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James Trimble is sitting upstairs at a Market Square cafe on a recent Friday morning. He's wearing sneakers and a Patagonia pullover, with his ever-present iPhone nearby, and he looks like a lot of other young creative professionals in Knoxville. He spends his time like they do, too: a lot of phone calls and e-mail, meetings over coffee or happy hour, brainstorming sessions with his coworkers, occasional trips to Nashville for networking.
Except Trimble isn't a website designer or a media professional. For the last six years he has balanced a part-time job at the University of Tennessee with his role as the lead singer for the Dirty Guv'nahs, arguably Knoxville's biggest band.
In September, Trimble made what might be the biggest decision of his life so far: He and the other members of the band quit their day jobs to commit full-time to the band. Now the group's business responsibilities and creative output are their daily occupations.
"It's our job," Trimble says. "There's a lot involved—families, girlfriends, spouses. You can play a show in Atlanta in front of 250 people one month and come back three months later and it's 170. Then the next time it could be 350. And your living is made on how many people come to shows, because nobody's buying records. It's so temperamental. You can't play every city on a Friday night."
Amid the continuing decline of record sales, the ongoing tightening of commercial radio playlists, and the decade-long collapse of the major-label music industry, the Dirty Guv'nahs—Trimble, guitarists Michael Jenkins and Cozmo Holloway, keyboardist Chris Doody, bassist Justin Hoskins, and drummer Aaron Hoskins, ranging in age from 24 to 31—have survived. They have methodically built themselves a reliable paying audience across the Southeast without the benefit of a label or professional management. Aside from a booking agent, the band members handle their own business. Their success has come not just on the strength of their bluesy, swaggering brand of Southern rock 'n' roll and a reputation as tireless performers, but by having a sensible 21st-century business plan and sticking to it.
"One of the things I heard that I recently latched onto is, instead of thinking, 'What can I do to blow up and become the next Adele or Mumford and Sons?'—artists that get crazy popular but still get regarded as 'authentic'—focus on things you know you can do that will increase your crowds 20 percent next year," Trimble says. "What can you do to have 20 percent more people come out to your show? The Adeles and Mumfords didn't know they were going to be that big. They just created something that suddenly connected with a crapload of people."
The Dirty Guv'nahs have taken control of their own destiny, and made the most of it. Few local bands ever get to play the Bijou Theatre, quite possibly the crown jewel of Knoxville's concert venues. Even fewer get to play at the top of a bill there. This weekend, the Guv'nahs will headline a two-night stand at the Bijou—their second two-night performance there, and seventh and eighth headlining shows there overall. With a new album due this summer, the Guv'nahs seem poised to spread their massive local popularity even wider.
There's risk to the band's approach, though. If their plans don't come through, they'll have no one but themselves to blame.
The Dirty Guv'nahs began almost by accident. None of the six original members had ever been in a band before when, brought together by a mutual appreciation of the Rolling Stones, the Band, and the Allman Brothers, they started playing informal jam sessions together in late 2005.
Their inexperience showed—the band's first official gig in 2006 was scheduled a day in advance, and they held their first recording session in a basement studio.
By 2008, though, the band had settled into an upward groove—both creatively and in terms of local and regional popularity—that has remained almost uninterrupted ever since. They followed up their debut EP, Don't Need No Money (which the band now considers a demo, rather than an official release) with 2009's self-titled full-length and 2010's Youth Is in Our Blood. Each recording—the first in a basement studio in Seymour, the second in Athens, Ga., the third at Levon Helm's studio in Woodstock, N.Y.—represented a noticeable step forward in sound quality and professionalism.
With a regular regimen of shows around Knoxville and in Chattanooga, Nashville, and Atlanta, Trimble gained control over his rough-hewn, soulful howl, and the rest of the band found its footing as an ensemble. (The addition of Holloway on lead guitar in 2009, to replace founding member Mitch Stewart, was a bonus; though he is only 31 years old, the gifted Holloway was already a veteran of several touring Knoxville bands, including the R&B ensemble Dishwater Blonde.) On stage, they appear larger than life: Trimble's wild-man enthusiasm carries him across whatever stage he is on, Holloway fills the spotlight as lead guitarist, and the Hoskins brothers anchor the band's shuffling boogie rhythms. During the band's 2009 album-release show at the Square Room, a line of teenage girls sang along to every single song with the kind of swooning dedication usually associated with much bigger acts.
The Guv'nahs quickly developed a regional following and became one of Knoxville's most popular bands, graduating from Preservation Pub to Barley's and from there to the Square Room, the Bijou Theatre, Bonnaroo, and, last fall, a headlining show at the Tennessee Theatre, a rare accomplishment for a Knoxville band.
"That was a goal we had from a long time ago—we said we want to play the Tennessee Theatre one day," says guitarist/songwriter Michael Jenkins. "We grew up seeing shows there. To have the opportunity to play where all these amazing shows happened, to get that level—it's awesome."
