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Marine Protected Areas are in effect in north coast
I was dead set against the government marking off ocean waters from the Oregon border to Mexico and calling them Marine Protected Areas.
As I've stated since the discussion began, closing large areas off the coast is no way to properly manage a fishery. There could have been other methods of managing a fishery while still allowing sport-fishing angler access.
Community and personal testimony was allowed during the hearings. Oftentimes, sadly, regardless of the testimony against the areas under discussion, where even whole communities protested the establishment of the areas off their shores, the California Fish and Game Commission simply forged ahead, totally disregarding any testimony. The establishment of the MPAs went forward, adopted and, therefore, created.
Many anglers, including myself, take our boats to ocean waters to fish. Salmon and rock cod are the main fares in north state waters. Those who may pursue something like albacore tuna generally have to go many more miles offshore, beyond the MPAs.
So now, you or the skipper of a party boat must know the MPA boundaries.
No fishing, no diving, no anything is allowed in those defined areas, except to look at the pretty waves.
It's especially important to know the MPAs when using your own boat. There are several methods to ensure you don't get busted for being inside an MPA. A list of all north coast MPAs, including detailed regulations and maps, can be found at www.dfg.ca.gov/mlpa/ncmpas_list.asp.
You can use a GPS to track your location relative to any MPA. Additionally, you can view MPAs on nautical charts or other background maps by visiting MarineBIOS at www.dfg.ca.marine/gis/viewer.asp.
The North Coast MPAs are now active. Besides all arguments against them, it's just that much more difficult boating in ocean waters now.
Bear season is closed
Are you holding 2012 bear tags you haven't yet filled? Well, put away the big guns. The DFG officially closed the 2012 bear season on Dec. 18.
Some years ago, the DFG not only limited the number of bears that could be harvested but also the number of tags that could be sold.
Today, anybody who wants a bear tag can purchase it. The number of tags being issued is unlimited. However, the ceiling cap on the bear harvest is 1,700. When the DFG extrapolates the numbers and takes an educated guess that the magic number is going to be reached, it closes the season.
Remember, even if you didn't harvest a deer or bear, you're still supposed to report that on the DFG Web site at www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing.
Commercial crab season again delayed
Great news for the sport angler: The commercial crab fishing season north of Sonoma County has been further delayed. Now, it's not set to open until Jan. 15. That means no commercial crabbing along the Mendocino County coast. There is a full-blown commercial fishery along the Sonoma County coast and points south.
The DFG is delaying the northern water fishery as the crab its testing is still considered under sized. Crabs aren't considered harvestable until their meat level reaches 25 percent of their body weight.
Nothing stops you under sport-fishing rules, however. You can go on a party boat out of a port like Fort Bragg or take your own boat knowing you won't have the competition of a commercial boat for the same crab.
Current fishing
The countdown is on. The American River, from Nimbus Dam downriver to the confluence, will have no fishing closures. The river, from its primary closure point from the power lines at Ancil Hoffman Park upriver to the dam, will re-open to all fishing Tuesday, Jan. 1.
That may not be good news, though. Any success on the river is going to be dependent on the weather. Continuing rain won't bode well for the river.
Extra releases are being made from Folsom Lake to stay at its low, flood-control level. Whatever Folsom releases goes directly though Lake Natoma and out of the gates at Nimbus. Water flows are at 10,000 cubic feet, much too high to make for a fishery. High, fast, dirty water equals a dangerous area.
If the rain subsides, the river flows decrease, and then there might be a decent fishery on opening day. Steelhead will be there now and will still be there when the river is deemed more fishable.
Don't be in a rush to get out on the river if it's considered dangerous. Besides the obvious danger of high water conditions, there also is the issue of what equipment will work.
While you may really want to tie into a chrome bright hefty steelhead, fishing with heavy striper-type gear for something like a steelhead that may only go three to five pounds seems ridiculous. Using much heavier gear than you would under lower water conditions greatly reduces the sporting aspect of the fishery.
But, if the river level drops and the water clears, then the probability of a good fishery does exist. These fish run deep so you need to have enough weight on that line to allow you to bounce along the rocky bottom; but not too much weight that you consistently hang up.
Adjusting the weight you use to allow just the right drift can be tricky. It's a fishery where, until you do get it right, you can expect to lose hooks.
For the bait caster, the majority of those who will hit the river, salmon eggs will work, as will fresh and cured roe or even a night crawler. A number of lures will work, such as a Glo bug, or anything else that emulates a salmon egg or a small cluster of salmon eggs, a steelhead's favorite foodstuff.
If the river drops, the big gravel bar area around Sailor Bar is a favored spot and where I caught my first steelhead. There is fishable water on either side upriver, just below the hatchery.
As the river opens to fishing Jan. 1, that also is the day new fishing licenses will be required.
