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M-Audio has just rolled out the latest in its line of MIDI controllers, the MidAir series of wireless devices. The series includes two keyboards, the MidAir 25 ($249.95) and the MidAir 37 ($299.95), as well as a wireless MIDI interface, the MidAir ($149.95). Wireless MIDI is not a new concept, but the MidAir keyboard models are among the first wireless devices to integrate the keyboard, a control surface, and the wireless transmitter in one package. The MidAir keyboards also have a MIDI Out jack for connecting them directly to other MIDI devices.
Setting up the MidAir keyboard models is quite easy. The receiver and keyboard come from the factory prelinked, so you don't have to establish a connection the first time you turn them on. The drivers are Mac OS X and Windows class compliant, meaning no special drivers are needed. However, Windows users who want to use the MidAir with multiple programs simultaneously, or with other USB I/O units, do need to install a special driver.
The MidAir 25 sports pitch-bend and mod wheels, eight rotary encoders, and a data slider for controlling other MIDI devices.
The 25-key MidAir 25, which is the model I tested, has 8 rotary encoders, a linear data slider, and modulation and pitch-bend wheels. Its 37-key big brother has an additional 9 faders. Thirty-seven keys is as big as it gets; anything larger would be unwieldy and sabotage portability.
The 2.4 GHz MidAir receiver connects to one of your computer's USB ports. It has MIDI In and Out jacks, allowing it to also function as a standalone MIDI interface. In Standalone mode (when the receiver is not connected to the computer), you use a 3-way switch to choose whether the wired or wireless input is active. The wired and wireless MIDI inputs are not merged, but with the switch in the Auto position, the receiver will switch automatically between them as input is received.
The M-Audio literature touts wireless operation from a distance of as much as 30 feet, but I sometimes got less. Light plaster and drywall barriers don't pose a problem, but corners, heavy walls, and wooden doors are deal breakers. As a general rule, wireless will work if you're in a position to hear your monitors clearly.
Noodling while wandering the halls of the studio was fun, but the MidAir really shone during a music therapy session at a local pediatric rehabilitation center. It replaced a wired equivalent, the M-Audio Ozone, and was significantly easier to use with mobility-impaired patients. In a more conventional context, passing the keyboard around the room is a great way for musicians to share ideas.
Unlike their predecessors, the Ozone and the Oxygen, the MidAir keyboards have separate pairs of buttons for octave transposition and program change. My software instruments don't support MIDI Program Change messages very well, but I really appreciated the separate buttons when I plugged the MidAir into my hardware sound modules.
I had fairly good luck using the rotary encoders with my hardware units, but with soft synths other than those supported by the ten factory presets, there were usually several useless knobs. However, the reprogramming process is pretty straightforward and short enough to memorize quickly. With the necessary MIDI implementation charts in hand, I was easily able to bind the knobs to my most-used parameters.
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Though the limited key range makes these keyboards smaller and more portable, it also makes them hard to recommend as primary instruments. On the other hand, the wireless technology is rock solid. If you're looking for an unusual amount of flexibility or already have a main axe that you'd like to supplement, the M-Audio MidAir models will have you composing from across the room in no time.
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It's been about a month now since I purged all of my activity on Facebook. I deleted old posts, old photos that I didn't think I really needed out there and all of my "Thumbs Up" actions. Why? Well, for me it was just about wanting to maintain some privacy in my life and I also felt that being on Facebook and Twitter took a lot of time away from me actually living my life. I found that I was always looking at people's photos, reading their posts and basically ignoring my own life to read about and look at other people's lives. So, I decided to deleted all of my social media posts on Facebook and Twitter. You know what? I don't regret deleting everything and not being on these social media sites all the time. I look at my Facebook and Twitter feeds every now and then but what used to be an action that was done several times through out the day has become only once a day and only for a few minutes and I don't miss posting at all.
Sunday, February 23, 2014
Dual Ear Infections
I haven't had an ear infection in over two years. I used to get them yearly when I lived in Silver Spring and Columbia, Maryland. When I moved North of these places and stopped working in DC I found my ear infections seemed to clear up. So what happened?
I woke up last Monday feeling dizzy and brushed it off thinking it was just due to congestion. As the week progressed my dizziness got worse and it became a problem. Vertigo isn't a pleasant feeling. I felt liked I had to vomit all the time and standing up or walking was difficult. After putting it off the whole week I finally went to the doctor's office.
I have to ear infections which were causing my vertigo. I am on medicine and I think it's clearing up these infections. What is weird is that I didn't have any pain this time. Normally I have pain in my inner ear that signals me to think that I have an infection. This time I got two of them, one in each ear and I didn't feel a thing.
I've done nothing but sleep since Friday night. I've gotten up occasionally to eat, use the bathroom, surf the web or watch a movie on Netflix.
It's nice to have an excuse to be lazy but at the sane time it's better not to be sick.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Cold Weather
I don't know about you but I don't think I have ever seen temperatures as low as we've seen over this past week. The other day it was -4 degrees F when I woke up. I couldn't believe it was that cold and what was more shocking was seeing just how cold it was around the nation. I do not know how people whom are not accustomed to this weather dealt with the extreme coldness.
Today wasn't too bad, as a matter of fact, it actually felt warmer today due to the fact that it actually hit the mid 20's and it has been the highest so far this week.
At home and at night, I tend to use my electric blanket. When I am out and about, you can count on my wearing my hat, heavy jacket, scarf and gloves. I don't mess with the cold. As a matter of fact, I hate it. I keep telling myself that I am probably going to end up in FL or some place warm like that since I can't stand the cold. I would however miss the change of the seasons.
