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How The United Nations Could Ruin The Internet – MediaFile – Analysis – Reuters
#internet #un #netneutrality #icann #consulting #reuters @Callistecomm
According to John C. Abell 2012, "The Internet has sustained some pretty intense assaults in the past couple of years. There was the heavy-handed attempt to stamp out content piracy with SOPA/PIPA, the Federal Communications Commission's Net neutrality ruling, which many saw as splitting the baby, and that whack job who claimed to own a patent on the World Wide Web.
It is again open season on the Internet in Dubai, where the International Telecommunication Union, a United Nations agency ‑ whose mandate includes global communications ‑ is weighing proposals from many of its 193 member nations. Some of these proposals ‑ such as decentralizing the assignment of website names and eliminating Internet anonymity ‑ would make enormous changes to the organization and management of the Internet.
The ITU meeting, which began on Monday, runs through Dec. 14. Its agenda, and even the fact the proceedings are taking place at all, set off alarms among the Internet's guardian angels." Read more > http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2012/12/06/how-the-united-nations-could-ruin-the-internet/
Samsung Elec Seeks U.S. Ban On Some Ericsson Products – Reuters
#mobile #telecom #consulting @Callistecomm
According to Samsung Electronics 2012, "Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it had filed a complaint against Ericsson with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), requesting a U.S. import ban and sales ban on some of the Swedish telecoms equipment maker's products.
The action taken on Friday by the world's top smartphone maker, which accused Ericsson of breaching seven of its patents, came after Ericsson requested an ITC U.S. import ban on Samsung products and sued the South Korean firm for patent infringement." Read More > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/26/us-samsung-ericsson-idUSBRE8BP00F20121226
Apps To Help Achieve New Years Resolutions – Reuters
#apps #reuters #software #consulting @Callistecomm
According to Natasha Baker 2012, "Whether it is improving health or managing finances better, about 87 percent of Americans will make resolutions for 2013 and there are plenty of apps to help them achieve their goals.
Nearly half of New Year's resolutions are about setting health-related goals, which is the most popular category, according to a recent survey by online broker TD Ameritrade.
Rather than jumping into a rigorous fitness routine, a new app called 5K Runner suggests it might be better to ease into things slowly and focus on building sustainable habits. The iPhone app helps couch potatoes ramp up their running distance to 5 km over the course of eight weeks." Read more > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/12/24/us-app-newyear-idUSBRE8BN0I620121224
Google Recasts Android Market With New Name | Reuters
#tech #google #android #mobile #apps According to Alexei Oreskovic 2012, "Google Inc is renaming its online storefront for music, books and digital goods, its latest move to raise its profile in the market for electronic content sales and to better compete with Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc." Read More > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/06/us-google-idUSTRE82518R20120306
Now That's Fast "Verizon Doubling FiOS Speed to 300 megabits/second" | Reuters
#tech #verizon #fios #streaming #media Now that is fast. I think I'm going to like partnering with Verizon as a mobile client. The company all around seems to be on top of it's game. A communications company that actually…well uh…communicates with it's customers and understands consumer demand. According to Sinead Carew 2012, "Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) plans to double its fastest home Internet download speed to 300 megabits per second (mbps) next month, creating what it says will be the highest-speed U.S. residential service." Read more > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/30/us-verizon-fios-idUSBRE84T0WM20120530
They're Here, They're Geeks Get Used To It | Reuters
#tech #geeks #it #millennials According to Nick Zieminski 2012, "Turns out, geeks are inheriting the earth. Thanks to ubiquitous consumer electronics and the prominence of technology executives like Facebook Inc's Mark Zuckerberg and the late Steve Jobs of Apple Inc, it's no longer an insult to be called a geek." Read more > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/25/us-adecco-geeks-idUSBRE84O0YB20120525
Activision and Electronic Arts Settle Lawsuit | Reuters
#gaming #ea #activision #legal #law According to Dan Levine 2012, "Activision Blizzard Inc and arch rival video game company Electronic Arts Inc have settled a lawsuit in which Activision accused two former executives of breaking their employment agreements to develop games for EA." Read more > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/us-activision-ea-settlement-idUSBRE84F1K220120517
Topless Ukraine Activist Grabs Euro Soccer Cup | Reuters
#activist #ukraine #eurocup #futbol #soccer #reuters According to Richard Balmforth 2012, "A Ukrainian women's rights activist stripped to the waist and seized the Euro-2012 soccer trophy while it was on public display in Kiev on Saturday in a protest against the forthcoming month-long championship." Read more > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/14/us-ukraine-topless-idUSBRE84C08U20120514
Paris Exotic Dancers Strike, say Wages "Miserable" | Reuters
#paris #france #gogo #dancers #business According to Sybille de La Hamaide 2012, "Topless dancers at the renowned Crazy Horse night club in Paris have gone on strike, saying they are not being paid enough to take the shirts off their backs." Read More > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/us-france-crazyhorse-idUSBRE84F0W620120516


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As the boyfriend of WQHT (Hot 97)/New York's Afternoon Talent Nessa, it's not unusual to see Colin Kaepernick at the station or its events. Plus, the ex-NFL star has relationships with some of Nessa's co-workers, including the leader of "Ebro In The Morning."
Kanye West is headed to The White House tomorrow (October 11th) to meet with President Donald Trump, and Ye reached out to Ebro to try get Colin to attend the meeting. But Ebro said no.
So often, it seems like those who interact with celebrities as famous as Kanye will automatically accommodate in order to maintain or strengthen a relationship. That's why it's extraordinary for Ebro to stand up on principle and simply turn down Kanye West.
Check out the video to watch Ebro detail his exchange with Kanye, and give a thoughtful explanation about he just said no to Kanye.

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This morning a tweet caught my attention prompting me to read this post by Gary Hockin also known as @GeeH. (There's just something about that voice.[inside joke]) In the post he talks of his experiences while attempting to simplify code in a project, and in the process uncovers hidden dependencies that increased the codebase significantly in order to gain the benefit of a mere 100 lines of code. He also highlights that in today's mainstream PHP development, where many are using Composer to blindly include packages into applications, we may not fully understand code being pulled in with the consequence of accepting responsibility to maintain those additional packages as well.
I'll wait a second while that sinks in…
Yes, that's right. If you include additional packages and libraries into your application you're accepting the responsibility to maintain them. No, I'm not saying you are responsible for contributing to the software package…unless you care to. What I'm saying is you are now in charge of updating the software within your application, which now includes additional packages created by others. As security holes get fixed, or new versions come out fixing bugs, it is up to you to ensure you update these packages in your applications which include them.
You've been living in a dream world Neo
Ha, didn't think about that, did you? If you did, Bravo, you're behaving like a professional. For the rest, welcome to reality. Now go update the applications you've neglected. But first a side note.
