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Indochina Sails Itinerary 2 days
Backed by over ten years experience hosting international guests on the tranquil waters of Halong Bay, Indochina Sails has set a new standard for luxury cruising. The first company to offer overnight cruises on the bay, we are now widely known as the number one choice for discerning travellers. Our fleet of six newly built wooden junks are designed in time-honoured traditional style, with contemporary and luxurious cabins and facilities. What better way to experience the natural beauty and spectacular seascape of this UNESCO World Heritage site than on board an Indochina Sails junk!
Day 01: HA LONG ARRIVAL (L,D)
• 08:00 Scenic three hour and a half drive from Hanoi to Ha Long Bay.
• 11:30 Arrive at Bai Chay/Halong pier.
• 12:15 Transfer by tender to the Indochina Sails boat – enjoy Welcome Drink. Receive cruise briefing and check in to cabins and begin cruise.
• 13:00 Lunch – deluxe Vietnamese and International Set Menu.
• Massage service is available beginning after lunch and throughout the cruise.
• 14:30 Arrive at Titop Island. Enjoy swimming, relaxing on the beach and climbing the steps to the top of the mountain on the island for fantastic views and photo opportunities. Water and towels supplied. We will spend about 45 minutes on the island.
• 15:15 Transfer back to the boat and sail for approximately 45 minutes to our second destination – the Bat Cave area.
• 16:15 Arrive at the Bat Cave area. There are two programs to choose from at this time. One option is a 40 minute kayaking program to the nearby Bat Cave and lagoon and surrounding waters. Kayaking is $10. per person unless already booked as part of your package. Water is supplied.
• The second option is to visit the largest floating fishing village in Halong Bay. We will travel to the village on the tender and tour the village for approximately 20 minutes.
• 18:30 Arrive at Luon Bo area – anchor for overnight.
• 19:00 Dinner – deluxe Vietnamese & Western Buffet or Set Menu Dinner.
• 20:30 Evening activities include: film entertainment in the dining room at approximately 9:15, board games and playing cards are available.
• 21:00 – 23:00 Happy Hour! Buy one drink – get one free (wine excluded).
• Overnight on board.
Day 02: HA LONG DEPARTURE (B)
• 06:45 Coffee, tea and breakfast pastries served in the dining room.
• 07:00 Arrive at the Surprise Cave area, there is a small fishing village here. Relax onboard. You may join Tai Chi instruction on the sundeck at 07:00, duraion about 30 minutes.
• 08:00 Transfer by tender to the Surprise Cave. Walk up the 100 steps to the entrance of the cave and tour on foot for approximately 45 minutes.
• 09:00 Upon return to the boat take time to freshen up and please check-out of cabins. Please leave heavy luggage outside of the cabins (staff will transfer to the pier). Depart for Bai Chay/Halong pier.
• 09:30 Enjoy Breakfast Set Menu or Buffet served in the dining room. Settle bills in the dining room after breakfast.
• 10:00 Relax on the sundeck or in the dining room and enjoy the bay scenery as we approach the pier.
• 10:45 Arrive at Bai Chay/Halong pier.
• 11:00 Transfer by tender to the pier, relax inside the pier building while waiting for return transportation to Hanoi.
• 15:00 Arrive in Hanoi. End of program.
Roundtrip transfers from Hanoi to Halong and vice verse
• Private transfer: will pick up and drop off guests at your hotel
• Shuttle bus transfer (sharing bus): will pick up and drop off guests at hotel which locates inside Hanoi Old Quarter olny.
Other notes:
• Times of activities may vary slightly. Itinerary and Program subject to change when necessary.
• Advanced reservation is required with full passenger details, including Full Name, Date of Birth, Nationality, Passport Number, Visa Expiry Date etc.
• A valid passport is required upon check-in onboard.
• 25% surcharges applies for cruises on Christmas, New Year and Tet Holidays
• Free of Charge for children < 5 years old, sharing fully-paid cabin, limited to one child per cabin
• Major credit cards are accepted onboard.
• Welcome Drink
• Cruise Itinerary and Program
• Entrance and Sightseeing Fees
• In-house English-speaking Tour Guide
• Luxurious Cabins with A/C and en-suite Bathrooms
• Deluxe Vietnamese and International Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Insurance
• Taxes and Service Charges
• Car transfers to and from Ha Long city
• Airfares
• Hotels
• Visa Arrangements
• Massage Services
• Kayaking
• Beverages
• Tips
• Personal Expenses
• All other services not clearly mentioned as included


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Coming on the heels of 2011's heralded Tumblr-only freebie effort Nostalgia Ultra, Frank Ocean's proper debut Channel Orange firmly establishes the singer/songwriter as one of music's most unique storytellers. His tales tend toward the hyper-personal and are so steeped in naive optimism—even in the face of tragedy and defeat—that they could easily be read as either deeply moving or incredibly cheesy. At their best, they're both. Frank and producer Malay blend and wear their musical influences proudly, finding a sonic middle ground between vintage Stevie Wonder and recent N.E.R.D. Unfortunately, they tend to favor the formlessness of the latter, as Frank's meandering narratives about drug dealers and users and Los Angeles brats gone wild supersede his concern for traditional hook writing and song structure. But, by the album's second half, this ceases to be a weakness. Late cuts like the taxicab catharsis of "Bad Religion" and "Pink Matter," an epic duet with Outkast's Andre 3000 that invokes the human life cycle and Dragonball Z, operate with such naked honesty that they transcend the need for form.
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Consumer Reviews of York central air conditioners
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33% of customers recommend
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Date created: 2010-03-29 Name: Josh Smith
Location: NW
Years owned: 9
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I've had problems with my unit every year I've owned it. I service the unit annually, but usually have an additional service call as well. It is like trying to keep an old car running just well enough to get you home. It has been like this since the first year I have had it. Our cooler weather in the NW makes it bearable to put up with its unreliability but it still makes me angry. I have a 12 year old unit for my house (a different brand) and I have never had a single problem. Don't buy York.
