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A Do-over
We live in interesting times, and I'm glad about that. The past year reminds me of 1968, when George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, ran for President against Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey. Now there's been a fascist coup, wrapped in the flag that Sinclair Lewis predicted. And the revolution is being televised after all, and tweeted.
For me, the question now is how far ought people to go to get what we want? Resistance alone won't cut it, short of a national strike. The federal government is capable of anything, from entrapment and terrorism to infecting us with syphilis and assassination. We know that, and I'm not counting on their good intentions. The FBI, CIA, and NSA seem to be the most corrupt businesses the feds run, maybe next to the military.
So I think violence from the feds on down is bound to happen. Ask a Native American. We might not have to die for change, but we must be willing to die because governments at all levels are willing for us to do so.
The power elite are greedy and ruthless and rich. Research at the Berkeley Social Interactions Lab suggests that rich people have less empathy than poor people, so we've got a lot to look forward to from the new cabinet.
One area that we could give some attention to is our sources of information. I can't think of a good reason to trust any for-profit corporate news. They don't serve us, they deliver us to their customers. So I subscribe to news sources that I think actually want me to know the truth—The Intercept, Democracy Now!, Z Communications, and KZFR, for instance. If I'm deceived, I'm inevitably deluded, and the stories I hear are bound to influence what I think about.
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the hoorah—45 makes me laugh every day—and I'm looking forward to his supporters waking up, as they will eventually. My wife occasionally used to repeat a saying of her mother's, "The masses are asses." And they are, or we wouldn't still have an electoral college and only two major political parties, both of them astonishingly corrupt, and a congress whose decisions affect everybody but them.
The Russian bits sound like an idea I heard first in the sixties—that the Cold War was just a collaboration among oligarchs in the Soviet Union and the United States to make even more money, the reason for most wars.
What I still want most—next to a tropical getaway—is a do-over, a constitutional convention. I want to rethink everything, from who's a citizen and what that means to how laws are created, deleted, and enforced. Anarchism, to introduce a suitably radical note, doesn't mean no rules, it means no rulers, and I think some flavor of anarchism is worth a discussion.
Meanwhile I make sure I meditate every day, and you should, too. If we're anxious and fearful, we lose, no matter what side we think we're on.Leave the first comment ▶
Fifty-one fifty
Here's what happened. My son is a good kid, kindly and gentle. He has a mental illness, though, and the kindly, gentle part doesn't always show up.
I was at the kitchen sink a few weeks ago when he came up behind me shouting something I didn't catch. As I turned around he began swinging at me. He's a decent athlete but fortunately a lousy boxer, and I fended him off.
"Joe, what's the matter! Why are you doing this? What are you afraid of?"
It was only a few seconds, also fortunate because I have no stamina and he's twenty. He changed his mind, or maybe his mind changed him, and he went back to his room and slammed the door.
For the first time I called the cops to deal with another human on my behalf, and it was my youngest son. I hoped that he'd be taken to Enloe Hospital and then to the Butte County Psychiatric Facility, the Puff. That's what had happened four or five other times. I talked to someone at Enloe, but she would tell me only that he was there and calm.
I hoped being back at the Puff would persuade him to go back on his prescribed drug, although its usefulness leveled out last year. I'm not pro-drug, but if it would keep him calm, it might be his best bet.
Fifty-one-fifty is the number of the law that allows for the restraint of someone deemed to be a danger to himself or others. The police apply for a 5150, and a physician okays it. That's my understanding, and that seems to be the way things have gone before in this situation, so I was expecting him to end up at the Puff in a matter of hours, maybe the next morning. Butte County should have been notified—he'd been in this fix several times before—and would presumably arrange for his transfer to the Puff. No, just go back home.
My son is also delinquent in paying off the fines imposed by Butte County for his having been convicted of violating a restraining order, and he is presumably subject to arrest. Most recently, the Disability Determination Service Division of the Department of Social Services of the California Health and Human Services Agency scheduled a psychological examination for him with MSLA-Chico, another subcontractor at the public trough. He wouldn't even read the confirmation form or show up for an exam he feels is unnecessary and probably offensive, so he's likely not to get a disability income because he thinks he's alright. If he could deal with the system he wouldn't need it. Somehow, we voted for this.
Recently he got a letter from Butte County Behavioral Health threatening to wash their hands of the whole schmeer, since he won't take their drug or talk to anybody. They started to conserve him last year and now they're done with him. Just after that letter, he got a notice from the Butte County Superior Court to report for jury service. That's coordination, that is.
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I went to two conferences in the last couple of weeks, one on mental illness stigma and one on the economics of happiness. I keep busy. In the early seventies, I was conferring somewhere most months, usually de facto trying to figure out how to get more money from the feds for local community development of one sort or other, although usually we couldn't just say that.
I was grateful for the change of pace and scenery, especially since I didn't have to drive, and I appreciate getting to see all those people with the same intent, more or less, and actually talking to a few. It's encouraging just to know there are other people trying to do the same thing. Mental illness stigma can be as harmful as mental illness, and self-stigma keeps people with a mental illness from getting help. "Anything but that."
I wore my lime-green ribbon to the economics of happiness conference the next week, and only one person asked me about it. Apparently, the rest of them didn't care what my lime-green ribbon was for, and I don't blame them one bit.
The economics conference was a lot homier than the one about stigma the week before. The mental illness stigma conference was at the Hyatt in downtown San Francisco. The economics of happiness conference was in a church on the outskirts of downtown Portland. Different vibe altogether.
Some of the talks and workshops discussed: From GDP to Happiness and Well-Being, Community as Currency, Corporate Personhood and Trade Treaties, Community Rights in Action, Toward a Caring Economy, The Eloquence of Stones, Envisioning Local Learning, The Genuine Progress Indicator, and The Space Between Stories—some charts, no spreadsheets.
The lead-off man was a stand-up economist, a professor of economics who is a stand-up comedian. I laughed, so I'll say Noram Bauman is a funny guy, though no doubt many would disagree.
I most liked a workshop about community rights, where local laws take primacy over other laws, specifically including those of the State and federal government that grant the status of persons to corporations, so that communities can control their environments, instead of a legal fiction with no emotional stake in the neighborhood, a little like Wayne Cook.
From an article by Thomas Linzey: "[New community laws] not only prohibit fracking, drilling, corporate water extraction, sludging, or factory farms, they also establish local bills of rights which recognize the rights of residents to clean air, clean water, a sustainable energy future, sustainable energy us, and sustainable agriculture. . . . These communities have come to recognize that environmental and economic sustainability cannot be attained without fundamental changes regarding who the structure of law recognizes as the legal authority to make the rules within those communities. Attaining that structural change means openly defying the laws that got us here in the first place." Amen to that.
Locally there are ways to give people back the power we've ceded gradually and by big jumps to our sorry-assed elected officials and the corporations we allow to exist right in our front yard.4 comments so far, add yours ▶
I watch and listen to a lot of stand-up comedy online, and I'm mostly interested in how the comedians' values and assumptions show up, what they make jokes about.
Louis CK, for instance, is disgusted by his body, among other things, especially the naughty bits. He's willing to talk about it for money and is disgusted by it simultaneously, a workable combination for an artist, which he is.
When I heard recently that Amy Schildhauer was gonna do stand-up in an all-woman show at The Maltese, my neighborhood saloon, I went with great trepidation, because I'm especially susceptible to a certain kind of sympathetic agony when people fail. For instance, I can't listen to a bad singer, like the one I heard at a recital not long ago who sang flat with no vibrato, just after a stunning aria by the class star. That kind of thing makes me want to cry, I suppose because I imagine how awfully exposed and ashamed I would feel in that situation.
I admire stand-up comedians—and performers generally—for their guts, because it takes a lot of nerve to get up in front of strangers and try to make them feel the way you want them to. Some comics I can't stand. Sometimes they're too stupid or stuck on ridicule or just uninteresting. I hear the audience laughing, but I'm not. Some female comedians I've enjoyed are Amberia Allen, Sarah Millican, Maria Bamford, Chelsea Peretti, Celia Pacquola, Ellen Degeneres, Sarah Kendall, Amy Anderson, Dana Alexander, Sarah Silverman, Paula Poundstone, Moms Mabley, Margaret Cho, Lisa Lampanelli, Morgan Murphy, Kathy Griffin, Kathleen Madigan, Aisling Bea, Sarah Pascoe, and Felicity Ward.
