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1. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6Dave LaRonde Aug 3, 2012 8:09 AM (in response to carolgunn)
To give a meaningful response to your dilemma, please tell us how you rendered out of AE: whether it was an image sequence (what kind?) or if a movie, the media container & codec.
2. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 8:38 AM (in response to Dave LaRonde)
Oh gosh, Dave, I am so new to AE & PR, I don't quite have the vocabulary yet, but will do my best. This is actually my first time ever to render something out of AE, so be gentle with me!
The image itself was created by "wrapping" an image from Photoshop around a 3D sphere using the CC Sphere preset. I added it to the render queue and accepted the presets, because I did not see any way to change the settings. I'll attach a screen shot of those settings. Let me know if you can't read them.
3. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6Dave LaRonde Aug 3, 2012 10:14 AM (in response to carolgunn)
Sorry, but I personally can't tell whether you're on a Mac or a Windows machine. If it's a Mac, you may have Quicktime X installed rather than the latest version of Quicktime 7 for Mac. QTX is frankly a dog, and I wouldn't use it.
What you're seeing isn't a color isue, it's a Gamma issue... are you familiar with the term?
I also see that your comp's frame rate is set to 24 fps, which is probably incorrect. Almost every time, footage shot on a video camera AND at film frame rate is at 23.976 frames/sec. Many camera and NLE makers erroneously refer to this frame rate as 23.98. Rest assured,it's 23.976.
I get the feeling you come from a Photoshop background, and you might be trying to use AE intuitively, which is a mistake: too many "gotchas" in AE to attempt it sucesfully. I don't know if this holds true in Photoshop, but AE can kill you without a good knowledge of the basics.
If that's the case, you may find that life gets a little better following a visit to this page. It contains a lot of useful information.
4. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6BenjaminMarkus Aug 3, 2012 10:53 AM (in response to carolgunn)
Read this FAQ: What is the best format for rendering and exporting from After Effects?
Then I would suggest trying a different codec. When you send your comp to the Render Queue it says lossless next ot the Output Module Settings, that means that it's using After Effect's defualt lossless settings, which uses a codec called Animation. Animation is an ancient codec that delivers huge files and it isn't used so much in production anymore. If you click on lossless the Output Module Settings screen will come up where you can change the format of your render and you can change the codec by hitting the Format Options button.
I've seen that washed out issue before with the Animation codec and just did some tests. I also played with the Color Management settings using the Animation codec by going to the upper right hand tab in the Output Module Settings menu. That seemed to have no effect on the final look of the render. A quicktime render with the Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) codec seems to match the AE screenshot almost identically.
Unfortunately, you can't get the ProRes codecs without having either Final Cut Pro installed or Apple Motion. I think it's possible to buy them from the Apple website. However, there are other lossless codecs you can try such as Uncompressed YUV 10bit or 8bit, but I just did a test and I got a much darker render than the ProRes renders and the screenshot. Judge for yourself what's best...
If you want ot know more, here's an FAQ on the basics of rendering and exporting in AE...
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f4 a.html#WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f1a
5. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6Dave LaRonde Aug 3, 2012 10:58 AM (in response to BenjaminMarkus)
I'd also recommend Quicktime's PNG codec to render lossles movies. It's 10-bit and it supports alpha channels. Compared to the old Animation codec, file sizes are a good deal smaller to boot most of the time. The exception: animated lower-thirds. You can't beat Animation for them.
6. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6BenjaminMarkus Aug 3, 2012 11:01 AM (in response to Dave LaRonde)
Yes PNG is also fantastic, although when I use them I usually just render to image sequences.
7. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 11:04 AM (in response to Dave LaRonde)
27" iMac, 16GB RAM, OSX.7.4. Latest versions of all software.
Yeh, Dave you nailed it. PS user from waaay back, print reproduction specialist, trying to get some new job skills. I have gleefully jumped down this rabbit hole of 3D animation and video feet first! But i have spent the past two months watching turorials, perusing the help files and forums, and experimenting. Thanks for that link--I will check it out.
The reason my comp's frame rate is set to 24 is I am not using video footage; this is an animation i created at 24fps. Will that be a problem. I could always recreate it at 23.976, if that would make a diference.
Yes, familiar with Gamma. Anything you sould suggest to fix that?
8. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6Dave LaRonde Aug 3, 2012 11:13 AM (in response to carolgunn)
Ah, the latest versions of all software. That probably means QTX. I believe you'll find QT 7 on your OS installation disks, and you ought to take advantage of it and lose QTX.
The biggest consideration in the choce of video codec is how it will be used next. If, for example, the file is going to Final Cut Pro, it may display perfectly. Many times you'll receive delivery specifications, and the choice of codec may be out of your hands.
So there's really no one best answer.
9. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6BenjaminMarkus Aug 3, 2012 11:15 AM (in response to carolgunn)
It seems to me that the screnshot matches just slightly better to the ProRes render with Gamma correction set to none, so I would use that setting. As for fps, I personally like to work in true 24 when I'm doing motion graphics animation in After Effects because it displays the individual frames at equal lengths. Then when I export the comp I go to Best Settings and manually change the fps to a video fram rate like 23.976. This is especially important if you need the frame rate to match up with some video later. If I'm doing video work in AE, I set my comp to match the settings of the footage I'm using.
10. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 11:52 AM (in response to Dave LaRonde)
Dave, it is going to Premiere Pro next. In fact, it is already there via Dynamic Link and it looks great in the preview there. (Oddly, it is a tad washed out compared to the the AE preview altho not nearly so washed out as the .mov file from AE. I'd attach a screen shot, but it won't let me.
Can you tell me, now that I have rendered the AE composition, if the Dynamic Link auotmatically repaces the AE composition with the rendered version, or do I need to do that manually. . . . somehow?
11. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6Dave LaRonde Aug 3, 2012 12:39 PM (in response to carolgunn)
My knowledge of Dynamic Link is pretty sketchy: I'm a Final Cut Pro / AE user -- no such convenience for me!
However, I'm pretty certain that if you've opened the AE comp In Premiere via Dynamic link, you're looking directly at the AE comp. If you quit Premiere, then make changes to that particular AE comp, you'll see the changes when you open Premiere again. You can also use an "edit original" command in Premiere -- I think that's the term -- to modify the AE comp.
When the Premiere Project is complete, you'll render all video in the codec & media container you selected at the beginning of the Premiere project.
I hope someone corrects me if I'm wrong, but that's how I understand the process.
Here's where I got my info. It's a page from Adobe's Online Help for AE. I typed in dynamic link as a search term, and the page was at the top.
12. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 1:11 PM (in response to BenjaminMarkus)
Thanks, Ben--great examples! I tried the UYUV-10, but Quick Time Player could not play it so I tried UYUV-8, which looks better than the previous example using the Animation , but still not as good as the AE preview. I posed it at Flickr since this forum won't allow an attachment as big. You can check it out here:
The chocolate brown earplug up top center looks much better, but still not as appetizing as the one in the AE rpreview. But my main concern is the row of electronic earplugs around the equator of the sphere as that is the client's core product line. They have a much warmer pinky/yellow look in the AE preview.
thanks for your help!
13. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 1:20 PM (in response to carolgunn)
Thanks, guys, very helpful replies. After doing a little homework reading the links you all posted, I think I will not bother with rendiering from AE for now. I understood that that was a good workflow to speed the final render in PR, but these AE compositions reder pretty quick, so I think i will just do a final render from PR, where it looks like you have more options. . . thanks and wish me luck!
14. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6BenjaminMarkus Aug 3, 2012 1:21 PM (in response to carolgunn)
It's hard to tell with so many colors, that's why I just did the flat red renders so you can really see the difference. But, as you can see in my test the uncompressed codecs are way darker and still pretty orange compared t the screenshot. Have you tried using the PNG codec like Dave suggested?
15. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 1:36 PM (in response to BenjaminMarkus)
It is not hard for me to tell--I know those colors by heart, having shot the original photos and reproduced them in print and for web many times!
Oh, thaks for the reminder. totally forgot. Will try the PNG codec now and get back to ya.
16. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 1:56 PM (in response to carolgunn)
Sadly, PNG does not sem to be tha answer--the colors are kinda . . . sickly. UYUV-8 is the one to beat so far.
17. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6BenjaminMarkus Aug 3, 2012 2:14 PM (in response to carolgunn)
Are you working in 8 bit? If not I would use the 10 bit as the production codec. The quality is going to be better. It may not play on the desktop, but it should play in PR and AE and might end up being a better codec for going in between softwares. I would suggest using H.264 as a final output codec. It's also lossless and should have no problem playing off the desktop. However, H.264 is not a good intermediate codec, meaning it won't hold up as well going in between softwares and being re-rendered.
18. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 3:16 PM (in response to BenjaminMarkus)
Yes, I am working in 8-bit. (shouldn't I be?) Well, hey, looky there--when I import the .mov file Quick Time player could not play (UYUV-10 bit) into PR, it shows up just fine. I brought the UYUV-8 bit one in as well. They look about the same. They also look about the same as the PR preview of the AE composition (unrendered).
The funny thing is that over in AE, the colors there more closely resemble the original Photoshop document. When I import the original PS doc into PR, it is not as vibrant--it looks just like the preview and the UYUV .mov files.
So, to summarize, the colors using the UYUV codec (8 and 10 bit) look like the PR file. The colors in the AE fle are truer to the original PS file, but once the compisition goes over to PR, it looks a little grayer. I tried to post a screen shot of that difference earlier, but it would not let me, so please take a look at that here:
Again, reference the row of tan electronics, the chocolate brown plug top center, and the orange plug, bottom center.
Any idea what is up with that? With the colors changing up once they get out of AE?
19. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6Rick Gerard Aug 3, 2012 4:37 PM (in response to carolgunn)
If you match your color profiles, your color management, and your display settings across the board the colors will match unless there's a rendering bug in a codec. Pro-Rez suffered for quite a while with a pesky gamma bug. Some codecs don't respect color management. Some players don't respect color management. The trick here is to establish a workflow that works for you, write it down, save the presets, and stick to it.
It's exactly like matching color profiles with a printer. Everybody and every file and every machine must have the same settings for the colors to match.
20. Re: Color in .mov file from After Effects CS6carolgunn Aug 3, 2012 5:22 PM (in response to Rick Gerard)
Hey, Rick!
The thing is, the same file looks great in PS and AE, but not when imported into PRdirectly from PS or from AE thru Dynamic Link. This is true even before rendering, so I don't think a codec bug is to blame.
Double checking: The source material from Photoshop is in RGB mode. In the AE project settings, I see that color management is turned on and we are indeed in the Adobe RGB 1998 color space. Color settings are synchronized across the entire suite.
How do I doublecheck in Premiere?


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Parallel parking isn't hard once you've done it a few times, but it can be nerve-wracking if you're new, or trying to do it right for a driving test. Thankfully, over at Quora, Yishan Wong offers this step-by-step breakdown of how to parallel park perfectly every single time—and he's spot on.
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- I said STOP.
- While stopped, turn your wheel back to the middle position.
- Back up slowly until your car just barely clears the front car, then stop again.
- Turn your wheel all the way to the left. All the way! Stay stopped while you do this.
- Now keep backing in. Don't turn your wheel away from the all-the-way-left position!
- Once your car is parallel, STOP and then turn your wheel to face forwards again.
If you do these steps exactly, your car will magically place itself into the correct position.
He's right, and if you hit the link below, he describes further why this works repeatedly. The key is to remember that parallel parking is a repeatable thing, it doesn't require judgement, it doesn't require experience, it just requires that you have a space large enough for your vehicle and you repeat the same process over and over again with as little variation as possible. In his own words:
You do not need to practice, you just need to fucking follow the directions. Parallel is not a "skill," it is more like a binary thing.
We couldn't agree more. Hit the link below to see the whole response over at Quora, or check out this previously posted graphic or this video guide for those of us who are visual learners.
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O to the M to the G. Scooter Braun, manager of both Justin Bieber and the Wanted and general haver of a dream job, dropped a major teaser and hint on Twitter, suggesting that his charges may tour with Carly Rae Jepsen, also a part of the extended family. Tour with me, maybe?
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I see Great Minds think alike. (And fools seldom differ.)
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Nice dental work. Gold?ReplyDelete
#1: All patients are always loaded.ReplyDelete
#2: Keep your patients pointed in a safe direction.
#3: Keep your finger out of... Wait, wait, I'm overthinking this!
How in the world...?ReplyDelete
That is awesome! Tho his lower back much kill from laying on the gun, then strapped to the backboard...ReplyDelete
I would be stoked to see that when doing a scan...
I blame the paramedics.ReplyDelete
Always, always, always check your patients for weapons, needles, etc. They should have checked his back for injuries anyway.
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With Kenny Chesney on his way to Utah this summer, the time is ripe for a new album from the country singer. So "Life On a Rock" is here, only a year after his last album, the underwhelming "Welcome to the Fishbowl." The album is billed as songs that Chesney wrote in a personal journal that he initially never meant to be heard, and the 10 tracks do show off the 45-year-old's more contemplative side. The mood is relaxed with songs that emphasize Chesney's love for the Caribbean (and Jimmy Buffett), featuring collaborations with the Wailers, the calypso-inspired title track, a gut-stringed paean to Bob Marley, and steel drums throughout. "Pirate Flag," the lead single and arena-ready anthem, is the anomaly on this breezy album, and while the collection doesn't break any new ground, and isn't well-suited to blasting on a car stereo, it shows off Chesney's always-comforting voice and song-writing talents that too rarely emerge.
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One year ago, authorities in Tajikistan announced the death of the militant Alovuddin Davlatov, aka Ali Bedaki. Despite evidence suggesting that Bedaki was captured alive in January 2011, interrogated and then executed extrajudicially, local media and human rights groups as well as the international community have mostly been silent and reluctant to address this case.
Bedaki was a mid-level opposition field commander during the 1992-1997 Tajik civil war. He later joined the police force, presumably as part of the 1997 peace accord where some former United Tajik Opposition (UTO) fighters were incorporated into Tajikistan's security forces. He soon left the police and supposedly became a farmer. Following the September 19, 2010, attack on a government military convoy in the Rasht valley in eastern Tajikistan where 28 conscripts were killed, security agencies placed the blame on Bedaki and another former UTO commander, Abdullo Rahimov, aka 'Mullo Abdullo', killed in April 2011. Immediately after the attack, Bedaki's brother, Husniddin Davlatov, was detained and alleged in a televised 'confession' that the convoy assault was led by his brother. Consequently, Bedaki became a key target of a security operation in the Rasht valley. His brother and father were convicted and sent to prison.
