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Friday, October 22, 2010

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver

Checking in for the flight, the Canadian airline rep for Air China looked inside my passport and asked where I was going.

She flipped a couple pages of my passport and asked: "Where is your visa?"

"U.S. citizens don't need Mongolian visas." At least, they didn't last year. I hope that hasn't changed. Maybe should've checked on that.

Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver

Passed through downtown Vancouver on a Saturday night: the city is populated with nothing but stylish twenty-something-year-olds. Some French speakers.

Saturday, October 16, 2010

U.S.A., Washington

Train is really the most comfortable way to travel. It's basically a moving building.

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

U.S.A., Oregon, Lake Oswego

Talked to my brother on the phone this morning. He said there's been lots of wind in Dakota. He was driving the garbage truck back from the landfill the other day when suddenly he got passed... by a plastic bag. So of course he wasn't going to let that happen, so he stepped down on it, and this is a garbage truck mind you, so it was howling along. Couldn't catch that plastic bag. Realized that the plastic bag was somehow riding air off of the garbage truck, and it just floated along, out in front of the truck. Never did catch the bag. Took a tight corner and the bag sailed off across a field.

Monday, February 22, 2010

Sunday, November 29, 2009

U.S.A., Oregon, Lake Oswego

Last week, discovered that Linus Pauling is buried in Lake Oswego. Don't usually make pilgrimages to dead people, but since he's right here in Lake Oswego and it is Linus Pauling, we drove over to the cemetery. Searched the whole cemetery--naturally--until we found him right next to where we parked the Jeep.

The website for the Oswego Pioneer Cemetery declines to mention that Pauling was awarded two Nobel Prizes, one in chemistry and one for peace advocacy. The website does list every single American war veteran buried in the cemetery.

Pauling advocated against nuclear arms and against war in any form at a time when other Americans knew heart and soul that their ultimate purpose on earth was to mass-murder Russians. The headline in Life magazine reporting his 1962 Nobel Peace Prize declaimed: "A Weird Insult from Norway."

looking down the hill from Pauling's marker

Saturday, October 31, 2009

U.S.A., Oregon, Lake Oswego

I spent my final week in Ulaanbaatar undergoing a tax audit. It turned out all right in the end (the tax auditor seemed to go easier on me after I explained that I was not a businessman but a writer, and she asked me what my book was about and I answered "philosophy" and everyone in the room laughed), but I had to spend three days sitting in the tax department, running around the city gathering supporting documentation for events that took place three to four years ago, being suspected of hiding income "like a Mongolian," being threatened with many hundreds of dollars' worth of fines, and worrying that the situation would not be resolved before my outbound flight and that I would not be allowed to leave the country. I told this to my brother in North Dakota over the telephone, and he said, "That's why I like talking to you; you make my troubles seem so small: 'Gee, it was cold last night and I forgot to plug my truck in, so I had to crank it for ten minutes this morning before it would start. Oh well, at least I didn't have to go through a tax audit in Outer Mongolia.'"

Friday, August 14, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

Thunderstorm blowing in tonight. The passion comes blowing with it, but nothing to expend it on. Should drive somewhere directionless, or write.

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

Drove a tractor around in circles on Sunday, raking mowed hay into winrows in the hayfield.

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Thursday, June 18, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

In the past two weeks, I've been at the Mississippi River in Minnesota and in the Rocky Mountains in Montana, and now I'm back in between. In North Dakota.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

U.S.A., Montana

Driving in Montana, just east of nowhere: hit the “scan” button on the radio, and the radio just scans and scans and scans.

Thursday, May 21, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

I've been through Regina. I might have gotten a speeding ticket in Regina.

Canada is mildly different from here, but at least it is different.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

Last weekend, my uncle J and I set a camper up on the hill at the ranch at which one can now enjoy a drink and listen to the coyotes and watch the sun set over all of North Dakota. It overlooks lots and lots of emptiness. The plains. River trees. Big sunsets.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

Worked cattle with Uncle J and Uncle David. Moved cattle to summer pasture.

Hauling a calf in the back of J's Chevrolet Blazer, the calf pissed. J said, "We'll just get a bucket of soapy water and scrub it out. Or do the usual: roll the windows down for the rest of the afternoon to let it dry out and then forget it forever."

Driving through the pasture, saw the windmill lying on its side. "Last spring, the wind blew the windmill over," J said.

The wind blew the windmill over.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

Saw the twilit sky to the west. Drove around a bit longer to remind myself of the turning of the planet.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

I took the train out of Fargo on Saturday night.

Fargo restarted around-the-clock sandbagging efforts on Sunday.

Saturday, March 28, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota, Fargo

Radigan Neuhalfen

U.S.A., North Dakota, Fargo

The train crossed over the Red River twice, at four a.m. -- once going east into Minnesota, and then again on the same bridge as it backed into the station in Fargo. On the bridge, it looked like the train was rolling right on the black water, which is at the top of the sandbagged dikes. Treetops stick out of the water; it was eerily beautiful. Everything at four o'clock a.m. is eerily beautiful.

Walking from the station downtown, pass the Fargo Linoleum Co., which has a sign on the glass front door: “Closed Friday and Saturday for Flooding.” Sandbags stacked about a foot high around the doors of a restaurant. Eighteen-wheeled trucks are running downtown; they look commercial. It is cold, and there is snowpack.

Friday, March 27, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

Driving from work at 4:30 this afternoon, heard Fargo city officials on the radio stating that the water level had significantly dropped, and that consequently sandbagging operations were going to halt at 6:00 p.m. today. Going to Fargo regardless; I already purchased the train ticket.

At the train station, the conductor asked where I was going as he took my ticket. Fargo. Well, he said, at least the station in Fargo is this side of the river. This train might not be running any further than Fargo tonight, he said, the water's only six inches from the tracks.

Thursday, March 26, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

I booked the Amtrak ticket, then joined the Fargo-Moorhead Flood Volunteer Network group on Facebook, which at that point had 4,716 members. I called the volunteer information line and said that I was going to volunteer, and she told me to go to the Fargo Dome. I said I'd be in Fargo on early Saturday morning, and she said, oh, call just before you go out to volunteer so that you can be sent to the highest priority location at that time.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

And the blizzard just hit. The office closed at 11 a.m.; everything's closing. Snow day.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

The American border guards shoot anyone who tries to escape from the Land of Freedom.

Friday, March 13, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

I have been to Canada on several memorable occasions. You know, it was funny, how as young kids in North Dakota, we thought of ourselves as living at the edge of the world, because the US map just ends at the border, and Canada, if anything, was that great unmapped space that you would have to drive through to get to Alaska.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

U.S.A., North Dakota

I got very drunk last night and because I had visions of trying to walk home and ending in a snowbank and frozen solid because it is well below zero degrees Fahrenheit every night still and drunks freeze to death commonly as they always have in North Dakota, I called my brother to pick me up at the enormous nondescript cluttered house where DIY punk-rock shows are put on in the basement and he said he'd be there in eight minutes and he was there in eight minutes.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

U.S.A., Montana

Stood on the lower level of the train car gazing out the windows on each side for fifteen minutes. Saw lots of deer. Dozens of deer, including two big groups of at least twenty deer each.

“BUSH” is scratched into one of the windows, the “S” replaced by a swastika.

U.S.A., Montana, Havre

Havre gets some wind. Every flag is whipping, and tattered at the end.

U.S.A., Montana

And now the strips of snow and the lines of fenceposts and the brown grass and the distant highline poles. I am not heartened by the sight of the empty wastes, but it is so familiar to me, as though long ago seared into my nerves.

U.S.A., Montana, Whitefish

Whitefish is a very picturesque little town. Even the “NO SKATEBOARDING” signs are tasteful and unobtrusive.

U.S.A., Rocky Mountains

Woke up to snow covering everything.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Thursday, January 15, 2009

U.S.A., Oregon, Portland

The roaring in my ears is memories of riding that motorcycle through the world and between the lanes of California cars at 24 years old, of the shotgun rips to the deaths of North Dakota geese at 14 years old, my ears damaged, my memory.