The band expects its steady rise to continue this summer with the release of the Guv'nahs' as-yet-untitled third album, the bulk of which was recorded at two different Nashville studios in January and produced by Virginia singer/songwriter Ross Copperman.
"Nashville's just such a professional city," Jenkins says. "They do it all day. They know what things are supposed to sound like. We went in and took a lot less time than we were planning on because it was just moving so fast, and everything was so efficient. ... It was our first time working with a real producer. It's good to have an outside voice to say what's good and what's not. They really challenged us to play better and bring more life to the music. In terms of songs, I'd like to think this is a step in the songwriting, a next step in terms of thought and emotion and really realizing our songs connect with people and knowing that when you're writing, and the importance of it."
An important example of the band's grassroots popularity: Last fall, when they announced a $20,000 Kickstarter fund-raising campaign to pay for those recording sessions, fans pledged the full amount in three days. The Guv'nahs eventually raised more than $36,000 through Kickstarter to record and promote the new disc.
he new disc is an important—and potentially treacherous—next step for the Dirty Guv'nahs. So far the band's reputation rests mainly on its live performances, which is fitting for a group that makes essentially all of its money from touring. The first two albums are accomplished, especially considering the circumstances—small budgets, lack of studio experience, a young band still working to find its voice—but they pale in comparison to seeing the Guv'nahs' often-exhilarating live show.
As far back as 2009, around the release of The Dirty Guv'nahs, the band members regarded a full-time pursuit of music as a major goal. "We see this as the record that propels us to making music for a living," Hoskins said in a Metro Pulse interview then.
But the band's steady climb out of the Knoxville bar circuit may reach a plateau soon without something to boost them out of regional clubs and into bigger—and better-paying—venues. The old model—a hit radio single—no longer seems to apply, especially for traditional rock bands.
"It sounds kind of corny but at this point, all you have is fans," Trimble says. "That's all you have. We take almost all our cues, as far as trying to build, from the Avett Brothers and from My Morning Jacket, because of the way that they've built consistently."
The markers of success for those bands that the Guv'nahs hope to emulate—niche radio airplay, the kind of buzz that influential music websites and blogs can provide, and festival appearances—are often what separate part-time bar bands from career professional musicians. But without some kind of top-level recording to promote, none of those factors has much traction. Bloggers need MP3s to post, college radio stations need songs to add to their rotation, and publicists need albums to send to festival organizers. Live music is where bands make money, but albums sell bands to tastemakers and promoters, who in turn sell the band to fans.
The Guv'nahs' model—handling almost everything themselves, without the support of a label, publicist, or management—isn't unique now, but it is unusual. The band is an entirely grassroots organization aiming for long-term, big-league success on its own terms. When the Guv'nahs announced their Kickstarter campaign for the new album, Trimble wrote the following on the band's website:
Putting out an album to impact the music world on a National scale costs a TON of money. Many major record labels will spend at least $50,000 – $100,000 just on recording the album, and then an additional $50,000 to $1 Million on the promotion of the record. THE PROBLEM? If you go with a major record label then they own your record… that means that they make the business decisions for you and even determine much of your creative control musically. We've had serious interest from major record labels, but we want to do this our own way and live outside the walls of major record labels.
Because we want to make music for our fans… and only for our fans.
Trimble recognizes how the cycles of recording and touring now overlap in more complicated ways than they have in decades.
"You dream about getting bigger, having more fans, making enough money to make records that you dream about creating one day," he says. "One thing I think about all the time is making enough money to put on the shows that I dream about putting on, as far as production and lights, the things that make rock 'n' roll concerts really amazing."
To that end, the band deliberated on just what they want out of the upcoming disc before recording. They want to maintain the enthusiasm of their live shows without necessarily replicating a performance, a balance that required attention to both the songwriting and the studio sessions.
"We didn't go into this record trying to make a live-sounding record," Jenkins says. "We realize that the studio is a studio, it's an instrument in itself, I think. We want that energy in our recording just as much as there is in our show. But they're different experiences. I hope this album takes off more than our live shows. It's based solely on the songs.
"Everything needs to be tight—studio tight. It's a different level when you have the microscope on every beat. Live, you get the groove and it's natural. It doesn't matter if the kick and snare are pushing the guitars a little bit. It's how it was played that night. In the studio, everything has a microscope on it. At a show I might not be able to hear my guitar the entire night."
For all their road-warrior rep, though—and even though they quit their jobs in part to be able to tour—the Guv'nahs are disciplined about planning out-of-town shows. Unlike other young bands that play 200 shows a year, hitting every bar or club that will book them, the Guv'nahs play fewer shows, but try to take advantage of the ones they do play.
"We're closer to 100 shows a year," Trimble says. "That's a decision we made from the very beginning. We want to play good shows. That's been our model for the first five-and-a-half years—play good shows. Let's only play Atlanta twice a year if that means more people are going to come, and let's keep our part-time jobs. Let's play Knoxville twice, or three times a year. It would be easy to play here all the time, but then it wouldn't be special. You can plan for your shows and make them exciting to you, as opposed to 'Oh, we played this set in front of these same people just six weeks ago.' That's not that exciting for anybody."
