Joe Redington, "Father of the Iditarod" looks at his supplies at the checkpoint. An arctic parka, a heavy sleeping bag, an ax, a pair of snowshoes, shoes, food and dog food and dog mushers to protect the feet by the team of Siberian Husky. They develop a strategy to consider if the dogs to eat their meals and when to feed her snacks. Must travel to travel by day and night? When and how should they rest?
Every musher has a different technique,risk being unexpected blizzards, dog sickness, slipping into the icy river, or could, of course all of their time. The challenge lies in the 1.150 miles in 10 to 17 days with 12-16 dogs heading from Anchorage, Alaska, to Nome to cover. This race is sometimes referred to as "The Last Great Adventure", but above all it is an adventure in Alaska and a part of history and pride.
No need for a die-hard racer love the Siberian Husky. Of course, these dogs, of course, for the race. Her thinAgile manager with a reputation for "long-distance runner, while the double-thick to breathe, heavily padded feet," Endurance. "This race is extremely durable, require very little food and little sleep, but an invitation for the exercise and attention.
The Alaskan husky like dig, loves to run and enjoys the hunt. May be small dogs, cats and other pets to this booty, like the dog-wolf to get better with dogs of similar size as the other sex and of age. EarlyObedience classes will help those dogs in Alaska Native, be all you can and should be clear that the positive best reward for these animals docile and devoted work.
Husky is a popular issue for the American Kennel Club If your Alaskan Husky to be placed on the display, then the most important features are of medium size (23 "men, 22.5 women), bone structure, moderate balanced proportions, ease of movement , good skin - edited / colored, pleasing headand ears, correct tail and good disposition. The penalties are distributed for clumsiness, stubbornness, obesity, or mantle of coarse. In other words, the Husky that sludge "of strength and agility, powerful." The Siberian Husky Club of America has more information on exhibitions.
The life of a Siberian Husky is 12 to 16 years. Visual disturbances are the most common health conditions with juvenile cataracts, corneal dystrophy and progressive retinal atrophy, affects some older dogs.Like many of the larger species can be found, and dysplasia of the hip sled can go with gastrointestinal diseases, bronchitis, or asthma runs. "If your dog to the vet regularly and proper nutrition / exercise, the dog should live a long and healthy life.
Choice of gifts is always difficult, immense opportunities for both online and in the catalogs now available, many that we are bombarded. Here, examine the reasons for advertising and printed pens are unmatched in their value.
Every year, I found myself on the lookout for the latest gimmick or something that I thought my customer wants and more importantly actually use, or not entirely lost. For several years, I have chosen the popular advertising and other years of my choicenot so well received.
People for the gifts, but is rather something we do not, I repeat really so many promotional items such as clocks and desk caddies pop, always with the customer if they wanted, and if I do not want even less to them other to send.
I personally have always thought that advertising was pretty boring and easy to pen. I was wrong! The offer is now under enormous mini ballpoint pen, plastic pen in less than a high-quality metal --short green pens, pencils, thick, thin pencils, pens, the list is endless, and they continue to pose enormous price / performance ratio compared to other brands and personalized gifts.
I also discovered that I could increase the number of promotional items that I could afford to my clients and caregivers in their team, which always goes down so often sent, have forgotten the workers.
I also had a lot of pieces of promotional pens now on the left side as wellI was able to staff and customers when I felt that I needed to send something for certain occasions.
Instead of trying to be creative and maybe lose my precious budget, I decided to investigate some of the feathers on the supply and demand in some samples printed pen. When I arrived, I love them all, and I was very surprised by the quality. I think asking the question, if you are one of those pens they get printed. If the answer is yes, then morelikely that your clients. The more they use these pins, the more you have sent your message that is found, after all you're doing.
Last year, I have decided for the metal trim ballpoint pen and pencil sets, and paid a little "more in a matter of presentation, we again have a choice of a transparent plastic box with a box, and some of the most luxurious padded they can also be adjusted. They seemed to be much more expensive than they really are, when customers ask me where I amhas done by them and for me, I knew he loved her.
So why promotional pens? Why not!
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Each happy couple to understand his philosophy about life. But
Is a limit to how this understanding can be stretched. After ten years of marriage, George and Bonnie worked and played together in an ideal relationship.
Each year, can not wait to spend up to three weeks skiing in the mountains. This time, due to a broken ski Bonnie crashed into a tree and broke his leg in two places. Of course, pay the insuranceOperation and the expected long-term
Transition to the hospital.
Two weeks later, Bonnie was lying in his hospital bed, nor pain, but is recovering slowly, when George came in with a few flowers. "But do not look trendy!" Praised Bonnie. George was fitted in the new boots, ski pants cheap, and the latest high-tech parka.
Modestly and with a wink, he said: "Thank you, your money came the pain."
The summer is generally when sales slow down, and companies have downtime. This is the perfect time to try some "energy, to bring some original marketing techniques. If you normally rely on the Press or Print Newsletter Catalog in the summer months, try something new, or create a twist on your tried and true marketing tactics.
