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Oh my! The best I can do is corner by corner! But I did take 4 huge black trash bags full of old clothes to the charity shop last week - and threw out some more stuff. It's heavy sledding!
Thread: Are You a Hoarder?
I have a habit of going through my mother's huge standing cupboard- it's something I have done for as long as I can remember -from a child till now. She makes me laugh because she'll say ... " don't open it - everything will fall out! " Of course I do ..and yes, everything does fall out- my mother has probably kept everything since 1960 ! So...where do my hoarding tendencies come from I wonder.............
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Oh my! The best I can do is corner by corner! But I did take 4 huge black trash bags full of old clothes to the charity shop last week - and threw out some more stuff. It's heavy sledding!
Someone once suggested throwing/giving away 10 things per day, if you need to declutter. I've started doing this.
You can always get rid of more than 10 things, of course.
Reine, that's great! 4 bags is an excellent start, so keep up the momentum! I sorted through my wardrobe and gave away one bag of clothes last week, and this is a reminder for me to go back and finish the job.
30 Roses, thanks for the tip! The past few days I've taken to wandering into "the office" after dinner. (It's the Black Hole in our home, just sucks everything in.) I started tossing up to five things, and I noticed a difference. I'll have to keep doing this and increase it to 10. The challenge for me is keep up the routine. I read that if you can maintain a new habit for 30 days, it can become a routine that you keep for a lifetime. Here's to de-cluttering success!
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I finally started cleaning out the garage this past weekend, I took three HUGE boxes full of junk to the thrift store. I'm afraid it is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg though, I can barely walk around in there let alone park a car. Well, ya gotta start somewhere, right?
At least I have been able to keep my home clutter free....prolly cuz I threw most of it out into the garage!
ive thankfully been a cheapish hoarder. i have an obsession personality for sure, im very much aware of it. i collect EVERYTHING, but at some point i reach an apex, and from there i move on to my next obsession. for the longest time it was CDs, im a HUGE music fan. then last fall/winter i got a new obsession: fragrances! luckily, alot of my stuff has been pretty cheap (around half my stuff is $10 or less). my most expensive is actually A*Men for $60. i told myself i was going to stop after i get John Varvatos, but i discovered Marshalls and TJ Maxx (thank god theyre discount stores!) i ended up buying a few things there, nothing TOO expensive thankfully. i ended up buying Le Male 1.3oz for 35$ at Walmart later on, a complete blind buy that i couldnt be happier with. after that i was determined to stop...HAH! i still wanted A*Men so bad so i ended up buying it. i think my obsession has finally reached its peak as i now own the few couple of high quality scents that i'd been wanting all along.
thats what my cure is for obsessions: i let it run its course and eventually it dies. i start slowly, it ends up manifesting full force, i go to clearance, used, etc. (half my CDs are used, most of my fragrances have been on sale) then i just end up moving on
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Manfred: That's what you do in a herd: you look out for each other. " (Ice Age)
Hmm. Nope, not a hoarder, a collector. A discriminating collector, mind. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
(And I'm totally with those who are frantic, suffering from reformulation angst)
But seriously, two things will help. Reine, are you listening, hon?
1) Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui by Karen Kingston. Changed my life.
2) www.storyofstuff.com. But only when you're feeling up to it.
Listen, we are all going to die. Lets think of hoarding perfume to the likes of leaving it for friends and loved ones. You can include exact bottles in your will to those you wish to enrich with your perfume. When I die, I'm going to leave this earth satisfied that my daughter gets all my perfumes. She better wear them and take care of them from sunlight or I'll come back to haunt her!
(seems like vintage L'origan was made just for me)
Has anyone taken the Myers Briggs Type Inventory profile? I spent a weekend retreat doing this and discovered that I'm an "Intuitive" while my husband is a "Sensory". Intuitives love new possibilities and are always thinking of the next big idea, the next great experience, the next creative project. Sensories tend to stick to the present and what's happening now, and to be attentive to details in the present moment.
