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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 16, 2015 - 08:16am PT
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On another front.
Stem Cells Can Repair Damaged Spinal Cord, Says Scholar
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Persons diagnosed with diabetes, Parkinson’s disease, cardiac failure and those suffering from irreparable injury as spinal cord can benefit from [stem cell technoloy].
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“What do these diseases all have in common? They are all not so much caused by something going wrong within a cell or organ, but are caused by complete loss of a specific cell type … Stem cells have the prospect of a cure as they offer the opportunity to put back into the body brand new functioning cells to replace those which have been damaged or degenerated.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJz2VI_SqoQ
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2015 - 08:42am PT
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Never been to...[Click to View YouTube Video]
As the crow flies, it is 208.5 miles from Chula Vista to the town of Needles, CA.
I mean, if you knew how, you'd fly, right?
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A few minutes ago I opened the blinds again, having gone back to bed for a few hours. My, my, my, there's no Farmers Market today!
I had to check the local paper, the Sun-Stroke, to find what's the haps with this. It's simply moved. Now I have to walk three blocks instead of one to get (expensive, but organic) fruits and veggies.
http://www.mercedsunstar.com/news/local/article17903204.html
This news is not as big as a lot of stories, I realize.
The Dawn Wall, for instance, or the Nepal Earthquake.
Or the fact that the Solstice will arrive soon, relatively soon, that is. It's on June 21 this year.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2015 - 01:18pm PT
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Hey, Fritz!
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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May 16, 2015 - 02:42pm PT
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Great photo! Reminds me of my gram at that age. People who give up at living miss so much. We are often capable of much more than we know. Good for her!
My plan is to give up mountains and wilderness when I die in them. Until then, I intend to keep on having entirely too much fun, most of it where there are few people and more rocks and trees.
I know how lucky I am to have the choices I do. And lucky that I can make new choices every day. whiny voice (but I chose today to be sunshiny and warm, but it is cloudy, cold and raining!) close whiny voice. okay, choices about some things.
ff
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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May 16, 2015 - 02:47pm PT
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zB,
First off, I am sorry you had such evil in your neighborhood. I am glad they are gone. Yes, not merely greedy, but predatory and horribly twisted. I often wonder if there is any hope for people that far from any human standards.
Now then, do you know if our own stem cells can be harvested and preserved, for use throughout our lives if needed? I imagine there is a genome data set for matching stem cells, if in fact they need to be matched. Maybe any old stem cell will do. I am clueless on this subject. And you would be perfectly right to tell me to go read it myself. :)
ff
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2015 - 02:48pm PT
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Have you finished yur chores, young'un? :0)
I just posted to Another Pottery Lottery about Merced's fifth-leading industry in the 1920s.
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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May 16, 2015 - 05:43pm PT
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LOL
Yes, sir, all my chores are done. I even dusted some stuff, and I HATE to dust. Now I am listening to Constance Demby's music and checking on tribes and emails.
It is still raining.
Warm and peaceful night to everyone. I think I will go watch a silly movie.
feralfae
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 16, 2015 - 07:38pm PT
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ff will get back to ya
OK. What I recall at this point is that the stem cells injected in the knee by the doctors at Regenexx in Colorado are taken from around the lower spine and then either injected directly or sometimes cultured first then injected. Not covered by insurance at the time. I'm going to do a re-check on the status of the procedure and insurability.
Million dollar tank bash
Meanwhile, it was twenty years ago today. Encounter-wise, like the TP's, most flames probably don't find this sort of thing in their respectable/respective neighborhoods.
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Drought watch.
What is avocado tree stumping? It stumped me, I had to look it up. Trees are cut totally back, stumps painted white and then not watered for a year. Then normal watering is resumed and they grow back.
I got the redline treatment on totaly and whilst doing some research on legitimate alternative spellings, I found (some might say encountered) these folks. Another totally new one on me.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 17, 2015 - 07:25am PT
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I am not anti bolt or pro bolt
I am not pure or trying to claim
Any superior style, safety is
Today's test of what to do to the rock.
