Dec
31
Ford Gives Ranger Pickup Truck a Makeover
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Matthew C. Keegan asked:
First introduced in 1983, the Ford Ranger has faithfully served as that automaker’s compact pickup truck, replacing the Mazda-made Courier which Ford had used since 1972. Today, the truck is still a compact unlike some of its competitors which have been updated and grown in size. That has worked to Ford’s advantage as the Ranger has the best fuel economy of any truck in its class.
The major drawback for the Ranger is that it hasn’t been updated in ages. While the bigger F-Series line routinely is redone every five years, the current generation Ranger has been virtually unchanged since rolled out as a 1998 model. Though Ford isn’t planning to roll out an all-new model just yet, the automaker is making some important changes to the 2010 Ranger, updates which will be included with the model when it becomes available in Ford showrooms beginning later this summer.
The two most notable changes for the 2010 Ford Ranger will be:
AdvanceTrac(R) with RSC(R) (Roll Stability Control) — that helps prevent skidding and dangerous rollover conditions
The new 2010 Ranger also adds new combination side air bags - offered standard - designed for head and torso protection
Powered by a 2.3 I4 engine, the Ranger gets class leading fuel economy of 26 mpg on the highway. However, the new safety features is something that should interest buyers the most, bringing the Ranger up to the same standards as its competitors.
“The 2010 Ranger’s Roll Stability Control and combination side air bag technologies will help occupants stay out of harm’s way,” said Steve Kozak, chief engineer of safety systems, Ford Motor Company. “The Ranger has been America’s most fuel-efficient pickup, and now it features a combination of safety features not offered in any other small pickup.”
The Ranger also offers safety and security equipment such as Ford’s Personal Safety System, Tire Pressure Monitoring System and SecuriLock passive anti-theft system, all three are included as standard equipment on every Ranger model.
Ford has plans to eventually replace the Ranger, but the interim these updates make the truck more appealing and therefore more salable. Prices have yet to be set, but the Ranger will likely continue to be one of the best priced trucks on the market.
CALVIN
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First introduced in 1983, the Ford Ranger has faithfully served as that automaker’s compact pickup truck, replacing the Mazda-made Courier which Ford had used since 1972. Today, the truck is still a compact unlike some of its competitors which have been updated and grown in size. That has worked to Ford’s advantage as the Ranger has the best fuel economy of any truck in its class.
The major drawback for the Ranger is that it hasn’t been updated in ages. While the bigger F-Series line routinely is redone every five years, the current generation Ranger has been virtually unchanged since rolled out as a 1998 model. Though Ford isn’t planning to roll out an all-new model just yet, the automaker is making some important changes to the 2010 Ranger, updates which will be included with the model when it becomes available in Ford showrooms beginning later this summer.
The two most notable changes for the 2010 Ford Ranger will be:
AdvanceTrac(R) with RSC(R) (Roll Stability Control) — that helps prevent skidding and dangerous rollover conditions
The new 2010 Ranger also adds new combination side air bags - offered standard - designed for head and torso protection
Powered by a 2.3 I4 engine, the Ranger gets class leading fuel economy of 26 mpg on the highway. However, the new safety features is something that should interest buyers the most, bringing the Ranger up to the same standards as its competitors.
“The 2010 Ranger’s Roll Stability Control and combination side air bag technologies will help occupants stay out of harm’s way,” said Steve Kozak, chief engineer of safety systems, Ford Motor Company. “The Ranger has been America’s most fuel-efficient pickup, and now it features a combination of safety features not offered in any other small pickup.”
The Ranger also offers safety and security equipment such as Ford’s Personal Safety System, Tire Pressure Monitoring System and SecuriLock passive anti-theft system, all three are included as standard equipment on every Ranger model.
Ford has plans to eventually replace the Ranger, but the interim these updates make the truck more appealing and therefore more salable. Prices have yet to be set, but the Ranger will likely continue to be one of the best priced trucks on the market.
CALVIN
Dec
28
GoshaDole asked:
I’m reuploading this video to comply to the new Youtube widescreen/hi resolution standards. This is the same animation as before, just better quality. Enjoy! T-Shirts available here! http://radiogosha.bigcartel.com/ This is another collaboration with Disko Warp Records. This is a small story of a vampire and a girl strolling around the town. All the vampire wants to do is have a good time, but some people just don’t want to leave him alone! Music Artist: Fright Ranger http://www.diskowarp …
AARON
Dec
27
Popular Wildlife Sanctuaries of India
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Radhika Jain asked:
Bestowed with a varied topography, India is home to a rich and varied wildlife. Known for its unique features, the wildlife of India attract wildlife enthusiasts and common traveller from all over the world. With the aim to save the wildlife of the country from poaching or other man-made destruction, government of India declared the wildlife areas as wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. Presently India is home to dozens of wildlife protected areas providing natural habitat to wild species. One can spot massive elephants to fierce beast tigers to small hare in the wildlife sanctuary and national parks of India. Some of the famous wildlife sanctuaries of India are as follows.
Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary (Rajasthan) : Also known as Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is a World Heritage Site. Situated in Bharatpur town of Rajasthan, Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary spreads over 29 sq km. Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is home to more than 400 bird species including domestic as well as migratory birds. Though the bird sanctuary remain full of birds round the year, but during the winter season the migratory birds the caravan of local birds. The Siberian Crane is the special attraction of the park, the birds visit the park every winter in large number. Other foreign bird species visiting the park include Cranes, Egrets, Pelicans, Ibises, Ducks and Geese. If you want to enjoy the bird watching at its best hire a cycle-rickshaw at the park gate and explore the every nook and corner without burning your calories much.
Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary (Rajasthan):Known for tigers, Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Rajasthan. Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary in one of the protected wildlife areas of the country, where Project Tiger remained successful. Set amidst the Aravalli Hills, Sariska is full is covered with thorny deciduous forests. Besides tigers, you can spot a number of other wild animals such as leopard, wild dog, sambar, chital, wild boar, hare, nilgai, civet, four-horned antelope, gaur (Indian bison) and porcupine. Sariska is also home to ruins of the Kankwari fort, the ancient Shiva Neelkanth temples and a Palace of Maharajas of Alwar, now converted into a heritage hotel.
Ranthambore National Park (Rajasthan) : One of the important wildlife sanctuaries of India, Ranthambore National Park lies in Rajasthan. The national park with an area of 392 sq kms is set at the junction of Aravali and Vindhyas mountain ranges. Indian tiger is celebrity figure at the national park, in addition to this you can spot several other faunal species such as leopards, hyena, jackal, sloth bear, wild boars, gazelles, sambar and nilgai. Other attractions of Ranthambore include reptiles like snub nosed crocodiles, lizards, tortoise, cobras, kraits, turtles, Indian python, rat snakes and Indian chameleon.You can spot the bird species such as Indian horned owl, spoonbills, patridges, kingfishers, storks, ducks and the much sighted peacocks inside the park.
Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (West Bengal) : If you have a long desire to see the Royal Bengal Tigers, then Sunderbans is the right place for you. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sunderbans is situated at a distance from Kolkata. Sunderbas, the biggest mangrove forest and delta of world is formed by the merging of rivers - Ganges, Brahhmaputra and Meghna. Sunderban Tigers Reserve has a core area of 1330.10 sq. kms and spreads over a series of thickly forested islands and saline water channels. In addition to tigers, the tiger reserve also encompasses more to satisfy your visual feast. Here you can see Spotted Deer, Wild Pigs, Rhesus Monkeys, Herons, Kingfishers, White Bellied Eagles and much more.
Manas National Park (Assam) : Situated on the foothills of the Great Himalayas in north-east state of Assam, Manas is known for its unmatched beauty. Once a hunting ground for royal families, Manas National Park was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. One-horned rhino is the major attraction of the national park which draws wildlife enthus from all worldover. Tigers, Leopards, Clouded Leopards, Elephants, Hog Deer, Swamp Deer, Sambar, Chital, Indian Bison, Sloth Bear, Gaurs, Capped Langurs, Golden Langurs, Slow Loris, Assamese Macaques, Hoolock Gibbons, Asiatic Wild Buffaloes and rare Black Panthers are other attractions of the national park. Manas also provides shelter to endangered species such as the Hispid Hare and the Pigmy Hog.
Bandhavgarh National Park (Madhya Pradesh) : Renowned for White tigers, Bandhavgarh National Park is the place where nature meets with history. Situated in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Bandhavgarh covers 448 sq kms area. Tigers have always been the prime attraction for visitors to the park. Besides tigers, the national park is home to faunal species like Rhesus Macaque, Porcupine, Langur, Golden Jackal, Indian Gazelle, Bengal Wolf, Fox, Sloth Bear, Indian Grey Mongoose, Small Indian Mongoose, Ruddy Mongoose, Small Indian Civet, Leopard, Wild Boar, Sambar Nilgai, Gaur, Indian Pangolin, Chital, Four-horned Antelope, Blackbuck etc. Bandhavgarh also provides natural habitat to about 150 bird-species such as Grey-headed Fishing Eagle, Malabar Pied Hornbill, Shahin Falcon and Brown Fish Owl. Bandhavgarh Fort, Kalchuri Archaeological Remains, Baghel Museum, Ghapudi Dam and Bhamera Dam are other attractions in and around the national park.
