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Are you trying to purchase a home? Do you live in the Southern Dallas Area of Texas? If so, people in this area will receive mortgage benefits for over a span of five years and it's known as The Affordable Housing Loan Program. This program is unique (in-a-sense) since most banks in the country aren't really providing affordable mortgage coverage. The Affordable Housing Loan Program is innovative in nature, but logical in reality. Certain people within specific Dallas zip codes will now be able to find and receive coverage thanks to one of the regions premier banking institutions.
NexBank is a successful powerhouse in mortgage, investment, and commercial banking. As of 2016, the prominent banks had an estimated $3.5 Billion in assets in which $50 Million of that will be going toward loan support. Over the next five years this program should have enough financial backing to achieve the end goal of 100 mortgages per month. NexBank is also funding an extra $2,000 for closing costs. Name another bank who would do all of this without wanting some type of recognition or publicity. The bank's financial backing will directly address the main problem which is mortgage support.
Habitat For Humanity and Dallas Neighborhood Homes will are adding their specialties to the mix as well. They are the glue that holds the entire operation afloat and together. Being such wonderful home builders and mortgage providers; these two non-profit organizations will assist NexBank throughout the entire five year process. Families residing in specific Southern Dallas zip codes will now finally get a chance to own something of their own and owning a home is one of life's greatest treasures. Hopefully this will become a model for the rest of the country and possibly help those other deserving areas who face the same issue.


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Uri Avnery on the Hamas & Fatah Reconciliation: Good for Peace
Note from Rabbi Michael Lerner: We at Tikkun hate violence from whatever source, so naturally we've been extremely critical of Hamas through the years both for its violence and its glorification of violent acts of terror against Israeli civilians. We've similarly been critical of Israeli violence which is built into the very structure of the Occupation. And we've similarly been critical of the U.S. , Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and the list goes on and on. But we also critiqued the Israeli government and the US for demanding that Palestinians become more democratic, then after Hamas won a popular election in 2006, rejecting any negotiations with a government that had Hamas as part, a decision which helped precipitate the split between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Just as I supported negotiations with the Vietcong and North Vietnam to end the War in Vietnam, so I believe it is appropriate to negotiate with your enemies (not just the ones you approve of) if you really want to end a war and end violence. A peace with the Palestinian Authority but without Hamas as part would be a meaningless peace. So the words of Uri Avnery below deserve serious consideration. Avnery is the leader of Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace movement based in Tel Aviv.
In one word: Bravo!
The news about the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas is good for peace. If the final difficulties are ironed out and a full agreement is signed by the two leaders, it will be a huge step forward for the Palestinians – and for us.
There is no sense in making peace with half a people. Making peace with the entire Palestinian people may be more difficult, but will be infinitely more fruitful.
Therefore: Bravo!
Binyamin Netanyahu also says Bravo. Since the government of Israel has declared Hamas a terrorist organization with whom there will be no dealings whatsoever, Netanyahu can now put an end to any talk about peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. What, peace with a Palestinian government that includes terrorists? Never! End of discussion.
Two bravos, but such a difference.
The Israeli debate about Arab unity goes back a long way. It already started in the early fifties, when the idea of pan-Arab unity raised its head. Gamal Abd-al-Nasser hoisted this banner in Egypt, and the pan-Arab Baath movement became a force in several countries (long before it degenerated into local Mafias in Iraq and Syria).
Nahum Goldman, President of the World Zionist Organization, argued that pan-Arab unity was good for Israel. He believed that peace was necessary for the existence of Israel, and that it would take all the Arab countries together to have the courage to make it.
David Ben-Gurion, Israel's Prime Minister, thought that peace was bad for Israel, at least until Zionism had achieved all its (publicly undefined) goals. In a state of war, unity among Arabs was a danger that had to be prevented at all costs.
Goldman, the most brilliant coward I ever knew, did not have the courage of his convictions. Ben-Gurion was far less brilliant, but much more determined.
He won.
Now we have the same problem all over again.
Netanyahu and his band of peace saboteurs want to prevent Palestinian unity at all costs. They do not want peace, because peace would prevent Israel from achieving the Zionist goals, as they conceive them: a Jewish state in all of historical Palestine, from the sea to the Jordan River (at least). The conflict is going to last for a long, long time to come, and the more divided the enemy, the better.
As a matter of fact, the very emergence of Hamas was influenced by this calculation. The Israeli occupation authorities deliberately encouraged the Islamic movement, which later became Hamas, as a counterweight to the secular nationalist Fatah, which was then conceived as the main enemy.
Later, the Israeli government deliberately fostered the division between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip by violating the Oslo agreement and refusing to open the four "safe passages" between the two territories provided for in the agreement. Not one was open for a single day. The geographical separation brought about the political one.
When Hamas won the January 2006 Palestinian elections, surprising everybody including itself, the Israeli government declared that it would have no dealings with any Palestinian government in which Hamas was represented. It ordered – there is no other word – the US and EU governments to follow suit. Thus the Palestinian Unity Government was brought down.
The next step was an Israeli-American effort to install a strongman of their choosing as dictator of the Gaza Strip, the bulwark of Hamas. The chosen hero was Muhammad Dahlan, a local chieftain. It was not a very good choice – the Israeli security chief recently disclosed that Dahlan had collapsed sobbing into his arms. After a short battle, Hamas took direct control of the Gaza Strip.
A fratricidal split in a liberation movement is not an exception. It is almost the rule.
The Irish revolutionary movement was an outstanding example. In this country we had the fight between the Hagana and the Irgun, which at times became violent and very ugly. It was Menachem Begin, then the Irgun commander, who prevented a full-fledged civil war.
The Palestinian people, with all the odds against them, can hardly afford such a disaster. The split has generated intense mutual hatred between comrades who spent time in Israeli prison together. Hamas accused the Palestinian Authority – with some justification – of cooperating with the Israeli government against them, urging the Israelis and the Egyptians to tighten the brutal blockade against the Gaza Strip, even preventing a deal for the release of the Israeli prisoner-of-war, Gilad Shalit, in order to block the release of Hamas activists and their return to the West Bank. Many Hamas activists suffer in Palestinian prisons, and the lot of Fatah activists in the Gaza Strip is no more joyous.
Yet both Fatah and Hamas are minorities in Palestine. The great mass of the Palestinian people desperately want unity and a joint struggle to end the occupation. If the final reconciliation agreement is signed by Mahmoud Abbas and Khalid Meshaal, Palestinians everywhere will be jubilant.
Binyamin Netanyahu is jubilant already. The ink was not yet dry on the preliminary agreement initialed in Cairo, when Netanyahu made a solemn speech on TV, something like an address to the nation after an historic event.
"You have to choose between us and Hamas," he told the Palestinian Authority. That would not be too difficult – one the one side a brutal occupation regime, on the other Palestinian brothers with a different ideology.
But this stupid threat was not the main point of the statement. What Netanyahu told us was that there would be no dealings with a Palestinian Authority connected in any way with the "terrorist Hamas".
The whole thing is a huge relief for Netanyahu. He has been invited by the new Republican masters to address the US Congress next month and had nothing to say. Nor had he anything to offer the UN, which is about to recognize the State of Palestine this coming September. Now he has: peace is impossible, all Palestinians are terrorists who want to throw us into the sea. Ergo: no peace, no negotiations, no nothing.
IF ONE really wants peace, the message should of course be quite different.
Hamas is a part of Palestinian reality. Sure, it is extremist, but as the British have taught us many times, it is better to make peace with extremists than with moderates. Make peace with the moderates, and you must still deal with the extremists. Make peace with the extremists, and the business is finished.
Actually, Hamas is not quite as extreme as it likes to present itself. It has declared many times that it will accept a peace agreement based on the 1967 lines and signed by Mahmoud Abbas if it is ratified by the people in a referendum or a vote in parliament. Accepting the Palestinian Authority means accepting the Oslo agreement, on which the PA is based – including the mutual recognition of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. In Islam, as in all other religions, God's word is definitely final, but it can be "interpreted" any way needed. Don't we Jews know.
