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Seems like Kokopelli Wineries in Chandler, AZ and their wines are no more. (Their phone number and website are defunct) I really loved their "Sweet Lucy" red. Oh well. [image: Inline image 1]
Anyone know if this has a modern-day equivalent? I would love to get involved with it.
You're broken, you have issues, you have pain. Yes, I understand that, we all do.
You're uncertain, and scared, anxious and worried. Yes, we all are.
You want the pain to go away, you want to feel confident, you want to stand tall. Yes, you and me both.
You want help. Yes, so do I.
And somehow the fates of the universe brought you to my side.
And I can offer my hand, and my kind words, or my tough love.
To help you stand back up and keep walking towards your goal.
I can help you up when you trip, but I can't carry you to the end of the challenge, i'm not strong enough.
I can fix the car to get you back in the race, but I can't drive it for you, I don't have the patience.
I can draw you a map and put it in your hand, but I can't make you follow it, I don't have the energy.
I can pull you back from the brink, but I can't drag you down the steps from the top of the tower, I don't have the time.
I can make you smile, but I cannot paint a smile on your face forever, I don't have the skill.
You are my sidekick, my partner, my friend, my playmate, my accomplice, my evil twin.
But you are not my burden to bear. You are not my duty to serve. You are not my clay to mold and shape.
I will not force you to change, I will not demand that you find happiness, I will not tell you what to be.
But I will offer my help, my kindness, my doggedness alongside your own efforts to reach your own ends.
But I cannot, and will not, do it alone.
So, I went down to a temp agency today to sign up. They had a myriad of forms to be completed of course. One in particular caught my eye.
It was the opt-out form for their "binding arbitration" agreement. While I could (And had to) turn in the agreement to allow binding arbitration to be used in the event of a dispute on the spot the opt-out form had to be faxed or emailed to a specific department.
I challenge this. It appears quite clear it is a way to make sure recruits end up forced into binding arbitration if there is an issue. Very few will actually follow up and send in the opt-out form. (I took a photo of mine and mailed it while waiting for the interview)
I suppose it's just one more example of corporate USA complicating things in the hope it will gain them an edge.
So, somehow I ended up on a mailing list for the Washington Times. Which is odd because I do not recall ever signing up for such a thing, and checking my back emails shows no signup confirmation.
The ad is titled: "Why is THIS Bible verse changing atheists' minds?"
Now, maybe i'm asking a lot, but I don't expect media outlets that I might be interested in readon news on to thump the bible. It's apparently from this nutjob company called "Health Revelations" that claims there is a cure for cancer hidden in the bible.
And after a lengthy sales pitch explaining how you can cure your cancer it asks you to claim your "free gifts" by of course signing up to pay them money: "1-Year Subscription (12 issues) for just $74.00″
Now I know the Times is just looking for advertising revenue, but it strikes me as poor judgment when their ads are more likely to stop people from reading their site than to get them clicks and more readers. This is what I expect from Faux (Fox) News, not "real" news sources.
I'm finding that some people want to come here to critique my views, attitudes, etc. And yet there is no way for me to return the favor towards them. (IE. Trolls) Those people are now banned from posting here. Have a nice day.
Someone broke into my car today and stole my custom homemade picnic bag. Such a bummer, I'll have to build a new one.
Thankfully they ignored the tools, the ipod touch in the console, the stereo, etc. I figured a minivan would be a low-value target for such things.
Oh well, right?
So, recently Colleen (My father's wife) commented here on a post I made over a year ago.
Somehow she thinks that she can complain about me being dramatic and negative all the time. What does she think this will accomplish exactly?
Obviously she is under the impression that i'm wrong, she is right, and that her being insulting to me is the way to change my mind.
Furthermore when I called her and asked what else she wanted to bitch about she did not want to talk to me. So the impersonal attitude of posts and emails is just fine to be insulting in but she can't dare deal with someone on the phone.
But anyway what I really want to say is why I will never trust anything she says ever again. Because of family.
She believed her son, without any doubts over me. End of story.
Her family matters more to her than her husband's family. Fine, terrific, but it kind of makes her conservative attitude that "family matters" really mean "some family matters". And that I am not one of the family that matters.
So now we have all-out-war. Why? Because that's what Colleen wants. Why else dredge up a post from a year ago and make a drama-filled comment on it?
I don't want to fight with her. Nor do I want to fight with my father, but he never wants to actually talk to me anyway. He just lets Colleen talk for him. I find this a real shame. However my father has also showed me this behavior. He mentioned once that he believed a friend rather than believe me, his own son.
How am I supposed to take that? It's been made clear to me that they do not value what I have to say if what they hear from anyone else they trust disagrees with it.
So, i'm done trying. They have made it clear there is no point in trying. They do not want to be logical with me, they just want to believe what they want to believe. They want to remind me over and over how I do not live up to their expectations and desires, well, tough shit.
Why do I fight? Because in the end I thought family meant something. And I fought to try to get them to understand that I am my own person and I am allowed to be my own person and that I have the right to be accepoted for that.
But little by little I am reminded that I am not their family.
Recently I applied for an opening I found on Craigslist. I received the following reply:
"Thank you for your interest in this position. It would appear yours skills are above the stated entry level for this position. We will keep your resume on file should any positions befitting of your skills open in the near future."
I consistently hear from conservative minded folks that "There is always work out there if you want it bad enough, you just have to swallow your pride". Well fucking guess what, sometimes there isn't, even if you do swallow your pride.
What I also think is funny is this came from the "QA Manager" and contains a spelling error.
Rough day at work, then the bus driver closes the door on me when I try to get on the bus. Time to go home and relax.
Carrie: "I don't know what this is, but I'll eat it."
So we are all aware that when we use our bank accounts there are multiple types and layers of security.
When we login to them online that is one secure portal. Often with multiple passwords, verification questions, pictures we choose to make sure it is us, etc. And when we use the cards and the bank takes or stores that information it is another layer. Unfortunately I cannot tell you how secure that one is or what methods they use because, well, they don't tell us.