Date created: 2010-03-15 Name: F. Edwards
Years owned: 2
Satisfaction Rating:
"Name means nothing"
This is a York. The unit started having problems cooling within a few weeks. The original company kept putting freon in it. They went bankrupt. The new company has also put freon in with correcting the problem. I am being told that York will supply a new condenser but I will have to pay for the labor. Since the problem occurred so soon after installation, I should not have to pay for the labor under these circumstances if the York brand has any credibility. All I want is the unit to work as promised and nothing else. However, repeated loss of freon from a defect not being corrected may constitute willful venting covered under Federal and State law and I am wondering if a defective unit was knowingly installed and might be considered consumer fraud.
Date created: 2010-01-12 Name: Mike Miller
Years owned: 4
Satisfaction Rating:
"York AC Units"
I paid a local AC contractor a large sum of money to completely install duct work and a brand new furnace with an AC unit outside. The 5th year after installation, the AC compressor failed. I previously had a house which had a Rheem system in it and it lasted 22 yrs with general servicing every year. York is a piece of crap, as now everyone is telling me York has had all their components made overseas by the cheapest Chinese company available... No wonder (?), I will never give York my business again. It's a P.O.S.!
Date created: 2009-12-10 Name: E. Smitherman
Years owned: 12
Satisfaction Rating:
"Property Manager"
I am a property manager with 54 units having York air conditioners. I have had so many coil and compressor problems that we don't even fix the units anymore.We started purchasing the big window units for a/c and use the emergency heat strips for heating. We have spent close to 100,000. trying to keep the units operating. These units have made my life a living hell!!!!!!I Have not been able to enjoy one summer since 2000, when I started working for the company. Every summer complaint after complaint. We have 60 other units that are older and have Bryant air conditioners. I have very seldom ever had a problem with those units. The Yorks are defective. The coils and the compressors are defective straight from the factory. My husband finaly dediced to file a product liability lawsuit, but the attorney said that we had waited too long to file. I would love for an attorney to file a class action lawsuit against this company. You would win hands down. I would be more than happy to testify in court. I wish I could be compensated for the pain and suffering I have had to endure with people calling me constantly complaining about their air conditioner.
Date created: 2009-12-03 Name: Rabindranath Ramberan
Years owned: 3
Satisfaction Rating:
"Warrenty not being by the sales company"
I bought (3) three York split units (2) two 12000 btu and (1) one 18000 btu about May 2006. One of the 12000 btu started to malfunction ie. it would work for a few days and for afew days the condenser part of the unit would not start up.This began happening a few months after it was bought. The company was notified, technicians were sent time and time again and at present the problem still exists. The 18000 btu unit also gave its share of problems at one point in time the unit would not shut off if you did not take of the main power supply to it. In June 2009 the compressor exploded. Evidence was supplied to indicate that the unit was serviced about every (6) six months. The compressor is still on warrenty but the company is not honoring it. I am at present paying to have it repaired. The company which supplied these units is climate control limited, trinidad. west indies. I have (3) three other Rheem units I bought in 2003 and they have been working trouble free. In my opinion a York unit and the supplier are very unreliable.
Date created: 2009-11-18 Name: Mike Z.
Years owned: 2
Satisfaction Rating:
"Coil Failures"
To all the people that have had their coils replaced- there is a significant failure problem with York blue fin coils manufactured over the last several years. Failures are at epidemic proportions. York has issued a recall and pays dealers labor to replace the coils. You should not have to also pay labor.
Date created: 2009-10-26 Name: D. Hoffman
Years owned: 2
Satisfaction Rating:
"Can you say junk--YORK"
Save yourself a lot of heartache, do not buy a york. In the first 6 months, we replaced compressor, would not heat. Within two years we have had every major component replaced; coil, condenser fan, blower. Make sure you use a reputable contractor, one who will stand behind their customer. I used "Balanced Air" in Port Richey, Florida, can you say mistake. They have no customer service, and could care less about the consumer. This is a company we have used for over 15 years and have never had a problem until we bought the york they talked us into. So do not make the mistake we have made.
Date created: 2009-10-14 Name: R. Lam
Years owned: 4
Satisfaction Rating:
"York AC with bad coils"
My ac stopped cooling and began feezing up in July 2009. I was determined that I had a leak in the coil in both units. This can not be a just something that happens. Both units at the same time. Since then one of the units has had the coils replaced twice. I am now on the third coil due to leaks. There is definitally a problem with the coil that York is using. If I could replace the whole unit with another brand I would.
Date created: 2009-09-03 Name: Alice Thompson
Years owned: 1
Satisfaction Rating:
"York Air Conditioning"
We replaced our old two-unit system 1 year ago with two York units. They have worked great until a week ago when one of them developed a leak in the evaporator coil. This is called a blue coil because the fins are blue - York is replacing the coil because all of them manufactured between 2006 and 2008 are defective; but they will not pay the labor to install the replacement coil - a cost of over $600. This is a very bad business practice, and because of it I will never buy a York product again. But for now I'm stuck with this since it's only a year old. I have another unit - so I'm expecting it to go out also. Who else has this issue? Maybe it's time to go after the company with a class action lawsuit ... any attorney's out there interested????
Date created: 2009-08-25 Name: Mike Sisler
Years owned: 5
Satisfaction Rating:
I have had my York ac worked on each year for the past 4 yrs. The manufacturer has only agreed to replace the fan coil but no labor. It seems that these units are made in China and apparently they cant seem to get their welds correct. The labor cost has never been covered by York, I believe this manufacturer needs to go out of business and not ever come back as their equipment is junk
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I'm guest posting over at the lovely Ryan Bakes blog today! Ryan is a dear blogging friend of mine whom many of you may have heard about our foodie meetups with Courtney from Cook Like a Champion. Ryan is celebrating her 5th wedding anniversary in one my favorite towns this week: New York City! So, stop on by and say hello.
In celebration of the New Lunar Year, I have made New Year's Dumplings and Wok Fried Noodles. Surprisngly easy to make and absolutely delicious. I made each dish to symbolize something within the New Year, so stop on by, say hello and hopefully make some of these scrumptious dishes in celebration of the New Year with your family. Enjoy!


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This may seem to be a no-brainer … but it's very important to NOT change command parameter defaults on commands in the QSYS library.
This is especially true if you use 3rd party software that may not expect your commands to have different defaults.