Monday, January 12, 2009

U.S.A., Oregon, Portland

It never gets dark in Portland, you never see the stars. The city lights are always reflecting back from the clouds.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008

U.S.A., Oregon, Portland

I took a train yesterday through the Cascade Mountains. Trees and gorges and lakes, the bridges, the tunnels. In the long tunnels, the train fills with diesel smoke.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

U.S.A., Oregon, Portland

As I got settled in my seat, I remarked inwardly how nice it was, on 2008 November 5, to be on Alaska Air Flight 32 from Boston to Portland, Oregon, because it must be a plane filled with people who voted for Obama. Then the attendant made an announcement regarding the flight’s continuation, after an hour’s layover in Portland, on to Anchorage.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Poland, Krakow

I'll tell you stories of cars and guns and motorcycles and cops; of Siberia and Mexico and New York City; of horses, Mongolia, archaeology, and invading armies; ships and danger; jungles and the cold, cold winter.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Poland, Krakow

and the chocolates and the sausages and the beers and the cheeses and the stews and the breads and the peaches. Architecture. Medieval history (the Teutonic Knights, the Mongol invasion), WWII history (Resistance, Auschwitz). Polish literature, poetry, cinema.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Poland, Krakow

It is staggering how far you can travel in a day. You can’t get to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia from Boston in a day, but you can get to Krakow, Poland from Boston, in a day.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Costa Rica, San Jose

Sitting on a stool in a corner of one of the common rooms of the tastefully decorated Hostal El Chante Limitada, which was opened in July by a group of fashionable Costa Rican women in their early 20's, is an electric IBM typewriter. Massive and metal and battered, its presence succeeds in giving the room an air of antique charm. It is the same model of typewriter upon which I learned to type in high school.

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Costa Rica, San Jose

It’s the low season. There’s rum-and-Coke in the fridge and the “Drunkenness Prohibited” sign has fallen down and no one has bothered to hang it back up.

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Costa Rica, San Jose

The Alliance Francaise has a giant, uncharacteristically diffident billboard in Spanish:
“Speaking two languages is not sufficient preparation for your future.
When are you beginning your French classes?”

Graffiti on the National Museum of Costa Rica, in Spanish:
“Land and Liberty
Zapata Lives”
Stepping closer for a better look, I unexpectedly glimpsed, concealed in a construction pit, an unkempt man, without pants, apparently just concluding defecating. I quickly turned and went away.

Costa Rica, San Jose

Casa Ridgway, Martin Luther King, Jr. room

Friday, August 29, 2008

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

U.S.A., North Dakota

I went by bus from Phoenix to North Dakota.

In Dickinson, in western North Dakota, the bus stopped for forty minutes. There was a little cafe next to the station, and I had breakfast there.

Getting back onto the bus, I found a woman sitting in my seat. I pointed this out, she reacted, and I said, "No, no, that's okay. I'll take this seat. It's no big deal. The bus is empty."

Of course the bus was empty; we were in North Dakota. Everything in North Dakota is empty.

When I had pointed at the seat and said my first words, her wide-eyed, bustling reaction, her movements, had made me think she was not American; I guessed she might be Japanese. As I sat down in the seat directly behind her, I asked, "Where are you from?"

She twisted in the seat to look at me. "Mongolia."

"What?" I said.

She spoke with effort, emphatically pronouncing the syllables: "I am from Mongolia."

I busted out laughing. I looked at her and opened my mouth and, as I tried to shift my mind into Mongolian, I couldn't say anything. Finally I managed, "Tiim uu?"

She looked at me with complete incomprehension.

"Ta mongol khun uu?"

"I am sor-ry."

"Ta mongol khel yaridag uu? Mongol khel?"

A bizarre expression seized her face.

"I live in Ulaanbaatar," I said, still in Mongolian.

And we fell to talking excitedly. Her name was Oyunaa.

She had come to visit her daughter, who was studying at Dickinson State University. I had come from (of all places) Mongolia to (of all places) North Dakota, to find (of all things) a Mongolian in my seat on the bus, and I couldn't stop laughing.

Before the bus got underway, her daughter got on and sat next to her. They were on their way to Chicago to visit more family.

"There's lots of Mongolians in Chicago," I offered.

"And in Denver."

"Yes, in Denver." Colorado resembles Mongolia geographically.

Western North Dakota does as well; the daughter said that twelve Mongolians were studying in Dickinson.

"North Dakota is a strange place."

"Yes. It's all white people."

Oyunaa had flown into L.A., and had already been through the Bay Area and Denver on the way to North Dakota.

"Well, there are the Sioux, and the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikawa. But they and the white people live apart from each other, and they don't like each other."

I thought then of the flak I have caught in Mongolia for daring to be a white guy in Mongolia.

But how many thousand Mongolians are living in the United States? Not counting the Peace Corps volunteers and international aid workers and missionaries, who are all temporary, the other Americans I know living in Mongolia I can count on the fingers of one hand.

I got off the bus in Bismarck, which is only an hour and a half or so from Dickinson. Oyunaa got off the bus with me and helped me with my bags. She bore an enormous, face-breaking smile as we said good-bye in the terminal.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

U.S.A., Arizona, Goodyear

The suburbs of Phoenix look like they were built yesterday.

National Geographic magazine recently featured an article about the drying out of the western United States. The 20th Century was a wet century, with unusually high rainfall. Phoenix is built in a desert. And it has golf courses. And urinals that use 3.8 liters of water per flush.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Mexico, Quintana Roo, Cancun

Cancun is very loud, a constant roar in the ears of traffic and music through loudspeakers.

Friday, April 18, 2008

U.S.A., New York, Slaterville Springs

I don’t know why I even bother with the East Coast. Space and time are at such a premium; everything is crowded and rushed.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

There’s an okay pizza joint across from the big MobiCom center named Broadway Pizza. Last week, while going to eat at a Zochin Buuz on Peace Avenue, across from the Russian embassy, I had one of those sudden, embarrassing moments of comprehension about something that I had seen countless times but never mentally processed. Next to that Zochin Buuz location is a small entrance with a sign “Broadway Pizza,” in the same wood-beam style as the MobiCom location. So last night for dinner I stepped inside. A large staircase led down to a huge, posh subterranean bar, full of Mongolian yuppies and a few foreigners. I took a stool at the end of the bar and ordered my pizza. Off to my left was a table speaking Russian; off to my right, a table speaking French; in front of me, the bar staff were speaking Mongolian... and I couldn’t understand why English was so strong in my head, until I realized that the sound system was playing American pop-rock music. A waitress told me that a table had cleared, but I opted to stay at the bar so that I could continue exchanging glances with one of the French-speaking women.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Went to the Steppe Inne, the British embassy’s Friday night social hour, last night. I’ve been one other time this year. I think I went once last year.

Friday night is the worst time for flagging a taxi. Everyone’s going somewhere, and they line the sides of Peace Avenue, arms pointing into the street, a few meters from each other.

But last night wasn’t bad; I didn’t wait long. An old car pulled over, I got in the front seat, said hello to the old guy, and remembered that I had forgotten how to say “embassy.”

“To the British ‘posolstvo,’” I said, using the Russian word.

“Medekhgui,” he said. I don’t know.

“Zaa, zaa, just go straight.” I dug into my satchel and pulled out my pocket dictionary and looked up “embassy.”

“To the British elchin saidin yaam,” I said.

He laughed. “Medekhgui. Where’s the British embassy?”

“Zaa, zaa, just go straight.”

Playing on the radio was a rap-rock song in Mongolian, with an accordion squeezing out a rhythm in the background. After two verses, a voice broke over the tune and drawled in accented English:

“Khi everyone, you’re listening to Tatar’s new shit. This song is called ‘Message.’ Check it out.”

There were eight people at the Steppe Inne; ten including the two bartenders.

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Went to the U.S. embassy today on an errand. At the gate, I told the Anglophone Mongolian guard whom I was there to see. “Do you have identification?” he asked, and added, “Are you an American citizen?”

“Yes,” I said quickly and without thinking, and surprised myself with the answer. I think I had forgotten that I hold U.S. citizenship. I have not identified myself that way for a long time.

Walking back to my apartment, in a glance, I saw a unkempt man eating something from a bowl with a spoon. As I walked past him, I looked again. He did not hold a bowl, but the hairless, discolored, weathered skull of a dog, and with a tiny metal teaspoon, he was spooning out and eating the remnants of the interior of the skull.

