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Orange County Choppers - from 0 to $100,000,000
A the beginning of the red carpet, which, at least on this night here in Los Angeles, is more a sort of powdery gold, the most famous three people from all of Orange County get out of a shiny black Yukon and all of a sudden it's bright, bright, bright, lights, lights, lights, click, click, click.
The first question comes quick.
It comes from a man with a fat, fake smile.
"How big was this year for you guys?"
"Huge," Paulie says into the camera.
Both Paul Teutuls are here, Senior and Junior, and sidekick son Mikey is, too — the Orange County Choppers from the Village of Montgomery — and they're in LA for this VH1 show called Big in '04, and now they're walking down this lit-up chute of pop-pretty people, with the screeching and the screaming and the flashes of the cameras.
"On your right!"
The photographers yell.
"To your left!"
They yell from behind the silver metal barricade holding back the fans and the folks like them.
"Straight ahead!"
Back East, the night before, these guys hung out in Manhattan with Muhammad Ali, at his request, and before that they were in Washington, D.C., meeting with injured troops at Walter Reed Army Hospital, and now they're here, giving an interview to "Entertainment Tonight," standing next to Jenny McCarthy and Rupert from "Survivor" and Fergie, the lead singer from the Black Eyed Peas and William Shatner.
How did this happen?
And what now?
For now, the Teutul trio is walking six or so feet, then stopping, walking six or so feet, then stopping, pausing, posing, smiling for the dash and the flash of the click, click, click.
Straight ahead.
"One more, guys!"
THE TEUTULS have built custom bikes for Jay Leno, Will Smith and Lance Armstrong. They've done Leno, Letterman, Conan, even "The View." They've been on magazine covers here and in France and in Norway, and the nuttiness only gets that much wackier when they leave home.
Above all else, though, the Orange County Choppers are an Orange County story, and the epicenter of the phenomenon is right here, off Route 17K, just inside Montgomery's village line, at their new worldwide headquarters in the old Walden Printing plant.
Outside, an Excursion, a Navigator, a souped-up Suburban and chromed-up Hummers sit in the lot.
Inside, up some stairs, in the main office, general manager Steve Moreau's cell phone won't stop ringing and Senior puts on top of a desk his size-12 Red Wing boots while he black-Bics contracts and licensing agreements.
Over on a shelf, next to stacks of motorcycle magazines and the DVD box sets for their wildly popular Discovery Channel show, "American Chopper," there's a plaque from the Pentagon:
"Orange County Choppers — True American Heroes."
A picture of Paul and Paulie with George Pataki is on the next shelf down, with a congrats and a silver-penned signature from the governor of the state of New York.
The brawn, the brains, the bumbling brilliance of our very own biker boys: All of this has never been bigger, the Teutuls (pronounced Tuttle), their choppers, this business that has up and gone mainstream.
Two-and-a-half years ago, OCC Inc., had three employees.
Now? Almost 60.
The company has a 2,000-square-foot seasonal store at Woodbury Common, and the 8,000-square-foot theme-park-ish store in the Town of Montgomery, too, but they're really moving merchandise through the recently opened distribution center down at the headquarters, where 16 workers send out an average of 450 Web orders a day:
T-shirts, sweatshirts, trucker hats, baseball caps, knife sets, beer glasses, bobblehead dolls and baby-girl T's, diecast matchbox bikes and tins of popcorn with puzzles on top.
The Choppers now have an Activision video game.
They have a coffee-table book.
They even have a scent.
Their very own cologne.
It's called Full Throttle and smells kind of like licorice and sells for 25 bucks an ounce.
"American Chopper," which airs Monday nights at 10 and by now is heading into its third season, is Discovery's top-rated show — the channel's most successful show ever, actually, with typical viewership ranging from — million to 4 million per episode.
Men ages 18 to 34 watch the heck out of it, and that is, of course, TV's elusive, sought-after demographic. But they're not the only ones: Women make up almost a third of the audience. Travel with the Choppers, and the ratings turn on-the-ground clear.
In Manhattan, outside the ritzy St. Regis Hotel, a black man driving a Town Car rolls down his window to tell Paul, Paulie and Mikey how much he just loves the show.
"And I don't even like motorcycles," he says.
In the lobby of the Newark Airport Marriott, a white guy who's dressed like he's about to play golf tells Senior the whole family tunes in.
"My daughter loves it," he says.
Later, in the middle of busy terminal traffic, a bald man wearing glasses and a tweedy sport coat jerks to a stop his Lexus SUV and walks over to shake some hands.
Out in West Hollywood, Calif., Mikey opens the door to the balcony in Paulie's room at the Le Montrose Suite Hotel and the truck driver down below starts yelling up.
"The comedy," he says at one point.
"Just awesome!"
THESE GUYS ARE the most recognizable faces from our area, by far — probably, for what it's worth, the most famous people from Orange County since William Henry Seward, Abe Lincoln's Village of Florida-born Secretary of State.
What that means, for the Teutuls, for now, in the first half of the first decade of 21st-century America, is a life in this red-carpet world, here in a backstage VIP room in La La Land, where green and purple lights shine down on Flava Flav, the midget from "Amazing Race" and Nikki Hilton walking past baked brie and fleshy lobes of tuna sushi.
And the Teutuls, too.
The Teutuls of the Village of Montgomery.
The Teutuls of the Village of Montgomery eating shrimp cocktail.
"When we go to these things," Paulie says from his seat on a crushed-velvet couch, "I feel like people are gonna be like, 'Who the #@&! are they?' I always feel that way."
These guys are Orange County.
They work with their hands.
They didn't go to college.
Senior was born in Yonkers, the son of a construction worker, moved as a kid to Rockland County, and more than 30 years ago he made his way up to Montgomery.
Even the location of their headquarters says something about where they live and where we live: The building on Factory Street is just down the road from a development of luxury town homes and right across from an old Agway building next to an open field.
Where they are now, though, is a long, long way from where all this began.
Senior started Orange County Ironworks some 30 years ago out of the bed of his aqua-green 1969 Chevy pickup truck.
He had workshops in Middletown and Montgomery, and he still has one in Rock Tavern, and eventually the iron fabrication became successful enough to turn a longtime choppers hobby into a spin-off business.
That was only in 1999.
But then rapper Wyclef Jean bought a bike Paulie built to look like Spiderman, and one of the producers who did "Survivor" found the Teutuls on a Web search and put them on TV, and now, 26 months and an AOL Super Bowl commercial later, they're selling pink Orange County Choppers baby bibs at the store on Route 17K.
Lunch boxes, too, and Frisbees, and hoodies and tank tops and button-down denim shirts, and Paul and Paulie life-size cardboard cutouts, and their very own peppermints.
