While on a roadtrip spent in the passenger and back seat for 1000 miles with my 2 friends switching driving position back and forth, we stop along the Columbia River where the state line of Oregon and Washington where there are some really huge cliffs. Friend # 1 loads up his small bubbler while we’re parked by the state sighn, it goes around twice for them, once for me, and our weed’s out.
We get out of the car and walk around a bit, climb up a hill that’s about 20 ft. up from the car. They stay there and I crawl up a pile of volcanic pebbles and rattle snake holes till I get to the top…and yodel.
I had never had such a moment like that happen to me, to my vocal chords. It was like the side of the hill was a stage and my audience was the river and the mountain goats.
I get back down another way that is covered in barbed wire fences and tumbleweed bushes (probably crawling with snakes). This takes me about 30 minutes to get all the way up and go back down, and I’m pumped, I feel like I’ve spent up what little I smoked, and I’m getting the thrill of conquering a mountain.
The other two are by the car when I get there. I had been thinking about it since the walk back about asking if I could drive for a while. These friends happen to be boyfriend and girlfriend. The girlfriend owns the car. I ask her, and she says that she "just doesn’t know," the reason being that I am high. No. In fact, she would rather have the boyfriend drive back, the boyfriend who smoked more than me, and is by default HIGHER THAN ME continue on the entire way back home (another 600 miles) and they switch back and forth some more behind the wheel.
Finally (I know, this is so long, I’m sorry) getting to the QUESTION, what do you think- was it fair for them to hog the drivers seat the whole way through? was the girlfriend’s reason even remotely valid? can weed be pumped out of your system if you climb up and down a semi vertical 1000 ft. hill? should any of us have driven at all?
I loved reading the story 
And this is definitely a question unlike any I have seen before here on YA, so congratulations for that!
I don’t think you should have been driving back there.
I also don’t think your male friend should have been driving.
I have done one or two 1000-mile trips by myself and I don’t think that was a smart thing to do either. Just a moment of being sleepy or not watching the road can have an impact on the three of you for the rest of your lives
How about you just smoke all the rest you got back there, park the car, and enjoy the night
Alexander the Great had a bottomless and extensive influence that lasted for centuries. He used a phalanx, his father’s Macedonian army, to draw the attention of his enemies while preparing the key charge that brought victory. Marching for eleven years and covering twenty-two thousand miles without losing a battle over the strongest foes of his time indicates that he was a legend and a fearless conqueror. What he truthfully wanted in his life was glory and heroism, rather than easy living and wealth. Alexander was a great man rather than a lucky man of his time.
In 356 B.C, Alexander was born in Pella, an ancient capital of Macedonia, to King Phillip and Olympia, princess of Epirus. At the age of thirteen, his parents hired a personal tutor, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, logician and scientist, who thought him rhetoric and literature. The young boy had an interest in science, medicine and philosophy. Aristotle’s teaching soon came in play against other philosophers in India. When his father left to Byzantium to battle against rebels, he was left to rule Macedonia as a regent, someone who rules during the absence of a monarch. This position shows that he was already accomplished in battle at the age of sixteen.
Alexander the Great was a true visionary and leader who fought for larger pieces of territory around Asia, the Middle East and Africa. He was also a military genius of his time who attacked an army of Persians, (under King Darius III) and Greek hoplites, profoundly armed foot soldiers of ancient Greece who were on the Persian’s side and against Macedonians. Alexander’s forces killed 40,000 men and only 110 of his men were killed. When he was in Egypt, he was voluntarily made pharaoh because the Egyptian despised living under the Persian rule. He also conquered the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and found a Persian army of one million men. On October 1st, 331 B.C, his Macedonian men slaughtered them. They burned the royal palace and soon, the ancient Persian Empire fell. Of all the battles he had fought in, the greatest battle was against Porus of India, one of the greatest leaders. The Indians were defeated in a brutal battle even though they fought with elephants, animals the Macedonians haven’t seen before. Aristotle’s teaching helped when Alexander debated against Bhramin philosophers, who were famous for their wisdom. He was known as a legendary in India for his philosophy and fearless conquerors.