What made both sides more flexible? Both have lost their patrons – Fatah its Egyptian protector, Hosny Mubarak, and Hamas its Syrian protector, Bashar al-Assad, who cannot be relied upon anymore. That has brought both sides to face reality: Palestinians stand alone, so they had better unite.
For peace-oriented Israelis, it will be a great relief to deal with a united Palestinian people and with a united Palestinian territory. Israel can do a lot to help this along: open at long last an exterritorial free passage between the West Bank and Gaza, put an end to the stupid and cruel blockade of the Gaza Strip (which has become even more idiotic with the elimination of the Egyptian collaborator), let the Gazans open their port, airport and borders. Israel must accept the fact that religious elements are now a part of the political scene all over the Arab world. They will become institutionalized and, probably, far more "moderate". That is part of the new reality in the Arab world.
The emergence of Palestinian unity should be welcomed by Israel, as well as by the European nations and the United States. They should get ready to recognize the State of Palestine within the 1967 borders. They should encourage the holding of free and democratic Palestinian elections and accept their results, whatever they may be.
The wind of the Arab Spring is blowing in Palestine too. Bravo!
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8 Responses to Uri Avnery on the Hamas & Fatah Reconciliation: Good for Peace
As usual, Avnery makes some statements that are either very distorted or complete pie in the sky. His convoluted assertion that "Accepting the Palestinian Authority means accepting the Oslo agreement, on which the PA is based – including the mutual recognition of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization" is a tortured way of suggesting that Hamas will accept Israel. But Hamas has clearly stated that it will never accept Israel, never accept a Jewish state, never accept any Jewish sovereign presence in the middle east. Which is more believable? Similarly, he states that if Hamas is institutionalized it will "probably" become more "moderate." On what does he base that? Is the Iranian theocracy more moderate, or Hezbollah, now that they have greater and more institutionalized political power? No — they are more belligerent and full of hate. Let Hamas modify its charter first, in which it seeks to "drink the blood of the Jews." Then we can begin to consider if they are willing to consider real peace. And as everyone at Tikkun can recognize, a phony or deceptive peace is no peace.
You can keep on ignoring the truth and blodshed, land theft, aparthied, occupation, will go on. Peace will be good for all. I know, you know Netanyaho is not interested in peace. He is only buying time. I know that You know Hamas said they will accept a peace deal if voted on by Palestinian parliment or the people. Do all teh childern a favor, quit being a party to spreading lies, it is not good for your soul.
Bravo indeed! Uri Avnery tells like it is, bravo for him as well.
If even a little of the Arab Spring catches Palestinian sails, their ship of state might actually begin to move at last. It all
seems too good to be true, pre-1967 borders and a unified
sovereign Palestine, the dream and hope of humanitarians worldwide. Let it be so.
US war and oil shareholders want NO reduction in violence. The same must go on the very same principle for any Israelis who are also shareholders in any of that business. The violation of Geneva Conventions with settlement building was a setup for just the conditions that have been on the ground now for decades.
The Israeli Left like the Left in the US are not any countervailing force for the money forces behind these conditions on the ground. The same goes for the Brits who set up the Gambit back in 1913 when they were dismembering the Ottoman Empire so they could control then newly being discovered oil fields, and the shipping lanes!
We had all better wake up to the power imbalances in our own "democracies" because they are the root cause of conditions on the ground all over the world which lead to violence amongst Plebes who finally have enough! That reaction has always been well understood by the setters-up of unequal and untenable conditions of any kind anywhere! The framers of the Geneva Conventions understood that too, which is why they ban settlement building and mixing of people on occupied land if there is ever to be any lasting peace.
And shame on us for buying into the way those shareholders and their bought media frame that story. They get away with pinning it on the Plebes who have to eke out a living every day in deliberately setup unequal and violent conditions. Conditions also designed to cause brain drain. They love to be able to get away with blaming them for whatever mechanisms they may come up with to defend themselves from their defenselessness. Like stone throwing, smuggling, or gangs of young thugs. The breakers of the Geneva Conventions were counting on just those mechanisms arising to fuel the hatred for the TV cameras for unwitting and manipulated Israeli and American TV audiences!
There will be no peace as long as Reactionary Shareholder forces hold all the cards in these "democracies" and can serve themselves by seeding violence and destruction anywhere they want to and then blaming the victims using bought Pols like Netanyahu, Lieberman, Bush, Palin, Pete King, etc. These are constitutional failures for which we must wake up and take our own responsibility.
I think you are losing track of one part of the conflict, and that is called pride, or to be more accurate, Arab Muslim pride, which has nothing to do with business.
The unity agreement between Hamas and the Palestinian authority seems designed to position the two Palestinian parties for the U.N. resolution expected this fall. On the surface this seems to increase Israel's challenge in responding to that resolution. Too many ifs make it impossible to predict the outcome but for some reason I don't yet understand, I think the outcome will be better than if the alliance had not been negotiated. We'll know soon.
I will never understand why right or left are so entrenched in their views. It always amazes me that no matter what the circumstances are, people will find their opinion reinforced.
in this instance, how exactly having Hamas in the mix will reinforce peace, for a starter, I remember vividly 93 through 96, there was only division between Fatah and Hammas, one was talking the other was having fireworks at Israeli expanse.
Islam's birth pains in the Seventh Century were a series of military campaigns to butcher Jewish and Christian remnants in the region. Crusades, Tours, Truce, Armenian genocide, Oil for battleships, 1948, Oil for cars: battle joined.
All the learned writings by moderns like Chomsky and lesser sages fail to reflect scriptural covenants & promises to Israel; be that as it may, does anyone pay attention to the writings and sayings of Muslims past & present? Peace with submission! Before 1948 the Nazis were in league with the Ba'ath party, and the Nazi sentiment to eradicate Jews has carried over to Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah. The Koran is Mein Kampf in Arabic!
The fruit of Islam talks peace in between abortive attacks to annihilate Israel. Even with the post 1967 borders, Israel is strategically indefensible except for the heavenly shield. Are there no scholars in Islam with intellectual honesty to assert the fact that Islam can not, shall not outlive Israel? If peacemakers ignoring covenant promise to Israel want to attempt a period of peace at least, they must solve the oil problem; removing the large powers from the picture. Good luck.
In 1917, even as Lawrence was blowing up the railroad from Turkey, Jastrow wrote in his book: "The War & The Bagdad (sic) Railway" a plan for using a "Pilgrim"s Railway" for the Haj as a unifying element in the Middle East. Recent railway talk by Tony Blair as an apolitical link for Palestinians to connect with Lebanon, West Bank and Egypt is most significant and merits inclusion for this discussion.
Islam has Israel surrounded, and we will let General Anthony Clement McAuliffe supply the appropriate comment. In a later time, General Moshe' Dayan has said "The Minimum Required Effort To Achieve The Minimum Acceptable Result". Dayan's saying might apply to a modern "Pilgrim's Railway" network used to improve the lot of Palestinians displaced persons, and make possible some new settlements and towns enroute. But of course expect even this Transportation Engineering effort to be used against Israel. So we look at at a third general's saying: MacArthur saw theological basis in war, and warns of need for "A spiritual recrudescence and improvement of human character…"
Greater use of railway in the United States would translate to less worldwide need for Middle East Oil, primary funding source for terrorism. Should reformed transportation policy in America be uppermost in the peacemaker's solution set?


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Bahrain to slash medicine prices by half
Manama, April 29, 2014
Bahrain will slash prices of medicines used to treat diabetes, blood and heart diseases by 50 per cent by the middle of next month, said a top official.
Prices will also be reduced for 1,800 categories of drugs in the first phase, while four groups will witness a reduction of 15 per cent to 75 per cent, National Health Regulatory Authority chief executive Dr Baha Eldin Fateha told our sister publication Akhbar Al Khaleej.
The Central Committee in charge of unifying prices of medicines in GCC countries met in Ramee Hotel in Bahrain yesterday (April 28) and discussed implementation of a decision to standardise medicine prices.
