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Comprising approximately 12,900 volumes, the rare book collection contains books, broadsides, maps, and other printed material covering a wide variety of subjects and eras. Particular subject strengths include the history of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, and North Carolina; American and British literature; African American history; theology and religion; and children's literature. Though the majority of imprints date from 1800 to the present, the collection contains a substantial number of books from the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, many of which exemplify distinctive early printing, lithography, and binding techniques.
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Other important holdings in the collection chart the history and culture of Charlotte during the nineteenth century and the civil rights era and the explosive growth of the Charlotte region after World War II. These include books from the private libraries of noteworthy local families such as the Caldwell-Davidsons of Rosedale Plantation and the Davidsons of Rural Hill; the personal library of humorist and civil rights figure Harry Golden, which documents his tentacular connections with the leading cultural and literary figures of his day; numerous city and county materials related to the urban renewal project that brought upheaval and growth to Charlotte in the 1960s and 1970s; and works associated with Wilmington 10 and Charlotte Three members Benjamin Chavis and T.J. Reddy.
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| Anime and Academia: Interview with Marc Hairston on pedagogy and Nausicaa
by: G.B. Hiranuma
Marc Hairston, a pioneer in the world of anime and pedagogy, recently co-taught the first American college course where Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa Perfect Collection Volume One was chosen by professors as a required text book. His vast knowledge of anime and manga along with his enthusiasm for the subject have enabled him to introduce many students to Miyazaki and the world of Japanese animation. Here he talks about his class and shares some of his insight into how anime figures into the future of academia.
GH: I wanted to know if you could give me some background about what you are doing with Nausicaa.
MH: First off, I'm not an English professor - I am a space physicist, I work at the University of Texas at Dallas. I am a researcher, but I found out about one of the professors there in the Arts and Humanities program, Dr. Pam Gossin who was teaching a course called "Natural Wonders." Now, the background on this course is that this is a junior level arts and humanities literature course where the students are taught formal critical analysis. This is where they learn to take a text: a book, a novel or poem whatever and analyze it - critically look at it, take it apart, understand it and all this. In the past this had been one of the most boring and most hated of all the required courses for the literary studies majors. So what UTD decided to do was try a method where they would let the professors teach the course and let each of them pick a topic and choose books on that subject to use in the course, the idea was that the professor's enthusiasm for the subject matter would transfer to the students and the students would get interested in this. In general this method seems to be more popular with the students. So this past year she taught a course on the subject of "What is the Nature of Nature." Basically, it was looking the natural world throught he works of writers like Loren Eiseley, John McPhee, Henry David Thoreau, Diane Ackerman, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawkins, etc. I told her about the movie, Nausicaa because its central theme is all about the relationships between humans and nature and asked if she'd be interested in seeing it. She said, "yes," so I loaned her a copy and when I stopped by her office the next week she asked, "Can I use this for class next semester?" - I said, "Sure!" - so I started talking to her and explained to her that there was also the manga [the Viz graphic novels] that went along with it and that she might want to use it. I lent her the first volume which has essentially the part of the Nausicaa manga that's in the movie - although in a different form obviously... she read it and said, "This would be great!" So she and I started working together to do the course. So I achieved one of my lifelong dreams - I got to teach a college English course! The class was a 15 week course, she had 2 sections of the class and each section met for about 3 hours each week.
GH: I understand that you were the first professors to include Nausicaa as a required text for an American college course.
MH: Other classes had used the manga but those were always independent studies courses where the students chose the texts they wanted to use. There were also a few Japanese cultural studies courses where they showed the film, but didn't read the manga. This was the first case where the professor chose to use the manga. We did find out, talking to people in Japan, that Nausicaa had been used in Japanese college courses, but we were the first American college course to use Nausicaa.
GH: You told me earlier that you had some difficulties with the bookstore, what is the story behind this?
MH: I have to tell you the best story in all of this - how we almost did not get the book. The original editions that Viz had put out followed the Japanese editions and were printed in 7 volumes, those editions are not all still in print. Now they have reprinted the entire series in a four volume "Perfect Collection." We had to be sure that the bookstore didn't go off and try to get the original volume one instead of the "Perfect Collection" volume one and then come back the week before class and say, "Oh, that's out of print, we can't get that" - so she specifically gave them the ISBN book number for PC vol. 1 so they couldn't make a mistake. All of this was all back in October when she was having to order the textbooks for the spring semester. In December, during finals, she called to check on the progress of the book order and when she asked for the woman she had dealt with she was told, "Oh, she doesn't work with us anymore." So Pam asked, "Well, didn't anyone take over my order?" Apparently not, none of the books had been ordered, so Pam was not happy with the bookstore in the first place because of this. Finally, a week before the classes started in January, all of the books for her class were in, no problems, except Nausicaa. So that week one of the students who is going to take the course goes over there [to the bookstore] and she happens to notice this problem. As luck would have it, she knew the bookstore manager so she goes back to his office to ask him where the book is. He's upset and says "Dr. Gossin was very adamant that we had to get that book for her class. I put in that order for her and look at what they sent me," - he points at a box filled with copies of Nausicaa PC vol.1 that is about to be shipped back to the headquarters and says, "I keep ordering this book and they keep sending me comic books." So the student said, "No, that's what she wants" and he says, "No, no, this is a comic book" and she says, "No, no, she really wants that". In the end she convinced him to put them out on the shelf - but they almost got shipped back because it was so unusual. The bookstore people were used to fat calculus books and obscure short story collections from university presses and they're thinking "wait a minute, this isn't a college text book, this is a comic book, you're not supposed to have this."
GH: What was the student response to having a 'comic book' for a text?
MH: I only went to the first week of class in the Thursday afternoon section, and no one really had any reaction one way or the other. If there were any negative reactions they probably didn't say anything since I was sitting there. But a student I know that was taking the Wednesday night section of the class told me that they were a little bit more skeptical and vocal about it. Several of them said things like, "Why do we have a comic book as a required book? How are we supposed to analyze and write a paper about a comic book?" - Again, none of them knew anything about anime or manga other than Speed Racer and one of them had seen Akira. To give you a little bit of background on the class, we had the usual 18 to 23 year old college students. But UT-Dallas is also a commuter college and has a lot of returning students - students in their late 20s and older who are coming back to finish their degrees or take degrees they didn't have a chance to do when they were younger. So the class had a broad range of ages, about half of them in their 18 - 23 range and then others going all the way from mid-twenties up to the 50s. So it was a very interesting mix of people - not your typical college class, but again, none of them had any real experience with anime. So this was sort of a personal experiment for me. We all know the reactions of the fans to Miyazaki's anime; I wanted to know how mainstream people who are not predisposed to like anime would react to the film and manga. Would it appeal to them or would they think it was too juvenile?
