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Executive function...where did it go?
Posted 11 April 2014 - 05:40 PM
However, I have a Masters degree in global economics, been a business owner, and an executive assistant to state political leaders....my inability to meet deadlines is uncharacteristic....and also scary. I hate to think procrastination and a lack of discipline are my "new normal".
It wd be convenient for me to blame my lack of executive function on PD or it's accompanying rx.
I do not want to accept that thinking. Yet, I struggle ....and struggle....to fulfill my obligations when it comes to business, paperwork, and in some cases, even responding to phone calls.
What do you all think? Cd it just be depression? Is it part of the aging process to welcome the easy chair and forego the necessary requirements of daily responsibilities? I literally can feel a weight...a fog like feeling ...come over my thinking...I get very tired..numb like ... after an hour of office work or "thinking." I find it difficult to face even the simplest of tasks ... Or to interact with people.
At my last appt I asked my neuro if I cd do some cognitive testing to establish a baseline ...and to address what I feel is a rapid deterioration of my mental processes. He said I shd wait...that I do not appear to have any problems.."now if you told me you frequently get lost or you cannot perform your routine tasks..." My husband actually laughed..I DO get lost..I CAN'T perform routine tasks !! I cannot follow recipes , find conversations on TV are too fast...which I related to the dr. He seemed to think I have no problems.. "U seem very intelligent...u have no problems now." (Other than I cannot communicate my frustration to my doctor.)
Have you...or do you...experience any of these things since your diagnosis? Can any of you relate? Did you find as PD advanced you cd feel a palpable decline in your thinking? what is the timeline u experienced?....Have you delegated your usual responsibilities to others? Have you developed tricks and tips to help with your challenges? Uhhhh, can you make yourself open the mail? or as in my case, even pick up the mail from the mail box?
I wd like to hear from you.
carbidopa/l dopa 50/200 5x daily
Normal DaT scan '13, normal MRI, '13 Dx'd w/l dopa challenge in office by MDS
Second DaT scan, 10/14, normal.
Symptoms: tremors rt & lft side, rt leg drag whn tired, balance, cognitive/ speech issues, apathy
Live, laugh, and be happy.
Posted 11 April 2014 - 06:01 PM
Hi New,
One of my fellow "phantom" experimenters had a similar issue. It was related to his PD. If you want to hear more about it, send me a private.
70 year old married Caucasian male. PD symptoms first expressed approximately 1995. First dx'ed with PD 2012. Cause of PD believed to be exposure to TCE 1964-1968
1200mg URSODIOL since 10/16/2013 to Halt PD's Progression [ It's still working!!! ]
1mg Azilect because it may slow down PD's Progression [ Doesn't seem to work for me ]
6 tabs 25/100 Sinemet to control PD's tremors
400mg Ibuprofen to relieve Back Ache, Nocturia and minimize RBD [ Don't know why, but it works ]
100mg Losartan for High Blood Pressure
5 mg Amlodipine for High Blood Pressure
1000mg Vitamin D3 because my wife thinks I should take it
* All medication are taken after meals, not by the clock, without experiencing any "downtime."
Posted 11 April 2014 - 06:54 PM
New normal:
Doing my best Bill Clinton impersonation "I Feel Your Pain"
I don't think its age, depression or necessarily a symptom of PD. I think it's the long term accumulation of just not feeling well, day after day after day. I think of it as the symptom of chronic crappy. My workday consists of a constant state of either tremor or dyskinesia punctuated by an alarm every 1 ½ hours reminding me to take my drugs—or it will get worse. Everything from talking on the phone to writing a memo is 10 times more difficult than it should be and that takes a lot out of me. I remember during my Navy cold weather training the instructor telling us "Doing something in the cold takes three times longer than it would in warm weather so plan accordingly" Fast forward to today and replace "In the cold" with "With Parkinson's" and replace "Three times longer" with "Ten times longer" and you have my 2014 reality. I've actually quit my job three times based on my lack of productivity; each time it only resulted with my Boss telling me that he is happy with my performance and talking me into sticking with it. I've resorted to a covert process of simplifying some of the things I do—so almost anybody could do them—and overtly training people who are willing to learn how to do the more complicated or difficult tasks. I figure I can't go wrong: If I'm still there a year from now the company will be better off due to all the cross training; on the other hand, if my Boss finds out: what's he gunna do, fire me? It's a win win situation and I get the satisfaction of knowing that my efforts will be paying off long after I'm gone. I've kind of adopted the attitude of doing what I can during the day—concerning work load—and focusing on my legacy. So, after all those words, I think I just said improvise, adapt and overcome.
So far, it's working for me.
Good luck
Improvise, Adapt and Overcome
Posted 11 April 2014 - 07:03 PM
I am having the same issue finishing my dissertation- I use to be able to push myself much harder until I finished. However, I did do my taxes well in advance. Maybe this change affects things that cause us stress but not everything that has a deadline?
Posted 11 April 2014 - 09:07 PM
My DH had apathy, fatigue, and struggled with the slowness of thought, he had to change the way he did things, adapting at each stage. We learned very early that stress was something that had to be avoided at all costs as it seemed to make everything worse. I would tell your neuro again that you want to be tested, need to be tested, in the long run it will be much better if you do have it done now.
Good luck!
Posted 12 April 2014 - 04:45 PM
I have these problems as well. I think, as others have stated, that it is a combination of apathy, depression, and "chronic crappy." (I love that!) I was having significant cognitive problems leading into the end of last year, but after being off of work for several weeks for surgery due to a compressed nerve I noticed that my fatigue lessened and the cognitive issues got much better. During that time period I had cognitive testing which showed no deficits. But about two weeks after returning to work the fatigue came back in full force and I'm once again starting to slowly deteriorate cognitively.
Currently age 42. Symptomatic at age 36. Diagnosed at age 39. Sinemet 25/100 mg 2-tabs every 4 hrs (800-1000mg levodopa daily); carbidopa/levodopa 50/200 mg CR at bedtime; entacapone 200 mg every 4 hrs; Amantadine 100 mg 3 times/dayy; gabapentin 200 mg 2 times/day; gabapentin 400 mg at bedtime; Klonopin 0.5 mg at bedtime; Seroquel 50 mg at bedtime; Effexor 75 mg daily; Vit-D3 5000 IU daily;Vit-B Complex daily; Melatonin 3 mg at bedtime
Posted 12 April 2014 - 05:47 PM
Hello New Normal,
I have done my taxes every year (similar background as you described) but was unable to get it done this year and filed for an extension yesterday. All of my financial duties have suffered because of apathy and slowness. I can add the same set of figures three times and get three different answers. I've never missed a bill payment or overdrawn my checking acct. until last year. It's a struggle to keep up but I'm trying - it just takes much more time. Best of luck and know that there is nothing unusual about your circumstances. Gardener
Gardener, female, 59, diagnosed at 55, 600 mg of Sinemet daily, 1 mg Azilect
Posted 20 April 2014 - 12:53 PM
Ken: "chronic crappy" is now part of my language as it so well describes my symptoms. Your post showed me you truly relate to what I was saying. "Improvise, adapt, and conquer " is now my mantra. Doing simple things is no longer simple...but not impossible. I have to lower the bar, but I do not need to throw the bar away. Thanx for sharing about your work...in our language you were sharing your grief of a time past ..and I can relate. Yet, you motivated me by sharing your method of coping...to be able to continue your work, albeit in a different fashion....and that is part of your legacy. My legacy is more important to me than anything...and you showed how one can walk thru the valley of crappiness with dignity and retention of your spirit...you are a hero.