It agreed that reduction of four drug groups will be first implemented in Bahrain. The move followed negotiations with drug manufacturers which started in July last year, Dr Fateha said, adding that the new pricing system will help achieve the required balance by implementing currency unification in US dollar and setting new profit margins. – TradeArabia News Service


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A Brief History of the Italian Marque
La produzione sembra essere di poche unita, secondo alcune fonti una ventina.
The bicycle manufacturer Rinaldo Orlandi with workshop in Robecco, province of Pavia, employs German auxiliary engines to power some of its motorcycles.
The production seems to be a few units, according to some sources about twenty.
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Hand and wrist tendonitis
Are grouped under the term tendinitis or tenosynovitis of the extensor or flexor in the wrist area, and De Quervain's tendonitis. There seems to be very few studies focused on the incidence or risk factors for these diseases in the workplace.
Tendonitis and tenosynovitis are observed during repeated movements and rapid flexions and extensions of the wrist whith weights, or slower flexions and extensions with heavy loads. Tendonitis of the wrist and the hand are favored by work activities including :
- welding,
- grinding,
- coring,
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- poultry,
- maids work …
They cause pain at flexion or extension against resistance of the wrist. Palpatory examination is also painful at pressure along the tendon path.
In the wrist area, ligaments hold the tendons in place. Either by holding the tendon sheath in place, either by forming compartments in which the tendons sneak. The first dorsal compartment of the wrist can be narrow, causing friction, inflammation and swelling of the tendons. Therefore, professional tasks that require repetitive and vigorous movements can lead to friction in the first dorsal compartment of the wrist. The existence of a correlation between hand-wrist tendinitis and exposure in the workplace is consistent with current knowledge about the mechanism of onset of the disease.
De Quervain's tendonitis
De Quervain's tendonitis is not simply an inflammation of the tendons but tendons and synovium. It affects the tendon sheath that extends above the wrist to the thumb.
The inflammation often begins during a change of activity, shock or unusual use. Tendons and their sheaths increase in volume in the pulley which is inextensible. Its most common causes are excessive torque wrist or other repetitive movements. Thus increasing friction and thus the inflammation is self-perpetuating.
This tendonitis affects most often women in their fifties. Frequent and repeated movements of the thumb, especially the thumb and index clamp as done by mechanics, physical therapists, assistants, are a predisposing cause of this tendonitis. In some cases, rheumatoid arthritis can be involved.
It is the inflammation of the tendons of extensor brevis and abductor pollicis longus of the thumb at an osteo-fibrous slide on the edge of the wrist.
The pathophysiology is a conflict between the content (tendons) and the container, with a thickening and stenosis of the osteo-fibrous slide that surrounds the adductor longus and extensor pollicis brevis. The other mechanism is that of a partially or totally split slide, or the existence of multiple tendons, 2 to 5 for the tendon of adductor longus tendons and 2 for the short stent.
This is basically a pain located at the outer edge of the wrist. This pain gradually appears in a few weeks and sometimes brutally. This tendonitis significantly hampers the movements of the thumb with radiating pain in the forearm which can become very intense and very disabling. There is frequently a swelling around the tendons at the outer edge of the wrist. Mobilization of the thumb towards the annular with a palmar flexion and ulnar deviation of the wrist puts tension in the tendons and wakes the pain : Finkelstein's test, pathognomonic of this tendonitis.
Finger flexor tenosynovitis also called spring finger projection tendonitis.
It results in pain with a snap feature or complete blockage of the finger extension or flexion. There may be a bending stiffness of the intermediate joint (proximal interphalangeal joint), and tendons can also deteriorate to the point of requiring a specific repair. The condition affects more the thumb, middle and ring fingers, but not only. A protrusion or thickening of the tendon sheath locks the finger in curved position.
This thickening is facilitated by repetitive movements, more rarely rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Carpal tunnel syndrome can be considered as a contributing factor.
Carpi ulnaris tendonitis – flexor carpi ulnaris
The flexor carpi ulnaris after passing in front of the ulnar styloid, is inserted on the upper part of the pisiform before splitting and attaching his new branches on the annular, hamate, 4th and 5th metacarpal ligaments.
At clinical examination :
I find an antero-internal pain at the edge of the wrist, with the presence of edema and especially pain on palpation of the radial edge. We find a pain in the stretching extension, abduction of the wrist and during isometric testing against manual resistance ; the movement of a violonist's left hand.
Carpi radialis tendonitis – flexor carpi radialis
The flexor carpi radialis, which takes a tendon configuration in the lower third of the forearm, should systematically be considered for climbers facing pain in the anterolateral edge of the lower third of the forearm.
At clinical examination :
I find a palpatory pain, sometimes with swelling and pain in passive tension of the carpi radialis, and in forced extension of the wrist. This pain is re-induced during isometric contraction in flexion against resistance of the index and middle fingers. Biomechanically, the great palmar tilts the wrist to 30 °. In presence of a carpi radialis tendinitis, I search for an associated scapholunate trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis.
Tendonitis of the extensor carpi radialis
It is a tenosynovitis with pain among the wrist's extension against resistance and pressure of the tendon. Pain sits at the base of the 2nd and 3rd metacarpals.
Tendonitis of the extensor pollicis longus
It usually touches degenerative tendons, after repetitive trauma or after a surgically treated wrist fracture. There is a significant risk of rupture, this is why the diagnosis and treatment must come early.
The brachioradialis tendonitis, also called the radial styloïdit
It's a pure insertion tendonitis of brachioradialis. The pain of brachioradialis tendinitis is mainly revealed by a painful palpation of the radial styloid. Unlike De Quervain's tenosynovitis pain is not triggered by the mobilization of the thumb or when Finkelstein maneuver.


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The FEG was / is essentially involved in the construction and operation of the cruise ship terminal in Altona at the Van-der-Smissen-Straße 5. The cruise terminal Altona was designed by the architect RHW Renner Hainke Wirth GmbH. The FEG is also the owner of some properties at the Altona Fischereihafen.
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Steven Spielberg in conversation with Big B
Future of cinema, Amitabh Bachchan's talking point with Steven Spielberg
Amitabh Bachchan's meeting with acclaimed Hollywood filmmaker Steven Spielberg, whom he calls an "institution", was one full of talks on the state of Indian cinema and the future of cinema at large."An evening with an institution... an evening spent in conversation in the presence of select fraternity and press... an evening of sharing cinema with the prolific maker, inventor, story teller, innovator and one who continues to surprise us with his genius," the 70-year-old posted on his blog, after meeting Spielberg on Monday evening.Amitabh is particularly in awe of Spielberg's 'E.T. Extra Terrestrial', which he feels was "endearing".Spielberg, who is in India to celebrate the success of his Oscar-winning film 'Lincoln', Monday interacted with as many as 61 personalities from Indian cinema and shared tips on filmmaking.'Lincoln' is a co-production between Spielberg's DreamWorks and Indian business tycoon Anil Ambani's Reliance Entertainment.Expressing his views on the new trend where Hollywood studios are collaborating with Indian production houses, Big B wrote: "The interest in the US and in particular Hollywood in holding hands with entertainment companies in India, because you felt that the world was 'diminishing in size' due to the ease of communication, and that the idea really was to bring communities closer, build bridges of understanding and sharing, because impressions, thoughts were now instant, thanks to the internet and its various social networking programmes."My own argument on the subject though was somewhat different; that ever since the opening up of the economy in India, the sheer volume of the demographics of the region, 1.2 billion, or every 6.3rd person in the universe being an Indian, was too attractive a consumer base to ignore!"...So the argument being that when a country did well economically, its politics, finance, food, music, clothing … and film, became suddenly, very attractive too, which was why the mention of India, Indian references, presence of Indian actors, albeit in minuscule roles, gained relevance in Hollywood and in American TV."Among the Indian filmmakers present at the event were Rajkumar Hirani, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, Anurag Kashyap, Ramesh Sippy, Shyam Benegal, Ashutosh Gowariker, Sudhir Mishra, Nagesh Kukunoor, Madhur Bhandarkar, Zoya Akhtar, Kiran Rao, Reema Kagti, Rajshree Ojha, Gauri Shinde, Homi Adajania, Abbas-Mustan, Rohan Sippy, Prabhu Deva, R. Balki and Kunal Kohli.Click on, for some exclusive snaps from the event!© Spice


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|| Coat – ZARA / Dress – ZARA / Shoes – New Balance ||
When this post goes live, we'll probably be in Berlin, sitting in a café,
sipping on a smoking hot coffee, busy making plans for the upcoming week.
