The Adirondack region of Upstate New York boasts over three thousand lakes and ponds spanning over six million acres. The mountains are low and ancient. The forests are dark and primal.
Locals refer to the Adirondacks as the North Country, extending from the eastern shores of Lake Ontario to the western shores of Lake Champlain, separated from Canada by the Saint Lawrence River to the north.
“Smell the north.”
Truer words were never spoken as you enter the North Country. The air is fresher. Cleaner. There is a pungent pine smell that permeates everything due to the abundance of conifers. Pine trees thrive in the colder weather and rockier soil of the mountains, taking root in the most amazing places.
While pine seems to be ubiquitous, you realize how prolific the deciduous trees are when you visit in the autumn. Sugar maples and red oaks explode in a spectral array of gamboge and auburn and crimson as they prepare to drop their ornate leafy mantles for a long winter’s nap. Truly breathtaking to behold.
Quaint towns and villages pepper the landscape, interconnected by single lane roads. There are very few highways in this wild place. It is not uncommon to see moose striding along the road, glancing sidelong at you as they meander toward a nearby wetland.
Ok, Henry David Thoreau, we get the picture.
Got it. Exiting one of the single lane roads takes you down thousands of narrow, potholed dirt roads to homes and camps, typically on a shallow river or a timeworn lake. The isolation is both fantastic and intentional. A refuge from the hectic modern world. And a guaranteed alignment job for your car when you return to civilization.
Down one of those bumpy dirt roads lies Muskellunge Lake. The Walden Pond of this article.
The forest grows claustrophobically close as you navigate the dirt road, reaching out for your car, subtly scraping the doors as you slowly roll by. Trying to impede your progress in entering their sacrosanct sanctuary.
As the forest finally relents, you round a curve, and down a slight incline lies a few camps scattered along the sandy shoreline of Muskellunge Lake. The lake is small and mysterious. Black water holds the cloudy sky’s reflection, still and somber. Dense pine forest and small rocky cliffs engulf the far shoreline, framing the lake, protecting it from overdevelopment.
You are nowhere and everywhere all at once.
This one sweltering summer, my godparents had rented a camp for two weeks on a slight rise above the shore of Muskellunge Lake. A ramshackle structure, nestled in interloping trees and overgrown grass, designed only for sleeping, crapping, and eating.
The ratty roof and stained shake shingles yielded entry through a peeling red door into a turn-of-the-century kitchen and a small adjacent bathroom. A white peeling archway opened into a large living room—a literal barracks—framed with metal bunk beds, a few moth-eaten couches, and a chafed dining table.
As kids, we thought this was the coolest place ever!
Our first week at camp was heaven. My family and my godparent’s family comprised ten of us. Tight quarters, but who cares? We were outdoors swimming, fishing, boating, and exploring every day with our cousins from dawn until dusk.
(Yes, the same cousins discussed in my prior post Jeux Sans Frontières. We were far less destructive this summer, as we had too much to occupy ourselves and no weapons to make it more interesting.)
When each day ended, we would drive to the camp garbage dump in the pitch black and, from the safety of our locked cars, watch the cautiously foraging black bears illuminated by the headlights. It was so much better than the TV we did not have at camp!
The second week at camp was when shit got real. Real bad. The Monaghans arrived.
Party of two, Aunt Curl and Uncle Art thankfully never had children. Where Colm and Nature were dirty lazy people, Curl and Art were poor. The kind of poor that only unemployment and alcoholism nourish. They lived in a blighted city neighborhood in a house that made the Muskellunge Lake camp look like a luxury resort.
My mom’s sister, Curl, smoked constantly. A fiery skinny redhead, a cigarette always hung from the corner of her mouth. Ashes fell haphazardly like nuclear fallout in the wake of her explosive movements. Smart and garrulous, Curl engaged and opined on any literary topic. When not drinking, she read avidly. F. Scott Fitzgerald stoked her passions, as did their shared love of drinking.
But those moments were few and far between, and the grip of alcoholism was vicelike. Irish stereotypes are deeply, sadly grounded in historical fact. As a race, we have a very tempestuous relationship with drink. Curl changed after just a few beers. Angry and cruel, she honed her intelligence and wit as a weapon to eviscerate everyone in earshot. Arguments and fights followed her like cigarette smoke.
Curl’s husband Art was a mess. A discharged navy veteran, Art had never—candidly, could never—hold a civilian job. He was drunk all the time. A short, slight man with a comb over, Art was wiry strong. He was a regular at the local neighborhood city bar where he was a known pugilist. Again, an Irish stereotype in the flesh.
A few years before camp, Art stumbled home from the bar, drunker than a peach orchard boar. Houses in his hilly ghetto rose ten feet above the street, with broken concrete steps the only means to access them. In his attempt to climb the steps, Art fell and fractured his skull. The VA repaired it with a metal plate.
Art was never the same after the fall. His speech had been somehow permanently slurred, only made worse to the point of unintelligible by his frequent intoxication. The best we could discern, he repeated the phrase “Woozhie, woozhie” in varying inflections and extensions as a primary form of expressing himself.
Of course, brain damage is never funny. But we were kids, and kids are evil by nature. So, Art was thereafter nicknamed Uncle Woozhie Woozhie. To lessen word count, I will refer to him as Woozhie.
Curl and Woozhie arrived at the Muskellunge Lake camp on a rainy, muggy Sunday. Having borrowed a friend’s car and driven from the city, Curl was somewhat sober and needed to move post-haste to the kitchen for a beer. In her moment of need, with the driver’s door open and Woozhie sitting in the passenger seat, Curl left the neighbor’s car running.
From the kitchen window, we had a birds-eye view of what happened next.
Woozhie hollered something unintelligible after Curl. Trapped under a clinking heap of empty beer bottles after the long drive to camp, it appeared he was pissed she left him alone in the car unassisted. Lunging to the side, he toppled over toward the open driver side door, lying sideways across the driver’s seat.
Cursing and mewling, he tried to raise himself back up by grabbing the shift stick on the steering column. Thrown into gear, the car surged forward, down the incline, splashing heavily into the lake.
Woozhie screamed a muddy string of curses as Curl rushed to the car to save him, beer in hand. As she dragged him through the open driver side door, they both fell backward into the shallow water, thrashing and soaking each other.
My dad and godfather leaped into action, hooking some chains to the waterlogged car, towing it with the pickup truck back to safety. Curl and Woozhie continued to flounder in the shallows, splashing and cursing at each other for quite a while longer.
Dad was overheard muttering in a faux brogue, “Feckin eejits.”
In the following days, we avoided Curl and Woozhie like the plague. Plus, we had discovered a real treasure further down the lake along a wooded deer trail: a cliff we later learned was called Elephant’s Foot.
Elephant’s Foot presented some thrilling conundrums for our preteen brains.
- The cliff appeared fifty feet high. As an adult, I can acknowledge it was probably no more than ten feet high. But the drop to the water looked terrifying from a kid’s perspective. Would we break bones from the fall?
- The lake had its fair share of water moccasins. We knew these water snakes could bite you, and we had no clue how venomous they could be. And they were fast, wriggling across the surface of the lake. Could we outswim them? Would we die?
- We had no idea how deep the water was below the cliff. By observation and exploration, this was a shallow lake along most of the shoreline, which seemed dangerous. But our fathers had spoon-fed our voracious imaginations with bullshit legends about glacier-filled depths and undertows. What was fact? What was fiction?
- We did not want to get eaten by the muskellunge (aka muskies) that had lived in the lake for millions of years. Our fathers told us these ancient beasts were a type of little-known freshwater shark that grew fifteen feet long with razor sharp teeth. If we ventured too far out into deeper water, they would rip us to shreds.
The danger was intoxicating. The craic was 90.
The top of Elephant’s Foot was a wide rocky clearing. We imagined Native people created it as a holy place to perform ritualistic human sacrifices to appease the muskie and snake gods of this primordial bottomless lake.
My cousins, sister, and I gathered on this hallowed ground, arguing over who would jump first. It was a heated negotiation, full of name calling, schmoozing, and horse trading. No one could show their fear. That was weakness.
My one cousin’s testosterone was almost fully amped for takeoff when, from the tree line, we heard a massive crashing sound. Woozhie came tottering through the overgrowth hollering something at us. He moved inconceivably fast, given his condition.
Turns out too fast. Apparently, he could not slow his acceleration. Was he drunk? Was his damaged brain misfiring? Maybe both. In an instant, Woozhie rushed by us…right off the edge of the cliff!
I swear he fell like Wile E. Coyote falls in the Road Runner cartoons. Arms and legs splayed to the side, only to belly smack with a massive plume in the black water far below. His body bobbed back to the surface, face down in the water, not moving.
Proud to say, completely freaked out, our heroic rescue skills kicked into high gear, casting off all our imagined fears. Several of us leapt off Elephant’s Foot into the abyss. We turned Woozhie over onto his back and swam him into shore.
The snakes fled before us. The muskies stayed in the deep.
My oldest cousin knew CPR and cleared Woozhie’s lungs with a few hard puffs into his mouth. Coughing and gagging, Woozhie stood up and punched my cousin squarely in the face. He went wild, trying to slap each of us as we scattered from his waterlogged reach.
We ran away at full kid speed, far outpacing him. His strangled cries of Woozhie! Woozhie! fading behind us as we ran through the wooded deer trail along the shore of Muskellunge Lake. We bypassed camp completely and swam out to a sandy island in the middle of the small lake until nightfall.
Not knowing what we did wrong, we were certain the inescapable blame would invariably fall on us, and we would get an old school ass-whooping from our moms. Christ, our handicapped uncle had fallen off a cliff. Could it get worse?
To this day, we still do not know the why behind Woozhie’s actions that day. That secret died with him years later.
But that glorious day, it dawned on me. We had survived Elephant’s Foot. We had lived in the moment so fully and completely that we could never possibly feel this alive again.
And that was worth all the ass-whoopings in the world.
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Doors to the Past
MALCOLM (E. B.)
Latitude: N 38°
From Milton, WV take US 60 West. When you come to Malcolm Springs Heights Road turn Right up the hill and go to the Trailer Park on your Left (Blue Spruce Community). Turn Left into the Trailer Park and go to the back where the maintenance shed is located. The cemetery is there. According to local residents the cemetery at one time was about 1/4 acre in size. The maintenance shed and and some trailers are now on part of the cemetery.
It is said that The Malcolm family is buried there with some slaves. All that is left of the cemetery is the grave for E. B. Malcolm and one rock marker.
Read October 06, 2008.
Father: Joseph Blaine MALCOLM b: 17 May 1774 in VA
Mother: Mary RYAN b: 1774 in VA.
Marriage 1 Virginia MCGINNIS b: 1818