Kanha National Park (Madhya Pradesh) : Once the source of inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s all time great classic ‘Jungle Book’, Kanha National Park is one of the famous wildlife sanctuaries of not only India, in fact the world. Situated in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh, Kanha National Park spreads over an area of 1,945 sq km. Established in 1955, Kanha provides shelter to a variety of wild animals and avian species including endangered species. You can spot wild animals like tigers, leopard, gaur or Indian bison, wild pig, antelope, black buck, barking deer, swamp deer, jackal, fox, nilgai, jungle cat etc. Bird species which you can spot in Kanha are green pigeons, rock pigeons, partridges, orioles, hoopoes, pond herons and much more. Kanha Museum is an added attraction at Kanha and don’t forget to visit the museum.
Gir Wildlife Sanctuary (Gujarat) : Situated in Gujarat, Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is the home of Asiatic Lions. Once the part of the erstwhile Junagadh state, Gir was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1965. Gir Wildlife Sanctuary sprawls over 1412.13 sq km area, with core area of 259 sq.kms. One of the world’s rare wild species, the Asiatic Lions attract large number of nature lovers and common travellers to the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary. Other wild animals found in the sanctuary are leopard, sambar, spotted deer, chowsingha, chinkara, nilgai, wild boar etc. Gir is also home to a number reptilian species like Marsh Crocodiles, Monitor Lizards, Pythons and a wide variety of snakes.
Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary (Kerala) : One of the biggest wildlife reserves in India, Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Kerala. Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is set ammong the low lying Cardamom hills of the Western Ghats and centre of attraction here is the artificial lake. Periyar is known for tigers and huge population of elephant. Other animals that you can spot are gaur, wild boars, sambar, deer, bison, barking deer, wild dogs, lion tailed macaque, the nilgiri langur etc. Enjoy the boat ride across the periyar lake and see the herds of elephants taking bath in the lake.
DELBERT
Bestowed with a varied topography, India is home to a rich and varied wildlife. Known for its unique features, the wildlife of India attract wildlife enthusiasts and common traveller from all over the world. With the aim to save the wildlife of the country from poaching or other man-made destruction, government of India declared the wildlife areas as wildlife sanctuaries and national parks. Presently India is home to dozens of wildlife protected areas providing natural habitat to wild species. One can spot massive elephants to fierce beast tigers to small hare in the wildlife sanctuary and national parks of India. Some of the famous wildlife sanctuaries of India are as follows.
Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary (Rajasthan) : Also known as Keoladeo Ghana National Park, Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is a World Heritage Site. Situated in Bharatpur town of Rajasthan, Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary spreads over 29 sq km. Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is home to more than 400 bird species including domestic as well as migratory birds. Though the bird sanctuary remain full of birds round the year, but during the winter season the migratory birds the caravan of local birds. The Siberian Crane is the special attraction of the park, the birds visit the park every winter in large number. Other foreign bird species visiting the park include Cranes, Egrets, Pelicans, Ibises, Ducks and Geese. If you want to enjoy the bird watching at its best hire a cycle-rickshaw at the park gate and explore the every nook and corner without burning your calories much.
Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary (Rajasthan):Known for tigers, Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Rajasthan. Sariska Wildlife Sanctuary in one of the protected wildlife areas of the country, where Project Tiger remained successful. Set amidst the Aravalli Hills, Sariska is full is covered with thorny deciduous forests. Besides tigers, you can spot a number of other wild animals such as leopard, wild dog, sambar, chital, wild boar, hare, nilgai, civet, four-horned antelope, gaur (Indian bison) and porcupine. Sariska is also home to ruins of the Kankwari fort, the ancient Shiva Neelkanth temples and a Palace of Maharajas of Alwar, now converted into a heritage hotel.
Ranthambore National Park (Rajasthan) : One of the important wildlife sanctuaries of India, Ranthambore National Park lies in Rajasthan. The national park with an area of 392 sq kms is set at the junction of Aravali and Vindhyas mountain ranges. Indian tiger is celebrity figure at the national park, in addition to this you can spot several other faunal species such as leopards, hyena, jackal, sloth bear, wild boars, gazelles, sambar and nilgai. Other attractions of Ranthambore include reptiles like snub nosed crocodiles, lizards, tortoise, cobras, kraits, turtles, Indian python, rat snakes and Indian chameleon.You can spot the bird species such as Indian horned owl, spoonbills, patridges, kingfishers, storks, ducks and the much sighted peacocks inside the park.
Sunderbans Tiger Reserve (West Bengal) : If you have a long desire to see the Royal Bengal Tigers, then Sunderbans is the right place for you. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sunderbans is situated at a distance from Kolkata. Sunderbas, the biggest mangrove forest and delta of world is formed by the merging of rivers - Ganges, Brahhmaputra and Meghna. Sunderban Tigers Reserve has a core area of 1330.10 sq. kms and spreads over a series of thickly forested islands and saline water channels. In addition to tigers, the tiger reserve also encompasses more to satisfy your visual feast. Here you can see Spotted Deer, Wild Pigs, Rhesus Monkeys, Herons, Kingfishers, White Bellied Eagles and much more.
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Manas National Park (Assam) : Situated on the foothills of the Great Himalayas in north-east state of Assam, Manas is known for its unmatched beauty. Once a hunting ground for royal families, Manas National Park was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1985. One-horned rhino is the major attraction of the national park which draws wildlife enthus from all worldover. Tigers, Leopards, Clouded Leopards, Elephants, Hog Deer, Swamp Deer, Sambar, Chital, Indian Bison, Sloth Bear, Gaurs, Capped Langurs, Golden Langurs, Slow Loris, Assamese Macaques, Hoolock Gibbons, Asiatic Wild Buffaloes and rare Black Panthers are other attractions of the national park. Manas also provides shelter to endangered species such as the Hispid Hare and the Pigmy Hog.
Bandhavgarh National Park (Madhya Pradesh) : Renowned for White tigers, Bandhavgarh National Park is the place where nature meets with history. Situated in the state of Madhya Pradesh, Bandhavgarh covers 448 sq kms area. Tigers have always been the prime attraction for visitors to the park. Besides tigers, the national park is home to faunal species like Rhesus Macaque, Porcupine, Langur, Golden Jackal, Indian Gazelle, Bengal Wolf, Fox, Sloth Bear, Indian Grey Mongoose, Small Indian Mongoose, Ruddy Mongoose, Small Indian Civet, Leopard, Wild Boar, Sambar Nilgai, Gaur, Indian Pangolin, Chital, Four-horned Antelope, Blackbuck etc. Bandhavgarh also provides natural habitat to about 150 bird-species such as Grey-headed Fishing Eagle, Malabar Pied Hornbill, Shahin Falcon and Brown Fish Owl. Bandhavgarh Fort, Kalchuri Archaeological Remains, Baghel Museum, Ghapudi Dam and Bhamera Dam are other attractions in and around the national park.
Kanha National Park (Madhya Pradesh) : Once the source of inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s all time great classic ‘Jungle Book’, Kanha National Park is one of the famous wildlife sanctuaries of not only India, in fact the world. Situated in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh, Kanha National Park spreads over an area of 1,945 sq km. Established in 1955, Kanha provides shelter to a variety of wild animals and avian species including endangered species. You can spot wild animals like tigers, leopard, gaur or Indian bison, wild pig, antelope, black buck, barking deer, swamp deer, jackal, fox, nilgai, jungle cat etc. Bird species which you can spot in Kanha are green pigeons, rock pigeons, partridges, orioles, hoopoes, pond herons and much more. Kanha Museum is an added attraction at Kanha and don’t forget to visit the museum.
Gir Wildlife Sanctuary (Gujarat) : Situated in Gujarat, Gir Wildlife Sanctuary is the home of Asiatic Lions. Once the part of the erstwhile Junagadh state, Gir was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1965. Gir Wildlife Sanctuary sprawls over 1412.13 sq km area, with core area of 259 sq.kms. One of the world’s rare wild species, the Asiatic Lions attract large number of nature lovers and common travellers to the Gir Wildlife Sanctuary. Other wild animals found in the sanctuary are leopard, sambar, spotted deer, chowsingha, chinkara, nilgai, wild boar etc. Gir is also home to a number reptilian species like Marsh Crocodiles, Monitor Lizards, Pythons and a wide variety of snakes.
Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary (Kerala) : One of the biggest wildlife reserves in India, Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is situated in Kerala. Periyar Wildlife Sanctuary is set ammong the low lying Cardamom hills of the Western Ghats and centre of attraction here is the artificial lake. Periyar is known for tigers and huge population of elephant. Other animals that you can spot are gaur, wild boars, sambar, deer, bison, barking deer, wild dogs, lion tailed macaque, the nilgiri langur etc. Enjoy the boat ride across the periyar lake and see the herds of elephants taking bath in the lake.