On January 4, 2011, the authorities announced that Bedaki had been killed in a shootout with government troops in the village of Runob, one kilometer south of the Rasht district center. The official narrative claimed that he and a number of his men were spotted by police and were subsequently killed in a four-hour gun battle. In February, however, the official narrative was challenged by a YouTube video. The footage showed an exhausted and humiliated bearded man, stripped to his underpants but with no apparent wounds, which relatives and former UTO fighters recognized as Bedaki. He was being questioned in the back seat of a parked car by what appeared to be members of the Tajik security agencies. Soon after, the State Committee for National Security (GKNB) said they saw the footage but refused to comment, while the police denounced the video as "an ordinary fake." A modified account of Bedaki's death was offered in April when Amirqul Azimov, then head of Tajikistan's National Security Council, announced that Bedaki had been captured alive, but died due to gunshot wounds on the way to hospital.
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ROSA KHUTOR, Russia (Reuters) - Iouri "I-Pod" Podladtchikov nailed the run of a lifetime to win the halfpipe gold for Switzerland at the Sochi Games on Tuesday and bring a stunning end to Shaun White's eight-year reign as Olympic champion.
One of the only riders who can match American White in the complexity of his tricks, the Russian-born Podladtchikov put together an electrifying display under the lights at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park.
A score of 94.75 proved enough to see off a pair of daredevil Japanese teenagers as well as overwhelming favorite White's challenge for a third successive gold medal.
"I feel like fainting. Everything came together exactly the way I planned," Podladtchikov told reporters.
"On this run, it felt like it was all meant to be and I was this position where I'm throwing down my hardest tricks with ease, there's no words for that."
Fifteen-year-old Ayumu Hirano took silver with 93.50 to become the youngest Olympic medalist on snow, pipping his 18-year-old compatriot Taku Hiraoka, who grabbed bronze with 92.25.
White, one of the biggest names in winter sports, finished fourth after remarkably dropping two tricks on his first run and only managing 90.25 following a couple of stumbles on his second.
After days of controversy about the quality of the pipe, which only intensified when the warm weather turned some of the packed snow to slush, a packed house was treated to just over an hour of dizzying acrobatics and thrilling drama.
There were plenty of falls and errors in the opening round as the riders battled a bobbly surface.
Hirano, the youngest man in the field, somehow managed to cling on to his board and he was rewarded with the only score in the 90s, his 90.75 enough for the lead after all 12 riders had gone.
The crowd had turned up to see White crowned King of the Pipe for a third time but from the start things did not look quite right and a huge groan went around the Extreme Park when the 27-year-old almost snapped his board in half on the lip.
His score of 35.00 left him 11th after the first run, while Podladtchikov was third.
"I love you man, but you're worrying me," White had told the Swiss after qualifying and Podladtchikov showed just why with his second run.
The 25-year-old was heading up to the five-meter mark with his first jumps, hit a front-side five then a frontside 1080 before finishing with a double corkscrew with 1440 degrees of rotation - his trademark "You Only Live Once" flip.
His erstwhile compatriots in the crowd erupted and Podladtchikov, knowing he had performed something special, threw his board at a fence in delight before kneeling with his head in the snow.
"They're yelling in Russian and I am yelling back in Russian," said Podladtchikov.
"It's beautiful to hear people cheering in my mother language. It's insane."
There were only six riders to go and two of them fell. Hiraoka improved his score to take second place, only for Hirano to edge ahead of him again, and that left only White.
Having scored 95.75 to lead qualifying, a winning score was within his grasp but again a couple of uncharacteristic errors cost him the yell he emitted at the bottom of the pipe was more one of hope than expectation.
"I am disappointed," said White, who gave up his other chance of an Olympic medal when he withdrew from the slopestyle over fears about the safety of the course.
"I hate the fact that I nailed it in practice, but it happens. It's hard to be consistent."
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Noel, the host of this homestay is a young guy who has lived here his entire life. His family is a treasure chest of knowledge about the region. They know exactly what a visitor should see, what is overrated and should be avoided. At one time, Gethia belonged to Noel's family but slowly they sold parts of it and retained only what was suitable for their small family. As a government employee, Noel's father was integral in creating iconic buildings of the region. And now he does this for private individuals.
The homestay is wonderfully sunlit and has seven enormous rooms all with en-suite baths and dedicated dressing areas. All the rooms and the common areas are huge yet, very cosy at the same time. Deep, relaxing colours add to the warm ambiance of the homestay. The decor is eclectic. The wall paintings range from French portraits to religious scenery and kitsch. Two rooms on top offer stunning views with near-French windows. The thick forest cover ensures a lower temperature. And a crackling bonfire declares that it's time to wrap up the day, after some coffee, chai and interesting conversations.
Tigers are frequently spotted basking in the sun on and off the property. A day trip to Nainital is easy to undertake from Gethia. The peace, wildlife and greenery give Gethia a significant edge over other towns and villages near Nainital.
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On this date in Mets History, the Mets fell to one of the great ones in 1962 when Sandy Koufax threw the first of his four career no-hitters, winning 5-0, at Dodger Stadium.
To illustrate the strange nature of the sport, the previous day the Mets drew 16 walks to win 10-4.
Koufax issued five walks and struck out 13 Mets, including Rod Kanehl, Cliff Cook, Elio Chacon, Chris Cannizzaro and Ray Daviault twice each.
In 20 career starts against the Mets, Koufax was 17-2 with a 1.44 ERA, including 14 complete games.
Koufax had a dominating six-year run from 1961-66, when he was named the National League MVP in 1963, and won the Cy Young Award in 1963, 65 and 66. His career was cut short at the age of 30 with arthritis.
At 36 years and 20 days, he was the youngest entry into Baseball's Hall of Fame.
Koufax played basketball at the University of Cincinnati, and played for the baseball team in 1954. He was scouted by the Dodgers, but the report was lost.
Koufax later tried out for the Giants and Pirates – neither of which offered a contract – and the Dodgers again. This time, he was signed for $6,000 with a $14,000 signing bonus.
A close friend of owner Fred Wilpon, Koufax is a frequent visitor to the Mets' spring training facility in Port St. Lucie, Fla., and tutors the pitchers most every spring.
After a long drought, Koufax is back in the Dodgers' family. The Dodgers hired him to be a minor league pitching coach in 1979, but he resigned in 2000, the departure blamed on an uneasy relationship with then Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda.
Koufax severed ties with the Dodgers in 2003 when a New York Post article wrote of his sexual orientation and implied he was gay. Both the Post and Dodgers were owned by Rupert Murdoch at the time. Koufax resumed his relationship with the Dodgers when Frank McCourt purchased the team in 2004.


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2011 Pheasant Season Summarized
More hunting opportunities meant more pheasants taken during the 2011 season, as last fall's pheasant harvest was 683,000, up from 552,000 in 2010.
Aaron Robinson, upland bird biologist for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department, said the overall landscape probably didn't have more birds, but Mother Nature allowed for an increase in harvest due to mild weather conditions and minimal snow cover in November, December and early January.
