(Part 2) Top products from r/Sacramento

The information online is a little limited, so though you're a beginner, it might be worth the money for a guidebook. http://www.amazon.com/Snowshoe-Routes-Northern-California-Soares/dp/089886853X

Most of the hikes shown here are from that book: http://www.trails.com/activity.aspx?area=11548#trailid=SGS020-037&lat=39.31753&lon=-120.31879000000004&zoom=10&m=roadmap&a=SS But there isn't much in the way of detail without paying for the trails.com membership.

Another bit of advice. The snow that fell in December was from pretty warm storms so while there's a decent snowpack, it's a generally high elevations. Whatever guidebook or website you're looking at, you might want to cross-reference the elevations with a website like this one: http://www.wunderground.com/StateSnowDepth.asp?state=CA Which can give you a general idea of the snow level at various elevations. E.g., a lot of the hikes start between 6-7000 feet. Snow will be pretty light at that level, so if you can find something that starts closer to 8,000, you'll be much happier. Last time I snowshoed near Tahoe, we ended up taking off our snowshoes a couple times. Not the end of the world, but ideal, for sure.

Yep!! Can I suggest this book as well. I just purchased it and it's pretty amazing.

I have a friend who, in one hearing, went from having a restraining order (w/supervised visitation) against her ex, to losing primary custody and no RO.

If you are able to pursue this more, here's few resources FYI:

https://www.amazon.com/Women-CourtWatch-Reforming-Corrupt-Family/dp/0292709587

This book recounts the inspiring and courageous story of women activists who came together to oppose Houston's family court judges and whose political action committee, CourtWatch, played a crucial role in defeating five of the judges in the 1994 judicial election. Carole Bell Ford draws on extensive interviews with Florence Kusnetz, the attorney who led the reform effort, and other CourtWatch veterans, as well as news accounts, to provide a full history of the formation, struggles, and successes of a women's grassroots organization that overcame powerful political interests to improve Houston's family courts. More than just a local story, however, this history of CourtWatch provides a model that can be used by activists in other communities in which legal and social institutions have gone astray. (Florence passed last year)

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR1fZ_IiAeIVmzSLh5MbJow/about

As a college student and father, I couldn't afford an attorney and had to learn how to navigate the sometimes perilous and oft stressful court system. I ultimately was awarded primary physical custody of our son, and throughout the process, I won four appeals to the Supreme Court of Nevada, and was published on an original writ petition. I graduated and become a software engineer, and later the court terminated my ex's parental rights. My choice of the name "The Proper Person" is a reflection of the designation before a court that a person representing themselves is appearing "in proper person".
I maintain a website that tracks statistical data on Nevada judges

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http://www.custodycalculations.com/coach.html

"..I have 32 years experience dealing with Family Law. 24 years as a law enforcement officer, the last 8 years as a Child Custody and Divorce Coach...... While still a law enforcement officer I spent ten years researching Family Law. In the process I identified that Family Law may be responsible for 25% of the crime in the United States; homicides, suicides, child abuse, abductions, domestic violence, violation of restraining orders, violation of court orders, stalking and more."

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http://onemomsbattle.com/

Tina Swithin is the founder of One Mom’s Battle. Tina Swithin survived a Category Five Divorce Hurricane and took shelter by writing her first book titled, “Divorcing a Narcissist: One Mom’s Battle.”  Tina finished her second book, “Divorcing a Narcissist: Advice for the Battlefield” in 2013 which provides guidance and advice for those in the trenches of a high-conflict divorce. In 2015, Tina shared her advice for for rebuilding after narcissistic abuse in her third book, “Rebuilding After the Storm,” and most recently, her favorite book to date, “The Narc Decoder: Understanding the Language of the Narcissist.”

Thanks for pointing this out! I did some Google Street views, and, as I suspected, a lot of the homes that have not been renovated in this area are what is known as Cinderella homes. These were midcentury storybook homes that they started to build in southern California in the 1950s.

They were called "Cinderella homes" because their layout was apparently supposed to help make housework easy and free the "modern Cinderella" (i.e., stay-at-home housewives) from the drudgery of housework.

