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This chronicle on Harry Jukes has been approved to publish by Nora Jukes August 30, 2012

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COWBOY-WITHOUT-BOOTS-WHO-SPEAKS-TO-SPIRITS

 

This chronicle is about Harry Jukes, a man I only knew for these five years or so, but I feel that an eternity has befallen upon me. I will try to be “gentle” in my typed print as I try to portray this “vessel” which has too much spirit to be continued within but emanates without.

 

Normally, people fit into categories:

  • Too sassy
  • Too religious
  • Workaholics
  • Lazy
  • Too quiet
  • Rambunctious
  • Miserly
  • Out of our class
  • Mysterious
  • Non-communicative
  • Etc.,

 

Perhaps there is a special class that can be best defined as “Harry Jukes-like” but that may be fine for those that know Harry well but I chose to refer him as the “Titrating Cowboy” as that suits his category best at the beginning of this epistle. Now as I reflect on all my four (4) interviews, I need to change the title to a Western native name (wish I knew how to talk Cree) Cowboy-without-boots-who-speaks-to-spirits.

 

There were some who once observed, I am sure, that considered a young lad on a horse, seemingly lost in the rolling hills and small mountains around Clinton, B.C., as a product of a vagrant family but his Mother  did see him leave home for classes at the appointed time, lunch packed and all fully intent on attending class. It may be that wind blowing out the West distracted him. Then it may have been a call of a raven, or the screech of the hunting hawk or something on that distant horizon that just needed to be investigated, for Harry would pull his horse in that direction, without hesitation, completely rapt in curiosity.

 

Reviewing the attendance register of one of his students (who was always arriving at class in the early afternoon too many times), became too much for the Principal and he reluctantly sent a letter to Harry’s father, demanding an explanation. So the Father decided that grade eight may be enough for his son and relegated him to working on the family Potato Farm and there could ride his horse for explorations in his times off’.

 

I am sure that the father thought about his life in the urban community of Vancouver, B.C. where he had started raising hi s family while being employed in the ship-building industry during the Second World War. Even then his son Harry dreamed of horses and a ranch so that Dad had relented and decided to send Harry to Okanagan Falls, to an acquaintance who had use for a boy of twelve years of age to help on the ranch. This made the desire for more ranching and horses that become an obsession. After the War the Jukes family moved to Clinton and purchased a Potato Farm complete with horses which was just what the young Jukes needed…

 

It was also obvious to the father that this boy needed education and so he sent his son off to the B.C. School of Science in June where Harry was able to gain his grade twelve level in six (6) months.

 

“Education is fine,” Harry thought,” but what about horses and ranching?”

 

Harry’s uncle was a photographer and had concentrated on pictures of trains in Wyoming, USA. These pictures included cowboys on horses and Harry knew that he should try the University of Wyoming in Laramie and try mixing his love of ranching with his education.

 

So he was to achieve a Bachelor of Agriculture in 1952 within in three years. He had one more year left on his right to stay in the USA so he followed up his room-mate’s invitation to visit his family ranch in Buffalo, Wyoming. Of course that made every bit of sense to this would-be Cowboy now that he knew how to calculate what a ton of hay and knew how big that was.

 

Actually Harry’s best recollections of these times was having to follow the trail of his friend’s sister into town and lasso her as she was getting on the Greyhound bus in her attempt to run away from home. He probably tied her up and returned her home straddled across the front of saddle. (He never really mentioned how good-looking she was).

 

So his time was up in the USA and then, after visiting his parents, Harry discovered that his entry rights to the USA had been removed for five (5) years and so his further education was traded for Guelph, Ontario where he was able to obtain a Master’s Degree in Bio-Chemistry and Nutrition in 1955. This part of Harry’s character becomes complicated: how does the ranching preferences equate to Bio-Chemistry and so we have the controversial scenario of the “Titrating Cowboy”

 

By this time Harry was married along with his first born and with this responsibility, he needed a real job. Being desperate, in 1956, he naively accepted a position as Chemist in a Sulphite Pulp Mill at Prince Rupert. Harry recalls that it did rain there on occasion and left there after a few years before his toes became webbed and knew what 96 inches of rain a year felt like.

 

But the Cowboy in his “split personality”, lured him back to the Chilcoltin where the bB.C. Forest Service needed a Range Manager to take stock on the available pasture lands as feed for the local Ranchers’ cattle.

