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May 19, 2011 09:00 am

A new player in the social space may help brands more deeply engage social consumers. Called tracx, the platform is a social media management hub with tentacles spreading into the content distribution and analytics sides; added together, the platform may help marketers in the social space better grasp social concepts and push engagement levels.

May 19, 2011 02:28 am

A new tool aimed at helping advertisers in the UK more accurately target specific viewers of online video has been launched by Nielsen.

May 19, 2011 01:08 am

Recently PointRoll expanded their video solution to allow advertisers to stream across portals, giving brands access to more than 40 publisher and network sites, including sites such as Tremor Media, Microsoft sites and As consumers continue adopting video, brands will need to be more innovative about their content.

May 19, 2011 12:41 am

The predicted growth of Android coupled with successful iPhone app launches has prompted pizza parlors in the UK to roll out Android versions.

May 19, 2011 12:06 am

A new report from Econsultancy and Guava reveals twice the number of client-side marketers in the UK are now involved in mobile search.

May 18, 2011 09:37 pm

When it comes to email, testing is the answer. Testing subject lines, images and even the content formation can improve open rates and clicks, along with optimization. New tools from Datran's StormPost may help email marketers looking for more testing options.

May 18, 2011 12:36 pm

Add another advertising option to local businesses plate: local search is set to rev up in the next four years. According to an updated forecast from BIA/Kelsey Group, local search advertising revenues should surpass $8 billion by 2015.

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Governor’s Action on Tree Mortality

Tree Mortality
Severe drought conditions have led to tree mortality in our forests on an unprecedented scale ‑‑ increasing wildfire and safety risks from hazardous trees; increasing threats of erosion; damaging wildlife habitat; and, releasing tons of greenhouse gas emissions.

In response, on October 30, 2015, Governor Jerry Brown issued an Emergency Declaration to protect communities from California’s unprecedented tree die-off. In his declaration, he cited an estimated 22 million trees that have already died due to drought and bark beetle infestation, and called for action to address the safe removal of dying trees, especially in high hazard zones in California’s forested communities.

Since then, new aerial surveys show more than 129 million have died since 2010 from drought and bark beetle.

State Action

Calforests Action

The Governor has taken a bold move in trying to comprehensively address the issue of dying trees on a regional and statewide scale.  This has created opportunities to deal with biomass energy and forest health issues that were not previously available. We look forward to serving on the Governor’s Task Force on Tree Mortality and being a key partner in the solution.

Local Action

Drought, disease, wildfire and insect infestation have led to an unprecedented tree die-off in forested communities. Most often, these rural communities rely on the many benefits of forests for their local economies. These rural economies are struggling to provide water, jobs, tourism and even safety from wildfire, and have taken action to declare their own emergencies. Fresno, Mariposa, Madera and Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Tulare.

Biomass Facilities

Woody biomass from forestry operations is used as a form of fuel for renewable energy. Biomass power plants burn wood byproducts in a controlled boiler to produce steam, which drives a turbine to make electricity for homes and businesses. This process reduces air emissions by 98 percent when compared to burning in the open. The biomass power industry burns more than 25 million tons of wood waste into clean, renewable power every year and is a much needed solution to the State’s emergency on tree mortality. For more detailed information, please visit our partners at the California Biomass Energy Alliance for more information.

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Saturday, February 27, 2010

The passion of the cup

The Hun Sen Cup final next week will be between Phnom Penh Crown and the National Defense Ministry after those two teams came out on top in today's semi-finals. The Army team had the easier of the semis, beating Preah Khan Reach 1-nil, albeit against the odds and the formbook. However, the real drama of the day came about in the afternoon's first match between Crown and their big rivals, Naga Corp. This match had just about everything you could ask for in a cup tie. Passion, often mistimed, was evident and that was clear at the card card which reached two reds and 14 yellows. The goals count was just as high with Crown taking a 3-nil lead at half-time with a 3-goal splurge in just seven minutes. Naga, who'd threatened a walk-off just before the interval, came back strongly and pulled back the deficit, the game finishing 3- 3 at full-time, with the Naga equaliser coming from the penalty spot with five minutes to go. In extra time they blew the chance of a win by failing from the penalty spot with almost the last kick of the game and that meant a penalty shoot-out. It was 3-3 after the first five spot-kicks and onto sudden death. The drama continued to unfold when Teab Vatanak had to retake his penalty (he'd missed in extra time), which was saved and then Phuong Narong stepped up to fire Crown into the final before bursting into floods of tears. It was time for everyone to draw a huge breath of air. This game was certainly a glorious advert for the good, and bad, of Cambodian football. More later, after I've had a lie down in a darkened room.

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A review of colour phenotypes of the Eastern Red-backed Salamander, Plethodon cinereus, in North America

Jean-David Moore, Martin Ouellet

The Eastern Red-backed Salamander (Plethodon cinereus) is the most abundant salamander species in many forests of northeastern North America. It is well-known for its colour polymorphism, which includes eight colour phenotypes: the red-backed (striped), lead-backed (unstriped) and erythristic morphs, as well as the iridistic, albino, leucistic, amelanistic and melanistic anomalies. Here we review the various colorations of P. cinereus, with the objective of facilitating the identification of these different phenotypes and of generating interest among field herpetologists and scientists reporting on this species. We also list six previously unpublished occurrences of colour variants in this species (1 case of erythrism, 3 of iridism, 1 of leucism, and 1 of partial leucism). To our knowledge, these cases include the first documented occurrence of iridism in the red-backed morph of P. cinereus, and the first two mentions of this colour anomaly in the lead-backed morph from Canada.

Phenotypes; coloration; red-backed; lead-backed; erythristic; colour morph; iridistic; albino; leucistic; amelanistic; melanistic; colour anomaly; Eastern Red-backed Salamander; Plethodon cinereus; North America

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22621/cfn.v128i3.1603

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Saturday, March 7, 2009

Running, running, running...

...we woke up early to get out to the airport. I didn't know that's where we were running so I got a little confused thinking that maybe we were all going on a trip.

There were a LOT of dogs. All kinds of boxers and wieners. Big dogs. Little dogs. Hairy dogs. Barking dogs. Kacy just wanted to check everything out but with all of those people I got really nervous and stayed as close to the big guy as possible.

When race time finally rolled around my human and Kacy started without us because they wanted to go faster. So the big guy and I stayed with a huge pack and walked down the runway.

Then we spotted our team and went in for the handoff.

After a short running transition I ran the final leg in to the finish line for a team effort of 34:18. Not our best but I am a pretty happy weenie anyway.

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Thursday, August 16, 2007

When Is Quitting Ok?

Sheri says:
Regardless of the activity, at some point you may want to quit. It may be a sports team or it may be a job. I quit ballet once and then begged my parents to take me back. My son quit football after a few years and has never looked back.

Sometimes, it might be a relationship.

My parents frowned on this. "You made a commitment and you will abide by it!" This is drilled into my brain. I don't give up easily. But, when I have mulled it over and made my decision, it is not negotiable. I am done.

It's a delicate dance. Knowing when to stick it out and knowing when to throw in the towel is a challenge.

Quitting can be an easy out. Or, it can free you to do other things.

Abby says:
I am with Sheri – which is one reason we get along well as friends and colleagues. The word “quit” has never been a part of my vocabulary. To me it does not exist. When people say “Hang in there; don’t be a quitter” I cringe – especially when it involves a young person. I get a visual image of a little league dad screaming loudly at his young son who doesn’t really even want to play in little league.

To me, if something does not work out, and you’ve given it your all, move on. And, it’s OK to move on. I have a very black and white outlook on life, so this is an easy one for me. Either it’s working or it’s not.

For example, while I’m not promoting divorce, sometimes people grow apart or it just ends up not working. Society in general punishes us for these things. When filling out applications I am often asked if I'm “single” or “divorced”. Why do they need to know? I don’t have any dependents. It’s none of anyone’s biz. Maybe they should ask if I was a “quitter” instead (at my marriage).

I cannot think of anything I quit in my life – probably because I don’t look at making life changes as “quitting”.

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Saturday, April 07, 2012

PDN Training Tour

Medal of Honor Warfighter Gameplay Preview

Items of Interest, 7 April 2012

A Conservatism of Hope? Still?

PJB, The Socialist and the Social Dawinist

Constitution Party Podcast on the Recent Supreme Court Decision on Body Cavity Searches
Fabius Maximus: Why should we care about the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing strip & cavity searches of prisoners?

7 Rules for Recording Police

Vox on John Derbyshire's PinC column: Profiles in Intellectual Courage

My own perspective should be perfectly clear, but I shall elucidate it anyhow. Due to past desegregation imposed by force of one kind or another, be it private action or government policy, rapid large scale segregation is going to take place because the vast majority of people on every possible side find it to be desirable. That future segregation is going to be either voluntary or involuntary, and will be either violent or non-violent. Therefore, government policies should, to the greatest extent possible, be strongly biased towards voluntary, non-violent, and gradual segregation in order to reduce the risk of rapidly destabilizing multi-ethnic and multi-racial societies.

Multiculturalism is dead. Desegregation is dead. MLK's dream is dead, and more importantly, it was never more than wishful thinking anyhow. Racial equality is the same failed myth as every other aspect of human equality, none of which have ever been shown to exist in any tangible form. And all that dropping weak-kneed to one's fainting couch or clinging to the oft-disproven canards of the racial equalitarians will achieve is to increase the level of violence and amount of involuntary cooperation that will eventually be required to recreate the historic balances that were originally brought about by the natural processes of group behavior. The American black/white situation is only one, and one of the smaller and less problematic, of the desegregations that should probably be anticipated in the medium term.