Here are four marketing ideas to give to a whirl this summer:
1. Tweak your mailing list with the help of a journal
Sohas targeted the market and have the printing of brochures, newsletters, printing or catalog will be printed. They have sent dozens of printed documents. Are you sure that you target your best to your market?
Use the mailing list of a magazine - the people of this magazine - send and receive product information voluntarily. In addition to the purchase of advertising space in magazines, many also rent the mailing list. Sometimes it may be necessary toBuy the mailing list as a combination of advertising, but many publishing houses to rent their mailing list only. This is a great way to save time (search for less!) And you probably know that the recipients are interested in your products to your bill. Be sure to send direct mail to at least two or three times during the summer months.
2. Editorial exposed to the masses
Many people do not know, but newspapers and other media typesPoints, such as your local television news station, and have enough information to fill gaps. You are in the stories of movement based outside it receives a "Release Mat": stories that are already written and ready for publication.
For less than you would pay for an advertisement in a newspaper, you can write an article that takes you there with your signature, which are covered by many newspapers across the country and could be dozens could be distributed. Since this is newspaper articlesGenerally perceived as more reliable than advertising, printing Mat is a great way to reach readers and influence. Two major mat release services, ARA (only on-line distribution) and Metro Editorial Services, are the prices that fit every budget.
3. Using Someone Else's email Power
Today, dealing with the proliferation of spam, people do not open e-mail companies and individuals who do not know. While the e-mail is one of the most cost-effective marketing tactics, acquiring new customersEffectiveness is diminished because of all the spam.
To circumvent this problem, do not open the Outlook e-mails, try advertising in third-party e-newsletter. People need to newsletters, you know, if you have an ad in one, it is very likely to read. For example, if you are a designer cake, a notice in a newsletter e-bride could collect a few large companies. Brides-to-be probably open the newsletter and show its content, including advertisementsbecause the newsletter comes from a credible source that signed it.
4. The use of outside advertising
Outdoor advertising that people see that (outside of her house no need, even outside - could be in a restaurant, for example). Of posters for the naming rights for sections of highways, the message can stand and walk around your potential customers. If you want to reach to potential customers in their favorite restaurant or cinema, you can also buyViewing space in the bathroom.
For an efficient use of outdoor advertising, to be sure, a space where you can choose to influence a purchase, the customer is already in a state of mind to buy a product. For example, let well with the brochure printing brochures toothpaste in the office of a dentist, but tooth leaving brochures in the library does not make much sense. The people in the library are not influenced in the right mood to buy a product, since peoplethe dentist. Make sure that the placement of your advertising has a logical sense.
If you go on vacation, you will probably spend time to collect what you need, when you reach your goal. He spends a little time to plan to take what by plane or car, but saved most of your enthusiasm to your destination.
Is not it funny that we spend so much time trying to figure out how we achieve our goals, and so little time to prepare for what we do when we get there? And as if we believe that newcomers will be sufficient.
ItNot enough holidays. We were in the store of clothing, the warmer or colder, more clothes or more attracted to run over. We need a parka or swimsuit. We need our favorite kind of coffee, or a good book to read.
In a typical goal-setting process, we assume that we know what our goal package. We ask how we know we want a goal, and what we need to get there. We rarely ask ourselves what we need, asResults to be achieved.
The problem is even clearer when we set goals with others, one can say that we get what we expect of them and what they must do to meet our expectations. How often have we also say that we are so now they are for what comes after, to prepare ready to reach a goal?
What can we do to prepare our target for what's next?
Ask yourself these questions: Who wants to knowWhat do I need if I am where I am? They could range from the response he gives his surprise. If someone comes to your mind, let's curious about what they want to know. This could imagine that you have a hat or shoes belong to this person as a sign that you put "to stand on" their qualities, skills and beliefs.
Think for a moment and note that you have a better idea of what you need when you arrive. It could alsosurprised to know that you have already begun to prepare, so that, are when you arrive, you will be able to "on" features that you need to share.
She knows that other people know what you need. Enter the skin two or three of them. Useful to know the advantage of what they know how to strengths, skills and beliefs they have.
So now you know what you need to do the suitcase. Of course, you need to get a good map of where you want to go. But it is easy to imagine in this way,Now you know everything you need to be successful once the results are collected and prepared?
Yes, it is useful to a backup plan, during the preparation of the strategy for getting what you want. This map is also useful to make a leap forward that tells you how you feel and what you need, when you are busy enjoying life after the feat have. I suppose you can do what you are getting what you need to do. Get ready to enjoy when you reach that goal.
It could alsoYou see move faster when you pack the stuff.
Any pregnant woman who was able to confirm that the pregnancy is full of worries. While some of these concerns are unfounded, but the mothers-and fathers-to-be often bunch of anything that looks or feels unusual. To ensure that the pregnancy goes as smoothly as possible, most women who are looking for in my last pregnancy and better information to adapt their lifestyles to improve the health of their children, and get regular health screenings.