I'm not saying Composer is bad. Actually I think the opposite. Composer is awesome, and you should be using it if you're not already. As in the post by Gary above I'm simply saying it's our professional duty to know what we're asking Composer to do on our behalf. Use it responsibly and do a bit of research so you're not blindly including potential issues, bugs, security holes, and nightmares to maintain in the future. Then if you're satisfied with what you see, go ahead and "require" away.
But wait! Don't just look at the packages you're including into your codebase. Also take a look at their dependencies as well, because you are also accepting them in the process. Know what you're saying "yes" to.
Past knowledge
None of what I'm saying is new stuff. A while back, in the beginning of 2012 (I thought it was earlier for some reason), Ed Finkler @funkatron wrote the original MicroPHP Manifesto to voice his concern over many frameworks starting to grow in size. (NOTE: Later there was a separate domain dedicated to housing the MicroPHP Manifesto, but I like the original better because the blog post associated with it helps highlight why it's a concern.) I encourage you to check it out and consider the meaning, and how it relates to your projects.
Again, nobody is saying large full frameworks are evil or other libraries should not be used. The idea behind all of this is to caution, so you go in with your eyes open and "know" what you're including in the codebase. Know the responsibilities accepted by including other libraries.
Happy coding!


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Five Reasons to Skip Bottled Water
Over the course of a week, EWG highlights five important reasons to skip bottled water and opt for filtered tap water instead.
Mad Monday: What You Don't Know May Hurt You
The FDA has disclosed which chemicals can be used to make PET plastic, the plastic used in bottled water. But does anyone know how many of those chemicals are leaching into your bottled water and, more importantly, if they could affect your health?
The answer is simple: NO.
Just one reason to avoid drinking bottled water. Learn more.
Toxic Tuesday: Purity Not Guaranteed
EWG found 38 pollutants in 10 brands of bottled water, including chemicals linked to cancer. Our tests show that the purity of bottled water cannot be trusted. Yet another reason to avoid it! Learn more.
No Waste Wednesday: Be Part of the Plastics Pollution Solution
Think all plastic bottles get recycled? Think again. According to EPA, we recycle about 30% of our PET plastic bottles. This means that about 70% of them end up elsewhere, including beaches and the ocean, polluting sensitive ecosystems.
Help stop waste! Use a reusable container instead. Read more.
Thirsty Thursday: Fill Up with a Filter
It's Thirsty Thursday! What should you do instead of buying bottled water? Filter your tap water and use a reusable bottle! Read more.
Nearly Free Friday: Your Wallet Will Thank You
You'd think that purity should be guaranteed when you pay 1,900 times more for bottled water than tap water. Unfortunately, it isn't, so why waste the cash? Filter your tap water instead and let the money saving begin! Read more.


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Spreading Hublove - Response to MartieCoetser about male loneliness
Living Alone: Do men prefer living alone?
Dear MartieCoetser
Powerful hub here both compelling from the male perspective, and yet thought provoking indeed from the singular female perspective Martie. I like your take in the matter in terms of men in general feeling as though they need to be alone, and with regard to patience, or the lack there of. As for the courage aspect, maybe not, I think men are far to courageous in most aspects in this life.
Well speaking for myself, and in dealing with that of my lovely wife, I tend to shy away from her desire to want my attention about 100% of the time, and it poses a huge problem, but we still manage to work things out in the end. She however doesn't really care for the things I'm into and I don't really blame her, so I do a bit of pressured influence to get her to participate with me and my hobbies and all such as computing etc... mostly technology subject hobbies.
This is where things get kind of sticky for us, because she resists doing things I like to do, and mostly due to lack of interest in general, but she always wants me to leap at her interests and all, and to fully participate in every single given moment.
Love hurts at times but it feels good simultaneously
Now, when I pull away it becomes a problem again, and then we bust out into heated quarrels which I find kinda of cute actually, and it provides the much needed spark our relationship needs to keep things going I do believe, or else our life together may seem mighty boring.
I would like to thank all the gentlemen who did in fact decide to provide their take on the being alone issue. Many of us men do indeed need our time to ourselves. Many of us have no problem letting our partners and wives have time to themselves, and we simply are looking for the reciprocal deal pretty much, but as you stated in your hub, most woman are far more demanding then most men are.
I am writing this hublove hub, to help more folks join in on the conversation you started and awesome debate there in your hub, and I hope more and more people come to join in. This is definitely a good thing to be able to discuss such things as men being alone, and I dare a man or women to write a hub about the opposite, and where a woman loves to live alone, that would be an awesome hub as well to read about.
It would be much better to see a man's perspective view points on the matter though, and we will see if any men can step up to the plate. I will stay on the sideline and do the coaching and what I love best, which is to continue writing these hublove hub's as I use to do, if any more living alone hubs are to surface and I catch wind of them. It's such a interesting subject to me, thanks for writing it and for sharing your view points with us all.
Thanks also for the inspiration to write this hub up, I did it in your comment area and simply moved it into a hub of my own before posting. Enjoy!
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Hi Cloud, I watched the video again, and could again not find anything disagreeable. I was happy to be alone for many years, after an unhappy marriage of almost 20 years. But beginning last year I've had enough of being alone, and so I committed myself again to a partner.
But still not sharing my home. My independence and privilege to do whatever I want whenever I want is still too precious to sacrifice. Like now, still in Cyberspace at 1:00am. I am also not willing to complicate my life with my partner's baggage - ex-wife and children. I would NEVER want my partner to be unkind to them, I do have a lot of respect for a man who does not 'dumb' and forget his responsibilities towards his children, which unfortunately always involve their mother. But, fact is, their needs and demands do upset me and eventually it might irritate all living love out of me.
A second marriage is NOT that easy, especially when the 1st wife is still a prominent factor to be considered. Some 1st wives just never move on; their children and their father stay the axis of her world. This is why it is so important to make the right choice when one is young, and to keep one's 1st marriage healthy and strong.
Thanks again for this awesome response.
Love is truly awesome indeed, I agree. I don't know what I'd do without my lovely husband. He is the best!
Great hub, very much enjoyed the various perspectives. I like being alone sometimes when I want to be, but I find myself loving the company of my husband, -we get time apart which is nice and absense makes the heart grow fonder- but we get along so very well in that we have so much in common. Long walks and talks are delightful and I want to thank you for sharing Martie's hub as well. Take care
Voted up and interesting. I can be alone for awhile but then I crowd my hubby and he likes have more alone time than me. Go figure. lol Passing this on.
Hey, Mike great spin off of Martie's hub. I love my lovely South African friend and writer, Martie. She is awesome. There is the Perspectives series on loneliness, where certain writers have gotten together to write in February on that very subject, including Martie. They write on a different subject mater each month, with an invited guest writer. Although, I do love my alone time, as we all do, I have to have my family, husband and friends for balance and be sure to not isolate myself. One can be alone, without being lonely. However, complete social isolation is dangerous to one's health, and I have written on this during February, as February was HEART Month (as in taking care of one's heart), where it discusses the issue of loneliness and its effects on the heart and cardiovascular disease. There is an older hub on loneliness to as relates to us reaching out to those who are running 100 miles an hour in the wrong direction.