The Woodbury Common store had to be restocked three times the Friday after Thanksgiving.
Up in Montgomery, the bigger store, which just opened in June, broke fire codes that day by having more than 176 people inside at one time.
At the headquarters, most of the rooms have sparse decorations, if any at all, and in some offices phones still sit on the floor. Talk to the folks in the building, ask them how long they've been working for the Choppers, and they'll say seven, eight months. OCC Inc., literally can't keep up with the pace of the growth.
Back in the distribution center, Jim Stackhouse and his 15 employees are busy shipping orders to Nebraska, Detroit and Fresno. England, Nigeria and New Zealand, too.
"And we're hearing it's starting to become big in Asia," the assistant general manager says in the middle of all the rows of boxes. "When that hits? My God."
So just how hot is this hot?
In 2004, Senior figures, the Choppers have grossed approximately $40 million, and total revenue, since all this started, is approaching $100 million.
Getting that info is not easy.
"Don't make us look like snobs," Senior says.
"People like to know you're doing well," Stackhouse says. "People don't like to know you're doing very well."
"We didn't know it was gonna be like this," Junior says one afternoon, on the way to Newark, in the back of a fire-engine-red, diesel-engine Excursion with a tail pipe so oversized it could swallow an eggplant.
"Nobody knew," Senior says from up in the shotgun seat.
The conversation down the Thruway, Route 17 and the Jersey Turnpike flits from the quickest way to sign autographs to the best buys on Mercedes at the luxury auto dealerships in Paramus, N.J., to how they can't go to the mall anymore on busy nights or weekends.
And in the back, a 20-something named Will, a mechanic in training, one of those almost 60 employees, a helper around the shop who's along for the ride so he can drive the truck back up to Montgomery after the airport drop-off, plays a video game on his laptop.
The name of the game?
Planetary Conquest.
SO WHAT NOW? The general manager's mantra is this:
"We gotta take that, we gotta take that, we gotta take that," Steve Moreau says one day over lunch at a pizza place in a Montgomery strip mall. "Take everything. I don't know if that's the right way to do it. I don't know. But my thing is, it's going to go away some day, so let's get it all while it's here."
Paulie's formula:
"Build bikes.
"Be idiots.
"And people will love you."
It's worked, better than anyone ever expected, so now, out here in Los Angeles, Paul, Paulie and Mikey head, slowly, past the bright, bright, bright, lights, lights, lights, click, click, click, toward the Shrine Auditorium for VH1's Big in '04.
The still photographers by now are back toward the front of the whole mess, and the Choppers are talking to "Access Hollywood," right next to Jenny McCarthy, who's wearing hooker heels and naughty-red lipstick and talking to "Extra," and now they switch off.
And here comes Tommy Lee down the long lit-up tent. He's wearing beat-up, above-the-ankle boots, some jet-black shades that match his leather jacket, and he blows by Shatner, and porn star Ron Jeremy, then Fergie, that lead singer from the Black Eyed Peas.
Then he stops.
He stops when he sees the Teutuls of the Village of Montgomery.
"Yes!" Tommy Lee yells.
The rocker slaps hands with Junior.
"What's up, Big Bikes?"
"Guess Tommy Lee watches the show," is all Paulie can say.
It's just about done, this routine of six or so feet, then stop, six or so feet, then stop, and a "talent escort" is waiting to take the Teutuls inside.
They'll sit a couple of rows back from the members of Green Day and Maroon 5 and a couple of seats down from Nikki and Paris Hilton, and they'll present an award and share a stage for a night with P. Diddy, Michael Moore and Anna Nicole Smith, but now, before any of that, the Teutul trio stops to holler for one final VH1 camera crew:
"You're watching Big in '04!
"You're watching Big in '04!
And they pause, and they pose, and they smile, here near the end of the red carpet that's not really red, just a powdery sort of gold.
Are Paul, Paulie, and Mickey really like that?
Pretty much.
I spent a few days with the Teutuls in Montgomery, met up with them in Manhattan, traveled with them to Newark, and then out to Southern California, and there was some verbal back-and-forth, to say the least, and it certainly wasn't in an effort to give me a good story.
Senior will tell Junior to "get in the #&*$@! car."
He'll tell Mikey to shut up.
Paulie will complain about Mikey, um, using the bathroom in his West Hollywood hotel suite.
And all of them will even take to calling a certain reporter "Doogie Howser."
But that's fine.
It's their way of showing affection.
I think.
Is the show staged?
Yes and no.
Here's what I mean:
Do the Teutuls come up with disagreements so they can shout at each other while the cameras are rolling and looking for some juicy stuff for the show?
Are they conscious of the fact that those natural dynamics are a big part of what makes "American Chopper" so successful on the Discovery Channel?
Paul Senior is no dimwit.
Far from it.
He built Orange County Ironworks out of the back of a '69 Chevy pickup truck and turned it into a multi-million-dollar business.
The man with the mustache knew what the show — duh — might be able to do for a fledgling business that only started in 1999.
Now, at the beginning of the third season, when he walks, with that big-booted, gum-chewing saunter of his, out of the office and onto the floor where cameras watch the bikes get built, he does it, clearly, with the knowledge that his mere presence is what makes the show happen.
One camera becomes two.
Two become three.
So — staged?
Better believe it.
A couple of months back, when Mikey got 5 inches trimmed from his long, floppy blond hair, Paul was not happy.
"My father was worried," Mikey told me one morning in the office. "He said it's my image. You know what I mean?"
Oh, we know.
So why does it work?
Seriously. Why is the show so darn popular?
Start with the name.
Or at least the first half of it.
The guys at Discovery who not too long after 9/11 put together the network's "American" series — "American Chopper," of course, along with "American Hot Rod" and "American Casino" — did so to capitalize on the sudden patriotic surge.
It worked.
The Teutuls jumped on that, too, to be sure, building the Fireman bike to memorialize those lost in the FDNY, the POW bike and then the Jet bike to honor the forces in Afghanistan.
But why did this show almost instantaneously rise above the "American" fray and become this big overall?
The episodes, after all, are pretty formulaic.
Can they finish some bike before some deadline?
That's the forced tension.
Then there's some arguing.
And then there's the comic relief — Paul, Paulie and Mikey acting like goofs.
Finish the bike.
Fade to black.
But simple as the structure might be, what it is, is the perfect storm of reality TV: equal parts macho and mushy, a combination, in essence, of, say, "Trading Spaces," "Monster Garage," and "The Osbournes."
why are they so popular?
How do you explain the overall Orange County Choppers phenomenon?
Put another way: How did these guys end up sitting in the same row that night in L.A. — or any night, anywhere, ever — with Paris and Nikki Hilton?
Having a well-watched reality TV series is nice, sure, but it's not like the Teutuls have cornered the market on that.
