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I'm looking for the new Trait ID's for the new General Traits in 1.06. Anyone know them?
I'm looking for the new Trait ID's for the new General Traits in 1.06. Anyone know them?
Sorry to be a pain, I don't know if this has been answered but the thread is so long... has anyone found a way to put fertility and health into the tooltips?
Does anyone know how you can give a character you don't play a trait of my choice?
(except the 'play <character id> ' cheat)
if the target gets the trait as the result of an event you can do event <event id> <character id> other than that and the play <character id> cheat I don't know. I think you can edit one of the many mods listed in the cheat forum to give a target a certain trait, I did it with homosexuality.
Is there a console cheat that lets you increase a character's demense? I know you can sometimes use add_stewardship to do it, but I'd like to do it without inflating the ruler's stats.
I think its decadence <value>. Use the help command it'll tell you.
Does anybody know if there are events that give you the new combat traits? I'd love to make my 30 martial King from a previous save an organized or aggressive commander, but after looking through the event files for about an hour I can't find any event that does that. Am I missing something right there in front of me?
do some cheats not work anymore ? i try to increase my characters intrigue,diplomacy and demesne size but everytime i enter a cheat my characters stats reset to zero ,so lets say my characters intrigue was 48 and i add 20 it will be 68 but then i enter the cheat again and it goes to 0 then 12 then 0 again, anyone else having this problem?
i posted this earlier but no one replied ..also if anyone can give me tips on how to make my own events so i can give myself stewardship intrigue ect that would be appreciated
assuming they follow the same pattern(which is they are numbered as listed) the 1.06 trait numbers would be:
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# Leadership Traits
################################################## ###############
102 light_foot_leader
103 heavy_infantry_leader
104 cavalry_leader
105 inspiring_leader
106 trickster
107 organizer
108 defensive_leader
109 experimenter
110 flanker
111 aggressive_leader
112- mujahid
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113 hajjaj
114 on_hajj
115 faqih
116 hafiz
117 sayyid
#Christian Pilgrimage
118 pilgrim
# Other Muslim
119 mirza
# Other
120 scarred
i haven't tested these, so it might be wrong and i have NO idea how to give the immortal trait...
do i just add immortal = yes under their birthday or something?
Immortality is a flag for a trait, not for characters. You have to make a trait and give it to them in game. There is a whole thread on it over here.
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for other cheats and trait ids just go to the Crusader kings 2 wiki
The event 55000 (about culture) has been modified. You can only change the culture of your capital.
Does anyone know of a cheat that will increase all of your vassals' opinions of you?
It has been modified so now you have to add a province id after the event id if you want to change the culture of a province, imo its better than before cause now i dont need to personally hold the province as long as a person of my culture holds it.
It goes like this:
event 55000 (province id)
you can find the province ids in the history/provinces folder
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I am doing a science project about sugar crystals. I found an article that says crystals will form faster when it is cooled slower. Why? I would think that it would be the other way around.
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Hi Joseph,
The rate of temperature change of the water affects the number of sugar crystals and their size. If you cool the water more slowly, *a smaller number of larger* crystals will form, whereas if you cool the water faster, *a larger number of smaller* crystals will form.
(If you would like to know more details, keep reading, but this explanation might be challenging for 4th/5th grade level)
The process by which crystals forms is called "nucleation and growth". As the water cools, it cannot hold as much sugar, so the dissolved sugar must come out of solution. The first few molecules that come out of solution will form a little "mini-crystals". Once a mini-crystal forms, other sugar molecules will attach to it, and the crystal grows.
Once this process starts, each sugar molecule has a choice -- to form a new mini-crystal or to join an existing one. Sugar molecules would "rather" join an existing crystal -- the rules of physics make it "easier" for them to join an existing crystal (I can tell you more about this if you want -- feel free to reply). But they have to "find" that crystal first (it is actually a random physical process, not a conscious choice) -- if they can't find one, thought, they will form a new mini-crystal.