DELBERT
Dec
25
Texas Rangers Credit Card | Major League Baseball™ Extra Bases™ Mastercard
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College Credit Builder asked:
The Texas Rangers official team logo can now be featured on the Major League Baseball™ Extra Bases™ Credit Card from Bank of America. (www.rangerscreditcard.com). This rewards credit card has proven to be a grand slam with fans and is scoring rave reviews in the rewards credit card industry. Like many retailers, airlines, and universities have done for years, Major League Baseball teams like the Texas Rangers are now being displayed on consumer credit cards. These baseball oriented credit cards are rapidly growing in popularity and are proving to be a hit with sports fans across the country.
The Major League Baseball™ Extra Bases™ Credit Card from Bank of America has valuable features, including:
• No annual fee.
• 0% introductory Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on balance transfers and cash advance checks for your first 12 billing cycles.
• Get an official MLB™ licensed jersey after your first qualifying transaction(s) using your MLB™ Extra Bases™ credit card.
• Earn 1 point for every net retail dollar spent redeemable for MLB™ autographed memorabilia, once-in-a-lifetime MLB™ experiences, cash rewards and travel with no blackout dates.
At a time when everyone’s nerves are frayed because of uncertainty in the stock market, illiquidity in the credit market and the softening real estate market, one thing remains constant – sports fans are crazy about Major League Baseball. Historically, baseball has given the public something to believe in and something to hope for, particularly in tough economic times. With the MLB™ Extra Bases™ credit card, Rangers fans can be reminded of their favorite team every time they take out their wallets. Real fans carry the card with pride. Visit www.rangerscreditcard.com to complete the credit card application online in a few short minutes.
ARON
The Texas Rangers official team logo can now be featured on the Major League Baseball™ Extra Bases™ Credit Card from Bank of America. (www.rangerscreditcard.com). This rewards credit card has proven to be a grand slam with fans and is scoring rave reviews in the rewards credit card industry. Like many retailers, airlines, and universities have done for years, Major League Baseball teams like the Texas Rangers are now being displayed on consumer credit cards. These baseball oriented credit cards are rapidly growing in popularity and are proving to be a hit with sports fans across the country.
The Major League Baseball™ Extra Bases™ Credit Card from Bank of America has valuable features, including:
• No annual fee.
• 0% introductory Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on balance transfers and cash advance checks for your first 12 billing cycles.
• Get an official MLB™ licensed jersey after your first qualifying transaction(s) using your MLB™ Extra Bases™ credit card.
• Earn 1 point for every net retail dollar spent redeemable for MLB™ autographed memorabilia, once-in-a-lifetime MLB™ experiences, cash rewards and travel with no blackout dates.
At a time when everyone’s nerves are frayed because of uncertainty in the stock market, illiquidity in the credit market and the softening real estate market, one thing remains constant – sports fans are crazy about Major League Baseball. Historically, baseball has given the public something to believe in and something to hope for, particularly in tough economic times. With the MLB™ Extra Bases™ credit card, Rangers fans can be reminded of their favorite team every time they take out their wallets. Real fans carry the card with pride. Visit www.rangerscreditcard.com to complete the credit card application online in a few short minutes.
ARON
Dec
22
About New York Rangers Tickets
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Al Terry asked:
The New York rangers’ tickets are the most difficult tickets to procure. If you go by the waiting list, then it will take ages for you to get the New York rangers tickets for a single game. You will always remain next in line for the New York rangers’ tickets without getting the ticket in hand.
If you are planning to watch a game of the nets, then you need to book your New York rangers tickets months in advance. Then too there is no guarantee that you will get the New York rangers tickets. Thus, the best way to procure your New York rangers tickets is via a legitimate broker. To get your tickets, you will just have to inform them how many tickets you require and specify the seat you would like to have. With that, your work ends. Your New York rangers tickets will be delivered to you in a short time. Doesn’t that make life a lot easier?
About The New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are an ice hockey team that is based in New York City. They are a very old team in the National Hockey League scenario. They are also one of the groups of teams that are considered as the Original Six. The New York Rangers play their home games at Madison Square Garden. The New York Rangers were the Cup favorites in the mid 1990s to late 1990s.
In the past the biggest rivals for the New York Rangers were the New York Americans. Both the teams played their home games at Madison Square Garden. Thus a rivalry emerged. As a result even today they played very intense games with each other. In fact for quite sometime, the games between New York Rangers and New York Americans were the most popular matches and the tickets were in tremendous demand. Both the New York Rangers and its arch rival the New York Americans met at least 94 times in the period between 1926 and 1942. Both the teams had put up an equally tough fight.
The New York Rangers were a very classy team. The press often called them the “Park Avenue Rangers”. In contrast the media titled the New York Americans as the “Bowery Americans”.
The Rangers have always loved publicity. Even in the past, the equation was clear to them. The more publicity they got, the more the tickets were sold. Thus, you will notice that veterans like Johnny Bruno and Willis (Jersey) Jones were far ahead of their rival equivalent Joe McGregor in terms of publicity. The Rangers made it a point to gain publicity wherever they could.
By the time the World War II approached, the Rangers had more fan following than the Americans. Most of the American fans were deflecting to the Rangers. This was so as the Rangers, unlike the Americans, were making playoffs every year. In the season of 1941-42, the Americans disbanded. That was the end of one of the most publicized rivalry of the early National Hockey League.
ERWIN
The New York rangers’ tickets are the most difficult tickets to procure. If you go by the waiting list, then it will take ages for you to get the New York rangers tickets for a single game. You will always remain next in line for the New York rangers’ tickets without getting the ticket in hand.
If you are planning to watch a game of the nets, then you need to book your New York rangers tickets months in advance. Then too there is no guarantee that you will get the New York rangers tickets. Thus, the best way to procure your New York rangers tickets is via a legitimate broker. To get your tickets, you will just have to inform them how many tickets you require and specify the seat you would like to have. With that, your work ends. Your New York rangers tickets will be delivered to you in a short time. Doesn’t that make life a lot easier?
About The New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are an ice hockey team that is based in New York City. They are a very old team in the National Hockey League scenario. They are also one of the groups of teams that are considered as the Original Six. The New York Rangers play their home games at Madison Square Garden. The New York Rangers were the Cup favorites in the mid 1990s to late 1990s.
In the past the biggest rivals for the New York Rangers were the New York Americans. Both the teams played their home games at Madison Square Garden. Thus a rivalry emerged. As a result even today they played very intense games with each other. In fact for quite sometime, the games between New York Rangers and New York Americans were the most popular matches and the tickets were in tremendous demand. Both the New York Rangers and its arch rival the New York Americans met at least 94 times in the period between 1926 and 1942. Both the teams had put up an equally tough fight.
The New York Rangers were a very classy team. The press often called them the “Park Avenue Rangers”. In contrast the media titled the New York Americans as the “Bowery Americans”.
The Rangers have always loved publicity. Even in the past, the equation was clear to them. The more publicity they got, the more the tickets were sold. Thus, you will notice that veterans like Johnny Bruno and Willis (Jersey) Jones were far ahead of their rival equivalent Joe McGregor in terms of publicity. The Rangers made it a point to gain publicity wherever they could.
By the time the World War II approached, the Rangers had more fan following than the Americans. Most of the American fans were deflecting to the Rangers. This was so as the Rangers, unlike the Americans, were making playoffs every year. In the season of 1941-42, the Americans disbanded. That was the end of one of the most publicized rivalry of the early National Hockey League.
ERWIN
Dec
20
Download Power Ranger Episodes
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shaunmike asked:
THE POWER RANGER
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I like “High Five” Power Rangers episode This is the second episode of the first season of the television show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It originally aired on September 7, 1993, and was later released as a DVD tape. It is the first episode of Power Rangers to use the standard monster of the day format, although it has two monsters rather than one.
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GIL
THE POWER RANGER
You want to download Power Ranger episodes for free. You have opportunity to download the power Ranger episodes without spending any money for per season! Just believe that how much money you could save from this free power ranger download Well, now this site provide DVD quality TV show download services that give you the opportunity to download west wing TV show and many more which you want.
For very long time I have been looking for a Power Ranger download services and I have tried over many of them just to find out this one that is truly amazing. Let’s face it, if you’re as addicted to watching TV series like Power Ranger, Friends, Lost, Heroes, CSI House, veronica mars and many others then this is the best way to enjoy them at the comfort of your own place.
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I like “High Five” Power Rangers episode This is the second episode of the first season of the television show Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It originally aired on September 7, 1993, and was later released as a DVD tape. It is the first episode of Power Rangers to use the standard monster of the day format, although it has two monsters rather than one.
To Download Power Ranger Episodes, you first have to decide which you want to download. For instance, let’s say we want the episode “A Friend in Need, Part I” or you can say Power Ranger season 3 episodes or any episode which you want.
It will not take too much time to download Power Ranger episodes at all, well, I noticed that the episode will download faster than me going to the video store and buying the Power Ranger Episode DVD, so I am completely satisfied with this. I also watch other TV shows online and this service is really saving me tons of time and money also.
