Cypress Lodge BROWN Water, Still!

For the past several years (the last two working with the current manager, Kevin) I have tried to get the Cypress Lodge to provide drinkable water to the residents. As of today, June 19 2013, the Cypress Lodge and Satellite Management have refused to adequately or properly (or professionally, their last ‘solution’? To flush the rust and calcium out of one of the hot water storage tanks into the street and storm drains!)  I thought that was illegal because our storm drainage goes to the ocean. That means they pumped huge amounts of rust and calcium into the bay.

I am very tired and in a ton of pain. Here is the video… if you are not thoroughly disgusted, I am surprised. His is one of the reasons I tried to raise money to move, My Dear Readers.

Thank you.

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Much Ado About Nothing? (for 2013)

LATE BREAKING NEWS!

"Today, the Maryland Democrat and his colleagues apparently got tired of waiting. Greg Sargent has the story:

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have just released a full transcript of testimony from a key witness in the investigation of IRS targeting of conservatives -- and it appears to confirm that the initial targeting did originate with a low-level employee in the Cincinnati office.

It also shows a key witness and IRS screening manager – a self-described conservative Republican -- denying any communication with the White House or senior IRS officials about the targeting.

Imagine that. Issa didn't want the public to see all of the relevant information, because the truth interfered with the preferred Republican narrative."

From: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/06/18/19025790-cummings-gets-tired-of-waiting-for-issa

Just had to share this newest info... that supports my position outlined in this article. Timing was awesome, huh?

[Below is the original article I wrote on June 16th & 17th and posted today 6/18/13]

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Employees of the IRS choose to scrutinize applications by obvious Tea Party organizations. That was wrong. That is not “Nothing” (wooo weee I finally properly used a double negative), not to me not to the American people. However, not everything is Watergate. Not every problem with the many tentacles of the Federal government reaches the White House. I know that there is a handful of Americans that wish everything, wrong with Washington, reached directly to the Oval Office. That is just not the case.

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The inquiry done, by the Justice department and the Senate, points to one group of people in one regional processing center. From what I have read this was the extent of the corruption and that these individuals were not under orders from the White House. That is the ‘bottom line’ for me in this matter. Here is a conclusion from US Today:

“From May 2010 through about May 2012, the IRS' determinations unit, based in Cincinnati, flagged 298 groups seeking tax-exempt status for additional scrutiny. Of those, 96 were singled out because they were affiliated with the tea party, according to an Inspector General's office review of the targeting.”[1]

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IMHO This is just one more of Rep. Issa’s failed ‘Witch Hunts’. First there was Solyndra, NOTHING! Then there was Fast & Furious, NOTHING! And finally there was Benghazi, and NOTHING! Each and every “investigation” costs the American taxpayers million to tens of millions of dollars. Four down, and no wins. To the average America, without political spin, four investigations producing nothing further than fodder for Faux Snooze. Since when was it the role of one political party to keep a noob (sixteen years in 2013) cable ‘news’ network in business? Since when it is acceptable for the American taxpayer to pay for the lavish and prolonged investigations into Much Ado About Nothing?

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Evidence that I speak the truth? The quoted article above is eleven days old and that is a long time in a 24/7/365 news cycle. Rep. Issa has another swing and a miss. When will Republicans tire of keeping Faux Snooze in the business clogging the arteries of lawmaking and when will the few Americans that fall for this claptrap wake up and smell the coffee? Honestly, I watched the fodder from all three of these worthless investigations fall by the wayside. All those tens of millions of dollars completely wasted. That money could have fed undernourished children in the South. It could have paid for textbooks for said children and some rental assistance to boot.

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This is no longer just an irritant, this looks to me like abuse. This is abuse by Rep. Darrell Issa and Congressional Republicans. This is abuse by a certain cable ‘news’ network.  And In My Humble Opinion, there is one investigation Americans need, but it is not happening. Americas need to investigate the connections between Rep. Issa and Faux Snooze. Aye, there’s the rub! The real investigation is the most obvious, and the most difficult to hold. Who is going to investigate the abuse of power, the willful and negligent use of taxpayer dollars for hearings and food and staff for FOUR FAILED investigations just to keep faux snooze airtime full of conspiracies and fodder? Who should be paying for these investigations via faux proxy Rep. Issa?

