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Clausen must start! Yes, you read this right.
Posted 28 July 2011 - 09:45 PM
Look at it this way.
Jimmy Clausen starts the season for us, with the talent that is with him now, If Jimmy Can't produce, then ,ok, cut your losses. But if he does produce and generates decent numbers so other teams take notice. This only means Jimmy could be used a trade bait. Meaning the panthers could rape a team just like...The Eagles.
Look at the Eagles, they RAPED the Cardinals for a guy like Kolb. Kolb arguably had some really good Talent around him in Jackson, Maclin, Celek. The Cards still took a chance and gave away a good CB and a 2nd round pick for him.
We don't lose anything by doing this. Nothing, Cam gets to sit maybe 4-5 games tops. We see if Clausen can garner interest. Swindle a team into thinking he's worth say a player we might need at a certain position and a draft pick. Or just a high draft pick. At this point if we just get enough interest that they would only get a 2nd round pick for him, I say do it! Get that 2nd rounder back for the guy.
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We'll see how the pre-season goes though.
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He has absolutely no reason to suck this year.
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 09:51 PM
thats what the preseason is for
Preseason ... Are we even having a preseason?
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Posted 28 July 2011 - 09:59 PM
In a condensed off season without ota's, increased roster sizes, and new coaches/philosiphys, the coaches are going to need the first few weeks to evaluate talent. There will be little time for really coaching the new system and spending one on one time with our players.
I don't think the team as a whole will be ready week 1. If that's the case why put Cam in a situation for him to fail. If he is going to be our franchise QB for the next 10 + years there is no need to rush him in. The kid still has a lot to learn.
I'll rather let Jimmy try to be the QB while the team gets their act together. Then if Clausen can just be okay you let Cam in when he is ready. Start with some series, then give him more game time until he is ready.
This way he comes in, plays well, and builds great confidence.
Just my opinion, though I know it's not a popular one around here.
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20th May 2009, 01:34 AM #1
Anyway to Bypass Steam?
I recently purchased the Orange Box from Steam (it was the deal a couple weeks ago), and finally finished dling HL:2, only took about 4 days... But now even if I choose to start steam offline, it won't let me access HL:2. This doesn't make any sense since it's a single player game.
I can play CSS, which is a multiplayer game offline, and various other games, but not HL:2. Are there any cracks or patches I can use so I can play this while not connected to the internet?
20th May 2009, 01:41 AM #2
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Not that I found, anything from valve and some of the third party stuff will always start steam first even if you go directly to the game exe. Be watching this one to see if someone has the magic bullet.
20th May 2009, 01:54 AM #3
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Get Steam-Buster Revolution. It's a Steam emulator that doesn't require an internet connection or any updating. Just tell it to look for the games installed in your steamapps folder and they should work just fine.
Obviously you won't be able to play online, but I used it for months last year when I didn't have an internet connection.Machine:
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I make batch files... old school way.
I played Portal and other games of the Orange Box that way... since I do not always have internet access.
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Also, are there any legit sites to get Steam-Buster Revolution from, I don't really feel like trying to torrent anything on this connection.
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20th May 2009, 07:12 AM #9
Re: Anyway to Bypass Steam?
I'm starting to think this might be more hl2 related... I just crashed twice in 5 minutes while playing it...nothing was over 60C, so it wasn't a hardware problem.
20th May 2009, 07:20 AM #10
Re: Anyway to Bypass Steam?
Im pretty sure you can run steam in offline mode and it will let you run any game. I dont have steam right now, but I have it on my desktop back home and when I didnt have internet connection I remember doing that and being able to play hl2 and all the other games I have on steam.M17 | QX9300 @2.53GHz | 4GB DDR3 @ 1066MHz | Xfire3870 | 128SSD | 1200p LCD | 64bit w7 | b13 bios | ccc 9.6
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Before you brave Black Friday's chaotic crowds, consider these shopping-related feats, courtesy of the Guinness World Records people (who, by the way, would like you to purchase their Guinness World Records 2012 eBook while you're in a buying mood).
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-- The world's speediest store clerk scanned and bagged 50 items in 2 minutes and 22 seconds at a store in Bracknell, UK, in 2009.
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Soldier suspected of firing at civilians in Afghanistan held at US military prison
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- US soldier Robert Bales (left) at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California. Bales will be charged with 17 counts of murder as well as assault and a string of other offences in the massacre of Afghan villagers as they slept. The US paid $50,000 in compensation for each villager killed and $11,000 for each person wounded in a shooting rampage allegedly carried out by a rogue American soldier in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said
Washington: A US soldier who allegedly shot and killed 16 civilians in Afghanistan was held at a US military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on Saturday as new details emerged about the veteran's past.
The soldier, identified Friday as US Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, had served three combat tours in Iraq, and was on his first deployment to Afghanistan.
US media identified Bales, 38, as the alleged shooter, and a US official speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP the reports were "correct."
Bales allegedly left his base in the southern province of Kandahar before sunrise on Sunday, entered an Afghan village and opened fire, killing men, women and children.
The incident has plunged US-Afghan relations into the deepest crisis since the 2001 US-led invasion. The US military has not officially released the soldier's name, nor charged him with a crime yet.
Bales was brought to Fort Leavenworth on a flight from Kuwait late Friday, army officials said. Several websites containing pictures and stories about Bales, including a 2009 Department of Defense page, were taken down by the time his identity was revealed Friday, but some versions of the webpages could still be accessed.
According to a cached online article, dated February 2009, from the official US army homepage, Bales participated in one of the bloodiest clashes of the Iraq war - a January 2007 battle against a messianic Shiite sect in southern Iraq known as the Soldiers of Heaven.
In the 15-hour engagement, according to the US army article, 250 fighters were killed, all enemy - and Bales said he was proud his unit "discriminated between the bad guys and the noncombatants and then afterward we ended up helping the people that three or four hours before were trying to kill us.
"I think that's the real difference between being an American as opposed to being a bad guy, someone who puts his family in harm's way like that," Bales said.
Separately, in a photograph appearing on cached webpage of the High Desert Warrior, an online military publication, dated March 4, Bales appears in camouflage fatigues and wearing body armor during a training exercise at an army training center in California's Mojave desert.