There are other reasons for the band's approach to touring.
"We're looking to keep our families and relationships intact, and we've all agreed that around the 100-show mark is where that is possible," Trimble says. "Justin handles a lot of our booking, and he'll say, 'You know, this show could be good, but I could really see it hurting band morale.' Band morale is worth more than actual dollars a lot of times. We could play this show instead of that show, you'd make X more dollars at this one than that one, but band morale's going to be real low if we play that show. That's not the kind of thing we want to do.
"It comes down to, how much sleep are you going to get?"
There's no such thing as a typical day in the life of the Dirty Guv'nahs. Before their recent recording sessions in Nashville, the band rehearsed four times a week in preparation. After a recent nine-day, seven-show trek to Texas, practice was less of a priority. Trimble's daily routine can include e-mail and social media promotion, marketing for upcoming shows, pitching the band's music to industry insiders in Nashville, or reworking his vocals for the upcoming album with Jenkins.
"I honestly love the business side of it," Trimble says. "But it's hard. It's not easy at all. But I really love it—'We spent this amount of dollars on radio advertising this week and 75 more people came.' That's significant! That was worth it. ... There's blocks where we'll be gone for seven days and home for 10, gone for six, home for four. We're already planning out what we're going to be doing in those blocks when we're home. 'In this period of time, we've got to fulfill 576 Kickstarter orders'—which is going to take 80 hours, minimum. It's going to be a ton of work.
"Another week we're going to start brainstorming ideas for our next music video. The next time we're home—'Okay, well, who wants to go to Nashville for two days to set up meetings and get this album into people's hands?'"
The flurry of productivity over the last few months might seem like the culmination of a plan that started six years ago, when the band first formed. Every step of the Dirty Guv'nahs' career so far has been a forward one: bigger venues, better records, more fans. Only the departure of Stewart in 2009 threatened the group's momentum, but even that move ultimately turned out to the Guv'nahs' benefit—Holloway's experience and proficiency have anchored the band's increased professionalism.
But the band's rise hasn't been quite as calculated as it looks in retrospect.
"I don't think we've had a five-year plan," Justin Hoskins says. "When I think back, the difference is that five years ago, it was, 'Let's pack out the Preservation Pub.' It's a little bit different now. I don't think we had a grand plan; we were just focused on that next step. What's the next step? Setting yearly goals, and we've been lucky enough to meet all of our yearly goals. We're about to have our 2012 goals meeting. We'll see what we come up with."
Nevertheless, that focus and attention to detail have been central to the Dirty Guv'nahs' success so far. And the band's new full-time status affords Trimble and his bandmates even more time for both business and creativity—time that they expect to pay off soon.
"After the last five years of touring and finally being able to do this for a living since September, this is my job," Trimble says. "I think the big deal is, we're not writing songs in our free time anymore. I guess that's the big deal. We're writing songs for a living, and performing them."
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The Ministry of Labor is planning to unify the wages of domestic workers hired on a temporary basis, the Makkah daily reported. Deputy Minister of Labor Ziyad Al-Sayegh said the ministry will publicize a list of approved wages to be paid to different categories of workers.
He said the ministry will also publish a list of companies that offer such services and the commission they are entitled to.
Al-Sayegh noted that the ministry has taken this step to combat the black market for domestic workers, especially during Ramadan when domestic workers and companies supplying them exploit the increasing needs of families for domestic workers by inflating their fees.
He also explained that the ministry's "Ajeer" system is linked to recruitment companies and will allow the ministry to monitor the recruitment deals between the companies and their clients.
Al-Sayegh added that some companies have already begun their activities to provide the public with suitable domestic workers at reasonable fees.
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And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
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Who's resume is best? Khan vs Alexander
Alexander top 5 wins:
- Junior Witter, 36, 37-2-2 (19KO) - RTD 8 - Vacant WBC LWW title
- Juan Urango, 29, 21-2 (17KO) - TKO 8
- Marcos Maidana, 31-2 (28KO) - UD 10
- Lucas Matthysse, 28-1 (26KO) - SD 10 - IBF WW title
- Randall Bailey, 37, 43-7 (37KO) - UD 12
Khan top 5 wins:
Andreas Kotelnik, 31, 31-2-1 (13KO) - UD12 WBA LWW title
Paulie Malignaggi, 29, 27-3 (5KO) -TKO 11
Marcos Maidana, 27, 29-1 (27KO) - UD 12
Zab Judah, 33, 41-6 (28KO) - TKO5 IBF WW title
Dimitry Salita, 28, 30-0-1 (16KO) - TKO1
- I included wins for Alexander against Kotelnik and Matthysse in the consideration, though they were very disputed. Equally, I did not include Khan's disputed loss to Lamont Peterson.
Who's got the upper hand and why?