Love your perspective here.
Voted up +++ and sharing
God bless. In His Love, Faith Reaper
Mike I am trying to go hug him him but kind of mad right now.. he said some hurtful things.. but we have been together since I was 16 on and off..lol ... I always forgive ..
love you Mike
Mike.....right now I feel like being alone.. lol.. but I know I will get lonely fast and go looking for my husband.. no matter how mad I get.. I sometimes think I would like to be alone..lol
great hub.. and Thank you Martie for starting this and Mike answering. Maybe i will write on being alone.. ? love you all
Hi CloudExplorer, what a surprise! I am actually speechless. To repeat one of my comments - each and everyone of us knows what is best for us at a certain time of our lives, and we are instinctively pursuing exactly that.
I like your reasoning; I am in full agreement with you. But then, I also know that what is right for one is not necessarily right for another at a certain point of time. However, knowing what other's consider to be right and good and feasible is important - a reference we will need somewhere in our future if not in the present.
I love the video and will come back for a second read/view.
Mike, I am one of those women who prefers living alone. I've tried it the other way and it just doesn't suit me. I'm too independent and not cut out for the subservient role of 'wife'; once it becomes expected anyway. Otherwise, I've very giving.
What a brilliant way to expound on a comment. Thanks for sharing a bit of your life to compliment someone else's hub. Voted interesting.
It's a tough question and I answered it somewhat in my comment on Martie's hub. I don't like being alone too much. Too long spent inside of my head is a dangerous thing as I have proven time and time again. Luckily, Bev and I share many common interests so neither of us sacrifices when we are doing things we each like to do. I applaud your honesty here buddy! Keep speaking the truth and people will listen.


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I am actually a week late in getting this up — but it is still useful, as a reference point/backgrounder on what 2009 is likely to look like — at least insofar as disclosures to health insurance purchasers (employees) are concerned:
October 7, 2008
Grassley, Baucus, Wyden, Enzi, Nelson
Unveil Health Costs Disclosure
Discussion Draft, Seek Public Comment
Senators Chuck Grassley, Max Baucus, Ron Wyden, Mike Enzi, and Ben Nelson today released a discussion draft (legislative language of the discussion draft — PDF file) of legislation that would provide for greater disclosure of health insurance costs to workers. Better informing workers about what they pay for health care and how much costs are increasing year after year is a way to begin to help to control health care costs and has been suggested by experts including the director of the Congressional Budget Office. The senators are seeking public comment on their proposal.
Grassley is ranking member and Baucus is chairman of the Committee on Finance. In testimony before a Finance Committee hearing in June, Peter Orszag, director of the Congressional Budget Office, said, "Workers may demand less efficiency from the health system than they would if they knew the full cost that they pay via foregone wages for coverage or if they knew the actual cost of the services being provided. Making the underlying costs associated with employment-based insurance more transparent might prove to be quite important in containing health care costs."
Grassley said, "The point of the proposal is to inform people about their health care costs. Once informed, they might seek changes including improved efficiency, reduced waste and fewer unnecessary procedures, balanced with the natural need to have good coverage. Some employees might want to receive different compensation in the form of a higher salary, additional vacation, or more child care instead of more health coverage than they need. As long as people are insulated from the cost and just think someone else is paying for it, then it's easy to overlook expenses. But once they realize they themselves are paying for it, it should spark a genuine conversation about what to do. Without any knowledge of how much they are paying, though, people aren't equipped to join the debate, and their view, generally, is, don't touch my health care. And so nothing can get done politically and costs continue to spiral."
Baucus said, "Today, Americans don't have enough health care information. We often don't know how much our health care costs, or why there has been the rapid spike in prices in recent years. Making people aware of how much is spent for their health insurance coverage is an important step in helping us all become more informed about health care costs. When people get a sense of the cost of their insurance, they may look for ways to reduce the waste and inefficiency that are driving up costs in our health care system. This idea goes hand in hand with other steps to lower health care costs, like comparing the effectiveness of medical treatments and getting that information to the public, too. Finding ways to lower health care costs, along with measures to increase access and cover more Americans, will be an important part of the health care reform agenda I intend to pursue in the Finance Committee next year."
Wyden said, "Educating Americans about their health care costs is an important first step in reforming the system. If everybody could clearly see what their employers were paying for their health insurance coverage, they'd understand why their wages have been so stagnant in recent years. This could lead workers to demand that their employers offer more efficient health coverage options. I hope the public reads this proposal and gives us their reaction so we can craft a bill that will bring health care costs out of the shadows and provide consumers with information to make better decisions about their health care."
Enzi said, "Most American workers do not realize how much their employers pay for their insurance plans – nor do they realize how these costs reduce their wages and other benefits. By putting this valuable information into the hands of workers, we can help them become smart health care consumers with the knowledge they need to make the best decisions for themselves and their families. Including the cost of employer contributions to health insurance is an important step toward helping families find the health care plans they need at prices they can afford."
Nelson said, "With health care costs soaring at twice the rate of inflation, Americans must have a clearer picture of how much they and their employers are spending on health care. We need to empower Americans to be better health care consumers and make economic decisions that are in their best interest. This has to happen on the coverage end and on the service end, no matter whose pocket it is coming out of. This has the potential of lowering health care costs across the board."
The discussion draft legislation would require that an employer disclose the amount of money it pays for an employee's health insurance coverage on the employee's annual Form W-2. Many employees are unaware of the amount of money their employer pays for their health insurance coverage. Experts argue that this lack of transparency results in inefficient choices of health coverage, leading to increased health care spending. Disclosing the amount an employer pays for health insurance coverage on behalf of its employees on the Form W-2 would inform workers about the total cost of their coverage and what they may be giving up in wages. Making the cost of health insurance coverage more transparent – in conjunction with other health care reforms such as health information technology, prevention, and pay for performance – could eventually help to control health care costs, the senators said.
Public comments should be sent electronically to firstname.lastname@example.com by December 31, 2008. Questions may be directed to Chris Condeluci (Grassley) or Shawn Bishop (Baucus) by calling 202/224-4515. A description of the discussion draft legislation follows here:
A. Present Law
In many cases, an employer pays all or a portion of its employees' health insurance coverage as an employee benefit. This often includes premiums for major medical, dental, and other supplementary health insurance coverage. Under current law, the amount of money the employer uses to pay for its employees' health insurance coverage is excludible from each employee's wages.
Under current law, every employer is required to furnish each employee with a statement describing, among other things, the amount of wages paid by the employer to the employee, and the taxes withheld from such wages during the calendar year. The statement, made on the Form W-2, must be provided to each employee by January 31 of the succeeding year.
Currently, there is no requirement to report the amount an employer pays for its employees' health insurance coverage on the Form W-2 (unlike the requirement to report wages paid to employees). Some employers, however, voluntarily report tax-free employee benefits provided to employees, including employer-provided health insurance coverage, in box 14 of the Form W-2.
