge for release of your data. You can also contact the Data Protection Commissioner, who will investigate this for you and :-
To view advice/ or on how to make a complaint and download a complaints form go to:-
Information Commissioner England
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Telephone: 01625 545 745
Fax: 01625 545 510
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Information Commissioner Wales
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Fax: 02920 894 930
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Information Commissioner Scotland
Kinburn Castle
St Andrews
Water Lane
Telephone enquiries:
01334 464610
Fax enquiries:
01334 464611
email: email@example.com
Website: Scottish Information Commissioner
Information Commissioner Northern Ireland
Room 101, Regus House
33 Clarendon Dock
Northern Ireland
Telephone: 028 9051 1270
Fax: 028 9051 1584
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Website: NI Information Commissioner
8. The Freedom of Information Act 2000
The Freedom of Information Act 2000, also gives people the right to access information on them that is held by public authorities. Any person has the right to make a request for information held by a public authority. You should write to your local authority to see your records under the Freedom of Information Act, and the authority must usually respond to this request within 20 working days. This right came into force on the 1 January 2005. You are entitled to access to any recorded information such as e-mails, minutes of meetings, recordings and reports held by public authorities in England, Northern Ireland and Wales.
To view the full Act please go to:
To view the full Freedom of Information Act (Scotland) 2002,
please go to: http://www.opsi.gov.uk/scotland/acts2002.htm
If the local authority decide not to let you have access to the records requests it must give reasons for the decision. Also, if they ignore your request for information you can complain to the Information Commissioner (see Data Protection Act for addresses)
The ICO may serve a notice on the local authority either confirming the decision made, or directing it to disclose the information within a certain time. If the local authority do not comply with this it constitutes contempt of court, and they are in breach of the law.
If you disagree with the ICO's decision you have 28 days in which to take the matter to an Independent Information Tribunal.
For information on the appeals process please contact:-
Postal enquiries:
Information Rights Division
Department for Constitutional Affairs
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Telephone enquiries:
020 7210 8034
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Size Difference Female raptors are generally larger than the males. The reason for this size difference is really unknown, but scientists theorize that it could relate to the female spending more time on the nest and can protect the young from larger predators. Another idea for this difference is that it allows for a greater diversity of prey to be taken by the adult pair. Eyes Raptors have three eyelids! They have a top and bottom eyelid plus a third, transparent eyelid which closes laterally across the eye. This special eyelid is called a nictitating membrane and is used to;
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"Many organizations now realize that as much as half of
the electricity they purchase is going into the data center,"
says Jim Barclay, CEO of Business Value Consulting Group, a
Royalston, Mass.-based firm that evaluates the value of major
IT purchases. "Not only is the cost of electricity growing, but
it's unpredictable. Business CFOs do not like unpredictable.
They'd rather pay too much in the beginning and not face too
many surprises along the way."
One way to handle the electricity problem is with virtualization, which also provides speed
and flexibility. "Virtualization allows you
to bring new virtual servers online in
a matter of days, not months," Barclay
explains. "Without it, a company with a
great product line and an idea can miss a
desired market window because its I T can't
respond in time. With virtualization, it can
meet the early portion of that window."
Server consolidation customers are
saving from 25 percent to 45 percent in
utility costs alone, according to a 2008
survey of 800 global corporations conducted jointly by research firm Information
Technology Intelligence and security software provider Sunbelt Software. And virtualization/consolidation continues to build
momentum. Blade servers account for just
over 10 percent of servers sold today, IDC
reports, but will account for more than one-quarter of all server shipments by 2011.
"Besides being good for the environment, virtualization is a darn good business strategy," says Mark Lutchen, a
principal in PricewaterhouseCoopers' advisory practice and
author of Managing IT as a Business.
In a recent survey of senior executives in five key regions,
PricewaterhouseCoopers found that energy costs are paramount. In fact, 60 percent of the respondents said potential
energy savings represent the most important factor in their
companies' environmental decision making.
Over the last decade, corporate consolidation has created the
need for server consolidation. Mergers and acquisitions have
resulted in decentralized technology scat-
tered throughout the world.
"Now, for a variety of reasons, companies are compelled to standardize and bring
these disparate technologies together,"
Lutchen says. "Why buy a server every time
you implement a new system? You'll have
600 servers, and many of them will be used
at just 30 percent capacity."
The merger of telecom companies
Alcatel and Lucent in late 2006 is a
prime example. Even before the merger,
the two companies planned data center
consolidations. Now operating as Alcatel-Lucent, the company has its consolidation
plan well under way. It is using Hewlett-Packard-supplied consultancy services
and HP power-saving servers, resulting in
the consolidation of 25 data centers and
125 server rooms into six data centers and
a very small but still-to-be-determined
number of server rooms.
Another HP customer, Mitel Networks, is saving 300,000
a year by reducing its servers from 12 to two and its processors from 24 to 12. And Pfizer is saving considerable but
ufacturing executive is caught up in a
huge inventory/accounting project that
must be finished by the next morning.
But 5 p.m. is approaching, and the
executive needs to get home to take
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Fortunately, thanks to continued
developments in endpoint virtualization technologies, it's easier than ever
for the executive to access the needed
Excel file and other work-based applications from a laptop at home in order
to complete the job on time.
Seeing the value in this and other
benefits to endpoint virtualization—
which essentially allows applications
to be added and integrated within an
enterprise with considerably fewer
system glitches than ever—more IT
decision makers are buying solutions
that encompass this technology.
