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JESSE
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Quote: | Originally posted by Dave
Quote: | Originally posted by JESSE
If you live near a bunch of poor Mexicans and have nice things in your property, you are asking for it. And if you are not well liked by your Mexican
neighboors because of your attitude, that might also get you into trouble. |
At best, that's pretty unflattering.
What you are saying is that poor Mexicans can't resist the temptation to steal and that angered Mexicans steal out of spite.
My experience has been:
Regardless of economic hardship, an honest person would never steal and a thief (Mexican/American, rich/poor) will take advantage of any opportunity.
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Dave,
Maybe i didnt explain myself correctly, i meant that if you live near a bunch of poor Mexicans, its almost a sure thing that some thieves will live in
the area, the kind of thieves that break into homes and steal your stereo. And while Mexicans wont steal from you out of spite, they will look the
other way if a nasty neighboor is getting looted.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Baja Bernie
On your side on this---The poorer the Mexican the more honest --it has always seemed to me--More than Gringos if you are friendly and helpful they
always respond in kind--Thus my saying developed after a whole bunch of years---BAJA IS ABOUT PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE. |
Depends on the poor Bernie, Baja sur town poor i agree with you, but Tijuana poor or los Cabos poor i dont. You wont get any kindness from city poor
at all.
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Baja Bernie
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The devil made me to it
Jack was sitting in an airplane when another guy took the seat beside him. The new guy was an absolute wreck, pale, hands shaking, biting his nails
and moaning in fear.
"Hey, pal, what's the matter?" Jack asked.
"Oh man... I've been transferred to California," the other guy
answered. "There's crazy people in California and they have shootings, gangs, race riots, drugs, the highest crime rate..."
"Hold on," Jack interrupted, "I've lived in California all my life, and
it is not as bad as the media says. Find a nice home, go to work, mind your own business, enroll your kids in a good school and it's as safe as
anywhere in the world."
The other passenger relaxed and stopped shaking for a moment and said, "Oh, thank you. I've been worried to death, but if you live there and say it's
OK, I'll take your word for it. What do you do for a living?"
"Me?" said Jack, " Oh, I'm a tail gunner on a Budweiser truck in Oakland."
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Skeet/Loreto
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My 2 Cents Worth
Living in Baja and the United States I believe that Thievy in both places has changed as both of our Cultures have changed in the Past 5 0 years.
I have always heard that the worst are in Belize.
As Moral Standards become less and less, Crime will increase in all places.
Skeet/Loreto
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elizabeth
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Quote: | Originally posted by Braulio
Long story short violent crime including murder in Mexico was about double that of the US. (I'll reference if there's interest.) Since that time
violent crime in Mexico has increased - and decreased in the US.
For me - I take a walk every night in the US after about 10pm - I wouldn't dream of doing that in any mid/big sized city in Mexico.
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Whoops...hit the button too soon.
The Mexico/US murder statistics are definitely not what I had thought they would be...so, yes, if you can find that reference easily, I'd like to see
it.
I agree with you that safety is more about where you are in either country than the country as a whole. That being said, I do walk at night in medium
sized Mexican cities (Hermosillo, Oaxaca, Campeche, etc.), but wouldn't think of it in most of San Francisco or Oakland!!!
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Yes Elizabeth
For Many years a woman could walk the Beaches of La Paz with out any Fear, that has changed in the past 10 years.
In Loreto we could leave our money in our Motel Room while fishing.
When I went to work in Hollywood in 1959, I felt safe everywhere but South Central. Now I would not go anywhere near Hollywood.
When Self-Control is lost in any Culture there will be Danger.
Skeet/Loreto
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Skeet
You got that right. Self control and responsibility are the root of the problem. Unfortunately neither are supplied at birth. Look at a child under
3years--no self control and no sense of responsiblity. It has to be taught and that used to happen in the home, community, school and religious
organizations. AND it usually involved negative reinforcement.
Now self esteem seems to have replaced responsibility. And fewer have any regard for self control.
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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Elizabeth -
It's no problem - check out:
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/seventh_survey/567svc.pdf
Page 23 has homicide stats.
These are the numbers as reported by the police.
The last I had looked at this thing was several years ago - it must have been the survey # 5.
For those who don't want to take 5 minutes for this thing to load - in 1998 there were 14,216 intentional homicides reported by the Mexican police -
in the US there were 14,276 reported - normalizing for population differences - well - you do the math.
