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Ishar XI, Simula XI win ties in Eid-Diwali Milan Cricket
JAMMU, Oct 28: Ishar XI and Simula XI won their respective matches to move into the next round of the ongoing Eid-Diwali Milan Cricket Cup Tournament at MA Stadium, here today.
Earlier, in the first match of the day, Ishar drubbed Friends X1 by 71 runs in an easy contest. After winning the toss and batting first, Ishar XI set a decent target of 164 runs in the 20 overs game.
Sandeep remained top scorer with 67 runs coming off 53 balls including six boundaries , while Viswajeet Singh hit well made 37 runs off 28 deliveries including four boundaries and six. Sahil contributed 17 runs to the total. From Friends Club, Romario and Taffy were most successful bowlers, who shared two wickets each.
In reply, Friends XI managed just 92 runs when all their wickets fell in 16.5 overs , thereby lost the match by 71 runs. Justin and Rakul were the only batsmen who reached double figure mark with 33 and 11 runs in their respective accounts. For Ishar XI, Pavit and Vishu were the main bowlers who clinched three wickets each, while Amrit also claimed two and Sourav and Deepak shared apiece each. For his match winning knock of 67 runs, Sandeep was adjudged man of the match.
Meanwhile, in another match of the day, Simula XI registered an easy 72 runs victory over Young Star XI. After winning the toss and batting first, Simula XI scored 188 runs in the stipulated 20 overs for the loss of five wickets.
Shashi was the top scorer with 90 runs scored coming off just 44 balls including 13 boundaries , while Irshad and Atul made 28 runs and 13 runs respectively. Abhimanue and Vikas shared two wickets each while Fazal claimed one wicket.
In reply, Young Star XI managed to score only 116 runs in the stipulated overs losing seven wickets in the process, thus lost the match by 72 runs. Abhimanue, Sahil and Arif Ali scored 18, 14 and 13 runs respectively. Hilal Rather and Vikram claimed two wickets each, while Mohit, Varun shared one wicket each. Shashi of Simula XI was adjudged man of the match for his brilliant knock of 90 runs.
This tournament is being organised by J&K Police and Simula Software. The today' s matches were officiated by Sadiq, Madan and Amit as umpires, while Sunny acted as scorer.
FIXTURE: JKP XI shall face Doordarshan XI in morning session while Ishar XI shall be playing against HPCC XI in afternoon session on November three.
News Updated at : Sunday, October 28, 2012
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Lawyer's $500K Private Study Leads to Ground Beef Recall
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Recalls of ground beef because of potential E. coli contamination ordinarily result from testing by the government, suppliers or retailers.
But when the WinCo supermarket chain announced a recall last week, it was a result of a private testing program run by a Washington state lawyer, reports the Seattle Times.
"I've spent about a half-million dollars on this project," says attorney Bill Marler. His firm has won more than $500 million in corporate settlements for clients sickened by food, the newspaper reports.
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Psychoanalysis is a form of psychotherapy that was developed in Vienna in the 1890s by Sigmund Freud. Freud believed that many mental health problems stemmed from unacceptable repressed unconscious desires and fantasies of a sexual nature.
Psychoanalysis is a long-term therapy that attempts to help the patient or client develop insight into deep-seated problems that are usually thought to stem from childhood. The therapist is called an analyst, and the patient is usually reclining on a couch while the analyst actually faces away from them. It is thought that the analyst must remain a blank slate (rather than a real person) so that the patient will "transfer" feelings that they have toward important people in their life onto the analyst. The analysis then consists of analysing this "transference." Psychoanalysis sessions can occur as often as daily, but the frequency is often less often than this. All analysts are required to go through their own personal analysis as a part of their training.
Psychoanalytically-oriented psychotherapies have develped over time that have their roots in psychoanalysis but resemble other forms of psychothherapy in many ways. In these "ingisht-oriented" approaches the patient or client and the therapist usually sit in chairs facing each other and meet once or twice a week.
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iPhone 5 Ads lack spark and the images are overly simulated
Take a look at these ads reposted by 9to5mac.
A few things:
- The images are simulated to an upsetting degree. The one entitled "cheese" has screen images that are totally out of sync with the hand gestures and scene that they are supposedly shooting.
- Like other recent ads these ones lack flavor and their attempt at comedy fall flat.
- Why are they pushing features that will certainly not be received well by everyone: i.e. the earpods. There is no way that they will fit everyone.
- RE: the physics ad. I appreciated more the iPad commercial when it claimed "technology is not enough". "When technology gets out of the way everything becomes more delightful even magical." see iPad 2 ad
- Ads that feature a celebrity are a distraction.
Attention to detail and taste. Apple please find it.


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Harmon Killebrew confirmed a vote for Santo at the end of this article: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070114/SPORTS03/701140365/1003/SPORTS.
Also in this article Bruce Sutter and his relationship with the Patterson boys (Corey and Ben Sutter played on the same team). Also read about Sandberg and the advice Sparky Anderson give to him as a manager: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070113/SPORTS14/701130370/1003/SPORTS.
Sparky was also quoted earlier as saying no manager has any effect on wins and losses, all they can do is put players on the field. He feels managers like LaRussa/Cox/Torre really do not account for the alledged 10 wins per year. He said the Cubs hired a good one in Pinella.
Former Chicago Cub/Cardinal catcher Mike Mahoney has signed to be a player/coach for the Iowa Cubs. At age 34 his (mostly AAA) career is probably over. He is a Des Moines native and owns a house here. His father was a hall of fame high school baseball coach and that's probably the path Mahoney takes.
It was also reported in our paper Barry Zito was in Iowa seeking the advice of Dan Gable, former Iowa wrestling coach and one of the greatest competitors on the planet. Zito is traveling the country talking to a few sport legends on how to consistently win over a long period of time. (I think we have a few who should do this.)
Lastly is Nate McLouth or Chris McDuffy really a choice as Phil Rogers suggests? Isn't this a step backward instead of forward?


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Get Scrooged from Down Under at The Acorn, Penzance
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AUSTRALIAN theatre company, Eagle's Nest will be performing the Dickens classic "A Christmas Carol" at The Acorn, Penzance on December 28. Probably the most popular of all Dickens works, it's a story that never grows stale in the telling.
Ebenezer Scrooge may be the greediest man in England. He has no charity or sympathy for anyone and takes great joy in avoiding social engagements. On Christmas Eve, Scrooge is haunted by a vision of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley. Marley warns that his greed will cause him nothing but misery in the afterlife, and that his salvation depends on heeding the lessons of three ghosts that will come his way. That night, as Scrooge ventures forth with the Ghosts of Christmas past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come, he begins to see that it's never too late to make a change.
This production is a stunning recreation of the readings with which Charles Dickens toured the world. Phil Zachariah (starring as Mr Dickens) and director James Adler (the founder of Eagle's Nest Theatre) have worked directly from the original prompt copy and eyewitness accounts to create a performance that truly channels the spirit of Dickens.
Don't be a Scrooge - reconnect with family and friends and fall in love with the original Christmas story as you've never experienced it before.
When you hear this familiar tale told as the great author himself would have wished – it is immediately clear why people flocked in their thousands to see it in Dickens' day and why this production has played to standing ovations and critical acclaim every year since 2003
After making his home at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre Dickens will take to the skies in an international tour set to perform in Europe, Asia, UK & New Zealand. Make this show part of your Christmas Tradition!.
