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Oregon: 150 Years in 2009 (7 / 8)

Oregon: 150 Years in 2009 (7 / 8)

(A report conducted in July 2008 (Text and photos by Bernard Jacqmin)

Coast

"Ocean in sight! O joy! "Clark wrote in his diary after the incredible adventure that had just accomplished. The enthusiasm that had prevailed for him and his companions by going to the shores of the Pacific was transformed into a fast yet cruel disillusionment. In the same book we read a bit further: "At 2 o'clock, the tide came in the form of huge waves and a terrible wind. She refloated the trees ... and began to chase them here and there ... All the penalties, our fullest attention, allowed just keep our canoe being crushed by monstrous trunks including many measured nearly 60 meters long and 1 to 2 meters wide ... The logs on which we sleep go awry at every tide. Rain falls throughout the day. We wet our bedding also, and much of our equipment. ... Nothing to eat except fish bludgeoned "

almost apocalyptic vision of this coastal Northwest is not in itself surprising . This side knows it not one of the most violent surf of the world. In winter, storms launch waves against the cliffs above 6 meters high and the resulting shock is comparable to the impact of a car launched against a wall at 150 miles an hour! From Japan, no barrier reef or island groups do not break the shock of the waves pushed by the wind on what is regarded as a longer stretch of ocean in the northern hemisphere.

Nevertheless, this shore, from Astoria to Florence and dunes beyond, to California, is one of the most beautiful and wild West Coast. Ports and small towns along the beach in no way misrepresent the rugged beauty of this region.

Astoria, on the border of the State of Washington, and the end of the epic Lewis and Clark kept moreover, who takes the time to dawdle, somewhat old-fashioned charm with its its steep streets and Victorian facades they say the best after those of San Francisco. Directors like Richard Donner (The Goonies) or Ivan Reitmann (Kindergarten Cop) have seen the benefits they can derive from these key sets-to-door by integrating them into their films (at the point that they often become the most interesting!)

Founded in 1811 by a fur trader named John Astor, Astoria was also the first village worthy of the name of the West Coast of the United States. Its strategic location, since both located at the mouth of the Columbia River and along the ocean-brought him to the heroic reputation of a great trading port. Now inhabited by only about ten thousand souls, the town air somewhat dormant despite the start of some projects for tourism. Anyway, the town is more than ever a crossing point forced the West Coast for that goes to the state of Washington through the famous Astoria Bridge. Crossing the Columbia River, forming an arc of about 7 km, this work of art is also considered one of the most remarkable of the United States.

If continued, twenty miles south, still along the coast, we arrive at the small town of Cannon Beach. The place is certainly a classic local travel agencies but how not to fall in love with this small seaside town, its smart bungalows beachfront and especially its beach strewn with rocks as impressive, among others, the Haystack Rock? A kind of sugarloaf emerging at 70 meters above the waves. By itself, this is an authentic rock mass reservoir of life which frolic joyfully hermit crabs and sea stars, gulls and cormorants, puffins and ducks, harlequins.

Early this morning at low tide, the fog still shrouded the contours of the imposing monument. In retreating, the sea had left puddles all around and a blue light wind waves hemming a surprise scum dazzling. At this early hour, the beach was still deserted, or almost as in the distance, facing the sea, a young woman knelt and prayed. Who knows, maybe it was an incantation to the attention of a wyakin, one of the odd guardian angels that regularly referred the Nez Perce as they felt a threat or were facing a major test . Perhaps, in this case, an impending tsunami?! Anyway, everything here reminds this possibility and a clear signal, even on the beach, clearly indicates that the area may be subject to such phenomenon and it is therefore not expected to borrow this or that road where, if any, the ocean rages.

An ocean which definitely leaves no respite nor the inhabitants of the coast or to the sailors who crossed off. God thank you, they have them valuable allies in their struggle against the elements. They are nicknamed the sentinels of Oregon. These are nine lighthouses, the border with Washington to California illuminate the night and prevent claims pitfalls. These lighthouses, designed and constructed between 1870 and 1896 by U.S. Army engineers are now part of the historical and architectural heritage of the state. All have their own style, their history, their amazing stories. Like Tillamook Rock.

Arnold, fisherman Viking to physical and incidentally owner of the fish of Yachats likes telling that around the lantern of this lighthouse, built on an island basalt about 1 miles off Cannon Beach, we had to put a fence to protect the windows against the rocks thrown into the air by the whim of the waves. Must clarify that the lantern of this lighthouse is located 42 meters above the waves! During a storm in the early twentieth century, we remember that a block of 65 pounds was thrown over 30 meters tall. He fell on the keeper's house and burst in the roof, leaving a hole six meters out. Except for the walls, almost the entire house was destroyed.

