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As I've mentioned before, I'm a piano player with a passion for the keyboard but marginal skills. My teacher says I have more courage than talent. I often play in public venues, such as the lobby of a hotel. Those 30 or 40 minutes of focused attention wipe away, at least for awhile, some of my cares and burdens.
With my interest in music, I've read a lot about musical prodigies — the six-year olds who can sit down at a keyboard and play Beethoven without missing a note. When you look into the lives of these prodigies, you see that they've devoted hours and hours to their music. They have talent, but they have to work to develop it.
Far from being a waste of time, having a hobby like playing music provides stress relief — in a more meaningful way than surfing the Web or watching TV. A hobby can also boost creativity and self-esteem, and it can provide pleasure and a sense of accomplishment. What a rewarding experience it is to share your avocation with others, as I do when I pound out tunes on the piano.
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You are so right in saying that having a hobby or hobbies can releive stresses that come and go with everyday lives.Thinds are changing fast in this world we live in and the amount of stress in our daily jobs is climming right along with it and having something to look forward to at the end of the day other than work is very helpful in controling stress and anxietys.
I'm an anxious person just through my life's experiences with the early loss of significant family members, etc. One of the things that I love to do besides going to the gym, is DANCING to oldies in my own home. I sing and dance all alone and it feels great. You don't need a partner! Just dance like no one is watching - because probably no one is! ;-)
I had a lung issue, docs not sure what it was. Asthma not asthma after going through a Lung Program in Edmonton I joined the Running Room in a Walking Program. I joined with a friend a half marathon training session not realizing that a half marathon was 21.1km or 13.1 miles. The first 2 weeks I thought I was going to die but I percevered and I walked my first 1/2 marathon in Las Vegas in December. Now if I don't walk I get anxious so it's become my hobby.
A friend put a "free" organ on the street over a year ago. I managed to get it home, my cats love to sit on it. After reading this stress blog, I'm going to give it a go!
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While reading all of the comments, I realized that I am doing the right things. I am a caregiver and my projects keep me sane. I learned several years ago that playing the piano in nursing home weekly was life saver for me. Volunteering has made many friends for me and even though I can't do very much, the little bit gets me "out of myself". I am a knitter with a few small "take along" projects that I use while waiting for my husband at the infusion center. I also attend a quilters' group as I can. I have found that I can lose myself at the sewing machine while working on my projects. I know that I have to mentally escape the stress of caring for my husbands' severe COPD. He has been on oxygen for 5 years, has had MRSA in his lungs 4 times, a collapsed lung, is currently finishing 15 days of infusion of vancomycin for the MRSA. I live one day at a time and ask God for strength daily.
To those of you who are stressed out, take a class to learn something new, join a group. I promise it will help.
this post is so right on time for me...i've been sick and can't do much work than to surf the web read, i feel frustrated and useless, until this very moment that i realized i could play the piano, ive been teaching music and suddenly stopped, i think ill try to practice again to make use of my wasted time...thanks
Kathy - hat knitting gets less stressful with each completion. As far as musical talent goes - I have none, my cat used to bite my leg when I tried to play the piano! Now I say "all singing is praising the Lord" to excuse my terrible singing voice. Last week I think I found the best stress buster ever - watching Lily a Black Bear in Ely, MN give birth to her first cub - via live webcam along with over 20,000 other people worldwide. Made me think that maybe we can all get along.
You are right on about hobbies!
People like to run hobbies down – for example, if you are involved in music you often hear: "Don't give up your day job" and other cutting statements. The fact is that with the web your "reach" with your hobby is much greater than it ever has been before. If you play an instrument, for example, you can post your music in several locations for free – the easiest way is to take advantage of free blogs such as blogger.com but there are lots of other ways also.
If you do crafts, you can post "how to" tips and pictures and videos of your work, and really make a difference for people of similar interests.
Of course the hobby itself should be a source of stress release for you. Don't take up things that you don't enjoy just because they might be "cool". I just saw a bunch of beginning skiers last weekend who looked more stressed out than ever – sometimes you just have to try things to see what works for you, then go for it!
Recently I bought a new digital camera. I really enjoy taking photographs and knew that I needed to move into the digital world. It is an SLR camera so I have to learn how to use it, an on-going project. Moreover, I am learning to really look at the world around me. There is much more to see than we realize if we look carefully. As I learn to use my camera, I do have to remind myself to RELAX and learn. It is not my work; therefore, I can learn at my own pace and enjoy the pleasure I get from doing so.