"This is a prime example of how the harvest doesn't necessarily reflect the overall population," Robinson said. "We actually had lower production in 2011 than in 2010, but hunter effort made up the difference due to last winter's exceptionally mild weather conditions."
Statistics actually revealed the number of hunters declined 10 percent to 82,700. The number of resident hunters was down 5 percent to 58,200, while nonresident pheasant hunter numbers decreased 20 percent to 24,500.
"However, the determining factor is many hunters were able to enjoy good hunting conditions with mild weather through the last weekend of the season," Robinson said.
Birds bagged per hunter increased from 6.0 to 8.3. Each hunter spent an average of six days afield.
Counties with the highest percentage of pheasants taken by resident hunters were Hettinger, 9.2; Burleigh, 6.4; Emmons, 6.0; McLean, 5.4; and Adams, 5.3.
Top counties for nonresident hunters were Hettinger, 24.9 percent; Bowman, 7.6; Emmons, 5.6; McIntosh, 5.2; and Divide, 4.5.
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- impression; thoughts.
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- to rob or extort.
We took them for $1 million.
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- to defeat in a fight. Always used in a question or affirmation.
What are you talking about? I can take him!
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I sure took him!
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Set in the heart of the Tonto National Forest along the Mogollon Rim, this lodge is part of a working 55,000 acre cattle ranch that offers something for every visitor and level of rider. It is also rich in old west history and culture – located near the site of one of the gunfights of the infamous Pleasant Valley War. The war is one the most famous of the range feuds in the American West, the subject of a number of nonfiction books, as well as the source of a number novels (including one by Zane Grey) and movie plots.
The lodge is a study in rustic elegance, providing all the modern comforts, while staying true to its working cattle ranch history. Guests will enjoy the accommodations at the lodge – the spacious great hall with its fireplace and leather couches, the supremely comfortable bedrooms, the deck overlooking the lake and the patio with its fire pit. The lodge is the perfect place to relax when not out on the trail on well-trained, responsive horses, or taking advantage of the many activities around the ranch, including the roping arena, rifle range, 3-D archery course, sporting clay course, four-wheeling, fishing, hiking and more.
The family-owned lodge opened to the public in 2008 and now offers a variety of riding opportunities that accommodate every level of experience including 'cowboy skill' classes, trail rides, half-day, day-long and camping excursions to explore Indian ruins, remote line cabins, or to the sites of gun fights in the Pleasant Valley War. Experienced riders can also go out with the ranch hands to experience the cowboy life, monitoring livestock & range conditions, riding fence lines, rounding up, driving and working the livestock.
The trails wind through diverse and breathtaking terrain: Ponderosa pine forests, running streams, riparian valleys and canyons, stands of aspen, juniper, oak and chaparral, and open grass lands. Beginners will enjoy wide, slow-curving trails that wind around the hills and through the gullies around the lodge. These trails are relatively flat, mostly graded and very easy to follow. More experienced riders will want to take advantage of the more challenging trails and cross country excursions. Trails climb across ridges, gullies, valleys, mesas, hills and peaks. Some of the paths are fairly narrow, full of switchbacks and traverse steep rocky slopes, but provide some of the most spectacular views of Pleasant Valley and the wildlife hidden deep in the woods.
Guest Ranch Working Ranch Riding with fishing options Suitable for riders over 210 lbs
There is so much to do at our lodge! Buried deep within the Tonto National Forest, guests are able to experience the full natural beauty of the Arizona highlands.
Whether you feel like strapping on a pair of jeans and cowboy boots and hopping in the saddle of one of our beautiful horses, flying around in our four wheelers, or venturing out on your own for a hike, you'll take in the Arizona wilderness like never before.
Feel like experiencing rustic Arizona but don't want to leave the comfort of the lodge? You don't have to! There is plenty to do right outside our front door including fishing on Lake Sharon (watch out the fish bite like piranha!) or practicing your archery or shotgun skills.
Our all-inclusive packages each activity day includes one trail ride or an ATV tour.
Riding clinics available -- please inquire.
A 10 station 3-D target archery course are also available (extra charge).
Experienced riders and beginners alike will find everything they need to enjoy and take advantage of the lodge's miles of trails, beautiful horses and professional equipment.
Our horses were bred to traverse the diverse terrain of Pleasant Valley. Any level of riding expertise can be accommodated.
Our staff will help find the horse just right for you! Each staff member has grown up with horses and taken care of them all their life. They take pride in the quality and care of each animal at the lodge.
For more experienced riders ready to hit the mountain trails on arrival, there are over 100 miles of trail on 55,000 acres of land around the lodge. Some trails are gentle and wide enough for wheeled vehicles. Others are steep, winding paths that cut through the hills on their climb to the top. Riders will need to have a moderate level of experience before tackling the steeper trails. There are a variety of trails to take that will keep guests entertained for days exploring the beautiful country around the lodge.
Or, if a guest would like to experience an actual day in the life of cowboy, he or she can accompany the ranch hands as they tend to the actual business of the ranch, monitoring the horses and cattle, riding the fence lines and so forth. In Arizona, we calve year-round and practice stringent range management. The working the cattle often includes roundups, branding, sorting, weaning, vaccinating, castrating, moving to new pastures.
Our program is very flexible -- make sure you talk to our ranch manager about what you would like to do during your stay!
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Average temperatures do tend to vary at the lodge over the year, giving a very temperate climate compared to most of Arizona. The lodge receives a dusting of snow each year, but has seen up to three feet of snow before! Temperatures reach just over 100°F in the summer. Please be sure to pack correctly for the season.
For a brief but spectacular three weeks in September, the foliage undergoes a magical change around the Valley. Brilliant reds, oranges and yellows cover the deciduous trees.
December through late February the lodge receives a dusting of snow and the occasional winter wonderland storm. Temperatures reach below freezing at night, so be sure to pack plenty of warm winter clothing and cozy up by the fire.
Spring and fall temperatures are very temperate with an average between the low 70s to mid 90s (degrees Fahrenheit). It's the perfect escape from the still blazing heat in Phoenix.
July and August are the hottest months of the year, while August and September receive the most rainfall of the year.
Summer temperatures can climb well into the high 90s F during the heat of the day in Young, Arizona, while winter nights can plunge below freezing. Depending on when your stay is, always come prepared for the seasonal weather and temperature! Please see the climate section for the chart on average temperatures.
That being said, here are some items you will want to bring year round.
Broken-in riding boots (new ones will really hurt)
Riding jeans (preferably without leg seam to reduce chaffing)
We recommend full or half chaps
Any riding gear you own and wish to bring
Comfortable clothing for indoors
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The handsome lodge accommodation here in Pleasant Valley can be well suited to just about everyone - it's a great place to discover whether you're taking a big family trip with the kids, a riding getaway with the girlfriends, a romantic trip with a significant other, or even just looking to get away from the city on your own! The lodge has five guest rooms - with king, queen and double beds available pending. A crib and pullout bed are available for families with young children. There are two rooms that share one bath room (these are the rooms included in basic package), two rooms each with private en-suite bathroom (upgrade required), and one superior suite (upgrade required). Adjacent to the main lodge near the barn is another 3-unit facility. There are two separate rooms here - both with private bath. The dorm style "bunkhouse commons" is suitable for 4 to 6 people with one private bath to share and a kitchen unit (the bunkhouse commons is offered at a reduced per person rate). These units are perfect for multiple families or extended stays. These quarters are not of the same luxury standard as the lodge rooms, but still very clean and comfortable.