Among the most popular activities duringPregnancy is the selection of products for children and registering for gifts for baby showers. When couples have already chosen the names of the children is especially exciting to receive gifts for their children. In the midst of planning a new baby, but new parents often overlook an important element in children's products: their safety. Knowing that the cars, cribs, strollers, furniture and clothing in accordance with strict safety rules go far in providing new mothers and fathers, peaceMind.
Baby Product Recalls
If the purchase of baby products for your child or a gift for a baby shower to choose should be the first step, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. (CPSC). The CPSC has the latest information about recent recalls of dangerous products for children - information that is important to have before you start your shopping. For example, the CPSC recently issued a recall on a sports car with two seats for children who can touch the seat next to the rear,This poses a risk to wear. Similarly, a manufacturer has voluntarily recalled children's parka jackets, which will cover a series of, had a risk of strangulation. And a large mass merchant fired more than 200,000 toys from the shelves, which had no lead paint, nails, or a choking hazard.
Cars
When it comes to car seats for children, it is better instead of buying a new car. Used car seats may be convenient, but can not secure. If a car seatmore than ten years and was involved in an accident that can not structurally sound. Similarly, car seats have a day of "maturity" to make sure that the car seat to buy date, up-to-. Resist the temptation to a place that your child will buy, "as he or she can slip of parking spaces that are too big. For the record, should not children with a place on the back until they, at least one years and at least 20 pounds.
Cribs
The new boxes are still the best choice formeet the latest safety standards. These standards ensure that the distance between the slats is no more than 2-3/8 inches, that the mattress fits perfectly in the cradle laid, and the top rail when low in the highest position, at least 26 inch mattress.
A selection of products for children and the preservation of products for the gift baby is exciting because it helps to predict the day when the baby arrives. And to ensure that products for children selectsure, you have to make one less thing to worry about!
Haven't worn it yet, but it's a nice looking coat. Generous cut as I bought an XL and it's a litte too big, I'm a 14, the sleeve comes to the top of my fingers and I'm average height. Green is not as dark as the picture appears.
What is Gore-Tex?
Gore-Tex is a combination of special materials, specially designed to keep out the water. It begins with a Gore-Tex, which is then laminated to high-performance fabrics, which is then sealed with a special solution. This ensures the protection of more or less waterproof. Its a bit 'like the carbon fiber in the form of clothing.
So what is the specific membrane? This is a special material, consisting of billions of tiny pores similar structures. These structures are very, verysmaller than a drop of water in times, but much larger than a molecule of water vapor. Here, you can prevent ingress of water, but at the same time, allowing sweat to evaporate. Your body can still breathe and stay comfortable during their stay dry.
But not all! The real beauty of Gore-Tex is in the textile industry. These substances are designed to waterproof, windproof and breathable to. What specific skills you might think that the choice of color,Weight, etc., might be limited, but that's not the case. Often there are from many styles and colors, so you can choose what kind of weight, texture and abrasion resistance you want to determine.
The parka is the default selection of rain gear better. When we think of images of a bright yellow jacket cover, come to mind. It is with a goal in mind, made the stop and the body is dry. By coupling the Gore-Tex parkas have a recipe for success.With the choice of Gore-Tex Textile They are your options in style and color not only to the standard yellow light.
So the next time captured in a storm, and you need the trash to check to keep your Gore-Tex parka, dry!
With the approach of the colder months is elected for the comfortable warmth of a coat on your well-planned mens costume. When you buy from the store of your family attended for decades, or over the Internet, it's just a lot of coat patterns to help you cross cranky time. But whatever you do, do yourself a favor and contact the ski jacket. Why not opt for this very nice coat, the middle-end of the thigh, and his humble nature, but breathingElegance of dress is inside. The next time you are looking for a new coat, why not following the guidelines?
Color. Winters was told that the ideal scenario for power dressing. And why not, everything is possible, the colors navy black and carry coal? Here we will only see what is global network of winter be good color on you. From there you can proceed to choose a winter coat.
Children who tend to have much contrast between the hair, Eye color and complexion look good in bright colors with bright shades of glittering pieces of precious stones, or in contrast to the white ice cream or pastel. Choose a dark suit with shades of cooling capacity. Avoid earth tones that you look older and wrinkled. Another trick is to get shirts with icy cool tones for them.
Tissue. The best winter fabric to reduce the high temperatures in order to wool and cashmere. Of the two may be more convenient Kashmir, but its price is quite importantunreliable life would make a wise choice.
When it comes to clothes, which can complement the winter coat, think about tweed. Tweed suits were originally out of date by the central heating. If you have a firm belief in this classic material, is now available for the low weight of 12 ounces, which lead to the houses and can be replaced when traveling. Let linen with a base of brown or green.