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It should not be US!

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Thank you for dropping by and reading. I know that you have many sources for news and entertainment and I am honored that you choose The Other Shoe!

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[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/07/irs-scandal-unanswered-questions/2400065/

My DAD - A Father's Day Tribute

This is a tribute to my father, Ken Hanning. Not until the past two years, did I find out I hardly spoke about him in high school and college. Not sure ‘Why’ I didn't talk about my father, at that time… most likely because it came after the divorce. My father was very talented; he mastered more technologies and sciences that, in another time, he would have been thought a genius. The image below, I just recently pieced together where it was taken.

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The photo, of my father, above… was taken… @ Los Alamos Laboratories in 1943. About two out of ten readers just got where my father worked. My Dear Readers, think back, about a year and a half, to an article I wrote of my mother and where she grew up. The diner she ended up working @ and where it was located. One could never imagine the coincidences that took place to create the family I am a part.

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When I was eight, my mother used to tell me stories. Stories about her childhood, about who raised her (it wasn’t her mother, she died in childbirth), about the reservations, about the Native Americans (her mother was a Native American living on a reservation just outside Los Alamos, New Mexico) and about meeting my father. Today is about father(s), especially mine.

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My father was trained as an X-ray technician, by the Army/Air Core, at the height of the Second World War, he was a very patriotic young man. He was stationed @ Los Alamos and took his off base meals at a little diner located on the single road that lead to this infamous base. My mother used to tell me how she first met J. Robert Oppenheimer. (About 70% of those that, already, didn't get it before…  just did)

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My father was very good at whatever he put his mind too. (One of the few good attributes I inherited) He was brilliant at taking X-Rays, and hand processing the film. In the civilian world, he spent twenty-five years working at the orthopedic practice of Hutchinson, Moore and Baker (later Moore-Baker-Christensen) the ortho doctors for the Houston Rockets. Too bad I wasn't really into basketball, Dad used to always be able to get courtside tickets to home games.

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My father excelled at anything electronics. He built his own kit transmitter (and antenna) so that he could help boys fighting in Vietnam talk with their parents here stateside (via an electronic/broadcast device called a phone patch). When my brother Darrell broke his arm, my father helped set his right arm… while I held Darrell’s shoulders. My father could speak in Morse code at an alarming rate (he was a Ham General before his death), fix a television or radio in an afternoon, break down a car engine and repair said engine, put up a Baker tent in record time, read electronic schematics, and know just how to comfort a son scared by the dark.

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I knew those things, about my father, since I was eight. Only recently did I discover that father worked @ Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project building Little Boy and Fat Man.

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As he was directed, my father never spoke of his training there, or what he did. However, there was only one role for an X-ray technician @The Manhattan Project. They x-rayed the shell casings to make sure there were no weak spots or metal fatigue. The atomic bomb casing had to stand up to immense pressures, before explosion.

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My father met my mother at that same diner, where she met Dr. Oppenheimer. My father must have made quite and impression, on my mother. All the geniuses that were gathered there, and she picked my father to wed.

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I am half done… but my hands just exited stage left. I am sorry Dad, I WILL finish just as soon as my hands work again...  

The Depth and Breadth of A Soul

[woke up @ 3Am with this in my head... it simply would not leave, until it was said]

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You read the title; you know what this is going to be about. I have never written and rarely spoken of this subject in my life. ‘God moves in mysterious ways.’ NOT, ‘Man’ is one cruel and twisted son of a bitch. Do dogs have souls? Most dog lovers would tell you an unequivocal “Hell, YES!”. Dog haters and empathic “NO!”. And because the church has yet to figure out how to get dogs to tithe, from a priest or Father you would hear “Sorry my son/daughter, it was not in God’s plan’ (How the hell do they know that? I’ll touch on that later).

