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After I took my morning hike up the Green River and the Yampa River, I returned to have a morning camp meal with my wife and then strike the tent and organize our camping gear.
When the sun reached the canyon bottom I suggested that my wife accompany me on a repeat hike up to the Yampa. She agreed and I'm glad she did. The light was much better for photographing the beauty of Steamboat Rock and the Green and Yampa Rivers.
These photos were taken on that "later in the morning hike" up river with my wife.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Keet Seel Road Trip June 2012
Wednesday 30 May 2012 – Sunday 10 June 2012
Mr. & Mrs. "oldmantravels"
ROAD TRIP HIGHLIGHTS: * City of Rocks, Oakley to Almo, Idaho / * Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado portion: hike Harper's Corner; camp Echo Park; hike Green River and Yampa River confluence; Steamboat Rock/ * Black Canyon of the Gunnison River, Colorado/ Funky and hip – Telluride, Colorado / * Lowry Pueblo ruins / * Devil's Canyon campground: Montezuma Canyon loop drive; Muley Point overlook; Abajo Mountains drive / * Blanding, Utah small town fun: Lickety Split Bakery serendipity and the "cast of characters" / Navajo elder turquoise – Homestead Steak House / Daisy Cowboy at the laundromat / * Navajo National Monument: backpacking trip to Keet Seel cliff dwellings; Hopi National Park Ranger – Patrick Joshevama & his atlatl/ * Return to the Solaas Bed and Breakfast, Baker, Idaho / * Snow on Lost Trail Pass and private plane crash / * Lochsa River rain and rafters / * Clearwater River; the Palouse; and home.
DAY ONE [30 May 2012]
Our ten year old Toyota RAV4 was all packed, gassed up and ready to go on Tuesday night. Our alarm clock was set for 4 am. We were ready and anxious to go, so we were both up and getting ready to go, before the alarm sounded early Wednesday morning.
We drove the Interstates from our home in Eastern Washington to exit 208 off I-84, just north of Burley, Idaho. Our destination for the first night was the City of Rocks, Idaho. We had both visited this remarkable area several times but had never come into it from the West (the Oakley, Idaho approach). We were determined to see something new by entering the City of Rocks through Oakley and then exiting through Almo, Elba, and Malta.
We saw lots of activity with big semi trucks hauling out huge loads of "slab rocks" on flat bed trailers in the area around the old town of Oakley, Idaho. As soon as we returned home I got on the internet to read about these busy rock quarries.
The rock they were hauling out is called "Oakley Stone" and has been quarried in the area since 1948. It is a muscovite mica described as "thin splitting micaceous quartzite". It is unique and much sought after. It slabs out to 8 foot sections just 1/2 inch thick and is used as facing and paving stone in the U.S. and overseas. Seems you always run into something new and interesting on road trip back roads.
I knew the City of Rocks was very popular in the summer with international and local rock climbers, so to we made reservations for our tent camping site. We chose site #37, which I had picked out on my first visit to the City of Rocks, as the place I would one day like to tent camp with my wife. We did.
The weather was excellent for our visit to the City of Rocks and we took short hikes and drives to enjoy the area. We used our old four seasons The North Face Mountain 24 backpacking tent to sleep in with comfy REI camp rest sleeping pads. The winds blew strong and gusting that night so we were happy to have the wind protection and stability of the four season tent. We slept well this first night of our 12 day road trip.
We survived the strong winds that blew most of the night. Our camp chairs blew over and got hung up in a juniper tree, but no other problems. The sun came out and the seemingly always present "interesting cloud" formations above the City of Rocks made for great views as we took some more short hikes and drive before heading on to our next destination.
We caught the interstate east of Malta and made our way to Dinosaur, Colorado, where we stopped at the visitor center for Dinosaur National Monument. A ranger, named Randy, was helpful when we asked about the road down to the Echo Park campground and what are chances of finding an open campsite.
My wife and I had visited the dinosaur dig and the Utah portion of Dinosaur National Monument, several times before but neither of us had visited the Colorado section. On a couple of previous trips we had this portion of the monument on the "to visit" list, but weather and/or bad road conditions caused us to skip it.
We saw a lots of wildflowers and sweet smelling clover with yellow blossoms, edged the road to Harper's Corner. We saw two bull elk in velvet in the sage country where it looked more like pronghorn or mule deer territory. We drove to the trailhead at Harper's Corner and took the short, but scenic, hike out to the point where you can look down on the Green River as it makes a big hairpin turn around Steamboat Rock. We could spot the road down through Echo Canyon and the pull off to Whispering Cave, all the way from the ridge line trail.
After the hike we left the paved road and thoroughly enjoyed the gravel road drive down to the Echo Park campground. As Randy had told us, there were few people camping, just three other vehicles other than ours. All were tent camping like us.
We set up our The North Face mountain 24 tent under some juniper and cooked dinner on our small JetBoil backpacking stove. I took off with a camera to hike up closer to Steamboat Rock, while my wife relaxed and organized our camp. I followed the Green River upstream and was pleased to find the trail went all the way to where the Yampa River joins the Green River. I hiked a short distance up the Yampa River, enjoying the scenery and wildlife.
Canada Geese were thick along the rivers and their constant honking, whether flying or floating, echoed off the massive walls of Steamboat Rock and the Yampa river canyon. A beaver slapped his tail hard and dove along the banks of the Green River. When he resurfaced and saw I was still there, he repeated his performance with an loud echoing second tail slap and swam down stream.
We sat around a small fire until the stars and bright moon came out, then slept soundly in our tent.
The sun came out and the day started warming up quickly as the day's first light started working its way down the canyon walls to the rivers. My wife and I repeated the hike up the Green River and Yampa River together so I could photograph with the warm morning light now lighting up the landscape. Echo Park was a big favorite of ours, and we hope to return one day.
We next headed through Grand Junction, Colorado and on to Montrose, Colorado where we got a motel room. There was still plenty of daylight left so we drove up to see the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River from the south rim drive. We hadn't visited the canyon before so it was another "first" for us on this road trip.
The Black Canyon of the Gunnison River was difficult to photograph for me, but a spectacular sight, well worth the visit. We returned to Montrose for a good night's sleep in a motel room.
From Montrose, Colorado we headed for Telluride, Colorado (one story has it that the name is actually a form of "to hell you ride"… from its lively western history days. Once again, this was a place we had never visited. Ironically, I had purchased a used book titled: "Telluride – from pick to powder by Richard L. and Suzanne Fetter" back in February and had enjoyed reading of the interesting history of Telluride.
I was especially captivated by the story of the story of L.L.Nunn, a short, most eccentric, genius – – who set Telluride up with the first A/C (alternating current generator) in the world in the late 1890s. Like other Colorado gold mining towns Tulluride had its shares of labor unrest, floods, fires, and unique characters.
The town itself was a hoot, just what you might expect of a mining town turned jet set to down and outs digs…a bit of everything for everybody. We drove up to the end of town to see one of the waterfalls electric generating sites; then up above town to see the million dollar "ranch houses" and the unique high altitude runway where our youngest son has flown into before when he was with a charter jet company out of Arizona.
But for pure enjoyment, you couldn't beat walking up and down the main street of old town Telluride and people watching: Harley Davidson's; horse drawn tourist wagons; home made cars; bicycles; a bunch of bins with "everything is for free" sign on it; the clock with "Telluride Time" on it; BMW cars and motorcycles; dogs carrying Frisbees and wearing colorful bandanas; and of course the many "Western want to be" tourists that looked more like tourists than cowboys and cowgirls.
Nice friendly, funky, quirky, soup to nuts, town to visit. We even bought my wife a red fuzzy baseball hat with Telluride, Colorado printed on the front. Had to do our thing for tourism you know.
After leaving Telluride we headed down to Dolores, Colorado (ate a great pizza here) and made our way toward Monticello, Utah. Somewhere around Dove Creek, Colorado, we made a short side trip to check out the Lowry Ruins, once again, a place we had not visited before. In the past we had always cut through to visit Hovenweep.