Over the past few weeks I've been struggling to help a customer with a particularly tough problem.
I won't go into the gory details … but suffice it to say, a program that was running a very benign command ended up behaving in a completely unexpected way … which caused a major failure.
It was very hard to nail down … we even involved IBM support … they were baffled too.
After countless emails and a few conference calls, we identified what we thought might be the culprit … asked the customer to remove the modified command default, and the program worked fine.
The best way to have commands with different default values is to duplicate the command into your own version of QSYS and change the parameter defaults on the duplicated command. You then put the library with the modified commands higher than QSYS on your system library list (either changing the
QSYSLIBL system value or executing a
CHGSYSLIBL command when users sign on).
This way, when you don't want the customized default values, all you have to do is remove the library from the system library list.
It has the added benefit of documenting the commands that have altered defaults … so you can clearly identify unexpected command behavior.
You can tell if a command has had it's defaults changed by doing a DSPOBJD on it, displaying the *SERVICE information, and looking at the APAR ID field. If it contains "CHGDFT", then the parameter defaults have been changed.
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Two brand new Mac-based bookazines hit the shelves today!
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When it comes to practical battlefield, no body does it better then Battlefield franchise. The series has a long account of creating straggling war zones where players have a beatifying means of making powerful contributions to the war effort. The competitive multiplayer mode in Battlefield 3 is honoring and stay genuine to its custom, delivering an online battle experience that's insanely addictive, plunging and stimulating. With some refreshments that make the familiar action feel fresh. Unfortunately, the stale single-player campaign fails to capitalize on the intensity of this stunning series and feels like an caricature. Cooperative missions are better then the single player campaign and provide a tougher challenge. The only reason to buy this game is its competitive multiplayer.
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OAK PARK, MI --- Azure Dynamics Corp., which develops green technologies for the commercial transportation industry, announced that its Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle is the newest addition to the United States Postal Service fleet.
USPS operates the largest civilian vehicle fleet in the world, with over 220,000 vehicles traveling more than 1.2 billion miles a year. USPS is testing the Balance Hybrid Electric vehicle in hopes of reducing the environmental impact of its fleet while also lowering operating costs.
"USPS is the only federal agency with a dedicated Office of Sustainability," said Scott Harrison, Azure Dynamics CEO. "The organization has demonstrated its strong commitment to sustainability by publicly stating its goal of decreasing petroleum usage by 20 percent over the next five years while also lessening its environmental impact. Our Azure Balance Hybrid Electric can be instrumental in helping USPS achieve these goals."
The Azure product, a Balance Hybrid Electric two-ton step van, will actively participate in the USPS fleet in Long Island, N.Y., for a 12-month pilot program. The vehicle uses an Azure Dynamics hybrid electric drivetrain on the Ford E-450 chassis with a Morgan Olson body. Boyer Ford Truck Sales delivered the vehicle.
A key strategy of the Postal Service's supply management organization, the "green purchasing program" incorporates evaluation of environmentally preferable products into purchasing decisions -- along with price, quality and delivery standards. The USPS green purchasing program was aided by the recent addition of $130 million in federal stimulus funds and in 2008 spent over $88 million in the acquisition of environmentally preferable products.
"The Postal Service is taking the lead in reducing the environmental footprint that results from visiting every home and business in America every day," said Sam Pulcrano, USPS vice president of sustainability. "This new vehicle will join 30 other Azure Dynamics pure electric step vans currently delivering mail in Manhattan and the Bronx, as part of a test of alternative fuel technology."


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The polarization parameters of light scattered from biological tissue contains rich morphological and functional information of significant biomedical importance. Effectively probing optically-thick turbid media, such as tissues, is challenging due to multiple scattering and the simultaneous occurrence of many polarization effects. These include difficulties in obtaining accurate measurements as well as the extraction and correct interpretation of the constituent polarization parameters. A method that can account for the effects of multiple scatterings and decouple the contributions of polarization effects is needed for the practical application of these probing techniques in a biomedical setting.
Mueller calculus is a mathematical matrix method used to model the transformations of the polarization state of light in its interactions with an optical system. Therefore, a Mueller matrix description contains complete information about all the polarization properties of a given medium. However, when many optical polarization effects occur simultaneously (as is the case of tissues where the most common polarimetry effects are depolarization, linear birefringence, and optical activity), the resulting matrix elements reflect several 'lumped' effects, thus hindering their unique interpretation. Each of these, if separately extracted, holds promise as a useful biological metric. For example, chirality-induced optical rotation can be linked to the glucose concentration of the medium, and changes in tissue mechanical anisotropy (resulting from disease progression or treatment response) can be extracted by birefringence measurements. We have developed and validated an expanded Mueller matrix decomposition approach to delineate the individual intrinsic polarimetry characteristics in complex tissue-like turbid media.
Our method treats a 'lumped' system Mueller matrix M as the product of three constituent 'basis' matrices,1,2
where a depolarizer matrix MΔ accounts for the depolarizing effects of the medium, a retarder matrix MR describes the effects of linear birefringence (or linear retardance) and optical activity, and a diattenuator matrix MD includes the effects of linear and circular dichroism.2 Once calculated, these constituent matrices are further analyzed to derive individual polarization medium properties, namely, linear retardance (δ, and its orientation angle θ), optical rotation (Ψ), diattenuation (d), and the depolarization coefficient (Δ)2.
In addition, we have also developed a polarization-sensitive forward Monte Carlo (MC) model capable of simulating all of the simultaneous optical scattering and polarization effects.3 This model is supplemented by a high-sensitivity polarization modulation/synchronous detection experimental system that is capable of measuring the complete Mueller matrix from tissues and tissue-like turbid media.2,3 These three methodologies form a comprehensive turbid polarimetry platform (Figure 1).