Today wasn't too bad, as a matter of fact, it actually felt warmer today due to the fact that it actually hit the mid 20's and it has been the highest so far this week.
At home and at night, I tend to use my electric blanket. When I am out and about, you can count on my wearing my hat, heavy jacket, scarf and gloves. I don't mess with the cold. As a matter of fact, I hate it. I keep telling myself that I am probably going to end up in FL or some place warm like that since I can't stand the cold. I would however miss the change of the seasons.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Happy New Year! Welcome to 2014!
For me 2013 had its challenges. Despite some minor setbacks and difficult times I can honestly say that last year overall was a good one.
Some highlights for 2013:
01. Family vacation to ME where I tried my first lobster roll. I was able to visit a famous light house in ME. (http://nubblelight.org/) I took a trolley ride through Kennebunkport (http://kennebunkport.org/) and even hit a flea market while I was in town.
02. I celebrated a milestone birthday this year. It is amazing how fast time seems to go by.
03. I started exercising around August since I realized that I was at a weight that wasn't good for my health. As a result of my exercising I lost over 20 pounds in five months. I also managed to get my cholesterol under control and I helped improve my overall health by doing a daily walk during my lunch hour at work.
04. I successfully transitioned from one job duty to another within the company I work for. At one time I was only doing product revenue analysis, then I was doing product and services and now I am assigned to service revenue analysis only. It was a welcomed change.
05. I cooked my first lobsters for my annual New Year's Eve surf and turf dinner with my wife.
Of course there were some setbacks and disappointments but I won't list them here since I want to try and start this year off on a positive note.
The year has just begun and I hope it brings you happiness, success and joy.
Thanks for reading my blog.
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Milestone Birthday Year
A few weeks ago I had a milestone birthday. I cannot believe how old I am now. It's amazing how time has gone by and the subtle differences in how I've changed have become more prominent. What I mean by this, is that over the years I've noticed that I've gained some weight, my facial features have changed, my hearing isn't as good as it used to be, and my eyesight seems to be getting a little worse. But it is not all bad as I get older in that I feel like I've gained more experience in dealing with life issues, dealing with stress, and dealing with difficult people.
I am thankful that another year has passed and I've been able to experience the wonderful joys that life has to offer. Although I do not like the fact that I'm getting old, I do like the fact that I'm able to live my life and that I've gotten to this point in time.
For those of you who view a birthday as a bad thing and because you're worried about your age and that you're getting older, just remember not everybody was as fortunate as you and aren't able to celebrate another birthday. Just a thought.
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Times That Bind
This weekend I've been away with my family in Maine. My parents rented a house for everyone to stay in for the week. It's been fun hanging out with everyone. Good food, laughter and drinks. These are the times we need to remember, after all, there's nothing like family.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Getting In To The Routine
I've been walking/jogging/running after work ever since last Thursday and I have to admit that even though I hate it I do like the feeling of accomplishment after I've done my 3 miles. I've done this five days now and everyday it gets easier and everyday I feel like I can see the results. I can actually walk up two flights of steps in the office without being out of breath. It's a great feeling. I can also fit into pants that were at one time really tight. Things are going pretty good so far.
I downloaded this app called Footsteps for my iPhone. It's a pedometer app. It's amazing how many steps we take in a day just on average without even running or jogging. I have successfully passed the 10,000 steps that people try and set their daily goal for. Today I did it again. I am hoping in a few months I will feel significantly better and look a lot skinner too. It's been too long since I've been skinny and its about time I get into shape.
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Friday night, though, the SaberCats' defense came through in a big way, after Southmoore received an overtime reprieve.
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Westmoore was an extra-point away from winning the game in the first overtime after Southmoore missed its point-after-touchdown to start the period.
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This past month was one of the most challenging months I've had in a while! I had everything thrown at me from migraines, to out of town family coming for a week, to my dog had an issue with animal care and control, to work being really stressful.
But even with that being said I did make 1,000 minutes which is my "always" monthly minute goal. The very least I want to do is 1,000 and I accomplished that AND since I stopped birth control in July I have lost 12 pounds! So if you are female and you are on birth control but your doctor says "oh the birth control doesn't make you lose weight, you are just eating to many carbs" don't!!! I repeat DON'T take that as an answer! I was so relieved when I started losing weight. I literally dropped 7 pounds in the first week and I have dropped 5 more since then. I know birth control is a necessary evil but definitely weigh all the pros and cons of each kind.
Goals for October:
- Keep working on my Insanity/Combat/Asylum v1 and v2 hybrid. I know I won't do the whole thing in 6 weeks because there are alot of workouts but I gave myself 2 extra weeks to start!
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-Centergy at least 1x/week. I need to work on stretching and flexibility
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-I would like to lose another 3 pounds for a total of 15
I think this is definitely a continual learning process. You are always learning what works and doesn't work for you and new ways to do things or new ways to eat and get good nutrition. I have learned that sleep is a HUGE thing in my life since I get migraines. I notice a big difference when I get sleep vs when I don't and by Friday I'm just drained. I don't want to take medicine so I try to treat migraines with sleep, yoga and a massage 1x/month. I also now have a peppermint stick roller to help with tension in my head. I learned about that at my last massage.
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That is awesome you've dropped weight since getting off birth control. It is an evil I go back and forth with. I too get migraines and am a mess without sleep but I never contributed migraines to BC but it might be the case.
Great goals, I'm sure you'll reach every one of them!
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I had to stop taking birth control too. It actually messed up all my hormones - including my thyroid. For some people it just doesn't work and for some people it does. You just have to figure out what works. I had migraines, stomach pains on top of weight gain. Doctor said it's not the pill that caused the weight gain, it's what the pill did to my hormones that caused the weight gain.