I'd guess that many of us hoarders - yes, I put my hand up to that! - are Intuitives. We're looking for the Next Big Scent, the next HG, the perfect scent at the end of the trail! So we love to get more and more samples, more and more new possibilities. And it's hard to let go of those we already have, because they might come in handy one day, we might one day want to wear that rather weird fragrance we got a month ago, one day we might be in the mood for .... you get the point!
But if it's not costing more than money - and if you can afford it - where's the harm? My perfume drawer and closet space have been invaded, but by good things, not useless horrors, so I'm OK with buying and hoarding.
Redrose- I have taken the Myers Briggs Profile- INFJ is what I am . What you said feels quite true.
For sale. Carnal Flower and Vero Profumo Onda.
Well, snap! I too am an INFJ! Also an Enneagram Number 4, if you've ever done that - most INFJ's are in this category, so you may well be a no. 4 too. The Romantic Artist is one designation, living by emotion and intuition, and I feel sure that this would apply to many of us perfume lovers. You only have to read some of the beautiful descriptions by reviewers to know this! Not that scientists and thinkers need be left behind, just that they approach things from a more logical angle and probably wouldn't hoard. My husband is so well organized he actually knows where all his paperwork is at any given time. I have to keep my perfume drawer off limits as otherwise he would probably organize that too. Both our daughers are hoarders!
Hmmm... it's very interesting Redrose ! I betcha I am a 4 with the Enneagram numbers - I will take the test one of these days as I'm curious. My husband is the complete opposite- he's all 100 % a scientist and organised like your husband . He thinks I am very funny with all my perfumes . He knows when I am dreaming of perfume or off in Cloud La La Land when I am listening to music. *LOL*
For sale. Carnal Flower and Vero Profumo Onda.
I am also an INFJ! We are like 1% of the population or some crazy small number like that. But it doesn't surprise me to find many on BN.
I have a little over 100 bottles. I would like to take that down to 15 or 20. But every time i try to figure out which ones i would keep, its way lmore than 20. And then of course, i have those "ones" that i will never wear. So, do i have a problem? NO. I have 2 or 3 problems.
I like to stock fragrances that i doubt to find them another time.
I've always been a collector. Often, the enthusiasm leads to obsession and sometimes to hoarding. But plants die, sculpture gets covered in dust, and eventually you have to drink all that wine or it goes bad
Oh yes, there's coins and stamps and books and a whole lot more... and they're all interesting while you're learning about them, searching for them, and compling lists of them.
However, there are a few things about collecting fragrance that I particularly enjoy:
1. There is a huge, but not endless variety. There's a lot of places you can find them for sale, both new and used.
2. You can sniff them alone, or wear them outside. You can share them with friends, or make new combinations.
3. The bottles are compact, easy to store, and often very beautiful. The juice is not easily spoiled.
4. Many are inexpensive, especially secondhand. Even if you are poor or cheap, there's plenty to find and buy.
Of course, there's a lot more that I could say... but I won't obsess
I am an irrepressible hoarder. I just like to learn about something to the enth degree and then need all the equipment for that. Then I have the intention to make a marvellous business out of it..... nearly finish, then I find a new interest and do it with that too.... and so it goes on...
Art stuff, sewing stuff, books, wines, jams, perfumes and more perfumes.... there is no end. We shall drown in stuff. I'm then so busy doing the new thing, I haven't got the time to sort the last interests out, so then it gets in a jumble... and that goes on...
My poor children when I peg it.... The only thing is they will never be short of money if they can be bothered to sell it all, but they are so badly trained by me, they will have too much clutter of their own. At least I can't gather any more things when I'm underground.... oh yes I can.... I shall collect worms.
I did just get help tidying out over 30 jars of older jams out of the cupboard.... now if that was possible, breakfast can bring new hope after all.... just got to get rid of the empty jars first ... but... they may be useful for paint jars or new jams or tinctures.... there is very little hope for me ever to be tidy and minimalist ....
however messy... I am very creative....and my children... they won't remember me for tidying up and dusting, but they will for all the arty things I do with them... and we're never short of what to make anything with... I have everything!