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I voted Khan, he has 0 disputed wins, some say the Maidana fight was close, which it was but I cant imagine it being scored for Marcos. I think you should have included Alexanders "win" over Kotelnik instead of Urango. That would have been 2 losses for him LOL
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You can probably cut it within a cunts hair of distance.
Alexander should have a couple of more L's on his record, and can sound like a velociraptor crying over a thumb-nail.
Khan can look like a world beater, then look like Bambi on oil slicked ice skates traveling uphill against the 108th 147 pounder in the world.
I'm trying to see a good fight out of this, but I just don't see it.
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Khan. I refuse to consider Kotelnik and Matthysse as wins for Alexander. He didn't win those fights. Take them away and obviously Khan has the better wins.
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Depending on who gets the upper hand in their fight, i could see 3 things happening. A clinch-fest, a great battle or a Khan crusing to an easy UD.
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Or Khan getting dropped on his ass.
Lets get one thing straight.
That is the whole nuts and berries of the whole thing, innit?
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I just don't see it happening. When is the last time Alexander dropped anyone? Urango? Of course, Khan's punch resistance is all but gone, but still.
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ughh.. im so sick of ppl crying over matthysse being robbed, he wasnt! they were both close fights that could have gon either way. in this case it went for alexander and thats 100% fair. he did lose to kotelnik though, also a close fight but kotelnik unlike matthysse did win enough rounds clearly to set himself apart as the better fighter.
im going with alexander whos fought ppl of all styles and taken fewer Ls than khan. one thing i look at is how would they have done against each others competition. clearly khan did better with kotelnik but i think it ends there for him. if he on the other hand fought the likes of bailey, matthysse or even witter and urango i think he would be knocked out every time.
they protected him from punchers his whole career, the only puncher he beat was the most crude one of all in maidana who he still looked terrible against. of course alexander outboxed maidana with relative ease.
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Lincang Featured Food:
Chicken Mashed Rice
Called Moniyaburao in Wa dialect, this special rice food is a great Wa dish for welcoming distinguished guests. Viewed both as a dish and a sort of staple food, it is softer than ordinary rice and drier than porridge. Two preparation methods – Hand Tearing Chicken Mashed Rice Method and Knife Chopping Chicken Mashed Rice Method are often applied. The two cooking method are very unique and have much in common. The newly harvested rice is stewed in a pot together with tender black bone chicken, many seasonings and vegetables like fennel leaves, green pepper, hot chili, Ahwa cilantro, shallot, garlic and mint are added to the rice. The ready mashed rice is bright in look and soft, sticky and smooth in taste
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The snails from the rice paddy are cleaner than those from a lake or pond. Before cooking, the living snails are kept in clean water for three or four days to let them give off their body refuse and sands. When cooked, the end of ea snail is removed so that the seasonings can penetrate. A variety of seasonings like ginger, green onion, pepper, garlic and chili are added to the snails and pickled bamboo shoot which are cooked together for about 10 minutes. This special dish stimulates the appetite and good for eating rice and drinking beer. It is a very common dish that can be found in any Thai community or restaurant.
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Boiler Chicken
The boiler chicken began popular as early as the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty in the south of Yunnan. Using such herb as Sanqi, tuber of elevated gastrodia, coriander and congcao etc. the dish is particularly famous for its great restorative power.
Pineapple Purple Rice
It is a unique Thai food. Firstly the purple sticky rice is dunked in fresh water for seven or eight hours and later mixed with minced pork. Then the mixed rice is steamed in a hollow pineapple. The rice is very delicious for it has absorbed the sweet taste and scent of its container – the hollow pineapple. Apart from its delicious tastes, the pineapple rice also nourishes the blood and profits the lungs.
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Moving on, I'm not sure where you got the impression that there were so many people with your same issue. It certainly isn't being discussed here, so it would be interesting to hear what has lead you to this impression.
I don't think anyone here knows what PATM is (people allergic to me) so it sounds like you're jumping in at the middle of a conversation that prevents us from knowing about any surrounding issues or experiences.
Not fully emptying your bladder is a very serious problem, and as this has persisted, combined with your reported issue involving painful ejaculation, certainly indicates it is time to visit a urologist (not your general doctor).
Nocturnal emissions are not uncommon nor are they something anyone typically needs to worry about, however the combination with pain is seriously concerning. There is no normal reason that you should ever experience pain during ejaculation, so it bears medical investigation.
Strange odors can be caused by a number of things from yeast infection (or other skin infection) to simply a poor diet (too much red meat and sugar).
Generally nocturnal emissions can be stopped if you masturbate regularly, as they are an expression of a system that is otherwise 'charged' and not being used. Certainly many if not most men don't continue to have nocturnal emissions if they ever had them at all, once they are sexually active, or if they masturbate with any regularity (which most men do). It's a completely natural mechanism.
I'm sorry to hear this is something that you were not able to discuss with your parents when it started several years ago, as they should have taken you to see a urologist at that time and prevented your discomfort and worry.
Please make an appointment to see a urologist. And also fill in more details if you are inclined so the whole of the situation is more clear. We can only evaluate things based on the information you share and can't guess at what else hasn't been included.
