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Conor Mullen Oberst is an American singer-songwriter best known for his work in Bright Eyes. He has also played in several other bands, including Desaparecidos, The Faint (previously named Norman Bailer), Commander Venus, Park Ave., Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, and Monsters of Folk. Oberst was named the Best Songwriter of 2008 by Rolling Stone magazine.
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I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
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I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can...
I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret...
I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of...
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|A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
|Although Omaha is my birthplace and the place I grew up, I don't see myself spending extended amounts of time there. I feel almost more comfortable and more at peace in New York.
|Time ;War & Peace
|Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience where a record or a recording has kept you company when no one else is around. And I think that is what I'm hoping that people get out of my music.
|Music, Chants & Rapps ;Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Lifestyle
|Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
|Arts, Culture, Entertainment & Lifestyle
|Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
|Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.
|I always embrace the worst-case scenario.
|I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs.
|I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.
|Politics, Politicians & Political Campaigning & Fund Raising
|I don't feel real confident expressing myself except when I'm writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.
|I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That's just not how my songwriting works - it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are.
|I enjoy recording and performing, but it's the songwriting that I love most.
|Love, Romance, Marriage & Sex
|I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.
|I have a car in Nebraska. When I bought it, they gave me a satellite radio, and there's an 'indie-rock' station. It's just nothing I'm interested in.
|I have a lot of friends that take that position of extreme cynicism, and I just can't let myself go to that place. It's just too easy, and it's just too defeatist.
|I have a terrible memory in general, but one thing I've always been able to remember is my songs.
|I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.
|Families, Children & Parenting
|I have on many occasions spoken my mind from stage. I have offered organizations table space by the merch booth. I have donated a dollar-a-ticket, or the entire guarantee, to different causes. I have registered voters. I have played on behalf of political candidates.
|I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.
|I kind of go in waves with reading. Sometimes I read all the time, and sometimes I can't get settled enough to focus.
|I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into her, and then the melody comes pouring out her eyes. Now, to me, everything else just sounds like a lie.
|I like ideas, but I don't like being preached to.
|I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, 'The Handmaid's Tale.' And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what's to come, so I think that's really interesting.
|Science, Mathematics, Engineering & Technology
|I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.
|Time ;Love, Romance, Marriage & Sex
|I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.
|I never camped as a kid, but I really got into camping and sleeping outdoors. I've also done some amazing river floats in New Mexico and Idaho. It's peaceful and awesome.
|I prefer career artists that have spent time honing their craft, as opposed to, 'I won a karaoke contest on a reality show and now I have a record.' That's such a drag. The music that comes out of it is so poor.
|Time ;Music, Chants & Rapps
|I read the newspaper online. Mostly 'The New York Times.' I'll still buy papers if I'm getting on an airplane or the tour bus, though. I like physical things.
|I really believe in the way the energy can consolidate in certain geographical spots. You can find it in a lot of different places, beautiful natural spots, or if you look at Islam or Judaism or Christianity, these ideas of holy places.
|I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.
|Love, Romance, Marriage & Sex
|I remember having to quit school and quit my job. I just sort of moved all my stuff into other people's places. Within, like, six months, I was able to earn enough money from touring to rent a place again.
|Money, Coins & Minting
|I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.
|Love, Romance, Marriage & Sex
|I think that, with anything creative, you should have the freedom to experiment, and that experimentation means not feeling totally responsible for how other people perceive it.
|Freedom & Liberty
|I think there are some songs that stand the test of time better than others for sure. I think some songs go out of favour; I'll get sick of a song for a while, and I won't play it; then it'll make a comeback.
|I think there's a danger, for me at least, in retreating and going inward and depression. I have to stay diligent against that tendency.
|I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
|I think we should be pushing for amnesty and a path to citizenship for every undocumented person residing in the United States who has not committed a violent crime, with a special emphasis on keeping families together.
|I try to keep the idea that there's an audience in as little space in my mind as possible, but you can't erase it entirely, the idea that when you're sitting down to write a song, people are going to hear it.
|I try to make all my songs good. I don't ever write one to finish one. A lot of protest songs end up that way, driven by some kind of emotional response.
