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I have been thinking off and on for days about my sensory and feeling connections to "things/talents/emotions/people" (copied from Lisa). I have been trying to figure out how to sever ties that bind into the deep connections in my brain. I have found no answers. After reading a couple posts yesterday from Lisa and Bruce, it brought even more thoughts to my mind. Lisa shares about the negative emotional connections that she has with one of her talents, though it is not limited to just one that she feels this with and Bruce shared about how possibly "passing" for "being normal" can cause burnout for an Aspie. In a way I see these as linked. I know firsthand that my emotional connections can be overwhelmingly good or negative and my constant trying to "pass" as everyone else has caused me to be exhausted and unable to function at times.
I will start with the emotional connections.
For me music is a big deal. It lives in me and if I have a memory, person, event, smell, whatever connected to it I will relive all of it, good or bad. I have been trying for weeks now to gain music back for me. I no longer want it stolen into the painful heart pings that I have been feeling. Even the good ones are starting to hurt and I do not know how to get it to stop. I will add here though that with it turning to fall, this could be a major reason because I always get kind of down as it turns to fall. I am at peace, but I feel down and a bit melancholy. It is a strange affair. Comfort and sadness. Anyway I have been trying to make the songs my own. My feelings not what I have associated with the songs. For some reason though, if something bad happens it takes over all the good and I cannot remember the good anymore.
I then have to cut off music for a while.
I do the same thing with movies and many other things that I enjoy. An example of this was a movie that David had asked me to watch over the years, I refused. I would not even look at it. I couldn't because it was linked to a very painful time in my life. I did end up watching it not too long ago and it was a great movie, but then something happened where I made a negative connection and now it hurts to even think about it. I have done this with writing and dancing as well in the past. I completely stopped stories and poems for a while because it hurt too much. I only wrote prayers or my thoughts, but I admit I could not stop the poems or stories sometimes. I hid them away for no one to see because I was afraid to share them with others. I had negative associations with people's reactions and I could not. For me to write a blog, share my poems and stories is a very big deal.
At times I get so scared, but I feel that I must do it.
I have taken back those talents and I have taken back dancing more so over the years. I still have some negative associations with it at times, it is linked to music so that could be the issue. However, I have been having dances and memory of past dances fill my mind and I can dance them with joy. I am trying to get rid of some of these darker emotions that I normally leave trapped inside of me. I have been writing them out trying to get them away from me. I do have some darker stories, but I always see hope in them. My hope is to gain my hope back into the things that I love. I want to be able to see the connections, events, and situations that have caused me such pain to ruin a beautiful song, a movie, or other things that I enjoy, so I can possibly understand and let it go.
I want them to be free from those emotional connections.
I do not know if I can. I am a very intense person. I have full body, emotional, spiritual, and sensory experiences. When I love something or someone I give it all, I think that it is so intense because I am very limited in my ability to connect to emotional love. When I do I can hardly contain it, it is very difficult. The same goes for when I am hurt or angry. It does take a lot to make me angry, but I do get angry and when I do it is not pretty. When it comes to hurt though that seems to be a regular that I know. I do not know how to handle it other than try to escape from it. Escaping is trying to shut down my emotions in some way. I finally realized some of the ways that I have done this.
One way has been reality shows.
I will be honest I cannot stand reality shows. I do not like watching them, they annoy and confuse me. BUT they are perfect to get sucked into and not think. My problem is that I do. I do think about why they are acting like that on TV. Why would they go on a show to get a husband/wife? Why would they go into a house with a bunch of people just to live and act crazy? Why do they put themselves out there for the world to see? When I was under a lot of stress several years ago I started watching different types of reality shows. They were horrible and I didn't like them, but they helped me to become numb. I was picky about which ones I would watch, it was mostly those that were geared toward people's daily lives not competition shows, unless it was cooking.
I still watch So You Think You Can Dance.
I do not vote or watch anything except the dances though. I also get sucked into watching shows like Psyche and Monk because I like their quirky ways and it doesn't require much deep thought. Though I still find myself finding something to research or investigate while watching them. One of my favorites to have a marathon showing is Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I think I have seen every episode about 20 times. (possible exaggeration)
I got so fed up with myself with the reality shows that I told David to get rid of cable.
I couldn't stand what I was doing to my brain. And the knowledge that I was doing it on purpose was sickening to me. I have been wanting to do it again, find shows or music that is numbing so I do not have to feel. I can't this time though. I need to try to work through this and I really wish I knew how. How do we gain more positive emotional connections than negative when the negative seemed to have consumed so many of the good ones? I am hoping to discover that answer. I have other things that I do, Lisa called them "rituals" to help me. I have certain things that I do to try to help me cope and like she said when I do them and I am misunderstood, I tend to shut down or stop. Which causes me to loop and get stuck. One of the things I have done my whole life is to write it.
