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when I was little, my mom would make me crepes for my birthday breakfast. With jam, sprinkled with sugar. I'm more of an eggs n bacon kinda girl now, but just looking at this photo makes me drool.
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when I was little, my mom would make me crepes for my birthday breakfast. With jam, sprinkled with sugar. I'm more of an eggs n bacon kinda girl now, but just looking at this photo makes me drool.
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Do you have a birthday tradition?
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It's mornings like this I'm glad I discovered the wonders of bacon. Local, organic bacon (and eggs) from places like this and this. Nom.
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Well, the cat (or should I say the chicken?) is out of the bag. I'm eating meat.
That's right… after 10+ years of being a vegan/vegetarian, I've given up. Given in to my barbaric instincts. Thrown my eco-friendly, animal-loving tendencies out the window. Or have I? Follow me on a journey between 'Kate, you're making a bigger deal out of this than you need to' and 'Kate, this decision dictates who you are and what you believe in'…
I didn't just wake up one morning and mow down on a drumstick. It was actually really, really hard to make the switch. The weird thing is, the decision I made back int he day to go vegetarian was pretty damn easy. Help animals, help the environment, be healthy. Done and done. Can I still do those things if I eat cute little animals?
I want to be strong, vibrant, and socially-aware. I feel this change in my lifestyle will lead me there. First and foremost, I'll say this. FACTORY FARMING IS BAD BAD BAD. There are many reasons I'm choosing to go carnivore, but please note that my plans include local, organic, sustainable farming. My money is going to local farms that are doing it right. I can still be all the things I want to be and not feel like a total hypocrite.
Why am I sharing this with you? Well, it's a big life decision, much like getting a tattoo or chopping off my hair (hear me out.) Being vegetarian was so much a part of my 'me'. People assume certain things about you when you assign a label to yourself (republican, rastafarian, Gleek). So now, I guess I'll just have to find other ways to let people know who I am. I'll worry about that later. For now, just welcome me back to the circle of life.
It's SPRING in our house!
So what do you do when it's 50 degrees and sunny in early March? Buy a bike of course.
It was too big to fit in the back of my car, so I had to ride it home from the bike shop. Then for dinner, Kyle got his grill on. Here's what we ate.
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Well, today is day 6 of my veggie-paleo experiment. I feel slimmer around the middle, stronger, and overall have more energy. My skin and eyes are clearer. I'm not hungry all the time and I don't 'crash' at some point during the day. In short, I feel f*cking amazing. So why am I still skeptical? Well, it was way too easy.
On traditional Paleo, you eat meat, meat and more meat because that's what our caveman ancestors did. Since I still can't stomach eating anything with fur or feathers, I've instead upped my seafood and nut consumption. I've also (gasp) started using oil to cook with. This part was really hard for me… there's still a nagging voice in the back of me head telling me 'Fat is bad!' 'Fat makes you fat!'
Here's what a typical day has been:
Breakfast: Veggie Scramble: Egg Whites plus what ever veggies I can find (kale, onions, peppers, tomato paste, spinach, asparagus)
Snack: Walnuts and Almonds
Lunch: Salad with shrimp or leftover breakfast scramble
Snack: Lara Bar*, apple or tangerine
Dinner: Salmon with lemon, garlic, shallots and kale or brocollini
I also grabbed some almond butter at Costco and coconut oil at Whole Foods. I don't think I'd be able to do this with out Farm Fresh Delivery… otherwise I'd be driving to the grocery store twice a week to stock up.
In my endeavors, here are some great (and cleverly written) blogs I've come across:
I'm still looking for a catch… but to sum it all up again, here's a clever video:
*I love Lara Bars because aside from being nummy, they only a handful of ingredients and not a sketchy one in the bunch.
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I'm actually DOING something tonight. What a strange thing.
We went to Food Con at the Harrison Center and then hit up Big Car for First Friday. Fun was had by all: check it out here on my BFF Rebecca's blog (along with some vegetable porn.)
So, I guess I'm still on a food kick. I've been reading up on the Paleo Diet for athletes. In a nutshell (ha) Paleo suggests eating like a caveman: meat, fish, veggies, fruit (no dairy, grains or processed foods that weren't available to cavemen way back then)… And while I don't think I'll ever start eating meat again, I'm completely fascinated by its philosophy. It really makes a lot of sense to me: eat the foods our bodies were designed to eat.
I'm going to try incorporating it little by little and I'll let you know how it goes… anyone have experience with it?
Everyone has something that they get abnormally excited over. One might even use the phrase 'geek out'… so what makes this girl giddy?
Colors, textures, tastes (AND they're good for you!?!?!)… I've never come across a veggie I didn't like. And I'm not the only one- check out this post from super-fit-bad-ass Melicious:
Are you in a produce rut? I challenge you to eat at least one new veggie or fruit this week… and try to sample from a few color groups. There's a whole world of beautiful veggies and fruits out there, just waiting to jump into your tummy.
What do you geek out over?
10 common ordering mistakes people make in Paris
must remember these. You know, when I live there.
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I'm not a germaphobe*. I don't obsessively wash my hands and don't get grossed out by touching things like feet or door knobs. Because of this, I've never really been one to scrub my fruit and veggies clean before I pop them in my mouth. In my recent go organic efforts, I've become hyper aware that the waxy coating on my apple is a nasty chemical. Here's what I found about getting those pesticides off:
Rule number one: Wash your fruits like you wash your hands: "Use soap, Jimmy!" Mom and Dad were right: just running your mitts or your munchies under tap water does little to remove oily grime. Agricultural pesticides do not come off in water, either. If they did, farmers would have to apply them after each rain or even a heavy dew. That would be both labor-intensive and expensive. So petrochemical companies make pesticides with chemical "stickers" that are insoluble in water. They do their job and stay on the fruit, rain or shine.
Soap, or detergent, is more effective in removing pesticide residues than you think. Rinse until the water is clear. When you handle the detergent-washed fruit, you will also notice that it feels different, too. We are so used to fruit with chemical coatings on it that when we touch truly clean fruit, it's a new tactile experience. Go ahead, try it. Nobody's looking. (via doctoryourself.com)
Or make it easy on yourself and buy produce that is less contaminated.