"Four and a half star brilliance" (Herald Sun)
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Charles Dickens Performs A Christmas Carol will be at The Acorn Theatre, Penzance on Friday, December 28, at 8pm. Advance tickets £8.00 (concessions £6) available from from www.crbo.co.uk, tel: 01726 879500 or in person from Welcome to West Cornwall, next to Penzance train station, or The Visitor Information Centre, Guildhall, Street-an-Pol, St Ives.


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Developing A Social Media Identity
I've recently had new clients express both interest and anxiety about integrating social media with their website. They were concerned about not having enough new content from their website to post about on a regular basis. This is a legitimate concern, but your website's new content should not be the only driving factor in developing a social media identity.
It's all about community
You should definitely use social media to promote new blog posts, newsletters, webinars, etc. We recommend that you post at least two thousand words per month of expertise based content. You'll also want to announce recent work, new products/services, news, and company achievements. All of this content should live on your website, and you can use social media to drive visitors to those pages and vice versa. However, it can't be all about you. Do you really want to be that person at the party who only talks about themselves and their achievements?
Social media is all about building a community, and you need to be a contributing member to that community. It is important to remember that your community is not just existing and potential clients/customers. You'll need to engage with others in your industry including your competitors. Sign up for newsletters, blog digests, and updates from other industry experts. Follow or friend them on social networks. Comment on blog posts and respond to those who comment on yours. Join groups and participate in their discussions.
Become an industry resource
Post news and events related to your industry or industries you serve. Showing your expertise is not just about your writing or company achievements. Demonstrate that you are up-to-date on the latest technologies, trends, and news that affect these industries. Share quotes, articles, images, videos, and audio that you find interesting and insightful. Just be sure to give credit! The key is to become an industry resource. Potential clients are looking for expertise, and showing that you are a resource for others in your field is extremely effective.
You can also use social media to ask questions and start discussions. Our vice president, Chris Butler, uses LinkedIn and Twitter for research and to generate ideas for newsletters and blog posts. Below are examples of ways Newfangled uses social media to connect with our community.
Example of questions Chris Butler asked on LinkedIn about Twitter preferences. You should check out the answers he received. They may help with your approach to creating a social media identity.
A LinkedIn poll asking, "Which social network presents the most real value to your company?"
Social Media is great for starting and participating in discussions related to your industry. The above example is a group Newfangled founded on LinkedIn called Agency Web Development. It has 829 members now and continues to grow every day. We began by closely managing it and starting the conversations. Now it's almost completely self-sufficient.
A question Christopher Butler posted on Twitter while working on a Newsletter.
These are just some examples of ways to connect with your community using social media. This process also involves identifying the networks that offer the most interaction. We're all busy, so it doesn't make sense to spend a lot of time using tools that do not offer much egagement. While Twitter and LinkedIn are effective for us, you may find that focusing on Pinterest and Twitter makes more sense for you. If you podcast or offer audio content, check out Soundcloud.
Also, explore ways that you can integrate social media platforms. Twitter recently increased the number of content partners that are able to embed media and content into expanded tweets. For example, SoundCloud's HTML5 audio player now works in tweets that contain a SoundCloud URL. Investigate social media management tools like Hootsuite, TweetDeck, and Seesmic that offer a single interface to manage multiple social networks. Any tool that can consolidate this process will be beneficial.
Great advice. I especially like the target of at least two thousand words per month of expertise based content. I set a goal myself of writing 500 words per day. That is easy now. The hard part is turning it into quality content that adds value to someone else's life.
Also thanks for starting the Agency Web Development group on LinkedIn. I have used it in the past for research as well!


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If the Super Bowl were a math problem, factor in the 12th man and divide by the tweets about Sherman
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Now that the Seahawks are going to the Super Bowl, I have a rare opportunity to demonstrate my nearly complete ignorance of the game — my idea of fun.
I say nearly, because there are facts that I have picked up about the game just naturally in the course of growing old. For instance, never actually play the game of American football because people will try to hurt you.
People talk endlessly about the strategy of the game and game plays, and I see diagrams of plays talked about and analyzed, and I can't make sense of any of them, which helps me understand how the rest of you feel when I show you a math equation I'm fond of.
I do know that the last and only other time the Seahawks went to a Super Bowl was an Extra Large, and they lost. I know (thanks, Internet!) Alex Rodriguez is not now and never has been a Seahawk. That means that, so far, I know the name of only one Seahawk, a guy named Richard Sherman I heard about last week. I know that he is something called a cornerback, which I'm guessing means he plays in the corner, in the back.
I know Mr. Sherman got shoved by an opposing player at the end of the last game and then had some angry words to say about it, for which he has been labeled a "thug." I find this hilarious. You should hear what comes out of my mouth when someone shoves me. Mr. Sherman was reserved and restrained by comparison. You're looking for a thug? Justin Bieber is a thug.
The whole kerfuffle about Sherman revolves around about 20 seconds of a postgame interview that simply wasn't the interview anyone expected. He was supposed to say stuff to the effect that he was very happy with the way the final play of the game went, 'cause he just stuck his fingers up in the air at a crucial moment, and he was looking forward to going to New Jersey and from there to Disneyland.
What interests me about this is the public's odd reaction to upset expectations and exactly where these expectations come from.
Some of the problem seems to stem from the fact that the man in question has an ego the size of a Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh. Hello, he's a football player. Tens of thousands of people show up to cheer him on, wear his jersey and ensure that he gets paid a fortune so they can brag up their city and stretch their own egos out to his limit. Why should he be the only humble man in a stadium full of 12th Man heroes? And, anyway, having a large ego doesn't qualify you to be a thug.
The problem can't be that he has a huge ego. How could he not? The problem has to be that he picked the wrong time and place to show it. He overstepped the bounds of his role. He acted out of turn. His behavior was inappropriate. He was indecorous.
How dare a man like him be indecorous? On our televisions, in front of our eyes and our children's eyes? It's inconceivable.
Quite simply, the problem is that the people reacting to Richard Sherman's behavior just don't know the proper words for what they are describing. Indecorous is not thuggish. Use the correct word.
And, while we're at it, those are not balls. Balls are round.
Exercises to propel us to the end zone:
What would Richard Sherman have to do in order to be decorous again? Would begging forgiveness of the manners police be sufficient?
Some people say that if Richard Sherman were white, his anger at being shoved would have been considered righteous, and he'd be admired for calling out the offending player without once swearing. In the manner of Sarah Palin, argue that such people are the real racists. Then, think long and hard about what you have done.
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This is perfect, because this allows you to play a few of your favorite tunes in the background as you read your e-book, while every now and then you might want to quickly go online and open up your browser to get some quick news without posing any other applications in the process. The best part is that you have the ability to have continuous video playback for 7.5 hours without the need to recharge your Kindle Fire HD 7 16 GB Review. Another nice feature of the Kindle Fire HD 7 16 GB Review is that it is very lightweight, as it weighs slightly over 400 grams only. Because of its 7 inch screen, you are able to enjoy movies while still easily carrying your tablet around, as it will not be too bulky.