What is a megatrend?
Global megatrends are sustained, macroeconomic, transformative developments, that may alter the trajectory of the economy, business, society, cultures, and our lives, to define and shape our future world.
The implications of these trends are diverse, presenting both opportunities and risks. Megatrends don’t exist in isolation. The interconnectivity of our world means trends overlap and investment themes appear. Recent research1 has highlighted some megatrends expected to shape our lives in the next couple of decades, these include rapid urbanisation, climate change, demographic and social change, shifts in global economic power and technological breakthroughs.
1PwC and BlackRock/iShares, 2020


Hi there, and a very warm welcome.
Well, a little bit about me.......
I am originally from Great Yarmouth in Norfolk but now so very lucky to be living in South Cumbria with my other ( some say better? ) half Kim & our cat Toffee, we are not that far from the beautiful Lake District National Park.
Stuff I like to do:
Love the Highlands, North West Coast of Scotland & the Islands of Mull & Skye.
Getting out & being ''outdoorsy'' around & on the Lakeland Fells ( come sun or snow ).
Riding my motorbike ( when the Cumbrian weather is being kind ).
Generally chilling with Kim ( who you might meet as she often assists me with photo shoots ).
Oh & I like cake, any cake apart from that fruit cake stuff & the best dessert is Apple Crumble with lashings of Custard!
The Photography Thing:
I started taking photographs around about 1982 when I was at school back in the days of film & darkrooms. I had no idea what I wanted to do in life until my Mum said 'You take some nice photographs, why don't you look into a career in Photography'. That was how and when my love of creating images really started.
I am self taught but I do have a City & Guilds module one qualification and I am also a registered member of The Guild of Photographers.


If you’re looking for a truly unique hunting adventure, look no further than Sapienza Island in Greece. Not only will you have the opportunity to hunt the elusive Kri-Kri ibex, but you’ll also get to tour the Peloponnese, the cradle of European civilization. And when you’re not hunting or fishing, you can try your hand at shipwreck free-diving. In other words, there’s something for everyone on this unforgettable Greek vacation.
The Kri-Kri ibex is a subspecies of wild goats native to Greece. These animals are notoriously difficult to hunt, which is part of what makes Sapienza Island such a unique destination for hunters. The island is home to a healthy population of Kri-kri ibex, which means that you’ll have plenty of opportunities to track and bag your trophy.
But the hunted isn’t the only thing that makes Sapienza Island special. The island is also home to some of the most stunning scenery in all of Greece. From the rocky cliffs to the crystal-clear waters of the Mediterranean Sea, there’s no shortage of breathtaking views. And if you’re lucky, you might even catch a glimpse of the island’s famous shipwrecks.
Whether you’re an experienced hunter looking for a new challenge or someone who just wants to enjoy the outdoors in one of the most beautiful places on earth, Sapienza Island in Greece is sure to exceed your expectations. So what are you waiting for? Start planning your dream vacation today!
Join us on an unforgettable journey to explore the ancient sites of Peloponnese. Our knowledgeable and experienced guides will take you on a tour of some of Greece’s most famous and interesting sites. You’ll see ancient Olimpia, Argos, Sparta, and more while learning about their history and significance. Take some time for yourself to enjoy free diving or spearfishing in the crystal-clear waters around Sapientza island. This is a unique opportunity that you won’t want to miss.
Book your spot today on our website!
When booking a hunting trip to Greece, you first have to decide what type of hunt you want. If you’re looking for Kri Kri ibex hunting, then the most important thing is to choose the right hunt dates. Kri Kri ibex are only found in Greece and you can hunt during certain times of the year, so you need to make sure you pick the right dates.
To find out what dates are best for hunting Kri Kri ibex, you can either hire a professional guide or do some research online. By consulting with an expert, you can ensure that you’re choosing a days when there are lots of kri kri ibex around. You can also check the weather forecast to see if it’s going to be really hot or really cold. It’s also good to take into account any potential safety concerns, such as any road closures or traffic jams that may occur during your hunt date. For all these questions we have tried to find an answer for you in this article.
If you’re an avid hunter looking for your next trophy, the Kri Kri ibex is a challenging and rewarding target. These elusive creatures can be found in the mountains of Greece on two islands, and while they can be tricky to track down, the payoff is definitely worth it. But when is the best time to hunt for Kri Kri ibex?
The answer, of course, depends on a number of factors. Weather plays a big role in determining whether or not you’ll be successful on your hunt. October can be very hot and dry, which drives the ibex into hiding in dense bush. The first two weeks of November can also be hot and dry, but bad weather days with rain and storms can make conditions difficult for sailing and hunting. December usually sees more stable weather conditions, making it a good month for hunting.
Of course, the time of year isn’t the only factor to consider when planning your hunt. You’ll also need to take into account the breeding cycle of the Kri Kri ibex. These animals mate in November, so if you’re looking to bag a big trophy bull, that’s the best time to go hunting. For those interested in hunting representatives, December is usually the best bet.
If you’re planning on hunting Kri Kri ibex in Greece, there are a few things you’ll need to take into account. The time of year and the weather conditions are both important factors that will affect your success. However, by doing your research and planning ahead, you stand a good chance of coming home with a trophy worthy of your skill as a hunter.
Hunting Kri Kri ibex in Greece may be a wonderful adventure if you go with the right company! You may already know that there are always pitfalls and fine print on the road to heaven. Here you can find useful tips for your research.
According to the Bern Convention, hunting for endangered Kri Kri ibexes is illegal. Greek government regulates the hunting of these endangered animals. The government limits hunting to Sapientza and Atalanty islands to control population growth. Hunting in any other location is illegal. Do not be misled into hunting for Kri Kri ibexes outside of the designated areas. An international battle against the export and trade of animals prohibited under the Berne Convention is already underway.
When planning to travel to Greece, make sure your tour company is a legally registered tour agent. It is also wise to request a list of all the documents that will be provided to you. Here is a list of all the documents that he must provide for you.
It is good idea also to get a detailed information for the documents that he will provide for you. Here is the list of all needed papers that he must arrange for you.
After you hire the right reputable outfitter, you must send him all the required documents for his work.


