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Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:21:04 -0700

Map of Latitude: 40� 39 Min. 30 Sec.
Longitude: -111� 25 Min. 00 Sec.
Jordanelle panorama � by sWitt 05.05
site visitors over previous 24 hrs.
location on a world map:--> ... you know what to do:-->

KRCL: ---> community radiO

Welcome, visitor #
Thanx for stopping by... enjoy.

utaH satellite image: � Google maps

digital art by sWitt: --->
new work/recent work posted on SU.

STUMBLEBUZZ -- this really is quite clever, a Quicktime animation: ---> "Humans!"
recent SU discovery by Cinnsealach

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Sat, 27 May 2006 14:41:43 -0700

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"Spirit Owl" from the Dance Series � sWitt

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>>MORE :) Imagery by sWitt

PLEASE NOTE: images on this blog that are my own creation bear a watermark and/or � (copyright notice) except where indicated i am the sole owner of this intellectual property--you may "photo-blog" these images for review on "StumbleUpon" only! NOT as part of your personal scrapbook of stolen images; please, ALWAYS--give credit where it is due. If you can't agree to these terms, please move on, scroll no further, adios.
sWitt--OUT!

PS. here is an excellent post on this matter by our friend--rumisong
and yet another link to Ashlyn's note on this issue--the initiator of the most recent SU forum discussion attempting to educate SU members on proper usage of image hosts & SU photoblogging tools!

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Sat, 27 May 2006 14:41:25 -0700

SNOW NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Last weekend at the bird;
Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah

"Snowbird's Last Weekend!

Mineral Basin is open for one more weekend!
The FINAL days for skiing and riding are Saturday, Sunday and Monday, May 27-29. Click HERE for lift schedule and ticket prices."

image source: Snowbird
05.12.06 Author: Matt Crawley

More Snow News: Ski Press Magazine
" Norwegian Tormod Granheim successfully completed a ski descent of Everest's North Face, but his partner, Swede, Tomas Kenneth Olsson, vanished on their joint descent after falling above 8,000 m in an area known as the Death Zone. "
UPDATE: EverestNews.com

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Tue, 23 May 2006 07:17:47 -0700

CURRENT HAZARD: record warm temperatures & snow melt create extremely dangerous spring runoff conditions! Please: always be aware of your local conditions. Most weather & environmentally related casualties can typically be prevented by safe behaviour methods. Seasonal swift water conditons are common in many areas throughout the world...
-so here are some good safety tips. sw

SWIFT WATER CONDITIONS ARE DANGEROUS
AND CAN BE DEADLY!

article/image source: The Salt Lake Tribune

{ed. again, just the local source; apply the following to your specific locale. sw}

* Parents need to pay special attention their children.
Swift water is a natural, but potentially deadly magnet
for curious youngsters.

* Do not attempt to wade across cold, swift water -
it can be deceivingly dangerous.

* Stay off unstable stream banks - added weight can cause them to
collapse.

* Don't play fetch with your dog in fast-moving water. Although
generally great swimmers, dogs can easily be dragged downstream
by a powerful current.

* Avoid walking on iced-over lakes and streams; rapidly thinning ice may
be hidden by a layer of snow.

* Be aware of wet soils on steep slopes, which may produce falling rocks
that are dangerous for hikers and vehicles.

* Watch for weakening snow bridges, a particular concern for
snowmobilers at stream crossings.

* Stay out of avalanche-prone areas. Avalanche hazards remain high in
many areas."

Local news stories of drownings & rescues;---> KSL-TV, KUTV, Salt Lake City, Utah.
a Water Warning: --> the Salt Lake Tribune

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Fri, 19 May 2006 15:21:28 -0700

CURRENT EVENTS:
UTAH Living Traditions Festival May 19, 20, 21, Salt Lake City.

Living Traditions:
A Celebration of Salt Lake's Folk and Ethnic Arts

"We present, with great pleasure and for the benefit of all, the twenty-first annual Living Traditions Festival. By means of this public celebration, the community comes together to share the contemporary customs - in music, dance, foods and crafts - of Salt Lake Valley's diverse ethnic groups. Through these traditions passed down through generations, ethnic communities perpetuate themselves and individuals develop a strong sense of their own identity.

Local ethnic artists -- craftspeople, dancers, musicians, and chefs -- are at the heart of Living Traditions. They present for us the techniques, styles, tools, and materials that are used in their respective artforms, some centuries old. We add to the experience by bringing featured guest artists to perform, presenting musical styles that may not be indigenous to Salt Lake."

Annual URC Paddle Festival -----> this weekend,
May 20,21 at Little Dell, Parleys' Canyon. Learn to paddle a kayak, row a scull, sail, cast a fly rod, and listen to live music!

"The Utah Rivers Council Paddle Festival is Utah's biggest annual celebration of rivers and recreation, offering families a chance to explore new skills together in a fun outdoor environment. At the Festival, anyone 6 or older can learn to paddle, row, sail or fly fish. Participants enjoy a variety of new recreational, whitewater and flat water kayaks, canoes, sculls, and sailboats in a supportive setting."

sponsor: Utah Rivers Council

lots of new canoe-kayaking links

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Mon, 15 May 2006 21:08:34 -0700

Missing Eagle from the Tracy Aviary found in Idaho

A popular bald eagle missing from the Tracy Aviary for over two weeks was found safe in Idaho Falls Monday afternoon.more: KTVX-4>>
LAST UPDATE: 5/15/2006 6:59:51 PM.