So it ended up that we had about 2 1/2 weeks where I taught the course. We were supposed to spend the first week of class (3 hours) talking about the manga and I have to say it was a challenge. I talked to them basically about the ways that manga had taken off in Japan and have not in the US. I talked to them about the ideas about why anglo people look at manga and anime and think that the characters look anglo, but at the same time Asians look at them and think that they look Asian. I told them the history about Osamu Tezuka and the rise in manga and anime in Japan. The basic references I used for this were Frederik Schodt's two books: Manga Manga and Dreamland Japan and Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics which is a very serious scholarly comic book about comic books. And then I introduced Miyazaki to them - told them about his history and showed them clips from several of his movies and told them about the fact that the manga of Nausicaa was originally done as a serial for the Japanese animation magazine Animage and that it took him 13 years to do the entire saga. He had to keep taking time off from the manga to do his films. His Japanese fans were very patient. When he started he had been doing tv anime for over 15 years and he wanted to do a pure manga. So one of the conditions he placed on Animage was that he would do the manga only if they agreed that it wouldn't be made into an anime later on. They said, "yes," but within a few issues it was clear Nausicaa was very popular with the readers. So the publishers of Animage came to him and said "this is very popular, will you reconsider and let us make a movie out of this?" Originally he said, "No" but then he changed his mind and said "Ok, I'll let you do it if you let me be the director." I explained to the class that this is why the manga and the movie diverge, because he was writing the manga so the story would continue onward. But obviously he couldn't do this for the movie, so he had to rewrite the storyline so it would have an ending.
GH: What was the content of the class discussions like?
MH: Pam led the discussion about this part. They talked about the story itself so far, you know, what did they notice about this part, doing the analysis and whatnot. I did a lecture part to give them the history of manga and anime and Miyazaki so they have some context to understand what they're seeing and reading. While I was doing the lecture part I was passing around manga magazines from Japan and right in the middle of it I have one student just burst out loud and said, "Are these available in English? Where can I get these?" I told them to go to Planet Anime here in Dallas, or your local comic book stores, or Borders usually has a good selection of translated manga books from Viz and other publishers. That was a big kick - I was afraid they weren't going to like this, it was too different from what they were used to. But they were actually getting into this - by the time the lecture was finished they were thrilled with the book, they were all very interested in it.
Their personal reactions to reading Nausicaa were interesting. They said things like "I thought that I could just knock this whole book out out in half an hour - but it took me hours to go through this!" "This is hard to read, I had to keep looking back to review what was going on." One of my favorite comments was from a student who was a 40-something housewife who was said she had trouble reading it because her 14 year old son kept stealing it from her to read! And of course, most of them wanted to know where they could get the books for the rest of the story.
GH: How did the showing of the movie go?
MH: The first week of class was just the lectures and discussions I've just told you about and the second week of class was when we showed them the movie version. The movie itself is just under 2 hours, so that took up most of the class so after we took our break and came back we had only 30 minutes left to wrap up everything. Of course we couldn't do it in 30 minutes which is why it ran over to the next week. What we did manage to do in that 30 minutes was talk a little bit about the movie itself and how the movie was different from the manga. I referred them to a website I had done where I have a table which goes through doing a point by point comparison of the movie and the manga showing where they were different. I talked a bit about how Miyazaki ended the manga version of the story. I didn't want to give them too many spoilers about how the manga ended. I said, "You know, this goes on for 3 more books after what you've seen here in the movie, and there is a lot more that happens. So I showed them a few scenes from the later volumes of the manga. Now, in the movie the god soldier comes alive and then dies off, but that never happens in the first PC volume of the manga. Instead later on in the final PC volume the god soldier is finally activated, but it is Nausicaa that it picks as its master. He calls her "mother" and then asks her who she wants him to destroy. This is a recurring motif in the manga, situations where Nausicaa is given powers she does not want and essentially being told, "You have the power, now you must make these hard decisions." As I said, I didn't go all the way to the end, I didn't want to give them all the spoilers, but I did point out to them that the ultimate dilemma with Nausicaa is that after she's gotten all the way to the outskirts of the Crypts of Shuwa, she learns that everything in her world has been artificially engineered by the ancient human to survive in their polluted world. Their purpose is to cleanse the world of the poisons, and then die off so the ancient life forms held in suspension in the Crypt can reappear and retake the world. Nausicaa's biology and the biology of all her world are not able to live in the world of clean air and clean water. This is the ultimate decision she has to make: which "natural" world will be allowed to live? After she's fought so hard to preserve this natural world, this natural world turns out to be an artificial world -will she side with an artificially natural world that's trying to purify the world even if it ultimately means her and humanitity's death? Or will she go along with the hibernating humans who want the old natural order restored, the old order that caused the pollution and destruction in the first place? And, of course these are the themes that Miyazaki comes back to later in Mononoke [Hime] - she has to choose the future of the world when neither path is a good one, but she has to make the choice anyway. Basically, these are a lot of the same themes that Pam was covering in all these other books in the class, all these other writings about nature and the choices we as people have make about how we deal with nature.
The other part about that second week that I want to tell you about was the reaction of the students during the film. As we got towards the end of the movie, the climax where Nausicaa tries to stop the Ohmu stampade, in each class of about 15 - 30 people, most of them started sniffling. Now, you know, they're a bunch of cool, detached, grown-up worldly college students types, they're doing their best not to give away any indication to the rest of the class that this movie is getting to them. But you know, there was a lot of sniffling going on in that dark room there.
GH: Did you use any other Miyazaki works in the class?