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Mongolia, Khentii

Was Jon's birthday, and a number of us went out to the Kherlen River for the weekend.

On the way, saw something I hadn't seen before. A rolled, smashed car set up on a brick pedestal beside the highway, with a sign on each side of the pedestal reading: “KHURD = UKHEL”.

Friday, June 29, 2007

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Jack Weatherford is in town. Had lunch today with him and some other people, including two young Mongolian women whom I had not met before.

Talking with one of the young women, she asked me:

“Why do you live in Mongolia?”

“This is a nice nation, nice people.”

“I think America is nice.”

“It’s okay.”

“Mongolia is bad, dirty,” she said.

I never know what to say to that.

Friday, June 15, 2007

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Rained almost all day yesterday. Nara came by the office with the next translated section of The Steppe. Jon came by after his work ended. Later, Burmaa and Tsendee came by and laughed at me. I had gotten drunk on wine.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

A dust storm blew all day yesterday and made the sky gray.

Went to Burmaa and Tsendee's ger shop. With five people, helped twist the toono of the ger.

Monday, May 14, 2007

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Met Odbaatar at the History Museum today. Hadn't seen him for a while. He just got back from a trip to Germany not long ago.

We went to the cafe in the basement of the museum and drank beer. The cafe was full. It is usually full.

Odbaatar explained:
"Yes. It is because here the beer is cheap."

He continued:
"In Germany, the beer is very good."

He finished:
"There was cheap beer also in Germany, but I do not know why it was cheap, because it was very good."

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Mongolia, Bayankhongor

Went to Bayankhongor aimag to visit Martin and Jonathan and Mongon at the new gold mine. Rode down with Yousaf in his Land Cruiser. Saw a ninja settlement of hundreds of gers spread over the bleak Gobi hills, and the ninja miners scrabbling in the pits.

Sunday, May 6, 2007

Mongolia, Khentii

Spent the weekend at Jon’s girlfriend Aagii’s folks’ place out on the Kherlen River on the border between Khentii and Tov aimags.

On the drive out, saw the new giant metal Chinggis statue for the first time. On the drive back, saw it for the second time.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Went to Chinggis Khaan University today and met with Lkhagvasuren. With some teachers, we went out to lunch at Aura.

I had been to Aura once before with Lkhagvasuren. This time, the restaurant was almost full, and we went up to the second floor.

The second floor is more of a bar, with booths and low tables and some kind of decor. There are dolphins in bas-relief on the walls and seagulls in bas-relief on the ceiling. A thangka like mine hangs behind the bar.

Lkhagvasuren saw “American fried chicken” on the menu and naturally ordered it for me.

I had picked up a sniffle walking from my apartment to the university in the gray Ulaanbaatar air. Lkhagvasuren ordered vodka all around and told me to drink it for my nose. “Sto gram,” he said, speaking Russian to me. One hundred grams. “Drink, Radnaa.”

“That’s Russian medicine,” I said.

“It is medicine,” he said. “We are all the same, Russian, Mongolian, American. We all have two eyes, two ears, one nose. Medicine works the same.”

He also ordered soup for my nose. “You must drink the vodka and then eat the soup immediately after.” The soup was delicious—garlic, pepper, cabbage, potatoes, and tender meat. Lkhagvasuren clapped me on the shoulder, “It is horsemeat, it is healthy.”

The “American fried chicken” was a breaded chicken fillet, and it also was delicious.

Sunday, March 25, 2007

Mongolia, Zuun Mod

Rode along with Marc and a gang of people on a Sunday drive to a couple small towns near UB. Driving, we could see the snow coming over the mountains. Ended up in Zuun Mod, the first time I've been there. Zuun Mod is a nice little town -- a big park, trees, a square, a downtown. Got hit with a snowstorm. It got cold.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Went to Ulemj’s birthday party last night at some Korean restaurant, nice restaurant. There were a lot of people there. Got to see Tulga, hadn’t seen him for a long while. Ended up at Zona, drinking and singing. Got back in at 06:00.

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

On Sunday, went to Zaya’s holiday production at her tsetserleg (an abridgement of “khuukhdiin tsetserleg,” which is literally: “child garden”; used as “kindergarten,” which is literally: “child garden”).

Poor little kids, being forced to sing and dance for old people’s amusement.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

I stepped out to go to the Turkish place for some kebab at about 19:00. Crossing Peace Avenue, as I do every day, I was suddenly dazzled by the city: the sidewalks full of people, the streets full of cars, the buildings lit with store signs and billboards, and spotlights sweeping the sky off to the south.

Thursday, December 7, 2006

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Here’s an account of my day, which was fairly eventful.

Had an interesting meeting with Lkhagvasuren. Through the weight of his reputation and his impressive contacts, he has secured funding from the American Embassy for an ambitious archaeological preservation project concerning sites throughout Ulaanbaatar and Tov aimag. So I’m connected to another project for next summer, in this case as “field archaeological advisor.” Fortunately, I have been well-trained and know just what to do: as Prof. Michlovic said at the start of my field school so many years ago, “You guys’ job will be to move the dirt; my job will be to sit in the shade and drink gin-and-tonics.”

I stopped in at the law office. Tsendee asked me about the book I’m working on. I gave her the one-line pitch: “it is a philosophical novel about a man who lives alone in the steppe, fighting and eating mythical monsters.” She asked if I knew about Dalan Tav, a cemetery in the ger districts. Up until the 1960s, the bodies of deceased people were taken into remote areas and left exposed to return to nature quickly, similar to Tibetan practices. In the ’60s, they started interring bodies at Dalan Tav. The cemetery is entirely surrounded by gers now. She said I should go there and talk to people. She said they tell countless ghost stories.

While I was at the office, in came a Russian couple. Standing behind a partition with Jon, in full earshot of the front desk, he asked me if I could swear in Russian. “Of course.” – “Teach me some.” – “Not right now.”

The Russians were actually russophones from Kazakhstan. “Where is Kazakhstan?” Martin asked comically. “It’s right next door.” Which is accurate, though thousands of kilometers separate the capital cities of Ulaanbaatar and Almaty. They spoke of Kazakhstan as reverentially as people here speak of Mongolia. I have only ever heard good things about Kazakhstan. I would like to visit Almaty soon. It is a diverse city, with a Russian population of up to thirty percent of the total and significant populations of Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Kyrgyz, as well as the slim majority of Kazakhs. Kazakhstan is presently in the news in the West through the film Borat, which apparently depicts Kazakhstan negatively yet in such an over-the-top manner that the depiction is impossible to believe. The Kazakhstan government bought expensive ad space in the West to try to counter the film’s portrayal. In an article about the affair, it was mentioned that within one week of the movie’s opening, British travel agencies booked out all of their tours to Kazakhstan for next year.

Later, I noticed a new sign across the street from the Chinggis Khaan Hotel: “American Cafe.” I stuck my head in the door and asked if they had hamburgers. No. “How can an American cafe not have hamburgers!” I said, and they laughed. So I stepped inside and sampled their khar shol, which was above average. The Korean pop music they were playing on the stereo had an ’80s vibe, but they eventually put on some khoomii.

There were Foster’s Beer napkin holders on the tables, complete with blue silhouettes of Australia. Of course, they did not carry Foster’s Beer because Foster’s Beer is currently unavailable in Mongolia. The napkin holders are puzzling and I will have to mention them to Martin, because he still holds the exclusive license for Foster’s in Mongolia.

I tried to visit Marc and Saraa, but they weren’t home. As I was standing outside the security-controlled door to their building punching their number into the keypad, a young man came out. He saw me and immediately introduced himself, shook my hand, asked where I was from. His name was Purevdorj. He asked if we could speak in English. He told me that he is going to India next month to study, and he needs to improve his English. He is going to study some form of Buddhist meditation, I forget which one, I’m not familiar with them all. We talked for a bit. He lives on the first floor of Marc and Saraa’s building. He said that he used to study Buddhism in Tibet and that he speaks Tibetan, but that’s no good to him now because they speak English in India. Of course, his English was more than passable. He told me to drop by sometime to eat and speak English.