Fit. We now turn to find the right kind of heatWinter dress. The right person is actually equivalent to the size close to your color, so that a better flow with no accumulation of these levels up to the shoulders and neck. And you know that there will be no problem getting rid of an end of a traditional and a coat over a dress, instead of the day to day? This does not apply for 6 in the fall. When you buy, why not wear a costume mens, jacket or sweater, so that the mantle isor not an exact match? Perhaps the best way to judge the fit and comfort for you. Also, try to sit with the coat.
Regardless of the clothes that you buy at the end of thinking, remember to look after them, even though the days of winter have passed. You can clean, dry, and their protection in a shed as well. This will get your investment, but you also have a garment that is willing to take in the first cold days, when everyone else is scrambling system, found somethinghot.
With the approach of the colder months is elected for the comfortable warmth of a coat on your well-planned mens costume. When you buy from the store of your family attended for decades, or over the Internet, it's just a lot of coat patterns to help you cross cranky time. But whatever you do, do yourself a favor and contact the ski jacket. Why not opt for this very nice coat, the middle-end of the thigh, and his humble nature, but breathingElegance of dress is inside. The next time you are looking for a new coat, why not following the guidelines?
Color. Winters was told that the ideal scenario for power dressing. And why not, everything is possible, the colors navy black and carry coal? Here we will only see what is global network of winter be good color on you. From there you can proceed to choose a winter coat.
Children who tend to have much contrast between the hair, Eye color and complexion look good in bright colors with bright shades of glittering pieces of precious stones, or in contrast to the white ice cream or pastel. Choose a dark suit with shades of cooling capacity. Avoid earth tones that you look older and wrinkled. Another trick is to get shirts with icy cool tones for them.
Tissue. The best winter fabric to reduce the high temperatures in order to wool and cashmere. Of the two may be more convenient Kashmir, but its price is quite importantunreliable life would make a wise choice.
When it comes to clothes, which can complement the winter coat, think about tweed. Tweed suits were originally out of date by the central heating. If you have a firm belief in this classic material, is now available for the low weight of 12 ounces, which lead to the houses and can be replaced when traveling. Let linen with a base of brown or green.
Fit. We now turn to find the right kind of heatWinter dress. The right person is actually equivalent to the size close to your color, so that a better flow with no accumulation of these levels up to the shoulders and neck. And you know that there will be no problem getting rid of an end of a traditional and a coat over a dress, instead of the day to day? This does not apply for 6 in the fall. When you buy, why not wear a costume mens, jacket or sweater, so that the mantle isor not an exact match? Perhaps the best way to deal with the fit and comfort for you. Also, try to sit with the coat.
Regardless of the clothes that you buy at the end of thinking, remember to look after them, even though the days of winter have passed. You can clean, dry, and their protection in a shed as well. This will get your investment, but you also have a garment that is willing to take in the first cold days, when everyone else is scrambling system, found somethinghot.
Dressing well
Because we are out there to see the night sky, searching for the northern lights can be a cold pack. If you are not good for the cold in the night are ready, you can not fully enjoy the northern lights. The annual average temperatures range from Iceland, from about 4 ° C and a minimum of -25 ° C, but the best time to go on vacation to Northern Lights is in the winter months from September to March. Among the center of that in January, you should waitTemperatures around freezing, the best. You will also see that the further you will travel from the coast of the cold.
Comfort is unlikely to learn that Iceland would be much lower if there is no Gulf Stream - the same that Britain is so sweet. However, the Gulf Stream is not that it was to see an experience much more pleasant, the Northern Lights Iceland is the actors in Scandinavia or Alaska, for example. Unfortunately, it isvery difficult when the lights during the summer months to see for the north in daylight so long with the light of day in almost perpetual midsummer.
It is recommended that your facility bear with a puffy parka and boots in the winter. You should be prepared to wait a moment ", and is more comfortable and better you will be able to trip or your holiday Northern Lights, something magical, like enjoying the fire in the sky, can not rush and is certainly oneShow worth the wait. It is good to invest in the linings of gloves and spare socks or shoe soles. Moreover, it is good to have a hot car in the vicinity have, which is of course possible, if you are one of the Aurora Borealis, guided tours in containers with 4x4 vehicles. You may find that some instruments that should provide a vacation, so check before you buy anything.
Imaging
Without doubt, when you see the northern lights in Iceland you want to saveat the moment with a photo. Who took a picture at night, knows how difficult it is to generate an image that looks like, what you've seen, by the naked eye. How to fight against the darkness, there is the problem of trying to transform the image itself. For this reason, we recommend photographers, special equipment, but said it might be possible, can take a picture with a camera, the long exposure times. It is not easy to be so disappointed not to when the light shinesYou take your turn the lights of the north are not going well, think of your family and friends only, you have the northern lights in Iceland by the enthusiasm, as seen with the experience to tell you. Or you can buy a postcard.