B. Reason for Change
Economists agree that employees receiving health insurance coverage through their employer forego wages in exchange for such coverage. Specifically, during a June 17, 2008, Senate Finance Committee hearing, the Congressional Budget Office ("CBO") Director, Peter Orszag, said:
"[T]he economic evidence is overwhelming, the theory is overwhelming, that when your firm pays for your health insurance you actually pay through reduced take-home pay. The firm is not giving that to you for free. Your other wages…are reduced as a result. I don't think workers realize that."
It is clear that many employees are unaware of the amount of money their employer pays for their health insurance coverage. Experts argue that this lack of transparency results in inefficient choices of health coverage, leading to increased health care spending. This increased health care spending increases the cost of health insurance for everyone. In his June 17thtestimony, Peter Orszag further explained that:
"Workers may demand less efficiency from the health system than they would if they knew the full cost that they pay via foregone wages for coverage or if they knew the actual cost of the services being provided. Making the underlying costs associated with employment-based insurance more transparent might prove to be quite important in containing health care costs."
Disclosing the amount of the health insurance coverage an employer pays on behalf of its employees on the Form W-2 would inform workers about the total cost of their coverage and what they may be giving up in wages. Making the cost of health insurance coverage more transparent – in conjunction with other health care reforms such as health information technology, prevention, and pay-for-performance – could help control health care costs. Moreover, this increased transparency would help employees to make the best economic decisions for themselves and their families. At the same time, there could be other unanticipated consequences in labor markets associated with greater transparency on which we seek further input.
C. Description of the Proposal
An employer would be required to disclose the amount of money it pays for an employee's health insurance coverage on the employee's annual Form W-2. To the extent that the employee receives health insurance coverage under multiple plans, the employer would disclose the aggregate value of such coverage (excluding the value of a health flexible spending arrangement). For example, an employee receiving health insurance coverage under a major medical plan, a dental plan, and a vision plan would only have the total amount reported. For this purpose, employers would generally use the same value for all similarly situated employees receiving the same category of coverage (such as single- or family- health insurance coverage). One possible methodology for valuing an employee's health insurance coverage would be based on the valuation rules for COBRA continuation coverage under Code section 4980B(f)(4) (and accompanying Treasury regulations). This means that, for self-insured arrangements, an appropriate methodology for valuing an employee's health insurance coverage could be based on the COBRA valuation rules. We are seeking input on other methodologies that might also be appropriate. . . .


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The Conehead Rubber Bugger: Rubber Material Gives An Old Favorite Streamer New Life
Nothing is really new these days they say. Well I guess that's true for the most part. All the new flies out there really are a variation on something else. It's really the materials that limit everything. And recently I found a new material that makes one of the best flies in your box–new or old–even better.
I'm the founder and president of a fly tying company so I get to experiment with and develop new materials all the time. A few years ago I started looking at a new material that our partner, and Hot Glue Guru, Doug Brewer found. We now call it "Tentacles."
It's basically a fine diameter spandex material, like Super Floss, but much finer. Doug Swisher and I started playing with it to find new applications and hopefully some "new" flies. Doug Swisher has been experimenting with dubbing brushes for a while and decided to put the Tentacles in a wire dubbing brush. He sent me some samples of his new Tentacle dubbing brush creation and called it "Rubber Hackle." I immediately starting thinking about all the new possibilities this application created, and of course my first thought was "Wooly Bugger".
I guided all over Montana for ten years before starting my fly company. I quickly learned that streamer fishing is the most productive way to regularly catch large trout. I found that the more alive you can make the fly appear in the water the better the results. Of course a lot has to do with how you make the fly "swim" in the water, much like a puppeteer, but you can't overlook the materials and how they move and breathe when the fly is swimming.
Recalling all this from the days before I was a desk jockey, I got excited about the streamer applications for Tentacles used in a dubbing brush or dubbing loop.
One of my favorite streamers has always been a Conehead Crystal Bugger, which is one of the first variations on a Wooly Bugger. It adds just the right amount of flash and weight to make the old-stand-by even better. I didn't think there was much more you could do to it, until I saw Swisher's use of tentacles in rubber hackle. I then substituted the tentacles for the saddle hackle in the Conehead Crystal Bugger and coined the name "Rubber Bugger." I wanted to get a good mottling effect so I put several different colors of tentacles in the first dubbing brush. My favorite color combination is black and yellow, which I incorporated in the Black Rubber Bugger. Other good color combinations are brown, orange/yellow/brown (Halloween Rubber Bugger), and Brown and Olive (Olive Rubber Bugger). Since Tentacles are a fine diameter and are a flexible material, they move and react with even the slightest wiggle of your rod or strip of your line. Every time you stop your line to grab the next strip they spring out. Every time you make your next strip they suck back into the body. This pulsating movement has proven to really turn the fish on.
My first real test of the effectiveness of this new fly was last year on Norman Maclean's famed Blackfoot River outside Missoula, Montana. There were Salmon Flies in the air, but the fish had not keyed on them yet. The water was just coming down from spring runoff and starting to clear – a perfect streamer opportunity.
I tied on the new creation, a black version, and was ready to try it out. An old guide buddy of mine was at the oars rowing feverishly to hold water, which would enable me to get a good swing with the new streamer. My third cast was downstream from the boat and tight to the bank, inside a seam in a slow pocket caused by a big boulder. No sooner than I twitched the fly after my first strip when the line tightened and a large boil appeared. I set the hook and the fish took me out into the swift current and started running... upstream.
My guide buddy rowed me over to the bank as quickly as he could so I could get out of the boat and chase the fish upstream. After a good battle against the fish, and the current, I landed the 5-pound brown and had to wonder if there was something to this new creation, or if it was just a fluke. That fish was the largest I landed that day, but my friend and I ended up with more then 2 dozen large Browns and Rainbows that afternoon, none of them smaller than 16 inches.
Feedback on this fly has been remarkable. Guides and fishermen from Vermont to Colorado and of course, Montana, have had the same results I had, proving this pattern to be a long time winner, until the next new wave of materials comes about... which may be a while.
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For the third year in a row, Davidson either won their division or topped the league standings outright, and last year they did it in convincing fashion, losing just one conference game, to Elon in overtime. They were stunned in overtime in the conference tournament semifinals by Western Carolina, and Wofford continued its stranglehold on the league.
Wofford will likely only strengthen their grasp on an autobid over the next few years as conference realignment has come to the SoCon. Davidson is off to the Atlantic 10, and another strong contender, Elon, will head to the CAA. Georgia Southern and Appalachian State are off to the Sun Belt. Replacing them will be East Tennessee State, Mercer, and VMI.
Wofford returns basically everybody from last year's NCAA tournament entrant, and after holding Michigan to a point per possession, the Terriers should be a trendy upset pick if they can make it back to the Dance.
By virtue of beating Duke in last season's NCAA tournament, Mercer will be the school on everyone's lips, but they lose 5 Seniors, including Langston Hall who was the best player in the Atlantic Sun last season.