I am glad to hear you are doing better off the pill! And I love your October Goals
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Good luck! Too bad..my hybrid is different. I am using Insanity too but with Chalean Extreme.
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With less than 8% of production entering global trade, rice doesn't necessarily leap out as a major portfolio play. Yet, more than 550 million tons of rice is produced annually around the globe and the grain is still a major food source for much of the world. When rice prices hit their peak in 2008, the World Bank estimates that the price surges plunged 100 million people into poverty. And just like the rest of the Ag-complex, from an investment point of view, the long term fundamentals for rice are just as rosy. Worldwide rice production needs to rise about 1.5% annually to keep up with demand, even as available land for farming shrinks due to urbanization.
In the near to medium term, demand is most likely to outstrip supplies. Around the globe, various rice exporting countries are predicting lower crop yields for much of 2011. Political tensions aside, Egypt's rice harvest is down 30% from 2010 and supplies from Indonesia are also facing similar problems. The Indian government has extended a ban on all non-Basmati rice exports in order to fight domestic inflation rates. As soybeans, cotton and other crops have seen their prices rise, analysts are estimating that growers in the United States will slash acreage devoted to long-grain rice as much as a 30% as farmers switch to other money making produce. Finally, Thailand, the world's largest exporter of rice, is seeing its output drop by as much as 5.3% as the worst floods in five decades have devastated crops.
According to The World Agricultural Outlook Board, rough rice prices are estimated to average between $13.90 to $14.40 per bushel, or about 11.5% higher than current levels.
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Just as the Chilean economy can be used as a copper play, both the economies of Thailand and Vietnam are highly levered to rice production and exports. Thai prices serve as the Asian benchmark for rice and Vietnam is opening its rice market to foreign investors as part of its commitment to the WTO. Both the iShares MSCI Thailand Index (NYSE:THD) and Market Vectors Vietnam ETF (NYSE:VNM) offer ways to play these nations.
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Both have their pros and cons I imagine, but I read topics of both specs in pvp and can't decide which one would be more viable. Leaning towards destro but I'm not sure.
Depends on what your comp is and if you're doing 2's, 3's, or 5's. Assuming no one sits on you destro has the most burst kill potential but demo is probably better against good teams that know to not let that chaos bolt cast finish.
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Destro can tear apart bad players but it's very weak against competent players.
Demo at least is versatile.
Demo also has more burst than Destro, unless you get to cast 2+ CB's uninterrupted, but when does that happen?
Destro is best right now, but that being said Locks are all around kinda weak.
Hey. Thanks for trying to turn this into an e-peen contest though.
How about you say why it doesn't work instead?
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Also, I doubt you'd want to actually waste your Shadowfury on the DPS, since you probably won't be able to finish off your opponent by the time his healer gets out of that fear.
The thread didn't ask about Affliction, get off the bandwagon.
As far as Destro goes, its very very weak against most skilled players. The best I've been able to do with it so far is to force as much pressure as possible without casting a Chaos Bolt, and then pop off 2 in a row when the other team has no Trinket/Bubble/Racial.
Demonology's mobility in Meta is amazing, but outside Meta you're a sitting duck. If your partner is good at peeling, and you can get up to 5 or 6 hundred Fury, you're going to destroy someone.


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Top paddlers from the United States will race on the Oklahoma River Friday and Saturday for the chance to represent their country in world competitions this year.
The Boathouse District is hosting the 2013 USA Canoe/Kayak Flatwater Sprint Team Trials, which attracts the elite paddlers in the country.
At stake are spots on the USA's junior team (age 18 and younger), under 23 team and senior national teams (any age).
Among the participants will be Dylan Puckett of Jones, who is trying to be the first kayaker from Oklahoma to earn a spot on the junior team since the Boathouse District was built on the Oklahoma River.
Puckett, whose goal is to make the 2016 Olympic team, joined the OKC RIVERSPORT's Youth Sprint Kayak team in 2007.
Puckett, 17, won the national championship in the men's single 1,000 meters for ages 16 and younger the past two years.
He has shaved 20 seconds off his best time from last year and has high hopes this weekend of qualifying for the junior world team.
That team will represent the United States at the Junior World Championships in Canada on Aug. 1-4
Puckett also will be racing for a spot on the junior world team in the men's double 1,000 meters with partner Istvan Urvan of Hungary, who lives in San Diego, Calif.
"If I don't do well, I will be disappointed," Puckett said.
Also racing on the Oklahoma River Friday and Saturday will be Bria Cornforth of Oklahoma City, another rising star in kayaking from the Boathouse District.
Cornforth is only 13 but will race in the women's single 500 and 200 meters events. She started kayaking with OKC RIVERSPORT at age 8 and now trains with the senior national team.
She will be the youngest participant in the Canoe/Kayak Flatwater Sprint Team Trials.
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For now, she will be satisfied with just getting faster on the water.
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Brief Summary
North American Ecology (US and Canada)
occurs (regularly, as a native taxon) in multiple nations
National Distribution
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
United States
Origin: Native
Regularity: Regularly occurring
Currently: Present
Confidence: Confident
Type of Residency: Year-round
Global Range: (>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)) S. Canada, south to Gulf of Mexico, Texas, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
Physical Description
Type Information
Catalog Number: USNM
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Entomology
Collector(s): Lorquin
Locality: Californie. Date:Unknown, California, United States
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Comments: A forest, woodland and barrens species. Adults fly into open habitats such as old fields for nectar but these are not breeding habitats.
Non-Migrant: No. All populations of this species make significant seasonal migrations.
Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make local extended movements (generally less than 200 km) at particular times of the year (e.g., to breeding or wintering grounds, to hibernation sites).
Locally Migrant: No. No populations of this species make annual migrations of over 200 km.
Flowering Plants Visited by Satyrium calanus in Illinois
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Anacardiaceae: Rhus glabra [stam sn] (Rb); Apiaceae: Pastinaca sativa sn (Rb); Apocynaceae: Apocynum cannabinum [plab sn] (Rb); Asclepiadaceae: Asclepias purpurascens [plab sn] (Rb), Asclepias syriaca [plab sn] (Rb); Asteraceae: Achillea millefolium sn (Gr), Arnoglossum muhlenbergii sn (Gr), Aster furcatus sn (Gr), Cirsium arvense sn (Gr), Rudbeckia hirta sn (Gr), Solidago canadensis sn (Gr); Rhamnaceae: Ceanothus americanus sn (Rb)
Population Biology
Number of Occurrences
Note: For many non-migratory species, occurrences are roughly equivalent to populations.
Estimated Number of Occurrences: 81 to >300
Global Abundance
10,000 to >1,000,000 individuals
Comments: Population size quite variable, commonly changes by 100-fold from year to year in any given area.
Life History and Behavior
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Molecular Biology
Statistics of barcoding coverage: Satyrium calanus
Public Records: 0
Specimens with Barcodes: 6
Species With Barcodes: 1
Conservation Status
National NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure
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Rounded National Status Rank: N5 - Secure
NatureServe Conservation Status
Rounded Global Status Rank: G5 - Secure
Reasons: Widespread and abundant. Subspecies FALACER a solid T5.
Degree of Threat: D : Unthreatened throughout its range, communities may be threatened in minor portions of the range or degree of variation falls within natural variation
Comments: Florida subspecies CALANUS being reduced in habitat by developme nt of peninsular highlands.
Global Protection: Many to very many (13 to >40) occurrences appropriately protected and managed
Comments: Many EOs in parks and preserves.
Satyrium calanus
Satyrium calanus, the banded hairstreak, is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.
Appearance, behaviour and distribution[edit]
The banded hairstreak is a common hairstreak east of the Rocky Mountains in North America. It is a territorial butterfly that will challenge other butterflies invading its territory.
Life cycle[edit]
Eggs are laid singly on the host plants and hatch in the spring. There is a single brood which flies early June to late August.[1]
Host Plants[edit]
Host plants include oak, hickory and walnut (especially buttenut).[2]
- ^ Nielsen, Mogens C. (1999). "Harvesters, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Blues". Michigan Butterflies & Skippers A Field Guide and Reference. Michigan State University Extension. p. 73. ISBN 1-56525-012-5.
- ^ Hall, Peter W.; Jones, Colin D.; Guidotti, Antonia; Hubley, Brad (2014). The ROM Field Guide to the Butterflies of Ontario. Toronto, Canada: Royal Ontario Museum. p. 172-173. ISBN 978-0-88854-497-1.
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Names and Taxonomy
Comments: Unlikely "subspecies" FALACER is really a single species. For now includes S. FALACER and S. WITTFELDII. Extremely variable; southern populations may be distinct. In much of range there are early flying hickory-walnut feeding populations and later oak feeding populations in close parapatrym in the same counties, if not sympatry, with many individuals of the latter recognizable by adult wing characters.
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Skip to comments.Call a Constitutional Convention, Already! Article V: A gift from the founders.
Posted on 03/14/2014 5:46:08 AM PDT by bestintxas
e've talked endlessly about using a Constitutional convention to wrest the reins of government from entrenched interests and put them back in the hands of the people. Enough talk: It's time to put the theory into action.
To recap, the Constitution may be amended in two ways: by a two-thirds vote of Congress, or by a convention called by two-thirds (34) of the (50) state legislatures. All amendments to date have arisen through the first mechanism, although conservatives and libertarians increasingly are calling for state lawmakers to pursue the second. If 34 states pass convention measures, Congress must convene a convention to discuss amending the constitution. In the words of James Madison, who was instrumental to the drafting of Article V, "If two thirds of the States make application, Congress cannot refuse to call one." Even the centralizer Alexander Hamilton conceded that the wording of Article V leaves "nothing...to the discretion of Congress."
The publication of Mark Levin's The Liberty Amendments seems to have brought this simmering talk to a boil. In his book, Levin suggests several amendments: to establish term limits for members of Congress, to repeal the Seventeenth Amendment, to establish term limits for Supreme Court justices and provide a legislative override of their opinions, to limit federal taxing and spending, to restrict the federal bureaucracy, to promote free enterprise, to protect private property, to grant the states more direct power to amend the Constitution and check Congress, and to ensure that voting is open to citizens only. A non-profit called Citizens for Self-Government, run by Tea Party leader Mark Meckler, is organizing grassroots support for a convention. Lawmakers in Georgia have even come to taking votes on the matter.
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With 38 States acting together, one can dismiss the Congress, fire the President, even do away with the Supreme Court.
Th ultimate power in the land, 38 states.
What could the feds do about it? NADA.
Be careful what you wish for.
we need to do this NOW
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This and other writings can be so frustrating. Yet again, Article V is NOT a "constitutional convention"; it is utilizing a Constitutionally-provided second mechanism to create Constitutional amendments. Ratification takes the same path as the first mechanism (Congressional-proposed amendments).
Noted writers have preached endlessly on how the first con-con was in fact a coup d"etat over our first constitution, and a great mistake!
Find these writings elsewhere.
congress will ignore anything that occurs. they ignore all of their constitutional requirements now.
We need another coup d'etat. (Dependent populations need not apply.)