(See also Derbyshire's Multiculturalism: When Will the Sleeper Awake?)

Shelby Steele: The Exploitation of Trayvon Martin

John Michael Greer, The Eagle and the Lion

The debate over American Exceptionalism: We’ve finally hit bottom

China's Rapid Economic Growth Means Population Is 'Wealthier but Unhappier’

An interview with Archbishop Chaput: Ringing a Bell for Liberty

A Coptic Good Friday

Liberty, State, & Union: The Political Theory of Thomas Jefferson

Richard Heinberg, Talking Happiness

Dirt! The Movie (2009) - Documentary film online

Hatching Your Own Batch of Eggs

Peak Oil and Energy:
Peak eggs: Hubbert and the Easter Bunny
Chris Martenson's Crash Course

New Models in Old Bottles (mp3)
KMO, Olga, and Justin Ritchie, co-host of the Extraenvironmentalist Podcast, talk about how people are adapting to economic decline, particularly in the increasingly wide-spread realization that a college education has morphed from a entry into the middle class into the express route to debt slavery. In the second half of the podcast, Sally Erickson, the producer of the film What A Way To Go: Life at the End of Empire, asks KMO to account for his refusal to sacrifice his own happiness for the sake of a respectable seat at the grown-up’s table of traditional employment.

The Lowering of Higher Education in America

The War of the Three Humanisms: Irving Babbitt and the Recovery of Classical Learning
April 2012 Podcast: Cindy Rollins

Feminism and Misandry:
How feminism arrives at one of its contradictions
As Industrialization Devalued Male Labor, Automation will Devalue Female Labor
Obama Writes off Men in Presidential Campaign (Romney Appears to do Same) (CBS News on Romney)

Comment of the Week: A Life Not Worth Living

Diet and Health:
Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 12): ‘The Fallacy Of Vegan/Vegetarian Diets’ | Denise Minger (mp3)
The 6th MovNat Principle: Unspecialized
Using sand to analyze your running form
Robb Wolf, Paleo Diet: How do I convince someone to try it?
Gary Taubes, Chocolate & Red Meat Can Be Bad for Your Science: Why Many Nutrition Studies Are All Wrong

NPR - Mountain Stage Event (April Verch Band clip will be available soon?)
Here's Bearfoot.

Watch: Punch Brothers Perform "This Girl" on "Late Show with David Letterman"

(The Late Show)

US Army Special Forces:
Special Forces Regimental Day marks 50 years of history with the green beret

Marie Digby - Update

Marie Digby - Update Vlog !! =)

(via Digbyholics) Yay, she's back in California!

Ron Paul at CAL

another (in 3 parts)

So I went to see a politician instead of attending Maundy Thursday Mass. The organizers had to move the rally from Zellerbach to Memorial Glade because of the number of people expected to attend. A typical campaign speech for the good doctor? The beginning was federalist in its rhetoric, which would appeal to those who believe that the Federal Government no longer complies with it and that the power of the Federal Government needs to be curbed in accordance with that document. But he shifted to his libertarian message, which dominated the rest of the speech. He was, after all, introduced by the founder of one of the campus libertarian student group. Talk about freedom and liberty would appeal to many; the crowd was rather diverse, and there were some Muslim students. Talk about liberty may appeal to those who want to be left alone so they can do their thing, but it does't advance a program for redirecting society towards the good. Dr. Paul does believe in state sovereignty and that states have the right to regulate morals, so how should we understand his unabashed espousal of (paleo)libertarianism and his pitch to the youth? Does he think that it would be better if the states themselves become more "libertarian"? It would seem so.

Ron Paul is Right (as Usual) about Judicial Review and the Commerce Clause
Ron Paul Addresses Government Controlled Health Care, the Dangers of Judicial Review and America’s “Intellectual Revolution”

Healthcare for all in the U.S? by Mary Logan (EB)
The Supreme Court and Obamacare

The Meaning of Liberty During the American Revolution (Part II) by Bradley J. Birzer

Jeremiah Bannister on why he is no longer Christian

One man's story - Paleocrat on Rejecting Christianity

At the beginning there is the problem of subjectivism (and hence interpretation or hemeneutics). At the end, there is the problem of evil. No more contributions to Distributist Review?

RD Extra: Interview with Jeremiah Banister

Paleocrat Radio; YT

Friday, April 06, 2012

O Vos Omnes (Casals) - King's College, Cambridge
Long day, work then a short reunion with the family, followed by the tail end of Byz-rite Vespers.

Thomas Fleming, Good Friday Sermon

Parts 2, 3, 4, and 5

Media Vita

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Larry Vickers

More videos:

The frailties of men

Could Byzantium have been saved?

The First Crusade, the true story

Why was there a sudden need to recover the city where Jesus Christ lived and was crucified? The answer, writes Peter Frankopan, lies in the imperial capital of Constantinople.
By Peter Frankopan *

Harvard University Press & Random House UK

A review in The Tablet.

Maundy Thursday

Mandatum Novum by Luke Mayernik

Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Items of Interest, 4 April 2012

Mark Signorelli, A Burke for our Times, Part 3

Thomas Fleming, The Nerve of the Turks

Chris Hedges Challenges NDAA in Court

A Conversation with Wendell Berry

Peter Hitchens, Do this in Remembrance

Florida's Self-Defense Laws (contrast with the combox ford Dreher's post)
Patrick J. Buchanan, A Nation Arms Itself — For What?

James Antle, Obama's Preemptive Strike on the Supreme Court

Judge Napolitano Blasts Back at Obama Predicting of the Uphold of ObamaCare Says “He Know This is Our System”

The Supreme Court and Obamacare

Paul Gottfried, Obama Mobilizes His Leftist Base

Jim Bovard, 95th Anniversary of Horrendous American Wrong Turn: World War One

Subsidiarity and Libertarian “Small Government” by James Baresal

Chinese women are killing themselves at astronomical rates: is the one-child policy to blame?

Putin’s Philosophy by Paul Robinson

Interview with Jack Donovan (mp3)

Gene Logsdon, Nature's Promises Kept Again

Economics and Relocalization:
Commodification: the essence of our time by Colin Leys and Barbara Harriss-White

“The first question should always be “how are we going to work together?” rather than “what are we going to do?” by Rob Hopkins

Can There Be “Good” Corporations?
Collaboration is Key to Small Business Success

A new film from REconomy: The Totnes Local Entrepreneurs Forum

Back to the Land

Permaculture thinking on the farm: going beyond tradition by Rebecca Hosking

Energy and Sustainability:
Dealing with energy shock in Japan (mp3
Timeline: How We Learned to Love—and Hate—Natural Gas
Does the U.S. really have more oil than Saudi Arabia?
Tom Murphy, Heat those Feet!
Review of Lt. Col. Eggen’s thesis, Impact of the Peaking of World Oil Production on the Global Balance of Power by Rick Munroe
1970’s Study Predictions Are Still on Target for 2030’s Decline of Humanity
Expanding our moral universe by Joy Merwin Monteiro (EB)
True sustainability solutions by Gail Tverberg (EB)
Peak oil denial: How does this help? by Rich Turcotte (EB)

Diet and Health:
The LLVLC Show (Episode 564): Stefani ‘Paleo Pepper’ Ruper Brings A Refreshing Irreverence To The Paleo Community (mp3)

Ask The Low-Carb Experts (Episode 11): ‘Saturated Fat Is Good For You?’ | Dr. Jeff Volek (mp3)

How giving up sugar can take 20 years off your looks

MDA: Is Eating Meat Ethical?

Red meat has many benefits for athletes, magazine says

Robb Wolf, MovNat & Erwan LeCorre – Episode 126 (mp3)

First Chrism Mass of UK Ordinariate at St. James, Spanish Place (more photos)
Christendom: Va. Attorney General Cuccinelli Exhorts Students to Get Involved (lecture at itunes)
Contemporary Byzantine Icons Exhibition to be Presented in Trieste

Foundation of the Renaissance: The Civic Culture of Early Italian Humanism

Sex and the modern girl: Are we witnessing a new age of female sexual assertiveness?
I dated 50 men in six months (and STILL didn't find love)

Guys, 'Girls,' online porn and the younger generation

Visit for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Dalrock Responds to Darwin Catholic: What, Me Worry?

The Corruption of Christianity

Steve Sailer, Mortal Combat From a Feminine Perspective

Scruggs funeral audio available online - Eddie Stubbs’ On-Air Tribute to the late Earl Scruggs

Harmonia Time Capsule: 1618 by Laura Osterlund

Punch Brothers cover The Cars

Punch Brothers cover The Cars

Jef Costello, Breaking Bad: A Celebration

More weirdness from the master of weirdness?
David Lynch - "Crazy Clown Time" (Official Video)

5.11 Tactical Paragon Softshell Jacket

NRA American Warrior #7

The roots of Anglo-American notions of liberty

From this thread at Vox Populi: Mailvox: the benefits of immigration

I know this is from a prior thread, but it is relevant to the wider discussion this post entails.