Like all too many of the great truths in life? Your view on canine sentience depends on what you (as an individual or member of a greater organism) must hold as true. Not by fact ,nor experiment, but merely by rote. The dog lover, having loved dogs their entire lives, do not relish the idea of having loved the sentient equivalent of a couch cushion. The dog hater, desperate to not spend eternity in limbo for kicking every fido he ever met, clings to the soulless conclusion they must not. The ‘man of the cloth’, not yet having figured out just exactly how an individual (or organism.. ooops, organization) might gain coin out of the canine, hedges his/her bets. In case you really want to know? Yes, canines have souls… as do felines and hamsters, eagles and squirrels, rats and mice. God was feeling especially generous on that day that souls were assigned to the life forms on Earth. (You may well ask ‘Well, Danny, how do you know?’… and I will turn to you and simply ask ‘How do you not?)

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There was a time, not so very long ago, that white man thought (in his greater evolved brain) that ‘black men’ did not have souls. “Outrageous!” You say, yet I tell you sincerely that the worst, yes the worst my dear reader, is still yet to come… In some places, dark and hate-filled, there are still those who say that a human with dark skin a soul they do not have. This troubles me greatly, as well it should, yet I wonder if all my readers (here today, and tomorrow) might they fell this way, too? For the love of my God, I hope and I pray, that they do not feel, in their hearts, this way.

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So, I think you can see that perspective is clear, we were all created equal we were all created fine. That if there be a God in the heavens, then truly he did find, that dogs and cats, birds and squirrels too, and even the lowly rat he did give a soul too. And who are we to deny this birthright… this life-right to our fellow travelers in time. To have an eternal soul, just like mine. We walk, side by side and at times hand in hand, with these smaller versions of the love God gave man. Yet all too often, they get the back of our hand,

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No, not in a physical way… no, never that direct. But, when you leave that dog or cat, on an empty street (because they just ate the last pair of your slippers they ever will have) do you really believe? Really believe they deserve a life, just like yours and mine? One with love and with comfort, One with kindness and smiles. A life of full of virtue, and life brimming with pride.

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As a young man, in Beverly Hills, I happened to worship with another of the pride of man. In their teachings, I learned, it was man’s destiny… even his responsibility these lesser creatures made by his hand. I was taught that mankind (all of us) were given a charge. A charge as important as commandments wrought in stone, to love and protect those smaller thine own. It was not his expectation, it was his command.

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So, then why won’t you tell me… why do they senselessly die each and every day?  They die in the streets, they die in these pounds. They die without reason or rhyme. They die from neglect, they die without pride. They die for our science, they die at our side. They die for no reason, they die out of slough. They die when you hit them, they die when you hide. They die in more ways than I can possibly write… but WHY?

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The Jewish people, they do believe, mankind was given charge, as I mentioned before, to care for all animals this was his charge. Tried, he did, to tell us… a secret therein I did hide. Aye, there’s the rub! From what I understood, in the words they did say, that our fates are intertwined. Inseparable we all are, as it is in our design. If they go down, then we are not far behind. I know some will find this frightening, I know I did at first. Others may see my words as blasphemy, it is not meant that way.  Lastly, many will see my words and thoughts as just benign.

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It is them, those that think sentience in lesser beings is benign, that I pity and fear most in my life. A whole world of love and companionship they will never find. Never once, in their lives, will they feel that love that comes from our bond. Not once, will they feel tears in their eyes, thinking of a loved one that no longer “is mine...”.

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There is a reason, for tonight’s rhyme. It is simple, it is truthful and it is mine.  Mankind? You are not as alone as you think.

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An Afternoon With Alex!

I am, right now most likely (I set this post for automatic post yesterday June 13^th), sitting in an Unemployment Insurance Hearing as a witness for my caregiver. Right now… and this really knocks my socks off, I am kicking myself for NOT demanding Allen be employed by and paid by the State of California as my ‘caregiver’.

So, today I am going to post a wonderful NEW video of Alex playing with my drink.

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ENJOY!

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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOwgRVAtmQs]

The Starving Of America

Welcome back, My Dear Readers, to another edition of The Sequester blues. Readers over the next few weeks and months I will do my best to put a face on The Sequester. This problem, that is reaching epidemic proportions in America, will harm millions of Americans, from every walk of life every income level every educational level. They are being harmed by the Republican sequester. Let me correct that, The Sequester itself was the idea of Pres. Obama. However, the Speaker, Rep. Cantor, Rep. Ryan and a majority of House Republican Congressional Republicans supported The Sequester. However, it is House (tea-party) Republicans that are preventing the end of the sequester, and are demanding further cuts.