What for? The constitution we have now isn't followed, what makes you think a new one would be any different?
It's NOT a "constitutional convention".
It's an Article V convention of the states to ratify proposed amendments.
The amendments are pre-proposed and require 38 states' legislatures to approve them.
The "liberal takeover" that detractors are afraid of can't happen.
It only takes 34 to get things started, however, one MUST keep in mind that it will be necessary even at 34 to have some blue states in the mix. How is that going to work? Well, you have an opportunity to watch. Just go to http://themountvernonassembly.org/index.html and read.
"The liberal takeover that detractors are afraid of cant happen".
Never say can't, and see below four seconds after your posting.
Pardon, that would be see above...
the circus and bread, football mentality, prevails...we ain't goin' nowhere !!!
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Paging the Awfulizer/You-Can't-Do-That crowd in 10 ... 9 ... 8 ...
Do you want another Commie 5 year plan to be caved in to by doormat RINOs?
They're already here.
Not if you count guns. It's what the 2nd Amendment was for.
We don't need a Constitutional convention to draft a new constitution. We need people in positions of authority who adhere to the document we have.
Roger that. We need a "new constitution" just like we need a "new immigration law".
Wise advice. The GOP may control a majority of the state houses at the moment, but that can certainly change. Plus remember most Republicans in office are not conservatives. Those unintended consequences can be nasty you know.
Once the Convention is called, there are no limits on how much change can be done. That being said I am all for a Convention of States because no matter how many amendments they propose, the amendments still have to be ratified by the states.
There is precedent in past COS where a delegation went outside the bounds of the call topic. I don't have the exact reference handy of the date and topic, but I'm recollecting the gist of things: The other delegations recognized the breech of protocol of the errant delegation, and voted them down.
In this case, a 2014 COS (2015 COS?), the call topic is 'Reigning-in a run-away federal government'. An errant delegation trying to ram thru a statist-like amendment won't get far, IMHO. And, even if some kook amendment got thru, as you point out it would still have the major hurdle of getting ratification by 38 states.
"...Congress must convene a convention to discuss amending the constitution."
Aaaaaaand, who says they will. What if they will not do it?
Endless debt and infinite money enables endless and infinite government. For a variety of reasons we must remove from government the power to create money out of thin air by which it:
1) puts us all in debt serfdom to pay the interest;
2) diminishes the purchasing power of the money we have saved;
3) buys votes with constituency groups that become dependent upon "benefits" that become a form of "in-kind income" that competes against paying jobs at the lower skill levels;
4)is able to finance going to war even when citizens would not vote to pay additional taxes to support it;
5) expands bureaucracies, the things they regulate and the number of armed people they employ to find and arrest people who violate regulations they didn't even know existed, or even violating foreign laws. Recall that Gibson Guitar was raided for importing wood that lacked the proper label. Excess bureaucracy sent Abbie Schoenwetter to federal prison for shipping lobster in plastic instead of cardboard. Excess bureaucracy defines the drainage ditch in your back yard as a federally protected "navigable waterway" that you are forbidden to "disturb".
A government that can create its own money does not have to ask taxpayers for permission to spend more to feed its self-serving spending. When states start calling for a Convention to consider amendments to the Constitution, the first topic must be to restrain federal spending. A government that must live within its means is a government that must focus on the important things rather than imposing evermore intrusive laws and regulations having the weight of law.
Every day more people are coming to the judgment that a carefully organized effort to repair the constitution via the States' power to propose and ratify amendments has less risk to our liberty and prosperity than the present trajectory of the federal government and especially the federal bureaucracy.
What could go wrong?
Find these writings elsewhere.
Very true. The Philadelphia Convention acted illegally by moving beyond its mandate to revise the genteel Articles of Confederation:
The takeaway from the Constitution over the Articles of Confederation is that the AofC had a mechanism for amendment that the Constitution completely ignored. The Constitution declared its own and separate validation method.
Supporters of the Art V Con-Con (calling it a COS is the misnomer) rely on the fact that the Constitution would require a proofing mechanism that wouldn't necessarily be followed. After all, there is precedent to NOT follow it in the event of a total rewrite (and a total rewrite is what you'd get).
You won't get the liberty amendments with a Con-Con; you'll only get the liberal ones. More to the point, when the Constitution is bastardized by this process (and it will be), what you'll get, almost immediately, is a civil war.
If you have any doubt, consider this: liberals have tried for decades to erase the import of the 2nd amendment so that they can remove an individual right to bear arms. For liberals, the single biggest opportunity to do what they have not been able to do in the Courts would be a re-write or outright elimination of the 2nd amendment. If you don't think they wouldn't resort to outright illegal tactics to make sure that is one result of the Con-Con, then I refer you to Obamacare for what the left is willing to do to the process in order to get what they want.
So. what will YOU do when the new and improved Constitution removes your right to bear arms?
"We dont need a Constitutional convention to draft a new constitution. We need people in positions of authority who adhere to the document we have."
And since that ain't happening lo these many years, your fix is exactly ........ what?
"So. what will YOU do when the new and improved Constitution removes your right to bear arms?"
Instruct my State delegation to vote no if inserted.
Next Question.
BTW, your moniker needs changing, as we were unsuccessful and it is another 6 years for the next primary. (That it, unless you are advocating that we elect a Dem as Texas Senator in the fall?)
Your state delegation, if chosen today, would be picked by Joe Straus. Do you really think they'd listen to you?
Zactly. So the Libs could pass an amendment that says government provided healthcare is a right, but when 17 (or more) states vote "no", it is over.
We dont need a Constitutional convention to draft a new constitution. We need people in positions of authority who adhere to the document we have.