Valid passport required by all nationals referred to in the chart ; validity varies - for most countries the passport must be valid for at least six months from the date on which the holder enters the USA. If not, the holder will be admitted until the expiration date on the passport; check with the embassy (see Contact Addresses).
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(a) For nationals included in the Visa Waiver Program (see below), passports must be valid for at least 90 days from date of entry.
(b) All travellers entering the USA under the Visa Waiver Program require individual machine-readable passports. Children included on a parent's passport also now require their own machine-readable passport. Travellers not in possession of machine-readable passports will require a valid USA entry visa.
(c) Passports issued on or after 26 October 2005 will need to have a biometric identifier in order for the holder to travel visa free under the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). Machine-readable passports issued between 26 October 2005 and 25 October 2006 require a digital photograph printed on the data page or an integrated chip with information from the data page. Machine-readable passports issued on or after 26 October 2006 will require an integrated chip with information from the data page (e-passport).
The US has announced new measures that require all travellers to provide details online 72 hours prior to travel.
ESTA: The Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) came into force on 12 January 2009. It is a fully automated, electronic system for screening passengers before they begin travel to the United States under the Visa Waiver Program. ESTA applications must be submitted at least 72 hours before travel to the USA. Some websites may charge you for the service but you can apply online for free at www.dhs.gov. The granting of an ESTA does not guarantee entry to the USA.
New Requirements for Travellers: As of 23 January 2007 all persons, including US citizens, travelling by air between the USA and Canada, Central and South America, the Caribbean and Bermuda are required to present a valid passport, or other approved document, when entering or re-entering the USA. Similar requirements for those travelling by land or sea will be introduced on 1 June 2009.
For further details about the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, visit the website of the US Department of State: (website: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cbpmc/cbpmc_2223.html).
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1. nationals of Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovak Republic, who do require a visa.
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LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Beer companies are asking a judge to dismiss a $500 million lawsuit by an American Indian tribe that accuses them of knowingly contributing to alcohol-related problems on an impoverished South Dakota reservation.
Attorneys for the brewers, retailers and distributors filed motions Friday to dismiss the lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed in February by the Oglala Sioux Tribe, which governs the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
The tribe alleges four beer stores in the tiny Nebraska border town of Whiteclay sold to its members, knowing they would take it back to the dry reservation. Attorneys for the beer companies say the businesses all operate lawfully outside of the reservation's borders.
Whiteclay has a population of 11 people and sold the equivalent of 4.3 million, 12-ounce cans of beer last year.


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What a night that was... I didn't think staying awake until the early hours of the morning, watching an ITT was somehow possible. I also didn't know I could get so excited, and somehow so nervous, prior to the start of a bike race. And one that I wasn't even part of.
I must have sent 30 or 40 text messages in the hour preceding the live telecast, including to JF who was sitting in the media room at the finish line in Montrond (what a job! And by the way John, I found the camera bag I borrowed for the World Championship last year, sorry!).
Surprisingly, I got a heap of replies. Even had a couple of modern-time conversations (SMS texting). As most of the texts were within the Australian borders, they all came with a hopeful tone for a Cadel Evans showdown on the ITT and a virtual Aussie win on the Tour de France.
Well, we all know the end of the story by now so I am not going to elaborate on the hours that followed for now and we will go to bed for another hour or so, instead. I am planning to go for a long ride today. The only thing I will jot down is a message from Australia to the amazing Carlos Sastre:
Bloody Well Done, Mate!
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shockdoct wrote:Well that was unimpressive.
We are back to the reality of everyone else right now. We have 1 line of elite forwards.
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Yeah that was pretty bad
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Sucks is a good way to put how this team is playing right now. They have literally slept walked through the last month, disgustiad
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2) last year at this time
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Sunday, September 10, 2017
Thank you for visiting this web page and listening to the worship message, A Quest for LIfe: "Community" which is the fourth in Pastor Ciff's series, A Quest for Life. This sermon message was shared with our church family and friends by our pastor, Cliff Schroeder, at our Sunday 9:30 am worship service. We also have a Wednesday casual evening service from 6:30 to 7:15 pm.
The scripture references were from the Christian Holy Bible, Romans 12:1-21 and Ephesians 3:14-17.
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Asankha Perera
WSO2 Inc. (Sri Lanka)
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Christian Wenz
Consultant (Germany)
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Danese Cooper
Intel (USA)
Danese Cooper has a 15-year history in the software industry and has long been an advocate for transparent development methodologies. Ms. Cooper is Sr. Director of Open Source Programs at Intel Corporation supporting Open Source strategy, investments, global community building and industry support. Ms. Cooper previously worked for six years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. on the inception and growth of the various open source projects sponsored by Sun (including OpenOffice.org, java.net and blogs.sun.com). She was Sun's chief open source evangelist and founded Sun's Open Source Programs Office. She has unique experience implementing open source projects from within a large proprietary company. She joined the OSI Board in December 2001 and currently serves as Se
tary & Treasurer. She speaks internationally on open source and licensing issues.
David Recordon
VeriSign (USA)
David Recordon works for VeriSign within their Advanced Products & Research group with a current focus on digital identity technologies. In 2005, Recordon worked with Brad Fitzpatrick developing OpenID, a decentralized single-sign-on protocol, and has taken on an instrumental role in shaping Yadis, which is designed to ease service discovery for personal digital identity technologies. Through his role at VeriSign, he has continued working with the community to evolve OpenID into a framework that provides services other than just authentication. While teaching himself PHP as a sophomore in high school, Recordon became involved in an open source message board project where he currently volunteers his time as a project manager, advising a team of over forty people worldwide. Pursuing this interest lead him to co-found a company which hosts message boards for tens of thousands of people. While still an open source hacker at heart, his role at VeriSign allows him to pursue his interests beyond just coding.
Deepal Jayasinghe
WSO2 Inc. (Sri Lanka)
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Emmanuel Cecchet
Continuent (France)
Emmanuel Cecchet has a Ph.D in cluster computing and 10 years experience in large distributed systems. He contributed to the DynaServer project at Rice University to study the design of scalable, high-performance and highly available e-business servers. After leaving Rice, he led a team at INRIA in France to provide open-source middleware for large-scale data servers. In 2005, Emmanuel joined Continuent where he now serves as Chief Architect. Emmanuel was Chief Architect of the ObjectWeb open source consortium and the leader of the C-JDBC project (http://c-jdbc.objectweb.org). He now leads Continuent.org and the Sequoia project (http://sequoia.continuent.org)
Ernst Fastl
IRIAN GmbH (Austria)
Ernst is an Apache MyFaces Contributor, and has developed several components for Apache MyFaces. He is working for IRIAN GmbH, one of the most active companies supporting Apache MyFaces, and developing custom solutions based on the framework. Ernst has implemented a Partial Page Rendering Solution based on AJAX for Apache MyFaces and also gained experience using AJAX while writing a book on Ruby on Rails, a Web-development Framework which heavily uses AJAX.