Selling a boatload of bobbleheads is nice, too, millions and millions of dollars worth of nice, but even the obscene amount of Choppers merchandise doesn't quite get at the celebrity quotient.
People can relate.
That's what everybody says.
How so?
Senior overcame alcoholism and has been sober since 1985, so there's that bit of individual reclamation, I suppose.
He's a self-made man, too, having gone, for instance, from Buster Browns to his current size-12 boots Red Wing makes specially for him.
He builds these bikes from scratch. He builds them with his hands. And he builds them well.
When it comes to custom choppers, Paulie's an artist.
So there's that.
"It's cross-cultural," Craig Piligian, the producer from "Survivor" who worked with Discovery to put the Teutuls on the tube back in late 2002.
"It's a relationship show. It's father-son. It's brother-brother. It's what it takes to work with family. Everyone can watch that show and say, 'God, that's how I grew up.'"
Again, that helps explain why the show works, but the next step in this conversation — why they, themselves, are so popular — probably says as much about us as it does about them.
About what we watch.
What we like.
How we think.
They're everymen, the Teutuls.
And the challenge now — and they know it — is to maintain that regular-guy image.
After all, how many times can they go on Leno before they're not regular guys anymore?
(The current count is four.)
Another thing about us:
Backlash is an inevitability.
How they handle that inevitability is the next question for the Orange County Choppers.
Get this
The Teutuls weren't even supposed to be on "American Chopper."
They were not The Discovery Channel's first choice.
But in the spring of 2002, two days before a network camera crew was set to start filming a one-hour pilot with some choppers-building bunch in New Hampshire, the two guys in charge of the project changed their minds and went with their guts.
"It was 11th-hour," says Discovery's Sean Gallagher, who was the show's original executive producer.
Craig Piligan, who'd been a producer on "Survivor" before being commissioned by Gallagher to help locate the right characters for "American Chopper," called the Teutuls from Los Angeles on a Wednesday.
A camera crew was up here that Friday.
When the first rough, unedited tapes got back to L.A., Piligan and Gallagher watched the footage and just kind of looked at each other, they say now.
"The old man was great, and the father-son relationship came to the forefront," Piligian says.
"American Chopper," of course, was what those in the industry call an "out-of-the-box" hit.
"And from then on," Gallagher says, "it just kept rolling."


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Greeks of the sixth century BC, who had established colonies along the coast, located Antaeus in the interior desert of Libya.
He would challenge all passers-by to wrestling matches, kill them, and collect their skulls, so that he might one day build out of them a temple to his father Poseidon. He was indefatigably strong as long as he remained in contact with the ground (his mother earth), but once lifted into the air he became as weak as other men.
Antaeus has defeated most of his opponents until it came to his fight with Heracles (who was on his way to the Garden of Hesperides for his 11th Labour). Upon finding that he could not beat Antaeus by throwing him to the ground as he would regain his strength and be fortified, Heracles discovered the secret of his power. Holding Antaeus aloft, Heracles crushed him in a bearhug. The story of Antaeus has been used as a symbol of the spiritual strength which accrues when one rests one's faith on the immediate fact of things. The struggle between Antaeus and Heracles is a favorite subject in ancient and Renaissance sculpture.
A location for Antaeus somewhere beyond the Maghreb might be quite flexible in longitude: when the Roman commander Quintus Sertorius crossed from Hispania to North Africa, he was told by the residents of Tingis (Tangier), far to the west of Libya, that the gigantic remains of Antaeus would be found within a certain tumulus; digging it open, his men found giant bones; closing the site, Sertorius made propitiatory offerings and "helped to magnify the tomb's reputation".[3] In Book IV of Marcus Annaeus Lucanus' epic poem Pharsalia (c. 65-61 AD), the story of Hercules' victory over Antaeus is told to the Roman Curio by an unnamed Libyan citizen. The learned client king Juba II of Numidia (died 23 BC), husband of the daughter of Antony and Cleopatra, claimed his descent from a liaison of Hercules with "Tinga", the consort of Antaeus.
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Dat is het zeker Teunis! Antaneus had alleen iets beter zijn bibs moeten vegen....of zou hij het hier in zijn 'broek' doen van angst?
Groeten, Erik
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Thanks Rafael!
Gràcies pels comentaris agradables Marçal
Greetings, Salutacions, Erik
De strijd is nog niet gestreden Erik, hij heeft nog één voet aan de grond. Maar dat zal niet meer voor lange tijd zijn. Ze staan schitterend op de sokkel en zijn een aanwinst voor je kontjesgroep ;)
Zeker niet Chris10 hier gaat het nog hard tegenn hard. Helaas is de verliezer van dit schouwspel al historisch bepaald.
Fijne avond, Erik
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1st Security Preparation250 W 40th St 2nd Floor, New York, New York Internet United States of America
1st Security Preparation Fake promise for job; Money upfront; No refund; Overpriced; Dirty Internet
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The classrooms were very congested and seats were foldable steel chairs. The instructors were not very professional and the rooms were very dirty and unorganized.
On the ad, it promised that we would start as soon as out training was finished, however, upon completion of the necessary certifications I learned that we would not get jobs, but rather would be sent to a security company at which we had to apply for a job. I was promised a career, not a job, however I received neither. Instead, they told us we would have to schedule interviews.
I understand that this is a training school and I did receive my certificates. But I do not appreciate the falso hope that their ads have provided. I only paid because I thought at the end I was promised employment, but instead I spent almost $300 and still have no job.
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Madonna and her boyfriend of three years, Brahim Zaibat, have ended their relationship, her rep confirmed to Gossip Cop.
Lady Gaga Lampoons Herself in 2063, 'Covers' Madonna on 'SNL' [VIDEOS]
Lady Gaga Talks Madonna Performing 'Born This Way' in Attitude Cover Story
Lady Gaga addressed her "feud" -- we're not sure what state things are in at this point, after the reductive thing, Madge mashing up 'Born This Way' with 'Express Yourself' during her live shows on the MDNA tour as if to say, "Look how similar her new song is to my old song" and that whole Yankee Stadium invite -- with Madonna in her Attitude magazine cover.
'Sex' is 21 Years Old
It was on this day, October 21, 21 years ago, Madonna's book, 'Sex' hit store shelves. No worries, there will be no pictures or descriptions of the book here but it goes to show how much of a trailblazer Madonna was for women in pop music.
Madonna Confesses She Was Raped Before She Was Famous
Madonna, Steven Spielberg + Simon Cowell Are the Highest Earning Celebrities of 2013
She may be the reigning Queen of Pop, but this year, Madonna holds dominion over all the other celebrities of the world, coming in above directing powerhouse Steven Spielberg and the creator of a million reality singing competitions, Simon Cowell.