VMI, who has been top 10 nationally in tempo in every season since 2007, will be a fan favorite, and no doubt will speed up a middle of the pack SoCon.
Projected order of finish:
1. Wofford
2. Chattanooga
4. Mercer
5. Western Carolina
6. Samford
8. UNC Greensboro
9. The Citadel
10. Furman
Preseason All-Conference team:
1. Karl Cochran, Wofford
2. Lee Skinner, Wofford
3. Casey Jones, Chattanooga
4. QJ Peterson, VMI
5. Kyle Cain, UNC Greensboro
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San Francisco should fund effective programs, not a new jail
Our jail population is now at its lowest level since 1982, thanks to smart policies such as evidence-based pretrial practices and alternate custody such as home detention and electronic monitoring. These policies not only spare us the expense of jailing low-risk individuals, they save us even more by preventing recidivism and thereby increasing public safety.
Yet we are planning to spend some $600 million to build a new jail in San Francisco when our jail facilities are half-empty, with some 1,500 available beds. This would be a perilous reversal of the policies we have used successfully to reduce both our jail population and our crime rate.
We are told that incarceration makes us safer by housing violent criminals who are a risk to public safety. But we already have a maximum-security jail that has empty beds. Our jails have devolved into a costly and ineffective approach to addressing poverty, mental illness and homelessness. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, 25 to 40 percent of all mentally ill Americans will be incarcerated at some point.
In San Francisco, a Vietnam War veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder was charged with arson for a fire caused by an aromatherapy candle. Because he couldn't afford bail, he spent 300 days in jail before a jury found him not guilty. At $150 a day, his jail stay cost taxpayers $45,000. Housing and outpatient mental health treatment for a year would have cost $20,440, or $56 a day.
A father of a 5-year-old refused to plead guilty to a charge of theft and insisted on proving his innocence. He was jailed for three months awaiting trial. By the time he was acquitted, he had lost custody of his daughter, his apartment and his car, and $13,500 in public money was gone.
Across the nation, legislators, judges and presidential candidates on both sides of the aisle are questioning the merit and cost of mass incarceration. We are reassessing the financial and human costs of prisons and examining needed reforms in sentencing, bail and the use of solitary confinement.
We in San Francisco have an opportunity to continue investing in innovative programs and policies that are models for the rest of the country — programs such as Cameo House, an alternative for pregnant offenders and those with children; adult probation's pioneering one-stop center that provides training and support for successful reintegration to life after jail; and the district attorney's alternative sentencing planner, whose work has decreased recidivism by 6 to 19 percent.
Our retired chief of adult probation, Wendy Still, said it best: "Why, when San Francisco is doing such a good job creating alternatives to incarceration ... are we investing money in beds?"
San Francisco is a forward-thinking city— one that models effective and progressive policies for the rest of the nation. Constructing another jail threatens to demolish the progress we've made in building a system that lowers crime by raising possibilities.
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3 different spellings of cannibalize. Awesome. Typing cann does nothing, and the correct spelling is cannibalize.
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Psionic Ability.
Syntax: cannibalize <number of points>
Area of effect: Self
Duration: Instantaneous
Aggressive: No
Class/Level: Psionicist 40th
Type of Ability: Metapsionics
Cannibilize channels the psionicist's energies and allows them to
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"Equalibrium" is also misspelled... equilibrium is the correct spelling.
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Good call Guk, totally forgot that one.
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Dammit Adriorn you're a horrible prrof reader! How dare you miss a typo?!?!?! I mean wth do we pay you for? :)
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Growing up my parents had opposing opinions on politics and I learned that political conversations shouldn't leave the kitchen table. They rarely agreed on much in terms of candidates or platforms, but they always came to the same point. You could have your opinion as long as you acted on it.
This lesson stayed with me. You must have your vote placed and counted to deserve the right to an opinion be it good or bad in another's eyes.
Don't like your mayor? Did you vote for or against him/her or did you stay home and eat pizza?
So…why am I talking politics today?
Too many of us don't vote. We don't voice our opinions where they have impact. We need to start. We need the people that we elect to impact what we want our cities, countries and world to reflect.
The magic of living in countries where we can select our leaders is that we can choose the ones that reflect ourselves.
Our world is in trouble. The resources are starting to diminish faster than they restore. Our kids are obese and brand logos are more familiar than authors or types of trees to them. Our politicians select weapons over words. Our food is modified. Our world has changed and the only way to ensure it is changing the right way is by voicing our opinions on ballots.
Please vote. Vote for your Mayor, the leader of your country and any other role that you can help to select.
I don't care who you support.
Red, Blue, Left, Right.
Do what matters to you. But please. Act on your views by casting your vote.


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Fourteen news organizations, including the Associated Press and the New York Times Co., are urging a federal appeals court to allow online streaming of a hearing in a music downloading lawsuit the recording industry filed against a Boston University graduate student.
The brief filed Jan. 29 in the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals argues that allowing webcasting of the Feb. 24 hearing is in the public interest, and is in keeping with camera access already granted in the courts.
The Recording Industry Association of America is appealing a Boston judge's decision to allow the webcast, which it says goes against federal court guidelines on cameras and threatens its ability to get a fair trial.
"It is hard to imagine a hearing more deserving of public scrutiny through the same technological medium that is at the heart of this litigation," the news organizations said in their brief to the appeals court.
The copyright infringement lawsuit is part an effort by the RIAA to stop online music sharing. Since 2003, it has filed civil lawsuits against about 35,000 people who allegedly swapped songs online.
Charles Nesson, a Harvard Law School professor representing Boston University graduate student Joel Tenenbaum, is challenging the constitutionality of the lawsuits.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner approved Nesson's request to allow a courtroom video service to transmit the hearing to Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, which would stream the video unedited on its web site with free access. Gertner has said the RIAA also can subscribe to the video feed and stream it on a web site of its choosing under the same conditions.
New organizations argued in their brief there was "nothing inherently harmful" in camera access to oral arguments, and they countered the RIAA's claim that online streaming could be manipulated, saying the potential to edit video is no different from the potential to edit transcripts or a reporter's own notes. The news groups said the webcast would allow for more accurate reporting.
The news groups filing the brief also included Courtroom Television Network, Dow Jones & Co., Gannett Co. Inc., the Hearst Corp., Incisive Media, National Public Radio, NBC Universal Inc., Radio-Television News Directors Association, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the E.W. Scripps Co., Tribune Co., and Washington Post Digital.
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I hope you hung out in the key of D Major for awhile and had some fun exploring! I've been exploring the joys of spring cleaning here at the studio (and in the guest room and in the bedroom.) So sorry about the delay in posting the follow-up to our Major key study by delving into the relative minor key:
For every Major scale there is a relative minor or natural minor scale that shares the same notes, albeit in a different order. To find it within the Major key, simply begin on the sixth note of the scale and play the seven notes in sequence:
Major D E F# G A B C# 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 minor B C# D E F# G A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Though we keep the scale degrees the same, the character of each tone remains the same as it was in the Major scale.