I find a musical instrument very stress-relieving. If you choose one that is played in a group, you also gain social interaction, which isn't easy to find for an introvert like myself. I took up Appalachian dulcimer about 3 years ago - presumably the easiest stringed instrument to learn and joined a recorder group. We have a lot of fun at practice and perform several times a year.
It's important not to choose a hobby that becomes stressful. I was a songbird rehabilitator for about 5 years, and it became extremely stressful during baby bird season. I loved rehabbing and I miss those babies, but I had to quit due to physical limitations that were made worse by the stress.
I love knitting, too. I am knitting a hat for the first time in years, and Miranda has me scared.
Wow, I used to think knitting was a great stress buster --- until I started knitting hats - decreasing those stitches at the crown - 4 dpn's - that's stress - but good to see the project finished.
You, go rosemarie! You have 6 years on me. I'm holding you up as a role model for my life six years from now. My lates is writing poetry. Barbara A
Wise words; get a hobby. I have more "projects" in the fire than I'll ever finish, even if I live to see 100. But this is the way I like it, life is great at 72 if you stay active. Nothing chases away the blues better than an interest beyond the chores you must do daily. Volunteering is equally beneficial, I enjoy that too. Age is no reason to become a couch potato!
Like you, Doctor Creagan, I too have a hobby. In fact, I have several. The hours spent at my piano in my youth diverted my attention from some highly stressful family situations and it gave me a place in society and a means of making a living. Actually it is more than a hobby. It's my life. Let's hear it for hobbies! Barbara A, author of "Cry Depression, Celebrate Recovery." At the risk of sounding terminally redundant, it's coming out soon!
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TAMFORD, CT—Congressman Jim Himes (D-CT) and the most decorated US Winter Olympian, Apolo Anton Ohno, joined The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility to bring Ask, Listen, Learn: Kids and Alcohol Don't Mix to students at Cloonan Middle School today. The Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility created an interactive game that builds on the existing Ask, Listen, Learn program and encourages kids to "say 'YES' to a healthy lifestyle and 'NO' to underage drinking." The initiative is based on research by Harvard Medical School's Dr. John Ratey, showing that for a person's brain to function at its peak; the body needs to move. The interactive activity, as well as a supporting website, encourages kids to live a healthy lifestyle. The website also provides parents with information and strategies to help jumpstart the conversation about the dangers of underage drinking.
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Activity_Dept wrote:OK so lets see. The members don't like that this forum is on caravan-parks.org, the auto login doesn't work and that I run a dating review on a different website.
Firstly the site is still linked to camping.com.au and gets numerous visitors from that site.
The auto login contrary to Derek's remarks is not so easy to fix as I told him and a number of others the forum has been integrated into a PHP site so it is complicated. The developer who did it has left and despite hiring a few contractors to fix it they have failed. It seems to work on some computers but not others.
What I do on other sites has nothing to do with this forum. Excuse me if I happen to run a dating review blog on another site.
Derek's comments were wrong and way out of line. The man has no programming experience, has done nothing but promote his competing forum on this site and expects me to hand over 15 years of data to him. If my members do not see right through that crap I am disappointed.
As I see it you all ready to leave this forum because the auto login doesn't work, or was it because I run a dating review on another site, or maybe because you don't get enough members signing up?
I have done 2 major updates in the 15 years each time I lost half my members. I have learned you can't keep everyone happy. The bottom line is members are hard to come by on any forum. This one gets more than most camping forums. The auto login doesn't work, its not easy to fix if it was I would have done it but I have tried.
If you would all focus on camping instead of making up wild stories about how I am some evil twin i.e. Derek "I told him how to fix it", "that is disgusting"...
I have paid tens of thousands of dollars to provide you with a forum. It is not perfect most aren't. I would put tens of thousands back into it, if it showed any promise but if the site goes well people try to move the members across to their forum thinking they can do better if it does poorly they try and move members across because they think I'm somehow abusing them. It is a constant, note Derek's comments and banners on his profile linking to his forum.
Ultimately the only technical issue you seem to have is that the auto login does not work. Is that correct?
If you want the forum back on http://www.camping.com.au, exported back to a manageable forum and have sufficient funds to admin and promote it for one year. It will cost $20k. revenues on this "Gold Mine" are about $5,000 per year so it will be a $15k loss. So do we have any volunteers? Based on the current membership that is about $1,000 each...
Lets start a raise funds petition...
Activity_Dept wrote:The auto login is complicated. I have had programmers look and not be able to fix it because it has been modified to limit spam and integrate with our other sites admin system.