Harshad Oak
Rightrix Solutions (India)
Founder of Rightrix Solutions (rightrix.com) 2) Editor-in-chief of the sites IndicThreads.com, QThreads.com and PythonThreads.com. 3) Author of the books Pro Jakarta Commons, Oracle JDeveloper 10g: Empowering J2EE Development and co-author of Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 Bible. 4) Currently a Regional Director for Oracle Fusion Middleware. (http://www.oracle.com/technology/community/ofm_directors/index.html) 5) Past experience at i-flex Solutions and Cognizant Technology Solutions 6) Visiting faculty on J2EE at Symbiosis University, Pune, India 7) Past speaking engagements at JavaOne 04, JavaOne 06, ODTUG Now 04, several other Java meets 8) Several published articles on sites like TheServerSide.com and BEA Dev2Dev as well as magazines like Oracle Magazine.
Henning P. Schmiedehausen
Consultant (Germany)
Henning Schmiedehausen is a team member on a number of Jakarta projects such as Turbine and Velocity. He works as a freelance consultant, architect and software developer using the J2EE platform and admits under torture that he can program in PHP and perl. When not sitting in front of a computer, Henning enjoys traveling around the world with his wife, sports (both active and passive) and moonlights as a 10th level barbarian at his local D&D group.
Ken Coar(Keynote Speaker)
Director, Apache Software Foundation; Director, Open Source Initiative; Web Software Developer, Author, Sanagendamgagwedweinini, Software Engineer in IBM
Kev Jackson
ViNetworks (Vietnam)
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Rajith Attapattu
Redhat (Canada)
Rajith Attapattu is a Senior Software Engineer from Redhat's Stacks Engineering team. Rajith is an open source enthusiast and is a volunteer with the Lanka Software Foundation that promotes Open Source development within Sri Lanka. He is currently working on JSR 181 support ,session management and providing clustering support for Apache Axis2. Rajith is a committer on WADI, a distributed application infrastructure project, and has also contributed code for the javamail implementation in Apache Geronimo. Rajith has about 8 years of experience in Software design and development and has worked in several application domains including Telecommunications, CRM, Finance & Banking and Embedded systems. Rajith's research interests are in improving Scalability and High Availability of Web Services, and Distributed Computing in general. Email: email@example.com
Rakesh Midha
IBM Software Labs (India)
Rakesh Midha, is a software architect with IBM Software Labs, Bangalore. He is currently working on IBM internal open source initiatives. He has 7 years of technical experience in Java and C++ server-side programming on multiple platforms and various relational database systems like DB2 UDB, Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQLServer. He is involved in number of J2EE application and product architecture development and implementation. He is an author of two DB2 related IBM redbooks. He is a frequent author on DeveloperWOrks and have published number of articles. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from the Punjab University, Chandigarh.
Rich Bowen
Asbury College (USA)
Rich is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, working primarily on the web server documentation project. He is the author of "Apache Cookbook" and "The Definitive Guide to mod_rewrite."
Rony G. Flatscher
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (Austria)
Rony G. Flatscher is committer to the Jakarta BSF project and serves in the Jakarta PMC. He has been actively supporting opensource software projects for years and teaches as a Business Informatic (BI) professor at one of the largest Business Administration Universities in Europe, the "Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU)" with more than 20,000 students. The focus of his work is about solving business (process) problems (from modelling, designing, implementing, introducing and maintaining business application software systems) in a cost efficient manner by applying MIS and BI knowledge deploying proven opensource software, if feasible.
Sanjiva Weerawarana
WSO2 Inc. (Sri Lanka)
Sanjiva founded WSO2 after having spent nearly 8 years in IBM Research, where he was one of the founders of the Web services platform. During that time, he co-authored of many Web services specifications including WSDL, BPEL4WS, WS-Addressing, WS-RF and WS-Eventing. Sanjiva is currently a member of the W3C Web Service Description Working Group where he is a co-editor of the specification.
Samisa Abeysinghe
WSO2 Inc. (Sri Lanka)
Samisa Abeysinghe is a Software Architect at WSO2. Samisa pioneered the Apache Axis2/C effort and architected the core of the Apache Axis2/C Web services engine. He continues to be an active contributor in Apache Axis2/C project. Prior to joining WSO2, Samisa worked as a Web services specialist at the R&D division of Virtusa. His involvement in open source projects began in 2004 when he started working with the Apache Axis C/C++ project. As a technical consultant from Virtusa, Samisa worked with IBM to improve and stabilize the Apache Axis C/C++ Web services engine.
Santiago Gala
University Francisco de Vitoria (Spain)
Santiago Gala has been involved in Open Source for more than 6 years, specially in the OS Java world of the ASF, of which he is member. VP and chair of the Apache Portals Project, where he has been involved mostly in Jetspeed. He is also a Linux user and admin for networking and server boxes.
Trustin Lee
NHN Corporation (South Korea)
Trustin Lee is a project management committee member of the Apache Directory project and the founder of the Apache MINA project. He has been developing high-performance network applications including a massive SMS gateway, a lightweight ESB, and ApacheDS LDAP server in Java for more than 4 years.
Vamsavardhana Reddy Chillakuru
IBM India (India)
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Polaris software lab(India)
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Werner Keil
Mastek (UK)
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By Rae Lewis-Thornton
May 9, 2013
This piece originally appeared in Rae's blog, Diva Living With AIDS.
Only so much fucking complaining you can do about something that you can change. This is some real talk right here. You don't like how someone treats you, then stop participating. For Real, For Real. A while back I was talking to this guy and I didn't like some of his behavior. I asked him to stop, but he either wasn't cable of change or he didn't give a fuck about how I felt. So you know what I did, right? Right! I sent him a quick e-mail saying just that and asked him to not bother by reaching out again.
If I had continued to talk to him under those conditions, then I was saying to him that I didn't really mean what I had asked of him, that he never bothered to do. I figured that there was no point in having yet another stupid ass conversation with him about the same topic. We had been down that path a year or so before. This was a second chance and I was so over it. There will not be a third and that's for real!
There's a lot of stuff we don't like in our life that we can change. You don't like your job environment, then start looking for a new one. You don't like how you feel when you do something, then stop it! You don't like how people make you feel, then stop giving them that chance.
There is a lot of stuff that we can change that we don't. You're tired of having high blood pressure, then get it under control, take your medication but change your damn eating habits. Put the fucking salt and fat down!
While God is in charge, God has also given us unlimited free will to make choices for our lives to live whole and healthy or destructive and foolish. God is such an awesome parent! You decide and then you live with your decision and He comforts while you are in the valley. You gotta grow up, God is letting you do that one on your own.
Now, I know that some issues are deeper than saying just do it, and require deeper work in therapy to unpack! That was my truth with shopping too darn much and men.com, looking for someone to love me. Some things require a lot of work with the right professionals. You can't be afraid or ashamed to get the help that you need to be a better you.
I will never forget that day Oprah said, once she figured out that she didn't just like potato chips, but eating was connected to her childhood sexual abuse; food had deeper issues for her and understanding that she was able to work on her weight under better conditions.
There's nothing like a mind change to change ones life. My first love Randy use to say to me all the time, "Change your mind and your ass will follow," and this is the gospel truth!