With more and more people open spaces for leisure and family vacations, outdoor sports like hunting and fishing are becoming popular across North America. Camouflage hunting clothing is a necessity if one expects that any reasonable measure of success in one or other of these outdoor activities.
The two things should you consider when shopping for hunting camouflage clothing is that they mustMatch the foliage that you are in the hunt, and even the clothes you wear, for the climate to correct.
If the weather is hot, so you dress a little, "which means means short sleeves. This is that you need to disguise the color of the skin of the arms and legs if you are short. If you are hunting in the cold season, is in turn need warm clothes as well.
You may also want to pick up a camouflage parka rain, whileit because it's not a cold, wet days in the outdoors fun and easy to put an end to the activities to enable the day of your time, before he had planned. Do not forget in a camouflage cover for your rifle and other equipment that will go out with you.
One very important thing that you should keep in mind that you want to be the hunter, hunting, a hat and orange vest is very cheap life insurance you should consider, even to buy.You can wear a jacket and hat, while they are in the bush for you "fold" means the hunt, and then remove when you arrive.
How sport can possibly be romantic? It's easy. Just ask a man who applauded his team, while cuddling with his wife, and he tells you.
Many women I know who claim to hate all sports. Why? If there is something your husband really enjoys, it is not know that and leave the common bond of sport than watching alone or always to watch with friends? Moi? I would rather be a widow of sport sport.
Before the startPanic, let me slip in a disclaimer. No, it's put a parka and a cold Green Bay Packers game in November to visit with your husband to show your love. You can live safely in your bed and stay warm in order to prove that he is something special for you.
The idea of looking into a game that brought you to tears limited? If so, make the trip to go see his favorite professional team or player. Or for a relaxing day, go to a local MiddleHigh school or the school play. You will love the energy. It is hard not to observe these guys are addicted to their hearts and souls into their games.
Still not convinced? Why do you show your romantic side of love with your husband to the sport in a playful and active. No matter what his favorite sport, you can easily find a way to participate.
Football fans: Throw the football with him in court. If you have never played football before or just your nails, use a Nerf ball WhenYou can attack, you can sneak a kiss.
Basketball fans: Shoot circles in the driveway. Now playing "horse". The winner will receive a back massage or cuddling after. This way, you both win!
Baseball Fans: Play catch with a ball of water on a hot summer day. Go to the batting cage. Or together on a softball league. This is a good exercise, and enjoying each other.
Hockey Fans: Dust off your skates, grab a hockey stick and a piece of the road and on the wayWhat you lose your man apart from a few centimeters thigh?
Fantasy Sports Fans: join his fantasy football, baseball or basketball championship. It's nice to know his friends and also for cool women. "You can also take part and win some games.
Golf fans: play golf together. Or, if your finances are solid, try a miniature golf game!
NASCAR fans: Visit the local galleries. Find two racing games that are so connected, you can in every raceother.
Tour de France fans: This is easy. They pack up a lunch and a few jugs of water on the wheel and.
What is expected is a feast for him. And the next time you watch an episode of Desperate Housewives, do not be surprised if you find your husband sitting next to you.
The attempt to create stylish and cozy and comfortable, it is very important on the slopes. There are so many different brands of ski clothes to choose, how can you ensure you find the right clothes and look great for a really enjoyable ski holiday. Here is an overview of the trends in women's clothing is Ski Fall-Winter 2008 -2009.
This season is the trend on the slopes, a mixture of Dr Zhivago and seventies downhill racing with big fur hat and striped models in Bluesand whites. The last element of ski clothing is all in one color with the latest technologies in fabric for maximum warmth and low mass. Skiers a technical base layer, followed by an intermediate layer and keep warm, covered with a layer of water to proof. The temperatures vary, however, and layers, so that you can cool, would be too hot.
Three major collections of women's ski clothing for fall and winter of 2008 and 2009 are as follows:
Black Diamond Rangewhite fur and blue with a polished finish for a true high-performance and attractive combination outfit.
Black Cross - The ski clothing for those who really want to look glam on the slopes. The whole collection is black with fur. The coat Avalanche ski is really getting on glam and that is certainly a place for those who want to turn heads.
E + O - This collection is still black, but a much more minimalist, with a parka with brown fur trim around hood.And "cool and chic of the moment.
Having lived and traveled in many parts of the country, it would be difficult, the reason I like living in Sarasota, Florida to refine. There are many reasons, but the main reason that it is now in January, It's 70 degrees there! I have my snow shovel, boots and jacket in Indiana!
Sarasota Suncoast is approximately 60 miles south of Tampa, Florida. With the completion of I-75, located in the Midwest, many here, this was a simple guide MichiganIndiana, Illinois and Ohio. There lived in the Midwest most of my life, I like to leave the house at this time of year, in shorts and a T-shirt!