 

During this time his family kept increasing and schooling became very important but what really brought Harry down was an injury to his back. This resulted in inactivity and the need for income that did not require too much roaming around. A friend in Tatla Lake operated a general store that she could use help with while she dealt with other responsibilities. Harry found that even that was quiet taxing on his body and so his wife was really the store keeper.

 

It was at this time that the local Superintendent of Schools came asking if anyone knew of someone that could teach in the local one room school. Mrs. Jukes got an idea and uttered “my husband can!” So Harry became a School Teacher with four (4) of his children as students. Harry recalls that his four (4) year old son could naturally read a book up-side-down. This became a very interesting condition that teachers, other than Harry, would have difficulty understanding that this condition does occur in human beings and is not an indication to be reprimanded by sending that student home as there was no lack of intelligence.

 

This was like a stroke of good fortune in this chronicle of the life of this Titrating Cowboy as he found that he liked teaching. Off to Vancouver again and a one Year Teacher’s Training to achieve a Teacher’s Certificate.

 

After a brief search for opportunities, Trafalgar School; in Nelson needed Teachers and the move to Nelson, B.C. was where the Jukes became entrenched. From Trafalgar, L.V. Rogers High School was the next engagement and then on to Notre Dame College, all in Nelson, and all using his Chemistry attributes. It followed that when Selkirk College was created in 1966, Harry was hired in 1968 and taught there until his retirement in 1995.

 

It was during this time that Harry used his horse-riding expertise (I guess) to build these tall six (6) foot high truck campers with his freind so that the families could enjoy excursions into the hinter land throughout the Kootenays and beyond. No patents were applied for but it was said that this camper could roll down a typical South Nelson hillside and suffer no damage. The rumor spread and Harry had no problem marketing this creation when he became disinterested with camping.

 

While at Laramie, Harry noticed that he had the ability to perform hypnosis and was able to do this on a few of his closest friends. This would influence much of his future life as this interest developed into meditation and then to physic exploration into regression.

 

There was a time when Harry became interested in motorcycling and explored Mexico with his friend. One strange occurrence happened on their way back when they considered an over-night rest stop in Ritzville, Washington. Although tired, they pushed on and found that was the same night that Mount St. Helen’s erupted and essentially wiped out Ritzville that night. Harry’s comment was “I did not hear any ‘voice’ nor have any premonition, I just wanted to get home”. This statement, alone, makes much of what I will write now, about Harry, very much acceptable. There is no embellishment in his recounts but just statements of fact.

 

Motorcycling became a passing fad after a serious accident near Kaslo, B.C. that could have been more serious than a bruised elbow. Nora set the law and parked the motorcycle for good. It was not at all the same as riding a horse anyway.

 

About this time Harry became familiar with Edgar Cayce, a Psychic, that Harry met at a Conference in Virginia. This followed with the formation of the Edgar Cayce Study Group in Nelson, B.C. This small gathering involved itself with:

  • Hypnosis
  1. Led to exploration of life during time of Atlantis
  2. Harry was able to take his son into this time where

1. He was playing with a falcon

2. On a spaceship mapping Earth

3. Harry got him to write some of what he was doing on paper which resulted in a foreign language impossible for his son to know but was able to write and speak

  1. Harry took other people to a past life in Atlantis
  2. People felt comfortable during this process
  3. Dream analysis
  4. Past lives
  • Meditation
  • Discussed:
  • The participants kept their experiences to themselves as discussion with non-participants would be difficult for others to comprehend.
  • Harry admits that this was an interesting and exciting time in his life

 

Harry started a Meditation Group at Selkirk College that convened at the Selkirk College Lounge from 1976 to 1977. There was a charge for these sessions resulting in great interest to many of the College Staff.

 

These series of sessions graduated to the organization of the Spring Festival of Awareness held at Selkirk College. Some 30 to 40 speakers from the Pacific Northwest were invited to make presentations. This was a concern for at least one group in the area, who condemned the Festival as the “Work of the Devil”. Harry was ingenious in making this a positive action by inviting this group to make a presentation at the Festival and this opinion dissipated to an acceptance of the positive and educational intent of the Festival. It was more on “awareness” as a positive group activity rather than any condemnation or negative action.

 

Harry became aware of the writings of Helen Schuman and William Thetford, both Doctors of Philosophy and Professors of Medical Psychology at Columbia University. It became apparent that Helen was at odds with her Department Head, William. This relationship was not acceptable to both and they jointly agreed that a positive solution to this was necessary as they both searched for a method to accomplish this.