I think you have made a minor mistake in your ascribing a completely different cultural heritage to the British than the Swedes, German, Dutch and Danish with regards to freedom and what one would call a propensity toward representative institutions. The elite of England have a large amount of German, Danish and some Viking blood in their lineage. The entire idea of a parliament or the “thing” was an import that came to England with the early German invaders around 410 AD. If you go back and read Tacitus, his description of the ruling patterns of the German tribes to the east of the Rhine describe the rule by a form of representative government, albeit crude by today’s standards. But it is very much in line with the cultural traditions of the English people.

Now it is true that in subsequent centuries this tradition lapsed in central Europe, but far less then one is lead to believe if you only read the popular poorly written histories written in the 20th century. One of the overriding themes in these histories was that England and the United States as crusading nations brings democratic institutions to the benighted peoples of central Europe. Go back a read a real history of the period, written before 1902. The English ascribed the root of their representative institutions to Germany, and if you read about the rise of the free cities in the 12th century in Germany, the Hansaectic league in the 13th and 14th century, the rise of constitutional monarchies in Danmark and Sweden, the peaceful split of Norway from Sweden rule, the rise of the Dutch constitutional monarchy after the ejection of the Spanish Hapsburgs in 1572, you will see a fairly consistent picture of some form of representative government being the preferred form of government among the Teutonic and Baltic peoples.

Now if you take a closer look at England you will see how important this infusion of Teutonic peoples and concept were to what you see as a unique “English development”. I say that as compare the form of government that was adopted prior by the true Bretons, the Celtic peoples that lived in those islands. We have the examples of the Welsh from 455 to 1267, the Scots prior to 1600 and the Irish. Need I say more? The Welsh had no such similar example of representative self government, their lords spent most of their time fighting each other without any parliament which is why they were taken over by the English around 1267. The Irish, if you care to read a detailed history, responded to every attempt at offered self government by the English with complete disorder and promptly started to raid each other cattle pens (after killing as many English as they could). The Scotch had some good government, but did not seem to develop representative institutions on their own, but copied the more successful English institutions; at least that is my read of it. (I am not an expert on Scottish law and history, so perhaps a more educated chap could correct me).

Now let us look at the revolution and who made up the folks that did the fighting. While it is certainly true that the names of the leading lights were Englishmen, the Dutch of New York were instrumental in establishing the ideal of free speech and writing. The Germans of the Mohawk valley (New York) and Pennsylvania supplied a large amount of the troops that fought in the battles of between 1776 and 1781. Much of the frontier soldier class was made up of Germans (mostly from Rhine region) Scotch of course English and Dutch if they were from New Jersey or eastern New York. The loyalists were by enlarge completely English stock with the exception of some Scotch loyalist units that had sworn loyalty to the king back at the time of their transport after the failed rebellion of Bonnie prince Charles in 1746.

The fact was that the hard-headed “don’t tread on me” mindset, without which there would have been no soldiers to fight the great battles came out of an old concept of freedom that is not uniquely English, but has roots far back in to Teutonic blood. The idea of being free and armed was a concept as old as the original German invaders of the British isles between 410 and 455. I could go further but it would make this post too long.

Now you may have formed your ideal back in Minnesota during the 1980s and 1990s which is full of socialist Swedes that came over in the late 19th century. I do not know the area but I gather they came from a tradition of socialist moderate constitutional government. But it is representative government. That is very much of a different story and one worth discussing. But I live in PA and I can tell you the traditions of what you consider to be traditional English concepts of freedom have a very marked Teutonic bent to them here. After reading a lot of history, and the battlefields are right on my footsteps, the attitudes of the mixed English / German /Scotch settlers of the revolution are not far different in the descendents. I do not think what you ascribe the English stock alone is in any way representative of reality. I think that you are quite off on this assertion of yours.

Now I do not expect you to simply change your point of view. What I suggest is you go and read some of the older books on English history to see where they saw their traditions coming from. Here is a start: “A short History of The English People”, John Greens, 1887, 4 volumes read at least the first and the final volume. Then read Tacitus or any history on the cultural history of the Germanic people when the Roman encountered them. Read any pre 1902 book written about the rise of the Hanseactic league and the free cities of Germany prior to the disaster of the 30 years war. That will lead you to the next volumes you need to read. It is there you will find the cultural beginnings of the yearning for what you ascribe as “18th century English concepts of Freedom”

Was English scholarship in the late 20th century influenced by any contemporary movements to ally the British with the Germans? What about the Germanic conception of freedom?

The Bruce Lee Influence on Modern MMA. Featuring Paul Lazenby, Ralek Gracie and Eddie Bravo

Les Prêtres - Mon Vieux, Champs Elysées 26.11.2011

Someone thought a French version of The Priests was a good idea... will this really boost the Church in France?

Tim Kennedy performs "Part of Me" by Katy Perry

the original MV

In contrast to the MV, something closer to the reality?
U.S. Army Rangers Demonstrate Skills and Training

Spc. Shane Coley, U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit

No worries. Army propaganda will eventually catch up as those in power continue their social engineering.

Two links for Damsels in Distress

DP/30: Damsels in Distress, writer/director Whit Stillman

Damsels in Distress: How to Dance the Sambola

Damsels in Distress: How to Dance the Sambola from Gen Art on Vimeo.

Daniel Craig, useless modern white knight

How Long Will Daniel Craig Play James Bond??

"I know there'll be someone after me, and hopefully someone after them - I'm just trying to keep [the series] going."

Them? Did he forget about agreement in pronoun number? Or was he just trying to avoid saying "he" in order to be politically correct? Did he forget that the role in question is that of James Bond, who is a man, not the Doctor, who some may wish to regenerate as a woman. This is the same actor who dressed in drag to protest against violence against women. What an airhead.

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge

Read this book today; it's somewhat touching since it deals with contact between seniors and children, something that can be missing in many households in this country. It also alludes to the loss in war - World War 2? Probably not the Great War.

The characters are not ethnically diverse, either, but the book is originally from Australia.

The Story Behind the Tactical Duty Kilt

A note at FB by 5.11 Tactical. The product ad was so successful that the company is now offering limited quantities for sale. Get your tactical kilt now! (The video for the kilt is posted here.)

How will Christendom top this?

Not that the two colleges are competing to attract the attention of celebrities. Nonetheless..

Video: Sir Anthony Hopkins at Thomas Aquinas College

Monday, April 02, 2012

Fabius Maximus: Tribalism and racism are the 1%’s best friends, as we see in the shooting of Tryvon Martin

Who exploited the incident first? "Conservatives"? Or the MSM and those seeking to turn this into an instance of racism? Where has FM been?

Fr. Fortea the subject of a documentary

Twitch: Meet Real Life Exorcist José Antonio Fortea

Official website for the documentary.
José Antonio Fortea

Some videos.

An interivew:

Items of Interest, 2 April 2012

Dr. Fleming has read Philip K. Dick! I was surprised by this recent column: Alien Life Forms.

In the comments section, he writes:
To explore the concept of "cool" would require more space than a newspaper column, much less a comment section. The Magnificent Seven is not at all a bad movie, but it is not good either, especially when compared with Kurosawa's original. It may have been influenced by the apparent coolness of Kurosawa's heroes who are not, however, indifferent, but merely Stoically Japanese.
As for cool, it is largely though not exclusively a post World War II phenomenon that is a convergence of several tendencies. The French existentialists clearly have a strong influence--Camus' Meursault seems indifferent to everyone and everything including his own death. Cool people have few attachments. They can, of course, fall into love or lust or cherish a tender spot for something or someone or somewhere, but outwardly they seem indifferent to their fate. One of the predecessors of the cool film hero is the Bogart persona. Rick Blaine: "I don't stick out my neck for anyone." Film noir heroes and villains are often though not always cool, though Richard Widmark is too over-the-top, usually, to be cool. The Man With No Name and his enemies are ultra-cool, because they are nothing. Harry Callahan, by contrast, only seems cool. At bottom he is a moral and compassionate man who refuses to show what he feels--another thing, entirely. What you put your finger on in the Magnificent Seven is the obvious fact that the Western is not a genre, really, for cool people. In the mythology of the West, only Doc Holliday is cool and that is because he know he is dying.
To cut this short, let me just say that the tight-lipped hero who does not often show his feelings is a solid Anglo-American ideal, who stands in stark contrast with the cool hero who is subhuman. Steve McQueen is a repulsive character in virtually every film as are most cool actors/characters. Cool is also related to hip--the people with so much inside knowledge about the human condition that they are indifferent to it. Hipness is of course a gift from black Americans who cultivated this act. Some time in the future we should take this up at greater length in Chronicles.

Peter Hitchens, Iron Fists, Islamic votes, general thoughts

The Distributist Review:
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Dr. Franciszek Stefczyk: Father of Polish Credit Unions

Jennifer Roback Morse, Privatizing Marriage Is Impossible

Bhutan leads the world to a new economy of happiness

KunstlerCast #199: Communications Wasteland (mp3)
Our Overcomplexity and Hyperdependence on Modern Technology

Healthcare for all in the U.S? by Mary Logan (EB)

"Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future"

Fabius Maximus: We ask the mineshaft: should we be reasonable when arousing America? Perhaps reason plays no role in this battle.
What every American needs to know about the Federal Reserve System

Energy and Technology:
Tomgram: Michael Klare, Welcome to the New Third World of Energy, the U.S.

