My name is Jack Lincoln and I am recent Chico State graduate with a degree in International Relations. I post blogs that are deemed appropriate for the web which includes much of my own personal reflections and memoirs. My inspiration for writing comes from special and unique experiences that happen throughout the daily course of my life.
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Don't F*ck With Ukraine
This photo was taken on the battlefield in Ukraine. It is displayed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv, Ukraine.
Visiting a country at war is an unnerving and memorable experience. It demonstrates a very clear sense of perspective and urgency - fighting for one's survival. Nothing else matters at that point.
Day 1 - The Longest Travel Day of My Life
The infamous "Wog Dog" - a hot dog wrapped in a grilled tortilla-like bread and filled with an assortment of sauces.
We left DC on Saturday, May 24, and took an 8-hour flight to Germany and had a 2-hour layover before taking another 2-hour flight to Warsaw, Poland. From there, we drove five hours to Kraków, Poland, where we spent the afternoon meandering around Old Town, which was absolutely beautiful.
We grabbed lunch at a great restaurant outside, ate some pierogis and other classic Polish food, and wandered around!
Next, we drove to the train station near the Ukraine border and took an 8-9 hour overnight train ride to the capital of Ukraine.
It was the first and last time I was pretty freaked out about entering Ukraine...falling asleep was easy, however, given the fact that we had spent nearly 30 hours awake since leaving DC the day before!
Day 2 - Kyiv, Ukraine
We did a quick morning walk around the main city center and came across a huge memorial commemorating the fallen soldiers in battle. We visited a gift shop to buy souvenirs and then grabbed lunch. We drove to a church in Bucha to visit a memorial erected after local leaders discovered a mass grave of men, women, and children murdered by Russians and buried behind the church...a stark reminder of the horrors of war.
We stayed the night at a beautiful forest-type resort and had an amazing dinner followed by drinking, pool time, and games after hours.
Day 3 - Kharkiv, Ukraine
We drove to Kharkiv in the morning to meet with the Governor of the region, who provided an overview of the Ukraine-Russia war and the impacts to the city. We then drove to a nearby residential apartment community to see first-hand the destruction of the bombings by Russian forces, including a school. We left the city late afternoon to drive to Dnipro and had a really good dinner but went to bed early after having stayed up late the night before.
Day 4 - Dnipro, Ukraine
We spent the morning in Dnipro visiting a big hospital that cares for the wounded and rehabilitated soldiers fighting on the front lines. It was very eye-opening and graphic. We then took another 5-hour drive back to the capital to stay overnight. We had another very late night and didn't make it to bed until the early hours of the morning bonding with our group.
Day 5 - Kyiv, Ukraine
Our final day in Ukraine was packed with meetings. We met with the former and current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Defense, and US Ambassador.
During our train ride back to Poland, we were in high spirits, having survived our travels throughout Ukraine with little-to-no complications, which I chocked up to dumb luck.
Day 6 - Warsaw, Poland
We arrived in Poland in the AM and met with folks from the US Embassy and Polish Ministers. The conclusion of our official trip. We then hit the town in the evening and found some cool bars and party scene in Poland.
Day 7 - Fun Day
Our first and only free day! I was elated to sleep in and have the day to ourselves in the capital of Poland. We stayed at a boutique hotel in Old Town and spent the day visiting museums, eating lunch, and drinking by the river.
It was a wild and unforgettable trip and we bonded together as a group like no other work outing I've been on before. I was thoroughly impressed with the organization and execution of the trip by our hosts and am eternally grateful that we returned back to the US unscathed and full of great memories and friends.
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The Metropolitan Water District (MWD) 2025 "Inspection Trip"
Each year, the MWD hosts a fact-finding trip exclusively for congressional staff to get an on-the-ground look at all the different kinds of canals, reservoirs, and dams that make up the water infrastructure serving 19 million customers in Southern California.
We arrived in Las Vegas, NV, on Tuesday, April 22nd, around 11am and immediately boarded a bus with 20 other Hill staff to begin our long journey along the Colorado River. This tour of the Colorado River is especially timely given the looming post-2026 operating plan that must be decided among the seven states that make up the Colorado River Basin. This plan will determine how the river will operate over the next 30-40 years.
Upon our arrival at the Hoover Dam, we were met by Bureau of Reclamation staff who provided us with an overview of the lake levels and operations of the dam. The Hoover Dam was originally built in the 1930s and took less than 10 years to construct - something that would take at least 20-30 years today. The weather was very warm (high 80s), and I was surprised at the number of visitors who traveled from long distances to observe the dam.
After our tour of the facility, we drove down highway 95 along the Colorado River to "Pirates Cove", a private pirate-themed glamping area where we boarded a boat to take us to Lake Havasu.
The boat ride lasted about an hour, and we arrived at an island named "Pittsburgh" complete with a replica of the London Bridge in London, England.