Ipalace No.6 Chimelong
IPalace No.6 Chimelong Villa Guangzhou is located next to Chimelong Paradise, Chang Long International Circus and Guangdong Science Center.
The venue is 4.5 km away from Panyu Yuyin Mountain Garden, Panyu Xinghai Park and North of City Park. The property lies 20 minutes walking distance from Guangzhou city center.
Fuoshan airport can be reached in 5 minutes by car.


About Dhaka WASA
At the Beginning of the 16th century, the Mughals, in fact the first, established Dhaka city. The expansion of Dhaka city was mainly in and around the river Burigunga. The canals within the mega city Dhaka & the rivers surround the city are acting as natural drainage system, water reservoir and the river route. These canals are Begunbari khal, Segunbagicha khal, kallayanpur khal, Dholai khal etc. The surrounding rivers are the Buriganga, the Shitolakhya, the Balu, the Turag. & the Dhaleshari.
Since 1953 development of the Dhaka city was guided by The Town Improvement Act, 1953. In 1959, a master plan was developed showing an area 320 Sq. km having 5.75 lakh people, is called first master plan of the mega city Dhaka. After the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, migration of people to Dhaka city from urban & rural areas were very high. At the same time the demand for housing, water, electricity & gas increased tremendously. In this situation the town improvement plans of 1959 failed to meet the demand and felt for another master plan. On this background another master plan was developed in 1996, is called 2nd master plan of Dhaka city. In this plan, the estimated area was 590 Sq. km and population was estimated 100 lakh. But the current population of Dhaka City is 125 lakh, which is 25 lakh more than the estimated plan.
Actually, the potable drinking water supply was started in Dhaka City in the year 1874, and that year Nabab Khaja Abdul Ghani established a water treatment plan in Chadnighat near the bank of the river Buriganga. After that period the piped water was supplied to city people in the limited way and also sanitation system.
Dhaka WASA (Water Supply & Sewerage System) was established in the year 1963 as an organization, under the East Pakistan ordinance XIX. In the year 1990, Water, Drainage & Sanitation service of Narayangonj city handed over to DWASA. Based on the tremendous geographical expansion and population growth over the last two decades, DWASA’s activities has been reorganized by Dhaka WASA Act, 1996 and according to this act.
The major responsibilities and functions of DWASA are:-
- Construction, operation, improvement and maintenance of the necessary infrastructures for collecting, treating, preserving and supplying potable water to the public, industries and commercial concerns
- Construction, operation, improvement and maintenance of the necessary infrastructures for collecting, treating and disposing domestic sewerage.
At present the service area of DWASA extended to Mirpur and Uttara in the North and to Narayanganj in the South. For better operation, maintenance and customer care, the total service area of DWASA is divided into 11 geographic zones, which includes 10 in Dhaka City and 1 in Narayanganj. There is an office for each zone and this office carries out the responsibilities of engineering operation as well as revenue activities. So that respected consumers can obtain all possible services and counseling from one place.


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Designed as a short term rental, this dwelling on stilts offers spectacular views overlooking the Arroyo Hondo Valley. Let your eyes linger over the Rio Grande gorge all the way to the Colorado Mountains and the Sangre de Christo mountains of Taos NM and let the pristine nature lend flight to imagination and rejuvenation.


Today a group of Kindergarten teachers from a different county came to visit and observe our Kindergarten classes. I was sharing with them about the wonderful world of resources available to us through teacher blogs. I wanted to post this link to TBA's list of Kindergarten blogs for them. I hope they see it. :)
Thanks again to all of you for all the inspiration!


The High Tatras are suitable for all tourists, whether for families with children who can walk there or for active tourists or demanding ones who climb the Tatras peaks. Tatranska Lomnica is an important tourist centre, a starting point of many walks or all day mountain hikes in the High Tatras. There are a few tourist paths from Tatranska Lomnica leading to mountain chalets, lakes of peaks in the High Tatras.
More information about possibilities of mountain tourism at: regiontatry, where you can find various tips for trips, maps and routes description.
1.2. Skiing centres
Directly in Tatranska Lomnica there is one of the best known and biggest skiing centres in Slovakia. This centre is only 400m far from Vila Bellis. There is the best known and the steepest ski slope from Lomnicke saddle. Skiing centre is equipped with the most modern cable-cars, artificial snow technology, but there are also very nice restaurants even babysitting services for the smallest children directly at Skalnate tarn.
More information, a pricelist, actual weather information and opening hours at: vt.sk
Next well known centre in the High Tatras is located in Štrbske Pleso, where apart from skiing runs there are also ski runs for cross country skiing and excellent conditions for walking around the lake.
More information about Štrbské Pleso skiing centre at: vt.sk
Winter skiing centre as well as summer centre is Bachledova valley, which in winters satisfies not only beginners but also more demanding skiers. There are also ski runs for cross-country skiing.
Information concerning winter conditions, activities and different events can be found at: bachledka.sk
1.3. Aqua parky
The nearest aqua park is located in Poprad – it is AquaCity Poprad, which thanks to utilization of thermal springs offers the year round operation of outside swimming pools. People of all age categories find here relax and rest, there are 13 pools, water-slides, wellness and massages at their disposal.
Additional information about Aquacity Poprad, about offered events and opening hours at: aquacity.sk.
Well known is also a thermal park Vrbov, which is about 20km far from Tatranska Lomnica. It offers to its visitors 10 pools with thermal mineral water and which has excellent curative effects. The park is open during all the year.
1.4. Other activities in Tatranska Lomnica
Directly in Tatranska Lomnica there are:
- mini golf at Relax Park Jazierko and climbing park: approximately 750 metres from Vila Bellis
- climbing wall
- ski Museum approximately 400 metres from Vila Bellis
- bobsleigh track Tatrabob
- botanic gardens
More information about experiences, activities at: regiontatry


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Local, regional, national and international performers grace the stage at the Crestone Music Festival.
When you come to CrestFest, you’ll want to stay awhile. Set in the beautiful high-altitude desert of the San Luis Valley, at the foot of the 14,000-foot peaks of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, there’s nothing else quite like it. CrestFest boasts proximity to hot springs, wilderness, mountain biking, camping and hiking, and spectacular climbing. There’s lots to see and lots to do in this scenic, historic area.Getting to CrestFest is easy by car. It is about 45 minutes north of Alamosa or one hour south of Salida.
Be aware that long distances may occur between towns along your route. Don’t wait until you are low on gas to fill up your tank. Don’t forget to bring sunglasses and water! The festival itself is at 8,000+ feet.
This year's lineup includes: Booker T., Tab Benoit, Lunar Fire, Lion SoulJahs, Ricardo Peña Band, Crestone Kaminari Taiko, Acoustic Mining Company, Beth Quist & Kailin Yong, Impromptu, Leon Joseph Littlebird, and Theano & Chuck Lamb.
August 6th - 8th, 2010; Challenger Golf Course, Creston, CO


3202 Shelbyville Road, U.S. 60
Shelbyville, Kentucky 40065
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Directions from Louisville
- Travel East on I-64 past the Gene Snyder Freeway
- Take EXIT 28 (Simpsonville/Veechdale)
- At the top of the ramp turn LEFT onto Veechdale Road (1848)
- Go Approximately 1 mile to U.S. 60. Turn RIGHT onto U.S. 60 and travel approximately 3.6 miles to our restaurant, which will be on your RIGHT


Artforum Review of CATPC’s sculptures at Hayy Jameel
2 May 2022
Artforum posted a review about the exhibition “Staple: What’s on Your Plate?” at Hayy Jameel, Jeddah, Saudi-Arabia, where CATPC's artwork was exhibited. The reviewer Rahel Aima wrote:
"The extractive colonial and labor politics that undergird modern agriculture were also a focus of the show. Especially compelling was a collection of burnished chocolate sculptures, mostly heads, from the Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise, in Lusanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Founded by plantation workers together with artists, the collective reinvests the profits generated by selling works into buying back land to create worker-owned, ecologically sound postplantations. The work’s title, Africa Empty Europe Full Up, 2021, gestures to the connection between plantation capitalism and the wealth of the Global North."
Read the full review here.