Story from KSL-TV w/video.

earlier story from Salt Lake Tribune re: the search

eagle photos: the Tracy Aviary, Salt Lake City, Utah

Escapee wolf turns Hogle into a zoo. 05.14.06--(SLC,UT)
The Salt Lake Tribune
KSL--TV

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Sun, 14 May 2006 17:08:47 -0700

Happy Mothers' Day 05.14.06

to all the Moms...

with love from all us kids...

link to Katherine's tale...

thanx: twistedelegance1 / original source: Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, USA
Pulitzer prize winning example of the art and power of photojournalism

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Thu, 11 May 2006 15:24:02 -0700

R.I.P.--05.11.81--N.R.M.

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Greetings; from northern Utah, the inter-mountain West of the USA. Local time: MDT = GMT -6.00. We specialize in regional info, lots of reviews for Park City -Utah. Western links for: art -music -entertainment - outdoors - adventure - extreme sports --sWitt

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"I found I could say things with color and shapes
that I couldn't say any other way
--things I had no words for."
Georgia O'Keeffe

Image Credit: Nude Series IX, 1917 Georgia O'Keeffe
Watercolor and graphite on paper,12 x 8 7/8in.
The Georgia O'Keeffe Foundation

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sWitt--OUT!

PS. here is an excellent post on this matter by our friend--rumisong
and yet another link to Ashlyn's note on this issue--the initiator of the most recent SU forum discussion attempting to educate SU members on proper usage of image hosts & SU photoblogging tools!

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* OUTDOORS * ENVIRONMENT * ADVENTURE SPORTS *
& DIGITAL ART by sWitt

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-- northern Utah, USA

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legend:

-- The Earth on Turtle's Back

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Thu, 11 May 2006 15:17:08 -0700

National Park Service Bans Climbing in Arches National Park

"Delicate Arch" image source: http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~ksen/

RELATED STORY FOLLOWS:
FROM AP via KTVX Salt Lake TV4

Man scales Utah's Delicate Arch; Park Service rushes to ban climbing
LAST UPDATE: 5/10/2006 3:46:53 PM
(Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Dean Potter climbed Delicate Arch, the soaring landscape symbol of southern Utah. Now the National Park Service is making certain he doesn't get away with it again.

Arches National Park rushed Tuesday to tighten its rules on climbing after Potter announced, with photographs and video, that he made an unassisted climb of Delicate Arch just after daybreak on Sunday.

He did it several times, quickly rappelling down by aid of friends on a rope belay, to climb again.

"I've never heard of any climber going to the top," said Potter, a 34-year-old professional climber and ambassador for the Patagonia outdoor clothing company, who is taking no credit for a first ascent. "I would think somebody a hundred years ago figured out a way to get up, maybe with ladders and rope. It's only 70 feet tall."

Arches Park Superintendent Laura Joss said she reported Potter's climb to the Interior Department's chief lawyers and that park rangers were investigating whether Potter did any damage to Delicate Arch, where a photographer was once charged with a misdemeanor for setting fires under the span.

Joss said she was rewriting rules Tuesday to ban climbing of any named arches or natural bridges in the park. The old rules said Delicate Arch was among landscape features that "may be closed for all or a portion of the year due to aesthetic, wildlife or other resource-related concerns."

Joss conceded that Delicate Arch wasn't specifically closed, but that most climbers understood it was off-limits. Except for Potter.

"The Park Service didn't want me to do it, but no law was broken," he said.

Said Joss, "No other climber has interpreted these guidelines the way he did, but since he has, we clearly needed to strengthen the rules." The new rules took effect Tuesday and were posted prominently on the park's Web site.

Potter said he won't violate them. Potter's climb was not witnessed by any park officials, who weren't on duty at dawn Sunday, but Potter said he drew the attention of park visitors, including photographers showing up for first morning light.

"It's one of the most beautiful things in the world to climb, and because it wasn't illegal I decided to climb it," he said.

For years Potter studied the cracks and crevices on the arch for a route he could take without climbing aides. He rated it a difficult climb, with some overhangs on the way up.

"I respected nature to the fullest. The most damage I did to the arch was to blow a little dust from the hand and footholds," he said.

Michael Fatali, an artist with a photo gallery in Springdale, Utah, was convicted in 2002 of setting two fires under Delicate Arch at night and banned for two years from Arches and Canyonlands national parks. He lit the fires in aluminum baking pans but the heat from the fires scorched the sandstone under the arch. To settle the misdemeanor case, Fatali paid $10,900 in restitution and completed 150 hours of community service.

----By PAUL FOY Associated Press Writer (Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

On the Net:
Arches National Park: http://www.nps.gov/arch/

ROCKCLIMBING.COM forum re: Potter's climb & re-action

SLC TRIBUNE article: May 10, 2006

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Wed, 03 May 2006 17:00:56 -0700

06.05.03--just got this link from Quixotica, who it got from IM, a self-proclaimed Texan, who got it from...

"Dear Mr. President" LIVE MUSIC VIDEO by PINK
if you're not pleased with Bush... might be worth a look & listen--
if you love him, never mind, you probably wouldn't get it!

the NOTORIOUS "TRUTH IN LABELING" STORY
apparently, a true, but somewhat old (4.04) urban legend: press release
--it appears that you can still order products with this label.

truth in labeling link found on mitzsou's SU blog
translation & link to source: Tom Bihn Design

The t-shirt is back in-stock....UPDATE: CURRENTLY SOLD OUT!

--from the TBD site: "We've had such a response to the care label, or Treason Tag, that we just had to put it on a t-shirt. All profits go to the Seattle Vet Center. So far, we have raised $16,000, thanks to you.

Though originally intended as a poke-in-the-ribs at Tom Bihn himself, everyone seems to have a president that they think is an idiot. Take your pick: Jacques Chirac, Bill Clinton, George Bush."