But increasingly it seems that back end is less secure than we think. The recent Target mess showed how the point of sale terminals can be hacked. And just today the replacement card I got after that compromise was itself somehow compromised.
Someone tried to run a large transaction at a drug store 2800 miles away. While this transaction failed due to some level of security the bank was still unable to tell me if the attempted transaction was via Credit Card signature or PIN code.
Let's think about this a second. So we are relying on their security, which does not record the simplest of details of an attempted transaction.
I don't know about you, but this worries me far more than having my card compromised.
This is one of those mornings when it is somewhat less enjoyable to live in Seattle. The thermometer read 26f when I headed out the door.
Good day to go out to eat with Velma. Everyone else is watching the stupor bowl.
I saw this on my way to work this morning, figured it was worth taking a picture of.
So this quote was mentioned to me recently:
"It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different–men and women live in different worlds…at core, men are afraid women will laugh at them, while at core, women are afraid men will kill them."
- Gavin de Becker, The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
And it struck me, this is true. And it shows that this issue is relative, not universal. This is something that is based on culture, change your nation or region and you change your culture. Levels of violence in Iceland for example are radically different than those in the USA.
I can't fix the level of violence in the USA unfortunately, but I can decide to run from it.
Let me start by saying I like giving gifts. I also tend to like receiving gifts. But I dislike gifts given that have no real "meaning".
Case in point, this gift today from the temp agency that I work with. It was a leather portfolio. With the company name embossed in HUGE ugly letters on the front. (I dislike such corporate advertising, but I digress)
Why did they give me this? I am guessing because I make them money, without them doing much of anything. Which to me is the wrong reason to give gifts.
Perhaps it's just me. But even "obligatory" gifts should only be given when someone is doing meaningful work in my opinion.
Snowed last night. Thankfully it is above freezing out so the roads are not iced. Looks pretty.
I walked past this Weiner Mobile on the way to work. Didn't think these things existed anymore.
Just… Wow… I have no good words to describe this.
I heard about this on NPR recently. It is a free chat app for android and ios that offers extremely powerful encryption and other security functions.
Nico Sell, co-founder of Wickr told Cnet recently that the FBI had approached them and asked for a backdoor. They said no."
Now I'm not a tin-foil-hat-wearing nut, but I think security is something we should just "have", not something we should have to think about.
I thought this looked cool so I took a photo with my new tablet
So today is the last day for states to submit proposals to Boeing to get them to bring their new 777X proram to their state.
Each state is stumbling over itself and the other states to throw money, perks, tax cuts, etc at Boeing. In the end who loses? The US worker.
The states should not be allowed to screw over each other this way, it is not good competition, it is bad competition.
Even the US government considered Mandela a terrorist until 2008. He was jailed for 27 years for acts of terrorism.
I'm not poking sticks at good or bad here, just saying that perhaps we should be careful how we view labels.
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
So I ordered the new Nexus 7 2013 edition today from Amazon. And while I have prime I saw at the checkout "get it today for an extra $3.99″. Hrrm, yeah, hard choice.
So I did it, ordered at 10am and got it at 4pm. Pretty sweet.
So I have had a free account with dyndns.com (now dyn.com) which was once a paid account in 2005. As some of you are aware they started requiring that people login every 30 days to maintain their free accounts.
This does not sit well with me, why? Because it's flatly stupid. If you want to migrate your free users to being paid users you try the carrot approach first. If that fails THEN you try the stick approach.
The heavy stick approach lost them my repeat business. Rather than submit to their demands I figured out how to update Comcast's dynamic IP at my house onto my Dreamhost hosted domains myself. This means I do not need them at all anymore, too bad, so sad.
I wonder how many other people have jumped ship.
So, some of you might know that things are looking rather decent for me at the moment.
I have a steady job at Amazon (Cheers!) and my private life is trucking along decently (Cheers again!)
Now I just need to figure out how to handle no time and money after a long stretch of time and no money. Hrrm…
So Android is "supposedly" open source.
And in general that is true. But I found this article: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/3/ that shows that Google really controls Android much more than I realized.
As the article states:
While it might not be an official requirement, being granted a Google apps license will go a whole lot easier if you join the Open Handset Alliance. The OHA is a group of companies committed to Android—Google's Android—and members are contractually prohibited from building non-Google approved devices. That's right, joining the OHA requires a company to sign its life away and promise to not build a device that runs a competing Android fork.
Acer was bit by this requirement when it tried to build devices that ran Alibaba's Aliyun OS in China. Aliyun is an Android fork, and when Google got wind of it, Acer was told to shut the project down or lose its access to Google apps. Google even made a public blog post about it:
While Android remains free for anyone to use as they would like, only Android compatible devices benefit from the full Android ecosystem. By joining the Open Handset Alliance, each member contributes to and builds one Android platform—not a bunch of incompatible versions.
This makes life extremely difficult for the only company brazen enough to sell an Android fork in the west: Amazon. Since the Kindle OS counts as an incompatible version of Android, no major OEM is allowed to produce the Kindle Fire for Amazon. So when Amazon goes shopping for a manufacturer for its next tablet, it has to immediately cross Acer, Asus, Dell, Foxconn, Fujitsu, HTC, Huawei, Kyocera, Lenovo, LG, Motorola, NEC, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Toshiba, and ZTE off the list. Currently, Amazon contracts Kindle manufacturing out to Quanta Computer, a company primarily known for making laptops. Amazon probably doesn't have many other choices.
While I use and enjoy Android this is rather disconcerting to learn. I suppose time will tell how this all plays out.
Do not try to have a conversation about physics with someone that calls Stephen Hawking, "some damned cripple".
So a long-time friend of mine has published his first book on Amazon. I'll give him a shameless plug here.
It's kind of odd to look around my apartment and see all the things that I don't need. Or all the things connected to a pastime I do not indulge in anymore.