There is no restriction for any one for download .You can download Power Ranger episodes all you want, no monthly fees, no pay for per download fees, which is the real money saver for you and your family and your friends. Power Ranger episode downloads are reality thanks to services like that, and if you’re really interested in discovering my favorite TV show download sources then feel free to so click and download Power Ranger Episodes
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GIL
Dec
18
Power Rangers Music Video
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Kenhu38 asked:
This is a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger music video featuring the “I WILL WIN” song by MIGHTY RAW. This clip is RARE and EXCLUSIVE because if you had joined the Power Ranger fan club it would be featured in the fan club video cassette included in the boxed kit. Currently, the Power Ranger fan club no longer exists (I believe) because it was around in 1993-4 during the Green Ranger mini-series (”Green with Evil” episodes). I transferred this music video from my aging fan club video VHS and …
MELVIN
Dec
18
Are you As Strong As a Us Army Ranger Or is It All Show
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Frank Sherrill asked:
As a former Army Ranger I know the benefits of weight
training, but many gym rats look upon weight lifting as the
“holy grail” of muscle building.The reality is that while
weights can play an important part in your conditioning programit is not the end all be all.
So the question that pops in my mind is “how useful are your
weight trained muscle?”
Let’s put them to the test…
Here’s a taste of the physical requirements of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger.Try them out test yourself and see if you really are in shape. See if you’re fit enough to wear the beret.
Army Rangers-Lead The Way
Ever wanted to put on the Army Ranger Tab on your uniform? Here is what you have to do to become a Ranger.
The training is broken up into three phases: Fort Benning Phase, Mountain Phase, and Florida Phase. The Benning Phase is executed in two parts and lasts for a total of 20 days.
As with most Special Operations units, the first phase is
very physical. You will be required to perform an Army
Ranger PFT consisting of the following:
Push-ups - 49+ Sit-ups - 59+ Chin ups - 6+ 2 mile run in running shoes in 15:12 minutes or less Other physical requirements and tests: Combat water survival test 5-mile runs 3-mile runs with an obstacle course 16-mile foot march Night and day land navigation tests
The most important pre-training exercise to do prior to Ranger school is walking fast in your boots with 50 pounds of weight on your back.
You will do this everyday you are at Ranger School. Running at least 5 miles, 3-4 times a week and swimming in uniform 2-3 times a week is recommended as well.
Pack on a 5-10 pounds of body weight prior to going so you have a little to lose when you are consuming fewer calories a day. Also known as “forced marches” or “humps”, these events are basically walking at a fast pace over rough terrain with a back pack at least 45 lbs in weight. When you take the ruck march test, you will also carry a weapon, wear boots, BDU (Battle Dress Uniform - “fatigues” pants/blouse), LBE (Load Bearing Equipment - shoulder harness with canteens with water), and a helmet.
If you break it down, you need to train the major muscle groups of the body - legs and back. Sure your upper body (shoulders and arms) come into play carrying the backpack and weapon, but you will get most of your exhaustion from the legs and lower back. So, training your legs in running, leg PT, and rucking will build stamina and endurance you need for any type of Army or land navigation training.
The Run and Leg PT Workout: Repeat 4-5 times Run 1 mile
at your goal pace (6-8:00/mile) (no ruck sack) Squats - 30
Lunges - 20 / leg Calves (heel raises)- 30 per leg The
Non-impact version of Leg PT: Bike and Leg PT: Repeat 4-5 times.
Bike 5:00 at increasing levels per minute on a Life Cycle type
stationary bike Squats - 30 Lunges - 20 / leg Calves - 30 per
leg
Long Distance Bike / Leg Workout: Life Cycle Pyramid: On
a stationary bike with manual mode and levels of resistance:
Start at level 1 for 1 minute, increase resistance level by 1
level each minute until you can no longer pedal in between the 80-90 RPM zone.
Typically, people will do this workout for 20-30
minutes depending on the bike they have. Some bike will max out at level 12 and some will go to at least 20 levels. Both are tough to get to the top of the pyramid levels. Once at the top, repeat all levels in reverse order and work yourself down the other side of the pyramid. Usually by the end of the pyramid, there is a puddle under you and your legs will be exhausted.
And, of course, there are long distance ruck marches for 10-20 miles with at least 45 lbs in a ruck sack you must train for
prior to some of the advanced Army courses. The best way to
train for these to move out with a ruck sack for 1-4 hours at a
time combined with smart foot care
Interesting stuff huh? Try it see if you’re fit enough.
BRADLEY
As a former Army Ranger I know the benefits of weight
training, but many gym rats look upon weight lifting as the
“holy grail” of muscle building.The reality is that while
weights can play an important part in your conditioning programit is not the end all be all.
So the question that pops in my mind is “how useful are your
weight trained muscle?”
Let’s put them to the test…
Here’s a taste of the physical requirements of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger.Try them out test yourself and see if you really are in shape. See if you’re fit enough to wear the beret.
Army Rangers-Lead The Way
Ever wanted to put on the Army Ranger Tab on your uniform? Here is what you have to do to become a Ranger.
The training is broken up into three phases: Fort Benning Phase, Mountain Phase, and Florida Phase. The Benning Phase is executed in two parts and lasts for a total of 20 days.
As with most Special Operations units, the first phase is
very physical. You will be required to perform an Army
Ranger PFT consisting of the following:
Push-ups - 49+ Sit-ups - 59+ Chin ups - 6+ 2 mile run in running shoes in 15:12 minutes or less Other physical requirements and tests: Combat water survival test 5-mile runs 3-mile runs with an obstacle course 16-mile foot march Night and day land navigation tests
The most important pre-training exercise to do prior to Ranger school is walking fast in your boots with 50 pounds of weight on your back.
You will do this everyday you are at Ranger School. Running at least 5 miles, 3-4 times a week and swimming in uniform 2-3 times a week is recommended as well.
Pack on a 5-10 pounds of body weight prior to going so you have a little to lose when you are consuming fewer calories a day. Also known as “forced marches” or “humps”, these events are basically walking at a fast pace over rough terrain with a back pack at least 45 lbs in weight. When you take the ruck march test, you will also carry a weapon, wear boots, BDU (Battle Dress Uniform - “fatigues” pants/blouse), LBE (Load Bearing Equipment - shoulder harness with canteens with water), and a helmet.
If you break it down, you need to train the major muscle groups of the body - legs and back. Sure your upper body (shoulders and arms) come into play carrying the backpack and weapon, but you will get most of your exhaustion from the legs and lower back. So, training your legs in running, leg PT, and rucking will build stamina and endurance you need for any type of Army or land navigation training.
The Run and Leg PT Workout: Repeat 4-5 times Run 1 mile
at your goal pace (6-8:00/mile) (no ruck sack) Squats - 30
Lunges - 20 / leg Calves (heel raises)- 30 per leg The
Non-impact version of Leg PT: Bike and Leg PT: Repeat 4-5 times.
Bike 5:00 at increasing levels per minute on a Life Cycle type
stationary bike Squats - 30 Lunges - 20 / leg Calves - 30 per
leg
Long Distance Bike / Leg Workout: Life Cycle Pyramid: On
a stationary bike with manual mode and levels of resistance:
Start at level 1 for 1 minute, increase resistance level by 1
level each minute until you can no longer pedal in between the 80-90 RPM zone.
Typically, people will do this workout for 20-30
minutes depending on the bike they have. Some bike will max out at level 12 and some will go to at least 20 levels. Both are tough to get to the top of the pyramid levels. Once at the top, repeat all levels in reverse order and work yourself down the other side of the pyramid. Usually by the end of the pyramid, there is a puddle under you and your legs will be exhausted.
And, of course, there are long distance ruck marches for 10-20 miles with at least 45 lbs in a ruck sack you must train for
prior to some of the advanced Army courses. The best way to
train for these to move out with a ruck sack for 1-4 hours at a
time combined with smart foot care
Interesting stuff huh? Try it see if you’re fit enough.
BRADLEY
Dec
17
Animaniacs spoof Power Rangers
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sloth38 asked:
This Animaniacs short (”Super Strong Warner Siblings”) is hilariously accurate in its parody and far surpasses the old Power Rangers show. Here’s to the 90’s.
DANIAL
Dec
16
Spaced Out - My Life as a Space Ranger
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Christopher K. Travis asked:
Everyone I know says I am spaced out.
My wife tells me I’m distracted and self-absorbed. She says I have no sense of time, lose things constantly, and cannot be trusted with small appliances. She says these things are evidence of my dysfunction.According to her, I fade in and out of reality all the time… but she doesn’t know the half of it.
My friends think I’m a pie-in-the-sky dreamer too, a guy who spends most of his time in La La Land. They’re too nice to say it, but half the time they think I act like I’m from another planet. That’s because when they see me, half the time I have just come back from another planet. I’ve been hiding this for a long time, but the truth is…I am a REAL space ranger and I have traveled all over the galaxy!
I try to tell my buddies what I have discovered about the inner workings of the universe, but their eyes just roll back in their heads like the reels in a slot machine. It happens so often I have taken to cupping my hands under their mouths on the hopes I will hit the jackpot. So far the only payoff I’ve gotten is a spray of spittle when they burst into laughter.
I know I am hoist on my own petard. It’s my own fault that people question my credibility. Part of my problem comes from publishing a newspaper in which fact is indistinguishable from fiction. In the past, I must admit I have written a few things that stretch the truth. Many people doubt my in-depth interviews with Santa Claus and Bigfoot.