While you are not able to get your hands on this great PC tablet at the moment, it is possible to pre-order it so that you can be one of the first to have it when it finally comes out on the market. However, before you decide to purchase the Kindle Fire HD 7 16 GB Review, take some time to do a little research on it beforehand, because while it does offer a lot of great features for those who are on a budget, it might not necessarily be for everyone. In most cases, you would generally by a 7 inch PC tablet to get quick entertainment while on the move, and so if you are looking for something a bit bigger, then this might not be the device for you. Reading e-books on the Kindle Fire HD 7 16 GB Review is also very enjoyable, because of the great built in application that allows you to magnify the text on your screen until your eyes feel that they can read that text without having to strain too much. When it comes to watching movies, you are able to watch it in widescreen view, thus ensuring that you get the maximum amount of entertainment. So, with the price tag that this device comes with, it is understandable why so many people will be standing in queue to buy one for themselves.


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#1 Alabama Crimson Tide
Coaching: There was no doubt among our panelists as to which program has the best coaching situation in the country going forward. "Nick Saban's 'process' is the envy of every other team in the country," says Schlabach. "As long as he's there, they're going to be at the very top." And our panel is betting that Saban will continue to be on the Crimson Tide's sideline the next three seasons. "I don't think he's at an age where he's looking to seek out a new challenge," Luginbill says of the 61-year-old Saban. "I think he wants to see if he can create, quite possibly, the greatest dynasty in the history of college football."
Current Talent: In addition to established stars like QB AJ McCarron, RB T.J. Yeldon, WR Amari Cooper, OT Cyrus Kouandjio, LB C.J. Mosley and FS Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, there is young talent ready to step in after them. RB Derrick Henry, WR Chris Black, FS Landon Collins and LB Ryan Anderson are among the guys to keep an eye on. As is tight end O.J. Howard. "If there's one position where they haven't had a true difference-maker since Saban has been there, it's at tight end," says Luginbill. "Howard could be that guy."
Recruiting: The anatomy of a perfect 10 rating: The Crimson Tide haven't finished outside the top three in ESPN's recruiting class rankings since 2007, and they're coming off back-to-back No. 1 classes. They currently own the No. 2 class for 2014 on the strength of highly ranked pocket passer David Cornwell's recent commitment.
Title Path: This was the only category in which the Tide slipped a little, a credit to the ultracompetitive SEC West. But as Alabama has shown in the past two seasons, it's possible for an SEC team to withstand a conference loss and still make it to the national championship game.
Program Power: As important as Saban is, our experts agree that Alabama's facilities, resources and institutional support contribute greatly to the program's success. "You have every resource at your disposal there to win long term. It's what separates them from everybody else," says Luginbill. "Everybody's heard the 'all-in' slogan when talking about college football programs. But when Alabama uses the phrase 'all-in,' they're not just talking about the football program; they're talking about the university as a whole. Whether you're the track coach or the assistant professor in the sociology wing, everybody there understands that when football drives the bus, everybody wins."
Most of the article is behind a paywall, but andthevalleyshook gives an overview of the full top 25 here:
1. Alabama (C - 10, CT - 9.8, R - 10, TP - 8.6, PP - 10) Total Score: 98.05
2. Ohio State (C - 9.4, CT - 8, R - 9.2, TP - 9.4, PP - 8.8) Total Score: 88.65
3. LSU (C - 8.2, CT - 8.2, R - 9.2, TP - 7.2, PP - 8.8) Total Score: 83.70
4. Florida (C - 7.2, CT - 8.2, R - 9.2, TP - 7.4, PP - 8.2) Total Score: 79.95
5. Michigan (C - 7.8, CT - 7.4, R - 8.8, TP - 7.6, PP - 8.4) Total Score: 79.40
6. Notre Dame (C - 8, CT - 6.8, R - 8.2, TP - 8.2, PP - 8.4) Total Score: 78.00
7. Florida State (C - 6.6, CT - 8, R - 9, TP - 8.6, PP - 7.8) Total Score: 77.85
8. Texas A&M (C - 7.8, CT - 7.4, R - 8.8, TP - 6, PP - 8.4) Total Score: 77.80
9. Georgia (C - 7, CT - 7.4, R - 8, TP - 7.4, PP - 8) Total Score: 75.00
10. Stanford (C - 8, CT - 6.8, R - 7.2, TP - 7.4, PP - 7.2) Total Score: 73.30 And the write-up for each team is in the comments on this thread.


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The quest for a limbless pet.4.37 / 5.00 7,751 Views
OMG DAILY FEATURE THX GUISE OH GOD, FRONTPAGE!? *dies*
EDIT: So I forgot to take note of how sensitive ng was to terms like "parody" and "tribute"...I guess this is more of a tribute towards Contra so ignore the so-called incorrect term of parody stuck onto the title screen. -.-
Entry for stickpage.com competition, I got 2nd place :D
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I'm never going to fail this game ever again.Anyway,good movie.
All that work and in the crazy jay dies so what was the pont of it all? anyway cool:D
up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right start, start :) epic movie
Epic It is like GAMER
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Pretty cool. Here are my thoughts.
1 I like the intro
2 The ending was pretty awesome too
3 Needs more Contra: No game over song, in Contra it has no melee. I don't remember the boss at the end in Contra


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Hook, Line and Sinker: Local Fishing Report and Photos for July 18, 2012
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In the surf catching some red & black drum, flounder, Virginia mullet, bluefish, croaker, stingrays, & sharks. On the piers catching a few Spanish mackerel, red & black drum, flounder, Virginia mullet, bluefish, croakers, stingrays, & sharks. In the waterways, bays, & river red & black drum, flounder, speckled & gray trout, bluefish, Virginia mullet, croakers, black bass, stingrays, & sharks. This past week was a beautiful week for fishing. The bite is picking up & should continue to get better. Keep fishing & stay safe.
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Fred Tolhurst with a 31" red caught and released while fishing with Andy Tolhurst on Sonny Days.
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How to become a (better) designer
Recently, I have been asked by a couple of people through different means - how to become a designer and make it your day job? For those who don't know, I was a full-time developer with a passion for good design and drawing a couple of years back and one day I have decided to go back to the roots and start doing design for living. Here are a couple of steps that I did to make the transition.
Step 1: Start doing it
You will never become anything if you don't start. For me, it was starting a side project, designing my blog, redesigning my blog, redesigning my blog once again, designing my logo, redesigning my logo… you get the drift. I spent most afternoons drawing, reading, improving, iterating and getting feedback from more senior designers. Fortunately, thanks to Twitter, Dribbble et al, it got stupidly easy to network with other designers and networking means feedback, feedback means improving and you're becoming a better designer one step at a time.
Step 2: Don't start with Photoshop
You've decided to become a designer, so you fire up Photoshop/Sketch/Fireworks/GIMP? Wrong. Start with the basics. Learn to see. Learn the principles. Learn what a grid is and how can it help you. Learn how to gather feedback and iterate on it. Learn how the typeface pairing works. Learn to draw. Whatever you choose, your "design" application of choice is probably the worst option. As a designer, you need to remember that it's only a tool that you use to do your job and tools change – principles don't. Ninety percent of good design is not about the pixels. At the end of this post I'll link to a couple of good books to get you started on the basics.
