The toll roads are pumping big bux into the add campaign to push this toll road over our state park, Stand together against the 241 South Toll Road Sept 22 with legends like Mickey Muñoz, Got Soul? Save Sano.
Albert Hoffman, the father of LSD whose medical discovery grew into a notorious "Problem Child," died Tuesday at 102. It can be argued that without his "Problem Child" things like the INTERNET may have never existed.
Aloha Doc, because of you millions were able to think outside of the box. .
The Southern California Association of Governments has issued a warning that the California Coastal Commission's veto of the 241 (Foothill-South) toll road extension could spell doom for our air quality. Or at least our air quality credits.
It's hard to imagine how a road which would increase cars on all our roads, encourage development, foster industrial as well as commercial complexes and require extensive construction just to be built could possibly have a positive impact on air quality...
We set up an online petition to thank the Commissioners for protecting Trestles. It's very important that we thank decision makers when they do the right thing!
This landslide vote was a watershed moment for the environmental movement and we need to make sure the Commissioners are positively acknowledged!It's super easy. Go here: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/406462345 and sign your name. Surfrider will print up all the signatures and then hand deliver them at the next CCC hearing in So Cal.
We are having a party next Saturday (Feb 23) at the OC Tavern to celebrate our win at the Coastal Commission hearing. We have three outstanding bands lined up (Bushwalla, Anna Troy and Austin Jennings). Plus, there will be a killer raffle…..and most importantly, all your friends who have helped protect Trestles and San Onofre will be there! Pass around the invite!
When: Sat Feb 23 at 8pm
Where: OC Tavern: 2369 El Camino Real,San Clemente
A boy has a dream that he can float, but unless he holds on, he will drift away into the sky. Even when he is grown up, this idea recurs. After a strange accident, he walks through what may be a dream, flowing in and out of scenarios and encountering various characters. People he meets discuss science, philosophy and the life of dreaming and waking, and the protagonist gradually becomes alarmed that he cannot awake from this confusing dream... .
Most of us experience our lives as simply a series of random events that is just happening to us. We are unaware that we are the authors of our life because we have been made to believe that we are but actors in a script that is written by everyone but us. This is to say that we live out our lives as victims. If you really listen to the worldview of just about every person you meet, you will find that built into their worldview is some type of victimizer outside of themselves that is causing their lives to be the way it is. This victimizer wears guises as diverse as a vengeful God, the Devil, the government, the terrorists, the rich, men, white people, and so on. The point is that many of us have utterly bought into the social indoctrination that teaches us that our lives are somehow at the mercy of some force, some individual, or some group of people, rather than the mercy of our own intent... .
Quantum physics is a branch of science that deals with discrete, indivisible units of energy called quanta as described by the Quantum Theory. There are five main ideas represented in Quantum Theory:
1. Energy is not continuous, but comes in small but discrete units. 2. The elementary particles behave both like particles and like waves. 3. The movement of these particles is inherently random. 4. It is physically impossible to know both the position and the momentum of a particle at the same time. The more precisely one is known, the less precise the measurement of the other is. 5. The atomic world is nothing like the world we live in.
While at a glance this may seem like just another strange theory, it contains many clues as to the fundamental nature of the universe and is more important then even relativity in the grand scheme of things (if any one thing at that level could be said to be more important then anything else). Furthermore, it describes the nature of the universe as being much different then the world we see. As Niels Bohr said, Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it... .
The first Duke Kahanamoku Invitational Surfing Championship was held on Easter Sunday in 1966. It is named in honor of the "Father of Modern Surfing", Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku. The contest is by invitation only, and the 1966 contest featured only 24 of the world's best surfers. It was broadcast on CBS as a sports spectacular with an estimated 40 to 50 million viewers.
The competition is held at Sunset Beach on the North Shore of Oahu... .