 

Helen then became aware of subliminal messages that coached her to create a book named “A Course in Miracles” which was edited in part by William. This manual became a reference and a source of creative information for many Educators in Psychology.

Harry used this book in his classes and would conduct class in this fashion:

  • Started every class with five (5) minutes of relaxing music
  • Students would use this time to meditate
  • Harry’s message to the students was:”learning is not a competition but a cooperative venture”
  • He would give weekly quizzes wherein the class would assist each other in providing answers.
  • In this fashion, he attributed that the class advanced more than in a normal class environment

 

Harry became a “Bare Foot Nudist” sometime  and as Ross Freake, a freelance writer and longtime Okanagan journalist writes: “….Ten years after he retired as a chemistry professor, he (Hary Jukes) doffed hi shoes, inspired by his then four-year- old grandson to become a below the ankle nudist.”

 

“My grandson was going barefoot out in the snow about 10 years ago, and maybe I took off on that. It was not conscious decision. I went barefoot when it was nice out.”

 

“Jukes has problems in cold snow and on hot asphalt, so he wears Crocs, bet he recommends barefoot living to anyone who wants to kick off their inhibitions with their shoes.”

 

“It was just something that evolved, partly because I dislike the confinement of shoes and boots, partly because I find them difficult to put on, partly because I like the feeling the connection to the Earth energies, partly because the grass is often cooler in the summer that the inside of a pair of runners, and party because it is less messy in the house thena shoes / slippers….”

 

Those of us that have worked and played with Harry, have tried to “throw a few nickels together” to buy him a pair of socks or two, failed to intimidate Harry who maintains his convictions and continues to live his life style.

 

As Harry’s life “unfolded”, with his final companion, Nora, the passion for “community” became an obsession as the search for a resemblance to “Eden” along with all the understanding that all human-kind attribute in their vision of same.  This was an obvious culmination of a life time working with people and the progression of the spirits (souls) that Harry had worked with their regression.

 

Harry included “community” in many of his workshop sessions, extolling on the virtues of people working together for a common goal with cooperation rather than competition.

 

Harry and Nora looked at various sites for such an ideal community and travelled to many locations around the world where there was evidence and workings of community, searching for answers as well as a method to create an ideal community. At one time their search centered on a tract of Crown Land in Ooteschinia, on the East side of Castlegar, B.C.., where a water license was applied for and investigations continued but this was found to be not the time for this to take place.

 

Grandview Housing came to their attention and a few meetings later, Harry and Nora became convinced that perhaps Grandview was a possible answer to their search for community. Their comments on this project were as follows:

  • People helping each other
  • A spirit of working together
  • Caring and concern for each other
  • Using collective capital for economy to each individual

 

Harry and Nora became members and committed themselves to a bungalow almost immediately. This followed by a total participation in:

  • Directorship
  • Landscaping Committee
  • Promotions Committee
  • Chateau Grandview (Central Core of the 60 acre site) Committee
  • The administrative subcommittee of Chateau Grandview Committee
  • Strata Council
  • Gardening Committee
  • Anywhere else that they felt that their effort could advance the objectives of “affordable housing” for seniors

 

Harry has eventually acquired a clear understanding of much of the world that is not visible to mankind and continues to learn more about how all this exists. Some of his recollections of interesting phenomena go like this:

  1. Harry attended a James Twyman Conference in Colorado, USA., to obtain a direct understanding of this creator of many songs of Peace and his continuing participation in many difficult areas of conflict where he was able to make a difference
  • Harry was late in his arrival and missed the regular bus to the conference location
  • As he walked out of the registration area, he noted a bus waiting
  • Harry was the only rider with the Bus-Driver as they proceeded to the Conference site some two (2) hours away
  • Harry recalls a very deep and interesting conversation with this Driver that was of great satisfaction and education to Harry
  • When it was time to return, Harry naturally wanted to find that same Driver but he was nowhere to be found
  • Harry still wanted to meet the Driver and investigated where he could contact him
  • Harry discovered that there  was no additional bus that had ever been scheduled and driven to the Conference after the initial group
  • This is one of the mysteries that Harry adds to a history of his experiences that cannot be explained easily
  • A conflict in Bosnia was attended by a group of such people
  • In their attempt to reach an area that was of their specific interest, they intercepted a troop of armed personnel
  • They were able to transmit their thought waves to this troop in such a manner that the soldiers in that troop were oblivious to their location as they lay prone near where they walked by
  1. Harry recalls discussion with people that had achieved a higher sense of communication that requires much more comprehension than that is normal to the average person
  1. Harry continued to work with understanding those thought processes that are not a normal communication for most human-kind

 

There is too much more to Harry that I have yet to come to grips with but I will pause now.