We experimentally validated our approach using optical phantoms that had controlled sample-polarizing properties.2 To develop the phantoms, we used polyacrylamide as a base medium with polystyrene microspheres to create turbidity, sucrose to induce optical activity, and mechanical stretching to cause linear birefringence. Additional validation tests were performed using MC-generated Mueller matrices. The derived polarization parameters were in excellent agreement with the controlled inputs, showing self-consistency in inverse decomposition analysis and successful decoupling of the individual polarization effects.2
The initial biomedical application of this approach was monitoring myocardial tissue regeneration following stem-cell therapy. The anisotropic organized nature of myocardial tissues stemming from their fibrous structure leads to linear birefringence. Upon suffering an infarction, a portion of the myocardium is deprived of oxygenated blood and subsequently cardiomyocytes die, replaced by disorganized isotropic scar tissue. Recently, stem-cell-based regenerative treatments for myocardial infarction have been shown to reverse these trends by increasing the muscular constituents and decreasing the scar tissue components.4 These remodeling processes likely affect tissue structural anisotropy, and the newly developed Mueller matrix decomposition method may offer a sensitive probe into the small birefringence alterations that are signatures of regenerative treatments.5 Using the experimental setup, polarized light measurements through 1mm thick ex vivo myocardial samples from Lewis rats after myocardial infarction, both with and without stem-cell treatments, yielded the measured Mueller matrices. These were analyzed using polar decomposition to obtain linear retardance (δ) values as shown in Figure 2. As expected, a large decrease in δ was seen in the infarcted region of the untreated myocardium (Figure 2a). An increase in δ towards native levels was seen in the infarcted region after stem-cell treatment (Figure 2b), indicating regrowth and reorganization of the myocardium. Statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences in derived retardance values were observed between normal and infracted regions and between infracted regions with and without stem-cell treatments (Figure 2c). These results show significant promise for polarized light monitoring of stem-cell-based treatments following myocardial infarction.
To conclude, a novel method for polarimetry analysis of turbid media based on polar Mueller matrix decomposition has been developed and validated. The ability to isolate individual polarization properties in complex turbid media (such as tissues) provides a valuable noninvasive tool for their characterization. In the biological domain, quantification of tissue structural anisotropy and concentration determination of optically active molecules, such as glucose, are two potential applications that have been initially explored, with early indications showing promise and warranting further studies. We are currently expanding our investigations in these biomedical directions, including extending this novel method towards clinical application.
Research support from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and collaborations with Richard D.Weisel, Ren-Ke Li, Shu-hong Li, and Brian C.Wilson are gratefully acknowledged.
Alex Vitkin is an engineering physicist/biomedical engineer specializing in medical physics and the application of lasers in medicine. He is currently a professor of medical biophysics and radiation oncology at the University of Toronto, a senior scientist in the division of biophysics and bioimaging at the Ontario Cancer Institute, and a clinical medical physicist at Princess Margaret Hospital (all in Toronto, Ontario, Canada). His research is in the field of biophotonics, with particular emphasis on Doppler optical coherence tomography, tissue polarimetry, and optical-fiber sensors.
Nirmalya Ghosh is currently pursuing his postdoctoral research at the Ontario Cancer Institute, department of medical biophysics, University of Toronto. He also holds the position of scientist at the Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore, India. His research is in the field of biomedical optics with particular emphasis on tissue polarimetry.
Michael F. G. Wood is completing his PhD in the department of medical biophysics at the University of Toronto. His thesis research is focused on the use of polarized light for tissue characterization. He completed his undergraduate degree in computer engineering at the University of Western Ontario in 2004.


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Palse waterfall
There are several beautiful waterfalls in the serene mountains around Mulshi dam backwater. One of them is Palse waterfall. Driving along the edge of Mulshi lake, a small village named Palse appears. Just there is this waterfall.
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Ooh, thanks for sharing about this little known water fall♫ My Rurality: http://lauriekazmierczak.com/happy-trails/ReplyDelete
It is in such a beautiful setting and it seems to be an enjoyable place on these hot days!!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Very enjoyable and very beautiful indeed! A must visit place :)Delete
Hi...I have visit this place and it is too beautiful.ReplyDelete
My blog http://www.journeynlife.com/2014/08/scenic-waterfalls-at-mulshi-dam.html
Just a small correction the village name is Palase not Palse.
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Indeed! I just visited your blog post. You have published some beautiful photos there ☺Delete
Thank you for the correction. I have noted it!
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Teenagers caught drag racing in L.A. River [updated]
March 6, 1955: Police check licenses on hopped-up cars driven by teenagers drag racing on a paved section of the Los Angeles River bottom. Four squad cars converged on the racers. Photo taken at 6th Street Bridge.
A story in the March 7, 1955, Los Angeles Times reported:
Police yesterday rounded up more than 150 teenagers who were drag-racing their souped-up cars on the paved Los Angeles River bottom.
Four squad cars and five motorcycle officers converged in the river bed where the youths had marked off a quarter-mile racing strip between 4th and 6th Sts.
About 90 jalopies were lined up in single file while the occupants, protesting bitterly, were ordered to show their driver's licenses and registration papers to policemen guarding the river bed's 6th St. exit.
Officers estimated that some 30 other cars escaped up the San Fernando Road ramp before police could catch them. There were no arrests….
The photo above by former staff photographer Julian Robinson was published on the March 7, 1955 Los Angeles Times front page.
Below is a related photo from 1958 by former staff photographer Ken Dare. Police blocked one of the Los Angeles River bed exits and calmly handed out tickets. To light this scene, Ken Dare used at least two remote flash units plus one unit near his camera. The man, top left of center, appears to be holding a remote strobe head. Another light unit appears to be held on the extreme top left.
Dec. 11, 1958: Police issue citations to more than 100 drivers, charging violations of a municipal law that prohibits operation of motor vehicles on the paved bed of the Los Angeles River. This photo was published in the Dec. 12, 1958 Los Angeles Times.
After this blog post appeared Monday, reader Ted Sebern contacted me, wanting to make sure the complete story of the early drag racing was told. Sebern, a longtime member of the Road Kings auto club of Burbank, writes:
I'd like to bring you up to speed about drag racing in the LA river in the fifties. I realize you are probably too young to have been there in the fifties, but believe me it was a ball.
First of all you must understand that we were kids who didn't want to race on the streets. The idea of our clubs was to provide the safest drag racing venue at the time. For three years the LA cops came down and watched while we raced. In all that time the cops never bothered us, nor did they ticket any of us.