When you cool the water fast, sugar molecules are crashing out of solution, and they don't have time to find an existing crystal, so they just form their own new mini-crystal. This results in a bunch of small crystals. When you cool the water slowly, the sugar molecules have more time to find an existing crystal, so they tend to form larger crystals (but fewer in number).
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7. If I am a Tech. Sgt. living next door to a Senior Airman and we both have the same type unit, will be paying different rental amounts?
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If rental rates in the local community go down, BAH will also probably also go down.
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Bracelets made out of hemp or some other types of cording are very popular. In this video, you'll learn how to make a sliding square knot closure, which is a great way to finish off your free jewelry patterns in a tidy fashion.
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- Lay your work on a paper towel and using your toothpick, apply the Epoxy to the overhand knot. Make certain you cover the knot so it won't come undone, but be careful not to get Epoxy on your other strands preventing your closure from sliding. Let the Epoxy dry completely before wearing.
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I've heard people say San Francisco is the most European city in the United States for a long time, but I don't think I really understood what they meant until I spent some time in the area around North Beach. With the Victorian houses converted into apartments, the walk ups, the bay windows and narrow alleys, the steep hills, the sidewalk cafes, bakeries and food stores, and most of all - the total lack of parking - it really does lend itself to a local community-oriented lifestyle. It has a number of the kind of independent everyday businesses - restaurants, bakeries, bookstores and shops - that have all but disappeared from many smaller cities, and I love the 40's style neon signs, the painted windows, and the retro style of the store-fronts. To me, it has a feeling of "otherness," without the big box stores, freeways, gas stations and fast food joints we suburbanites have come to accept as part of our everyday lives.
This dreamy quality figured prominently in my enjoyment of a baby shower I attended recently, at the home of a friend of the mom-to-be on Lombard Street. The mother lives in the front apartment - on the ground floor (which is still up a steep flight of stairs from the street) and the shower was held in her front parlor room, featuring a huge bay window and wood fireplace - all decorated with Moroccan pillows, flowers and textiles. The girls were doing the cooking in the daughter's apartment, across the alley in the back - and brought the food over. It felt so much like a movie that the light even had that sort of gauzy, filtered quality.
We were welcomed with a spread of figs, almonds, apricots, pistachios and pecans, bowls of homemade hummus, warm pita bread, and couscous salad, served in host Sharone's beautiful collection of Moroccan dishes. To drink, there was lemonade with mint, served on a brass carrying tray with a twisted handle.
Though we didn't all know each other, there was no need for games or activities to break the ice . The group just kept chatting and eating until the sun started going lower in the sky. At some point, the hostesses brought out bowls of a fragrant chickpea stew that we held in our laps and spooned up with more pita bread. It was as delicious to eat as it was to look at.
When the presents were opened and the cake came out, I was intrigued. When I tasted it, I asked for the name of the bakery. Turns out this cake is not only delicious, it's a little piece of San Francisco history - a "world famous" Sacripantina from Stella Pastry in North Beach. As described on their website - "served to the likes of Pavarotti, the Sacripantina is a multilayered cake made with a vanilla sponge cake, zabaglione (a delicate custard made with egg yolks, sweet butter, marsala and sherry wines.) cream, and rum." They also have lots more luscious looking choices on their website here. There's just something about these old-fashioned Italian pastries that I find incredibly appealing. They look like little girl's dresses - all lace and bows and ruffles with whipped cream and cherries - and they haven't changed at all with the times. They're just classic.
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What to make of an artist whose body of work consists of wood block prints, yet declares, "I am a painter, not a print maker"?
It's difficult to wrap one's mind around the visual disconnect of seeing graphic prints and thinking of them as paintings, but artist Vanilia Majoros, whose solo exhibit "BRAVO!" opened Saturday at DaSilva Gallery in Westville, makes a persuasive case.
"Every image is one of a kind, just like a painting. I brush oil paint on the block and often apply paint directly on the image. The wood block is one tool among many, used in making the painting. I think of them as paintings—printed paintings," she said.