At Monticello we turned south and set up our North Face tent at spot # 29 in Devil's Canyon Campground. We reserved the spot for two nights to use it as a "base camp" for a few of the drives we wanted to take in the area. We were concerned with a couple wild fires we could see on the southern flanks of the Abajo Mountains, but there were no high winds during our visit and the fires diminished while we were there.
Carrying our senior citizen passes with us, camping continued to be a real bargain for us. We paid $4 to camp at Echo Park in Dinosaur National Monument and just $5 a night for a well maintained campsite at Devil's Canyon. We walked the short nature loop trail and then all around the campground area as we settled in for our first night at this camp.
Montezuma's Canyon was on our list to drive for this trip, so that is where we headed the first thing Sunday morning. We drove it north to south. It was about a 50 mile loop when entered near Monticello and exited near Blanding, Utah.
We found the first 20 miles of the drive beautiful, interesting and enjoyable. Slow paced, with ancient and modern cliff dwellings, a few rock art panels and picturesque Southwest canyon country scenery. The second half of the drive was a bit more "pedestrian" and not so scenic.
When we rejoined the highway south of Blanding we headed south to Bluff, for a quick look at the Sand Island rock art panel; Navajo stew and fry bread at the San Juan River bridge near Mexican Hat (where I had eaten several times before). Then we drove up the Moki Dugway route to Cedar Mesa and took another short side trip. This one was to Muley Point, where we enjoyed the slick rock rim and tremendous landscape views.
We returned to our Devil's canyon camp for a rest and camp meal, then drove up into the scenic high country of the Abajo Mountains just west of Monticello. Everything was green and some of the fragrant purple wild iris were in bloom among the tall large aspen groves in this area. Old Wrangler and I had tried this route for the other direction in March of 2011 and were turned back by deep snow on the road. This drive was snow free and scenic. We watched an old time reel in a foot long rainbow trout in one of the small ponds of the area.
Toward the end of the day we returned to camp; read our books; and got a good night's sleep with a strong almost full moon, lighting up the interior of our tent with a soft evening's glow.
We woke early, broke camp, took a short hike through the ponderosa in the area, then headed for Blanding where we checked into a motel room for a couple of nights. We used this day to rest, do our road trip laundry, shop for a few supplies for our upcoming Keet Seel backpacking trip and mainly relax. This was the only day that I didn't take at least one photograph.
One of our first stops was the local bakery in Blanding. My wife and I ended up talking to the owners (Arlen and Elaine Borgen) and then ordering four cherry scones to be picked up the following morning. I planned to take a couple on our backpacking trip but do to their fine flavor and taste, only one survived for the Keet Seel hike.
As it turned out, the conversations we had with folks at this small town bakery turned out to be one of the highlights of our road trip. Serendipity squared.
When we did our laundry at Blanding, the only other person using the washers and dryers was an older Navajo lady. Several times she offered advice about which machines to use or how to get a stubborn machine working properly (or how tourists, like us, could profit by reading the directions….hmmm).
As she did her laundry and we did ours we gradually visited more and more. Her name was "Daisy Cowboy" and she had some interesting stories to tell. It was one of those chance small town encounters that make a road trip so much fun.
My wife went into the bakery and Blanding and there was Elaine with her bright red jaunty baker's hat on with a friendly smile and a "good morning". "By chance would you have four cherry scones hot out of the oven this morning?". "Sure do" she replied. Once I bought the scones then my wife talked with Elaine, while I started a conversation with Arlen, who was seated having a cup of coffee.
The conversations joined and parted among the four of us and the two young Navajo girls working with Elaine, who also had the red baker's hats. At times all four of us talked together about the history of the bakery:
From memory: Started about 7 years ago. Young Navajo kids one day asked to borrow money to go to the local movie house in Blanding. Arlen & Elaine instead let them "earn" the movie money by learning to be "partners" in the bakery. The rest is a success story. The young Navajo came up with ideas for chocolate and candy products with a Native American theme. The Borgens taught the Navajo business principles and the responsibilities that come with them.
The state of Utah caught the story and a delegation of the Blanding Bakery entrepreneurs visited the capitol in Salt Lake City. Word spread further and the founding members were invited to the White House to meet President Bush, where they were honored for their dedication to entrepreneurial start up businesses. Quite a trip for these hard working innovative bakers and candy makers from Blanding, Utah. That is the main story as I heard it. There are photos on the wall; the young smiling Navajo workers/owners; and friendly manner of Elaine and Arlen to fill in the rest.
Arlen and I drifted into Native American discussions and were having a focused discussion on books, findings, theories, and ruins…when a fellow walked through the door by the name of Jon Moris (Professor "emeritus" Jon Moris ) walked into the bakery and was greeted as a regular. Professor Moris is the anthropology teacher at the local Utah State University – College of Eastern Utah – San Juan campus (I hope I have most of that right).
Arlen introduced me to Professor Moris and away we went, talking about anything and everything about North American Native Americans. What a stroke of luck for me. Jon Moris, was a most interesting man to talk to. We took a break while my wife and I returned to our nearby motel room with the bakery goods and I returned with a camera and a strong wish to continue our previous conversations.
So there we were: Professor Jon Moris; Arlen Borgen; and I, sitting around a coffee table playing badminton with topics of interest. Elaine and the two cute Navajo girls (Elysia and Aaliyah sp?) took care of the flow of bakery customers coming into the store. Was I ever having fun.
Jon Moris was born and raised in East Africa. He did work with the Maasai there and earned his PhD at Northwestern. He told me of a website where photographers could go to have "books" made of their photograph: blurb.com. He said his son Nathan (living in Switzerland) had used the site. When I returned home I went to the "blurb.com" site and checked out one of the photo books Nathan had created of Central Switzerland (which he dedicated to his dad).
Next the bakery door opened and in walked a casually attired Mark Noirot, a chemistry instructor at the college. With a quick wit and inquisitive mind, he soon added to our ad hoc bakery based discussion group. During all this action I asked for a few photo ops, which everybody there graciously agreed to and participated in. The two young Navajo girls took some of the photographs for us.
After Jon and Mark escaped the round table discussion a family entered the bakery. They wanted to buy some bakery products but spoke no English. Turned out they were Italian and with my limited Spanish, we were able to work together and communicate enough to help them buy what they were after. They also followed my lead when I told them I was purchasing two candy feathers from the young Navajos, which came with a printed story.
Call it luck, serendipity or chance – – this short session around a small coffee table in a bakery in Blanding, Utah, was one of my treasured moments of this road trip. I truly hope that any of you traveling through Blanding some morning, will stop in and hear the story of the bakery first hand and treat yourself to some baked products and some of the chocolate and candy products of the Lickity Split Chocolate entrepreneurs. You will go away with a smile.
Once back in our motel room with my wife, we started organizing our backpacks, based on the latest weather forecast (we used Shonto, Arizona for Keet Seel purposes) and latest food purchases. We packed our backpacks and most of our car camping and traveling gear in our vehicle and set the alarm for 4 am (once again). We planned to leave by 5 am Wednesday morning to make certain we arrived at Betatakin (Navajo National Monument) in time for our required orientation, scheduled at 8:15 am on 6.6.12.
Up at 4 am; on the road by 4:45 am; breakfast at McDonald's in Kayenta then on to the visitor center at Betatakin. There were lots of campers at Sunrise View campgrounds near Betatakin, and lots of folks showed up at the visitor center when it opened at 8 am. We tried to discern the "day hikers" from the "backpackers", who might be going to Keet Seel.
Note: Only 20 people a day are allowed to hike to Keet Seel and then only five at a time can tour the Keet Seel ruins in the company of an on-site National Park ranger. The route, 1,000 feet down into Tsegi Canyon then up Keet Seel Canyon to the Keet Seel camping area and Keet Seel cliff dwellings is 8.5 miles. It requires quite a bit of soft sand hiking and many crossing of a shallow stream, which flows down Keet Seel Canyon. The route is on Navajo land so you aren't allowed to stray from the main route.