Our cousins are living in the most amazing apartment and if I know them right,
it'll be a lot of late dinners, nights filled with dance, photo adventures and vintage shopping.
In my ears, it's the perfect kind of week.


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Rotary Auction & Rummage Sale 2017
Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island presents the world's largest six-hour garage sale!
Saturday, July 1 @ 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Woodward Middle School, 9125 Sportsman Club Road, Bainbridge Island
Imagine over six acres of garage sale items: hundreds of bikes of all sizes, every color of baby clothes folded and arranged by size, rooms full of tested and sorted household items, antique furniture, bedroom furniture, vintage furniture, and more.
AUCTION PREVIEW: To get a head start on your neighbors, or just have a fun evening with the Bainbridge Island community, make sure to attend the Auction Preview on Friday, June 30 @ 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.
DONATIONS: As in each year for nearly six decades, the Rotary Club of Bainbridge Island is accepting donations from the community - making this the prime time to clean closets, garages and storage areas. Drop off your little-used-but-too-good-to-throw-away treasures from Friday June 23 through Wednesday June 28 from 8:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m. Volunteers will be on hand to help unload your vehicle and give you a tax receipt for your donations.
Proceeds from the Bainbridge Rotary Auction & Rummage Sale help build Island infrastructure such as parks and sports fields, dance floors, and theater seats. For more information about the Auction, visit http://www.bainbridgerotaryauction.org/about-us-2/schedule/.


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Aoife, the Queen MakerbyThe_Technician©
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The arrow falls; the door opens; the Queen is made.
This story explores the connection between the Orionid meteor shower, the ancient Celtic myths which surround Samhain, and the great warrior Queens of ancient Ireland.
"Aoife, the Queen Maker" is the story the pixies told me when I wanted to write something else. Sometimes I write a story with a theme and plot that I have created; sometimes I just tell a story as it unfolds in my mind. The story I originally intended to create was a scary story with lots of wild, kinky sex, but evidently the spirits of the glen had a different idea, and they spoke a totally different story in my head. It is a sweet, poignant story of true love intertwined with ancient Irish myths that gave birth to the holiday we call Halloween.
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It was dark and cold and rainy and lonely as I drove north on a little used two lane highway that wound its twisted way through the timbered foothills. The reason I was in my car driving 90 miles in the middle of an October night was because a man whom I had never met, Doctor Nathaniel L. Sorensen, had summoned me to his death bed.
That may sound like an odd way of putting it, but it is exactly what his grandson, Earl, told me when he called me just before ten o'clock tonight. "W," he began, "I have a very strange favor to ask of you. My grandfather has asked me to call you. He says to tell you that he is dying tonight and he is summoning you to his death bed because you are the only one who can understand the story he has to tell. Is there any way you can come up here?"
Earl was a rather famous astronomer and professor. Like his grandfather, he spent his nights staring at the heavens - well, actually, in Earl's case, he was usually looking at monitors that gave him a numeric or visual representation of what his giant array of radio telescopes were seeing as they gathered information from the skies. His grandfather, affectionately known by his peers as "Night Sky Nate," had actually spent many, many nights staring through the eyepiece of giant telescopes located on distant mountaintops all over the world.
What the elder Dr. Sorensen had to tell me, and why he thought I was the only one who would understand, was a complete mystery to me. I had never met the man. I had never spoken with him. I had never communicated with him in any way in my entire life. I knew of him only as Earl's grandfather.
Earl and I had become friends when we met on-line in an electronics discussion forum. We were both interested in remote electronic control circuits. He was, of course, interested in better ways to control his telescopes. I was interested in better ways to control... shall we say, more interesting aspects of human behavior. One of my sidelines is various electronic devices that stimulate the body for the purpose of pain, pleasure, or control.
One session, Earl asked me outright what I actually did with some of the control circuits we discussed. I told him, "You would be shocked... pun intended."
He answered, "You would be surprised what it takes to shock me." And then added "... pun understood."
He then asked me to meet him in a private chat room and gave me a link to a room on a different web site - a site that I knew well. The chat room location was on a very private BDSM site that catered to the tastes of those who liked mechanical overtones to their bondage and discipline
In answer to my un-asked question, he typed, "I spend my life looking for patterns in the sky. I recognized the pattern of your posts - what abbreviations you use and don't use, things like that. The same pattern shows up on several sites under several different login names."
I made a mental note to myself to look into ways of masking that weakness in the future, and met him on the new site. It turned out we had more in common that just an interest in control circuits. Earl became one of my very discreet customers. He was also a big fan, and sometimes helpful editor, of many of my stories. Evidently he must have said something about me to his grandfather, because now the dying doctor was summoning me to his death bed to hear, and perhaps write his story.
What a super-intelligent, apparently straight-laced astronomer who spent most of his life staring at the stars might have to say that I hadn't heard many times before was a mystery to me, but deep in my gut I had a feeling that this mystery was well worth exploring.
When I got to the hospice building next to the hospital, Earl met me at the door. He said flatly, "Nate says he is going to die tonight." Then he shrugged and added, as if in explanation, "It's his birthday. The doctors don't think so, but his father predicted his own death, and so he thinks that he knows when he is going to die also. He says tonight is the night."
Since I was entering a hospice area, I was expecting to find a very frail and decrepit old man, but when I stepped into to the room, Dr. Sorensen was sitting up in his bed reading an old field journal. "Come in W," he greeted me. "You are probably wondering why you are here."
"That is more than an understatement," I replied.
He motioned me to a chair that had been placed at his bedside, closed the notebook, and folded his hands over the cover as it lay on his lap. "Let's begin at the beginning, shall we."
He looked and sounded just like a college professor about to start a lecture. I shouldn't have been surprised at that. He had, at one time, been a very prominent professor as well as a renowned astronomer.
"Actually, let's start before the beginning," he corrected himself. "My father was born on April 20, 1909. In case the significance of that date escapes you, that was the day that Haley's Comet passed closest to the earth. He died on February 9, 1986, again as Haley passed closest to the earth. He always said that he was going to follow Mark Twain's example and 'come in with the comet and go out with the comet.' He did."
I must have looked somewhat confused, because he looked up at me and added, "It's all part of the story. Be patient. I'm getting to it... I'm getting to it."
He smiled, took a deep breath, and started anew. "I was born on October 21, 1930. The significance of that date, of which I am sure you are unaware, is that..."
I interrupted him and finished his sentence with "it is the peak of the Orionid meteor showers."
It was his turn to look surprised. "A student of the stars, are we?"
"No," I answered, "but Earl is never available from October 19 through 23 because chucks of old comet are falling out of the sky."
"All comets are old," instructed the good doctor, "they are the left-over debris from creation. And the chucks don't fall out of the sky, the earth merely passes through the comet's trail of debris. The particular comet that causes the Orionids is none other than my father's old friend, Haley, itself." He laughed as he added, "That means that I am a chip off my father's comet."
His laugh soon dissolved into a coughing fit. When it subsided he continued, "I came in with the chips and I am planning to go out with the chips. The cancer doctors say I have another few weeks or even months, but tonight is as good a night to die as any other, and I might as well keep up the family tradition - - - but first I have to tell you my story."