Outraged locals wanted Bales to stand trial in Afghanistan, but the US military quickly flew him out.
Bale's attorney Browne said that his client had been angered by a serious injury that a comrade sustained the day before the massacre, but held no animosity toward Muslims.
Bales, the father of young children, was also upset because after his extensive Iraq duty he did not believe he would be deployed to Afghanistan, according to US news reports.
The suspect appears to have been drinking the night of a shooting, a violation of US combat rules. "Investigators have reason to believe that alcohol may have been a factor in this tragic incident," a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Bales may have "just snapped" due to a combination of stress, alcohol and domestic issues, another unnamed official told the New York Times on Thursday.
Media reports said Bales was angry about being passed over for a military promotion, and as a civilian had brushes with the law and spent time in anger management. He pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge in 2002 and was cited for a misdemeanor hit-and-run incident in 2008, for which he paid a $250 fine and received a deferred 12-month sentence.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday again lashed out at Washington over the massacre, one day after he said international forces should leave villages in his country, potentially jeopardising Nato operations two years before combat troops are due to leave Afghanistan.
US President Barack Obama agreed to resolve Karzai's concerns over night raids in a phone call Friday, and the two agreed to discuss complaints about Nato troops in villages.
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Thanks for the info. Yes. looking for one board quiver type. Something I can take out in the regular mush but ok for some head high stuff. They make it poly/epoxy with the stringer or you can get the carbon rail model. Any body hear of these carbon rail boards breaking more than usual? I did. Don't know if that's true.Thanks again guys.
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My Attitude
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It saddens me a little when people say that they have given up on meeting someone. Why? Because they attract a certain type of person/people and blame those people for their misery instead of looking at and working on themselves to ready themselves for the type of relationship they want. Someone told me long ago, you attract the energy you give out. When I heard this, I started paying attention to what kind of energy I was putting out in the universe by seeing the types of people who were being pulled into my orbit. I used that to fine tune myself until I met my baby. When we start becoming the the type of person we want to meet, then we find what we are looking for. Why? Because we find it in ourselves first and those pulled into our orbit are a reflection of that.
It's always an inside job.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: personal development, reflection, relationship, self improvement
Loving Those Who Do You Wrong
Life is full of opportunities to practically put to use what you are learning as you grow. I had one of those yesterday.
I got home to discover that a delivery I was expecting came early and UPS left it at my house when no one was home and it was stolen. It was a gift for a family member and I was quite frustrated by this. I contacted the sender and UPS about my concern but it still bothered me that this gift was gone.
This morning, when I was leaving the house, I was wondering "How can I move past this? How can I let this frustration go?" I knew that this gift could be replaced. I knew that purchasing the gift again wouldn't cause me hardship. I knew things happened for a reason. Yet I was still unnerved by the turn of events.
Then it dawned on me. Pray a blessing for UPS, the delivery driver, whoever took the package and whoever would end up with the package.
Jesus did this at the cross. Saying "Father forgive them" was saying bless them in spite of how they are treating me. Let good come into their lives even though they are not being good right now. They don't know that they are children of God. They don't know the power they have or the abundance that is their birthright so show them, teach them, bless them. That's the 70 times 7 kind of forgiveness right there.
A stolen package cannot compare to crucifixtion. So I prayed a blessing for each person who handled the package and would enjoy it's contents. In that moment, my frustration began to subside and my full joy emerged. And each time I think of it, I pray for them again.
It's amazing how things are set up. I read a post on Facebook that said that Marrianne Williamson will pray for 30 days for a person who has wronged her to be blessed. That was a right on time message for me to begin a similar practice in my life.
It's easy to love those who love us. The test of our relationship with God, our realization of our sonship, is being able to love those who treat us with contempt, dishonor us, steal from us and betray us. To be able to say "Forgive them Father for they don't know what they are doing"
–Rev D.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: forgive, forgiveness, god, Jesus, let go, letting go, Love, peace, pray, prayer
Start 2013 on a Mission
Many spend the end of the year looking back at what didn't work or they didn't do in the past year and come up with New Years Resolutions to do or be better in the coming year. Often though, we get about 30-45 days into the new year and we find ourselves slacking on these resolutions. 60-90 days into the year and we have completely stopped and sometimes forgotten the resolutions we made at the beginning of the year. I think this happens every year because we don't have a soul connection to our resolutions.
So I propose we do something different this year. Let's start 2013 on a mission. Let's create a mission statement for the year and then resolve to do what we are inspired to from our mission. Our mission is our driving purpose. It's born out of our unique gifts, talents and desires. It allows us to be able to create something in this world that leaves a legacy. It empowers us and it touches the lives of those around us in a profound way.
So how do we create this mission statement? I suggest we start by asking ourselves, "What are my gifts/talents/abilities and how can they be used to make my home, community, company, world a better place?"
Make a list of your answers. I know I am a gifted listener, able to understand the heart of what I am being told or asked. I am able to draw the best out of people by helping them find it in themselves. I am a singer, teacher, counselor and speaker. I can use these things to make the world a better place by helping others learn to respect and love themselves, express themselves authentically and create a life that best supports who they really are.
My mission statement might read:
"I am a gifted minister and spiritual teacher. I use my gifts to assist others in learning to love themselves, expressing their authentic nature and reclaiming their divine inheritance. Each day, more wisdom and revelation is shared with me and through me to improve my life and the lives of those around me"
When I worked in tech support my mission statement was:
"I am a knowledgable and capable IT professional. I use my skills to assist others with their technical issues. I am able to understand the needs of my department and the customers we serve to be able to successfully resolve their issues and educate those who are willing to learn. I learn more about my profession each day to help me grow along this career path"
Your mission statement will be unique to you and your goals for the year. I believe a good mission statement will be concise and contain, at least, these things:
- "I am" – these are some of the most powerful words in life. Your life will be shaped by what ever follows those words. I start mission statements with a "I am." So what are you at this point in your life? A teacher, a cook, a programmer, a gardener? This is a faith statement. Perhaps you have a dream of becoming something that you haven't begun yet. "I am" calls that dream into being.
- "I do" – This portion talks about how who you are will show up in the world; how you will use your gifts and abilities toward a certain goal. If "I am" is calling who you want to be into being, "I do" states how you will make a difference in that role.
