Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Tourists kicked out of landmark US parks

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“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Thursday, October 3, 2013

Tourists kicked out of landmark US parks

Google – AFP, Robyn BECK (AFP), 3 October 2013

A US park ranger gives a visitor suggestions of other nearby places he can

visit while Joshua Tree National Park was shutdown, at the entrance to Joshua

Tree, California, on October 2, 2013 (AFP, Robyn Beck)

Joshua Tree National Park (United States) — For many people it is the trip of a lifetime. But thousands have been left angry at being locked out of landmark US national parks due to the government shutdown.

Hundreds who were lucky enough to already be staying in places like Yosemite and the Grand Canyon faced a deadline Thursday to leave, 48 hours after the shutdown went into force due to a budget standoff in Washington DC.

"We grew up seeing pictures of it in books," said Clare Cogan from Cork, Ireland, on honeymoon with her husband Mohally but locked out of Yosemite National Park, shuttered since Tuesday.

"You know, the cars underneath those huge sequoia trees. That was America," she told the Los Angeles Times, which called the spectacular Californian park "an emblem of partisan divide."

A US Park Ranger turns away a visitor
at Muir Woods National Monument on
October 2, 2013 in San Francisco,
California (Getty Images/AFP, Justin
Sullivan)

The National Park Service closed its gates on its 401 sites as soon as the shutdown went into effect after midnight Monday, leaving visitors -- including many from overseas -- frustrated at park entrances across the country.

Tourists who were already staying in hotels, cabins and campgrounds inside national parks like world-famous Yosemite were allowed to stay -- but only for 48 hours, after which they were told to leave.

"Guests ... who are already checked-in can continue with their vacation plans, but they are required to leave by October 3 at 3:00 pm," said Lisa Cesaro of the company that operates over 1,000 rooms in the park, DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite.

The park, which was already partially closed in August due to a massive wildfire, is known around the globe -- especially for Yosemite Valley, where tourists flock to see landmarks including the spectacular El Capitan and Half Dome rock formations.

"We came all the way from England to climb and get to the top of El Capitan, but now we won't get the chance," Tim Larrad, a 52-year-old retired police officer from Worcester told the Contra Costa Times newspaper at his campsite.

"It's very disappointing. This climb was lifetime stuff. The trip took a lot of time to plan and prepare for," he said.

The Yosemite spokeswoman said that since Tuesday most activities, including horseback riding and bike rentals, had been suspended.

"We are continuing to provide retail, dining and limited transportation services for overnight guests in the park through Thursday," she said.

"If the shutdown continues, we will try to reschedule those who have upcoming reservations or cancel their booking and provide a refund," she added.

Some 715,000 visitors flock daily to National Park Service sites across the country, on average in October, according to CNN.

Other world-famous tourist attractions shuttered until further notice include the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, Yellowstone National Park, and the Alcatraz prison island in San Francisco Bay.

A couple on a motorcycle ride past a sign

posted at the Angeles National Forest

announcing the recreation facility area

closed on October 2, 2013 in the mountains

north of Los Angeles, California (AFP,

Frederic J. Brown)

Joshua Tree National Park, two hours' drive east of Los Angeles, is famous for its bizarre cactus-like trees and weird rock formations, which draw climbers from around the world, especially at this time of year between the high heat of summer and the cooler winter.

It, too, is closed, with park rangers giving newly arrived visitors the bad news: they will have to wait until politicians in Washington sort out their differences on spending, before they can enter.

In the Grand Canyon, visited by 18,000 people a day on average at this time of year, spokeswoman Kirby-Lynn Shedlowski said the gates were closed from 6:00 am Tuesday.

"All recreational opportunities in the park, including hiking, biking, mule rides, visitor centers, they're all closed," she told AFP.

People who were in accommodations in the park on Monday night had been "given 48 hours to make additional arrangements, and then they have to leave the park," she added.

"We're just trying to maintain an orderly shutdown and closure of the park," she said, adding: "Having to turn anyone away is hard."

The Lincoln Memorial closed due to the shutdown of the

government of the people, by the people, for the people.

(Photo/Xinhua)

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