MH: I came in and showed them Miyazaki's music video[On Your Mark, by Chage and Asaka] during the first part of the class the week after they saw Nausicaa. I chose this one because the theme of humans' effect on nature appears again and also because one of the characters in there looks like Nausicaa, the angel in the video. It's a short (about 6 minutes) animation, but it packs a lot of stuff into the short time. The basic storyline shows a future where, because of a technological catastrophe, a nuclear meltdown and such, people are forced to live in futuristic underground cities with their skyscrapers - much like the geo front from [Neon Genesis] Evangelion and all that, and cannot return to the outside "natural" world which has become dangerous to them (much like the toxic forest/wastelands in Nausicaa). The big rust-colored metal sturcture in the video is a "coffin" for a nuclear power plant, much like Chernobyl. In fact, Chernobyl was what inspired Miyazaki here. He had read an article about how, now that all the people had left, the town near the plant was reverting back to a natural state, even though the area was still highly contaminated from the radioactive fallout from the plant's meltdown. The story in the video is that this angel came from somewhere out in the outside world and they don't know what to make of her. Is she a genetic mutant caused by the radiation? Is she a real supernatural being? She was captured by the religious cult who see her as a divine creature. The government wants her for study, so the police raid the cult to capture her and take her off like in the film E.T.. Two of the police officers who are in in the raid get upset about this and decide that they are going to rescue her and free her. So that's what the whole music video is, the exciting chase as they rescue her and take her back to the outside world and then release her. She flies away and she looks very suspiciously like Nausicaa. So we showed it to the class and I explained that this music video was the first thing Miyazaki did after he completed the final installment of the Nausicaa manga. He had been working on the manga off and on for 12 years now and he finally got to the point that he said, "I have to end this, I have to end this thing," so he forced himself to bring the manga to a conclusion. So this is the very first thing that he turned his creative energies on afterwards and what happens? Nausicaa pops up in it! What's going on here?
Now this is just my personal interpretation, not everyone agrees with this, but my personal interpretation is that On Your Mark is Miyazaki's symbolic freeing of his character Nausicaa. Like Prospero at the end of Shakespeare's Tempest where he breaks his wand and says, "O.K. my magic powers are done and I am freeing Ariel, the magical creature that I made, you're now free to go." This video is in effect Miyazaki saying to Nausicaa, "I've put you through 13 years of two hundred different kinds of hell in that manga and now you're free and go fly away back to the blue sky to become the perfect bird girl that you were always meant to be." In the end, he's basically saying "I'm through with this, this is it. I've now got Nausicaa completely out of my system." Anyway the students liked it , they liked the fact that it was a music video, they liked the fact that it is a very exciting little piece of film and the imagery in it.
GH: So did the students have to write anything about Nausicaa?
MH: At the end of the course Pam had the students write a 10 page paper for their final project. She told them that although Nausicaa was required reading for the class - and she would like people to write papers on Nausicaa, that it wasn't required. She had a whole bunch of other books - 10 other books - they could choose from, but it still ended up that about two-thirds of the students decided they wanted to do their papers on Nausicaa. They had to do in-class presentations so I went back the last week of class to hear these presentations.
GH: What were the papers like?
MH: As with all college papers, as Pam says, they ranged from C to A+, but she and I were both very pleasantly suprised at how high a percentage of the students wanted to do theirs on Nausicaa, especially after they started out being so resistant to the idea of having to read a book like this for class. "How am I supposed to do a serious English paper on a comic book?" We had everything from people doing comparisons of Nausicaa with Disney's Pocahontas to detailed analisis of the religious imagery in the film. We hope to put them online someday, but I don't know if we will ever do that since we've only gotten one of them back with permission to put it on the web. Meanwhile I am currently writing up all of my lecture notes into an actual formal presentation with some of the images I showed the class. When that gets finished later this summer, that will go online with links to it from Nausicaa.Net.
GH: Did you have communication with other faculty about this?
MH: Not really, it was basically just Pam and myself. I don't know how much she talked to other English professors. There is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Susan Napier, who is a professor of Japanese studies there and has written the only piece about Nausicaa we've found in the academic literature. She's currently working on a scholarly book about Miyazaki and anime. Ultimately Pam and I hope to have her as a guest speaker next year at UT-Dallas. We'll see if that works out.
GH: Do you think that the American academic community is ready to engage anime as a serious topic?
MH: I think it is, again, we're just one example, but you are starting to see it show up in various places. I did find that there was at least one other course that had been taught that was similar to ours that used the Ghost in the Shell manga as a required text book. Its not so much whether its taken seriously by academia, its whether they even know about it in the first place. Again, this is something that is trickling up from popular culture into academics, and the professors are only now starting to discover the stuff even exists. I do know that the president of the UT Dallas anime club did a paper on Nausicaa for an introductory literature course where the students could choose what book or film they wanted to do their paper on. So he told this professor about Nausicaa and did his paper on it. The professor wasn't very impressed with it which surprised me since he has a history of using contemporary American and British fantasy novels in some of the classes he teaches, so I would have thought he was more open to this. Maybe he just didn't like the student's paper? But mostly I think that anime is still a bit too new and too unknown for some professors. Give it another 10 or 20 years.
Marc Hairston is a research space physicist at the W. B Hanson Center for Space Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas. The course syllabus for "Natural Wonders" can be viewed at:
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:01 am
Post subject: Tutorial: Masking in Vegas
Alright ya'll, I've never done a tutorial before, I don't know how in-depth or vague I'm supposed to be, and I'm not a very good explainer. But I've had a few people now ask me questions about masking, so I figured it was high-time to try and put together a tutorial about it. There's even pretty pictures along the way to guide you so you don't get bored!
Ready? Set..GO!
Step: 001: Choose your victim
What do you want to mask? Masking is a very useful tool for everything from placing a person into a different scene to making Sam and Dean smooch (which is what I'm sure all of you are going to go out and mask after this riiiiiiight?
For this particular tutorial I'm going to mask by cutting out a piece of one clip and replacing it with another (Putting people in mirrors, picture frames, things like that)
We're going to use this clip of Dean from 2.02 - 'Everybody Loves a Clown'
This clip of Jo from 2.14 - 'Born Under a Bad Sign'
Step: 002: Putting clips on the timeline
The first thing you're going to do is create two video tracks and place the clips, one on top of the other, into the timeline - just like you would if you were creating a normal split screen.
TIP: One important difference when you're masking is which clip you put on top and which clip you put on the bottom. In this case we want the clip of Dean to be on top and the clip of Jo to be on the bottom. We're going to be cutting out the car windshield in the clip of Dean - there will be just black space there, so you want the clip of Jo to be on the bottom so it fills up that black space. With the masking tool you're creating just what it says - a mask. So the clip of Dean will work as a mask that goes OVER the clip of Jo, so you want it to be on top!
Step: 003: Event/Pan Crop
Now that you have the clips on the timeline, you're going to right click on the clip of Dean (because that's the clip that is going to have the actual mask itself) and click 'Video even/pan crop...' This will bring up a new preview box to work in.