I'm careful to breathe deliberately when a friend asks me to read something of theirs, because I'm afraid it's gonna be shite and I'll have to think of a way to say so kindly, not my long suit.
Fortunately, Amy made me laugh. Whew. I don't know what I would've said if she'd been awful, and thank God she wasn't. She also stood out because she talked about being fat, the only one in the first half of the show who did, although not nearly the only one who could have.
I was surprised at how vulgar the performances were. I don't mind vulgarity—I often like it—but this bunch didn't seem to know much of anything past dicks and vaginas. No phalluses, no pussies, no insight, no wit, no wordplay. I remember when sex was about all I thought about, but I've gotten used to other things being of interest, and the barrage of dicks and vaginas got old in a hurry. I'm an old fogey and grateful for the variety that allows. It's not that my dick has no influence, we're old pals after all, but I feel like I've given him his way enough. And he's so predictable.
I decided that the preponderance of sex observations and jokes was because sex is what they're still learning about, and nothing's more important than that at their stage of life, mostly under thirty and unmated. Until we find a mate, or think we have, mating gets most of our attention, males and females alike. Male lives are affected most by testosterone poisoning. I don't think any of the performers, including the transvestite emcee, was more than tentatively attached to another person, and nobody talked about education or employment or having children or politics or religion or much of anything past swapping fluids. Bless 'em.
They were all energetic and optimistic, which gives me hope for the race, though not always a reason to laugh, and that evening I did a lot of cringing. I'm going back, though. Even if sex isn't the main thing you think about, try standup comedy at The Maltese, and tell me what you think.2 comments so far, add yours ▶
There's a movement in Chico to elect Silly Council members by district, instead of at-large. Chico's mayor would be elected at-large by all eligible voters, rather than by council members, which is completely silly. As it is, being mayor of Chico just means it's your turn, not that voters wanted you in the job. By-district council members and an at-large mayor. Two good ideas.
I've complained before that the way we do things now gets us mostly bland people, not at all who we need. There are good reasons to change our system of doing things, including giving minorities a better chance to be elected and enabling an independent candidate to run a viable campaign without sucking up to a major party so as to be part of its slate.
The meeting I attended at the Butte County Library on First Avenue got a good turnout, and I learned a few things. The presenters said that Chico is about 70 percent white, only three people who aren't white have run for the council, and only Dan Nguyen Tan won. Randall Stone, currently a Silly Council member, announced that he counts as a minority too, because he's 50 percent Hispanic. I say "announced" because I had no idea that he was anything other than plain white, although I don't suppose it had been a secret.
The presenters also expect such a change in process to make elections cheaper for candidates, which I think will help people who aren't affluent to run for the council, and at the same time likely piss off the hardcore capitalists, since expensive elections are great if you can raise the cash, and they can.
There was some talk about ethnic diversity and Chico government's lack of it. It seems that the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 requires rather more diversity than we've got, and if the city is called on the carpet for being too homogeneous it'll be expensive, if not especially embarrassing. One old woman was incensed at the implication that Chico could be racist, but I think she's often incensed about something or other, and of course Chico is as racist as a lot of places in the U.S. and far more than many others.
I'd like to see more ethnic diversity on the council, mostly on principle, since ethnic origin doesn't mean all that much to me, and thinking that ethnicity is a person's most important characteristic is the essence of racism. I've not tracked any Silly Council member's voting record, but I bet Stone's decisions haven't been particularly Hispanic, whatever the hell that might look like.
There are a lot of things deplorable about Chicago's voting by ward for its city council, although the awfulness is not so much because of the system as because of the greedy lowlifes who run it. Nonetheless, when something's off in your neighborhood you know whom to call, you know who's at least pretending to represent you. When the giant pothole appears in front of your house, you call the precinct captain, who reports to the ward committeeman, who reports to the alderman. Simple and effective. If you live in Chico, every council member represents all voters, which is the same as nobody representing anybody.
I'm much more concerned about the complete lack of economic diversity in city government. I want people on the council who care about poor people because they are poor and know what it's like, not just because they feel sorry for us.One comment so far, add another ▶
My son didn't come home that Saturday night, January third, and I guessed what had happened. He'd been anxious lately, and I figured he had been harassing the neighbors and gotten himself picked up by the cops.
The next morning I saw I'd gotten a call in the wee hours from an 800 number, and it turned out to be the Butte County Jail. The number was useful only in that I learned that it was at the jail—inmates can't get phone calls so I couldn't get through to my son. I've always heard—and you too, probably—that arrestees get one phone call. I obviously don't know about you, but I've thought of it as a free phone call, since recent arrivals at the hoosegow might not have correct change.
You'll be pleased to learn that should you find yourself a guest of the Butte County Jail, you will be allowed that precious call at no cost to you. You might want to think carefully before you make it, because not only can it make all the difference to your personal experience, it's gonna cost whomever you call $14.99. Right. One phone call, fifteen minutes, fourteen ninety-nine.
Why would a single 20-mile phone call cost that much money? Because the Butte County Board of Ignoramuses gave SecurusTech.net a monopoly on calls from the jail. Any new inmate has to go through SecurusTech.net for $14.99, a sweet deal for the corporation, not so much for the poor boob who just landed in the slammer, and who now has to remember the number of somebody willing to spend $14.99 to hear what he has to say this time.
I've heard that in old Rome some guys would use slaves to carry water to a house fire, and if the owner wasn't a customer, he would watch it burn until the householder paid him off through the nose. If you don't meet the terms, you don't have a house, an elegant gouge, cruel and lucrative.
Access Corrections have their own deal and promise to provide much cheaper calling from the jail, if your loved one is gonna be inside a while. It sounded like just the thing, so I gave them some money. Rash move.
I was thinking he had been in for two days, but I couldn't be sure because the arrest logs for Saturday weren't ready yet, maybe because of a weekend surge, maybe because bureaucrats are hard to get rid of. The logs eventually went up on the jail's website. He was there, and I still haven't found out why the money I paid Access Corrections didn't let him call me.
I opened an account on SecurusTech.net and sent my son an email through Access Corrections—to which he could not reply and which cost $5.95—telling him to find out how to make the call on his end. That combination worked, and we got to talk the next day. Securus and Access Corrections are all-American capitalists, getting over like a fat rat on the backs of the poor, as usual, this time with the connivance of the Butte County Board. No matter who thought it up, no matter who gets a piece, the Board of Supervisors approved it.
I went to the hearing, or maybe it was a trial, and he got probation and fines of $402.50, including a $40 Court Operations Assessment and a $30 Conviction Assessment. He's set to start paying off an $800 fine from last October in a couple of weeks. If he misses a payment, he goes to jail. If he were well enough to earn any money, he wouldn't have gone where he wasn't wanted and be sitting with his back to us in an orange jumpsuit. It was hard to hear the judge, but I don't think anybody mentioned mental illness, although I'd left a message to that effect with someone at his public defender's office. Public defenders are assigned alphabetically, so he got the same one he'd had before, and for whose services he now owes Butte County $157.50. I thought public defenders were free for people who can't buy a lawyer. Actually, they're just cheap.
With time served, he'd be out in four days. That's what I thought, because he was sentenced to fifteen days, and it was his eleventh day inside. Instead, he fell through a crack in what passes for a system and called me that evening from the Home Depot down the road from the jail. He has a mental illness, he had refused his prescribed injection, and he was turned out in the dark 20 miles from home.
He had no cash, but he did have a check for $25, the money I had put in his account so he could buy stuff at the commissary. I had used a debit card at the machine in the lobby, and it cost $5.95.16 comments so far, add yours ▶
A gang or cabal of humans recently killed several others with whom they were not acquainted because they thought differently. Not only did these poor schnooks think differently from the gang, they drew and published pictures of Muhammad Ali that they should not have drawn to begin with, the pictures were also disrespectful, and the killers thought that killing the people responsible for the images would make them feel better.