I guess I need to take a shovel to the place and do a purge. I also need to reevaluate my list of enjoyments. Kind of funny how the "what" matters much less now and the "who", "where", "when" and "why" are critical. I think that might violate some law of US materialism, but I think I can live with that.
I realized recently that I was using my "powers" of solving problems or fixing things to try to make up for my lack of social skills. Which tends to go over relatively well, especially when people need their computer fixed. But the outlay of materials, time and money on projects where the interest is minor and the fulfillment is unlikely has been one of my major failures.
Interesting, so interesting.
Some of you near to me have noticed that I am actually *GASP* happy lately. Yes, things for me have changed in drastic ways. I found a group of people that I enjoy being around. And I have gotten myself involved in a torrid love affair.
I guess for now I am staying in Seattle. Time will tell, but it is looking more likely.
In other news my father and his wife have decided that now is the time to try and inflict their world views on me again. (I suppose this happened because USAA tried to contact them on my behalf and ask them to sign up for insurance so I could) It's actually kind of funny how they think they matter to me anymore. I did not get to choose my family, but I now get to choose who I want to care about, they would do well to learn that.
Sunny outside today, I think I'll go for a walk and play Ingress for awhile.
It's nice when what one believes is situational depression turns out to in fact be situational depression.
So patient #1 goes to a doctor and says "I can't smell things, flowers and food have no pleasure for me". The doctor notices he has a broken nose that never healed right. The doctor sends him to to a plastic surgeon for Rhinoplasty to fix the problem.
Patient #2 goes to a therapist and says "I feel so alone, there is no pleasure in my life. I just don't get along with people well.". He is prescribed multiple Antidepressants while the doctor tries to find the right one to make the patient feel happy.
Patient #1 Really DOES have a broken nose, and a damaged sense of smell. Patient #2 Has limited social skills and needs more human contact in their life. Why is patient #2 not diagnosed correctly much less treated properly?
Opinions differ, but for me it's a combination of several things.
#1 The drug companies are pushers. They shove new drugs onto the market looking for a band-aid simple cure, and the mental health community is happy to use it.
#2 Society doesn't like to help people with mental or social problems. We laugh at them on TV, we avoid them in public, but they're people too, who need help. Help that people are unwilling to give.
Dr. Des Spence, a general practitioner from Glasgow, said that ""we use antidepressants too easily, for too long, and that they are effective for few people (if at all)." Though he acknowledges that depression is real, he argued that the definition of clinical depression is too general and is "causing widespread medicalization."
Spence also points out that antidepressant prescriptions in the U.K. rose to 46 million in 2011, a 9.6% increase. He questions the view that depression is a simply chemical imbalance, and believes antidepressants are becoming "a distraction from a wider debate about why we are so unhappy as a society."
"But even if we accept that antidepressants are effective, a Cochrane review suggests that only one in seven people actually benefits," said Spence. "Thus millions of people are enduring at least six months of ineffective treatment."
We're broadening the diagnosis, treating the symptoms and ignoring the causes.
So recently I bought a used 2000 Toyota Sienna Van.
I learned that it uses transponder keys to allow the car to start only if the correct chip in the key is near the ignition.
These keys sell for an astronomical amount (Home Depot wanted 80$ for one. The Toyota Dealership wanted to sell me a blank for 80$ and then charge me another 80$ to program it).
Needless to say I did not want to pay this to have a few spare keys made. Enter, the internet.
I searched and found that there was a procedure to make the car add another key to it's database by pushing pedals in a specific combination. This meant that I could program my own keys. Now I needed keys to program. I found blanks on Ebay, from a seller that had a feedback score high enough to suggest their success rate was high. (It helped that the keys were 8$ each, so if i failed I would only be out 16$ from trying two keys) I got the keys and opened one up, it contained just a simple chip. (hard to get, but not really "special")
Now to program them. After about 20 minutes I managed to make the programming sequence work, and I had 4 master transponder keys. Now, the cutting.
When I buy a vehicle I like to go to the dealership and get a new blank cut from the VIN. This blank becomes the "uncirculated master" if you will (I got a basic key from Toyota cut from the VIN for 10$. It won't start the car but it's the best key to make more keys off of). I was not about to try and ask Toyota to cut my new aftermarket transponder blanks, i'm sure they would have had a fit.
I heard online that often key cutters in big box stores or hardware stores will refuse to cut blanks, and I've had the same kind of thing happen to me. I guess they want to sell you their key blanks and might think you're breaking the law. (Tho frankly getting the blanks is often more useful when breaking the law, but I digress).
Enter the small local locksmith. I found one just down the road from where I worked, went in and showed him the 2 transponders and the master. I said "I need those 2 keys cut from this master", "no problem" he said and grabbed them up. 5 minutes later I had 2 cut keys for an astoundingly low 2$ each. No mess, no fuss, I was so elated that I gave him 10$ and said to keep the change.
The cutting was good, and both worked perfectly. End cost? 15$ per transponder key (including the cost of the VIN master) and some brain CPU cycles.
The next time you need a "special" key for your car, remember they aren't all THAT special. Likely you can get one yourself FAR cheaper than the dealership is gouging you for it.
So most anyone interested at all in the outdoors has read about the "Leave no trace" or LNT principles. Which in short state that nature is to be seen, not touched, not trampled on (IE. the outdoors is a museum to be looked at not interacted with).
I find fault with this, on many levels.
Let's take the basic principles of LNT one by one. In the interest of simplicity in this post i'm going to break things down into "energy" meaning energy used and "impact" meaning physical environmental impact. Also "wilderness" refers to any wild area where mankind has had a minimal impact not designated Wilderness areas.
#1 Plan ahead and prepare.
This one is good. It's hard to argue that preparing is an excellent idea. But, what kind of preparation are we talking about? Let's compare a modern backpacker with a wood/bushcrafter.