In order to avoid a complete collapse of America’s economy Democrats signed on, unwillingly, to The Sequester as well. My Dear Readers nobody was really actually supposed to have to live under The Sequester. When The Sequester  deal was reached, and this was back around the holiday season 2010, nobody sitting at the table ever imagine a Congress so entrenched in intransigence that it could not reach a budget deal prior to the trigger being pulled of The Sequester . It was flipping unthinkable people.

Yet here we are. I am writing about The Sequester because it is literally taking food off my table. Full disclosure! However, this punishment is hurting; parents with college-age children, teachers, Wal-Mart workers, firefighters, policemen, students, seniors, veterans, the disabled, and the poor. Like a virus this sequester has infected an epidemic level of Americans. You know what the crazy part is? The crazy part is that is just 85 Republicans in the House that have forced this atrocity on Americans.

Well now, My Dear Readers, you may well ask why you say that Daniel? Shortest possible answer is: 21^st-century McCarthyism. Let me explain something, My Dear Readers. The United States Congress, the House of Representatives, on its best day is like dealing with a dear stuck in headlights. And on the worst day is like herding cats. Right now in the House of Representatives there are 85 Republican members that are tea party promoted candidates.

These 85, first and second term, Republicans were swept into power in Congress with the tea party and the last two elections. Quote from tea party Rep. Michele Bachmann “if you don’t work you don’t eat…”. That, My Dear Readers, is the very essence of the tea party as it is playing out in our US House of Representatives. Why else would America be turning its back on the now 55 year-long ‘War on Poverty’? Why else would House Republicans be getting away with additional cuts to food stamps?

That’s right, My Dear Readers, this is not a dream run article at the other shoe. This is Republicans taking a second Apple off the table of the poor. Today 30 Democratic House members have taken a pledge. They have pledged that for the next month they will live on what the average food stamp allotment is for an average American. Like a Wal-Mart worker. Let me share that with you:

To protest nutrition assistance cuts this week, nearly 30 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are limiting their food budgets to what a person gets from food stamps.

        It's called the SNAP Challenge, and they're doing it because the House will soon consider legislation that cuts the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by 2.5 percent, likely depriving nearly 2 million Americans of benefits. Currently 47 million Americans receive an average monthly benefit of $133 from the program. [1]

Well no hang on a minute, My Dear Readers, this sounds really familiar. Doesn’t it, yes, it should sound familiar. If you are paying attention yes it will sound familiar. If you’re just paying political lip service then you won’t remember this:

        “Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) along with eight other congressional Democrats are eating on a budget of about $4.50 a day to show solidarity with food stamp recipients who receive $32.59 a week.

The personal thrift, which is part of a challenge organized by Fighting Poverty With Faith, was reported by Pacifica Patch.”[2]

That, as you can see from the footnotes below, came from October 31 last year. So, let me get this right, the least advantage of our nation gave up tens of billions of dollars worth of food benefits last year to satisfy rabid Republicans. And here it is now not even a year later and the same; seniors, disabled, veterans, children, and poor have to give up another 20 billion? This is about 10 steps past cruel and unusual, right?.

Since I am writing for a bit of a targeted audience, I am going to take a liberty here… I may end up regretting this… but journalism is about taking risks to make a point. Please read the following:

“I don’t think they ought to be balancing their budget on the backs of the poor.”  George H.W. Bush (Said while running as a ‘compassionate Conservative’)

Source: US News & World Report, p. 36 Oct 18, 1999[3]

That was Texan loved George Bush, Jr. while running for President his first time. Yet, right now today, Congressional Republicans are demanding ANOTHER multi-BILLION dollar cut to food stamp benefits. The United States budget FELL SHARPLY over the past year. Calendar year 2012 the U.S. budget decreased SIX HUNDRED FORTY-TWO BILLION DOLLARS!

Let that sink in a sec. …

The dreaded deficit decreased nearly ONE TRILLION DOLLARS and there is some genuine need, today, to cut food benefits to the least advantaged right now? N o. No, there is no genuine reason for Congressional Republicans to further cut food subsistence programs for the; disabled, seniors, children, veterans and the poor. I do not even want to think of the real why. It makes me sick in my soul. It makes me afraid… afraid of the darkness that is moving through our society as… Republicans.