Elijah Muhammad is such a big deal to these guys that he's totally holy and serious and nobody should ever laugh at him. I think organized religions are always crazy eventually, and still some are more compatible with rationality than others. I can't help thinking, and I've tried not thinking it, that outrage and righteousness like that come out of fear that actually the idea you've been giving your attention to all these years is horseshit, that all you think you know was filtered by many before you and is just a story anyway. Being that wrong would be hard to get used to, and maybe anybody who says differently from the way I know deserves to die because thinking any other way is so awful for me to think about.
I could speculate about weak-assed gods and the goofiness inherent in venerating anybody. Maybe next week.
Rather than face the truth they can't face, these lost souls opted for murder, always an option, I suppose. Maybe most people are killed for an idea, sometimes just the idea that the money in your wallet will help me feel better somehow, will make me a little happy, or another billion or two will make me feel secure at last and only a few people died, none of whom was even a Facebook friend.
You readers think, too. Yes you do, you're doing it now. Keep an eye on that. One Gentle Reader wrote not long ago about my essay on Sid Lewis, declaring that she could never feel safe or comfortable around me again. Chico's not a big place, and she's in for some awkward moments.
In regard to the girl Sid allegedly masturbated in front of, she says, ". . . your article erases this girl's existence and experience." How could that possibly be true? Have you ever read something that erased your existence? The girl would surely at least have to read it herself, unless the column put a hex or something on her, which was not my intention.
I just think our individual experiences are within our individual control. If I can't control my thoughts, the rest doesn't matter. That goes for you, too. My Gentle Reader says she's been traumatized, and I don't doubt it for a minute—she sounds traumatized to me.
My Gentle Reader and the guys in Paris who killed all those people at Charlie Hebdo sound similar to me because they're ruled by their minds and unhappy about it. It sucks to be them.4 comments so far, add yours ▶
Happy New Year
Nothing can happen to you that is worse than living in fear that something could happen to you. Cheri Huber (1944– )
Whatever is said is absolutely not true, including this. Gangaji (1942– )
It ain't ignorance causes so much trouble; it's folks knowing so much that ain't so. Josh Billings (1818–1865)
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. Caroline Myss (1952— )
You are not your emotions. They flow through you. You feel them. And then they disappear. Seth
If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day. Leonard Cohen (1934– )
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Isaac Rubin (1923– )
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799)
Enlightenment is absolute cooperation with the inevitable. Anthony de Mello (1931–1987)
Forgiving is not forgetting, it's letting go of the hurt. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955)
The miracle of gratitude is that it shifts your perception to such an extent that it changes the world you see. Robert Holden (1965– )
Row, row, row your boat,
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream. English Nursery Rhyme
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. Neale Donald Walsch (1943– )
Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway. John Wayne (1907–1979)
The function of prayer is not to influence God but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. Sǿren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813–1855)
There is no place on Earth to spit. Zen saying
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1939–1968)
The essential feature of quantum interconnectedness is that the whole universe is enfolded in everything, and that each thing is enfolded in the whole. David Bohm (1917–1992)
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. Adlai Ewing Stevenson (1900–1965), speech, Detroit, 1952
Obedience is not a virtue. It is an evasion of our responsibility. Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker, Proverbs of Ashes; Violence, Redemptive Suffering and the Search for What Saves Us
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for. Earl Warren (1891–1974)
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are. Chinese proverb
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. Siddhartha Gautama (c. 566–480 bce)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell (1872–1970
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. Olive Schreiner (1855–1920)
We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world—no government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men. Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race. Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
We are the mirror as well as the face in it.
We are tasting the taste this minute of eternity.
We are pain and what cures pain.
We are the sweet, cold water and the jar that pours. Mevlana Jalal-e-Din Mevlavi Rumi (1207–1273)
Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power. Benito Mussolini (1883–1945)
In the dark time will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing about the dark time. Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison (1751–1836)
I have always been an attorney for the defense. I can think of nothing, not even war, that has brought so much misery to the human race as prisons. Clarence Seward Darrow (1857–1938)
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present. Lao-tzu (c. 6th Century bce)
I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804)
Nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design. Harry Crews (1935– )
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. Albert Camus (1913–1960)
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. Edward Abbey (1927–1989)4 comments so far, add yours ▶


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Hello, I am trying to lower the volume with a pressure sensor connected to A0 but the function is called even though I'm not touch the sensor. Could someone please advise? Thanks!
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A Place for my Soul to Breathe...Pin It
I know...you think I'm going to get all preachy on you today. Well, I am, but not really. You see, the way I interact with God -- the way my soul grows -- it isn't very preachy. I grew up in church and I went to a Christian university and we still go to church faithfully -- and all added up? That is a lot of preaching. I get a little tired of preaching. Don't you?
What I don't get tired of are those moments when I can feel my soul breathe. I don't know if you have had those moments (I hope you have!), but once you feel it, you will always want more. Those moments when something lifts in your heart and you are simply at peace. You aren't crazy happy. You aren't even full of elation. You aren't even necessarily joyful. You are just at peace.
For me, that peace is directly tied to the way God speaks through nature. Perhaps it is childish of me that I find God the most through his tangible, smack-dab-in-your-face gifts instead of his more lofty spiritual gifts. In any case, I'm not going to argue with how and when. I just love the feeling of freedom when my soul breathes.
Perhaps you are wondering when I'm going to get to the point. I'm getting there I promise.
A few years ago, we had just moved to Pennsylvania and we were living in a townhouse. We were supposed to live there for a year but I was a little baby and needed a garden and a place for the boys to run. Looking back, I know that realistically, we should have stuck it out. Quite honestly, I knew I was being ungrateful in my heart at the time. I just couldn't stand it. I couldn't stand the babies waking the other babies up because the quarters were too close. I couldn't stand the stark whiteness and "townhouseiness" of it all. I couldn't stand the fact that my poppies bloomed 1/4" wide because they were being grown in pots that couldn't support them. I was tired of not having potatoes and tomatoes growing in my backyard. I was tired of not being able to paint walls and hang things on them. I was just a plain old baby about it all.
However. I am a little bit glad that I was a baby because we ended up with a house that lets my soul breathe.
I still haven't told you what I'm talking about....
Let me show you.
It is those places where sun glints through the plants like diamonds and that place where the sky goes on forever. It's that place where the green fills your eyes and then coats your veins and tumbles down into your heart. It is that moments when you breathe in the air and feel it living you life. It is the country and the woods and the beaches and the ocean. It is rocks and grass and trees and sky. It is the place where God reaches out and can physically touch us. My soul can breathe when there is space and life and light and growth. My soul can breathe when I can feel God.
Those photos? Those aren't of my home. Those are of the [incredible] Rapid Canyon Ranch in Wyoming. The problem? We can't afford hundreds and thousands of acres of unbroken sky. We can't afford a home where neighbors are invisible. We can't afford a mountain.
However. We can afford a home that lets my soul breathe. Sometimes you have to get on your knees and look under the plants to see the way the sunlight glows through the leaves. A blanket and a baby and that view? Your soul can breathe. Sometimes it is looking the right direction. Maybe you have a busy street in front of your home, but out the back you can see rolling hills in the distance. You don't have to own those hills for them to grace your heart.
All that said...my soul can breathe now. If I wouldn't have been such a baby, my soul could have breathed in that townhouse, but I was too stubborn. I wanted grass and trees and room to plant. I wanted sky and breeze and trees to climb. I wanted to own my little piece of land and raise chickens and chase groundhogs.
Are you in a space where it feels like you can't breathe? Re-evaluate your space, add some life, try to embrace your space and you might try adding a few of my styling tips to help. In any case, breathe. You can't live without it.


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Figured I'd give my pooch a trimming and be cheap about it and buy my own electric shears.
Since she is outside with me all the time in the summer and goes swimming, I thought what the heck? She certainly does dry off quicker.