Whether it was true or not, I wrote it out.
What I mean by true or not is that it was a real emotion or feeling that I felt, but it may not have been the actual feelings of a person or the situation. This causes a problem as well. I connect emotions or feelings perceived by me of others to "things/talents/emotions/people". This could be completely wrong. There are times when it is an actual event or situation, but then there are other times I can only go by what I think. And a lot of the time what I think has been skewed by my inaccurate perception of how people feel about me. So how do I disconnect false emotional ties to "things/talents/emotions/people"? I don't know.
This is also where I see the connection of "passing burnout" that Bruce spoke about in his post.
I have been so exhausted trying to study people, their behaviors, the social dynamics that I still do not understand after reading about or I forget. It has become so much easier just to mirror and hide behind another person. I thought it was anyway. Actually, it has been severely damaging to me. I didn't do it on purpose, it was just my way of surviving many situations that I had no idea how to deal with. I have lost so much of myself that I am gaining back now and that is good.
I do take responsibility for it.
I was tired from the physical, social, spiritual, emotional dynamics of work, church, family, and friends. Plus I have done it multiple times throughout my life as a means to survive social situations, even though I didn't realize it. (As I think about it, I am not sure that there is truly any responsibility to be owned.) I spent a lot of time passing off as one of them and it made me physically ill. I was emotionally drained and when the babies came it was a relief to have such a distraction from the world. They were a wonderful distraction. Really I enjoy them as my distraction. They helped me a lot and it has been quite easy to make them the forefront of social situations and hide behind things.
I don't have the energy or strength to mirror people anymore.
I cannot "act" while in public and try to handle/understand autism/myself at the same time. It is too much and too exhausting. Now I am trying to have self acceptance and freedom to be myself with all of my oddities, but anything I perceive as negative is associated to music, books, people, buildings, on and on and I get stuck. That means that when I do act like myself and any autism traits come out that are misunderstood or misinterpreted they get connected to whatever I am reading, listening to, watching, wearing, person I am talking to, etc…And I want to shut down.
I see why I am fearful of moving back to my hometown.
I do not even know what will be triggered if I go there. That is why I am working through this now. I must find a way to work through these emotions in a positive way. I want to enjoy the things that I love without them being stolen because of past experiences. I also want to accept myself fully and not let that be stolen either. I cannot "pass" it has not worked and I will no longer be able to do it. I like me and I want more of me around. I am rather fun at least I think so. I guess this is my next big challenge. Hopefully people will answer on Lisa's blog and I can gain some good ideas. In the mean time I will be reading and looking some stuff up.
I get really puzzled by Theory of Mind, that is part of the problem as well.
I continually forget that others do not think what I am thinking or that they do not know what I am thinking. They read me wrong because it comes from a Neurotypical point of view or at least from their own perceptions, morals, ideals, desires, motives etc… It may have nothing to do with being an NT. I am normally thinking of the other persons needs or wants over mine so it is foreign to me to think that they do not do the same thing. I have mentioned that before, but I think that may have something to do with the deep emotional connections that I have. The confusion of another person not thinking of me or how they are making me feel is very confusing and hurtful to me. Situations, people, events, or how people responded to my talents would definitely link deeply to me if I felt that they didn't care as much as I did or they treated them with disregard. Or being verbally abused while operating in a talent/situation or belittled in some way would do it. I do hope my ramblings make sense here.
I am just processing, I'll see what comes out of this. I have nothing, but hope.


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Just 15 months ago, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco closed the successful run of "Dutch and Flemish Masterworks," a highly praised exhibit of more than 70 paintings from that region's Golden Age in the 17th century.
Now another show of Dutch paintings has opened, at the de Young Museum, with 35 paintings from the same region, the same era, and many of the same artists, among them Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael and Adriaen van Ostade.
So, what's the difference?
This time the otherwise modest exhibit includes one of the most celebrated paintings in the world, Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring." It's among the works on tour from the Netherlands' Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, now closed for remodeling and expansion.
First things first.
Yes, it's worth seeing this exhibit just to experience "Girl with a Pearl Earring," which glows with emotion, insight and presence that even the best reproductions can't convey. The painting, "in the flesh," sweeps into the background the fictional tale of Tracy Chevalier's 1999 novel of the same name and the solemn 2003 film featuring Scarlett Johansson.
Yet you'll get much more for your $25 general admission ticket beyond the darkened gallery where Vermeer's painting is installed as if it were a loved one prepared for a visitation. There are luminescent Dutch landscapes -- cloudscapes, really -- and portraits that seem to draw us into the frame.