Then the LA City fathers decided that the youth shouldn't be allowed to run races flagrantly in the river under the Sixth Street Bridge.
For months after that the LAPD would come down under the bridge and say, "We have to come down and raid this place in twenty minutes." Of course we all split. They were wonderful guys. After that we moved to the River Road to the north of Griffith Park, just south of the L.A. River and just west of Victory Blvd.
LAPD and Burbank P.D. watched for some years while we raced; again no tickets. We had a Snyder ambulance on site in case of an accident, and there were none.
1957 Chevys and Pontiacs raced against blossoming MOPAR vehicles and it was a ball. Early San Fernando drag racing groups were forming and their clubs would become the basis for that track.
The River Road near Griffith Park is now the location of the Ventura (134) Freeway.
For more photos, check out this LIFE magazine April 29, 1957 photo essay: The Drag Racing Rage. The photo essay includes images of drag racing in the Los Angeles River.
[Updated March 19, 2014 with reader provided information.]
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Oh, heedless, wicked youth! When was Lions drag strip in Long Beach opened so they could do it safely and legally?
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I have too many commitments to take 10 days off from life whenever I get a sniffle.
Originally posted by ANOK
When I was a kid you were taught to first off, if you can, move away from other people before you sneeze or cough, at least cover you mouth. Even when you yawn, no one wants to see your open gob.
In fact you can cough without even opening your mouth, and no you don't have to cough out the 'germs'.
People these days really don't give a damn about other people. I think the problem is NO ONE SAYS ANYTHING.
Back in the day you would be called out in public, by strangers, for being so inconsiderate and rude. Try doing that now and you would get nothing back but a bunch of abuse. Everyone is so freakin defensive, no one will take responsibility for their actions, and just say sorry, and move on. You become the bad guy for pointing out their bad behaviour.
Originally posted by elysiumfire
some asshole infected me with the same attitude, I'm going to pass it on, and I don't give a damn who gets infected.
Two wrongs don't make a right mate. Bad attitudes breed bad attitudes.
Originally posted by elysiumfire
Two wrongs don't make a right mate. Bad attitudes breed bad attitudes.
You are quite right, but I don't give #! As far as I'm concerned there is no wrong or right, only survival!
It's your attitude about it that made me make that comment. Having no consideration for other people is half of our problems these days.
OMG you sound very scary. I hope you do not mean that.
Originally posted by elysiumfire
, I have no empathetic connection to you or yours, so by all means...convince me to be considerate, bearing in mind that I caught the disease in public.
Originally posted by elysiumfire
Why should I be considerate of others?
Originally posted by captaintyinknots
Ill take it even one step further-covering your mouth or not, there is rarely a reason that a contagiously sick person needs to go out in public. Stay home from work. Dont go to public places. GIVE YOURSELF 2 DAYS TO GET OVER BEING CONTAGIOUS.
Seriously, if people werent so selfish, we wouldnt see the cold and flu spread like they do.
I make no qualms about giving dirty looks or calling someone out for being in public when sick.
So you don't expect people to be considerate of you?
I could sneeze in your face, and you wouldn't mind?


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Generalized anxiety disorder versus PTSD
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Generalized Anxiety is diagnosed for someone who experiences excessive anxiety and worry for a period of at least 6 months. Usually the overly concern person is focused on events or activities and has little control over the worry. Restlessness, difficult in concentrating, easily fatigued, and irritability are frequent complaints, while sleep may be disrupted and muscle tension is common.
The anxiousness is typically about everyday routine life circumstances, finances, health issues of self or others, or simple things like car repairs. The worry seems to switch from one event to another. Frequently generalized anxiety disorder will co-occur with substance related disorder from alcohol and/or sedative use.
I worked with a client who experienced Generalized Anxiety Disorder recently who was stuck in the obsessive behavior and struggled to function. Those around her expressed their frustration and concern, but felt like they just couldn't go on, even with their daily life, without her getting help. Her situation seemed to stem from past trauma that was driving the anxiety. She initially didn't connect the previous unresolved trauma with current life issues, but clearly, the connection was there. Once dealt with and resolved she was able to function normal again.
PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
PTSD is the result of being exposed to a traumatic event, involved in an actual or threatened death or serious injury to self or others. It is common to have recurrent and intrusive distressing recollection of events, images, thoughts or perceptions. Veterans have a high rate of PTSD. It is estimated by the Vets that approximately 9 % of those battle soldiers will suffer from PTSD. Other groups who suffer from PTSD are firemen, policemen, and sexually or physically abused men and women.
I once had a client who was involved in a serious car wreck, in which his finance was gravely injured, and the driver of the other car was killed. It was determined that he was at fault. He was the only one who walked away unharmed. He was haunted with the recurring images and dreams of the accident, and of the young children on the scene who were wailing because their mother wasn't responding. His sleep was disrupted and probably averaged 2 – 3 hours of sleep per night. The guilt of his negligence preoccupied his life. He became depressed and struggled to come to counseling or attend work.
Once he was able to deal with the event in counseling, he was able to move on and forgive himself and ask forgiveness of the surviving family members. In about 3 months he was able to move on and restore his life. He like so many others felt he didn't need help and didn't want to spend the money for counseling. He suffered for almost two months before he got help.
Prescription Drugs, Illegal Drugs and Alcohol Abuse
Neither one of these disorders are something to ignore. Both occupy hours of one's life and coping mechanisms usually kick in and this is where prescription drugs, illegal drugs, or alcohol become the front line answer for unresolved anxiety. If you are struggling from PTSD or Generalized Anxiety please don't avoid; seek help now at a outpatient facility near you.
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I have PTSD for the last 10 years and my life keeps getting worse and I live in Fl. My dr. is still keeping me on small amounts of valium & paroxetine hcl and sleep is almost impossible & anxiety sometimes keeps me In bed for days at a time. I live out of a motel & gaining some weight and not eating. The PTSD is confirmed , but the drs here do not show me any info. for another kind of treatment .