12 Most Contaminated (aka the Dirty Dozen)
12 Least Contaminated
*spell check offered 'hermaphrodite' as the correct spelling of this word. hm.
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I had an eventful weekend to say the least. It kicked off with my very first farm fresh delivery. Eating organic and local is something I really want to do more of.
I already eat mostly vegan, but for too long I've favored saving money over buying organic. FFD is an (insanely) easy step in the right direction.
Saturday was derby, derby, derby. This was my first home bout as a Tornado Siren. I only jammed once, but I scored 14 points! (photos via Marc and Tom)
The final score: Sirens win 225 – 18 over Derby City (Louisville, KY) Go Team!
Were you at the bout? What did you think?
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our new roku player
on which we watched this movie:
eating local and organic (more on this later)
michael cera
I can haz STAKE?
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Natalie Portman has been a vegetarian for twenty years, but was recently inspired to become a vegan by Jonathan Safran Foer's first nonfiction book, Eating Animals. Portman wrote an essay for the Huffington Post in which she compares the book favorably to Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma (previously on the blue), and makes this specific criticism of the latter book:
But he reminds us that being a man, and a human, takes more thought than just "This is tasty, and that's why I do it." He posits that consideration, as promoted by Michael Pollan in The Omnivore's Dilemma, which has more to do with being polite to your tablemates than sticking to your own ideals, would be absurd if applied to any other belief (e.g., I don't believe in rape, but if it's what it takes to please my dinner hosts, then so be it).
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take wrapper OFF english cucumber before slicing.
knife will be less prone to bouncing off and maiming you
I made good on my promise and biked to the Broad Ripple farmers market this morning. I don't know if it was the time of day or the month- but it was BUSY!
They had a good selection of both summer and fall favorites. This picture makes me excited for autumn… I love pumpkins
I was tempted to buy cockscomb, but not sure how to transport it on my bike.
my favorite bouquets
and of course, lots of dogs
I returned home with three gigantic honey crisp apples. I ate one for breakfast and it was simply amazing.
It's APPLE SEASON, people!


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Updated 8:17am Friday 21st February 2014 in News
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- Traffic build up in Taunton Town Centre
- Various road and water works taking place around the town
THE incident has now been cleared.
Traffic is awful in Taunton— @Aliceeeexxx 20 February 2014
THERE have been two accidents on the A378 one at Newport Hill and the other near Junction Drove.
Police are on the scene and awaiting recovery of the vehicles.
The A378 is partially blocked.
TRAFFIC is building up outside the Gazette towards Wickes roundabout.
Traffic in taunton is a joke— @_samtowler 20 February 2014
Driving back from Taunton took over an hour and a half... Wow. Much traffic. Many slow. Such frustration.— @TomoMartin96 20 February 2014
What is going on with the traffic in #taunton #somerset at the moment? It's meant to be half term!— @whitfieldinho 20 February 2014
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11:50am Friday 17th January 2014 in Sport
FA TROPHY heroes Chorley have the chance to make a huge stride towards promotion when they welcome title-rivals and current Evo-Stik Premier Division leaders Skelmersdale United to Victory Park tomorrow.
The Magpies, who were knocked out in the last 16 of the Trophy by Conference side Tamworth in a replay on Tuesday night head into the match four points behind the league leaders.
But Garry Flitcroft's side have four games in hand following their Trophy exploits – where the Magpies knocked out Conference Premier side Forest Green on their way to the third round.
And a victory tomorrow, where Chorley have been beaten just once this season, would cut that gap one point while delivering a psychological blow to Skelmersdale.
And Flitcroft is hopeful striker Adam Mather will have recovered in time for the clash having missed the Trophy loss.
He said: "We are carrying a few knocks but hopefully we can get over them for Saturday.
"Adam Mather was close and hopefully he will be fit.
"If we play like we did against Tamworth against Skelmersdale then we won't be far away from getting the victory."
In the Evo-Stik League Division One North Ramsbottom United will bid to further close the gap on the play-off places when they host relegation threatened Radcliffe Borough who start the day second bottom.
The Rams are on a fine run of form and sit five points and two places outside the top five with games in hand on those above them.
Simon Garner's Clitheroe will also have held realistic play-off ambitions at the start of the season but they have slipped to 11th and 12 points off the pace after a mixed run of form meaning three points at Harrogate Railway Athletic, who begin the day one place below the Blues, is essential.
At the other end of the table Steve Wilkes' Padiham host Burscough.
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Category Archives: The good and bad of disabled travel
Lady Liberty now wheelchair accessible
Reposted from a story Published: Oct. 25, 2012 at 12:23 PM
NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (UPI) — NEW YORK, Oct. 25 (UPI) — The Statue of Liberty in New York will be wheelchair accessible for the first time when it opens this weekend after a year of renovations, officials said.
Statue of Liberty Superintendent David Luchsinger said the renovations, which include installing new staircases and an elevator designed for wheelchair-bound guests who wish to visit the observation decks, will allow about 26,000 more people to visit the monument per year when it reopens on its 126th birthday Sunday, CNN reported Thursday.
Luchsinger said about 3.5 million people visit the statue each year.
"Folks that have never been able to maneuver on the staircases can now go all the way up to the observation deck and experience that," he said. "She's not only our Statue of Liberty, she's the world's Statue of Liberty."
Larry Hughes, a Vietnam War veteran, was chosen as the first wheelchair user to test out the elevator.
"You see this stuff on TV … but to actually be here, it takes on a whole brand new dimension," Hughes said
Wheelchair bus battle mum says pushchairs must move
Six Russian Wheelchair Users Kicked Off Flight
Originally Posted on: http://en.ria.ru/russia/20121008/176483809.html
airport wheelchair fakes are making life hard for disabled travellers
By JUJU KIM | @jujkim | October 8, 2012 |
Hey MTA if you change a train from a platform that is accessible to one that's not how about telling the disabled!