- "I grow" – Life is always calling us to higher and greater things. We can not stand still. Frederick Douglass is quoted as saying "Nature is herself a great worker and never tolerates, without certain rebuke, any contradiction to her wise example. Inaction is followed by stagnation. Stagnation is followed by pestilence and pestilence is followed by death." You are meant to be in a constant state of becoming, of learning and of growing. And when you have manifested "I am," and are performing "I do," you will be inspired to reach higher, be better and do more. So I like to add something that reminds me to learn more each day.
Once you have crafted your mission statement. Speak it to yourself each day, at least once when you wake up and once before you go to sleep. Speaking it in the morning sets the tone for each day. Speaking it at night settles it in your spirit and sparks creative dreams and new ideas. When you say it, meditate on it, savor it, feel it.
A mission statement should fill you with excitement and expectation and it will bring about challenges that will forge you into the person you want to become. It will also bring about opportunities directly in line with who you say you are. And it will be a light that directs your path so that you know which opportunities are the best to take and uncover tools that will help you overcome any challenge.
So let's decide what our mission will be for 2013 and let our only resolution be to LIVE IT.
–Rev. D
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: ability, gift, goal, goals, growth, mission, new year, resolution, talent, talents
What God Gives
When I wanted a freedom, at one point in my life, I equated that to having a car. What manifested was friends telling me about Zipcar (a car sharing service) and a home residence that was very accessible to public transportation. The essence of the manifestation was still the same. I could go where I wanted to go, when I wanted to go and had many options to do so.
Another thing that you can be sure of is that the manifestation will be in line with your highest good at that moment. With me a the car, had I gotten one at that point it wouldn't have been in my highest good. Financially it would have put me in a bind and created other types of drama in my life. By NOT getting the car, I was also able to secure myself more financially and take steps in my life and career that would have been impossible with the car. What I did get fit perfectly into my life at that time.
The last thing I will mention about what God gives is that it will set you up to build a better tomorrow. God doesn't just give for today, God gives with the end in mind. God knows who you are becoming. God knows what your dreams and goals are. Whatever manifests for you will always be in alignment with that vision of you. What God gave me when I wanted freedom worked perfectly into the orchestration of where my life is now.
Now this isn't to say that God wouldn't set in motion things spiritually to manifest a specific thing you have your mind on. I just think that happens only if it falls in line with the three things I mentioned above. And when we connected to the flow of God, we can pinpoint things that fall right into alignment with the essence, our highest good in the moment and the highest expression of ourselves down the line. But I have found it best to let go of having a specific thing and being open to the infinite number of ways that God can meet and usually exceed the physical thing I thought I wanted.
As an old song says "Any way you bless me, I'll be satisfied."
- Rev. D
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: blessings, desire, emotion, feeling, gift, gifts, god, good, highest good, life, manifestation
How Long Will You Wander?
After the Israelites were delivered from Egypt, they wandered in the wilderness for 40 years before entering into the Promised Land. Those who know this story in from the Bible know that this was their punishment for being afraid and not believing that God either could or would establish them in this place of prosperity. The same God that, through Moses, parted the Red Sea so that they could escape Egypt they could not trust to perform another miracle on their behalf.
I encounter this with clients. I see it in myself. A breakthrough is experienced, a dream realized, a goal achieved and there is joy and celebration. Then a new desire or challenge is born and there is trepidation. How could we ever accomplish that? I don't know how? I don't know the right people? I don't have enough money? Am I worthy of that? All these thoughts creep in. These "giants" in the land of milk and honey that are standing in our way.
But what about God? The one who just delivered us, sustained us, healed us, prospered us. What about the all-power of the Universe that we JUST tapped into get us where we are? Now we are wandering in the wilderness of our disbelief. But for how long?
We wander until the last vestiges of disbelief have died. When your fear has been replaced by faith, your wandering is over. How long is up to you?
The Israelites wandered until the generation of disbelief and fear had passed and the generation of FAITH were ready. Those who believed that all of the power of the Divine was in them, with them and for them. And they laid claim to the promise.
It's the same today! Once you become assured that God in you and with you is a majority you will overcome. Once you know that since God is with you, no one can stand in your way, you will claim your prize. Once you are certain beyond a shadow of a doubt God's desire is for your good and the entire universe is being organized to manifest the best for you, you will have taken possession of the land flowing with milk and honey.
And you can know this for all things. Relationships, jobs, finances, friendships, anything. God has the final word! And God's will is your prosperity and joy.
Think about these things:
- Do you believe in God/the Divine/Allah/The Universe/The Creator/The All-That-Is?
- Do you believe or are you willing to accept or consider that God's will is for you to experience prosperity, peace, wisdom and joy?
- Do you believe or are you willing to accept or consider that God has the final word in all situations and circumstances – no matter what things look like?
- Do you believe or are you willing to accept or consider that God loves you unconditionally and that there is nothing that can separate you from that love?
- Do you believe or are you willing to accept or consider that God will bring you what you ask for if you pray believing you will receive?
If the answer is yes, then create your statement of faith. A statement that affirms that God is willing and able to do exceedingly abundantly more than you could ask or think. Repeat that statement to yourself often, with authority. Declare your victory and give thanks knowing you have already been answered. And watch things begin to move and work in your favor.
Today, end your wandering through the wilderness of fear and disbelief. Affirm the power of the Almighty at work in your life. Step into a realization of the Love of God and watch the miracles come.
-Rev. D
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: desire, faith, fear, god, Love, miracle, prayer, prosperity, wander
Life: Abundantly
"Most of you are much closer to a financial fortune [better body, romantic partnership, car, house, prosperous business, etc.] than you are even allowing yourself to purely desire, because, in the thought that it might come, you right away begin thinking of how disappointed you will be if it does not come. And so, in your lackful thought, you do not allow yourself to desire or to expect anything magnificent in terms of money; and that is the reason why, for the most part, you are living rather mediocre financial experiences." ~ Esther and Jerry Hicks from Money, and the Law of Attraction
I remember having a daydream when I was in my early twenties. In this vision, God stood before me with a gift. It was a miraculous gift, because it was from God. It was just what I needed and wanted and perhaps was just the first of many. As God stood there holding this gift before me, I stood there with my arms at my side. Here it was, all I needed and wanted to have was right in front of my face. Then the thought ran through my mind "You just have to reach out and take it."