We need several more clear and concise amendments that term limit polticians and federal judges and to double down on the chains we placed upon politicians to prevent them from screwing with our lives any more than they already have.
The "Liberty amendments" are a re-affirmation of the Original bill of rights, unlike the "progressive amendments" that tell the people what they can and cannot do... The "Liberty Amendments" tell the polticians not to tread on us...
Article V ping.
Roger that. Article V ping!
There are no Washingtons or Madisons or Franklins or Rutledges or Randolphs or Masons or Gerrys around today to send to a constitutional convention. I'm not sure I would like a document created by the Pelosis and Reeds and McConnells and McCains of the world.
If you feel that amendments will be ignored, then no harm can come of them.
Why do you assume Pelosis and Reeds and McConnells and McCains will attend a convention of the states?
I've seen what the circus in Jeff City do. You may be perfectly content to put yourself in the hands of politicians at any level but I have my worries.
The amendatory process under Article V consists of three steps: Proposal, Disposal, and Ratification.
There are two ways to propose an amendment to the Constitution.
Article V gives Congress and an Amendments Convention exactly the same power to propose amendments, no more and no less.
Once Congress, or an Amendments Convention, proposes amendments, Congress must decide whether the states will ratify by the:
The State Ratifying Convention Method has only been used twice: once to ratify the Constitution, and once to ratify the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition.
Depending upon which ratification method is chosen by Congress, either the state legislatures vote up-or-down on the proposed amendment, or the voters elect a state ratifying convention to vote up-or-down. If three-quarters of the states vote to ratify, the amendment becomes part of the Constitution.
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Article V contains two explicitly forbidden subjects and one implicitly forbidden subject.
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I have two reference works for those interested.
The first is from the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative pro-business group. This document has been sent to every state legislator in the country.
Proposing Constitutional Amendments by a Convention of the States: A Handbook for State Lawmakers
The second is a 1973 report from the American Bar Association attempting to identify gray areas in the amendatory process to include an Amendments Convention. It represents the view of the ruling class of 40 years ago. While I dislike some of their conclusions, they have laid out the precedents that may justify those conclusions. What I respect is the comprehensive job they did in locating all the gray areas. They went so far as to identify a gray area that didn't pop up until the Equal Rights Amendment crashed and burned a decade later. Even if you find yourself in disagreement with their vision, it's worth reading to see the view of the ruling class toward the process.
Report of the ABA Special Constitutional Convention Study Committee
Well, the Framers disagreed with you. The early state constitutions leaned heavily toward democracy. Governors were kept weak and often appointed by the legislatures. Property was far from secure.
It didn't work out. Too much popular will lead to the problems that brought about the federal convention.
The Framer's design fragmented power between the states and the new government they created. The 17th Amendment did away with vertical division of power and overnight we went from a federal republic to a democratic republic.
We can blame 99% of our current troubles on the 17th Amendment, and no semiannual series of elections will cure what ails our dying republic. The states have the constitutional authority to reclaim the power they gave away 101 years ago. It must be done.
We are generally disappointed with state legislators because we ask little of them.
I am not content to put myself in the hands of one prez, nine blackrobes, and 535 congressmen from a distant, mentally detached, and oblivious, Rome like city-state.
I urge you to find out why, on your own...
"Opponents of an Article V convention appear to be more worried about the potential for a runaway convention than they are about the runaway federal government that has already distorted or rendered meaningless several constitutional provisions: the Commerce Clause, the Fourteenth Amendment, the Establishment Clause, the Tenth Amendment, and so forth."
"We can encourage our state legislatures to call for an Article V convention run by the several states that may not succeed, or we can try what we know for certain does not work: voting in the same old establishment politicians to Congress and the presidency. To me, the choice seems easy."
Research links on the Article V process and the Liberty Amendments:
Convention of States - Alabama Way to go Alabama! A good introduction.
'Convention of states' to rein in government? Another great summary explanation.
The Case for an Article V. Convention. Fantastic explanation of Article V convention to the Mass State Legislature.
I would recommend watching the above three videos first and then:
Convention of States Lots of information here.
A Summary of Mark Levins Proposed Amendments by Jacquerie
Chapter 1 of Mark Levins Book, The Liberty Amendments
Mark Levin, Constitution Article V, and the Liberty Amendments
Article V Project to Restore Liberty
Rep. Bill Taylor introduces a Convention of States
Citizens for Self Governance: Convention of States Project a hub of 15 youtube videos on the Convention of States
Mark Levin Article V, Liberty Amendments youtube video hub
Three hour video of C-Span interview with Mark Levin
Gaining Steam? Nearly 100 Lawmakers Descend on Mount Vernon to Talk Convention of States The beginning.
Convention to Propose Amendments to the United States Constitution
The Other Way to Amend the Constitution: The Article V Constitutional Convention Amendment Process
Friends of Article V Convention Links
Ulysses at the Mast: Democracy, Federalism, and the Sirens' Song of the Seventeenth Amendmentby Jay Bybee. Repeal the 17th!
Article V Convention: Path of Least Resistance By Robert Berry
The Final Constitutional Option
Article V Handbook - for State Legislators
State Legislators Article V Caucus State Legislators, Join up at this site!
Send this list of links to your State Representatives and Senators here: Contact your State Legislators.
Sample Letter to state Representatives regarding the Convention of States Project and also, Talking Points. Both from Here.
Excellent Article V Letter to a State Assemblyman by Jacquerie
Lets all work together to get this going.
The Federal Government is broken. We owe it to The Founders and ourselves to attempt a rational Article V amendment process. If it doesn't work, or is hijacked, then fine, it's on to what we're all expecting anyway, revolution. It's your call America.
thank you, my checking has long since been done...