With almost half the size of my collection comprising of backups, I am guilty of 'hoarding'. I beg for forgiveness.
Yup! Since oakmoss has taken such a hit with the new regs, I buy & hoard anything that I can find on the internet that has lots & lots of oakmoss. Otherwise, if I tire of a scent and still have a partial bottle, I give it away to someone I feel will appreciate it.
"Hoarders: Buried Alive."), but bad enough to when I go to her house, I WANT TO CLEAN!
And it's always, "No! Keep that!" "But, Mom, it doesn't even fit you anymore." "Maybe you can have it!" "I don't want it!" "Maybe your children will want it!" And at that point, I'd give up, because one could go for *generations* with that argument.
I too am a hoarder, and it's irritating. Every now and then I do a purge.
Even perfumes. I guess that's why I love Basenotes so much. Y'see, I once sent a sample to my godsister of a perfume I adore, and she called it "L'eau de Homeless." That's our running gag now for "Do not send me any more perfume!" I love her.
Anyway, I can't count on giving any of my treasured perfumes to family if I were to pass away. So I only keep the ones I truly love. And I find that if I only "like" them, Basenotes allows me to find someone I know "loves" them. So it's not as if they're going somewhere unloved.
"Embrace those things which give you pleasure, after all, there is so much mediocrity to endure elsewhere." -- Inselaffe
Aiona, I'm going through my file cabinets now and decluttering paper (it's amazing what's in there-- exactly why do I still have expired PT licenses, juror summonses and old car insurance certificates from the early 2000s?)
The problem is we bring in new "stuff" (any stuff--perfume, clothes, paper, whatever!) without getting rid of any of the old stuff. So of course it just grows.
This is tricky. It's one thing to throw out expired documents when new ones come in the mail, but not likely that we will get rid of beloved perfumes just because we gain a new love. (We don't get rid of our first child when we have a second one!)
I'm trying to hold things with a lighter hand-- share more, and recognize when something I once loved is no longer providing enough pleasure to justify its presence in my home. We have a ton of books, but even those are being thinned down. As for perfumes, decanting for others to try a perfume is one way to reduce what we have without losing the perfume entirely.
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I'm so glad I stumbled across this thread. Like many of you, I enter into a hobby and get obsessed with wanting to master the subject matter. I used to spend a fortune on books. Finally ran out of shelf space, realized I was unlikely to read most of them more than once because there's always another book that's just been released that I want to read right now, and so I relearned my childhood lesson about using library system. In my 20's I went through a record/cd collecting phase but ultimately stopped because I ran out of space and was neglecting records previously purchased because I wanted to listen to the new hot release. So much was being released it was impossible to keep up! I now use a subscription to Napster to fulfill that particular lemming. My shelves are rapidly filling up with perfume now and I feel guilty about neglecting some of the decants I bought a year ago in favor of new ones that have just arrived. The number of new releases is staggering AND I got bitten by the vintage bug, which is a great big black hole in terms of money. The majority of my collection are decants, which long ago outgrew the drawer I had them in but I have too many bottles and too many samples as well. The only backups I have are of a limited number of vintage scents because formulations/years can make them smell quite different from each other. Trying to set up multiple swaps in which I swap away several items for one that I really want. I've also been reaching out to newbies and offering them generous samples from my stash hoping that I can reduce while helping them with their perfume education in a way that doesn't cost them money. I spent a small fortune on samples when I initially got bit by the niche perfume bug. Really appreciate Mr. Bon Vivant's post. I had forgotten about the Fly Lady website and just bookmarked it. Living with clutter stresses me out but taming it is physically overwhelming on most days. Good to get some advice/support on how to do it in small bites.