 

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Discussion with my family at Syringa Creek campout August23 through 26, 2012

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

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THE WONDERS OF OUR PLANET EARTH

So mix yourself a drink of Lemonade, Tea, Coffee or a Rum and Coke and look over my list of wonderfual things that happen around us. Some of which we cannot explain.

A) The physical Planet Earth Statistics

  1. Rotation is anti-clockwise, around a point that joins the North and South Poles, at 1,036.45 miles per hour (mph) at the Equator. Comparing to the speed of sound which is 768 mph (1 mile every 0.2133 seconds), this means if we were at the Equator we would be spinning at 0.2879 miles every second. (Note that normal Jet Airliners fly at about 600 mph and only some military aircraft “break” the sound barrier)
    1. Why are we not dizzy?
    2. While spinning at 1,036.35 mph, the Earth is also travelling anti-clockwise along its orbit about the sun at 67,000 mph or 18.6111 miles every second. This happens to be just the correct velocity to remain in its orbit around the sun whose gravitation pull is holding it in orbit. This is similar to the way the space station MIR orbits the Earth

B) Is it Coincidence Or……..?

  1. All races are run counterclockwise around a track. Think about it: horses, people, cars, every race is run counterclockwise. This is the same direction that Earth spins. Is it coincidence or do we just feel more comfortable, running this way?
    1. Dr. Parkinson and his philosophy students concluded it is because people especially but also all animals have their left feet slightly shorter than their right and so it is a natural tendency
    2. How would you explain it?
    3. All baseball diamonds also have base runners run anti-clockwise
    4. Septic tanks, sloughs and the like, go through a self-cleansing period once a year. This usually in the spring and involves the partially digested bottoms to rise to the top and go through another cycle.
      1. It is activated by bacteria but how do they know that they need to do this?
      2. Electrical power is created by a dynamo spinning anti-clockwise within a outer core of wiring that receives this spin and creates a magnetic field, that generates an electrical current
      3. All electrical wires have a magnetic field surrounding the wire. If you know the direction of the current, just circle that wire with your right hand with thumb pointing in the direction of current travel, your fingers will form the electromagnetic field. This magnetic field will be spinning anticlockwise
      4. This reference from Secrets in the Fields by Freddy Silva circa 2002 is interesting:

“…..The Universe is an expansion of visible and invisible frequencies of light. When this light energy interacts with gravity the rate of spin of its molecules slows down, the myriad frequencies express themselves as matter, and the form and color of every organism and every object is there-by determined. Light is both particle and wave, and it transfers its energy by means of rapidly alternating electromagnetic field in the form of two waves; one electrical, the other magnetic which lags one step behind. Electromagnetic waves are transverse; that is, their two components move in tandem, perpendicular to the direction of travel. The transverse wave carries information vital to the cells of every organism, particularly the DNA in the human body.

The number of times a wave occurs in one second (the wave length) determines its frequency, which is also called vibration or oscillation; this frequency is measured in hertz (Hz). Consequently, one wave equals one vibration per second or 1 Hz (1000 Hz = 1kHz; I million Hz or 10 to the 6th power Hz = 1 MHz; I billion Hz or 10 the ninth power Hz = 1 GHz.

C) The Moon orbits Earth every 27.2 days

  1. Female menstrual cycle is usually 28 days which equates to the orbit of the moon (27.3 days). Is this a coincidence?
  2. The moon’s  gravitational pull on Earth’s oceans causes the ocean water elevation to rise 12 feet or more (tides)
  3. For the musicians in the crowd this excerpt from Secrets in the Fields by Freddy Silva circa 2002 will be interesting:

“…..Mathematically, twenty-seven is three cubed, just as twenty-seven points is required to geometrically define a hypersphere (a 4-S sphere) in our three dimensional space (ibid.). And speaking of spheres, the period of revolution of the Moon around the Earth is 27.2 days.

In Old Testament gematria, twenty-seven is number of light, just as in Hebrew, it is the number of illumination (Gaunt 1995)….The number twenty-seven is also the difference between the notes F and G. Arithmetically this is split into two parts, the lesser of thirteen units and the greater of fourteen units. The miniscule region between these parts is called the “Pythagorean comma”, and it is marked by the note F-sharp (Levin 1994).