Major D E F# G A B C# I IIm IIIm IV V VIm VII° minor B C# D E F# G A Im II° III IVm Vm VI VII
This is as good a time as any to talk about more complex scale harmonization. As discussed in the last post, one of the foundations of harmony is taking a Major or minor scale and then adding a second note and then a third note on top to form a chord. For each note of the scale comes a full three notes played at the same time or a triad. You play one chord for each scale note and this creates harmonies all the way up the scale. To get the chord tones, just look at the scale and skip every other note.
Based off of the 1st minor scale degree, a B minor chord would be B (skip a letter), D (skip a letter) and F# as the notes. G Major would be G, B and D. See the pattern?
I'm going to write something in B minor, just to play with some chords a bit:
i - iv - VII - III VI - iv - III - VII | ii° which translates into: Bm - Em - A - D G - Em - D - A | C#dim
Okay, there are the changes. Eight measures with that final measure being three counts of A and then one count of C#dim as a passing chord. Passing chords can be viewed as "filler chords" to assist you in getting from one chord to another. Chords built off of the Major seventh scale degree (the same as the minor second in this minor scale) carry an inherent tension that leads naturally to the roots of these two scales. (6 1/2 - 6 - 8 will form a C#dim chord for you. Try playing that and then going to Bm. Then play the C#dim and go to D Major. Hear the resolution?
Quick review on chord building:
Major chords consist of a root - Major third - perfect fifth
In the case of D Major - skip every other letter from the root:
D - F# - A = D Major
Minor chords consist of a root - minor third - perfect fifth
In the case of D minor - skip every other letter from the root.
D - E - F - G - A - Bb - C
D - F - A = D minor.
Another way to do that is to use the Major scale and simply take the Major third (F#) down a half-step (F).
Diminished chords are like minor chords but you also take the perfect fifth down a half step as well.
If you have a 8+ fret on your dulcimer, you can play a 6+ - 6+ - 8+ chord, which is C# Major. Then flatten, lower the third and fifth a half-step. What was C# - F - G# becomes C# - E - G. C# diminished!
In this exercise, play through the above chord progressions and then work out a melody that will fit neatly over the top. Generally speaking, when writing melodies, you should select notes that can be found within the scale of each chord. For example - melody notes for Bm should come from the B minor scale. Melody notes for A should come from the A Major scale and so on. Some of your melody notes will obviously be found in many different scales, which makes it easy to sustain melodies through the chord progressions. When you're ready to end your song, be sure to end it on the root of B minor.
For my tune, I've chosen a 3/4 time signature:
Go Ahead, B Minor.tef
Go Ahead, B Minor.pdf
Fun With 7th Chords
As promised, we'll have a quick look at 7th chords, of which there are a few. Please refer to the .pdf for D Scale Harmonization.
So, we've got Major chords and minor chords plus the odd-sounding diminished chord. What else is there? The answer to that question is "plenty." But for starters, we'll look at the different types of 7th chords.
When you see D7 - you're looking at the fundamental 7th chord, known as a dominant seventh. Is it bossy? Perhaps a little. I don't want to get into all of the scary music theory terms too early here, but suffice it to say that each of the scale degrees have names associated with them that are descriptive of their strengths and weaknesses. The fifth note of any scale is often referred to as the "dominant."
If you build a major triad starting with the fifth note of the scale and add a fourth note to the mix, you'll get a naturally occurring dominant seventh. Let's do this with D Major:
So, we're skipping every other letter, beginning with A, which is the fifth note of the D Major scale.
A (skip) C# (skip) E (skip) G
So, take A - C# - E - G and play them all simultaneously, you've got an A7 chord. Another way of thinking about this: take a Major chord and add the seventh note of the scale, flattened a half-step. In the case of D7 - we'd build a D Major chord:
D - F# - A and then add the seventh note of the D Major scale, which is C#. Then take that down a half-step to C. D - F# - A - C is a D7 chord.
As dulcimer players, we are often playing on three string courses, so how do we add a fourth note? By playing a rootless voicing. That is, taking the root out of the picture and playing only the remaining three notes. Believe it or not, it still works! Let's play an A7 chord this way.
Play 1 - 2 - 4 on your diatonic dulcimer. Now drop the A on the melody string down to the third fret, which is G. You're now playing, from bass to melody, E - C# - G which is enough to play the A7. Cool, huh?
Now, let's suppose you see this note: GMaj7. This is a Major seventh chord. Begin the same, with a Major chord. But now add the seventh note of the Major scale. In the case of G:
Skipping every other note: G - B - D - F#
Try this - Play a 3 - 1 - 0 chord, your G Major in diatonia. You're playing, from bass to melody, G - B - D. Now, on the melody string, replace D with F# at the second fret. Voila! You're playing a GMaj7! It's got a distinctly jazzy sound and a great chord substitution for G Major.
A minor seventh chord takes, you guessed it, a minor triad and adds the minor seventh to it. Let's take a look at Em7:
Beginning with the E minor scale which has, remember, one sharp (F#) - E - F# - G - A - B - C - D Skipping every other letter we get E - G - B - D
Play 8 - 6 - 5 and you've got E minor. Now play 8 - 6 - 7 and you've traded the B on the melody string for the flat seventh (D) and you've got an Em7! Remember that when the number 7 is there by itself, always use the flat/minor seventh.
So, what happens when you see AmMaj7? You play a minor triad and add the seventh note of the major scale, in other words, the Major seventh.
A minor scale A - B - C - D - E - F - G A Major scale A - B - C# - D - E - F# - G#
Play 6 - 7 - 8 and you've got your A minor chord. (A - C - E) Now, switch out the root (A) for the G#. 6 - 6+ - 8 (A - G# - E) and you've got an AmMaj7 chord. Sort of mysterious sounding, isn't it?
Of course, not all of these chord options are going to be available for diatonic dulcimer players, but it helps to know how to build these chords. If you're looking down at your fretboard asking "what are my options?" The best way to proceed is to know what scales you can play from every root spot on the fretboard. And once you know those scales, you can build chords and begin working with extensions, "color chords", etc. If you're playing four-string equidistant, you'll get even more benefit out of these exercises.
Okay then! We've explored the key of D Major and its relative key of B minor. Coming up next, we'll get into the key of A Major and I'll introduce the Circle of Fifths as a way of keeping all of this stuff together. Happy Playing! And thank you to all who have been donating through PayPal. I appreciate it very much!


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September 10, 2005
WASHINGTON: An intrepid group of U.S-based Sikhs have defied odds and a chaotic situation in New Orleans to save the Sikh holy scriptures from a submerged gurdwara in the flooded city.
The successful 22-hour operation involved zodiac boats equipped with underwater cameras hired from a California-based rescue services company, the group United Sikhs said in a statement.
According to the group, the Gurdwara on Morris Road, East New Orleans, built about fifteen years ago, was under 9-feet deep water in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji could not be removed from the Gurdwara before mandatory evacuation orders were issued.