Are We Oppressed by Technology? by Jeffrey Tucker
Cluelessness which merits a considered response... if it is driven by the free-market then people should adapt right? Even if no real consideration is given to what is required for these practices, i.e. cheap energy. What about respecting people's choices for a simpler way of life? Would we be right to expect the use of contemporary technology by monasteries? As for faciltating communication and strengthening community -- that's bs, if you're still neglecting your neighbors.

Local Good Food - Melo Farms
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Holy Shit: Managing Manure To Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon

Monk, He Shines
A Canonical Defense of Father Marcel Guarnizo - II
Father Anonymous Responds

The Pope Slipped One Word Into His Speech In Cuba That Makes The Castro Regime Shake
Tehachapi nuns break ground on new future
The Vatican Bank: Moneychangers In the Temple

He's wearing a nice chasuble in the picture, but should Timothy Cardinal Dolan be one of Time's top 100?

A Heart on Fire: Archbishop Chaput's meditation on secularism in the U.S.
Random House
More "power politics" in promotion of the nationalist system, as opposed to genuine community-building?

Feminism and Misandry:
Oz Conservative: You Couldn't Make This Stuff Up
Review: MIRROR MIRROR, Tarsem's Proto-Feminist, Family-Friendly Fairy Tale
Holding Out for a Hero: Katniss and the New (Female) Role Model

Law and Disorder: The End of Male Mentoring at Law Firms

Podcast: 3/28 Brian talks with Dr. Helen Smith, forensic psychologist, about the negative images of men in the media. (mp3) [via Dr. Helen]

From 2010: Kristin Scott Benson With The Grascals – Cutting The Grass Ceiling

Giving socons a bad name?
Dalrock mentions an internet controversy involving Darwin Catholic over the "manosphere."
Is there a possibility that those involved are talking past one another? Does DC really ignore the consequences of sexual sin on a woman's character, her ability to bond, and so on? One may be able to look past one or two "indiscretions" but how many mistakes are too many, and reflect upon her true character?

Blanket condemnations of the manosphere are rather useless. It would be better to respond to the concerns expressed there than to play the amateur therapist. So long as the manosphere helps men understand the reality in which they find themselves, I think it should continue. But it does have a limited usefuleness.

Update: Mr. Darwin Responds

Diet and Health:
Balanced Bites: Useful Guides
11 Natural Ways to Heal and Prevent Heartburn

What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Brain

60 Minutes: Is Sugar Toxic?

Wait a Minute, Lustig. The Threat of Fructophobia. And the Opportunity.

Jerry Douglas Dobro solo - Little Rock, AR

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Stars and Stripes: MMA Issue

April Verch live-streaming concert on April 27 - $3. Details.

Lubbockites step back in time for English country dance

5.11's April Fools gag:

Last week of Lent

Western Dominican Students: The Sounds of Lent

Rhonda Vincent's tribute to Earl Scruggs

Bluegrass Today

NYT: Remembering Earl Scruggs

A new book on the way from Dr. Rao

An interview with Dr. John Rao - The Remnant: Black Legends and the Light of the World (New Blockbuster History Book on the Horizon)


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Saturday, December 19, 2009

A Copenhagen travesty: They cheered Chavez's anti-US speech AND then asked us for money!

Copenhagen is finally over and the headlines are dreadful for Pres BO and the "yes we can" camp.

All of this for a non-binding agreement?

The NY Post reports today that "...the agreement contains no specific commitments on carbon emissions, only pledges that "will not be legally binding."

The "we will be nice" agreement!

When will Pres BO learn that you don't put the presidency's prestige on the line unless there is something tangible?

Who will tell Pres BO that his "presence" is not enough anymore? He can't change things by just showing up!

First, the world is disappointed with Obama, specially now that Obama has to govern rather than just give speeches without consequences. He can no longer tell people here, there and everywhere what they want to hear. Also, he can't get Dems to walk the walk on climate change:

GUARDIAN: Obama speech fuels frustration; Lacklustre address fails to lift gloom...

Second, Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Fidel Castro did not get the "hope and change" memo:

Third, we were told during the 2008 campaign that the world would rally around the US once Pres Bush was gone. Yet, Pres BO can't get troops for Afghanistan or support from China over emissions.

The world is still the world and China is still China. I agree with today's WSJ editorial:

"We can't wait to hear Mr. Obama tell Americans that he wants them to pay higher taxes so the U.S. can pay China to become more energy efficient and thus more economically competitive." (WSJ)

Fourth, the Obama administration foolishly committed money without consulting with Congress or public opinion:

"Most, however, oppose a widely floated proposal in which the United States and other industrialized countries would contribute $10 billion a year to help developing countries pay for reducing the amount of greenhouse gases they release.

Overall, 57 percent of those polled oppose this idea; 39 percent support it." (WP)

Fifth, Copenhagen fizzled and so did Pres BO's magic:

"Overall, 44% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance.

That matches the lowest level of approval yet recorded for this President." (RR)

Let's hope that Pres BO learned his lesson. There is nothing in Copenhagen except anti-Americanism, irrational environmentalism and lots of people who want US dollars.

Go to Nebraska instead! Why Nebraska rather than Copenhagen?

Why? Because Pres BO's domestic agenda is falling apart in all of those "small towns" between NY and LA.

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Saturday, August 7, 2010

Some new earrings

I made these earrings  for my best friend whose oldest daughter I wrote about over a year ago (click HERE to read the blog post).
These are post-backed puzzle piece earrings to go with the pin I designed called Trying to Fit In.  I used the dangling puzzle piece in the pin design as the template for these earrings - yet as a stand alone jewelry piece they remind one a little bit of the blue colored symbol for "Autism Speaks" as Asperger's is part of the Autism spectrum.
This is made from PMC silver and the posts are sterling silver that I did depletion gilding on.


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Our Health Community – Elissa Cirignotta

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We are especially excited to introduce you to Dr. LoRang’s sister-in-law, Elissa Cirignotta. Elissa and her husband, Greg, have just moved to Des Moines from Portland, Oregon. Elissa is digging into the health and wellness community and we’re so pleased to help welcome her to DSM. Clearly, DSM is the new PDX!

Tell us about yourself and what you do.

I am a writer, teacher, visionary entrepreneur, and lover of all things travel & adventure.  I believe we are all creative beings who can live happy, productive, and abundant lives. I hold a BA in Special Education and graduated Summa Cum Laude from George Mason University with a Masters of Arts in Teaching and Educational Reform. I spent the first decade of my career working in the Public Education System in Alexandria Virginia, Tucson Arizona, & Portland Oregon working with Elementary, High, and Post High School Students and Staff. In 2013 I took a huge leap into the world of entrepreneurship and started a company called Happy Mindful People. The unique offerings of Happy Mindful People provide each participant the access to valuable tools that can be easily and effectively incorporated into everyday routines, supporting calm, creative, mindful living practices.  Classes integrate newest research on brain development, social play, creative movement, and/or a Vinyasa flow.

When I’m not teaching or practicing yoga you can find me growing plants, planning trips, and writing. I work remotely as a contributing writer for Red Tricycle Magazine and recently joined the team of writers at Yoga Iowa Magazine and Oregon Bride. I’ve had several features in Mantra Yoga + Health Magazine, Elephant Journal, and in Oprah MagazineIn addition I write branded content for health and wellness businesses/private practices/organizations.

I’m brand new to Des Moines and excited for the fields of opportunities awaiting me here. 😉

Where can people find you?

Starting in March:

In April:

  • Central Iowa Yoga Retreat
    • Sunday April 7th
  • Movement & Mindfulness for Kids
    • SundayApril 8th-29th at Shakti Yoga: 2-3p
    • Class Themes:
      • April 8: Understanding and Practicing Empathy
      • April 15: The More I Celebrate the More I have to Celebrate. A Lesson on Gratitude
      • April 22: Understanding and Working through Anxiety. I can do Hard Things
      • April 29: Fears are the Places Within me Awaiting my Love
  • Happy Mindful Teachers : A workshop for Parents, Teachers, Social Workers, & Therapists
    • Saturday April 21st

In June

Tell us about the Happy Mindful People curriculum and who it’s for?

The Happy Mindful People Curriculum is a social emotional movement & mindfulness curriculum. It’s designed for kids ages 5-11. I created it to help inspire kids to make positive personal & social changes, stay centered and courageous, and feel good about who they are.

In each of my classes we focus on a new theme that is intended to help children access skills and tools that support the development of their emotional intelligence.  The curriculum is designed to help each child develop the skills needed to combat the emotional changes that often lead to aggression, angst, and lowered self-esteem.

In Movement & Mindfulness classes we incorporate group discussion, role playing, and mindfulness social skill instruction to help kids learn about the tools that help them get relaxed and centered. Combined with guided breathing and techniques to both strengthen and calm each body kids learn about ways to incorporate positive self-talk and the importance of advocating for their needs in any environment whether it is home, school, or at a community activity. Everyone is given the space and time to share their stories, work and play cooperatively, and grow a strong healthy identity.

I will be leading my first Iowa based Kids Movement & Mindfulness 4 week series this coming spring.

What do you love about Des Moines?

People here are really NICE! I’ve been in this state for all of 2.5 months and I’m amazed at how warmly welcomed we have been. I so much appreciate how passionate people are to be living in Des Moines. It’s a contagious energy.

How can people connect with you?

Email: ElissaCirignota@gmail.com, HappyMindfulPeople@gmail.com
Instagram: @elissacirignotta, @happymindfupeople
Facebook: facebook.com/happymindfulpeople

Say Thank-you, all the time. Be kind, be brave, be fearless; live your best life and never stop reaching for the stars.