Anniken: the very fact you have a dissertation project says so much about you...it requires such a degree of discipline to stay the course, when doing a dissertation...SELF discipline...amid the doom of chronic crappiness...wow, you among the others, pursuing the norm regardless of the present...you, too, are a hero.
Trying hard: YOU are a hero with a cape! To provide the care, support, and love alongside someone's journey thru this chronic crappiness is a marvel...YOU are what the scriptures talk about...you are service in the raw...with little reward, if any, you think outside your self...give your energy to others...even taking the time to comment in this thread, when your time is precious. Thank you for exemplifying all what we shd strive for..some of us talk the talk...people like you walk the walk..I am humbled to know you and the other care givers here in the forum... Thanx for yr post.
And gardener...we are very parallel ..I have seen your posts and your symptoms are much like what I experience.We all doubt our own analysis...especially us newbies...so it is valuable for us to hear the symptoms of others to determine their relevance to PD. It helps also to know what is ahead around the corner from you folks a bit further on the path...I appreciate your candor.
Yep, I am learning a lot about this condition...and seem to be deteriorating pretty quickly...the cognitive being the most scary. But, taxes? I now have until October...and in the whole scheme of things, are they worth the stress they have caused? You folks all have helped crystallize the reality facing me...improvise, adapt, and conquer.....and preserve my legacy.
Thanks everyone...
carbidopa/l dopa 50/200 5x daily
Normal DaT scan '13, normal MRI, '13 Dx'd w/l dopa challenge in office by MDS
Second DaT scan, 10/14, normal.
Symptoms: tremors rt & lft side, rt leg drag whn tired, balance, cognitive/ speech issues, apathy
Live, laugh, and be happy.
Posted 20 April 2014 - 06:36 PM
Thanks New Normal- I was having a particularly low week and your kind words of encouragement made me feel a bit better. Funny, your ID- New normal- are kind of the words that run through my head each day as I adjust to all that is changing, my new normal. I really miss my old normal though.
Just a thought- do you do your taxes by hand or have you tried something like Turbo Tax? I found it easy ( and I do the long form for deductions) and fast and a friend of min who is a CPA said most accountants use some computer program anyway. Plsu it is quaranteed and does not cost too much.
Edited by Annikin, 20 April 2014 - 06:40 PM.
Posted 20 April 2014 - 07:28 PM
"Taxes" is in a way just a metaphor for ALL the things I leave undone or cannot face in a timely manner. But, specifically, I am just trying to collate the tax info necessary to take to my accountant . In this last year, there were two deaths of family members for whom I was their power of attorney, I became an executor to two estates, I started a business, I have numerous deductions and depreciation schedules, I have inheritance, etc etc etc. I have seven different checking accounts....sigh....
At one time, this would not have been a challenge. I am accustomed to multi tasking, having several "irons in the fire" heating at once. I have been the "responsible" one to whom everyone turns when in trouble...and now, I cannot face paper. I have piles of paper on the floor in my office with info that was not entered into the computer, so organizing it all must be done manually...I have let a monster reside under my roof...and it is growing faster every day.
It is one thing to battle against my muscles tightening to the point of losing mobility in my arms...selling my motorcycle for lack of balance...but this cognitive thing has really been hard to manage. I can exercise to combat the rigidity....I can adopt new recreation outlets...but my very thinking???? How can my thinking change my thinking?????
Back to the reality of taxes..haha..IF I can get it finished a little at a time...then, I will never get into this situation again for I have learned I no longer have the ability to "cram" for any exam nor whip it together at the last minute. I really only have about two hours a day that is productive. My priority is exercise first, and second, being a companion to my husband...and whatever energy I have left I try to take care of what is necessary.
My new normal is one of limited focus, limited initiative, and extreme limited energy. SOOOOO, I am trying to adjust..but again, and I am not being flippant...how in the heck do I adjust my thinking when apathy and fatigue ...and pry depression.. take control?
That is why I appreciate the responses here..Ken , RN, Gardener are men and at the risk of sounding gender biased, I think it is harder for men to make this cognitive adjustment...not that they are less capable...the dynamics are just different...when I hear of their challenges and know THEY are succeeding in adapting and overcoming, it gives me hope...makes me want to stop whining and move on....
The PWP who are walking ahead on the path are very important to me and my journey...they are plugging along..and yet taking the time to give counsel to us newbies.
You and the others are good people...good people...who can still think of others and move out of a state of self absorption ...that is my goal. I want to be just like you guys when I grow up.
Thanks for posting. And, good luck on your dissertation. :)n(apologies for length)
carbidopa/l dopa 50/200 5x daily
Normal DaT scan '13, normal MRI, '13 Dx'd w/l dopa challenge in office by MDS
Second DaT scan, 10/14, normal.
Symptoms: tremors rt & lft side, rt leg drag whn tired, balance, cognitive/ speech issues, apathy
Live, laugh, and be happy.
Posted 20 April 2014 - 09:22 PM
New normal;
Hardly a hero with a cape, (just take my marriage vows very seriously) but thank you for that, it was very sweet. This is why you should get the testing done, because you may find out that it is not cognitive, that it's more the apathy, lack of motivation, etc. Once the testing is done you have answers, then you move forward. Take it a step at a time. You said it best; adapt, improvise, and conquer.
Hang in there.
Posted 21 April 2014 - 07:32 PM
I hear you New Normal- the "paper in the wrong place monster" is living under my roof. I use to be so organized and had so much more energy.
Posted 22 April 2014 - 12:54 AM
Yet, both of us, while we grieve for the past...at least we have had that experience..we know what we have done, now we will see what we can do when the rules change. I guess anyone can continue to accomplish with the winds at their back, but, Anniken, the winds have changed...we now are facing the head winds...and how we set our sail will determine our legacy.
We both have been blessed with success based on talents given to us...the cards dealt in the beginning of our lives....whether it be our Innate intelligence, life experience, unique mentoring...things not always provided to others.....and I know it was not easy for me, and doubt if it was easy for you...but we have proven our metal in one life...and we are now challenged to prove ourselves again in a new environment..a "new normal" every day...variables that are not predictable....a crap shoot...
Are we different from anyone else? No one is immune to tribulation...this is ours to face...and somehow, Anniken, as little as I have known you, I feel you are up to the task....actually, a part of me believes all PWP are chosen to face this trial for a distinct purpose...which will be revealed to each of us at some point.