Why, even in the vision, didn't I reach out at that moment and take what was being freely given to me? I think the answer is both multifaceted and universal – I was afraid. What would be required of me if I accepted it? Was the gift really even for me? What if this wasn't what I thought it would be? What if I couldn't handle the gift or the responsibility I thought came with it? So instead of opening myself wholeheartedly to accepting this gift, like a child diving face first into the pile of gifts under the Christmas tree, I second guessed myself and God.
I think it's clear; we experience mediocrity because we believe in our mediocrity. We don't allow ourselves to believe that the abundance of the Universe is our birthright. And who are we to deny God the pleasure of pleasing us? Why do we feel undeserving of gifts freely given by our creator who loves us unconditionally? Why do we even feel bad for wanting to be extravagantly blessed?
The Prayer of Jabez tells the story of a man that goes to heaven. During a tour of heaven, the angel reluctantly shows him a building that holds mounds of gifts. When he requested it, the angel takes him to the gifts meant for him. The angel, in the end, tells him that these are all the gifts God had prepared for his children that we didn't receive during our lifetime.
Have you ever had a person refuse a gift you were giving? What excuses did they give? That they didn't deserve it? That it was too much? That they were too embarrassed? They didn't know if they could take care of it? They don't have faith in their own worth and worthiness to receive the gifts you give in love. And these are the same excuses we give for not receiving the blessings that God has prepared for us.
James 4 talks about the faith of Abraham. Abraham's faith was counted unto him as righteousness. The fact that Abraham believed God's promise to make him the Father of many nations, even in his old age he kept to that faith and not only was the promise fulfilled, he was right with God because of his faith.
So if we understand that God is capable of doing far more abundantly than we can think or ask and that God WANTS to do far more for us than we can think or ask, unbounded belief in and acceptance of these gifts, in whatever form they take, is counted as righteousness unto us as well.
So it is actually RIGHTEOUSNESS, not selfishness, to believe that we are BLESSED BEYOND MEASURE and to have the FAITH to accept that all the promises of God are Yea and AMEN!
What have you been promised? Release the full capability of your faith. Set aside your doubts and fears and open yourself to the unlimited resources of the universe there for your benefit and wellbeing. Take the steps of faith that are necessary for your to "reach out" and grab the gifts awaiting you from God – start writing that book, designing those clothes, singing those songs, etc. – and you will begin to learn what it means to be prosperous and blessed.
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Click Next
Some of us may be old enough to remember playing a scratched record. Others have to refer to a scratched CD or DVD. What happens is still the same, when the needle (or laser) hit's the scratch, it jumps back to some previous point and replays the same music (or scene) over and over again. Some DVD and CD's just stop playing at all right at that point.
We actually do the same thing in life. As children we go along just fine. We play, experiment with and experience life until something traumatic happens to us. Maybe a parent always called us stupid, or we got whipped for things we didn't do or maybe never got picked for sports or were picked on by older siblings or bullies. Maybe we were physically, emotionally or sexually abused. Whatever the event (or sequence of events) they scratch our life. And that scratch makes us play an event over and over in our minds until it created a pattern in our lives.
Many of the patterns we experience in life are replays of an earlier trama that we experienced but had no control over. Later in life, we subconsciously recreate the events with a different cast of characters. Once we understand our creative power in life, we can press stop on that old story and create a new life.
We are the creative force behind our lives, but we forget this spiritual truth as we learn to play the victim and blame others for our disappointments. And while we didn't ask for the initial event, the replication of that event in our lives is something we can do something about. And it starts with taking responsibility; not for the initial events but for our role in replaying them now that we have a better understanding of who we are and the power God has gifted us with.
Taking responsibility is like finally waking up to the unconscious patterns we have allowed to replay in our lives and consciously learning to make a change. It allows us to see that what we fear isn't real anymore. It has already happened and doesn't have to continue if we are dedicated to writing a new chapter in our lives. Now we can pay attention to the decisions we make that lead us down the same path and the people we draw to us to play the perpetrators in our drama. Now we can say NO to playing the role of victim and take our rightful place as VICTORIOUS creations of God.
We can move the needle to the next song, forward to the next scene or change the music or movie entirely. It's our choice and being responsible for the choices you make now will open the door to abundance, happiness and success that you never thought possible.
So what will you do, continue replaying the drama or move powerfully forward. The choice is yours.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: choice, drama, life, moving on, personal responsibility, responsibility
The Lord is My Shepherd
In my devotional time this morning, I was lead to read the 23rd Psalm and meditate on it's meaning. It holds a wealth of understanding of what life can be like when you are surrendered to all-ness of God. The entire Psalm is one of peace, appreciation, expansion, safety and promise. And when we truly learn to let go and let God, we can live each day in the peace and presence of God.
Here are some of the things that were revealed to me as I meditated on this passage from Psalm.
"The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want"
The Lord, God, the supreme power and presence in the universe, the all that is, that which created all things, He through which I live move and have my being is my personal caretaker, guard and guide. And as I come to recognize and surrender to The Lord's care, I shall not have any desire unfulfilled or experience any lack. As a matter of fact, everything will be provided before I even know I want/need it so the moment I recognize I desire something, it is revealed to me and manifested in my life. I won't have to change who I am or how I look to please anyone else because I can rest in the unfailing and unconditional love of The Lord. No good thing is ever or will ever be withheld from me as long as I rest in the knowledge that The Lord is my ever present help.
"He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters."
Wow, The Lord will cause me to rest in absolute abundance of all things. First, I don't have to worry about clothes, money, food, friends, romance because it's all been worked out for me. Now I am being told to rest in the abundance of all these things. I look around me and all I see are opportunities to learn, grow, experience the fullness of life and I don't have to make it happen for myself. I can rest in the receiving of all these things knowing that there is more available to me any time I want.
"He restores my soul."
So not only is my physical taken care of, my mental and emotional needs are provided for as well. I can feel refreshed and at peace in the midst of any situation or circumstance. My head is clear. I am connected to my inner wisdom at all times. I can share of the bounty, blessing and gifts that have been given to me and still feel light and playful and eager for more.