  1. F-sharp is regarded with great respect by ancient Chinese as Hu, the tone of the Earth. Native American flute makers to this day tune their instruments to serenade Mother Earth to this note. It appears to have significant influence among the pyramid builders of ancient Egypt. After he conducted a series of experiments inside the King Chamber of the Great Pyramid, acoustic engineer Tom Danley identified four resonant frequencies, or notes, that are influenced by dimensional and materials used in its construction. The notes form an F-sharp chord which according to ancient Egyptian texts, was the harmonic of our planet. Moreover, Danley’s tests show that these frequencies are present in the King’s Chamber even when no sounds are being produced. So we see yet more connection with our Egyptian ancestors…..”

D) Computers in Nature

  1. The human female egg being fertilized by the male sperm results in a fertilized egg no larger than a pea
    1. In this fertilized egg is all the knowledge from the original male and female all concentrated in this egg.  This can be likened to a mini computer or even an I-Pad which is much larger.

i.      This egg begins now to grow

ii.      It already has the design of the future arms, legs, eyes, nose, heart and all other bodily organs

iii.      It becomes alive to an in built “trigger”, how does this “computer” make this happen and how is it “programmed” to do this?

iv.      Sometime in this process, the unborn baby establishes, by chance, the sex of the baby. What is this “computer” that makes choices that there is a similar amount of each sex, born.  Is this not phenomenal?

v.      With all the intricacies in an operating computer manufactured by mankind, it is almost incredible to imagine what must be the “programming” in that original fertilized egg that had the design of the eye, the heart, the lungs all incorporated and cause to take place at the exact right timing?

  1. Let’s talk about a pigeon, goose or duck and all like fowl
    1. The fertilized egg a gain has all the above (as in the human fertilized egg) and hatches This about these special things

i.      The feathers all have distinct coloring and design. This again was in that “computer”.  Just study closely, given the opportunity, how perfectly fashioned is each feather and how it matches the overall design

ii.      How do these fowl know how to build a nest?

iii.      How do they know when to fly South (for those that do)

  1. How do the orientate themselves?
  2. Some studies indicate that the earth’s magnetic field provides the “homing device” and determines the knowledge when they have reached their destination
  3. Then there are the crop circle, a very controversial phenomenom, that is being disputed to this day. What is common to all the different designs are discovered, is that they are perfectly formed and the stalks of grain are bent at a point above the ground and not crushed or trampled. They are formed within a few minutes.
    1. a.      Some studies indicate that these circles are usually formed in areas where the underlying soils have a specific chemical composition at a time when the magnetic fields simultaneously interact with other forces Secrets in the Fields by Freddy Silva circa 2002
    2. b.      The geometry sources of crop circles are also noted in that reference

E) Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis)

“…An aurora (plural: aurorae or auroras; from the Latin word aurora, “sunrise”) is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude (Arctic and Antarctic) regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere (thermosphere). The charged particles originate in the magnetosphere and solar wind and, on Earth, are directed by the Earth’s magnetic field into the atmosphere. Aurora is classified as diffuse or discrete aurora. Most aurorae occur in a band known as the auroral zone,[1][2] which is typically 3° to 6° in latitudinal extent and at all local times or longitudes. The auroral zone is typically 10° to 20° from the magnetic pole defined by the axis of the Earth’s magnetic dipole. During a geomagnetic storm, the auroral zone will expand to lower latitudes. The diffuse aurora is a featureless glow in the sky which may not be visible to the naked eye even on a dark night and defines the extent of the auroral zone. The discrete aurorae are sharply defined features within the diffuse aurora which vary in brightness from just barely visible to the naked eye to bright enough to read a newspaper at night. Discrete aurorae are usually observed only in the night sky because they are not as bright as the sunlit sky. Aurorae occasionally occur poleward of the auroral zone as diffuse patches[3] or arcs (polar cap arcs[4]), which are generally invisible to the naked eye.