|I used to work at a school as a teacher's assistant, and my mom is a principal at an elementary school. I don't know, I think that's a pretty good life, teaching kids.
|Education, Learning, Knowledge & Training ;Life ;Work, Workers & The Labor Force
|I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.
|Religion & God
|I went right from wunderkind to washed up. Old. Been around too long. That's just the way I feel. That's my internal dialogue.
|I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.
|If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
|If there's a criticism of 'Cassadaga' that I agreed with, it's that we left things in the oven too long, that songs were overstuffed, with too many ideas competing for space.
|If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.
|If you think about Protestant and Catholic or Shiite and Sunni, they are basically the same thing... one eats with their left hand, the other eats with their right hand.
|If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it's essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were.
|I'll never understand how destroying families through deportation benefits our society. How we treat the undocumented says a great deal about us as a people and whether or not we'll continue to fulfill the fundamental American promise of equality and opportunity for all.
|Society ;Equality & Equal Opportunity
|I'll write about myself, or people I know, or archetypal characters, but the goal is to get at some truth, not to necessarily convey my own experience as an individual to the world.
|I'm a real music fan, so I listen to all kinds of music all the time. I listen to a lot of what my friends or people I know are listening to. I'm always checking out new bands.
|Time ;Music, Chants & Rapps
|I'm always fascinated when people really fervently believe, because I have such a hard time believing anything. When people have real faith in something, it's fascinating to me. And the fact that so many people, in surveys, so many people say they do. It kind of blows my mind.
|Time ;Religion & God
|I'm proud that with 'Bright Eyes' we've always experimented and tried to make a different record every time out.
|I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.
|In many ways Bright Eyes is really a studio project. We form bands to tour, but it really is - you know, we take the songs and we figure out how to decorate them and it's all in the studio; we build the songs that way.
|In theory, I always think I should totally go back to school, because I don't want to start sinking slowly... I want to learn, blah blah blah. Then I think about actually going and sitting in classes and, man, it sounds terrible.
|It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.
|It's dangerous to buy into praise and criticism for what you do when you're trying to present your music to people. I don't ignore it completely, but I don't dwell on it too much.
|Music, Chants & Rapps
|It's glorious to be able to go onto the Internet and hear any kind of music anywhere, from anywhere, and get it instantly. But there's also something glorious about having a record with a sleeve and looking at the artwork, putting it on the turntable and playing it, there's still something romantic to me about that.
|Music, Chants & Rapps ;Romantic
|It's human nature to wonder.
|It's very strange when people get so focused on what a song means, what actual events inspired a song. That gets people really excited for some reason... But that's what's great about music - however people interpret it, whatever they see, is what I want to be there for them.
|Music, Chants & Rapps
|I've always been slightly preoccupied with death or whatever those kind of silly big questions people will tell you to not spend your time worrying about.
|Time ;Death
|I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.
|I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
|I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.
|Music, Chants & Rapps
|I've thought about the idea of, 'Can happiness and creativity co-exist?' So much of what I've done, I think, has been based on being dissatisfied or incomplete or lonely. The answer is, 'There isn't an answer, necessarily.'
|Happiness & Unhappiness
|Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he's committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.
|Let the poets cry themselves to sleep, and all their tearful words will turn back into steam.
|Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.
|Love's an excuse to get hurt.
|Love, Romance, Marriage & Sex
|Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.
|Music is unique because you can get behind enemy lines a little bit, get into people's houses and into their heads, on their stereos, and win hearts and minds.
|Music, Chants & Rapps
|My family is Catholic. I went to a Catholic school, that kind of thing, so that was my childhood for sure.
|Families, Children & Parenting
|My favorite rhymes are sort of half-rhymes where you might just get the vowel sound the same, but it's not really a true rhyme. That gives you far more flexibility to capture the feeling you're trying to express. But sometimes it's best not to have any rhyme.
|My main thing is just to keep writing. I've been doing some songwriting that's for my own record, I suppose.
|No lies, just love.
|Love, Romance, Marriage & Sex
|Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.