In other words according to this survey there were about 3 times as many intentional homicides per capita in Mexico as the US in 1998.
Personally I think a lot less crime gets reported in Mexico - but I can't say how much less. Where there's a homicide there's a body - so I would
expect homicide reporting to be more realistic than some other crime survey data - but that's just my take on it.
I have friends who are cops in Mexicali - there a lot of times they'll take offenders of say minor drug offenses and just drop them off in another
part of the city or out in some colonia or something. No report.
But as we stated before - it's all pretty much irrelevant - it's more important to know what neighborhood you're in.
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BTW Elizabeth - I go to Hermosillo frequently - I consider that to be one of the more dangerous cities in Mexico -there's a ton of drug/gang/theft
stuff going on there - much worse than Mexicali - I guess we've had some different experiences.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Braulio
BTW Elizabeth - I go to Hermosillo frequently - I consider that to be one of the more dangerous cities in Mexico - |
Now you tell me!!!
Thanks for the link...I'll check it out.
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RandyMacSC/SO
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Looking for individual(s) collaborative(s) to help change the world......
Quote: | Originally posted by Baja Bernie
You got that right. Self control and responsibility are the root of the problem. Unfortunately neither are supplied at birth. Look at a child under
3years--no self control and no sense of responsiblity. It has to be taught and that used to happen in the home, community, school and religious
organizations. AND it usually involved negative reinforcement.
Now self esteem seems to have replaced responsibility. And fewer have any regard for self control. |
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I am very inspired to read of your indivdual thoughts on such issues, as I thought today was the day to see if anyone might be interested in testing
and providing feeback to a slightly offcenter kind of guy such as myself that is designing some innovative new indvidual collaborative software tools
to make individual collaborative ideas and processes way easier to communicate messages of hope?
Are there any Baja Nomad's out there that feel that many software tools have become way too complicated to be truly useful to the average user to
collaborate their thoughts down to communicate a message to collaborate with other individuals to help improve the lives of the many that are not so
fortunate to even know what a computer is, let alone over hope to have acess to one, or even be able to use one?
Are there any brave souls out there on the Baja Nomad board that would be interested in being individual(s) collaborator(s), to assist and want to
help a slightly off-center back in the saddle former world-class software designer gone to Europe, and now back to Canada to continue with a dream to
deliver innovative new software tools that can allow individuals to easily collaborative on small change management kind issues tohelp change the
world.
To simply this: I have been very busy for quite some time, and have been working on and with some innovative individual(s) collaborator(s) from around
the globe to come up with new innovative individual collaborative software tools to help change the world for the better?
I am looking for some feedback and help, and I know that many Baja Nomads do care about the Baja and also care about the rest of the world, and I am
seeking some feedback and help from individuals that can and will collaborate with others such as myself to help change the world.
The opportunity is Now, to make some positive changes, and changes are happening and in process now, and regardless of age, diversity of background,
race, creed, color and belief system, I am seeking brave Nomads of Change to help change the world.
Am I a little off my noodle to think that this is possible? Perhaps I am, but I do believe in human spirit of full individual collaborative potential,
and even though you may not be that fluent in using software, or know much about software, software user interfaces, tool user interfaces, software
design, and the less sophisticated a software user that you are the better, as truly innovative and easy to use useful collaborative software is not
an easy task to conceptualize, design, develop, create, test, refocus to hit the mark to allow the intended target audience, to make use of it to
collaborate, so the first version is in process and it will take some time to implement further, so it can be completed and made available to the
masses.
Such an tasks requires individuals of the collaborative kind and I am seeking some help from Baja Nomads, I that more flexible easy to use useful
software can one day be added to Baja Nomad current mix of useful tools that exist here already, if Doug Means and many others feel that some new
tools could help to change this board for the better, and allow users to better communicate their individual potential thoughts and ideas to each
other. I have been dreaming up and working hard on some innovative new collaborative software tools in hopes that Nomad's would be interested to help
give some feedback d maybe interested in test these new tools out one day to help Change the world.