Step: 004: Make sure you are indeed masking
In that new preview box toward the bottom left hand side, there is going to be a little box that says 'mask'. Make sure that little box is checked/ticked, otherwise....nothing is going to happen
Step: 005: Anchor tool
Another thing that you need to make sure you have checked is the right tool. There is a column on the left hand side of the preview box that has a row of arrow looking tools. The tool you want to be using when you mask is called the 'Anchor Creation Tool'. It looks just like a little pen - make sure though that you click that particular pen tool, you DO NOT want to be using the pen with the minus symbol (-) next to it. That tool is used to erase your mask.
Step: 006: Begin masking!
You're going to use the Anchor Creation Tool (dude I just call it the pen tool, because that is so much easier to say AND type...so yes, the pen tool!). You use the pen tool to click and insert points onto the image in order to create an outline around part of the image. DO NOT DRAG points, simply click each point separately, the dotted line connecting points will show up all on it's own as you go along.
Step: 007: More connecting
When you are finished outlining the shape, the last thing you're going to do is click on the very first point you inserted. This will connect the shape as a whole. Again, do not drag the points. Your last point will end up being the same as your first point. You'll know you've done it correctly because the entire shape will be highlighted in yellow and the leftover will fade a little.
TIP: One very important thing to keep in mind is what exactly you want to show up. In this case, we want Jo to be where the windshield is, so we want the windshield to disappear when we add our mask. When you're masking,
the shape you outline is the shape that stays visible
! If we would have outlined the windshield, that would have stayed visible and the space around it become the black space. So always remember, if you want something to disappear, outline everything except it. The shape you outline is the shape that stays visible.
Step: 008: Feathering
When you're connecting points, they are automatically straight lines, which doesn't always look the most natural. When you have just straight lines, they can look very jagged and messy. So to remedy that, we're going to use the Feather tool! (Located in the left hand column under 'Path'. The 'Feather %' then is located directly under that). You have three options when you feather: In, Out, or Both. Feathering in - blurs all the points on the path inward, so in this case it will slowly make the entire image disappear. Feathering Out - blurs all the points on the path outward so that the higher the percentage the more of the original image is visible. Feathering both - blurs points both inward and outward, making the line less jagged, leaving this looking a lot smoother, this is the option that I choose most often and find the most useful.
Step: 009: The tricky part
When you are in the preview box, you can move the cursor along to view the clip. You'll notice that as it starts to get to the end of the clip the clip itself will begin to move while the shape you outlined does not! It'll look like it's being shifted up, down, left, right, little by little as the clip goes on. When you start to see this happening you're going to want an insert a key frame at that spot. From there you're going to select (from the left hand column with all the arrow looking tools) the 'Normal Edit Tool'. It looks just like a regular arrow. Scroll over the image and DO NOT click until the shape is completely highlighted in yellow - from there you can click on it and drag and drop the outline anywhere. Here, obviously, we're going to want to place it so that it again covers the image in the place you want. You're going to find that you might have to do this several time, creating several keyframes as you go along, to make sure that the outline stays in place throughout the entire clip.
TIP: Using the Normal Edit Tool this way doesn't always work so straight-forward. A lot of times you will be working with masks a lot more complex than this one - especially if you're manipping kisses. There are going to be a TON more points and moving the shape as a whole won't always line up exactly. When that happens you will need to use the Normal Edit Tool to click on individual points and move them. You will click on the individual points and drag them to re-outline the shape as you go alone to make sure it stays lined up.
When you've finished all that, keyframes and all, you're left with an a clip that will resemble this:
Now if you're placing a person into a different scene, manipping kisses, etc. This is where you stop! However when working with putting people in windows, mirrors, frames etc. I usually take it a little further. If you look at the image you can see that Jo fits perfectly in the space where the windshield once was, but that becomes part of the problem. You loose the context of the clip because it looks like she just has a border around her with a blob chilling on the left hand side of it, and that looks silly. We want it too look like Jo is a reflection in the windshield.
Step: 010: Adding video tracks
I said before that when you're masking, you need to be very conscious of what is on top and what is on bottom. The clip of Dean is going to remain on the top because it is working as a mask over the rest of the clips. So when we add a track we're going to add it BELOW that clip of Dean.
Step: 011: No more mask.
You're going to right click, copy and paste that same clip of Dean onto the new video track (Because we want Jo to look like a reflection in the windshield we want the original shot of Dean to show up in the windshield as well).
Then again you're going to right click and choose 'Video Event/Pan Crop..". This time though, you're going to UNCHECK the box that says mask, so the mask disappears. You'll be able to see in the original preview window (bottom right of the screen) that it looks just like it did when you first started.
Step: 012: Opacity change.
In oder to make both Dean and Jo show up, you're going to need to lower the opacity of that track. On the left hand side of your track timeline, you'll see the track tool bars. On track #2, the middle track, you're going to move the dial to the left to lower the opacity level. This step is really more of personal preference. If you want the reflection of Jo to be less visible you leave the opacity level at a higher percentage. If you want the reflection of Jo to be more visible, you lower the opacity level to a lower percenatge - for this clip I chose about a 44%.
The only thing left to do now is is to add colors and effects to make it look pretty - And then you're all done. Yay! :cheer:
Here is my finished product:
So, I really hope that this helped some of you. Even a little? I understand that what I did here was a very simple example of masking, so if in the future you want me to do one that's a little more advanced - one on manipping kisses for example - just ask and I'd be happy to whip up a tutorial that's a little more complex. For now though if you have any questions on this particular tutorial please feel free to ask!
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:13 am
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Dayln you are a God; thank you so much for this! i have massive issues with masking; ill use this for sure
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Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:20 am
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That was beautifully done, Dayln! Thank you so much! I linked you into the Guide section, hope you don't mind!
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Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:24 pm
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Just letting you know Dayln that i used this while using mask in my kate/nick (from csi
) vid and it took me only about a half hour to work through; all ur explanations were great; i didnt get lost and understood it all. Now i understand why it never worked for me before; i never used to do those keyframes and the masked scene would move and look crappy
so THANK YOU!
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Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 1:51 pm
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This is great, Dalyn! I' wanted to make a tutorial like that, but i never found the time to do it, and yours is so much better than mine would ever be... I'm terrible explaining things!
Anyway, Great job here!
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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 3:46 am
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I'm SLOWLY (and believe me, I mean that!) getting the hang of masking in Vegas. But I have a problem with the changing the masking once the scene changes,person/image moves.
Scroll over the image and DO NOT click until the shape is completely highlighted in yellow - from there you can click on it and drag and drop the outline anywhere.