Every time I rock wall climb I catch the 7 train from Main St., Flushing which has an elevator from the street level to the train. Then I get off at Queensboro Plaza where I roll 20 feet straight across the platform straight onto the train. When I get to the Atlantic Pacific Station I get straight onto an elevator to the mezzanine then a second one to the street level. Well the ABC 7 news announced that for the next month from Friday night to Monday morning the 7 train would not go all the way into Manhattan, but would stop at Queensboro Plaza. I thought, no problem I only go that far to go climbing. They forgot to tell the public and especially the disabled public, that the rerouting of the trains meant they were no longer wheelchair accessible. Even though I am a regular and all the Main St, Flushing station, the staff know me, no one gave us the heads up. Not only did the train terminate at Queensboro Plaza, but it stopped on a higher floor platform one level above my train that I need to go climbing.The platform we pulled up at had no elevators so me and every other wheelchair bound person would have to, like I did this morning, get out of their chair and crawl down over a 100 stairs on our asses while dragging our chairs behind us down the stairs. What amazes me is when you're on a train they constantly bombard you with inane recordings that no one cares about but one really important one like "attention disabled persons disembarking at Queensboro Plaza, we apologize but the platform we will be stopping at is not accessible." Is that too much to ask?
Since when is the price of a life of disability crawling on greasy spit (and god knows what else) covered metal plate stairs every time you catch a train? Put a little more thought into repairs next time MTA.
Sorry if you opt out of our perfectly good meals? or big deal if you have special needs we'll take money but not care says paradox sports
When I lived back in my native Australia I worked with a mental health therapy group called grow mental health international, our mission was when someone who had been in long term institutional care was being released we worked with them from a couple of weeks before release to help them reacclimatize with society. WE would regularly take groups of former patients on weekend getaways. The form we used for each patient looked like this.
Medications required—-
Emergency contact number—
Special dietary requirements—
Do you use a mobility aid if so what kind?
The questions above were required because if the person requires medication we need to know in case they start showing symptoms, we could make sure they had taken it. The dietary requirements were neccessary to know about, because so many of us me included can actually be medical compromised if they eat the wrong thing and if there are diabetics amongst we must provide sugar free. Allergies are important to now about because so many foods have hidden ingredients, and while for most they are just flavor to many they are deadly.
Of course knowing about mobility aids means you can in advance organize appropriate accommodation, and organize help if the pathways and tracks used might make movement difficult for those using certain aids.
All this must be known before you ever get to the fun stuff which is the point of the trip such as boating or climbing or biking or any other activity.
To tell someone who is part of a group that is made up 100% of people who are dis or otherwise abled that "it's not their faulty if you opt out of perfectly good food " and that they shouldn't be required to provide anything different for special needs guests is you sir opting out of your duty of care.
If a destination doesn't want to provide special needs arrangements for special needs guests, then I am sorry they should be banned from encouraging them to visit. There is a medical term called "duty of care" in medical legalese there is a law that says if a doctor or medical professional comes upon a accident they don't have to stop they can go straight past, but if they do they must provide care to the best of their professional ability until they are relieved by another medical professional with equal or greater or specialized skills pertinent to the condition of the patient. In short you don't have to have special needs guests you can say sorry this destination is unsuitable for the physically compromised, but if you do you must do it to the highest professional standard. If you charge a fee for "all meals and accommodation" by law under the Americans with disabilities act if you are knowingly taking a fee to house and feed the disabled you must be ADA compliant and provide said services to the letter of the federal act or not at all. So as we new Yorkers say go big or go home you cannot charge for what you do not provide hmmm such a paradox isn't it.
Below is a paragraph from the Americans with disabilities act pertaining to public accomadations.
Restaurants, hotels, theaters, shopping centers and malls, retail stores, museums, libraries, parks, private schools, day care centers, and other similar places of public accommodation may not discriminate on the basis of disability. 28 CFR 36.201. Effective Date: January 26, 1992,
when you charge a set fee for food and accommadation and provide it for one half of the group but when the other half is disabled and their food requirements are part of that disability and you refuse to feed them because of the food requirements, you are in direct violation of the federal act above you have refused equal accomadation on the basis of their disabilities.
Manners and ill-bred monsters, the loss of one and the in- breeding of the other en-masse!
The Reddit masters are going to say I made this up they are going to say this couldn't happen to one person so often, but again today a large ill mannered African American woman on a cell phone called me a faggot and an ugly bitch (obviously has gender issues) a C**t a mother fu***r all because she thought her over ample ass had more right to push a wheelchair using disabled woman completely away from the disabled service elevator at 74th st in queens.
I rolled up to the elevator and there was a woman 5 ft 5 inches at least 280lbs pushing a toddler in a stroller, I politely rolled over and said "wheelchair can I please get to the elevator?" ( The same one that's the federally mandated elevator, that is covered by a law stating first loading must be for the disabled, then the elderly and then the pregnant only after that can the able bodied board) but I didn't assert any right, I had been having a reasonable day. So I smiled and asked for access, to which the woman on the phone with someone started saying loudly on the phone"oh just some fat bitch in purple in a wheelchair trying to push her arse In front of the line like that's gonna happen phhh".
I said excuse me miss I know you have a stroller but if I can't get on first I can position myself properly so others can get on and it is law after all. She screamed "Fuck the law you aint pushing in bitch" then she shoved her child with the stroller into me and kept shoving as she did she was screaming "she's ramming me she's ramming me" except I wasn't moving my brakes were on. I as the door to the elevator opened said, I've had it I'm getting on, As the doors closed she repeated every disgusting hate filled slur and hate speech filled sentence and disgusting swear word ever invented.
We made it onto the seven train and we got to flushing. Ella and I always got to this corner fruit and veggie store near us, and I was sitting out front. I was wearing my purple climbing pants and my purple 3e wheelchair love hoodie in my purple wheelchair otherwise being Me, when a voice behind me yells "what kind of pansy ass nigger wears purple in a purple wheelchair what kind of faggot ass ugly bitch does she think she is" this all before they even saw the front of me .
As the offending loud mouth shoved past me and Zeus he looked and repeated all his slurs and added "the bitch is ugly to boot damn fat ass nigger". The offending idiot was calling a white woman a slur normally directed against the wonderful African American people, he was not using the eubonic "niggah" which is not ethnic specific no he was using the hate speech form ending in er. His jeans belted below his thigh muscles showing skid marked bright blue satin boxers and he was insulting me? As he turned to start again his jeans suddenly fell to his knees and his girl had to hold them up. As he turned and grabbed his crotch, he got even more disgusting telling me that he wouldn't touch and ugly bitch nigger like me.