Well to make this short and sweet – – the weather Wednesday morning was beautiful AND it turns out that each and every "hiker" we saw that morning at the visitor center was heading out on the guided Betatakin ruins hike. We were told we were the only two people with a permit for Keet Seel this day. What luck! We would have the entire campground to ourselves and not have another hiker or backpacker in the canyon with us on this particular Wednesday. We were told to check in at the "ranger's camp" at Keet Seel when we arrived, show our permit, and that ranger Patrick would lead us on a tour of the Keet Seel site.
It took us exactly five hours to hike from where we left our vehicle and the Keet Seel parking area to Keet Seel. We took one 30 minute break on the way in and cached beverages in two places along the way: We cached 88 fl. oz at the foot of the 1,000 drop into Tsegi Canyon and 88 fl oz about five miles from Keet Seel. The rest we drank along the way and took with us (we started with 336 fl. oz in total). A little under three gallons, which for us worked out just perfectly with plenty left over.
We took 16 bottles of diet Mt. Dew (orange juice based with lots of caffeine); 4 bottles of citrus green tea (20 oz bottles); 4 bottles of water (10 oz with Mio pomegranate flavor to add); AND two treats – – 2 cans of cold diet Pepsi in OR insulated beverage carriers. The two caches met I didn't have to carry the 20 lbs of liquids all that far.
We encountered two small groups of Navajo horses and one solo horse on the hike. Each and every horse was intently curious of our presence and watched us with interest as we passed by. The foals were cute as a button.
You can't drink the water in the canyon as the area is range for Navajo cattle and horses, and the National Park four wheel drive trucks drive quite a ways up Keet Seel Canyon from time to time as well. Still the scenery and waterfalls make for a very enjoyable backpack. We kept our backpack loads extremely light (no stakes, footprint, or rain fly for the REI quarter dome T2 plus tent – – zero chance of rain predicted for 7 days). Everything else we kept to a minimum as well. I did take a light REI flashpack 18 liter day pack to carry cameras, fluids and first aid kit etc. for my wife and myself, when we left our tent camp and hiked the short distance to the Keet Seel ranger's quarters and then on to the cliff dwellings themselves, with Patrick.
My wife and I met ranger Patrick at his octagonal ranger's quarter, a short distance from the Keet Seel Ruins. It struck me as a bit ironic. Max (A Navajo) had given us our orientation and permit to visit Keet Seel. The Anasazi (Ancient Puebloans) are now thought to be related to the Hopi and Zuni – – modern day pueblo dwellers in some cases. Patrick is a Hopi, from a small reservation perched primarily atop three mesas on a reservation completely surrounded by the massive Navajo reservation.
Patrick was soft spoken, extremely knowledgeable, patient, modest, and instantly likeable.
An antler tool, a home made large arrow, and what looked like a "prayer stick" sat on a bench where we sat all drinking ice tea. When I asked about the prayer stick, Patrick quietly told me it was an atlatl. Though he didn't say so, it was obvious that Patrick had carefully and skillfully made both the arrow and the atlatl.
He showed me how it was held then stood up and launched an arrow at high speed out toward the "Keet Seel" sign in front of the ranger's station. My wife and I were really impressed. He went in the hogan and brought out three more finally feathered arrows and asked me if I would like to try the atlatl. I was intrigued, honored and a little nervous (I didn't want to destroy one of his hand made arrows with a clumsy effort.
With Robert's instruction I got the feel of how to hold the atlatl and the arrow, then the moment came for me to launch an arrow. I did. It flew fast straight and far and I can't possibly tell you how proud I was and how happy it made me that Patrick trusted me to give it a try.
As at the Blanding bakery, Patrick and I explored many topics and talked books, studies, and former expeditions. I was most interested in Patrick's stories of the Hopi clans, beliefs, and oral history. It was another road trip highlight and just the visit with Patrick and the chance to actually give an atlatl a try. Moments to remember.
After a long porch conversation we were ready to head up to the Keet Seel ruins. I had shown my wife a photo of the access ladder used to reach the ruins themselves, so she knew what to expect, still I could tell she was a bit apprehensive, but up the ladder she went, right after Patrick and I had gone up first. She did well.
It is simple to find lots of information on the Keet Seel cliff dwellings, so I won't go into too much detail: Tree ring dating indicates that what we see today of the well preserved ruins were made and inhabited before year 950. Around 1272 population, pottery diversification, and use of Keet Seel was at a high. Over 100 people called this cliff dwelling "home" at this time. Then like other dwellings all over the Southwest, the people left. They stored belongings like they intended to come back one day BUT they also burned many of their rooms, for what reason, nobody knows for certain.
Few, if any, remained living at Keet Seel by 1300. Many building styles and techniques (jacal and masonry) can be observed at Keet Seel. It is the 'beyond obvious function" high ladder ends reaching up high inside the alcove and the HUGE log mounted across the main central entrance to the ruins, that most impressed me.
When we finished the tour we checked out the midden down below the cliff dwellings where every color and style of pottery pieces you can imagine, could be found and observed. There is evidence that much trading took place at sites like Keet Seel (Macaw feather were found here) and that pottery had been traded and sometimes destroyed intentionally during certain ceremonies. In all a fascinating place to visit, reflect upon, and connect with a people that made the most of their environment for a time in the past.
We left Patrick and returned to our camp across the canyon floor. An almost full moon lit the night, and the wind blew softly through the canopy of oak limbs and leaves over our tent. This was the first time we had used our new Big Agnes Q Core air mattresses and I can't tell you how much we both enjoyed these excellent sleeping pad air mattresses. They weigh about the same as our thin, narrow, long self-inflators but pack up into very small stuff sacks.
NOTE: I have read of some having difficulty BUT first squash all the air out; fold lengthwise into thirds; force the rest of the air out as you roll it up and it will easily fit in the strong small stuff sack provided. I promise.
We talked into the night, gazing at the stars above and discussing our good fortune on this road trip and with life in general. We both fell asleep with smiles.
I woke up early after a good night's rest. I wanted to get going early so we could hike the canyon in the shaded cool of morning and attack the 1,000 climb up out of Tsegi Canyon before the full heat of the afternoon.
We got a good start and took exactly five hours to hike from our Keet Seel camp to our vehicle (with its ice chest full of ice cold diet Pepsi). I had found (by accident) some quick sand in the shade of a canyon wall on the way into Keet Seel, so we made a point of stopping at the same place for an oldmantravels photo op on the way out. It was a weird experience to have the sand that seemed dry, below your feet turn suddenly to Jell-O, then start to crack and sink.
Hiking out Keet Seel we passed at least 8 other backpackers, heading into Keet Seel. We also passed a National Park pickup truck driving up the stream bed, presumably to rotate another ranger in to take Patrick's place and/or take in some supplies.
We had intended that our backpacking experience to Keet Seel would be the highlight of our road trip …. and……it was. We both had a wonderful time (and got some good exercise in the process).
We drove back through Mexican Hat, Blanding, and then to Moab (where like after our April Chesler park backpacking trip) we had a HUGE meal and a mango/peach smoothie and Denny's). We drove on to Green River, Utah where we took long hot showers, changed into fresh road trip clothes, and enjoyed a night's sleep at a motel there.
We slept in at Green River, Utah then headed up through Price, Ogden, Pocatello, and then on a less traveled road to Tendoy, Idaho and then to the Solaas Bed and Breakfast in Baker, Idaho. It is located under huge cottonwoods near the Lemhi River.
Just south of Tendoy a white tail doe ran without warning from the willows along the road. I was doing 65 mph and everything happened fast. At first I started to break but then sped up and swerved to the right hoping if I hit her at all it would be better to side swipe her than hit her head on. She lost her footing and fell, narrowly missing the rear quarter fender of our car. Through the rear view mirror I saw her regain her feet on the shoulder and bound into the woods. We were very relieved that things hadn't ended badly for both the deer and for us. A close call, and fortunately the only one of this road trip.