Back in the early 1980?s I had a vision and a dream to create innovative new ways that would allow people to collaborate in animated moving pictures,
sound, music, and interactivity, many years ago, and some thought I was off my noodle for considering the move to quit my first real job, at Teck
Cominco Limited in my home town of Trail, BC Canada to start designing software professionally back in 1986 to help change the world. The task was not
an easy process, but it was a real fun one, and the software that I originally conceived in my minds eyes, and in my slightly off-center noodle way I
was able to collaborate with many people to allow the average Jo/Jane user to put their visual thoughts into motion, and I recently decided to open up
some more to some individuals of the collaborative kind, that it is possible as individuals to get involved and collaborate to help change the world.
Would any of you be interested in individually collaborating with me and some other innovative people that I am currently working wit in this huge
task endeavor? The software designers exist, and now that I am interested in collaborating some of you, and if you want to hang your hat on something
to say you helped to individual contribute of small spiral change management kind, I would very much like to hear from you, as I have always planned
plan to source out some brave Nomads to help me.
Are you interested in helping to change the world for the better, and I promise that it won't take up much of your valuable time, and you can drop
out, come back in at any time if your intentions to do such are of pure heart and soul to give some feedback?
Interested? I do hope so, as many Nomads of the Baja kind on this very message board and a very good one at that, (my hats off to you all and Doug
Means for making it possible, as this very board has helped to transform and change my life for the better since I first became a BajaNomad way back
before I was so delightfully given a humbling moniker of Special Correspondent on Baja Nomad. To come up with cartoons, is a real joy source to me,
and creating magic and teaching others to learn and then create smiles with magic is my choice of smiles to make other people smile, and I do want to
put something back into the process of change, on this very message board if the tasks can be accomplished and I do believe I am up to the challenge,
as true Baja Nomad?s are very considerate thoughtful thought provoking positive people, and I do believe there are some on this very message board
that might want to help change the world for the better.
Still interested in contributing?
If you have a dream of changing the world for the better what would you do?
Please do tell me your interest, as I am very interested to learn and hear from you and your feedback is very much appreciated.
Sincerely,
RandyMac
Special Correspondent on Baja Nomad, slightly off beat Nomad, and a Slightly Off-Center kind of guy that wants to collaborate with some individuals to
come up with further designs of plan, and I have been working on this huge task to come up with elegant easy to use software tools of the
collaborative kind behind the scenes for the past few years, and most recently in the past 5 months to come up with innovative new ways to create
software tools to help change the world.
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Ole' Irish saying (Gaelic): 'Go neirigh an bothar leat, go mbeidh an gaoth choiche sa droim agat, is go mbeidh tu thuas ar neamh leath-uair roimh is
eol don diabhal go bhuil tu marbh'.... OR 'May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind always be at your back, and May you be in Heaven a half hour
before the Devil knows you're dead'
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I am currently working a small change is possible...
manifesto, which focuses on positive individual collaborative changes, or "How to be heard within a herd, if you have some innovative new ideas and
are not allowed to be herd within a herd"
My report back to some real nice people well intentioned people in Europe will be sent soon, after I get some rest. i will back at it, as I went to
Europe with a plan, to find and meet some innovative of idea people, and it was a most enjoyable journey, and time well spent, and this is just part
of the overall processs, and altought I may be vague of the purposes, I have some good reasonsas to why I can't post more right now.
Innovative new software tools of the easy to use software tool kind, are necessary to help insitute positive changes in processes of management,
through encouragement to change the hearts and minds of many people, and there are a number of contributors that will be adding their thoughts and
ideas to this small change manifesto docuemnt of the spiral of life kind, and the goal is a noble mission, and my little dream and goal is to find out
what people would want and need if people who desire to collaborate as individuals of small innovative change and can and could havel access to some
innovative software tools if made available to them, so they can then help change the world. through collaborative individual thoughts of
encouragement.
it's the luck of the Irish day today, March 17th, and I am borne of Irish/Scotish/North American Indian decent, and I am learning new languages and
ways to better communicate with people around the globe.
I was working bymyself for some years and then with some other individuals, and now a few have been added to the matrix mic, to find out if it is
possible to work with some individuals that have a similar goal to that of myself, to conceptualize, design and then make collaborative software tools
more easy to use and truly useful, to the average user of software, and in the next few weeks I will be posting more information on this very
important subject, to Baja Nomad, as I feel that timing is everything, as synergies and synchroniscities of positive change management are in th air,
and the world is ready for some major positive changes.
There are tons of software tools out there, to help share and communicate ideas, but how many of them are way too complicated to allow the average
Jo/Jane application or web software end user to be truly useful? Many lay claim to be worthy of laying claim that such software tools allow most evey
user to use them to make their life ieasier and much more enjorable a process.