Picture an early resident American Indian, not European American walking along the edge of the a Valley in the South Western desert.
Even in early July, he or she could gather tender little green seeds of Indian rice grass. Cut open a succulent black-seeded yucca fruit. Chew on a couple of bitter juniper berries. Break off some sprigs of ephedra, also called Indian tea or Mormon tea, to take home to steep in hot water.
I did most all of the above on a recent short hike, just to prove how much the desert still yields.
I am a teacher with The Clark County School District (CCSD) in Las Vegas Nevada. Along with my other classes I Teach an outdoor survival course in Southern Nevada, found food for the grazing, even in an era of urban development that threatens to eat up what's left of Southern Nevada's natural landscape.
"It's not Vons," admitted Ronald, scanning the mountain base. And yet the environment, which Ronald calls one of the "most difficult survival areas in the world," none the less supported generations of resourceful Paiutes and, before them, Anasazi. Granted, the area's early populations did move to higher, cooler elevations for summer. Certain groups also cultivated plants. But the valley floor was their home, and primary breadbasket in the cooler seasons.
For a fun lesson in botany and anthropology, several Las Vegans familiar with our vegetation agreed to share their knowledge. But they all warned people not to risk trouble by trying to actually live off the land because:
Some plants are toxic. Ingesting sacra datura or jimson weed, for instance, could prove fatal.
Plants on public lands are usually illegal to collect. If a ranger sees you, you might have too take a ride in their jeep down the hill.
Some desert plants, such as cacti, grow so slowly that if harvested today, 100 years might pass before another specimen could grow to the same size.
Then there are some plants That are just plain in low supply. In a desert, "you can easily expend more energy looking around for food than you'd find, in terms of calories (in the plants you collected)," I should warned you. "There might be six or eight mallow plants in an acre. That's three or four bites."
Just as the commercial produce department's inventory changes seasonally, some of the desert's edible plants are available only part of the year. Spring is when the pickings are best.
But with those caveats in mind, here's a grocery list of foods the Southern Nevada desert offers.
Besides ephedra, plants that can yield beverages include the juniper tree, creosote bush, rabbit brush and sagebrush, whose leaves all were boiled. Berries from wild grape plants, found in moist soils, and wolf berry bushes also made beverages. The Southern Nevada Indians made these drinks.
The equivalence to an Indian 7-Eleven; is the versatile yucca plant. Early residents used just about every yucca component.
The yucca's root provided soap, its leaf fibers went to make rope, sandals, baskets and coarse cloth. Its buds, flowers, flower stalks, root and fruits can be eaten, according to "Flowers of the Southwest Deserts," a reference book at the local University of Nevada Cooperative Extension office. The fruits can be eaten raw or roasted.
Like the yucca, the Joshua tree is multipurpose. Indians boiled or roasted its fruits to eat. They wove its roots into baskets and tree fibers into sandals.
Nuts from the pinion pine, which grows in local mountains, were valued by Indians and remain prized by contemporary gourmet chefs.
Seeds were another important part of the diet for native desert people. The seeds could be eaten fresh or stored, coming from such plants as the chia, fiddle neck, bunch grass, Indian paintbrush. desert corsage and tansy mustard.
The mesquite tree is another seed source. It seeds and pods can be ground into an edible must or cooked into cakes. The pods are also good raw, some mesquite are sweeter then others.
A TV cartoons may depict cowboys who lop off cactus top and then drink the contents, but such imagery is fiction.
"The fruit of all cacti are edible. All are soft when ripe," Quoting from an Air Force training materials that prepare troops to survive in different climates, including the desert. In addition Any of the flat-leaf variety can be boiled and some can be roasted and eaten as greens once the spines are removed.
Tasting roasting or boiled prickly-pear pads. I would describe the taste as a cross between green pepper and green beans. I have also made a refreshing non sweet cactus drink by dicing prickly-pear pads, adding water and then blending. After straining out the pulp, you could add a little lemon and lime juice, then ices it before drinking.
For a sweet taste use the prickly-pear Itself. Just open the pear up by taking a stick to hold down the fruit so as not to get the thorns in you. then next use a knife or sharp rock to cut the ends nearly off. Next slices the fruit lengthwise, cutting into the fruit only about a half inch or four centimeters. Using something (sticks) to spread open the skin and take out the fruit. This can be eaten like this or used to make a sweet drink.
Local cacti include the hedgehog, beaver tail and Mojave prickly pear.
In general, plants with spines or prickles are edible. The spines are usually an evolutionary adaptation to protect an otherwise tasty plant from being devoured into extinction.
Edible greens of many other sorts grow in the desert, too. The following are items whose leaves the Indians boiled and ate: tansy mustard, curly dock, Indian spinach, wild cabbage and speedwell. The desert trumpet and thistle both have stems that, when young and fresh, can be munched raw. Plant roots can also provide nutrition. Local examples include bulbs from the mariposa and the desert hyacinth.
Salt is another commodity that can be obtained from deserts plants. The aptly named salt grass, which grows in seasonally wet areas. Indians scraped a salty substance off its leaves, then cooked it in ashes. The final product was eaten with other foods.
The Indians too had there junk food treats such as gum and candy.
In desert spring areas grows a cane, or reed, whose scientific name is Phragmites australis. It exudes a honey like sap that Southern Paiutes used to scrape and eat like candy.
Gum from the root of a plant commonly known as the gum bush, called Stephanomeria by scientists, can be chewed in the same way as modern chewing gum.
Besides ephedra, plants that can yield beverages include the
juniper tree, creosote bush, rabbit brush and sagebrush, whose leaves
all were boiled. Berries from wild grape plants, found in moist
soils, and wolf berry bushes also made beverages.
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Casa Carranza Hotel is a 2-star venue positioned about 1.6 km from Jardin Botanico Carlos Thais, Centro Cultural Islamico and El Farabute.
This venue is 7 km away from the center of Buenos Aires.
Those staying at Casa Carranza Hotel can sit down to a complimentary breakfast. Guests can dine at Meraviglia and La Maison located within 5 minutes' walk away.
A 10-minute walk to Ministro Carranza subway station. Airport. Jorge Newbery airport is easy to reach.


Noyo Harbor Tours with Captain Dan
Open for tours. Closed November 1-8, 2023.
Please call for details.
See the wonderful array of boats, businesses, and marine life of the historical Noyo Harbor
Experience river and boat life as you gently travel the harbor
Relax as you float beneath the beautiful Noyo Bridge


Welcome to Yardparty Sydney
C/- National Storage Toongabbie
100 Station Road
Seven Hills NSW 2147
Collect North Ryde by appointment only.


What are Kindergarten Kritters?
The Kindergarten Kritters are a group of adventurous and technologically savvy traveling animals! Each one belongs to a class of kindergarten students from Laura B. Sprague School in Lincolnshire, IL. USA. We are an expansion of the original Traveling Teddy project.
Starting in Autumn 2014, Our traveling friends will be embarking on an amazing global journey, visiting kids around the world and reporting back to our class using a blog and perhaps Twitter.