Generally when I think prostate, the first thing that comes to mind is age (40/50s). Is it possible that a young person could have prostate problems, like infections?
I have read that masturbation is good for prostate health. Can the prostate ever be over used?
Is there any connection between the prostate and digestive disorders?
The odor started out fecal at around the age of 15-16. It slowly began to change into more of a garbage like smell. Now it's a morph between barf and mildew. Showers do not help and it gets worse in public. Some people don't notice it at all or have been around me long enough to build immunity to it. Most people have reactions such as coughing, hacking, sniffling, sneezing. It seems to be localized to those that are directly behind me or within 5-10ft of me. As their reactions get worse it begins to spread around the room very rapidly.
Just imagine going to church on sunday and sitting smack in the middle of everything. The women behind you are coughing and snorting loudly. You hear them saying things like, "somebody smells," followed by "It's really bad." Now you are a disturbance in God's house. So you pray that he will have mercy on you for at least the remainder of service...but no. Oh, and then the best part. You have to stand up, turn around, and shake their hands. It's obvious that they want to ignore you so they don't have to shake your hand. You put your hand out and now they are grimacing. After church your brain is fried from all the signals coming in and you just want to forget the day ever happened. That is life with PATM. My life.
As far as the generalized issue here, the odor, I would immediately suggest seeing an acupuncturist. The smell you describe indicates a damp heat condition in the bladder/kidney energy system, which in turn could contribute to odd or burning sensations related to prostate or urinary function. Additional symptoms might include a swollen or pale tongue or a greasy-sticky tongue depending on other controlling factors. It may be exaggerated when you eat cold or raw foods or drink beer. Or if you eat a lot of greasy and spicy foods, this is a different assessment. Anyway, damp-heat, cold-damp, kidney xu, there are several ways this might go, but it's impossible to guess without an actual TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) assessment.
I don't think this is something that needs to have persisted more than a couple weeks while you get sorted out. Unfortunately westerners don't always recognize the simplicity of these dramatic symptoms. It may be as simple as a few acupuncture treatments, or you may be able to make adjustments with some herbal medicine. I would leave the decision to your acupuncturist or shiatsu therapist who completes a TCM assessment.
Originally I did not think your distinct symptoms were related, but it appears that they very well may be.
He did explain that digestive issues like constipation could lead to changes in urinary frequencies. I do have a burning sensation that originates from my anal area.
Also I am taking meds for acid reflux. My tongue is white in appearance towards the back of my mouth and I have noticed that I spit out mucus or something a lot. Why don't people know about this here?
So how exactly does acupuncture work or should I say believed to work?
I have never heard of shiatsu before, is that like the same thing as acupuncture?
Again thank you for replying! I look forward to finding out more from you.
You'll want to take the full course of antibiotics now that you started them, but be sure to take some probiotics for a month afterwards to recover from the damage they do.
No, I personally think the ultrasound is a waste of time, except to determine whether you have urine retention or not.
You keep adding new information like acid reflux and burning sensation. These play into your TCM diagnosis. They are all related. If you want a referral for a certified practitioner you can search at http://www.nccaom.org or http://www.aobta.org
The foul odor would be associated with damp heat I think (you're spot on). It can be true not only in urine but in feces and semen aswell. I feel like a chicken with its head cut off! Clueless.................
If only I knew someone that would understand all of this and take it seriously. There's only so many people I can turn to who will listen. As many doctors visits as I've made displaying the same symptoms, getting the same deer in headlights response it's a joke. I can't believe this!
Hopefully none of the info above is incorrect, if it is I'm sure you can correct me. Thanks!
Now do you understand my pain? This is PATM, or at least for me. Just imagine all the young people out there right now who have no clue. They do not understand what they could potentially be doing to harm themselves down the road. Most likely they will end up like me if they don't find somebody who can catch the symptoms.
A couple weeks will turn into a couple years really fast. Before you know it you're watching your life through a window and it's all gone. Dreams are gone. Friends are lost. Every day is painful. You are never really there, even if you wanted to be. Living with it would crush anybody. If there are people out there like me, this should be an eye opener.
How would excessive sexual activity affect the body? Someone addicted to going solo would make themselves ill?
Doctors will always say it's normal to masturbate, In fact it's healthy, everybody does it. Then they tell you things like masturbation is good for prostate health. Whether this is theory or fact...what I take from all this is, it may be good for one area of the body and bad for the other. You just never hear about the bad.
In this day and age we are too casual about sexuality. It's accepted, you see it everywhere. I just saw a commercial for a pilot on tv and these guys talked about banging someone on a couch. One of the punchlines is horney guys. Seriously, this is where sitcoms are going?!?!
Anyways, I'm going to continue to use this post for as long as I have to. Hope you will stick around. Thanks for all your knowledge and support!