The power of the Guru
United Sikhs requested federal and state government agencies for immediate removal of the scriptures from the submerged Gurdwara. A letter was sent to President Bush on September 4 seeking assistance to airlift the scriptures, but it found no response in a situation where the administration had other pressing concerns.
United Sikhs then sought the help of Ranbir Kaur, a US Army National Guard from Bakersfield, California, to hire the rescue services of SRT, a private helicopter special response and training company in California, and launched the operation. It took three days to obtain clearance from different agencies before SRT could access the flood affected area, the group said.
In a precarious environment, amidst curfew ..and random shootings, United Sikhs volunteers Hardayal Singh and
Bhai Nirmal Singh teamed up with air force rescue experts David Cruz and Tom Bausmas of SRT to remove the scriptures in an operation that lasted from 5pm on Tuesday until 3pm Wednesday.
The group said the Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji's swarupwas on the Palki (palanquin) and floating on water when the rescue team entered the building. "I was amazed, looking at the Guru Sahib's sukhasan on the palki, floating on five feet of water and untouched by the flood waters," said Hardayal Singh.
The rescue team paid their respects before the scriptures were carried on their head to the rescue boat. They also retrieved gutkas, pothis, khanda, kirpans and other religious material from the building, the group said.
United Sikhs has opened a langar (a community kitchen) to serve hot meals to over 1,300 evacuees in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, the group said.
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Where are my Penguins??!!
Not that I really care. Not until February. Right now it's Steeler season. And that's all that matters.
But I feel for my hockey-starved brethren. I enjoy watching a game now and again during the fall and early winter. So hopefully they get this mess sorted sooner rather than later.


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Many of you are staring down the end of your junior year in high school. With that comes the reality of applying to colleges, job searches, career exploration, etc. Essentially becoming an adult (fun…right)? If you don't have a resume, or haven't made one at this point in your life, now is the time to begin. While you may not have the most extensive job experience history, you do have experiences that would serve you well in the communications and design field. Recommendations for what should be included in a resume, the overall length, design, etc., have evolved over the years, and often times, many of the traditional rules of resume design don't apply to those in the creative fields.
Your resume is your chance to "sell yourself." Of course, the most obvious way this is accomplished is through the content itself. Listing your work experience, skills, academic and professional achievements, etc., are all ways to show employers what you're capable of. However, you should also view the resume itself as a chance to showcase your ability as a designer. In the creative field, employers may look at your branding ability within the resume. How do you use color, typography, contrast, unity, etc., to create a working design piece. So in a sense, you're selling yourself both through content and form – that is to say, the way your resume looks.
You are going to be creating a first draft of a resume for yourself. First draft, because, as you can imagine, your resume should be revised often throughout your life to adjust for new education, skills, job opportunities, etc. You will be using Adobe InDesign for the layout/assembly, but may use Illustrator for design.
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For this resume, we're going to assume you're creating this resume to obtain an internship at a media firm that does advertising work for local businesses. This ad agency has in house designers, audio engineers, photographers/videographers, and copywriters. You're trying to obtain an internship to gain experience in these various areas that truly are all part of the communication field.
Remember to focus on both the skills/experience as well as the look and feel of the resume.
Include the following:
- Brief overview/bio of yourself. Keep this short (no more than 3-4 sentences).
- Work Experience (jobs you have held or currently hold). If you have not held a job, see the next list item.
- Volunteer/Community Service. List any in school or out of school organizations you belong to and what things you have done with them (remember…employers want to see soft skills as well).
- Education experience (list what classes you've taken relevant to this field, your GPA, class rank (if known), awards and accomplishments).
- Skills (both soft and technical). You can use a ranking system as we saw on our template example, or use your own custom design for ranking skills.
- Contact information and your name.
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Alaska is home to countless wilderness trails of varying difficulties. Regardless of your physical ability, there are a number of trails available to you if you're looking to engage with nature in a respectful way. If you're looking to just stroll through a forest or brush, there are easy walking trails that are safe and well-groomed. If you're more adventurous, you can try to something rockier and with a higher elevation. Or, if you're an expert or stupidly brave, you can travel in unmarked areas and test your will against whatever Mother Nature can throw at you. While I have no desire to blaze my own trails as a relative novice in such dangerous areas, I always look for a challenge.
Of the several trails and hikes I went on last week, one stood out over the rest. Just outside of Anchorage is the Chugach State Park; a mountainous area with lots of trails for people looking to get out into the wilderness but not travel a long way to do so. The drive from the city is only about 15 t0 20 minutes, but the change in terrain and scenery is quite significant.
I went to this area twice during my trip. The first time was to climb Flattop Mountain. Flattop is the most climbed mountain in the area and is one I've climbed several times. The last time I did so was in 2010, so I felt a need to go back. Flattop was my first hike of the trip and it is a great hike. The path is groomed and some of the steeper parts have wooden beams to help with the climb and stabilization. Also, there is always someone close by on the trail. It is not a difficult climb, but it isn't easy either.
The day after climbing Flattop, I spent some time in a flatter and more forested area outside Anchorage in a town called Girdwood. Those kinds of hikes through the woods offer a different kind of experience. While both hiking on a mountain and through a forest can offer meditative experiences, you have a different frame of mind. Walking through this area was a nice refresher after climbing Flattop; my first mountain in eight years. However, the next day, I wanted to really test my limits.
I went back to the Glen Alps Trailhead of the Chugach State Park. Instead of the path taking me to Flattop, I took a different path that took me down into the valley. My goal was to reach the summit of O'Malley Peak. O'Malley Peak is the tallest mountain in the area and just across the valley from Flattop. To get there, you must walk through a brushy area, scale the slope of the first ridge, walk across a relatively flat but rocky bowl, and then start ascending the base of the peak to the summit.
I was travelling at a time where I wouldn't see many people. Since it was off season for tourists and during work week, I was guaranteed to be one of the few people out hiking. Also, O'Malley Peak is harder than Flattop and, therefore, not climbed as much. It was a guarantee that I would only see a handful of people the entire time I was out there.
The brushy area is the first part and is bear country. Signs at the beginning of the trail warn you of this and offer guidance on what to do if you encounter a bear. Again, I'm not an expert. I should've been equipped with bear mace or a gun. I had neither. It was just me and some snacks (I guess you could count me as a snack too). If I couldn't defend myself from a bear attack, the best I could do was prevent one.
In order to prevent an attack, you warn the bears that you're coming through. Bears don't like surprises, so warning them early with noise is essential. Some people hike with dogs with jingle belles strapped to their collar. If you're like me and don't have a dog, you make noises by clapping and talking loudly. In this part of the trail, you're walking through brush with very little visibility so bears and moose can easily blend in. However, this part of the trail is beautiful. It is very green with a beautiful creek running through it.