The 2 On Whiteleigh Motel is handily located in Addington, just 2.5km from the Christchurch city centre. Below is a list of attractions, activities, and things to do in Christchurch, all within easy access from the 2 On Whiteleigh Motel.
Punting on the Avon
Sit back and relax as your authentic Edwardian punter gently takes you down the Avon River highlighting points of interest along the way. All punt rides take 30 minutes return. With city and park landing sites available, you choose what part of the river to explore. Summer or winter, glide along the peaceful Avon River in Christchurch, wrapped in luxury, as a skilled boatperson propels you through a romantic wonderland. In spring and summer the sunbeams sparkle and ducklings dive; in autumn and winter the river-level view provides magical photographs.
Air Force Museum of New Zealand
Discover one of the world's premiere military aviation collections at the Air Force Museum of New Zealand; from aircraft, engines and assorted displays to medals, pin-ups and parachute-silk wedding dresses. Marvel at the collection of classic aircraft, be inspired by the bravery of present and past servicemen, servicewomen and their families, fly a simulator, take a guided tour and step back in time in a replica 1940s home. Your journey through the Air Force Museum of New Zealand will be something very special.
Antigua Boat Sheds
Take out a canoe, kayak, paddleboat or traditional rowboat or Canadian canoe on the Avon River to see the beauty of Christchurch Botanic Gardens. Double and single kayaks available. They also offer cycle hire with flexible hire times from an hour to a week or more. Perhaps just sit back with breakfast, brunch, lunch or a cappuccino and unwind by the Avon River at the licensed café with a great menu selection. Beside Christchurch Botanic Gardens and across from Christchurch Public Hospital. Open 7 days.
Dress-Smart Outlet Centre
The South Island's only dedicated factory outlet shopping centre, situated at Hornby, Christchurch. Over 60 outlet stores selling best-known brands in fashion, childrenswear, sportswear, adventure wear, footwear, and accessories up to 70% below normal retail prices.
Enjoy a journey in style through the changing face of Christchurch's city centre on board a beautifully restored heritage tram, one of Christchurch's leading attractions. The friendly and knowledgeable drivers will inform you about the city, its landmarks and local sights. Your day-long ticket allows you to get on and off the Tram as often as you please!
Willowbank Wildlife Reserve
Nowhere else in New Zealand will you find such a wide range of New Zealand wildlife. Willowbank provides you with a "Kiwi Guarantee" and is home to New Zealand's largest and most accessible kiwi viewing area. You will see one of the most complete selections of New Zealand native and introduced wildlife in natural bush surroundings. Much wildlife wanders free and is able to be petted and fed.
Hassle-free Tours invites you to join them on one of their fun and exciting attractions in and around the Christchurch and Canterbury region. Whether you're looking for a scenic experience into the breathtaking Southern Alps of New Zealand, a visit to a Lord of the Rings filming location or you'd like to discover Christchurch from the top deck of our Classic London Double Decker bus, they have something to suit everyone. They also provide a range of specialised tours and can custom-design an itinerary for your group.
Orana Wildlife Park
Set in 80 hectares of park-like grounds, Orana Wildlife Park is New Zealand's only open-range zoo. Scheduled animal feeds occur throughout the day and these unique encounters get visitors up close to endangered animals at set times: hand-feed giraffes, see tigers search for food, meet massive rhinoceros in a 'face-to-face' encounter, stroll through native bird aviaries to see a range of NZ forest birds and the kea, the world's only mountain parrot.
International Antarctic Centre
The International Antarctic Centre is fantastic fun for all ages! Located in a unique working Antarctic campus, the International Antarctic Centre has twice been judged New Zealand's best attraction. Conveniently situated across from Christchurch International Airport, it is the ideal location to "chill out" and experience Antarctica, without even stepping foot on the icy continent.
Best known as the home of Canterbury rugby, AMI Stadium has a seating capacity of over 18,000 people for sporting events – a capacity that extends to 30,000 for concerts. The ground and buildings were redeveloped following the earthquakes and now serve as the venue for provincial and international rugby union and league matches, and outdoor arena concerts and shows.
Canterbury Museum is world-renowned for its natural and human history collections. Housed in an exquisite historic building are outstanding Maori exhibits, a Victorian Christchurch Street, an extensive Antarctic collection and interactive fun for the children in Discovery. Entry to the museum is free; donations are appreciated.
Head to Addington Raceway for a day of fun and entertainment. Enjoy the races, fashion and cup events. Addington Raceway is the home of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club, Spectators Bar and Bistro and one of Christchurch's leading event and conference centres.
Ferrymead Heritage Park
Stroll the heritage village with its church, school house, bakery, jail, homes, printers, grocery store, post office and railway station — a snapshot of Christchurch life in the early 1900s. Explore the fascinating collections in the specialty museums, including aeronautics, fire engines, rural history, Hall of Wheels and model railroad. Trams run 7 days per week. Browse timeless treasures and treats in the gift shop, bring a picnic or enjoy a snack in the rose garden, or try sweet and savoury food baked in a wood-fired oven.
Climb aboard one of the world's most famous train journeys, between Christchurch and Greymouth. Cross the fertile farmlands of the Canterbury Plains and enjoy thrilling vistas over deep gorges as you travel alongside the ice-fed Waimakariri River. Traverse the mighty Southern Alps, where spectacular views of the chiselled alpine landscape will take your breath away at every turn. Descend through thick stands of native beech forest to your destination, Greymouth – a great base for exploring this unspoiled region with its mighty glaciers, wild rivers and famous Punakaiki pancake rocks.
Addington Coffee Co-op Café
In 2008 Addington Coffee Co-op café was established in an old mechanic's workshop. The plan: create a place of belonging for the local community, while still preserving the architectural features now so rare in post-earthquake Christchurch. They serve their house roasted Jailbreaker Coffee, a selection of sweet and savoury cabinet treats, and their famous brunch menu. The café has free WiFi and you can even bring your dirty washing as they even have their own coin-operated laundromat.
If you like the best shops, you'll absolutely love Westfield Riccarton. You'll find over 180 premium stores and cafés in one perfectly central place, just moments from the CBD and within 10 minutes of the airport.
Ko Tane Cultural Experience
Ko Tane Living Maori Village at Willowbank Wildlife Reserve is where Maori culture and conservation meet to give a unique glimpse into the way of life of the South Island Ngai Tahu Maori people before the arrival of the Europeans.
Situated in front of the Christchurch Railway Station, Tower Junction is a large outdoor shopping centre with large department and homeware stores, NZ Post Shop, hardware store, electronic stores, clothing stores and lots more.


Hungary is a small land-locked country in Europe that is similar in size and population to North Carolina. HBC works with Baptists on Mission to take Christian English camps to a school in Tisaroff, Hungary. These camps work with children from the Roma people group and their families.
Pray for the children who attend these camps to clearly understand and become followers of Christ.
Go on Mission in Hungary
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Elon Musk's Starlink Satellites will be visible ove the UK this night!
If you're currently in the UK and fancy seeing some interesting celestial activity tonight, how about craning your neck upwards to catch Elon Musk's Starlink satellite?
While you're outside attempting to catch a glimpse of Lyrid meteor shower - which should also be visible across the Northern Hemisphere for the next few days - you might get an added stargazing treat at the same time.
If you were outside last night and saw strange linear lights in the sky, you may have already seen it, however if you're in the UK, have a look South West to East at around 9.20pm for about ten minutes. You should be able to see the eerie chain of lights winding their way across the night sky.
Starlink is part of Elon Musk's SpaceX project, and aims to put a whole load of low-orbit satellites into orbit.
The latest launch of Starlink was the fifth so far. It took the total number of satellites up to 300.
The firm recently filed plans with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in which they said: "Once fully deployed, the SpaceX system will pass over virtually all parts of the Earth's surface and therefore, in principle, have the ability to provide ubiquitous global service,
"Every point on the Earth's surface will see, at all times, a SpaceX satellite."
Of those who saw them last night across Western Europe, one person said: "Just watched them with the kids...amazing."
Another said: "Sitting out in the garden tonight in Manchester city centre and just watched '31 planes' fly overheard at once."Turns out it's a 'Starlink' by SpaceX - Elon Musks' company in America."
Whether you agree with it or not, it's certainly something nice to see.


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Piraeus is considered one of the main urban centers in the metropolitan area of Athens-Attica and serves as a significant commercial and passenger port on a European level, with substantial infrastructure that enhances its position as a hub for various investments.
In this context, the promotion of tourism and cultural assets of the city, the strengthening of the local market, attracting new visitors, showcasing the municipality through modern digital channels, and boosting the regional economy are the main objectives of the Piraeus City Guide platform.
The Piraeus City Guide, platform is a digital guide to the city of Piraeus, a modern tool for exploring the area for visitors and residents alike. It gathers, organizes, and presents useful information such as attractions, shops, events, transportation, and more. The information is available at all times without restrictions to all interested users. The displayed content is available in Greek and English, while the main interaction with the platform is achieved through a mobile application for smartphones and tablets.


Progression Grids/ Curriculum Coverage
Over this half term I will be uploading the newly updated Curriculum Coverage Grids and the Progression Grids for our school. The teachers plan from these to ensure coverage of knowledge and progression of skills from Reception to Year 6. The curriculum overviews for each class show how we introduce the golden threads throughout enabling the re-learning of key concepts without the reteaching of topics.
These grids are linked to the schemes that we as a school have purchased.
In Science, Art, Design Technology, Geography and History the teachers will create an Entry ticket for each unit and the children will complete an Exit ticket at the end. Please see below for the attached examples.


Issued in July 1957. Contains:
Designation of stations and sidings for charging purposes
Codes for the ascertainment of distances
Space for the insertion of distances
Alphabetical list of stations and sidings
Alphabetical list of collieries and opencast mining sites
It is likely that this handbook came from Northallerton station.
Price includes second class postage.