I am a ‘Reagan Democrat’. I voted for Ronald Reagan. I am a centrist Democrat and have known many Republicans (still do) and have a great deal of respect for them and their beliefs. And in the pit of my soul… I know this is wrong.

Thank you, My Dear Readers, for dropping by and sharing. I know that there are a lot of places you can go for content, and something to read, and I am honored that you came here to The Other Shoe.

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[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/12/food-stamp-cuts_n_3429301.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/31/food-stamps-congress-budget-cuts_n_1068336.html

[3] http://www.ontheissues.org/celeb/More_George_W__Bush_Tax_Reform.htm

Introduction and Achievment Announcement

This is a short update video of Daniel & Alex Hanning @ The Other Shoe. This video makes an announcement about 'Princess Nadia and the Healing Light' as well as introducing a NEW CHARACTER! I had a little less pain, at first, today and a little more energy. So, I decided to make this short video because I met a GOAL. I finished the first outline of Act One of ‘Princess Nadia and The Healing Light’. . Welcome back, My Dear Readers, to The Other Shoe for and introduction and announcement. Today I woke up to a ‘good day’ and I decided to take full advantage of this opportunity. I have made a short video where I introduce Alexander, my newest furry friend. Alex immediately leaves the screen, only to reappear in the sides of the frame several times. . As well, I am proud to announce that the whole first act of ‘Princess Nadia and the Healing Light’. This is a great achievement for me, and I am proud to share this accomplishment. The work is taking up a life of its own, the characters coming to life and form in my mind. I will be sharing teasers here @ The Other Shoe over the next few months. . Last, I repeat the announcements from late last week. There will be a Three-Dimensional issue of The Mars Report, weekly editions of The Mars Report and more political articles. I am happy to share my accomplishment and my vision of the world of Princess Nadia. . Thank you for dropping by and have a great week! .

Coming Soon to The Other Shoe!

`Welcome back, My Dear Readers, to the Mid-June Preview here @ The Other Shoe. [Click the link to ‘Like’ our page at Facebook! Please?! ] I am still working to get the remaining seven ‘Likes’ I need there but maybe today I will be surprised. I am pretty excited about the month of June here @ The Other Shoe. I have finally obtained some much needed writing software. Combine that with the Dragon software and I should be able to produce more content, with a higher quality.

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My plan, for the rest of the month of June, for The Other Shoe:

• A 3D (Three Dimensional) version of The Mars Report where all the images are in Blue/Red shift. You will need a set of 3D glasses with the red on the left.


• Weekly editions of The Mars Report


• More fun excerpts from Princess Nadia and the Healing Light (just not a lot)


• An article about how the sequester is harming all levels of Americans


• More political works… I know that I have not written much of a political vein, of late. However, I still do not want to offend the people I respect.

This is the production plan I have for the remainder of June 2013 here @ The Other Shoe. With some luck, a little support for friends and followers and a little extra pain medication I will meet this schedule. I already have started working on the 3D issue of The Mars Report. This is something I have wanted to share for several months, However, until this week the NASA/JPL web site just did not have enough 3D images to make up a whole issue.

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This is an ambitious work schedule, for me in my current condition, especially when you consider I have set myself a schedule of two to four hours a day working on ‘Princess Nadia and the Healing Light’. I am going to give this a good college try… just wish I was ‘college aged’! lol.

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I look forward to seeing your ‘Likes’ and ‘Shares’ as well as your comments on the blogs and on Facebook. I appreciate input, and love when I see my work liked and/or shared. I feel appreciated and valued. Thank you, My Dear Readers, for your time and your consideration. I know there are lots of places you can go for content and fun stuff to read. I am flattered that you choose The Other Shoe to spend part of your leisure time.

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ENJOY!

 

As the Earth Rotates On Its Axis.

As the Earth Rotates On Its Axis.

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The sun rises, each and every day, in the East and sets here in the West. We rise each day with a desire in our hearts, just to make it trough another day without hurting anyone or getting hurt by anyone. As the Earth rotates on its axis we ride along @ roughly 1,000 miles per hour. We all make mistakes, some large some small, and most of us learn from our mistakes. Our friends and loved ones make mistakes, we work to help them overcome and forgive their errors. As the Earth rotates on its axis.