Backpacker – Modern ultralight gear
Impact: High to Extreme. Consider everything in a modern backpackers gear. Titanium pot and cup, modern backpack, modern aluminum and steel stove, ultralight tent with nylon and aluminum, down sleeping bag, carbon fiber trekking poles, nylon or gore-Tex clothing. All the materials to make these things had to be mined or synthesized, almost nothing in a modern backpackers gear is natural. Think of the environmental impact of titanium and bauxite mining, fiberglass and epoxy resin for carbon fiber, not to mention all the chemicals required to process all these materials. Even if we say a modern backpackers gear will last a reasonable amount of time we all know that people upgrade their gear, and that gear breaks or wears out. Is that gear repaired? Usually not, it's mostly just thrown away and replaced with something new which adds to landfill impact. Along with this add the packaging for many of these materials which is often not recyclable. (Think for example how some ultralight backpackers remove all the tags from their clothing, but do they bother to wonder of the impact of what they do with those removed tags?) Also consider those things that are intended to be disposable, such as fuel canisters, i'm sure many recycle them but many also just throw them into the garbage.
Energy: High to Extreme. From the mining of the raw materials, to the transportation, then the processing on to the processing to the construction then finally the transportation to the retail establishment and it's purchase by the consumer there is significant energy expended here. There is also the energy of the petroleum fuel that is being used in the stove. It has to be brought up, refined and delivered.
Wood/Bushcrafter – Old traditional gear
Impact: Low to High. Consider what a bushcrafter might carry. Hatchet, knife, plastic tarp, wool blanket, backpack. Some of these things might be modern, and they might be old. For the sake of this post I'll consider the bushcrafter with old gear. He uses a military pack he got at an army surplus store, and a hatchet he got there as well. His knife is a hand-me-down from his grandfather, the wool blanket he got from a local store made with homespun yarn, he carries a WW2 mess kit and canteen. He's likely also wearing wool and cotton clothing. Yes, many of these things have impacts, but they are much lower than modern day gear, also they are more likely to be secondhand, which have no packaging or modern construction impacts. There is also the fact that his gear is likely going to last much longer than modern gear. A WW2 canteen is simply going to outlast a titanium cup due to it's strength, the cup is built for minimum weight, the canteen was built tough. The wool blanket will outlast the modern sleeping bag, and replacing a tarp is much less impact than replacing an entire ultralight tent. Yes, he has impact of gathering wood and putting together a camp, but this can be undone. It does not leave things in a pristine state but the impact is usually minimal. If one leaves poles laying around for another to use in building a lean-to there is even less impact since the second has no need to gather so many resources.
Energy: Low to Medium. Since he is not making use of modern materials he has limited energy impact. Some things might be delivered between retail stores, and there is all the energy expended in the past to make his gear. He is having an energy impact by gathering wood to cook with, but this is considerably less than that of the petroleum fuel stove user.
#2 Travel and camp on durable surfaces.
Durable, exactly what is "durable"? Dirt? Granite? Asphalt?
If we try to say that hikers using a trail have less impact than those going off-trail is that true? The impact of this one is going to be the same for whoever is going into the wilderness, how much is that impact really? We see impact because, well, humans have an impact when they go someplace, step on something or touch something. Are we really trying to say "Stay on the trails" and expecting people will listen? And in telling people to use existing trails what have we done, in many areas we have paved the wilderness to allow more people into it, is that "low impact"?
This one is more wishful thinking than reality, people do not all color inside the lines, and if more people went further off-trail the impacts would be much less concentrated. However think about this really, to a deer or a rabbit does it matter if a slope is eroding? No. Does it matter to a fish is there is more particulate matter in a stream? Yes actually, because that means more nutrients.
The outdoors is not a fine glass figurine that must be treated with delicate care lest it shatter forever, it is a living thing, that can repair itself into new forms, the problem is that repair takes longer than humans are willing to wait, and the new forms are not what people want to see.
#3 Dispose of waste properly.
What is "properly"? For the sake of this post let's assume that everything besides human bodily waste is being disposed of someplace besides the wilderness, or by fire.
Modern waste – Freeze-dried food containers, broken modern gear, aluminum foil packaging, plastic packaging.
Impact: High. Even if people pack out everything how many throw it into the garbage? This is still having an impact, it's just not having an impact that we see in the wilderness areas. Rather we're putting it into someone Else's backyard. Plastics can be burned to ash in a fire, but that releases their toxins into the atmosphere.
Energy: Medium to High. Trash and recycling has to be transported and dealt with.
Natural waste – Paper, broken wood and steel gear, tin cans.
Impact: Low to Medium. Broken wood implements and paper packaging can be burned with minimal impact and no need of collection or modern disposal. Steel knives and hatchets can be reforged or re-hafted and reused. Tin (steel) cans can be recycled of course, but some people melt them down and directly reuse them, however even if steel is left in the environment it will eventually rust, and at a pace far greater than it would break down if thrown into a landfill. (I'm sure we have all seen 100+ year old tin cans rusting to bits)
Energy: Low to Medium. Self-made gear has little to no energy impact is made from natural materials. Someone forging their own hatchet or their own knife, or getting one that is handmade, will have much less impact than getting something mass-produced. Yes, there are still impacts but buying from a blacksmith 2 miles away where he makes knives from old car parts consumes much less energy than buying a brand new knife made in China.
#4 Leave what you find.
How much of what I find? Should I consider a rotting and rusting hulk of a covered wagon "historic?" What about an old Plymouth? How about a modern abandoned truck? Of course this is in the eye of the beholder, but any archaeologist will tell you that one man's trash is another man's treasure.
So let's consider this to mean anything "Natural". Dirt, rocks, native plants, deer antlers.
Does this mean that I leave non-native species? Should I tear out something I see growing that is invasive and then try to explain my actions to someone on the trail that thinks I'm not practicing LNT? What about a meteorite? (Yes, you can get extremely pedantic when considering these things, but most people don't want to go there.) How about taking apples or nuts in season? Think about that in the "Respect Wildlife" section.