More details in due time, as I have to get some sleep, as it has been a long and very enjoyable journey to Geneva Switzerland, Lausanne, and where I
based myself out of in Divonne les Baines France, and now I have come back from Europe to my home town of Trail BC, and even though I have been up for
well over 45 hours and it is an exciting time for me, and even though it is not not so healthy, to keep posting messages, I plan to get some good
sleep to readjust my internal biotimeclock back on PST (Pacific Standard Time) so I can better focus in this subject later.
I have trust and faith, in people that want to help change the world, and make it a more enjoyable place for all to live, and although it may sound
utopian, and belief in positive changes matters most, and lives can be saved, and know that many Baja Nomads are good solid people and I very much
hope that you can give me some feedback.
Some of the questions to ask are as follows and I appreciate any feedback, and I do mean any feedback:
randyMac, you are nots and off your noodle?
Perhaps, but I am having the blast of my life right now, and I am on a focus of positive change in my own life and I so much want to help others to
realize their own dreams to help change the world for the better, and software was my passion and gig, as I have worked and collaborated with many
real smart people, and many end users to receive feedback from them over the past 20 or so years to create innovative software that has helped to
change the world for many corporations and people. I am not so interested in money, as my goal is to contribute to positive change in the world.
I have been very fortunate lately, and especiially over the past year, and even though I seem slightly offcenter, for some reason my life has been
spared many times, and perhaps, just perhaps, it is a result of what I am working on. I can't explain why, but Ive had some close calls of the go to
the next stage kind, and there has to be a reason why?
I believe that education of young people and new tools of small change can be conceptualized, developed, and made available on the world wide web to
help change peoples lives. I had suffered depression some time back, and I credit this very board and the very inpsiring people that contribute
psitive feedback of small change is good change, and your stories and messages of hope have always inspired me to be a better person. Being present
and part of BajaNoamd message board has very much helped me and change my life for the better.
I was in Europe and I also did my magic kind of thingy to insopire and then help, and even teach many people to give back to society through being
positive not negative, and I was so happy with the feedback that my little effort of small change is good change had on many people over in Europe.
I am so exicted I can hardly think of sleeping right now, but it is necessary.
How can individuals truly and easily collaborate with virtual whiteboards of the software kind?
Is software far to complicated for you to make any changes in your life, let alone anyone elses life?
If you could change the world, what would you do if you could snap your fingers and create or have some softare magically appear that allows you to be
more collaborative and productive ti implement innovative ideas tinto positive change management?
Time for me to get some sleep and I will dream about the feedback that I hope to encourage from you by placing this message on this thread.
RandyMac
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Ole' Irish saying (Gaelic): 'Go neirigh an bothar leat, go mbeidh an gaoth choiche sa droim agat, is go mbeidh tu thuas ar neamh leath-uair roimh is
eol don diabhal go bhuil tu marbh'.... OR 'May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind always be at your back, and May you be in Heaven a half hour
before the Devil knows you're dead'
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A little hint at some of the reasons why I went over to Europe instead of heading....
to the Baja back in December.
Things happen for a reason or so I believe, and ealing myself from the inside out has been a real proces, and quite enjoyable when I can reflect back
on te long process. I'm still going to be slightly off-center in my metods and appraoches, and here is one such article that might piont to wo or why
I was over in Geneva area, and then France. and now back here to continue the process of my small change management:
Melatonin dictates body cycles and its production is cyclical. The pineal produces melatonin only at night, when blood levels of the substance are 10
to 15 times higher than during the day. This helps explain why people become drowsy at night. It also helps explain why shift work and long-distance
air travel disrupt body rhythms. Dr. Reiter himself takes 1 milligram of melatonin at night as a sleep aid.
A second cycle is associated with melatonin. Dr. Reiter said the length of nightfall affects melatonin production and thus behavior in general. For
example, he said, long summer days contribute to a primitive instinct to reproduce. Shorter days, such as those in winter, may affect moods and
contribute to a form of depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder.
A third cycle makes Dr. Reiter think melatonin is the key to understanding aging.
"As we age, our melatonin rhythm becomes attenuated. Your nighttime peak for melatonin production becomes lower and lower, which may explain why you
age faster as you get older. The likelihood of getting a degenerative disease such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's increases exponentially as you age.