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There is another ‘old saying’ most of us heard as children and understood as adults. “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water’. This is an adage to caution mankind about the volatility of his zeal. How zealotry and purism can harm the cause of the zealots. In politics it is the ongoing battle to keep from boxing one self into a corner. Example; ‘legitimate rape’. Said by a Republican running for the Senate, it impacted the larger political debate, and the Presidential election. One man indulged his zeal, in an attempt to kowtow to his fringe/base, and he hamstringed the Presidential campaign. As the Earth rotates on its axis.

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One day, back in August of 1987 a department manager at a Target store puts a typewriter in the last place on earth it should be, on the top of a stack of loosely stacked cardboard boxes. He goes home, that night, thinking little of the mistake he made, nor of the steel typewriter hanging perilously thirty feet above unsuspecting heads.  At 2:15PM the next day, that very typewriter dropped on a thirty-year-old male’s head, and forever changed that man’s life. One man’s slough results in another man loosing his ability to walk… to eat and swallow. One misplaced typewriter ends up devastating another man’s life, forever. As the Earth rotates on its axis.

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A young man makes a wonderful new friend, while starting college. They perform together, and end up rooming together. The young man gets to know the friend, and his new wife. The wife becomes pregnant, and one day the young man asks his friend to cover a graveyard shift so the young man can “get better acquainted’ with a woman he hopes to one day marry. That night the store his held up by a man with a gun. That night the young man looses his best friend to a violent crime with a gun. The friend died just because the young man wanted to fall in love. As the Earth rotates on its axis.

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We all make mistakes. Some of us have the good fortune to look back without regret. Some of us can never really look back, with out great pain. Not that pain, in and of its self, is a bad thing. Personally, pain has brought about great change. Pain can clear the mind and purge the soul. Pain can crystallize priorities. Pain can bring vision. Though there is a lot to be said about not being in pain, I am only guessing as I awake in pain and go to sleep in pain. That’s my life, right now, pain. As the Earth rotates on its axis.

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Crazy, that, my pain drives me to put thought to paper. It is also pain that keeps my thoughts from being put to paper.  A year ago, my pain was a huge motivator. It helped me; start, organize, run, promote, and successfully conclude a charity project. My pain kept me focused on the goal, while daily reminding me of the reason I needed to raise money. Soon I would not be able to walk. I didn’t want to try and raise the money after the fact. I knew depression would follow the loss… it always had before. That day is pretty much here, and I was right. A week ago I was full of life and vigor. I was writing more than I had in a year’s time. I was starting a novel that I saw in my mind, and felt in my heart. Time and effort had combined to give me a little shot at life, again. As the Earth rotates on its axis.

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Monday came, and I just couldn’t move. Something has changed, in my condition. Something deeply disturbing.

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As a young boy I was often sick. My brother Darrell most likely will not remember, do not know if he does or not. When I was just a toddler… I had to wear metal braces pon my legs. I was a often sick young boy. Each and every Easter I spent in bed, in Houston on Thrush street. I would manage to contract strep throat every spring, and would spend the spring holidays lying in bed with high fevers. One year I saw purple elephants dancing like an animated border between the walls and ceiling of our family room. I was so sick and had such I high fever I was kept in the front room. One year, the fever was so high… my arms and legs felt like spaghetti… and things seeming small felt large, and large small. I was disconnected from my body, by a fever. As the Earth rotates on its axis.

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Last week, I started having that feeling again. This time I have no fever… beyond one to make a dream come true. My dream; ‘Princess Nadia and the Healing Light’ is all I think about. It lives inside me, clawing at my mind day and night wanting to come out. But my hands feel like they are miles away. I have moments, even afternoons, where I can work. Like today. Today I decided to talk to you, My Dear Readers, about my blog and my life. I really want to write my blog, I love to share and entertain. Hell, you see it. I write, quite regularly, then I fade.  In and out, like the light of a lightning bug. But this darn earth just keeps rotating on its axis, ticking away my days and nights.

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I want to be here with you, My Dear Readers. However, Nadia is calling me. Believe it or not, a whole world is calling me. Oh, it’s Earth and you will recognize it easily. Things are just really different… sometimes better. Without help, I cannot be in two places at once. Without help I cannot keep this blog with new content, and build a world that lives inside me and yearns to be released.  Maybe, soon, these feelings will lessen. Maybe they will stop. Just as likely they will worsen. I am going to keep trying to do both, without help.