Today the lighthouse, rightly nicknamed "Terrible Tilly" is a private property and for that stunning vocation columbarium and receives only occasionally visited by people coming specifically to deposit the ashes of a loved one. One can easily imagine the atmosphere that should prevail on the rock day of the funeral!

Other lighthouses Oregonians have experienced conversions less austere. That of Heceta Head, for example, where the keeper's house has it been transformed into a charming bed and breakfast! The place is also a unique vantage point for that is involved in the observation of seabirds nesting on the many rocks scattered just off the coast. This lighthouse is also visible in the direction North, the large opening cut on the side of the cliff: the entrance to a cave. This is known as one of the largest marine caves in the world. For centuries, wolves and sea lions have made it an inevitable stop on their seasonal migration to Alaska and the Bering Strait. Strange atmosphere that gives off this cathedral whose walls navy amplify and reverberate in the loop howls of marine mammals and that of a raging sea rushing in unrestrained any crevice.

This coast, so often shredded however, offers less relief at times bitter. This is particularly true around the city of Florence. Here we enter a world of sand dunes and impressive. The story of their creation began there more than 50 million years. Upon formation of the Coast Range, glaciers and rivers, wind and rain began to grate youth summits to aggregate them into elements that were once responsible for transporting to the coast. There he remained only to leave work so that the wind sculpts these huge masses of sand dunes and convert them. Now Oregon Dune Park is the largest U.S. and forms of nearly 80 km a wall of sand over 50 meters high. In some places, some dunes can peak at over 150 meters.

It will not be surprised to learn that this show has moved from enthusiasm writer Frank Herbert. In the sixties, while working for a newspaper in the Washington, drafted in Florence sends precisely to make a documentary devoted to the advancement of the dunes and the means put in place to try to stop their progress. Back in Washington, the article, for obscure reasons, never appear, but inspired by what he experienced on this coast, Frank Herbert began writing what would become a masterpiece of absolute work of literature of anticipation. The novel's title? ... .. "Dune", of course!

meantime and until now the problem of the inexorable advance of the dunes in this region of Oregon has remained more than ever at the heart of fiery controversy. Indeed, while early in the twentieth century is thought the solution would be to plant different varieties of grasses of European origin to stabilize sandy masses, it has also gradually realized that these plants, in proliferating almost uncontrollably, irreversibly altered the landscape and habitat Unique. They moreover threatened with extinction some species such as snowy plover, a tiny wading bird about the size of a sparrow - which can only survive in open areas and sandy. Now, local environment and try out different methods to try to eradicate these herbs have become "crazy." This goes hand pulling in more radical technique such as the use of a bulldozer or .... The massive application of herbicides!

Generally reviled by conservationists, ATV enthusiasts and other motorized popular here to race down the dunes have even found a good conscience. Some of them do not they proclaim loudly that their sport has become a favorite to act as ecological significance wherever they go, the grass passes away!

(next episode February 21, 2010)

Does A Camera Flash Damaga A Cats Eye

An article that makes eyes ...

C 'is noting peaks Courrier International I found this little article today, as controversy about the medicinal uses of lead. Despite a reputation as a bit "leaded" by the ravages of lead poisoning, contracted most often in contact with old pipes, lead would seem it, virtues demonstrated by the use of the oldest cosmetics of the world .. . kohl.

The Kohl is known to us, to us, Western women pressed in the form of pencils, dark makeup, a little fatter than the others, which are used to border the eye, and to take a look ember. However, the origin, Kohl seems to have rather served to "appease" evil eye, rather than stoke their fire!


As we stated in this article:

The practice of medicine in ancient Egypt was already under a consolidation push. Evidenced in this papyrus found in 1862 in Luxor. It brings together, in 877 paragraphs, the knowledge already accumulated in the seventeenth and fourteenth centuries before the Christian era. So on ophthalmology: "Other [cure] to remove the exudate-Khent which is in the eye: galena: 1 / 32; juice of balm: 1 / 16, scale: 1 / 16; red ocher [tjerou]: 1 / 64; mineral-sia South: 1 / 64. [This] is ground finely, homogeneous mass prepared and placed in the eye until they heal completely. " The challenge for researchers wishing to verify the effectiveness of these remedies and it inspired - as in ethnopharmacology - is to determine the exact nature of the ingredients cited in the manuscripts. (...)
Review Analytical Chemistry concludes that the lead that entered the composition of kohl, far from threatening the health of Egyptians as suggested by modern toxicology, gave them protection against eye infections. "We left the bottles" , explains Philippe Walter (Centre for Research and Restoration of Museums of France, CNRS), who with his colleagues analyzed residues found in dozens of "make-up kits" Egyptian collections of the Louvre. They show that four compounds containing lead entering the composition of kohl: galena, which ensures the black tones and bright white and three subjects, the cerussite, and phosgenite laurionite. The presence of these two compounds is a surprise, because they do not exist in nature. Roman authors such as Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD) or the Greek Dioscorides (40-90 AD) that they were intentionally synthesized for their medicinal properties. "Some crush a pound of salt with an equal amount of silver foam (oxide of lead or litharge), under the sun, with water until it settled become white " even specifies it in its De Materia Medica . Operating Time: forty days ...


From North Africa to the borders of Asia, each country has its "own" recipe Kohl. In India, Khajal , Kohl's cousin, for several centuries of living together with the refinement of the Mughal and Muslim culture, has an interesting twist, unique to prégnant influence of Hinduism and Brahmanical culture. Whose basic ingredient, culinary, medicinal, but as sacred, is ghee, or clarified butter. The
Kajal , India, is made from ghee oxidizer. In most cases, women used the rest of the wick oil lamps (whose fuel is ghee) to make their Kajal. It used them to both men, for women as for children, whose eyes often prone to mood, could attract insects, and become the starting point for more serious conditions. The richest store in small silver boxes, and applied it with a small gold pin end ...
pharmaceutical or cosmetic industry, inspired by the Ayurvedic tradition, offers small pallets Kajal based ghee, and medicinal plants. Economical (no more than 10 rupees per jar), the mixture will keep for a long time, and provides highly effective protection in the Contaminated Sites ... Keep an eye!

To make yourself your Kajal

Coat a piece of string, or, preferably, a piece of cotton thread or DMC, clarified butter. In a small container with a capacity of up to 5 ml, manufactured as a small lamp, which is poured the equivalent of 2 teaspoons of ghee liquiéfié, and when it leaves the bit to build on one of the edges and slowly make its combustion.On can associate it with a little powdered rose, or sandalwood.
Apply Kajal then using a blender, a fine cotton swab, or even the finger. You'll notice a little unusual effect by applying it as ghee, refreshing nature, strengthens the eyes, and relaxes the eye ...
Normally, ghee can be stored for months and months. But our standards of hygiene we will prefer a short shelf: a week to 15 days after manufacture.

You can also find Kajal in some Indian stores (for Paris) or in some food stores, with the brand Lakshmi (more expensive, but good quality). These products, usually without preservatives or chemical additives, are good alternatives for sensitive eyes and for all those who suffer from various allergies manifested by irritation of the eyes.



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February 8, 2010 Photo credit, Dr. K. Graham flick

How Many Day Until Implantation

Oregon: 150 Years in 2009 (6 / 8)

Oregon: 150 Years in 2009 (6 / 8) (A report conducted in July 2008 ( Text and photos by Bernard Jacqmin)

Portland

Tomorrow, Ed and Jen will return already in their suburban house. The holidays are over for them . When we leave, they insist, however, to set us an appointment in downtown Portland: they would be happy to see us and show us around their city on their old VW van We accept with pleasure and we therefore find the following afternoon at the appointed place yesterday, in one of this red a little kitsch-shaped portico sensible mark the entrance of Chinatown. A place that, they say, was quite notorious in the late nineteenth and under which a network of tunnels had been dug and then invests gambling dens and other illegal bars where skippers lawless brutality sailors alcohol . They then made them sign contracts "cans" for their body-boarding defending-in cruise tourism had nothing!

With Ed and Jen's visit to the country's largest city (556,370 inhab-the capital city, Salem has only 154,000 inhabitants.) Begin with the International Rose Test Garden. Located west of the city on the foothills of a hill of volcanic origin, this place is the place to excellent family walk. It is crossed by a maze of shady paths winding through an impressive rose garden where over 550 varieties of roses are grown.

Interest Site also lies in the fact that it allows to embrace a glance across the city. A city priori "posh" releasing both a beautiful impression of dynamism, but also, paradoxically, of any province peacefully. An urban plan moreover encouraged local developers to not stray into too pretentious architectural delusions. This virtual absence of skyscrapers, the presence of green spaces, open squares and promenade along the Willamette River provide a beautiful harmony to the whole. Details accentuate this effect as, For example, the relative fluidity of traffic, even in the city center. Fluidity due mainly to the fact that transport is free from the periphery.