If you want to read more about them, there is a photography-focused book entitled All You Can Lose Is Your Heart. It's also available for checkout from the Central branch of the library.

There is a book 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles: Sacramento. They sell it at REI and Pipeworks. Its full of suggestions.

I would say in that general direction look at Cosumnes River Preserve Trails or Lodi lake nature trail

And if you are going to be in that area try for a winery in Lodi. You'll get better quality in both scenery and wine from somewhere like the Michael David winery or Jessie's Grove.

For future use... Lodi is only about 30-40 min drive and has some great wineries that are far less crowded and offer cheaper tastings then Napa.

The Outdoor World of the Sacramento Region is super helpful for identifying local river plants and critters.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Outdoor-World-Sacramento-Region/dp/1887815120


The Audubon California field guide is handy too.


http://www.amazon.com/National-Audubon-Society-Field-California/dp/0679446788/ref=pd_sim_b_4?ie=UTF8&refRID=0K53H6M90RXB11DAR0YA

River City and Valley Life. Leans heavily on the environmental history of the area, but I realized it's inextricably linked to the development of Sac. Great read.

https://www.amazon.com/River-City-Valley-Life-Environmental/dp/0822962500

do you move in between lanes trying to get in the good lane? do you let people merge into your lane without trying to block them? do you only go in the left lane while passing, allowing traffic to move?

do you even know the ways to make a road efficient? read up on the science/math of traffic. you'll be amazed. i was guilty of a lot of bad road ideas until i read this: http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/0307264785

adding another lane does little to improving traffic flow. more people just decide to use the freeways instead of other methods. you know why they can drive so fast on the autobahn? you need a license, and you get it taken away if you do something inefficient.

https://www.amazon.com/Punk-House-Interiors-Abby-Banks/dp/0810993317

I haven't done that sort of coffee table book before, mine are all black & white and priced for very small tables. And yeah, color printing is super expensive, especially if it's a small production run.

Now that really is some good news. Time for me to bust out this cookbook and make more of the only crab cakes I've ever really been blown away by. Maybe get this taste out of my mouth from all the smoke. It's like I licked the ash bucket.

Since he can’t, I will. I really enjoyed this one and this one.

I use the Richard Hittleman book. You can't get much cheaper than that.

Battling the inland sea : American political culture, public policy, and the Sacramento Valley, 1850-1986 / by Robert Kelley.

Amazon will let you look inside.

From the University of California Press. Available in the library.

Consider that those drugs may have originally been prescribed, the addiction manufactured, their homelessness inevitable. Now they have nothing left except the addiction to something that is the only thing that provides a brief amount of solace in their lives. These people don't have homes, but they also don't have friends, family, or anything else.

It seems to be hard for a lot of people to comprehend that people don't really want to be homeless. They're really doing what they can to get by and survive while being spurned by all of society worse than any other group.

Check out the book Invisible Nation. It's a good read that provides some solid perspective for those who've never lived in or are having trouble comprehending what it's like to live in destitution.

Says Thomas Sowell, one of the lead conservative black thought leaders of the Right. Just like I said in my previous statement which I am assuming you glossed over since you felt the need to ask "says who" after I clearly mentioned a direct conservative source. Go read "Ethnic America".

If you want to make the argument that redneck is a classist term, I might agree, but it is not racist as it does not pertain to perceived race or an actual ethnicity. It's about class not race. Middle class and Upper class Whites use it to belittle poorer Whites, and those poorer whites then work together with the Middle and Upper class Whites to create and reinforce Whiteness which is in turn used to limit influence of PoC throughout our history. Racism is just one of many tools used to maintain class order.

Also correcting your incorrect usage and understanding of racism is not race baiting. You're the one baiting this shit by throwing out undisguised racist terminology (in various posts) and ideology hoping you don't get called on it. Shit YOU brought race into this by incorrectly trying to say Redneck is a racist term. So seriously, please stop with your ignorant comments on race and racism because you don't understand the terms or systems you are saying/describing.

• Link to Book - https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-America-History-Thomas-Sowell/dp/0465020755
  
• Link to Wiki on Sowell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
  
• Link to Wiki on Redneck - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck
  
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