In northern latitudes, the effect is known as the aurora borealis (or the northern lights), named after the Romangoddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for the north wind, Boreas, by Pierre Gassendi in 1621.[5] Auroras seen near the magnetic pole may be high overhead, but from farther away, they illuminate the northern horizon as a greenish glow or sometimes a faint red, as if the Sun were rising from an unusual direction. Discrete aurorae often display magnetic field lines or curtain-like structures, and can change within seconds or glow unchanging for hours, most often in fluorescent green. The aurora borealis most often occurs near the equinoctes. The northern lights have had a number of names throughout history. The Cree call this phenomenon the “Dance of the Spirits”. In Europe, in the Middle Ages, the auroras were commonly believed a sign from God.[6]

Its southern counterpart, the aurora australis (or the southern lights), has almost identical features to the aurora borealis and changes simultaneously with changes in the northern auroral zone[7] and is visible from high southern latitudes in Antarctica, South America, New Zealand, and Australia.

Aurorae occur on other planets. Similar to the Earth’s aurora, they are visible close to the planet’s magnetic poles….”

F) Lightning

“….electrical discharge accompanied by thunder commonly occurring during a thunderstorm. The discharge may take place between one part of a cloud and another part (intracloud), between one cloud and another (intercloud), between a cloud and the earth, or earth and cloud. Lightning may appear as a jagged streak (forked lightning), as a vast flash in the sky (sheet lightning), or, rarely, as a brilliant ball (ball lightning). Illumination from lightning flashes occurring near the horizon, often with clear skies and the accompanying thunder too distant to be audible, is referred to as heat lightning. There are numerous theories on why charges accumulate in the atmosphere. It is thought that temperature and water vapor pressure in thunderstorm clouds are associated with the positive and negative ions that cause lightning. Long-lasting lightning flashes with lower current are more damaging to nature and humans than shorter flashes with higher currents…..”

G) Thunder

“….is the sound caused by lightning. Depending on the nature of the lightning and distance of the listener, thunder can range from a sharp, loud crack to a long, low rumble (brontide). The sudden increase in pressure and temperature from lightning produces rapid expansion of the air surrounding and within a bolt of lightning. In turn, this expansion of air creates a sonic shock wave, similar to a sonic boom, which produces the sound of thunder, often referred to as a clap, crack, or peal of thunder. The distance of the lightning can be calculated by the listener based on the time interval from when the lightning is seen to when the sound is heard….”

H)  Sun Spots

“….are temporary phenomena on the photosphere of the Sun that appear visibly as dark spots compared to surrounding regions. They are caused by intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection by an effect comparable to the eddy current brake, forming areas of reduced surface temperature. Like magnets, they also have two poles. Although they are at temperatures of roughly 3000–4500 K (2727–4227 °C), the contrast with the surrounding material at about 5780 K (5500 °C) leaves them clearly visible as dark spots, as the luminous intensity of a heated black body (closely approximated by the photosphere) is a function of temperature to the fourth power. If the sunspot were isolated from the surrounding photosphere it would be brighter than an electric arc. Sunspots expand and contract as they move across the surface of the Sun and can be as large as 80,000 kilometers (50,000 mi) in diameter, making the larger ones visible from Earth without the aid of a telescope.[1] They may also travel at relative speeds (“proper motions”) of a few hundred m/s when they first emerge onto the solar photosphere.

Manifesting intense magnetic activity, sunspots host secondary phenomena such as coronal loops (prominences) and reconnection events. Most solar flares and coronal mass ejections originate in magnetically active regions around visible sunspot groupings. Similar phenomena indirectly observed on stars are commonly called starspots and both light and dark spots have been measured….”[2]

I) Radio Waves

“…are a type of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum longer than infrared light. Radio waves have frequencies from 300 GHz to as low as 3 kHz, and corresponding wavelengths from 1 millimeter to 100 kilometers. Like all other electromagnetic waves, they travel at the speed of light. Naturally occurring radio waves are made by lightning, or by astronomical objects. Artificially generated radio waves are used for fixed and mobile radio communication, broadcasting, radar and other navigation systems, satellite communication, computer networks and innumerable other applications. Different frequencies of radio waves have different propagation characteristics in the Earth’s atmosphere; long waves may cover a part of the Earth very consistently, shorter waves can reflect off the ionosphere and travel around the world, and much shorter wavelengths bend or reflect very little and travel on a line of sight…..”

Compiled by E. Verigin from the Internet Wili Encyclopedia with other references where noted and Presented by Gramps at the Syringa Creek Family Campout Saturday, August 25, 2012

Elmer’s ode to Northern Journey

29 Wednesday Aug 2012

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THE NORTHERN JOURNEY

1. It all started with a Focus

Whose locks would not open?