Welcome to Island Nest!
Self-catering accommodation on Leisure Isle, Knysna
Safe and tranquil in the heart of the Garden Route, Leisure Isle is unique in South Africa – and is widely acknowledged as “the jewel in Knysna’s crown” and undoubtedly a favourite holiday destination.
It is also one of the country’s best places to live, and no wonder the choice of many residents as well as a stream of ‘swallows’, Europeans and Britons who flock south to escape the harsh Northern Hemisphere winter to enjoy its fabulous weather and environment. Little do they know, ironically, that some of the best Knysna weather is in winter, when days are frequently warm, sunny and windless!
Island Nest is in the north-western area of Leisure Isle – a short stroll from Bollard Bay beach (Knysna’s only one); Steenbok Nature Reserve; and from the small craft harbour, tennis courts and bowling greens.
Beautiful beaching, sublime and safe swimming, fishing, walking, cycling, canoeing and boating, and bird watching are among the things to do on the island. It is people and dog heaven! The excellent Knysna Golf Course and the awesome Pezula Championship Course are but a few minutes’ drive away.
Island Nest offers comfortable, clean and stylish self-catering accommodation, with all mod-cons.
Whether you are visiting Knysna for a well-earned holiday, a romantic weekend, a business trip, or taking part in one of the town’s great festivals, Island Nest on Leisure Isle is likely to steal your heart and ensure many happy returns.
For more about Leisure Isle, visit http://www.leisureisleknysna.co.za/


UK Visualisation by PostcodePosted on December 17th, 2010 1 comment
I thought the recent facebook image about “connections” was interesting and that using some other types of data I could easily generate some interesting things.
So, thus far, I’ve used the entire UK Postcode set and UK Bus Stops (available via data.gov.uk) to create (what I think) are visually stunning “maps” of the UK with nothing more than point location and some “code”.
The postcodes are pretty obvious but the bus data is really quite interesting too. Remarkably, both sets of data manage to create a pretty conclusive view of the UK. Scotland,Â unfortunatelyÂ is difficult to map given the lack of postcodes and bus routes in the upper north west side.
I also parsed some IP data from this website (it’s been collected over a long time) to create a world view of use. Â The same result was seen as above however I didn’t have enough data (or visits) to create a decent world view. Â Europe on the other hand wasn’t bad at all - the picture for Europe is below.


Private natural park | industrial condominnium | Natura industrial plant
place | benevides/PA
project | 2010
building | 2013/2014
land | 1.727.859,88m²
building | 21.860,96m²
Project was designed in a conservation area. The park aims to set industries that share the premise of environmental awareness.
Gesto Arquitetura makes em vironmental industrial park for Natura in the state of Pará
Natura’s new soap factory advances in research and implementation of its sustainable industrial park. It is located 15.6 miles from the city of Belém, and its name makes reference to the iconic open-air market Ver-o-peso.
Ecoparque was developed by Programa Amazônia Initiative. It is part of Natura’s strategy for the region, which aims to local development and generation of wealth to the Amazon region.
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More than half of borrowers with an average mortgage of more than £200,000 in London are in debt, according to new research.
More than 60% of people in the capital have a mortgage with an annual repayment of more £100,000, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.
The ONS also revealed that London’s average monthly repayments have grown from £5,900 in 2014 to £6,500 in 2020.
A number of factors are likely to be at play.
A large part of the rise is because of the housing market downturn, which is now back on track.
The number of loans with a payment of more, on average, than £100 has also fallen from more than 70,000 to around 55,000.
The rise in home ownership has been driven by a surge in young people, who are renting and buying their first homes.
The trend is expected to continue in the coming years.
Another factor is that more people are using a mortgage to pay for a property.
The average amount borrowed to buy a property in London has increased from £8,000 two years ago to £9,300 in 2020, according the ONS.
The data shows that the majority of households in the city of London are homeowners with mortgages of less than £80,000 with an overall average of £160,000 owing.
Over half of London’s households have an average income of less £50,000 while less than a quarter have household incomes over £100.
The highest proportion of people with an income over £90,000 is found in London’s north-east, with nearly half of households there.
The proportion of households earning more than that is even higher in the east of the city.


What can one of the world’s first ecolodges teach us about sustainability and growth? The alive team headed into the heart of BC’s Great Bear Rainforest to stay at Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort to find out.
At the base of Mount Stephens on BC’s mainland, just off the northern tip of Vancouver Island, a waterfall cascades into a stream that swiftly empties into a sheltered bay. One day in May of 1981, the bay’s still waters filled with ripples as a building was towed in and left to float there.
That floating lodge would become the heart of Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort, one of the world’s first ecolodges. For nearly four decades, Nimmo Bay guests have woken up each day to the sound of the waterfall, the sight of mist snagged in shaggy conifers, and the smell of damp cedar. How they fill their days at Nimmo Bay has changed over the years, though, as successive generations of the resort’s founding family embrace new beginnings.
A lodge is born
Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort was spawned by Craig and Deborah Murray’s dream: to found a fishing lodge on a remote edge of the Great Bear Rainforest.
“A number of people said, ‘Don’t do it. You’re crazy. It’s not going to work,’” says the couple’s eldest son, Fraser Murray.
The Great Bear Rainforest—an expanse larger than Ireland—houses bears, wolves, and thousand-year-old trees. Its waters hold whales, sea otters, and porpoises —then splinter into a dizzying maze of fjords and inlets where the Pacific Ocean meets the BC coast. Its rivers are full of salmon, trout, and steelhead.
It’s beautiful. But many parts are tough to reach—like Nimmo Bay, which is only accessible by air or water.
Fraser and his siblings had front-row seats to see if the dire predictions about their parent’s fishing lodge would come true. The young family was initially based at the lodge year-round. Fraser says they lived in “survival mode” with just one wood stove in the front room.
“There was no electricity, there was no running water—there was nothing,” he says of the days before his parents transformed the waterfall into a source of clean energy and drinking water.
It’s hard to square those beyond-rustic beginnings with the Nimmo Bay of today: a luxury resort where you’re greeted with warm, lavender-scented hand towels the moment you arrive (usually via a 20-minute floatplane ride from Port Hardy). You step from the plane onto a floating deck that fronts the main lodge. It’s still the original building pulled into place nearly 40 years ago.
Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort has its own “theory of hospitality,” a riff on Einstein’s famous theory of special relativity. The formula stands for “Expectations Exceeded = Memories Created.”
A sustainable evolution
Nimmo Bay operated primarily as a heli-fishing lodge for years. Eventually, Fraser and his wife Becky took the reins as chief operators, and the family business evolved.
“I was never interested in taking over a fishing lodge,” says Fraser. While Nimmo Bay still offers catch-and-release fishing excursions, he has repositioned it as a place where people can experience untouched wilderness and wildlife. He has championed excursions where guests spot bears and whales, watch Pacific white-sided dolphins cavort in their boat’s wake, and listen to the barks of sea lions lounging and squabbling on sea-splashed rocks.
Like his parents before him, Fraser and Becky have brought their children along for the ride.
“My brother was serving when he was five years old and I was guiding when I was seven,” he says. By contrast, he says his own two young daughters roll up to the lodge’s bar and order their own “kid cocktails.” But there are similarities between their experiences: “They love fishing; they love being in the outdoors; they love turning rocks over.”
From humble beginnings
Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort has been recognized as one of the National Geographic Unique Lodges of the World. Whether guests prefer to explore by paddleboard, kayak, boat, or helicopter, the lodge has a formidable fleet and access to 32 million acres of wilderness.
Beyond carbon neutral
Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort has measured its carbon emissions and discovered that travel makes up 55 percent of its total carbon footprint. That’s roughly equivalent to the emissions from 158 cars per year. Fraser Murray plans to offset this (and the resort’s other emissions) and make the resort carbon negative by 2025.
Bridging—and protecting—land and sea
Nimmo Bay Wilderness Resort has minimized its environmental footprint since day one.
The waterfall at its centre is still its source of clean energy. The cabins’ wooden siding is allowed to weather; no toxic chemicals are used to preserve the wood. As much found wood as possible is burned in fireplaces (instead of cutting down living trees). And the resort thoroughly treats its wastewater before sending it into the sea.
It’s not a large resort: its nine guest chalets have a capacity of 18 to 24 guests. And because most buildings are floating or built on a rocky outcrop, straddling land and sea, the resort has had little effect on the dense forest habitat at the base of Mount Stephens.
The whole place gives the impression it’s a natural outgrowth of its surroundings. The red-roofed chalets on stilts gently arc toward the bay, as if being pulled by a low tide. Two cedar hot tubs are tucked next to the waterfall, their warmth the perfect contrast to the tumbling water’s cool spray. Wooden walkways connect the floating buildings and those in the forest’s periphery and on the pebbled beach.
Nimmo Bay’s version of sustainable tourism is the result of following a clear vision of sustainability: “We strive to live a life in balance, explore mindfully, tread lightly, and give more than we take.”
“Tourism is not perfect. You can over-tourism anything and be worse than any other industry,” says Fraser. “But I think tourism done properly can be of real benefit to the area.”
Over the last few years, the resort has offered freediving experiences (diving on a single breath with no breathing apparatus). And just this year, it began testing a heli-biking program. It has also taken its spa and dining offerings to a new level.
Wild Within Wellness Experience
The alive team was the first to experience and photograph Nimmo Bay’s new wellness retreat: a restorative, gently paced day with plenty of space to meditate and reflect. The day began at a secluded floating sauna and included an outdoor rain shower, energy work, and intuitive guidance with massage and wellness therapist Cheryl Davidson.
“This place is amazingly healing just being here,” says Davidson. “This is a powerful spot.”
A chef from afar
New to the lodge this year, English-born Chef David Hassell plans to run the dining room as a world-class restaurant—one that happens to be floating in the middle of the wilderness.
“I’m hoping what we can do is something akin to a city restaurant, but out here,” he says.
As an alum of the much vaunted Eden restaurant in Banff who has also wowed diners in remote ski lodges, he has the CV. The real proof is in the inventive dishes on offer, like smoked, melt-in-your-mouth leek prepared over hay (and served on a bed of the sweet-smelling stuff, too).
Still, Hassell is the first to say he’s only beginning to understand all the local ingredients at his new post, like sea cucumber, bracken fern, and fireweed shoots. That’s where working closely with experienced foragers and tapping into local knowledge comes in.
“The depth of medicinal properties of these herbs and plants, the cooking properties, the seasonality of them, foraging for all of them … The longer I spend here, the more I realize how much I have to learn,” says Hassell. “The support I’ve received, especially from the First Nations communities in the area, and the amount of knowledge there is something that’s so inspirational.”
That support goes two ways: Nimmo Bay partners with local First Nations, “supporting their businesses and their traditional territory and recognizing that,” says Fraser.
In addition to a longstanding partnership with Sea Wolf Adventures, Nimmo Bay recently partnered with a new guiding outfit, Raven Adventures, run by Hemajlas Deedames Willie and Thomas Peter Moon of the Dzawada’enuxw First Nation.
“The main goal is to create employment for our people,” says Willie about starting Raven Adventures and working with Nimmo Bay. “This is to open the door to tourism to the village, and we hope and pray that others will step up and say, ‘Look, I want to do a business as well.’”
A boat ride with Raven Adventures reveals an even wilder side of the coast. Highlights include bobbing beneath a cliff painting by renowned Dzawada’enuxw artist Marianne Nicolson, racing up the green-watered, lushly overgrown Kingcome River, and walking through the village of Gwayi—Kingcome Inlet with its two Bighouses: one old, one new. Near the centre of the village, a weather-greyed totem pole is being allowed to return to the earth. A young sapling has begun to grow out of it.
In December 2017, the BC government announced it would no longer allow non-First Nations grizzly bear hunting in the province. It was a decision celebrated by the Nimmo Bay team.
For several years leading up to the ban, the resort ran a program called “Bullets for Binos” through which hunters with a grizzly bear hunting licence could trade their tag for a stay at Nimmo Bay and a wilderness experience (in other words, trade their bullets for a pair of binoculars).
Fraser Murray says despite the new legislation, there’s still work to be done. The Nimmo Bay team is currently figuring out how to adapt the program.
“It’s going to be focused on other carnivores that don’t have the limelight like grizzly bears would have, like black bears and wolves,” he says.
Nimmo Bay works with Sea to Cedar, a conservation-focused foundation Fraser and Becky Murray helped create. As part of the Sea to Cedar Coastal Carnivores Project, Nimmo Bay guests can participate by checking non-invasive hair snagging stations and wildlife cameras. This monitoring builds better understanding of where carnivores like bears, wolves, and cougars roam, what they eat, and how they behave … which can help build a case for protecting them.