Thanks to everyone who posted on this thread, because it's really helped me! Especially Aiona, and the suggestion to keep only the perfumes we truly love, not just like. My collection has been growing exponentially, basically through trying to find the "ideal" rose scent, which I now realize does not exist - just a series of really excellent scents many of which are truly lovely and which fit different moods, weather, etc. But I have a problem with reformulations - it's so frustrating when something you love and have counted on always being able to get hold of just disappears, even when the replacement has the same name! So where do I draw the line with buying backups? Surely it makes sense these days, when even Chanel No 5 is so different from the original? So I'm going through my collection, just keeping the ones I truly love, and giving away the likeable also-rans. I don't want my kids to have that problem after I'm gone! And neither of them really likes florals anyway!
Fragonard Grasse Rose.... the most beautiful of all roses. You need just one more to add to the hoard.
Well, no--it's a luxury, I don't really need any of it. But it's a small joy for me, and I indulge when I can!
If you feel you have too much or that your collection is out-of-control, then the anxiety outstrips the joy. That's no way to live! I guess it's something we each have to work out for ourselves and our own comfort level.
I had a nice time gifting excess beauty/perfume/bath & body items recently to a friend who hasn't treated herself to such luxuries lately. I also gave a load of these items to an occupational therapist who ran a daily grooming group at a psychiatric ward in my city.
Growing up, I had four very girly older sisters, so things got used up much more quickly---and were often purloined from one another-- when they were teenaged and I was a little girl.
Accumulating and gifting is like breathing in/breathing out. I try to just enjoy things while I can and share when I can.
I've been lurking for some time and it's probably telling that the first post I make is to this thread! My interests tend to be come obsessions. They'll last for a while and fade. I'll tend to purge at some point then feel real regret about some items.
But my three constant interests that have been obsessions at some point, and still occupy my time is handbags, reading and finding my "favorite" scent.
I have been through stained glass, soapmaking, crochet, embroidery, jewelry making (I do still indulge in this once in a blue moon)... it goes on and on.
Just when I thought I had the perfect scent for me, my body chemistry seemed to change and it smelled like cat urine! Still couldn't part with it until very recently. Gave it to a cousin of mine who loved it and it smelled on her the way it used to smell on me!
So now, I'm back to square one looking for my ideal. I'm sure that doesn't exist and will keep me interested for some time to come. The closest I've found at this point - and I do love it as it works beautifully on me - is Coco. For now
Nice to meet you all!
Hello fellow fragrance addicts and hoarders.
The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem, but I definitely don't want therapy or a cure.
I'm a fragrance addict. It started when I was a little girl of 4 years old when my mother would put drops of Estee Lauder's Youth Dew perfume oil in my bath water. Yes... it was the devilish DEW that started my fascination with perfumes. Later as a teen I would have gifts of perfume for birthdays, holidays which only served to reinforce my fragrance addiction as an adult.
Even now my shoe addiction comes second to my fragrance addiction.
The list of perfumes in my wardrobe is only a fraction of the perfumes I own, tried, sampled, tested, owned, over the years. There are some I can't add because they are not in the fragrance directory.
I only buy perfumes I like, I definitely don't buy or wear a fragrance that's the most popular and I avoid the perfume pushers in department stores because I know more about the scents I like to wear than they do.
I also have a skin allergy to some fragrances, but when that happens... like a true addict - the burn, although bothersome doesn't discourage me at all, I wear it anyhow. Je Reviens by Worth is one of those fragrances, one spray gives me a reaction like a poison ivy rash - but... like the true addict I am - I forced the entire bottle on my chemistry.
I buy fragrances often. I am also addicted to collecting scented candles. Fragrance really rules a lot of my life.
Today I'm wearing "Life Threads - Emerald" by La Prairie. I'm noticing a recent trend in my preferences as I've been buying lily based florals...
And because I'm an addict - I have no idea why.