As a bonus, to fill the de Young's cavernous galleries, there's a fascinating companion exhibit of more than 250 engravings, etchings and other works on paper from the museums' own collection. Drawn from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphics Arts at the Legion of Honor, it's titled nothing less than "Rembrandt's Century."
So go for "Girl with a Pearl Earring." But stay for the other images: among them a ballooning Dutch beret, Rembrandt's depiction of the 12-year-old Christ, an oversize cat and wary mouse, and a sailing chariot that a curator describes as "a 17th-century dune buggy."
Mauritshuis museum director Emilie Gordenker describes "Girl with a Pearl Earring" as "our poster child," and indeed she is the main draw of the de Young's exhibit. (You exit, of course, through the gift shop, where the image is reproduced on everything from T-shirts to jigsaw puzzles to a $4.95 chocolate bar; at least it's Ghirardelli.)
Vermeer (1632-75) may be better known for paintings that are filled with details of Dutch life, but "Girl with a Pearl Earring" homes in on a single figure. The girl, wearing a brownish jacket and simple but exotic-looking turban, is gazing over her shoulder, as if responding to an interruption. She looks at us, we look at her, across the centuries.
Character and emotion are conveyed in ways that go beyond technique of translucent paint and meticulous brush strokes and highlights. "It's almost as if she is speaking to you," Gordenker said as she previewed the exhibit. (By now researchers and art restorers seem to have determined that the earring was not a real pearl, but glass; Vermeer still meant the pearl image to symbolize chastity.)
Painters of the era
Elsewhere in the exhibit, Rembrandt also shows his mastery of characterization in the painting of a haughty-looking man in a billowing feathered beret that looks about to take wing, and the casual but somber "Portrait of an Elderly Man," a figure who seems to settle back into the canvas but with an expression that a viewer can't escape.
Jacob van Ruisdael is considered one of the greatest Dutch landscape painters -- in a competitive field of many great artists -- and his "View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds" is a stunner. Pools of light in the cloudy sky, which fills nearly three-quarters of the canvas, draw the viewer down to the foreground, where strips of white linen are laid out in the fields to dry and bleach.
Several history paintings, genre paintings of everyday life and still lifes complete the exhibition. The still lifes offer some surprises. Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt's students, is represented by "The Goldfinch," a bright, almost modern-looking depiction of a lively bird perched on a feeding box.
Rachel Ruysch, one of many women artists active in the Dutch Golden Age, conveys several seasons of flourishing and fading in her "Vase of Flowers." Many blossoms are dazzling, but there's a collapsed iris in the background and a leaf has been partially eaten by insects or worms. It's a colorful, precise (and moralistic) reminder of the beauty and brevity of life.
Works on paper
"Rembrandt's Century" shares an entrance with the Dutch painting collections, but it's easy to get lost -- with pleasure -- among these 250 or so works on paper by Rembrandt (1606-69) and so many other artists. Curator James Ganz assembled this show from the Achenbach Foundation archives, and he's made the path through the galleries an adventure.
To counteract the idea that etchings and engravings are dim and dull, Ganz opens with a splendid panoramic documentary view by Willem van Swanenberg of a "sailing chariot," a kind of elegant barge on wide wheels with sails above, on the move across a Dutch beach. It could skim over the sands at 7 miles an hour, not bad for 1603.
There are more treasures to discover: Adriaen von Ostade's energetic scenes of village life based on his paintings; Cornelis Visscher's engraving "The Large Cat," whose fur seems to shimmer as it dozes with a wary mouse in the background; a "Micrographia" book with a gigantic ant that almost leaps off the page; and Lambert Doomer's watercolor of salt flats on the edge of a French fishing village.
More Rembrandts? Yes, some 50 etchings and engravings, with astonishing variety. First, look for a tiny print, less than 2 by 4 inches, of "A Peasant in a High Cap," along with the original etched copper plate.
Not easy to miss is Rembrandt's dramatic "Christ Crucified Between Two Thieves," conceived as a kind of battle between light and dark on the scale of a small painting. For contrast, nearby is "Christ Returning from the Temple with His Parents," so simple and heartfelt that it might depicting the 12-year-old on his way home from a family outing.
'girl with a pearl earring: dutch paintings from the mauritshuis'
'Rembrandt's Century'
Through: June 2
Where: de Young Museum,
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
Hours: 9:30 a.m.-5:15 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday (8:45 p.m. Fridays beginning in late March)
Admission: $15-$25, 415-750-3600, http://deyoung.famsf.org

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Raccoons have been popping up in some unusual places recently. But local officials say the chance of those animals having rabies is pretty slim.