Yes, I have heard of professional groomers but I enjoy a challenge.
I'm curious if other coat owners have done the same.
Kaia seems okay with it and didn't even attack me after the grooming session...and we all know how females can be a bit finicky about a new "do"....was that okay for me to say???
The before pic was when she was 9 months old with a ton of fur....she grew into the coat considerably. The after pic was just the other day when she turned 2.
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Beautiful girl :) I personally like the shorter look but either way she is lovely! Brave of you to do it yourself, I have no experience there at all, lol. I would have botched it and probably had to have Titan shaved :p
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She looks good. You did a great job :)
I butchered Hondo's 'butt puffs'. I used my horse clippers. The 'butt puffs' had to go. Everything stuck in them and he swims every day. Not as pretty. I just make sure I take shots of him coming towards me.
Looks nice!
I don't have a coated GSD, but a mixed breed that has a very long top coat (longer than a coated GSD, some of his hair is over a foot long) and a super thick undercoat. He was getting hot spots in the summer b/c of the humidity so I started having a groomer do a "lion cut". It looks silly but it works for him and he's much more comfortable, no more hot spots. I can't do it myself since the electric clippers I use on my husband can't even cut through his hair, it's so think.
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Looks great !
Looks great! What size guard did you use on your clippers?
Athena is going to be in heat again soon and she needs shaved down to keep her clean. LOL!
I used the longest one which came with this Oster Turbo A5 shears..it says 1/4 on it but no way did it leave just a 1/4 inch of fur. I did most of it without any guard on it as it seems to cut much better that way. As I mentioned earlier...because my dog stood so still I could risk using no guard and not worry about scalping her.
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Saw this today and went to look and take pics ( my jeeps in the back ) the owner of the garage comes out and starts talking about it . And he tells me he'd give it to me hauled to my house or a mechanic for 50 $ and 25$ for gas . He said it shouldn't take much to get it running .
I dont know the year .
Should I take him up on the offer or just say no .
How hard are they to take care of .
Thanks drake .
For that cheap i cant see anyway u could loose.
Unless you have your own body shop, garage, and a lot of expendable income it doesn't look promising. If you have the space and time though, parting it out on eBay would likely generate a few thousand dollars. Sell what you can off it and then have the rest hauled away.
I would jump on that in a heartbeat. thats cool just the way it sits old jeeps aren't ment to be perfect
Why is it not in your driveway right now???
i wouldnt have even thought twice about it, id have handed him the $75 right there and helped put it on the truck to lead it home. for that cheap you cant go wrong. its an old jeep, not meant to be a showpiece, with a little ingenuity and some elbow grease you can probably get it going without even having to put alot of money into it.
I'm not very me mechanically inclined .
But im head over Tuesday to look agin .
Well this is the perfect project to get you started then. Its not much money to buy and you can just do as you please with it. If you have someone who is a mechanic to hang around and give you tips that would be great also.
Give it a shot and don't be afraid to get creative and just do stuff. I would try to put as little money into it as possible. That's what I've been doing with my yj. I bought it for $300 and have only put $200 into it to get it running and driving nicely and another $200 on some goodies to get it looking nice.
It would already be In my driveway! Good luck with it
Dont ask any more questions BUY IT NOW! the best place to start building knowledge is on old and beat up cars. And this isnt just an old and beat up car its a WILLYS lol get off this forum and go buy it
Hey Drake, if you don't get it my dad and I want it! hahaha.
I would never off thought about anything. I would not of took it outta my sight until it was in my garage... You better go buy that thing right now. If you don't want to mess with it then I know you could turn around and make some money off of it.... Go buy it NOW!!!!!
So where exactly in TN is this located? lol
Id do it in a heartbeat, if it turns out too complicated to fix, id clean it up good bedline it and sell it for more.
That's an M38 A1 military jeep, not just any Willys cj5. Pick it up, you can sell it easily to a military guy.
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I wouldn't do a lot of agonizing over this. Your "right" answer is "yessir, my address is________________." This is a piece of history here. It appears to be a mid '50s M38A1. If it isn't running just yet, they are simplicity to the max, and would be a fun project to get going. By the color, it isn't easy to see, but if it a Marines version, you get a power lock at both ends. (that's a good thing). And it has a factory installed shackle reversal. Not to mention the machine gun mount on the rear crossmember. If you don't like the F head engine, a Buick v6, or Ford 302, or even a Chevrolet v8 is a simple swap. More than likely has 5.38 gears. Also keep in mind that if he offered it to you that cheap, he has offered it to others, and you may have to do it soon. Also, get as much paperwork as you can to register it. :dance: ps., don't just get it to part out, or sell and make money. Build it, and have a good time with it. Keep on Jeepin'
Its rusty bub, and money you have to put into something is money best spent else where. I would work on your rig you have no personally. but if you want to part it out, thats a smart choice. though I imagine if it had much in good condition worth parting out the guy would have done it.
Yea I have yet to decide . I have my tj and would like to mod it
Man I coulda drove to tennessee, picked it up, and been back with it running by now. Lol
55 new headlights 45 for new tags .
New gas tank 45 shocks 240
That's just a start .
( I've been through the restore thing fun but costly )
Anybody know if a willies engine is harder or easier to work on the air-cooled vw engines ?
Drake , it looks like a '53 model. A really good friend of mine has one, looks just like it. 4 banger and everything orig.
There is a man in Knoxville, TN. He has a lot of parts but he is proud of them $$. PM me and I might be able to find his #, if you want.
$$ is a big deal
I would have handed the guy a $100 bill and not whined if he did not have change.....
where is this thing???? i will take my trailer TOMORROW and give the guy $100.......
Please tell me.....
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Standard Zetec Vortech SC to SVT engine
I can possibly get my hands on a Vortech SC for a decent price for my SVT although it came off of a standard Zetec engine. After doing a bit of searching and reading, it looks like the Vortech SC bolts right up to the SVT with no real modifications or differences (other than what's in the install manual). The only real thing I need to worry about is the intake tubing... so that should be easy.
Specific Vortech hardware questions:
-Since this kit doesn't come with the aftercooler box (I think it's called H.O.)? Is it possible to mount one after the fact providing I find one?
-I read it's possible to mount an intercooler instead of an aftercooler, is that possible?
If I were to add the standard Votech kit on my SVT (no HO or intercooler), what increases am I looking at from 170?
Although looking at it, there would be no way of installing an intercooler between the blower and the throttle body
Man I can't wait to throw my motor, blower, tranny back in the ol svt. I have your same blower setup svtf410
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In 1992, frame relay was portrayed as an interim technology that would be replaced by Switched Multimegabit Data Service. In 1995, industry insiders predicted frame relay would be devoured by ATM. Today, many believe frame relay will fade away as everyone moves to IP-based VPNs. But don't hold your breath -- frame relay will be around for a long time.
There are several keys to frame relay's longevity. One advantage is its simplicity. Frame relay is, in the best sense of the word, a dumb protocol. There's no extra complexity, and implementations are simple. Making frame-relay-compliant premise equipment is easy, and any complexity, such as adding differentiated classes of service, is performed within the network.
The frame relay protocol is also efficient. Its header is the same size as that of PPP, typically used as an alternative with IP. So there's no penalty for using frame relay as the Layer 2 protocol for IP traffic. And for non-IP traffic, there's no need to encapsulate in IP.
Frame relay pricing is also simple. The elements on which pricing is based -- access plus ports for physical connectivity pricing plus a per-permanent-virtual-circuit price based on the committed information rate -- make comparison with dedicated services easy. In typical configurations, using frame relay results in savings of at least 50 percent compared with dedicated services that have comparable performance.
The connection-oriented nature of frame relay also contributes to its longevity. With the capability to support roughly 1,000 virtual circuits per frame relay User-to-Network Interface even without extended addressing, frame relay can support most connectivity needs. The connection-oriented architecture also provides an intrinsic level of security because there's no opportunity for address spoofing: Network addressing is controlled within the service provider's network. The connection-oriented commonality with ATM services makes interworking between these services a breeze.