I wish you well with your studies, and hope you continue to work toward your goals. PD will accompany you in your journey, but instead of distracting you, it just may prove to heighten your determination. I have always told my children that the process is more important than the product..HOW we accomplish speaks more loudly than WHAT we accomplish...
Thank you for posting...I feel a connection with you.....
carbidopa/l dopa 50/200 5x daily
Normal DaT scan '13, normal MRI, '13 Dx'd w/l dopa challenge in office by MDS
Second DaT scan, 10/14, normal.
Symptoms: tremors rt & lft side, rt leg drag whn tired, balance, cognitive/ speech issues, apathy
Live, laugh, and be happy.
Posted 22 April 2014 - 12:17 PM
New Normal…. I have similar experiences starting, and I do not like it. I am in the process of trying to figure out what is going on with me (I have not been diagnosed), however my primary Dr. wants me to have more thorough neuro work up than I did over a year ago, including cognitive testing (yikes!). My routine tasks are getting more difficult and more frustrating and tiring to manage; I'm making mistakes that I am not aware of until later, and that frightens me. I am a bit nervous about the cognitive testing, but I guess it gives a baseline where I am at this point in time, and some more info to send along to the MDS when I see her. Not sure I really want to know, but at the same time, I know something already, or am I making it all up? I
don't feel depressed. Just not "right".. as you say… what I used to feel, is different now. A "new normal", although I don't know what it is yet.
Posted 22 April 2014 - 05:17 PM
Awwww, that state of limbo when you know something is wrong, yet cannot define it, and doctors cannot diagnose it. Most people with neuro diagnoses have been there. For decades, I had "atypical" symptoms. Always perceived as over stress by physicians. Then. probable MS. Finally, a conclusive dx by a MDS of PD.
I think the limbo period is harder than the knowing. Limbo means a question of your credibility . You do not feel others believe you, and soon you cannot rely on yourself. Self doubt enters, and soon reality no longer has a name.
When I was finally diagnosed, there was a certain relief. Yet with a PD dx, comes such a broad spectrum of symptoms...treatment...theories...it is overwhelming. Finally, I have come to terms with it.
I hope the same for you. I wish you peace within you, and confidence in your own assessment. The truth will eventually come. So be patient. In the whole scheme of things, had I known a definite diagnosis a decade ago, I doubt if things would have been much different. Perhaps, worse in some ways.
I really have accepted that this journey will be what it is...the stress of wanting to control any part of it harms me more than the disease itself. Often we become so self absorbed that our symptoms that could be from a normal aging process seem to overtake us.
My intent is not to diminish your anxiety, but to instead make you aware that your insecurities and fear are real...we all have felt them....try to not let them own you. Try hard to deal only with the "knowns" and let the "unknowns" evolve on their own. Focus on the process...and dismiss the images of the outcomes...for the outcomes in any of these processes are totally different and unique to each individual Believe in yourself...and most of all, believe in your creator.
Good luck to you. Please continue to post and let us know how you r doing.
carbidopa/l dopa 50/200 5x daily
Normal DaT scan '13, normal MRI, '13 Dx'd w/l dopa challenge in office by MDS
Second DaT scan, 10/14, normal.
Symptoms: tremors rt & lft side, rt leg drag whn tired, balance, cognitive/ speech issues, apathy
Live, laugh, and be happy.
Posted 22 April 2014 - 08:10 PM
Awwww, that state of limbo when you know something is wrong, yet cannot define it, and doctors cannot diagnose it. Most people with neuro diagnoses have been there. For decades, I had "atypical" symptoms. Always perceived as over stress by physicians. Then. probable MS. Finally, a conclusive dx by a MDS of PD.
I think the limbo period is harder than the knowing. Limbo means a question of your credibility . You do not feel others believe you, and soon you cannot rely on yourself. Self doubt enters, and soon reality no longer has a name.
When I was finally diagnosed, there was a certain relief. Yet with a PD dx, comes such a broad spectrum of symptoms...treatment...theories...it is overwhelming. Finally, I have come to terms with it.
I hope the same for you. I wish you peace within you, and confidence in your own assessment. The truth will eventually come. So be patient. In the whole scheme of things, had I known a definite diagnosis a decade ago, I doubt if things would have been much different. Perhaps, worse in some ways.
I really have accepted that this journey will be what it is...the stress of wanting to control any part of it harms me more than the disease itself. Often we become so self absorbed that our symptoms that could be from a normal aging process seem to overtake us.
My intent is not to diminish your anxiety, but to instead make you aware that your insecurities and fear are real...we all have felt them....try to not let them own you. Try hard to deal only with the "knowns" and let the "unknowns" evolve on their own. Focus on the process...and dismiss the images of the outcomes...for the outcomes in any of these processes are totally different and unique to each individual Believe in yourself...and most of all, believe in your creator.
Good luck to you. Please continue to post and let us know how you r doing.
Thank you New Normal. Those are all very thoughtful words and things to think about, and I will… And yes, what you said about being in limbo and credibility, and self doubt, those things cause me more anxiety than the unknowns. But I am actually more calm about it all, and do believe in myself (although I am not a believer in a creator)… I am a strong person, honest, and of high integrity, endure many things in my life; thanks again for your words and advise.
Posted 22 April 2014 - 09:04 PM
New normal wrote: "...and most of all, believe in your creator".
You were doing great up to the next to last paragraph. Prayers to a 'grand creator' - what a fraud.
Posted 22 April 2014 - 09:17 PM
Consider this New normal:
The Myth of Redemptive Suffering
There are a great many real questions about the ethics of atheism. Foremost among them is, "If you don't believe in God or an afterlife, what is the meaning of suffering in this life?" I will always be pleased to answer that question, and my answer is that suffering has absolutely no positive meaning in an ethical sense. Since suffering, in nature and civilization, is an inevitable part of life, the manifold ways in which we respond certainly do have personal meaning for each of us and for those whose lives we touch. If a child has been brutalized by a parent and grows up to become a good parent, that is a moral triumph for the child--but it does not endow the original suffering with positive meaning or with any meaning. Good may emerge from evil, but evil and suffering are more likely to breed more evil and suffering.
The theodicy problem is the rock upon which all monotheism founders. How can the existence of an omnipotent, loving God be reconciled with the horrors he allows to be inflicted on his creations? Since there can be no material justification for the wounds and deaths inflicted by the lash, the crematorium, or impersonal forces such as earthquakes, the only possible answer for the monotheist is that suffering is necessary to build character--that we would all be worse human beings if we never had to worry about being whipped, herded into concentration camps, or swallowed by a fissure in the earth's crust. Christianity, of course, is based on the concept of redemptive suffering exemplified by the death of Jesus on the cross. For if suffering has no meaning, God is either a monster or a myth. To this, the atheist replies that God is indeed a myth. To the redemptive rationale for suffering, the atheist says no.