Last week a raccoon was discovered inside the Crown of Life Evangelical Lutheran Church on Wooster Street in Marietta.
"A custodian opened a closet door to get a vacuum and found a live raccoon inside," said Pastor Joel Vogel.
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He said the animal was pretty calm, and did not move around a lot.
Marietta City Police were contacted, and an officer removed the raccoon from the building.
Vogel said the animals have been spotted in that area before.
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"Two or three weeks ago after the Wednesday evening service there was a raccoon just sitting out in the parking lot, not moving or doing anything," he said.
Police have responded to dozens of calls about raccoons within the Pioneer City in the past few weeks.
That's not unusual, according to Eric Bear, wildlife officer with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.
"I get calls all year round about raccoons. It's pretty normal this time of year as the weather is warming and they're coming out looking for food. And they're quite adaptable, so it's not surprising to see them in town," he said.
Some people assume a raccoon is sick if it doesn't run away when humans are present, but that's not necessarily so, according to Washington County Dog Warden Kelly Schubert, who said the animals may simply be used to being around humans and therefore exhibit no fear.
"When I was young we used to hand feed hot dogs to raccoons from our front porch," she said. "They were not afraid of us."
On the same day the raccoon was discovered in the church, another incident was reported at Fort Frye High School in Beverly.
"It started at the post office across the street from the school. We got a call that a raccoon had been seen in that area, but before we could get there it was gone," said Beverly Police Chief Mark Sams.
A short time later a call came in from the high school saying a raccoon was acting aggressive toward a custodian.
"They said the animal was walking toward them, not acting afraid at all," Sams said. "Todd Stewart, the (Ohio Department of Natural Resources) wildlife officer for Morgan County, was notified and on the scene. Just from looking at the animal it appeared the raccoon had possibly been injured-maybe struck by a car."
He said no one was injured by the raccoon, but the animal had to be put down.
Sams noted the Beverly Police receive very few calls about raccoons.
"We probably have more trouble with skunks," he said. "But if we do get a call on a wild animal, we usually refer it to the local wildlife officer."
One of the main concerns many people have with raccoons is the possibility of the animal carrying the rabies virus, a disease that can be fatal to other animals as well as humans who may be bitten by rabid animals.
Officials with the Marietta and Washington County health departments say there have been no confirmed reports of rabid raccoons in this area for several years.
"Instead of rabies, people with pets should be more worried about distemper," Schubert said. "It's not harmful to humans, but it makes cats and dogs sick-they throw up, have diarrhea, and will act sluggish. Animals can die within a week."
There are two separate varieties of distemper-canine and feline-and raccoons are able to carry both. Whether in dogs or cats, once contracted, distemper can have an extremely high mortality rate. Kittens are the most susceptible to the feline variety, although cats of any age may contract it, according to the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals website.
"That's why distemper vaccines are just as important as rabies vaccines for your animals," Schubert said.
Ken Robinson, environmental health director for the Washington County Health Department, said in addition to raccoons, other wild animals may also carry the rabies virus, including skunks and bats, although there have been no confirmed cases reported in recent years.
"Rodents, as a rule, are not carriers of rabies," he said. "That includes squirrels, rats and mice."
If someone is bitten by an animal that is suspected of carrying rabies, Robinson said the only way to confirm whether the virus was present is to kill the animal, remove its head and have the head sent to the state health department in Columbus for testing.
"All we need is the head, and it should be refrigerated after it's cut off," he said. "We have to send the head to Columbus where they check the brain for the virus."
Robinson said if a human is bitten, there is no charge for sending an animal head to Columbus. Otherwise the health department has to charge a fee for the process.
He said results of the test come back within one to two days.
"If a person is bitten, they have about 10 days before they would have to begin receiving treatment if the animal is proven to have the rabies virus," he said.
A series of shots is given to prevent the rabies virus from infecting the person bitten. If not treated, rabies is usually fatal, although a few people have survived the virus, according to information from the Mayo Clinic.
There is a preventative rabies vaccination available for humans that's usually given to those whose work with animals may place them at risk. The vaccine is available to anyone, but it's costly, said Registered Nurse Barb Piehowicz with the county health department.
"It's a pre-exposure vaccine called Rabavert that we order from California," she said. "But the vaccination treatment usually requires three injections that currently cost $285 for each dose."
For information about the rabies or distemper vaccines for animals, pet owners should contact their veterinarian or call the Washington County Health Department at (740) 374-2782.
If someone sees a raccoon acting strangely, they should contact police.


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STOCKTON — Ten local law enforcement agencies are teaming up to form the San Joaquin County DUI Avoid the 10 Task Force, which will be cracking down on impaired drivers today through Jan. 1
in Stockton, Tracy, Lodi, Ripon and Manteca, authorities said.