I understand that some folks question whether the Register is really locked in a vicious print war with the New York Times; that our columnist is really over two hundred years old; or that Round Top’s Town Marshall is really 6’9” tall and rides tornadoes.
These are reasonable doubts, and I cannot deny that I might have played loose with the facts a time or two for the sake of art.
But in all fairness, anyone who studies physics will find what most of us think of as “the real world” doesn’t exist. One of the founders of quantum physics, Erwin Schrödinger, points out that at the atomic level, all matter performs in a “completely disorderly heat motion, which opposes itself to their orderly behavior and does not allow the events that happen between a small number of atoms to enroll themselves according to any recognizable physical laws.”
That means if you look closely at the building blocks of the universe from which everything is made – your car, your kids, your dinner, your new pair of shoes – you won’t find anything that looks like facts or reality.
Reality is just a story humans tell one another so we won’t be utterly overwhelmed by the incredible complexity of the world in which we live. The universe is incomprehensibly vast. Life is unfathomably complex. Few of us have the slightest idea what is going on around us, and for the most part, we don’t want to know.
Accepting the truth about our insignificance in the grand scheme of things is a real blow to the ego, so who wants to do it.
The fact that everyone makes up their own reality is just one of the basic truths that even the most backward of the galaxy’s species takes for granted, but here on the old home planet we are still having a hard time getting the message.
People on our planet often think there is some “real and objective” world that is the same for everyone. This kind of provincialism is very embarrassing for a space ranger like myself.
Put yourself in my shoes. You are at a cocktail party at a penthouse in an upscale tourist colony orbiting a gas giant in the Betelgeuse system, and your host, who looks a lot like a six foot tall oyster with chrome hood ornaments suddenly shouts “Humans believe what?” and the whole party breaks up in riotous laughter.
This kind of thing makes it very hard to act cool. Belonging to what many interstellar beings consider “one of the goofiest-looking species in the universe” is hard enough, but being an intellectual laughing stock just adds insult to injury.
That is one of the reasons I have decided to come clean about my secret life and try to explain what is really going on in the universe to the rest of humanity.
Salt Crystals on a String
My strange situation began a long time ago when I first became a space cadet. It began innocently enough. I had a big imagination as a child and was fascinated with the workings of the world – why salt crystals appeared on a string suspended in salt water; why the program in your hand shivers and quakes in a concert hall when the strings crescendo at certain notes; why snowflakes are all unique and other amazing mysteries of science.
When I was a kid, the world was a source of wonder for me, and that wondering set me to wandering in my mind…and the next thing you know I was a space cadet.
It all started when I met Tom Corbette and the Space Rangers.
Tom was as all-American boy, tried and true, and a fellow cadet at the Interplanetary Space Academy. He and I teamed up with two other young cadets. Roger, who was real wise guy but a ***** navigator was the first, and Astro, our massive but good-natured engineer was the other. The four of us rocketed all over the solar system before I was out of the sixth grade.
In the summer after I graduated from elementary school, I discovered a book called Glory Road, and found myself hopping from one dimension to the next.
That was where all the trouble started. It was fun, flitting from one alternate universe to another battling impossible odds, but there are serious consequences when you defy the laws of physics, and before long I was paying the piper.
I first began to notice strange things happening when I was in the seventh grade. That school year I lost three watches and four coats. My mother assumed I was simply careless, but as far as I could tell those personal items just disappeared. Right away I knew they had slipped into another time/space continuum but it was hard to prove to my mom.
Sadly, a little known effect of such quantum phenomena is that there is a corresponding perturbation in the electro-chemical energies passing through the synapses of the brain when they occur…which means you can’t actually remember the alternate universe events when they happen to you.
I knew those watches – including the one with Roy Rogers and Trigger on the dial - must lie half buried beneath the purple sands of a distant world. They were probably being crushed under the twelve armored feet of a methane-breathing three-headed desert beast rather than lost in my school locker. But no matter how articulate my argument, I couldn’t convince my unimaginative mother. When I came home from school without my coat for the third time, she grounded me.
That’s when I realized my life as starfarer was better kept a secret.
Now all these years later, I realize that I am not alone. There are other people like me out there in the world, lonely and lost, never seeming to fit in, observing a universe that their friends and neighbors can’t perceive. They seem like normal people except for a few unusual quirks.
They tend to lose anything not chained to their belts. They are constantly looking for their keys, their cell phones, their ***** drivers and wallets. Important papers vaporize on their desks at work. They have no sense of time. They have a hard time remembering names and phone numbers and never read directions. They leave lights on all over the house and can’t be trusted with toaster ovens.
They spend a lot of time lost in thought, staring off into space with wistful expressions on their faces. Sometimes they become fixated watching a cloud, or a crawling bug, or the reflection of light on water, and you have to shake them to get their attention.
In other words, they have the attention span of a four-year-old.
If there is anyone in your life like this, I ask you to be patient and forgiving. They may be annoying and hard to live with, but they’re behavior is an unfortunate side effect of an important mission.
They’re secretly defending the earth against invasion by the forces of galactic evil, so give them a break. It easy to get a little distracted when you’re standing alone against the death rays of the machine-beings from the Crab Nebula.
Facing such responsibility, anyone could forget a birthday or two. These people deserve your respect because they are performing a valuable public service. Defending the planet earth from total annihilation is a thankless job, but someone’s got to do it.
To my clients, friends and neighbors, I am a regular guy who happens to be a little eccentric. They assume that I lose things and can’t remember people’s names because I simply don’t pay attention, or because my brain was damaged in the 1960’s by recreational drugs.
Actually, I am constantly cycling from one dimension of space to another. I’ll be in Round Top talking on the cell phone or sitting at the drafting board trying to design someone’s country house…and then all of a sudden I’m taking four G’s as my spacecraft leaves the atmosphere of the fifth planet out from Alpha Centauri in pursuit of insectoid aliens bent on galactic domination.
Needless to say, these circumstances make it difficult for me to maintain my professional composure at my architecture firm. It’s hard to explain what is really going on, so I find it necessary to preserve the charade that I am simply a garden variety ditz.
This guise has long worked to my advantage. You learn a few things about the behavior of sentient life forms when you hang out with aliens from all over the galaxy. I’ve seen it over and over in fifty different star systems. When some species find out you are different – and Homo Sapiens are among them – it makes them afraid, and organisms that are afraid have a tendency to get nasty.
It’s long been my opinion that it’s better to take a little lip, than to have your lip busted. As a result, I have lived a double life. But now I am throwing caution to the wind. I’m going to tell everybody what I have found out in my travels about what is really going on here on the planet earth.
I have to run to the house because I forgot to turn off the coffee percolator and the Queen is afraid I am going to burn the house down. I’ll clue you in as soon as I get back.
The Ultimate Truths of Life on Earth
Whew! That was close. The bottom of the coffee pot was starting to look like a black hole. Now back to the facts about life on earth. There are a many such truths of course, more than I can tell you now, so I am going to focus on the top seven.
1. The Aliens are getting restless.
For the last million years or so, most of galactic society has ignored human beings. I mean, there have been a few good sitcoms based on human beings, mostly comedies sort of like Bedtime for Bonzo, but for the most part no one really cared. Human beings were just funny monkeys scratching themselves. They felt safe from the various types of crazy violent madness we are so good at cooking up because we were stuck on our own planet.
But then Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and that changed everything. Those of us who were alive when that happened experienced a very rare event. Life on earth is roughly 3.8 billion years old. Each of us lives an average about 70 years. That means the odds that any individual organism would be alive when a representative of life on earth actually set foot on another world is 5,428,5714 to one.
It’s not just the Beatles that make us a unique generation and this fact is not lost on folks who live in neighboring star systems, especially because things are happening pretty fast. Our seed is spreading. Voyager I is now about 8.7 billion miles from earth and moving towards them at 46,000 miles an hour. They watch the History Channel. They know what maniacs we are and it is making them nervous.
Now what you need to understand is that most of our neighbors in the galaxy are pretty nice folks. They tend to be forgive and forget types. But there are races out there that view us the same way we view a venereal disease, and if they decide we need a dose of antibiotics, we are toast.
That’s the main reason I have decided to speak up. We need to get our act together in the next couple of generations, or our communal ***** are going to be in a sling.
The second thing you need to know I already talked about above. It’s important truth number two.
2. You live in your own little world.
Each of us makes up our individual reality. I mean really. I’m not saying the material world doesn’t exist. There is a world out there, but each of us perceives it differently in significant ways.
Throughout the galaxy, every different organism has its own “real world.” Highly social species like us can coordinate our behavior by talking and mimicking each other, and by building a common living space to channel our actions, but those are just tricks our brains have evolved so we can get more food and make more babies than the other animals we compete with for survival.
Bottom line, you have to guess about what the other guy is thinking. After millions of years of evolution, our brains have gotten very good at guessing. But really…you don’t have the slightest idea what is going on in the minds of your wife, your husband, or your kids….let alone behind the fevered brows of Osama Bin Laden or Tom Delay.
There is no point in worrying about what other people think. There is no point in talking to other people about what they think other people think. There is no point to watching television shows or reading books about what other people think. You’ll never really know.