In fact, more than three out of four
of the approximately 300 IT administrators who responded to a recent survey
said their organizations had already
launched some form of endpoint virtualization, according to Symantec,
which commissioned the study.
"That response surprises us," says
Brad Rowland, director of enterprise
marketing for Symantec's endpoint virtualization line. "This technology is just
starting to be included in larger solutions. Before, this was made available
as a point-by-point solution that had to
be managed separately. Now, it's part
of a larger platform, and that's leading
to broader acceptance."
Here are some additional findings:
• 24 percent of participants said the
simplification of operating system
and application delivery is the
most appealing aspect of endpoint
virtualization, while 20 percent
said lower IT costs offered the
greatest appeal.
• 31 percent reported that their organizations spend at least 21 percent
of IT resources on managing incom-patibilities between applications on
endpoint devices.
• 36 percent said that at least a
quarter of their entire 2009 IT budget
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BONIFAY – Bonifay City Council welcomed back ex-skateboarder and youth mentor Chris Hummel as he continues his endeavors to create a youth friendly environment at the skate park next to the Bonifay Recreational Center with further discussion during Monday night's meeting.
Hummel made his first appearance during the last meeting proposing to help renovate a vandalized building next to the skate park to create a youth friendly environment and hold regular events that would give the youth a safe and fun place to spend their summer and weekends while spreading a positive message.
During Monday night's meeting City Attorney Lucas Taylor informed the Council that he had reviewed all of the legal requirements and wavers with Hummel and that they were in full agreement, signing all the necessary paper work.
Council approved that Hummel could use the area under the agreed guidelines and that Council member Roger Brooks would have authority to approve any improvements Hummel wished to do to the building within reason.
- Brooks informed the Council that there have been complaints about mosquitoes and requested that when the mosquito sprayer starts that he starts on the south-east end of Bonifay where there is large bodies of standing water.
- Council approved of canceling the regular meeting of the Bonifay Council on May 26 in observance of Memorial Day.
- Council approved of their annual request to the Holmes County Board of County Commissioners for the amount of $60,000 for the Street Department and $60,000 for the Bonifay Fire Department.
- Bonifay received the bids for the excavator they intend on purchasing and approved to take each of the bids under consideration to bring for approval during a special called meeting later on in the month.
- Council member Richard Woodham suggested that the City take up random drug testing for City employees and the Council agreed to inform the employees that random drug testing would begin the next month, pulling an employee's name randomly once a month.
- Council agreed that there have been an issue recently with landscapers and lawn maintenance employed by residents dumping their cuttings in the streets and having them clog gutters and wash into the sewers. They agreed to send warning letters to those landscapers and lawn maintenance employees of possible fines associated with their actions.


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Angry former supporters of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps are questioning group founder Chris Simcox's accounting
by David Holthouse
The Little Prince is under siege.
Chris Simcox, founder and president of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC), is accustomed to defending himself against the constant barrage of criticism from human rights activists on his political left flank. But now he's under attack from the right as well, as prominent anti-immigration leaders across the country have blasted Simcox in recent weeks with accusations that he's a charlatan, a sellout, and a traitor to their cause.
"Simcox doesn't seem to know that his days on the Minuteman gravy train are ended," says California Coalition for Immigration Reform hate group leader Barbara Coe.
Other former allies lining up against Simcox include Jim Gilchrist, who co-founded the original Minuteman Project with Simcox last year; American Border Patrol hate group head Glenn Spencer; anti-Semite and former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps (MCDC) field team chief Joe McCutchen; Americans for Mass Deportation founder Liz DeMarco; and Save Our State hate group leader Joe Turner.
The pivot point on which Simcox's own kind turned against him is his refusal to account for the $1.6 to $1.8 million in private donations he estimates MCDC raised, including $600,000 for the "Minuteman Border Fence," -- a slick fundraising campaign with a stated goal of $55 million. Simcox pledged the money raised by the campaign would go to build a high-tech security barrier along 70 miles of private ranchland on the Arizona border. Mass-mailed MCDC solicitations and full-page color advertisements in The Washington Times since mid-April promoted the Minuteman Border Fence as an "Israeli-style" barrier "based on the fences used in Gaza and the West Bank." Fundraising illustrations depict a 6-foot trench and coils of concertina wire backed by a 15-foot steel-mesh fence crowned with bulletproof security cameras. Estimated cost: $150 per foot.
Construction began Memorial Day weekend with much fanfare. Since then, MCDC volunteers erected just over two miles of five-strand barbed wire attached to short metal posts. What they built is a standard cattle fence, costing about $1.50 per foot, or about one one-hundredth the cost of the advertised "Israeli-style" barrier.
So far, in other words, the Minuteman Border Fence hasn't come to much. "It wouldn't stop a tricycle," American Border Patrol's Glenn Spencer posted in a recent online tirade. "It's shameful that [Simcox] would deceive the American people in this way."
Simcox did not respond to three E-mails and two voicemail messages seeking comment for this story. But in an open statement to the media he released in late July, he denied deceiving MCDC donors.
"The next section [of the fence] built will be the full Israeli-style fence, with construction commencing soon," he promised. "Our precise timetable will depend upon resolving a few lingering engineering issues. It will NOT depend upon the ill-informed hostility of those seeking our failure, or wishing to stir up controversy and increase donations to their foundering organizations."