|Happiness & Unhappiness ;Romantic
|On every Bright Eyes record, there's some kind of sound collage that begins it. Some of them have dialogue, some don't. I like it because it can kind of slow down the attention span a bit. It's a way to draw you in to the rest of the record.
|On good days, I can see the inherent goodness in people, and that human beings have a high capacity to learn and adapt. But things like the environment, nuclear weapons and ideas like peak oil - if you think about them too much, they can really freak you out.
|Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think that realization means you're an adult.
|One of my best friends, Mike, had a kid. Just seeing him go through it all was inspiring. It would be so nice to care about someone more than yourself. And Mike is a total delinquent, so if he can do it, I figure I can, too.
|One of my favorite modern American authors is Denis Johnson. I'm deeply inspired by all of his work - I rip him off constantly.
|Work, Workers & The Labor Force
|People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
|Pronouns really don't matter in a song - 'I' or 'he' or 'she' or even subscribing a lyric to an inanimate object.
|Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart.
|So much of listening to lyrically driven music is projecting your own feelings and experiences into the music.
|Music, Chants & Rapps
|Sometimes I daydream about having a farm and a wife and some babies and watching the grass grow, but you have to meet the right person for that.
|The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.
|The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.
|The first music I ever got into was the '80s alternative bands that my brother listened to, like The Cure and The Smiths and R.E.M. and Fugazi. I can remember specifically saying The Cure was my favorite band back in second grade.
|Music, Chants & Rapps
|The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.
|Love, Romance, Marriage & Sex
|The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.
|The only thing major labels can really offer is money.
|Money, Coins & Minting
|The way my life's structured, I don't stay in a place for more than a couple months.
|The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
|There's a lot of optimism in changing scenery, in seeing what's down the road.
|There's a major underlying idea as you grow up that you need to just save your money and get that affordable housing at the edge of town where you're away from the city where all the crime happens or whatever.
|Money, Coins & Minting
|There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really making the decisions.
|There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.
|There's all body types, but there's just one size.
|They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
|To finish a song is the best feeling in the world.
|To me, a political song is also a personal song. Most political activism has been driven by empathy for other people and the desire for a world that's less divisive. Even if songs aren't overtly political, they can make a listener more empathetic.
|To outsiders it probably seems like splitting hairs, but to me, Bright Eyes is a simply the collaboration between myself and Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott. What you hear is definitely the sum of all our ideas and represents all three of us. But I still write the songs myself.
|We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul.
|We've all seen the power music has to spread messages of solidarity and hope.
|Music, Chants & Rapps ;Power ;Hope
|When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
|When I run into a person or a kid that comes up and gives me the spiel about, 'Hey, I got your record at this time in my life, and it really helped me,' that stuff totally still rings true. If you're standing there talking to someone, it's really easy to tell if they're being authentic or not. And that's great.
|Life ;Time
|When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
|When I try to explain to people the big influences in my life, or at least when I first started, the most important ones were my friends who were also writing songs and were typically four or five years older than me.
|When I was younger, I was somewhat of an idealist. I guess I'm a little bit more of a realist now. I think there's a lot that can be done to make the world a better place, but it's more about choosing your battles.
|When I would first come to New York on tour, I hated the place.
|When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.
|Music, Chants & Rapps ;Success
|When you write a song, the goal is not to convey the details of your life. You should write a memoir or something if that's what you're going to do.
|When you're 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it's heartbreak or death or love, obviously it's going to seem like a much bigger deal.
|Life ;Love, Romance, Marriage & Sex ;Death
|Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?
|Religion & God
|With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.
|History ;Science, Mathematics, Engineering & Technology
|You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.
|You can only really understand good if you have bad, so the idea of heaven or anything that happens for eternity, even if it's nice, I can't imagine it being nice forever. Even the idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know.
|You can't manufacture inspiration, so a lot of it is still a waiting game for me. There's still a lot of mystery to songwriting. I don't have a method that I can go back to - they either come or they don't.


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I have been a member of Wikinut since 2010, and have loved every minute of it. I used to write something every day, but lately it has slipped. Read on to find out why?
A Message to all my Wikinut Friends
I discovered Wikinut in 2010, and have not looked back. I find it a happy site, I have great friends, and always appreciate it when they read and comment on my work. The people on here are human, and also very talented at expressing themselves, and I am very proud to be a part of Wikinut.