So just relax and pay attention, because the only way you are ever going to get any idea what a person thinks is by listening to them and watching their behavior.
On advanced worlds, listening and observing are competitive sports. You can get a Ph.D. in them. In many societies, talking is seen as an unpleasant but necessary metabolic process, something like ********* or **********. The smartest people never say a darn thing!
2. You are never alone. You just think you are.
You are really just a cell in a bigger organism. Every advanced society understands this. I know you think paying your own bills and having your own body makes you all grown up and independent, but the truth is that you and every other living thing is just a piece of the living earth.
All the incredibly diverse species that cover our planet are just specialized cells like those in your body. Some are liver cells. Some are stomach lining. Some are neurons.
I know this is a blow to your ego, but it is time to grown up and face the music. You aren’t really all that important in the grand scheme of things. Even humanity as a whole is not all that big a deal. Our living planet was growing and evolving just fine for billions of years before anyone invented a BMW. It may seem like the American Idol results show is the center of the universe, but it really isn’t.
The reason you think you are an individual is because all living systems are built of small pieces that must be distinct from one another if they are to work. Identity is necessary for their functioning, just as an individual cell is important to the functioning of your pancreas. What a liver cell thinks about the liver makes no difference. All that matters is whether it oozes bile.
The same is true for you. I know this is hard to swallow, but time is running out so I can’t afford to break it to you gently.
3. Everything in the universe is always running down.
Human scientists call this fact the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or entropy. Most physicists consider it the most general law of nature.
When the energy in any system – a star or a living organism – runs down to the point that it becomes a dead, inert lump of matter, it reaches a state that a physicist calls thermodynamic equilibrium, or maximum entropy. It can also be described as “greater order” as significant change in its form stops for all practical purposes.
Most substances degrade relatively rapidly from the relative disorder caused by heat to a more “stable order” as they cool to absolute zero, but the march towards maximum entropy exhibits itself in many other ways. When two solutions are mixed - for instance a jar of sugar water and a jar of plain water - the sugar has a “goal” of becoming equally distributed throughout the liquid water. When it reaches that state, maximum entropy is achieved.
Such effects occur throughout nature. For instance, Americans degrade the complex organisms we refer to as cattle at a mind-boggling rate. In the year 2000, somewhere around thirty-eight million of those highly organized and brilliantly functional organic systems, each capable of independently maintaining its energy level for a considerable number of years, were “degraded” to the more stable state we refer to as sewage by the process of our consumption.
That sewage is then consumed and degraded by specialized microorganisms even closer to thermodynamic equilibrium.
In that same year, each American converted an average of 195 pounds of red meat, poultry and fish into simpler forms. Every year of our lives, we convert more than our weight of other “higher life forms” into energy and protein which we use to battle the relentless march of entropy.
Each individual organism on earth is an efficient processing plant that is remarkably effective at making other organisms in the world around them - and even inorganic compounds - more “stable.”
Eating and finding food are so basic to the function of living things that in almost all organisms the brain is located near the entrance to the gut. There are several families of genes that govern both brain and gut development, which reflects the ancient relationship between the gut and the brain.
It is humbling to consider while pushing our carts through the grocery store that we may be utilizing the first and foremost purpose of our minds, but those are the facts. Like every other animal, our primary business in life is to find food that can be converted to energy to support the functioning of our bodies. What we do not use, we excrete as feces, urine, and perspiration.
Combined, the amount of waste generated by living things, both in life and in death, has altered a significant portion of the earth’s crust. Soil and limestone deposits, both results of millions of years of processing by living things, cover our planet.
All life is knee deep in birth and death, two extremes of a powerful entropic process. This universal contest is present not only in the grand scheme of nature, but also in the daily existence of everything in creation.
Our sun is a powerful generator of energy, but like all sources of energy, that energy is slowly suffering the attrition of entropy. The powerful heat and pressures within the core of our planet create complex mineral deposits, which emerge through volcanic activity and other geological phenomena to create mountains and other grand features, which are in turn worn down by wind, rain, glaciers and other natural forces, and turned into sand and soil.
Our bodies face entropy each day. Millions of years of evolution have built a grand engine in the human physique. Each human body has incredible abilities to persist in the face of entropy’s relentless march - but in the end - every individual living organism, every mountain, every energy source…wears down.
So the bottom line is that your decline is inevitable. No matter how much you work out and how well you eat, you are still on the way out. All you are ever going to do is eat, **** and die. I know that sounds like bad news, but every cloud has a silver lining.
Entropy means that there will always be plenty of work for doctors, remodeling contractors, cosmetics sales people and washing machine repairmen.
4. You only exist as a relationship.
Now this might be hard to understand, so I will use a metaphor that makes it easier. First, I have to tell you that you are what is called a “dissipative structure.” Such a structure accelerates the pace of entropy by taking energy from the world around it and hastening it towards thermodynamic equilibrium.
Dissipative structures are easily observable in nature. Whirlpools and tornadoes are two common examples, but galaxies and eco-systems also qualify.
When barometric pressure rises in a storm front, a regular form with a recognizable structure emerges. We call it a tornado. A tornado allows the high barometric pressure to dissipate more effectively in exchange for maintaining its structure. It has to have a thermodynamic imbalance to exist. When the build up of pressure is equalized, the tornado disappears.
In the early 1990’s, earth scientists performed a thermal analysis while flying over several varied ecosystems and discovered that the more developed the eco-system, the colder its surface temperature. They discovered what the rest of the galaxy already knows, that complex living systems dissipate the sun’s energy more effectively than those that are less diverse. The more complex the living system, the more effective dissipater it is.
Your body is a complex living system too, just like a jungle. The city you live in is also complex living system. Both you and the city are dissipative structures. You take energy out of the world around you like a tornado, and use that energy to avoid the impact of entropy. As pointed out above, you are very effective at turning cows into ****. You do this so you can continue being yourself. The cow is sacrificed to maintain your structure.
A tornado’s identity is a relationship between a high pressure storm system and a low pressure layer of air. A tornado is an identifiable thing, but though it has a structure you can see and it can blow a piece of straw through a fence post, all its parts are parts of other things. It has no distinct content. Its behavior is the only thing unique about it, and that behavior is completely determined by its environment.
So is yours. You are merely a relationship between your physical and cultural environment, and the genes you inherited from your family. The only thing that is “you” is how you act, and how you act is almost entirely determined by your instincts and your environment.
Sorry. I know it’s hard to feel like the most important thing in the universe when someone is trying to say you make decisions like a termite, but…well…you do.
5. Your brain is not designed to make you happy.
Have you ever noticed that it is incredibly difficult to get happy and stay that way?
We have been evolving for several million years. The amazingly brilliant brains in our skulls make us smart enough to get to the moon. Since almost all of us want to be happy, you would think natural selection would have done a better job of getting us that way.
The problem is that natural selection doesn’t care if you are happy unless your happiness makes your genes more likely to make it to the next generation. Genes are very selfish. They have their own agenda, and don’t care a whit about your happiness.
Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker makes this point as follows: “People don’t selfishly spread their genes; genes selfishly spread themselves. They do it by the way they build our brains. By making us enjoy life, health, sex, friends, and children, the genes buy a lottery ticket for representation in the next generation.”
So you see, your brain isn’t designed to make you happy. It is designed to give you grandchildren, and if they make you happy, that is because your genes want you to throw yourself in front of a lion so they can have grandchildren.
After they are born, you see, you are expendable. The reason for this is perhaps the most important truth of all for human beings.
6. All that really matters is ***.
There are plenty of galactic races that don’t have ***. They reproduce with spores, or through binary fission like a paramecium, or are manufactured in a factory. I met an alien one time that reproduced using a Xerox machine. There are many different ways to do it.
But in the long run for human beings, *** is all that matters. Ultimately, every man is a sperm, wiggling his little tail while racing all the other little men up the birth canal for a one-in-a-million chance of getting laid. Every woman is an egg, waiting for first few suitors to arrive, and then being picky about which one she lets penetrate her cell membrane.
That’s about it. *** is the point of all human existence. Money, power, beauty, kindness, love, morality, success, and all our other cherished ideals are merely various strategies for making babies and helping them survive so they can make more babies.
There are currently about 6,451,058,790 human beings on earth. One year ago there were 6,376,863,118. That’s 74,195,672 more in a year. In 1950, the global population was 2,556,517,137. That’s more than a 250% increase in only 55 years. At that rate, in 110 years there will be about forty billion of us.
You can see why our galactic neighbors are so worried about what will happen if we move into their neighborhoods.
ADAN
Everyone I know says I am spaced out.
My wife tells me I’m distracted and self-absorbed. She says I have no sense of time, lose things constantly, and cannot be trusted with small appliances. She says these things are evidence of my dysfunction.According to her, I fade in and out of reality all the time… but she doesn’t know the half of it.
My friends think I’m a pie-in-the-sky dreamer too, a guy who spends most of his time in La La Land. They’re too nice to say it, but half the time they think I act like I’m from another planet. That’s because when they see me, half the time I have just come back from another planet. I’ve been hiding this for a long time, but the truth is…I am a REAL space ranger and I have traveled all over the galaxy!