Finally, users' reluctance to change from something that works bodes well for frame relay. If you can save money using a tried-and-true technology, there is little incentive to change.
Of course, there are challenges service providers must meet to give frame relay an even brighter future. More differentiated classes of service for supporting traffic types are needed, as are more "IP-aware" services that take advantage of optimizing frame relay for transporting IP traffic. But perhaps the biggest test is the pricing challenge from Internet-based services. While the 'Net can't deliver the quality of service and dependability that frame relay services do, there's a limit to the pricing differences that can be justified. Frame relay prices must drop to meet this challenge.
But if you're feeling a bit behind because you haven't dumped your frame relay network for something new, take heart. You're in good company.
This story, "Explainer: The packet evangelist " was originally published by Network World.


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Trusted and beloved by readers everywhere for his prosperity classic The Secret of the Ages, Robert Collier takes the next step in Riches Within Your Reach! and explains how to harness mental visualization to achieve financial and professional success.
"A definite purpose, held on to in the face of every discouragement and failure, in spite of all obstacles and opposition, will win no matter what the odds," wrote Robert Collier. And with faith in your own definite purpose, taught the self-help master, there is no limit to what you can accomplish. In every adversity, there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage, and in each defeat, there is a lesson in how to achieve victory next time. This is the message of Riches Within Your Reach!
In 1947, Collier produced Riches Within Your Reach! to assemble his most talked-about works into one simple guide.
©2009 Robert Collier; (P)2009 Penguin
"Highly Recommended!"
Out of 60-70 self development books that I have read/listened to, this for me, ranks in the top 5. I listen to it over and over.
"Inspiring & Concepts to Make Your Life Better"
There are author's of the New Thought Movement I really enjoy such as Scovel shinn. There are many insights to gain from this writing that can be applied to each and every day. Many of the ideas are not "new" if you have read these types of books, but they way he puts things...
Example (summarizing) You think and imagine, so develop the habit of imaging what you want. Anything you want in life you must have the mental equivalent meaning you must have that mental image in your mind and hold on to it to have that expressed in your life.
Joel's narration is excellent, I can easily focus on the material, he fits this work to a tee.
"powerful book love it"
powerful,uplifting, miraculous
information given,point of views, and examples
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Actor Robin Williams has died, according to the Marin County Sheriff's Office. Sheriff's investigators are investigating his death, believed to have been a suicide.
Statement from Mara Buxbaum, press representative for Robin Williams: "Robin Williams passed away this morning. He has been battling severe depression of late. This is a tragic and sudden loss. The family respectfully asks for their privacy as they grieve during this very difficult time."
Williams' wife, Susan Schneider, issued the following statement: "This morning, I lost my husband and my best friend, while the world lost one of its most beloved artists and beautiful human beings. I am utterly heartbroken. On behalf of Robin's family, we are asking for privacy during our time of profound grief. As he is remembered, it is our hope the focus will not be on Robin's death, but on the countless moments of joy and laughter he gave to millions."


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Eigensystem[] for higher dimensions?
Can the matrix m in Eigensystem[m] be greater than two dimensional?
And the eigenvectors v correspondingly greater than one dimensional?
The problem of interest is finding the eigenvalues lambda and
eigenarrays A of the equation
M A = lambda A
with A being a (physically nonseparable) two dimensional array and M a
specified four dimensional array. I can of course use appropriate
indexing to convert these to one and two dimensional quantities, but the
index transformations can be a pain; the reverse index transformations
even more ugly; the Mathematica Book doesn't seem to explicitly answer
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Uma? No, it's Zoe Bell in Kill Bill.
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Craig Mathieson follows New Zealand stuntwoman Zoe Bell to Hollywood.
When it comes to either being set on fire or thrown across the room, Zoe Bell prefers the former.
"I don't like hitting the ground," explains the New Zealand stuntwoman. "I'll do it, but I can't say I enjoy it. Even when you get a fall right it's not much fun."
Bell is an engaging 26-year-old who got her professional start in the stunt game at the age of 19 when she secured the job of doubling for Lucy Lawless on the New Zealand set of Xena: Warrior Princess.
It was the natural progression for a child who could barely walk when she first climbed onto a trampoline.
But in 2001, with the series winding up, Bell had to take the next step in her career and relocate to Los Angeles.
Her journey into the centre of the movie industry - and the competitive stunt business - is one of two story strands that intertwine in Amanda Micheli's wry, intimate documentary Double Dare.
As Bell arrives in LA, veteran Hollywood stuntwoman Jeannie Epper is worrying that her career is coming to an end. In her 60s, Epper is from the first family of stunts.
"In the bar fight in 1941 there were Eppers flying everywhere," recalls director Steven Spielberg, one of several interview subjects who help shed light on the cloistered discipline.
Director Micheli had already started tracking both Bell and Epper when they met and became friends, although their respective paths are a study in contrast.
Bell is trying to prove herself in the northern hemisphere, while Epper is considering plastic surgery so she can stay in the required shape to double for younger Hollywood actresses.
"Jeannie's been incredibly lucky with her lack of injuries," notes Bell, who remains good friends with the older woman.
"As different as we are and as different as the places we come from are, we're fundamentally similar people."
Double Dare concludes with both stuntwomen in employment: Epper mangling cars on 2 Fast 2 Furious while Bell lands the plum assignment of doubling for Uma Thurman on the two Kill Bill movies.
And although she made the grade with director Quentin Tarantino and eventually drew a smile from stern fight choreographer and legendary master Woo-Ping, Bell didn't finish unscathed.
"I was in a harness on a hydraulic rig and theoretically with that you should land within a foot or two of the same spot every time," she says with professional distance.
"But somewhere along the way something went wrong and I missed the mats." The error meant she dislocated her wrist and "obliterated" a ligament in her arm.
It happened in the final few days of shooting, leaving Bell's presence intact throughout the two films, but it took almost a year - begun on "gnarly" painkillers that she soon abandoned - for Bell to recover and get back to work (she's since doubled for Sharon Stone on Catwoman).
She's also since mastered the social side of Hollywood. Bell has a brief taste of the limelight in Double Dare at a Xena convention, where an auditorium of men and women dressed in the show's breastplate and leather skirt costume cheer her.
Double Dare might increase her visibility, something she'd prefer to leave to her "acting doubles", but for the moment she's just happy to be back at work.
In July she'll work with Jeannie Epper on the big-budget remake of The Poseidon Adventure.
"There'll be falling, there'll be tumbling down slopes amid tables and chairs and lots of swimming underwater," Bell declares with relish.
Zoe Bell discusses Double Dare at ACMI, on Sunday at 7.30pm before a screening of the film.
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Local residents can now report suspicious incidents they suspect could be linked to terrorism via a new local website, mobile apps and a phone number.
Coordinated by the Alachua County Sheriff's Office and 12 other neighboring sheriff's offices — each with its own website — iWatch will take in reports of suspicious activity and send them to a fusion center, where the information will be analyzed and distributed to the areas affected.
Sadie Darnell, Alachua County sheriff and chairwoman of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Regional Domestic Security Task Force for Region 3, said iWatch will allow information to cross county borders.
"This is the first initiative of its kind in Florida that is united in 13 counties," she said.
The website iwatchalachua.com provides residents with examples of what to report and important places to watch for suspicious activity. Once a report is filed, residents may be contacted for more information on an incident. Reports cannot be made anonymously, officials said.
Steve Donaway, FDLE assistant special agent in charge, said someone taking pictures of a water plant could be an example of an incident that could be reported to iWatch.
"If something happened in Gainesville, it would not seem suspicious, unless you realized the same thing happened in Bradford County and Levy County," he said.
Darnell said the incidents reported should not be based on an individual's personal characteristics but instead on the behavior of the individual
The program is funded by a $150,000 grant given by the federal Department of Homeland Security. The grant was used to purchase the website domains for each county, the toll-free number and promotional information materials. Aside from Alachua, other counties that have their own websites include Bradford, Clay, Gilchrist, Levy, Marion, Putnam and Union.
iWatch was started for North Central Florida by the Regional Domestic Security Task Force for Region 3. The program was modeled after California's iWatch program.