When you get to the base of the ridge, things become a little harder. You're official out of the brush, though there might be some patches here or there. However, you have a lot more visibility. The challenge now is to climb a slop that is more than a 45-degree angle and slick with mud and loose rub (known as scree). Due to the elevation rate, it is already a strenuous activity. But footing is really important if you don't want to fall. One unlucky or not well-thought out step and you could fall and injure yourself. And while there is a discernible trail from hikers before you, there aren't any installed wooden beams to flatten the terrain or stabilize it. It is all natural.
Once you successfully have climbed the slop over the ridge line, you have made it to the part of the trail known as the Ballfield. The Ballfield is a relatively flat (not really flat but is compared to what you just hiked) bowl with rocks and tundra soil. While the terrain is rocky, it is a nice break. Also, there are no trees or brush, so your visibility is much greater. It is also very quiet.
After hiking for about 45 minutes across the Ballfield, you make it to the base of O'Malley Peak. This is where the rocks start rising from the land. This is where you quit hiking and start scrambling; hiking involving a lot of use of your hands for stabilization. This is also the most dangerous part of the hike since the peak is ridged. Two steps in either direction and you fall to your death. Footing, hand placement, and concentration are absolutely important.
I ascended the peak for about 30 minutes before I stopped and took a break. I sat and leaned against a rock and just looked at the valley below me. The expansiveness is beyond words and no pictures do it justice. I don't know how long I sat there, but I looked at the next mountain ridge and valley lakes for a long time.
To be clear, I was alone during these hikes. And, as mentioned, I didn't see many people. In fact, I had been hiking for over two hours at this point and had only seen two people so far. I didn't have noise from other humans to distract me, so I was truly alone with my thoughts.
Hiking alone is not for everyone. For starters, it isn't the safest thing to do. The "buddy system" saves lives. However, hiking with friends can be distracting and I wanted to avoid distractions. I wanted to be alone with my thoughts and focus as intently as possible at the environment around me and allow myself to be overwhelmed by the experience. Many people are uncomfortable being alone with their thoughts. I know I used to be. However, I worked through those things and now I can be alone with my thoughts be OK.
Exercising your ability to be alone with your thoughts is absolutely important to personal development. And I know it isn't easy. The reason why people don't work towards that ability is that are afraid of what they will think of and I can understand the hesitation. Bad thoughts have happened, do happen, and will continue to happen. No matter how skilled you are in mindfulness and living in the present, bad thoughts happen. It is an important part of self-thought and self-reflection. The key is to develop and carry the right tools with you to handle those thoughts. If you're reflecting on life and something bad pops up, you can strengthen your ability to swat that bad thought away like a fly.
I won't share everything I think about, but I will share the most important thing. While I was sitting on that ridge, I felt insignificant and small. And I don't consider that bad all. I hate it when I hear Mother Nature described as cruel or any other descriptor that suggests the concept of nature has an investment in your well-being. Guess what. It doesn't. Mother Nature is indifferent to your success, failures, happiness, and problems. No matter what you say, think, or do, Mother Nature will continue. They key to surviving it is to respect it. If you walk into a situation thinking you're better than Mother Nature and can overcome it, you will die. You will die, be forgotten, and decay back into the Earth like every living being that came before you and will arrive after you.
I was not troubled by these thoughts. In the grand scheme of things, I am insignificant. That is not to say I am void of meaning. I have meaning to myself and to the people who love and care about me. But those worlds are much smaller than the one I was sitting in at that moment. Where I was at that time sitting in the shadow of a mountain over a steep valley, I had no value there. I was a visitor; neither welcomed or unwelcomed. I was allowed to be there on the condition I respect the land. If I didn't, I would die.
To be in a situation like that and feel so very small, it is a humbling feeling. It puts your life into perspective. Every problem or issue you think you have suddenly doesn't matter. It is a strong mental refresh that reframes your thinking. The key is to remember that lesson. You may not always consciously act on it or apply its value, but that is fine. Things do happen and you cannot help how you feel. However, you can help how you react. This is what I mean about having the right tools to deal with unfortunate situations.
Being in that frame of mind is not easy. It takes hard work, but the effort is worth it. If you're the kind of person who always needs people or other things to distract you from diving into your own mind and confronting your thoughts, this is something you need to do develop if you want to become a stronger and more well-rounded person. Though I've made a lot of progress over the years, I still have work to do. Even the most mindful and enlightened of us still have work to do. It is a journey that doesn't end until death. You will never stop facing problems in your life, but you can stop being overpowered by them.
While I scaled Flattop, I didn't reach the summit of O'Malley Peak. I had probably another 30 to 45 minutes of scrambling and I had the physical ability to do it. However, reality set it. I was hiking alone and I hadn't seen anyone for almost two hours. While I'm confident that I could've scaled O'Malley, I still had to respect Mother Nature. It didn't feel right to continue, so I turned backed. I have no issue with not reaching the summit. I made it further than most people could've on what was a rather difficult hike. However, the trip wasn't without purpose. I was shown something I was meant to see; both with my eyes and with my mind. And that something extremely valuable.
Thirty years ago this month, John Denver released his 20th studio album Higher Ground. Closing the album is the song "Alaska & Me." In the song, Denver dreams of Alaska and flying over mountains and glaciers. He toasts the people who are wild and free and wishes that his children can gaze at the northern lights. It is his chosen country.
I struggled to find the right song to fit this narrative. I thought of perhaps two dozen songs to highlight, but none seemed to fit the way I want them to. Perhaps I could've gone with a different narrative. However, I didn't want to. I wanted to talk about this experience I had hiking a mountain. And with this being a weekly blog, not every post is going to be a winner. Just like how I cannot climb every mountain, not every song will be perfect. And that is fine.


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So I have Amazon Prime and have used that to order quite a bit of stuff, but the mail/delivery is... anyway it takes 2-3 weeks for any given order. I totally get that is how mail works in my village/area, and I am mostly ok with it (waiting for spices to cook with right now and it is making me crazy). But I am wondering if the Walmart Shipping Pass option is any fast or even worth considering.


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Back in November 2007 there was a flurry of media reports about an alleged Russian spy case, when the former Territorial Army soldier Peter Hill was arrested on Official Secrets Act charges. It quickly became clear that the arrest was based on entrapment, but at the time it looked like a spy trial would be the natural end to this case.
Although the arrest and early court appearance of Mr Hill brought a lot of media interest, the subsequent dropping of the charges has not attracted so much media attention, and I only just noticed a report about it today. Perhaps this is because it is now apparent that the entrapment was not justified, and that this is yet another goof by members of our Security Service MI5.
Details of the case being dropped are published on the BBC website, as well as several press outlets such as the Yorkshire Post and Craven Herald. It is bad enough that MI5 tried to falsely entrap Peter Hill, but this corrupt action was made worse when the Crown Prosecution Service tried to mount a prosecution against him. I am currently preparing a complaint against the CPS in my own case, and it seems that CPS staff have no scruples when it comes to forcing through dodgy cases. The phrase "perverting the course of justice" comes to mind when referring to the fabrication of evidence, and the CPS are very good at this practice.
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