At press time, the MCDC had yet to begin constructing the "Israeli-style" fence. Also, Simcox has denied all requests by current and former MCDC members and donors as well as journalists to release any MCDC financial records. He will not say where the money is, how much has been spent, or for what, and he lashes out at anyone inside or outside his organization who dares question his honesty or authority. Gary Cole, the MCDC's former national director of operations, said he was fired last summer for "asking too many questions about the money."
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ArcGIS is a system that includes all the tools needed to get the most out of a GIS. This course introduces fundamental concepts of GIS and the major functionality contained within ArcGIS Desktop software. In course exercises, you will follow the GIS analytical process and work with a variety of tools to solve realistic problems. This course emphasizes practical GIS software skills.
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One new air mattress later, and we also solved the issue with the 12 year old tent leaking. I simply bought a new one! . Heading back down the BRP toward the Tail...
I don't have to agree with you to like you or respect you. -Anthony Bourdain
This is Liv'n!!!
Joined: Mar 2010
Location: NE PA Some... PNW Some... On HIGH ADVENTURE Most!
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I just pulled Desiree's engine 2nite... now I wait on UPS... to get my other 705 up here. Sitting in Loiusville KY for 5 days clearing Customs?????????
May end up delayed here for 2 weeks LOL. May be Moose hunting on Saturday who the heck knows?!
Enjoy the Dragon Brotha... I never did send you more roads to ride I should call you 2mro with my highlighted atlas out if ya need more twisties to rip up!
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WOW sorry some extended time in Newf'nlaaand has slowed me up!
OK where were we.... we all decided to ride up to Deadhorse Point State park.
Good to be riding with Alex again.....
Beautiful views fer sure and a sense of comraderie between us all...
Shakesbeer, in2dabluz, Guido and Biglv gett'n some sun. Biglv rides very well!
New to offroading "Shakesbeer" Jim, rode all the way out from New York to hang with the gang, he did excellent!
Overlooking the White Rim Trail, which Al and I'll be rid'n in a few days...
Alex is bored waiting for the group to go so he starts doin' tight donuts in the parking lot... getting sooo tight he hits his tool tube and crashes, knocking the end cap off LOL!
Marty decides to show us another trail dropping down onto Colorado the river, so a few of us follow him down.
This dirt stuff is still new to Esther....
But she and Laura are all smiles anyhow....
Yes I can hear the Earth whispering to me....
Laura and Marty...
Just try'n to figure out what she's whispering...
Back down on the CO we decide to do some cooling off at Gold Bar...
Esther and Laura decide to walk across the river which they easily can and loop back around.
While they were crossing I decided to show the young kids camping here that the cliff was goood to jump off! I swam up under the overhang to check the depth, then jumped a time or two.... well over my head all goood! Then I went a bit to the left and.... THANK God-Great Spirit-Mother Earth-Sister Water everyone, which ever you wanna say... that I didn't dive!
Because just a few feet left she shallows up... ALOT and I landed sitting on my ass in the mud!!! Water barely over my knees! Marty said the look on my face was PRICELESS! I bet it was... whoa maaaaan another close call, as I avoid paralysis.
The girls almost to the spot...
We get suited up and ride back to camp...
Most of these folks Esther, Alex and I have never met... but as the days go bye we all warm up to one another. Tonight is the camp raffle and chow down session so we'll get to bust ass and get to know each other even better yet.
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We gather at a pavilion down near the creek and tell a few stories.. then a raffle off stuff we all brought along and ALOT more Hondo and/or Marty maybe Fred musta brought over.
Couple beers, pop, alotta water and more stories.... I'm still just kinda skirting the edges as I have'nt gotten to really connect with everyone yet. Terry and Robbyn come by in the afternoon and I really enjoy meeting these two friendly folks. I know at the next gathering all will feel more gelled and it will be a blast.
Terry and Storm...
Gordon, Alex and Jim....
Hondo telling a BIG story to Marty, Laurie, Fred and his better half Peggy...
The raffle gets officially under way, with Hondo as the guest barker...
Esther happy to be getting stuuufff!
Then looking wantingly at Robbyns new score... a KLR rear rack.. and Robbyn does'nt have a KLR. Esther may have a chance yet LOL.
Later Robbyn gave it to her and Esther was able to reduce her load ALOT by eliminating this and that!
I met this wonderful lady walking by and chatted for a while about life and her Dobie who carries his own leash... I forget they're names now:(
We had a minute or remembering for SLO-KLR who had just passed on in a bike crash... Marty showing his signature, over his heart on the shirt he took on his TDF ride.
All smiles as we start to wrap it up....
Terry's wife Robbyn and I say goodbye to each other and are glad we met....
At the moment I had been on the road just a CRAZY BUSY 2-1/2 weeks and was still kinda numb to the whole experience... looking back I think I've learned to be more settled and enjoy the moment even more!
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The days go bye.......................
The next few days go bye in a blur as we Party a bit and ride alot....
Al, Esther and I go over to the Moab Grill and I meet Tayah... damn it's love again!
I seem to have a tendency to get into these amazing zones where I feel an amazing connection with a new aquaintance, and Tayah and I deffinately fit that bill. I will end up spending more time with her in the months to come.
You can see that we're pretty buzzed up by Al's eyes!^)-
Then it's rejet and maintenance time and more riding...