Lt. Todd Kelly, an Alachua County sheriff's public information officer, said before iWatch, residents reported such incidents by dialing 911 or by contacting a non-emergency number to reach a dispatcher.
The University of Florida is also taking part in iWatch. Maj. Brad Barber, UF Police Department spokesman, said information about the program will be provided at campus housing locations, on the UF police department website and to students attending preview.
"The program will allow us to have the opportunity to investigate what may or may not be taking place," Barber said.
For more information, go online to iwatchalachua.com.
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Bad Laplace Transform
When I try to inverse Laplace transform
from L[f](s) to f(t), I believe the result is generally incorrect.
Upon transforming back to the Laplace domain Mathematica does not give
the original function unless the constant 'r' is real and nonpositive.
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How Serious is the Bluster from North Korea?
In the 60 years since the end of the Korean war, it's hard to remember a time when the United States seemed more on edge about North Korea. The U.S. has sent B-2 stealth bombers over the peninsula in recent days and Kim Jong Un, the North's young leader, has threatened the destruction of American cities. This week on The Washington Report, David Sanger, chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks to Kerry Nolan discusses the ratcheting up of tensions on the Korean peninsula.
Also, it's been more than three months since the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. Has the momentum for gun control legislation ground to a halt? And as the Supreme Court hear arguments last week on same-sex marriage, polls show that the public seems ahead of the courts on the issue. Is the law moving too fast for a court decision?


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The artist known as Macklemore is fending off charges that he wore an anti-Semitic costume during a recent performance.
The Seattle-based rapper has stirred up controversy in recent days after images and video of him performing his hit song Thrift Shop while wearing what appears to be a costume began to circulate online.
In the images, Macklemore (real name: Ben Haggerty) is shown wearing a black mop-top wig and large prosthetic nose as he performs the song. The photos and video were reportedly taken at a Macklemore concert that took place at Seattle's EMP Museum last Friday.
You can watch video of Macklemore performing in his controversial garb here.
Not surprisingly, Macklemore's decision to dress up as a modern-day version of Shylock generated immediate charges of anti-Semitism.
Even less surprisingly, Macklemore jumped on Twitter (@macklemore) to address the controversy with the defensive tweet: "A fake witches nose, wig and beard = random costume. Not my idea of a stereotype of anybody."
Which in turn drew the following tweet from Jewish actor Seth Rogen (@SethRogen): "Really? Because if I told someone to put together an anti-Semitic Jew costume, they'd have that exact shopping list."
On Monday, Macklemore went on to his personal website to detail the thinking behind his actions and issue a more effusive apology to fans.
In his words: "Family, friends and fans alike who know me well, know that I'm absolutely not the person described in certain headlines today. There is no worse feeling than being misunderstood, especially when people are hurt or offended."
As for his choice of wardrobe and prosthetics, Macklemore wrote: "My intention was to dress up and surprise the people at the show with a random costume and nothing more. Thus, it was surprising and disappointing that the images of a disguise were sensationalized, leading to the immediate assertion that my costume was anti-Semetic [sic]."
Adds the rapper: "I love human beings, love originality, and … happen to love a weird outfit from time to time."
Macklemore's missive closes with the mea culpa, "I truly apologize to anybody that I may have offended."
Obviously, the notion that Macklemore would offend Jewish people runs contrary to the peaceable sentiments expressed in his gay-marriage anthem Same Love, which he performed live at the Grammys last January with Madonna against the backdrop of 33 same-sex couples getting married during the broadcast.
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Opinion: Fast and Furious - and Eric Holder's Mistake - is Deadly Serious
Don't feel bad if you're only vaguely aware of what Fast and Furious was all about. As I wrote about it back in December on this site:
In case you hadn't heard, and as there is no "a Republican candidate said something stupid" angle here you probably haven't, the Obama Justice Department sold guns to Mexican drug gangs under a program called Fast and Furious. The official purpose of Fast and Furious was to allow some guns to be purchased by the gangs so that a larger sting operation could conducted. It sounds like a bad plot in a Vin Diesel movie but unfortunately this one didn't work out as well as it would in a film. These guns were used to kill scores of people in Mexico and one American border agent, Brian Terry.
I'm not going to give you the whole the-media-would-lap-up-this-scandal-if-the-president-was-Republican song and dance though it's obvious to anyone paying any attention that they would. I just want to focus on the latest spin from the media on the whole story. It had two parts. Part 1 is "who cares?" and part 2 is "let's make fun of those who do care."
Take Roger Simon from Politico. He's their Chief Political Columnist, which sounds pretty serious. So it's strange that a serious Chief Political Columnist would tweet this yesterday:
Think House GOP now sorta regrets scheduling its Holder contempt vote for today? #WhoStillCares
Who still cares that the U.S. government sold guns to Mexican gangs? I care. Brian Terry's family cares. I'm sure the families of the hundreds of Mexicans who were killed with these guns care. I guess a "Chief Political Columnist" doesn't have to worry about stray bullets from these guns but those who do CARE.
The Chief Political Columnist then tweeted:
If guns don't kill people, but people kill people, why are conservatives upset over Fast & Furious
I guess in the Beltway this might be a...joke? In the rest of the country it's an eyeroll. Conservatives like legal guns, that's why they fight legislation to ban guns. Places where guns are banned, like Washington D.C. or Detroit, don't see a drop in homocides, they see a rise as illegal guns flood the cities and law-abiding people can't get guns to defend themselves. The reason conservatives have a problem with illegal guns being passed along to Mexican gangsters is that illegal guns were passed along to Mexican gangsters.
If it seems that I'm picking on Politico's Chief Political Columnist Roger Simon it's because I am. The dismissal of Fast and Furious as a joke or a minor incident or some sort of partisan vendetta is wrong and none of us should stand for it.
Eric Holder's clownish attempts to brush off the incident, such as painting it as a racist attack on him, shouldn't deter us from getting to the bottom of why our government implemented a risky program with seemingly a shrug of the shoulders and no oversight. I wouldn't be ok with a Republican administration doing something this ridiculous and you shouldn't be ok with a Democratic one.


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Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton: Post-Grammy Buddies
Posted Monday February 11, 2013 2:28 PM GMT
Celebrating a fabulous evening, Kelly Clarkson, Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton headed over to Red O in West Hollywood last night (February 10).
Joined by Clarkson's fiancé Brandon Blackstock, the trio of singers looked joyful as they chatted about the 55th Grammy Awards and posed for the paparazzi.
Earlier, Kelly scored the Grammy trophy for Best Pop Vocal Album, though she got stuck on Lambert's dress as she walked up to accept her award.
Clarkson explained, "I got stuck on Miranda Lambert. There's a story and a song. For later, after alcohol… I'm just kidding, children. I get nervous speaking in front of people."
Enjoy the pictures of Kelly Clarkson and Miranda Lambert at Red O in West Hollywood (February 10).
Photo Credit: AKM-GSI
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Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, "What should I do today? What about getting completely naked and take a walk in broad daylight?"So, I'm not sure what caused this, but the maker of the viral sensation of the Kony 2012 video (which Steve Haas wrote about last week) apparently had some sort of meltdown. According to eye witnesses (and a few unfortunate camera phone videos), Jason Russell was:"spewing out f-bombs and screaming about the iPhone, its digital assistant, Siri, and … [Read more...]
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Local Job Growth Continued Strong in June
The metro area continues to be a job magnet, with 4400 new jobs created in the eight county San Antonio area in June, Newsradio 1200 WOAI reports.
Annual job growth rate, which is the number of jobs created in the metro in the last year, stands at 22,500.
The region's unemployment rate jumped to 5.1% in May, largely due to the fact that when school ended, people moved to the area to look for work. The total size of the work force, at 1,065,000, is the largest in history, up 6,000 people from this time last year.
Workforce Solutions Alamo says leisure and hospitality was the biggest job gainer in the month, followed by business services. Other gainers include construction, financial activities, and manufacturing. The biggest job loser was government, but that is largely due to school layoffs due to summer vacation.