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Area 50 meters is two meters high mountain of garbage piled one hundred meters stench – Beijing christie stevens

Area 50 meters is two meters high mountain of garbage piled one hundred meters stench – Beijing garbage after the rain soaked, smelly water from flowing to the pavement, dirty. Li Chuqing photo "this piece of garbage mountain is really give off an unbearable stink!" Who lives in the town of Daxing District, near the North China Street, Mr. Zhang reflected in the beginning of this year, he found that 50 meters away from their own area of a pile of garbage outside the emergence of the more, but the more heap more, the more, the more the more, the more the more, the more garbage, the more the more, the more the more garbage, and the more heap more, the more the more the. "You can smell the odor in the neighborhood. It was so hot that there was no way to open the window at home." Mr. Zhang has not been reflected in the multi resolution. Roadside garbage 100 meters stench unbearable in August 12th, the reporter came to the Xihongmen Daxing town with North street. The main street is east-west, with a total length of about 2000 meters. The reporter saw far there is a mountain of garbage in the street in the west, the stench blowing, it is hard to breathe. Garbage mountain two meters high, mainly concentrated in the south side of the road, over 100 meters long. Swarms of flies and mosquitoes circling the rubbish dump. Because of the rain soaked, garbage mountain seepage of smelly water flowing to the road, the road has become muddy dirty. Mr. Zhang told reporters that the start here only some demolition waste, and later because nobody around the living garbage and the new market and transported to the garbage all fall in this, the result is rubbish piled more, piled up, has now become the roadside garbage mountain hundreds of meters long. Reporters noted that the roadside drains are all filled with garbage and bushes, nearby residents, said: a rain on this road on the water. When the heavy rain, all the garbage floating up, followed by water, the scene is really a spectacular." The school is more than and 300 metres away from the market "because the same rotten fruits and vegetables at North Street has been filled with rubbish. These people are starting to dump the rubbish in our neighborhood." Subsequently, Mr. Zhang took the reporter visited their neighborhood, in less than 50 metres from the local district on the west side, the construction waste surrounding a demolition after filled with rotten melon. He explained that these rotten fruit is transported from xinfade market, not sold, to pour this. On the other side of the road connected with the North China Main Street on both sides, stopped more than and 10 cars 5, 6 meters long, most of them are foreign brands. Nearby residents said, because there are several large logistics companies, and the north is the new wholesale market, there are often some trucks to market rotting in fruits and vegetables shipped out, on the way to fall on the side of the road, walk away. In this area there is still a demolition of private elementary school enrollment, known as the school of innovation. The school is only about 300 meters away from the mountain. A restaurant waiter said, in this school are migrant workers children, he often can see the children carrying a bag to go to school. Look at the children every day after school through this piece of garbage, we also feel distressed, I hope this piece of garbage to clean up quickly." And on the same street north head and a private kindergarten, only 100 meters away from the mountain of garbage. Reporters outside the kindergarten will be able to hear the noise inside the child. Demolition did not complete clear相关的主题文章：

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Apple Not Up to It?

June 13, 2007 – Comments (15)

More on Safari:

Mere hours after Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) released Safari, "The World's Best Browser," for the Windows platform, to the general fawning of the national media, lightning-rod Apple bug-finder David Maynor has documented a half dozen bugs and a pair of potential security exploits. (He's not the only one, either.)

This is the kind of thing that would make national news -- if the flub were Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT). But, of course, since it's Apple doing the screwing up, it's likely to be swept quietly under the carpet by the mainstream media. And if it resonates in the blogosphere, it'll be in the usual "So what, looser? Apple is teh aweseome," sort of way.

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#1) On June 13, 2007 at 12:43 PM, KalakaGuy (< 20) wrote:

It's beta software, for Pete's sake!  The whole point of beta software is for a large community of open-eyed testers willing to deal with crashes, bugs, and glitches to experiment with it and pass along feedback to the company supplying the beta software so that it gets improved faster than a company's in-house staff (in far smaller numbers) can do it.  Articles that flame Apple for Safari for Windows without emphasizing it's beta software status are just trolling for hits.  If after a couple of months of beta testing and bug fixes, the browser still doesn't work well enough, THEN blast Apple as much as you'd like.Best,Russell

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#2) On June 13, 2007 at 12:52 PM, TMFBent (99.25) wrote:

"These bugs have been verified in the current PRODUCTION copy on OSX (Safari 2.0.4)."

-Errata Security

And the point remains the same. The Apple fanboi base, as well as the mainstream media, scream bloody murder about any potential security holes in MSFT products, beta or not.

The difference is, only Apple apologists try and pretend it doesn't matter.

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#3) On June 13, 2007 at 12:54 PM, TMFBent (99.25) wrote:

And more comments from the peanut gallery... (email)

Getting on the bandwagon and knocking Apple, while you own the
company that continues to fall behind in innovation.  When you have a
monopoly like Microsoft, what incentive it is to make yourself any
better.  We the pubic suffer, but of course it isn't Microsoft's time
we waste with their products when I'm constantly trying to get them
to work.  Have you ever tried an Apple computer?  Internet Explorer
is so slow.  Microsoft Windows is so aggravating and SLOW.  Your
stock price may go up some with your underhanded comments, but is it
worth your integrity?

Rich DelG*****

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#4) On June 13, 2007 at 12:54 PM, Gildell (< 20) wrote:

Russell has it right. This is Beta software, and one should expect bugs.  When the release is final kick the tires, take it for a test drive and then complain.  As for the implication that Apple's OS security is an artifact of low market share, all of the real studies of this issue have documented that OSX is much more secure than Windows of any flavor.  This is not to say there aren't holes, but definitely fewer and smaller.  Don't take my word for it read check the experts.....  Michael

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#5) On June 13, 2007 at 1:00 PM, Uruzone (94.24) wrote:

I agree with KalakaGuy.

When you went to download Safari for Windows, Seth, did you happen to see the big words "Safari 3 Public Beta"?  Or how about in the title bar of the page itself: "Apple - Safari 3 Public Beta"? In case you missed those, perhaps you clicked on the button "Download Beta Now" to get your copy? Or were you perhaps emailed a link directly to the download page, where it only said "Download Safari 3 Beta" three or four more times?  Sheesh. It's BETA software.

Seth Jayson is a good, opinionated writer. But frequently - especially when it comes to Apple - he is in the same category of journalist as those who are spelling doom (or even glory) for the iPhone before they've even held one in their hands. We get half-truths and outright lies; conjecture with no supporting evidence. Exactly what was the "first page" you visited that was rendered so incorrectly in Safari 3 Beta, Seth?

I'm using Safari 3 Beta on my MacBook Pro right now. It is not perfect. I still prefer Firefox in many ways. But as a good Beta tester should, I'm tracking my experiences, forming comments, and reporting back to the developer.  I personally find this more responsible than running for a word processor within hours of download in order to hammer out yet another negative article on Apple for my bosses.

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#6) On June 13, 2007 at 1:25 PM, JJMSpartan (99.86) wrote:

"These bugs have been verified in the current PRODUCTION copy on OSX (Safari 2.0.4)."

Interesting that all of his screen grabs are of Windows - not OSX.  Not saying he's full of it, but if he's going to make that bold statement about the bugs being verified on PRODUCTION OSX, then it sure would help his credibility to actually post screen grabs off an OSX version of Safari...

FWIW, the next time MS launches a beta version and the general populace starts finding bugs in it, will you write a similar schathing article about MS?  I don't seem to recall ever reading one of your articles where you rip MS for realeasing buggy beta software.

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#7) On June 13, 2007 at 2:34 PM, BroadwayDan (98.08) wrote:

Did Rich DelG really write, "we the pubic" while disgracefully attacking your integrity?  Does he really think that you think your article is going to help move the price of a multi BILLION dollar stock like Microsoft?   I personally have Mac and LOVE it, but I have tons of Safari problems and couldn't agree more with Bent that Mac gets tons of passes and that Jobs is not a good person, though he is a great innovator.  I didn't see it but I hear the guy actually looked Bill Gates in the face and said those ads are not mean.  Those ads are pure genius - but they're as vicious as could be.

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#8) On June 13, 2007 at 2:44 PM, tverhaar (< 20) wrote:

Love the reference to Mac users as "sheep." Let's see - Microsoft 95% market share, Apple 5% market share... whose noses are nuzzled into the wool in front of them, just following the crowd?

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#9) On June 13, 2007 at 3:21 PM, interdyne (81.84) wrote:

This article is not worthy of the Motley Fool.  There are mistatements of fact: "security owed to obscurity".  Apple's OS X is inherently more secure than Windows in several ways including: requiring users type in their passwords before a program can be installed, preventing users from running as Root by default and others.  Apple's software does have security holes as does Windows software but Apple's OS X made several fundamental design decisions that Microsoft continues to be unwilling to make.

But the factual inaccuracies are the least disturbing aspect of this article. The snide tone, condescending demeanor and outright contempt that the author shows for Apple computer fans is reprehensible.  "iSheep", "fanboi" and "Apple is teh aweseome" are not the style or tenor of writing that I have come to expect from The Motley Fool.

I thought that the idea behind TMF was simple analysis, ignoring hype and prejudice and helping the everyday investor understand and prosper in the stock market.  Does Seth Jayson's article accomplish any of these goals?