If you have a plan that will accomplish that (since that's exactly what we've been trying to do for a century), I would be very interested in seeing it!
Article V requires that they do. I they do not, they are in breech of the Constitution and it moves to the courts.
If you have an alternate plan, I'd be interested!
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Infrared Imaging of Precolumbian Murals at Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico. (News & Notes)
Ware, G., Houston, S., Miller, M., Taube, K., De La Fuente, B., Antiquity
The Classic Maya ruins of Bonampak, Chiapas, Mexico, contain what may be the most thematically complex paintings in Precolumbian America. In 1995-96, we recorded these murals by employing equipment that, to our knowledge, had never before been used in remote settings. The results suggest that polychrome paintings, including those in isolated places, benefit from documentation beyond the range of human vision.
Bonampak Structure I has three rooms, each covered from floor to capstone with murals. Room I displays feather dances and tribute offerings. Infrared images reveal cacao beans and Spondylus shells; glyphs itemize five units of 8,000 chocolate beans (Miller 1997). Two `holy lords' appear in bloody conflict and the torture of vanquished warriors in Room 2. Room 3 exhibits sun dances, penile bloodletting and human sacrifice.
Who painted the murals? Room 1 presents hieroglyphic evidence that the overlord of Bonampak was a ruler of nearby Yaxchilan; at least one Yaxchilan artisan sculpted the stone lintels. The small site of Bonampak probably could not have supported the painterly skill evinced by the calligraphic fluidity and varying style of the murals. Multiple master painters from Yaxchilan were presumably at work. The related La Pasadita, Guatemala, murals may also have been executed by painters from ateliers at Yaxchilan (Kamal et al. 1999).
The Bonampak murals were likely painted after the dedication of Structure 1 on 11 November AD 791 (Julian), just prior to the so-called Maya collapse. Because of their supposedly unfinished character, one of us previously proposed that the paintings recorded an `artistic and inscriptional record' of the Classic Maya `demise' (Miller 1986: 151). However, excepting a few hieroglyphic captions, the paintings show an almost microscopic scale and exceptional degree of completion.
It is evident that the Bonampak murals were to be observed from multiple viewing points, some only centimetres from the wall. The paintings are not rough, unfinished works of art: only a few hieroglyphic captions are missing. This points to one of two explanations: (1) a deliberate omission of names, or (2) the name glyph pigments were more fragile than others. No pigments were observed in the infrared within the captions, and the omissions remain as mysterious as ever.
Many Maya pigments become transparent at near-infrared wavelengths, thus allowing penetration to carbon-based under-drawing. Some pigments are transparent at the wavelengths of infrared film; others require the longer wavelengths provided by the infrared vidicon. …


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I have an 82 Pro Miyata with a high geared 'racing' setup. I'd like to achieve lower gearing in the least expensive way, but also with the least disturbance to the original equipment drive train. My old legs just cant take the current setup.
I currently have a Sugino Aero Mighty crank (52/42), Suntour Superbe FD & RD, and a 13-18 freewheel 6-speed (probably Suntour Winner). At first I considered switching out the freewheel for a bigger cog cluster. I figure I need a 28T cog to to be comfortable. It appears likely that I would have to also switch out the RD (see the thread on max cog for Superbe RD). One problem with this is that I'm not sure I would like the spacing/gear ration on a cluster that's like 14-28.
Now its occurred to me that I could also achieve lower gearing by changing the chainrings on the crank. Info on Velobase says that 42T is the smallest ring an Aero Mighty will accept. My thought is to switch it out with a touring crank, with something like 48/36 rings. I might still want to change the freewheel, but I could go with something with a closer range, like 14-23 If I do this I'd want to keep with a similar quality product.
So my questions are:
- Does my idea of changing the crank hold water in general?
- If I find a touring triple crank with the right size rings (and the right cheap price) can I simply remove the smallest chainring? Will it work with my current FD and fit my BB?
- What crank makes might be compatible? Suntour, Shimano, Sakae, etc.?


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Sgt. 1st Class Fred Wallace, Troop B first sergeant, 2nd Squadron, 6th Cavalry Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, assists Warrant Officer Richard Matthews prepare his luggage tag before moving the bags to a container during a Contingency Response Force validation exercise on Wheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii, Oct. 21.
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Might sound like a dumb question, but I have a dumb answer (day to day): no bike helmet. And I'm far from alone: "How do I get myself to wear a helmet?" is a question 75% of bicycle commuters are, or ought to be, asking.
A few months ago, I was hit by a car. I wore a helmet for a few weeks, after, then started forgetting (as I rolled down the Hill upon which I live, inevitably about a minute into the ride I'd intone a silent dammit!)…then just gave up. It messes up your hair. It spoils that feeling of the wind and open sky, the convertible-top-down feeling that is bike riding. It's hot, stuffy, it makes little noises around your ears, the very ears upon which I'm dependent to hear cars sneaking up behind me. It's ugly, turning me from Waylon into a Legoman.
Oh, and it can and will save my life—if I wear it. So how do you all get yourself to wear a helmet? Or do you not bother? Should it be made a federal law, as it is in parts of the country, and in Canada where I visit me mum?


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Jeff Magnum returns after years away from the spotlight
The stuff of rock 'n' roll legend is packed with disasters, but sometimes a disappearance can feel just as tragic.
If Kevin Shields actually delivers on that My Bloody Valentine album in 2013, it will be a full 22 years after the release of their 1991 shoegazer masterpiece, "Loveless." Before David Bowie announced this month — on his 66th birthday, no less — that he would release a new album in March titled "The Next Day," it was widely assumed that the Thin White Duke would not be returning. It took Brian Wilson 35 years to complete "SMILE." And some people, like Syd Barrett and Skip Spence, never returned, their genius diverted by misadventure or madness.