Walking home as it was dark and snowing, I passed Sukhbaatar Square. I saw that the new Chinggis monument is open, so I checked it out. I haven’t liked that the Chinggis statue is way out of scale to the other figures in the monument, but when I got up close to it, it was pretty awe-inspiring. Still, I think the best components of the monument are the mounted warriors flanking Chinggis. I was able to see now that the one on the right is carrying an enormous bevy of arrows – I have never seen so many arrows on a person, as a statue, in a picture, anywhere. I tried to count the arrows and I couldn’t because the shafts are so many that I could not clearly distinguish one from its neighbors, and when I changed position just slightly, new shafts would appear and others would disappear. The figure on the right is carrying far fewer arrows in his quiver and, interestingly, a war mace in his right hand. Both figures are wearing heavy armor. So, the monument is kind of cool, but I still don’t like to even think about it; I’m certain I will never agree with the decision to spend millions of dollars on it before investing in the transport, sanitation, and water systems.

Passing Chez Bernard, I stopped in and flirted with Tuya. I told her that I had just seen the “Tom Chinggis” (Big Chinggis) monument. “You just saw it?” she said. “It’s been open for a month.”

I took my dinner at the Turkish restaurant across from my flat. They had one of the Pierce Brosnan -as- James Bond movies on the tele. As I walked in the door, the first thing that flashed on the screen was the location identifier: “Kazakhstan, Central Asia.”

I just noticed that today is December 7th.

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Went over to Burmaa's last night. It was her daughter's fifth birthday. Burmaa lives in a one-room apartment with her daughter and two younger sisters, in addition to another younger sister who just had a baby a month ago and is staying with them while her man is in the countryside.

Friday, October 6, 2006

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

Met up with Ulemj and a couple of his buddies last night. We sat in a bar called "Zona" just north of the Parliament building and drank beer. Got drunk.

Ulemj is one of the first people I met after returning to Mongolia a year and a half ago. He teaches engineering at the Technological University.

Thursday, August 31, 2006

Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar

I miss the bust of Lenin that I had on my desk in Moscow. I could rub his bald head for luck.


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A wide range of skin blemishes can be quickly and easily treated, with immediate results, eventually offering blemish-free, smooth skin. The least invasive, minimal and effective method of treatment for a variety of blemishes is  electrolysis. Results are often instantaneous, pleasing and life-enhancing.

Thread Veins

These capilliaries that have thin walls, which constantly dilate and constrict. As we age, these vessels lose their elasticity, and can become permanently dilated. There are numerous causes of this, including ageing, sun-damage, hereditary, pregnancy, trauma etc.

Blood Spots

Bright red, superficial vascular blemishes that are often dome-shaped and raised, and are frequently found on the midriff.

Spider Naevus

This is a dilated blood vessel, with smaller capilliaries radiating from it like legs of a spider. They can be found in isolation, or clumped together on areas such as the cheeks.

Skin Tags

Skin tags are very common, and most frequently found on the neck and face and vary in size. Often found in areas of friction such as underarms, groin, under the breasts, and where necklaces may irritate.

These are tiny white, hard round lumps containing keratin, which lie superficially under the skin. Their exact cause is unknown, although they are often associated with dry skin.

There are various types of warts, including plane, common, filiform and verrucas, and all can be easily and successfuly treated with electrolysis.

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Associated with increasing age, mature skins and sun damage, they also have genetic links. They can grow up to 2 inches in diameter, and are often dry and crusty, and considered cosmetically unattractive.

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Is a common disorder which develips in adolescence on black skin and is identified by smooth, black, dome-shaped, black to brown papules. Usually seen on cheeks, neck and upper chest.

Moles respond extremely well to electrolysis and treatment is very effective, visibly reducing the size and often lightening the colour of the mole.

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#BBNaija: "I Can’t Date Miracle" - Nina Drops Bombshell

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Big Brother Naija housemate, Nina has crashed all hopes of herself amd fellow housemate and love interest,Miracle dating after the show. Speaking to fellow housemates ,Khloe,Anto,Cee-C ,Lolu and Rico during a jacuzzi session .

Nina made it clear she would be hurt if her boyfriend doesn’t take her back.
She also said she and Miracle can’t date and her position stands even if she were single.
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We’d love you to come and talk to our fantastic, friendly & knowledgeable team here at, so keep checking our Facebook page & you’ll find an introduction to a different staff member each week, which we hope will give you a bit of a feel for us…

We’re as laid back as they come and love meeting travellers from all over the world, so Please feel free to come in & pick our brains any time!

Quick word from Laura:

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I’m Laura from Nice in the south of France. Airlie Beach is my home from home as I’ve lived here for 5 years now. I have lots of local knowledge and am absolutely loving working at!

The best part of my job is interacting with other people and I am really excited to be the first French speaking staff member here who can answer all of your queries in both English and French.

Hill Inlet must be my favourite place in the Whitsundays and I like to kick back with a good coffee on my days off. You’ll find me behind the desk at the front of the shop with a smile and an answer to all of your questions!

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Wet Windy Whitsunday Weekends?

All good there is still plenty to do on my daytrip.

On the rare occasion when the weather is not the expected perfect sunny day in the Whitsundays I discovered there is always something worth exploring.

Although I had pre booked my transfer the day before with fingers crossed while I watched the weather radar, I forgot to cross my toes too.

Some called it a little wet, I called it a just another great opportunity to see the Whitsundays.

My pick for the day straight off the top of my hit list – Fish feeding at Daydream, then to Whitehaven Beach for a couple of hours of exploring….umm sunbake on the white sand.

Ok, the transfer was a little bumpy but I will admit the ride was much smoother than I was expecting. Setting down on the jetty at Daydream, I ran straight to the coffee shop for my morning flat white then into position nice and early for the fish feeding show. Yes, I attended the fish feeding last weekend but, it was pretty cool! And decided it was worth a second look from the other side of the lagoon, up real close to all the action.

A mention of the baby sharks in the other lagoon “nibbles” and “cookies ” I had no choice but to head to the other end of the island to see if I could catch up with the little ones!!

Followed by a great meal and a “is it Nemo?” mocktail at Mermaids restaurant, surprisingly sheltered I never had the need to chase my napkin across the table.

And with my alarm set to ensure I catch the transfer to Whitehaven Beach I only just made the boat in time. It was a great ride over to the “great white beach” and the sun started to break through the clouds just as we arrived.  A little bit of wet feet from jumping out of the tender and a couple of steps later I was on the famous beach.

1 click, 2 click, 3 clicks and many more snaps from the canon powershot (camera) my Whitehaven beach photo library began. You know it’s the “most photographed Beach in Australia” I’m happy to help justified the well-deserved claim and take home my piece of the action on film, ur flash drive.

You might be keen to just have a wonder and explore the beach, dig a little deeper into the National Park, sunbake, a bit of beach cricket or soccer maybe, a picnic lunch, swim or snorkel, it really doesn’t matter. The whole experience is fun and comes with a guarantee you will take home a photo or two providing the evidence you need to say “I have been to Whitehaven Beach”.

What turned out a little cloudy with a few spots of rain in the morning Daydream Island and Whitehaven Beach was worth every effort to get out and see.

Now I’m wondering what other activities are in and around Airlie Beach I can place on my hit list for those not so perfect days,  if you have any ideas and/or recommendations comments are always open!

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2012 QLD Telstra Australian Business Awards, MYOB Small Business Award Finalist – A&L Laurent Pty Ltd

Finalists in two categories of this prestigious awards program, (A&L Laurent Pty Ltd) accepts the award for the 2012 MYOB Small Business Category at the Queensland presentation held in Brisbane Tuesday 10th July.
Settling down in Airlie Beach following years of sailing and traveling around the world, Tony and Lolita launched their business in 1994 with the aim to share their sense of adventure with other travelers and visitors to the wonderful Whitsundays.They have since grown the business into the region’s most comprehensive local tourism operation.
“If you apply the basic principles of caring and sharing with others, honesty, trust, innovation and authenticity, we soon found that what we had learnt in sport could also be applied to business” from Tony’s acceptance speech., the Whitsundays Central Reservations and Information Centre are known for their innovation and ‘keeping up with times’. Some boasts include publishing the first ever website for the Whitsundays region and more recently by releasing the first ever popular smart phone App ‘Airlie Beach Whitsundays Guide’. are also recommended by Lonely Planet.

As Winner of the Queensland MYOB Small Business Award Tony & Lolita will be attending the Australian final of the 2012 Telstra Business Awards in Sydney next month. Good luck guys.