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#10) On June 13, 2007 at 3:43 PM, ikkyu2 (97.84) wrote:

No steps to reproduce the bug(s) are published, on OS X or Windows.

Therefore, there is no bug.  What there is is a site that's getting an awful lot of hits.  I recall the last time this happened, when the MacBook came out - "Security hole in Apple's new WiFi."

Turns out that, yes, if you had physical access to the box and used the admin password to download and manually install a third-party hardware driver that was never even intended to run on OS X, you could end up with a compromised box.  But that's not how it was pitched to the public.  It was pitched as a vulnerability in the MacBook WiFi hardware, and it brought the "exposers" nationwide fame until they published the steps to reproduce.

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#11) On June 13, 2007 at 4:42 PM, Iaato (< 20) wrote:

Well, when you lie down with dogs, you'll come up with fleas. Simple as that.

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#12) On June 14, 2007 at 11:53 AM, Uruzone (94.24) wrote:

Well said, mvolchok. Excellent point. I knew there was something simmering in the back of my head that I couldn't quite get out, and you did it for me. Editorials need to be clearly marked as such, or they're just irresponsible journalism.

I don't think I've EVER seen Microsoft react that quickly.

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#13) On June 14, 2007 at 5:02 PM, orleofly (70.86) wrote:

I love the never ending argument about apple vs micro. I sympathize with the concept of apple as the alternative to an evil empire but you know what? They are just as evil as microsoft. Dont kid yourself in thinking they are some good guy company. They want to bilk you as much as any other big company. The apple product has failed me many times. Remember the ipod nano? Battery dead? Too bad throw it away! Hey but it looks cool right?

People defend apple in a weird religious way that is beyond frothy rabies like consumerism. Its a product people and its there to take your money with a minimal or decent return. Dont stick up for the company like they are your favorite uncle. Whatever was beautiful about apple when it started is long gone.

 If you want computing idealism buy a basic box and put linux on it. Jobs and Gates are equally bad in my opinion. Both of them produce buggy products but one of them is the underdog. John kerry and George Bush... they both suck and so can apple and ms.

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#14) On June 15, 2007 at 3:43 PM, kmortelite (70.00) wrote:

When you get up and tout a Beta as the best thing since sliced bread (WAY faster than IE and FX), it kind of makes people expect it to be stable as well.

As much as I like owning Apple stock (not products), I for one would love to see the commercial he described.

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#15) On June 16, 2007 at 12:46 AM, Danwaywff (< 20) wrote:

The author seems more than a little upset about Apple, perhaps he's grown bitter from watching those MSFT shares ping-pong between $20 and $30 while AAPL became a ten-bagger over the same period. I'm willing to overlook his blunder in glossing over the fact that it's a beta release but I find his condescension offensive, particularly the use of the term "-boi." Surely he didn't know that that is a term widely used to describe gay people. I'd be even more miffed if I wasn't a married straight guy. This article should be rethunk and edited or simply removed.

As far as the substance of the article goes, I'd be interested to see if he could mount a straight-faced defense of Microsoft's pathetic Windows Media Player vs. the iTunes/Quicktime combo that the public can't seem to get enough of. That's not a beta, and don't try to tell me that hackers don't dream at night of a hack that would silence everyone's iPods, even temporarily. In fact, I dare say a true Mac hack would garner more press than yet another windows/explorer hack since the latter happens almost daily and the former has yet to happen at all outside of a "proof-of-concept", which is just another term for "trust me."

On a side note, I've been running OS X my mac close to 24 hours a day since 2001, always connected to the internet, and have made no effort to avoid the "dark side" of the internet. That is to say, I click on anything that interests me without a second thought as to its source. Not for one second have i sullied my machine with any of the buggy,annoying anti-virus software that a Windows machine can't survive a half hour online without. I'm happy to report that I've had no problems with any type of virus or spyware. Try that on your PC. At around 40 bucks a year I'd say I've saved around 200 bucks on that alone. Foolish indeed!

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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

How To Determine an Appropriate Salary Range?

Can you possibly advise a salary range? I worked with another recruiter who advised that I was currently on the low end for salary.

Hi Candidate,

Recruiters need to be careful what they say.  Everything has a context to it and everything is relative.  Companies vary in their base salary structures just as they vary in the non-guaranteed part of the comp.  One cannot simply make a statement as that recruiter made.  What is the reference point?  Salaries vary by the type of the organization.  However even within carriers, salaries are going to vary. A national carrier for example may have a different salary structure than a small carrier writing in three states.  The comparisons go on and on.  So again, to simply make a blanket statement as was made to you is reckless.

A better way to put it would be, there are carriers that may pay more than you are currently making.  There are carriers that may be paying the same as you are making.

You have shy of two years of commercial lines underwriting experience.  So the question is, what would someone expect as a typical base salary in your geographic area with a similar carrier and given two years of commercial lines underwriting experience?  You are presently at $50k on base.  Could you make more elsewhere?  Yes you could. Salaries could be anywhere from $55k to $60k. But they could be less.

You stated that your salary expectations are $70k. For two years of experience, that is typically going to exceed the majority of carriers’ ranges for that experience.

But the real question regarding our specific situation comes down to internal equity.  The client carrier cannot justify bringing in someone with two years of experience at $70k when they have underwriters on staff with the same or more experience that are not making $70k.

Again, all things are relative and must be considered in the context of the specific scenario being considered.

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Mercury Men DVD Artwork

Here's a look at the design for The Mercury Men DVD screeners. Notice it's not too far off from the concept art made a while back.

New Design
Concept Artwork

Friday, February 22, 2008

Thought I'd post some random film related stuff since the past few posts have mostly been Japanese related in some manner.

I just found out that Captain Blasto was the Jury Prize selection for Best Feature Film at GenCon 2007 Film Festival. That's right...2007. August 2007 to be precise. Unfortunately there was some miscommunication and I was never notified that it had won. I was not even aware that it had been accepted or was screening at all actually. I just happened to spot it while randomly checking a few sites yesterday. Regardless, it's an honor, and obviously everyone is thrilled. Throw another set of them palm branches up!

I'm heading to LA this Monday for meetings, meetings, and more meetings. I'm armed with two dozen copies of The Mercury Men and about as many of Captain Blasto. The Blasto DVD packaging was redesigned recently. The first packaging design seemed to confuse people into thinking the movie was animated. I've been swapping around the photos into different panels, so this image isn't final, but you get the idea.

Two DVD's which should be at the top of your list to watch. In the Shadow of the Moon, documenting NASA's Apollo program and the first moon landing, and King Of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, about a science teachers run for the Donkey Kong world record. Both are remarkable in their own ways. Shadow of the Moon features some of the most stunning archive photography I've ever seen. Kong features a great stuggle against some of the pettiest enemies film has ever offered.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Monday, February 18, 2008

Japan's National Anthem

Apparently Japan's national anthem, "Kimigayo," is often criticized much like our own. It's originally a poem dedicated to the Emperor, which is now just a figurehead in Japan. And what song has been suggested as a popular replacement...?

The Super Mario Bros. theme.

Nobuo Uematsu, composer of much of the Final Fantasy games, had this to say about it:

I'm sure everyone in the world -- no borderlines or age limit -- everyone in the world who's come across Super Mario's music will never forget that melody... I think that the Super Mario song should be the national anthem for Japan. [Hums the death refrain] So when someone wins a gold medal at the Olympics, a Japanese athlete, the flag should go up with the theme song.
Can you imagine the Japanese flag at the Olympics being raised to Super Mario Bros? Or better yet, the flag being lowered to the level end music?

Saturday, February 16, 2008

The Greatest Picture

From the Star Wars convention last year. I don't know if this was staged or not, but I love how each kid is vaguely posing in character.

(NOTE: I did not attend the convention. Just found this online.)

Friday, February 15, 2008

Christmas Card

You're officially a married couple when you send out Christmas cards. Typically it's a picture of the kids, or if you don't have any yet, the dog, or often times a combination of the two. But us Schnur-Preksta-Green's don't roll like that.

Above is the Christmas card we sent out this year. If you didn't get one it's simply because we didn't have your address. Either that or we don't know how to spell your names and rather than fess up to our incompetence we're simply going to withhold all general goodwill and camaraderie. In fact we even tried to stop all other Christmas cards from reaching your house so that we wouldn't look as bad. In cased you missed them: all the kids you barely know are growing fast and that dog looks hilarious in that Santa hat.

But now the error has been corrected and the card has been provided for your printing pleasure. So break out the Epson and Merry belated Christmas from the Schnur-Preksta-Green's.

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Indiana Jones

The new Indiana Jones trailer is up at:
Watching this has now become your highest priority.

Monday, February 11, 2008

Super Grover

For our first anniversary my wife Ashley bought me a framed poster of Super Grover (as seen above), painted by the indescribably talented Alex Ross. Super Grover's rare appearances were easily my favorite part of Sesame Street, which I chalk up as extension of my life-long love of Superman. I was even Super Grover for Halloween.

What I love about this poster, beyond simple nostalgia, is the combination of Alex Ross' mythic style with a silly little Muppet parody. This is how I imagine Grover would picture himself in his own mind. Not confined to only being seen from the waist up. Free of the those little sticks operating his arms. Soaring past us like the very hero he's imitating.