Now we think that may in part relate to the loss of the very strong protectant agent in melatonin," said Dr. Reiter, who said additional research will
help resolve these important issues.
"The reduction in melatonin output as we age speeds up our rendezvous with death by decreasing our best protection against aging and the oxidants
implicated in diseases associated with aging," Dr. Reiter said.
More on the connections to the Baja, BajaNomad, and some real bright imteresting people that frequent this site, and also travel to other parts of
Mexico and the Yucatan later.
RandyMac
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Ole' Irish saying (Gaelic): 'Go neirigh an bothar leat, go mbeidh an gaoth choiche sa droim agat, is go mbeidh tu thuas ar neamh leath-uair roimh is
eol don diabhal go bhuil tu marbh'.... OR 'May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind always be at your back, and May you be in Heaven a half hour
before the Devil knows you're dead'
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The prolonged release melatonin tablet...
and how is this connected, way back many years ago, and why am I posting this here. The natives of the baja have some inoovative ideas to help heal
people, and even thoug emlatonin works for me, it may not work for others.
There are alternatives, that are less pharma based, nad more natural and better for human use to cure people of diseases etc. The local natives in
Mexico know this, and here is yet another article to further the hint of why I went to take alook see etcetera in Switzerland area for the past few
months:
The brain's disease-buster substance
As far back as 300 B.C., the Greek physicians Herophilus and Erasistratus thought they understood the pineal gland, a part of the brain that resembles
a pea-sized pine cone. They said it was the valve that controlled the flow of memory.
By the 17th century, French scientist Rene Descartes had a new explanation. He concluded that the pineal gland was the seat of man's very soul.
None of the ancients knew that the pineal gland produces a hormone called melatonin. Melatonin was only discovered in 1958.
Russel J. Reiter, PhD, professor of cellular and structural biology, has devoted nearly 30 years to pineal research and has become one of the foremost
authorities on melatonin. In 1993, his group published what he describes as his most exciting findings.
Melatonin, Dr. Reiter said, is a potent anti-oxidant. Anti-oxidants neutralize "free radicals," renegade molecules implicated in cancer and diseases
associated with aging such as Alzheimer's.
What seems most significant is that melatonin levels decline as people age, stripping their defenses against disease. "In short," Dr. Reiter said,
"melatonin may control our fate."
Landmark discoveries about melatonin have been coming from Dr. Reiter's laboratory for years. He is credited with earlier findings that helped show
how melatonin runs the body's clock for sleep, reproduction and moods. Synthetic melatonin has become a popular diet supplement in health food stores.
People take it for insomnia, jet lag and seasonal depression. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, meanwhile, is examining several prescription
applications for melatonin.
Melatonin is named for melanin, or skin pigment, and serotonin, a neurotransmitter found abundantly in the pineal gland. It was discovered by a Yale
dermatologist who found that the extract from cow pineal glands lightened the skin of frogs. Melatonin later was identified as a hormone.
Starting in 1992, Dr. Reiter's group produced evidence that melatonin neutralizes the body's most toxic free radical, the hydroxyl radical. He found
that melatonin was five times more effective than glutathione, a well-known anti-oxidant.
In another experiment, Dr. Reiter and associates in radiation oncology found that melatonin reduced free-radical damage associated with ionizing
radiation such as that from an X-ray. Using groups of human white blood cells, they left one group untreated, then treated a second group with
melatonin and a third group with DMSO, dimethyl sulfoxide, a known protectant against radiation damage. Both melatonin and DMSO reduced damage by 70
percent, but DMSO had to be used in a dosage 500 times greater than melatonin, he said.
In a third and most compelling experiment, Dr. Reiter gave a cancer-causing agent called safrole to two sets of laboratory rats. One set of rats also
received melatonin; the other did not. Rats with melatonin had 41 to 99 percent less damage to their DNA than those without melatonin. There was
lesser damage with higher melatonin doses. Free radicals are known to damage DNA.
Melatonin dictates body cycles and its production is cyclical. The pineal produces melatonin only at night, when blood levels of the substance are 10
to 15 times higher than during the day. This helps explain why people become drowsy at night. It also helps explain why shift work and long-distance
air travel disrupt body rhythms. Dr. Reiter himself takes 1 milligram of melatonin at night as a sleep aid.