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Daydream Parasail View

Armed with my 2 Island Cruise Hopper pass, I set off on my Whitsunday day adventure.
First decision, well that was already done! It’s looks I will be visiting Daydream and then off to Long Island for the afternoon.
During the perfect Saturday Morning the Transfer was fast, smooth and fun!
Hitting the shores of Daydream, it was straight to the activities desk. Hmmm, so much to do (looks like I need to come back again) but for today it’s the Public fish feeding show then  to the jetty for my Parasail.

Day Dream Parasail

Where only photos can explain the ride, with a bit of a shaky hand and my camera strapped to my hand I was up in the skies in no time enjoying the relaxing float around Daydream Island. The view was amazing; I almost forgot to take a couple of snaps I planned.
It wasn’t too long before I was travelling the jetty on the shuttle cart on my way to the long Island resort for lunch at Palms restaurant, No soup of the day here! But the buffet was scrumptious, plenty of chicken and salad.

A quick discovery tour (self-paced, off the beaten track type even to the “other side” and back again) provided the evidence I need to come back here as well, real soon!
Could there be a better way to end the day on Long Island? a couple of fruity cocktails by the beach watching the wild life hop by in the sunset.
Between the two Islands – Daydream and Long it’s a hard decision to make which one is for me, I guess I need to visit both of them again real soon.

Long Island Kangaroo

The more I get out and see the Great Whitsundays I realise that there is plenty more to see and do.

What do you think Daydream or Long Island for you? or if you have some suggestions for me to try out on my next Whitsunday Day adventure, shoot through a comment below and let me know where you have been and what I need to see?

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On a day just like this one. I’m thinking day trip out to the islands.

what are your plans for tomorrow?

Tomorrow, it’s going to be another great day in the Whitsundays. I think I’ll start with a quick transfer to Daydream Island and check out the Fish feeding. looks like fun! I’m sure there are plenty of other things to do while on my short stay, I look forward to discover these after I get there.

Next on my hit list, Lunch at Long island. Palms Restaurant. Soup of the day maybe?

anyhow, I’m sure you don’t want to know what I’m doing. But I’m real keen to find out what is on eveyone elses “Whitsunday Saturday Hit List”.

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NEW ORLEANS – In the seventh and final iteration of the 2014 outdoor track poll, the University at Albany men’s and women’s track teams held steady in their respective spots from last week, as announced by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association on Tuesday.  The men remained seventh in the Northeast, while the women were once again ranked 10th.

Cornell’s commanding lead at the top of the men’s poll remained intact.  Buffalo was ranked second, swapping placed with Harvard, who came in at third this week.  The remainder of the top five was unchanged, and the men’s poll featured no newcomers.

The women’s top four of Harvard, Connecticut, Dartmouth, and Cornell remained unchanged from last week.  Buffalo and Columbia swapped positions from a week ago, coming in at fifth and sixth respectively this week.  Vermont jumped two placed to 11th, and was the only other America East team in either the men’s or the women’s polls.

The men’s regional performance list saw three events improved upon over the weekend.  Jeremiah Obeng-Agyapong is third in the Northeast in the 400 hurdles, after running 52.02 in IC4A Championships this weekend at Princeton University.  The men’s 4×100 relay team improved its time to 40.69, ranking fourth, and the 4×400 relay team improved to 3:11.00, ranking fifth.  Robert Harris III is seventh in the 100, Alexander Bowen is second in the high jump, and Nathan Hiett is fifth in the pole vault.  The women’s list featured no new entries or times.  Kathryn Fanning is eighth in the 1,500, Tynelle Taylor-Chase is sixth in the 400 hurdles, and Aiyanna James is fifth in the long jump.

Most UAlbany athletes are now finished with their season.  The team is currently awaiting the final regional qualifying list, to determine who will compete next week in the NCAA East Regional Championships, in an attempt to qualify for NCAA Nationals.

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Benefits Of AC On Rent in Dwarka

Air conditioning On Hire Dwarka (Alcon Engineer) has over two many years of involvement in giving aeration and cooling system rental and support administrations to private and business division. We additionally manage utilized aeration and cooling system purchasing and offering. We likewise lease aeration and cooling systems for occasions and projects. Our center administrations incorporate yearly support contracts, establishment and repairs of aeration and cooling systems. Alcon Engineer (Air Conditioner on Hire Dwarka) furnishes you with the best and most far reaching scope of administrations, to deal with your ventilating framework. With our experience and mastery, we enhance your framework and guarantee most extreme vitality effectiveness, consummate air conveyance and give prevalent indoor air quality Ac on Hire Dwarka.

Numerous individuals move living arrangement a considerable measure some of the time it is to an alternate city and here and there inside a similar city. Changing settlement areas inside a city happens when one is remaining in a leased convenience. With no perpetual home, it is desirable over contract an aeration and cooling system than to claim one and have an extra bit of gear. A ventilation system is overwhelming and awkward. These days there are such a large number of rental alternatives and it works out to be exceptionally financially savvy also. The migraine of repair and adjusting has a place with the Alcon Engineer. So you don’t have to make a big deal about extra cost for support. There are numerous rental organizations and the greater part of them offer comparable bundles, be that as it may, in the event that you wish you could work out something with them to suit your accommodation.

Advantages of Renting an AC on Hire in Dwarka

No capital speculation: No compelling reason to stress over setting aside to purchase an AC, appreciate the cool air on an effortlessly moderate rental. Most rental organizations presently give you AC’s for the mid year months just so you don’t have to pay for the months you don’t utilize it. Prior the pattern was that you paid for the year independent of the term of utilization, now that has changed and you can pay for the length of utilization as it were.

No requirement for support and repair: Why mess with upkeep and adjusting. The rental organization will guarantee that your aeration and cooling system is working great and that it has been adjusted. So you don’t have to problem yourself with finding an Air conditioner benefit organization. More often than not, the terms of the ventilation system rental Dwarka don’t expect you to be in charge of the repair of support of the unit.

Restore the unit when not required: When you never again require the aeration and cooling system whether it is on account of you acquired another one or you are migrating you don’t need to stress over what to do with it, you can simply call the rental organization and return it. They will send their specialists to expel the unit and you don’t should be wasted time with the issues of orchestrating the AC to be uninstalled.

Simple to change: If you are not content with the execution of the aeration and cooling system then you can request that the rental organization change the unit. Once in a while some aeration and cooling systems are not exceptionally powerful with regards to cooling, there are various specialized purposes behind this, yet you don’t need to trouble yourself with this, you can simply request a change. On the off chance that the rental organization influences a whine you to can lease an AC from Alcon Engineer.

An aeration and cooling system is a costly thing and one that should be acquired with some budgetary arranging. The capital speculation for an aeration and cooling system is very high and a few people pick not to make such an immense venture in the event that they are not settled. Paying a substantial sum for an aeration and cooling system has been a discouraging element and a center motivation behind why such a vast level of the populace manage without. With the surprising expense of living and interminable little costs ordinarily it turns out to be relatively difficult to try and consider putting resources into an aeration and cooling system for individuals who are simply beginning on their life. The vast majority hold up till they are settled and begin a family before making tremendous ventures. An aeration and cooling system could in any case be viewed as a semi-extravagance thing.

We supply upto 1000 tons Ductable and Package AC on Rental in Dwarka

Alcon Engineer is one of the main Rental AC(air condition) supplier for Marriage Halls, Residence, Trade Fairs, gathering, Party Halls, Birthday work, Cine Shootings, Commercial and Other capacities, Business Units, House/Flats, IT Companies, Corporate Offices and to some other Indoor purposes (Temporary and Monthly). Notwithstanding leasing of AC’s we likewise give deals and administration of a wide range of marked aeration and cooling systems. We are glad to be the pioneer in Air molding administrations for Party Halls, Marriage Receptions, Corporate occasions/Exhibitions and different Business occasions. We are additionally glad for giving proposals/advices to our Clients, for the choice of right brand of ventilation systems be it for procurement, rental/contracting and establishment of the units for their Home, Business Units, or for some other indoor purposes. We are providing rental services in Dwarka Sector 1, Sector 2, Sector 3, Sector 4, Sec 5, Sect 6, Sectors 7, Sector 8, Sec 9, Sect 10, Sectors 11, Sector 12, Sect 13, Sec 14, Sector 15, Sector 16, Sectors 17, Sector 18, Sec 19, Sect 20, Sec 21, Sector 22, Sec 23, Sector 24, Sectors 25, Sector 26.

