Bike Trail Boy Let’s hear it for the American River Bike Trail! It is a wonderful resource‚ all thirty-two miles of it‚ from Folsom Lake to Discovery Park and the Sacramento River. We live near the midway point at mile thirteen‚ and it seems almost criminal to live so close and not take advantage. That’s what brought me to Carmichael Cycle one Sunday last summer. I’d browsed around Carmichael Cycle (cute name‚ eh?) before‚ but this time I was a serious shopper. I was determined to buy a bike. The
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The Tale of Elizabeth Trail In a land not too far away from here‚ there was a small village called Trailton‚ more known as the lone cavern. There was a reason why this place was called the LONE cavern‚ for people believed there was the spirit of Elizabeth Trail guarding the borders of the quiet town‚ keeping the town safe from any intruders. The people of Trailton believed that if there is an unknown man or woman that enters the village‚ Elizabeth’s spirit would overcome them and leave the trespassers
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Navajo Indians were enlisted to convey top secret communications for the U.S. Marines after the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Known as Navajo Code Talkers‚ these young men created an oral cryptogram the enemy was unable to decipher‚ fulfilling a vital role during World War II and saving an innumerable amount lives. For the American Armed Forces‚ communications‚ which had always been a multifarious issue‚ had now become a bewildering burden. Japanese cryptographers were proving
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The Quality Walk Beth Stuart went on a tour to evaluate a potential supplier’s facility before her company‚ Epic Communications‚ entered into a long term contract for 1.2 million high speed communications circuit boards. Her tour guide was Michael Spade‚ VP of manufacturing for PushTel. If the relationship proved beneficial to both parties‚ follow-up contracts would be negotiated each year thereafter. Beth noticed during her walk that employees were disappearing into their offices and down connecting
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Scenic Trail‚ is a footpath in the eastern United States for outdoor enthusiasts‚ extending about about 2140 miles from Maine to Georgia‚ along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains. The trail passes through 14 states and is maintained by 34 different trail maintenance organizations. It is the longest marked‚ continuous footpath in the world‚ at some points reaching elevations of more than 6000 feet. Wooden signposts and white paint marks on rocks and trees are placed along the trail. Construction
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The new Thessaly test for early detection of meniscal tears provides high level of accuracy in both specificity and sensitivity. The previous evidence based approach for detection of meniscal tears following subjective history was done by carrying out a combination of the McMurray’s test and joint line tenderness. The combination of the two was needed to rule in meniscal tear as McMurray’s test was high in specificity and low in sensitivity (Malanga‚ 2003 ). Specificity of the test was determined
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George Wesley Bellows is an American painter who lived from 1882 to 1925. His art work The Sawdust Trails fits the category of within what we would consider Modernist approaches‚ values‚ stylistic approach and media/ technique. This work is an oil on canvas made in 1916. The artist‚ a white Christian male‚ to begin with fits the main group of people who dominated the art scene during the modernists approach. Kehinde Wiley is an American painter who was born in 1997. His art work St. Dionysus fits
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Just Walk on By 1. Do the women in this story have the right to act the way they did in front of Staples? Is putting their safety over judging another person justified? 2. Does the way that black people are treated contribute to making more dangerous criminals? 3. Staples acts as if his intimidating demeanor is a handicap. Do you think this was a wise decision? Instead of standing up and expressing his thoughts on how he is treated‚ is it better to keep in mind the delicacy of the social
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The Oregon Trail is a well known event that happened in our history. However many people are unaware of the events that really happened along the way to Oregon‚ and what people had to go through in order to reach their destination in the West. Marcus Whitman was born in 1802 in Rushville‚ New York‚ he received his medical degree from the college in Fairfield‚ New York in 1832. For four years he practiced medicine in Canada until he returned back to New York to become a missionary member of the Presbyterian
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A Walk in a Forest I noticed as I stood in an open field‚ that there was a path‚ seeming to go into a forest. I followed the path into the forest‚ the evergreen trees reached high into the sky and the birds chirped as they perched in them. Through the trees you could barely see the grey‚ cloudy sky and fell the little bit of water still falling from the trees. Little droplets of water dripped off the pine needles and fell to the ground. The ground under the tall evergreens‚ was sound
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