Where can I go to get some help, my life has been on hold for 10 years & I want to start living again ? Thank you
Hello Richard. Are you seeing a psychiatrist? Have you tried working with a psychologist trained in Trauma Counseling? You can search for a licensed psychologist here:http://locator.apa.org/
Know someone who had to move away from life as they know if and live in different town. They had no control of their life being torn apart. Already had addiction and lying problem. The separation was life wrenching for them and out of nowhere therefore in coping and forgetting I think they took to street life. How would u categorize them? And what type of help they should seek?


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A first step toward defense of your personal liberty is to warn agents of the government that you may only be approached lawfully and that you demand respect for your personal privacy and property rights.
EJF members repeatedly report intrusions on to their property and into their homes and other structures by government officials who often present no identification and certainly no warrant.
Child "protection" agents are probably the worst and most dangerous. Don't let these demented bureaucrats near you or your children. But do you want IRS, DEA, or other alphabet-agency agents wandering around your property and home like they owned it?
The large sign is available for a tax-deductible donation of $50 each plus $5 to cover handling and shipping. The smaller sign can be had by donating $35 each plus $5 for handling and shipping.
Donate online here for No Trespassing signs or send check or money order to Equal Justice Foundation, 455 Bear Creek Road, Colorado Springs, CO 80906-5820. Please provide name and shipping address when ordering.
If you have posted No Trespassing signs, such as the ones shown below, and government agents, officers, employees, or contractors from local, state, or federal governments ignore it we suggest you have them fill out a Public Servant Questionnaire (Note that it is best to have a copy of this questionnaire handy and near your door).
Faced with having to document themselves and their actions, most government intrusions will end at that point, or you are fully justified in turning them away. If the agent(s) persist in their intrusion, by having them complete the form you will have documentary evidence of their actions and identities.
Or you can make your own signs as we do not claim copyright. The important thing is to put CPS, law enforcement, IRS, and other government agents on notice that they must obey the law.
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The more men and women who speak out against false allegations of domestic violence and abuse, the long-lost War on Drugs, the breakdown of our courts and justice system, the necessity of punishing perjury and subornation of perjury, the increasing corruption and fraud in our elections, and the almost complete breakdown in families and marriage, the better chance we will have of correcting these problems before our civilization crumbles completely.
If your liberties, or those of your friends, neighbors, or loved ones are attacked you can help greatly by simply informing them of how they can defend themselves. The EJF flyers and brochures above can help and they are widely used by individuals across the nation in defense of liberty. But the biggest step any individual can take if hailed into court, or before some other tribunal of the State, is to plead Not Guilty and demand a jury trial. If even half of those unjustly accused took that basic step we could reform our justice system tomorrow. But once an individual has accepted a plea bargain they have surrendered their rights.
Always bear in mind that you and your loved ones have no rights unless and until you are prepared to defend them. And if you want to defend your rights you must become acquainted with all your local political figures: city council, county commissioners, state representatives, congress critters, sheriff (probably one of the best people to know in any county), and party officials for whatever party you belong to. Even more importantly your local politicians must know you, ideally on a first name basis. One of the best ways to do that is to become a chair of your local precinct. Remember, while you may ignore politics, politics will not ignore you, and one of the major reasons the country is in such a mess as too many citizens thought they could safely ignore politics. Get involved!
While letters, faxes, email, and phone calls help, the incremental advance is miniscule. Legislators, bureaucrats, and, more disturbingly, the press have learned to ignore the thousands of individual pleas. Only by joining with others who share your goals and frustrations is it likely your voice will be heard.
That is how the Equal Justice Foundation, and many other groups got started. However, you must be willing and able to devote many hours to this project over many years with no compensation other than personal satisfaction. You must also have the computers, technical know-how, and financial means to support your project.
Be aware that the average duration of such individual sites is about eighteen months after which the domain name expires and often becomes a porn site when purchased by a Russian.
We don't feel that one more splinter group of short duration will be of much help to the efforts to preserve marriages and families, as well as restoring civil liberties. United we can stand, divided we will fall. So before you begin your own crusade be sure that you have the time, knowledge, and funding to continue it for at least a decade.
In our twelve-year history since Domestic Violence Against Men in Colorado was launched in 1999 we have helped make an immense change in attitudes about domestic violence. Our crusade against electronic voting machines and mail ballot elections, begun in 2000, continues to gain thousands of adherents and, as of 2008, many states are abandoning touch-screen voting machines purchased at a cost of billions just a few years ago.
Face up to facts, the courts don't work, protection orders don't protect, and attorneys mostly just take your money. So taking him or her back to court probably isn't going to do anything but make some pugnacious and arrogant attorney richer and aggravate her or him. Would you poke a bear with a sharp stick? Why do you want to do that to her or him, especially if this is someone you once loved? And it can be very dangerous, or fatal if you do.
Why not work with a group like the Equal Justice Foundation who has seen these problems before and can help you navigate the rocks and shoals you've run into? Further, with your help we can chart the obstacles as we've done for over a decade now so the next generation can avoid them based on the experience of our members.
Federal employees in Colorado, Idaho, eastern Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming can help support the Equal Justice Foundation through contributions to the Combined Federal Campaign. Our campaign number is 18855.
The EJF is actively working to help veterans suffering from PTSD and TBI by establishing a trauma/veterans court in Colorado Springs to ameliorate the problems combat veterans have when caught up in civilian courts due to their disabilities. If you, or someone you know and care about is suffering from these disabling conditions please contact us as we may be able to help, or find someone who can.
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The preservation of our society and technological civilization are primary goals of the Equal Justice Foundation. Does that sound like an immense undertaking and you are wondering what you can do that will make a difference? Here are some simple measures you can take:
The previous century clearly showed that totalitarian progressive/socialist/communist regimes were massive failures, with tens of millions of human lives lost as a result of these disastrous experiments. Yet many elements in our society and government are following down the paths of these same failed societal models today.
Speak out against bureaucrats and legislators that undermine our society by radical social engineering based on failed ideologies. Your voice alone will likely be lost in the wilderness but, together, our chorus can and will be heard.
Speak out with us against new government programs that make promises that will never be kept, yet will increase taxes and deficit spending. No over-lawed, over-taxed, over-lawyered society has ever endured.