It is hard to disagree with the art historian who has authored over six scholarly books on the subject or European Modernism in her native Hungary. A case can be made that Majoros's works as presented at DaSilva Gallery are more than prints or paintings. They are creations that defy and transcend simple, categorical description.
The exhibit is inclusive of three series based on Majoros's musings of architectural structure and elements within. "Following Calatrava" is an homage to Spanish architect and sculptor Santiago Calatrava and his design for the building of the Milwaukee Art Museum. "Welcome to Chelsea" invites its viewers to the arts district of New York City, while the "BRAVO!" series transforms the Avery Fisher Hall building, home of the New York Philharmonic, through the prism of creative color and form.
Some works are at once image-based two-dimensional designs, but are also highly dimensional and sculptural in their presentation. Interactive pieces like "Following Calatrava," a six-piece wall installation, invite gallery visitors to do what is most often forbidden—to touch and interact with the art.
Majoros encourages visitors to create their own compositions by rotating images, experiencing first-hand, the idea of change through movement. It is a theme she has continued to explore since her first rotation piece was presented in 2009 at the then-"Westville Gallery."
American artist George Rickey wrote about his own work: "I used gravity, momentum, inertia, movements of rotation, acceleration, and the laws governing movement as my new box of colors." Majoros's "box of colors" also incorporates the theme of rotational movement. Whether the works are powered by the human hand, electrical current, or the visual movement of elements within a two-dimensional composition, the notion of movement for Majoros remains a metaphor for not only the constant change that governs the physical world, but change as it relates to all facets of the human experience.
Mojoros creates a fusion of science and art as she explores degrees of kinetic movement and natural phenomena, integrating movement with imagery of dynamic architectural elements and places that have symbolic meaning for her.
In the images that do not rotate, the component of physical movement, as in her "Welcome to Chelsea" series, Majoros rotates and repeats wood block impressions, creating a kind of kaleidoscopic effect, the result of rotational movement used in the work's creation. The singular image containing representational elements, juxtaposed and repeated, gives birth to a unified abstraction in totality, and is still one-of-a-kind image making.
Two pivoting translucent works, which appropriately sit in the gallery's windows, offer yet another dimension of her work with the inclusion and interplay of light and its effects as pieces are rotated.
Gallery co-owner and curator Gabriel DaSilva, who has devoted the main gallery space to works on paper for the calendar year, said the exhibit is really "two shows in one." In the abutting frame-shop gallery, visitors can see remnants of a recent mid-century exhibit that includes original prints by Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine and Andy Warhol.
Upon seeing the images, Majoros spoke to DaSilva about her collection of previous works that pay homage to those very same artists. Her small woodblock prints now hang with the larger images of 20th century icons, offering interesting comparisons to her work in the main gallery.
Majoros's distinguished career includes a Ph.D from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, authorship of six monographs about Hungarian painters, and more than 100 articles about 19th Century Art, Modernism, and Contemporary Art. As a senior fellow, Majoros worked as the head of the Art Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. In 2005, after ten solo photographic exhibits in Hungary, Majoros began exhibiting in the United States. From 2006 to 2008 she was a guest student at Yale's School of Art and has been both student and instructor at New Haven's Creative Arts Workshop.
Whether one ultimately views the exhibit as a collection of graphic prints, or as unique, single-impression paintings, this is a show that will appeal on many levels. And to that we can all say, "Bravo!"
To take one of the painter's images for a spin, or for more information, contact DaSilva Gallery. The exhibit runs from April 10 through May 5.
Tags: Vanilia Majoro, DaSilva Gallery
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posted by: OhHum on April 18, 2013 1:58pm
"If it walks like a duck,talks like a duck" ...it's a print.
posted by: WestRiver on April 18, 2013 2:39pm
These are not paintings.They are prints.Monoprints to be exact.They could be considered printed paintings.But they are still prints.
posted by: susanmccaslin on April 18, 2013 2:45pm
Kudos to David Sepulveda for a wonderful article about a wonderful artist. I hope this article spurs many to visit DaSilva Gallery before Majoros' show comes down. And then walk a few doors down to Kehler Liddel Gallery to see the 'Wildlife Photography' of Charlie Kingsley.