While Austronesian seafarers or Arab traders may have been the first to visit the uninhabited Seychelles, the first recorded sighting of them took place in 1502, by the Portuguese Admiral Vasco da Gama, who passed through the Amirantes and named them after himself (islands of the Admiral). The first recorded landing and first written account was by the crew of the English East Indiaman Ascension in 1609. As a transit point for trading between Africa and Asia, they were occasionally used by pirates until the French began to take control of the islands starting in 1756 when a Stone of Possession was laid by Captain Nicholas Morphey. The islands were named after Jean Moreau de Séchelles, Louis XV’s Minister of Finance... .
The name means spouting water in Hawaiian. In ancient times, Waikiki was an area of wetlands and marshes that separated it from the island’s interior. Until 1922, when the Ala Wai Canal was built to dry out the area, there had been many rice and taro fields and fish ponds. Beginning at the end of the 19th century, small family-owned cottages were built here. In 1901, the first hotel, the Moana Surfrider, opened its doors. It was followed by the well-known Royal Hawaiian Hotel, also known as the “Pink Palace,” which opened in 1927. For many years, the Moana and the Royal Hawaiian were the two main hotels on Waikiki Beach serving wealthy tourists... .
We are super stoked to represent the 85% (let's be honest now) of people who enjoy surfing but are really, well...
Why?
Why not?
Hey, everyone has a bad day, even the least crap surfers (Kelly) know when things don't work right and its time to 'fess up.
C'MON, TURN YOURSELF IN.
Everyone has to start somewhere.
Why not stand up and shout it out loud -
Hey Yeah, I’m crap and I’m proud!
Why not become a member of our movement and help bring the sense of humour that surfing has always been famous for, back into surfing
You don’t need anything. Not even a board. You just have to quite like the idea of being a surfer and NO, we do not discriminate against people who are good at surfing (Kelly) because-
BEING A CRAP SURFER IS A STATE OF MIND
So feel free to use the site: blog, use the forum, help us work out why we exist. Watch the films, read the articles and come to the events.
Help us by sending in photos and telling all your friends around the world that crap surfer is here and ready to rock.
It seems that lately I have had to write way too many columns about somebody passing away. So many great surfers and cool dudes have been doing that lately that it has been scary.
We just lost the great Leslie "Birdman" Williams, who was once called "the best there is at Malibu" by Mickey Dora himself. And also legendary big wave rider Tommy Lee, who became famous for his horrible cannonball wipeout at Waimea Bay back in the early 1960s.
This morning my neighbor, the Iguana, and I had to check the obits just to make sure we were still here.
Thankfully, we are. I have one foot on the banana peel and he has both, but we are still standin'.
And then I am going through today's e-mail and one pops up with the subject "Mickey Muñoz." My heart stops. "Oh nooooooo, not Mickey too?" I am thinking.
But, happily, it wasn't bad news. In fact it was great news. Mickey, aka the "Mongoose," is turning 70 years old and is having a birthday party at Doheny on Friday, 8/24 to celebrate!!! .
In contrast to the small island of Bali, the province of North Sumatera is large with one of the biggest lakes in the world, Lake Toba, at its navel. The continuous mountain of Bukit Barisan, which extends from Aceh at the tip of the island of Sumatera to Lampung at the bottom of the island, guards the province on the west side, providing home for thick, tropical jungles and lush vegetations. As you go down the western mountains towards the beaches of the east, mountain streams, strong rivers, and gorgeous waterfalls will accompany you... .
STONEHENGE, England—Druids, drummers, pagans and partygoers welcomed the sun Thursday as it rose above the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge on the longest day of the year—the summer solstice.
Clad in antlers, black cloaks and oak leaves, a group of druids cheered and danced at the Heel stone—a twisted, pockmarked pillar at the edge of Stonehenge.
"Happy solstice!" said Laura Tungate, a 26-year-old financial adviser from Newcastle, who wore a giant rainbow sweater and offered hugs to smiling passers-by... .
I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of: for instance, one of them discovered that a mule blind of the right eye had travelled the same road lately, because the grass was eaten only on the left side, where it was worse than on the right — now do you understand serendipity??? .
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