I'm not getting that at all! Whenever I allow the mouse to hover over the selected part at say, 0:03 seconds into the scene when I need to accomodate to the moving image, it never highlights in yellow all the way around. And when I click on it in order to instigate it to highlight, it only highlights the particular line I clicked on. And when I drag that line, it drags in a very curved or diagonal fashion. I don't know if any of this makes sense to you, but maybe you can help.
I'd love to learn from the best, after all...
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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 10:58 pm
Post subject: Re: Tutorial: Masking in Vegas
So, I really hope that this helped some of you. Even a little? I understand that what I did here was a very simple example of masking, so if in the future you want me to do one that's a little more advanced - one on manipping kisses for example - just ask and I'd be happy to whip up a tutorial that's a little more complex. For now though if you have any questions on this particular tutorial please feel free to ask!
Well yeah that helped a little
But I'd reeeeally want to know how I can manipulate kisses or something like that. I used to try it with photos someone looked at but the mask always changed because the bigness' photo changed too *lol* So I got totally lost and said 'Crap, I can't do stuff like that'
Now I want to learn. So pleeeease help me =)[/quote]
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Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:37 am
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Wow. This is awesome. I'm going to make myself use this tutorial sometime during my Vegas trial.
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:30 am
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I'm using the Vegas 8.0 trial and when I went to Pan/Crop, the pen tool isn't there and there is no options for masking. Did it just change that much from 6.0 to 8.0 or is there something I'm completely missing?
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Freckles815 wrote:
I'm using the Vegas 8.0 trial and when I went to Pan/Crop, the pen tool isn't there and there is no options for masking. Did it just change that much from 6.0 to 8.0 or is there something I'm completely missing?
Is it possible that the trial is for Vegas Movie Studio 8? I use Vegas Movie Studio 6 and it doesn't have the pan/crop pen tool or the option for masking.
I know that some programs limit what you can do with the trial but I've never heard of Vegas doing that.
Other than that, I'm really not sure what the problem could be, sorry!
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 2:54 am
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It's the Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8.0 platinum 30 day trial that I'm using. I just noticed on the screencaps of the tutorial that it says 6.0 in one of the windows so I figured that maybe 6.0 had masking and then they removed it in the future versions. The only thing I have seen on my version is Mask Generator in VideoFX but it's completely different and relates to an entirely different effect.
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 3:10 am
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I don't believe Movie Studios has that option. Just Sony Vegas. I could be misunderstanding, but I have Movie Studios and I made one vid with it, and it wouldn't let me do stuff like that...
I dunno, sometimes you can achieve a similar effect by using the cookie cutter effect. I think MS has that, at least...
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Posted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:36 am
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Freckles815 wrote:
It's the Sony Vegas Movie Studio 8.0 platinum 30 day trial that I'm using. I just noticed on the screencaps of the tutorial that it says 6.0 in one of the windows so I figured that maybe 6.0 had masking and then they removed it in the future versions. The only thing I have seen on my version is Mask Generator in VideoFX but it's completely different and relates to an entirely different effect.
Nope, unfortunately Movie Studio just doesn't have that same masking ability as the full version that Dayln was using.
But, like Sassy said, Movie Studio
have the cookie cutter, which can be used to do something similar. The main difference is that the cookie cutter only comes in pre-set shapes so you can't do a defined shape like you can with the pan/crop mask.
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Old topic but solved a new problem for me! Great tutorial
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I'm using SV 9 Platinum and there is no mask tick box to check or the pen tool. All there is is an option in compositing mode to switch to Multiply (mask).
Was hoping I could figure this out for my October contest vid, because it's going to be tough,
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Why infant tongue and lip ties became important to me
Like many new mothers, one of the things I couldn't wait for when I was pregnant with my son was the experience of breastfeeding. I had watched my sister in law a few years earlier have a beautiful breastfeeding journey with her daughter and I couldn't wait to share that bond with my little guy. When my son was born, my sister in law was the only person I knew who had breastfeed and she luckily hadn't experienced any challenges with her daughter. So I was thinking breastfeeding my son would be natural, easy, joyful and painless. Unfortunately, our breastfeeding journey was going to start out much different! While there are a number of reasons why breastfeeding can be challenging, I'm going to spend today discussing one in particular that caused the majority of our early struggles: tongue and lip ties!
A rocky start
When my son was born, he couldn't seem to latch on correctly. With him arriving at 8:21 pm, we also didn't have access to a lactation consultant until late morning of the next day. So that night he cried almost the entire time because I couldn't figure out how to get him properly latched and his poor belly was craving that liquid gold known as colostrum. By late afternoon / early evening the next day the lactation consultant was worried because he still couldn't latch properly and had not passed a bowel movement yet.
They suggested supplementing a little with formula and by this point I was so nervous and tired I agreed. They did use a supplemental nursing system, you can find more information on them here, to help still encourage nursing which I appreciated. I was extremely nervous to be released and head home because we still had yet to achieve a good latch and I wasn't feeling any milk let downs. It also hurt, a lot, every time my son did try to latch on and suckle. Once home things got worse, because milk wasn't being properly removed my milk didn't fully come in for almost a week. When it did finally come in, it resulted in clogged ducts that lead to mastitis. The antibiotics for the mastitis lead to a yeast infection for me and thrush for my son, both of which then had to be treated with more medicine.
For information on how to treat mastitis more naturally check here, how to treat yeast infections more naturally check here and how to treat thrush more naturally check here. *As with any medical condition always check with your doctor/health care provider/midwife before starting any treatment.
Trust your gut mama
After a few weeks of nothing improving (my son was nursing for about an hour, taking maybe a 20-30 min break then nursing for another hour around the clock, I wasn't sleeping at night at all, my nipples were cracked and bleeding, I still wasn't feeling strong let downs and nursing caused extreme pain) I started doing research. I found online breast feeding communities and started asking questions. One of the best ones I joined was The Leaky Boob. They confirmed what I already was thinking, possible tongue and lip ties.
Unfortunately, due to formula being widely used in our country over the last 2-3 generations, so much knowledge concerning tongue and lip ties has been lost. Many ties used to be discovered because they cause problems with breastfeeding and it's rumored many of the midwives from generations ago actually kept their pinkie finger nail filed sharp to "cut" ties right after birth.
When large majorities of women use formula for 60+ years, many practitioners become uneducated on signs and symptoms of ties, along with how to properly fix them in infants and children. Over the course of 3 months we had 4 different pediatricians and 2 lactation consultants examine our son and tell us he had no tongue or lip ties (he actually had both). Many made comments like "breastfeeding doesn't work for everyone, just switch to formula" or "it may be easier for you to just pump and bottle fed". My mommy instincts (along with close to 15 years of working in the dental field as an assistant/dental hygienist) were screaming that something was wrong. I finally found a lactation consultant to give us a referral to a children's EN&T specialist (ear, nose and throat).