When the cash reserves build up a bit I will revert back to a forum but the big reason I left was because the spam was overwhelming this login prevents the bulk of it but obviously has this auto login issue.
Anyway I will look into it when I can.
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Michael maybe you should make round of comparisons between all those FLOSS drivers for embedded gpus vs their official proprietary counterparts?
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Kudso for that work
Michael maybe you should make round of comparisons between all those FLOSS drivers for embedded gpus vs their official proprietary counterparts?
Now if we had link to the original source, we could read some more into it. Or at the very least a link to the freedreno project page. http://freedreno.github.com/
Many system-on-chip uses the Adreno graphics processing unit.
So many of these small Raspberry Pi clones and USB memory sized computers may have this chip. Then with this driver they can use those small computers with a TV.
Which Adreno gpus (200-330) are supported by this driver? An upcoming 600/800 series Snapdragon combined with open source 2D/3D would be a killer package.
My guess, based on looking at the kernel code, is that there are not differences that are too major between the various a2xx devices. I'm not really sure yet about a3xx. Basically, I'd like to finish up a few more little things, and then get the a220 gallium support merged in upstream mesa tree, and then I should have some more time to start looking at other adreno revisions. Of course, anyone out there with an a3xx and an itch, patches are welcome :-)
1) You figure it should work an a 225? As I understand it, 225 is like a 220, but just smaller/faster.
2) How far (if not already) do you figure this is from handling AOSP? I'm having a murder of a time getting the qualcomm adreno drivers working with AOSP 4.2 on my MSM8260A (krait w/adreno225). I would love to just blow the blob drivers out the window, even at a massive performance penalty.
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I just wanted to say nice work. Getting all that done probably wasn't easy...
BTW, what about video decoding? Is it software only, or is it accelerated? Is there anything in hardware to accelerate video decoding?
As far as AOSP, well I've seen some patches related to building mesa for android.. so maybe it is possible. TBH my focus so far has been getting a more "traditional" linux desktop work. But I guess in theory, that should be mostly related to build system and window system / egl, and transparent to the gallium driver. You might want to try some basic linux/x11 type environment first, just to test whether things are working ok on a225. Fwiw, either for android or linux, you'll need to enable the drm support in the kernel for mesa.


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Mad Monkey would have been a better suited codename
Simples! chk
One rarely sees "free" and "licensed from Disney" in the same sentence
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Who's in charge of choosing the names? They should be shot, imho.
Seems like they're getting worse.
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Definitions: Acute HIV infection is the phase of HIV disease immediately after infection during which the initial burst of viremia in newly infected patients occurs; anti-HIV antibodies are undetectable at this time while HIV RNA or p24 antigen are present. Recent infection generally is considered the phase up to 6 months after infection during which anti-HIV antibodies are detectable. Throughout this section, the term "early HIV infection" is used to refer to either acute or recent HIV infection.
An estimated 40% to 90% of patients with acute HIV infection will experience symptoms of acute retroviral syndrome, characterized by fever, lymphadenopathy, pharyngitis, skin rash, myalgias/arthralgias, and other symptoms.1-6 Primary care clinicians, however, often do not recognize acute HIV infection because the self-limiting symptoms are similar to those of many other viral infections, such as influenza and infectious mononucleosis. Acute infection can also be asymptomatic. Table 11 provides practitioners with guidance to recognize, diagnose, and manage acute HIV infection.
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Treatment for Early HIV Infection
Clinical trial data regarding the treatment of early HIV infection is limited. Many patients who enrolled in studies to assess the role of antiretroviral therapy (ART) in early HIV infection, as outlined below, were identified as trial participants because they presented with signs or symptoms of acute infection. With the introduction of HIV screening tests that include assays for HIV RNA or p24 antigen and wider HIV screening in healthcare systems, the number of asymptomatic patients identified with early infection may be increasing. The natural history of HIV disease in these patients may differ from that in persons with symptomatic infections, thus further studies on the impact of ART on the natural history of asymptomatic acute HIV infection are needed. The initial burst of high level viremia in infected adults usually declines shortly after acute infection (e.g., within 2 months); however, a rationale for treatment during recent infection (e.g., 2–6 months after infection) remains because the immune system may not yet have maximally contained viral replication in the lymphoid tissue during this time.12 Several trials have addressed the question of the long-term benefit of potent treatment regimens initiated during early HIV infection. The potential benefits and risks of treating HIV during this stage of disease are discussed below:
Several randomized controlled trials have studied the effect of ART during acute and recent infection to assess whether initiating early therapy would allow patients to stop treatment and maintain lower viral loads and higher CD4 counts while off ART for prolonged periods of time. This objective was of interest when these studies were initiated but is less relevant in an era in which treatment is recommended for virtually all HIV-infected patients and treatment interruptions are not recommended (see Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in Treatment-Naive Patients).