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However, if push comes to shove, I will put my story… Nadia’s story first. I will share bits and parts here @ The Other Shoe. But, I cannot share a lot. I want to publish my work, when done, and nobody is going to publish a novel that is already… well, free.

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Will this be a mistake? Who knows? Will I get help? Who knows? Will I tell my tale (tail… hehehe)? Y E S baring my body giving up on me tomorrow, I will finish writing Nadia’s tale. And the Earth continues to rotate on its axis.

Princess Nadia and the D&A Rats...

Princess Nadia and the D&A Rats...

They are my children. Over the next few months and years I will shepard these children through many adventures. They will share these journeys with Man. In the first book the destinies of the D&A rats and mankind become intertwined with the friendship/kinship between Daniel Hanning and Princess Nadia. Daniel's father Darrell is the creator of; the D&A rat, Cyber-Animals, Grav-Cars,  the Cross-Species Wireless Communication System, the HP 3D chromosomal printer and software, and a 'code'... a code that could change everything... a code that will make men...  like Gods.

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THIS... This is what awaits you, My Dear Readers, in the pages of 'Princess Nadia and the Healing Light' . This will be The 'Book One' of whole world of Princess Nadia and Daniel.

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Please... drop by... check on me... sometimes, well... sometimes the world I am writing.... it captures me. It takes me away. Away from pain. Away from darkness, and into a lighter and brighter world. I am working very hard, My Dear Readers, to BUILD this world, for you... and for me... and for eternity.

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Thank you, My Dear Readers, for joining me on this adventure. I promise it will be one we both never regret, and never forget.

The Mars Report June 2, 2013

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A rat on Mars, did you hear about this? ROFLMFAO (Rolling On the Floor Laughing My Fracking Ass Off) I looked at the images, at about 4:30AM today (Sunday). Went to NASA/JPL to download the original shots and looked at them on my 1920x1080 monitor. Rocks, just rocks. Guess it is a slow news week, right? Just as I was sewing that up I hear something about “a metallic arm’ on Mars? Again, ROFLMFAO. Does nobody in the media realize that the public/media images have been altered? It is called ‘White Balancing’ and it helps make ALL the public images released appear in EARTH light.

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Hence, something that appears ‘metallic’ in the media/public image is, in reality, not even metallic. But, this kind of thing keeps those pulp mags moving and the ET tele-mags full of pseudo-intrigue. However, I really must hand it to the blogger that broke this story. His blog is hopping and he is experiencing his “fifteen-minutes-of-Fame” all we Americans were promised. (My favorite… my ONLY.. favorite phrase from Andy Warhol)

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See, the thing is? I would just LOVE to have this traffic here @ The Other Shoe. Although, honestly, I would not want my time of fame to be over a rat shaped rock on Mars. I have been writing The Mars Report here for the past eight or so months, not just a fly-by-night venture for me. When you come here to read about Mars and see images that open your eyes and fill you with wonder, it is just that. I want people to feel engaged and involved in the American Mars Science Expedition, not harvest the whole project for fill in a slow news week. Nope, I am here for the hard science and pure enjoyment of discovering another world, and alien planet, for the long haul.

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I was thinking of posting the images here, then I thought not. The media has already debunked the ‘rat’ image. As for the “metallic arm’?

Simple factoid. Pretty much without exception all the images that make it to the public and media have been altered (by NASA/JPL) in a process called ‘white balancing’. This is a imaging process that alters the color saturation, hue, and white level of the original image so that the scene appears in Earth Light. Right, we rarely see Mars in Martian light. However, here @ The Other Shoe I have presented images that are in original Mars lighting. In one article I shared an image from JPL that broke down a single shot in the three different imaging processes they use. RAW, Natural and White Balanced.