With his large, loyal and combative army, he united an area over twenty two million square miles. He setup a common system of currency for his entire realm, established many new cities and colonies, many of them that were named after him. An example of a city that was named after him was Alexandria in Egypt and Alexadropolis in Greece. A foundered city was even named after his dead horse, Bucephalus. Though the Greek culture was already expanding, he continued to expand from the polis to the unknown world of his time. He established many training programs to teach Persians about Greek and Macedonian culture.
Alexander the Great died in 323 B.C at the age of thirty three years due to a heavy drinking bout and swimming in a river from which he caught a fever. Despite the fact that he was an alcoholic, heavy drinking was a cherished tradition at the Macedonian court. Alexander was “great” in a sense because he had so much influence in history. Greece ruled the near east politically for three hundred years and culturally for one thousand years because of his actions. If he had lived longer, it was possible that he would have politically united the world. Alexander the Great deserved his title as he was very young who conquered most of the world. It was only lost when he died. He was the first king ever to the called “the Great”.
my teacher said it was awkward it didn’t analyze my thesis. help, can you please help me analyze this better with details? thanks
One important mistake you are making, is you need to define paragraphs, with indentation.
Thesis should be Alexander was….lucky man …of his time…
NEW paragraph.
That is/should be your thesis.
Next separate main/most important ideas, make them paragraph.
Indent new paragraphs.
Otherwise it’s not bad
We currently live in Northern VA, in one of the more desirable counties in the country however I grew up here and what I loved about it as a child has drastically changed and we are no longer happy here. Here is our criteria.
A nice home with property for under 300k. Not suburbs. Not west virginia style boonies.
Clean nearby town with a Whole Foods Market (a 24 hour one would be fantastic) or other large natural/organic type grocery stores.
Forests, mountains, lakes, rivers are all good things. We love the outdoors. Fishing, boating, bike riding, hiking, rally racing, horseback riding, caving, are all ideal activities.
Obviously decent school systems, low crime, no drugs.
Local events like small town harvest festivals, music/art shows, museums, historical sites are great.
Within at most an hour drive of "civilization". Which means some form of busy downtown with nightlife and preferably more upscale clientele.
Little to no nearby government and traffic!
States we are more interested than others: California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, but we will consider anywhere in the states!
DOOR COUNTY WISCONSIN! it is amazing. VERY cultural and non pretentious! fast food chains are not allowed. its orchard country. its out in the country but not a "redneck" (didnt know of a better word, sorry if i offended anyone) area. little crime. only crime i have ever seen there was someone wrote war under stop on a stop sign, (so it said "stop war" )thought it was kinda clever
all kinds of music festivals! Near Green bay, green bay is a small city.
NEAR LAKE MICHIGAN(worlds second largest lake)! beatiful lake, one of the few areas of it with no pollution.
if you dont want your kids to grow up snobby but still expose them to culture, this place is wonderful. its where i would raise my family when i have kids.
also its only a few hours away from milwaukee(where i live), where summerfest is held.
door county is very anti-corporate.
also if you like scuba diving, there are loads of shipwrecks.
a calm night life, but still a night life.
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http://camu.zamushowcase.com/ Troy Casey explains Amazon Herbs in detail.
MIKE ADAMS:
The Amazon Herb Company is clearly on the leading edge of harvesting, blending and distributing rainforest botanicals, and they have strong business ethics and demonstrate great care for the environment. Perhaps in some parallel universe all businesses act with integrity and compassion for the Earth, but here in modern society today, the Amazon Herb Company is a rare find.