Yes, not following this rule could easily lead to taking massive amount of materials from the wilderness, but on the other hand collecting rocks, minerals and dead wood is often allowed in wilderness areas. If the contentious LNT follower wants to leave the wilderness pristine they might be better served by changing the law than acting morally superior to their non-LNT counterparts.
Consider the person who picks up a stick for walking, then discards it back into the forest against the one that buys a set of trekking poles whic will eventually be discarded into a landfill.
#5 Minimize Campfire impacts.
While this is "minimize" most modern backpackers seem to have taken this to mean "NO CAMPFIRES!". Should we figure that burning the underbrush and dead wood in a forest is a bad thing? Well, forest fires are much less devastating when smaller fires come through from time to time and burn out the small growth. Many areas where humans are common have not had these preventative fires, mainly due to humans thinking that any fire in the forest is a bad thing.
While this rule is optional to modern backpackers it is a requirement for the bushcrafter who wants to stay warm. Is it more environmentally friendly to craft a modern sleeping bag and deliver it to it's end user, or to burn some of the available wood for warmth? Which one will have an ongoing impact? (Consider at this time that sleeping bags cannot be recycled, and only the sleeping-bag maker Golite accepts it's bags back for recycling, tho only to store them until they can someday be recycled)
#6 Respect Wildlife.
While the LNT folks say they have literature on making their principles work with hunting I cannot believe how they could. Killing the wildlife seems completely and directly opposed to the concept of respecting wildlife that modern environmentalists swear by.
Often this is taken to mean that humans should not "get in the way" of wildlife, but exactly how can we prevent this? Sure, we can not pitch camp in the middle of a trail, but simply having the scent of humans around is going to spook wildlife that might need to come near to drink from a lake or stream, etc. This is another one of those times when LNT = Stay at home.
And also if I go out and kill a rabbit for my dinner am I disrespecting it? Let's think for a moment about the two sides of this issue.
Killing a rabbit or catching a fish in the wilderness
Impact: Minimal, animal is removed from the food chain. This opens up opportunities for another animal to fill. Sometimes this could even be considered helpful, such as removing an overpopulation of rabbits because the natural predators are gone (Once again, thanks to humans) or catching and eating invasive fish. (Crater lake for example allows no-limit fishing and all invasive fish are to be killed)
Energy: None save human energy to catch/prepare/consume animal.
Bringing your own food to the wilderness
Impact: Low to high. Depends on the packaging used and how harmful the creation of the food is. IE, home picked fruit is better than an orchard is better than a pig farm, etc.
Energy: Low to High. If I am bringing in freeze-dried food sealed in a foil bag how much energy was wasted by preparing that food, moving it, packaging it, and on making the packaging itself. On the other hand if you're bringing in apples, grapes, nuts, pears, etc that you bought locally, or better yet picked from your yard the energy spent is low to minimal. In both cases there is still the energy spent hauling that food to the wilderness trailhead.
#7 Be considerate of other visitors.
On it's face this is a good idea but like anything it can go overboard. If we go by the "Golden Rule" of do unto others as you would have them do unto you then we're always going to have people with varying views of good behavior.
In the end there is a difference between being loud because you are just normally a loud person and dumping your trash into someone Else's campsite. The slider here can be moved towards either end depending on your personal views of what is "considerate".
In the end can we truly expect others to act the way we want them to act, especially in a space where the "rules" are so ambiguous? Do we have a right to impose our judgments when their views might simply differ from ours but their end goal is the same? And the culmination of this point is that perhaps LNT folks would not try and force their views onto others, right?
Sure, we're having an impact, but my point is we will ALWAYS have an impact, sitting at home looking at pictures of the wilderness on the computer uses energy, but people have ignored those impacts and focused on the impacts they see firsthand in their own environment. We have been fed nice clean "rules" to follow, and just blissfully ignored the damage being done by the companies making the gear to fill the needs created by those rules. In the end I believe that is far worse than what the rules were made to prevent and that it has become too easy to ignore the harm we are doing because we feel we are doing good.
In the end the only way to truly leave NO trace, is to not go into the wilderness at all, and even then humans are having an incredible impact on the globe. When is it time to say the game is lost and throw in the towel?
I believe we are far past that point.
It's always fun when you end up on both sides of a huge political gulf.
One side doesn't like you because of your hobbies, the other side doesn't like you because of your attitude.
Life is just so peachy sometimes isn't it?
While it's horrible that someone bombed the Boston Marathon there are a few things that I need to stand on my soapbox and say "no more" to.
#1 Having it on every news channel still after 24 hours and explaining it's repercussions around the USA accomplishes what exactly. Here in Seattle do we really need to step up police patrols? This is just the connected world making the media and law enforcement concerned that they are going to miss something. Of course they're going to miss something, they're human, perfection should never be expected.
#2 There isn't anything I can do about it from several thousand miles away, so I refuse to allow it to get me down. Is that cold? No, it's simply logical. Sure, I'm empathetic to the victims but I refuse to feel bad because I can't run and help with the investigation or donate blood to the victims, etc, etc.
#3 I'm seeing the same knee-jerk fear that happened after 9-11. I refuse to live my life in fear from day to day. Bad people are always going to do bad things, that does not mean that my life is going to be better if I cower in fear because of it. Nor am I going to agree with giving up civil rights over it.
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So the basis of western society is rugged individualism. IE. do what you can for yourself and screw anyone not part of your family group.
So exactly how are people supposed to form close lasting friendships when the entire point of life that we are taught is to only care about ourselves?
The very basis of trust is to signify that someone else isn't going to screw us over, but in fact that is what we are taught as general principle. Screw everyone else over to get as much as you can as fast as you can, because the one with the most money wins.
So instead we only end up with a spouse, children or parents to trust because those bonds we're "born into" instead of trying to develop, and therefore they are stronger.
Frankly I smell bullshit all over this.