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Here is a shot of Mount Sharp in Raw Colors:

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="258"] NASA/JPL Image of Mount Sharp with RAW colors.[/caption]

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And, here is the same image with ‘White Balancing’:

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[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="258"] NASA/JPL Image of Mount Sharp with White Balancing imaging used.[/caption]

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So, with the processes and imaging techniques used, what appears to be ‘metallic’ in a white balanced process image in reality is not metallic colored at all. I looked at the image, both at this bloggers site and at NASA/JPL project web site. There is a glare, on a rock face, that appears to have been translated, visually, as a silver metal color. There is not metal object on Mars, least not yet. I appreciate that a lot more people are looking at the Mars mission images. I hope all Americans follow of space program (less than 20% actually do), but this is for all the wrong reasons.

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Scientific achievement, advancing our understanding of our world via exploration of other planetary bodies in our solar system and fulfilling mankind’s need for expansion and exploration. THOSE are the good and genuine reasons to write about and talk about Mars and the NASA/JPL Mars Mission.

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Thank you for dropping by, today. I was hoping for more images today… I am just really in a ton of pain and simply cannot put together all the downloads and uploads, nesting URLS and labels that it takes to produce one single episode of The Mars Report. I appreciate your support and understanding.

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ENJOY!

June 2013 Personal Update and Video

Hello there, My Dear Readers,, and welcome back to the ‘June Update’ here @ The Other Shoe. Since last we spoke I have; had my colonoscopy and they found and removed four polyps. The biopsies will be available later next week. I will pass these results on just as soon as possible.

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For those that do not wish top view the video, I will now outline what I discussed and shared in this video. All others, just click on the video to start play. (An edited version should be available late Sunday/early Monday @ The Other Shoe)

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The first part of the video explains why it is being shot ‘handheld’ and why I am in bed as opposed to all my previous videos being shot at my computer desk. Explanation; my condition has worsened in that I am mostly unable to get in and out of bed (without injury) without assistance. Therefore, I have moved my computer to a bedside desk and am (and will be) writing and shooting future videos in the bed. I apologize for the shaking camera and explain I am in the process of affording a USB extension so that I can mount the camera to the monitor, as it has been done previously.

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Next bit, I tell everyone that I have been approved for Food Stamps! This is a process that I, first, began in February and am just now getting approval for $48 a month. Recent budgetary cuts (both at the state and federal levels) have decreased the available funds and that priorities is given to families with children. I understand, our nation is cutting back and I am very thankful for whatever assistance I may receive. I enact a conversation I had with the case worker @ Orange County Social Services where she chastises me for going ten years before applying for food assistance. [Little does she know that IF my weight hadn’t fallen down to 160 @ my last doctor’s appointment, I might well still not have applied]

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See, I loathe being a burden, or liability, to anyone be they personal professional or governmental. Accepting assistance just rubs me the wrong way. However, upon explaining this to my doctor he asks me (quite candidly)

“Daniel, are you willing to put your health at risk over a belief? Willing to greatly increase your chances of falling and getting injured? That is what you are doing when you do not eat and loose all this weight. Go apply for food stamps.”

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Done.

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Did you hear about the “rat on Mars”? I saw something about this late last night on the web. Totally not a rat, just a rock formation, but I will be writing a ‘Mars Report’ about that and the ‘metal arm’ they have spotted. [Little spoiler… so if you like reading the Mars Report… skip ahead. What laymen, in the media, do not understand is that NASA/JPL does ‘white balancing’ and color corrections to the images from Mars prior to releasing them to the media and public. That means something that appears to be metal colored in a press shot, is not in real life on Mars.] Back to the video and update.

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About this time I reach out and say “Thank you!” to those that had helped out, over the past three months. That, somehow, in living ‘hand-to-mouth’ that not a lot of food was making to the mouth. My weight is down to 160. While the boy in me is happy my weight is down, my doctor and the adult in me realizes loosing twenty pounds without trying is a ‘Bad Thing’.

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I wrap up the video mentioning prices of food, here in Orange county. I rattle off some prices of food and segway into… I have realized I an no longer afford to live in Orange county. The weather is great all year round. When I can get out, you can see the mountains from the beach. Great shopping and you just cannot go out, in Southern California, without seeing a human being either debasing themselves or some form of craziness or insanity. This is super fodder for writing bug and quite entertaining. Although I would happily give that up for a less expensive and safer/handicap able habitat.

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Again, I thank everyone for their support and time. More later this week with a new The Mars Report mand a little political article.

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Thanks!