A second cycle is associated with melatonin. Dr. Reiter said the length of nightfall affects melatonin production and thus behavior in general. For
example, he said, long summer days contribute to a primitive instinct to reproduce. Shorter days, such as those in winter, may affect moods and
contribute to a form of depression called Seasonal Affective Disorder.
A third cycle makes Dr. Reiter think melatonin is the key to understanding aging.
"As we age, our melatonin rhythm becomes attenuated. Your nighttime peak for melatonin production becomes lower and lower, which may explain why you
age faster as you get older. The likelihood of getting a degenerative disease such as Parkinson's or Alzheimer's increases exponentially as you age.
Now we think that may in part relate to the loss of the very strong protectant agent in melatonin," said Dr. Reiter, who said additional research will
help resolve these important issues.
"The reduction in melatonin output as we age speeds up our rendezvous with death by decreasing our best protection against aging and the oxidants
implicated in diseases associated with aging," Dr. Reiter said.
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Most enjoyable to met with some real innovative thinkers in Europe that have good intentions and don't want to see local natives and their ideas of
plant use stolen by the fat cat money grubbers.
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Ole' Irish saying (Gaelic): 'Go neirigh an bothar leat, go mbeidh an gaoth choiche sa droim agat, is go mbeidh tu thuas ar neamh leath-uair roimh is
eol don diabhal go bhuil tu marbh'.... OR 'May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind always be at your back, and May you be in Heaven a half hour
before the Devil knows you're dead'
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The photo I posted above this message is of...
my good friend Robert "Rico" McKinnon, and it was taken back in 1984, after we returned from a holiday to Shuswa Lake BC Canada.
This photo was taken shortly after I bought one of the first Macitosh compuers that were made availble in Canada. It is of Rico and my self, at 26
years of age, which is over 20 years ago, and Rico is tied into my jeep Scrambler with my squal jacket as he was flopping around from getting a little
too blottoed on his Birthday, and I do not drink and drive, and I wanted to make sure he was safe when I drove back to Trail, so I had to find an
innovative way to contain him in my jeep as it acked shoulder seat belts. Thus the placing of my jacket over the seat, and tying him into the jeep
seat.
His head was flopping out on the conrners when I stated out, and care and control of the behicle is my focus, and my important passenger's life was
very important for me to protect.
Robert's wonderful mother Irene, now deceased took this photo and we all had a good laugh when we arrived back at his house across the street, and I
was a tenent in his home, and shortly after tis photo was taken, started to design my first major software project on my new 1984 Macintosh 128K
innovative visual interafce computer. I knew of this computer in advance, and the famous 1984 apple comuter teweaked some real innovative ideas in my
noddle.
i plan to bring Rico down to the baja eiter this year or next year, as well as a few other friends. He and his sife managed to beat Cancer at the same
time, and te Baja is such a wonderous place to met new people, and I thought I would encourage him to try new things this year to elp him and his wife
live a fuller life.
Can't wait until I can introduce Rico to some of the fine baja Nomads that I have met on this message board.
19984 Apple Commerial based on George Orwell's book 1984.
http://www.uriah.com/apple-qt/1984.html
Text of "1984"
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a
garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more
powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to
death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
2005 is now getting real interesting to me, and the timing is near perfect to start adding some new people to the matrix mix as things are getting
real innovate again, after a long five enjoyable 5 years break from software the software design industry.
This time around will be very different, as 2005 will be a year of many changes, and one to remember, when reflected back on in the next few years.
?Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.?
Quote from the web. ??? Source ???
RandyMac
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Ole' Irish saying (Gaelic): 'Go neirigh an bothar leat, go mbeidh an gaoth choiche sa droim agat, is go mbeidh tu thuas ar neamh leath-uair roimh is
eol don diabhal go bhuil tu marbh'.... OR 'May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind always be at your back, and May you be in Heaven a half hour
before the Devil knows you're dead'
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Thanks to Gypsy Jan for starting this inspiring message thread...
and to all the positive mind contributors, as I am very inspired by your messages of hopes and positive dreams of social change....
"When people have no choice, life is almost unbearable ....
But as the number of choices keeps growing,
negative aspects of having a multitude
of options begin to appear."
"Anyone can make a mistake, but that mistake does not become an error until you refuse to correct it"--G-Adm. Thrawn
"Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are
setting out into an unknown country, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle."