Granny was sure that things had gone bogus

Alaskan vacation plans now broken

(Possible) Chorus:

So they sang this song

Gramps, Granny, Lori and Rick

As Truck pulled RV along

The kilometers passed so quick

2. In Vernon, Granny shouted out loud:

“Where is my medication and makeup now?”

This panic soon raised a cloud

“What options would this crisis allow?”

3. “Call Tam, it must be on my bed

Package the case, send it by bus”

No worry, let us keep our head

It will be picked up in Rupert by us

4. To Shoppers Drug Store, for a temporary fix

“We can call Tam in due time”

The good and the ugly will mix”

This sure adds to this rhyme.

5. Shoppers did the trick

In time all good chips fall

Then Granny yelled “I’m going to be sick!”

Below feet was the case and all.

6. Information was always a need

Nona was easiest to text

Always eager to do the deed

“This is it, what’s next?”

7. It was a toast in ‘George as Rick spoke

“It’s been a great trip to date”

Robot camera flashed as the table broke

This rhyme is too hilarious to relate.

8. The girls’ option was a Casino itch

The boys chose breakfast as a need

Lori had that feeling and struck it rich

Rick dragged her away from greed

9. We pensive  on the “Highway of Tears”

Soon we arrived at Smithers town

Billboards all warn of hitch-hiking fears

Our “crew” burned another table down

10. Twin Falls was a sight to see

Moricetown Fisherman had knowledge

Bulkley River rushing through to the sea

A First Nations and net on the ledge

11. Hazleton provided First Nations history

A wholesome story did unfold

To us “immigrants”, this irony

A true Canadian story was told

12. In Kitwanga weathering totems stand

Defiantly recording a way of life

A culture now guests in their land

Once proud people living in strife

13. “Collector of Rivers” this Skeena stream

Carrying Salmon to their mission

Replenish the food chain dream

And ensure ecological vision

14. Warned at Lakelse Hot Springs not to stay

Better a campground near Kitimat

Rio Tinto continues to this day

Fifteen hundred construction jobs their stat

15. Native drums keep up their beat

Endridge offerings are not their line

Ecological insurance they cannot meet

Short time wealth will not be fine

16. The road from Terrace to Rupert is now great

Mountain competing with river, railway and pavement

As they battle for location and alternate

Granny and Gramps recall all was betterment

17. The rain got Gramps to recall

Those times in ‘Sixty-three

Miller, Ross, Holloway and all

With their pulp mill history

18. “Oh I’ve been from Maine to Prince Rupert

And Rupert is the best now you hear

‘Cause that is where the annual rainfall

Is ninety-six inches a year”

19. An aging Port Edward Fish Cannery

First attracted our attention

Once operated with work station misery

Now all robotic invention

20. Gramps was nostalgic

As he entered ghostly pulp mill gates

A billion dollar decay was no logic

But Pulp was below economic rates

21. Ridley Island is all modernization

Conveyors, cranes loading coke and grain

Container traffic serving the nation

Four thousand jobs at Rupert the gain

22. The attraction was Chances Casino

Irresistible to the culpable four

Like hopes of another El Nino

Into their pockets winnings would pour

23. Gramps aching shoulder and back

Caused Lori a Masseur to call

She connected to a Thai attack

Dim lights, magic rubbing ointment and all

24. The ferry to Ketchican Town

Brought us to port from sea

Welcome was a tempest renown

We wish that you all could see

25. Pitching canopy was a challenge

We considered a downtown motel

Perseverance and we did manage

This deluge like music from hell

26. Ricky was correct in his plan

The sun did come out next day

Then a delightful tour of Ketchikan

World’s Salmon Capital they say

27. An overnight ferry to Juneau

With expectations galore

Exploration adds knowledge we knew

North American love will soar

28. Juneau welcome was cool and wet

Stalking Rick was the Owner’s daughter

In record time camp was set

In zoomed Elephant “Skeeters” for slaughter

29. Cruise ships by the double and more

Granny and Lori just could not wait

To jostle Tourists in every store

Find discounts on diamond aggregate

30. Bountiful trees but wood a high cost

Gramps and Rick concocted a scheme

Scouting everywhere, we thought we lost

Then we became a Woodcutter’s dream

31. “Tattoo” was introduced with “Mr. Biz” his dog

Along with silent helper named “Woodsy”

“Fifteen dollars a barrow”, he split the log

Dry wood promise was “hoodsy”