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The answer, by the way, is yes.
I stopped in Monday to sample Elevation's beef and could tell by the smell that this burger was going to be good. A rich, beefy smell wafts from the line at the sustainably minded restaurant. It doesn't smell like fat or grease but almost like good steak. That's a good sign.
I ordered an Elevation burger, which is two beef patties charred on the griddle and topped with two slices of sharp cheddar cheese. I also got a side of French fries cooked in 100 percent olive oil, and a homemade vanilla milk shake.
The restaurant is attractive for what's essentially a fast-food joint. It's decked in blue and silver, with brown sorghum tables and bamboo flooring. I took a seat and waited about five minutes for my order, which was delivered to my table by one of the burgeristas.
John Linn |
My burger came with lettuce, tomato, caramelized onions, and some thick-cut wedges of quality pickle. It would be nice if Elevation offered a few more topping options, but I can at least see why it's strict about the cheddar cheese: the sharp stuff compliments the meat perfectly. I usually hate unmelted cheese on a burger, but this cheese -- melty in some spots and just warm in others -- tasted really good with some textural variation between gooey and firm. The bun that Elevation uses is soft and sweet and slightly toasted.
The best part of the meal, though, had to be the fries. These olive-oil-cooked bad boys are delicious, golden brown, crisp, and salted just the right amount. Unlike the skin-on fries that are so popular nowadays, Elevation's fries are skin-free. Excuse the comparison, but they sort of remind me of McDonald's fries, only with a far better flavor. I couldn't get enough of them.
I enjoyed Elevation so much, I went back the next day and had it again. It was just as good. And maybe it was mental, but I didn't feel as guilty after eating it as I would, say, Five Guys. Healthy burgers? Probably not. But damned good ones nonetheless.
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It was the longest running soap opera in the history of Wisconsin sports.
It was a contentious six-year battle involving University of Wisconsin athletics that reached a climax over a charge that football players were being given whiskey as a stimulant during halftime of games.
It was part power struggle between the Board of Regents and faculty; part personality conflict between headstrong football coach Clarence "Doc" Spears and equally headstrong basketball coach Walter "Doc" Meanwell; and part a test of influence between alumni and students.
And when it was finally resolved, it had wide-reaching consequences, not only on athletics, but the entire university.
"It was huge for the university because it almost got kicked out of the Big Ten," said John Jenkins, university historian. "It was the biggest issue in sports and the biggest issue for the university because it decided who ran the university. This brought to a head the issue of faculty control."
The seeds for this long-running conflict were planted in 1930 when influential alumni urged that football coach Glenn Thistlethwaite be fired. Known as "Gloomy Glenn," Thistlethwaite had just completed his fourth year with a 6-2-1 record, but his teams hadn't fared well in big conference games.
Rumors swirled that the final game of the season would be his last, but athletic director George Little sided with him and saved his job.
A year later, Little also was coming under fire, in part, for the design of the new University of Wisconsin Fieldhouse and losing his clout. His critics charged that he had been persuaded by Meanwell, who exerted tremendous influence in the athletic department, to construct a building that was good for basketball and little else.
"Little's Folly," they called it.
As a result, after the football team finished 5-4-1 in 1931, Little and Thistlethwaite resigned. Little did so voluntarily, Thistlethwaite under pressure.
A legislative committee looked into the matter, but took no action. The most intriguing testimony centered around Thistlethwaite's outside activities. He told the committee that he spent considerable time speaking for the Women's Christian Temperance Union in defense of prohibition, apparently a bone of contention with some people.
The Regents also became involved by offering Little another job as head of intramurals, but he declined. The offer came after petitions were circulated in Madison on Little's behalf.
A bizarre series of events followed.