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66. 158 Never Summer SL with Rocker (08/09) with k2 Formulas and 1 day on Relay Pros
Stance 22.5 with 18 negative 15 goofy
Boots: Vans Fargo Boas size 10
Conditions: Everything
One word: Funster
This board is the epitome of fun all mountain slayer. Ive tried to hate it, I tried to dislike it, and hell I even tried to break it. The new construction with the new side cut (I call it Never Slip Grip) is amazing, you can pop to the moon, yet charge and not feel shaky. The big thing with the side cut is its kinked, think a cross between a tri radial side cut and the Salomon equalizer. These kinks arent like MTX that it sticks out and is serrated it just creates two bends in the side cut then kind of flattens out and lets you steer between the feet if need be. Unlike other companies rockered boards this one rides different. I only notice the rocker when I need it or when I Ollie. I no longer have to preload my tails I can just slap it down and pop like a skateboard, if I do preload it then I just boost insanely high. Presses are a tad easier because the nose/tail is raised a bit so you just lean into it and go. With the rocker the center of the board sits a tad higher so buttering around on boxes and wall rides is easier. The big thing to note with this rocker is unlike the K2s that Ive been on where you have to stay centered, you can get nose/tail heavy and still ride comfortable and not go ass over teakettle. When riding on flats because the nose is lifted you dont get that drag that slows you down so you can charge through cat tracks, I havent gotten stuck on it yet. A downside to rocker is the duck walk that takes a bit of time to get used to it. I did notice with this board it took me a good 3 days of riding to become fully adjusted to how it rides. You can carve on this board better than anything Ive ever been on without any downsides. Those kinks just grip so much more. Flex wise this board has a different flex than the regular SL, its stiffer in the nose/tail because of the double carbon fiber xs, but that also adds more pop, and better stability. In the dead center of the board there is a flex point, when you push it hard, you can feel it in butters, jibs, jumps. Its a true center flex if you do a hand flex on it and look at the side you see it kink. This board is damp and stable, kills it in the pipe, dominates on jumps, and slays jibs. Now lets talk about those Relays. What a pile of shit, sorry but I like a rigid heel cup, I dont like feeling like my ankle is unsupported when I go into a press. I had to exaggerate all movements to press it and by that point it was like oh shit rocker initiation time and it was crappy. I could ride them but I wasnt happy at all, dont say they werent dialed in; they were set 100% to my boot. I will say the heel straps were phenomenal I really liked them, toe straps sucked, and the footpad blew donkey dick. I felt like I had snow under my boot all day with them.
67. 156 Never Summer Revolver with Rocker (08/09) with K2 Formulas
Stance 22.5 with 18 negative 15 goofy
Boots: Vans Fargo Boas
Conditions: Everything
One Word: Parkgnar
Rarely do I think to myself well fuck this board just reinvented snowboarding. Such was the case after day one on this behemoth. So I got up to Keystone on this beast, strapped in and blam I was like pop from my nose to my tail like it was nothing, then buttered it around, and threw a cab 3 like it was nothing. After that I laid into a hard carve and the edge gripped like my SL, but had a tad more chatter as this board is noticeably softer. After that it was game on to the bonk line. I was a tail tapping, nose stalling, wall jibbing machine. I got close to a butter 5 on the big butter wall ride Keystone has. Took this sucker into the pipe, that edge hold grips and just lets you float a lofty air like no other. The shape of the revolver is better for spins than the SL in my opinion. With the flat kicks on it I was doing nose butters like no other. On jibs I would just have to do subtle movements and be locked in to presses and what not. This board is stable to a point, but not as stable as my SL. Which was fine for the size of the jumps I was hitting. Switch is so much fun on this side cut you just roll it around and blam off you go.
68. 155 Salomon Official (08/09) with Rome Targas
Stance 22.5 with 18 negative 15 goofy
Boots: Vans Fargo Boas
Conditions: Sunny with clouds about 32ish degrees into puking snow and 6 inches of wind deposited POW
One Word: Ungripable
The only reason I rode this board was to compare its Equalizer side cut to the new side cut on the Never Summers. First off let me say I was highly disappointed in this side cut. When Id initiate a turn it would get hooky at the kinks in the straight edge, then get chattery in the tail. The board didnt track too well either. Riding switch was a chore and a half with this board because that side cut was sketch ball as hell. The flex was fun I liked that a lot and popping on jumps was great, but half pipe it wasnt happening. On jibs the board was just how I imagined itd be, its like a tweaked Prospect more than anything. But that side cut is just sketchy as hell. The base is incredibly slow and I waxed it. When waxing it though, it didnt want to absorb as I figured such a higher end base would. All in all not impressed with the side cut on this board.
69. 167 Never Summer Summit (08/09) with K2 Formulas
Stance 22.5 with 18 negative 15 Goofy, set all the way back on the tail
Boots: K2 T1 DB (08/09)
Conditions: Untouched first track powder at the Legendary Mt. Baker Ski resort
One Word: Floaty
Yes I was at Mt. Baker for a K2 sponsored event and yes I was rocking a Never Summer. Fuck riding a Turbo dream 156 when its 2 feet of freshies untouched and no general public allowed. I definitely got some strange looks with the fact I had like 3 feet of nose and 6 inches of tail but it was well worth it. Ive never ridden a board in any powder that didnt give me leg burn till I rode this champ. My god that nose just swung right up and the tail sunk and I could just ride as normal as usual with it. I laid some sick ass slashes with this and boy was it fucking epic. Then I got a fire cracker up my ass and decided to get into some burlier terrain, now when you see Shane McConkey pro skier saying that doesnt look good, that does not mean charge it, but what the hell do I know. I did a bunch of crazy ass chutes, spines, and drops on this thing. Man this thing is just so retardedly stable even with no tail at all. I did get into a batch of crappy edge hold on some 45 plus degree icy pitch that I slid down and some how managed to survive the drop of death. Riding the baker natural half pipe (banked slalom course) was fun as shit on this thing when just popping and what not. Now the boots were the goddamn saving grace of this trip. I obliterated my second pair of Fargos this year and well frankly I was in such a mind fuck because this trip was to be epic and I had nothing. But K2 saved the day or I should say my rep saved my ass. Anyways the T1 DBs are a hair stiffer than my Fargos, but have a better natural flex to them. They come with a full heat moldable intuition liner that rocks and is so much more Cush than 90% of all other companies liners. Probably the coolest feature on it isnt the double boa but the fact that the internal harness has Velcro on the top of it to reposition where it attaches to the tongue of the hell, this allows for unlimited possibilities for tightening. The new Harshmallow technology in the outsole is intense. Its so damp yet allows you to feel the board very well. The profile of the boot fits a wide array of feet Im noticing since my feet are horribly mangled and guys up at Baker with wide to narrow were rocking them no problem, which can be attributed to the intuition liner.
70. 159 Never Summer Revolver Rocker (08/09) with K2 Formulas
Stance: 22.5 wide with 18 negative 15 goofy
Boots: (08/09) K2 T1 DB
Conditions: Low 30s some sun POW and groomers with some park thrown in for good measure
One Word: Preloaded
The more I keep riding these rockered NS boards the more I feel theyre going to be the most dialed in shits in the world right now. Ive been having a fucking field day on this shit riding around and just ollieing fences, small children, woodland creatures, etc. etc. The pop in the nose/tail is intense but unlike a regular board you dont have to preload the tail anymore, but if you do preload it be prepared to boost higher than you thought. The side cut on this board allows for you to get carve nasty like no other and has superb edge hold. Buttering is a blast on this thing; Ive been doing fs butter to pole slam 180 out so sick and easy on these. Tail presses are just locked like no other and ollieing up to bonk things from flat is easy as pie.
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Twelve'Len has been a rather silent force in our small market for Alternative tunes, but the raw talent is remarkably undeniable. Before 2013 came to a close, we saw the release of the blue EP, an 8-track effort that brought in contributions from Denzel Curry ("Rabbit Hole"), Lil Champ FWAY and Sahri. FXRBES has established his presence as a featured videographer in the scene, and has been paramount to the escalation of Twelve'Len. It's all fantastic 'feel-good' music quite frankly, and the vibes are evident from the moment you press play with the visuals for "Midnight".