Why Alcon Engineer In Dwarka

Spare YOUR BACK : Window aeration and cooling systems are HEAVY (up to 100 lbs or more), are ungainly to convey, have sharp edges, and can dribble corroded water. Our professionals handle all the hard work for you, through and through. Essentially make the most of your cool new desert spring, and hold your back solid.

Master INSTALLATION : Our group is prepared to professionally introduce your AC. Alcon Engineer introduces every AC as indicated by our 12-Point Installation Checklist, to guarantee the unit is introduced appropriately and securely, without fail. This tender loving care avoids spills, drafts, robbery, harm to your home, and keeps your unit safely in your window (and not free falling to the road beneath).

GONE IN THE FALL: A standout amongst other things about leasing a ventilation system from Alcon Engineer, is that it vanishes toward the finish of the season. You recover your window, are free from storing a dusty and corroded AC in your wardrobe, and never need to stress over the issues of cleaning or upkeep – all without lifting a finger.

100% COOL: Alcon Engineer needs to ensure you remain cool throughout the entire summer – If your AC stops whenever for any reason, we will repair or supplant the ventilation system at no extra charge. Since when it’s hot, the exact opposite thing you need to stress over is the manner by which to settle a busted AC.

BE GREEN: Alcon Engineer plants a tree for each aeration and cooling system leased. Only one tree can balance the natural effect of a whole summer of utilization. Our pledge to being green reaches out past planting trees, by utilizing materials and establishment rehearses that amplify effectiveness, offering ACs with the Energy Star proficiency rating, and by reusing spent AC’s in a naturally mindful way. With Alcon Engineer, it’s cool to be green.


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Fashion ModelMost model success tales comply with a similar plot: one random day, whereas going about her regular life procuring within the grocery store or working in a fast meals joint, an attractive girl is spotted by a modeling agent. Whereas there’s a large market for these fashions, most of these companies are a secondary company selling fashions who usually earn their major revenue as commercial models. Instagram fashions have change into well-liked because of the widespread use of social media They’re models who gain their success because of the big number of followers they have on Instagram and different social media.

Many girls who do not intend on compromising their values end up doing so if they don’t know forward of time simply what their values are. For instance, this could be useful for working with binary information by robotically encoding the binary data as a base64 string. That very same year, former prime fashion model Wilhelmina Cooper opened up her own fashion company together with her husband referred to as Wilhelmina Models By 1968, FM Company and Models 1 had been established and represented models in the same means that companies do right now.

They usually can assist an organization in handling a large number of attendees which the corporate would possibly otherwise not have enough staff to accommodate, presumably increasing the variety of gross sales or leads ensuing from participation in the present. A good company will advise you on grooming and look. This form of marketing touches fewer shoppers for the price than conventional promoting media (corresponding to print, radio, and television); nonetheless, the buyer’s perception of a brand, product, service, or company is usually extra profoundly affected by a live individual-to-particular person expertise.

Plus there are also magazines that gear towards particularly health modeling or getting match and in form. It is illegal for an agency to cost you a charge upfront for looking for you work. The sort of modeling is normally a cross between glamour modeling and artwork modeling. An experienced agent can assist guide you to the precise market for your specific look.

Extra successful fashions will usually make much more, and they will even be rewarded with free fashion products, like garments, jewellery, and make-up. It’s Easier Than It Appears to Turn out to be a Fashion Mannequin. Following Gisele Bundchen ‘s breakthrough, a wave of Brazilian fashions including Adriana Lima , Alessandra Ambrosio , and Ana Beatriz Barros rose to fame on runways and have become popular in commercial modelling throughout the 2000s.


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HTC Facing Downward Revenue Curve, But Still Lose Money

In the past two years, revenue from smartphones been constant downward for HTC, now the M8 turn things around.

For 28 consecutive months have HTC sold fewer and fewer phones and earned less and less money, a horror scenario that now seems to be reversed.
By the end of March this year increased sales with 2.2 percent compared with the first quarter last year, but the positive news also stops here in this place.

Although sales have increased a bit, then the revenue only in the region of one billion dollars, which is less than the HTC itself had expected. In other words, it provides a total loss greater than we had expected and hoped for.

HTC M8 is, as you know, almost just been launched, here put HTC rely and expect to see earnings at the bottom line as early as next quarter.

It is hard to see a former phone-giant fight so much in order to survive in a market they formerly flourished in, HTC also admits that they have created even more errors. Among other points they themselves on their problems to market itself as well as to overlook low-and midrange segment.


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#135 - Into the Nexus: "Patron Hangout #11"

This episode of Into the Nexus is a Patron Hangout. Those supporting ITN on Patreon can call in and join the show! Huge thanks to all of the Patrons who made this episode possible. Into the Nexus is supported by our wonderful patrons via Patreon! If you would like to help support the show go to http://Patreon.com/ITN. Patrons get access to the patron chat channel and we pick players from that channel for our aftershow game every week. Don't forget to check out the ITN subreddit at ITNcast.reddit.com to submit stories or upvote existing submissions. Follow http://Twitch.tv/amovetv for the live show and game streams. All VODs of the live recording can be found at Youtube.com/amovetv. Into the Nexus is a Heroes of the Storm podcast. Garrett Weinzierl and Kyle Fergusson will be taking you through the Nexus every week. Segments include news, strategies, and plenty of community interaction.   Get ITN Download ITN MP3 ITN on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/into-nexus-heroes-storm-podcast/id854521079?mt=2 ITN on Youtube: http://youtube.com/amovetv

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American megachurches represent a type of synthesis between Protestantism and capitalist business strategies. In Selling God: American Religion in the Marketplace of Culture, R. Laurence Moore traces the commodification of American religion. At first glance megachurches appear to be the height of this trend with production studios, bestselling books and CDs, and food courts. By using the American business model, megachurches have been able to measure the demand for their product and through ingenious marketing techniques build massive congregations. Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas is reported as having a 2007 annual income of approximately 70 million dollars and they recently purchased the former Compaq Center for 90 million dollars in order to expand seating to 16,000. Concern has been expressed that these churches are offering a watered-down version of the gospel or that God has become a product for consumers.

By analyzing the conceptions of God which are presented to these congregations we will be able to assess in what respects big business religion has altered the core belief it seeks to further. In looking at the music, devotionals, dramas, messages and statements of faith of a variety of megachurches it becomes apparent that a split has occurred in the conception of God presented to these congregations. In seeker focused material, God is discussed as an immanent, loving, personal deity. Any transcendent characteristics are rarely mentioned to seekers, but do seem to be incorporated into statements of faith and services for more committed church members. This means that the large majority of megachurch attendees are being shaped by a message that is not strictly fundamentalist, as these churches claim, but rather a message that talks about the amiable side of the gospel and presents an immanent God.

In most studies, a megachurch is defined as a church which averages over 2,000 attendees per week. According to Scott Thumma, a researcher at the Hartford Institute for Religion Research, most were founded after 1955, with especially significant growth beginning in the 1980’s. The “campuses” often appear similar to executive centers or community colleges and are generally located in an easily accessible area near the outside of a city. Parking, considered a key for continued growth, is plentiful and shuttle buses are sometimes provided. Activities provided by megachurches range from gymnasiums to food courts, elementary schools to recording studios, and movie theaters to roller hockey facilities. Church Growth Today reports that the number of megachurches has grown from just 50 in 1980 to 880 in 2005 and the trend just keeps growing.

Thumma groups megachurches into three broad categories of orientation: conventional, non-traditional, and composite. Conventional churches retain a more traditional fundamentalist theology and continue to display typical Protestant imagery. Non-traditional churches set their target market as those who they call religious seekers or the unchurched. Rick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Valley Community Church says, unchurched “doesn’t refer to only people who have never been inside a church. It also includes those who have a church background but no personal relationship to Christ, and those who haven’t been to church for some time, usually years.” Composite churches attempt to combine both approaches, holding onto some traditional elements but also embracing some of the techniques of the non-traditional church. This paper primarily deals with the theological shift at “non-traditional” and “composite” oriented churches, which are also referred to sometimes as seeker-sensitive churches.