In general, your body uses the energy from food (Gu), and from breathing (Kong), and gathers them together into energy you can use on a daily basis to live your life. When you are exhausted, you start tapping into your reserve of Jing. You can replenish the energy you get from food and breathing, but you burn down your supply of original chi (Jing). If you've every played video games where you have a spaceship with a certain amount of structural integrity and you also have shields to protect your ship, think about the Gu & Kong chi as the power of your shields, and the Jing as the actual structure of your ship. You can always recharge your shields, but what wear and tear you do to the actual ship is permanent.
Because in TCM your ejaculations always consume Jing, not Gu or Kong chi, you always erode your storehouse with this act. And there is a recommended schedule of frequency (what you can "spare") of ejaculation based on your age, that will carry you to a "normal" lifespan.
To westerners this probably sounds like a bunch of hooey, and many men would certainly would react poorly to the suggestion that every time they ejaculate, they are taking a step closer to death. But, this is why in many Asian cultures the practices of martial arts including Tai Chi and Qi Gong are popular, because they help fill the body with daily-use chi that means they're not consuming Jing. The ancient man doing Tai Chi is ancient for a reason.
Yes, it's probably true that nearly everyone masturbates, unless they are psychologically punished for doing so. It feels good, and our hands reach. It's also true that frequency of sex decreases with age, and some of that is probably natural since we're not trying to reproduce, and the rest of it is fatigue. Libido is directly tied to the amount of excess energy your body has when it's done its daily work. If you're tired, you're not interested, and if you're not tired, you can choose what to put that extra energy into doing, such as sex.
One of the first questions for a doctor handling a patient with libido issues is or should be whether they are under physical or emotional stress that leaves them physically or mentally tired. If they burn the candle at both ends, their libido will be radically diminished. If they ignore the symptom of fatigue, they will age more quickly because they're then consuming Jing.
Anyway, there is nothing unnatural about casual sexual expression. Those ideas are culturally enforced and not based on anything real. What you don't want to have happen is that freely expressed sexual intent doesn't become abusive or controlling. Addictive and manipulative behavior is bad for people no matter what the rush comes from.
So, to answer your second paragraph, doing any activity that becomes an addiction is bad for you. Any activity that starts to interrupt the normal course of your day or causes you to make excuses is probably bad.
If you listen to your body, it will tell you when it's tired, and you should respect it and replenish its resources. If you ignore the signals and choose to deplete it further before you replenish, you will do yourself some harm whether it's regular wear and tear or something else.
After the steak dinner last night I surprisingly felt weak. Today, after eating two meals I had no energy. I'm still urinating ok and having bowel movements. It's like my body is not absorbing anything from the food or it's just working so hard to fight whatever this is I can't tell.
I wake up with a really dry mouth/throat and I can't drink enough water for it to go away. For the past couple days I've had a mild fever (taking advil helps). Most of this has been happening since before the antibiotics so I don't think it's from the meds (stopped taking for 2 days to see).
My parents would most definetly try to downplay all this and tell me to wait a few days to see how I feel. Then call the doc to go through all the mumbo jumbo of taking more meds, seeing another specialist, or more outpatient stuff. I'm personally sick and tired that nobody in my family knows what an EMERGENCY IS!!!!!!!!! 6 years. 6 years of shutting me up. Telling me what they want to hear, that I'm perfectly healthy, and I must be making it all up. I knew this day was coming. It's going to slap everyone in the face. OMG my kids in pain and why didn't I ever know about this?.......................................................................... Ugh, yea maybe because you didn't listen. In one ear and out the other. Are you kidding me?!?!?!
I apologize. This is a very difficult time for me. Thank you so much for everything. It's been a blessing it really has. I will take care of this. If I end up in the hospital for a few days my family will just have to deal with it. Whatever the outcome it's better than being in the ground.
The fever, lower back pain, additional stress from fatty foods, all sound similar to symptoms of gallstones.
I realize that your situation is complex and that each group of (new) symptoms you describe, by themselves, lead the reader to attribute them to a condition separate from the others.
Taking the whole kit in consideration, it may be something much simpler like food allergies that have gone undiagnosed and uncorrected until they have developed into a chronic inflammatory condition and your body's rejection of what it considers toxic food through your skin, causing a bad smell.
My suggestion is that you seek a good internist who is willing to investigate the myriad issues you have described here and manage all the different directions your descriptions lead, and draw them all together into a unified approach. You're certainly able to try addressing some symptoms, but until there is a professional managing your complex care, each specialist is going to have too narrow a focus to take in the whole picture and put together the pieces.
Your care is going to require a comprehensive interview since it has been developing and unmanaged for several years. Clearly each time we exchange information something new is introduced that changes the assessment. While you may have started in this forum because the most irritating issue was seemingly urologic, it does not appear to be the root cause, and that's hopefully what you really want to investigate. I'm not convinced you will get the help you need on this forum, as it's only lay-person advice, not medical help, but hopefully it will encourage you to take charge of your healthcare on your own and get a real hold on the big picture of what's going on in your body.
You need to pursue persistent care of a physician. This is not something you should be allowing to continue, or to be dismissed. And it is clearly not resolving on its own.