Enforcement efforts will include five DUI/driver's license checkpoints, nine DUI saturation patrols, a multiagency DUI task force strike team patrol, DUI warrant and probation sweeps and a court sting,
officials said.
Authorities have scheduled DUI saturation patrols today, Saturday, Thursday, Dec. 22, Dec. 29 and Dec. 31; DUI checkpoints Saturday, next Friday and Dec. 29; and task force operations Dec. 28, authorities said.
In 2010, more than 10,000 people were killed nationwide in car crashes involving an impaired driver, including 19 in San Joaquin County, authorities said.
The holiday season was particularly dangerous: Thirty percent of all fatal crashes in 2010 involved impaired drivers, officials said.
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FireFly wrote: The reason I ask is because he says "Spoon" not "A spoon" which is what the spoon was called in the book and because the Spoon was one of the inatimates who were TRAVELLING to Jerusalem.
But I have a tendency to find meaning in things from which there are no meaning.
SneebDotCom wrote:
I'm currently stuck on Notes from the underground by dostoevsky... he wrote it just for me i tell you... just for me!!!!
molasses wrote: I read Fierce Invalids a while ago and found that it really dragged on. I just finished Skinny Legs and All and thought it was great. Thus, I'm still undecided whether or not he's a good writer
dense wrote: i love a lot of the writers mentioned and will check out the rest......


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3.7-18 Sudden Emergency
Revised to January 1, 2008
As previously stated, negligence
is the failure to exercise reasonable care under all of the circumstances
presented. One of the circumstances for you to consider in this case is
whether a sudden emergency situation existed. The existence of a sudden
emergency is a factor to be considered in the evaluation of whether the
defendant acted as a reasonable person under the circumstances. An
individual, choosing a course of action in an emergency, is required to
exercise the care of an ordinarily prudent person acting in such an
You are to consider the evidence
in this case to determine whether an emergency situation existed. If you
find that an emergency existed which was not caused by the conduct of the
defendant and that, as a result of the emergency, the defendant chose a
course of action which a reasonable person would have done under the
circumstances, then the defendant's conduct would not be negligent.
However, if you find that plaintiff's injuries resulted from the conduct of
the defendant and that either an emergency did not exist, or the emergency
situation was caused by the defendant's own conduct, or that the defendant,
in the face of an emergency, failed to act as a reasonable person would have
done under the circumstances, then the defendant would be negligent.
Mei v. Alterman Transport Lines, Inc.,
159 Conn. 307, 310-12 (1970); Miller v. Porter, 156 Conn. 466, 469-70
(1968); Puza v. Hamway, 123 Conn. 205, 213 (1937); Puchalsky v.
Rappahahn, 63 Conn. App. 72, 79-81, cert. denied, 256 Conn. 931 (2001).
Although drafted from the
standpoint of the defendant, this charge is equally applicable to a claim
asserted by a plaintiff. Whether a charge on the doctrine of sudden
emergency is applicable depends upon the claims of proof advanced by the
parties. To justify the instruction there must be an adequate basis in the
claims of proof to satisfy each of the doctrine's elements: 1) that an
emergency actually existed, 2) that the perilous situation was not created
by the party requesting the charge, and 3) when confronted with the
emergency, the party chose a course of action which would or might have been
taken by a person of reasonable prudence in the same or similar situation.
Mei v. Alterman Transport Lines, Inc., supra, 159 Conn. 311-12;
Miller v. Porter, supra, 156 Conn. 468-69. "'The doctrine applies only
in cases in which the operator is suddenly confronted by a situation not of
his own making and has the opportunity of deciding rapidly between
alternative courses of action.'" Mei v. Alterman Transport Lines, Inc.,
supra, 159 Conn. 312, quoting Vachon v. Ives, 150 Conn. 452, 455
The Connecticut Supreme Court
has not considered the sudden emergency doctrine in recent years. The
modern status of the doctrine in other jurisdictions is in flux. Criticism
of the doctrine has centered mainly on the confusion of the doctrine with
respect to the standard of care and its effect on the application of
comparative negligence. See J. Ghent, Modern Status of Sudden Emergency
Doctrine, 10 A.L.R.5th 680 (1993); W. Prosser & W. Keeton, Torts (5th Ed.
1986) § 33, pp. 196-97.
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SACRAMENTO -- A Lafayette political campaign attorney and co-founder of a nationwide movement to directly elect the U.S. president is taking aim at Democratic Assembly candidate and Dublin Mayor Tim Sbranti's campaign finances.