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After foiling another Team Rocket plan and passing through Twist Mountain, Ash and co. stop off for the night at Don George's Pokemon Battle Club in Astilbe Town. At the battle club, Tepig walks up to its former trainer, a boy named Shamus. He is the previous owner of Ash's Tepig due to Shamus's abandoning Tepig because he believed that it had no talent for battles when it lost to a Deerling but he never cares when he lied. When Ash went to get Tepig, Shamus said that he was glad to give up such a little runt of a Pokemon for its little talent as he finds another Tepig with a little less talent, which enraged Ash after he put two and two together. So Ash is challenged to a Double Battle against Shamus's Emboar and Heatmor:"The Fire Warriors" to prove how useless Tepig is. Can Tepig really prove that his talents are worth anything?
Pokemon Characters
- Shamus' Emboar is confirmed to be male.
- This is the second time Ash looked up Pignite on the Pokedex. First was BW013: Minccino-Neat and Tidy! but the difference is it didn't say "the evolved form of Tepig".
- That's the second time in a row when two pokemons in a battle gets defeated by one pokemon still standing. First was BW065: Evolution Exchange Excitement! when both Accelgor and Escavalier gets defeated by Cilan's Crustle. This time Emboar and Heatmor gets defeated by Ash's Pignite.
- This episode would be the last time Ash and co. see Don George and stay in Pokemon Battle Club since they went there three times in three episodes. Which is BW004: The Battle Club and Tepig's Choice!, BW010: A Rival Battle for Club Champ!, and BW016: Rematch at the Nacrene Gym.
- In the flashback, it is revealed that Shamus was replacing his own Tepig in Accumula Town for another one before Ash and co. (minus Cilan) even arrive here. Which made Tepig feel heartbroken during the battle against him.
- Now, all of the Tepig evoultion family gets hit by Attract. First was Ash's Tepig in BW007, Bianca's Emboar as her Pignite in BW028, and now its Shamus' Emboar's turn getting hit by Attract.
- In this episode, Ash's Tepig evolved into a Pignite.
- This episode shares a few moments from Charmander - The Stray Pokémon.
- Who's that Pokemon?: Heatmor (US).
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- Aurora theater shooting anniversary marked with tears, strength, love
- The power of memory, good and bad, on anniversary of Aurora shooting
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- Theater shooting survivor Katie Medley talks about baby, husband's recovery
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The Potter's House of Denver's Pastor Chris Hill will join with Bishop T.D. Jakes and American Idol finalist George Huff to host a special service 6:30 p.m. Wednesday to mark one year after the Aurora movie theater shooting.
Hill, who offered free grief conseling daily and around-the-clock prayer vigils after the July 20 massacre, continues to focus on lifting up the community, church officials said.
Hill is bringing in his mentor, Jakes, founder of Potter's House in Dallas. The men will lead "A Service of Prayer for Peace: A Commemoration of the 1st Anniversary Aurora Theatre Tragedy" at Potter's House of Denver, 9495 E. Florida Avenue in Denver.
"Aurora means 'dawn' or morning," Hill said in a press release. "Our goal is to offer an oasis of comfort and compassion to the city of Aurora, and help her move toward hope, healing and a brighter tomorrow."
Huff, a Potter's House member, will sing "Crying Out for the Nations" with The Potter's House of Denver's Voices from the Mile High Choir. Huff also will sing "The Star Spangled Banner."
Almost 60 percent of Hill's congregants reside in Aurora, and many were directly impacted by the tragedy, a church spokesman said.
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Somewhere around this time of year we start thinking – wow, would it be good to be a snowbird right now. Florida. Arizona. Life there? Peachy.
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Friday night.
Ok...Normally I would go out for a dinner and have 1-3 glass of wine. Then I would go home and think...did I really need to have 1-3 glass of wine? #PoorDecision. This Friday I am not going to lie...I was REALLY tired from the first week back to work...and I fell asleep at 8:30.
This never happens. I woke up Saturday morning with so much energy. It felt so nice not to be weighed down by the wine and overeating the night before. My big challenge Saturday was how I going to see my girlfriend Saturday night AND stay on the plan. I think whenever you do a challenge you need to tell all your friends...and hopefully they will support you! My friend Elizabeth was my partner in crime Saturday and she got MFF for her and her husband. So Saturday night we drank sparkling water and used fancy silverware as we ate out of our plastic conatiners. :)
Sunday: CHEAT DAY!
You are allowed 1 cheat day on the challenge. The Golden Globes were Sunday and I knew I couldn't resist snacking at a Golden Globe Party. So....I counted out a serving of chips and guac to have with my MFF dinner. I don't know if chips are allowed....but they are alllll I wanted! Normally at a party I go through at least 2-3 rounds of all the snacks everyone brought. Sunday I learned I can survive at a party having one snack and no drinks.
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First few days I was hungry, but that feeling has gone away. Each meal now fills me up. I don't feel greased down like I normally do after a weekend of eating...and my energy level is out of control!!!
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(a) Definition.— In this section, the term "executive agency" has the same meaning given in section 133 of this title.
(b) Guidance for Executive Agencies on Linking of Award and Incentive Fees to Acquisition Outcomes.— The Federal Acquisition Regulation shall provide executive agencies other than the Department of Defense with instructions, including definitions, on the appropriate use of award and incentive fees in Federal acquisition programs.