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Western Unionwww.weternunion.com Nationwide U.S.A.
Western Union Western Union Sucks - Rip You Off and Treat You Like a Criminal Nationwide
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It's 10 dollars to send the money via the internet and 22 at one of their locations so I wanted to send it via the internet. So after many tries with their stupid, ill designed web site I was able to create a new identity. So I put in my bank card number and the transaction was approved by my bank. I then get an email from Western Union to call for verification. So I call asking why are we doing this after you accepted my card. She says just a few questions. I then answer all the questions correctly and she then tells me my transfer is denied. I ask why and she doesn't know. She says I have to go to one of their agents to do the transaction.
So Western Union is holding my money for 3-5 days after not approving me what a bunch of aholes. Additionally, if you now go to one of their agents they charge you 22 dollars to send the money and make you go in a corner and phone some stupid 1-800 number where you listen to 10 minutes of recordings then are asked a bunch of personal questions just so I can give them cash. They are probably selling your name to a mailing list. THESE GUYS MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE A CRIMINAL.
I am sending PAYPAL and will not use Western Union again. I've never seen a company so greedy, rude and disrespectful to their customers as well as completely disorganized.
In fact I wouldn't be suprised if their vendors complain too many people are using the internet so they screw up the web site so they can make more money. These guys are a joke. A very bad joke!
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Returning from active duty in 1944-45, McDonald returned to Indianapolis, but was called by the Red Wings once again. It was for just three games this time. The Detroit Red Wings traded McDonald, Don Grosso, and Cully Simon to the Chicago Black Hawks for Earl Siebert and Fido Purpur on January 2, 1945, and McDonald immediately suited up for the Hawks. But at the end of the 1944-45 season, Chicago sent McDonald to their affiliate in the USHL, the Kansas City Pla-Mors. Unfortunately, Butch McDonald did not play any more in the NHL, and he retired during the 1949-50 season.
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PETLAND2920 George Busbee Parkway Northwest Kennesaw, Georgia United States of America
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I wish I would have known what I know now about the term "puppy mill" -- I bought a VERY EXPENSIVE puppy naively in college and (although I only graduated a year ago) am still paying off a $1,500 dog that I ended up having to GIVE AWAY DUE TO HEALTH PROBLEMS! THE FLIPPING GM IS THE OWNER'S SON!!! THEY WERE COMPLETELY UNREASONABLE WOULDN'T GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK AFTER DOCTORS NOTES OF THE POOR HEALTH AND LETTERS FROM AN ATTORNEY THREATENING TO SUE -- Figured I was in too deep of fees at that point I wanted to kill myself from the extra load of stress it added with school that I just gave up- but am STILL paying for it! DO NOT go there! It's a death wish!
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Humane Society says Petland supports cruel...??
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The Humane Society of the US today, November 20, released the results of a shocking investigation showing that pet store chain Petland Inc. is the nations largest retail supporter of puppy mills. This information is the results of an 8 month investigation that shows Petland stores in multiple states marketing dogs from cruel puppy mills to unsuspecting dog buyers. Tell Petland to stop selling puppies!?
Bad place to buy a hamster??
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AUTHOR: Geoff - (United States of America)
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I know there are pet stores out there that engage in puppy mill activities and I find the act horrid and sickening myself.
Just to recapitulate the thoughts on the remarks above, it seems very fictitious in nature but hey, some people will believe anything they read on the internet and immediately believe it to be true even if it is absurdly false.
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The vet's name is Dr. Good, I did not notice this until I called to make the appointment. I have had previous encounters with this vet. Most notably in 2008, when I took my German Shepherd for a routine checkup everything went well, until I realized on the car ride home that half of his tongue had been severely cut. When I returned back (extremely irrate) at the Vets office Dr. Good pretended they had no knowledge of how the cut occurred. This should speak volumes on the character of Dr. Good and Petland.
They do not buy from puppy mills? really? Yeah I heard that from your father as well, so not true. I have actually retraced my puppy from the puppy mill she came from to their Petland store. (petshop.com) They treat dogs and animals in general just as a grocer would treat a can of green beans. Instead of buying go in and ask questions, it will soon be apparent they are bullsh*tting. Poor puppies though, it's not their fault.
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Austin's Great Opportunity
Partly because it is in a state of creative revival, Austin, TX, is in a special, perhaps a unique, position to show the world how a city can end homelessness. We referred to the plan created by Richard R. Troxell of House the Homeless. Now his latest published work is in the March issue of The Progressive Populist, and it's called "Restore opportunity with a Living Wage."
What makes Austin so wonderful? A place can be remarkable for a while, then become ordinary. Despite many changes over the years, Austin somehow still retains the cachet of cool. When a writer of Michael Ventura's caliber makes a place home, you know it's got something going for it. There are countless excellent visual artists and all kinds of other creative people in and around Austin, and, of course, the legendary music scene.
The music history of Austin is nothing short of awesome, in the original, non-cliche sense of the word. From the long-gone Armadillo World Headquarters to the amazing SXSW festival, those factors and a thousand more have made it the music capital of the Southwest, and a world-class music town.
There is another Richard, whose last name is Florida. His book, The Rise of the Creative Class, chose only two places as examples of the top-level creative city, one across the Atlantic (Dublin, Ireland) and one in the USA, namely, Austin. Florida goes into great detail about how Austin exerted itself to "build the kind of habitat required to compete and win in the Creative Age." In his view, the three legs on which Austin's superiority rest are the cultural scene, the high-tech industrial (nerd) sector, and the music scene. He writes:
Austin includes traditional nerdistan developments to the north, lifestyle centers for cycling and outdoor activities, and a revitalizing university/downtown community centered on vibrant Sixth Street, the warehouse district, and the music scene.
In researching his book, Florida spoke with several people for whom relocating to or staying in Austin was the most important factor when they made a job decision. One informant said:
I can have a life in Austin.
Back in the autumn of 2009, journalist Marc Savlov interviewed people experiencing homelessness, who are as likely as housed people to be the victims of street crime. If predators are among the homeless, other street people are the easiest prey to catch. Some interviewees expressed regret that hardcore boozers and addicts give everybody a bad name. An informant known as J. D. said:
One thing that would really help decrease the numbers of homeless in Austin is if the city could try to raise public awareness of the fact that there's a difference between 'crackheads and alcoholics' and 'homeless people.'
Austin struggles with the same issues as any other city, because the homeless are everywhere. Sometimes the reactions are illogical. Savlov says:
Tackling the homelessness issue while trying to find a way to improve quality of life for everybody — housed and houseless alike — is tantamount, as virtually everyone interviewed for this article can attest, to saddling a Hydra.