Nothing quite like putting a ton of effort into something, then having some greedy ass come along and take it all away from you.
Today I got a "slap-upside-the-head" reminder about the pointlessness of trying to be socialistic in a video game.
So, I just got back from grocery shopping at QFC, like most human beings I need food. Yeah, thrilling I know. But today something a bit different happened.
Now, those that know me know that I have little patience for children, and I have even less patience for their parents. I made the horrible mistake of trying to be a nice person and give a kid a compliment on their clothes.
A neon green shirt in particular (BRIGHT frigging green, like painfully bright), with the saying "R is for Rad!" and the second "R" had an atom drawn in the eye of the letter. I noticed it, it made me smile and as the kid wearing it (a girl about 10 years old I guess) walked by I told her "Cool shirt", to which she replied "Thanks!" in a happy chirp.
Then all hell broke lose.
Now let me interject at this point that I'm 39, wear black and have hair down past my waist. I don't look like an axe murderer but I don't look like a lawyer either. I'm guessing that had something to do with what followed.
From behind me I hear "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU SAY TO MY DAUGHTER!!" in literally a scream. Apparently her mother was watching and lost it.
I knew this was not likely to end well, took a deep breath, turned around, and in the calmest nicest tone I could I said "I told her that her shirt was cool."
"DON'T YOU FUCKING LOOK AT MY DAUGHTER! AND IF YOU TOUCH HER!", at this point she was seething with anger, as if she was going to break her own teeth and her eyes were going to pop out of her head.
Thankfully an older lady that was standing next to me when this happened said "He did what he said, he just gave her a compliment."
At this point I realized that there were a dozen shoppers looking on that had stopped to watch the goings on here. I wanted to say something but caution got the better of me and I turned and walked away. I was surprised the mother had no parting words.
So yes, when people ask if I like kids this is why I avoid them like the fucking plague.
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I think that is a cluster of pupae of onion root maggots. I would put the leaf in a jar and keep it in the shade. Hairy little flies will emerge within a week. Then put the jar in the sun to kill them. |
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19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. | 19 As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it. |
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The Chronicles of Alyr (UPDATED 18.11.2014)The Chronicles of Alyr (UPDATED 18.11.2014) by vilkeri99
The Chronicles of Alyr 1.
A hooded figure rode on the fields towards a city. A city that was built on top of and around a hill. A thick stone wall surrounded it. Behind the wall were high towers and large domes. But the most interesting feature was a huge cliff in the middle of the city. One of its slopes was so gentle that a road was built upon it. At the end of that road was a great Citadel with white walls that shone in the sunlight beautifully. And in the middle of the Citadel rose a white tower, tall and proud and beautiful.


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Profile America — Monday, September 9th. The nation's oldest institution of higher learning opened on this week in 1636 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Called the "New College," it opened with a student body of nine. It was founded by Puritans, who hoped to duplicate the educational standards of Oxford and Cambridge for their sons. In 1639, the school was renamed in honor of John Harvard, a young minister who bequeathed his library and half his estate to the institution. Harvard stood alone in the American colonies for a long time — until 1693, when the second institution, the college of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, began teaching. Today, Harvard is one of about 4,500 U.S. colleges and universities, with an enrollment of more than 19 million students. You can find more facts about America from the U.S. Census Bureau, online at www.census.gov.
Sources: Kane's Famous First Facts, 2925 www.harvard.edu/history Statistical Statistics of the United States 2012, t. 280 Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button). SOURCE U.S. Census BureauCheck Out Our Best Services for Investors
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11 Women of Zion, come and see King Solomon. He is wearing the crown that his mother placed on his head on his wedding day, on the day of his gladness and joy. | 11 Come out, you daughters of Zion, and look at King Solomon wearing the crown, the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, the day his heart rejoiced. |
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What's wrong with the suggestion that you pay off your CC? That's the easiest way to get a boost, unless you get lucky with a GW.
You probably wont even have time to get a GW to go through and report to the credit bureau.
I agree with AJC. Do you already have an offer in and accepted on a property? If you have not gotten an accepted offer then that alone you are pushing it if you need to close by Dec 24th. Yes it can be done, but I also live in Illinois and most homes are short sales/foreclosures. Is this program no longer good after the Dec 24th deadline? You could also look into Wells Fargo CDMP loan. There is a ton of restrictions though so you would have to dig deeper to see if you qualify. It is basically a loan with no PMI, only 2% down but you take a higher interest rate I hope it all works out for you!
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The Chamber of The Flame (originally called Kratos' Arena and Kratos' Stage) is a new arena introduced to the Mortal Kombat series in Mortal Kombat (2011) exclusively for the PlayStation 3. It's based on the area housing Pandora's Box in God of War 3.
Originally appearing in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, Jade's Desert is mostly remembered for featuring a lost Cyrax, stuck in the sand in the background.
Sometimes called "The Cave" or "Cavern," this Arena from Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 features Shao Khan on a throne in the background.
The Kombat Tomb appears in Mortal Kombat II. It features a stage fatality where the victor may uppercut their opponent into the ceiling, where a bed of spikes awaits them.
Noob Saibot battles his opponents in his hidden Dorfen, in Mortal Kombat 3.
In Mortal Kombat mythology, Outworld is one of the 6 realms that made up all that there was. The various rulers and powers of Outworld are constantly trying to take over Earthrealm by defeating it's Champion(s).
This stage first appears in Ultimate MK 3. It's strange name is actually an anagram for "Classic Sub-Zero," an alternate version of the popular character who was added into the Ultimate release of MK 3.
Hell stage featured in Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3. This stage is home to Scorpion.
Mortal Kombat 3 arena in which soul columns twisted up cavernous open mouths of carved rock. A successful uppercut in the Soul Chamber landed the players in The Balcony above.