(c) Elements.— The regulations under subsection (b) shall—
(1) ensure that all new contracts using award fees link the fees to acquisition outcomes (which shall be defined in terms of program cost, schedule, and performance);
(2) establish standards for identifying the appropriate level of officials authorized to approve the use of award and incentive fees in new contracts;
(3) provide guidance on the circumstances in which contractor performance may be judged to be "excellent" or "superior" and the percentage of the available award fee which contractors should be paid for the performance;
(4) establish standards for determining the percentage of the available award fee, if any, which contractors should be paid for performance that is judged to be "acceptable", "average", "expected", "good", or "satisfactory";
(5) ensure that no award fee may be paid for contractor performance that is judged to be below satisfactory performance or performance that does not meet the basic requirements of the contract;
(6) provide specific direction on the circumstances, if any, in which it may be appropriate to roll over award fees that are not earned in one award fee period to a subsequent award fee period or periods;
(7) ensure consistent use of guidelines and definitions relating to award and incentive fees across the Federal Government;
(8) ensure that each executive agency—
(9) include performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of award and incentive fees as a tool for improving contractor performance and achieving desired program outcomes; and
(d) Guidance for Department of Defense.— The Department of Defense shall continue to be subject to guidance on award and incentive fees issued by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to section 814 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109–364, 10 U.S.C. 2302 note).
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He says it's putting a strain on hospitals and would lead to Belhaven being without emergency room services. He says that's dangerous because if the clinic doesn't have an emergency room, it isn't required by law to provide care to patients in emergency situations who don't have the money to pay for it.
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Barber says the NAACP plans to meet with Vidant and the general assembly, and depending on how those meetings go, they may file a class action lawsuit.
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Listed below are the first three visions my sister had in Death Valley as well as other paranormal experiences we have had there that we feel are related.
My sister's first vision
In Death Valley National Monument my sister and I have one weird experience after another. We often grow nauseous and experience depersonalization and dizziness as soon as we get into the park. My sister however, is much more sensitive than me and sees visions down there. She sees them with her eyes open, the way she described it, one small corner of her field of vision is occupied by the vision.
The first vision took place while driving along the shore of the salt flat in Death Valley. We were driving along the northern shore when my sister had a vision of a thing ( I have included a crude drawing of it as an attachment see image "death valley thing" ) it was brass colored and stuck it the ground like a post with red light coming out of holes in the sides and white light coming out of the top of it.
She than saw the inside of a stone shack with a cot and a wood stove of peculiar design which had no legs, just a cube that sat on the floor with a pipe coming out. There were two children in ragged robes sitting on the cot; a man in a gray coarsely woven robe came in who was very tall she says he must have been 7 feet tall. In the vision she could not see his head as it was above her field of vision.
My sister's second vision
This time we were again driving along the salt flat. My sister felt a pressure on her chest like a blanket and began to see the inside of the stone shed again. She saw it from the vantage point of the cot and could look down and see the body of someone as if it was her body under a blanket coved with square polished stones. A short man came into the shack wearing a coarsely woven grey robe than the vision ended.
My sister's third vision
This one takes place as we were driving from Badwater to Stove Pipe wells. My sister had been seeing an image all day of a door with a snake carved in the frame of it but the main part of the vision started when we were driving. She began to see the inside of the stone shack again fist it was empty but than a tall man in a gray coarsely woven robe came in. She thinks it was the same man as before only now she can see his head. He has long black hair about shoulder length and olive skin, his eyes are black as in you can't see the iris it's the same color as the pupil. He has a device in his hand of shiny metal that emits light like some sort of flash light and is looking around in the dark end of the shed. He opens a door in the corner on one end of the cot and goes into the back. My sister can than smell a strong odor like a dead animal and he emerges with a pillow case size sack dripping fluid and carries it out the door. My sister says the smell is really strong and even covers her face with her tee shirt as if to escape the smell. The man comes in and sits on the bed, he looks depressed. Then he looks up and right at the aria my sister is viewing him from. He looks afraid. I ask my sister if she can move in the vision and she says she can move a little. When she moves to the right a bit the man moves his head to follow her as if he sees her.
She than sees the brass colored post thing and the man is standing leaning into the top of it as she watches form a distance. He seems to be working on it or with it somehow he's reaching in the top of it and seems to be operating some controls but she does not know what he's doing exactly. She than sees the inside of the shed again and this time the man walks up to her and speaks but she can't hear him, he seems curious this time. We both wonder if he got some information from the brass thing but she gets the feeling he doesn't know exactly how to operate it.
The Mosaic Canyon experience.
Another bizarre experience in Death Valley, we were hiking in Mosaic Canyon above Stove Pipe Wells. We hike there once in a while but one time we got fairly far back and my sister started talking about everything looking like a photograph as if it all looked 2D she was walking around talking about it and feeling the rock walls etc I could not see anything till I looked down at a small gray rock outcrop and sure enough it looked like a really realistic painting, when I looked up the whole canyon had that effect to it, like I was looking at a painting only so realistic that it looked 3 D just not so realistic that you couldn't tell it was a painting or photo. We left the canyon in a hurry and for months after we had flash backs where people and things suddenly looked 2D for a brief moment.