A nation that cannot control its borders cannot survive. The evidence our government has surrendered control to the highest bidders is abundant. As just one manifestation, are jobs requiring an advanced education in your community being given to foreigners working as indentured servants despite the fact that qualified American citizens are unemployed? Help the Equal Justice Foundation to speak out against such Federal programs as H1-B and L-1 visas. The ultimate harm of such programs is to American children and families as jobs paying middle-class wages are destroyed.
Sure you can protest these injustices on your own. But what are you going to do after you've gathered the data and yet your legislator has ignored you and the facts you've so laboriously gathered?
Help the Equal Justice Foundation publish examples and stories of government abuse and idiocy. As of August 2008 the EJF newsletters reaches an estimated audience of 200,000 people in the United States and forty-two other countries.
Submit ideas to us on how the Equal Justice Foundation might better support civilization and society. Sure your ideas aren't perfect, but are you going to be able to refine them and publish them on your own? In the crucible of the Equal Justice Foundation we can combine the best of all our work for the good of humanity.
Work with local schools, school boards, community colleges, and universities to make yourself, and the EJF aware of their programs and practices. What works and doesn't work in these schools? How can education be done better?
Are the K-12 teachers educated and doing their jobs in your local schools? If not, help us provide information on how to improve teacher education.
Is your K-12 school, college, or university all administration and little education? Work with the EJF on providing remedies.
Are there American graduate students in your university engineering and science departments? If not, why not? Work with the EJF on moving American students into science and engineering programs to maintain our technological society.
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As one result over 40% of children are born out of wedlock nationally and in California two thirds of children are born outside of marriage. As best we can estimate as of 2011 only about 10% of children are born to a married couple and reach age 18 with their biological father and mother still together.
Paternity fraud is rampant under such conditions and nearly one in three (30%) of paternity tests show the presumed father isn't. Yet in many states men are forced to support children who undeniably are not theirs. Our society cannot long continue under these conditions and the Equal Justice Foundation has been working for more than six years, with measurable success, to halt this slavery.
These incredible numbers of children, living lives essentially without their fathers, has led to massive intrusion into personal lives by federally-mandated and funded child support enforcement bureaucracies and child protective service agencies that have degenerated into little more than legalized kidnapping for adoption rings.
Virtually every pathology of our society correlates best with children of single mothers.
But what can you do to help stop this madness? Here are some suggestions:
Write vignettes or stories of the family destruction child protective services and the courts cause in your area and let the Equal Justice Foundation publish and distribute them.
Forward published stories of the outlandish results of current and proposed child protection laws for distribution by the EJF for inclusion on our web site.
Propose and publish reforms to current "no fault" divorce laws.
Spread the word about the family destruction occurring in women's shelters in your area. If you work, or have worked in such shelters let the EJF know what abuses you have witnessed.
That can be as simple as sitting in the courtroom, as experience clearly demonstrates that judges are on their best behavior when members of the public are present. On your own you may want to take notes or record the proceedings. In some cases the EJF can help you get such documentation published.
Organize public meetings. Depending on location the EJF may be able to provide speakers.
Participate in street demonstrations, vigils, and parades, or participation in fairs and street events, farmer's markets, etc. The EJF has banners, brochures, and flyers for use in such events.
Write up descriptions of egregious abuses by judges and their parasitic cronies and how they are destroying children and families in your area. The EJF provides a Judicial Evaluation Form and can publish completed ones. Past experience shows that judges whose malfeasance has been publicized very commonly decide on another avocation.
Hand out Equal Justice Foundation flyers at the courthouse or at other public events or locations.
Publish letters to the editor in your local papers or comment online on articles published in those papers.
And the thousands of other means the human imagination is capable of combined with teamwork to accomplish our goals.
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One of the primary services the Equal Justice Foundation provides the public is help with domestic violence and abuse. We are one of the very few foundations in the United States that provides assistance to abused men, as well as women, and information and advice about how to deal with false allegations. Toward this the Equal Justice Foundation also maintains the web site Domestic Violence Against Men in Colorado.
Roughly equal numbers of both sexes contact the Equal Justice Foundation for help with family violence situations. Since the EJF survives solely on member's dues ($25 per year) and contributions, since September 30, 2005, we have had to limit personal advice and assistance to current members or contributors.
However, free personal help is still provided to active-duty military personnel.
The EJF calls on those members with experience in domestic violence and abuse cases who volunteer to help and provide advice to abused men and women in their area.
The EJF and its members also attempt to help those who are cast into this nightmare by false allegations during a divorce or breakup of an affair.
To accomplish this, the Equal Justice Foundation acts as a clearing house. Those members who have experienced these nightmares, and who now wish to help others, are put into contact with people in their area requesting help from the EJF after individual permission is obtained.
Another way you can help is to simply talk to your friends and neighbors about the injustices of current laws and the toll of such draconian measures on children, families, men, women, and society.
Let them know about the Equal Justice Foundation and its vast sources of information on these subjects.
Let men and women know the risks they face with false allegations of domestic violence with the help of the encyclopedic materials the Equal Justice Foundation has compiled and published.
Talk about the destruction of children, families, and the lives of both men and women a DV plea bargain causes.
Write vignettes or stories of the destruction domestic violence laws cause and let the EJF publish and distribute them. Untold, your experience is but another human tragedy. Told, your story can help many others to avoid many of the pitfalls of modern "romance."
Forward published stories of the outlandish results of current domestic violence laws for distribution by the EJF for inclusion on our web sites.
Help expose judges and prosecutors who ignore fundamental principals of the law and conduct witchhunts under the banner of "domestic violence."
Watch for and report abuses of discretion and demeanor by out-of-control judges and prosecutors. The Equal Justice Foundation acts as a clearing house for such information and puts it before the public for review.
Help us expose the destructive radical ideology of feminists acting under false flags as "victim's advocates" or running shelter for "battered women" that are anything but.
Review laws and legislation in your state and suggest corrections or revisions. We publish many such ideas.
Note: As a 501(c)(3) foundation the Equal Justice Foundation cannot directly lobby. Our role is to educate and inform. However, you can lobby as an individual and use EJF materials in support of your positions.