Step 3: Inspire yourself and ask questions
A lot of good design ideas are stolen. Well, not exactly stolen, but a lot of good ideas come from watching others and how they do their craft. Every time you see something that's well designed, dive into how it works, how did they do it and how can you do something similar. If you chose to become a web designer, don't be afraid to look at other fields of design and development - I got a great idea for a poster from colors that I saw on a vintage typewriter. I habitually look for color scheme inspiration for my next design in nature photography, interior design and industrial design. I study how websites are built and I try to learn how to build things that I liked.
Step 4: Work hard
Let's be honest, most of the things you will make now will be crap and you'll laugh at it in a year, but being a good designer is a lot like being a good woodworker - on top of all the theoretical knowledge, you need to go through a lot of designs to get better. Every time you make something, put it out there - whether you use Dribbble or show it to your friends, gather feedback. Remember that design is working for your potential user, not yourself. Learn to see, learn to gather and act upon feedback, learn to improve. Build and destroy, remove things until there's nothing left to remove, iterate. Sleep on it and try again tomorrow. Show it to friends, show it to your mom and show it to that nice guy with laptop next to you in a cafe. Try and fail.
Step 5: Get interested in related sciences
This one helped me a lot. After meeting a bunch of really cool people at one of the coolest Berlin startups, I got really interested in cognitive science and behavioral economics, so I started reading up on those. I learned a lot about how human brain works and this knowledge has impacted how I design, even though I'm mostly doing it subconsciously (as in: not looking through a psychology book before I start).
That's it. Hopefully this will help you become a better designer. Or a better developer. Or a better gardener. However this helps, I'll be glad to hear it helped, so you can ping me on Twitter
List of books that can help you get started:
Graphic design theory
- Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field
- Design Elements: Graphic Style Manual
- Universal Principles of Design
- Elements of Typographic Style
- Thinking with Type
- New Typography - Warning: make sure you keep the historic context in mind while reading this one.
User experience
- The Design of Everyday Things
- Seductive Interaction Design
- 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
- Designing for Emotion
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Creativity is considered by many to be the very essence of what makes us human. It has provided Homo sapiens with technological advances which have determined the emergence of human civilisations. Civilisations emerge and collapse, but the underlying driving mechanism, by analogy with mutations in genetically evolving adaptation, is that of human creativity. In particular, it has made possible the development of human technology, the advancement of theory and experimentation aimed at understanding the human thought process. Yet, perhaps ironically, the very nature of creativity remains to a large degree intractable and, to date, nearly inaccessible to the tools of exact sciences, including the field of neuroscience. I believe that it is legitimate to state that Homo sapiens does not yet understand Homo creativus. In effect, we have not been sufficiently creative to understand our own creativity. This topic welcomes contributions to defining creativity in a tractable way and yet respecting the established socio-psychological and philosophical view of creativity. I believe that the modern tools of information science, in part those developed for use in neuroscience research, may provide a possibility to cross the seemingly impenetrable barrier of the apparent intractability of the concept of creativity. Currently, the state of the art of the neuroscience of creativity reveals a highly fragmented field, perplexed by contradictory findings. In addition to difficulties in defining creativity as such, in the literature on neuroscience to date, there is a confusion of aesthetic and creative acts, and essentially no distinction between scientific and artistic creativity. The role of constraints on creative abilities is of paramount importance, e.g. if and how these abilities are altered in mental dysfunctions is, of course, of potential interest for this topic. Contributions are also welcome, which will address the specific role of consciousness of both the author of the creative act and the consumer of the creative product. Indeed, creativity would have little meaning if its perception were restricted to only the artist or scientist concerned. The nature of creativity remains a hard problem. The challenge set by this Research Topic is to answer the question of whether elucidating the neural mechanisms involved will shed light on the mystery of Homo creativus.
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An article in USA Today (December 12, 2012) about highway projects in New York has the sub-head, "Design errors, planning lapses drove up costs more than 14%." Among the things listed that "drove up costs" are
It's true that no one likes for costs to exceed estimates, but exceeding estimates is a very different thing than driving up costs. Those costs were accurate—it was the estimates that did not agree with later reality. Two of these items are mistakes, but the third is apparently a bit of information that was not known when the estimate was made. Had these mistakes not been made, and the excavation needs known in advance, the result would have been the same costs.
The same is true for estimates on your software projects.
On the other hand, the article describes other work where the state engineers "never did any quality control review that would allow them to stop and correct things instead of letting the contractors run up the cost." This is a real problem.
As projects progress, you learn things—or, at least, you should. You learn that some of your estimates were wrong. You learn there were things you...read more


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When I first heard Amare's comments about 'dirty Spurs', I thought it was good that he was speaking up. He was alerting the refs and others that something was happening. I thought Bowen would be more careful (remember my post about 'best behavior'?) and the officials would be more alert and call fouls on dirty plays.
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The officials punished Amare.
Bowen got away with just about everything short of murder.
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After 48 minutes of battle on the gridiron, the rivalry game between neighboring Alhambra (AHS) and College Park (CPHS) ended in a 41-41 tie. A tradition between the two schools, the game kicked-off the 2013 prep football season. After the Bulldogs raced-out to a 35-21 halftime lead, the Falcons staged a remarkable comeback which came down to an extra-point try.
AHS junior Ciozanne Foster broke through the block line and emerged in the Falcons backfield to get a hand on kicker Jason Johnsonbaugh's point-after attempt. The effort by Foster capped-off a truly remarkable varsity debut for the young man. The speedy back amassed 143 yards rushing (on 20 carries) and scored two touchdowns.
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Two-year starter Trevor Davis elected to transfer from the University of Hawaii. The native of Martinez selected the University of California-Berkeley. He will sit out this season and then, per NCAA transfer rules, have three years to play two.
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Davis shows good hands and the ability to make tough catches while being tightly covered. He also flashes some elusiveness in the open field as well as the wheels to be a deep threat. Two years of starting experience playing in Hawaii's spread offense should have him ready to compete for snaps in the Bear Raid after his transfer year.
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This is a local Filipino hardwood. I have asked many people what it is called and have had many different answers. Three of them have called it Green Hood. It is a little difficult to work as it is subject to chipping but I think the finish is really nice. It does not come through on the photos, but the color is green and yellow. When you look from a different angle, the color changes. It has a lacquer finish with beeswax. I did not put a drawer at the head board end, as that is wear the bedside tables will be. Thanks for looking.
-- George Coles, Antipolo, Philippines
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#1 posted 512 days ago
Gorgeous wood. Beautiful project.
-- Mother Nature created it, I just assemble it. - It's not ability that we often lack, but the patience to use our ability
#2 posted 512 days ago
Very nice bed and the wood is beautiful
-- Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#3 posted 512 days ago
Great looking build, very nice indeed. Doesn't matter what the wood is called, as long as you can get more of it, it's beautiful stuff. For difficult wood to work, you did a great job. Thanks for showing.
-- "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The point is to bring them the real facts." - Abraham Lincoln
#4 posted 512 days ago
that is a really nice, simple design, very well done.
#5 posted 512 days ago
I really, really like the look of this. Great work. Personally, the only change I'd make is to use some sort of recessed handle on the drawers—the ones that are on there look like a skinned heal or gouged toe just waiting to happen.
-- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
#6 posted 512 days ago
Thanks Garbonsi. I agree with you. As this was made for my daughter, she insisted on these handles. We brought them when travelling and she loves them. They are 120 mm under the bed some hopefully it is not my toes. Thanks.
-- George Coles, Antipolo, Philippines
#7 posted 512 days ago
looks really nice
#8 posted 512 days ago
Customer is always right, even if they aren't ?? I am envious of your wood choices. Nicely done.
-- Cau Haus Designs, Thomas J. Tieffenbacher
#9 posted 512 days ago
The bed looks great. The design is quite nice and the wood looks great. Whatever difficulties the wood posed you overcame them quite nicely.
-- Peter, Woodbridge, Ontario
#10 posted 512 days ago
Whatever that wood is, it looks great. And so does the bed!
-- Dean
#11 posted 512 days ago
Great wood, whatever it is! Love the design; I can't show my wife this one or she'll be bugging me to try and make a bed like it!
-- Sometimes the creative process requires foul language. -- Charles Neil
#12 posted 512 days ago
That an incredible project! The wood is very interesting. I am stunned with your striking skills.
-- "someone has to be wounded for others to be saved, someone has to sacrifice for others to feel happiness, someone has to die so others could live"
#13 posted 512 days ago
Beautiful wood, beautiful finish, beautiful design!
#14 posted 512 days ago
Hi George,
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However, districts that apply leadership, logic and common sense do exist in this country, and taxpayer money does not always have to be spent in a way that leaves people fuming.
The small district will have to absorb $2.1 million in state-aid cuts but is going to keep local property taxes at the same rate.
Numbers tell the tale
First, a bit about Lower Township versus Lake County, which are dramatically different in size but similar in other ways.
Some 54 percent of Lower Township's students qualify for free- and reduced-cost lunches. The figure is 45 percent for the Lake County Schools, which says that Lake is a slightly more affluent county.
Lower Township is having to reduce its general budget for the coming school year by 10.5 percent – from $29,041,133 to $25,977,937. Lake County likely will be in roughly the same shape percentage-wise.
Lake's general fund budget this year tops $296 million, and the Lake County property appraiser's office has warned that the district will get at least 10 percent less from property taxes in the coming year than it did this year. Local taxes make up 40 percent of the general fund, and much of the rest comes from the state. Legislators are still wrangling over how much schools will get.
In Lower Township, the superintendent of schools makes $160,000 annually, plus benefits, supervising the district of 1,912 students. Here, Superintendent Susan Moxley is paid $165,000 plus benefits for overseeing more than 42,000 students. Schools in the North typically are grouped in smaller districts rather than by county, which makes Florida's districts among the largest in the nation. And salaries are generally markedly higher in the Northern markets.
Moxley has said that she won't ask for a raise.
Giving back
Cirrinicione's plan?
Fire himself.
In a place that spent $15,000 per student versus Lake County's $7,200 per student, the superintendent choose to reduce his own salary rather than take something away from the kids.
He plans to return to work in November at $43,660 annually – the rate of pay for starting teachers in Lower Township – and no benefits. (Lake's starting teachers make just over $32,000.)
"We can save about $120,000 in salary and benefits by me cutting me," Cirrinicione told his elected board.
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Was just reading Sando's blog on ESPN and saw that Matt Ware has officially been put on the IR. With him out for the season Rashad Johnson will take his place.
We really haven't seen much of Johnson this season, which is to be expected. Ware was playing well and the Hunt eases our rookies in slowly throughout the course of the season. Luckily with two games against the lowly Lions and Rams and a potentially tough match up against the Packers who are most likely play off bound we will have the opportunity to see how Johnson fills in and to see how well he adapts to a major increase in playing time.
Honestly I am a little worried, but Johnson does have the athletic ability to get things done. Thoughts?
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All right, how's everyone's 2014 shaping up so far? Pretty good, right? Words flying out of you like a spastic colon? Excellent, excellent. Wait, you in the back, muttering under your breath, what was that? You're still in a post-holiday slump? Two weeks after the holidays have finished? Don't feel …
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- Author Dahlia Adler writes on her blog about red flags to watch for when you're pitching agents. By far the most helpful to me:
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- If the way they speak to you is unprofessional in other words, rude, and you're for some reason willing to put up with that from anyone, consider for a moment how they must talk to publishers. Sometimes it can be hard to know where to draw the line, especially if you're trying to get in the door. But if someone doesn't respect you from the start then why would they after you've already shown them that you'll put up with their bad behavior?


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The New York Knicks and Boston Celtics have a thing for playing close, physical games, and they certainly didn't buck that trend on Sunday afternoon. In front of a rowdy Boston crowd and a national television audience, the two teams traded big runs all game long and took an extra five minutes to solve a game that saw some big, big shots down the stretch. Ultimately, a legendary stat line from Rajon Rondo and some clutch makes from Paul Pierce got the Celtics into overtime and eventually earned them a 115-111 win.
The Knicks, as they always do, struggled to contain Rondo all day. Rondo struggled to score against New York's interior defense, but contributed in absolutely every other aspect of the game. His line of 18 points, 20 assists and 17 rebounds was his league-leading fourth triple-double of the season and the first game with at least 17 in all three categories since Magic Johnson did it in 1989. Rondo was also part of the force that shut down New York's Jeremy Lin, who was silent and sloppy aside from an individual (and incredibly important) five-point run in the fourth quarter.
While Rondo had a hand in nearly every Boston play, it was Paul Pierce who made the big plays down the stretch and got Boston into overtime. New York came back from a double-digit deficit in the fourth and turned to Carmelo Anthony for big shots. Anthony and Pierce traded baskets throughout the game's final two minutes, but Pierce drew last blood in regulation. After Steve Novak's free throws put the Knicks ahead three, Pierce drilled a fall-away three-pointer over Iman Shumpert to tie the game with five seconds left. Anthony failed to connect on the ensuing game-winning attempt.
The Knicks' effort, while inconsistent, was balanced. Anthony led the team with 25 points, but Amar'e Stoudemire chipped in a quiet 16 and Lin had 14 despite struggling. Novak and Shumpert each added in 14 off the bench. New York's real trouble was taking care of the ball. Lin and his backup, Baron Davis, each had six turnovers thanks to reckless, over-ambitious passing off the dribble. The team as a whole had 22 turnovers, including 14 in the first half, which was a big reason it failed to maintain its big lead in the second quarter.
Ultimately, it was another chapter in Boston's prolific recent history of beating New York with last-second heroics. Boston's win pushed the Celtics further ahead of New York in the standings. They now sit at 19-17 while the Knicks fell back below .500 to 18-19.
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MAYNARDVILLE (WATE) - An annual financial report of Union County by the state comptroller's office found flaws in the handling of school system funds.
Expenditures exceeded appropriations in five major categories of the general purpose school fund, according to Comptroller Justin Wilson's report on the year ended June 30, 2011.
Auditors broke down the overages as:
Those overages violate state statutes.
Auditors also say four years' worth of unpaid lunch charges weren't reimbursed to the school nutrition program.
A corrective action plan from November says the board of education will reimburse the school nutrition program $24,000.
The payments will be issued in four portions of $6,000, along with current student debts, by June 30 each year through 2014.
The report also says the school department didn't solicit competitive bids for computers and phone equipment for its new Paulette Elementary School.
