Forgotten land...

Generally, you ain't learnin' nothin' when your mouth is a-jawin'


When learning turns drastically one way or another; it is time to take time and ponder on your ideas. Time to let world go by for a while, time to go out and just ride the day away...I read some people can function better on less sleep. The sort of thing makes one wonder about how effective the end results are>>








Nowadays, some short sleepers gravitate to fields like blogging, videogame design and social media, where their sleep habits come in handy. "If I could find a way to do it, I'd never sleep," says Dave Hatter, a software developer in Fort Wright, Ky. He typically sleeps just four to five hours a night, up from two to three hours a few years ago.


"It's crazy, but it works for me," says Eleanor Hoffman, an overnight administrator at Bellevue Hospital Center in New York who would rather spend afternoons playing mahjong with friends than sleep anymore than four hours. Sometimes she calls her cousin, Linda Cohen, in Pittsburgh about 4 a.m., since she knows she'll be wide awake as well -- just like they were as kids.






During the last fifteen years the American cowboy has occupied a place sufficiently important to entitle him to a considerable share of public attention. His occupation is unique. In the exercise of his function he is always a man on horseback. His duty as a worker in the cattle business is at times to ride over the range in order to see that straying cattle do not rove too far from the assigned limits of time herd of which lie has charge; at times to drive the herd from one locality to another; and at times to round up the dispersed cattle, by which is meant to collect them together for the purpose of branding calves, or of selecting beef cattle, which latter are driven to railroad stations for shipment to market. The chief qualifications of efficiency in this calling are courage, physical alertness, ability to endure exposure and fatigue, horsemanship, and skill in the use of the lariat.






The original cowboy of this country was essentially a creature of circumstance, and mainly a product of western and southwestern Texas.

 
 

It is not a strange thing that such an occupation and such environment should have developed a class of men whom persons accustomed to the usages of cultivated society would characterize as ruffians of the most pronounced type. But among the better disposed of the Texas cowboys, who constitute, it is believed, much more than a majority of them, there were true and trusty men, in whom the dangers and fortunes of their lives developed generous and heroic traits of character.

 It is impossible for one who has not had actual experience in  riding on trail to imagine the difficulties involved in driving a large herd of wild cattle over mountain ranges, across desert lands where in some cases food and water are not found for many miles, and where streams must be crossed which are liable to dangerous freshets.



 

Have a great wekend!!

Should be able to do~~

A Man Should Be Able To:


1. Give advice that matters in one sentence. I got run out of a job I liked once, and while it was happening, a guy stopped me in the hall. Smart guy, but prone to saying too much. I braced myself. I didn't want to hear it. I needed a white knight, and I knew it wasn't him. He just sighed and said: When nobody has your back, you gotta move your back. Then he walked away. Best advice I ever got. One sentence.

2. Tell if someone is lying. Everyone has his theory. Pick one, test it. Choose the tells that work for you. I like these: Liars change the subject quickly. Liars look up and to their right when they speak. Liars use fewer contractions. Liars will sometimes stare straight at you and employ a dead face. Liars never touch their chest or heart except self-consciously. Liars place objects between themselves and you during a conversation.

3. Take a photo. Fill the frame.

Riding a bronc is like dancing with a girl. The trick is matching your partner's

A bronc rider should be light in the head and heavy in the seat.

And last...

Don't never interfere with something that ain't botherin' you none.

 

You'll have a great day!!

One voice....

Something I read recently made me think about one voice-one person~



When one person says something, it can often be overlooked — when 50,000 people say something, well, then everyone listens.




The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listening. In late September they announced they will conduct a wilderness review for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. This review is the first step to getting a full presidential recommendation to Congress that the Arctic Refuge be permanently protected as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System.



This is great news and something our WildAlert subscribers have been championing. Over the summer we asked our members and supporters to urge for this review and they truly delivered.



More than 50,000 people, including members and supporters of The Wilderness Society, took action during the summer to tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to recommend that the entire Arctic Refuge be designated as Wilderness — keeping the oil drills, pipelines, and roads out of the caribou breeding grounds forever.



The reasons to protect the Arctic Refuge are many — from the caribou calving grounds where new generations of the Porcupine caribou herd are born, to the traditional homeland of the Gwich’in people, whose forefathers have dwelled and sustained their culture on the lands of the Arctic Refuge for millennia.




Polar bears, their hunting grounds threatened by a warming world and melting sea ice, still find the Arctic Refuge a safe haven for their dens, and millions of songbirds, shorebirds, and waterfowl make their nests on the tundra every summer.



Protection of the coastal plain, what is considered the heart of the Arctic Refuge, has been at the top of many conservationists’ agendas since the refuge’s expansion in 1980 by the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).



The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is currently the only area on Alaska’s entire North Slope where oil exploration and development is prohibited by law. But despite its designation as a National Wildlife Refuge, oil and gas companies have been relentless in lobbying for access to the land for drilling.



In fact, during the Reagan administration, a Senate committee approved leasing in the refuge’s coastal plain but plans came to a blow when only ten days after their decision, the Exxon Valdez oil spill poured millions of gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound.



A federal Wilderness designation is the only thing that will ensure that this irreplaceable crown jewel of America’s national refuge system remains wild.



As key proponents of full wilderness designation in the Arctic Refuge, The Wilderness Society recognizes the importance of uniting with supporters on all levels to make our voices heard and we are grateful for everyone’s efforts. We thank you and urge you to continue the resounding chorus.


There's a song by Julio Iglesias...

Never forget the power of one voice!