I like to write something every day, it's very much a part of who I am, and the need to express my thoughts and opinions, which otherwise might lay dormant inside me because I am shy. When I joined Wikinut my confidence was at a low point because of someone bullying me on the internet because they couldn't bear the fact that I was a writer.
Now I am amongst people like myself it's like a breath of Spring. I don't get verbally attacked and slandered every time I write something, I can just be myself. I hope that one day bullying can be stamped out on the internet, at my age I can recognise that the bully is the person with the problems, but in the case of so many vulnerable young people that it happens to , it feels like their world is falling apart.
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Pheromones - Are There Different Types of Pheromones?
Are There Different Types of Pheromones?
are created from male sex hormones and secreted by apocrine glands in the skin. Both men and women produce male sex hormones, so both men and women produce
. However, almost immediately on contact with the surface of the skin, the precursor to pheromones is transformed by contact with bacteria on the skin. Women have different types of bacteria on the surface of their skin than men do, so they produce different
The short answer to the question of whether different types of human
exist is 'yes.' The slightly longer answer is that nobody yet knows how many different types there are, because this field of study is still quite new. Scientists have been researching these chemical messengers in humans for less than two decades.
So, while we might not yet know everything that would be helpful to know about human pheromones, we do know several important things. The first one might seem obvious, but one way they differ from each other is according to the gender of the person who produced them.
Another way to distinguish between pheromones is according to their function. Scientists classify them into two broad categories: primers and releasers or signals. Primers create long-lasting changes in the hormone system of the 'receiving' individual. They act on the hypothalamus, deep within the brain, causing it to release a trigger that stimulates the pituitary gland to secrete two hormones. These hormones act directly on the sex organs. Male
alter the hormonal balance of the receiving woman, raising the levels of female hormones. The most important role of primer pheromone, from the perspective of the human species, is to help to create ideal conditions for its continuation.
The second category of pheromones is variously called releasers or signals. This type actually creates behavior changes in the receiving individual, either attracting or repelling them. It's this type that has been touted as having a miraculous effect on the ability of men to attract women. However, while the activity of signal or releaser messages has been demonstrated in many other species, only very recently is there evidence that human male
may have this effect on women.
Pheromones also differ as to whether they're human or animal. For hundreds of years, perfumers have added animal
-the best known of which is musk-to fragrances, hoping to mimic their effect on sexual behavior in animals. However, since the messages are species-unique, dowsing yourself in musk won't increase your appeal to anyone except a female musk ox.
The final way to distinguish between
is to consider whether they're natural or synthetic. Most studies of their effect on women were conducted with natural sources-sweat-soaked pads of gauze or sweaty T-shirts. But there's also mounting evidence that synthetic pheromones can be effective in attracting mates. In one study conducted at the University of California found that 74% of the group wearing a pheromone fragrance reported an increase in social sexual behaviors, such as kissing and sexual intercourse. This corresponds to the signal/releaser function noted earlier. One of the problems with interpreting data like this is that the increase in social sexual behavior could be caused by a factor other than the fragrance, but the results of this study definitely supports the possibility that
can cause desired behavior in member of the opposite sex.
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We all enjoy different types of scents and associate them with a variety of things, for example, we often link lavender to relaxation. Many use perfume in different ways to enhance the smell of a room, clothes and even our body. Perfume is extracted from plants and flowers and it triggers different senses to induce a mood or state of mind. Plants also carry pheromones, which are transported in...
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Bi would rather be a commie elitist then a fascist but maybe it's just me
It seems the democrat elitist snobs created a movement that they can no longer contain
Oooh! Good dilemma! That would be a great poll question!
How do moderates on either side of the spectrum do anymore?
I it took less than a century to categorize those who fall along the Political spectrum with FDR as far left wing… but here we are.
James M Buchanan would be proud.
It seems everyone not in lockstep with Donald is far left wing.
Who are these candidates with such crazy ideas? Based on the last 3 years, is there anybody that would vote for any of the top four, over Trump? Anybody (in their right mind of course )?