Irwin Uteritz, 32, was promoted from assistant football coach to athletic director the day after Little resigned. Four months later, Uteritz resigned. The Milwaukee Sentinel reported he was "a nervous, worried man grown old in four months, who was suffering from a near breakdown."
During those four months, the university athletic council settled on four different football coaches - Guy Sundt, an assistant at Wisconsin; Spears, who was the coach at Oregon; Ray Morrison, coach at Southern Methodist; and George Veenker, coach at Iowa State - without filling the job.
According to various publications, the Regents persuaded certain faculty members on the athletic council to change their vote on Sundt after he had been approved on a 6-4 vote; Spears turned down the job over money; Morrison rejected it when he was told that he had only three hours to make up his mind; and members of the athletic department protested so strongly against Veenker that the council reversed its decision.
On March 30, 1932, after 93 days, Spears finally accepted the job at a higher salary than he was first offered. He had been the favorite all along of certain Regents and powerful alumni, but faculty and student groups were less than enchanted when his salary, $10,000, was revealed. Only one faculty member was making more money.
The in-fighting intensified.
Soon thereafter, the 10-member athletic council was dissolved and replaced by a seven-member athletic board, and the posturing began for the vacant athletic director's job. Spears and Meanwell both wanted it.
"Meanwell was so big in basketball, then Spears came in and was going to take over everything," said John "Bob" Poser, who played basketball and baseball at the university from 1930-'32 and then coached the baseball team from 1935-'36. "They were jealous of each other. There was no gun-fighting, but basically they just didn't like each other."
Over the next two years, J.D. Phillips, business manager of the university, served as acting athletic director while the board wrestled with the problem of naming a permanent replacement. In March, 1934, the board reached a temporary compromise. Spears, Meanwell and track coach Tom Jones were named as advisers to Phillips.
Three months later, the board settled on George Downer, publicity director for the athletic department and former Sentinel sports editor, as yet another compromise solution. However, the Regents rejected the choice.
Glenn Frank, president of the university, finally intervened and named Meanwell to the post on July 13, 1934. He also stipulated that Meanwell had to step aside as basketball coach.
Spears, who claimed he was promised the AD job by Frank when he was hired as football coach, was furious. His feud with Meanwell escalated over the next year and a half until it erupted into a dirty donnybrook in December, 1935.
With the Badgers coming off a 1-7 season in football, captain-elect John Golemgeske circulated a petition asking that Spears be ousted as coach. Golemgeske told reporters he had been encouraged by Meanwell to circulate the petition.
Both the athletic board and the Regents began inquiries, which exploded into a series of wild accusations.
William Fallon, team trainer, provided the Regents with a sworn affidavit in which he claimed Spears ordered him to put whiskey in the coffee players drank at halftime.
"Spears' order to me was: Don't give the boys orange juice between the halves. Give them coffee with brandy in it, but don't let the fellows in the front office know it," read Fallon's affidavit.
Fallon testified the first time he did so was at Minnesota in 1932. He said he put a pint of whiskey in a gallon of coffee at halftime of a game the Badgers won, 20-13.
Spears denied the charge and leveled a counter-charge against Meanwell. He said Meanwell was the one who had supplied alcohol to Golemgeske and another football player, Jim Nellen, following a game in Evanston. The inquiry also uncovered evidence suggesting that Meanwell had placed such tight restrictions on Bud Foster, his successor as basketball coach, that he virtually maintained control of the program.
In the meantime, the UW faculty was fighting a battle on another front with the Regents over control of the athletic program. Their quarrel prompted Big Ten officials to intervene and suspend Wisconsin from the conference for not complying with their rules covering faculty control.
On Feb. 15, 1936, the Regents announced the firing of Meanwell, Spears and Fallon. In response, five members of the athletic board, who were supporters of Meanwell, quit.
The entire mess was finally resolved with the creation of another new athletic board, controlled by the faculty and discharged with the responsibility of naming a new athletic director and football coach. Ten weeks later, the board named Harry Stuhldreher, one of "The Four Horsemen" of Notre Dame to both positions, clearing the way for the Big Ten to reinstate Wisconsin as a member.