Sarasota has a lot to offer, Siesta Key, one of the most beautiful beaches in the world, excellent restaurants, if you wish to eat a different place every night, and their lives are not at the same time, two restaurants! In addition to Siesta Key, many beaches, Longboat Key, Casey Key, Lido Beach, Bradenton Beach, and manyAdd to the beach, hopping success! Most of the houses in the area are either single-family houses and villas, offering the opportunity for families to rent homes for the winter.
Although the Ritz-Carlton in Sarasota property has, with some channels than others, there are really many rooms available, making it almost impossible to attack us from the spring break crowds every year.
Many civic and social activities abound, almost all clubs andOrganization in the United States has a facility in Sarasota. Sahib Temple, the local center of worship has a stake of about 2000 and presents itself as a center of the sanctuary of the most popular Shrinedom All Shriners are invited to attend at noon on Thursday was attended by around 200 Shriners.
Golf courses abound and the area is inhabited by many baseball teams in spring training.
Shopping centers and art galleries rich, as well as theaters and museums.
If you need toAway for the weekend, the Sarasota International Airport and I-75 offer this choice.
Sarasota has become the center of life in Southwest Florida, so that the position of choice in retirement in Florida.
What It Is ghost town that fascinates us?
It is the idea that people like us who took incredible risks to the possibility of a better life? We compare our lives to it - the same dreams, the same basic needs, and believe that it can stack against us seems insurmountable. A simple thing like the ability to keep warm is essential for us if she was a life-threatening challenge.
Each of us probably have our own unique attractionsIn the past, but I think it's the thought that people who enjoy the prosperity that would be committed unimaginable difficulties faced - only for the possibility of prosperity. It would probably be the epitaph of almost all who have emigrated Bodie, California. This high desert community was created for the sole purpose of obtaining wealth: gold!
Founded in 1859, was amended by Bodey and her partner, "Little Red" Taylor, the search for gold - the gold Bodey would never $ 400,000,000that was extracted from the earth. Only three months after finding the first traces of gold in August '59 Bodey died in a fierce snowstorm. This would have a warning to those who uprooted their families and have to travel. Even by today's standards Bodie is present literally in the middle of nowhere, so to leave a family, which is probably a comfortable house and a new life in what are described as hell on earth is an extreme seasons - unfathomable. Ironically, forthe lucky few who achieved economic success - more successful, and among those who paid the ultimate price. No place is further evidence that in the Bodie cemetery.
I visited several times over the years, Bodie. As a photographer and an explorer of the past, Bodie holds a unique charm that this time and space in a way a community lives lost past ghost story to tell their story. A trip to Bodie in particular, is characterized, among many others. Itwas the end of November 2005. As a photographer I often like to place, which for most of the season as they visit to avoid crowds of tourists. Not that I do not like with people - but try to capture the essence of a particular scene can be very frustrating, with hundreds of spectators. So, the visit of the winter and spring is the answer, and, unfortunately, it usually means bad weather. Sometimes, very seriously.
As I slowlybrought my jeep in the clearance of 13 miles on the road (the last 3) of gravel and dust, I often have seen the thermometer. When I was on Highway 395, he had read 30 degrees. Within 13 miles of this device and go to 8000, the temperature had dropped to 20 degrees, with clouds in the south. I remembered that I clamp to closely monitor the weather, such as Bodie, not a place you need it!
Coming at the end of the bumpy, dusty disc, is an incredibleExperience that is passed on the last hill, enter it in the eyes of Bodie, and roll the broad valley that surrounds it. Even in the late autumn grass of the desert and the brush was always full of life, with bright yellow and autumn-like colors. The remaining 50 buildings in Bodie look as though they would probably appeared more than a hundred years. It is hard to imagine that lies boomtown Bodie was once the home of more than 10,000 citizens! Today it is considered as the largest ghost town in the descriptionUnited States, is small compared to what there while hay per day.
When I saw the old city nearby, I noticed something amazing: I was alone! With the exception of a park ranger cars from the far north - as it seemed, there was no one there! Sure, it's still too early - 7:00, but even then it was very rare to find other visitors. It turns out that I am the unique experience with Bodie had me all day!
A storm is approaching
GreatPhotographs require that all elements are the dream of every photographer of the landscape in a place like this. Perfect light - an intense, warm, slightly sloping, dramatic clouds - rich in tone and contrast, as the wind as little as possible, and most importantly - a fascinating subject. This cold day in November was my day, since all these elements were in perfect order.
As I watched the storm approaching, I felt that was about 5 to 6 hours recording time left, if I do nothing, however, has a team of sled dogsto come! With such initial conditions of the shooting, I had quick decisions to take where to start and finish. If I would have waited as late as possible, the sun rose on the horizon, so that long shadow - perfect for the cemetery - where the sun is still visible. So I decided to spend the first hours of driving in the city.
One of the first shots of the day was the Dechambeau IOOF hotel with the adjacent building. That was the blowDay I left a very happy photographer. Of the many pictures that I've made over the years, generated just as much conversation about it. From an artistic point of view, keeps his eyes done, and that imagination ridiculed. Were from a technical point of view - as I said earlier, all the elements there, I was very happy!