In 2006 I took a road trip with a good high school friend (John). We visited Lemhi Pass and hiked a section of trail that Lewis and Clark had taken. Lemhi Pass is where they had crossed the continental divide heading west and where Sacagawea fortuitously recognized her brother as the leader of the band of Shoshone, who intercepted the Lewis and Clark company near this place. John and I had "found" a B & B (Solaas Bed and Breakfast) on that trip and I really liked the owners (Roger and Sharon Solaas):
William Least Heat Moon, the author of Blue Highways had stayed with Roger and Sharon and his stay is mentioned in that book.
When John and I left Roger and Sharon in June of 2006, I told them I would return one day and I would have my wife with me. So, six years later, almost to the day, a promise kept. Roger and Sharon had a pushy, smart, clever, conniving cat, who tried his best to ingratiate himself to us. Actually I think he wanted us to: 1) let him in the old double story farm house for the night and 2) take him home with us.
Sharon allowed that number one wasn't allowed BUT we were welcome to take the spoiled, troublesome feline home with us if we wanted. We declined. In reality I think the cat is grudgingly loved, admired and appreciated by both Roger and Sharon, but at least Sharon won't own up to that.
We had an upstairs room with some of Sharon's beloved hand made quilts on the beds and a great view of the Lemhi Mountains to the east of us. Another good night's sleep.
My wife had been a great sport on this entire road trip; car camping in a backpacking tent; taking short hikes; and especially for taking the 17 mile round backpacking trip into Keet Seel and back. Cliff dwelling are after all, of more interest to me than her…so…I wanted to surprise her.
I told her we would travel through Salmon; over Lost Trail Pass; then over Lolo Pass and down to the Clearwater River casino and hotel near Lewiston, Idaho. There we would spend the last night of our road trip in a nice room and she could play her beloved, penny slot machines. She was elated. So off we went.
As we left Salmon and started out climb up Lost Trail Pass I noticed it getting much cooler, and pretty soon there was fresh snow beside the highway. It seems so incongruous having just traveled many miles with the A/C on the car switched on. As we topped Lost Trail Pass and started down the other side, I had to blink twice as I saw a vehicle in the ditch, on the right hand side of the road. Only it was a vehicle. It was a private airplane.
It was damaged but not badly. I pulled over to take a photograph just as a state patrolman pulled up to the scene and started walking up the highway. Behind him was another official car with a man in an FAA jacket.
I read when I got home that it had only the pilot aboard and he wasn't injured. His story about a "down draft" and forced landing sounded a bit unusual to me. I'm guessing that the snow and low cloud visibility caused a "can't turn around problem" when flying VFR in suddenly IFR conditions. The internet article said that the "incident" was being investigated.
After passing the scene we saw a U.S. Forest Service vehicle heading to the same scene, so all interested parties will be able to compare notes.
We had off and on rain all the way over Lolo Pass and enjoyed watching the rafters, kayakers, and catarafts float by on the Lochsa River. The water was high and fast moving, and they all seemed to be enjoying the experience even though it was raining.
I had a buffalo burger and split some curly fries with my wife at a road side Farmer's market. We felt sorry for the vendors, who had set up there, as they were closing up early. Too much rain for many visitors.
We got our room for the night at the Clearwater River Casino and my wife got her time attending the "investment" opportunities as the penny slot machines. I bought a carry out pizza and cinnamon sticks to bring back to our room, and I enjoyed reading and watching the Mariners on high definition TV. A good time was had by all.
Drove home through the lovely Palouse country of Eastern Washington.
I hope you enjoy some of the photographs that go with this road trip photo set. I hope they bring good memories to those of you who have visited the places we did and that perhaps somebody out there in flickrland is motivated to visit a place they haven't been as a result of the photos. Thanks for stopping by. OMT 11 June 2012.
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By David Steinberg
Spectator Magazine, January 11, 2002
"No matter how we're wired to express love, freedom is having the courage to be who we are." - Photographer/plaintiff Barbara Nitke
On December 11, Barbara Nitke and the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom brought suit in New York City's Federal District Court, seeking to have the last remaining censorship provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act declared overbroad, vague, and therefore unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The suit, which will be heard this spring by a three-judge panel headed by Judge Richard Berman, is a sequel to the 1997 action by the American Civil Liberties Union, Reno v. ACLU, that resulted in the Supreme Court unanimously striking down the provision of CDA that criminalized indecent, "patently offensive" material broadcast over the Internet. The aim of Nitke v. Ashcroft is to have the ruling extended to CDA's criminalization of obscene material as well.
The Communications Decency Ac was the first Federal statute attempting to regulate sexual material broadcast over the Internet. CDA makes it a Federal crime to transmit any obscene or indecent "comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication" over the Internet, if such material can be viewed by people under 18. The question of what is obscenity or indecency has always been a complex one.
The current Federal definition of obscenity, the Miller test, stems from a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Miller v. California. Under the Miller test, material is legally obscene only if it is sexually explicit, patently offensive according to "local community standards," and lacks any "serious literary, artistic, social, educational, or scientific value. "Sexually explicit material that does have serious social value, but is still offensive according to local community standards, falls into the legal category of indecency, even though it is not obscene. As a result, it can legally be subjected to some degree of government regulation. The supreme Court has ruled, for example, that the times when indecent material can be broadcast on television can be limited to certain late night hours, when it is presumably less likely to be seen by children.
The community standards provision of the Miller ruling allowed the Supreme Court to acknowledge that material considered obscene or indecent in a small town in rural Kansas may nonetheless be quite acceptable in Manhattan or San Francisco, and to avoid imposing one standard on the entire nation. Indeed, courts have ruled that the local community standards that are applied to questions of obscenity and indecency can vary not only city by city and state by state, but even from one city neighborhood to another.
Under Miller, publishers and distributors of erotic and sexual books, magazines, films, and videos have become accustomed to making complicated decisions about where and how they want to market their products. Many mail-order companies choose not to market products in states like Utah and Alabama that they promote extensively in more sexually progressive parts of the country. Other companies choose not to process mail orders from certain states at all. By restricting their marketing, companies are able to choose which local community standards they want to subject themselves to with regard to potential obscenity or indecency charges. Companies also insure themselves against selling to minors by having potential customers certify that they are over 18 years of age.
On the Internet, however, the possibility of all such geographical and age verification vanishes. When a store, publisher, artist, or writer puts erotic and sexual material up on their website, that material immediately becomes available to people from the most progressive to the most conservative communities in the country and, more broadly, in the world. Furthermore, issues of obscenity and indecency on the Internet extend beyond the sale of products to such simple acts as viewing an artist's work, or reading a writer's short stories. Is there an identifiable Internet community whose "local community values" can be used to define which material is legally obscene and which is not? What might that community be?
The Communications Decency Act says nothing about which community's standards of obscenity are to be applied to the Internet. Because it limited itself to issues of indecency in Reno v. ACLU, the Supreme Court has so far been silent on this issue as well.
Nitke v. Ashcroft seeks to change all that. The complaint claims that, in the absence of a clear definition of which community standards apply to the Internet, CDA has the effect of chilling all Internet expression since questions of the legal obscenity of Internet material might well be judged by the values of the most restrictive communities in the country. This, says John Wirenius, attorney for Nitke and NCSF, makes the obscenity provision of CDA so far-reaching as to be unconstitutional. His hope is that Nitke v. Ashcroft will prompt the Supreme Court to overturn the CAD's obscenity provision, perhaps overturn the CDA entirely, and hopefully define for the first time which community standards are to be used in judging the potential obscenity of online sexual material.
Barbara Nitke is a brilliant, well-known, and widely respected New York fine art photographer. Much of her work comprises powerful, emotionally complex, visually evocative images that depict couples engaged in a wide variety of sexual activities. Many of her images show couples engaged in various forms of consensual sadomasochism. Her photographs are noteworthy both for their exceptional visual beauty and for the depth of the emotional connections she captures in her subjects.
Her website ( http://www.barbaranitke.com/) is the antithesis of the generically garish porn website. It is visually subdued, attractively designed, geared less to selling products (though Nitke's prints are offered for sale) than to providing a showcase for her work.