For me this poster illustrates a common super-hero theme and a belief I have long held: the hope that we can become more than our natural environment would normally allow. No longer confined by the situations or circumstances in which we find ourselves. It's a theme which I discover in all of my films and screenplays. Colin trying to break free from obscurity in Captain Blasto. The lowly office drone responsible for defending the universe in The Mercury Men. And in my own life, trying my damnedest to create a film career.

I can't speak for other arts or careers, but there is one thing that filmmaking has in abundance: criticism. It's nearly every day that you're being told what the value of your work is, that what your doing is foolish, and that you just aren't good enough. No wonder there's so many stories about egomaniacal directors. They had to build themselves up in their mind just to combat the onslaught of their early years.

And so in its own simple way, this poster serves as a reminder to me that even if I sometimes look or even feel like a silly Muppet parody, it's only a disguise concealing something far greater.

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Wrapping Up

Now that I've had a week or so of screenings and feedback, I'm in the final week of post-production on The Mercury Men. Along with some mild editing and contrast changes, I've been cleaning up a lot of the effects. The most drastic of these changes, as seen below, is the Invader lightning.I originally created the Invader's attack as a single simple bolt, but after a couple repeat viewings it just didn't really sell it for me. It just wasn't intimidating enough. The updated version features a more realistic bolt, which acts much closer to actual lightning. The final cut of the film will be completed within 2-3 days.

To Each His Own

One of the questions I often ask someone when I'm first getting to know them is what their favorite movie is. You can tell a lot about someone based on their favorite films. (It's a Wonderful Life is mine. Analyze away.) Favorite films illustrates a unique aspect of life: what one person may cherish, another may be completely indifferent towards.

Take the above picture for example. That's the house where I grew up. Without a doubt it is the most important place on the planet to me. But to you, it's a rusty truck next to a willow tree. Or how about when you attend a wedding. To the bride and groom that day will be one of the most important of their lives, and you're thinking "is the reception a buffet?"

Films, like some other arts, has the ability to bring a group together into a shared experience, and simultaneously polarize their feelings.

Saturday, February 09, 2008

Miserable Artist

Found this at and thought it quite accurate.

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Fable: Book Two

I posted a Fable "animation" here several months back. Thought I'd share another.

The Mercury Men Logo

Here's a gander at The Mercury Men logo. As you can see, very classic sci-fi B-movie.

The film for the most part is completed. I'm going to screen it a few times this month to see if there's any changes to make. Unfortunately I cannot post the video online, as much as I would love to. Film festivals aren't too keen on screening films that people can see online for free.

For those of you in Pittsburgh, I've got the film on DVD and iPod and will gladly show it to ya if asked. Perhaps I can do something for the consistent readers and post a link for only a few hours on a pre-determined date.

Friday, February 01, 2008

Global Domination

I randomly checked the Blasto Blog statistics tonight and discovered that it's taking over the world. And by taking over the world I mean it's averaging 500 hits a month in 33 different countries, including much of the Middle East! I realize that those numbers are small potatoes, but I was honestly shocked. I woulda guessed 20 - 50 tops. And half of those I woulda guessed to be my mom. (I know you're reading and I promise to call.)

Let me say that I am genuinely thrilled to have you reading. Feel free to post your comments and make yourself known. Including the one person in Croatia.


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Chris and Marina – Engagement Portraits

I don’t have a lot of words about this one. I’ve known Marina for a few years now, after having taken her senior photos. When her and Chris got engaged I was so happy for them. They are getting married … Continue reading

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Happy 1 year Anniversary Alyssa and Nathan

One year ago today Desirae and I photographed this beautiful wedding. Alyssa and Nathan – happy anniversary! Much love to you both. *hugs*

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Alan and Autumn

When I was in MI for Laura’s wedding I made time early Saturday morning to meet up with Alan and Autumn for a quick photo shoot. Our original location was unavailable – which left me scrambling last minute trying to … Continue reading

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Jason + Jessica – Happy Anniversary

When I found out that some friends of our were celebrating their anniversary I was super exited to be taking their photos a week later. There’s something awesome about photographing couples around their anniversary. I highly suggest it for all … Continue reading

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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Welcome to the Neighbourhood

Friends of my MIL moved in a few streets away recently, so I made them this card to welcome them. Though the stamp set is an oldie, it's a favourite of mine. Oh, and I added crystal effects to the windows and made the house in the middle pop, I masked the outer houses and used Shimmer Paint - a new love of mine. Cheers, Donna Card Recipe Stamp Sets: Right at Home (retired) Card Stock: Sahara Sand, Basic Black, Whisper White Ink: Shara Sand, StazOnBlack, Real Red Marker, Basic Black Marker, Soft Suede Other: Real Red Satin Ribbon, Scallop Circle Punch, Decorative Label Punch, Aqua Painter, Dimensionals, Snail Adhesive

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The Post-Holiday Job Search

Now that the holidays are in your wake, take into consideration that the early part of the year isn’t quite business as usual. Understanding this will let you make appropriate adjustments and use your time wisely. Here are some thoughts to help you get your search back on track:

1. Reestablish your routine. Even the most dedicated job-seeker saw his or her carefully plotted search plan rendered moot around the middle of December. Some, recognizing the inevitability of this, opted to visit family or friends with the idea of starting anew in January. Many, however, made no such conscious choice and found that their search ground to a halt amid unanswered e-mail and un-returned phone calls.

Regardless of which camp you fall into, you may be finding it hard to get back to a routine that seemed largely meaningless for three weeks. But re-imposing discipline will not only ensure that you resume productive behavior but it also will prevent a slow drift into depression. So, start setting the alarm for a reasonable time again. Prepare a written schedule of your weekly activities, including to-do lists. And reclaim the space that you were using as your “office.” These basic tasks will help you recapture the mind-set you need when job-hunting.

2. Be patient. Once you’re back on your routine, you’ll be all fired up. So you’ll find it particularly frustrating to discover that your job-search network isn’t as responsive as it was prior to the holidays. This doesn’t mean that you’ve hit a roadblock. What it does indicate is that all the people that you rely upon for future employment are also laboring to reestablish their own routines, which they also lost control of weeks ago. Even those people who are desperate to hire in early January will still take a week or more to excavate the pile that has accumulated since mid-December. Until they do that, everything else is generally put on hold, including the hiring process — and answering your e-mail and returning your calls.

No matter how much you might like or need the process to move faster, nothing will return to a semblance of normality until mid-January. Remember this so you won’t panic when the world fails immediately to match your renewed enthusiasm.

3. Do other things. Networking may be difficult right now, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t be productive. Now is an excellent time to revisit your resume and other marketing materials to ensure that they’re current and reflect you in the best possible light. Think about this not just in relation to your written materials, but to how you present yourself overall. Are you eloquent about your accomplishments, pertinent skill sets, and potential contributions when speaking to perspective employers? If not, now is a good time to work on that so you can make the most of the upcoming opportunities. Practice — on your own or with someone else — until you have your patter down. Are your job-hunting clothes all set? It’s not a bad idea to make sure they still fit after the holidays.

Early January is also an ideal time to do research on industries, companies, and individuals that are crucial for your search. If you think you might be interested in an area where you haven’t previously worked, use this time to investigate it. Or if you have a big meeting later in the month, use this time to bone up on the industry, the company, and the people you’ll be talking to. Make sure that you use this time wisely so you’ll be fully prepared when the working world reengages and turns its thoughts to new hires.

4. Be optimistic. The old year is gone — and so is the fiscal 12-month period. Many companies that didn’t have the budget to hire last year now have the funds to do so. In fact, there’s often pent-up demand owing to the fact that managers who were eager to hire four to five months ago now have the resources they lacked. On top of that, the New Year brings a sense of renewal and optimism to many companies, which makes the first quarter a particularly good time to secure new employment. So even though you’re unemployed, you can feel cautiously optimistic about your professional future.

Land A Law Job by Volunteering

Are you currently in the hunt for a legal position? Consider volunteering. It could be just the ticket to a rewarding career. And it doesn’t even matter so much where you volunteer, as long as you show up with open mind and a good attitude. One study showed that volunteering increases your odds of getting a job by 27 percent.

Volunteering is not about earning brownie points or padding your resume. It’s about doing something for the sake of doing it – and because it’s the right thing to do.

“Volunteering allows you to try on different organizations, roles, issues, etc., without job-hopping,” according to Ideal Careers. “Of course, volunteering isn’t the same as being on staff, but it can expose you to the work of an organization in a deeper way than becoming a member, following it on Twitter, or even conducting an informational interview with an employee.”

And the best part: random acts of volunteerism can open doors to all sorts of new career opportunities. Read More or check out the many volunteer activities with the NC Bar Association. Here are some of them:

  • 4All Statewide Service Day
  • Law-Related Education Partners
  • Lawyer on the Line
  • NC Lawyers For Entrepreneurs Assistance Program (LEAP)
  • NC LEAP Inventor Assistance Program (Patent Law)
  • Veterans Pro Bono Network
  • Wills for Heroes

How to Transition from Law Firm Summer to 1st Year Associate

Guest Blog from Vault Law Blog – The expectations for law firm summer associates are very different than those for first year associates. Dan Grossbaum, a first year litigation associate at White & Case, answers some questions regarding the ramp-up period and how best to prepare when you start your career.

Is there anything students should do in law school or during the summer that would help with the transition to working as an associate?

One great way to get ahead of the curve is to take advantage of clinics at your law school. Clinics give you real-world hands-on experience and a good sense of what legal work entails. Depending on the clinic, you can get drafting experience, participate in interviews with clients or practice your oral advocacy skills.