The journalist explored some of the issues that plague the city, and talked about the Great Streets Program, described as:
… an urban redevelopment effort that would include widening of sidewalks for cafe-style dining, abundant shade-producing trees lining the streets, and a higher concentration of mixed-use retail space alongside existing bars and music venues… While not specifically an anti-crime measure, Great Streets brings in more people at leisure — and a higher number of people is a natural deterrent to crimes of opportunity.
With all due respect, something is left out here. The implication is that crime is only prevented when "people at leisure," i.e., housed people who are relaxing from their jobs, are out and about. But the homeless occupy urban spaces too. Having them around, as some of the ears and eyes making up that "natural deterrent to crimes," can't be such a bad thing.
Cities are shared with the homeless, whether the housed people like the situation or not. In the profound words of a bumper sticker, "It is what it is." And starting from there, it can change if we change some of our ways of thinking about it.
Ace Backwords points out, in Surviving on the Streets, that street people perform the valuable service of utilizing some of the material goods that would otherwise go to the landfill. By recycling some of the detritus of a wasteful society, the homeless help to reduce our collective guilt over squandering the earth's resources. Backwords makes another point:
The nocturnal life… can be seen as a public service that we perform to help alleviate the crowdedness of city life. We've volunteered to go on the night shift…
Another thing Richard Florida said is, members of the Creative Class choose Austin because:
What they look for in communities are abundant high-quality amenities and experiences, an openness to diversity of all kinds, and above all else the opportunity to validate their identities as creative people.
So, let's think about high-quality amenities, not just for the folks lucky enough to be employed in high-tech jobs, but for everybody. Openness to diversity means just that, and some of the diverse kinds of people to be found in this city, like any other, are people experiencing homelessness.
Now, here's the biggie. All the creative people of Austin have a splendid opportunity to validate their creative identities by figuring out this homeless situation in such a way that it will set a shining example to the rest of the world, as the city has already done in so many other ways. If any place is up to the challenge, Austin is.
Source: "How to end homelessness in Austin: A plan," CultureMap Austin, 02/08/12
Source: "Restore Opportunity with a Living Wage," Populist.com, 03/01/12
Source: "Overview," CreativeClass.com, 2004
Source: "Faces of Homelessness," The Austin Chronicle, 10/09/09
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Test Case — Austin
Austin, Texas, is seen as one of the finest cities in the country, one of America's urban gems. For a long time, its reputation has been that of a liberal, progressive, enlightened city in the midst of a state that is not so much any of those things. Thanks to the "City of Austin Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone No. 17," aka the "Waller Creek Tunnel Project Final Project Plan," which helpfully gathered the list, we see that Austin has bragging rights to a long and growing list of "bests" (link is PDF), including but not limited to:
1st place — "Best Large City for Relocating Families" in 2004
1st place — "Top 10 Cities for Hispanics to Live in" in 2005
2nd place — Top Creative Class Cities in 2002
2nd place — "Ten Greenest Cities" list in 2005
3rd place — "Best Places" for business and careers in 2005
6th place — Nation's top tech hubs in 2005
11th place — "The 25 Best Running Cities in America"in 2005
One of the top 10 cities to be a dog in 2005.
Relevant to the last item, in 2011 it was announced:
Austin achieves 90 percent live animal outcome; reaches no-kill status… by achieving a 90 percent live-animal outcome for all animals that enter the Town Lake Animal Center.
Now, that's admirable, and no animal should ever suffer, but here's the thing. Hopefully, it won't get to where the kill rate for stray creatures is more favorable than the kill rate for homeless people. Austin may be a great place for a dog, but it's not so wonderful for a lot of folks. This could change. Hopefully, now more than ever, Austin is capable of looking through reasonable eyes at people experiencing homelessness and seeing more than just a nuisance to be gotten rid of.
Sure, some down-and-outers are never gonna make it. But — and this is a very important but — like any other metropolis, Austin has not just a social and fiscal liability on its hands, but, at least partially, a talent pool of potentially useful and contributing citizens.
Last week, we talked a little about the article recently published by Richard R. Troxell of House the Homeless. Titled "How to end homelessness in Austin: A plan," it is part of CultureMap's Imagine Austin's Future series. Richard believes that the Universal Living Wage will end homelessness for about half of Austin's homeless population. Nationwide, the number is projected as 1,000,000. That would add up to a lot less stress for government agencies and helping organizations.
House the Homeless has devoted a lot of time and energy to assessing the health status of Austin's homeless population, and arrived at some troubling conclusions. One is that a lot of homeless people are just plain incapable of holding down a job, because of disabilities and other health issues. Of the homeless who are capable of working, most would love to be employed.
And, big surprise, a lot of people experiencing homelessness are employed now, possibly even at more than one job. And still can't make ends meet. They are what Richard calls the economic homeless. He writes:
… [A]s it stands now, a person can work a full time job and still not be able to afford basic rental housing either in Austin or any city in the U.S…. [F]or those who can work, we need to fix the Federal Minimum Wage (FMW, currently $7.25 per hour)… By simply indexing the FMW to the local cost of housing using HUD Fair Market Rents, we ensure that anyone working 40 hours in a week will be able to afford basic rental housing.
For people who can't work, the solution, he believes, is to increase Supplemental Security Income, which presently only adds up to half of what a minimum-wage earner makes. If even some jobholders are unable to find housing, imagine how much more difficult it is for people who only make half that much.
Yes, it might cost the taxpayers more. On the other hand, it might not, if the taxpayers would ever take more of an interest in how much money is wasted by government (or disappears into places it's not supposed to be). Maybe there are places where the money could be found without having a tax impact. Surely, somebody can figure out this stuff. Molly Ivins, where are you now, when we need you so much?
Just to put things into perspective, here is Richard's capsule description of another lengthy, uphill local effort:
About 12 years ago, advocates organized to create and pass housing bonds. After about ten years, the bonds were passed and money for 350 units of housing was set aside for people experiencing homelessness. Only about a third of this housing has been created. Do the math. How many decades to house 4,000 people at that rate?
He closes with:
In overview, we can see that with clear vision, new perspective and collectively involving the city, the citizens of Austin, federal and state governments and the business community in a fair, equitable, balanced and profitable fashion, we can end homelessness as it exists today.
Austin has a splendid opportunity to set an example of how to do the most beneficial thing for the biggest number of people. Austin is a test case whose success could revolutionize the homeless scene and influence policy, for the better, in other cities. It's the chance of a lifetime to make a whole lot more "best" lists.
Source: "Tax Increment Financing Reinvestment Zone No. 17 (Waller Creek Tunnel Project)" (PDF), ci.austin.tx.us March 2008
Source: "City and County Notes—March 2011," ImpactNews.com, 03/25/11
Source: "How to end homelessness in Austin: A plan," CultureMap.com, 02/08/12
Image by William Beutler, used under its Creative Commons license.