The distribution of suffering, like the distribution of good fortune, is unequal--and members of our species confront both in a wide variety of admirable and despicable ways. One man may inherit a million dollars and blow the money on gambling and drugs, while another may use his legacy to enrich not only his own life but the lives of others. The inheritance itself has no moral meaning. Nor does the cruelty or mercy of nature. Human-authored suffering has a moral meaning--an entirely negative one--attached to those who inflict it, but not to those who must bear it.
When I was a cub reporter for The Washington Post in 1965, I was, like all cub reporters in those days, assigned to night duty on the obituary desk. The theologian Paul Tillich died just a half hour before the paper's first edition closed at 10 p.m., so it was his indifferent fate (definitely not an act of God) to have his life summed up by a 20-year-old on deadline. I used a quote from his 1952 book, The Courage To Be, in which Tillich cites courage as the ultimate in Christian meaning--"Not the courage of the soldier, but the courage of the man who feels all the riddles and all the meaninglessness of life and is nevertheless able to say 'yes' to life." It occurred to me at the time that this was an even better definition of an atheist's ethical approach, and that is one reason why Tillich has often been called a Christian existentialist philosopher.
Atheists have only their own, ongoing concept of decent behavior to get them through the hard times: Suffering need have no cosmic meaning for a decent person to know that the only proper moral response is to try to ease the pain. We have no promise of an afterlife in which all tears will be wiped from our eyes, no hope that when our consciousness ceases, we will be resurrected as beings who will never suffer again. Our only ethical injunction is to cause as little suffering as possible and to try to alleviate it when and where we find it. That is a huge task in itself.
I am not suggesting that atheists are ethically superior to religious believers because our way through suffering is not eased by the hope that it all has a meaning, which will be revealed to us in the sweet by and by. Indeed, I think that facing up to the suffering that is a part of nature itself may be easier for an atheist because we do not have to reconcile the inconsistency between the evil before our eyes and faith in a loving god. A few years ago, I had dinner with a woman who had just attended a lecture of mine in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When her 12-year-old son died of leukemia, she joined a support group for parents who had lost their children to disease or violence, but she soon left because she was an atheist and so many of the other participants kept saying, "God must have a reason." Of course he must. Otherwise, why had their children died of cancer or been mowed down by a drunk driver? "For me," this grieving mother said, "the task was to reconcile myself to something for which there was no reason other than cells gone wild. I don't know how I could bear it if I thought that my son's death was part of a plan, because I would have to hate any god with such a 'plan'--and if I were consumed by hate, then I would know despair."
I recalled those words vividly a year later when my partner was stricken with Alzheimer's disease. What could be more meaningless than a neural catastrophe defined by the inexorable daily loss of all the competence and awareness and knowledge that you have acquired over a lifetime?
In reviewing the professional literature about dementia for a new book I am writing, I found a secular version of religious attempts to find a meaning in suffering in the writings of British psychologist Thomas M. Kitwood. In Kitwood's view, dementia is not an unmitigated disaster because the rest of us can all learn something from those who are losing their minds. In Dementia Reconsidered: The Person Comes First, Kitwood writes of the demented, "Reason is taken off the pedestal that is has occupied so unjustifiably; and for so long; we reclaim our nature as sentient social beings. Thus from what might have seemed the most unlikely quarter, there may emerge a well-spring of energy and compassion." In other words, my late partner's Alzheimer's had value because it could teach him, me, and his relatives more about compassion and lure us away from that idol, reason. This is just another version of the Christian premise that not only our own suffering but the suffering of others has value because it makes us better people. Moreover, the notion that reason is opposed to compassion is neither compassionate nor reasonable, whether expressed in religious or secular ideology. I know what my beloved would say if he were alive today, "Thank you, but I'll keep my working brain and you can find your inner caretaker in some other way."
I genuinely do not understand how anyone can fail to be repelled by the idea that the natural horror of a disease like Alzheimer's, or any other horror, is mitigated by the fact that it can (sometimes, but by no means always) elicit noble demonstrations of caring from others. If I believed that, I would truly know despair.
Posted 22 April 2014 - 11:29 PM
I had an epic fail in executive function today. I have a trust that pays for things that Medicaid won't pay for and that won't fit in my budget. I have to puree all my food and I had been borrowing my best friend's Vita-Mix for the past six months. It really got to be a pain because I don't drive and she kept having to bring it to me, then take it home again when her husband asked where it was. In March I bought one online. My sister runs the trust and she simply paid the entire bill. When I looked at it today, it had a charge for $528.95 from the J L Hubbard Coffee and Tea company. Well, I bought a box of 100 Earl Grey tea bags online in March for around $25-$30, and I thought they accidentally overcharged me $500. I called CHASE and they put in a dispute for me. My caregiver took me to my mother and dad's, then shopping and she said, "Remember you paid $500 for the blender?" So, when I got home, I called CHASE and they undid the disputed charge. The youngish sounding woman on the phone, who doesn't know I have PD, said, "It's OK, we all have those senior moments!" I hung up and thought, I won't be a senior until next year!!! It was a Parkie moment, not a senior moment!
I am not a human being trying to have a spiritual experience; I am a spiritual being having a (sometimes difficult) human experience.
Posted 23 April 2014 - 05:17 AM
I can so relate to your "system failure"....I have forgotten to put eggs in potato salad..signed a purchase agreement for real estate transaction and then called the realtor a few days later asking when I was going to sign a purchase agreement...I guess I cd blame it on "senior moments" ..... Just flat out admit I am a little "dingy" at times...or bemoan the fact I am losing my "executive functioning".... It really doesn't matter in the long haul.....it is what it is.
When I was younger, it seemed I knew a lot of "stupid" people....I would marvel that they always seemed very happy...they just did not get as upset with the world as much as I...politics or world economics were not a concern to them...things not under their control were seldom their concern...philosophical debates were not their gig, but they sure enjoyed a good laugh at themselves whenever possible....as I remember it was not vital for them to be "right" , nor did they feel they had to convince others to believe the same way they believed...they just never started a conversation for the sole purpose of changing another person's belief system...those "stupid" people just kinda let everyone have their own life, let others cook their steak the way they wanted, and never judged those who preferred hot dogs...yeah, those "stupid" people kinda lived and let others live....I don't even think they wd call themselves tolerant of others....pry didn't know what the word meant, ya think?
As I look around now, I don't see any "stupid" people anymore...don't have any idea where they went...other than for every day I live, for every burden I have added to my back pack, for every tribulation that I have conquered, it seems fewer and fewer "stupid" people are out there.
The longer I live, I am learning that those "stupid" people I perceived as a youth, were truly the wisest of us all....it has been a great acknowledgement on my part to learn from them that THEY have the secret to this experience on earth...THEY know how to find peace in their hearts, THEY know how to find good in all things, to love all people, to judge none, nor to condemn none...yep, lots of them have no letters behind their names to show advanced degrees of learning...heck, most have no titles, nor job descriptions that would impress many...most have not held office...or even been leaders of countries....they are just DANG good people who have figured out why they are here at this time, who they are, and what their purpose is.