So I rolled the last two blocks home and turned into my own building front walkway, and a Korean youth actually used me and my lap for steps and walked over me and I had had it. I blew up I yelled when did manners die? Really I'm your damn door step you insolent child? Then to my surprise a woman who has always when spoken to replied "No engrish sorry me Korean, engrish bewwy baad" suddenly sounding like a sound bite from Bill and teds big adventure yelled "Oh like chill bitch just chill"
So let's sort this out once again the lowlife population that regularly uses the 74thst subway station prove inbreeding is alive and well in New York city, and manners caring and compassion have died. Its each overweight foul mouthed behemoth for themselves, and god help the decent the disabled the pregnant the elderly because " I's gonna beat their ass if they get in my way". Then we have the teen product of a fine education and marvelous parenting(insert acknowledgment of use of sarcasm here), I finally know why the modern generation lives and dies by their cell phones, how else are you going to phone in your responsibilities and parenting duties if you don't have the best phone on the market?.
And finally to the wonderful Asians in my neighborhood, I respect you if you wish to stay within your own people but you don't get to play an extra from mash for fifteen years and only open your mouth to reveal a Californian surfer chick accent when you want to be a bitch. I have gone out of my way to be nice, I have wished you happy new year but you have ignored me and blown me off. If you and the rest of the Korean community hate the stereotypes imposed upon you don't create them and don't use them when you want to make out you don't speak English. In this country no one is asking you to become close kissing cousins when they wish you happy holidays, if you want privacy you simply smile and say thank you same to you and keep walking. Now you have acted like you work in a Chinese laundry and have actually said "no speak engrish" while all the time being an obviously highly educated English speaking adult. You don't get to claim high ground you are just plain rude and ignorant.
How are we expected to exist when we put up walls we abuse those less than us we phone in our parenting to the point where our offspring act like the worse kind of criminal and you act in such an ignorant manner to a neighbor of many years whose only crime is wishing you New Year.
We are all Americans, we all came from somewhere else to claim the gold ring to give our children the best life the world can offer and once we are established reach back and pull up onto solid ground of freedom those we left behind. I speak a dozen languages today I asked a Latino in his own language to please move and thanked him greeted a Chinese boy in mandarin and greeted an Iraqi woman in her language while thanking the Indian waitress with Namaste and greeted the Tibetan monk on the train with tashe delek. I just finished an email from my German friend Kristina and said goodnight to my poppa in Ukrainian I say this not to brag but to show I welcome you all I am open to all I hate none till they give me personal reason all I ask is that when I a wheelchair using woman ask politely to get in first so I can help you by turning my chair so more can squeeze I don't have to fear for my life and that of Ella's as I finish my request and if you couldn't take your son straight from home to the church or to visit your most special friend without fearing what would come out of his mouth or that he would display prejudice then I'm sorry don't let them out on the streets from me to suffer a cat can give birth it doesn't make them a mother a mother is a woman who thirty years down the road can look and say I did ok I birthed and educated and released upon the world a loving caring well spoken compassionate human being. Until you do stop expecting we the people to clean up after them and take their crap.
Family: Teen With Down Syndrome Banned From Flight for 'Security Issue'
Joan pulled out her cell phone and began to videotape, documenting what she believes was a violation of her son's civil rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Bede — who was labeled a flight risk — can be seen in the video sitting at the gate, quietly playing with his hat.
In the video, you can hear Joan sobbing and her husband expressing disbelief.
"He's behaving," Robert says. "He's demonstrating he's not a problem."
"Of course he's behaving. He's never not behaved," Joan adds.
"I kept saying, 'Is this only because he has Down syndrome?'" Joan said in an interview with KTLA via Skype.
The family has flown together dozens of times. The only thing different about this flight was that they had upgraded for the first time to first class.
"This little boy had a seat in the first class area, and for some reason, they didn't want that. That wasn't acceptable," Joan said.
American Airlines claims Bede was "excitable, running around, and not acclimated to the environment" and that the pilot had unsuccessfully tried to calm him down.
"For the safety of the young man and the safety of others, American Airlines offered to book another flight for the family," American Airlines spokesman Matt Miller told KTLA.
Robert says the family was warned their son's behavior was a concern because their first class seat was to close to the cockpit and a distraction to the pilot could cause a mid-flight emergency landing.
"My son is no different from a 4 or 5 year old as far as behavior," Robert insisted.
The Vanderhorsts claim Bede hadn't caused any troubles and instead was being discriminated against.
Eventually, airline personnel called airport police to intervene — and the family was booked on a United Airlines flight.
The Vanderhorsts eventually got to their home near Bakersfield and say they were not refunded for their upgrade fee, which they were never able to take advantage of.
They say they plan to sue American Airlines, and hope their experience will teach the company and people in general a valuable lesson.
"Respect each person's dignity," Robert said. "Every one of us should be treated with equal dignity
Take Notice TSA I'm flying Again, yes it's that time of the year. What terror do you have planned for the disabled?
Anyone who has read this blog knows My track record with the TSA is not good the first time the idiots met me they demanded that I a gay woman in a wheelchair who doesn't have the ability to walk or stand do both and wait in the corner while said wheelchair was X-RAYED.
When I being the intelligent one pointed out the wheels under my ass and tried to explain why they were there and what that meant for their request a private room was ordered for me as "a Combatant who wouldn't cooperate with a reasonable request". below is a link to the story.
Well that episode caused a riot and a new novel titled "14 DAYS" due out in December.
Here is a link to a sneak preview at chapter 1 of the novel 14 days http://disabledaccessdenied.wordpress.com/2012/07/17/an-unedited-excerpt-from-chapter-one-of-14-days-a-new-novel-by-mia-g-vayner/
Well she who must be obeyed my beautiful Ella just got promoted and it's holiday time in September so we are taking 5 days In Los Angeles to chill out, unfortunately that means two separate excursions through the land of the cerebrally lost, also known as the airport TSA check point. So watch this space and see what idiocy they have learnt since last we met
September 4th virgin Atlantic 7.15 am to Los Angeles returning September 9th is the flight we'll be on.