We head up to ride Onion Creek... Esther is going to get more dirt lessons. Were behind the main group and just enjoying the day.
We all meet up top and they kinda think I'm a wild man ripping up the road Dakar style with the ass end hanging waay out and using all the turns! Hey I'm still a bit rusty from the winter off ok. hahaha
Then as they head back down I decide to ride into the La Sals for a bit more ripping and alone time.
Nobody out here but me... wow... all mine! Rip Tear....
What a........... BEAUTIFUL Canyon...
I find a nice watering hole up top....
Looks like a couple natives back to back...
Back in town that night we party up some more... a lot more and Alex and I get to know Gordon and Storm alot better, as we build a fire and burn it up... I really like these two and we share alot in common for sure! Woop Wooooooooop
Thank you Brothers for the great times!
Next day most everyone packs up and heads for home while Al, Esther and I stick around town for a few more days.... We're gonna ride the White Rim fully loaded tomorrow! YeeeeeHaaaaa
Was great meeting all of you and I look forwad to our next rendezvous, peace and love.
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JJ nice to see you writing again brother, been missing your style! Looks like you at least made it back to get some WiFi! How's the new engine man?
If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem!
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White Rim Trail....
So after a gooood night of burning the Kind with our new found friends Alex and I decide to go ride the WRT. Esther isn't quite feeling up to the challenge yet sooo we plan to camp on the Trail, eat some Fungus and see what the canyon Spirits have to teach us.
We'll just hook up with Esther again somewhere in town when we return, aalll gooood.
Most people including a group we met at Freds (Arrowhead Motorsports a good friend of mine) tell us not to ride it fully loaded.... well I don't think they know Al and I that well, hahaha we push the envelope waaaay past where most folks stop and we both know our MAAAD skills will pull us through! Mad like hatters that is.
Back at Camp we meet Gaila and Tad on there GS's who have put most everything they haven't sold into storage and are riding all over North America this summer! Excellent we share the Nomadic bug with them foooo suuure!
Here's a link... http://www.overlandnow.com/ Goood stuff!
Tad says he'd like to ride some of the WRT with us after we tell him of our plans... sooo off we three go toward the Potlatch Rd which will catch the WRT a bit after the begining to avoiding paying entry fees up top.
On the Potlatch road I see this coool Rainbow Alligator in the sky...
Getting hungry?
Also the Iridescent Mineral pools are far out.... along with the perfect skies that will blanket us all this daylong.
We pull over to discuss the AMAZINGNESS of this awesome day and I just soak it up. Though Alex isn't feeling sooo sparky today for some reason... kinda ominous feelings moving through him?
I pull out ahead of the group and just RIP down a straight much like this one... listening to the Waaaahaaaaa of my 705 thumper turning about 6,200rpm. Doing waaay over 70 as I just revel in the moment.
Then at the end of the straight what do I see but a sudden right hander... oh shit!!! I stand up on the pegs, grabbing all the front and rear brake I can, using all my effort to get her slowed down as she does a controlled, somewhat uncontrolled brake slide without a complete lowside over the edge and into this Abiss.
I stop there for a moment listening for the guys....... nothing.... listen.... nothing, hmmm ok maybe Al's burning a fatty and will be mellowed out a bit? Actually you can bet your azz he's burning one! Anyway I'll go ahead on up to the next intersection and pull over. I can't help but to think I should go back and wait there to warn of the turn, I keep riding on questioning my decision, yet figuring we all have to be aware of Ol' man Death who's always chasing us sometimes from behind, sometimes ahead of us,waiting around almost each and every turn. Including this one.
I get to the Potlatch Road and pull over...
I take in the views and wait.....
And wait a bit more.....
Noticing this amazing rainbow I wait even more...
After what seems like forever I decide to start riding back. I have a gut feeling one of them came into that turn as hot as I did!(
At about that time I see Al coming up the draw so I turn back around on the trail as he pulls up.
Still wearing half a smile on his mug.... he tells of hearing me roar down that straight and then doing that same thing... cept at the end he couldn't shave off enough speed and actually had to pull a first time for him on purpose lowside bail off to keep from going over the same edge and down into the ravine!
He had to pull Janis (his bikes new name suggested by Gaila back at camp,quite fitting I might add!) from slightly over the embankment back onto the road. Both hands and wrist took bad hits as did his leg, arm and Janis herself. A bit of tweaking was in order to get her road worthy again... he was hurt'n PRETTY bad but when I ask if he wanted to go back to Moab, he said HELL NO! Soooo off we go with me saying silent prayers to Mother Earth and Father Spirit to give him some of my healing energy, I know he's gonna need it before this 180+mi day is done. I make a mental note that we may or maaay not be camping out on the Rim tonight... I don't know how bad his injuries really are and I better keep an eye out for who knows what.
See the Ol' man in the clouds watching over us.....?
At first he's hanging back a bit... as you would suspect, his body and mind still reeling I'm sure. I had given him a pair of super tough armored leather gloves just before this ride and thank goodness because even with them, his hands were HAMMERED! Testiment to his toughness he's still motoring on!
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Jettn Jim screwed with this post 11-10-2012 at 06:02 PM
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Magical place.....................
On and on we ride.....
We decide to descend into Lathrup Canyon and to the Colorado river to cool off abit... it's been well into the lower 100's since hitting the region.