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The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad [2] (DDRA) Fellowship Program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of less-commonly-taught modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States.
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It was the green and the wrought-iron fences. It was the brick and light standards. It was the chairs emblazoned with the school logo. It was the paint and that massive new scoreboard at Williams-Brice Stadium.
It was the little things Lou Holtz raved about on Monday afternoon after touring the USC campus and its athletics facilities prior to speaking at the schools commencement exercises.
I spent two days in Alabama, and their facilities arent any better than what you have here, Holtz said. Ive never seen any better facilities from a recruiting (standpoint). I tell you, ESPN should come down and do a story on this. Im sure theyve got some pictures of what we were like in 99.
To see where it is now? Holtz added. You want to talk about a miracle.
The ESPN studio football analyst said Monday marked just the second time he had been to Columbia since he departed as football coach following the 2004 season.
Holtz was 33-37 in his six seasons with the Gamecocks. His tenure included consecutive Outback Bowl victories against Ohio State on the heels of what had been the nations longest losing streak.
Seeing what has become of USC in the years since his departure had Holtz recollecting the scene he walked into 13 years ago when he took the job as Gamecocks coach.
We had the longest losing streak in the country, and there were a lot of articles saying we should not be in the SEC because we cannot be competitive, Holtz said. I remember going to play Kentucky, and they said they should throw us out of the conference.
The improvement on the field is as great as the improvement off the field, he said. Its great to see South Carolina on top. Cant say enough, cant give Steve Spurrier enough credit for the tremendous job he has done. There are no fans who deserve it more.
Despite the rainy conditions on Monday, Holtz was thorough in his tour of the school grounds. He visited briefly with Spurrier at the stadium, where he viewed the numerous stadium upgrades since his time as coach. Then with athletics director Ray Tanner, he took in the renovated farmers market grounds, visited the new athletics offices and student-athlete center and did a walk-through of Carolina Stadium.
I look on everything as if I were a recruit coming on campus, Holtz said. Thats your mentality: How does a recruit perceive it?
What you perceive here is everything is first class now. They dont cut corners on anything.
Of all the facilities he visited, none seemed to impress him as much as the new parking area on the former farmers market grounds.
It used to look like a third-world country, Holtz said, laughing. Beautiful.
Holtz said the upgrades, in tandem with the inherent dedication of players and fans in the state, has USC positioned for continued success.
Theres a sense of pride here, he said. Theres a sense of pride in this university that I did not see in 1999 when I came here. Do you ever lose anybody to Clemson? I cant understand why you ever would.
This is also the only school Ive coached at in my entire life where I never had a football player want to leave, Holtz added. They may not like me, but they love South Carolina. I dont know if its Five Points I dont know what it is but they love to go here.
Holtz later received an honorary doctorate degree in education and delivered the commencement address to graduating students at Colonial Life Arena. In his 12-minute address (I dont know what Im going to do in 12 minutes, Holtz said before going on. It takes me 12 minutes to say grace.) he hit on five themes.
• Be excited.
• Make good choices.
• Do what is right.
• Do everything to the best of your ability.
• Always show people how much you genuinely care.
Other Holtz observations:
• On what he wanted to be when he grew up: I wanted to be a garbage collector because they only worked on Tuesdays.
• On his first stint at USC as an assistant coach under Marvin Bass: My wife was eight months pregnant when we moved here, and one month later Im reading the paper and it says Marvin Bass resigned. I said, I wonder if hes related to my coach.
• On his wife, Beth, being his best friend: A friend of mine asked me who my best friend was, and I said it was my wife. He said, No its your dog. Look, do this. Lock your wife and your dog in the trunk of your car and come back in an hour and see which one is happy to see you.
• On the best piece of advice his son Kevin received upon becoming a lawyer: If someone goes to jail, make sure its the client, not you.
• On the Outback Bowl: I think South Carolina will win the game. I dont think the Big Ten is very strong. I think that South Carolina is just an outstanding team in all areas. I just dont see Michigan matching up.
• On his own Outback Bowls: To beat Ohio State back-to-back, that was quite an accomplishment and I think it sort of let people know, hey, we can be good here at South Carolina.
• On quarterback Connor Shaw: I think hes an outstanding quarterback I wouldnt want to defend. He can run, he can pass, hes smart, hes a coachs son, he makes good decisions and also is very accurate.
• On Ray Tanner: When theres success in one sport it carries over to other sports. Rays success in baseball, but particularly winning two national championships and finishing second, that motivates all the sports to come together.


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ISTANBUL - Marking the start of the Turkey and Neighbours Hotel Investment Conference 2013, Hilton Worldwide today announced the addition of three new hotels to its Turkish pipeline, demonstrating the accelerating growth of the company's portfolio in Turkey and making it the first operator in the country that will surpass 10,000 rooms operating and under development.
The latest hotels to join the development pipeline are in Antakya, Istanbul Zeytinburnu and Corlu; complementing the company's most recent openings include DoubleTree by Hilton Istanbul Avcilar and DoubleTree by Hilton Kusadasi.