Saturday 11 -21-09 7:00 pm
We went back to Badwater which seems to be a hot spot for the weirdness in Death Valley. While driving next to the cliffs by the salt flat I felt dizzy again and odd , the cars dash seemed to really demand my attention, like before I had trouble ignoring it as I would ordinarily when looking out the windshield. When we got to Badwater we again walked down the board walk and onto the salt flat. My sister did not feel anything at first than she began to get week and dizzy she sat down on the salt than laid on her back and seemed sluggish and tired. She said she smelled flowers. I had trouble convincing her to go to the car and put the seat back. I thought if anything really weird happened to her I could drive us both out of there as it doesn't affect me as badly as her. She finally got up and we walked off the salt flat. Near the board walk the smell left her. She could not identify the flowers that she smelled but said it was as if she was walking in field that was thick with them.
Nothing happened after that except that she remained weak. We left for home at around 9
On the night of wed the 25 of November we passed through Death Valley on our way to Ridgecrest Ca. both my sister and I became dizzy and disoriented.
About mid day on Sunday November 29 we again passed through on our way back. My sister said that a mountain to the east that she had seen a mist on some months before changed from relatively smooth to craggy and banded with sediment layers. Not sure what to make of this.
by around 4 we drove to West Side road and out onto the salt flat where we parked. My sister began to get dizzy and felt depersonalization as we walked a short way out onto the rough salt. I had to help her back to the car. After a while the feeling left her and she felt compelled to once again walk out onto the salt.
We walked a short ways out and my sister began to see a vision of a mummified body laying on a salt flat. The flat was much smoother than the rough salt we walked on which has pinnacles two and a half feet high. The body was mummified and in a fetal position, it's lower legs were laying behind it's back one on top of the other in the position they would have been in had they been attached to the body. The mummy was dressed in a tan coarsely woven robe about like burlap but somewhat finer. The hair was brown and the body was of small stature. We went back to the car but the vision remained in her head.
After some time my sister said she wanted to walk on the other side of west side road. After walking over the rough salt for a few yards she began to see another vision of bodies on a salt flat, encrusted with salt and mummified only this time there were hundreds. All of them dressed like the fist only lying in many positions as if they lay where they fell.
I'm not sure how many more entry's I'll be able to make as my sister is getting more afraid to go to Death Valley.
December 13 2009
Finally something to report, I don't know if my sister is getting scared of going to Death Valley or just tired of going every week end but after being away we finally came back.
As we entered the valley there was nothing out of the ordinary neither one of us felt the familiar nausea or disorientation and depersonalization. We decided to drive to Tule Spring and do a little walking around. We arrived around five fifteen or so and walked around the spring and down an old road that lead onto the salt flat. A little ways down this road my sister began to get the nausea and depersonalization etc. It got worse as we walked toward and out onto the flat. as we walked she began to smell something like flowers of perfume with a musty smell mixed in. All I could smell was the salt brush that grew next to the flat. On our way back up she stopped and stood there for a moment, then turned 90 degrees to the north and walked into a thicket, she seemed drugged and responded slowly. She ducked under some limbs and peered into a hollow in the thicket with a pile of sticks, perhaps a rat's nest. I asked her what she was doing and she said "looking in this hole". She then said "It's warm in here" her speech sounded like people you see under hypnosis on TV. She than laid down on the pile of sticks in a fetal position and seemed to be asleep moaning once in a while. After a while I grew concerned and called her name, she did not respond so I nudged her with my foot, again nothing so I nudged her harder and still nothing. I than reached down and proceeded to pull her up by her arm at which time she came to and asked "what are we doing in here" She had no memory since being out on the road walking back to the car.
We sat in the car for a while to see what would happen and she remarked that Tule Spring seemed familiar to her as if she had been there a lot even the way it smelled. She had only been there one other time.
Her head cleared and I decided to jog a little in front of the car on the way back to furnace creek ranch. I finished my run and she said she wanted to go for a short run as well so I drove behind her on the deserted road and she ran for a 10'th of a mile after which she stopped. She got back in the car and complained of pain and a clicking noise at the base of her skull which she had first taken to be her glasses rattling as she jogged until it became painful. The condition cleared up quickly as we made our way out of the valley.
She had never had a pain or feeling like that before, I wonder if it is possible that whatever put her in the trance had somehow inflamed her spinal cord near the brain stem or the brain stem it's self causing the clicking noise and pain?