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The modern technology is so good it would
Be a great service to add new bolts to the old ones,
leaving both as an example of progress ?!
while I have banged pins and rail road spikes, taped and (cheated, glued) hooks , tied off placements to secure the direction, tried to lead climbs by all manner of tricks
In the, off grid, lost to memory, places I mostly haunt.
I was in the Gunks as a child with Appies,
Who banged pins in and back out.
I am a proud follower of 'as clean as can be' - or top rope.
Jstn was leading the charge to change things in the '70s? In the Gunks .
By '76? It was very rare to see a hammer, although you sure still heard 'em!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 17, 2015 - 05:19pm PT
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The Flaming Blues Hour
9 DBs
Duster Bennett
DB - " I Wonder If You Know (How It Feels)"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtlCQEJutdQ
DB - “Jumping At Shadows”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-ZdaNfBH4
DB - ‘’Smiling Like I’m Happy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hItmFaskeZE
DB - “Bright Lights, Big City”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3MMqTVXoM
DB - “It’s a Man Down There”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdpUY7_4Sl0
DB - “Just Like a Fish”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrJlNBOUyHM
DB - “Fresh Country Jam”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g66XF-YlOqM
DB - “I Want You To Love Me (Love Me Like You Can)”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCaAcHf9_Wk
DB – “I Wonder, I Wonder” (featuring Peter Green)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vHjLg6YQkU
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First heard of DB at a Mayall concert in Sacramento, 1970.
Bennett was born in Welshpool, Powys, Mid Wales. Emerging in the late 1960s from the art school music scene of Kingston-upon-Thames and Guildford,
Bennett was a one-man blues band with virtuosity and co-ordination on drums, guitar and harmonica.
His live sets combined his own compositions with Jimmy Reed-style blues standards often aided by friends
Peter Green and Top Topham.
He was a session musician in the early 1960s playing harmonica.
Between 1968 and 1970 he was played on John Peel's Top Gear, toured and eventually joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers
as band member/solo act on a US tour in 1970 (which included Sacramento).
After performing with Memphis Slim on 26 March 1976, Bennett was driving home in a Ford Transit van in Warwickshire
when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel. The van collided with a truck and Bennett was killed.
For decades, a clutch of live and home recordings on Indigo seemed to be all that remained of his work
until the 2006 release of the Complete Blue Horizon Sessions.
--Wikipedia
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 17, 2015 - 07:35pm PT
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The NEW NEW MONDAY MORNING WALL BLUES
The blues got me surrounded
And I ain't got a chance
Them blues got me surrounded
And I don't stand a chance
Ain't got me no overcoat
Too many holes in my pants
My rope's had too many falls
And my shoes need new soles
Yeah my rope's held too many falls
And my shoes could use new soles
I stand in that hot hot sun
All day long just drillin' holes
We climbed one pitch today
It was very blank and steep
We did one pitch today
Hot and very blank and steep
My partner just keeps sayin'
Bleep-bleep-bleep and still more bleep
Mama when will this climb end
Will it go and will we send
Mama will this bad-ass end
Will we do it Will we send
Will champagne flow up above
Will you meet me there my love
The blues got me surrounded
And I ain't got a chance
Them blues got me surrounded
And I don't stand a chance
Ain't got me no overcoat
Too many holes in my pants
Come on meet me and we'll dance
--Rocky Trueline on Reachin' For the Sky (Merry Undertakers Music)
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - May 17, 2015 - 09:17pm PT
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Dean has reached the end of his rope, and it's so saddening.
Condolences to all his friends and to his family.And to those close to his partner, GRAHAM HUNT, as well. May he also rest well.
On May 16, 2015, Potter and Graham Hunt were killed while attempting a wingsuit flight from Taft Point above Yosemite Valley.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 18, 2015 - 06:24am PT
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Only text for awhile,
I was finally just able to watch ,
all the way thru - Valley Uprising.
On Saterday night,
how do you spell
Weird creepy
Saterday night.
My best friends six or seven have
Died from spring fever over the years
Now Decades past I think of them
Joe
Eric
Claude
Paul
While I stayed behind
and ran life's race,
So many times over the years as others of high flame have moved along
Shucked off this mortal husk and traded in mortality, for a place in the firmament
I have wondered aloud
Why God ?