I was so frustrated when that EN&T also did a quick peek inside my son's mouth and was ready to send us on our way while saying there was no problems. I turned into that momma bear and basically blocked the door while telling him we weren't leaving until he completed a finger sweep under my sons tongue. And sure enough, he was surprised to find a "posterior tongue tie". He revised it that day (no local anesthetic needed, I stayed in the room and my son nursed right after) but recommended waiting to do anything about the lip tie (at that point I was just so relieved the tongue tie had been addressed). Trust yourself. You know your child better than anyone else ever will and you will always be their strongest, loudest advocate.
Breastfeeding life after the tongue tie revision
Within 7-10 days of the tongue tie being released by son was latching on properly like a pro! There was absolutely NO PAIN with nursing anymore! He was able to drain my breasts of milk effectively and in half the time, had less gas and fussiness!! After 3 months of hell I finally felt like this was what breastfeeding was suppose to look/feel like! We were lucky enough to continue nursing on demand until my son was almost 3 years old and he over about a 6 month period self weaned! I also found this Facebook Group, which has so much more wonderful information concerning tongue and lip ties, along with this Providers List (where you can type in your zip code and find providers near you who actually specialize in infant/child tongue and lip ties – many using a laser technique to complete revisions resulting in faster healing!). Dr. Bobby Ghaheri MD is also currently one of the most knowledgable doctors working with infant/child tongue and lip ties, he also responds personally to emails (and questions in the above mentioned Facebook Group). His website and contact information can be found here.
Throughout all of our research we found some developing information on how tongue ties can adversely affect the Vagus Nerve. This nerve runs under the tongue and basically connects the digestive system to the brain. Tongue ties prevent the Vagus Nerve from being stimulated properly, which can negatively affect the digestive process and mess up the "hunger" feeling. This could be one reason for failure to thrive and/or reflux problems. For an informative article that's more in depth on this check here.
Signs and Symptoms
So how do you know if tongue and/or lip ties are something that need addressed with your little one? While not every infant/child will have the same signs or symptoms (bottle feeding and breast feeding will both also give different ones as well) there are some common things you can look for. ** These signs and symptoms do not always mean there is a problem with a tongue and/or lip tie. If you or your little do have one or more of these signs/symptoms, reach out to your doctor/pediatrician/lactation consultant/midwife along with the resources mentioned above to determine the next best steps for your family.
Mom Symptoms: pain during breastfeeding (from compressed nipples, nipples with the "new lipstick tip" shape, to cracked/blistered/bleeding nipples etc), thrush, clogged ducts, mastitis, sleep deprivation (babies with ties usually nurse for longer periods and more often – especially at night), compromised milk supply.
Baby Symptoms: trouble latching/staying latched, latching then unlatching then re-latching often, "biting" or gumming nipples, shallow latch, choking during milk let downs or during bottle feeding, unlatching to gasp for air, a clicking sound while trying to nurse, inadequate or slow weight gain, nursing or bottle feeding more often and for longer periods of time, drooling a lot during nursing or bottle feeding, extra gas, reflux, colic.
Toddler Speech Symptoms: showing problems pronouncing certain sounds (especially l,r,t,d,n,th,sh, and z which all need tongue mobility) and parents having trouble understanding toddlers when they speak (should be 75-100% understood when talking by age 3 – Weiss, 1982).
For more in depth information on signs and symptoms check here ( <—– one of my absolute favorite posts on tongue and lip ties that also has a lot of pictures) and here!
Additional information and food for thought
Recent studies are beginning to link tongue/lip ties (and other midline defects) with MTHFR gene mutations and some estimates are projecting up to 50% of the population has at least one form of the mutation. The Mommypotamus Blog has a wonderful beginners guide to understanding MTHFR gene mutations here!
I hope this information was helpful! Many babies might also latch ok (and mom's might not have pain during nursing) but may not transfer milk well – this can be an indicator of ties not just "your milk never coming in". It's also important to be aware even after a revision/tie correction with a knowledgeable provider not all problems may go away (there may still be underlying additional issues) and it's important to work with your pediatrician/lactation consultant/midwife etc moving forward. The journey into motherhood can be so challenging and I'm so grateful we eventually found the information and support systems we needed to get our sons ties corrected! If you have any other questions please feel free to email or leave a comment!


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Guadalupe Robles was a great big man, about 200 pounds; he had blue eyes and his hair was as white as this wall. He was my girl's grandfather. Lived there in Santa Barbara – oh, there was a big family of them Robles; I bet there was 500 Robles in Santa Barbara at one time. I remember visiting Keta. I said, I'm going to take your Grandfather for a walk.
I told him, you can't walk very fast, eh? No, he says. He's a big man. I took him down the road. He wanted to show me a tree. This one tree, he told me, Tomás, he says, when I was a young man just down from the border, I was sixteen, seventeen years old, this was a little tree. The fishing boats used to drive clear up to it and the Indians would tie their boats to it. Mira, look now, the ocean is about a mile from here. There was a beach and the highway and the railroad. See how much different the ocean is now? It was a good mile from that tree over there to the beach. Agua over here, he said.
Guadalupe, he was a white man, his eyes were blue and his skin was just as white as any white person, and of course since he was old, his hair was just snow white. And I used to look at him and say, mucho pelo, eh? He'd say, No, poquito now, muchacho. But he had a lot of hair. It was white all his life. He wouldn't let none of his relations take him walking 'cause muy malo, he said. Oh, he hated drunks. Cochinos, he called them. He asked me, you don't drink do you? No, I said. Cochinos.
I took him a couple times down the highway about a half mile, exercising. He wouldn't let anyone touch his cane either; he had a long cane, and it was about this big around from the top, and that thing was the hardest piece of wood I ever saw. Papa Guadalupe, I said, where did you get your cane? Oh, muchos años a good many years ago. He got it when he was a young man down on the border somewhere I guess. He might've been sent to Mexico to be raised by family there, since he was illegitimate. We don't know. Boy that cane was the prettiest piece of wood I ever saw; it shined just like it had varnish.
Poor old Guadalupe Robles. I guess he's been dead now for 70 years, 60 anyway. But he said he was no Indian. He said the Indians muy prietos. And he was white as snow; his father must have come from Spain. That's what I figured. He couldn't speak English: nada, he said, nada. He said probably the Mission had been there 50 years before he came.