He paused. But this time he didn't laugh..., and he didn't cough. Instead he went very quiet with his eyes taking on a very, very far away look. I had seen that look before - usually in combat veterans. Psychiatrists call it "the thousand mile stare." Whatever memory was flashing through his mind was very powerful and highly traumatic. It was very quite in that room as we all waited for him to break the silence.
After a few moments, he sighed, took a deep breath, and continued, "I need to tell you some things about the arrows from Orion's bow that I have never written down for anyone except myself..." He held up the notebook. "... and I have never shown anyone this field journal - not even Earl. No one would have believed me, and if I had ever published any of this, I would have been laughed out of academia."
"Earl has shown me some of the things that you write." He looked at me over the top of his glasses. His eyes were now a very bright blue. "I think you will understand... and I am sure that you can tell my story to the world. I no longer care what my fellow professors think of me. They can put it down to death-bed lunacy..... but it is the truth..... the absolute, god-awful, source-of-myth-and-mysteries truth."
He paused to open the field journal that was again resting beneath his hands. "W, I want you to have this when we are through here. Everything is written down in it... even the original Gaelic. Maybe you can pass it on to someone who might be around in 2025, or even 2063."
He again looked at me over the top of his glasses and raised his eyebrows as if to ask if I was ready. I nodded and he began, "On my nineteenth birthday, October 21, 1949, I was stationed overseas with the navy as - what else - a weatherman. My interest was astronomy, not meteorology, but the Navy had enough navigators and as the recruiter told me, 'Stars don't affect ships at sea, storms do.' They wanted storm watchers, not star gazers and my enlistment choices boiled down to being a weatherman or a ship's cook."
He gave me a very wry smile. "I have always been a terrible cook, but I can read a thermometer with the best of them. A hitch in the Navy would pay for college, and besides, it was right after the war and the draft was still in place. They hadn't drafted anybody since '47, but I figured it was better to eat Navy chow for a few years than risk being drafted into an infantry squad if things heated up with the Russians or someone else."
"In any case, everything worked out pretty well. I ended up with a cushy post on a hillside in Ireland near Birr Castle. The Earl's great observatory had been dismantled during 'The Great War,' but it was still a place rich in history for someone like me who was interested in the stars."
He looked down a bit sheepishly. "I've never told Earl where his name came from. I wanted him to be named after the man who designed and built the great Birr Castle telescope and first saw proof of spiral galaxies. But I couldn't remember the proper name of the third Earl of Rosse. So, when my daughter was considering what to name her first son, I suggested 'Earl.'"
He looked up at the ceiling as though he was watching the distant galaxies in his mind. Then he shook his head as if to clear his thoughts and bring himself back to the present. "Anyway, there I was smack dab in the middle of the Emerald Isle with not a whole lot to do except take temperature and barometric readings a couple of times a day - and there were four of us stationed there to do that. I made a lot of short day trips around Demesne to kill time and learn more about the Celts."
"In a little, local museum in a nearby town, I came upon some Gaelic manuscripts that the proprietor said talked about the Orionid meteor showers, or as the Celts called them, 'The Arrows of Orion.' I took it into my head to translate those documents and spent most of a month's pay to buy high quality copies of the originals."
"Gaelic is a god-awful language with too many letters and not enough words to really make sense in English, but I did my best with a lot of help from a couple of local Irish scholars. What intrigued me most was a warning I found buried in the text that said not to go walking on the fen during the meteor shower because 'when an arrow from Orion's bow falls to the ground at mid-darkness on 'Dark Night' the doorway of the King Makers will open.'"
"At least, that's what I thought it said. A local scholar, who had been teaching me Gaelic, told me that 'King Makers' should be 'Queen Makers' because the Celts didn't have Kings. They had Queens - Queens known for their beauty and their daring and their physical ability. Brave generals who had won great battles would be rewarded with a night or two in bed with the Queen. That not only served to provide incentive to the generals, it also provided brave breeding stock for future Queens to rule over the Celtic tribes."
"This same scholar assured me that 'Dark Night' was a reference to Shavnah. If you transliterate the word from Gaelic into English letters, you end up with Samhain, but he was adamant it was pronounced, 'Shavnah.' He was especially adamant that Gerald Gardiner had gotten it wrong when he pronounced it 'Soween.'"
"Shavnah is the original basis for what eventually became Halloween. It is the night of the first dark of the moon following the Autumnal Equinox. My tutor noted that the Romans took the holiday back with them after they ALMOST conquered Ireland around 45 CE. They moved it to November 1, and the night before became known as 'All Hallows Eve,' or 'Halloween.' In today's calendar, Shavnah is somewhere in the first 21 days of October, not on October 31."
Dr. Sorensen paused to let all that information sink into my very confused skull. "In 1949, my birthday..., and the peak of the Orionid meteor showers, fell on Shavnah, as it did in 1968 and 1979, and will again in 2025 and 2063." He gave me a very mysterious smile and went on, "I was back on those hillsides in '68 and '79, but I will have to miss 2025."
Another shake of the head brought him back to his story. "In '49 it was a very clear, very dark night, and the meteor display was phenomenal. Looking up at stars that you would never see in the light pollution that exists today, I could clearly see the full outline of the mighty hunter and watch as arrow after arrow seemed to leave his bow and flash across the night sky. Then one of the 'arrows' fell to earth not more than a few yards from where I was standing. I'm sure that it was nothing more than a speck of dust or a very small pebble by the time it hit the ground, but that close, the flash was nearly blinding."
"As my eyes began to readjust to the darkness, I thought at first that the flash had damaged my retinas. I was sure that something was wrong with my vision because I could not believe what my eyes showed me. Standing there before me was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was tall, with a body any Olympic athlete would die for. Her deep-copper-colored hair wound around her body nearly to her feet. Her nipples were bright pink, and stood stiff and erect in the cold, night air. The hair between her legs was a brighter shade of copper-orange and curled tightly against her cleft."
"I shook my head as if to clear an odd hallucination, but the nude woman remained standing before me and began to approach me. As she walked slowly toward me, she said softy, 'There is not much time. The door remains open only for a short while. We must make a Queen before the energy dissipates.' At least, that's what I think she said. She was speaking a very strange form of Gaelic, and I had enough trouble trying to understand the local version."
"She pulled me into her arms and began tugging at my clothing. Soon we were both lying naked on the spongy soil of the Irish fen. Our love making was frantic, she, from a need only she could understand, and I from my lust for her nearly perfect body. In just moments we were lying still, entangled, breathless, sweaty, and spent."
"'We have made a Queen,' she said to me. 'Now we can take our time and truly enjoy each other. You may call me Eve.' I didn't learn until later that Eve was spelled A-o-i-f-e"
"We made love all night. I was 19, and that was possible for me then. In the morning, we returned to my apartment together. I was shirtless, she was wearing nothing but my shirt and coat. It was scandalously short for that day, but would not even be noticed today. I wasn't sure how I was going to explain her to my roommates, let alone to Mrs. O'Malley."
"Mrs. O'Malley, our landlord, was an extremely fastidious, little old Irish lady who 'didn't put up with any shenanigans in her place.' She was sitting on the front porch as we came walking up the path."
"I was still trying to figure out what to say when Eve spoke to her in Gaelic. Mrs. O'Malley's eyes went wide and she crossed herself rapidly several times. 'Of course, dearie,' she answered. 'I will put you up in the spare room until we can make the arrangements for the wedding.'"
"As Eve walked up the steps and went into the house, Mrs. O'Malley pulled me aside and said to me in her heavily lilted English, 'So, Nate, me boy, you just had to go wandering on the fen on Dark Night when the arrows were shooting, did ye? Well, the door opened for ye, and you were chosen. Now you've gotten yourself a Queen Maker for a wife. Aoife tells me that the Queen has been made, but understand this: You be good to her, and the leprechauns will envy your luck. You treat her wrong, and you will envy those in the deepest pit of hell.'"
"I was deeply in lust, if not love for Eve. Mrs. O'Malley's words overcame any hesitancy on my part, and I answered her, 'I love Eve. Of course I will marry her, and I would never treat her wrong.'"