A state statute requires competitive bids to be solicited through newspaper ads on all purchases estimated at more than $10,000.
The comptroller wrote to county Mayor Micheal Williams and county commission about the report on September 23.
It includes reviews of finances for the mayor's office and the highway superintendent's office.
Director of Schools Wayne Goforth was suspended without pay in a school board vote on October 19, and Marilyn Toppins was appointed as interim director of schools.
Toppins says Goforth remains on suspension, but he was granted his director's pay on November 21. She's a teacher being paid at her salary to serve as interim director.
The school board is scheduled to discuss the director's office at its meeting on January 12.
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JACKSON (AP) - A West Tennessee jail has implemented new policies in the wake of an inmate's suicide.
Madison County Sheriff David Woolfork told The Jackson Sun that deputies are now required to check on inmates who are on suicide watch every 10 to 15 minutes.
He says that's stricter than vague state guidelines that call for regular inmates to be checked on at least once an hour and suicidal inmates to be checked more frequently than that. It's also stricter than guidelines set out by the American Correctional Association, which recommends checking suicidal inmates every half hour.
The steps come after 24-year-old Jonathan Lee Carter hanged himself in a cell in December. Woolfork has said deputies didn't check on Carter often enough.
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Donations of new and handmade hats, mittens and scarves are welcome at store locations and at our studio. Items for children and adults are accepted.
Last year, 6000 items were collected. This year our goal is 10,000 donated items.
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Triple therapy with antihypertensives and NSAIDs linked to acute kidney injury
Triple therapy combination consisting of diuretics with ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers (ARBs) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is associated with an increased risk of acute kidney injury according to a UK study.
In a retrospective cohort study, researchers assessed whether double therapy consisting of a diuretic or an ACE inhibitor or an ARB with the addition of an NSAID, and triple therapy consisting of a diuretic plus an ACE inhibitor or an ARB in addition to an NSAID increased the risk of acute kidney injury. A total of 487 372 people using antihypertensive drugs between 1 January 1997 and 31 December 2008 were identified from the UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Reporting their finding in the British Medical Journal, the researchers say that during a mean follow-up of 5.9 years, 2215 cases of acute kidney injury were identified (incidence rate 7/10 000 person years). The researchers say, "Current use of a triple therapy combination was associated with an increased rate of acute kidney injury (rate ratio 1.31, 95% CI 1.12 to 1.53). In secondary analyses, the highest risk was observed in the first 30 days of use (rate ratio 1.82, 95% CI 1.35 to 2.46)". However, the double therapy combination was not associated with an increased rate of acute kidney injury.
The researchers say that, to their knowledge, it is the first large population-based study of patients using antihypertensive drugs to have investigated the association between the use of different combinations of antihypertensive drugs with NSAIDs on the risk of acute kidney injury. They suggest, "Increased vigilance may be warranted when diuretics and ACE inhibitors or ARBs are used concurrently with NSAIDs. In particular, major attention should be paid early in the course of treatment, and a more appropriate use and choice among the available anti-inflammatory or analgesic drugs could therefore be applied in clinical practice".
BMJ 2013;346:e8525
Impact of benzodiazepines on pneumonia
Benzodiazepines are associated with an increased risk of, and mortality from, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), suggesting further research is required into the immune safety profile of benzodiazepines, according to a study published in Thorax. Using data from The Health Improvement Network database, British researchers identified 29 697 controls and 4964 cases of CAP. They used conditional logistic regression to investigate the association between benzodiazepines and pneumonia occurrence, and Cox regression to determine the impact of benzodiazepines on mortality in the 4964 cases of CAP.
The researchers report, "Exposure to benzodiazepines was associated with an increased risk of pneumonia (OR 1.54, 95% CI 1.42 to 1.67). Individually, diazepam, lorazepam and temazepam, but not chlordiazepoxide, were associated with an increased incidence of CAP". They also found that, as a class, benzodiazepines were associated with increased 30-day (HR 1.22, 95% CI 1.06 to 1.39) and long-term mortality (HR 1.32, 95% CI 1.19 to 1.47) in patients with a prior diagnosis of CAP. Individually, diazepam, chlordiazepoxide, lorazepam and temazepam affected long-term mortality in these patients. The researchers add, "Given the widespread use of benzodiazepine drugs, further studies are required to evaluate their safety in the context of infection".
Thorax 2013;68:163–170.
Statin therapy and reduction in recurrent pulmonary embolism
A study carried out in the Netherlands suggests that statin treatment could decrease the risk of recurrent pulmonary embolism (PE) and might be an alternative to anticoagulant treatment in the long-term treatment of PE. Researchers identified patients hospitalised with an acute episode of PE between 1998 and 2008 by using data from a Dutch population-based registry of pharmacy records linked with hospital discharge records. Prescription-based use of statins and vitamin K antagonist (VKA) were identified starting at hospital discharge and during follow-up. The researchers used Cox regression analysis to assess the incidence of recurrences, cardiovascular events and death.
The median duration of VKA treatment after acute PE was 199 (45–3793) days. Twenty-four per cent of the patients (n=737) had at least one prescription of statins during the follow-up period and the median duration of statin therapy was 1557 (5–4055) days.
Reporting their findings in the European Heart Journal, the researchers say that during a median follow-up of 1529 (1–4155) days, 285 (9.2%) patients experienced a recurrence. Treatment with statins was associated with a reduced risk of recurrent PE (adjusted HR 0.50, 95% CI 0.36 to 0.70), both during and after stopping VKA treatment. A dose–response relationship was shown for potency, with the largest reduction in those with the most potent statins. The researchers add, "Statin treatment also reduced the risk for cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality".
Eur Heart J (2013) doi:10.1093/eurheartj/eht046.
Long-term aspirin use linked to age-related macular degeneration
Regular aspirin use is associated with an increased risk for developing neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD), according to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers analysed data from an Australian population-based cohort. Four examinations were carried out over a 15-year period with participants completing a detailed questionnaire at baseline assessing aspirin use, cardiovascular disease status and AMD risk factors. Retinal photographs were taken at each study visit to assess the incidence of neovascular (wet) AMD and geographic atrophy (dry AMD) according to the international AMD classification.
Of 2389 participants at baseline, 257 (10.8%) were regular users of aspirin and 63 developed neovascular AMD. The researchers report, "Persons who were regular aspirin users were more likely to have incident neovascular AMD: the 15-year cumulative incidence was 9.3% in users and 3.7% in non-users". They add that the association was independent of potential confounders such as cardiovascular disease, age, sex, smoking, systolic blood pressure and body mass index. A link was not, however, found between aspirin use and geographic atrophy. The researchers conclude, "Regular aspirin use is associated with increased risk of incident neovascular AMD, independent of a history of cardiovascular disease and smoking".
JAMA Intern Med 2013;173:258–64.
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Sabermetrician v fan, an internal battle
Moore recalls the Brewers Sabathia (doughnut?) fueled run to the playoffs and compares it to the current dilemma the Twins (and so more importantly the Mets also) face in weighing a potential deal for Lee. Personally, I think we still have holes, but with Beltran returning and the right combination of Tejada/Castillo/trade at 2B, Lee might make take us to the promised land. That said, I do NOT believe Jerry could and prefer our best minor leaguers stay put unless we can get someone under control longer than a couple of months. This re-brings up the issue addressed, so enjoy.