Barry Fadem filed an eight-page complaint with the California Fair Political Practices Commission alleging Sbranti reported incorrect contribution dates and failed to disclose the true source of contributions associated with the transfer of more than $30,000 from his Dublin mayoral account to his Assembly account.
Sbranti campaign spokeswoman Michelle Henry called it a "frivolous complaint from a supporter of an opponent. Our campaign finance treasurer and attorney have taken a look at the materials and they aren't seeing anything out of order. An opponent's donor is just trying to get headlines."
Fadem, who specializes in election and campaign law, is backing Orinda Vice Mayor Steve Glazer in what will likely be a fierce contest for Assembly District 16, where incumbent Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, terms out this year.
Democrats hold a 7-percentage-point registration lead in District 16, which includes Orinda, Lafayette, Moraga, Walnut Creek, Alamo, Danville, Blackhawk, San Ramon, Dublin, Pleasanton and Livermore.
Other declared candidates include Democratic Danville Mayor Newell Arnerich and Republican attorney Catharine Baker from the San Ramon Valley. The official candidate filing period is Feb. 10 through March 7.
So far, the contest has focused on labor favorite Sbranti versus business-backed moderate Glazer.
A political strategist and close adviser to Gov. Jerry Brown, Glazer found himself in labor's crosshairs in 2012 after he took a job as the lead Democratic strategist for JobsPAC, the California Chamber of Commerce's political action committee. The committee backed moderate Democrats over more liberal candidates.
Glazer further enraged unions when he publicly endorsed a ban on public transit worker strikes after BART workers walked off the job twice last year during contract disputes.
Labor is backing Sbranti, a high school teacher who leads the California Teachers Association's political action committee. In the past few months, he's collected nearly $33,000 in campaign contributions from labor groups including the CTA.
The complaint, filed Dec. 23 with the state's campaign finance watchdog commission, originated with a big Glazer supporter -- Fadem had contributed $750 to Glazer's campaign as of June 30.
The attorney detailed in an eight-page letter a series of what he alleges are campaign finance improprieties associated with the transfer of $30,852 from Sbranti's 2012 mayoral campaign account to his 2014 Assembly fund, including:
"These are not just little typographic errors but instead, they appear to be systematic manipulations of campaign disclosure data," Fadem said.
As for the characterization of the complaint as frivolous, Fadem responded, "I don't think the Fair Political Practices Commission will see it that way."
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I awoke to the soothing sounds of rain. Then I realized that even though rain was falling, birds were singing. That is a lesson for us humans.
We all have reasons to grouse and whine, I suppose, but a few minutes of viewing national news should bring us, here in the Lake Region, gratitude and compassion. Just this year, 2013, how many people have lost jobs, homes, health, or people they love?
As the birds sang in the rain this morning, I thought of the many, many people around the world who awoke to tragedy and despair. Illness, hunger, poverty, drought around the world, locally, farmers waiting anxiously to get into their fields as dry earth becomes mud. I thought of the rubble in Grandbury Texas, where my sister-in-law used to live. I thought of other communities destroyed by tornadoes, hurricanes, fires, and other "natural" phenomena. And even sadder, the destruction caused by humans who pollute the earth, or who destroy multiple species of animals or forests. Even worse are those who kill by choice---terrorists, criminals, war mongers and those who profit from the sale of killing machines.
But in my world this morning, birds sang in the rain. Or was it because of it? Water brings forth life and sustains it. We here in the Lake Region know water has the power to destroy as well as generate life and power. But today, we have a gentle rain, a needed rain.
Some of you may remember Reverend Aden Mann on the radio---he inspired me with the words "This is the day that the Lord has made. Rejoice and be glad in it." Listen to the rain and the birds, rejoicing.


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I record HDTV programs to a USB key on an Akira PVR. Playback on the Akira works fine, so no problem with the USB key.
I then copy the files to my PC, and concatenate them (copy file1 /B + ... + filen /B destination_file /B).
Playback on the PC with VLC is horrendous (stuttering).
Playback on the TV (Samsung LE37C630) is fluid, but the stream stops every minute or so, the TV displays a "Loading in progress" message for a dozen of seconds, then playback resumes where it had left off.
My PC is an old 3.0 Ghz P4, with 1GB of memory only. Could it be the reason for the symptoms?
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STOCKTON - The Stockton Police Department's Community Response Team arrested three people on suspicion of gun possession Wednesday night, including two who were apprehended near the scene of Tuesday's deadly shooting in central Stockton.
Officers conducted a traffic stop shortly after 6:30 p.m. Wednesday near West Lincoln Road and Pacific Avenue. Inside the car, police found a loaded and concealed handgun, officers said. The driver, 33-year-old parolee Keon Walker, was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm, carrying a loaded firearm with intent to commit a felony, unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, use of a firearm, possession of a controlled substance and other crimes, authorities said.