32. We did get our fill of crab

But it came at quite an expense

Twenty-five dollars a leg, quite a grab

In Juneau to hell with pretence

33. Many attractions and glaciers abound

Such beauty was there for all to see

“Golden streets” and mountains around

All coming from “Gold Rush” history

34. We boarded ferry at a quarter to six

At Nine hours and a half we were still in port

The electrical they needed to fix

So the ferry became our resort

35. Skagway entry was wet and late

A stray guide humored us at crib

Pullen Camp was slow at the gate

German Tourists were very glib

36. Three cruise ships was their competition

Lori and Granny, determined to endure

That Skagway shops will hold no repetition

Special deals would theirs for sure

37. “Keep family dry”, as Gramps drove the truck

Up and down streets and everywhere

Returning to camp, down on his luck

And flattened Rick’s solar light there

38. Red Onion Saloon was party time

German Tourists aswim in their beer

Granny’s Margarita not enough lime

Wall decor showed saucy ladies here

39. Gold panning courses not to forget

“Swirl sand and find the gold”

A Sourdough taught the pan to set

“Shiny stuff in the pan valley will hold”

40. Skagway gave us another thrill

Water rose up to Granny’s cot

It was running in the toilet still

Having no shitter was stress a lot

41. Road to Canada Customs just amazing

A display of Earth’s early creation

Chilkoot Pass foiled men and their gold crazing

Yukon Gold was the early sensation

42. Lakes and rivers so crystal clear

At Carcross a surprising desert stands

Hard to believe that we were here

This marvel built with God’s hands

43. Alaska Highway to mile eighteen after nine

A modern city of Whitehorse appears

Northern Center, to service many mine

Urban designs beyond its hundred years

44. Dawson City under Northern Lights

A struggle to build on frozen ground

Cameras were ready for all the sights

Memories of boisterous miners abound

45. Home to Robert Service and all his odes

“Cremation of Sam McGee at Lac Labarge”

These will last longer than the “Mother Lodes”

Contribution to culture, very large.

46. Visiting with Leah and Allan

Enjoyment in their culinary delights

His creations are that of Artisan

There were many other sights

47. Alaska Highway winds its way

To Watson Lake where many a sign

People around the world have their say

And now White Man’s totems dot sky line

48. Laird Hot Springs are really hot

A setting in nature to behold

To the top end, Gramps gave it a shot

Celsius fifty plus two is not cold

49. We did see a Bear or two

Some Sheep we did also meet

There was a lonely Cariboo

Posted warnings: “Animals do not treat”

50. A Bison bull was of interest

He was following his calf and cow

Itchy places put him to the test

Testicle pictures we do have now

51. Lori pined to sight a moose

There on wooden sidewalk to the “Pools”

A young bull stood with his lip so loose

“What did you expect you fools?”

52. Gramp’s birthday was with candles and cake

Seventy years and two to celebrate

It is the little joys of life that we take

“Thanks to the family”, he did state

53. Expecting a “mountain that folded”

So we kept up our watch

Crust of the Earth was molded

This Work of Nature hard to match

54. Gramps said “I saw it before

Beside highway it stood

Populated by goats and more”

This mountain became his lore

55. Memory loss is hard to take

Gramps had his pride to suck

Admitting he made a mistake

Losing mountains is tough luck

56. Nelson and John are two Forts

We really cannot say much

Oil and Gas, and energy of all sorts

Muskeg, stunted trees and such

57. Dawson Creek located at Mile Zero

Alaska Highway here did start

Workers were many a hero

This construction idea was smart

58. Tumbler Ridge was quite a surprise

Company town it is design ahead

To use nature as a disguise

For beauty in urban spread

59. Quintette is getting ready to begin

And so Menno drove us a mile up

Where Mammoth machines will dig in

Ancient coal seams to disrupt

60. The Markins, Patricia and Jane came

To Chetwynd where we visited and ate

Friendship and love was all the same

They also have much on their “plate”

61. Mountain Sheep were there at Merritt

Very adept at climbing rock walls

Two rams picture posing, and knew it

Gramps hollered “Rick get his balls”

62. Princeton, is where Gramps had to sing

It became the last camp for us

Kootenay Men’s Choir voices did ring

The people joined us in the chorus

63. All stories will come to an end

Twenty and five days with no quarrel

All egos needed to bend

And there is the moral

Draughted and written during the itinery that started July 25 and ended August 18, 2012 with Granny and Gramps Verigin and Rick and Lori Woodhouse. Reviews received from Lori and Granny. Last edit February 06, 2013 by EWV