One image shows a woman looking down tenderly into the eyes of her lover, who lies bound and gagged in her arms. Another shows a woman smilingly listening to instructions from the director on a porn film set, while a man's mouth is hard at work between her thighs. Another shows a woman staring wistfully off into the distance while her woman lover lies helplessly bound and gagged in front of her on the kitchen table. Yet another shows a man concentrating intently as he whips the back of his male lover, who cries out at the pain of the lash.
Other sections of her website provide Nitke with an opportunity to talk about both her work and her personal background. "For many years I shot stills on hardcore porn shoots," she recounts. "I thought it was the most exciting, stomach-turning, heart-warming subject I could ever hope to photograph. I know that sounds crazy. But for me there was a certain feeling of freedom that went with shooting porn which, most of the time, made up for all the other things. [There were moments] when I'd look through the lens into someone's shell-shocked eyes and see a forgotten part of me staring back. That was the shot I wanted for me."
Speaking of her s/m photography, Nitke notes that her goal there is "to capture the bond between [the lovers], and also the intense energy of ritual, passionate s/m. I [want] to photograph deep intimacy and trust, the two main concepts which underlie most s/m practices."
When John Wirenius approached her about being the plaintiff in this lawsuit, Nitke says she knew immediately that she wanted to be part of the effort. "I told John I wanted to sleep on it, but I knew right away that I would do it, which was what I told him the next day." Although she has supported various freedom of expression issues in the past and has been a member of NCSF since the organization was founded, Nitke has never thought of herself as a political activist, not even with regard to free speech issues.
"But you end up being an activist even if you don't want to be," she says pointedly. "If artists as a group don't stand up and do something, the censors are just going to keep going further and further. Most artists don't want to deal with this sort of thing, but we have to."
She recalls a time of showing her work to a gathering of curators and gallery owners in Portland, Oregon, all of whom told her that her photography was excellent, but also said there was no way they could show it, given the current political climate regarding sexual imagery. It was experiences like these, Nitke says, that made her conscious of how impossible it was becoming to show important, sexually controversial work throughout the country.
It wasn't until Nitke decided to put together her own website that she fully realized how heavily the prevailing political climate was weighing on her. Nervous about recent legislation like the Community Decency Act, she called other photographers who were doing erotic and sexual work like hers -- images that were controversial, sometimes sexually explicit, but distinctly artful in intent and style, and distinctly outside the realm of commercial pornography. She also spoke with publishers of erotic magazines equally distant from the production and distribution networks of the porn world. Were these people worried about Ashcroft and how he would apply the laws that Congress was passing related to supposedly obscene material? Did she need to be concerned about being a target for prosecution herself? What kinds of images could she put on her website without risking embroiling herself in legal defenses that could eat up tens of thousands of dollars, not to mention months of time and heartache? And wasn't it horrible that, as a serious artist interested in sexual issues, she had to be distracted by these sorts of issues at all?
"That's why this suit is so important to me," she summarizes. "It's both a practical matter and a matter or principle."
Unlike Barbara Nitke, the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom ( https://ncsfreedom.org/) came to Nitke v. Ashcroft directly from an interest in political advocacy of the sexual civil rights of people who find themselves outside the American sexual mainstream. Founded in 1997 "to help change antiquated and unfair sex laws, and to protect free speech and advance privacy rights," NCSF has drawn its primary support from a broad group of S/M activists, initially in New York, but later from other parts of the country as well. It's 21 voting member groups now span the country from New York to Las Vegas, from Greensboro, North Carolina to Blue Island, Illinois. The groups range from long-standing s/m advocacy and support groups, like the Eulenspeigel Society of New York, to newer groups like St. Louis's Leather and Lace, and Cincinnati's Masters and slaves Together. Member groups like the Lesbian Sex Mafia and Gay Male S/M Activists reflect the broad diversity of sexual orientation that is very much a part of the national s/m-leather-fetish subculture.
NCSF has been increasingly effective in speaking up for the basic civil rights and freedom of speech of people involved in safe, sane, consensual s/m. It has successfully fought selective enforcement of zoning and public indecency laws in San Diego, Baltimore, Attleboro (Massachusetts), and Washington, DC Its Law Enforcement Outreach Program strives both to educate law enforcement officials about s/m communities, and to educate members of the s/m community about how to minimize their risk as potential targets of selective enforcement of zoning, public indecency, and aggravated assault laws.
NCSF spokesperson Susan Wright notes that the organization has very much wanted to take the initiative in challenging antisexual legislation like the Communications Decency Act, rather than waiting to respond to what it saw as inevitable upcoming attacks on sexual expression from the Bush-Ashcroft Administration.
NCSF is sure that new attacks on sexually-oriented materials and entertainment, particularly material available on the Internet, has been high on the priority list of the Ashcroft Justice Department, even if that agenda has been somewhat delayed by the focus on terrorism that followed the events of September 11. They note that on November 14, Ashcroft appointed Andrew G. Osterbaan to head the Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. Earlier this year, Ashcroft assured various conservative organizations that he intended to vigorously pursue prosecutions under the CDA. On June 9 he also told the House Judiciary Committee that the Justice Department intended to be "especially accommodating to local law enforcement" with regard to helping them put operators of Internet sex sites behind bars.
"Our goal [with the Nitke suit]," says Wright, "is to overturn this unconstitutional provision [of the CDA] before this Administration tries to score political points by attempting to enforce it." Attorney John Wirenius adds that there is much to be gained from seizing the initiative in legal matters, rather than waiting to mount defenses to prosecutions initiated by the Justice Department. "This way we get to choose the test case, not Ashcroft," he emphasizes. "I'd much rather have the obscenity provision of the CDA be decided on the basis of Barbara Nitke's work than on the basis of something like http://www.bestiality.com/"
Wirenius is optimistic about Nitke v. Ashcroft at the Federal District Court level. He notes that Judge Richard Berman, who will preside over the case in Federal District Court this spring, wrote what Wirenius calls a "terrific decision," Swedenburg v. Kelly, in which he ruled that material on the Internet cannot be subjected to geographical community standards in the same way that books or films can. "Judge Berman," says Wirenius, "is a fair-minded judge who understands the posed by the Internet."
Wirenius is also optimistic of the fate of Nitke v. Ashcroft before the U.S. Supreme Court, where the case will ultimately be decided. He sees this case as a logical extension of Reno v. ACLU from issues of indecency to those of obscenity and notes that, despite its general conservative bent, the current Supreme Court has been fairly vigilant on free speech issues.
Whether or not Nitke v. Ashcroft is ultimately successful in overturning the obscenity provision of CDA, the fact that the issue is being raised by NCSF represents a significant new political and legal posture for the s/m community which, until recently, has been more closeted and less inclined to take aggressive political and legal action than more long-standing and well-known sexual minority groups. As NCSF notes, "in the past decade, alternative sexual expression [particularly s/m] has become much more visible to the general public," and people who engage in s/m have therefore become subject to "an increasing number of attacks against our right to freedom of sexual expression." Actions like Nitke v. Ashcroft demonstrate that s/m practitioners have begun to join the ranks of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgendered people in insisting that non-traditional sexual and gender expression not subject them to anything less than full and equal treatment under the law.


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New Yorker magazine families come together at Westport Historical Society
A peek inside one of America's most respected magazines, will be offered in Westport on Saturday, April 12, during a "family reunion" of sorts that will bring together the adult children of several New Yorker artists who lived in Connecticut between 1925 and 1987.
Several months ago, Eve Potts decided that creating an exhibition for the Westport Historical Society on covers by New Yorker artists would be a fascinating project.
And she was correct. Doing a bit of legwork and a lot of research, Potts, a former Westporter, would discover that more than a dozen noted artists from the Westport-Weston area "produced more than 750 covers for The New Yorker" during that period.
And of those 750 covers, 44 depict Westport scenes -- from winding country lanes to Compo Beach to the railroad station.