However, with other things there requires a mind change and some discipline. It's not enough to know better, you have to do the better that you know. That's being your best you.
We don't apply discipline. We keep saying tomorrow and then tomorrow becomes today. My therapist use to remind me often that discipline is a transferable skill.
I've been whining about losing weight for a while. HIV itself combined with HIV medications causes something called lipodystrophy. It redistributes my fat from the bottom to the top; and when I gain weight it all goes to the top.
In the last two years I've been on IV medication a lot, this combined with nerve pain, I've had very little opportunity to workout and have spent more time in bed. As a result I gained 25 pounds! I've lost about 10 of those with just changing my eating habits and more movement outside the house; but for sure I have more fat pockets than hot pockets.
Now that I'm healthy give or take, I have decided to but my foot down! About two weeks ago, I said I was headed to the gym. I made it that day, but then excuses took control of my life. I decided this weekend that enough was enough and on Monday I crawled out of bed and went straight to the gym. I'm headed to the doctors this morning so we will see how the rest of the week goes. The thing is, my gym is opened 24 hours. Like so what excuse can I come up with, other then me not applying discipline to my life?
This week I have done better than two weeks ago. We are at Wednesday and I've been to the gym two of the three days so far.
The thing is, I can't fit any of my clothes and y'all know I have no money to get new ones. This has forced me to wear the same ensembles over and over again, when I have a closet full of clothes. *SMDH* I have so many St. John Knit suits that I can't fit, it's a shame and a testament to waste in my life.
I hate the way lipodystrophy makes me look and I complain about it almost everyday. I really need to do this for me.
There are other reasons why I need to hit the gym other than how lipodystrophy has reshaped my body, making me kinda depressed. When the fat is redistributed it tends to go to the back, the chin and the mid-section. Studies over and again have determined the more fat you have in your mid-section that more likely you are to have heart issues. On top of that, my HIV medication causes high cholesterol. I'm off the chart with very high cholesterol, the bad kind (LDL). Wouldn't it be a shame to live this long from HIV to have a heart attack or a stoke?
Then to top that off, new research is showing that HIV actually destroys a persons bone density over time. With this information my gynecologist thought that I might be at a high risk. I'm going through menopause and my mother is white. White women have more bone density issues then black women. She ordered a bone dentistry scan and -- lo and behold! -- I have already started to lose bone. Not enough to take the major drugs to treat it, but enough to be concerned about the direction that I'm going. I started a 1000 mg of calcium and she wants me to work out 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week as a preventative measure, before I start shrinking.
Lastly, on the health tip. Depression is an ongoing battle for me. I ain't this happy go-getter all the time. Living with HIV is hard! Really hard! I wouldn't wish this on my worse enemy. It has been proven that working out increases the serotonin, and who doesn't need more serotonin? Come on somebody, working out has it's benefits.
So you see, I have a lot of reasons to hit the gym and change my lifestyle. When I first developed lipodystrophy well, to be honest after a year of literally crying about it, I was a size 14 at the top. My waist was a size 8 and my thighs and legs a size 2. I hit the gym and changed my lifestyle.
The key is to eat healthy, minimize fat and sugar, cardio and weights. Weights are a must because the more muscle you gain the more fat you burn. Plus, I'm so small at my bottom, I need to balance it off, loose the top and build the bottom.
I was doing so well, then somewhere that just went to hell in a hand basket. I think when I started getting that drug resistant herpes, it changed my life style for sure, on and off IV meds all the time, nerve pain in my back and legs. Walking is even painful. I know that I am capable, I've done it before. I just need to be disciplined. Being healthy has to be just as important as being alive.
Soooooooo I'm saying all of this to say, some things in our life that we are unhappy about we can change. I'm so happy that God has given us free will. I know for sure that I have not been using my freewill in all areas of my life to be the best I can be.
I'm not trying to be a perfect me, I just want to be the best me! What about you? I can here Randy with that wonderful smile on his face saying as clear as day, "All you have to do darling, is change your mind and your ass will surely follow." But I've learned over the years, in order to get that ass in action, you have to add some discipline to the knowledge that you know.
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This blog discusses current weather, weather prediction, climate issues, and other topics
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Probcast (www.probcast.com) is back up....the power outage on campus is over. I bet it was heat related (it was a transformer failure)
Sea-Tac actually went down last hour (93 to 90), as weak northwesterlies reached the airport. If the temps continued to rise at the rate they were going we would have been 120F today. So the pause is expected...don't worry, it will start up again next hour.
55 comments:
- Chris said...
99 in Enumclaw at 11:15 AM
- July 29, 2009 at 11:15 AM
- Denise said...
There were beautiful anvil-shaped thunderheads over the Snoqualmie Valley and the Csacde foothills last night. This has been the case every evening this week. Thunderheads with no thunder or rain, what gives?
- July 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM
- Michael Goss said...
There's been plenty of thunder and rain, it's just been stuck up in the mountains!
- July 29, 2009 at 11:34 AM
- Kevin Purcell said...
The (rooftop) weather station on to of the SAAM in Volunteer Park, Seattle, WA just hit 100.0F at 11:27am.
Take a look at the radar in the evening and you'll find those thunderheads are over the crest of the Cascades (convergence clouds). You can see they're at the county boundaries shown on the radar)
Hot air rising up both east and west slopes and the converges together to give an updraft above the ridge line. They're the only place seeing any real precip. NWS discussion even commented on that yesterday.
Another weather feature mentioned in Cliff's book :-)
- July 29, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- jorge said...
And KBFI was down most of last evening as well. 3-day history shows no updates between 22:53 28 Jul and 08:53 29 Jul.
- July 29, 2009 at 11:45 AM
- Melinda said...
It's about 11:50 a.m. and I'm looking at Cliff's post saying it's 93 in Everett. I'm in Everett and it's 80 here. ???
- July 29, 2009 at 11:50 AM
- email@example.com said...
It's getting quite hazy in Olympia. KOLM METAR is reporting 6 miles in haze. Is this related to air stagnation?
Does this tend to slow down afternoon heating?
- July 29, 2009 at 11:51 AM
- Kevin Purcell said...
jorge: The obs were taken but they're not on the NWS site for some reason (comms issues?)
You can find them if you use the UW decoded obs service
for KBFI.
All the obs are there including 0553z to 1753z on Jul 29 (to convert your local times to UTC).
- July 29, 2009 at 11:51 AM
- Jim DiPeso said...
91 in the shade here in Shoreline.
- July 29, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- superdeluxe said...
95.9F at Parkland, Washington at 11:57am.
- July 29, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- Scott K said...
Here in Lake Stevens it hit around 90 at about 9:15am this morning.
Talking about fast rising temps. My girlfriend and I were watching the temp gauge right around 9:15. We watched it rise 3 degrees in 5 minutes. It went from 90 to 93 in 5 minutes or less.
I would never have expected the temps to rise that fast.
I'm hoping we get to at least 100 today, although the rising temps slowed down a lot, hopefully Cliff is correct and the temps start going up again.
TIP: To stay cool, put some ice in from of a fan. This is the poor-man's Air Conditioning. It's working great so far in my home office which yesterday reached 95 inside my house. Right now it's around 85.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:00 PM
- Chris said...