"Mrs. O'Malley answered, 'Aye, you will marry Eve. She will wait for you and you will wait for her. That is foretold in the stars and written in the stones. But I was speaking about the Queen. You love her and raise her right or my spirit will track you down when I've gone beneath the sod..., and you will see a side of me that no one above the green has ever seen.'"
"I married Eve about six weeks later. A very aged priest conducted the ceremony far out in the countryside in a very old church that seemed to be almost in ruins. I expected something close to the church's standard wedding ceremony, but instead of the regular book, he used a very, very old leather bound volume that appeared to be written totally in ancient Gaelic with elaborate calligraphy on every page. He spoke most of the service in that same, strange form of Gaelic that Eve had spoken and I had trouble following a lot of it. When we got to the vows, he repeated each statement in English for my benefit."
"'Eve,' he said, 'you have come through the door and chosen this mortal man. Will you love him in the time you have together and wait for him until the arrows call him home?'"
"She answered, 'Aye.'"
"'Nathaniel,' he said to me, 'you have been chosen. Do you accept your chosenness? Do you promise to carry the Queen to her throne and love and protect her for as long as you live? And do you promise to wait for Eve until the night on which the arrows call you back so that you may be together forever?'"
"I answered, 'Yes, I do,' but I really had no idea what in the hell he was talking about. None of it made sense. I just assumed that they used some strange, ancient marriage ritual in that area."
"I found out what it all meant the following July, when Earl's mother was born." Dr. Sorensen's eyes clouded as he continued. "Roisin was to be our only child. Eve died in childbirth. Or at least that's what the doctors said. Eve had told me a few days before, with tears in her eyes, that after the child was born, she would have to be going home, but she would wait for me there as she had promised. Her grave is on that hillside where I first met her. By her request, it is marked only by the shamrocks and wild flowers of the heath."
His voice was thick as he continued, "I raised Rose on my own - not easy for a man going through eight or so years of college to get a doctorate. She had a fiery spirit that matched the color of her hair, and in another age, in another place, could very well have become a true Queen."
"Instead, I made sure that she was properly educated at the best colleges and universities in the world. She lives out east and is now the head of one of the top Fortune 500 companies. The chair in her office is a design based on the throne of the Celtic Queen, Medb, a mythical warrior Queen of ancient Ireland. A portrait of Medb in full battle armor hangs behind her desk. I don't know where she got that painting, but the artist painted Medb to look very much like Eve."


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Cara de Gorila Peak belongs to Serra do Marimbondo inside
Itatiaia National Park
. Prohibition is a very common problem within the limits of this park. And just like several other summits inside the park, to reach this summit is forbidden. You must ask for the permit to go to Maromba Peak and do it with that mountain in a very long day, ask for the permit before and you may not get it. I hate that and of course, I'll never obey that kind of stupid rule.
Anyway, it is a smal rocky and grassy mountain with 2.351 meters of altitude. Fantastic views to the west side of Itatiaia National Park, and with that view it is easy to identify several summits such as
Urubu Peak
Pedra Assentada
Pico Prateleiras
Agulhas Negras
Asa de Hermes
Unnamed Peak
Pedra do Altar
Pedra do Sino
. Some of the highest summits of Brazil.
The peak is located at the east border of the park. The name Cara de Gorila, is portuguese for "Gorila's face". I thought about that for months and since I've never seen the mountain until some recent visit at Itatiaia National Park, I could not check that out.
Getting There
180° of summit view from Urubu Peak to several summits of Itatiaia National Park east border. You can see Cara de Gorila Peak: Third one from right to left.
Summit Splattski shot
Just like another mountains of the park, you have so many options to reach that distant mountain…
But, depending on your choice, you have to get to different cities outside the limit of the park. If you choose to start the trekking by the east border, go to Visconde de Mauá, at the Escorrega Waterfall (Cachoeira do Escorrega in Portuguese), there is a road at the left side of the waterfall, half an hour walking up you'll get to a small farm. Ask nicely to the owner to cross his property and show you the trailhead. It is easy and well marked, impossible to get lost. The altitude difference to get to the base of Maromba Peak is around 1200 meters. It is good to establish a base camp after so many walking and do the summit next morning.
You'll be camped at around 2.280 meters and that means you'll be camped at the same altitude as the summit itself, but don't think that will be easy, it is a 9 kms hike to go in and back, and you will have to fight the woods, sometimes higher than you!
Water nearby (60 or 70 meters away, that's it). From there you can do four summits, Maromba Peak, Cabeça de Leão Peak, Cabeça de Leoa Peak and Cara de Gorila.
Sat view to the mountain and routes
If you deicide to do it by the west side of the park, you have two choices: Start from the lower part of the park. Go for the city of Itatiaia, there is another entrance of the park there. Ask for the permit to do the Maromba traverse (travessia da marimba in Portuguese). Again, it's possible to be denied. Just follow the "avenue trail" (sometimes the trail is so open that reaches 3 meters wide!) until you get to the base of the mountain. In that case, it's going to take up to 2 days just to reach the base, and one more to summit the peak and go down at the East side, towards Cachoeira do Escorrega.
The other option to do it by the west side is to get to the well known high entrance of the park, ASK FOR THE PERMIT to do the traverse and take the trail at Rebouças Hut. It is possible to take the Rebouças – Maromba traverse and get to the base of the mountain just like the other option. But this one goes by the left side of Agulhas Negras and Pedra do Sino. The previous option goes by the right of those mountains.
Once you get to the camp, chose your way to the summit, i suggest you take the ridge on Maromba Peak, summit that mountain and go on a straight line towards Gorila. If the weather is good, sometimes you can see up to 200 kms distance! Since that is a distant mountain and the weather changes very fast, sometimes you can find yourself inside a really foggy day so be careful. It is not very easy to reach that summit. Watch out! Also the col between the main ridge of Maromba Peak and the mountain is a nightmare to pass, woods too tall (sometimes 10 ft tall!) and a very wet place, you may find yourself with water up to your knees or maybe higher. Also, be careful with snakes at the area. :/
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If you go by the high entrance of the park, as soon as you get there register yourself and pay a fee of R$ 12,00 (about USD 7.00) for the entrance.
Parking lot at the entrance;
Well marked trails (just to camp by Marombinha Peak and Maromba summit);
What's forbidden:
At all costs, don't make fire or Deforest any places. Respect the nature and wildlife please!
A GPS is highly recommended for that part of the park, on a foggy day you will be lost in no time.
Anywhere you want, just don't camp at a too visible spot. Try not to get too much atention to yourself to avoid problems. At the base of Maromba Peak the trail is so open that you can camp. Clean water nearby. Best option.
To make the distance a little bit shorter you can set up camp between Maromba Peak and Cabeça de Leoa Peak, much faster to reach Gorila's summit.
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PS: The weather forecast on this link is not for this mountain but it will do just fine since the mountain from the forcast (Black Needles) is just a few kms away from it.
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Table of Contents
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Henry Mountains and more
Mount Pennell
A major peak in the Henry Mountains, Pennell is a lofty 11,408 beauty that
is in an area where few people visit. The Henry Mountains are off the beaten track for most people but the range itself is a prominence peakbagger's dream. Mt. Ellen is the highest peak in the range is also the county highpoint of Garfield county and is the King, errr, Queen of the Henry Range. But the star of this page is Mt. Ellen's neighbor to the south, Mt. Pennell so let me provide some information for those who are interested.
Mount Pennell, as a standalone is the second biggest mountain with an elevation of 11,408 feet while its neighbor to the south, Mount Hillers,
rises 10,723 feet. Mount Holmes, 7,930 feet; and Mount Ellsworth, at 8,235 feet. You could easily spend a whole week in this range, bagging a peak every day. Take a 4WD high clearance vehicle to access the likes of Pennell and Ellsworth and take plenty of water. We did find running water in Straight Creek but I don't know how dependable that source is.
five of Utah's 81 prominence peaks
are found in this range:
Mt. Ellen
(#3 in prominence with 5842')
Mt. Pennell (#26 in prominence with 3658')
Mt. Hillers
(#32 in prominence with 3337')
Mt. Ellsworth
(#42 in prominence with 2915')
Mt. Holmes
(#64 in prominence with 2278')
Mt. Pennell was one of the most forested peaks in S.E. Utah, despite the minimal rainfall that is common to the area, until a fire destroyed much of the forest, dealing a nasty blow to this area for many years to come.