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JK Rowling at Southbank Center Event Streaming Live (UPDATED)News
September 26, 2012, 06:18 AM
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The following notices have been submitted for publication in the Friday edition of the San Angelo Standard-Times.
SAN ANGELO - William "Bill" Lane, 87, of Barksdale, died Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012, in Bend, Ore. Visitation is from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Aug. 24 at Johnson's Funeral Home. Service is at 1 p.m. Aug. 24 in the funeral home chapel with burial in Fairmount Cemetery.
Survivors include his sons, Robert C. Lane and Richard Lane, both of Bend, Ore.
SAN ANGELO - Douglas Lawson Tate, 82, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in a local care center. Service is at 11 a.m. Wednesday in Robert Massie Funeral Home chapel with burial in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens.
Survivors include his daughters, Sondra Hall of Ackerly and Penny Price of San Angelo; and son Donald Tate of Buda.
SAN ANGELO - Ward Miller, 84, died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, in a local hospital. Private service will be at a later date. Arrangements are by Shaffer Funeral Home/Sherwood Way.
Survivors include his daughters, Carol Lillevig of San Angelo and Patti Culpepper of New River, Ariz.
COLEMAN - John W. Parker Jr., 69, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, at his residence. Visitation is from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday at Stevens Funeral Home. Military graveside service is at 10 a.m. Saturday in Brown Ranch Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Karen Parker of Coleman; sons James W. Parker of Waco, Darrell Parker of Cameron, Robert Parker of Coleman and Henry Parker of May; mother Mozelle Parker of Waco; brother Tom Parker of Waco; and sister Sue Parker of Elizabethtown, Ky.
KERRVILLE - D.E. "Don" Anderson died Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in San Antonio. Services were Monday at Grimes Funeral Chapel and Knippa Church of Christ with burial in Sabinal Cemetery.
Survivors include his wife, Marjorie Anderson of Kerrville; daughters Connie Marlene Anderson Cannon of Palmer, Alaska, and Cathryn Lynnea Anderson Wallis of Hallett, Okla.; and sons Donald Erwin Anderson Jr. of Hobbs, N.M., and Richard Kevin Anderson of Maine.
SONORA - Jackie Wardlaw Stallworth, 79, died Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in Houston. Service is at 11 a.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church with burial in Sonora Cemetery. Arrangements are by Kerbow Funeral Home.
Survivors include her husband, Bill Stallworth of Houston; son Ward Stallworth; daughter Suzanne Monk; sisters Addah McLarty and Linda Ponton; and brother Jack David Wardlaw.
BIG SPRING - Dr. James Warren "Tony" Tipton, 79, died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012. Graveside service is at 10:30 a.m. today in Trinity Memorial Park. Arrangements are by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home.
Survivors include his wife, Sara Tipton of Big Spring; daughter Diane Veirs of Santa Fe, N.M.; brother Dr. King Tipton of Fort Myers, Fla.; and sister Barbara Baker of Milan, Tenn.
BIG SPRING - Darlene Jean Hildebrand, 60, died Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, in a Midland hospital. Private service will be at a later date. Arrangements are by Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home.
Survivors include her sons, Tommy G. Hildebrand Jr. and Ned Randal Hildebrand, both of Big Spring; daughters Barbara Ann Averette of Big Spring and Pamela Jean Hildebrand of Lavon; and sister Debra Cialone of Big Spring.
SWEETWATER - Dillard Williams, 90, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, in Midland. Service is at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home chapel with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery in Merkel.
Survivors include his wife, Mary Williams of Midland; daughters Gwen Koenig of Spring and Kathy Hester of Midland.
SAN ANGELO - Jerry Dill, 80, died Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, in a local nursing home. Services are pending with Adams & Starks Funeral Home.
SAN ANGELO - Leon Samuels died Saturday, Aug. 11, 2012, in a Fort Worth hospital. Services are pending with Adams & Starks Funeral Home.
LLANO - Derol Sagebiel, 59, died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012. Services are pending with Waldrope-Hatfield-Hawthorne Funeral Home.
OZONA - Fortunato Tambunga died Monday, Aug. 13, 2012, in San Angelo. Services are pending with Preddy Funeral Home.
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Sayers defends age-old tradition
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As Yorkshire collapsed to 141 all out on the opening day of the Roses match with Lancashire at Liverpool, the old virtues of grit and determination that have come to define this famous rivalry were all but missing from a sorry White Rose effort.
There was, however, one notable exception.
Opener Joe Sayers battled gamely on a damp wicket that offered seam and swing for Lancashire's well-drilled pace attack, along with vicious bite and spit for exiled Wakefield tweaker Gary Keedy.
It was a surface that harked back to the days of uncovered pitches – the 'old stickies' that bring a twinkle to the eye of retired county pros, if not a slightly furrowed brow to those of a batting persuasion.
Had Brian Close and Geoffrey Boycott been in attendance in Aigburth's picturesque Victorian pavilion – if they were, it was disappointing neither made their way down to chastise us youngsters in the press tent – Yorkshire's old-stagers would have nodded approvingly at Sayers' work.
Survival was the focus of his attentions early on, with the ball hooping around under a slate grey Merseyside sky – and the left-handed batsman, who spent the second half of last season fighting and eventually overcoming the debilitating effects of post-viral fatigue syndrome, rarely deviated from this course.
England seamer James Anderson, on a rare Lancashire appearance, was in the midst of one of those spells that has become his calling-card over the past 18 months.
You know the kind: the ball moving both ways at pace as if the Burnley Express is controlling it at will on an invisible length of string.
Despite beating the edge on a number of occasions, there was a feeling Anderson did not make the batsmen play enough. Although he might have troubled off stump a touch more, this impression was given weight by the fact Sayers simply refused to give credence to this swinging both ways nonsense.
If such a thing is possible, he left emphatically at times, giving an object lesson is obduracy. When the 27-year-old dispatched a sublime cover drive to the fence in Anderson's eighth and final over of a wicketless stint, it seemed a fitting way for Sayers to celebrate a battle won – with a proper cricket shot.
Both sides of the Pennine divide have a history of producing such defiant characters whose focus, or perhaps outright bloody-mindedness, has eventually shone on the biggest stage of all.