But in the pantheon of indie rock, few absences resonated quite like that of Jeff Mangum. Shortly after the release of his band Neutral Milk Hotel's second album, a 1998 work of timeless ramshackle beauty called "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea," Mangum broke up the band and walked away. Some said it was because the acclaim and attention was just too much, or because the challenge of living up to Neutral Milk Hotel's legacy was far too great. Regardless, Mangum made no public appearances for a decade after "Aeroplane."
He was not a recluse — friends and fans reported seeing him frequently in and around Athens, Ga. — but Mangum seemed to want nothing to do with the fame that comes with rock 'n' roll mastery. He made some field recordings of Bulgarian folk music and contributed some music to The Apples in Stereo's 2006 album "New Magnetic Wonder," but he did not record any new material of his own.
When asked by Pitchfork in 2002 if there was new music coming from Neutral Milk Hotel, he said that the windows for such opportunities "don't stay open for very long." He went on to express a degree of disillusionment with how his mind began working after "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea."
"I went through a period, after 'Aeroplane,' when a lot of the basic assumptions I held about reality started crumbling," Mangum told Pitchfork's Marci Fierman. "I think that before then, I had an intuitive innocence that guided me and that was a very good thing to a certain point. But then I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in terms of how I related to life. At some point, my rational mind started creeping in, and it would not shut up."
When his rational mind piped up, the music stopped. The sadness of this stems from the fact that "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" was the culmination point in one of the great stylistic movements in indie rock history, the Elephant 6 collective. An exploration of the Elephant 6 Recording Company's actions and influence works as an alternate history of 1990s indie rock. Bands such as Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, The Apples in Stereo, Of Montreal, Elf Power and Beulah emphasized melody and psychedelic adventurism at a time when alternative rock was going for volume.
Much of "Aeroplane," which Mangum once said was inspired by Anne Frank's "Diary of a Young Girl," is given a musically timeless execution — some of the instrumentation has almost no traditional rock 'n' roll components ("Fool" is a good example), but then modernity can sweep in just as quickly on tracks such as "Holland 1945." The influence of "Aeroplane" is most keenly felt in the sea shanties and pre-rock orchestration of early Decemberists albums. It's hard to imagine albums such as "Her Majesty" or "Castaways and Cutouts" without "Aeroplane" providing the maps and charts those musical journeys.
The critical estimation of "Aeroplane" only increased during Mangum's absence, but over a decade after its release, Mangum started working his way back into performing. In 2009, he took part in a benefit concert for New Zealand-born indie musician Chris Knox, then a 10-song set for an invited audience in Brooklyn, N.Y. the following year. Two full sets in Toronto came in August 2011, then an appearance for Occupy Wall Street protesters two months later. By the time he announced a set at Coachella in 2012, it was clear that Mangum sightings were not the stuff of myths anymore.
Now, as part of a January-February 2013 solo acoustic tour, Mangum will appear Jan. 19 at ACM@UCO Performance Lab. According to his website, walkingwallofwords.com, Mangum is playing sets in places like Oklahoma City with an eye toward making them unique experiences — he does not plan to play these towns again "in the foreseeable future."
At a time when people are so used to having everything at their disposal, any time they want, a Jeff Mangum concert in Oklahoma City, one that will only happen once, is worth every effort to see. Welcome him back, and wish him safe travels going forward.


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Religious Solicitors Free to Knock ; the Justices Protect the Right of Jehovah's Witnesses and Others to Solicit Door to Door with No Town Permit
Warren Richey writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
Door-to-door solicitors advocating religious or political views have a right to spread their ideas anonymously without having to consult beforehand with government officials.
In a significant First Amendment decision announced Monday, the US Supreme Court struck down an ordinance enacted by a small Ohio town that required the prior registration of traveling salesmen, religious proselytizers, political activists, and anyone else seeking to go door to door.
The 8-to-1 decision supporting a challenge to the ordinance by the Jehovah's Witnesses is important because it establishes that the Constitution's free-speech guarantees include the right to speak to one's neighbors or solicit in a community without first obtaining government permission.
"It is offensive - not only to the values protected by the First Amendment, but to the very notion of a free society - that in the context of everyday public discourse a citizen must first inform the government of her desire to speak to her neighbors and then obtain a permit to do so," writes Justice John Paul Stevens for the majority.
The decision comes at a time when cities and towns across the nation are considering adopting similar ordinances as a means to protect residents from possible fraud by traveling criminals and the nuisance of uninvited doorstep solicitors.
Free-speech advocates say such measures are eroding the quality of expression in America in exchange for the convenience, safety, and privacy promised through local laws restricting door-to-door activities.
"It is a big day for the First Amendment," says Mikal Condon of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. The court's "protection of the right to remain anonymous is very important, especially post Sept. 11, when the right to remain anonymous has been perceived by many people as pernicious or underhanded."
The local solicitation registration law, enacted in 1998 by the village of Stratton, was aimed at protecting elderly residents from out-of-town scam artists and preserving the privacy of homeowners. Under the law, would-be solicitors were automatically granted permits if they first provided their names, addresses, a description of their cause, and other identifying information to city hall. No one who applied for a permit was turned down.
But the justices said the very act of requiring disclosure of one's name prior to engaging in the constitutionally protected activity of talking to people in their own community violates core constitutional principles guaranteeing free speech.
The issue is not new. The US Supreme Court in the 1930s and '40s struck down a series of ordinances aimed at preventing religious groups from spreading their messages door to door. …