So many fragrances...So little time"
I just recently gave away A TON of baby clothes I didn't need anymore. I could only do that because my mother isn't here. Back when she was helping me take care of baby, I told her I was going to give away some baby clothes, and she goes, "No! SAVE THEM!" But they don't fit anymore, I explained. "They're still good!"
I understand a little bit of her mentality. They're cute. They're of sentimental value. BUT I DON'T NEED THEM. And I am running out of space for the clothes we are using NOW.
I watched another episode of a hoarding show last week, and what struck me was what the "therapist" said, "You need to stop living in the future." Enjoy the now. And all that kind of stuff. I understand, if one had come from a time when things were scarce, and money was tight, it was imperative to hold on to things that one might need.
But, example, I used to keep a big bucket of scraps to someday make a quilt. Well. . . there was a time when I actually tried to quilt a small pillow. Granted, I chose a really difficult design for me -- one of those Q-bert block-like designs. COULD NOT FINISH IT. It was damn hard! And time was limited. That project is somewhere hidden in piles of stuff that I've moved from my other house 3000 miles away. Even if I found it, I *KNOW* I am not going to finish it.
And neither will I finish using any of my other quilt scraps.
I looked into Free Cycle a while back, but even saving up to make a Free Cycle exchange takes up time and space -- both hot commodities for me right now.
Anyway, I love that quote, unregistered.
"Embrace those things which give you pleasure, after all, there is so much mediocrity to endure elsewhere." -- Inselaffe
I mean my liking a perfume is basically the kiss of death for its continuation for some reason. I am now hoarding, for lack of a better term, NR Musc oil for her, because I adore it and I am blowing through bottles of it (it is rather subtle). Half the world is anosmic to it, I think. So there's my rational, anyway...
Dans La Nuit Vers Le Jour Sans Adieu Je Reviens Vers Toi.
I've given away some perfumes I never wore - unwanted gifts - and likewise got rid of some samples I knew I'd never like. I'd been keeping them out of concern I might want to sniff the scent when reading about it, but then I thought, hey, if it's a scrubber for me now, why on earth would I want to read about it???
But some of my favourites scents are in danger, either being discontinued right now or "probably" being discontinued in the near future. Caron's Rose and their Or et Noir; Creed's Fleurs de The Rose Bulgaire; and others I see from The Perfumed Court site are getting very hard to find.
So I've now ended up with two or three back-up bottles of every fragrance I love - which means about 60 FB's in the back of my clothes wardrobe! So my collection is taking up more space than ever before!
I don't really think I'm an addict, but would I know if I were?
To me, this is just being sensible, like my grandmother and my mother did with stocking up on food during World Wars I and II. There is a sort of "world war" going on in the perfume industry right now, with little houses being bought up by huge conglomerates and rare ingredients becoming even harder to find, not to mention the dreadful IFRA regs.
As long as I can still afford my grocery bill, I'll carry on stocking up on favourites.
That post just made me laugh. I love all of you for being like me. We are all just sensibly hoarding....just in case all perfumes end up being banned altogether..... forbid that thought!
Yes - maybe I can mortgage the garden shed!
At least my hoard smells nicer than my Mum's. I can remember her pantry having four tins of Spam, 10 of baked beans, and about a dozen tinned peas! Just In Case!
Oh my god, I so need to re-read this thread right now.
"Embrace those things which give you pleasure, after all, there is so much mediocrity to endure elsewhere." -- Inselaffe
I don't feel I hoard yet because I don't buy multiple bottles of the same fragrance. Also, I don't have to have various formulations of the same fragrance to be happy. Also, I'm extremely picky about what I like.
I used to buy fragrances and beauty products more often than I do now. And I am busy decluttering my home. Sometimes I used to buy 2 bottles of the same fragrance but I stopped doing that. I am trying to use up all those bottles of scent which have still like a 1/2 inch to 1 inch fragrance left inside. My empties which I used to collect are in boxes stored in the garage somewhere.