Most cricketers in their mid-40s would be settling into a life of retirement and occasional village games, but Close thought it best to let Michael Holding and company pepper his body at lethal pace when recalled to the England Test side against the against a fearsome West Indies outfit in 1976.
On the Red Rose side, Mike Atherton's epic powers of concentration cast him as the one-man backbone of the talented but flimsy England team he captained in the 1990s. His career-best 185 not out, amassed over 643 minutes to save the Johannesburg Test against South Africa in 1995 stands as a modern-day monument to stoicism.
In this respect Atherton was Boycott's heir in the England team. A net-obsessive and fiercely proud Yorkshireman, Boycott made it his business to grind the finest bowlers around the world into submission – something borne out by the fact England lost only 20 of 108 Tests in which he strode purposefully out to the middle.
Although a left-hander, there is much of Boycott's influence to be seen in Sayers. It was there in his eight-and-a-half-hour career-best 187 against Kent in 2007, and it was on display in Liverpool today.
His diligent half-century came up in the 43rd over and a 148-ball stay was only ended by a remarkable one-handed catch from Steven Croft at backward point, Anderson getting his man.
However, Yorkshire did have another man apparently ready to knuckle down and carry the fight. Captain Andrew Gale had been at the crease for more than two hours in compiling 31 at a strike-rate below 30.
The ball after skipping down the pitch and pushing Keedy through extra-cover for two that might have been four but for the soggy outfield, the left-hander was somehow bowled around his legs by the left-arm spinner.
It was not what the situation required. Close and Boycott would have been furious.


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Ratings: 1,834 | Reviews: 1,019 | Display Reviews Only:
Reviews by musicman575:
4.88/5 rDev +26.1%
This has quickly become one of my favorite beers. I can't stop thinking about it. Rich amber goodness is my friend. It's hearty and has a high alcohol content, but that doesn't stop it from going down better than any beer. I have put off writing anything about this beer, because I like it so much that I really don't want to try to isolate all the flavors. Paulaner Oktoberfest is more of an experiential brew for me. One day I shall make a pilgrimage to Munich.
09-25-2010 03:47:36 | More by musicman575
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North Carolina
4.13/5 rDev +6.7%
I have always considered this a really good example of a "fest" beer and jump on it when its out.Pours a nice deep copper color with a pretty nice medium head,aroma is slightly malty and toasted but faint.The taste is on the sweeter side with some doughy flavors with a light hoppiness to keep it from getting to sweet.Real nice beer look for it if you like th style.
09-08-2003 01:00:57 | More by oberon
3.65/5 rDev -5.7%
Appearance Light orange in color with a nice, frothing head that laced well.
Smell Lovely aroma of pure toasted malt. This one is buttery and smells like a ringer for the style.
Taste The toasted grain was a little rough but sweetened just right with sticky sugars. Theres usually not much dimension to the style, and this offering from Paulaner holds true.
Mouthfeel Very creamy and sticky. This is almost medium-bodied and feels terrific in the mouth.
Drinkability After drinking the Skagit River Oktoberfest (that almost made me barf) this was a pleasure. I would have liked to have seen a little more refinement in the grain but otherwise this was a hit.
01-13-2004 02:12:42 | More by RoyalT
Ontario (Canada)
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
11-01-2012 10:41:46 | More by beerhunter13
4.23/5 rDev +9.3%
It looks like apple juice and smells like bread/yeast. But what really matters is the taste. This is a very drinkable beer, so refreshing, and just darn good. I'm not a fan of bitter beers but this has a very light bitterness to it. Nothing unpleasant! I taste some bread, yeast, maybe some fruit like apple (it does look like apple juice). Hand me this beer and I will drink it!
Served in a wheat beer glass.
10-03-2013 02:00:00 | More by Fear4Beer
2.95/5 rDev -23.8%
A: Yellow, completely clear, with a rather big white head. Good head retention and nice lacings.
S: Light malts, white bread and a fresh mild herbal hop note.
T: Rather sweet with malts and toast up front. Light but fresh grassy and herbal hop notes. The finish has some bitterness to it, a a quick hop flare and some malts. Clean and refreshing with decent flavors.
M: Moderate to light body, quite a lot of carbonation.
D: A decent beer.
10-15-2009 19:38:21 | More by ricke
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
09-30-2013 23:18:07 | More by OhioBobcat
4.2/5 rDev +8.5%
This a lovely deep amber to dark orange beer with an orange-tinged fluffy white head. The nose is caramel malt and faint spicy hops.
Taste is mostly caramel/ toffee maltiness with a splash of spicy hops to keep it light and a hugely bready character. Once gain, I had almost given up on european Marzens because they always wind up in my hands way old and sub-par. Bought a bottle of this at a store once and couldn't even finish it. This was a real treat on tap.
Mouthfeel was a bit thick for my liking and anfter one big wiesse glass of this, I was feeling kinda full. Maybe I'm just a lightweight.
02-11-2006 20:06:07 | More by JudgeRoughneck
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
09-17-2013 03:46:04 | More by Tiernan
4/5 rDev +3.4%
05-16-2014 02:42:32 | More by tbryan5
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
08-07-2014 14:19:22 | More by GameOfBeers
North Carolina
3.85/5 rDev -0.5%
Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass.
Pours a beautifully clear amber color with a nice 1/2" of soapy white foam. Retention is light and lacing is minimal.
Moderate and lightly roasted malt waft up to the nose, a deeper inhale seems to really bring out the light earthy hops.
Balance is the first word that comes to mind as this hits the tongue. Caramel malts but not sweet; light bittering but not hoppy; modest carbonation but not to active in the mouth. The whole package comes together for a nice creamy satisfying experience. The finish is very quick with hints of malt, but almost instantly dissipates to a lightly bitter linger - then gone, clean.
Very easy to drink and highly enjoyable. This really does seem to bring a lot of the good things of this style to the table.
09-14-2009 22:33:43 | More by SIRIUS2
4/5 rDev +3.4%
Beer review from BA Mag Sep 2007.
Saturday September 22nd marks the first day of Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany. Americans will be celebrating this holiday till the end of October as most think Oktoberfest is a month-long event. This beer is brewed year-round so you can celebrate O-fest anytime you please. Whatever works, right?