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Hilton Antakya will be located in an unrivalled position next to the Church of St Peter as part of a new site housing an archeological museum. A wealth of architectural and religious heritage makes Antakya one of Turkey's greatest cultural destinations. The new upscale Hilton Hotels & Resorts property is expected to open in early 2014, following the signing of a franchise agreement with ASF Otelcilik ve Turizm Isl. Tic. Ltd. Sti. With incredible vistas, Hilton Antakya will offer 200 guestrooms, three restaurant and bar options, a luxurious spa with indoor and outdoor swimming pools, as well as approximately 1,250 square metres of events space.
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Lastly, demonstrating the increasing popularity of value brand, Hampton by Hilton, the latest addition confirmed is Hampton by Hilton Istanbul Zeytinburnu, which is expected to open in early 2016. The hotel becomes the seventh Hampton by Hilton under development in Turkey and will occupy a prime location within close proximity to the old town, offering easy access to Ataturk Airport. The hotel will be managed by Hilton Worldwide on behalf of Behcetogullari Otomotiv Ticaret Ltd. Sti, and will include 164 guestrooms, a work zone and snack bar, as well as free internet access and hot breakfast included in the room rate.
Hilton Worldwide currently operates 24 hotels (nearly 6,000 guestrooms) in Turkey, across five brands. The company's development pipeline in Turkey stands at 21* hotels (more than 4,000 guestrooms), with expectations to open six further hotels by the end of 2013, including Hilton Istanbul Bomonti Hotel & Conference Center, DoubleTree by Hilton Malatya, Hilton Garden Inn Diyarbakir, Hampton by Hilton Kayasehir, Hampton by Hilton Samsun and Hampton by Hilton Gazientep.
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The meeting Monday evening, slated to begin at 8 p.m. but getting rolling closer to 8:45 p.m., was anything but boring—or short.
Over half-a-dozen big-ticket items were brought before the board, including but not limited to:
- appointing a new fiscal committee chair,
- slashing $90,000 from the Water Pollution Control Authority budget,
- shooting down the Stamford Lights project,
- overturning Citizen's United,
- and voting to accept the recommendations from the Charter Revision Commission.
- There was even at least one instance of birthday cake.
There will be more on those items in the coming days. The whole evening, however, was kicked off by giving his State of the City Address.
"We have made Stamford an even better place to live, an even better place to work," Pavia would declare at the end of the night. "We've made it more fiscally responsible, more financially sound. More prosperous. More environmentally sustainable and better positioned for the future."
A five-minute tour of the city via a 3D Google-built model with a voice-over by Pavia was shown to board members detailing various improvements and projects that had taken place over the last year. The video was put together by two Norwalk Community College students for a Google competition, at which they earned honorable mention, the mayor said.
Pavia detailed improvements via his five-point framework for what makes a city functioning and great.
- Fiscal responsibility
- Ensuring Government Accountability
- Quality of Life
- Prosperity
- Sustainability
Under fiscal responsibility, Pavia touted such achievements like the city's AA/AAA rating, one of only 13 cities in the United States to maintain such a rating, or its 98.6-percent tax collection rate. Citing the SNAP program, digitizing children's health records and making them available to medical professionals wherever they might be needed or increasing revenue from the WPCA by $1 million, Pavia displayed government accountability.
For quality-of-life issues, Pavia thanks the Stamford police and fire fighters for their constant vigilance protecting the city, making it the 14th safest city in America. Under prosperity, Pavia said Stamford had seen a $250 million increase in its Grand List, or total taxable property in the city. Without it, he said the Average Mill Rate increase would be approximately 30-percent higher.
Finally, Pavia declared Stamford's recreational treasures and top-notch programs like recycling the roots for solid sustainability. But he said there was one more principle he needed to add to the list. Civility.
The mayor announced a Civility Symposium for the fall.
"It's dramatic and it's something that is unique," Pavia said. "We will conveign a symposium on civility. This will bring together representatives from the worlds of business, education, entertainment, sports, media [and] politics."
Pavia cited Laura Linney, Fay Vincent, Bill Bratton, Allan Mallaley and Charlie Rose as guests already signed up to come speak.
After the presentation, Board of Representatives President and Deputy Mayor Randall Skigen said Pavia's math adds up and overall, he's satisfied with the improvements he's seen in the city over the last year.
"I think the numbers are pretty solid and I think the city's moving in the right direction," Skigen said. "Generally, I think we work very cooperatively with the mayor and when we have our disagreements, we have them. It's interesting he is planning this Civility Symposium because I think our board in particular works in an incredibly cooperative and civil fashion with the administration."
Pavia said he couldn't be happier with how things are going and it was in no small part due to every tiny facet of Stamford working in unison with every other part.
"In short, businesses and citizens, governments and non-profits, institutions and dedicated citizens, have all worked together to make Stamford the City that Cares and truly, One Great City."


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