It's a bit of sandy wash getting to the bottom and Al is fighting it a bit being a bit being pissed off and using his Shinko 705 80/20 tires still aired up to Hwy pressure because he's feeling stubborn, you dumb azz buddy! You can see Janis is deff a bit tweaked as she's parked down on the river.
I find shade for Desiree' and strippdown to soak my shirt and neck gaiter in the river, for at least a little respite back up on the Rim.
Up comes a Tour boat to use the Job Johnny... just as I was heading that way myself LOL! Talk about a HOT dump in a 130deg outhouse.... things ya gotta do.
I pull over in the shade to wait again... it's gonna be one of those days where the Universe is trying to teach you a thing or two for Alex.
We find many arroyos with high cliff walls to pull over and gaze into the distance from...
We find this cool little hump and get a couple pics of each other...
Alex starts to feeling stronger and goes ahead of me for a while....
I about lose it here on Murphys Hogback as I get too much air off a drainage ditch and the rebound almost sends me over the edge.
I somehow case the far side just before it flattens out again, too much speed... but not enough at the same time.
Ol' Parepin has crashed a few times in the sandy stuff today but keeps forging on, he's a tough fukker... getting a bit more pissed each time though I might add.
I notice how this rocks shape and the surrounding dried mud match... pretty cool.
Just South of Candlestick Tower....
I come upon our Heroes Janis and Alex with a $hit load of F-Bombs and sand flying everywhere.... then a primal SCREAM!!!
No $hit it WAS LOUD and it was PRIMAL...
When it all cleared up, I see that Janis had tucked on him again...
Daaammn... I'm thinking he might juuust wanna relax a bit and go with the flow. As we get near the Green River and down onto the moondust fields I come upon him sitting next to a napping Janis in a rutted out moondust section... no strength to pick her up again. It's the first time I've ever seen him be so squirelly, he's usually the calmer rider of us two. I rode her to the end of it, until he could feel his hands again. That initial crash had taken a huge chunk of energy out of him, the soft sections just kept pecking away at him little by little all day long.
Was just one of those days for him... he started out not feeling real good jooojoo and it kept going further south.
The start of one of the sections....
The moondust hides the under dust features alot like riding in water, invisible until you hit them. I didn't have the nerve to take a pic of him sitting next to the downed bike... it was just too serious a moment, I thought it maaay be REALLY baaad since he was just sitting there, not moving much at all.
He shakes it off and we move on again...
Somewhere down here is the worst sand of the whole WRT... I get really into it and cut off trail to my right riding Desiree' like ya ride a snowmobile or jet-ski. It's all gooood as I power through the sand at the top of second gear.... I haven't crashed yet today and see no reason to start now. LOL YEEEAAAA right..... I come to the end of the big wash which is probably 80-100yds long by 40-60 yrds wide, and as it narrows back up to just the two rutted tracks I end up flying off about the 4ft embankment and land at a 45deg angle smack dab on the tracks.... CRASH! Ooookay guess I was due.... straighten $hit up and get all the sand out from under the throttle tube etc... then ride on.
I think these happy campers saw the whole thing, since when I crashed I looked up I could them above me. It was just to the right of the big tree you see that is right above their heads.
We pull off to cool off and... regroup down on the Green....
Soon we start to roll out from under the Sun and the reflection from the Full Moon envelopes us....
Having decided to forgo the Fungus/Spiritual experience today -do to... well you know- we head for some stealth camping near Kane Creek. As we head up another Canyon looking for a likely spot I come across Alex stopped in the road again, hmmm...
"I just hit a deer!" WHAT! You OK? How 'bout the bike?
"All good" he say's... okay then how about the deer?
So I pull off and start to look around....... I find her, a young Doe lying in the dry grass next to a decent sized tree. She's bleeding lightly from a scuff but can't stand and obviously in shock. As I feel around her, trying to sense the degree of her damage, her Momma Bleats repeatedly for me to get away from her....
She remains calm a small portion of the time... but when I put all my concentration on her to heal any and all her wounds she goes about berserk and flails to get up! Aaaaah FUKC man!
I keep stroking her course fur and whisper to her that it will all be alright... it's ok honey.
I try to heal her some more as I have healed myself from severe stuff before. But try as I might she just goes crazy everytime I put my energy into her :( I obviously haven't taken near enough time to master the gift of healing... and try not to question my faith that I can do so, as I keep trying to mend her broken little body.
I quietly weep under my breath and weigh the options.
I have a large sharp Gerber blade, that I use as a multi tool to split firewood and as a hammer etc... I can put her out of her misery!?!?!
I think of letting nature run her course... but she will suffer long and hard I believe before she expires and the coyotes consume her flesh. I pray/meditate and come to the realization that our manmade mechanical wonders that we've enjoyed ripping around on this day caused this, our need to get somewhere at a much faster pace than walking, so as not to be inconvenienced by the slower pace of a more natural time frame, had caused this. It was up to me to end her suffering now.
I went back to the bike, got the knife unsheathed... and while I lovingly spoke to her, gave her all of the love I had, and prayed to the Great Deer Spirit to help ease her pain... I cut her jugular as cleanly as I could. This so that she would simply bleed out... as painlessly as possible, until the lack of oxygen would cause her to basically go to sleep.
Alex was in a bit of a... I don't know exactly.
Was I was a bit mad? Hurt? Sad? Glad for him? Hurting for her? All and none of the above... I just told him it was alright now and after kneeling for another prayer, we rode on.