Brightly glowing orange-amber color shows a perfect clarity. Three fingers of off-white froth slowly collapse to a thin lace. Malty aroma with bready tones on top with light layers of caramel and biscuit, faint alcohol vapor and herbal hop in the back of the nose. Very smooth mouthfeel with a fluffy moderate body and a semi-creamy palate. Lots of malt character right from the get-go, fresh toasted grain with a long maltiness that brings a bit of sweetness. Hops are casual and walk onto the palate with a well-balanced bitterness, along with herbal and floral flavors. Slight alcohol warmth in the semi-sweet finish.
Just the sheer balance and cleanliness of this lager is amazing. If we had to come up with a benchmark brand for every style, this would be our pick for O-fest beers.
07-07-2010 00:11:17 | More by BeerAdvocate
3/5 rDev -22.5%
03-06-2014 21:29:09 | More by bulldogg915
New York
4.1/5 rDev +5.9%
On tap at Uptown Grille Commerce MI.
A_Bronze amber body with a thick white head that settle into a thin lacy ring. Spotty lacing.
S_Toasted malt,caramel and toffee notes. Spot on for the style.
T_Caramel malt upfront. Bready/bisquity in the body with a touch of spice and hops.
M_Very smooth and creamy.
D_Delicious easy drinking. Perfect example of the Okto style.
09-26-2010 01:44:57 | More by nickadams2
3.7/5 rDev -4.4%
This beer was a solid amber color, had a strong fragrant sweet malt aroma, strong carmelly malty taste that seemed to lose these features quickly.Seemed to me a perfect beer if you are a smoker, you get quick initial bursts of flavor, then you enjoy your smoke.
10-29-2003 01:54:36 | More by grynder33
New York
4.55/5 rDev +17.6%
Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a Spaten Oktoberfest Stange glass. There is a "produced on" date of 09/09 and sampled on 10-19-09
Appearance: The body has a deep coppery amber color with very good clarity. On top sits a tall light beige head. It is light, fluffy and fades out quickly leaving only a little spotty lacing at the top of the glass.
Smell: Its aroma is full of sweet bready, toasted and roasted malts with a touch of nutty character, caramel candy and noble hops. There is also a very slight hint of mineral like or hard water like aroma.
Taste/Palate: The flavor is much the same as the aroma. It has loads of sweet malty goodness with nice nutty and roasted character. Its sweetness fades towards the finish and leafy/mineral like hop favors come in and add a nice balance of flavor and bitterness. It finishes crisp and clean and has a nice solid medium body which is extremely drinkable. The carbonation is soft which make for a very smooth texture.
Notes: This is a very tasty and extremely drinkable Oktoberfest. The only thing I could ask for would be a little more head retention. This is one of the better Oktoberfest beers that I have had. Very well done!!!
10-19-2009 22:46:54 | More by generallee
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
10-13-2012 02:42:01 | More by Twifiter
Rhode Island
4.22/5 rDev +9%
appearance - pours a nice clear, amber color. Third of an inch head that remains for a while, clinging to the glass. Nice lacing.
smell - smells of german malts, yeast, bready/doughy notes, ....cherries?
taste - now this is an octoberfest beer. usually not a huge fan but this is one of the better ones. Bready maltiness, has that "german taste" to it...if that makes any sense. Yeast, honeycomb, hint of hop spice, very clean finish. Smooth as ice.
mouthfeel - nice body and not too carbonated at all. nice.
drinkability - Highly. Great session beer even though its almost 6% abv.
08-31-2007 19:32:26 | More by Doomcifer
New Hampshire
4/5 rDev +3.4%
10-03-2013 19:09:37 | More by JakerLou
3.68/5 rDev -4.9%
11.2 oz bottle poured into a shaker pint glass.
A – Pours a very pale gold khaki. Big, fluffy three-finger head sets up instantly, necessitating waiting to finish the pour. Pillowy off-white foam collapses slowly as large bubbles pop. Eventually, all that's left is a thin sheen across the surface. Beer is a dark orange-amber and clear.
S – Nicely toasted malts. Some slightly burnt caramels. Soft nose stays buried in the glass. Hints of Bananas Foster when it warms up, along with more caramels.
T – Medium dark caramel with a touch of toffee spread on lightly grilled toast. Noble bittering hops immediately follow to balance any residual sugar, so what lingers is more of an almost-burnt toast taste rather than sugars. Pretty simple and straightforward, but tasty.
M – A bit fizzy, but not over-carbonated. Body is thin, on the edge of watery. Structure is a bit light, especially compared to American-style Oktoberfests. Finish is a tad bitter, and snaps off across the back of the tongue.
O – A refreshing German Marzen. Lighter than most Americans, but with a bit more flavor than a number of Germans. I especially appreciate that it lacks the American trend of over-hopping every style, but still has enough present to prevent any sense of sweetness. I'd include this in a six-pack mixer during Oktoberfest season.
03-09-2013 21:17:05 | More by BuckeyeSlim
3.88/5 rDev +0.3%
5 liter keg, moderate carbonation at best out of these. Very nice lacing and clarity.
Malty with toasted and bready tones in the aroma, alcoholic vapors are quick and clean.
Smooth and clean with a solid maltiness, lots of toasted flavours floating around. Bready sweet on the palate with a hop bitterness that grows to balance, little bit of flavour comes through in an herbal note.
Not too bad from the mini-keg, I'd get this again for sure when it comes around again next September.
11-15-2002 04:37:07 | More by Jason
4.08/5 rDev +5.4%
My first German Marzen style of the season compares very favorably to the two domestic versions I've sampled. 12 oz bottle pours a clear amber body with a one finger beige head that persists for a few minutes before dropping to a collar with patchy lace.
Aroma is very enticing, with floral/spicy hops and caramel maltiness.
Mouthfeel is ideal for style, with medium carbonation, a light medium body, and a spicy hops zing on the tongue.
Taste is pure bliss, with a wonderful blend of spicy, noble hops and toasty, grainy, caramel maltiness. The body lightens a bit for the finish as the bittering spicy hops come to life. Very tasty, with a clean and dry finish. By far, the most drinkable of the Oktoberfest biers I've sampled this September. I would gladly keep a couple of cases of this Bavarian around for pleasure.