Trump is a moderate. He's about as centralist as they come.
That's exactly what I'm asking. You don't believe that Trump is an elitist snob?
Yes, I do. In fact I know he is.
I'm looking forward to the answer here.
This helps. Conan, can you please explain what you think communist means?
It seems some regard him as a true champion of the working class.
Or, you know - at least good for tweakin' libz.
Doubt there will be an answer. But maybe.
She wasn't very moderate during the Kavanugh confirmation.
Warren as a communist?
"Fascist" is a very overused word.
Just use "gay butt edge edge". Another poster finds it funny, of course that's not how one pronounced it.
It's pronounced "booty judge"


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Modeling sustainable long-term electricity supply–demand in Africa
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Hand osteoarthritis: Clinical and imaging study
Aim: To examine the validity of US in assessing hand osteoarthritis (OA) and to study the relationship between ultrasonographic findings and OA symptoms. Methods: This study was carried out on thirty patients with primary hand OA, and fifteen healthy subjects serving as a control group. Patients were classified according to ultrasonographic findings of joint involvement into two subgroups: 15 patients with interphalangeal (IP) OA and 15 patients with IP and first carpometacarpal (CMC) joint OA. All hand joints were examined for tenderness, soft tissue swelling, hard tissue enlargement (nodes), and deformity. Functional assessment by AUSCAN questionnaire, grip and pinch strength measurement and pain assessment by Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) were carried out. Plain X-rays of both hands were taken and classified according to the Kellgren–Lawrence (K–L) grading scale. High resolution US of the hand joints was performed which focused on examining cartilage thinning, joint space narrowing (JSN), and osteophytes (OST). Results: There was a positive correlation between the K–L grading and US findings regarding JSN and OST. There was a positive correlation of AUSCAN score with cartilage thinning, OST and JSN. There was a negative correlation of grip strength with cartilage thinning and OST. There was a negative correlation between pinch strength and US findings (cartilage thinning, OST and JSN). There was a positive correlation between pain and US findings. Heberden's nodes were associated with underlying distal IP cartilage thinning, OST and JSN. On comparing the two subgroups of patients; patients with both IP and first CMC joint involvement experienced significantly higher levels of pain and disability and had weaker pinch strength. Conclusions: Ultrasonographic findings correlated with clinical findings as nodes, functional parameters as grip and pinch strength, and pain. The increased detection of OA structural pathology by US may make this a useful tool for hand OA assessment.
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Have you ever imagined living in a winter wonderland, walking through sculptures of ice on a lake that looks as if it was made ofTour Details
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Have you ever imagined living in a winter wonderland, walking through sculptures of ice on a lake that looks as if it was made of the purest glass? If this is your dream, then come and join us in March 2019 for the world-famous Lake Khuvsgul Ice festival. When Mongolia's biggest lake world freezes over it is truly a spectacle! Join in the ice competitions, witness the spectacular traditional dress and take in all the natural beauty of this breathtaking frozen wonderland!
Bactrian (Two Hump) Camels are some of the most unique and truly remarkable domesticated creatures in the world. Mongolia is famous for its use of these two humped beasts, using them for transport, wool and milk. Once each year, in the wilds of the Gobi Desert, the camel herders of Mongolia come together to show of the best of the best. Join us to watch the annual Gobi Camel Festival; experience camel races, camel polo, feats of agility and control as well as the beauty of Mongolian culture. You will see the care and attention these men and women give these animals as they are crucial to life out in the desert. You will also get to witness the beautiful simplicity of Mongolian herder culture; the slow and melodic beat of the desert dictates the day to day actions of these incredible people. Traditional costumes, food, music, and tradition will be at your fingertips! Join us and come on this adventure of a lifetime to one of the most unique festivals in the entire world.
The Kasakh minority in the west of Mongolia still practice the ancient tradition of hunting of Golden Eagles. Each winter, Ulaanbaatar hosts the Eagle hunters in a spectacular one day festival. Watch as Eagles land on their master's arm while he is riding a horse at full speed, and other incredible competitions.