Bodie is one of the more surprising as it is still preserved. While the center has never been a restorationalways in a state of arrested decay. Much of what you see is how it was ignored. As I wandered through the deserted streets, howling winds increase slightly through the slats of wood in the affected structures. I tried to take his hands go numb because of the great cold. Even with modern clothes, cold winter, was a reminder of what needs to eat to how the fight was, if we manage to survive the many years of hard winters. It is not surprising that many eventsDeath on the graves are during the winter months ... especially children.
One of Bodie is preserved in the Methodist Church. Ironically, given the hell-raising reputation of the city. Killings were not rare - usually drunk more disputes and fights game show. Bodie legendary stories are a young girl, said after learning that his family was moved Bodie, a short and simple note: "Goodbye God, I'll Bodie."
TheStorm seemed to south at a pace faster than I had expected. If I could, to some quality shots in the cemetery that I need to get the tempo! Working my way down Green Street, the wind increased in intensity, with each burst with its icy will penetrate deeply drilled. Since the wind is howling intensified, half the population has been falling heavily through the dark clouds - while the other half was wrapped in a vibrant, deep sky. Veryunusual, to say the least.
St. green is a long downhill, dirt and rock covered road full of weeds and sage. Belts my parka hood, so sore, my face against the cold, I wondered if perhaps 100 years before the children were playing on the same street. Simple games can be as kick-the-can. Or does the soul can be considered as a climate killer kept inside, almost a form of heat. I paused a moment, turned to introduce an open ear for the noiseLaughing children. The moment was brief, because the strong wind surrounded me with a strange, strange feeling .... as if I was not alone.
We can not be a realistic idea of life was very difficult without spending some time in the cemetery at Bodie. I do not know exactly how many times I visited Bodie, but each visit is always finishes in the cemetery. While reading the headstones, wondering how they fought to survive long enough to the fever of the "gold quiet, it is hoped --swept by a continuous search the city as a pandemic. Each stone tells a story. Plaques described a life that lasted only a few months, weeks or days, not infrequently in the cemetery at Bodie.
As I moved quietly to the cemetery, the creation of my easel, light measurement, shot over several floors - dark soon descend on the city, especially the cemetery. Gusts have begun to scatter the low gray sky ... Wind change the pitch of a soundThere is no comparison, to soon be signed.
But nothing could prepare me for what may be remarked a few moments the strange voice in the wind. Perhaps this was due to after a busy day, the bones cooling cold, the atmosphere of fatigue on the left. In any case, I suddenly felt as if I were monitored. A little girl. Shy, lonely behind a gravestone. Eventually, I met my inclusion of a tombstone that I have seen several times on previous trips - butNever during these conditions. As I looked through the viewfinder, I saw something that had for some reason I have never seen, which sent a shiver in my soul. The tombstone was photographed Arthor name - died on 11 November 1899.
My legal name is Arthur. Your birth date - the 11th November.
A strange coincidence, to say the least.
The snow began to fall harder, disappear visibility at any time I spent wondering whether I should call it a day.
When Imy Jeep on the dirt road, running away from me Bodie, I held on and took a moment to look back through the deserted city. With the hard snow, and the ridicule of the wind that literally rolls on the side, has a ghost town a little more light, dark, distant images into a white spot. A surreal, the eternal home of the past. I briefly thought about a photograph of the flight phase ... but he refused.
This picture that I am always there for me.
Our warmest parka for women
Dubai is the only ice bar opens in the region. This empire "of the Snow Queen" is installed at Times Square Center on the main street of the city, street Sheikh Zaed.
All elements in the inner line of the browser from the Chillout ice specially prepared, clear, without creating foreign inclusions, under the leadership of the company from Dubai, Sharaf Group. In addition to the traditional for the presidents of the institutions of the ice, tables and tools, Chilloutdecorated with an ice candelabrum of six feet in height and ice portieres.One of the main details of the decor is the portrait of the Dubai governor sheikh Mohammed bin Rasheda Ali-Maktuma. Also executed from the cleanest ice, it shimmers with all the necessary colors which appear due to special refraction of light.
On the bar's entrance each visitor is dressed in warm parka with a hood, given out disposable warm gloves, and, if necessary, special footwear. In order not harm new Furniture, it can be more than 45 people at the bar, in the same time.
Chillout is the first ice bar where drinks were served sandwiches and salads, in advance, so that the temperature cooled balance remained. It is also the most similar kind on the introduction and the lighting is by company representatives Sharaf Group.
"Dubai is open for an ice bar to a real breakthrough" - that Ibrahim Sharaf,Sharaf owner of the group, during the press conference - "the whole world would be less than a similar institution in the heart of the desert heat dream. But we have our dream come true and I am very proud of it.
Today, the Ice Bar in different countries.
