The Ultimate Thru-Hike
A thru-hike is a very long-distance hike. For example, the Appalachian Trail runs from Georgia to Maine to the tune of about 2,100 miles. Starting at one end and walking to the other is called a Thru-Hike. So, doesn’t it make sense to use hikers to perform a planetary survey on a new planet?
The hikers can survey, inspect, learn, and report what they find — contracted for one planetary year. They experience something new, something extraordinary. The result is an insight into this new world and the ability to quickly create a viable colony while allowing the planet to flourish.
While hiking, some of the contracted hikers develop new skills, and these advanced or enhanced, humans become a part of this new world, and the world has become a part of them. They have a connection to the planet, the creatures.
It is not this group who needs to be watched, but it is their children, for they are the future of humanity.
A thru-hike is a very long-distance hike. For example, the Appalachian Trail runs from Georgia to Maine to the tune of about 2,100 miles. Starting at one end and walking to the other is called a Thru-Hike. So, doesn’t it make sense to use hikers to perform a planetary survey on a new planet?
The hikers can survey, inspect, learn, and report what they find — contracted for one planetary year. They experience something new, something extraordinary. The result is an insight into this new world and the ability to quickly create a viable colony while allowing the planet to flourish.
While hiking, some of the contracted hikers develop new skills, and these advanced or enhanced, humans become a part of this new world, and the world has become a part of them. They have a connection to the planet, the creatures.
It is not this group who needs to be watched, but it is their children, for they are the future of humanity.
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Have you had random thoughts after reading social media? Most people do and never talk about those thoughts. They simply have those thoughts, agree with themselves that they are correct, and move on; never having brought those thoughts into the public consciences. Well, here is your opportunity to listen to my mind! Walk with me as I have a variety i=of individual thoughts, on unique or horribly opposing topics, and rationalize my way through them. Is it weird? Not really. Is it interesting? Definitely!! Meet you in my head!
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Book 3 of the Archive Series. In several places on the Earth, the orbital facilities, the Lunar Colonies, and the far-reaching corners of the human-populated universe, Christianity is beginning to grow and spread. The world government is concerned it may overshadow their power, or their ability to lead the people into their vision of what the future needs to look like. Benjamin is tasked to determine the threat level of this new group and he and his team of one is sent back to a place where the movement begins. Is this movement mind-altering or simple brainwashing? Do Christians want to control everything? Is there a reason to fear Christians or all religions in general? This is what he is tasked to learn, and fix, if necessary. On the way, he discovers a unique reality and brings that information back to his boss at Archive Island, in the form of a very interesting, honest, and convincing report. Enveloped within this decision are his new wife and his best friend throughout all of the time. Come and be with him as he explores his heart and his mind. The scientist needs to understand the definition of faith, and faith can be elusive.
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With the inception and construction of the colony ships, humanity is spreading out to the stars. The first colony is destined for Proxima Centauri, a mere four lightyears, or 30 years of travel time. The stasis tubes ensure the occupants will sleep during this travel and wake up in time to see their new home, land, and build a colony. Most of the three ships make it to their new home as scheduled, but the third ship, COLONY 3, is missing. Somewhere in the universe, they are off course, or worse. There are factions in their new space who want nothing more than destroy them; how will they survive?
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Book 5 of the Archive Series. Benjamin Jensen is the Director of the Island Complex for nearly two decades now, and his best friend Brad Jorgen is his second-in-command. Their sons are students in the Academy and are already well on their way to becoming influential and experienced members of the Archive Island Complex Temporal Research team. But, is there danger? Can they trust a non-TR with the secrets of temporal research? Will they need to correct time so history can flow as it is intended? Join the journey….join the excitement.
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Book 2 of the Archive Series. Benjamin Jensen's best friend in all of time, Brad Jorgen, returns from a long-term research project with important news. Someone is traveling in time disrupting the time stream. Benjamin and Brad are tasked to repair and ensure it does not happen again. Afterward, the Archive Academy requests that the two of them teach a course in how to be inconspicuous when performing research, and how to improvise when things do not go as planned. The class is a hit, but there are a lot of bumps during the learning process. Including a covert trip to Pluto to reclaim a ship, they left on the once and former planet several thousands of years earlier, one they will need to use to revive a civilization that has been dead and forgotten to the passage of time for several millennia.
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Seriously, the hardest thing for someone to teach a new Scout when cooking is a stove, or the fire, or on charcoal for that matter is that there are a lot more levels of heat than OFF and MAX. Cooking over low or medium heat is better and safer for the meal in some respects than cooking on a blast furnace. It saves propane too! Plan for the extra time, you will be rewarded when you eat. Don’t get me wrong, there are times that a blazing hot surface is what is needed; the steak to get that perfect seer for example. So pick this up and bring it to your next troop meeting. Let the Scouts look it over and see if there is anything they would like to try out for the first time. You, AND THEY, will be surprised as to how easy and how good some of these recipes really are, especially in the woods!!
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Book 5 of the 5-Part EDI Education Series The final and complete briefing, and education, on the basics of X12 - EDI. I was having so many people ask me for a rolled-up version of the EDI Education Series, I decided to put together; all 4 books into a single volume. This is an updated rendition of the 4 previous books in the EDI Education Series and by reading and understanding the information between these covers you will have an excellent basis to be an asset to any EDI Department. The interesting thing is that if you read all 5 books in order, they build on one another. This book, book 5, is the final stage in the understanding of X12 EDI, and will also provide you with an understanding to read the documents, including the other standards, in a way you were not able to before. New information has been added in this installment, read and learn EDI!!
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Book 2 of the 5-Part EDI Education Series There are many flavors of EDI out there? EDI may be a mystery, but then again so is magic until you know how the illusion is done. Take the 850-document set, the purchase order. What is it, what are the moving parts and what do all those parts mean? T ake a ride with me through the PO. Let’s explore how the 850 is put together and learn in the process. Remember, EDI is FUN!!
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