I am definitely not the sharpest knife in the drawer...I am definitely one pickle short of a jar full....I KNOW my light is not as bright as my neighbor's and is dimming more and more each day...but if ONLY I can become more and more like those "stupid" people I knew in my youth, THEN I know I am headed for success in my lifetime.
PD or not, my goal now is to become more like my Savior....no accolades do I need, no following of like minded people, no more advanced degrees...no more "executive functioning".... Heck, I am content to leave this life being known as one heck of a nice person who laughed too loud at times, who loved each person without judgment, accepted all people for who they choose to be....and tried to magnify the few little gifts given to me...that's all that really matters to me....well, heck-fire....guess I really am getting closer to being "stupid".
carbidopa/l dopa 50/200 5x daily
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The Sicilian Language
The island of Sicily has always been a different entity compared to the rest of Italy. It is geographically closer to Africa than to Europe, culturally influenced by thousands of years of conquerors and linguistically distinct due in part to its tumultuous history. Today Sicily has been incorporated into the larger Italian culture thanks in part to better education and mass media but Sicilians still think of their island home first and Italy second. Part of this expression of Sicilian pride is the use of their own language when talking amongst themselves.
Sicilianu: Italian Dialect or Separate Language?
Often considered merely a dialect of Italian, Sicilian (Sicilianu) is in fact a separate language. Both modern Italian and Sicilian are based upon Vulgar Latin, the everyday speech of Ancient Rome. Linguistic experts put Sicilian in what is known as the Italiano meridionale-estremo language group along with the Greek influenced Calabrian dialects of Southern Italy. Further proof that Sicilian is indeed a language is the fact that is has at least eleven regional dialects. Some experts, such as Dr. Joseph F. Privitera even credit Sicilian as the first Romance language to split from Vulgar Latin. Although this is debatable, it is a fact that Sicilian differs enough from Italian to be regarded as a language and not a dialect.
The Sicilian Language: Brief History
Thousands of years ago the island of Sicily was occupied by the original Sicilians, the most well-known being the Siculi. These people spoke a language that has not been spoken for millennia, but some words (mainly local names for plants) still survive in modern Sicilian. Once the Phoenicians and later the Ancient Greeks arrived, the indigenous peoples and their language were eventually supplanted. Dialects of Greek were mainly spoken in Sicily until the arrival of the Romans after the First Punic War. It was then that Sicilian received a substantial Latin influence but Greek continued to be the main language for centuries.
With the fall of Rome and the conquests of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, Greek was further solidified as the Lingua Franca for most of Sicily. However a new layer would be added to the Sicilian language with the arrival of the Saracens from North Africa. The invasions did not stop there of course as the Normans, Hohenstaufens, Angevins and Aragonese all took turns ruling Sicily. While not every conqueror influenced the local language, most of the major occupiers have at least bequeathed a few words and phrases which have helped to make Sicilian so colorful.
The Sicilian Language: Outside Influences
Like every other aspect of Sicilian culture, thousands of years of domination by foreign powers have left its mark on the language. Italian is mostly founded upon a Latin base, whereas Sicilian has elements of Greek, Arabic, Catalan, French and Spanish as well as words derived from the ancient Siculi. All of these linguistic and cultural influences blended with the Latin of the Romans to create the unique character of Sicilian.
Here are a few examples of the foreign influence upon Sicilian:
Greek based words: Bucali (water pitcher), cirasa (cherry), naca (cradle), many Sicilian surnames (including the author's) are Greek in origin.
Arabic based words: Babbaluciu (snail), cassata (round bowl - now a name for a dessert), Marsala (Arabic for "port of God"), sceccu (donkey - derived from "Sheikh"), zaffarana (saffron).
French/Provencal/Lombard based words: Accattari (to buy), addumari (to light up), racina (grape), Lunniria, Martiria, Miercuri, Joviria, Venniri (Monday-Friday).
Spanish/Catalan based words: Addiu (goodbye), babbu (fool), balanza (scales), cascia (box), cca (here).
Of course, the latest and most prominent outside influence on Sicilian is modern Italian, which has donated a whole host of loan words and pronunciations. However Italian has also borrowed from Sicilian, especially when it comes to popular Sicilian foods like Arancini (fried rice balls). The current exchange of words between Sicilian and Italian has further blurred the lines between the two tongues and sadly, weakens the Sicilian as a language argument.
The Sicilian Language: Sicilian Today
No language remains static. They all adapt and evolve over time, adding words from outside influences and dropping antiquated words and pronunciations. Sicilian is no different and is becoming more similar to Italian by the adoption of loan words with every generation. However there is an increasing drive to preserve Sicilian by teaching it to schoolchildren and to rekindle Sicilian as a literary language. Italian may be the everyday language, but millions of Sicilians still speak their native tongue in the home and among friends.
Descendants of Sicilian immigrants are often disappointed when they discover that the language they grew up with is not spoken in Sicily today. Sicilian-Americans often try to use the words and phrases that their parents and grandparents taught them, only to be laughed at by native speakers. The problem is while an immigrant population maintains the speech pattern similar (but not exact) to what was spoken at their time of departure, the mother-tongue continues to evolve. These immigrants and their descendants are speaking Sicilian, but it is derived from a dialect of Sicilian spoken during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by what was mostly an illiterate peasantry. The Sicilian phrases heard in the "Little Italy" neighborhoods outside of Sicily are often linguistic time capsules, preserving a mode of speech that has not been heard on the Island for nearly a century.
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Joseph F. Privitera, Ph.D: Beginner's Sicilian. Hippocrene Books, New York, 2001
J.K. Bonner: Principal Differences among Sicilian Dialects. Published in Ianua, Revista Philologica Romanica vol.4, 2003. Online version: http://www.romaniaminor.net/ianua/ianua04/ianua04_04.pdf
Gordon, Raymond G., Jr, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. SIL International. Dallas, TX 2005. Online version
There are too many inaccuracies to count in this article.
Some important issues - in every region of modern Italy, there is a dialect, some of which barely resemble the modern language of the Florentines. These include the dialects of Naples, all of Piedmont and most of northern Italy, even Emilia-Romagna which is so nearby Florence, not to mention the the language of Sardegna, which actually is a different language.
'Sicilian' on the other hand is still very close to the vulgar Latin of the Romans, and incorporates many straight Latin words. Upon not so close analysis, one finds that the large majority of words in 'Sicilian' are nearly identical to modern 'Italian' but with
vowel changes to endings, for example. This is true all throughout the south of Italy.
While each region of Italy has it's own dialect, the dialect of Sicily is no more different to the Florentine language than that of the many other regions of Italy.
The conflux of Dante's language - modern Italian, or the dialect of Florence - which developed as the norm for modern Italians, and other non-Italian languages such as Greek, Etruscan, Arabic, French is just as rich and varied as the dialect of Sicily.