Shortly after 10 p.m., officers approached a large group of people who were "hanging out" near Danny's Market in the 700 block of North Airport Way, where one man was shot to death and four others were wounded about 9:40 p.m. Tuesday. Police discovered that two people were armed with loaded and concealed handguns, authorities said.
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STOCKTON - A woman was stabbed in the neck with a butcher knife Thursday in a north Stockton neighborhood after confronting another woman who groped her husband's genitals, witnesses told police.
Residents of a duplex in the 9500 block of Hickok Drive were having a gathering about 4:45 p.m. when a woman arrived and became overly familiar with a male guest, officers said. A verbal confrontation ensued when the man's wife arrived a short time later.
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The woman began swinging the knife at the woman she had argued with earlier, striking her in the neck, authorities said. A significant amount of blood was seen on the street and sidewalk in front of the duplex. Paramedics were able to stanch the bleeding, and the victim was taken to a hospital for further treatment, police said.
The knife-wielding woman and the bat-wielding man fled the area in a white Lexus, witnesses told officers. The assailant was described as a black woman in her mid 30s standing 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 175 pounds with purple and gold weaves in her hair, authorities said.
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Roger also won his third match in London, defeating Mardy Fish 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 today - continuing his impressive run at the ATP World Tour Finals.
"I've played Mardy a few times and he's always very dangerous," said Roger after the match. "He takes the ball extremely early, serves great and can get on roll. I was worried in the third set. I thought I was going to lose today but I'm very happy. It's been a great run since the US Open - I've been all round the world but I'm still going strong. Hopefully I can make it a nice weekend."
Roger started the match with the same kind of efficiency that helped him beat Rafael Nadal in just 60 minutes on Tuesday - our champ had three breaks in the first set. In the second set, Fish found his rhythm and played strong at the net, finally holding his nerve to seal the set. But Roger immediately took control of the deciding set by breaking Fish for a 2-0 lead and closed out the match in an hour and 47 minutes.
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This thing opens up in a snap! I love that, but usually use chrome if I don't need the fastest performance.
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I don't think there is necessarily a precise way to "relax" but I can tell you a few things I use to do as a player:
That's all I got.
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also the big thing that helps me my thought process is that god is always by my side, so I know im not alone and knowing that it helps me under pressure situations
Just remember you practice hard all the time to succeed in game situations. Everyone makes mistakes, just have a short memory when it comes to that. If you worry, you won't perform good at all. So, just think positive thoughts and imagine yourself doing what you do best.
Always remember, if you blow a play. So what? Even you lose the game becuz of that, it can happen!
Just try to think: I want to get this W. And if you don't, you feel disappointed. But shake it of you.
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Do some mental affirmation. Visualize how you will play, tell yourself that you WILL get rebounds/assists/points, and be CONFIDENT!
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With record-breaking temperatures across the region, Bay Area residents sought relief wherever they could Wednesday, including community swimming pools and at beaches as thermometers inched past readings of 100 degrees.
At the Heather Farms Swim Center in Walnut Creek, all lanes were filled with swimmers despite it being a weekday and at least a month to go before the start of summer break.
Beth Jensen, 36, said beating the heat was a matter of being prepared.
"You kind of have to be hard-core when coming out," said the Martinez resident. "You need your water, you need your sunscreen. You gotta be ready."
Nearby, Darren Hammond, of Alamo, was lying out in his Speedo, soaking up the rays, seemingly oblivious to the discomfort the heat was causing some.
"I know heat waves aren't good for California with its lack of water, but I love it," he said, noting that the hot weather would only exacerbate the state's ongoing drought. "I love to swim."
Many long-standing record temperatures were either tied or exceeded Wednesday, with Santa Cruz and Oakland beating their old records by the largest measures. Santa Cruz hit 100 degrees, a leap up from a 1972 record of 92 degrees. Oakland hit 93 degrees, which beat a previous 89-degree record set in 2006.
Records fell by 1 degree in San Francisco, where a high of 88 beat a mark set in 1922; at Moffett Field, which topped the 2008 record of 90 degrees; and at San Francisco International Airport, where the previous high mark of 87 was set in 2006.
San Jose tied a record more than 100 years old, reaching the high of 94 degrees last hit in 1905. Livermore met the 1972 mark of 98 degrees.
Only Gilroy did not reach or beat its heat record -- the city fell 1 degree short of matching the whopping 103 degrees hit in 1976. In response to the heat, Oakland officials offered free admission for seniors at city-owned pools Wednesday.
One of the swimmers enjoying a few laps in the pool at the Dimond Recreation Center in Oakland was 63-year-old David De Hart.