I try to tell my buddies what I have discovered about the inner workings of the universe, but their eyes just roll back in their heads like the reels in a slot machine. It happens so often I have taken to cupping my hands under their mouths on the hopes I will hit the jackpot. So far the only payoff I’ve gotten is a spray of spittle when they burst into laughter.
I know I am hoist on my own petard. It’s my own fault that people question my credibility. Part of my problem comes from publishing a newspaper in which fact is indistinguishable from fiction. In the past, I must admit I have written a few things that stretch the truth. Many people doubt my in-depth interviews with Santa Claus and Bigfoot.
I understand that some folks question whether the Register is really locked in a vicious print war with the New York Times; that our columnist is really over two hundred years old; or that Round Top’s Town Marshall is really 6’9” tall and rides tornadoes.
These are reasonable doubts, and I cannot deny that I might have played loose with the facts a time or two for the sake of art.
But in all fairness, anyone who studies physics will find what most of us think of as “the real world” doesn’t exist. One of the founders of quantum physics, Erwin Schrödinger, points out that at the atomic level, all matter performs in a “completely disorderly heat motion, which opposes itself to their orderly behavior and does not allow the events that happen between a small number of atoms to enroll themselves according to any recognizable physical laws.”
That means if you look closely at the building blocks of the universe from which everything is made – your car, your kids, your dinner, your new pair of shoes – you won’t find anything that looks like facts or reality.
Reality is just a story humans tell one another so we won’t be utterly overwhelmed by the incredible complexity of the world in which we live. The universe is incomprehensibly vast. Life is unfathomably complex. Few of us have the slightest idea what is going on around us, and for the most part, we don’t want to know.
Accepting the truth about our insignificance in the grand scheme of things is a real blow to the ego, so who wants to do it.
The fact that everyone makes up their own reality is just one of the basic truths that even the most backward of the galaxy’s species takes for granted, but here on the old home planet we are still having a hard time getting the message.
People on our planet often think there is some “real and objective” world that is the same for everyone. This kind of provincialism is very embarrassing for a space ranger like myself.
Put yourself in my shoes. You are at a cocktail party at a penthouse in an upscale tourist colony orbiting a gas giant in the Betelgeuse system, and your host, who looks a lot like a six foot tall oyster with chrome hood ornaments suddenly shouts “Humans believe what?” and the whole party breaks up in riotous laughter.
This kind of thing makes it very hard to act cool. Belonging to what many interstellar beings consider “one of the goofiest-looking species in the universe” is hard enough, but being an intellectual laughing stock just adds insult to injury.
That is one of the reasons I have decided to come clean about my secret life and try to explain what is really going on in the universe to the rest of humanity.
Salt Crystals on a String
My strange situation began a long time ago when I first became a space cadet. It began innocently enough. I had a big imagination as a child and was fascinated with the workings of the world – why salt crystals appeared on a string suspended in salt water; why the program in your hand shivers and quakes in a concert hall when the strings crescendo at certain notes; why snowflakes are all unique and other amazing mysteries of science.
When I was a kid, the world was a source of wonder for me, and that wondering set me to wandering in my mind…and the next thing you know I was a space cadet.
It all started when I met Tom Corbette and the Space Rangers.
Tom was as all-American boy, tried and true, and a fellow cadet at the Interplanetary Space Academy. He and I teamed up with two other young cadets. Roger, who was real wise guy but a ***** navigator was the first, and Astro, our massive but good-natured engineer was the other. The four of us rocketed all over the solar system before I was out of the sixth grade.
In the summer after I graduated from elementary school, I discovered a book called Glory Road, and found myself hopping from one dimension to the next.
That was where all the trouble started. It was fun, flitting from one alternate universe to another battling impossible odds, but there are serious consequences when you defy the laws of physics, and before long I was paying the piper.
I first began to notice strange things happening when I was in the seventh grade. That school year I lost three watches and four coats. My mother assumed I was simply careless, but as far as I could tell those personal items just disappeared. Right away I knew they had slipped into another time/space continuum but it was hard to prove to my mom.
Sadly, a little known effect of such quantum phenomena is that there is a corresponding perturbation in the electro-chemical energies passing through the synapses of the brain when they occur…which means you can’t actually remember the alternate universe events when they happen to you.
I knew those watches – including the one with Roy Rogers and Trigger on the dial - must lie half buried beneath the purple sands of a distant world. They were probably being crushed under the twelve armored feet of a methane-breathing three-headed desert beast rather than lost in my school locker. But no matter how articulate my argument, I couldn’t convince my unimaginative mother. When I came home from school without my coat for the third time, she grounded me.
That’s when I realized my life as starfarer was better kept a secret.
Now all these years later, I realize that I am not alone. There are other people like me out there in the world, lonely and lost, never seeming to fit in, observing a universe that their friends and neighbors can’t perceive. They seem like normal people except for a few unusual quirks.
They tend to lose anything not chained to their belts. They are constantly looking for their keys, their cell phones, their ***** drivers and wallets. Important papers vaporize on their desks at work. They have no sense of time. They have a hard time remembering names and phone numbers and never read directions. They leave lights on all over the house and can’t be trusted with toaster ovens.
They spend a lot of time lost in thought, staring off into space with wistful expressions on their faces. Sometimes they become fixated watching a cloud, or a crawling bug, or the reflection of light on water, and you have to shake them to get their attention.
In other words, they have the attention span of a four-year-old.
If there is anyone in your life like this, I ask you to be patient and forgiving. They may be annoying and hard to live with, but they’re behavior is an unfortunate side effect of an important mission.
They’re secretly defending the earth against invasion by the forces of galactic evil, so give them a break. It easy to get a little distracted when you’re standing alone against the death rays of the machine-beings from the Crab Nebula.
Facing such responsibility, anyone could forget a birthday or two. These people deserve your respect because they are performing a valuable public service. Defending the planet earth from total annihilation is a thankless job, but someone’s got to do it.
To my clients, friends and neighbors, I am a regular guy who happens to be a little eccentric. They assume that I lose things and can’t remember people’s names because I simply don’t pay attention, or because my brain was damaged in the 1960’s by recreational drugs.
Actually, I am constantly cycling from one dimension of space to another. I’ll be in Round Top talking on the cell phone or sitting at the drafting board trying to design someone’s country house…and then all of a sudden I’m taking four G’s as my spacecraft leaves the atmosphere of the fifth planet out from Alpha Centauri in pursuit of insectoid aliens bent on galactic domination.
Needless to say, these circumstances make it difficult for me to maintain my professional composure at my architecture firm. It’s hard to explain what is really going on, so I find it necessary to preserve the charade that I am simply a garden variety ditz.
This guise has long worked to my advantage. You learn a few things about the behavior of sentient life forms when you hang out with aliens from all over the galaxy. I’ve seen it over and over in fifty different star systems. When some species find out you are different – and Homo Sapiens are among them – it makes them afraid, and organisms that are afraid have a tendency to get nasty.
It’s long been my opinion that it’s better to take a little lip, than to have your lip busted. As a result, I have lived a double life. But now I am throwing caution to the wind. I’m going to tell everybody what I have found out in my travels about what is really going on here on the planet earth.
I have to run to the house because I forgot to turn off the coffee percolator and the Queen is afraid I am going to burn the house down. I’ll clue you in as soon as I get back.
The Ultimate Truths of Life on Earth
Whew! That was close. The bottom of the coffee pot was starting to look like a black hole. Now back to the facts about life on earth. There are a many such truths of course, more than I can tell you now, so I am going to focus on the top seven.
1. The Aliens are getting restless.
For the last million years or so, most of galactic society has ignored human beings. I mean, there have been a few good sitcoms based on human beings, mostly comedies sort of like Bedtime for Bonzo, but for the most part no one really cared. Human beings were just funny monkeys scratching themselves. They felt safe from the various types of crazy violent madness we are so good at cooking up because we were stuck on our own planet.
But then Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, and that changed everything. Those of us who were alive when that happened experienced a very rare event. Life on earth is roughly 3.8 billion years old. Each of us lives an average about 70 years. That means the odds that any individual organism would be alive when a representative of life on earth actually set foot on another world is 5,428,5714 to one.
It’s not just the Beatles that make us a unique generation and this fact is not lost on folks who live in neighboring star systems, especially because things are happening pretty fast. Our seed is spreading. Voyager I is now about 8.7 billion miles from earth and moving towards them at 46,000 miles an hour. They watch the History Channel. They know what maniacs we are and it is making them nervous.
Now what you need to understand is that most of our neighbors in the galaxy are pretty nice folks. They tend to be forgive and forget types. But there are races out there that view us the same way we view a venereal disease, and if they decide we need a dose of antibiotics, we are toast.
That’s the main reason I have decided to speak up. We need to get our act together in the next couple of generations, or our communal ***** are going to be in a sling.
The second thing you need to know I already talked about above. It’s important truth number two.
2. You live in your own little world.
Each of us makes up our individual reality. I mean really. I’m not saying the material world doesn’t exist. There is a world out there, but each of us perceives it differently in significant ways.