The old man -- Guadalupe was his name. I remember they called him Papa Guadalupe. There was no Mexican down there that was like him.
- Tom Miranda
Guadalupe Robles remained a mystery for my mother, the genealogy sleuth. She searched for his birth certificate for years, finally tracking down a death certificate that contained very little information about his origins. Was Robles a mixedblood? a descendent of Spaniards who married into the local Indian population? My mother didn't think his parents had ever been married, which gives rise to all sorts of speculation. I have a picture of Guadalupe Robles and someone named "Jose Robles," standing together with hats and boots on;
Both men have a big bushy mustache and appear very dark (contrary to Tom's impression of Guadalupe late in life), although it is difficult to tell if that is the lighting or complextion. This is a photo of a photo that someone shared with my mother; I found it in her belongings with the names "Guadalupe & Jose Robles" in her handwriting underneath the image. I don't know where she found the photo (it is a photograph of a photo), or who has the original. I don't know how she identified these two men, nor do I know which one might be Guadalupe, and which one Jose (a good guess is that she wrote the names down left to right, perhaps because the men are posed in the order she wrote the names). My mother did a lot of research in California, attended many family gatherings, celebrations, libraries; the photo of a photo looks like the original was posted on a board, perhaps as part of a display. If anyone knows more about this picture, please contact me!
Decades later, while searching through the Berkeley photograph database, I found a strange connection to that photo:
Documentation provided by Bancroft Library for this photo is as follows:
Title:People; 133 prints; 20 negatives, 3 positives. No. 1-22 (Vol. 47) No. 23-79 (Vol. 48) No. 80-133 (Vol. 49)
Collection:C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs, MISCELLANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS Uncataloged or unidentified; broken up into general categories People; 133 prints; 20 negatives, 3 positives. No. 1-22 (Vol. 47) No. 23-79 (Vol. 48) No. 80-133 (Vol. 49)
Contributing Institution:The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.
Clearly, this is a picture of Guadlaupe OR Jose Robles in exactly the same pose, same place, same clothes – obviously taken at the same time. In one corner is a shadow whose hat and shoulders match up perfectly with the man from the first photo. This second photo was part of Merriam's collection (C. Hart Merriam Collection of Native American Photographs, ca. 1890-1938, located online at http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf9f59p6w7) but nothing was noted about identity, time or place. In fact, the photo is located in Merriam's "misc" photos, prefaced with these words: This is a largely random accumulation of photographic prints either given to Merriam by persons who know of his interest in Indians, or photographs taken on the Alaska Harriman Expedition in 1899, of which Merriam was a member, and kept by him. The catalog numbers in this section take the form "Misc/P1 no. 1" "Misc/P2 No. 1" etc. "Misc" refers to "miscellaneous," "P" refers to a specified and sequentially numbered group of pictures, and "no." to the individual items within a group.


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My boys are always inventing things. Whether it be a new clubhouse out of the latest furniture box or a rocket from the toilet paper roll they just emptied. I love their creativity and laugh every time they explain how and why they came up with their latest invention. Let's face it, without the creative skills developed as a child, our world would be a boring place.
Although I have yet to see this movie, I'm extremely excited to purchase it when it is released on October 1st to Blueray and DVD (Digital HD was released September 15th).
Here are some Croodaceous Inventions to get you in right frame of mind for the movie.
In the beginning, Grug is suspicious of Guy's weird ideas and does not want the family to listen to his advice. Eventually, Grug starts coming up with a ton of great inventions himself! Take a look below at five of the croodaceous inventions and when and where they really became a part of our lives.
1. The photograph
During their journey, Grug has the fantastic idea of leaving your mark behind with a snapshot. The first photograph was taken in the early 1820s. A French man named Joseph Nicephore Niépce used a camera obscura to create an image of an engraving. The process was very complicated and took eight hours of exposure to light to create the photograph.
2. Shoes
After putting on her first pair of boots, Eep enthusiastically exclaimed, "I love them!" Who can blame her? Imagine a life having to walk around without shoes on a daily basis. Though Guy comes up with the idea in The Croods, the original shoe dates back to approximately 7,000 or 8,000 BC. Originally, most shoes were in the style of a sandal and could be created from whatever material was available to the people (such as cow hide).
3. Sunglasses
Grug's original shades were certainly stylish and would definitely protect your eyes from the sun's rays, but
they were a little impractical because you could not see through them. In the prehistoric era, Inuit people created ivory goggles to protect their eyes from the sun with narrow slits for viewing. A man named James 2.Ayscough developed the original tinted lenses for glasses in the mid-eighteenth century.
4. The See-Saw
During Grug's frenzy of inventions to try and impress his family, he created the see-saw, a fun game for children that is now often seen in parks and playgrounds. Although it is not entirely known when the first see-saw was created and used, it is believed that the word originated in the 1600s and has been a staple of children's playgrounds ever since.
5. The Umbrella
Guy helps protect Eep from the downpour with his own version of an umbrella, created with leaves and sticks in The Croods. Umbrellas or parasols can be seen in ancient sculptures and drawings. However, not everyone
was able to have their own umbrella during these times. For instance, in sculptures from Ninevah, the only person ever shown with a parasol is the monarch.
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Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe submitted his resignation Wednesday, after allegations he used public funds for personal expenses. The resignation comes as the city prepares to host the 2020 Olympic Games. Photo: Getty Images
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This necklace is made using the Helm/Parallel Chainmaille Weave weaved into 3 flowers. I used sterling silver wire for the 75-18 gauge jump rings. I then added the flowers to a sterling silver Long Curb Chain and used a sterling silver Figure 8 clasp to finish it off. Full length is 18 1/2". All my sterling silver jump rings are tumble polished for a beautiful shine and strength.
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Can you please tell me the pros and cons of taking day hikes in Mont Blanc area for 5 days vs taking a guided hut to hut hike for 7 days? Wondering if you will see more with hut to hut then day hikes? Our trip is planned for Sept. 1 2016. Husband thinks staying at one location is better but concerned he will miss out on views/beauty if not on hut to hut hike. Thank you Heidi
Hello Heidi,
Welcome to MySwissAlps! The Mont Blanc is on the French/Italian border, so you may not get many replies on our website. Personally I don't know the area, but I can provide some general comments: hut to hut hikes are very special as you'll really be in the outdoors for multiple days and can also enjoy sunrise and sunset at wonderful places. Remote areas a easier to reach if you have multiple days without the need to go back to a town. A disadvantage is that you will need to stick to the route once you spend the night in a hut, regardless of the weather. Even more so with a tour. With day hikes, you can adapt your daily plans to the weather and your level of energy. Also you'll have more choice of accommodation. Huts are pretty basic. Mostly dormitory style.