"You can beat the heat when it's a free swim," he said.
The heat was not going to stop John Godinez, a San Jose resident, from getting in a round of golf Wednesday afternoon. As he tossed his flip-flops into the front seat of his car, Godinez said Wednesday's weather was actually pleasant.
"I have my water, and the breeze, it made it nice," Godinez said. "I didn't think it was as hot as they said it was going to be."
San Francisco resident Mike Wong, who was in town to meet with a business client, did not agree.
He had not been out of his air-conditioned car two minutes when beads of sweat were already forming on his forehead.
"It's so hot," he said with a sigh. "I said I would meet out here, but oh, it's so hot."
The San Jose Earthquakes soccer team moved its practice time from the usual 10:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday because of the heat.
The high temperatures weren't making the air very pleasant, either. For the third day in a row, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District issued a summer Spare the Air alert on Wednesday. People sensitive to unhealthy air, such as those with asthma and other breathing difficulties, were advised to limit their time outdoors, particularly in the afternoon.
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Temperatures were expected to start cooling off Thursday when a tropical pressure system breaks through the high-ridge bubble that forced temperatures higher, forecaster Diane Henderson said. High temperatures will cool down by 5-10 degrees in most of the Bay Area on Thursday and Friday and are expected to be in the 70s when the weekend arrives.
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Published: Monday, November 5, 2012 at 7:58 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, November 5, 2012 at 7:58 a.m.
Dick Roberts of Hendersonville is thinking airport security has gone way too far after hearing about a neighbor's experience at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport. Here's what happened, according to Mr. Roberts: "Our next door neighbor took her 85-year-old mother and her 85-year-old cousin, along with her sister, to the airport to catch a flight home to Chicago. In their carry-on luggage, they had two sealed pint jars of honey they had bought when they visited Barber Orchards in North Carolina. Because it was liquid, Transportation Security Administration workers confiscated it. What jerks! Obviously they aren't intelligent enough or can't be bothered to open it and taste it. And I really doubt that they were so busy at 5 a.m. that they had a mad rush of passengers to screen. But, hey, maybe these three senior citizens looked like potential terrorists to the TSA screeners. They didn't, however, confiscate the mother's cane! Maybe they got nervous since the TSA is firing a bunch of them around the country for not screening baggage the way they're supposed to, so they wanted to put on a good show for their bosses. Obviously the old adage about giving idiots a little authority and it going right to their heads is proven true again."
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'PEAS AND CARROTS': When parting from someone after conversation, Jack Rutter of Spartanburg, S.C., says he is in the habit of saying, "Peace and Grace," instead of the usual and rather mundane, "So long" or "See ya." The other day, after chatting with a friend in a supermarket, he said as they parted, "Peace and Grace." As they went their separate ways, he heard his friend's 4-year-old say, "Momma, what did he mean by peas and carrots?"
OBSERVED Judi Wellman of Flat Rock: "Last evening at Bunco (she describes that as a no-brainer dice game), one of the gals' cellphone rang. She removed it from her bra. And while she was at it, she got out a tissue to use from the other side. Talk about multitasking!"
WHO CAN HE TELL?: A preacher woke up on a Sunday morning and, realizing it was an exceptionally beautiful and sunny early spring day, he decided he just had to play golf. So he told the associate pastor he was feeling sick and persuaded him to conduct the service for him. As soon as the associate pastor left the room, the preacher headed out of town to a golf course about 40 miles away. This way he knew he wouldn't accidentally meet anyone from his church. Setting up on the first tee, he was alone. At about this time, St. Peter leaned over to the Lord while looking down from heaven and said, "You're not going to let him get away with this, are you?" The Lord sighed and said, "No, I guess not." Just then the preacher hit the ball, and it shot straight toward the pin, dropping just short of it, rolled up and fell into the hole. It was a 420-yard hole in one. St. Peter was astonished. He looked at the Lord and asked, "Why did you let him do that?" The Lord smiled and replied, "Who's he going to tell?"
LAST BUT NOT LEAST: Through Nov. 18 at Playhouse Mainstage, Flat Rock Playhouse will present "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," one of Tennessee Williams' best-known works and his personal favorite. Evening performances are Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m., and matinee performances are Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays at 2 p.m. The price of a ticket is $35, with discounts available for senior citizens, AAA members, military personnel, students and groups. The playhouse will host a special audio-described matinee performance of the show for sight-impaired patrons Nov. 17. Tickets can be purchased either by calling the playhouse box office at 693-0731 or going online to www.flatrockplayhouse.org. You will find Flat Rock Playhouse Mainstage at 2661 Greenville Highway in Flat Rock.
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