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Transport: Russian Van: Steel Russian vans with seats facing each other, ideal for adventure seeking travelers (max 6 people)
- Lake Khuvsgul Ice Festival
- Thousand Camel Festival
- Eagle Festival
- Ulaanbaatar City Tour
- Camel Riding in the Gobi Desert
- Horse riding at Khuvsgul Lake
- Ger stay & cultural experiences
- Meeting Nomadic people as well as Reindeer herding Tsaatan tribe
Accommodation: Traditional Ger Camps & family guesthouses
During your time in Ulaanbaatar you will stay at Meg's Guesthouse in dorm room and double and single room accommodation. Meg's Guesthouse is located centrally in Ulaanbaatar, walking distance from many attractions and amenities. As a Mongolian company we prefer to support Nomadic families financially and help support their livelihoods. We are sure this resonates with our travellers who enjoy engaging with their culture on The Steppe. It is therefore our preference to stay with these families if they have an extra Ger. As well as directly supporting local herders, you can experience this rich traditional way of life first hand.
Basic (As Per this itinerary – Western Style amenities will be available on most days)
● Mongolian Domestic Flights – this tour requires domestic flights to Western Mongolia. Two important pieces of information regarding this
1. You must carry your passport with you on Domestic flights in Mongolia
2. Domestic flights in Mongolia have a luggage restriction of 10kg. It will cost you USD$2/kg for excess baggage. You will be able to leave any excess baggage in Ulaanbaatar before departing on your domestic flights
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(March 1st). Arrive in UlaanbaatarWe will organize a driver to meet you the airport and drive you back to Meg's Guest House in central Ulaanbaatar where you will spend your first night in dorm room accommodation. You can spend the day doing as you wish; recovering from your flight or doing some exploring around central Ulaanbaatar. No meals included on this day.
Day 2.
(March 2nd) Flight to Khuvsgul LakeAfter Breakfast, transport to airport for domestic flight. Flight takes 1.5 hours. Khuvsgul Lake- is known as the Dark Blue Pearl among beautiful mountains. This is the perfect place to have a vacation, kayaking, canoeing, hiking and horse trekking. Located in the northernmost province, it is the largest tributary stream of Lake Baikal in Russia - 96 rivers and streams flow out of the lake, among them the Egiin River, which then joins the Selenge along its eventual path to Lake Baikal. Lake Khuvsgul is 136km long, 36 km wide, 262 meters deep and is located at an altitude of 1645 meters above sea level. Taiga Fauna and Flora, and the Tsaatan, reindeer herders are the main attractions. The lake is the important migration route for birds from Siberia, thus facilitating marvelous opportunities for bird watching
Day 3.
(March 3rd) Ice FestivalAfter hearty breakfast, start the Ice Festival, short drive across the frozen lake. The festival is held at Khar-Us on Khovsgol Lake, Organized yearly on the frozen Khuvsgul Lake by National Park rangers and local residents. A respite from the confinement of the winter months. Just like the other festivals, it starts with Opening ceremony of the Ice Festival. The event schedules include skating marathon, ankle bone game ( shagain harvaa) and other traditional games. Camp fire after dinner, enjoying the bright stars in the night sky.
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(March 4th) Ice FestivalThe festival features a gathering of local residents and nomadic reindeer herders, and performances by shamans, musicians, and sportsmen. Competitions include ice sumo, a horse-drawn sleigh race, ice skating races, tug-of- war between local teams, and a Russian Jeep race on the ice. Many traditional games are played on the sidelines, and this is an ideal venue for visitors to join in the fun and games with local people.
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(March 5th) Eagle FestivalEarly morning flight to Ulaanbaatar. Have breakfast in the town's finest breakfast place. Eagle Hunting starts at 11am and is one of the most noble and awe-inspiring unions of beast and man. Get an inside look at this truly ancient and wonderful art. Kazakhs have a tradition of hunting on horseback with trained steppe eagles. The trainer wears a heavy padded glove on the right arm on which a hooded eagle perches, until its little leather hood (tomega) is removed and it sees its quarry, a fox or squirrel, and within moments it plummets and seizes it. A well-trained eagle flies back to his masters saddle when other horses approach. Accommodation at Meg's Guesthouse
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(March 6th) Gobi Desert - Camel FestivalAfter Breakfast, transport to airport for domestic flight. Flight takes 1.5 hours. Attend the opening ceremony of the festival and parade of camel riders. The day's competitions include "best looking couple on camelback" and "most adorable male and female camels," as well as a camel polo match that takes place in the central square. There's also an exhibition of paintings by local children who participate in the drawing contest called "Camel– My Friend" After the festival, drive to Tugrugiin Shire, a steep valley with rock formations and And dinosaur bones visible on the walls. Rare remains such as baby dinosaurs' skeletons in fossilized eggs and dinosaurs skeletons that died in combat were found in Tugrugiin Shiee by explorers.