Occupy Occupied — by People Experiencing Homelessness
The homeless community and the Occupy movement agree on many points:
— The yawning chasm of wealth disparity is not to be tolerated.
— People need jobs.
— Corporate greed is at fault. (Maybe not all corporations. Greedy ones, definitely.)
— Also guilty is the whole mess with the banks and the foreclosures.
— There needs to be a separation of money from politics, and vice versa.
Still, some cosmically absurd things have been going on. A bunch of protesters take over a private or public space, to bring attention to their oppressed status. They are supported by some and vilified by others, who are even willing to use force to make them leave. The protesters' cause is just, and all right-thinking people ought to agree with them.
Then… a bunch of people experiencing homelessness comes into that occupied space, and their claim is a legitimate one, of even more oppressed status. They are supported by some, but others would prefer that they stay out. The homeless people's cause is just, and, to their way of thinking, all good people ought to support it. What a situation!
What happens when Occupy gets occupied? Sometimes, the homeless are treated as intruders and hazardous nuisances. They are said to jeopardize the legitimacy of the Occupy movement. From that standpoint, it's a public relations nightmare. But the news is not all bad.
From Boston, MA, John Zaremba reports that the city will not act to prevent Occupiers from spending the winter on Dewey Square, as long as rules for public safety are observed, including a ban on open fires and kerosene heaters. The reporter interviewed a logistics and supplies person from the Occupy Boston camp, Kristopher Eric Martin, who said of the homeless members:
These guys are experts at staying warm and staying dry. All these guys are used to living on the streets and sleeping with one eye open.
Among the helpful hints offered by the people experiencing homelessness: Extra protection from the cold can be obtained by stuffing hay or straw between layers of clothing. First off, where do urban street people get hay and straw? Good grief, what story will we see on TV on Christmas Eve? News of a homeless person arrested for taking the straw out of a church's nativity scene to insulate their clothing?
Remember Otzi the Ice Man, the 5,300-year-old frozen corpse found in the Alps? He wore a cloak of woven grass, and his shoes were stuffed with grass and moss for warmth.
So, here we are in America in 2011, with some citizens teaching other citizens the survival skills of a Neolithic hunter. Now, that's progress.
From Seattle, WA, Paula Wissel wrote about the ongoing struggle concerning Westlake Park, where protesters continued to stay despite being officially forbidden. The mayor has been ambivalent. He sympathizes with the protesters, but there are local residents and businesses to consider. Apparently, the movement has sparked some hope among the city's urban indigent people. The reporter sought an opinion from a citizen named Delmar Bryant:
He says he's lived on streets all over the Northwest. He believes Occupy Seattle is the start of something special.
The situation in Atlanta, GA, seems to be kind of strange. Early last month, Gwynedd Stuart titled a post, "Occupy Atlanta uniquely OK with homeless 'interlopers.'"
Well first of all, Atlanta is not so unique in being okay, as we have seen. But here's the unusual slant. Stuart speaks of:
… Occupy Atlanta's acceptance of the homeless — which is probably best demonstrated by the decision to actually move into a homeless shelter…
Apparently, when demonstrators were ejected from Woodruff Park, about 100 of them moved into the top floors of the Peachtree-Pine homeless shelter, where around 600 homeless people already lived. In other words, Occupy Atlanta occupied the homeless shelter.
The controversial shelter's future was already precarious. Later in the month, Bob Cramer, who was chairman of Atlanta's Task Force for the Homeless for 14 years, wrote:
With the loss of so much public housing, low-income Atlantans have few choices and little hope. With the possible loss of the Peachtree-Pine shelter, homeless people may once again need to use Woodruff Park as a refuge, perhaps standing shoulder to shoulder with Occupy Atlanta, perhaps to die once more on our streets.
Eugene, OR, is on the cusp of major change, with an upcoming vote on whether to allow continuing life to a large encampment of people experiencing homelessness. Edward Russo reports:
The council is to vote on whether to let Occupy Eugene continue its camp of mainly homeless people in Washington-Jefferson Park… The protest group wants to remain in the park and work with city officials to find a place to build a permanent camp for the homeless.
The settlement is said to consist of between 150 and 200 people, some protesters and the rest representing a very small fraction of the city's estimated 4,000 homeless people. The occupiers want to help collect donated materials and build kitchens, showers, and necessities. But opinions differ of the advisability of this. City Councilor Chris Pryor, who works for United Way, told the reporter:
I am part of the human services world that doesn't think living in a tent is a step to solving homelessness. The long-term solution is to get people into jobs and housing.
On the other hand, St. Vincent de Paul Director Terry McDonald told Russo:
Occupy Eugene has engaged homeless youth. The group's gatherings and workshops in the campsite are giving the youths something to do other than simply try to survive on the streets… bringing them from a more feral society to one that is more civil…
House the Homeless has communicated with dozens of Occupy groups throughout the nation, encouraging them to get behind the Universal Living Wage. Richard R. Troxell says:
According to the last several U.S. Conference of Mayors reports, no one working at a full-time minimum wage job can afford to get into and keep a one-bedroom apartment anywhere in the country. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, this will result in 3.5 million homeless minimum-wage workers this year alone.
The situation is summed up by a comment from "Kiddo":
Homeless Americans most directly represent the impact of our exploited brokedown financial system. Their very living situation IS part of the protest. That they lack regular shelter and means, and are (unfortunately) available to protest via occupation is to all our benefit…. We all have a place in this movement.
Source: "Occupiers turn to homeless for tips," Boston Herald, 10/19/11
Source: "Homeless find home at Occupy Seattle, so is it still a protest?," KPLU.com, 10/10/11
Source: "Occupy Atlanta uniquely OK with homeless 'interlopers,'" clatl.com, 11/01/11
Source: "25 years of poverty vs. power," ajc.com, 11/25/11
Source: "Homeless find ally in Occupy," RegisterGuard.com, 12/11/11
Image by Kalinago English (Karenne Sylvester), used under its Creative Commons license.
Minimum Wage and the Rental Market
Big cities usually have apartment shortages. This is nothing new. But, nowadays, the prospective tenants come from a different demographic. Many of them are former (attempted) home buyers who couldn't hold on. Some are people who, in a better economy, would be perfectly capable of buying a home, if they found work in the field they were trained for instead of washing cars or collecting unemployment. (And some have listened to Rich Dad, Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki, who says, "Your home is not an asset.")
Ben Markus of Colorado Public Radio discusses recent events in Denver, and starts by talking about his visit with a couple renting a two-bedroom apartment for more than $900 per month. Before getting into that, here is some background. The page called "Living Wage Calculation for Denver County, Colorado," explains that:
The living wage shown is the hourly rate that an individual must earn to support their family, if they are the sole provider and are working full-time (2080 hours per year).