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With over 800 miles of stunning coastline, Ca has its own fair share of quintessential sun-soaked beach areas. Having lived in Ca for all of my entire life, I’ve encountered the pleasures to search down and up this magnificent shore, checking out a majority of these lovely villages as you go along.
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Based out of tangerine region, halfway between L. A. and hillcrest, Laguna coastline are seven kilometers of coves and shores that place claim to tide pools, boardwalks, and bluffs. Town itself is acknowledged are a skill destination, with numerous galleries and boutiques to look at.
Aside from the coastline, Laguna coastline is home to well over 20,000 miles of pristine backwoods, which you’ll have a look at via mountain cycling and climbing trails.
Where you can Remain In Laguna Seashore
For spending budget stay in Laguna seashore, have a look at Tides. It’s just a 10-minute walk through the community heart and has an outside saltwater swimming pool for usage.
For outstanding mid-range choice, take a look at Laguna Brisas lodge. This hotel is correct across the street from the beach by itself and provides an outdoor pool and opinions of Catalina Island.
If you’re finding things a bit more trendy, the surfing and mud vacation resort is actually for you.
This hotel overlooks the water, provides visitors exclusive coastline access, and is also based in main Laguna Beach.
Capitola is among the earliest hotel cities in Ca and is adam4adam ne demek also operating out of Santa Cruz district in the shore of Monterey Bay. The town is actually incredibly picturesque with idyllic coastlines and colourful property and it is full of contemporary boutiques and dining.
I love going to Capitola regardless enough time of year – inside the winter months, it tends to be a soothing and peaceful getaway, within the summertime it gets hectic and has a vintage Ca seashore city feeling.
Locations to Stay in Capitola
Quality Inn & Suites Capitola is a budget motel simply ten full minutes from seashore. The home functions no-cost WiFi and a seasonal pool
Fairfield Inn & Suites Santa Cruz – Capitola is actually a mid-range hotel that gives an outside pool and roomy rooms.
Inn at Depot Hill are a lovely 4-star B&B that is taking walks length from Capitola seashore and Wharf featuring a night wines reception and a complete breakfast.
A community in San Luis Obispo region, Avila coastline is a superb Ca escape for the whole family members.
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As well as, the seas themselves are excellent for watersports. Due to the calm problems, renting a kayak or paddleboard for an afternoon is actually super easy to do. With your canoe, absolutely make a place to check out the historic Point San Luis Lighthouse!
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Avila town Inn is an adults-only mid-range property which provides free bicycle need, a backyard children’s pool, and a fitness center.
Avila Los Angeles Fonda lodge try a luxurious land that will be the place to find a spa bathtub, fireplaces in just about every area, and complimentary Wi-fi.