I saw somewhere online a series of I think it was 10 pictures depicting stages of hoarding showing a table with stuff on it. Found that quite interesting you can see what stage of hoarding you are at.The internet is full of advice on decluttering I read that to find tips and info for my decluttering of the home.And like someone mentioned in a post get rid of 10 items daily.
I am a hoarder,I constantly buy fragrance and other bath and body products. I used to buy beautiful clothes all the time but I quit smoking gained weight,now hate my image in the mirror. I am trying to weed out the fragrances to those I feel are "timeless" and those that I absolutely love. I am going to take a large box of,fragrance that do not fit that category to the women's shelter here in town.
Any advice on my situation will be appreciated.
I have to sort out my bath and body products also have been postponing this for some time.
My makeup I restarted that few years ago starting from scratch all over, I had stopped using it for many years. So now my make up is few years old got to sort that out also.I seldom buy clothes as I am mostly home.
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I buy fragrances by season now so some spring/summer and some fall/autumn perfumes and ad on with leftovers I have lots of.
I work hard at not being a hoarder. I live in a small house and even a small pile of something can fill way too much cupboard space so if something comes in something else has to go out.
I have some questions that I ask myself when I consider buying anything. Do I actually NEED the item? Where will it live? Does it duplicate anything else that I already have?
My other collection is of minerals and gemstones and I have stopped buying large specimens because I simply have no more space for them. I can buy perfume because the bottles are small
'I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.'
"Embrace those things which give you pleasure, after all, there is so much mediocrity to endure elsewhere." -- Inselaffe


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Iran on Sunday launched a new warning against any attack on its nuclear sites, amid reports Israel and the U.S. mull the possibility of a military option to stop Iran's nuclear program if diplomacy fails. The Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, warned Sunday that any attack by Israel against its nuclear sites "will fall like a thunderbolt" on the head of the Jewish state, accusing the West of "lying" about the Iranian nuclear threat.
Israeli and American officials have begun to discuss the possibility of military strikes against Iran's nuclear program since the collapse of negotiations in Baghdad between the major powers and Iran last month. "All options are on the table", reiterated Wednesday the Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak in an allusion to a possible attack against Iran. "We must find the right time before it is possible to act".
On his part, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, said his country had "no intention to continue discussions indefinitely" and that "the window is beginning to close" in front of a diplomatic solution.
"If the Zionist leaders talk of military action (against Iran), it is because they are (...) more vulnerable than ever. Any wrong decision (...) will fall on their head as the lightning, "stated Ayatollah Khamenei in a speech to mark the 23rd death anniversary of Imam Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic.
His chief military adviser, former commander of the Revolutionary Guards Yahya Rahim Safavi, warned on Saturday that Tehran would respond militarily to any attack. He reiterated that Israeli and U.S. bases in the Middle East as well as the U.S. Fifth Fleet in the Gulf were within range of the large arsenal of Iranian missiles.
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Israel does not believe Iran because they remember how Ben-Gurion lied to Eisenhower, DeGaulle and Kennedy. Israel should go it alone if they attack. U.S. should be smart enough to stay out. Such an attack wil probably solve the Israeli- Arab conflict. Israel will probably have to resort to a nuclear strike to try and save itself but it will be too late.
Provides for the right of countries to engage in military action in self-defense, including collective self-defense (i.e. under an alliance) FOR SYRIA AND IRAN IF ATTACKED.
Leaving everything and everyone, a man close to "god" can not give warnings and talk only of war, he never mentioned the peace among the people of Iran with the world, has never given good examples of fearing man with gestures GOD. So that's my thought. The clerical regime accepts these utterances to be published or apply cover up
Iran regime, do yourself a favor and hire a public relations firm.
Somehow, you don't seem to get it.
Maybe you will after paying good money to the PR folks to listen to what they have to say.

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Well why don't we start a thread filled with WoW-related videos? :3
Here I'll go first
You FACE Jaraxxus remix
The video where the Serenity Guild ambushes an in-game funeral
The perks of being a Druid
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Another good one I found
that's funny!