It is tempting to abandon his car in a commuter parking lot and let slip "for free" to the epicenter on board one of the many street-car (tram) Multicolored. And if by chance you are looking for a meaning to colors of these vehicles sometimes green-apple, sometimes yellow or electric blue, know that this is just to create an interesting visual effect in the heart of the city, at least that's what we provide to the direction of transport! On the environmental front, the city has also agreed to large expenditures in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and other emissions of CO2. Portland, through the establishment of rigorous systems to enhance energy efficiency and increase renewable energy use, CO2 emissions were reduced by more than 3% per capita between 1990 and 1995, about the CO2 emissions produced by facilities in the city, they have declined during the same period, 15%.

Among the measures visible and relatively unusual in this active environmental policy, we also note the presence at regular intervals, terminals scattered throughout the city allowing electric vehicles to recharge their batteries. Obviously and like the rest of the state, Portland is a progressive city in many respects. Here, as throughout the country, we vote Democratic and that, continuously since 1988 (although large parts of the Southeast are still loyal to the republican spirit). If you go back in time, we also learn that slavery never had citizenship. A practice also declared outlaws by 1844, well before the entry of Oregon in the United States in 1859. Portland is also home to the United States where debates about gay marriage remain the most vivid and many observers agree that soon, Oregon will, after Massachusetts and California, next state to legalize gay marriage.

In another register, with the State of Washington, Oregon is also the only one to accept what is called "assisted suicide "(Death with Dignity Act), especially for people who are terminally ill.

can be found at rather ironic that in such a context, the death penalty to be with her still in force. ... Implemented! Although she is so exceptional since the reinstatement of capital punishment in 1976, only two executions have taken place to date.

Among the "curiosities" that Ed wanted to let us know in "his" city, there will also be a place that has a priori nothing very glamorous but it is however enough spice . It is a neighborhood a little off center on the right bank of the Willamette River. This is the warehouse district, the plant and machinery, barges, silos and cranes. A world that loves and knows the fingertips. In fact, here is that it invites us to climb the fence of a factory that is more familiar than others. He also said the caretaker know, so ... no need to worry however is through the rails with caution (you never know, a locomotive can always occur unexpectedly) and then in silence, we walked around the stones and ballast, in a maze of scrap metal and cans of gasoline. it looks a bit like a pilgrimage for Ed In fact, here it suddenly stops and looks up to look like one of those cranes that he may be ordered over a long time.

"Here," he said abruptly cut short like a futile melancholy, very near here we shot a film last year, there, just below the bridge. Is that of Burnside. There, the guys started to squat the place a few years ago and gradually they built with "tips string "a skatepark thunder. I think it's one of the oldest skateparks in the U.S.. Now it seems that for skaters from around the world, this rotten hole has become a real Mecca, especially since the famous movie! (It is "Paranoid Park" by Gus Van Sant, dark and dramatic film made in 2007 and the 60th Anniversary Prize at Cannes) is approaching and, indeed, under the motorway, just few meters in the tumult of traffic and exhaust ... the guys are busy running down ramps carefully, negotiate curves, "grind" the edges ... Today they are twenty years between 15 and 30. Of the hairy pants falling on the buttocks but the guys in overalls just emerging from their workshop and even a few white-collar youth come to stretch their legs after work, tie protruding from the pocket. History to put a little atmosphere, someone switched his CD player. An old reggae began to resonate under the pillars of the bridge. Still, a little taciturn type takes away but loses nothing of the scene. He observes the actions of these fools on wheels. But when a soda can or Bud 'goes astray, he rises at once to retrieve it. The box will join the harvest day. Soon, the bag is full and exchanged in a recycling company nearby cons few "bucks."

The sun now begins to decline on the Willamette River. It's a little less stuffy and joggers may in small groups, as bikers and families stroll swallowing of ice-cream XXL model. Amidst this tranquil animation, a Vietnam veteran on his electric cart topped with stars and stripes and accosts passersby trying without much success to sell his poems.

Here we are leaving Ed and Jen. We're back on the avenue along the Rose Garden Arena. The car park of the largest sports complex in the city, the famous cave of Blazers, and also the largest theater-(20,000 seats) roadies complete hardware store sound of Foo Fighters. The famous rockers of Washington gave a concert last night. Maybe they have sung "I'll be coming home next year. ... Say goodbye, say goodbye ... .... .

(February 6 next episode)