I encourage everyone to take a close look at what this company (and its products) can do for you. I’ve been researching these products for quite some time and recently took a trip to South America to interview people and research these herbs first hand. What I found is a powerful system of medicine based on rainforest herbs that can literally reverse serious diseases like cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, joint inflammation and many more. Better yet, these herbs are naturally bio-compatible with the human body, meaning they have no negative side effects and operate at levels of safety that are orders of magnitude better than most prescription drugs. (They’re also a whole lot more affordable than prescription medications…)
Sound too good to be true? That’s what I thought at first, too. But then I took the time to meet the people, research the rainforest herbs and experience their healing effects myself. Now I’m not only convinced this is the company that’s going to pave the way to sustainable business practices in the coming years, I’m also convinced it represents the very best business opportunity available in the natural health industry today for anyone interested in an independent, at-home business where you control your own financial destiny. That’s no casual claim, either. Read my full report to see why I’ve become such an outspoken advocate of the Amazon Herb Company. http://www.naturalnews.com/021968.html
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April 25, 1945. (4/25/ 4+2+5=11) Delegates from 50 nations met in San Francisco on April 25, 1945, for what was officially known as the United Nations Conference on International Organization. During a two-month period, they completed a charter consisting of 111 articles, based on the draft developed at Dumbarton Oaks. The charter was approved on June 25 (6/25=6+2+5=13)and signed the next day; it became effective on October 24, 1945, after ratification by a majority of the signatories. The bonds of the wartime alliance undoubtedly hastened agreement on establishing the new organization. In December 1945 the Congress of the United States invited the UN to establish its headquarters in the United States. The organization accepted and in August 1946 moved to a temporary location in Lake Success, New York. (New York was the 11th state to endorse the Constitution.) Later that year a site was purchased bordering the East River in New York City, (New York City is exactly 11 letters.) and plans for a permanent headquarters were drawn up.(97 Microsoft Encarta United Nations Origin)
Favorite Illuminati Symbol: The All-Seeing Eye. New World Order Currency: The all-seeing-eye on the dollar bill. Below the illuminati pyramid/eye symbol are the words: “Novus Ordo Seclorum,” which can be translated as: “A new order of the ages.”
The Serpent promised Adam and Eve that their eyes would “be opened” if they ate of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The key word in this passage is eyes, which in Hebrew can be translated “knowledge.” Opened can be translated “broadened.” What the Serpent promised Adam and Eve was that knowledge would be broadened if they ate of the forbidden fruit.
But the most foreboding aspect of this scripture emerges from the fact that the Hebrew word for “eyes” is not plural, but singular. What the Serpent actually told Adam and Eve was that their “eye” would be broadened by knowledge.
The “eye” that Scripture wants us to consider is not the physical organ of sight, but the eye of the mind or the soul. This singular “eye” is called the “third eye” of clairvoyance in the Hindu religion, the eye of Osiris in Egypt, and the All-Seeing Eye in Freemasonry. (John Daniel, Scarlet and the Beast , Vol. III, pp. 6-7)
The all-seeing eye is the elite’s favorite symbol. It represents the eye of Lucifer seeing all and is usually atop a pyramid, the symbol for a top-down command and control system of compartmentalization.
Many companies use the pyramid within their logos. James Walker, a 32º Mason, shares some facts with us about the above symbols:
13 leaves in the olive branch
13 bars and stripes in the shield
13 arrows in the right claw
13 letters in the “E Pluribus Unum” on the ribbon
13 stars in the green crest above
32 long feathers on its right wing representing the 32º in Freemasonry
13 granite stones in the Pyramid. (The 13 layers represent the 13 Illuminati bloodlines)
13 letters in Annuit Coeptis
It should also be noted that the Eagle has 32 feathers right wing, but 33 in its left wing. The 32 feathers representing the number of ordinary degrees of the Scottish Rite, and the 33 feathers representing the 33º of Freemasonry. The tail feathers number 9, the number of degrees in the York Rite. The eagle itself is a prominent icon of Masonry, being used extensively in the Scottish Rite.
Looking just above the eagles head you will see 13 pentagrams within a cloud. The pentagrams are arranged in the shape of a hexagram – or greater Seal of Solomon. The hexagram is a powerful tool used by pagans to invoke Satan. It is also the sign of Anti Christ with 6 points, 6 angles and 6 planes (666).