Scott has put up an album for the Henry Mountains.
Getting There
The key is to find your way to Hanksville Utah but with a state of Utah map, that is a problem that is easy to solve. As you head south out of Hanksville on highway 95(be sure to have gassed up and have plenty of water aboard), you drive 27 miles until you reach a junction with highway 276. Turn right onto 276 and drive 4 miles to milepost 4 and start watching for a turnoff to the right.
Sign #1
If you pass milepost 5 you have gone too far. The road you turn off on is a dirt road and has a sign indicating the mileage to the Coyote Benches and Straight Creek junction (14 miles away).
Sign #2
Beyond that sign is another one placed by the BLM letting you know that this is a National Backcountry byway. The road goes up hill and in a bit you will pass the Trachyte Ranch. The road will drop down and cross a small stream before it heads back up the hill and after awhile you encounter a fork in the road and another mileage sign. Take the right fork as you don't need to go to Stanton Pass but opt for the Coyote Benches instead. The road winds a bit and climbs up onto the benches and until you reach the Straight Creek junction, just go until you hit a T intersection. The road to the right heads to Gibbons Springs and 'The Horn'
Sign #3
You will go left but two large new signs will indicate Straight Creek and
Browns Hole but what you will want is the first road that takes off to the right in less than a 100 yards or so. This road leads into the canyon and
when we were there, the road was blocked by a large down tree and you might as well have parked near where this road takes off from the main one.
You can walk this road if you wish (much easier than bushwhacking), it is roughly 4 miles to a FAA site from where you will go cross country a half mile up to the summit of Pennell. The elevation gain from this spot is about 3500 feet. More on this on the route section as there are other ways to the summit.
The main access is via the road mentioned above. From the Straight Creek Juntion, it is 9 miles round trip with over 3600' of elevation gain.
Mount Pennell
There are other routes, one that goes up the north ridge and I would hope that those who have gone up by different routes might add their information to this overall page by adding a route page. Greg Jagielski and Kadee Smith utilized the north route but I don't have any information beyond just knowing they went that way.
From Michael Kelsey's book, (
see here
), he he shows a route from Gibbons Springs but I have no information on it. The book he authored is a good information source for the Henry Mountains and the background of the area. A book I had to buy once I discovered it.
Route map
The Summit
This mountain sees at least one or two ascents every year as its prominence attracts many peakbaggers and Utah peakbaggers who love the Henry Mountains.
Lists of John shows over 20 visitors and
has a listing of over 14. Peakbagger also has a couple trip reports with GPS tracks but those tracks pretty much follow the route I've posted here.
Central Benchmark
On the summit
Pages from register booklet
The summit
Red Tape
This is BLM land and as far as I know there are no restrictions. Use common sense and the Leave No Trace approach. No permits are needed at this time.
BLM Area Manager,
Box 99, Hanksville, Utah 84734;
telephone (435) 542-3461
Mount Pennell and Straight Creek sign
You could car camp just about anywhere (on BLM land) and there is
a campground at Starr Springs
This would be a great central location to explore this part of the Henry Mountains. Motels in Hanksville are another possibility for those who don't camp.
Tree stopper
Colorful road walk
Weather information
External LinksA must read report about
the Henry Mountains (BLM)
Dead majesty
Trip Report
Our hike to the top of Mt. Pennell was part of a seven day swing through southern Utah that my son in law had wanted to do. He is crazy about southern Utah and even though he lives in Portland, Oregon, his heart is in the Capitol Reef, Canyonlands, and Escalante country. Of course he grew up in Utah and it is hard to take the Utahan out of him and Oregon just doesn't strike the same chords in his soul as the red rock country of southern Utah.
He asked me back in October of 2007 if I'd be willing to take a week and go
"explore" more of southern Utah (of course my 4WD Tacoma was the key here) and of course, I thought it was a great idea because not only would he see an area he can't get enough of, I could work on my obsession with the Utah prominence peaks. Before the week was over we had "captured" seven of the Utah prominence peaks and had covered most of southern Utah.
Day one - a drive up Monroe Peak
Day two - A hike to the top of 1000 Lakes Mtn as the morning appetizer and then just beating an electrical storm as we hurried off the summit of Hilgard Mtn.
Day three- Lands End (worth its own trip report)
Day four - Mt. Pennell
Day five - Abajo Peak and a ferry ride across Lake Powell
Day six - Poorman Peak north of Cedar City
Day seven - family reunion near Cedar Breaks (fun fun fun)
As I get the chance, I'll put this whole week into a more meaningful context where some of the experiences we had might help others who are
chasing the Utah prominence peaks. Stay tuned.
Mt. Hillers a worthy goal
Mount Hllers as seen from Mount Pennell
Henry Mountains and more
To fully understand the Mt. Pennell area, I have found on the internet this excellent resource material from this
It is their material that is reproduced below:
Henry Mountains
"The Henry Mountains of southeastern Utah were one of the last-surveyed and last-named mountain ranges in the lower forty-eight United States. The Henrys are located in the middle of the Colorado Plateau, a sea of sandstone cut by deep canyons. The surrounding country for miles is arid and supports little vegetation; the very ruggedness of their setting left the Henry Mountains isolated and unknown until after the Civil War. Even today the Henrys and the surrounding regions remain isolated and sparsely settled. Ironically, however, among geologists the Henrys are known world-wide because of a classic study of their geology done during the 1870s.
The Henry Mountains are about sixty miles long by about twenty miles wide, and are located in Garfield County, Utah. The nearest settlement is the town of Hanksville to the north. The range is bounded on the east and south by the Colorado River and its tributary, the Dirty Devil River; on the west by the Waterpocket Fold; and on the north by the San Rafael Swell. The vertical relief between the Henrys and the surrounding plateau regions ranges from 6,000 to 8,000 feet. From north to south the highest peaks of the Henrys are as follows: Mount Ellen (the northernmost and also the highest peak), having an elevation of 11,506 feet above sea level; Mount Pennell, with an elevation of 11,371 feet; Mount Hillers, 10,723 feet; Mount Holmes, 7,930 feet; and Mount Ellsworth, at 8,235 feet. The latter two peaks are separated from the main range by a valley, and are sometimes referred to as the Little Rockies because of their rugged appearance. All of these names were given to the peaks by U.S. government surveying parties in the 1870s.
Vegetation zones in the Henrys range from Alpine, along the summit ridges of Mount Ellen, to Warm Desert Shrub at the base of the mountains. Predominant plants are Ponderosa pines, found on the slopes, and pinyon pine, juniper, and gambel oak, rabbitbrush, and greasewood. On the lower elevations sage, dogweed, ephedra, yuccas, and cactus predominate. The vegetation of the Henrys has been drastically affected by overgrazing.
Wildlife on the Henrys is not abundant, due to the arid nature of the surrounding lands. Reptiles are the most common form of vertebrate wildlife, with many different forms and species present, including rattlesnakes. Various species of birds including sage grouse, ravens, hawks and other predators along with other smaller birds inhabit the Henrys. Deer are the largest native mammals, but rabbits and many types of rodents can also be found, as can their predators--coyotes, foxes, bobcats, and an occasional mountain lion. Most predators, however, have been killed off by ranchers. Porcupines and beaver are also present, the latter along the mountain streams. Other species of large mammals have been introduced, either purposely or by accident, with mixed results. Elk and bighorn sheep were introduced (reintroduced, in the latter case) but neither species thrived and today there are no elk in the Henrys. Feral burros, goats, and horses can also be found in the region.