"He leads me in the paths of righteousness for his name sake."
The Lord keeps me on the right path and orders my steps because that's his nature. The Lord cannot go against his own purpose which is to lead me in the creation of my best life. The Lord is always attempting to keep me moving in the direction of everything I desire because if The Lord didn't, he wouldn't be The Lord.
"Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me."
Even though I deal with people and experience situations that seem like they could hurt me, I don't have to worry. The Lord's presence with me shows me that all these things are mere shadows, that have no real substance, they are projections of my own mind when I lose sight of The Lord. These shadows are things in my mind that stand in the way of me being totally surrendered to the care of The Lord. But I know that I don't have to be taken in by these things. The Lord is leading me through them to help me learn to trust him even more. And once I've gone through them, I never have to visit them again.
And it's comforting to know that even if I do get led astray by these shadows, frightened by these circumstances, or make a choice that takes me off the right path The Lord is leading me on, The Lord always knows where I am and with his rod The Lord will gently pick my up from the ditch and lead me back to his side on the right path and with his staff The Lord will defeat any predator awaiting in the darkness. All I have to do is realize I've strayed and call out to The Lord to realize he is already there waiting patiently for me to surrender again.
"You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;"
Even when there are people all around me that may wish me harm or hope for my downfall, you sustain me. Not only do you sustain, but you make a spectacle of your love for me. You show off how far you will go and how much you will give to those who trust in The Lord, who's hearts and minds are focused on you. And you don't do this to be arrogant or spiteful. You do this to show even my enemies the way home, the way to be prospered and fulfilled.
"You anoint my head with oil;"
The Lord sets me apart as his own and let's me know what I have been set upon this earth to do. The anointing is a call to ministry and a promise that all the power of the universe is with me as I move forward in my calling.
"my cup overflows."
I am so filled with joy, peace, love, abundance that it is spilling out of my life and touching all around me. I am full of gratitude and appreciation to The Lord for how well I am taken care of that I can't help but share it with others.
"Surely (Only) goodness and mercy (steadfast Love) shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
All my days will be full of every good and perfect gift. I will be surrounded by love at all times. And this feeling of peace, love, joy, appreciation, wisdom and abundance is the presence (house) of The Lord and I can experience these things for the rest of my days.
The major lesson for me is that as I learn to depend on the creator and sustainer of the universe, each day will be a continual unfolding of what David spoke of in this Psalm. I don't have to change, I just have to trust that he who create all – including me – will take care of me and show me who I am becoming and how I am to live. My steps are ordered and my life is secure when I commit it to The Lord's care and I will live a joyful, exciting, ever expanding life where worry becomes a distant memory.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tags: god, Lord, prosperity, protection, Psalm 23, Shepherd
In Me I Trust
Relationships/Dating is so wonderfully awful. Why do I say awful? Because when we really understand what is happening, we start to notice that this other person is giving us an opportunity to see ourselves – every flawed, insecure, scared little bit of ourselves.
One of the things that some will tell you is a cornerstone in any relationship is being able to trust the other person. I disagree. Well what do you think of when I say trust, if you are like me you think it's about the trustworthiness of the other person. You think it's about whether they live up to the type of person they say they are or that they will be consistent to the experience you have of them. But it's not – TRUST is all about YOU (ME).
I remember having talks with friends where I asked them to consider something – trust can never be earned, only given. Think about it, you decide to trust someone. Based on your experience with them and the combined experiences of your past we all make a determination whether or not we will give a person our trust. And while people can do things to 'make you feel comfortable,' you are the one to decide if you are going to let your guard down. The more traumatized you are by your past experiences, the less inclined your are to believe you can give your trust to someone new.
But I want to take it a step further. We often like to point the finger at others to blame them for our hurt. But if we take a look at the fingers pointing back at us we might realize the person we don't trust is ourselves. We don't trust ourselves to make good decisions when it comes to picking romantic partners. So as we decide to give trust to another person, inside we have our fingers crossed that we are doing the right thing for ourselves. We hope that we picked a good one this time. And if it turns out bad, it is listed with the litany of other mistakes we have made and we find it harder and harder to believe that we know what's/who's best for us.
So how do we learn to trust ourselves?
Well first we have to accept responsibility for where we are in our lives. We have to understand that we made decisions that got us here (wherever here is for you) in the first place. There is a strange thing about accepting responsibility, it has a way of opening our eyes to all the moments we decided to close our eyes to the warnings and signs that we were shown along the way. Continuing to place blame (including on yourself) keeps us blindly following the same paths, going through the same things with different people.
Another thing we need to do is be clear about what we want to experience in our lives. Especially how we want to be treated. One of the reasons we don't trust ourselves is because when we find ourselves in a situation where we have to choose between being treated the way we think we should and having a person in our lives, we choose the other person over ourselves. How would you feel about a person who called you their friend but continued to sell you out? Yet we do this to ourselves and don't think twice about it. Once clear about what we want to experience, we must be dedicated to that and not sell out for a nice body/good face/nice car/money/etc.
One of the most important things I would suggest is to not let our fears carry us away. Sometimes we can be so afraid of repeating the past that we don't allow ourselves to live in and enjoy our present. It's not fair to yourself to deny yourself the joy of this moment because of your fear of what could happen. More likely we will be more able to see patterns repeating and make the empowering decision to remove ourselves from that situation because it doesn't line up with what we want for ourselves. But we can enjoy the moments leading up to that.
We can't depend on anyone else to make us happy, but we can (and should) learn to trust that we will make decisions that are in our own best interests, learning from our past and creating a brighter future.
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The Fayette County Public Works Department is crafting regulations designed to help slow down speeders in neighborhoods that lie in the unincorporated county.
The county has had success with a speed table, a device that lifts an automobile off the ground to a flat plateau of several feet before bringing them back to the road path at grade level. The current ones are installed on East Banks Road, which was often a cut-through for traffic using Banks Road as a back route to the Fayette Pavilion shopping center and beyond.
But now there are several more subdivisions expressing an interest in slowing down vehicles, and speed tables are a good solution because they can be removed at a later date if problems occur or if traffic patterns change to eliminate the speeding habit of motorists, said Public Works Director Phil Mallon.