The large majority of megachurches fall into the non-traditional category, with fewer in the composite category. These churches typically appeal middle class families who are upwardly mobile, highly educated, and consumer oriented. As a result, the congregations tend to be disproportionately youthful and borderline affluent. Their enthusiastic energy and tithes allow megachurches to have generous ministries and budgets in the millions. This rather specific demographic is no accident; churches study their ideal members and then develop ways to appeal to them.

Foregoing denominational affiliation or only loosely affiliating with a denomination is one tactic many megachurches employ to cast a wide net. Some pastors believe adding a denominational marker to their name will scare away potential visitors. Remaining non-denominational also has the added benefit of freeing the church from doctrinal and financial ties. This allows the church to budget their money how they see fit and gives the pastor freedom in his theology and teaching.

Evangelicals today face countless issues that affect the size of their membership and thus their continued viability. Continual population shifts, political issues and the increasing market mentality of current and potential members force churches to strategize or risk closure. In his book, Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College Inc., and Museumworld, James Twitchell notes, “churches face unprecedented market challenges. Hence, words familiar from boardrooms: market research, customer satisfaction, takeaway value, positioning, asset management, brand equity – resound in pastoral and diocesan offices.” They certainly have a presence in the megachurch. Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois employs a Stanford MBA to manage the day-to-day affairs of the church and a Harvard MBA runs the Willow Creek Association. Their full staff includes over 260 full time and 220 part-time employees.

One popular method megachurches employ and recommend is doing market research in the community. Robert Schuller, founder of Garden Grove Community Church, conducted a research survey prior to opening his church in the 1950s. By finding out what his audience wanted, he achieved a 1971 church membership of 6,000 and increased that to 8,000 by 1981. In 1970, he started the Robert H. Schuller Institute for Church Leadership in order to show others how to reach the same type of success he had achieved. One attendee was Bill Hybels, who would go on to found Willow Creek and become its senior pastor. Hybels also used market research strategies prior to opening his church.

According to Anne C. Loveland and Otis Wheeler in From Meetinghouse to Megachurch, church growth experts say these research surveys are necessary because “the innovative church should be ‘market-driven.’ It should focus on what the target audience wanted in a church, which is to say view potential church members as consumers.” Market research done by these megachurches tends to focus on why non-churchgoers avoid the church. The information gathered is then used to tailor various aspects of the church to appeal to the target consumer. In The Purpose Driven Church, Warren states, “Once you know your target, it will determine many of the components of your seeker service: music, message topics, testimonies, creative arts, and much more.” In light of survey responses at Willow Creek Community Church, for example, all religious symbols were omitted from the church's décor, there is no altar call at the weekend seeker services, and visitors are allowed to remain anonymous and are asked not to participate in the collection. Hybels stated that he wanted visitors to say, “I was just at corporate headquarters for IBM in Atlanta on Wednesday and now I come to a church here and it’s basically the same.” Other churches employ shopping mall themes. Not all megachurch architecture and décor is religiously devoid, but it is truly an atmosphere where the consumer’s desires play a crucial part in the formation of the establishment.

Willow Creek and other churches have a general format for how the process of bringing in unchurched persons will proceed. A current parishioner will become friends with a non-attendee and through this friendship bring that person to church. This is not very different from traditional methods just on a larger scale. Then through a series of steps including small group participation and volunteering, the fledgling member will reach the pinnacle of the process, becoming a financial supporter. G.A. Pritchard, in his study Willow Creek Seeker Sevices guotes Hybels as saying, “Somehow we have to bring about a second conversion, and that is to convert a consumer into a contributor.” It is interesting to think of this shift in such important terms as “conversion.”

In the megachurch, participants are invited to a non-threatening service where they are in a situation that is not socially exacting but offers a pleasant experience as well as gym benefits. Then the church gradually tries to draw the participant into increasing levels of commitment, joining a small group or helping park cars. Eventually, the most committed participants take on the financial expectation of tithing and additional responsibilities such as leading a small group. These inner levels are where the theology and doctrine become increasingly fundamentalist, although still emphasizing a close relationship with God. Many participants, however, never make it to these deeper levels of commitment and teaching.

Many factors throughout the twentieth century culminated in the success of the business model of the megachurch. According to Twitchell, megachurches "are the result of a strange confluence of marketing, population shift, consumer demand, consumption communities, the entertainment economy, and the good old-fashioned yearning for a feeling of epiphany and the bandwagon effects that generate it.” It is not that people do not consider themselves religious and desire religious experiences, polling data about beliefs in God tell us that much. The success of the megachurch seems to indicate that Americans have become accustomed to the mass-customization of the marketplace and are unwilling to attend a church which does not appeal to them and satisfy their needs, even if that means not attending church at all. By customizing their product to the requirements set by consumers, megachurches have drawn thousands of people into their fold.

This trend may have implications for theology and doctrine, however.  Twitchell cautions: "Once doing church becomes like doing shopping or doing lunch (or even doing drugs), the inevitable contradiction appears. The consumer is allowed to become passive while the retailer is active, and the hard sell, the guilt-and-shame sell, becomes the soft-sell, the feel-good sell. Brands and brand stories replace content based material." After religion becomes a customizable product, its content is suddenly up for grabs. The unattractive points need to be de-emphasized and the selling points stressed.
The modern seeker is interested in God and redemption, but less keen on concepts such as judgment and Hell. Megachurch pastors have responded. One of the least preached on topics is end times and judgment. The God they talk about is an immanent, not transcendent, God with whom the believer can have an intimate, direct relationship. Megachurches’ explanation of God’s nature focuses on God’s love and involvement in people’s daily lives. Their message is that human fulfillment is only found in an individual relationship with God. This is an experience that attendees can identify with by paralleling it with their own human relationships, so this tactic serves to make God real. One observer notes that during a church’s service many people reported feeling "the presence of God," meaning and encounter with a deity who was accessible, familiar, and tangible.  This is a distinct shift from the sovereign, far-off, awe inspiring aspects of God which some, more traditional, churches present.
Upon entering the worship area of a megachurch, one feature you are likely to find is an enormous screen which is used for various purposes, one of those being to display the song lyrics sung during the services. In marketing surveys, megachurches discovered that people find traditional services boring. By doing away with hymnals and switching to state of the art technology, the entertainment value of the service increases. Even first time attendees can participate, and no one is distracted by the ruffling of pages.
It is not just the medium that has changed, however. The music that is displayed on the screens is rarely a hymn. Megachurches turn to contemporary Christian music and praise and worship songs to fill the musical slots in their program. According to Loveland and Wheeler, “The songs emphasized ‘the emotion and experience of spirituality’ rather than theological doctrine. Rather than being written about God, they were addressed to him, using second-person instead of third-person pronouns.” The lyrics often attempt to persuade people to engage in a close, individual relationship with God. These typically simple songs appeal to the megachurch's target audience because they paint a picture of a deity open to personal needs and desires rather than depicting a harsh, judgmental, or transcendent God.

All these musical evolutions are a crucial part of understanding the megachurch service since almost half a typical service is music. By setting these songs to catchy tunes and making the words repetitive and easy to remember, an attendee feels more comfortable singing these songs at a subsequent service or even humming them at the grocery store. The entertainment provided by the professional singers and musicians livens up the service for people who would ordinarily not come to church because they find it dull. There is even a financial benefit to not having to purchase hymnals for congregations consisting of thousands of members. It is easy to see why megachurches altered their style and presentation of music; it suited their consumer.
This shift is also apparent in the devotional literature distributed by these churches. Rick Warren preaches to approximately 22,000 people every weekend at Saddleback Church. He is perhaps even more widely known for his recent book The Purpose Driven Life which has become a huge bestseller. On the website designed for that book and the others which followed it ( free daily devotionals are available and archived. The following discussion stems from a review of the devotions posted on that site for August and September 2005.
By evaluating references to God in the devotionals several attributes appear to be prevalent. The aspect of God stressed most frequently is his relationship with people and his involvement in their lives. Also central is God as purpose giver, as father, as savior, calling people to service, and assisting evangelical efforts. Several devotionals are absent of any reference to God. There is mention of God as judge, as mysterious/unknowable and as sovereign, but these aspects appear significantly less than the softer, more interactive elements. Some devotionals talk about God being in Heaven, but more often he is located on earth or in human hearts as a force on Earth. Overall, these daily devotionals seem to emphasize God’s close interaction with people and the assistance he offers them.