December 24 2009 8:45 pm
After a trip to Beatty Nevada my sister drove north and swung west by Scotty's Castle in to Death Valley. We drove along the salt flat again where she began to get the familiar nausea dizziness and depersonalization. By the time we reached furnace creek it was bad enough that I had to drive. She told me to drive to Tule Spring again where we parked. While there she lay in the car with her seat back seemingly in a kind of trance and semi coherent. She was groaning and her arm was twitching. I kept watching it and then my own left arm begin to twitch two to three times. Other than that I felt no effect. At around 9:30 pm my sister said we better go so I started the car and drove toward the road that goes to Badwater. About a mile along the road she said she felt a pressure on her chest like a large rock was laying on it. This got painful and she said she had trouble breathing and her ribs were hurting. She said she could feel a large smooth hard surface like a rock on her. I drove us out of the valley and the feeling abated, however, she could still feel it a little even after we reached Death Valley Junction which is well out of the valley.
December 31 4:30 pm
We again entered Death Valley via Beatty Nevada and drove south along the salt flat. At first nothing happened. We stopped at Furnace Creek for some drinks and snacks and proceeded toward Badwater. Just before badwater my sister complained about feeling "funny"
as we drove south the feeling intensified and by bad water she slumped over in her seat glassy eyed. She began moaning uncomfortably off and on. As planned we proceeded south past badwater finally reaching a rest room facility, In that aria my sisters symptoms cleared quite a bit It was here that she had another vision. This time hundreds of people dressed in the same coursly woven robes walking out of the mountains toward the salt flat.
We drove on out of the valley toward Shoshone Ca. As we drove away south her symptoms returned, she again slumped in her seat groaning. The road turned east and we drove toward Shoshone. My sister continued to groan and slump over in her seat, as we got about half way she uttered something in a language other than English. It was hard to pronounce but sounded like howwohwah or wahowah she had no trouble pronouncing it herself. She made two more utterances which may have been slurred attempts at the same word or different words. When she spoke these words her voice was urgent as if she was perhaps trying to warn of something as when someone says "fire" or "tornado" I think she would have shouted them had she not been so incapacitated and in such a hypnotic like state.
When we reached Shoshone we went in the store there, she was still dizzy and disoriented and had trouble standing and walking. This cleared as we drove south toward Silver dry lake and Baker.
1-6-2010 6:00 pm
We went driving and my sister decided she wanted to go to Death Valley again. We entered the park and drove along the salt flat, than down west side road. As we got about half way across the salt flat she had the usual dizzy disconnected feeling come over her and I had to take over driving. She had me park at Tule Spring where we sat in the car for a while. As we sat there she said her head felt heavy and her neck felt funny also her left arm felt week. We sat for a while and her whole body twitched throwing her back into her seat than for a while nothing, in a few minutes she again entered one of her trances moaning and occasionally twitching.
She seemed to go in and out of the state and eventually wanted to go to the Eagle Borax Works just a few miles further down the road. She was in and out of her trance as we drove there and parked, after we parked she seemed to settle more into it, laying the seat back and laying there moaning, eventually she put her hands over her face and seemed to be crying but it was more of a moan, hard to describe. Eventually she came out of it and wanted to leave saying that she felt great sadness as if someone had died close to her. She said it wasn't her sadness but she felt like she was dreaming she was someone else and they were sad. She also said it was much more real than a dream. She was very sad so we drove out of the valley and to Death Valley Junction. We stopped at the restaurant there and she had a sandwich, as she ate the feeling of being someone else who was sad left her, but, she now felt depressed. We drove south a ways so I could do some running than home. The feeling of depression stayed with her till the next day.
At this time we have not been back to Death Valley because of my sisters episode of depression on 01-16-2010 However I am still going down past Death Valley Junction to run. We drove quite a way tonight almost to Tecopa. When we neared their I felt the familiar wave of nausea wash over me that I felt in DV I was really sick for a few minutes. My sister recognized the symptoms and turned the car around to head back up the road. As we left the aria the nausea immediately left me.
As we got up the road however my sister began to have one of her visions that we she has in Death Valley. She could smell old books and said she saw a library the size of a shopping mall. Rows and rows of books were inside it. I began to ask her about details. The ceiling was white but to far up to get a good view. The floor was odd. It was stone and very rough almost as if it were not dressed at all. The stone floor was in one piece as if the entire structure was built over a natural rock outcrop that had been crudely dressed into a flat slab. The shelves were of brass and the decor of the place was of dark wood with an occasional brass strip inlaid. She described it as modern looking but no like any decor she had ever seen. We have wanted badly to take something practical away from these visions perhaps we can in a way the style of the odd brass and wood motif is in its self unique and very likely never been seen anywhere on earth. The shelves were so crammed into the library that they had been placed right in front of windows which I would imagine (barring some sort of high tec window tint or optics) would be bad for the books. She did not see any electrical wiring or plumbing in the entire building except for a wooden door with vertical brass strips spaced far apart. The center of the door has a kind of triangle with slightly concave sides that glows red around the edges. She did not know if this was due to a power source or simply from sunlight shining through a transparent surface.