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Nikki is 11 years old, and in sixth grade, but she looks more like a 16-year-old.
Nikki still loves to play with Barbie dolls. In fact, it's not uncommon for her to bring a few with her on youth group trips. The other kids tease her about itbut she's naive enough to think that they think it's fun that Barbie is in tow.
Then there was the group of guys I called the "Punk Pokémons." They were five eighth grade guysall taller than mewho were trying very hard to be tough. They never smiled. Never. They were 100 percent committed to being disinterested.
But I'd often find them gathered in the back corner of our junior high room at church trading Pokémon cards like little kids. It was hilarious to see the snarling wannabe tough guys saying things like, "I'll give you two Pikachus for one Mewtwo."
If you ask me to define the young teen years in one word, I'd have to use the word transition. Everything about the world of a young teen is rooted somewhere between where they've been and where they're headed. As parents, it's essential that we look for signs of the changes that are taking place in our children and do our best to offer loving support, reassurance, and guidance.
The transition from child to teenager impacts every area of a young teen's life, including her faith. Faith-bit by faith-bit, she begins the searchsometimes consciously and proactively, sometimes notfor a richer, more complex, more adult faith system. Much of this is accomplished through experimentation.
What often trips up the parents I work with is the seeming randomness of this experimentation. For example, your young teen might show less interest in church, but more interest in spiritual things. By spiritual things, I don't necessarily mean youth group retreats and the church children's choir. For young teens, spirituality means everything from prayer to walks in the woods to the very idea of God.
As a young teen's thinking shifts from the concrete ideas of childhood to the more abstract thoughts of adulthood, the dimensions of spiritual life begin to open up. They begin to notice depth and spirituality in music, in movies, in TV shows, in conversations with friends, even listening in on adult conversation. But because they are in transition, they'll continue to have pieces of childish faith and elements of an adult faith at the same timeand continue to provide their parents with moments of real frustration.
But just as you would never try to rush the physical growth of your child by pumping her full of hormones or steroids, resist the temptation to rush this spiritual transition. Instead, nurture the process by listening and discussing, staying open to her questions and concerns.
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When Emmanuel Sanders did his dog and pony show in Kansas City two weeks ago, the organization once again had a deep hole to fill at receiver.
On Friday afternoon, the Chiefs found themselves as a possible favorite to land former Philadelphia Eagles Wide Receiver, DeSean Jackson. The fleet footed, sure handed Pro Bowl standout could be the missing link for the Chiefs offense this year.
In paring Jackson with All Pro Running Back, Jamaal Charles, the Chiefs would have two of the top five playmaking offensive threats in the NFL on the same team.
But it's no lock the Chiefs will sign Jackson because of his alleged antics in Philadelphia. Despite those flaws, the Chiefs appear to be trying to get a deal done with Jackson. But there are other NFL teams like the Oakland Raiders, New York Jets and New England Patriots who may also be interested in driving up his asking price.
Kansas City doesn't have a lot of cap space until they shift some cap dollars, most notably Quarterback, Alex Smith, who could be on the verge of a contract extension. If they can get that done, perhaps they have enough dollars to sign Jackson.
However, even with $4.5 million in cap space, the Chiefs can be creative to lure Jackson away from signing with any other NFL team.
So with the business out of the way and knowing the path to getting a contract done, might not be so difficult, should the Chiefs do it?
Shortly after the Eagles began their smear campaign on Jackson that included comments he was a mal-content in Philly, missed multiple practices and may be associated with some unruly gang members in California, he sent out a press release to counter the Eagles spiteful words.
He denied any wrongdoing, made a point to thank Eagles fans for their support, and in particular gave credit to his former head coach, Andy Reid, for bringing him into the NFL.
That puts the Chiefs in a tough spot.
When Jackson was on the trading block they didn't want anything to do with him. Now that he's a free agent, has a big chip on his shoulder and Kansas City desperately needing a down the field threat, it makes far too much sense a Reid and Jackson reunion in Kansas City might be in the cards.
Of course getting it done when Kansas City has instituted an overly cautious approach to their 2014 off-season plan, has me somewhat skeptical they can close the biggest off-season transaction they've been faced with in quite sometime.
In it's long standing era of Professional Football, getting an impact player like Jackson, in the prime of his career, has repeatedly bypassed the Chiefs over and over again. Granted the Chiefs did get Quarterback, Alex Smith, last season.
I know the risks in signing Jackson but they have to be overshadowed by the fact Kansas City needs to get this deal done to show the Broncos they aren't going to lay down in 2014.
That might be harsh for some Chiefs fans. However, with the Broncos free agent spending spree, and their determination to win it all this year, adding Jackson will close the paper gap between the AFC West rivals.
It's impossible to predict how well the Chiefs defense can adjust form their meltdown over the final eight games of the season but the offense will undoubtedly be better than it was last year.
If General Manager, John Dorsey, trusts his head coach, there is little doubt Kansas City will have a new wide receiver in the fold very soon. Jackson from his angle needs to play for a stable organization with a head coach not on the hot seat.
But should the two sides fail to get a deal done, that should send a message to the rest of the NFL, the rumors about Jackson are likely true.
After all, there isn't a head coach in the game today that knows what it takes to get Jackson back on the straight and narrow like Reid.
So it appears at this point in their respective careers, Jackson and Reid need each other badly.
Is Jackson the right fit for the Chiefs?
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Hi Forum,
I'm a novice videographer and my daughter's record soccer games on the weekends. I would like to add a scoreboard and running clock to the video. Does anyone have any advice on how to do this? I have search online and one suggestion was to use subtitles. Is that possible? Would it have to be done frame by frame? I also read that it would require a re-encode of the video which would degrade the video quality. Thanks for any help.
I think imovie on the mac has a score card feature.... as for the running clock, beats me... might be easier to have a camera on an actual clock during the game, then use a "picture in picture" effect after synching the two video sources in post.....
I am also a novice so there may be more elegant ways than the solution I will propose but here is my two cents. Let me tell you that I currently work with Sony Vegas - but I'm sure most of the other NLEs have similar functionality
First, create a generated text and erase the text so that it is blank. Then set the length in the generated media to be length of your count down. Now stretch out the media on the timeline to match this length. (I use "edit details" and just type in under "length").
Now apply "media fx" to the clip. (Right click and choose "media fx"). Choose the Sony Timecode effect and apply it. There are several choices here. Setup the size and position, and you can choose "NTSC drop frame" for a truly accurate timed count down.
Last, apply a velocity envelope to the generate media and set it to -100 speed. You are done.
As for the scores that seems easy enough just usingthe title/text functionof your editing program.
Hope this helps
Lee had it correct - Here is a step by step with two ways.
Simple way or for a single video clip (if you have a wide view of the whole game from a fixed tripod):
1) Put some video on the timeline. From the Video FX tab, select Timecode and then Time & Frames and drag that to the video on the timeline
2) Select the format you want - Time & Frames or Time would be good choices - Also the default placement is bottom right but you can change this to certain presets (better way to do this follows)
3) Drag the effect tot he clip on the timeline and make any changes to your positioning or format
For a clock that spans multiple video clips or for more exact positioning:
4) Insert a blank text clip for as long as you'd like to see the clock as track 1, then drag the timecode fx to that track - This gives you the ability to make the clock appear for as long as you want it, spanning multiple clips or only showing up for a portion of time - It also gives you the ability for exact placement (next)
5) Now using track motion, you can drag the clock to wherever you want it, including having it move around (using keyframes).
Hope this helps!
Bruce Paul 7Squared Productions http://www.7squared.com
For a scoreboard, just use one of the text options (like step 4 above) or what could be really neat is to have still photos or video of the actual scoreboard and put it in as their own track and make it a PIP using something like step 5 above, only instead of using track motion on the timecode event, do it to the scoreboard photos/videos track. If this confuses you lemme know and I'll do another step by step.
Bruce Paul 7Squared Productions http://www.7squared.com