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I don't know if anybody else has to make URLs to hub entries now and then, but I have to do it all the time and I got tired of the noisy syntax:
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Fortunately, a little webserver magic has made it possible to do it like this:
Please use that syntax from now on when making links to hub entries. I'll switch over the hub itself at some point too.


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When a team plays three games in six days and it is not a part of their normal routine, there is usually a letdown game incorporated into the mix. The ASU women's basketball team made sure that it would not happen to them.
The No. 11 Sun Devils (20-3, 9-2 Pac-12) took down the UA Wildcats 60-36 on Tuesday night at Wells Fargo Arena.
Redshirt sophomore gaurd Katie Hempen led ASU in points with 11 off the bench Tuesday. Redshirt senior center Joy Burke, redshirt senior guard Deja Mann, and sophomore guard Elisha Davis tied for second on the team with eight apiece.
Senior forward Kama Griffitts led the Wildcats (4-18, 0-11 Pac-12) in scoring on the night with 10 points.
The Wildcats got off to a good start, opening up a 10-point lead halfway through the opening period.
ASU shot poorly early on and started 0-7 from beyond the 3-point line.
"We needed to play a little more disciplined," Turner Thorne said. "We said that if we weren't going to score in transition to reverse the ball once or twice, get your paint touches before you launch it. We didn't reverse the ball or get offensive rebounds."
The Sun Devils really turned the corner in the second half, holding Arizona to just 10 points in the second 20 minutes.
Turner Thorne was impressed by her team's defensive efforts.
"We had them to eight points for most of the half," Turner Thorne said. "For this team, it's been elusive a bit consistently, possession after possession. If we can do what we did in the second half for the rest of the season, then we really are going to finish strong."
Even though her team struggled early, coach Charli Turner Thorne liked her team's effort.
"Much better, I'll just say that in terms of Oregon and Oregon State," Turner Thorne said. "We beat ourselves early on and then just got fired up."
The Sun Devils and Wildcats will face off again Sunday afternoon at the McKale Center in Tucson.
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Pusha-T Talks Consequence On WGCI's The Morning Riot
After shutting down last night's G.O.O.D. Music/Heineken Red Star Access event at The Shrine, Pusha T called into 107.5 WGCI's The Morning Riot (where you can hear me live every Thursday morning alongside Tony Sculfied, Leon Rogers and Nina Chantele) to discuss his recent beef with Consequence. Plenty of shots fired here. Looking forward to the next move…
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I'm an only child, and both my mother and my grandmother were only children. My father's brothers are/were significantly older, and therefore their children, my cousins, are a lot older than I am, and I don't know them, so I don't have a lot of extended family.
It doesn't bother me, but people have a lot of questions and misconceptions about being an only child, and I've learned to address them.
Though it was largely theoretical to me for most of my life, I knew I'd have the sole responsibility of taking care of parents as they aged. It became very real when my mother was diagnosed with and lost a long battle to cancer 2 years ago this week.
I have a full-time job and three young children of my own, so there were times that dealing with my mother's illness was brutal. My boss doesn't call me the "Sandwich Generation Poster Child" for nothing.
Only children know that this time is coming. We hesitate to move far from home because the burden will be on us, yet we try not to let it consume us. Often, we are launched into the caregiver role suddenly, and you just do it, leaving all those, "I wonder what it will be likes" behind.
While it can be lonely in that there's no sibling to mull over decisions with, and there's very little relief for you, there's also a certain freedom in being the one responsble for things such as health care and housing choices.
I have seen the families of my friends torn apart when mom or dad became ill and the siblings couldn't agree on how best to care for them. It can be brutal as adults slip back into family roles that were long thought to be left behind in childhood.
The fact is though, that even with the most supportive of spouse and children, only children are often alone in caring for aging parents and must rely on outside help and though it's hard for people like me, it's a good idea to reach out to the kindness of friends, no one can do it alone and you don't have to.