Hopefully someone else can provide more details.
Thank you Arno
I appreciate you taking time to give me your thoughts.
Hi Petunia,
I don't know the area very well, but if you want an experience of a life time, I'd suggest doing the guided hut to hut walk, particularly if you haven't done much in the mountains before. A good mountain guide will open up a whole new world that you wouldn't be able to access on your own. The famous hike around Mont Blanc is the Haute Route, but there are other treks that will take you high into the mountains. If you are fit and can afford it, I'd say do the hut to hut walk.
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As a mompreneur I feel like balance should be a four letter word. Balance is something moms try to continuously look for to find from the day your baby is handed to you. I spent my days trying to give everything in my life the same amount of attention, being a good mom, a good wife, good at my job, oh yeah and kinda sorta taking care of myself aka balance. You know what happened? I sucked at it. When I started my business, life became even more out of balance. I now had two children, my son and my business. All day long I fought this urge to want spend time on my business baby and felt horrible. Then when my to do list became an incredibly long list mocking me, I would have a sitter watch my son so I could work, I felt horrible. No where in any of that was time for me. It felt like I was failing at everything.
Then I went to a coaching weekend to further my coaching education and oddly enough the topic was balance. Sometimes the big man upstairs has a sense of humor. It was a intense weekend, but I walked away with a clear perspective. Balance is all about what we make of it. Balance isn't 50/50. Balance is figuring out the areas of your life you find important at that moment and figuring out the amount of time your feel comfortable giving each. This includes taking care of yourself, don't forget about that. You will never feel truly balanced if you forget about yourself. To be the best mom and momprenuer you need to take care of yourself first.
I'm a visual person, I actually took a circle and made a pie chart of my life and talked to myself. Yep, I out loud talked to myself. First there were my buckets or major areas in life, being a mom, my business, my relationship, myself...wait I'm redoing that list in a better order. Myself, being a mom, my business, my relationship. Now that I had the major buckets I figured out how many hours I could reasonably spend on each. Maybe I should put sleep in there? I love me some sleep.
Then I figure out how much time that equaled. Here's my example:
I realize that your buckets and life might look different then mine, but we all have things out there vying for our attention.
It might not even be about splitting things out in hours for you, that is how my brain works. Truly, it's about making a conscience decision everyday to spend YOUR time how you need/want to. Then do it! Let go of the guilt, it doesn't serve you to hold onto it.
Take this day by day, eventually you won't have to think about it so much.
So... should balance be a four letter word? Hell no!
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These muffins look pretty tasty, right? Below is my first blog recount of a recipe mishap.
If you have read the handful of posts that I've written so far, you will start to get the idea I'm a big Costco fan. Even though I'm not feeding an army at my house we buy in bulk and generally it works out ok. My most recent purchase was a huge 4lb container of strawberries. Given hubby won't touch strawberries (unless they are in jam form) it was all on me to use them up. I even considered making strawberry preserves. But I've never done the whole canning thing and wasn't ready to go there. After eating the strawberries a la carte and slicing them up in my cereal for a couple of days I zeroed in on a recipe in my new Sweet Melissa Baking Book for Strawberry Muffins with Fresh Lemon and Rosemary. I didn't have fresh rosemary but I had all the other ingredients. And the next day I was going into the office where people would eagerly gobble up any kind of homemade treat. So at 9pm on Tuesday evening I started gathering the ingredients to make these tasty sounding muffins.
Most of my experience with baking starts with combining the wet ingredients and then adding in the dry slowly. This recipe was just the opposite. Melissa Murphy instructs you to put the dry ingredients in a large bowl, making a well in the center and then adding the wet.
I followed the recipe diligently. I pulled the dry ingredients from around the sides of the bowl in the well of melted butter, sugar, milk and cream. When everything was combined I was left with a dough consistency rather than a batter.
I was perplexed. Didn't seem right. The recipe did say the amount of milk could be variable, so I added some additional milk. Didn't help. I reread the instructions again. I didn't miss a step or forget an ingredient (as I've been known to do). I've heard that it's very easy to overwork muffins, but I barely worked these. It's like the flour in the middle of the bowl sucked up the wet ingredients so fast there was no wet stuff left for the flour on the outside edges. I wonder if the moment that I stopped to photo the wet well in the dry mixture had something do with it? I'm not sure. Sigh. Even though I knew deep down (as deep down as you can go when lamenting over a muffin recipe) these were not going to be good, I went ahead and baked them up. They came out of the oven smelling yummy and looking pretty good...actually i thought they looked a little like scone turned muffin. But they really weren't edible in my opinion. Well they were edible, technically, but not good. It was so doughy....you needed a drink to get it down. It was sorta like when peanut butter gets stuck to the roof of your mouth. It was dissappointing. The funny thing is the next day when I was driving to work Hubby texted me and said "You forgot your cupcakes". I love he thought they were cupcakes by the way. I replied back telling him they were left at home intentionally. My co-workers did not get a surprise treat on Tuesday morning. These pretty little muffins went straight into the garbage when I returned home from work in the evening. It was kind of sad. Look how good this little guy looked...
The problem with this recipe failure is I am not sure what went wrong. I just checked out a previous Sweet Melissa Sundays muffin P&Q and found that several other bakers reported a dense muffin. So maybe these weren't as far off base as I thought? I guess my muffin expectations were and are different. These were definitely more scone/biscuit like than muffin-esque. Not my personal preference. It looks like I'll have an opportunity to give Melissa Murphy's muffins another shot the week of May 9th when Sweet Melissa Sundays tries out Orange Blueberry Muffins with Pecan Crumble. All of SM's muffin recipes start with the same base recipe. I think I will scale back on the flour and see how that goes. More to come on muffins!


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According to the MacPorts port command man page the option -u: "uninstall non-active ports when upgrading and uninstalling".
Just running port upgrade all the time litters your systems with lots and lots op old archived versions of installed ports.
To correct this whole mess you could run "sudo port -u uninstall". This should uinstall any archived versions you might have. You might need to add a -f to that to make it work: "sudo port -uf uninstall".
You might have some trouble when you force a removal like this when one of your installed ports is linked against an older version of a library. This can be fixed by replaying some steps on this page.
Basically this post is a reminder for myself. But just maybe someone might find this useful too.


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