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Most attorneys, if they are being honest, will tell you that today's courts are dysfunctional. No or inadequate controls on the judiciary, inept and uneducated judges, and many other factors contribute to judges and courts that are out-of-control. The problems are particularly odious in family and DV courts. But what can you do in conjunction with the Equal Justice Foundation to fix these problems?
Evaluate and document outrageous judicial conduct. With the help of members and others, in Colorado the Equal Justice Foundation keeps a public scorecard (Chapter 9) on judges behavior.
Track attorneys behavior. Recommend the good ones and let us know the bad ones as we keep a blacklist. Tell others about our attorney lists. See the article by Bill Wood on Making Judges and Attorneys Accountable for means and methods.
Post notices and handouts on court bulletin boards or distribute them in front of your courthouse. You can download the ones above, help us create new ones, and improve the old ones.
Report abuses and outrageous court actions to the EJF. Help us keep our reviews of courts and laws up to date.
Make your own lists of outrageous laws in your states and provide suggestions to your legislators and elected officials as to how the laws might be revised or repealed. Remember that it takes years of efforts to add or change laws and a single email or letter isn't going to do it.
Review laws, practices, and legislation affecting courts and civil liberties in your state and suggest corrections, improvements, or revisions.
Remember, the Equal Justice Foundation works as a cooperative. We can't do these things without your help and active participation. Members contribute what they can in time, skills, writing, research, or simply monetary contributions.
Changes in our courts won't happen overnight. But change won't happen at all if you do nothing or without your active support.
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The position of the Equal Justice Foundation is that you cannot legislate mores or morality. Prohibitions, whether the substances be alcohol or narcotics, always make the problems far worse. The EJF also notes that there is no authority in the present Constitution for the government to dictate what individuals do with or to their bodies. Thus, matters such as birth control, abortions, intimate relations, tattoos, piercings, how much salt you use, what fat you consume, the toilet in your bathroom, etc., are matters of an individual's personal choice if they are of sound mind and acting on their own behalf without coercion, cause no harm to another, or expense to the public.
The War on Drugs the United States government has been waging on its citizens for the past 40 years is a perfect example of how not to approach what initially was a minor problem. Despite ever-escalating costs that now total $1 trillion, and the virtually complete destruction of civil liberties, the War on Drugs is irretrievably lost. The usage of illicit drugs is now pervasive in our society at every level, where, before the prohibition began, such usage was quite rare.
While the Equal Justice Foundation is quite aware of the damage the use of various substances can do to individuals, we adhere to the principle that governments exist to provide the greatest good for the greatest number of its citizens, not to protect us from our own follies and failings.
Further, our government should be judged by the results of its policies, not the stated purposes, no matter how well intentioned those policies might be. By that reasonable standard our government has failed miserably with regard to substance abuse. Today, more people die from legal and prescription drugs than all the substances government has made illegal.
But what can you do in cooperation with the Equal Justice Foundation to correct these policies?
Publicize egregious violations of civil liberties, e.g. forfeiture laws, associated with outrageous drug laws. Documented case histories of the misuse of such laws are a powerful weapon in the battle against such injustices.
Write vignettes or stories of the destruction drug laws cause to individuals and communities, and let the EJF publish and distribute them.
Forward published stories of the outlandish results of current drug laws for distribution by the EJF or inclusion on our web site.
Review drug laws, practices, and legislation in your state, particularly with regard to civil liberties, and suggest corrections, improvements, or revisions.
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It is the position of the Equal Justice Foundation that there is nothing more fundamental to the preservation of our republic than fair, open, and honest elections utilizing an anonymous ballot cast secretly with one, and only one vote for each eligible citizen. However, it is historical fact that election fraud has existed since before the birth of our nation, and those motivated by malice and greed can be expected to continue their attempts to rig elections into the foreseeable future as the rewards are huge and the risks are low.
As we begin a new millennium, corporate greed, incompetence, and a hunger for power and wealth, combined with inept, ignorant, and all too often corrupt election officials, threaten the integrity of our elections at a level America has seldom seen before.
America's love affair with technology has led to the promotion of nearly-universal use of computers for voting. That promotion is based on the false premise that the average county clerk can establish and maintain a computer system that is more secure than any other branch of government, including our military, has been able to accomplish. The problems with computer voting become especially subject to fraud when combined with mail balloting and voter registration databases.
The Equal Justice Foundation has, and is compiling the numerous examples of corruption, incompetence, and outright fraud the widespread introduction of voting by computer and mail balloting has introduced.
As the integrity of our elections is as important to you as it is to us, we need your help, and you need ours, to combat these insidious forces that threaten the foundations of our society. What, then, can you do both as an individual and in cooperation with the Equal Justice Foundation?
Inform yourself about voting issues and election methods and processes.
Work as an election judge and find out how your election jurisdiction is conducting elections.
Be a poll watcher for your party or favorite candidate.
Work with groups like Pollwatch to conduct exit polls to help determine whether elections are being rigged in your area. But be aware that the increasing use of mail ballots is making exit polls ever more unreliable and useless.
Let the EJF know if or when election results in your area defy reason.
Speak out against and petition for the elimination of election fraud utilizing mailed ballots.
Petition for voter-verified voting if touch screen voting equipment is used in your election district and state. Better yet, petition to eliminate the use of all electronic vote counting equipment.
Work with your state legislature to reform election laws.
Find out and report on how your election officials are conducting elections. What are they doing right and what are the problems.
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Dear Humanitarian,
In 1970 Congress enacted the Horse Protection Act (HPA) to make illegal the abusive practice of "soring," in which unscrupulous trainers deliberately inflict pain on Tennessee Walking Horses' hooves and legs to exaggerate their high-stepping gait, known as "Big Lick," and gain unfair competitive advantage at horse shows. Unfortunately those same trainers have continued to abuse horses and skirt the law because of various shortcomings in the Horse Protection Act and limited resources from the federal government towards enforcement.
The Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act (S. 1406/H.R. 1518) would finally remove these shortcomings by amending the Horse Protection Act, to end the industry's failed system of self-policing, ban the use of devices implicated in the practice of soring, strengthen penalties, and make other reforms needed to finally end this torture, including requiring meaningful USDA enforcement. This legislation already has the bipartisan support of more than 50 Senate co-sponsors and more than 260 House of Representatives co-sponsors.