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(March 7th) Gobi Desert - Camel FestivalThe competition begins with a race of mature camels followed by the racing of the two-year-old camels. For your own enjoyment, you may place bets on the camels. The first three camels in each group are awarded the gold, silver and bronze medals. In the afternoon, one of the most awaited competitions begins. This is called "The Camel Relay", a competition consisting of catching, taming, training and, finally, loading a camel with an actual ger. There are several groups with five members, each of which have different roles in the contest. The closing ceremony takes place late in the afternoon when the winners will be presented with their trophies. Visit Bayanzag "Flaming Cliffs", famous for its dinosaur fossils, eggs and the special Gobi tree, the "saxaul". In 1922 American explorer Roy Chapman Andrews found the first dinosaur eggs as well as numerous fossil skeletons of dinosaurs that lived 70-80 million years ago.
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(March 8th) Flight back to Ulaanbaatar- City TourAfter early breakfast, head to Dalanzadgad airport to depart for UB. Exploring the wonderful city of Ulaanbaatar and the surrounding area unique to Ulaanbaatar. You will visit following places: - Gandan Monastery - Sukhabaatar Square - National History Museum - Tour Guide will take you to the Mongolia Traditional food restaurant which is included in the tour price. You will visit Bogd Khaan Winter Palace,Zaisan Memorial, Gobi Cashmere Factory, and the Ger district (informal urban settlement). Your city tour will finish around 6pm. We suggest you also attend the National Music and Dance Ensemble which starts at 6pm. You will spend the night at Meg's Guesthouse Breakfast and lunch included on this day.
Day 9.
(March 9th) Depart UlaanbaatarWe can organize a driver to pick you up from Meg's Guesthouse and drop you off at the airport or train station in time for your departing flight or train. Breakfast included.
✔Transport (Tour Distance covered – 800 km)
✔Domestic flights
✔Airport transfers
✔Tour Guide (English speaking)
✔Accommodation at family run guest house and nomadic family Gers (8 nights)
✔3 Meals a day (Breakfast-9, Lunch-8, Dinner-7)
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✔Horse & camel riding 1 hour each
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❌International flights
❌Alcoholic soft drink drinks
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We will be cooking our meals on portable stoves. We will have to stock up on food provisions in the cities, so even that will limit some of your options.
All included meals will be prepared from fresh local produce. The majority of the shopping for food will be done before the trip departs, and fresh goods, such as meats, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products, will be bought en-route during the trip from supermarkets, local shops and markets. Breakfasts will generally consist of breads and cereals, if time allows a warm breakfast may be prepared. Many lunches will be provided en-route and will be light meals such as sandwiches and/or salads or local restaurants. All evening meals will be freshly-prepared hot meals, and will consist of a variety of continental and local dishes. Our GUIDE will organize the meal preparation and lead the way here.
Please note that snacks, soft drinks and alcohol are not included in the tour, so please bring your own. You'll be able to stock up on supplies at the several small towns where we stop for breaks along the way.
Mongolia is a country of extreme weather conditions. Depending on the time of year you go you should pack accordingly. The summers are very warm, but packing a warm layer or two would be very useful at any time of year, as in both the city and the countryside the evenings can get a little chilly.
Pack your favourite books for the long drive and a notebook to record your thoughts as you look out over the endless, sun-drenched Mongolian wilderness.
It is a good idea to include small gifts in your packing list, as you will inevitably be visiting local nomadic families in the county. It is polite to offer them some small gifts to show your gratitude in return for their hospitality.