Words like, 'Arancini' are not Sicilian. This is a food specialty of the region, but 'Arancia' is simply 'orange in standard Italian. 'Zafferano' is an Italian word, not a Sicilian dialect word, and derived from the Arabic.
Also, the great majority of Sicilians have considered themselves first Italians, not regional Sicilians, and since the late 19th century.
Italians, in general, all throughout the country from the very north to Calabria are culturally very regional. All consider themselves from their region, and as Italians.
While many words in the Sicilian dialect are distortions of Provencal, also the language of Lombardy and other northern Italian dialects, as well as Greek and Arabic - as is true all throughout Italy, the large majority of words in the Sicilian dialect are strictly Italian and derived from the ancient Latin.
I am half-Sicilian, and I've been there four times, visiting cousins. In America, I took care of my Sicilian-born grandfather, who was born in 1892, but came to America in the early 20th century, so he spoke an even older, more vulgar Sicilian dialect than his great-grandchildren there today. I have learned several of these words, while I was taking care of my grandfather as a teenager, including words like "armali" (animale). The Sicilian language (or dialect) has also changed over the centuries, and while it is really not a "dialect of Italian", it IS an "Italian dialect", based on Latin, but with influences from several other languages, ie.Greek, French, Arabic, Spanish, and even Germanic. One such Sicilian word that came from German is "vastedda", or "guastedda", which is the name of a type of round bread, but because it resembles a "vessel", which in German is "vassal". A Sicilian word from French is "unni " (where), coming from the French "u", but also from the Spanish "donde", which is actually from the French "d'ond", and since Sicilian is sppoken with long vowels, the o becomes a "u", hence "unni", which in Italian is "dove", but all forms of pronouncing it stems from the French. So, in essence, all Italian "dialects" are basically more local pronunciations of the same words, but with other words coming from the nations that were once there. In the central Sicilian towns of Nicosia and Sperlinga, they speak dialects of Piemontese and Lombard, which have a lot of French in them, because these Northern Italians migrated to these Sicilian cities severeal centuries ago. In the Province of Palermo, is the "Valle di Albanese", which are people descended from Albanians who migrated there in the 15th century. Pockets of these Arberesh can also be found in Calabria, Campania and Puglia, where they still speak their Gheg language in small pockets. It's no different in far-Northern Italy, like Bolzano, where they speak a dialect of German to this day, as well as standard Italian. In Northeastern Italy, Trieste, they speak both a Slovakian dialect and Italian, while in Northwestern Italy, Piedmont, they speak a dialect with French words. In the Campagnia region, east of the Appenines, there are areas where the people speak a dialect known as "Faetar", which also has strong French influence, and in the far southern portion of the Italian "heel" of Puglia, they speak a languages called "Griko", as well as a dialect of Sicilian. This is also found in the region of Calabria, in the city of Bova. So, to determine these dialects as separate "languages" is really not accurate, because they are all based on Latin.So, these "Italian dialects" should really be called "dialects of Latin". Just my own personal observation, Pete
here there is an example of Sicilian Speech, by Mario Monti
Hi Justin - I just saw your article. As a child of migrants who left Sicily in the 1960's and came to live in Australia, what you said in your conclusion resonated greatly with me. When i went to Sicily for the first and (so far) only time I was told I was speaking the language of "Old Messina." I like your "time capsule" phrase. It is true.


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The opponents of GMOs are not alone in the misuse of the image of "escape." McHughen, in his manifesto against the regulation of biotechnology, claims that spatial isolation of fields in which transgenic crops are growing is utterly useless because the transgenes have already escaped onto roadsides and other fields through seed that is inevitably spilled from sacks, trucks, and machinery in the very process of transportation and planting. But this small amount of spilled seed is irrelevant. What is properly of concern is not the escape of a virulent infection, but that a constant rain of millions of pollen grains produced by hundreds of acres of a transgenic crop will over and over produce hybrids with weedy species at the margins of cultivated fields and eventually result in a new weedy form that will be unusually invasive or competitive.
Most of what is written about GMOs is quite parochial, concentrating on their effects in North America and Europe. While we expect nothing more from the National Research Council or from an indignant Canadian plant engineer, the general lack of interest in the effects of biotechnology on the third world seems in contradiction to the rather moralistic tone of the public discourse. Predictably, the most famous example of a piece of biotechnology that is supposed to be good for subsistence agricultures is cited by McHughen, but, unfortunately, it does not do the work intended. A serious problem of nutrition in some rice-producing regions, causing blindness, is a lack of vitamin A. A transgenic variety, Golden Rice, has been created with the promise that if it is ever cultivated, it will provide the missing vitamin. But Golden Rice—not to be confused with Green Revolution rice—does not, in fact, provide vitamin A. It is enriched in beta carotene, a precursor of the vitamin (hence the golden color), which can only be converted to vitamin A in the body of an already well-nourished person. The developers of Golden Rice have not dealt with this problem in their publicity releases. Rissler and Mellon have a brief final chapter entitled "International Implications," but these are largely the extension of the ecological risk arguments already made for the United States and do not deal with promised nutritional benefits.
The only recent book that deals with the effect of agricultural biotechnology in the third world and embeds it in a more general discussion of agricultural technology in general is Vandana Shiva's Stolen Harvest.4 Shiva is what is called a "cult figure" for opponents of GMOs, but her book will give a detached observer more the impression of a cheerleader. She might have used her knowledge of Indian agriculture and her immense prestige among environmentalists to provide a credible up-to-date analysis of the effects of agricultural technology and market structures on third-world economies. Instead, she has produced a conjunction of religious morality, undeveloped assertions about the cultural implications of Indian farming, unexplained claims about the nature of the farm economy in India and how biotechnology destroys it, and unanalyzed or distorted scientific findings. Stolen Harvest is an opportunity squandered.
So with no further elucidation we are told that seeds and biodiversity are "gifts from nature and their ancestors" that Indian farmers have received; that "food security is not just having access to adequate food. It is also having access to culturally appropriate food"; that "the smoke from the mustard oil used to light the deepavali lamp acts as an environmental purifier." While Shiva makes the undoubtedly correct claim that conversion to high-yield Green Revolution varieties has resulted in less fodder for cattle and less green manure for fields and has displaced the culture of legumes, other vegetables, and fruits, she nowhere explains why Indian farmers have engaged in this self-destructive activity and how the global structuring of agricultural trade in combination with the internal economy of India has driven them to it. Indeed, she never shows that Indian farmers are worse off than before the introduction of agricultural technology.
Most disheartening of all, Shiva's reports of facts are not always as complete as they need to be. In a discussion of genetically engineered soybeans she writes that "infants fed with soy-based formula are daily ingesting a dose of estrogens equivalent to that of 8 to 12 contraceptive pills." It turns out, however, that the soybeans contain a nonsteroidal estrogen whose physiological activity is less than one thousandth the activity of the standard hormone. I learned this fact, not men-tioned by Shiva, by consulting the very article from which she says her dosage figure was calculated.