Perhaps the most interesting thing was when I asked her to look at the books. Of course she had no way to open them so I asked if she could see the spines. She described the books as being mostly green in color with a leather looking fabric covering them. She took a note pad and drew some images she saw on the spines. The books were not all in the same language apparently. I have reproduced her drawings via ms paint . (see image library vision)
5-22-2010 8:30pm
In light of our experience near Shoshone we decided to try Death Valley again We entered the park around 8:30 pm and drove once again out to Tule Spring. On the way my sister began to feel the familiar dizziness and disorientation when we arrived she began to snap out of it a little bit we stayed at Tule for a while but nothing much else happened. We drove than out onto the salt flat following west side road and stopped in one of the turnouts , there my sister began to see a long narrow valley, perhaps more of a canyon, the whole thing was shaped exactly as if someone cut a tube or pipe lengthwise. It was covered in grass and several miles long and several wide. She than began to see the stone shack again for some time but no one was there and nothing happened.
5-29-2010 between 9 pm and 11pm
Something different this time, back to Tule Spring again for more research same thing happened as before, she's dizzy etc, than she gets out of the car and walks in the pitch black to the edge of the turnaround where people park, she's facing the stand of brush when I see her in the beam of my flash light I approach and she begins to snap out of it again she takes me around the thicket of brush and we stand on the opposite side. Finally she sees a canyon of white clay, small but very rugged, kind of a badlands type of thing. It's dark but theirs light coming from a symbol on the canyon wall. She describes it as a plus sign with arrows on the tips pointing back toward the center. Than she's around the corner and sees lights passing back and forth as if someone swung a flashlight beam one goes horizontal one is diagonal. We have both seen these same lights in her bed room at home only not in a vision, we actually saw them. During this vision her left leg gets sore in the muscle suddenly, we don't know if this is related to anything paranormal but it persists till the next morning when the pain fades.
The vision passes and she walks back around the thicket to the north side where we stop and discuss the vision, she is still not quite over the dizziness and disorientation but is quite lucid. I go to step around her and she grabs me and says "don't go over there, there's something there" she describes a black figure standing between two fence posts, it is about her height around five foot 4 and looks like a shadow, she can see the head and shoulders but the arms and legs are too close together to make them out, the arms are pressed to the sides and the legs are pressed together tightly forming a kind of wedge shaped figure. She says the figure makes a snapping electrical sound similar to a spark plug that has been taken out of the engine and left hooked into the plug wire for testing. I cannot see the entity but she can, she is very agitated and pushes me ahead of her around the thicket in the opposite direction back to the car she seems to think I am more vulnerable to the entity because I can't see it. She says she gets a hostile feeling from it. We get back in the car and leave. The difference in the vision of the entity and her usual visions is that with the stone cabin or anything else she sees it in a small square in the lower right quadrant of her visual field, with the entity it is like looking at a person standing there. One other important difference is she can hear the electrical noise; she has never before had any auditory experiences, she as smelled things, seen things, felt things but never heard anything till now. She feels that the entity is not a vision but may actually be there despite my inability to see it. The idea of tossing a stick or small stone at it occurred to me but you just don't throw things at people.
6-5-2010 afternoon
Entered Death Valley Park via the back way coming from Shoshone, we didn't get very far in never reached the valley floor when my sister wanted to walk up a canyon. We got out and walked up a small canyon with very high walls it was very narrow in places. I have not seen my sister move this fast up steep rugged terrain in a long time she did not stop to rest or seem exhausted till we reached the top of the canyon. Here we found a rock face about 20 feet high or so a waterfall when the canyon is running. Once she rests against the rock for a while she climbs around it over even steeper terrain a steep slope I would say about 75 degrees or so, actually dangerous to climb. I follow her up because she is dizzy and disoriented I have to hang on to her at the top. She stands at the top of the waterfall and is flooded with memories of the place except that in these "memories" it is green there. There is grass and some water in pools though not much. The canyon has trees on top the rim. We both climb back down and a few feet down the canyon she can smell flowers again. Then she has another vision in and she can see the flowers, she describes them as fairly large and all over the canyon floor. They are on some sort of green shrub. The flowers are trumpet shaped and white with a pinkish rim and pink streaks that go down into the flower. In the sky above she sees a silver dot like an air craft flying over head
6-19-2010 7:30 pm
Entered the park at around 7:30 pm just getting dark We drove along the salt flat when my sister took a note pad and began to write she is beginning to fall into a trance like state as she writes. What she wrote is not all in English there are a couple of small pieces of the text in some symbols so I had to use a graphic program and type the text there so that I could draw in the symbols. When she finished writing we drove to Tule Spring again she immediately begins to feel nervous and apprehensive she is in and out of her trance like state eventually she is insistent that we leave so I drive to the Devils Golf Course aria and park she's still in the trance fairly out of it she gets out of the car and walks over and drapes herself over the sign that explains about the aria. I take a short walk on the salt and when I get back she's gone. I pan 360 with the flash light and finally locate her; she has wandered out on the salt in the moon light. When I catch up she says she saw the light out on the flat from the previous vision. This vision is again different not unlike her vision of the black creature in that it is not seen in a small aria in her lower right visual field but experienced as if she were there. She believes that the light she saw is the machine she sees so often. We leave and drive through artists drive and she begins to experience the sensation of a weight on her chest as she had a few months earlier she complains it's hard to breathe as we exit Artists Drive the sensation dissipates, I than drive home for the night.