Annie Besant
Aries
March 21 - April 20
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astrology.com
canada.com
ARIES ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: I am an Aries and might just be able to celebrate on April 18th, as I was bron on April 18th, 1958, and this is going to be a
verty good year of positive change, as it already has proven to be on track for many positive changes. And I met someone in France and she is a real
nice person and aritist, I was able to show her some photos of the Baja, and she is inspired also. Gte some sleep you bozo dude.
Take the melatonin tablet now if necessary.
I grabbed this from the web back on Wednesday, December 22, 2004
As the year begins, Aries, your focus will quickly shift from play to work -- hard work. After the 10th of January, in fact, it will be tough to talk
you into doing anything other than putting your nose to the grindstone. You'll be able to reach your goals more easily, though, so it will be well
worth your time and energy to put everything else aside -- for now, at least. Once March arrives, however, you'll be far more interested in taking
care of your health and appearance -- and you'll do a great job of it, too.
A solar eclipse in early April will make this a birthday month to remember, and if you're single, this astral equation could also indicate a new
relationship. Keep your eyes open after the 14th of April for someone who's extremely sensual and quite focused -- on you! Be sure they're not too
focused, though. You know how you get when you feel smothered.
Summer will be an entirely different story. By July, you'll be enjoying lots of freedom, travel and new experiences. Keep your passport current and
your suitcases handy. The full Moon of August 19th will also bring along a chance for you to start a new hobby -- the kind that could put you in touch
with someone new, exciting and just fiery enough to keep you interested. Don't pass this one up! Both the hobby and the new person could be exactly
what you've been waiting for.
By fall, you may be thinking of making a major career move -- one that's entirely possible. After the 17th of October, you may also be making your way
along a whole new relationship path. Either way -- or both ways, perhaps -- you'll enjoy this new start, and so will those who choose to accompany
you. The holidays look just wonderful, full of lots of good feelings and lots of surprises under the mistletoe. A new Moon on New Year's Eve will put
you in the mood to get back to business after weeks of festivities. Go for it!
Aries in 2005
I can't wait to head to the Baja after I deliver some stuff over the next month... ----->-------> ...
Baja California bound soon, yehhheeeee...
RandyMac
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Ole' Irish saying (Gaelic): 'Go neirigh an bothar leat, go mbeidh an gaoth choiche sa droim agat, is go mbeidh tu thuas ar neamh leath-uair roimh is
eol don diabhal go bhuil tu marbh'.... OR 'May the road rise up to meet you, May the wind always be at your back, and May you be in Heaven a half hour
before the Devil knows you're dead'
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Well said - and right on target Randy.
Here's hoping your delivery goes well.
I assume you've been doing a little QC on the merchandise.
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Wow.....
Send me a bottle of that stuff!
Randy, please stop by on your way to 'The Baja'!
Thanks for sharing/ collaborating with your friends here!
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Communications/collaboration/ Randy Mac
Randy, You used something I said to lead into quite a tour of collaboration/communication/jet lag/melatonin/ making the world a better place and a few
other subjects in such a free flowing volume that I frankly had difficulty in appreciating.
I was speaking to responsibility and the lack thereof in our modern world and was taken aback when you used this quote from the book 1984---
"Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a
garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more
powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to
death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"
This is the exact opposite and in total conflict with any sense of individual accountability and responsibility.
I have studied this book as well as several others of a generally similar nature---Brave New World, The Fountain Head, Atlas Shrugged, Anthem, For The
New Intellectual, and many others. Granted that was before my melatonin level began to drop. Some were prophesy?s of the future if man continued
down the path of mind controlling drugs and others did the same in regard to what would happen if people and governments were no longer responsible in
the actions. As I get older I occasionally go back and re-visit them to evaluate how far we have come and in what direction as a civilization. Some
what saddening.
You are absolutely right that we need new and helpful thinking to improve our track record.
I am very interested in learning, growning, being responsible for self, and better communication between all people BUT I question where you are going
when provide the above quote.
The pineal gland and it's production of melatonin has been of vague interest to me since the early '80's--but how does that tie in with your
proposal.
I realize that you are a very creative person but these ideas, to me, are shrouded by your admitted lack of sleep. Please get back in your correct
time zone and re-connect to collaboration with a more clear purpose rather than just a vague statement about making the world a better place.
Please do not make me disappear!
My smidgen of a claim to fame is that I have had so many really good friends. By Bernie Swaim December 2007
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