The one successful introduction of a non-native species occurred in 1941 when eighteen buffalo were released north of the mountains. The following year another five bulls were added, and the herd has thrived up to the present. Today they mostly live on the western slopes of the Henrys. During the summer they stay in the higher, cooler elevations, while in the winter they move to Swapp Mesa and Tarantula Mesa west of Mount Pennell. The Utah Department of Wildlife Resources maintains the herd at about 200 individuals. The first buffalo hunt in the Henrys was held in 1950, and a hunt has been held almost every year since 1960.
By the time John Wesley Powell made his pioneering voyage down the Colorado River in 1869, most of the United States was surveyed and mapped. The region around the Henrys, however, remained a blank spot on contemporary maps. Even the peripatetic Spanish explorers failed to leave a lasting name for this range, although it is likely that they were the first whites to notice the mountains from a view point west or south of the Spanish Trail. Neither did the next white men to enter the area, including the French-Canadian trapper Denis Julien; his only known writings are enigmatic inscriptions left in Glen Canyon area of the Colorado River. Jacob Hamblin, the Mormon missionary to the many tribes in the area, surely noticed the Henrys as he traveled back and forth across Glen Canyon in the 1850s, but he too failed to name the mountains. Native American names for the range are not recorded.
John Wesley Powell made note of the range on his 1869 voyage, and called them the Unknown Mountains. When he returned in 1871, he named them the Henry Mountains after Joseph Henry, a close friend who was secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In 1875 Powell assigned a noted geologist, Grove Karl Gilbert, to study the unique volcanic features of the Henrys, a task which took Gilbert two separate field seasons in 1875 and 1876 to complete. Out of this study came one of the classics of modern geology, the Report on the Geology of the Henry Mountains, published by the U.S. Geological Survey in 1877. In this work Gilbert first identified the Henrys as a laccolithic range, formed by igneous intrusions into the surrounding sedimentary rocks. Gilbert's Report remains a standard work of geology; as Charles B. Hunt, a geologist who studied the Henrys in the 1950s, noted, "The Henry Mountains have been referred to in the geological literature of every language and are one of the localities most widely known to the science. No geologist needs to be introduced to them."
The rigors of the land have precluded any large-scale settlement of the Henrys or the surrounding regions. Evidence of prehistoric inhabitation by both the Fremont and Anasazi cultures is found in the surrounding area, but there is little or no indication of habitation in the mountains themselves. Nor did the Spaniards make any inroads into this isolated area. Although there have never been any permanent settlements in the Henrys themselves, the surrounding region was settled by Mormon pioneers as early as 1882, when Elijah Cutler Behunin moved his family to the present site of Caineville.
The following year Ebenezer Hanks, responding to a mission call to colonize the area, settled north of the Henrys, along the Fremont River, with several other families. A post office was established there in 1885, at which time the town was named Hanksville. By 1890 there were twenty families in the town, and in 1893 LDS Church records showed a population of more than 500 people living in the region. Many other small communities were established along the Fremont River--Giles, Mesa, Clifton, Blue Valley, Notom--but a series of disastrous floods in the 1890s and early 1900s drove most of the settlers away and today only Hanksville survives. South of the mountains were small communities at Hite and Halls Crossing, both being crossings of the Colorado River in Glen Canyon. Today Bullfrog, a recreational community servicing Lake Powell, flourishes on the southern end of the Henrys.
Cattlemen from Colorado moved their herds onto the northern end of the Henrys in the late 1870s, but the practice lasted only a few years before they moved on. By the 1890s, however, many ranches had been established in the Henrys themselves, and a number are still in operation. The first large herds of sheep were introduced into the Henrys around 1900, and by 1925 sheep had largely replaced cattle on the range. Shortly after World War I a large herd of goats was introduced; some of their descendants, since become feral, are said to still survive in the area. The large herds of sheep and cattle badly overgrazed the slopes of the Henrys, and the ranges have not recovered to the present day. Where there are cattle there are cattle rustlers, and the Henrys had their share of outlaws and other shady characters. The Outlaw Trail passed nearby, and one of the most used hideouts was the Robbers Roost country, just east of the Henrys. This area was the haunt of many desperadoes, including the Wild Bunch. Outlaws probably passed through or hid in the Henrys, and certainly hunted there, but most of their activities were elsewhere.
It was the lure of precious metals that brought the largest influx of settlers into the area. Glen Canyon experienced a number of gold rushes beginning in the early 1890s which had an effect on the Henrys. Lumber for the mining camps and for the Stanton Dredge was cut at many places in the mountains, and roads to reach the stands of timber were built up Bull Creek, where a sawmill was also built. Naturally, some of this activity led to other activities in the mountains. In 1890 Jack Sumner, who had been with Powell in 1869, located the Bromide Mine near the summit of Mount Ellen. Prospects seemed good, and by 1893 more than 100 men were reported to be working in the area. A small town called Eagle City was established at Crescent Creek, at the foot of the mountains, with homes, a hotel, two saloons, a dance hall, three stores, and a post office. The Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway made preliminary surveys for a branch line from Green River, Utah, to Eagle City. However, by 1900 the pocket had played out and Eagle City was a ghost town. Other mines were begun on Mount Hillers, and a number of prospects were developed on the eastern slopes of Mount Pennell by Edwin T. Wolverton, beginning around the turn of the century. Wolverton build a stamping mill there in 1921, but none of the mines proved of any worth, and today there is no active gold mining in the Henrys.
Coal fields west of the Henrys were worked intermittently from the time the first was opened in 1888 until about 1945, when the difficulties of getting the coal to markets caused their closure. The only mineral that ever has been mined in large quantities in the Henrys is uranium. Mines were first opened in the decade just before World War I, when radium was found to be useful for medical treatments and luminous paint. Exploration for and production of uranium faltered until after world War II. In the late 1930s and during World War II, small amounts of vanadium (which occurs with uranium and was required for tempering steel) were mined in the Henrys. After the war, with the demand for uranium for nuclear weapons, many other uranium deposits throughout the Henrys were prospected and mined, and some of them are still worked today. South of the Henrys, the small settlement of Ticaboo, with a mill and company town, was built in the late 1970s to process uranium from nearby mines. By the time the town and mill were completed, however, the price of "yellowcake" (processed uranium ore) had dropped and the mill was shut down. Today, rusting machinery, abandoned shafts, and scattered debris are all that survive as relics of the uranium booms of the 1950s.
The conditions of aridity, isolation, and rugged surroundings that have always kept settlement and development in the Henry Mountains to a minimum will no doubt preclude any large-scale influx of people in the immediate future. The landscape is just too harsh, the distances too vast. Lake Powell, which flooded Glen Canyon of the Colorado River south of the mountains, draws a large number of recreationists each year, and some of these who seek solitude and wildness find their way into the Henrys. Some grazing is still allowed in the mountains, and there are still active mining claims, but neither of these uses will likely have much impact on the range in the future. The Henry Mountains will likely remain the way they have been for countless ages, an isolated pocket of wilderness in an ever growing sea of humanity."
Roy Webb
Cautionary note
: Remember that this area is isolated and you need to be self reliant meaning a vehicle in tip top shape, perhaps two spares and plenty of water. The nearest town is Hankville, and other than hunting season, you more than likely won't see anyone else out in the Mt. Pennell area. As a disclaimer, I would warn you that hiking and climbing in this area poses a risk and if you go there, you are assuming that you understand the risk aspect. Do not hike or climb in the area during an electrical storm.
Hiking, climbing or traveling in this type of country can be inherently dangerous, the above information is provided only as a courtesy. You accept all risk and responsibility for your activities in this area and I recommend that you let others know of your plans and where you will be hiking/climbing prior to heading to this area. Be self sufficient and carry plenty of food, water and shelter in the event of a breakdown. Good quality tires are a necessity on the rough and rocky roads you will encounter as is a vehicle in good condition. Roads may become impassable when wet. Avoid the area during electrical storms and avoid high ridges &exposed areas. Having said all that, have a good trip and please let the author of this page know of changes that you encounter.
Please let me know if road conditions or access changes.
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