Some early Cataclysm gameplay
^ An emotional video :'(
Another good one
Always a classic for me, Druid Pvp - the way it was intended. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klm2Q7xu_d4
Video of me and some of my buddies slow walking in WSG as christmas gnomes. And capping the flag >.>.
Sadly can't hear me in the vid cause I screwed up the recording, so the conversation is a bit weird at times. Here you go anyway xD.
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This never gets old for me. Some of the most fun I've ever had in WoW was because of hard-packed snowballs in old AV.
And even though it's reached new heights, I rather like the restless nights. It makes me wonder, makes me think there's more to this, I'm on the brink. It's not the fear of what's beyond, it's just that I might not respond! I have an interest, almost craving, would I like to get to far in?!


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- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1-1/4 cups warm water (110° to 115°)
- 1/4 cup canola oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 pound ground beef
- 1 small onion, chopped
- 1 can (15 ounces) tomato sauce
- 3 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 medium green pepper, diced
- 2 cups (8 ounces) shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- In large bowl, dissolve yeast and sugar in water; let stand for 5 minutes. Add oil and salt. Stir in flour, a cup at a time, until a soft dough forms.
- Turn onto floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 2-3 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease the top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes. Meanwhile, cook beef and onion over medium heat until no longer pink; drain.
- Punch down dough; divide in half. Press each into a greased 12-in. pizza pan. Combine the tomato sauce, oregano and basil; spread over each crust. Top with beef mixture, green pepper and cheese.
- Bake at 400° for 25-30 minutes or until crust is lightly browned. Yield: 2 pizzas (3 servings each).
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At a Glance
Why Get Tested?
To determine lithium levels in the blood in order to maintain a therapeutic level or to detect lithium toxicity
When to Get Tested?
When beginning treatment with lithium as the dose is adjusted to achieve therapeutic blood levels; at regular intervals to monitor lithium levels; as needed to detect low or toxic concentrations
Sample Required?
A blood sample drawn from a vein in your arm
Test Preparation Needed?
The Test Sample
What is being tested?
Lithium is one of the most well-established and widely-used drugs prescribed in the treatment of bipolar disorder. This test measures the amount of lithium in the blood.
Bipolar disorder is a mental condition characterized by alternating periods of depression and mania. These periods may be as short as a few days or weeks or as long as months or years. During a depressive episode, those affected may feel sad, hopeless, worthless, and lose interest in daily activities. They may be fatigued but have trouble sleeping, experience weight loss or gain, have difficulty concentrating, and have thoughts of suicide. During a manic episode, those affected may be euphoric, irritable, have high energy and grandiose ideas, use poor judgment, and participate in risky behaviors. Sometimes affected people will have mixed episodes with aspects of both mania and depression. Bipolar disorder can affect both adults and children.
Lithium is prescribed to even out the moods of a person with bipolar disorder. It is often called a "mood stabilizer" and is sometimes prescribed for people with depression who are not responding well to other medications. Less commonly, lithium may be prescribed to prevent schizoaffective disorder and cluster headaches.
Because lithium is a relatively slow-acting drug, its effect on mood may take several weeks. Dosages of the drug are adjusted until blood concentrations are within a therapeutic range. The actual amount of drug that it will take to reach this steady state will vary from person to person and may be affected by a person's age, general state of health, and other medications that they are taking.
Lithium levels are monitored on a regular basis because blood levels must be maintained within a narrow therapeutic range. Too little and the medication will not be effective; too much and symptoms associated with lithium toxicity may develop.
How is the sample collected for testing?
A blood sample is obtained by inserting a needle into a vein in the arm.
NOTE: If undergoing medical tests makes you or someone you care for anxious, embarrassed, or even difficult to manage, you might consider reading one or more of the following articles: Coping with Test Pain, Discomfort, and Anxiety, Tips on Blood Testing, Tips to Help Children through Their Medical Tests, and Tips to Help the Elderly through Their Medical Tests.