And never a good answer
From her surly breast,
( my auto correct won't spell Bujumbura no bus um, if you get that)
Past reflection on extremes - pull up short at forty years of age!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 18, 2015 - 07:52am PT
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Condolences to all the Hunt and Potter tribe and especially to Jennifer.
I never met him, but he was one I would have enjoyed talking to.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 18, 2015 - 08:11am PT
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I never win any of these, but is the AM analog of the gloaming, the crack of dawn? I know it's not the FM analog.
These folks aren't much help on this one, unless maybe you're multilingual. Thugamar Féin An Samhradh Linn is a traditional Irish tune sung on May Day (Lá Bealtaine)
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Gaeilge (Irish)
Bábóg na Bealtaine, maighdean an tSamhraidh,
Suas gach cnoc is síos gach gleann,
Cailíní maiseacha bán-gheala gléasta,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.
Samhradh buí na nóinín glégeal,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.Thugamar linn é ón gcoill chraobhaigh,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.
Samhradh buí ó luí na gréine,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.
Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.
Samhradh buí na nóinín glégeal,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.
Tá an fhuiseog ag seinm ‘sag luascadh sna spéartha,
Áthas do lá is bláth ar chrann.
Tá an chuach is an fhuiseog ag seinm le pléisiúr,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.
Samhradh, samhradh, bainne na ngamhna,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.
Samhradh buí na nóinín glégeal,
Thugamar féin an samhradh linn.
Foghraíocht (Phonetics)
Baw-bog na Bal-tin-a, my-jin on Tau-ree
Soo-us gokh kruk iss she-os gokh glan,
Col-yeen-ee my-shokh go gyal-guy-rokh glayas-ta,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.Sa-u-roo, Sau-roo, bon-ya na nyow-na,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.
Sa-u-roo bwee na no-ih-neen glay-gyal,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.Hug-a-mar lin ay oo-n gill khreev-ee,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.
Sa-u-roo bwee o lee na grayn-ya,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.
Sa-u-roo, Sau-roo, bon-ya na nyow-na,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.
Sa-u-roo bwe-e na no-ih-neen glay-gyal,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.
Taw on ish-yog eg shen-yim seg loos-coo sna spayr-ha,
Aw-hus duh law iss bl-aw air khran.
Taw on khooikh iss on ish-yog eg shen-yim le play-zhure,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.
Sa-u-roo, Sau-roo, bon-ya na nyow-na,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.
Sa-u-roo bwe-e na no-ih-neen glay-gyal,
Hug-a-mar hayn on Sau-roo lin.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 18, 2015 - 08:29am PT
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Queens of The Stone Age - Outlaw Blues
Dedicated to Whisper
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"I can't speak for Dean, but I can say that if I were in his position—knowing that I had done the best that I could do and my motives were pure and my execution was pure in the highest style—if other people choose to misinterpret what I've done, that's their business," he says. "I don't have to bow down and apologize for doing what I did just because you have an opinion that's counter to it." - Eric Perlman
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 18, 2015 - 08:43am PT
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I think Whisper was safe, but he still he looks scared.
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Max on the other hand is diggin' it
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feralfae
Boulder climber
in the midst of a metaphysical mystery
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May 18, 2015 - 09:01am PT
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zB:
translation, first verse: (Translate Google does a good job with many languages. And there is babel fish, etc.)
May Doll, Summer virgin,
Up hill and down every valley,
Beautiful girls Graceful white-dressed,
We brought the summer linn.Samhradh, summer, the calves milk,
We brought the summer with us.
Daisy yellow summer of brightly lit,
We brought the summer we linn.Thugamar from branching wood,
We brought the summer with us.
Summer of sunset yellow,
We brought the summer with us.
Summer, summer, the calves milk,
We brought the summer with us.
Daisy yellow summer of brightly lit,
We brought the summer with us.
The lark playing 'sag swinging in the skies,
Pleased to day flower tree.
The cuckoo is the lark is singing with joy,
We brought the summer with us.
Summer, summer, the calves milk,
We brought the summer with us.
Daisy yellow summer of brightly lit,
We brought the summer with us.
Thank you zB, it's a beautiful piece.
ff
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