To the sorcerer, the hexagram is a powerful tool to invoke Satan, and is a sign of Antichrist. (6 points, 6 angles, 6 planes – 666) The 5 pointed pentagrams multiplied by the 13 stars equals 65, the same cabalistic number as mentioned above. This makes one wonder with whom or what, we are to dwell in unity!
The eagle replaced the Phoenix in 1841 as the national bird. The Phoenix has been a Brotherhood symbol since ancient Egypt. The Phoenix was adopted by the Founding Fathers (Freemasons) for use on the reverse of the first official seal of the United States after a design proposed by Charles Thompson, Secretary of the Continental Congress.
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Transmountain Diversions explains how water moves from west to east, across the Continental Divide, to support agriculture and population on Colorados Front Range. About 25 percent of the Colorado River that Colorado can consume finds its way to the east side of the state. When water is used outside of its basin of origin, it is 100 percent gone. No return flows from irrigation or treatment plans bolster stream flows and become somebody elses water supply.
The video shows the evolution of transmountain diversions and the transition of water use from agriculture to municipal. The video explores the question of future transmountain diversions to meet Front Range population growth needs and the issues the question raises.
Interviewees include Allen Ringle of the Independence Pass Transmountain Diversion System, Aurora Water Manager Mark Pifher, Uncompahgre Water Users Association Manager Marc Catlin, state Department of Natural Resources Executive Director Harris Sherman, Orchard Mesa Irrigation District Manager Rita Crumpton, Gunnison County rancher Bill Trampe and Mesa County rancher Carlyle Currier.
The videos were produced in conjunction with Art Burrows of Ajax Design and Chris Macdonald of Fuse Media, both based in the Roaring Fork Valley. Singer-songwriter John Oates, a resident of the Roaring Fork Valley, narrated the videos.
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Singing River Health System V 09′ “No PLace LIke Home”
Agency: The Gibbes Company
Art Director: Wade Rico
Director / Editor: Philip Scarborough / Matthew Beall
Production: Lathe Productions
Jackson, Mississippi
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Discovery of 100,000 dead fish sparked an ivestigation, into why there was little or no investigation. This region just east of Vancouver BC, draining into Pitt River and onto the Pacific Ocean, serves as the starting point for many Salmon that return years later. The cause of this fish kill needs to be found, and enforcement to managing this important region, that also is home to many birds and animals who rely on this river system.
http://www.savethealouette.ca
Aireal Photos pointing East,
Pitt River in the foreground,
Golden Ears Mountain on the Left
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Opinion – Mass killing, or an accident?
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Looking at the technology of the author Winston Kayanan from the Philippines (better known as Fragmentation & Implantation Methodology) without knowing how it will completely perform, it would appear that the Philippine invention makes no extraordinary difference, i.e., just like an ordinary ecological solid waste management process in a dumpsite or landfill. But when one examines its two drawings deeply using abstract reasoning, it is entirely patterned after the anatomy of man specifically, the digestive system, based on the author’s beginning in conceptualization, i.e., treating earth like man.
The concept started in year 2000 from watching a suspense movie, the setting of which is the kitchen. In here, the author saw the morbid mutilation of a hand in the drain of the sink by an automated waste dispenser. This created the first stimulus of imagination in the disposal of solid wastes but the author did not pursue the continuity of the concept until in the second quarter of 2001 when mounting concerns of open dumpsites & pollution ensued locally & worldwide. This pushed the author to continue & complete the concept. He sought to design an underground chamber in the soil (for decomposition of organic materials) to perform & function naturally & physiologically (like a man’s stomach) after fragmenting the solid wastes (like grinding the food in the mouth).
Following the digestive system, such chamber must operate via biochemical & microbial process to produce beneficial microorganisms and wanted nutrients in re-fertilizing & nurturing the soil. Using organic materials (like fresh biomass) as food material, the soil initially will take the organic matter’s 70-90% water for retention & thermal cooling of land (for development of groundwater as well as for plant growth) against severe evaporation, drought, water crisis, lost of wetlands, extreme development of hurricanes, rising sea levels, earthquakes) and thus, we are helping water cycle to perform underground. Secondly, the soil will take pure carbon & carbon compounds from the organic matter as major component of fertile soil thereby reducing loose carbon in the atmosphere. Once the soil is planted, carbon will help the plants grow thereby using carbon cycle the right way.