The real present danger to third-world agriculture from transgenics is elsewhere. Much of the agricultural economy of these countries depends on growing specialty commodities like lauric acid oils used in soaps and detergents, once found only in tropical species. Now, with recombinant DNA, these are produced by canola. Why buy palm oils from the politically unstable Philippines, where 30 percent of the population depends on it economically, when we can grow it in Saskatchewan? Caffeine genes have been put into soybeans. Why not Nescafé from Minnesota?
No unequivocal conclusions can be drawn about the overall effect of genetic engineering technologies. It is clear that any manipulation of organisms, whether by conventional means or by genetic engineering, poses some danger to human health, to present systems of agricultural production, and to natural environments. All of these potential effects have led to a fairly effective apparatus of government regulation whose chief deficiency is its dependence on data supplied to it by parties whose prime concern is not the public good but private interest. Nothing is significantly changed in this situation by the introduction of genetic engineering. The technology provides a method for transferring a specific gene into a crop, rather than the uncontrolled mixture of entire genomes that takes place when two varieties or species are crossed. On the other hand the random disruptions of regulatory genes of the recipient that may take place are totally uncontrolled. On balance, it is impossible to say whether we have achieved greater or lesser control over the unintended consequences of mucking around with nature.
We find ourselves in a puzzling situation. None of the books on the subject of GMOs gives us any reason to think that the known dangers to human health and natural ecosystems posed by agriculture have become radically greater because of the introduction of genetic engineering as a technique. Nor do we even have a single case of a catastrophe that might have engendered widespread public anxieties.
Yet in North America, and much more so in Europe, there is a widespread, passionate, and politically effective opposition to the use of recombinant DNA techniques in agriculture. Only a rare defensive newspaper advertisement paid for by the Council for Biotechnology Information speaks against the general consciousness, and we all know whom they represent. Is this just another chapter in MacKay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds? A hint at the answer can be found in a series of full-page newspaper advertisements created by the Turning Point Project, a coalition of over sixty political action organizations including Food First, the Sierra Club, and Greenpeace. One set of advertisements had as headlines:
Unlabeled, untested…and you're eating it
Biotechnology = Hunger
Genetic Roulette
Who plays God in the 21st century?
Just the usual anti–genetic engineering stuff? Consider another set:
Can industrial agriculture feed the world?
The myth of efficiency
America's last family farms?
Well, it's not just genetic engineering that is being opposed. It's really part of the organic food ideology. The next set of headlines makes a new connection:
Global Monoculture
Globalization vs. Nature
Invisible Government
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Now we understand the Turning Point Project. They're a bunch of Luddites. Right century, but wrong movement. The followers of the unseen King Ludd and Captain Swing from 1811 to 1830 were industrial and rural laborers thrown out of work or trying to live on poverty wages, who destroyed knitting and threshing machines that had displaced their labor. Their objection to technology was not ideological but pragmatic. If we want to find the nineteenth-century equivalent of the sources of Turning Point consciousness, we must find it in the movement that began with Blake and ended with Rossetti, Ruskin, and the pre-Raphaelites, in the call to arms against the dark Satanic Mills:
Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my chariot of fire!
I will not cease from mental fight,
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That nineteenth-century discontent was the reaction of a middle class repelled by the spiritual and physical ugliness created by a surging industrial capitalism to which they sensed no attachment. One might think that because the rise of industrial capitalism occurred so long ago and the culture it created has become so much the basis of European and American life, any truly popular new romantic movement against it would be inconceivable. But what was then a struggle against the rise of its dominance is now a struggle against its last consolidation in spheres of life that seemed set apart.
Until twenty years ago there were four intimate aspects of our personal lives that we assumed to be produced by individual artisanal activity. They were medicine, entertainment, sport, and vegetables. Some penetration of capital into those spheres had, of course, occurred but they were invisible to us. Since then our family physician has become a corporate health care practitioner; television, popular music, books, and film are owned by a few major conglomerates; baseball players are paid millions by owners who are paid millions by television networks who are paid millions by advertisers; and now Monsanto wants to tell me what to eat.
One consequence has been the creation of a false nostalgia for an idyllic life never experienced. I once bought a new computer in a large computer supermarket in a shopping mall in Boston. The salesman offered to carry the machine out to my car in the parking lot and as we approached the rear of the car, he spotted my green and white Vermont license plate. "Vermont!" he said, "That's where I really want to live." "Oh," I replied, "have you spent much time in Vermont?" "Oh, no," he said, "I have never been there." The independent family farmer, tilling the soil, in touch with nature, making decisions about what and when to plant and harvest from his craft knowledge, sitting down at dinner to a groaning board of home-grown victuals prepared by his aproned wife, is our last connection with an authentic life. We want to preserve it. Unfortunately, we are a hundred years too late and GMOs are the wrong target. To understand the situation we need more mental fight and fewer arrows of desire.
The history of American and European agriculture over the last hundred years has been a history of the increasing dominance of industrial capital over farming. In 1900 the inputs into farming were predominantly self-produced. The farmer saved seed from the previous year's crop to plant, the plow and tillage machinery was pulled by mules fed on forage grown on the farm, 40 percent of planted acreage was in feed crops, and livestock produced manure to go back on the fields. Now the seed is purchased from Pioneer Hi-bred, the mules from John Deere, the feed from Exxon, and the manure from Terra. The rise in purchased industrially produced inputs has had two effects. A major increase in yields per acre has driven down the price paid to farmers for their product. Simultaneously the farmers' costs of production have risen. There has been no escape from this dilemma for an individual farmer. Because the price paid for a farm product is determined by the aggregate production from all farms, no individual farmer can push prices up by holding down production. Thus he must increase production when other farmers do, but the result of all these individually economically rational acts is mass suicide. Smaller and smaller margins between farm income and expenses have led to increasing farm debt and bankruptcies.
The consequence of the growing dominance of industrial capital in agriculture for the classical "family farm" has been the progressive conversion of the independent farmer into an industrial employee. More and more farm operators and their spouses are only part-time farmers, trying to support their farming from outside income. That is why the confusion between farm family income and income from farming in the appendix to the NRC report is so misleading. In 1997, 60 percent of farm operators were also employed off the farm and 40 percent worked at alternative employment for more than two hundred days a year. They work as truck drivers, salespeople, secretaries, and factory workers. Car companies now put their assembly plants in the rural counties of the farm belt to take advantage of this labor force. It is not Jerusalem that has been built in the green and pleasant land, it is the dark Satanic Mills.
The creation and adoption of genetically modified organisms are the latest steps in this long historical development of capital-intensive industrial agriculture. Roundup Ready herbicide-resistant soybeans have been created by Monsanto so that farmers will be able to use its powerful herbicide, Roundup, while at the same time buying Monsanto seed. The farmers accept the cost of the new variety and its chemical partner because the use of such a powerful general weed killer will reduce the number of herbicide treatments or mechanical tillage passages through the fields, freeing them for the hours in the automobile assembly plant that they need to keep their farms. For the farmer there is no escape from engineering, whether it be mechanical, chemical, electrical, or genetic.