Up the canyon a piece where it had turned back to dirt we simply pulled over and threw our bags down next to the bikes.
Though it was NO OVERNIGHT CAMPING... we didn't care!
Enough for one day... As I lay out there, under the stars that night, looking through a sagebrush's limbs at the full Moon I told him the Universe might be trying to tell him something today... Slooow down maan... your outta control.
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Jettn Jim screwed with this post 11-14-2012 at 08:13 AM
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That scenery is surreal! I'll have to check it out sometime.
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Just edited a couple words in the last update... I'm finding it a bit hard to write about this trip due to having alot of different feelings now than I did back in May/June. This has been another Soul searching Road trip and things have changed alot since then, so I'll try to do my best to be in the moment as it was back then.
Gotta say I'm finding it to be a bitch!
I wanna say what's on my mind now but that has to wait until I get to that point 5 months away in the story line.... I feel rushed to put up the pics and get to now on Nov. 14th but that is just Fuking up the whole story, sooo I'll try to get back into my head as it was then without sounding too strange. Even picking the music is tough as I've gotta a whole list that is too recent really. I just re-read that last post and it didn't sound like me talking... I gotta work on that!!!
As this ride is unfolding I'm constantly in flux about the direction my life is taking find I am more observant of myself, my actions and my thoughts than I've ever been. I feel big changes on the horizon.. just not sure when I'll wake up and start staying on the path as it unfolds.
Hell I could just keep running in circles chasing my tail? If as they say the path is always unfolding beneath our feet... then we're always on it right.
I've never been one to walk too straight... really like to wander around smelling all the bushes.
But I will add.... that you could say there are at least two paths unfolding in front of us. The one is from our minds.... what we think we should do, where we should go, who we should be with, who we are, etc... Then there's the path that streams from our hearts... It is more of a feeling deep inside us, how we feel about what we're doing, where we're going, what we're doing, if we're being true to who we REALLY are?
I'm trying to sense this latter path... the one coming from my heart. I've spent a whole life following the path from my that streams from my mind. I'm back to what Don Juan the our Sorcerer friend once said:
The Path With A Heart
Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow it, you must not stay with it under any conditions. To have such clarity you must lead a disciplined life. Only then will you know that any path is only a path, and there is not affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you to do. But your decision to keep on the path or to leave it must be free of fear or ambition.
I warn you. Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question. This question is one that only a very old person asks. My benefactor told me about it once when I was young, and my blood was too vigorous for me to understand it. Now I do understand it.
I will tell you what it is: Does this Path have a Heart?
All paths are the same, they lead nowhere. They are paths going through the bush, or into the bush. In my own life I could say I have traversed long, long paths, but I am not anywhere. My benefactor's question has meaning now. "Does this path have a heart?" One makes you strong; the other weakens you.
The trouble is nobody asks the question: and when a person finally realizes that they have taken a path without heart, the path is ready to kill them. At that point very few people stop to deliberate and leave the path.
A path without a heart is never enjoyable. You have to work hard even to take it. On the other hand, a path with heart is easy; it does not make you work at liking it.
For my part there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart. There I travel, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length.
And there I travel looking, looking, breathlessly.
- Don Juan
Ok I wake up in the Canyon right next to Desiree' and look all around me.....
Just study these shapes and you can sense the life that created them...
For some reason I look straight up over my head and think to myself..."If this rock/mother earth wanted too... she could let a boulder loose and crush me like a fly!"
Then I look over at Alex.. Wonder how he slept.
We pack our bags and head back into Moab to find Esther and do some last minute bike work before leaving town.
I wonder how old these stone buildings are? People along here have built into and really used this rock.
We get phone signal and a txt so we go up the Green, as Esther has made camp up that way...
Still amazes me how good a pics this Olympus takes on the fly...
We get to the campground and find Esther... She has had a tough nite. At about 2 a.m. she still can't sleep because of the noisy neighbors, yelling at the kids in a bad way etc... here's an excerpt from here RR about it:
"I rode back into town to text Jim and tell him where I was camped. While I was back in town I decided to get some good food and some stuff for the guys to eat in case they made it back early. I met a lady called Gail from Alaska.
That night turned out to be one out of a horror story.
The occupants of the tent nearby turned out to be a large family or friends, 4 kids and three adults. They were talking and screaming till about 1:30 AM after which the dad told them to go in the tent and watch a movie. Unfortunately one of the kids, a young boy of about 8 was throwing a bit of a tantrum about having to watch a movie he didn't want to watch. I have never heard a dad scream such horrible language at a kid, totally putting him down and belittling him. The F word was pretty dominant.
At 2 AM I was so tired and could not sleep because the guy was talking loudly. I walked to the road for a bit to enjoy the quiet and the view of the moon over the valley. As I got back to camp I asked the three adults if they would be going to bed soon. I explained that I had a long ride tomorrow and wanted to be alert on my motorcycle. The guy got horrible rude and told me very clearly that he had no inclination to go to bed at any time soon, and that if I didn't like it I should move my stuff and sleep somewhere else. I told him kindly that normally people are respectful of other campers and don't make a bunch of noise at 2am. He then told me that if I wanted he could make things really unpleasant for me by going to his truck and getting his 45.