They figure a typical two-adult household spends $692 a month on housing. But, in order to do that, each one of them has to be making at least $8.64 per hour. The minimum wage is $7.25 per hour. This means that a pair of minimum-wage workers would be hard-pressed to afford a $692 apartment, which probably has only one bedroom anyway, and certainly would not be able to afford the two-bedroom that goes for $900.
A family with two adults and two children needs $27.00 per hour coming in. But even if both adults are working, if they're working for a minimum wage, there is less than $15 per hour coming in. That's a pretty big discrepancy.
A fiscally prudent person doesn't budget more than a quarter of their income for housing — that's what they used to teach in home economics classes. Then somebody sneakily raised the bar. Now we are told, it's wise not to spend more than one-third of the income on housing. And we're supposed to feel just as prudent. (But one-third is more than one-fourth.)
Getting back to Markus, he next speaks with David Zucker, a land developer who is putting up a building different from the building originally planned for the spot, near Denver's downtown. Markus says:
This project was originally planned as condos. But when the housing market collapsed, Zucker went back to the drawing board. Eventually, his financers looked at all the renters entering the market, and they liked his new idea of retooling the project from 60 condos to more than 200 apartments… Now, more than a dozen apartment buildings are going up in the Denver metro area, and dozens more are planned.
Then, he quotes economist Patrick Newport, who says:
We're going to see more renting, less homeownership. And the recovery that we see in the housing market is going to be one that's characterized more by more apartment construction, and less by single-family construction.
Markus also quotes investment broker Greg Benjamin, who says that financing is available for these projects now because demand exceeds supply, "allowing landlords to charge higher rents." Well, of course, builders are getting into this apartment trend because they anticipate charging high rents. What they don't seem to take into account is that there may not be many tenants who can pay high rents. But they don't seem interested in creating low-rent housing.
Still, it's possible that many existing renters will upgrade their lifestyles, leaving behind, and available, the older, less desirable apartments. Such units might even be affordable to the working poor. At any rate, although the increased number of apartments is good news, it's only half the equation, the half that comes from the top. We also need the other half of the equation, the one that comes from the bottom. What we need is the Universal Living Wage (ULW), to put well-deserved adequate pay into the hands of people who want to rent those properties.
About the effect of a minimum wage hike, blogger Kasey Steinbrinck says:
Studies show that people at the lower end of earning tend to put the money right back into the economy. They get their car fixed, pay for needed home repairs, buy new clothes and spend money at many local businesses.
And spend it on apartment rent, if they get half a chance. A lot of people would like to move out of their vans, or off their mother's couches, and find places of their own.
Steinbrinck also says this about minimum-wage workers:
When adjusted for inflation, the real value of their compensation actually fell by 5% since the federal minimum wage was last raised in 2009 to $7.25 an hour. If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation over the past 40 years it would be almost $10.40 an hour… The Economic Policy Institute estimates that that raising the minimum wage to $9.50 would result in more than $60 billion in consumer spending. Now that's a pretty nice economic stimulus!
But, of course, we have all traveled and know that the cost of living (the cost of housing) is not the same in Cleveland, Ohio, as it is in Santa Cruz, California, or in Washington, D.C., etc. In fact, we are a nation of 1,000 economies, each with its own cost of living. That is what the Universal Living Wage will address. It will ensure that a person working 40 hours in a week will be able to afford the basics: food, clothing, shelter (utilities included), wherever that work is done throughout the United States.
And the other wonderful aspect of the ULW is that it will stimulate the housing construction industry all across America and create jobs as we put the difference between the Federal Minimum Wage and the Universal Living Wage into the pockets of millions of working poor who all need the same thing: truly affordable housing. Finally, this will happen over a 10-year period in order to accommodate the business community. In this fashion, we can end homelessness for over 1,000,000 minimum-wage workers. Wow!
Source: "Demand For Denver Apartments Outstrips Supply," NPR.org, 11/29/11
Source: "Living Wage Calculation for Denver County, Colorado," Living Wage Calculator
Source: "Boosting Minimum Wage to Boost the Economy," The Check Advantage Blog, 07/25/11
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HPCR – There Must Be a Better Way
This might be the quotation of the year:
The City of New Orleans cleared out the camp to reduce homelessness in the city.
Is that what they think they're doing? Amazing. Reduce homelessness by clearing out camps. Who knew the answer could be so simple?
Here's more of the story, as reported by Tania Dall:
A homeless encampment underneath the Ponchartrain Expressway along Calliope Street is gone… On Friday morning, city workers showed up to clear bicycles, sleeping bags, and other items belonging to the homeless. The city says it will continue patrols to keep this area clear.
About 112 people are said to have lived in the encampment. The city says that 85 were moved to temporary housing, 20 taken to shelters, and 10 "placed on buses to be reunited with family or friends out of town." That already adds up to 115, and the reporter also says that some of the displaced people went to join Occupy NOLA. So, who knows?
The nonprofit organization UNITY of New Orleans told the reporter,
… 60 percent of the people living in the old encampment suffered from mental illness, 25 percent of those had some sort of developmental disability…
Elsewhere, Bruce Eggler adds detail:
The area under the expressway has been closed and no one will be allowed to sleep or camp there… The Department of Sanitation will remove any mattresses, chairs or other items found there and pressure-wash the area…
According to the mayor's office,
The city coordinated the relocations and respite housing in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs, Volunteers of America, Travelers Aid, Metropolitan Health Services District, Grace Outreach and UNITY of Greater New Orleans.
But, getting back to Tania Dall's piece, she said,
… the move came as a shock to some nearby shelters that claim they weren't given advance notice.
So, what kind of coordination is that? Again, who knows?
Actually, the activities in New Orleans sounds relatively benign in comparison to some of the other cities described by House the Homeless in previous posts. A person could get tired of hearing about "sweeps" and "cleanups." Seems like there are so many of them these days. As a group deemed undesirable, people experiencing homelessness today are pretty much like Gypsies have been throughout the centuries. Society definitely doesn't want them in its backyard. They need be cleared out and cleaned up.
On the other hand, either group provides handy scapegoats. In the old days, if a child went missing, the Gypsies were assumed to have kidnapped him or her. Now, if there's a beer can on the lawn, it must be the homeless people. In reality, whoever dropped that litter might have been a college student, or your spouse.
Either group provides convenient targets for the free-floating aggression of the settled populace. Any time a few local yokels get drunk and go out looking for somebody to beat down, who is out there in the open air, unprotected by locks, or even walls? Gypsies and homeless people.
