The Emma Maersk

The Emma Maersk, part of a Danish shipping line.
What a ship..no wonder 'Made in China ' is displacing North American made goods big time. This monster transports goods across the Pacific in just 5 days!! This is one of three ships 
presently in service, with another two ships commissioned to be completed in 2012.
These ships were commissioned by Wal-Mart to get all their goods and stuff from China. They hold
 an incredible 15,000 containers and have a 207 foot deck beam!! The full crew is just 13 people on a ship 
longer than a US Aircraft Carrier (which has a crew of 5,000)
. With its 207' beam it is too big to fit through the Panama or Suez Canals. 

It is strictly transpacific. Cruise speed: 31 knots. 

The goods arrive 4 days before the typical container ship (18-20 knots) on a China -to- California run. 91% of Wal-Mart products are made in China. 
So this behemoth is hugely competitive even when carrying perishable goods. The ship was built in five sections. The sections floated together and then welded. 
The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building and has 11 cargo crane rigs 
that can operate simultaneously unloading the entire ship in less than two hours.
Additional info:

 Country of origin - Denmark
 Length - 1,302 ft
 Width - 207 ft
 Net cargo - 123,200 tons 
Engine - 14 cylinders in-line diesel engine (110,000 BHP) 
 Cruise Speed - 31 knots 
 Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 cubic feet)
 Crew - 13 people !
 First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006 
 Construction cost - US $145,000,000+
 
 Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water 
resistance and saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year.
Editorial Comment!
 A recent documentary in late March, 2010 on the History Channel noted that all of these containers are shipped back to China , EMPTY. Yep, that's right. We send nothing back on these ships. What does that tell you about 
the current financial state of this country? Just keep buying those imported 
goods (mostly gadgets) until you run out of money. 

Then you may wonder what the cause of unemployment (maybe even your job) 
 in the U.S. and Canada might be????

 'Nuff said ??

Sifu Hayes www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

12 Universal Laws

The Law of Devine oneness; helps us to understand that we live in a world where everything is connected to everything else. Everything we do, say, think and believe affects others and the universe around us.
The Law of vibration; everything in the universe moves, vibrates, and travels in circular patterns. The same principles of vibration in the physical world apply to our thoughts, feelings, desires, and wills in the Etheric world. Each sound, thing, even thought has its own vibrational frequency, unique unto itself.
The Law of Action; must be applied in order for us to manifest things on earth. Therefore, we must engage in actions that support our thoughts, dreams, emotions and words.
The Law of Correspondence; principles or laws of physics that explain the physical world energy, light, vibration, and motion have their corresponding principles in the etheric or universe.
The Law of Cause and Effect; nothing happens by chance or outside the universal laws. Every action has a reaction or consequence and we “reap what we have sown.”
The Law of Compensation; is the Law of Cause and Effect applied to blessings and abundance that are provided for us. The visible effects of our deeds are given to us in gifts, money, inheritances, friendships, and blessings.
The Law of Attraction; demonstrates how we create the things, events, and people that come into our lives. Our thoughts, feelings, words, and actions produce energies, which in turn, attract like energies. Negative energies attract negative energies and positive energies attract positive energies.
The Law of Perpetual Transmutation of Energy; all persons have within them the power to change the conditions in their lives. Higher vibrations consume and transform lower ones, thus, each of us can change the energies in our lives by understanding the Universal Laws and applying the principles in such a way as to effect change.
The Law of Relativity; each person will receive a series of problems (Tests of Initiation) for the purpose of strengthening the Light within. We must consider each of these tests to be a challenge and remain connected to our hearts when proceeding to solve the problems. This law also teaches us to compare our problems to others’ problems and put everything into its proper perspective. No matter how bad we perceive our situation to be, there is always someone who is in a worse position. It is all, relative.
The Law of Polarity; everything is on a continuum and has an opposite. We can suppress and transform undesirable thoughts by concentrating on the opposite pole. It is the law of mental vibrations.
The Law of Rhythm; everything vibrates and moves to certain rhythms. These rhythms establish seasons, cycles, stages of development, and patterns. Each cycle reflects the regularity of God’s universe. Masters know how to rise above negative parts of a cycle by never getting too excited or allowing negative things to penetrate their consciousness.
The Law of Gender; everything has its masculine (yang) and feminine (yin) principles and that these are the basis for all creation. The spiritual Initiate must balance the masculine and feminine energies within herself or himself to become a Master and a true co-creator with God.
Our thoughts, feelings, words and actions create the world around us; we have the power to create a world of Peace, Harmony and Abundance. In order to do this, it is essential that we learn to control our thoughts and emotions. Understanding the Universal laws help us to do this.
There are 21 human characteristics that relate to the Universal Laws.
Aspiration to a Higher Power, Charity, Compassion, Courage, Dedication. Faith, Forgiveness, Generosity, Grace, Honesty, Hope, Joy, Kindness, Leadership, Noninterference, Patience, Praise, Responsibility, Self-love, Thankfulness, and Unconditional Love… (Milanovich and McCune)
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Scuba Do

Went to Jasper the weather was fantastic for the first of October, twenty four to twenty six degrees Celsius. That was warm for this time of year. Evelyn and I left early on Friday for Jasper. Cycled, twenty kilometers on the trails in and around Jasper. Because it is an altitude dive, your body should to be at that altitude for six hours prior to diving. Lake Edith Saturday morning eight a.m. My focus was on buoyancy, practicing going through hoola hoops weighted at different levels, staying buoyant swimming inch off the bottom. Search and recovery, finding a hundred pound item and using an air lift bag to lift it. Navigation, using a compass underwater and finding articles following a grid pattern. Saturday after noon cycled twenty-eight kilometers, around Lake Bovert to Jasper Park Lodge and golf course, to Lake Annet and Lake Edith, back to and all around Jasper the back to Whistler Campground. Slept well that night. Up and back to Lake Edith Sunday morning, more practice and instruction on the three courses I was focusing on, out of the water by noon. Then packed up the campsite during the four-hour wait for my body to get rid of nitrogen before crossing the Obed summit. It was a fantastic weekend.
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada

Camping

Our family went fly-fishing, camping near Rocky Mountain House, All our kids, I guess I will have to stop calling them our kids they are in their high twenties and early thirties. The eight of us set up camp all together in one site. It was just like the old days, sitting around the campfire, stories being told and a lot of laughter. Of course mom and dad finding out more of what they done when they were younger. The girls and their husbands/boyfriends all cook so there is no shortage of cooks, it is amazing what they whipped up for a meal. The scallops wrapped in bacon cooked out doors are absolutely delicious.
We tramped up and down streams, neat to watch four and five fishing lines snake back and forth to get enough line to hit that certain spot in the river. We caught a few fish. But fishing was not what the weekend was all about; it’s more about just getting together.
Sifu Hayes
www.silentriverkungfu.com Stony Plain, Alberta, Canada.