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Jan 15, 2012
Lunch at Pebble Beach
I confess. I am writing this posting in a qualia-induced haze. I have just returned from lunch at Pebble Beach, where I enjoyed a delicious lunch, a glass of wine, a perfectly clear sky and a gentle breeze to break through the humidity.
The deck of the Pebble Beach restaurant is the perfect place to relax on a hot day –above the north facing beach (exposed to the humidity laden Northerlies), under the wide veranda and overlooking Henning and Whitsunday Islands.
We started with a snack platter of Spanish style roasted almonds, home cured and dried beef biltong and marinated olives. Terribly more-ish.
I then had the world's best pork and apple sandwich, slow roasted pork, marinated beetroot, wholegrain mustard mayo and the perfect bread roll…it was even better that the pork roll I had at the Borough Market in London last year. It came with the terribly good hand-cut chips that they do so well.
My date had a lovely fresh vine-ripened tomato gazpacho with a few grilled Whitsunday prawns, mango and coriander. While we ate we watched boats go back and forth and a very impressive workup of fish in the channel that had me wanting to plan a fishing trip – now!
The finale to lunch was the sight of a dugong tail disappearing under the water just off the beach. Mermaid indeed!
My final confession is the need for a wee nap now.
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CATEGORIES Movies, Celebrity GossipWhile we don't know the date of Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux's wedding, we take a bit of comfort in knowing that Jen's mom doesn't either.
The "Wanderlust" actress is not inviting her mother, Nancy Dow, to her upcoming wedding, according to VH1's The Gossip Table. If the report is accurate, this will be the second time Aniston nixed her mama from the guest list. Dow was also denied an invite to Jen's 2000 wedding to Brad Pitt.
The "Friends" alum and her mom have been on the outs since 1996, after Dow gave a televised interview about the star.
VH1's Marianne Garvey reports (video below) that a friend of Theroux revealed the snub, and said it may not just be because the ladies are in an on-going feud.
"They are having a small, intimate wedding, and a lot of people have been left off, but Nancy's name is the first," Garvey said today (June 5) on the show.
Well, at least now we know our invitation didn't get lost in the mail.
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Anyone who thinks depression is all in one's head has never been depressed - or never realized it. Depression affects more than the mind - it has significant physical symptoms as well. Some of these were discussed in Part 1 of this series, Decreased Energy or Activity in Bipolar Depression. In this article we discuss the second group of symptoms listed in Red Flags to Depression.
Bipolar Depression: Physical Symptoms
- Unexplained Aches and Pains
One theory about why depression causes body aches is that depressed people are often:
- Physically stressed due to sleep deprivation (from insomnia); or
- Just as physically stressed, even though they are sleeping as much as or more than normal, because the sleep is not restful.
Unrestful sleep is a significant component of both chronic fatigue syndrome (also called myalgic encephalopathy) and fibromyalgia, two conditions characterized by moderate to severe body aches. It isn't surprising, therefore, that there is a close association between fibromyalgia and depression/anxiety.
In addition, depressed people often have higher than normal levels of the hormone cortisol, often known as the "stress hormone." Too much cortisol is often seen in patients with chronic pain, though a cause-and-effect relationship has not been established.
- Weight Loss or Gain
- Decreased or Increased Appetite
Loss of appetite is common with depression - but it's also common for depressed people to turn to food for solace. Thus, both weight loss and weight gain can be symptoms of a depressive episode.
One reason why people turn to food - and particularly fattening foods - when depressed is that carbohydrates raise the brain's level of serotonin, one of the neurotransmitters that are associated with depression when levels are too low. Also, an excess of cortisol is thought to cause the body to store fat inappropriately.
- Psychomotor Agitation or Retardation
Psychomotor agitation is an increase in activity caused by mental rather than physical tension. Typical behaviors seen with this symptom include pacing, wringing hands, finger- or foot-tapping, and other similar restless actions.
Psychomotor retardation refers to a slowing of both thought and physical activities. Regular tasks such as brushing teeth or eating may be performed in an unusually slow and/or deliberate manner.
Marano, Hara E. Stress and Eating. Psychology Today. 21 Nov 2003.
Psychomotor Agitation. GP Notebook.
O'Brien, EM, et al. Negative mood mediates the effect of poor sleep on pain among chronic pain patients. Clinical Journal of Pain. 2010 May;26(4):310-9.
Harvard Mental Health Newsletter. Depression and Pain. Harvard Health Publications. 2004 Sept.
Van Uum, SH, et al. Elevated content of cortisol in hair of patients with severe chronic pain: a novel biomarker for stress. Stress. 2008;11(6):483-8.


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Harlong Reece, a long time member of the Herndon Towne Square Singers, was honored by the Herndon Town Council Tuesday night.
Reece is stepping down as director of the Towne Square Singers after more than four years as director. He first joined the group 24 years ago and served as assistant director for 13 years. He has been a soloist in the group, has composed and arranged music, directed the group.
Members of the Towne Square Singers are volunteers who give much of their time to the community rehearsing and then performing.
The Herndon Towne Square Singers next performance will be the Winter Concert. Performances will take place on Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and on Dec. 2 at 2:30 p.m. at the Elden Street Players Industrial Strength Theatre.
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It's March. Still walking around humps of nasty grey snow. Tired of these boots. Can't bear to put that winter overcoat on again. The days are getting longer, but not fast enough.
We may not be able to shed our winter clothes or make the weather warm and sunny, but we can make springtime flowers happen in our homes right now. According to Jeb Taylor of , all you need is a pair of sharp pruning shears and a friendly neighbor with almost any kind of flowering shrub or tree.
Jeb is talking about "forcing" the flowers of dormant plants. When you cut branches from flowering trees or shrubs and bring them indoors, you are tricking them or "forcing" them to wake up from their dormant state and bloom ahead of time. Jeb explains that the very easiest to force — and probably most widely available — flowering shrub in our area is forsythia, but he points out that it's possible to force the blossoms of flowering quince, peach, crabapple, and many more varieties of shrubs and trees.
As a former American history teacher, I remember March as an especially dreary month, because it's the part of the semester when you are stuck in the last years of the nineteenth century with greedy robber barons, no real heroes, and depressing cycles of bank failures and foreclosures. And no vacation until April. Maybe that's why I started forcing forsythia blossoms.
We used to have a couple of scraggly forsythia bushes on the corner of our property where the school bus picked up the neighborhood kids. Each year when March came, we were so desperate for color that I would clip some forsythia branches to bring inside. That meant pruning the bushes gently — finding branches that were growing crosswise across other branches, or long single shoots that stuck out wildly from the bush like an elderly aunt's chin hairs. It meant clipping branches off at a length of two or three feet and soaking them in lukewarm water before arranging them in the giant green jug by the fireplace.
Using pruning shears makes it easy to do the clipping, but you can do the job with a sharp knife, too. Before you arrange the branches in a vase you want to rouse them from their dormant state and get their juices going. Some folks lay them in warm water in the bathtub -- the entire branches! -- overnight.
Jeb agreed that such extreme measures might in fact soften the buds and make it easier for them to open, but he pointed out that the most important goal is to move fluid up the stem to the blossoms. He showed me the diagonally shaved bases of the peach branches he was in the process of forcing.