The Setpoint Study (ACTG A5217 Study) randomized patients with recent but not acute HIV infection to either defer therapy or immediately initiate ART for 36 weeks and then stop.18 The primary study end point was a composite of meeting criteria for ART or re-initiation of ART and viral load results at week 72 in both groups and at week 36 in the deferred treatment group. The study was stopped prematurely by the Data and Safety Monitoring Board because of an apparent benefit associated with early therapy that was driven mostly by greater proportion of participants meeting criteria for ART initiation in the deferred treatment group (50%) than in the immediate treatment group (10%). Nearly half of the patients in the deferred treatment group needed to start therapy during the first year of study enrollment.
The Randomized Primo-SHM Trial randomized patients with acute (~70%) or recent (~30%) infection to either defer ART or to undergo treatment for 24 or 60 weeks and then stop.19 Significantly lower viral loads were observed 36 weeks after treatment interruption in the patients who had been treated early. These patients also experienced a longer time before the need to initiate therapy, primarily on the basis of reaching a CD4 count of <350 cells/mm3. The median time to starting treatment was 0.7 years for the deferred therapy group and 3.0 and 1.8 years for the 24- and 60-week treatment arms, respectively. The time to reaching a CD4 count of <500 cells/mm3 was only 0.5 years in the deferred group.
Finally, the SPARTAC Trial included patients with acute and recent infection randomized to either defer therapy or to undergo treatment for 12 or 48 weeks and then stop.20 In this case, the time to CD4 <350 cells/mm3 or initiation of therapy was significantly longer in the group treated for 48 weeks than in the deferred treatment group or the group treated for 12 weeks. However, no difference was observed comparing persons who received 12 weeks of ART with those who deferred treatment during early infection.
The strategies tested in these studies are of limited relevance in the current treatment era in which treatment interruption is not recommended. The study results may not fully reflect the natural history of HIV disease in persons with asymptomatic acute infection because most patients in these trials were enrolled on the basis of identified early symptomatic HIV infections. Nevertheless, the results do demonstrate that some immunologic and virologic benefits may be associated with the treatment of early HIV infection. Moreover, all the findings suggest, at least in the population recruited for these studies, that the time to initiating ART after identification of early infection is quite short when the threshold for ART initiation is 350 CD4 cells/mm3, and nonexistent when therapy is advised for all individuals regardless of CD4 cell count as currently recommended in these guidelines. These observations must be balanced with the risks of early treatment, risks that are largely the same as those of therapy initiated in chronically infected asymptomatic patients with high CD4 counts. Consequently, the health care provider and the patient should be fully aware that the rationale for initiating therapy during early HIV infection is based on theoretical benefits and the extrapolation of data from the strategy trials outlined above. These potential benefits must be weighed against the risks. For these reasons, and because ART is currently recommended for all HIV-infected patients (see Initiating Antiretroviral Therapy in Treatment Naive Patients), ART should be offered to all patients with early HIV infection (BII). However, patients must be willing and able to commit to treatment and providers, on a case-by-case basis, may elect to defer therapy for clinical and/or psychosocial reasons. Providers also should consider enrolling patients with early HIV infection in clinical studies to further evaluate the natural history of this stage of HIV infection and to further define the role of ART in this setting. Providers can obtain information regarding such trials at www.clinicaltrials.gov or from local HIV treatment experts.
Treatment for Early HIV Infection During Pregnancy
Because early HIV infection is associated with a high risk of perinatal transmission, all HIV-infected pregnant women should start combination ART as soon as possible to prevent perinatal transmission of HIV (AI).27
Treatment Regimen for Early HIV Infection
Data from the United States and Europe demonstrate that transmitted virus may be resistant to at least 1 antiretroviral in 6% to 16% of patients.28-30 Up to 21% of isolates from contemporary patients with acute HIV infection demonstrated resistance to at least 1 drug.31 Therefore, before initiation of ART in a person with early HIV infection, genotypic antiretroviral drug resistance testing should be performed to guide the selection of a regimen (AII). If the decision to initiate therapy during early infection is made, especially in the setting of acute infection, treatment initiation should not be delayed pending resistance testing results. Once results are available, the treatment regimen can be modified if warranted. If therapy is deferred, resistance testing still should be performed because the results will help guide selection of a regimen to optimize virologic response once therapy is initiated (AII).