Entered the valley the back way from Beatty again, about 7:30 pm, drove along the salt flat about half way to Furnace Creek my sister again begins to experience the same symptoms and I take over driving. I am after samples from Tule Spring this time. There is a line on the ground that looks like someone painted it there the only thing is it's made of leaves and sticks dried into the salt crust. Apparently these leaves are slightly fresher than what is laying on the ground there as they are a lighter color and can be seen clearly what could have laid thousands of leaves out in a 25 foot or so line one inch wide I don't know. There is also a peculiar looking track like from some sort of very wide tire on the south side of the spring out of the designated aria graded out by the forest service, it only goes for about a yard and a half and disappears the first few feet it looks like the vehicle was backed up and driven forward several times so that the track is very wide there with several tracks overlapping after that it is only one track. The track has many small bars very close together running the width of the track, the bars do not curve or break but go completely across giving it a peculiar look I have not seen wheel like that on any two wheel vehicle before it is about a foot wide which is very wide for a motorcycle another odd thing is it's flatness it does not seem to curve up on the sides in the manner of atv tires I took stills of it and the line and some video of the line with my cell phone (see photos) and a sample of the salt crust with the line. The line is very hard to explain and goes much further toward hard evidence of something strange going on in the aria than the tire track or whatever it is but the tire track is odd in its own right given the short run and odd pattern it is as if someone set the vehicle down, moved it back and forth then moved it a few yards then picked it up and carried it off, very strange.
My sister remains in her trance and I drive to beat the setting sun as I near Tule I notice my sister talking in her trance, she is speaking very low and the noise from the car drowns it out. I can, however see her lips moving and she seems to speak clearly and directly. I stopped the car and shut it off but she has stopped speaking and just lays there on her reclined seat. As we enter Tule she begins to come out of it some she gets out and wanders while I take my sample and photos. When I finish she has wandered over to the east of the spring a short ways and tells me that she has once again seen the tall man and he is stooped over looking at tracks in the earth, she recognizes the tracks as belonging to her shoes. The spring looks different where she sees him, on his side the growth in the center is cleared out and there is a larger pond. He is looking at the tracks on the south side of the pond about where my sister had followed an overgrown animal trail into the thicket. This experience was unusual even for the aria as she said instead of the usual disorientation, she felt as though she was dreaming the whole experience and only knew it was real form the leaves on her clothing. As we prepare to leave she again sees the spring but the man is not there.
She wants to go to the grave of Shorty Harris further along west side road but it has gotten dark and we never find the grave. On the way back she is deep in one of her trances laying back on folded back car seat. As I drive along she begins to speak, sluring the way someone talking in their sleep does. I again stop the car and listen. She is not speaking English but repeats one word over and over as if trying to say it clearly in her disoriented state. The word sounds like Hummah she says it with an ephesis on the first syllable like "hummmm mah then hum mah then hummah a bunch of times, then she stops. I repeat the word to her and she says it back to me each time. As an experiment I say the word she said a few months ago "wahalwa" she says what sounds like a mix of the two words back to me in a way that reminds me of the way some Native Americans speak when talking I their own language the more experienced speakers sound like that. The word is slurred of course and I cannot be sure if I am hearing right but the closest I can come is a combination of the two words or perhaps both words spoken so close together that they seem like one word.
We stop at Eagle Borax Works on the way back and my sister wonders to the south a bit while I go to the north east a few yards. The moon is now extremely bright and flash lights are unnecessary for most work. I hear my sister call my name and I run over with the flash light she is in an agitated state but not in a trance. She tells me that she looked up toward the south and the tall man was standing there a few yards away, she says his mouth is open in shock and he made eye contact with her, she described the experience as being the same as looking at me as I was standing there at the moment. She said he was just standing there with his mouth open. When I shined the flash light in the aria she no longer sees him. She is agitated by this and insists that we leave the valley so I drive home, on the way out of the valley past Furnace Creek Inn she has a vision again this one is of the machine on the salt flat, she says it is brass colored and shining in the sun, she sees this for a few minutes as we drive out of the valley.
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Willie Singletary, a Pennsylvania traffic court judge, brought his judicial office in to disrepute when he showed photos of his "judicial genitals" to a government contractor earlier this year.
Singletary was accused of displaying two smartphone photos of his erect penis on February 19 to a 22-year-old traffic court cashier, who has been identified merely as "F." The 31-year-old judge contends that he had forgotten about the lewd photos that were on his phone and had unintentionally displayed them to the woman. Singletary, who is also an ordained minister, insists that he also shared with the cashier photos of his family members and church.


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The place where we hunt elk lacks certain amenities, including, rather unfortunately, elk.
I don't really mind, though.
A rifle is no great burden, slung over a shoulder, and I enjoy getting out in the clean air and having a look around the country on the cusp of winter.