Many are showcased in "Cover Story: The New Yorker in Westport." So popular has the exhibit proven to be that the museum has special Sunday hours through April (from noon to 4 p.m.) and has extended its run through July 5.
On Saturday, April 12, the historical society is presenting a panel discussion and reception that will bring together the grown children of Alice Harvey, Perry Barlow, Edna Eicke and Arthur Getz, and Art Editor James Geraghty (1939-73).
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Potts pointed out: "Many of the magazine's cover artists -- and their art editor -- had their own art colony here. When not working together, they bowled, golfed, dined, visited each other's homes, partied and even vacationed together. Spouses and children also became lifelong friends. And all of these visual and social experiences became input for cover ideas. Remarkably, though the artists now are gone, those friendships and shared memories persist among their children."
Saturday's event will seek answers to such questions as: "What was it like to grow up in Connecticut as the son or daughter of a New Yorker cover artist? Or art editor? What drew these talented and witty artists to Westport? What made them laugh? What did they do for fun?"
"It was a magical time, with a distinguished group of artists. They socialized and had dinner parties. It was such a delicious time, so wonderful," Potts said.
Also on view is "Can't Tell a Book by its Cover...", which explores the Aug. 31, 1946, issue of The New Yorker.
A charming, whimsical cover by Charles Martin depicts a New England vacation tableau with a park and lake, replete with walkers, golfers, swimmers, bicyclists, boaters, dancers and tennis players, as well as those passing the time reading, playing croquet, tossing a baseball, horse-back riding and fishing.
Inside was a single-story issue, "Hiroshima," by John Hersey, a war correspondent, "who shortly thereafter moved to Turkey Hill South (the home later sold to Andy and Martha Stewart) in Westport," Potts said.
As it turned out Hersey, considered the "Father of the New Journalism," would become a member of Geraghty's New Yorker Friday-afternoon bowling team at the Westport Bowling Lanes in winter and the group's golf team at Longshore in summer. Hersey would also serve on the Westport Board of Education.
Westport Historical Society, 25 Avery Place, Westport. Saturday, April 12, 2 to 4 p.m. $20; limited seating. Reservations: 203-222-1424. www.westporthistory.org.
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Once upon a time, there was a poor cyclist called Ali Baba. Ali Baba had a bike made from pre-loved parts that he had salvaged from his neighbourhood environmental collective. The wheels squeaked, and it had only one gear, but it was a homely bike and got him safely to the organic sustainable fair-trade childrenswear shop where he worked, and home again, every day.
One day, Ali Baba decided to go home a new way and found himself lost in the middle of a big forest as it was getting dark. Ali Baba felt scared. Suddenly, he heard the unmistakeable squeak of unlubed chains and the clap clap of cyclists clicking out of their cleats 200m away. Ali Baba hid behind a tree and waited. Sure enough, soon a tribe of 40 lycra-clad blokes wearing tiny singlet bra tops appeared in the clearing. They all had expensive featherlight bikes with bottle-cages behind their saddles and aerobars pointed toward the sky.
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But Ali Baba's bike was old and pre-loved and invisible to the eyes of the 40 triathletes, who could only see bikes made after 2008. The men got off their bikes.
'Open sesame!' one of the triathletes cried.
Ali Baba could not believe his eyes. In front of the triathletes, a big stone rolled away to reveal a cave of riches. There were deep dish wheels, and aero helmets, and little belts with room for gel bottles. There were weighted vests, and pool buoys, and elastic laces. In the corner, there was a row of Softrides, hanging on the wall gathering dust. Ali Baba had never seen such so much carbon.
The triathletes spoke to each other in a funny code that Ali Baba could not understand. They talked of thresholds, and zones, and nutrition plans. He felt sure they were terrorists and were plotting their next hit in a land they called 'Kona'. What the hit was, Ali Baba did not know, but he knew whatever it was would involve something called a 'negative split' and lots of 'bricks'. They referred constantly to their leader, a guy called 'Training'. All the triathletes loved this Training guy and never stopped talking about him. Ali Baba felt very scared and hoped he never met Training. He sounded very demanding and not altogether productive.
The men shared protein shakes and then left, saying that they did not want to be late for Training. Ali Baba stayed hidden until they were gone, then leapt out and cried, 'Open sesame!' The stone rolled away and Ali Baba ran inside. He grabbed some power bands and creatine and stuffed them in his pockets and pulled on a shiny new pair of fluoro yellow racing flats. Ali Baba pedalled home as fast as his rattly old bike would take him, his head filled with thoughts of the treasures in the cave and the strange men in lycra.
Over the next few days, Ali Baba noticed a change in his behaviour. He liked his fluoro running shoes and found himself timing his rides into work. His powerband helped him sell more childrenswear than ever before. And the creatine... well, Ali Baba grew muscles he never knew he had. Pretty soon Ali Baba had changed his ebay username to slowtwitch9999 and had posted his old singlespeed for sale.
But it wasn't enough. Ali Baba couldn't get that cave out of his mind. All those treasures... it was too much. He had to have more.
The next day, Ali Baba rode back to the clearing with a plan and 3kg of Rohypnol.
'Open sesame!' he cried. The stone rolled away. Ali Baba danced inside. He gathered some bidons and filled them with food colouring, water and roofies. Then he walked outside the cave and waited.
Soon, Ali Baba heard the sound of grunts and unclipping. The triathletes had returned.
'Good evening gentlemen,' Ali Baba said, 'I am a travelling salesman and I am peddling super-elite wares. This high performance drink has eleventy million vitamins and minerals and will improve your performance by over 11%.'
The triathletes looked at Ali Baba suspiciously. 'I'm not sure,' one said, 'It looks a bit carb-heavy.'
'It smells a bit funny,' said another. 'Say, where did you get those fluoro shoes?'
Ali Baba took a deep breath. 'It's very expensive,' he said. 'I guess it'd only be for the more serious competitors amongst you. But because you guys look nice, I'll give you a free sample.'
'I'll take it!' they shouted.
And so Ali Baba gave all his drink away and before long they were all out like a light, curled up on the ground in their compression pants. And Ali Baba backed up the large cart and donkey he had parked nearby and loaded into it all the treasures from the cave (except the softrides).
And later, Ali Baba opened an internet-based triathlon store and never had to sell childrenswear again.
The End.


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Kelly Volpe of suburban Columbus woman was found guilty in 2006 after she crashed her pickup into a tree, causing the death of her daughter the following day from injuries sustained after the girl was thrown from the vehicle.
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The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Thursday said Volpe had been properly sentenced.
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The December 2009 Daring Bakers' challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers' everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes.
I was excited and a bit intimidated by this month's challenge. I've never made a gingerbread house and wasn't too sure that I could build on that would actually stay together. Anna's step-by-step instructions made putting the house together a little less scary. I used Anna's recipe for the gingerbread and Royal icing to "glue" my house together. I couldn't believe but the walls actually stayed together AND held the roof up! Cool. Maybe I missed my calling and should go into architecture...okay maybe not...
Anna's Recipe:
Spicy Gingerbread Dough (from Good Housekeeping)
2 1/2 cups (500g) packed dark brown sugar
1 1/2 cups (360mL) heavy cream or whipping cream
1 1/4 cups (425g) molasses
9 1/2 cups (1663g) all-purpose flour
2 tablespoon(s) baking soda
1 tablespoon(s) ground ginger
1. In very large bowl, with wire whisk (or with an electric mixer), beat brown sugar, cream, and molasses until sugar lumps dissolve and mixture is smooth. In medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, and ginger. With spoon, stir flour mixture into cream mixture in 3 additions until dough is too stiff to stir, then knead with hands until flour is incorporated and dough is smooth. 2. Divide dough into 4 equal portions; flatten each into a disk to speed chilling. Wrap each disk well with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 4 hours or overnight, until dough is firm enough to roll.
3. Grease and flour large cookie sheets (17-inch by 14-inch/43x36cm)
4. Roll out dough, 1 disk at a time on each cookie sheet to about 3/16-inch thickness. (Placing 3/16-inch dowels or rulers on either side of dough to use as a guide will help roll dough to uniform thickness.)