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Rosemary-Maple Glazed Turkey Breast with Gravy
Frances Janisch
Provided by: Gail Simmons
- 1 whole, bone-in turkey breast (about 5 pounds)
- 2 cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
- 1 large onion, roughly chopped
- 2 stalks celery, roughly chopped
- 1 medium carrot, roughly chopped
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 teaspoons orange zest
- 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup grade A maple syrup
- Juice of one orange
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 2 cups low-sodium chicken stock
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a small bowl combine butter, orange zest and finely chopped rosemary. Season with salt and pepper and mix well. Carefully separate skin from turkey breast and smear with rosemary-orange butter in between. Season the outside well with salt and pepper.
- Make glaze: place butter, maple syrup and orange juice in a small saucepan and simmer gently. Shut off heat and allow to cool so it thickens.
- Lay carrots, onion and celery on the bottom of a large roasting dish. Add garlic and sprigs of rosemary. Place turkey on top and place in the oven to roast. Roast for 1 hour then glaze every 15 minutes thereafter until done - about 30 minutes. The turkey is done when an instant read thermometer inserted into the thickest part reads 160 degrees F.
- Once turkey is roasted, remove to a platter to rest. Set roasting pan across two burners on stove top over high heat. Skim and discard excess fat. Add flour to pan and whisk. Add stock and simmer, then season lightly with salt and add cold butter. Stir well to combine. Strain sauce and discard solids. Serve gravy over sliced roasted turkey breast.


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I hit 34 weeks pregnant last Friday and if I'm being totally honest, that was the final milestone I even had in the back of my mind. Now that I'm creeping up on 35 weeks I'm really ready to be done and I can tell my body has about had it. So this update is a bit slow but that's kind of how … [Read more...]
Pregnancy Update: 30 Weeks Pregnant with Twins
Last week did not go the way I planned. Have you ever noticed that when things get crazy all the crazy seems to come at you at once? Hopefully, after last week, I've earned a nice boring week this week. I didn't get around to a 29 week update because honestly it was about the same as the week … [Read more...]
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28 weeks! I know I say this each week but that's a huge pregnancy milestone! I'm a few days late with this update but after you read about the week we've had I'm sure you'll understand. We've tried to keep things interesting around here this week. After things stayed stable for several weeks I guess … [Read more...]
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SLIDESHOW:West Seattle puts up a fight; falls to defending state champ Rainer Beach
By Anastasia Stepankowsky
Nate Pryor juked, drove and soared his way to 28-points. With a sudden twist of his body, he passed the ball or drove down the court to put the ball through the net. But it wasn't enough for the West Seattle Wildcats to upset the Rainier Beach Vikings in Metro Conference Sound Division boy's basketball Tuesday night.
Pryor netted more than half of the Wildcats' points in a 62-48 loss to the defending state 3A champions at Rainier Beach High School.
West Seattle (5-5) stuck with the first place Vikings (9-1) until well into the second half, and coach Keffrey Fazio was pleased with the Wildcats' effort.
"When you come into this gym you know what kind of game you need to bring with you. I thought we did that," Fazio said. "It just speaks that when we put our mind to something we can compete with just about anybody."
The game opened with stingy defense. In fact, almost four minutes had elapsed from the first quarter, before either team got more than one score from the field. Rainier Beach led only 15-9 after the first quarter.
More ›SLIDESHOW: West Seattle loses a close one to Bainbridge 50-47
by Paul Moseley
The West Seattle Wildcats boys hosted Bainbridge Spartans in a varsity basketball match-up Friday night and came up just short in a fast paced game that was undecided until the final seconds.
West Seattle, entering the game with a 7-5 record, came into the game having won 5 of their last 6 contests, suffering their only loss in that stretch to Metro powerhouse Eastside Catholic.
Bainbridge Island, after going 1-5 in their first 6 games, turned their season around and were 5-1 in their next 6 games - matching the West Seattle streak and setting the stage for a game between two evenly matched teams.
The Wildcats set the pace in the first half. They relied on their superior quickness and worked the full half of their court - driving the lane as well as draining four 3-pointers (2 by Sophomore Tyler Lenzie). They were up by 6 until a last second half court swish by Bainbridge sent the teams to the locker room with the Wildcats up by three 20-17 at the half.
More ›SLIDESHOW: West Seattle girls rout Bainbridge 76-25
by Paul Moseley
The best all-around team in West Seattle and the leader in the Metro Conference put on a clinic tonight as the Wildcat girls basketball team beat the Bainbridge Spartans handily 76-25 at West Seattle High School. The Wildcats, 11-2 overall and 8-0 in the conference, dominated the game from the outset, allowing the full roster to contribute to the victory.
The details of the game are pretty irrelevant.
The Wildcats won big, and the Spartans kept their head up the entire game and fought for every point they could get. Paige Brigham, a Senior, was took home the high scorer honors for Bainbridge with eight points. The more compelling story is the experience of watching this team play. They demonstrate focus and drive from the opening tip to the final buzzer, and there is a wealth of talent on the floor to keep even lopsided games entertaining.
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oh and you'll never guess what my *8 year old* asked me today!! the cat is in heat for the third time, and so she's yowling and rolling around.
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There's a fair amount of hype surrounding this game. Resistance: Fall Of Man has, like Killzone years ago, been touted as PlayStation's answer to Halo. So this foray into alien inhabited lands, brought to you by the men behind Ratchet And Clank, has a lot to live up to. And after our first hands-on with the preview build, we weren't convinced. "It's like a poor man's Half-Life 2," we grumbled. "Why is it so hard?" we barked as another merciless alien attack ended another life (more on that later). "The Chimera all look the bloody same," noted mardy Dave, failing to remember that all the Nazis in Call Of Duty 3 wear uniforms. But when the finished article dropped on our desks, Resistance had changed. The difficulty's been toned down and the action factor's been ramped up. And it's a lot better than we'd ever expected for a launch game.