Experts enjoy styles. It really is what makes science feasible and effective specially when it comes to infectious conditions. Over the past thirty yrs, researchers have noticed a particular pattern of mosquito-borne diseases within the Western Hemisphere: Three viruses have cropped up, triggered smaller outbreaks after which you can someday poof! they hit a metropolis and spread like gangbusters. All 3 viruses are carried because of the exact same mosquito, identified as Aedes aegypti. All 3 have brought on many scenarios in Latin The usa as well as Caribbean. And all three have gotten a Len Dawson Jersey foothold during the U.S., leading to little outbreaks.Goats and SodaBrazil’s Growing Yellow Fever Outbreak Started out With Monkeys Now you will find a fourth 1 lurking in the Brazilian rain forest, claims Dr. Anthony Fauci from the National Institutes of Overall health. It’s familiar. And it is deadly: yellow fever. In the recent commentary for that New England Journal of medicine, Fauci and his colleague Dr. Catherine Paules explain the sample found throughout Latin America and exactly how the historic information and facts could a sist us intercept another epidemic. The waves of epidemics within the three other viruses begun in the 1990s. Initially dengue a unpleasant virus that will result in hemorrhaging re-emerged in components of Latin The usa following it were eliminated in 18 countries. Next up came chikungunya. The virus first appeared within the Caribbean in 2013. It hopped acro s the islands for the few months and afterwards lastly hit the mainland of Central and South Americas, in which it triggered debilitating joint agony in countle s numbers of men and women. Then final calendar year, Zika emerged as being the very first mosquito-borne virus that can lead to birth problems. Even now today, the U.S. is seeing about thirty to forty Zika situations in expecting women of all ages every week. „Now impulsively you begin to view this quite appealing clustering of yellow fever conditions in Brazil,“ claims Fauci.The outbreak began in December and has swelled to about 600 confirmed scenarios and more than a thousand suspected circumstances, the Brazil Ministry of Overall health experiences. Signs can consist of fever, nausea and muscle aches. In about fifteen per cent of instances, the ailment progre ses into a poisonous period, which can include jaundice, bleeding and organ failure. There have been about two hundred deaths in Brazil. „That’s a potential threat,“ Fauci claims. To this point, the disease remains isolated to a rural spot, Fauci suggests. And it is spreading only among mosquitoes that stay within the forest and never in mosquitoes that prosper in cities, identified as Aedes aegypti. But that circumstance could transform quickly, Fauci states, if Aedes aegypti picks up the virus from infected people today. „If Aedes aegypti mosquitoes begin spreading yellow fever in Brazil, there is a chance that you just might have an outbreak in very populous spots in Brazil, for example https://www.chiefsside.com/Kansas-City-Chiefs/Tanoh-Kpassagnon-Jersey Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo,“ Fauci says. „Whether which is going to happen, I don’t know. However, if it does, we are heading to secure a large amount of travel-related situations inside the U.S.,“ he suggests, „which implies doctors right here should bear in mind of it.“ And that’s why Fauci penned the commentary: To inform community well being officials and medical practitioners so they won’t skip situations. „This is often a wake-up contact,“ Fauci says. „Be mindful. If https://www.chiefsside.com/Kansas-City-Chiefs/Derrick-Thomas-Jersey someone is available in with an illne s that’s appropriate along with the yellow fever, you might like to inquire them, ‚Have you traveled to this part of Brazil?‘ “ But you can find a further motive to maintain an eye on yellow fever from the Americas. Compared with Zika, chikungunya and dengue, the whole world basically has a good technique to put together for an outbreak. We have a vaccine that may be 99 % succe sful. „That’s definitely a tremendous a set,“ suggests biologist Erin Mordecai, who scientific tests infectious disorders at Stanford University. „So this is a excellent example of a time that we could po sibly be proactive,“ she says. „We have got a fantastic vaccine, and we need to make certain that there’s adequate offered in the case of a giant outbreak.“ And appropriate now, which is a tiny bit of a dilemma, Fauci claims. The world’s offer on the yellow fever vaccine is low. There usually are not more than enough doses to guard Brazil’s inhabitants of 200 million, as well as the rest of Latin America. „We really don’t have ample vaccine. Period of time,“ he says. „We’re heading to own to generate more vaccine. Which will acquire time.“In the meantime, predictions that Brazil’s outbreak would burn up out speedily have turned out for being mistaken. The outbreak continues to expand though health and fitne s officials make deep cuts into your vaccine stockpile.


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Вопрос простой. Будет ли действительно малый ледниковый период после 2030 г.?
Как пишет The Guardian:
Between 1309 and 1814, during which Britain was said to have experienced a “little ice age”, the Thames froze at least 23 times, and on five of those occasions impromptu frost fairs – described as being a cross between a Christmas market, circus and boisterous party – were held. At the time of the first frost fair, in 1608, the river froze over for six weeks.


Last week students across Arkansas returned to the classroom, and the heavens approved. The clouds huddled close and offered the state a fill of rain. Cooler temperatures kept new school duds light and loose.
The man-made change of “season” — summer to school year — seemed to be accompanied by a very real one.
Not so for a select student demographic at places such as KIPP Delta Preparatory Academy in Helena-West Helena and eStem Public Charter School in downtown Little Rock. Oh, it rained there, too, but these schools opened days, even weeks ago.


Hola, All you Beautiful, Beings of Light:
First of all, “Happy 4th of July!” The day of our independence seemed to happen quickly since just a few days ago I returned from a 10-day trip to Peru. I was traveling with 78 other people from our church plus a few others from other churches.
Wow! What an amazing trip. Every second seemed to be packed with a tour, spiritual ceremony and meditation. Peru has been a trip I’ve desired to take for over a decade, and finally it happened. Yea!
We began our journey in Lima at the San Agustin Hotel and a sacred site tour outside of Lima known as Pachacamac, the city of Oracles. Thank God there are so many ancient Inca sites because many have been built on top of or either destroyed by Spaniards. Both the very poor and the Spaniards built on top of these sites. The Spaniards built churches on some of the sacred ground. Martin took many photos, which I’ll be going through to share with you too.
Our second day began with a tour to the Botanical Garden of Medicinal Plants. This is where Martin and I met Percy Nunez Vargas. He’s a botanist, studied at Yale, is a professor at the University in Cusco, and is the director of a Museo Inka museum in Cusco that educates people on daily life of the Incas in Peru – this includes foods, clothing, tools, environment, and Inca architecture and art.
Percy and I at Machu Picchu, the fourth day of our trek.
Percy seemed more like a lost friend and kindred spirit to me. I had been using Peruvian herbs since the ’80’s and there were just a couple of plants that I didn’t know about. It’s always good to learn more. Percy stayed with our group for many of the days throughout the trip. During this time, we had extension talks with one another, we went to his home, met his mom and even began a interview with him. (Hopefully this will be available in the next 2-weeks on my Youtube channel.)
Following the Botanical Garden it was off to the Larco Museum and then the Monastery of St. Francis of Assisi tour. Below the church/monastery there were catacombs. Never been in catacombs, very odd looking down on piles of bone that had been separated – skulls here and large bones here. Peruvians today are predominantly Catholic because of the forced demands of the Spaniards, but they still believe and go to their beloved shamans!
From here we flew to Cusco and took buses to the Sacred Valley in Ollantaytambo. Here we participated in a group mediation then boarded our buses to Urubamba (Hotel Hacienda del Valle). We arrived at dark and met up with 4 shamans of direct Inca lineage, one spoke English and the other 3 did not. Off to a secluded area of the hotel our beautiful shamans began a special ceremony and healing for us. We would have many throughout the days yet to come.
Sometime I’d like to go to this hotel because we never saw it in the daytime. Their days are shorter and the next day we were up early and heading towards the Vistadome that would take us to Machu Picchu for the day. Yes, we went back into Machu Picchu after many had left and was gifted with another beautiful ceremony and blessings from our shamans.
The books, photos and sites all dedicated to Machu Picchu are awesome and there is no way they can truly show the beauty and grandeur that is Machu Picchu. These people were brilliant and aligned with stars, and our beautiful ascended masters.
Two days in Lima followed by two nights at the Hotel Hacienda del Valle, now we are off to Cusco for two days. The first day in Cusco it was the Inti Raymi festival and it began at the Qoricancha Temple. This is an all day event. There were estimated that 80,000 people attended, and with what I witnessed I’d have to agree. It’s a day of family, picnics and relaxing. The Peruvian people work so very hard every day, so enjoying the festivals along with family and friends this day is thoroughly blessed. The detail of costumes and story was played out for all to witness as the Inca King and Queen make through way to a sacred site. They are carried on litters. We were seated at ground level and able to see everything, and we were right next to a straw bush that later was drenched in kerosene and had some type of sulphur to help add smoke and colors to the fire. For four of us (yes, I was one of the four) the smoke and smell saturated every fiber of our hair and clothing. This began a few days of congestion for all of us too plus it minimized our ability to see all that was going on – boo hoo.
During the evening events over dinner we often watched local musicians and dances in traditional costumes of the Incas throughout regions and eras too. This night I showered from head to toe before heading out plus we dropped our clothes off at the front desk for laundry service. YEA! Laundry service.
Our second day in Cusco we headed for the Four Elements Sacred site and Pachamama Ceremony followed by the Tambomachay, sacred site of Purification and Qengo the sacred place of the Puma and the Temple of the Moon. I can tell you there were so many magical places and at each one we had meditation and ceremony.
The last 2-days we headed to Puno and at that location it was Lake Titicaca, the Uros Islands (floating islands), Taquile Islands and the Stargate, known as the Gate of the Gods doorway.
The first day was the Uros Islands and Taquile Island where we had lunch. These beautiful people are known for their textiles. All the belts and purses are handmade just as they have for so many years. They are very proud of who they are and where they live; they are not actors brought in for the tourists’ entertainment. They wish to maintain the purity and history of who they are. Thank God for those of us traveling and visiting these beautiful places.
Our finale concluded with visiting Ajayu Marka and Titikaka for ceremony and meditation at the Gate of the Gods. The gateway was not made by man; the columns next it you can see the tool marks, but not the gateway itself. These were all priceless moments to be remembered and shared. Over the next few weeks I’ll post photos on facebook and twitter. Thank you for listening, because as you read blessings are passed onto you too my dear ones. I will also add some Pervian recipes over the next week or two. Had some very good food.
Peace, Love, and Health! May we be Abundantly Blessed,
Beth Carpenter, ND