Throughout the galaxy, every different organism has its own “real world.” Highly social species like us can coordinate our behavior by talking and mimicking each other, and by building a common living space to channel our actions, but those are just tricks our brains have evolved so we can get more food and make more babies than the other animals we compete with for survival.
Bottom line, you have to guess about what the other guy is thinking. After millions of years of evolution, our brains have gotten very good at guessing. But really…you don’t have the slightest idea what is going on in the minds of your wife, your husband, or your kids….let alone behind the fevered brows of Osama Bin Laden or Tom Delay.
There is no point in worrying about what other people think. There is no point in talking to other people about what they think other people think. There is no point to watching television shows or reading books about what other people think. You’ll never really know.
So just relax and pay attention, because the only way you are ever going to get any idea what a person thinks is by listening to them and watching their behavior.
On advanced worlds, listening and observing are competitive sports. You can get a Ph.D. in them. In many societies, talking is seen as an unpleasant but necessary metabolic process, something like ********* or **********. The smartest people never say a darn thing!
2. You are never alone. You just think you are.
You are really just a cell in a bigger organism. Every advanced society understands this. I know you think paying your own bills and having your own body makes you all grown up and independent, but the truth is that you and every other living thing is just a piece of the living earth.
All the incredibly diverse species that cover our planet are just specialized cells like those in your body. Some are liver cells. Some are stomach lining. Some are neurons.
I know this is a blow to your ego, but it is time to grown up and face the music. You aren’t really all that important in the grand scheme of things. Even humanity as a whole is not all that big a deal. Our living planet was growing and evolving just fine for billions of years before anyone invented a BMW. It may seem like the American Idol results show is the center of the universe, but it really isn’t.
The reason you think you are an individual is because all living systems are built of small pieces that must be distinct from one another if they are to work. Identity is necessary for their functioning, just as an individual cell is important to the functioning of your pancreas. What a liver cell thinks about the liver makes no difference. All that matters is whether it oozes bile.
The same is true for you. I know this is hard to swallow, but time is running out so I can’t afford to break it to you gently.
3. Everything in the universe is always running down.
Human scientists call this fact the Second Law of Thermodynamics, or entropy. Most physicists consider it the most general law of nature.
When the energy in any system – a star or a living organism – runs down to the point that it becomes a dead, inert lump of matter, it reaches a state that a physicist calls thermodynamic equilibrium, or maximum entropy. It can also be described as “greater order” as significant change in its form stops for all practical purposes.
Most substances degrade relatively rapidly from the relative disorder caused by heat to a more “stable order” as they cool to absolute zero, but the march towards maximum entropy exhibits itself in many other ways. When two solutions are mixed - for instance a jar of sugar water and a jar of plain water - the sugar has a “goal” of becoming equally distributed throughout the liquid water. When it reaches that state, maximum entropy is achieved.
Such effects occur throughout nature. For instance, Americans degrade the complex organisms we refer to as cattle at a mind-boggling rate. In the year 2000, somewhere around thirty-eight million of those highly organized and brilliantly functional organic systems, each capable of independently maintaining its energy level for a considerable number of years, were “degraded” to the more stable state we refer to as sewage by the process of our consumption.
That sewage is then consumed and degraded by specialized microorganisms even closer to thermodynamic equilibrium.
In that same year, each American converted an average of 195 pounds of red meat, poultry and fish into simpler forms. Every year of our lives, we convert more than our weight of other “higher life forms” into energy and protein which we use to battle the relentless march of entropy.
Each individual organism on earth is an efficient processing plant that is remarkably effective at making other organisms in the world around them - and even inorganic compounds - more “stable.”
Eating and finding food are so basic to the function of living things that in almost all organisms the brain is located near the entrance to the gut. There are several families of genes that govern both brain and gut development, which reflects the ancient relationship between the gut and the brain.
It is humbling to consider while pushing our carts through the grocery store that we may be utilizing the first and foremost purpose of our minds, but those are the facts. Like every other animal, our primary business in life is to find food that can be converted to energy to support the functioning of our bodies. What we do not use, we excrete as feces, urine, and perspiration.
Combined, the amount of waste generated by living things, both in life and in death, has altered a significant portion of the earth’s crust. Soil and limestone deposits, both results of millions of years of processing by living things, cover our planet.
All life is knee deep in birth and death, two extremes of a powerful entropic process. This universal contest is present not only in the grand scheme of nature, but also in the daily existence of everything in creation.
Our sun is a powerful generator of energy, but like all sources of energy, that energy is slowly suffering the attrition of entropy. The powerful heat and pressures within the core of our planet create complex mineral deposits, which emerge through volcanic activity and other geological phenomena to create mountains and other grand features, which are in turn worn down by wind, rain, glaciers and other natural forces, and turned into sand and soil.
Our bodies face entropy each day. Millions of years of evolution have built a grand engine in the human physique. Each human body has incredible abilities to persist in the face of entropy’s relentless march - but in the end - every individual living organism, every mountain, every energy source…wears down.
So the bottom line is that your decline is inevitable. No matter how much you work out and how well you eat, you are still on the way out. All you are ever going to do is eat, **** and die. I know that sounds like bad news, but every cloud has a silver lining.
Entropy means that there will always be plenty of work for doctors, remodeling contractors, cosmetics sales people and washing machine repairmen.
4. You only exist as a relationship.
Now this might be hard to understand, so I will use a metaphor that makes it easier. First, I have to tell you that you are what is called a “dissipative structure.” Such a structure accelerates the pace of entropy by taking energy from the world around it and hastening it towards thermodynamic equilibrium.
Dissipative structures are easily observable in nature. Whirlpools and tornadoes are two common examples, but galaxies and eco-systems also qualify.
When barometric pressure rises in a storm front, a regular form with a recognizable structure emerges. We call it a tornado. A tornado allows the high barometric pressure to dissipate more effectively in exchange for maintaining its structure. It has to have a thermodynamic imbalance to exist. When the build up of pressure is equalized, the tornado disappears.
In the early 1990’s, earth scientists performed a thermal analysis while flying over several varied ecosystems and discovered that the more developed the eco-system, the colder its surface temperature. They discovered what the rest of the galaxy already knows, that complex living systems dissipate the sun’s energy more effectively than those that are less diverse. The more complex the living system, the more effective dissipater it is.
Your body is a complex living system too, just like a jungle. The city you live in is also complex living system. Both you and the city are dissipative structures. You take energy out of the world around you like a tornado, and use that energy to avoid the impact of entropy. As pointed out above, you are very effective at turning cows into ****. You do this so you can continue being yourself. The cow is sacrificed to maintain your structure.
A tornado’s identity is a relationship between a high pressure storm system and a low pressure layer of air. A tornado is an identifiable thing, but though it has a structure you can see and it can blow a piece of straw through a fence post, all its parts are parts of other things. It has no distinct content. Its behavior is the only thing unique about it, and that behavior is completely determined by its environment.
So is yours. You are merely a relationship between your physical and cultural environment, and the genes you inherited from your family. The only thing that is “you” is how you act, and how you act is almost entirely determined by your instincts and your environment.
Sorry. I know it’s hard to feel like the most important thing in the universe when someone is trying to say you make decisions like a termite, but…well…you do.
5. Your brain is not designed to make you happy.
Have you ever noticed that it is incredibly difficult to get happy and stay that way?
We have been evolving for several million years. The amazingly brilliant brains in our skulls make us smart enough to get to the moon. Since almost all of us want to be happy, you would think natural selection would have done a better job of getting us that way.
The problem is that natural selection doesn’t care if you are happy unless your happiness makes your genes more likely to make it to the next generation. Genes are very selfish. They have their own agenda, and don’t care a whit about your happiness.
Cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker makes this point as follows: “People don’t selfishly spread their genes; genes selfishly spread themselves. They do it by the way they build our brains. By making us enjoy life, health, sex, friends, and children, the genes buy a lottery ticket for representation in the next generation.”
So you see, your brain isn’t designed to make you happy. It is designed to give you grandchildren, and if they make you happy, that is because your genes want you to throw yourself in front of a lion so they can have grandchildren.
After they are born, you see, you are expendable. The reason for this is perhaps the most important truth of all for human beings.
6. All that really matters is ***.
There are plenty of galactic races that don’t have ***. They reproduce with spores, or through binary fission like a paramecium, or are manufactured in a factory. I met an alien one time that reproduced using a Xerox machine. There are many different ways to do it.
But in the long run for human beings, *** is all that matters. Ultimately, every man is a sperm, wiggling his little tail while racing all the other little men up the birth canal for a one-in-a-million chance of getting laid. Every woman is an egg, waiting for first few suitors to arrive, and then being picky about which one she lets penetrate her cell membrane.
That’s about it. *** is the point of all human existence. Money, power, beauty, kindness, love, morality, success, and all our other cherished ideals are merely various strategies for making babies and helping them survive so they can make more babies.
There are currently about 6,451,058,790 human beings on earth. One year ago there were 6,376,863,118. That’s 74,195,672 more in a year. In 1950, the global population was 2,556,517,137. That’s more than a 250% increase in only 55 years. At that rate, in 110 years there will be about forty billion of us.
You can see why our galactic neighbors are so worried about what will happen if we move into their neighborhoods.
ADAN