Third, the soil will take the organic matter’s nutrients to provide crops & trees for plantation growth (against food crisis, hunger, & poverty, desertification) and hence, we are holding a prime element, the volatile nitrogen, to perform its cycle in the soil. Fourth, with the help of the 3, the organic matter will produce beneficial microorganisms like photosynthetic bacteria & other CO2 absorbing & O2 producing microorganisms to curtail extreme volume of CO2 (against CO2 pollution including methane gas) thereby cooling the air with the abundance of O2 concentration for better farm management as well as repairing the depleted ozone layer, strengthening organisms’ immune system, etc. The design of chamber has its own way of photosynthesis without the help of microbes as discovered. The soil will also engender mycorrizhae microbes from the organic matter (against virulent & non-virulent pathogens) to protect the farm from infestation and to prevent epidemic to pandemic (with mutating microbes coming from dumpsites & landfills).
Based on the foregoing, like the anatomy of man, the soil then performs circulatory function (i.e., developing aquifers then to streams, lakes & rivers as well as producing oil in the long run oil) and respiratory function (conversely, the absorption of CO2 & release of O2). The invention is supported by using scientific facts as references coming basically from biology, chemistry & physics plus other branches of science like physiology of trees, soil science, pathology, silviculture, reproduction, etc. (books acquired sale in 1997 only for collection). And the author came up with the following three (3) functions in addressing environment from garbage problem, desertification and pollution, to wit:
a.To eliminate wastes;
b.To rehabilitate the soil; and,
c.To cure the environment.
In short, the author made a formula for this:
MAN’S WASTES + NATURE’S WASTES =
CLEAN AIR & FERTILE SOIL
This means that man’s wastes (which cover all kinds of biodegradable & perishable organic materials) have100% nutrition. If incorporated in wastelands (with nil organic matter such as desertified soils), it will make these lands fertile (changing sand to loam and then to clay) as well as make air clean, giving improvement to the environment, ecology and habitat. Isn’t this very simple and very natural? Just one day of operation, wonders of rejuvenation in the environment will simultaneously ensue, eradicating global warming & climate change. The technology was collectively based on many existing scientific facts, discovered by famous scientists, which can not be defeated easily. And therefore, this will give all a better gen
Can you make your question shorter?
We currently live in Northern VA, in one of the more desirable counties in the country however I grew up here and what I loved about it as a child has drastically changed and we are no longer happy here. Here is our criteria.
A nice home with property for under 300k. Not suburbs. Not west virginia style boonies.
Clean nearby town with a Whole Foods Market (a 24 hour one would be fantastic) or other large natural/organic type grocery stores.
Forests, mountains, lakes, rivers are all good things. We love the outdoors. Fishing, boating, bike riding, hiking, rally racing, horseback riding, caving, are all ideal activities.
Obviously decent school systems, low crime, no drugs.
Local events like small town harvest festivals, music/art shows, museums, historical sites are great.
Within at most an hour drive of "civilization". Which means some form of busy downtown with nightlife and preferably more upscale clientele.
Little to no nearby government and traffic!
States we are more interested than others: California, Oregon, Colorado, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, but we will consider anywhere in the states!
please add why and what exactly you know about the places you mentioned. Thanks!
I mean definitely NOT a city. Where we live now we are about 30 min from dc, and 30 min from horse country/historic towns/farms, but live in the largest suburb area of VA. What I want is the small town/horse country type places.
Also more Sunny warm days than rainy, cold ones!
By no suburbs do you mean city? Have you thought about Pittsburgh PA? There’s plenty of mountains, rivers, forest etc.. There’s also a whole foods…Schools are great depending on where you live and housing is decent and people are very friendly. The only downside is the weather, it gets really cold and snowy in the winter.
Good luck to you.