As a summer associate, you should try out as many practices as your firm will allow. At White & Case, for example, you can split your summer between the Litigation and Corporate practices. Splitting the summer allowed me to experience a number of different practices and gave me a sense of how the practices differ. Based on that experience, I knew that Litigation was the right practice for me.

What are some of the best ways to meet and get to know other lawyers at the Firm? How approachable and globally minded are partners and senior associates, especially with questions about a project or assignment?

One of the easiest ways to get to know lawyers is to pop into someone’s office and introduce yourself. Whether you are interested in the type of work they do, or you have a question about one of your assignments, the partners and senior associates, are always willing to sit down and discuss it with you. Additionally, when you start, you are typically placed in an office setting with a lawyer with more experience than you have, usually a second-year associate. This makes the atmosphere more amenable when it comes to questions about projects/assignments.

When did you start to feel comfortable in your new position, and is there anything you could have done differently to make that happen sooner?

Coming from law school to a large law firm was an adjustment; having gone straight through from undergrad to law school, I had never worked in a law firm before I was a summer associate. One thing that made that adjustment easier was the informal mentors I ended up having. They were always there to give me advice and to teach me what it would take to be more comfortable in my new position. One thing I would encourage all junior associates to do is ask questions of the partners and associates they are working for.

Dan Grossbaum is a first year associate in White & Case’s Litigation group. He summered in the firm’s New York office in 2015 and graduated from NYU in 2016. Read more about his experience through Vault Law’s blog here.

New Attorneys Will Benefit from a Mentor

Passing the bar makes every new attorney think they are ready to hit the ground running and filing Supreme Court appeals their first year of practice. Whether you are starting your own solo practice or working for a big firm, make a conscious effort to find attorney(s) who are willing to mentor you as a new attorney. Good mentors are invaluable as you can bounce ideas off them and they can give you tips on how to overcome some common pitfalls a young attorney is sure to face.

But if you’re just starting out, you may be wondering just how you’re supposed to find a legal mentor. After all, legal mentors do not grow on trees. Here are three tips to find a mentor:
  1. Check in with the law school and former classmates. At no point in your life will you be surrounded by as many people involved in the legal field than when you were at law school. Check in with classmates who may have started a law practice, especially those who were a year or two above you. Also, you can ask law professors and your career advisor for suggestions. Alumni are often willing to work with other alumni.
  2. Contact your local bar association. Many bar associations have a section devoted to junior attorneys, and they may pair up juniors with more senior members. These sections are often split among practice areas, so you may be able to find a mentor directly in the area you work in. In North Carolina, membership in the Young Lawyers Division of the North Carolina Bar Association is open to all NCBA members who are under 36 years of age and all lawyers within their first three years of practice. Membership in the YLD is free and automatic upon membership in the NCBA.
  3. Approach someone you admire. At some point, you may read an article about a lawyer you aspired to be like. You should try calling or emailing that attorney. Everyone loves flattery, and even the busiest of attorneys may take some time out of their day to talk to their biggest fan. It doesn’t hurt to try, and the worst that can happen is that the person you approach says “no” or ignores you.
There are viable legal mentors everywhere. You just have to take the initiative to find one. If you need any assistance in how to start searching for a mentor, contact your career advisor today and they will help point you in the right direction.

Can Blogging Boost Your Legal Career?

There’s no better way for a law student to network with leading lawyers, alums and potential employers than blogging (also called ‘blawgging’ when referencing legal blogs). In addition, there’s no better way for a law student to demonstrate their passion for and desire to get into a niche area of the law than blogging.  Writing frequently helps to improve your expression, and the blog format means you learn to explain things in a clearer, more concise manner. Being able to explain something simply and accurately is the best way to be certain you and others understand it.

Then there are the career benefits. Blogging is particularly helpful if you are interested in a specific area of the law where opportunities are few and competition for particular positions can be somewhat intense. When you have no prior experience, all you can do is tell your prospective employer how interested you are in a particular practice area or legal niche. This typically involves saying, “Oh yes, I’m really interested in this area of the law,” and then worrying whether you sounded too enthusiastic or not enthusiastic enough when you said it.

Not sure how to get started on your legal blog? Read up on Sally Kane’s Ten Tips for how to create a successful legal blog. You’ll find advice on how to start, how to pick a topic, and how to engage your readers. Happy blogging!


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Administrative Assistant II

Post Date: 12/12/2017 Job ID: 10356259 Industry: IT Consulting
Performs a variety of administrative functions.
Schedules appointments, gives information to callers and by email.
Manages couriers.
Manages financial data imput & responds to finance requests.
Composes memos, transcribes notes, and researches and creates presentations. Generates reports, handles multiple projects, and prepares and monitors invoices and expense reports. May assist with compiling and developing the annual budget.
Requires a high school diploma with 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
Familiar with excel.
Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Works under general supervision. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager.

Preferred Skills, Education, Experience: Competent in microsoft office
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Pro-active attitude to working in a team

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Monday, February 1, 2010

Managing Life With Chronic Pain - Strategies and Coping from

Those of us with arthritis pain or other chronic conditions can always use a review of some of the techniques for managing pain. Here's a brief summary from I will mention a few of the tips here and you can click on the link to see their whole list.

Lifestyle changes can making living with ongoing pain more bearable and hopefully provide a lot of relief. The list starts with "Deep Breathing and Other Meditation" because relaxation eases pain. I would like to add that relaxation, meditating, using a mantra, or using breathing meditation, can be enhanced by using certain types of music in the background. I often go on the internet and search for meditation music, or any soft, beautiful music.

Music therapy for pain reducation can be part of one's daily lifestyle. Spiritual music, inspirational music, soft instrumentals, easy listening, all can be part of a holistic program, a daily lifestyle, to reduce pain levels.

2. Reduce stress because stress intensifies pain. WebMD recommends getting CD's with soothing music and guided imagery to help get relief from ongoing pain. Stress and anger can increase the body's sensitivity to pain.

3. Giving the body's endorphins, natural pain relievers, a boost by exercising is one of my favorite approaches. WebMD reminds us that exercise also strengthen muscles and prevents injuries, and helps keep weight down and blood sugar levels stable. My favorite exercise is swimming and any exercise in the pool. The buoyancy takes the weight off of sore joints and floating simply just feels good.

Eat a healthy diet and find ways to distract yourself from pain are a few more of my favorite tips from their list. To see the whole list click and visit their site at

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Depression in the Elderly

How To Tell If Your Care Recipient is Depressed – And What to Do

Living with depression is lonely, alienating and frustrating, and providing care to an elderly parent with depression often leads to feelings of depression within the caregiver. Depression rates among the elderly are high – 15 percent of Americans over the age of 65 are affected. Being able to identify depression within an elderly parent is imperative to caregiving. Learn how to lessen the effects of depression and obtain information about available support.

Depression within the elderly is highly treatable but often it is not identified because it is overshadowed by other medical conditions, physical ailments or dismissed as senility.  Depression can lead to dysfunction in every aspect of life. Almost 2/3 of people with depression do not receive the necessary treatment because they are unaware of the symptoms or fear the stigma of depression.

  • Identifying Depression: Elderly people often don’t identify sadness, irritability or anxiety. Instead they complain about physical symptoms like fatigue or pain. If an elderly adult is experiencing the following symptoms for a period of two weeks or longer, they may be suffering from depression: lost interest in activities they used to enjoy, fatigue, dramatic change in appetite, dramatic change in sleeping patterns, feelings of worthlessness, having unexplained aches or pains, or contemplating death or suicide.

◦     Depression is the leading cause of suicide. Men over the age of 80 are at the highest risk of suicide, if an elderly individual has become obsessed with death or suicide, call his or her doctor immediately.

  • Getting help for an Adult with Depression: If you suspect your care receiver is experiencing depression the first step is to get them a thorough medical evaluation. Since you are around your care receiver often, you are able to identify changes in their behavior and will be a great asset to their medical professional. Go with them to their appointment to express your concerns and call ahead to explain the situation. In order to receive coverage it is recommended the elderly individual see their primary care physician first who may then refer them to a specialist.
  • Dealing With Depression: Show your loved one how much you care for them. Depression makes individuals feel isolated and hopeless. Listen and sympathize. Read as much material on depression as you can, stress that depression is treatable and is not a sign of weakness – let them know they can get through this. It will also help to enlist the help of others who can reaffirm your statements like medical professionals, family members or friends. Knowing more about depression will help you cope as a caregiver and keep your expectations reasonable.
  • Manage Their Treatment: Make sure to report changes in behavior of the depressed individual to their medical professional. Medications typically take a month to a month and a half to produce the desired effects. Track the medications your loved one is taking, make appointments and report changes. Above all it is important to be understanding. People with depression need to be surrounded by love and reminded they are cared for. It is also important for you to create a support group for yourself so you are not tasked with the difficulty of caring for a depressed individual all alone. Taking on the care of a depressed elderly care recipient by yourself is a difficult task that may lead to your own depression, so don’t be bashful in insisting on help.
  • What Not To Do When Dealing With Depression: Depression is a medical condition, it is not symptomatic of weak character. Do not dismiss your loved one’s feelings or force them into socializing as this can increase their feelings of worthlessness. Do not play into their negative views or agree with them, reiterate depression can be treated. Caregivers need to express hope about the situation improving.

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