The long diagonal cut provides the liquid access to a long stretch of the inside of the stem, including the core of the stem. It also assues that the bottoms of the branches will not be resting against the bottom of the vase, which would inhibit the flow of the vital juices.
It's best if you can find a place to put your branches that is light but not in direct sunlight, warm and moist (but not too hot – you are trying to imitate spring weather). If it's easy to set them in an unheated room or someplace cool at night, so much the better. Some websites advise adding a few drops of liquid bleach or the florists' kind of preservative to keep the water clean; Jeb says you get more blossoming going on if you change the water daily, or flush the water by holding the vase under a faucet.
It's very hard to fail at forcing forsythia (except maybe if the air is dry or too hot – then the buds fall off before they blossom). By mid-March we always had an array of yellow flowers covering each arching branch. The bonus was that leaves followed the flowers, roots formed at the lower ends of the branches, and each year we ended up with more rooted forsythia stems to plant out at the corner.
After a couple of years of more and more forsythia bushes there was less room for the kids to tromp on the lawn and make it all muddy as they waited for the bus. And each year the American history classes did finally move into the 20th century and the Progressive Era.
Some of the most popular flowers that are forced are actually "catkins;" pussy willows are a prime example. Pussy willow's soft, fuzzy grey buds that cry out to be stroked are the covering of the catkins. Pussy willows, among the very first signs of spring, have made their way into spring celebrations in several different cultures.
In China, the branches are sold in wet markets (markets where many different living things are sold) before the Lunar New Year. Once they are at home, all kinds of colorful (but mostly red) decorations are hung on them. The Cantonese name for pussy willows sounds similar to the word for money, so having pussy willows in your home invites prosperity for the new year.
In Eastern Europe, pussy willows often serve a similar function, acting as a kind of "Easter egg tree" for hanging delicately painted hand-blown Easter eggs.
Pussy willows and forsythia are among the easiest kinds of plants to force, because you don't have to wait long and you don't have to worry where the buds occur on the branch – the willow catkins or forsythia flowers are so abundant that they always look lovely. When you are working with branches from dogwood or fruit trees there are not as many blossoms, so you have to choose branches with enough fat round little buds in appropriate places so that you can make an indoor arrangement that shows off the flowers. (The not-so-fat buds are probably leaf buds rather than flower buds; if you are not sure you can dissect one and see.)
You have to have at least eight weeks of winter for the plants to fully enter into their dormant state before you start to force the blossoms (but by now we've had certainly had that many weeks of winter!). While pussy willow and forsythia can be cut as soon as eight weeks of winter are past, there are some other plants, such as redbud, cherry, and lilac, that should not be cut before March.
If you are not up to clipping and forcing your spring blossoms, you can just catch one of those milder March afternoons and take a walk by the Pond or in the Arboretum or in your own sweet JP neighborhood and check out the buds and catkins that are developing all on their own. Happy beginning of spring!


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Todd Amos caught a Waboba ball from a bounce 54 feet in distance.
Mamuka Kucia bounced a table tennis ball 300 times on the spine of his table tennis paddle.
Alejandro Z. bounced a table tennis ball against a wall 115 times while playing drums.
Mamuka Kucia completed 162 bounces of a table tennis ball on the handle base of a table tennis paddle while bouncing a table tennis ball on another paddle in his other hand.
Brian Pankey made 1,585 consecutive baseball bounces on the head of a
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AJ McCoy bounced a tennis ball 12 times while spinning himself 360 degrees between each bounce.
Audi T. completed 280 consecutive bounces while bounce juggling three basketballs.
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Peter C. completed 298 alternating under-the-leg and standard bounces using a ping pong and a paddle.
CoolJuggler juggled two balls on one hand for 20.62 seconds while bouncing two table tennis balls on a paddle and balancing on a rola bola.
Joel W. bounced a basketball 2,254 times while riding a Ripstick.
Vincent bounced a Waboba ball on water, achieving a total distance of 250 feet (3000 inches).
Patrick McHale bounced American quarters into shot glasses eight times in a row.
Justin Lister bounced a baseball on his left knee for 20.89 seconds.
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I can't help but laugh at the reaction fans give to the Bengals signing troubled players. It's a very Pavlovian process to me. Player is arrested and disgraced, has trouble finding work, signs with the Bengals, and the public goes ape shit. Then, five months later, troubled player does well, public forgets about troubled past and are just pleased that games are won. Then, player gets in trouble again, public goes ape shit and degrades the Bengals for signing troubled player.
When will we accept that the Bengals business model is to buy damaged goods and make the best of it? You're either on board with this or you aren't. Remember Cedric Benson? Tank Johnson? These men were marked with the "trouble" stamp too, but now are invaluable to the Bengals' success and, by all appearances, have become upstanding citizens who most of us would call good guys.
Never was this fan hypocrisy more prevalent than with the late Chris Henry. This youngster seemed impossibly brainless off the field; constantly resurfacing in criminal activity. Each time it happened, the whole world—even Henry's coach—renounced him as a Grade-A dirt bag and wanted no part of him anymore. Yet the only man that mattered to Slim's fate was undeterred by No. 15's irresponsible decision-making and gave him countless opportunities; that of course is Mike Brown. Once Henry suited up on Sunday we loved him—needed him. Once he broke his arm, then tragically died, the team was faced with a sizable hole in its offense and went to work replacing him with not only a hot-headed receiver, Antonio Bryant, but also a cocaine-possessing receiver, Matt Jones.
The trend is here to stay, even if you, the fans, aren't. That being said, why should Pac-Man Jones be any different? Of course he would land in Cincinnati; it's the natural progression of this kind of thing.
I agree that Pac's rap sheet is fairly harrowing. He is drawn to strip-clubs, feels he needs guns around him, and is prone to violent outbursts. He is the link between matches and gasoline. Without much knowledge of the man personally, I'd venture to say that he is a person who feels disrespected easily. We've all known these guys; they take everything anyone says or does very, very personally. Typically, they experience multiple setbacks based on this trait. That is why I feel it is only a matter of time before Mr. Jones' dark side strikes again.
But until then, he will play football, and will do so with stripes on his helmet. From a football standpoint, there isn't that much to get excited about. Considering he has missed more games than he's played in his career, he has really only posted one good season way back in 2006. He hasn't played in two years, wasn't necessarily eye-popping with Dallas before he blew it again, and the Bengals have four corners who are both better than Pac-Man and far more vital to the team's long-term success at the position. I'm shocked to find myself agreeing with the curmudgeonly Paul Daugherty on this issue, but I too would be surprised if he even makes the final cut. If that is to happen, Jones must wow the coaching staff in camp; it's certainly possible, but at this time, I'm calling it a long-shot.
The point is, if he does perform well this season, all the naysayers and grumblers who didn't like the idea will once more feel fine about the modus operandi the Bengals follow when filling out their roster. They are a small-market team maintained by an old miserly scrooge. He won't pay a lot for anything other than No. 9, so he takes his chances on high-risk investments and hopes for the best. I know it's a tough pill to swallow—we want good guys on our favorite team—but this hiring characters of dubious moral fiber is the way the Bengals stay competitive. It could be a case of the old saying "Nice guys finish last", who knows?
Mojokong—easy rule to live by: never go to a strip club for lunch.