The classic work on the effects of biotechnology in the third world is Calestous Juma's The Gene Hunters (Princeton University Press, 1989), which remains the basic source for an economic and historical analysis of the effect of agricultural technology in Africa and Asia. Because the work is a dozen years old, it antedates most of the actual development of GMOs and the immense growth of public discourse and anxiety about the subject.↩
The classic work on the effects of biotechnology in the third world is Calestous Juma's The Gene Hunters (Princeton University Press, 1989), which remains the basic source for an economic and historical analysis of the effect of agricultural technology in Africa and Asia. Because the work is a dozen years old, it antedates most of the actual development of GMOs and the immense growth of public discourse and anxiety about the subject.↩


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Ray Allen concludes practice with no setbacks
It now becomes a question of whether Allen's swelling returns at some points today or tomorrow.
I am not at all a religious man, but prayers very well could be on the agenda tonight.
"Ray Allen, whose jump shot art in heaven, hallowed be thy perfect form. Thy playoffs come, thy will be done in Boston as it was in 2008. Give us this win our daily bread and forgive us, Ray, for trading you and then un-trading you earlier this season. And lead us not into the ugly spiral of bad news which Shaq led us into last season, but deliver us from 3 for 25 three-point shooting. For the kingdom, the power and the sixth man position are yours, now and forever.
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We get another potential casting announcement for the Gareth Edwards directed Godzilla 2014 reboot, this time with David Strathairn.
David Strathairn is said to be in talks for Gozilla according to Variety with no other information listed, but Stathairn would join Juliet Binochette, Aaron Johnson, Elizabeth Olsen and Bryan Cranston, all who are in talks for the movie as well.
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A primer.
Print designers are particular about quality. Paper type, color profiles, kerning, etc.; every detail counts in creating a polished final product. But there's one detail that doesn't make the difference it should.
Generally speaking, designers use TIFFs (containers for high resolution image files) when designing with photographs because the TIFF file format maintains the full quality of the image. JPEG is a file format that was created to compress images into significantly smaller file sizes in order to make them more flexible for things like use on the Internet. The difference in file size is substantial. For example, exporting a raw file taken on my digital camera as a TIFF created a 18 MB file; as a maximum size JPEG it was 2.6 MB.
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2. Be careful with your saving. JPEGs use lossy compression, and each time it's saved with the "save as" function in Photoshop, you lose quality. A good thing to watch for is the "JPEG Options" screen which asks you which quality level you want to save at. You should minimize the occurrences of this screen, and if it does occur, save at the maximum resolution. It can be helpful to maintain the original version of the file from the photographer in case something happens to your working copy.
3. If you have added text or vector objects to an image in Photoshop, don't use the JPEG format. TIFF and PSD files retain these objects sharply. JPEGs don't.
4. Don't expect transparency. If you have an image with a transparent cutout, a JPEG will not work for you. Try using a PSD file (which integrates well with InDesign) or an EPS.
Following these guidelines and using JPEGs instead of TIFFs where possible can make your layout files much less cumbersome to work with on an everyday basis, and much easier to export and share as well.
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SEATTLE — Sen. Patty Murray's annual fundraiser-cum-good deed recognition luncheon today features a top Obama campaign strategist.
The 16th Annual "Golden Tennis Shoe Awards" luncheon has David Axelrod, the top strategist for the Obama re-election campaign, to rouse the crowd. The 2012 election is, after all, only 17 months away.
Award recipients are:
— Isaac Pope, a Centralia pediatrician who converted a two-story house into a clinic and day care center for severely disabled children:
— Denise "Cookie" Bouldin, a Seattle police officer who organized a chess club for disadvantaged youth, where they learn non-violence skills, self-esteem and the consequences of their actions:
— Mike Brown, a Vietnam era veteran who beat a meth addiction and now works with other veterans to get them into vocational training, stable home settings and community involvement.
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Happy Monday(?) of course thats easy for me to say i suppose since my excitement today is laundry.. and then wrapping the last presents for j. as he is working 3 10 hr days this week(ugh poor guy) ...
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it would be ok IF there werent so many right now.... the 38 ford coupe(j.'s new baby" is up on the car lift... underneath that is a 61 ranchero... then shoved in the corner of the garage is my v.w. 57 ragtop... in that driveway is a 55 vw. another 57 v.w. and a another old ford(pa's)....
in my front driveway is the 54 vw. bus... and the single cab(it is one of the few running ones).. in the other garage is j.'s 56 vw bug... the first car ride i ever took with him is in that one... but it has some break issues... so its secured in safety..
not too mention the a.t.v.,,, and peices/parts of v.w.'s EVERYWHERE in BOTH garages.. so i dont go into either one if i can help it....
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uh yep... i know a big fat 0 when it comes to what a old ride of any model could possibly be.. BUT I DO KNOW from my j. that to find a v.w. that is rust free in critcal areas ARE A GREAT FIND and HARD TO FIND.. and that bus(van) is one of the MOST RUST FREE ONES I HAVE EVER SEEN... and it does have a running engine.. its just NOT INSTALLED IN IT.. because since it is a v.w. the engine is in the back and the back faces the public street/sidewalk.. and well there are punks that live in the area... i know i pick up there litter out of our yard ALL THE TIME..
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Something's missing from many new homes built in Orange County these days.
In the past decade, the formal living room got smaller and smaller – until it disappeared entirely.
Once considered a must for gracious living, the formal living room was a place for families to entertain important guests. These rooms often sat idle – or were off limits to children – to keep such environs pristine. In the 1950s and '60s, plastic mats and covers were arrayed around living room floors and sofas to keep them clean.
Today, families are opting for more casual and functional spaces – something the whole family can use on an everyday basis.
Living rooms are being replaced with an open "core area" that combines a family room or great room with the kitchen and dining area in one large space.
"The idea of a formal living room is on its way out," Arianna Barrios, western regional marketing director for builder Taylor Woodrow, told the Register in 2006.
Banks of windows or glass doors along the wall also are being employed to give the indoors more of an outside feel.
"Over and over, consumers told us they wanted more livability and better functionality in floor plans," said Rob Elliott, the Irvine Company's group senior vice president for Urban Planning and Design. "Topping their wish lists were greater interaction between rooms for family gatherings, and a seamless flow from inside to outside living space."
In unveiling plans to build several new developments in its Woodbury Community, Irvine Co. officials described the great room as a "spacious yet purposeful room (serving as) the focus of the home. It is an inviting space where everyone can converge, ... (a) central room that is ideal for family gatherings and entertaining guests."
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UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Organizers for the annual Heart Run and Walk are hoping to add more teams for next year's event.
Local CEO's were invited to take part in a breakfast Friday morning at the Radisson Hotel. It's a chance to give the leaders information on how to start a team for America's Greatest Heart Run and Walk.
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