Playing as US Sergeant Nathan Hale, you travel to an apocalyptic Blighty (circa 1940) to help the Brits destroy the vicious Chimera, an alien race who aim to spread their zombie-like disease across the world. Unfortunately for you, the enemies have the weapons and sheer aggression to make light work of Hale and his buddies, which they do as you battle through the game's opening stage, the streets of York. It's not until the end of this level that the story unfolds. One minute you're backslapping your buddies as you make it to the rendezvous point and the next there's a swarm of alien cockroaches scurrying over your body and down your throat. Grim.
But, while your chums lie there deader than doorknobs, you somehow get to your feet and push on to the next fight. Basically, Hale's now infected and starts to display traits akin to the Chimera - like regenerating health after a few seconds relaxation, which certainly comes in handy when pinned down by gunfire. The first hour or so is a hard slog, mind you, but this ability proves just as important as the guns in your hands. And it's not long before you get hold of the Chimera's devastating weapons and can ram their laser treats back down their throats. It's here that Resistance really comes into its own, as the range of guns and grenades on offer puts any realism-based FPS's arsenal firmly in the shade.
Examples? Well, accompanying the standard assault rifle with rocket launcher attachment and the double-barreled shotgun, there's also the bullseye. This piece of kit is standard issue for the Chimera grunts but it's only really devastating when it's in your hands. It fires rapid bolts of plasma like an uzi - which means it's inaccurate from range, but devastating up close. But its big trick is that you can hit o to tag your foe so that your shots home in on them - excellent for those blind attacks from cover. Also worth a mention are the hedgehog and air-fuel grenades. When a hedgehog grenade explodes, it fires loads of deadly quills into everyone within range, while the air-fuel lets off a plume of gas then ignites the fumes to light up the enemy like giant, screaming sparklers. The kettle-like whistle as the grenade primes itself and the whoosh of charring flames is massively satisfying in itself and lobbing these packages of pain will take out a gang of charging Chimera with little fuss. There's a genius addition to the sniper rifle too. Hold o and you'll enter focus mode, which slows down the action enough for you to take aim on your soon-to-be-dead target, Hit u and bang, they're going down. The weapons on show are truly great - but of course this arsenal needs some fodder to slaughter in order to really excel and Resistance doesn't let you down.


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Obama believes Bernanke will win another term
Published: January 22,2010
Tags: federal agency, federal governmen t, Federal Reserve, White House
ELYRIA, Ohio — President Barack Obama believes Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke will win a second term, a spokesman said today, despite Senate concerns over steps the central bank will take to create jobs.
Deputy press secretary Bill Burton said Obama has "a great deal of confidence" in the actions Bernanke already has taken and believes he is "the best person for the job." The spokesman said the White House believes Bernanke will win another term as chairman.
Burton spoke to reporters traveling with Obama to Ohio for a series of appearances focused on the economy and job creation.
Although Bernanke, 56, should have enough votes in the Senate to win a second term, some lawmakers have lined up against him. They blame him for not seeing the problems that led to the financial crisis, failing to protect consumers and supporting Wall Street bailouts.
So dissatisfied by the bailouts, Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent liberal from Vermont, wants to block Bernanke's confirmation with a filibuster on the Senate floor. He has placed a "hold" on the nomination, meaning it will require a super-majority of 60 votes to confirm Bernanke. Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., also has said he opposes giving Bernanke a second term.
When the full Senate took up Bernanke's nomination to be Fed chief four years ago, only one senator — Bunning — opposed him.
Burton said the White House is working to get Bernanke confirmed and there's no backup plan. Some senators have said they want more information supporting Bernanke, a holdover from Republican President George W. Bush.
Opposition to a second term for Bernanke was coming from Democrats, too.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said in a statement Friday that "it is time for a change."
"Our next Federal Reserve chairman must represent a clean break from the failed policies of the past," she said.
Bernanke's term expires on Jan. 31. A date for a Senate vote on his renomination has not been set.
Bernanke and Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., met Thursday to discuss ways to strengthen the economy, encourage more lending by banks and curb home foreclosures.
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I read what you posted, trouble I have is most of the net severs they list, they are no longer there, I was born in Tucson, Az. never met my Gr mom or Pa, she was a Mejia as my dad used it as a middle name, had little contact with my father due to an early divorce, having my Gr. parents taken us out of state to Cal. at age 5, now I know my Gr. mother was named Desideria Mejia, married Migel Gonzalez, now my father came from Atil, Sonora, at a young age and lived in Arivaca, now an uncle Rafael Moyza, had a ranch there,that is now called Moyza Valley. any help you can give, I'll thank very much, or anyone with some information on the above.
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For the last 2 months all our projects have been worked on and finished. The lose ends have been tied and the time for a little R&R is in need. Over the holiday weekend we will be closing the farm and reopening the following day for all our CSA pick ups. The need for a break is important for a better work ethic. We love the farm and the reward it gives back to me, my family and ofcorse our customers. So we dicied to close and reopen for the next bussiness day. I hope everyone will enjoy the this forth of July hoilday and remember to stay healthy and safe. The great harvest will be among us very soon and I hope to see it all flourish.
So happy forth to all! We will see you all on Tuesday the 5th of July for you next pick ups.


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King James Version (KJV) | New International Version (NIV) |
15 Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the LORD: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say . | 15 O house of Israel," declares the LORD, "I am bringing a distant nation against you-- an ancient and enduring nation, a people whose language you do not know, whose speech you do not understand. |
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School Daze
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- Sylvanian Families Cartoon Episode Guide
- DiC Entertainment, Claster Television.
- Distributed by: DiC Enterprises, The Program Exchange
- Cartoon Characters: Packbat, Papa Herb Wildwood, Bridget, Rusty Wildwood, Mr. Woodkeeper, Gator Possum.
- Originally Released in 1987.
- Season: 1
- Color
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
Cartoon Summary:
Jonathan wishes never to go to school again. In the Sylvanian world he plays hookey with Rusty and Lester, while Packbat gets Buster to help destroy the school, but Mr. Thistlethorn thwarts the attempt.
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