5. Trim excess dough from cookie sheet; wrap and reserve in refrigerator. Chill rolled dough on cookie sheet in refrigerator or freezer at least 10 minutes or until firm enough to cut easily.
6. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F (149C)
7. Use chilled rolled dough, floured poster board patterns, and sharp paring knife to cut all house pieces on cookie sheet, making sure to leave at least 1 1/4 inches between pieces because dough will expand slightly during baking. Wrap and reserve trimmings in refrigerator. Combine and use trimmings as necessary to complete house and other decorative pieces. Cut and bake large pieces and small pieces separately.
8. Chill for 10 minutes before baking if the dough seems really soft after you cut it. This will discourage too much spreading/warping of the shapes you cut.
9. Bake 25 to 30 minutes, until pieces are firm to the touch. Do not overbake; pieces will be too crisp to trim to proper size.
Equipment Needed:
Stand or handheld electric mixer (not required but it will make mixing the dough a lot easier and faster)
Plastic wrap
Rolling pin
Parchment paper
Baking sheets
Cardboard cake board or sheet of thick cardboard
Foil, if desired
Small saucepan
Small pastry brush (optional)
Piping bag with small round tip, or paper cornets if you're comfortable with them
Royal Icing:
1 large egg white
3 cups (330g) powdered sugar
1 teaspoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon almond extract
Beat all ingredients until smooth, adding the powdered sugar gradually to get the desired consistency. Pipe on pieces and allow to dry before assembling. If you aren't using it all at once you can keep it in a small bowl, loosely covered with a damp towel for a few hours until ready to use. You may have to beat it slightly to get it an even consistency if the top sets up a bit. Piped on the house, this will set up hard over time.
We were free to decorate our houses any way we chose. I added some sugar windows and a cute little snowman made from fondant.
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New Zealand GeoNet recorded that the quake occurred at 4:18 p.m. local time, with epicenter of 132 km below and 785 km away from Whakatane in north island. United States Geological Survey recorded the quake at 6.9 magnitude with epicenter of 111 km below. Ministry of Civil Defense of New Zealand said that based on current information, the initial assessment ruled out a subsequent tsunami threat after the quake. … [Read more...] about 6.7-magnitude quake jolts New Zealand's remote islands, no tsunami alert
Required breakthrough in theory to lay solid foundations for the formulation of the Party's guidelines and policies in the new stage
Based on the reality and experience of the reform process, as well as the requirements of the new stage, international trends and prospects for our country, the theoretical think tank circle of our country should focus their research on the following key issues: Firstly, creatively applying and developing Marxist-Leninism, HoChiMinh ideology on socialism in the current era in which globalization and international integration are the main stream. Secondly, promoting theoretical studies and review the practice of developing a socialist-oriented market economy, of which importance is given to market factors and types of productivity, business entities and the self-motivated stance of enterprises in the market economy. In addition, promoting various types of markets, building institutions of a market economy in line with requirements of active international economic integration. Thirdly, studying political and social theoretical matters, social policies and management, of which the … [Read more...] about Required breakthrough in theory to lay solid foundations for the formulation of the Party's guidelines and policies in the new stage
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai urges faster educational reforms
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai on Thursday called on schools nationwide to accelerate reforms on the general training programme, saying they should have a healthy and comprehensive educational environment, providing not only knowledge but giving vocational orientations and building up personalities for students as well. Addressing the Tran Phu High School's orientation in northern Vinh Phuc province, the Prime Minister instructed the education sector to ensure educational equality, build up a strong contingent of teachers and education managers in terms of quantity and quality, and successfully implement the textbook reform programme. He reiterated that the Party, State and people always pay special attention to the cause of education development, considering it one of the top national priorities in the country's socio-economic and cultural development. (source: www.vnagency.com.vn, Sept.5.2003) … [Read more...] about Prime Minister Phan Van Khai urges faster educational reforms
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai on April 1, the second day of the government's monthly meeting, said that the whole country should concentrate on developing the macro-economy, stabilising prices and foreign exchange rates, promoting investment in infrastructure construction and accelerating exports. He pointed out advantages and disadvantages in socio-economic development in the second quarter of this year, particularly difficulties caused by the war in Iraq. The country needs to mobilise capital from the people and enterprises, disburse official development assistance (ODA) capital and create favourable conditions for foreign entrepreneurs to invest in Vietnam, the government leader stressed. He expressed his satisfaction at the fact that investment capital poured into the country has not been reduced despite impacts of the war in Iraq. Management should be focused on promoting investment in infrastructure construction, Prime Minister Khai said, adding prices of some items saw increases … [Read more...] about PM STRESSES PRIORITY TO DEVELOP MACRO ECONOMY
Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh has stressed that the staff of Nhan Dan newspaper, the voice of the Party, State and people of Vietnam, should make greater efforts to promote the role of a pacesetter in the political and ideological front. He said this while visiting Nhan Dan newspaper in Hanoi on March 28. Editor-in-chief Dinh The Huynh reported to Party leader Nong Duc Manh the efforts of Nhan Dan newspaper in implementing political tasks and strengthening working capability. After two years of implementing the resolution of the Ninth Party Congress and under the close leadership of the Politburo and the Party Secretariat, together with the effective co-operation and support from agencies, sectors, organisations and readers, the editorial board and staff of Nhan Dan newspaper have seen significant achievements in improving the quality of different publications and fulfilling the function of a central organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the voice of the Party, State and … [Read more...] about PARTY LEADER ASKS NHAN DAN NEWSPAPER TO PROMOTE ITS ROLE OF IDEOLOGICAL PACESETTER
Newspapers in Hong Kong praised efforts made by authorised agencies of Vietnam to prevent SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) from spreading, reported resident correspondent of the Vietnam News Agency in Hong Kong. Ta Kung Pao in its article entitled 'Vietnam's success in stopping SARS' said that within a week there was no new patient infected by SARS. The SARS cases in Vietnam were confined to medical workers in the Vietnam-France Hospital. SARS now is yet to spread to the wider community. One of the successes of Vietnam is to isolate infected people and treat them within hospitals. Other hospitals test their patients to discover SARS infected cases. After an American Chinese businessman was discovered as SARS infected with SARS at the Vietnam-France Hospital, this hospital reported this case to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and this organisation sent its experts to study about this rare disease. Sing Tao published on March 27 an article about measures taken by Vietnam's … [Read more...] about HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS PRAISE VIETNAM'S EFFORTS TO PREVENT SARS FROM SPREADING
The speech of Mr. Nguyen Khoa Diem(1) at the opening ceremony of the Contest for Excellent Reporters and Disseminators of Ho Chi Minh Thought held in Cong Vi Ward, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi.
To bring about a proactive shift in information dissemination and the movement of studying Ho Chi Minh Minh thought among Party members, the people, and soldiers. The speech of Mr. Nguyen Khoa Diem(1) at the opening ceremony of the Contest for Excellent Reporters and Disseminators of Ho Chi Minh Thought held in Cong Vi Ward, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi. Today, 19 May 2003, is the 113th anniversary of our beloved Uncle Ho's birthday. We are all here to carry out a work of great significance and practicality—to open the Contest for Excellent Reporters and Disseminators of Ho Chi Minh Thought. More importantly, the contest is held in a Party establishment where Uncle Ho lived and worked, and now rests in peace. It helps pave the way for the nationwide Contest of Disseminating Ho Chi Minh Thought. The contest has attracted a vast number of cadres, veteran revolutionaries, students, and youths in the ward. This shows the President's great influence and his close touch with the population; … [Read more...] about The speech of Mr. Nguyen Khoa Diem(1) at the opening ceremony of the Contest for Excellent Reporters and Disseminators of Ho Chi Minh Thought held in Cong Vi Ward, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi.