85 and cloudy in Ellensburg. 10+ degrees cooler than the west side, wow...
- July 29, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- cary_collins said...
I am in Maple Valley and I don't have a thermometer, but it feels quite a bit cooler to me today than yesterday. We have had steady breezes all morning up to the current time and some puffy clouds blocking the sun. So not too bad.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:03 PM
- Tom said...
Can we get an eta on some precip, Cliff? I'm seeing some unfriendly 10 day forescasts...
- July 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- Tom said...
Can we get an eta on some precip, Cliff? I'm seeing some unfriendly 10 day forescasts...
- July 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- JewelyaZ said...
Bellevue's Phantom Lake Elementary's official reporting station shows 100.0F as of 12:15. The overnight low there was 71. Holy cow.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:16 PM
- MaggieNo said...
99 in the shade at 12:30 p.m. in our backyard, north end of Capitol Hill, elevation 217 feet.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- Picnicking in Dreamland said...
99.5 in the shade in Seattle. Good grief. Bon Jovi. 99 in the Shade!
- July 29, 2009 at 12:28 PM
12:27PM <@nina> 97.2 °F
12:27PM <@nina> it goes up like two degrees every 10 minutes
12:27PM <@nina> something is screwy
A minute later I see your post.... heh.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- Picnicking in Dreamland said...
There are actually clouds over the sun at the moment. Where did they come from?
- July 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- cary_collins said...
No joke, Google Weather is currently showing it 108 degrees in Maple Valley at 12:43. I think there is something screwy with their thermometer.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:40 PM
- superdeluxe said...
98.2 at Parkland, Wa
per Wunderground
- July 29, 2009 at 12:41 PM
- cornbread said...
I see an even 104 in the shade on my deck In Maple Valley. The warm winds have died down, but the lake has lots of stuff off the fir trees floating around.
The closest Weather underground site to me says 108.9.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Joseph Ratliff said...
Weather.com backed off their original forecast of 102 for a high in Lacey WA (98503)...to what is now 100 for a high for today...and also backed off tomorrow's forecast at the same time, from 98 to 96.
It's 12:51 pm and they show 94 for my zip code.
- July 29, 2009 at 12:52 PM
- Joseph Ratliff said...
Another side note...I looked at Wind forecasts for tomorrow on Weather.com...and they predict a West/Southwest wind ... isn't that a little onshore flow?
Here's to hoping :)
- July 29, 2009 at 12:55 PM
- Josh said...
Slung the temprature here in downtown bellingham(Sling psychrometer)93deg Little breez trying to pick up-but not much...
- July 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Kevin Purcell said...
Volunteer Park had a blip at 12:27pm which took the temp back to 99F with the wind swinging from E to N.
SInce reversed and back to the E wind with 100F temps.
That compressed flow from the east really is giving that extra bump.
Seatac again is getting some cooling Puget Sound breeze and some clouds.
29 Jul 12:53 A Few Clouds 96 61 32 W 8
- July 29, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Lindsey said...
Officially, it's basically mid-90s down the I-5 corridor in WA even as far as Kelso, so things have pretty much "evened out." Wonder if we'll now see a slow and steady march up in temps . . .
- July 29, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- mainstreeter said...
Yes, the west side foothills are getting the compressed air
Packwood, 101° gusts to 19 RH 23%
Emumclaw 100°
Troutdale and The Dalles 99° with gusts to 21 RH 27 and 22%
- July 29, 2009 at 1:13 PM
- cary_collins said...
Google Weather now has Maple Valley at 1:12 p.m. at 94 degrees, which I would say is pretty accurate. It was 109 degrees about 15 minutes ago.
- July 29, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Chris said...
At 1:15PM it is just hitting 100 degrees 3 blocks south of Woodland Park Zoo. My car thermometer said 100 degrees in Ballard.
I jumped in the kiddie pool and feel much cooler!
- July 29, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- Scott K said...
Lake Stevens just hit 100f about 1 o'clock. It's roughly 100.2 right now, still climbing.
- July 29, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- superdeluxe said...
100.00F at Parkland, Wa
- July 29, 2009 at 1:18 PM
- Steve Snyder said...
AgWeatherNet is showing Woodinville the hottest place in the whole state right now: http://weather.wsu.edu/
- July 29, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- evilzenscientist said...
104 in shade in downtown Issaquah right now. Hot.
- July 29, 2009 at 1:33 PM
- Steve Snyder said...
Woodinville at 102!
- July 29, 2009 at 2:04 PM
- Weather Is My Life said...
99... one more degree to tie. If it hasn't gotten to 100 already between hours. Amazingly it is doing this with a WNW breeze off the Sound.
- July 29, 2009 at 2:05 PM
- Nancy said...
105 at the top of the hill in View Ridge at 2:00 p.m.-- my thermometer and my neighbor's!
- July 29, 2009 at 2:09 PM
- Rod in Seattle said...
at 2:30 it's 101.3 in the shade on Boylston Ave & Union St.
- July 29, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Kelsie said...
Power just went out in Monroe for about 30 minutes. Thermometer currently says 104.
- July 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- stark said...
95 at Bellingham airport at 1:53 p.m., only up one degree from an hour earlier, after rising three or four degress per hour all day.
- July 29, 2009 at 2:33 PM
- another mom said...
104 in the shade near Bitterlake in Seattle
- July 29, 2009 at 2:40 PM
- Archimedes' Bubblebath said...
SeattlePI.com has called it - we broke the record at 102!
- July 29, 2009 at 2:48 PM
- Lindsey said...
102 at Boeing Field.
- July 29, 2009 at 2:57 PM
- Lindsey said...
There it is: 101 at Seatac!!
- July 29, 2009 at 2:58 PM
- Jim DiPeso said...
Now 96 in the shade in Shoreline. Cat's sprawled out on the kitchen floor; never seen him this lethargic.
- July 29, 2009 at 2:59 PM
- Beth said...
Wunderground has the 98125 zip as 106.2
- July 29, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- JewelyaZ said...
Official Weather Service number at Sea-Tac now stands at 100.9.
- July 29, 2009 at 3:01 PM
- jorge said...
94.4 here in Crown Hill. Light moderating breeze. 15:00 29-Jul-2009
- July 29, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- AJ said...
The higest temps I've experienced was a blast of 120 in far NW San Antonio, TX in September of 2000.
It was about 103 degrees at our normal temperature peak of around 3pm but suddenly, this wicked wind from the west (our version of a wind from the east) blasted in and the temp jumped up.
Humidity plummeted at the same time, thankfully.
- July 29, 2009 at 3:05 PM
- Steve Scolnik said...
Sea-Tac reported 101 at 3 pm.
- July 29, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Lindsey said...
"As long as we're already this hot," blah blah, temp wise, I'd like to see the record broken by at least two degrees, making it that much more difficult to break.
- July 29, 2009 at 3:27 PM
- Rod in Seattle said...
Ok, at 3:30 it's 102.7 on Boylston Ave at Union St. The portable air conditioner is going full blast and keeping it a relatively comfortable 81 inside.
- July 29, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- JV said...
just saw on komo4 that 103 was reached at SeaTac so that is the new record!
- July 29, 2009 at 4:52 PM
- superdeluxe said...
104.7 Parkland, Wa
- July 29, 2009 at 5:14 PM