Megachurch services often include a dramatic element such as a brief skit to help open up the meaning of the message in an entertaining way. The topics addressed in these dramas typically center around an every day event or problem such as relationships with relatives or co-workers. For example, “War and Peace,” a drama written and distributed by Willow Creek, deals with how frustrating it can be to approach a friend about their disruptive children. These pieces tend to be free of any theology and serve to help religious seekers identify with the message about to be presented in the service. The productions are always professional and often humorous, adding to their entertainment value.
Pastors of these megachurches often refer to their sermons as messages, presumably because there is a negative connotation of “getting preached at” when you use the word sermon. If that is the case, the shift in terminology is justified.  As a rule, megachurch messages are brief, friendly, and theologically lite. This is not an accusation, however, as pastors are generally aware of this and many will say that their services geared at the unchurched are not worship services. Joel Osteen, pastor of Lakewood Church, says, “I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives.” This is a consumer friendly message.
Even the messages tend to focus more on practical, everyday concerns than on traditional religious teachings. The use of personal anecdotes is seemingly never-ending.  Pritchard's study, conducted in 1989-1990, found the messages at Willow Creek included the word “I” over 6000 times to create intimacy, but scriptural passages were used a mere 169 times. This is a move to create relevancy for the attendees and minimize the weight Bible passages would give to the service. The goal is to help people see how God interacts with them in their everyday lives and illustrate the type of practical assistance he can offer. It is not only important that the attendees relate to the message though, it also needs to hold their attention. Part of the effectiveness of the pastor sharing personal stories is they are often humorous or evoke a strong emotional response.
Seeker services in particular, which are those geared to the unchurched, are a mix of education and entertainment. The listener is expected to be skeptical of religious doctrine, particularly any aspects that are disorienting, difficult, or distant. Services need to use a soft-sell marketing technique to make regular church attendance more appealing. This means that the God portrayed needs to be caring, loving, and forgiving, a God who will assist them in their every day trials such as personal relationships, financial difficulties, and routine activities like working and driving. This is not a far away, transcendent deity; he is as close and involved as a best friend or spouse.
In The Purpose Driven Church, Warren warns other ministers to keep their seeker services lite. He says, "Select your scripture readings with the unchurched in mind.  While all Scripture is equally inspired by God, it is not all equally applicable to unbelievers. Some passages are clearly more appropriate for seeker services than others.  For instance, you probably won’t read David’s prayer in Psalm 58: ‘Break the teeth in their mouths, O God… Like a slug melting away as it moves along, like a stillborn child, may they not see the sun… The righteous will be glad… when they bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.’  Save this passage for your own personal quiet time or the local pastors’ breakfast!" It makes good marketing sense to avoid harsh passages that might make attendees uncomfortable, but avoiding the less attractive points of belief garners charges of cheapening the gospel.

The dominant stance of the megachurches is that God is immanent and active. He is depicted as being present throughout the daily activities of people and he is also working to improve those people’s lives. One reporter summed up a Willow Creek message saying,  "The distant God isn’t all that far away. He’s not the presiding official in a court of law tallying wrongdoings and weighing them against the works of wonder. He’s waiting for you in the stands of the soccer field, between the racks of clothes at Field Days, or in the boardroom. He wants to be your friend, and if you let him, it will change your life." Critics say that in appealing to the unchurched consumer, megachurches have made God into a product that they then re-packaged to meet the demands of their audience. Megachurch proponents ask if what is lost cannot be added later and claim that the gains in “souls for Christ” outweigh the theological implications.
In contrast to the discussion of “watered-down” gospel and compromised religion, megachurches' statements of faith are strikingly fundamentalist. Tenets of faith include such traditional messages as the infallibility of scripture, the idea of original sin, and the doctrine of the Trinity. Words like creator and ruler are used to describe God.  He exists as the Trinity and offers grace and salvation through Jesus. To disobey God is to sin, to sin is to be separated from God, and to be separated from God is to be delivered to Hell. There will be an end time judgment which God will preside over and those who are not saved will go to Hell. Salvation comes through God’s grace and not through works and man was created in God’s image. While this is a traditional fundamentalist doctrine which the church clearly states they believe, it is subject matter not likely to come up in a weekend seeker service.
This disparity in espoused doctrine and the message presented in seeker services illustrates how megachurches are altering the theology they claim to be promulgating. During the year of Pritchard's Willow Creek study, more than two thirds of attendees only visited the weekend seeker service and never moved into the deeper level of commitment represented by weekday services. This creates a problem of church members who are only receiving the more user-friendly version of Christianity. Despite the megachurch's hope that seekers will get more involved and thus exposed to the second half of the fundamentalist message, this does not seem to be the case the majority of the time. In this sense, the seeker focused megachurch is creating a new theology for the majority of its members that does not conform to the traditional message they espouse in their statements of faith.

There are several ways to interpret these moves. Obviously, the megachurches have been wildly popular, if they had failed the never would have been “mega.” For R. Laurence Moore and others, religion is “a construction of human invention and assumes social forms that are both reflective and productive of class, gender, and politics in various historical contexts.” In this sense, the church is necessarily going to change with society, while also exerting an influence on society, because it is a human historical production. From this perspective, the megachurch is but the latest chapter in the ever-evolving story of Christianity. It has just gotten more effective at keeping up with the times.

The trend to shift positions based on cultural trends is not a new phenomenon in American evangelism. According to Wade Clark Roof in his book Spiritual Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remaking of American Religion, "Since the time of Toqueville, observers have noted that Americans espouse a this-worldly, secular-style religiosity adaptable to the practicalities of everyday life.…Popular Evangelical styles continue to be driven by pressures of accommodation, and especially so within the Boomer culture.  Despite resistance to the erosion of an older religious world, the drift over time, and still today, is in the direction of enhanced choices for individuals and toward a deeply personal, subjective understanding of faith and well-being." Since most megachurches define their target member as someone within the “boomer” generation, these remarks are particularly poignant. In a country where “the customer is always right,” it seems that religious communities that refuse any shift at all with popular demand stay small and may eventually disappear. Megachurches are simply using the most efficient strategies for assessing and reaching their target audience.

Seeker-sensitive megachurches are not the only evangelical churches to follow this culture sensitive trend. The Willow Creek Association is a network of more than 2000 churches nationwide that contribute around $200/year for free or discounted materials from Willow Creek to assist in ministry techniques or to use in their own churches. Although much of the church growth literature is written by someone affiliated with a megachurch, its readership is primarily within smaller churches seeking to increase the size of their congregation. Pastors at these churches realize that their congregations have many of the same complaints the megachurches are purportedly addressing. The theological and doctrinal shifts illustrated in this paper may be a representation of a larger trend happening not just within the megachurches, but trickling down to seeker-sensitive churches of all sizes.

From the material reviewed, it seems apparent that a changed conception of God has emerged from the megachurches and through their literature to other contemporary churches. God, as represented in these churches, is no longer portrayed as transcendent, mysterious, and judging. He is now immanent, loving, and a close companion. This alteration occurred in response to the demands of those masses of people who chose not to be involved in a church because they felt it was condemning, boring, or hypocritical. In responding to the concerns expressed in research surveys, or perhaps just using the extensive how-to material offered by successful megachurches, pastors alter many aspects of their services. Simple, upbeat music, relevant drama, and non-pressuring techniques are perfectly orchestrated to provide an entertaining and pertinent service that draws people into the church. It almost seems inevitable that God would undergo some changes as well.

This is not to say, however, that the core beliefs of the megachurch do not include some of the less marketable characteristics of God. Occasionally, those points are even brought up. Megachurch pastors believe there will be a judgment presided over by God in a similar way as McDonald's believes their food is fattening. It may be a part of what they believe, but you won’t see it in their next commercial. A genuine repositioning, however, appears to have occurred on the topic of transcendence versus immanence. Whereas traditionally the Protestant deity includes both characteristics, the God of the "seeker" service is a strictly immanent God.

February 2008

From guest contributor Shawntel Ensminger

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