And the townsfolk get to be all self-righteous, and feel superior to the people who own nothing. And they use the law to take away the very few possessions that remain. News articles blather on about how city personnel or volunteers come out to clean up all the trash after the homeless people have been ejected from the camp they called home.
Sure, it's a mess, but there's a dark humor in all this. Where do you take out the garbage, when you live in the junkyard? When you yourself are considered trash, where do you take out the trash?
One person's trash is another person's treasure. Just to have a good sleeping bag can make the difference between survival and despair. Imagine losing your sleeping bag because you went to find something to eat, and when you came back, the place where you had lived was bulldozed into oblivion.
And, really, would it be such an outlandish idea to get rid of the trash and leave the people in place? Couldn't a city just put some portable toilets and a dumpster near a homeless settlement, and maintain them?
Better yet, what if we had a society where nobody is desperate enough to camp out in the woods? Is there an answer to this? Well, for now, the Homeless Protected Class Resolution could possibly put a stop to some of the worst excesses performed upon people experiencing homelessness.
And, for the future — the one where we don't have any homeless people — we propose the Universal Living Wage. The exciting new development is that House the Homeless is encouraging the Occupy movement to turn its energy in this direction. (Please see "Living Wage Campaign: The Answer to Occupy Wall Street") and don't forget to sign the petition!
Source: "City of New Orleans closes homeless encampment," WWLTV.com, 10/28/11
Source: "New Orleans ousts about 115 homeless people from underneath Pontchartrain Expressway," NOLA.com, 10/28/11
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- Finding photos by keywords, ratings, and filters
- Fixing group shots and merging multiple exposures with Guided Edit
- Correcting photos automatically in Quick Fix
- Adding adjustment layers to correct color and lighting
- Eliminating red-eye in portrait shots
- Reducing digital noise
- Preparing photos for the web
Skill Level Beginner
If you have ever had people walk through a scene that you are trying to photograph, you know how frustrating that can be. But even if you can't get one clean shot of your subject without passersby in it, if you do take multiple shots of the same scene from the same position, you can then use the amazing Scene Cleaner feature in Elements Guided Edit workspace to create one blended image from those multiple photos in which the passersby, or any other moving elements, can be eliminated. I have gone ahead and opened four images of the same scene, each with different people walking through it and I have opened those into Elements Guided Edit workspace as I have showed you how to do in previous movies.
I am going to go down to the Project Bin at the bottom of the Guided Edit workspace and I am going to click on the first photo thumbnail and then hold down the Shift key and click on the last photo thumbnail so all four thumbnails are selected. Then I am going to go over to the Guided Edit panel on the right and down to the Photomerge category where I am going to click on the Scene Cleaner technique. Over on the right there are now some written instructions as to how to use the Scene Cleaner and some tools for performing the technique.
There are two windows here, the Source window and the Final window. The first image, the one with the blue border around it, is currently showing here in the Source window. I am just going to cycle through all four thumbnails, so you can see that each of the photos of this scene has different people walking through it. So there is the first image, the one with the blue border. Here's the image with the yellow border, the green border and the red border. First, I am going to identify which of these four images I want to use as the base image or the final image into which I am going to blend parts of the others.
I am going to use the second image, the one with the yellow border around it, as my final. So in the Project Bin I will click and hold on the thumbnail with the yellow border and drag it up into the Final document area and release my mouse. Now I want to set up which image I am going to use as my first source image. I am going to use this first one, the one with the blue border. So to make that the source image I will just click one time on that thumbnail in the Project Bin. And as you can see there is a blue border around the source image identifying that first thumbnail as the current source image.
So I'm working on the final image and the first thing I am going to do is try to remove this fellow, Jacob, from the final image. I will go over to the instructions and make sure that I have the Pencil tool selected. Then I am going to go into the final image and I am just going to scribble over Jacob, and automatically Jacob is eliminated from the final image. To see that better I will go over to the Photomerge instructions and uncheck Show Strokes and now it's clear that Jacob has been eliminated from the final image.
What has really happened is that when I made that stroke in that area of the final image, Elements took corresponding pixels from the source image and blended them into the final image over here. And if I check Show Regions, you can see exactly which areas it took from the source image and put into the final image. This area here that's not yellow. So I am going to uncheck Show Regions and I am going to check Show Strokes again and I am going to go on to try to eliminate this fellow who is walking out of the scene.
Again, with the Pencil tool selected I am going to click and drag it over this fellow and then I am going to move my mouse out of the final window so that you can see that the fellow who was walking out of the scene is now eliminated from the scene, because Elements has come in and taken this area of the source photo and blended it over the fellow who was walking out of the scene in the final image. However, at the same time, Elements brought in someone new, this fellow in the red shirt, Dave, and the reason is that this line over here is too close to Dave.
So if I turn on Show Regions you can see that it brought in the region that includes Dave. How can I fix that? I can use the Eraser tool. I will like select the Eraser tool and then I will move over the final image again and I am going to erase the blue line over here on the right and that brings back the fellow who was walking out of the scene, but it eliminates Dave, the fellow in the red shirt from the final scene. Well how am I going to get the result that I want which is a final image with nobody in it? To do that, I am going to use yet another source image.
This time I will go down to the Project Bin and I am going to click on the source image with the green border and now I am going to go back and get the Pencil tool and I am going to click and drag over the fellow who is walking out of the scene just as they did before and that does eliminate him from the scene and it doesn't bring in anyone else, because in the source image with the green border there isn't anyone else near the area where I have drawn this green stroke. So I now have the result that I wanted at the beginning. I have an image that's free of all people walking through it, which is a blend of the first three thumbnails here in the Project Bin.
But now let's say I change my mind and I decide I do want to have somebody in the final image. I am going to bring in someone who is in this last source image, the one with the red border. So I will click the thumbnail with the red border and in this image I want to bring in the woman who is walking through the door here, Kelly. So I will make sure I have the Pencil tool selected in the instructions and then I will come into this source image and I will click and drag over Kelly. And right away she appears over here in the final image. I will move by mouse out of the final image so you can see her walking through the doorway there.
So I think this feature is really amazing. If you have taken more than one shot and you have stayed in approximately the same place when you made all your shots, Elements can help you to blend all those images together to get the content that you want in your final. I am going to scroll down on the right side of Photomerge to show you that there are some Advanced Options here. If I click the arrow to the left of Advanced Options, there is an Alignment tool that you can use if you are having trouble aligning your images, so that the content blends well. But in this case I didn't have any trouble so I don't need to use Advanced Options.
Notice there is also a Reset button down here, so if I don't like my final result I can always click Reset to go back to my original images and try again. If I am satisfied with the final, I will click Done and Elements creates another image, represented by this new fifth thumbnail down in the Project Bin, and here is a preview of the final here in the After view. At this point I will click the Close button and I would save this final image.


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