I told him go ahead. That shut him up for just a sec. I also told him he was rude and that he had no right to holler at his kid like that. Then I wished him love and peace in his heart and left. While I packed my stuff I felt so powerless. Here is someone so obnoxious and all I wanted was peace. I did not want to argue with him or fight , just kindness and consideration, but neither one was possible. I also did not want to pack my stuff and move cause I was so tired. I ended up screaming loudly out of sheer frustration of my predicament. In the end I took the peaceful giving way instead of the resisting way and moved to the other side of the campground with the help of Gail who was also camped there. Unfortunately that side didn't have trees for my hammock so I pitched my tent and got about 3 hours of sleep. I have yet to get to a point in my life that I accept whatever it dishes out without getting too ruffled by it.
The next morning, Tuesday June 5th my daughter's Birthday, I cleaned up camp and waited for Jim and Alex who showed up later in the morning.
I told Jim the story of what happened, which I guess I shouldn't have seeing as he stormed of in the direction of the guy's camp. I told him to just let it go, forgive and forget. All happens as it should, but he didn't really listen.
I guess the guy hid the whole time Jim hovered around.
Then Jim rode off and Alex stayed behind napping until I had my bike packed up.
Turns out he really hurt himself on the white rim trail. Crashed his bike pretty hard and hurt his hands. The he told me about the deer he hit and how it ended up with two broken legs. Jim held it and caressed it for 10 minutes trying to heal it but couldn't. He ended up having to put it out of its misery using a knife. I am glad it wasn't me. I don't think I could have coped with that to good. Neither could Alex. It was a pretty traumatic night for him, hence the napping."
Yea I had a REALLY hard time letting this go..... Normally I would've easily got in this guys face purposefully egging him on until he made the mistake of threatening me or actually touching me. Then I would simply beat the living $hit out of him, all the while feeling bad about doing it in front of the kids, it wouldn't be the first time. But on this day and since I'm taking a new path (haven't been in a fight in 4yrs now- up to 2008 I'd been in a fight/multiple fights every single year since 1974, whoa!) Soo I just crouched down at the edge of their camp piercing the air with my disgust. It caught the attention of a woman who I think was his wife and told her how unhappy I was at the Bullshit from last night, in a calm but VERY FIRM and detailed way! She kinda crossed paths with the dude on the far side saying something... then he went up to his truck and made himself busy for the next 20 minutes. Wouldn't come near the camp... I just crouched there waiting as the minutes ticked by... I had to fight with myself to let that be enough.
With that over... hmmmphmmmmmm it was back to Fred's to get a spare rear wheel I had Sherri ship out from PA for Esther.
Turns out it was too big for the mail jeep guy to deliver??? What REALLY....haha ok I'll go get it myself... with my bike.
I thot this was pretty funny, the mail guy couldn't pick it up but I could.
Esther and Fred do the wheel swap , it has a fresh Sinko 244 on it, but after we leave town the winds are sooo strong she feels the tire is squirelly and doesn't like it at all:( Hmmmm Al and I love 244's.
I really get to know Fred on this trip, we go out to eat a couple times and share some deep talks about life. I decide I really like him.
I pull off the Aluminum sprocket I've been testing and slap on a fresh steely.
4,400miles... not too bad I should've let it go till it wore completely out. Would have been a much more substantial test. Live and learn.
We say goodbye to Fred and we're off. We actually get a motel for the last night in town and in the morning get one last breakfast at the EklectiCafe.... Then we part ways, I'm heading for Sabastopol, Ca to visit with Jessica again then roll up the coast to see Rick Mayer and get my saddle tuned up a bit, Esthers heading to Berkley for a Lucid Dreaming conference and Alex is heading to Vernal to visit our buddy Ian, he and I plan to meet up in a couple weeks in Lewiston to go to the Hells Canyon Gathering in Enterprise, sooo off we all go.
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Jettn Jim screwed with this post 11-14-2012 at 12:45 PM
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I can relate all too well. This is where the notes come into play, but even then you can't really force that same mindset. Take your time, man. Think about it and edit it as necessary. No rush. Quality and honesty over quantity and urgency. Keep up the good work.
By the way, those two photos a few posts back with the 12 ft rooster tail and the faceplant-imprint in the silt cracked me up. I didn't know you got a photo of that.
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It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work,
and that when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Barry
Yup one last bfast at my and I believe our Fav joint... some hugs and contact info of the EklecticGirls swapped and we three musketeers ride off on our own paths.
Gonna havta ride on slabs now from here to Cali... but it's all good really since I'm gonna ride through Arches, Bryce Canyon, Zion and Cedar Breaks National Parks as I go West. Don't really have a hard set plan I just pick the twistiest roads through the most elevation changes in the remotest places as I go.
Winds are HOWLING as we all go West...
Later I hear that the wind is a bit much and Esther pulls in for the day... yup it was blowing!
As I get into the Canyons near Capital Reef I get a bit of a respite...
Soaking it in...
Beautiful stuff...
Old cabins along the way...
Just zoom'n down the road...
Things greening up a bit...
Many different terrain and climatic/geographic zones I pass through today...
I enter the Anasazi Village site and museum, where I see a KLR in front of someones camper/home...
"The Anasazi existed from the time of Christ to about A.D. 1300, when the Atlantic Current beban to slow down (historically, the Little Ice Age began in 1300 and continued until 1850), and their area of influence mostly centered in the Four Corners. They created buildings, and incredible science is embedded in the location and placement of their sacred sites, as well as their use of sacred geometric patterns. Their recently discovered story has been told in a documentry film, narrated by Robert Redford, called The Mystery of Chaco Canyon, which describes how the Anasazi were functioning scientifically on a level similar to the ancient Egyptians.