Although the details are still being worked out, Mallon has proposed that when a request for a speed table comes in to have a speed survey conducted on the road to determine the speed at the 85th percentile. If it is more than 11 mph over the posted speed limit, a speed table could be erected but it would require support from a two-thirds majority of all the homeowners in the petition area, Mallon told the commission at an informal workshop meeting last week.
The ordinance will be tweaked some more before it will be presented for a final vote, officials said.
Mallon said that there also could be contingencies in place to allow a speed table in subdivisions that didn't meet the minimum speed variance.
Funding is also a question, and Commissioner Lee Hearn suggested placing a modest fee of $15 a year on the property tax bill of those who benefit from the speed table to help offset part of the county's costs on the project.
The speed tables are portable and can be removed and reinstalled in other locations but over time they will eventually have to be replaced, officials said.
Hearn said the sheriff's department has also been effective in using its enforcement powers to target specific vehicles that have been speeding in a subdivision on a routine basis.
The county suggests a "modest" $15 fee per property owner since it's going to be losing speeding fines. I've got a cheaper idea - just deepen the potholes in the streets and the speeders will quit after blowing a few tires and bending some rims.
How about a lame duck President who is no longer accountable and an Energy Secretary that previously proposed that gasoline should be taxed at European levels - 7-8$ a gallon.
Unfortunately, the problem was the county road dept, they repeatedly stalled at every turn. I'm afraid that someone will be injured seriously or killed by a speeding vehicle but the county only thinks about their budgets and the cost (which they said repeatedly the residents would have to absorb). Only after being sued by someone who has lost a loved one or been seriously injured would they care. This is because a multi-million dollar lawsuit involving the death of a child really puts a dent in their budget.
Need one or two of these on Brandon Mill Circle. Cars cutting from White Road to New Hope fly through here. Months ago a traffic speed study was done and there were multiple vehicles at 50+ mph (2 at 70+) in a residential zone. Still no help from the county or the homeowners association.
My favorite shortcut from Home Depot is getting dangerous with all those kids speeding the other way to get to Best Buy before it closes. And I do mean closes - for good. Wonder what we can use that building for? Indoor pool maybe?
Anyway, those speed tables sound like a good investment for the 400 families in Planterra. Let's see, $15 x 400 families - yea, that will be enough. Let's get them ordered.
Wait a minute, read this carefully - "--------a device that lifts an automobile off the ground to a flat plateau of several feet before bringing them back to the road path at grade level." Several feet? Huh? Those teens are going to use these things a toy or a ride at Disney World.
FYI....the several feet refers to the length of the speed table not the elevation. However the wording that was used is confusing!


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My first two months in the Asset Store
This is a follow-up post to my earlier post: My first five days in the Asset Store.
For those who are not familiar with the story of RageSpline: it is an extension to Unity which allows you to create 2D vector graphics inside the editor. You can get a feel of the tool from this video.
Originally, I was going to post a follow-up after the first month, but I was so busy coding the v1.1 update, giving support on the forums and replying e-mails, that I just let that one month anniversary pass by. Well, I'm still busy and v1.1 still isn't out, but I'm going to post this anyway. That's the irony of indie blogging: when cool stuff starts to happen you are too busy to actually write about it.
When I released RageSpline v1.0 in the Unity Asset Store I was still in more or less considering it as an experiment. Just ship a product and see what happens. Now that I have seen the light, I have taken a different approach. I'm trying to build a product that would hopefully brings me income for long haul and grows to be a sustainable business. In the wake of this new professionalism, I have now invested some of the income to hire outside help.
Juho Lehtinen, a Web Developer from Lehtumedia, is helping me launch an official website at ragespline.com. The website will provide much awaited documentation, scripts and tutorials. I would also love to feature cool looking RageSpline powered games. Wink wink .
Arash John Sammander, Designer and Artist from TAIK, is shooting tutorial videos on how to efficiently use the RageSpline. These will be eventually released at the website too and complement the written documentation nicely.
Breno Azevedo, Game Designer and Technical CG Artist from Fluidplay Studios, is creating an extension for RageSpline called RageTools. It will provide SVG import and animation support plus much more. This project is not funded by me and will be a separate product in the Asset Store once it is released. I'm of course supporting this as much as I can.
I myself have been working my ass off with the upcoming v1.1 update, which has a lot of code rewritten from scratch. I've recreated most of the user interface too, and it is now much less crowded despite the vast amount of new features. The update is now in beta stage and I'm optimistic that we will see the actual release in Asset Store very soon. I'm still holding on to my decision of not publishing any set release dates, though.
As always, I saved the best punchline last: the sales figures.
My first two months in the Asset Store generated over $11000 sales. Unity Asset Store taking their 30% cut leaves me with approximately $8000. Not bad, not bad at all.
My first five days in the Asset Store
Whenever someone in the game developer community even so much as hints about actual sales numbers, it gets a lot of readers. It also seems that there is a huge bias for reporting success vs. reporting failure in the Blogosphere. I'm no exception to the rule. This is a Bragposttm. No doubt.
Five days ago, I got a mail from Caitlyn from the Unity Asset Store Team: "Your product RageSpline has passed the review and is available at the store." I smiled and nodded in approval. I quickly opened the actual Asset Store and BOOM. There I was, already showcased on the big banner space. I smiled so hard that I bit my own tongue. Fast forward five days. I've been smiling so hard recently that I'm considering plastic surgery to get my normal expression back. Luxury problems I guess.
The story of RageSpline started a few weeks ago. My current game project – RageCube – was looking like the screenshot on the left. I wanted it to be more like the picture on the right. Most of all: I wanted roundness. Unity's own primitives are quite, uh, primitive. I hate to use 3D modeling software for 2D purposes. That is like shooting a fly with 10-feet cannon. "All I need is a couple of splines", I thought.
Luckily, I wasn't totally green on the subject. Couple of years ago, during my school project – Quickrally – I used splines to generate 3D racetracks. However, my mileage with Unity's Custom Editor scripting was near zero. I was a bit afraid. This side of Unity seemed more of a black box. Oh boy was I wrong. The very reason that RageSpline exists today is the total awesomeness of Unity Editor scripting. I could write a book of love poems dedicated to it. I was finally brave enough to admit it: I was a Unity fanboi.