Educational gifts for the nomadic children would be a good idea. Colouring books, crayons, colouring pencils, any children books and school stationery. You can buy all these from the department store in Ulaanbaatar after you arrive.
Other suggested gifts for the families are
Tea towel or fridge magnet from your home country and a head torch are very useful.
Sunscreen, long and short underwear, comfortable footwear, lip balm, sanitary hand wipes, sunglasses, prescription medications (if needed), rain gear & a hat
If you forgot something essential, don't worry. You can buy everything you need in Mongolia's Department Stores and travel shops.
Vegetarian meals and other dietary requirements can be catered for but need to be specified prior to arrival.
If you follow a vegetarian or vegan diet, it is still possible for you to enjoy Mongolia. There are more vegetables being grown in Mongolia today than there were 10 years ago, but Mongolians eat meat, so that is what is mostly available. We will go out of our way to find veggies, but the selection will be limited.
In the countryside it's going to be as rustic as it gets. There are very few paved roads in Mongolia, and most of those are not in great shape, so much of the driving will be done on tracks, which are really nothing more than paths through the steppe that people have driven over many times to pack the dirt down. Tracks are NOT for fast travel, they constantly change because of being washed out by the heavy rains or because they get too beat-up, so the going is slow and far from being smooth. Please consider that travelling in the countryside of Mongolia can be quite remote. There are often no paved roads so driving can be bumpy and can take a little longer than you might be used to. Also, given the remoteness, western style comforts may not be available.
Most of the vehicles we will use are very basic 4-wheel drive vans and jeeps because of the harsh terrain. These vehicles may not look like much, but they are rugged and when they do break down it's fairly easy to repair them which out on the steppe is important!
Russian Van: Steel Russian vans with seats facing each other, ideal for adventure seeking travelers (max 6 people) No seat belts & air conditioner in the van. (Most affordable option)
Japanese Van: Family type van with comfortable seats and air conditioning (max 3 people)
Land Cruiser: Comfortable speedy ride with air conditioning (max 2 people)
Accommodation is very basic in the countryside; you will be sleeping in tents or in the gers of local families. As nomads do not have their own running water supply we may not be able to have a daily shower and going to the bathroom means using some place just outside of camp (nomadic families rarely dig a pit toilet since they move so often).
Western style and luxury options are available in some parts of Mongolia in the form of Tourist ger camps. Ger camps have comfortable beds, hot showers and western style amenities. These are not included in the price quoted in this itinerary. However, if you think that you would prefer to have access to these western style comforts then please let us know and we can adjust the quote for your itinerary.
Once you are in the countryside exploring Mongolia it is our preference to stay with local nomadic families if they have an extra Ger. Gers will be shared by 5 people when we stay with a local family. As a Mongolian company we prefer to support these families financially, and help support their livelihood. We are sure this resonates with our travelers who enjoy engaging with their culture and way of life on the steppe. As well as directly supporting local herders, you can experience this rich traditional way of life first hand. On some nights we will be camping under millions of stars at our favourite camping spots, though if you'd prefer to camp more often you're more than welcome to pitch a tent every night. All necessary camping equipment will be included in the tours.
For the invitation letter we will need the following information:
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- Passport #
- Clear scanned copy of your passport
- Name of the City & Country where you are applying for your visa.
- Date of arrival & departure from Mongolia
In some cases, if there is not a Mongolian embassy in your country, it is possible to apply for permission to obtain a visa on arrival at Chinggis Khan International Airport. We can also help you to arrange this if you provide us with similar information as above.
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Forms of non-random copying error provide sources of inherited variation yet their effects on cultural evolutionary dynamics are poorly understood. Focusing on variation in granny and reef knot forms, we present a mathematical model that specifies how these variant frequencies are affected by non-linear interactions between copying fidelity, mirroring, handedness and repetition biases. Experiments on adult humans allowed these effects to be estimated using approximate Bayesian computation and the model is iterated to explain the prevalence of granny over reef knots in the wild. Our study system also serves to show conditions under which copying fidelity drives heterogeneity in cultural variants at equilibrium, and that interaction between unbiased forms of copying error can skew cultural variation.
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