The goal of therapy during early HIV infection is to suppress plasma HIV RNA to undetectable levels (AIII). Because data to draw firm conclusions regarding specific drug combinations to use in this stage of HIV infection are insufficient, ART should be initiated with one of the combination regimens recommended for patients with chronic infection (AIII) (see What to Start). If therapy is started before results of drug resistance testing are available, RTV-boosted protease inhibitors (PIs) combined with NRTIs should be used because resistance to RTV-boosted PIs emerge slowly and clinically significant transmitted resistance to PIs is uncommon (AIII). If available, the results of ARV drug resistance testing or the ARV resistance pattern of the source person's virus should be used to guide the selection of the ARV regimen. Given the recent approval of daily tenofovir DF/emtricitabine (TDF/FTC) for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP),32-34 early infection may be diagnosed in some patients while they are taking TDF/FTC as PrEP. In this setting, resistance testing should be performed; however, because PI resistance is unlikely, use of a RTV-boosted PI with TDF/FTC remains a reasonable option pending resistance testing results (see What to Start).
Patient Follow-up
Testing for plasma HIV RNA levels, CD4 cell counts, and toxicity monitoring should be performed as described in Laboratory Testing for Initial Assessment and Monitoring While on Antiretroviral Therapy (i.e., HIV RNA at initiation of therapy, after 2 to 8 weeks, then every 4 to 8 weeks until viral suppression, and thereafter, every 3 to 4 months) (AII).
Duration of Therapy for Early HIV Infection
The optimal duration of therapy for patients with early HIV infection is unknown. Recent studies of early HIV infection have evaluated the potential for starting and then stopping treatment.18-20 Although these studies showed some benefits associated with this strategy, a large randomized controlled trial of patients with chronic HIV infection found that treatment interruption was harmful in terms of increased risk of AIDS and non-AIDS events,35 and that the strategy was associated with increased markers of inflammation, immune activation and coagulation.36 For these reasons and because of the potential benefit of ART in reducing the risk of HIV transmission, the Panel recommends against discontinuation of ART in patients treated for early HIV infection (AIII).
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Hmm, hasn't Fedora been shipping Gallium3d-based Nouveau drivers for a while now? Maybe you meant, finally a distro is shipping an ATI driver running on Gallium3d...
Phoronix: AMD's R300 Gallium3D Driver Is Looking Good For 2011
After years of development work by Tungsten Graphics (now VMware) and the open-source community at large, the Gallium3D driver architecture is finally getting ready to really enter the spotlight of the normal Linux desktop user. With the recent Mesa 7.9 release, the open-source ATI developers switched their R300 driver (that supports up through R500 ASICs, the Radeon X1000 series) from the classic Mesa to their newer Gallium3D driver as the default choice. Vendors are now preparing to do the same as well within Fedora and other distributions, and it was just agreed upon this week Ubuntu 11.04 will use R300g. There will finally be a real, common hardware driver that is based upon Gallium3D and is used by mass amounts of people on a daily basis in a production environment.
Hmm, hasn't Fedora been shipping Gallium3d-based Nouveau drivers for a while now? Maybe you meant, finally a distro is shipping an ATI driver running on Gallium3d...
Why didn't you include the 9.3 close source driver benches?
How much is the open source vs closed source? 0.3X?
I would love to see a comparison of some low-end Radeon r300g vs different generations of Intel graphics with open-source drivers. What's the best quality/price in the budget segment? Also, a table with supported features would be nice in addition to the benchmarks.
At least for Warsow it looks like r300c improved a lot: almost 20fps on 1400x1050 now vs around 3fps when you compared 10.04 to the catalyst drivers: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...allium3d&num=2
I'm curious as to what caused this large jump (whereas r300g is pretty close to where it was)
So comparing to the old Catalyst results it would seem r300g is roughly half as fast, at least on this very weak card. That's not great, but it's actually not that bad either. It would be interesting to see if the page flipping work helps much. Also, i'm not sure if 2d tiling is working or if it's still just 1D.
I don't get it, why only Quake-Engine games?
What about Freespace 2 or games based on that engine, or Spring based games?
Or some free racing games or flight simulation games?
The results would mean a lot more than they do now.


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New Liver Leads to New Family
On December 22, 2004, an article in an Omaha newspaper changed my life. It told the story of a 1-year-old girl from Texas, who came to Nebraska Medicine for a liver transplant. The little girl's name was Elena. She was born early and had immediate health complications including necrotizing enterocolitis. Her family was unable to take care of her, so Elena was all alone.
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