At this point, I didn't really see the potential of the tool for others. I thought it was ok, but "not of use to others". I'm not a very bright person when it comes to judging my own products. I often refer to myself as a natural born pessimist. Just read the very first post in this blog and you know what I mean.
One day I had an idea: since level creation was so fast with this new tool, it would be kind a cool to make a time-lapse video (above), where I build a single level for the game. At the end of the video, I would then introduce a link to the actual playable level. I made the video and it got some attention. People were saying stuff like "wow, great tools, did you make them yourself?". Now I still couldn't muster enough brainpower to realize that maybe I should actually sell them. Like I mentioned, I'm dumb like that.
Finally some people sent me e-mails and messages that said: "when are you going to release your tools in the Asset Store?". At this point, I was like Homer Simpson with his thought bubble: "Asset Store.. ASSET STORE!!.. SHUT UP YOU STUPID MONKEY!". After a week of hard polishing on my Easter holiday, I submitted the whole shebang.
And this is how the situation is right now. I generated sales of $3000 in five days. IN FIVE DAYS. What the hell? Of course Unity Asset Store takes its 30% cut, so I'm left with $2100, but that's still mind-blowingly hilarious. I honestly thought that I would sell 10 copies max. I'm dumb like that.


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|Posting oak pics in the conifer forum then linking back to the tree forum? What have we done to **** you off, Ken?
Trees look fantastic BTW
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Dec 22, 11 at 9:47
|i think you are joking around ... an will presume such .. the typed word is sometimes misunderstood ...
i didnt want to irritate the GW elves.. by using the space to post the same pix in two different forums ... i though the solution was brilliant ...
|lol yes, it was in good fun ;)
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Dec 22, 11 at 10:38
|well played.. lol
|GREAT pics Ken. Those trees are awesome!
I have never been much of an oak guy, but in the last 2 years I have come to appreciate them ALLOT more. It started by teaching myself more about them so that I could properly advise someone I knew about what Oaks did well here and their characteristics. This went to the S.O. wanting to plant an Oak in our yard. That lead to more research and more appreciation, and finally to planting a 2" Caliper B&B Scarlet Oak November 2010. This tree FAR exceeded my expectations for the first year. Putting me as a fan of the Scarlet Oak, and several others that I have now planted for friends/relatives. And your dogged love of Oaks (and other such as luckyp, etc) helped to educate me, and give me realistic expectations.
Now, it's my duty to turn you away from the MHC (Maple Haters Club). ;-)
|My memory is jogging atm... Ken, weren't you the one who said you had 6 scarlets with varying fall color displays. 2 very good, 2 good, and 2 average? They all appear to have been excellent this year, lucky you. I wonder if you would be so kind to point out the two individuals that usually have the poorer coloration? Not being a smarty, just curious ;)
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Dec 22, 11 at 13:53
|you tree snob surprise me... hitting the link to the conifer forum.. yet coming back to reply in the tree forum ... what a hoot ..
jon.. boy you need to kill a few brain cells .. great memory .. but i stand by my 2-2-2 .... and those are the ones pictured ... based on a normal fall day ...
apparently even a blind nut [acorn] can find a squirrel.. because i snapped some prime pix.. in prime light.. on a prime day ...
any other gray nov day in MI .. you would have seen the difference ...
pic 3.. are the best two .... an actual deep deep red ...
pic 2.. more toward an orange ...
and the last pic shows two of them.. with different color ...
ark .. as a hosta grower.. you will NEVER make me an acer lover ... lol
and on my windy plain .. JMap ... just cant take winter ...
but the really deep brained of you tree peeps.. will recall those variegated maples i have ... just not near the hosta ...
|I make it a point not to post over on the dark side (conifer) forum unless absolutely necessary =p Besides, I am actually posting in the appropriate topic since these are deciduous trees and not conifers =p X2
Yes I remember your variegated maples. At least a variegated Norway Maple, and Est (aka Eskimo) Sunset Sycamore Maple. Seems like there may have been another as well. In fact as I recall you really like variegated plants in general.
I just had to take the op to poke a little fun at you is all. :-) In all seriousness though, I suspect your soil has allot to do with why you have trouble with hostas under maples. Here we do not have the sand soil that you do, and as long as the native soil is intact, there is rarely problem with other plants growing underneath maples, at least until they are very large. The exception would be that Silver Maples still get surface roots as they get large. Just a thought.
Again thanks for the pics. Love seeing others trees as well.
|Those oaks are all going to grow much larger than they are now.
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Thu, Dec 22, 11 at 16:47
|yeah ...
by the time i am as old as bboy.. the hosta will all be dead and gone .. the conifers will all be dead and gone ..
and the squirrels will be infesting my nuts ...
what more could a guy want than acreage under full shade from mature oaks ...
not many gardeners can take the long view of their garden.. the oaks were planted for 20 t0 40 years down the line ...
|>and the squirrels will be infesting my nuts<
Sounds highly unpleasant.
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Dec 23, 11 at 8:27
|it the fact that they bury them around the yard... that makes it most problematic ...
thx for having a sense of humor...
and Merry Christmas to you and yours ... and everybody ...
|you tree snob surprise me... hitting the link to the conifer forum.. yet coming back to reply in the tree forum ... what a hoot ..
Damn funny, I was wondering that too before I got to your post.
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Dec 23, 11 at 17:04
|to tell the truth.. the conifer peeps let me down.. only 2 replied ..
my respect for the tree nuts has gone up exponentially ..
- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Fri, Dec 23, 11 at 17:27
|Speaking of nuts, I was all set to jump on Arktrees' for stating that in good soil, hostas would thrive under maples. But I caught myself in mid-jump upon reading the exception for very large, and silver. The very large and silver maple that lived in my yard up until 2 winters ago had the curious effect of causing nice large clumps of transplanted hostas to shrink. After a few years, nothing left!
|"my respect for the tree nuts has gone up exponentially .. "
|To be fair +om, I was also speaking mostly in more general terms. Hostas are grown here, but not nearly in the numbers further north. But I have seen them very happy under mature Red and Sugar Maples. But have not seen them under the very large trees.
|Hostas are grown like weeds under large mature silver, sugar and norway maples. Its the clay soil.
- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sat, Dec 24, 11 at 8:58
|ok.. you guys are messing with me ... right????
do you want me to lower your quality rating based on your opinions of growing hosta???
i have in excess of 1500 different kinds... have been on 2 national tours ... blah.. blah.. blah ... and i am telling you that a vast majority will not prosper.. long term.. under maple ... yeah.. there are a few warhorses.. that can grow on the driveway w/o soil.. the undulatas for sure [that would be the standard green.. green with white.. and white with green] ....
but you are not going to find many peeps in the hosta forum ... 5 years after bragging that they grow like weeds under maples... continuing that brag.. rather than bemoaning the fact ...
dudes .... stick to trees wherein you are the masters ...
|I grow 1000's of hostas underneath champion silver maples with ease and have for decades. But I really know what I am doing. I make the hosta roots fuse with the silver maple roots after about 2 years but I have to use a secret homemade fertilizer applied during an undisclosed phase of the moon during my astrological birth sign to achieve the fusion. And that is just step 1 of 7. It gets a little more complicated after that. The results are well worth all the work and incantations, though! You'll figure it out some day, bro. I have faith in you ;)
|Ken, would NEVER begin to tell you that I know more about Hostas than you, cause it just ain't true. The whole point I was working at was that apparently allot of soils do not produce the surface roots that cause you such trouble. That for many locations, underneath a mature maples is not a death zone for any other plant. Hostas, I make no claim, they are not that popular here. Those that are here are mostly the old standby types that you find in big box stores.
Regardless, your trees look great. Your place looks great. I'm sure the Hostas are pampered, and I for one much appreciate the pictures.
Now you need to pry that secret formula (a.k.a. what ever it is he's been drinking while working with/looking at his plants) so that we can get you to turn in you MHC card. ;-)
- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Sat, Dec 24, 11 at 14:29
|To be sure, in my example, the silver maple was the largest of its species in this city, which is full of silvers. 90 feet tall, nearly that wide, a trunk bigger than a pickup truck's cab. Surface roots? Uh yeah!
Ken's point about initial success leading to later failure is spot on. Mine were okay for a couple years but then entered their death spiral. Also, banish any thought that you can amend the soil where the hostas are to go, thereby securing some advantage for them. The silver maple's roots will colonize it within about two hours!
|I'm serious...there are tons of old foggies growing hostas under maples in my old neighborhood.
In fact there is one that has an amazing hosta collection under either a sugar or norway maple.
I'll post the pic in spring...make sure you're on skype so we can see your head explode when clicking the link to the photo.
I was growing Patriot hosta within 7' of a 12 year old Silver Maple...its was 16 years when I left. They were still looking perfectly normally this past year on 17 during a drive by. So thats at least 5 years!
You do make a point though, I'm sure these are all tried and true, vigorous growing hostas.
- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Sun, Dec 25, 11 at 1:44
|Heh, 12 year old maple. 'Nuff said. That tree's just a babe. I was talking about big, dominant maples like the one I described in my yard. Of course there are hostas in proximity to maples.
Brother in law in a neighboring town, is a collector, which I'm not. He had the big-time display going under his large silver maple for years, won prizes, the whole bit. All those plants are gone now, having shortly after their peak years begun a steady decline. So too is the tree now for that matter!
Soils could have a bearing on some variation in this effect. Where we are, there's deep clay loam over red clay sub. Take a tree like SM that already is shallow rooted, they're practically on stilts here ;^)
|I just gave "my example". Technically 17 now...so just think you could grow hosta under this thing for at LEAST 17 years!
Looks like I can add you to the head explosion (lol) with the mature hosta garden under a mature, probably 30-40 year old, norway or sugar...I can't remember.
Here is the one Silver maple I kept. Hosta where long gone at this point.
That Lilac and Hibiscus look to be doing good as well. The Hibiscus is 8' for perspective.
My whole point is that plants intermingle differently amongst various types of soil.
Shoot, I just highjacked this thread! Nice oaks, Ken!
|I posted a question and it got sent to the conifer forum, I wasn't paying attention to the forum intermingling that was going on when I pushed the submit button, but anyway here goes. Does Q. Coccinea compete well in growth with Q. Rubra, Q. Alba, Q. Robur, Q. Durandi, Q. Phellos, Q. Imbricaria, Chinkapin oak ( can't think of the name )? I don't expect anyone to get technical about each tree, but in a general situation, if you planted it near ( 35 ft at the closest) these trees, to create a small wooded plot will it compete well enough to not be overtaken. I have heard they grow slow, that's why I ask. All of the other trees will be small, just like the Q. Coccinea, when they are planted. This will be a small area so it won't be like a large forest as far as darkness. Hope I mentioned all the info needed for an informed answer, I usually forget something!
|I'm sorry Ken. I did forget something. To start my own thread! Or my own post I should say. If nobody replies I post my own question tommorrow, I am currently being ousted off the computer, other family members want to use it now.
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"This is the cutest card ever!!! Such a beautiful use of Gold and Pink, which matched my daughter's party theme perfectly!!!"
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"I chose this thank you note to coordinate with the Twinkle, Twinkle little star baby shower invitation that we ordered for my daughter's baby shower. Like the invitation, the card is not quite as glittery as I might have wanted even with the pearlized paper, but the website already tells you that so there is no real surprise there, and the paper quality is outstanding! I did find it better to choose white ink for printing the personalization, which is an offered option, so that made it a little brighter. Overall, I just loved the design and am really pleased with the quality of this product as well as the customer service offered by this company."
"I really liked how sturdy the card is on its own. Although on my computer screen the colors are distinctively light blue, when I received this item I felt that the shade was closer to an aquamarine green. No biggie, I liked them just the same. I do wish I could have changed the "thanks" for "thank you," as I think it's slightly more formal. Having the option to change the top and bottom wording was really nice. I can honestly say I recommend this product."
"Given the colors of the text, I chose to use a black and white photo of my son, and the finished product looks great. The design came out just as I hoped it would. The note card is sturdy - I'm sure it will hold up well in the mail. As someone who likes to display the cards she gets, I know a card like this would hold up well on a refrigerator, cork board, etc."