The Anasazi were not barbaric human beings, they were civilized people who understood a reality that would look like science fiction to us. (-This is a reality I am exploring at this time in my life...JJ-) The other worlds, the other dimensions, were reality for them, and they knew how to move within them (at least to a limited degree).
The universe that we see with the stars and planets is defined as the third (major) dimension within the twelve major dimensions. So the Earth is within the third dimension, but within and around the Earth and the entire universe are twelve overtones of the third dimension. Although you cannot see these third-dimension overtones, they are worlds that heve been known and experienced by shamans, medicine men and women, and the Assended Masters for thousands of years.
If a person were to enter an overtone of the of the Earths third dimension, or any other dimension, he or she would dissapear from view here on Earth and reappear in another world. This is not easy to do without great knowledge.
The ancient Anasazi, out of desperation did move from the third dimension of the Earth into an overtone of the Earth. The problem was that because they were moving backwards in consciousness in making this movement, it was akin to suicide, and they became trapped, unable to move out of this lower overtone world.
Let me tell you something of their nature; maybe you will feel the compassion I have for them. Their life span from birth to death was usually only about eighteen or nineteen years. if an Anasazi lived to be twenty-five, he or she was a very old person. A female would usually have her first child at least by twelve or thirteen, only to die within five or six years. This meant that children had to be on their own and able to survive very earl in life.
So even though they had an astounding understanding of the Reality, they lacked the wisdom that age brings. This is what I feel after having experienced the Anasazi on these other levels in my meditations many years ago."
From Drunvalo Melchizedek "Serpent of Light: Beyond 2012"
So as I sped through this land I was letting the energies soak into me and just taking it all in. Wondering and hoping to learn even a spec of the Truth that exist in the universe.
The views were great and the turns keeping me excited as I ride, winds still howling and lotsa dust in the distance.
Abandoned memories near Bryce Canyon Airport....
I pull into Fosters Family Restuarant for Salmon, soup and pie... aaah! And also flirt with/share love with the pretty waitress.
You may notice that there are a few less pics of the Puuurrty Giirls than my last RR... it's because I'm just kind of observing things more on this ride and though I do interact and smile/flirt/love. I feel that I don't want to break up the moment as much as I did last year, just kind of let the mood and energy flow during the conversation without saying "hey I'm doing this report and take pretty girl pics" Don't get me wrong there will be lotsa Puurrty Giiirl pics in the coming months... but I just kinda let it happen when it feels right.
By the way the food was GREAT!
Solar powered flashing Deer warning sign...
A Detour gets me unexpectedly into Cedar Breaks National Monument yeehaa and WOW just spectacular my pictures do not do this place justice...
Then its back west into the sunset...
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Because each cell has hundreds of mitochondria and thousands mtDNAs, new mtDNA mutations generate an intracellular mixture of mutant and normal mtDNAs, heteroplasmy. The percentage of mutant and normal mtDNAs can be unequally distributed at cytokinesis, such that the percentage of mutant mtDNAs can drift during successive mitotic and meiotic cell divisions, replicative segregation.
As the percentage of deleterious mtDNA mutations increases, the energy output of the cell declines until it drops below the minimum energy output required for that cell type to function and symptoms ensue, the bioenergetic threshold. To date, more than 200 pathogenic mtDNA mutations have been identified, and these cause all of the symptoms seen in the common metabolic and degenerative diseases including diabetes and metabolic syndrome, forms of blindness, deafness, neurodegenerative disease, myopathy, cardiomyopathy, renal dysfunction, and hepatic failure. Mutations in the mtDNA also contribute to cancer and aging (Wallace, 2005, 2007).
The high mtDNA mutation rate means that deleterious mtDNA mutations are very common. The frequency of recognized mitochondrial diseases is already estimated at 1/4,000–1/5,000 (Schaefer et al., 2008), and the de novo mtDNA mutation rate observed in cord blood, as assessed through 15 known pathogenic mutations, has been reported as 1 in 200 (Elliott et al., 2008). Given the high mtDNA mutation rate and the great importance and conservation of the mtDNA genes, the cumulative mtDNA genetic load should drive animal species to extinction. This paradox is resolved because the mammalian ovary encompasses a selective system that systematically eliminates those proto-oocyes that harbor the most severely deleterious mtDNA mutations (Fan et al., 2008; Stewart et al., 2008). Consequently, only oocytes with mildly deleterious, neutral, or beneficial mtDNA variants are ovulated and can be transmitted into the next generation. New mtDNA variants are constantly being introduced into animal populations, thus modifying individual energy metabolism. These variants provide the physiological variability required for subpopulations to adjust to new regional energetic environments.
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Notice how there's not really any easy way to escape the secret tunnel-bookcase reading lair? That's because FUCK SUNLIGHT READING IS AWESOME.
I actually do have an e-reader that I use, and I think it's awesome and nicely portable and better for reading while getting your cuddle on. (Seriously, the one-handed page-turn is super useful when your arm is around someone.)
But, hey, I also like collecting print books, especially when I can get them signed.
I feel like all the arguments about e-readers versus traditional media are kind of silly. As with debates like "cake versus pie" or "Spiderman versus Batman," the real winners are the people who answer "BOTH."