Prime Minister Phan Van Khai receives Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing
In the morning of 14 June 2003, in the Governmental Office, Prime Minister Phan Van Khai received visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing and other delegates. Welcoming the Chinese delegation headed by Minister Li Zhaoxing, the Prime Minister stressed: the two countries Vietnam and China have a long-standing friendly relationship which has been developed by President Ho Chi Minh and Chinese leaders. Khai also delightedly praised that the bilateral comprehensive friendly cooperation between the two countries is increasingly intensified and promoted. Over the past time, the two countries have gained some considerable achievements in economic field, especially trade, investment and cooperation. They have made great efforts to take proper measures to maintain the growth of commercial turnover, striving to reach US$5 billion in two-way trade by 2005. The Prime Minister hoped a bilateral trade agreement could be signed soon to provide a legal frame for the expansion of commercial ties … [Read more...] about Prime Minister Phan Van Khai receives Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing
Closing speech by National Assembly Nguyen Van An
Dear leaders of the Party, State and Vietnam Fatherland Front, Dear distinguished guests, Dear National Assembly deputies, After a month and a half, in the spirit of intensive work, high sense of responsibility and democracy the third session of the 11th Legislature of the Vietnam National Assembly has come to a close. At this session, the NA discussed and gave more evaluations about the implementation of socio-economic tasks and State budget plan set for 2002; the implementation of socio-economic and State budget plan in early 2003; approved 8 laws; advised on 9 draft laws; guaranteed the rights to inquiry to and the rights to response; discussed and approved the Resolution on exemption and reduction of the tax on the use of agricultural land, the Resolution on the pilot implementation of the organization of management of, providing vocational training and creation of jobs for rehabilitated drug in Ho Chi Minh City and a number of centrally-run cities and provinces. Through … [Read more...] about Closing speech by National Assembly Nguyen Van An
Develop the spirit of independence, self-sufficiency, renovation and creativity of Ho Chi Minh Thought in the new period
Nong Duc Manh, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam On the occasion of the 113th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday, in the morning of 15 May 2003, General Secretary Nong Duc Manh paid a visit to the Ho Chi Minh National Politics Institution. He gave an important speech on promoting research, education and popularization of Ho Chi Minh Thought. Dear comrades, Today, on the occasion of the 113th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday (19 May 1890- 19 May 2003), I would like to present here in the Ho Chi Minh National Politics Institution. During this period, the entire Party is implementing the Direction of the Secretariat on "Promoting research, education and popularization of Ho Chi Minh Thought in the new era" to further put into reality the Resolutions of the Party Congress and of the 5th Central Committee (9th Tenure) on ideology and theory. The Institution has been also preparing to sum up over 10 years of researching … [Read more...] about Develop the spirit of independence, self-sufficiency, renovation and creativity of Ho Chi Minh Thought in the new period
Firmly holding to the socialist orientation
Dr. Dao Duy Quat Deputy Head of the Central Cultural and Ideological Board Member of the Central Theoretical Council Since the 6th Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, the Congress which initiated our national comprehensive renovation, our Party has asserted "Renovation does not mean giving up the goal of socialism which our Party and people have chosen; renovation has nothing to do with transformation, renovation is to find suitable steps, forms and measures for successful building up of socialism. To firmly hold to the socialist orientation constitutes the fundamental principle guiding the cause of renovation. It reflects the consistency in pursuing the goal of combination of national independence with socialism. It is a definite affirmation of our path to socialism, passing over the capitalist development or any other ways round." After 7 years of renovation, the mid-term Party Plenum (7th tenure) asserted important achievements regarding political, socio-economic, security, … [Read more...] about Firmly holding to the socialist orientation
Letter from the General Secretary Nong Duc Manh of the Communist Party of Vietnam to the Editorial Board of the Website Communist Party of Vietnam
Hanoi 20 June 2003 Letter from the General Secretary Nong Duc Manh of the Communist Party of Vietnam to the Editorial Board of the Website Communist Party of Vietnam On the occasion the new version of the Website Communist Party of Vietnam comes into being, on behalf of the Politburo, I would like to send the Direction Board, the Editorial Board, coordinators and readers of the Website at home and abroad my congratulations and best wishes. The Communist Party of Vietnam always pays attention and highly appreciates the role of mass media, including electronic newspapers, to mobilize the whole nation's aggregate strength in promoting the cause of renovation, industrialization and modernization as well as in building and protecting our fatherland - the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. In the current global rapid development of information and informatics technology, electronic newspaper has increasingly become a prompt and advantageous means of information which should be developed in … [Read more...] about Letter from the General Secretary Nong Duc Manh of the Communist Party of Vietnam to the Editorial Board of the Website Communist Party of Vietnam
Plans for Hai Phong's development okayed
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Localities open courses on Ho Chi Minh Thought
Hanoi, Nghe An and Cao Bang have opened courses on studying and researching Ho Chi Minh Thought for key cadres. This is in implementation of the Party Secretariat's instruction on promoting the research, dissemination and education on Ho Chi Minh Thought in the new period. The course, held by the Hanoi Party Committee, is focused on discussing and analysing the value and role of the Ho Chi Minh Thought, thus applying in the implementation of socio-economic tasks, training revolutionary morality and issuing measures to improve the quality and efficiency of the training on Ho Chi Minh Thought, especially among young people. The course in Nghe An is aimed at helping Party members and people understand fully the origin, content and great value of Ho Chi Minh Thought and Marxism-Leninism, the ideological ground of the Party, thus solving the pressing issues and serving national defence. Meanwhile, the Party Committee in Cao Bang urged local Party cells to prepare specific plans for the … [Read more...] about Localities open courses on Ho Chi Minh Thought
Foreign hands given greater stake in bourse
FOREIGN investors are now allowed to hold a maximum 30 per cent of listed shares in the country's fledgling stock market. Signed by Prime Minister Phan Van Khai, analysts said the decision was one of many wide-ranging attempts to boost the ailing stock market since it was launched in July 2000. Foreigners were quick to welcome the move. KPMG senior partner Warrick Cleine said: "Relaxation of foreign investment restrictions in the country's listed shares is most welcome. "There are many successful Vietnamese companies that would benefit from a closer relationship with their foreign partners. "This will especially benefit those companies that use foreign technology, trade contacts or experience." The need for such a decision was shown when the government recently allowed Sacombank and British-backed Dragon Capital to establish the $500,000 Viet-Fund Management Company. (See related story on P.15). Over the past three years, the country's stock market has attracted 21 equitised … [Read more...] about Foreign hands given greater stake in bourse
Finance hits top gear for tunnel
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State moves to sell bonds to foreigners
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Welcome to new english version of vietnamtourism.gov.vn
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Party leader: VN to become modern industrialised country
The report was presented by Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh atthe opening session of the 11 th National Party Congress in Hanoion Jan. 12.The Vietnam News Agency published main contents of the report.Reviewingfive years of implementing the 10 th Party Congress's resolution, thereport identified advantages brought about by the renewal process andinternational integration, as well as mentioning difficulties andchallenges caused by deep-rooted weaknesses of the national economy.Italso mentioned natural disasters, disease epidemics, complicateddevelopments in the region and the world, impacts from the globaleconomic recession and financial crisis, as well as subversive andviolence-incited activities and the "peaceful revolution" undertaken byhostile forces.By looking into those, the report affirmed thatin such circumstances, the entire Party and the entire people hadexerted efforts to fight off difficulties and challenges and attainedimportant achievements in … [Read more...] about Party leader: VN to become modern industrialised country
EVN mobilises 2.96 billion VND for power projects in 2016
The funds were sourced from international financial institutions, such as the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency.Of the total, 1.76 billion USD was earmarked for power projects. EVN said international cooperation contributed significantly to its growth in 2016, with the WB and ADB supporting the group in studying long-term programmes on finance, management restructuring, renewable energy and infrastructure development.The group has worked with regional electricity companies to research power exchange as well as continued projects within the Greater Mekong Sub-Region (GMS), including the building of a GMS electricity trade centre. Theo TTXVN/Vietnam + … [Read more...] about EVN mobilises 2.96 billion VND for power projects in 2016