Besides which, elk could enter the picture at any time. In theory, if not always in reality. Every hunter will tell you the elk are out there; it's just that "there" is never where I happen to be. At least not when I have a hunting tag in my wallet.
And even if, say, a six-point bull does wander into view, it's apt to vacate the premises before I can bring my scope to bear. Which is just as well, since I'm a lousy shot.
I don't care what the wildlife biologists say — elk can disappear. And I mean literally disappear, not merely step behind the camouflage of a Douglas-fir. I'm talking about different dimensions, or astral planes, or whatever.
I'm pretty sure elk can levitate, too. Science can't, at any rate, yet explain how a 500-pound animal runs at 20 mph through a thicket of alders without making a sound.
Wind can't even pull off that trick, and it hardly weighs anything. No antlers to hang up on the brush, either.
Elk aside, the real deficiency in our hunting area is flat land.
I suppose you could describe the topography above Brownlee Reservoir as "rolling," the adjective that often precedes "hills."
Except another word — "gently" — sometimes insinuates itself into such descriptions.
And gently is a singularly poor choice in this case, akin to commenting on the tranquility of a school of piranha during a feeding frenzy.
The mountains that rise out of the reservoir are hard mountains, deeply incised by streams. Their slopes are almost invariably steep, and they are far better suited to quadripeds than to two-footed hunters whose boot laces are too long.
I got to thinking about the nature of these mountains while I was hunting earlier this week (an elk hunter who never sees elk has ample time for this sort of reflection).
In particular it occurred to me that the precipitous aspect of this region renders regular maps irrelevant, rather like putting turn signals on the space shuttle.
By "regular" I mean maps that show places but not the lay of the land.
These maps can mislead a foot traveler in a manner that ought to be criminal, so significant is the difference between reality and what the map implies.
For instance, if you spread out a map and took in hand a ruler and with it plotted a route from Hibbard Creek to Connor Creek you'd likely conclude that it is the journey of an afternoon.
The distance, after all, is just four miles or so.
But all miles are not equal, as anyone knows who has ever walked many of them.
To get from Hibbard Creek to Connor Creek you first have to climb 2,000 feet, then descend 2,000 feet to Fox Creek, then climb another 2,000 feet, then drop 2,000 more feet to Connor Creek.
Which is a lot of steps, none of them easy.
The only sort of map that hints at the unrelenting verticality of the land between Lookout Mountain and Brownlee is a topographic one.
These maps show the elevation by means of contour lines. Each line follows a specific elevation around the whole of the map. Typically there is a separate line for every 40 to 80 feet of elevation.
The ability to glance at a topo map and instantly conjure a mental image of the landscape is a learned skill.
But you needn't be an expert to understand that the closer together the contour lines are, the steeper the slope.
And for parts of the Lookout Mountain country you need something more powerful than a handheld magnifying glass to discern the blank space between contour lines.
An electron microscope, maybe.
I don't mean to imply here that I'd rather hunt someplace that's more, well, gentle.
Although my hamstrings might.
In fact I sort of enjoy the challenge.
Even when I don't see any elk I take solace in knowing that my legs and lungs got in some healthful exercise while I was crossing all those contour lines.
Also it helps when your father-in-law owns several four-wheelers and he lets you ride one.
Jayson Jacoby is editor of the Baker City Herald.


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I know that I should be writing something clever about Lance Armstrong to get the blog hits, but I'm already tired of hearing all the opinions. So let's talk about someone more imporant...you! I recently read a blog that I would highly recommend. It is written bySeth Fargher and he asks the following question, "WHAT MAKES YOU COME ALIVE?" And then he continues with the following:
What if you explored the little inklings in your life that said you want to be a police officer, a fireman or a pastry chef? What if all the doodles you drew when you were supposed to be studying algebra meant you had a gift in art or design? Where might you be today if you'd continued on the path you started down before you settled for the next best thing?
I absolutely love that question and it truly is one of the most important questions for you to answer. And let me add a two more questions that I would love for you to answer below in the comments section (feel free to be anonymous).
1-What did you LOVE to do when you were a child & teenager?
2-If someone handed you 2 Million Dollars what would you do with it other than give part of it to a charity, your church, or family members?
Answer both of those for me and I will follow-up with a blog post on Monday to explain why I asked those questions. Also, don't forget that I would love to read your comments so please post away below.
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The most destructive wildfire in Colorado history leveled hundreds of homes but didn't touch a cherished tradition in Pike National Forest near Colorado Springs -- cutting live Christmas trees.
The U.S. Forest Service says last summer's Waldo Canyon Fire didn't touch the area of the forest where generations have gone to cut live Christmas trees. Each year, about 5,000 people buy $10 permits to cut a tree.
Christmas tree seekers can choose from lodgepole, limber and ponderosa pine as well as Engelmann spruce and Douglas fir. Chain saws are not allowed.
Permits can be obtained from Nov. 26 to Dec. 12. Families are limited to five trees.
The Waldo Canyon Fire erupted June 23 and went on to kill two people and damage or destroy 359 homes.
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