09-14-2005 01:37:23 | More by merlin48
New York
3.75/5 rDev -3.1%
12 ounce bottle, with "produced on" dating info on label. Pours a light, coppery, brownish almond, slim white head, tiny bubbles and just a smidgen of lacing. Not much of a nose, deep malty notes, hint of a metalic note. Fruity, malty and pleasant stuff, not my fav style, but cannot deny that this are good everyday drinkin' suds
09-23-2004 03:07:34 | More by Billolick
3.5/5 rDev -9.6%
10-23-2013 02:49:18 | More by ctodda
Paulaner Oktoberfest-Märzen from Paulaner Brauerei GmbH & Co. KG
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A couple days after seeing the Japanese man, we pulled into Stevens Village on river-right. We had no idea what time it was, and, deep in the Arctic summer, no one ever seemed to know when to sleep. We rambled around the small town, past chained-up dogs and people who were outside doing whatever they were doing. Outside the post office, I talked with an Athabaskan firefighter in his 30s. He came from a settlement on a side channel, one we'd seen signs of, unmanned fish wheels turning in the current. He called the place Diné Village.
"Diné?" I repeated, puzzled by the name. The Navajo who live in the dry Southwest also call themselves Diné. It means the People.
"Diné," he said. "You know, the People."
This struck me like thunder. At that point in my life, I hardly knew what Native meant. They were a people whose history I could scarcely grasp. They just lived here; they always had. But I had no idea why they were here, or where they came from, or what was the true difference between one group and another. Suddenly I saw the connection, an Athabaskan migration, an ancient linguistic trail that stretched 2,000 miles down to the Southwest.
Later, I'd learn how language is used to define movements of cultures and ethnicities. When you see the map of a language family, you are seeing ancient patterns of migration, originating from the same mother tongue. The Athabaskan family, also known as the Na-Dene family, stretches from Alaska and western Canada down the Pacific Northwest, and is firmly settled from the Four Corners down to parts of Texas. Trace it back far enough, and you'll end up in central Siberia.
Outside the Stevens Village post office, I felt the land begin to move in my mind. I connected dots I had never noticed before. I began excitedly telling this man about a faraway desert with cliffs the color of blood, a place where people also call themselves Diné.
He looked back at me with a sort of polite smile. He simply said, "Could be."
In a northern Arizona Hogan, an old Navajo man sat on a child's school chair in the cold morning air. A fire burned in a rusted steel barrel cut in half. His middle-aged grandson stood off to the side, wearing a denim jacket. My friend and I had come as visitors, seeking permission to trek around the base of a sacred mountain that rose out of the man's backyard. We'd be out there for a couple of weeks, and we'd brought gifts of fresh food and a new coat. Fire crackled as the old singer spoke to us in Navajo, trying rough Spanish every now and then. We understood him mostly through his grandson. The wizened old man chuckled as he spoke to us, half bent over, the skin on his hands wrinkled like crumpled paper bags.
The grandson translated, "He said you should come help him herd sheep instead."
We laughed in return, trying to explain that we were here for the shape of the country, and we had our own ways of travel.
The grandson waved our words away. "He understands. You have permission."
But I had other questions, ones I wasn't sure how to ask.
"Why does he keep corn pollen?" I asked, noting the small leather pouch rubbed smooth in his hand.
The old singer explained that corn pollen is one of the most sacred things a person can carry. My questions continued: When did corn come to the Diné? Before the Athabaskan migration –– before those first arrivals became Navajo and Apache tribes –– corn had been cultivated in this high desert for well over 2,000 years by a different people.
The singer answered me, and the grandson translated, "Corn has always been with the people."
"But when you came here?" I asked. "Do you know when it became part of Diné culture?"
I wasn't trying to appear obtuse, but I didn't understand. There is no corn in the Arctic, which is where his bloodlines, or at least his language, originated.
The grandson translated my question into the notoriously complex and subtle Navajo language. Words went back and forth a few times, the old singer nodding, unflappable. The grandson turned to me and said, "We have been here since the beginning. The people didn't come from someplace else. We came out of the ground."
I shut up then. He and I understood the world very differently. While I was stacking evidence in neat rows, as my people tend to do, he was telling me that time is neither linear nor separable from place. It is woven into the ground itself. He gestured at the dirt under his feet, hoping I would understand. When your people say they emerged from the ground, when they didn't come from someplace else, that is when you know you are native.
The red and dusty floor was cold, slowly warmed by the fire. In that earth lay the singer's ancestry, his bloodlines running through the landscape like an ancient river. This same dirt nourished the Pueblo culture, which created the rock art and cliff dwellings around the base of this sacred mountain. There were also Paiutes in this fine, dry matrix, and the early Desert Archaic culture back as far as 8,000 years ago, and before them what are known as Paleo-Indians, a genetic cast of Asians who appear to have come from the Bering Land Bridge when the ice was high and the seas were low.
Traveling a human migration corridor from top to bottom, at each end I encountered groups of people very settled in their places, who've been there so long they mine the detritus of their ancestors to make a living, people who say and believe they came out of the ground. Yet they've also been wanderers over thousands of years, like my own ancestors.
We left the old singer's hogan. Entering deep canyons, we backpacked our way around a sacred mountain in a land where every mountain seems sacred. In sheltering alcoves, we ate and slept, and on clear nights we watched the Milky Way pass overhead, framed by narrow canyon walls. Like the first cartographers, we measured the land with our bodies and our outstretched hands. We found old markings: painted shields, human figures, and handprints from ancient people, and the more recent horse-figured petroglyphs of Navajos. From the rock art, we sought directions. It's just what you do when you're not from around here.


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The South Walton Fire District (SWFD) responded to two unconscious victims in the Gulf of Mexico behind South Spooky Lane at 5:45 p.m. Sunday.
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Many companies have cut back costs since 2008, sometimes taking away from important employee benefits. But now many companies are bringing back some of those benefits. Since the downturn in 2008, companies have been looking for ways to scrimp and save. One way to do that was to stop, or dramatically reduce, contributions to employee 401(K) plans. But now, many of those companies are restoring their contributions.
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