Last year, my husband and I a trip to Hawaii with a group of friends who have traveled with us in the past six years. We divided the tasks: to visit the islands, where the best places to stay, and what things we have had "experience was on a visit to Maui and Kauai. Touring the Grand Canyon" of Kauai helicopter was definitely a "must .
Our friend Tony has taken the initiative for us to find the "Cadillac" of the helicopter tour. He gave usA link to the website so that we can see that there would be luxury helicopter and were able to read what they expect from the tour. I chatted with a few people who had taken the same tour, wept abundantly on some volcanoes listen to background music was definitely the right way. Although I suffered from panic attacks when I flew in the past with the help of therapy, nutrition and "better living through drugs", I was ready, to the BoardChopper.
About a week before our trip, we met for dinner at the home of our friends in the last few minutes all the details go on our vacation. Tony spotted a helicopter, even better than we expected and in fact, he thinks that if our current tour has been, considered the Cadillac of helicopter tour, the news of the Ferrari "was helicopters. Encouraged by the collective joy, love and enthusiasm in our group, we all agreed to changeFerrari Tours.
This is what I affectionately term give "The effect of helicopters" so much attention, perhaps because you've had it with you too. My life has been very busy at this time. I was still with the consulting firm and has long since abandoned my university only to frolicking in green meadows. Seeking not only to all of my professional obligations to follow, but also - and interviews with two new positions, they leave established. I say thistry to find some semblance of sense in my head, then, why, why you do not always come to mind:
a.) ask Tony to clarify that meant the difference between "Ferrari" and "Cadillac" for him.
b. Find) out exactly what is "understood the helicopter without doors to;
c.) Check the website to see the new tricks "to learn what the helicopter with no doors and, as the driving circuit of Ferrari.
No, I trusted my friend Tony counsel in the darkShadows of my fear and blind create my own definition of what would bring this new tour with him. In my head, without validation by words or pictures, I thought that our helicopters are of the same type we had seen pictures before) (Large and luxury, means that "without doors was" indicates that the apostrophe in the form of Port a helicopter that was normal would simply be deported "from the scope of the back door, and we would be fully insured in our leather bucketSeats with a multi-faceted, multi-winged bar with a padded seat belt in a row, finally folded and locked into position for added protection.
I did everything possible to deceive me by my imagination. Stay with me now that I am describing what actually happened.
The whole way up to the minute of our tour by helicopter, I continued to have the same fantasy that I could live comfortably on that risk. Even when we drove up to the heli-port and helicopters monitored painfully limitedSong, I thought they were really small helicopter helicopter mechanics, "which meant that they were used for our tour of the mechanics to a great luxury that I was so sure to be in order.
We also saw a tape of the visit, and we have seen that these small helicopters were used for the visit. I think that moment began to close in my opinion, too. No further information can be reconfigured. As we walked toward ourHelicopter and has seen the group before he returned with a very frightening man with a face pale gray, and vomiting at the chest, as his friends were hanging their necks, I realized that maybe this helicopter flight s' was not such that can be cracked.
Then we actually have for our long-awaited tour by entering one of those little helicopter "engineer prepared. When we say "no connection" with these results, their significance, not walls. Gone are the, plush bucket seats are comfortable dream. Instead, we had a metal bench with seat belts, because it is located in an old Honda Civic. That was it. Oh, plus the nylon just above the head, where you could keep all my power. I told you that my hands sweat uncontrollably when I'm nervous? We have the headphones, but there was no piped music. Only the hum of helicopters and not agitated voice of our pilot, was among other things, old enough to be my son, if I had children. Wearing a winter Big Huge> Padding parka and boots. We, of course, in shorts and have a tan T-shirts, when we arrived at the waterfall for lunch.
The next thing I knew, when we were surrounded by a helicopter that was what felt like 1000 feet almost immediately the wind began to blow in all directions repealed. I really thought at that moment that I am completely done "to me this time.
My husband and I were sitting on the bench and our handsglowed, and sweat. I could not see because I was also afraid of this adventure, as I am. If the pilot flew over the Grand Canyon is actually the tip of the helicopter on the one hand, we can better see the wall without doors. Later, I learned a few days after landing, my husband and I both share the same thoughts macabre A.) What are these tapes ole belt at all? b) What would happen if suddenly"Out have" raised and the seat belt and jumped only to this terrible fear more !?!?! If I had known that David had been thinking the same thing, we took in May in a huge mess trying to start as the first to helicopters.
Needless to say, not that we are returning to their home country. What I learned was from this adventure:
To require 1.) enlightenment if you take chances, even if you're not sure what it is;
2.) ArrivedClarity, to sit with information on how to take the risk to yourself and then make your decision if you want it or not;
3rd) It's good to say no
4.) When it is said that the helicopter has no doors, it's serious!
Be prepared to spend the "stories" you tell yourself the day notice, you might be surprised to see how you can be creative and be a step towards recognition of how your thoughts the way for the actions youtake.
Copyright 05/02/06