After our arrival in Pittsburgh, we had dinner at a nearby restaurant before heading to our final destination of the day, a MWD-operated facility called "Gene Camp." We capped off the night with a brief happy hour in the common room before finally heading to bed after a long day.
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Day 2
The wake-up call was at 7am. The first order of business was of course, breakfast! The infamous Gene Camp cooks whipped up a breakfast buffet of great food to start our morning off right. We packed up and departed the camp at 8:15am to head to our first stop of the day, Copper Basin Reservoir. We took a pontoon boat ride out to the dam that we walked on to take a couple of photos.
The reservoir is inaccessible to the public, but even so, it was strange to learn that MWD employees couldn't fish, let alone swim in the lake (my conspiracy antenna later went off as I harkened back to the James Bond flick Goldeneye where a lake was drained that revealed a military base underneath). The water in Copper Basin Reservoir is pumped from Lake Havasu, where it is then gravity-fed down a series of 264 miles of canals and siphons all the way to Southern California.
The most incredible part of the trip so far is how well planned and manufactured the water equipment is that is still being used today - equipment that was originally made in the USA I might add. As well, the precision and accuracy of the surveyors, engineers, and construction managers back before modern technology was invented, and how reliable it is today.
The day ended at our hotel in Blythe, CA, where we had a working dinner of catered BBQ followed by another social hour in the hot tub located behind the hotel.
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Day 3
The longest day of them all...the wake-up call was at the crack of dawn at 6am. I begrudgingly rolled out of bed and got ready for the day. I ate some pastries, which is unusual for me, but I felt the need to go light because of the meat-heavy dinner we had the night before.
We boarded the bus at 6:45am and headed out to an ecological preserve managed by Reclamation for habitat conservation for listed and non-listed species under the state and federal Endangered Species Act. It was basically an overgrown park with a greater diversity of plant species. We then headed to Hayday Farms to hear from the owner talk about the benefits of regenerative farming - a technique that yields less water and higher yield crops.
We then drove another hour to the Salton Sea - a massive cesspool of a lake filled with agricultural runoff and salt water twice the salt content of the Pacific Ocean.
This trip, while useful in the sense of providing valuable perspective, is becoming particularly numbing and exhausting...at this point, I am feeling very tired and run down from the lack of personal time allotted to us on this trip.
After a two-hour visit to a water treatment plant and water quality laboratory, we headed straight to dinner at "La Paloma" Mexican restaurant and FINALLY arrived at our hotel around 8:30pm where I immediately collapsed in my bed and turned on my own special hotel-room tv series, Forensic Files, before drifting off to bed.
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Day 4
The fourth and final day of our trip. Our first, and thankfully last, stop of the day was the $8 billion Pure Water Southern California "Toilet to Tap" treatment plant. Once it's complete in 2033, it will deliver 150 million gallons of potable water to customers in SoCal to the tune of $3,200 per acre-foot. This is the water equivalent of the California High Speed Rail Project and an exorbitant waste of money, in my humble opinion. I expect the cost of this project to double by the time all is said and done.
Well, there you have it, folks. A four-day, eight-country visit of the country's largest water wholesaler!
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Not sure what I want to write about at 11:25pm on a Monday night but I just want to say hi to everyone out there. Keep up the good work, whatever it is you are doing and plan on accomplishing this week. Make it count. Make meaningful progress every day. There are plenty of people out there working twice as hard as you who are half as lucky as you are in life. Do it for them, do it for yourself, and show your friends, family, and strangers everywhere what you're made of. Be unstoppable.
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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
Albert Einstein
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"Remember, you are the master of your thought, the molder of your character, and the maker and shaper of your condition, environment, and destiny."
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
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Takin it back to 1979...how different our society is now.
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10 posts! Starting off the new year right baby! Wooo!
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
Dr. Seuss
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Tumblr’s Year in Review is a showcase of the best stuff on the Internet from 2013.
Follow along to see this year’s top blogs, posts, and most reblogged topics!
Thanks for making 2013 a great year. We <3 you!
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"Think of Twitter as a mutated, post-orgy offspring, a cross between a bullhorn, a bathroom stall, a pulpit, and a haiku. The bullhorn angle means you can amplify your voice; the stall part of it renders any responsibility for profundity inapplicable; the pulpit aspect gives your passion a channel and audience, all set to a laconic haiku beat."
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"The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
John Milton, Paradise Lost
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"Pugnacity, brutality, greed, and sexual readiness were advantages in the struggle for existence. Probably every vice was once a virtue-i.e., a quality making for the survival of the individual, the family or the group. Man's sins may be the relics of his rise rather than the stigmata of his fall."
Will and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History
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"Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick...but don't lose faith."
Steve Jobs
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New York, New York
What an exciting and sprawling metropolis! The National Model United conference began today at the Sheraton Hotel only a few blocks from Time Square. The conference was held at two separate times as to help prevent congestion throughout the hotel due to the fact that there...
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