Another article, Follow That Sample, provides a glimpse at the collection and processing of a blood sample and throat culture.
Is any test preparation needed to ensure the quality of the sample?
No test preparation is needed. However, timing of the sample collection may affect results. Generally, lithium blood levels are performed 12 hours after the last dose (also known as a "trough" level). Tell the person who draws your blood when you took your last dose so that the results can be interpreted correctly.
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My favorite hack
Something reminded me recently of project that I worked on around 10 years ago. I was a simple, clean solution to a problem that had remained unsolved for over a year. It was also one of the most horrible hacks that I've ever put into production.
At the time, I was working for a startup that was suffering from explosive growth. We'd began rolling out new sales and engineering offices all over the US faster than we could build the infrastructure that we needed to manage the offices. We built each office with two small Linux servers; one acted as a file server (with Samba) and the other did email for the office. The problem that we were facing is that each office was completely separate from the others–we had technical and political issues that made rolling out a VPN very difficult, so there was no easy way for salespeople to share documents between offices other than email. Which they did with great abandon, and it was killing our servers in larger offices.
The Great And Glorious VPN Project had tried to fix the company-wide filesharing problem repeatedly without success. There were too many requirements, too little money, and the technology wasn't mature enough. I assume that they managed to deploy something eventually, but not for years after I left the place.
So, we needed a solution for distributed file sharing. It needed to be relatively quick, compatible with Linux and Windows computers, encrypted when passing over the Internet at large, able to deal with 100+ ms latencies between servers, and ideally not require a full mesh, because we were adding 1-2 new offices per month and having to reconfigure all of them every time would have killed us.
We played around with distributed filesystems like Coda and AFS. None of them fit our needs. We considered some sort of read-only replication with rsync copying each office's content to other locations, but it was too messy to explain to people. We considered deploying Novell Netware (into a Linux shop) just for this, but it wouldn't have helped enough. We would have rolled out Windows servers, but Microsoft didn't have anything useful at the time. We looked at other commercial solutions, but nothing that we found was more than a partial solution.
Until one day, when I was sitting in a meeting about some other topic and the solution just popped into my head fully formed. It was really, really evil, and it would all Just Work. Either that, or it wouldn't work at all, and it'd only take a few minutes to determine the answer. I think I excused myself ("I think I just solved the file sharing problem") and walked out in the middle of the meeting to test it.
Remember, each office had 2 servers: one acting as a file server, running Samba, the other a mail server, running sendmail and an IMAP server. Here's all it took: I configured Samba on each mail server, and had it join the same workgroup (I don't think we were using domains yet) as the existing file server. So each Windows computer now saw two Samba file servers instead of one. The Samba file server software actually consists of two different programs:
nmbd, which handles naming and network browsing, and
smbd, which actually serves files. I fired up
nmbd on each mail server, but instead of running
smbd, I ran
stunnel and had it encrypt any traffic that was headed to
smbd and ship it off to a single file server in our headquarters, where it was decrypted and handed off to a real
smbd process.
So, any Windows computer would browse the network and see two servers. One named something like "nfs.nyc" and the other named something like "global-nfs". When they tried to connect to "global-nfs," their packets were shipped off to a completely different computer in a different city. And everything just worked. It was dead simple. We'd been looking and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to solve this problem and having to install new hardware in every office; in the end we spent a couple thousand on a single new file server and rolled it all out overnight with a minor software change.
The ugly part is that Samba shares state between
nmbd and
smbd, and none of that was actually being shared here. You aren't supposed to run the two processes separately. It gets confused. Except it doesn't actually hurt anything in this case. None of the problems actually impact anything that we cared about.
While I was at it, I used the same mechanism to standardize printing across the company, but that's a story for another day.
Pancakes, with a side-order of problem-solving
So, lo and behold, it's Saturday morning. It's the day before Mother's Day, and we're going to be driving most of the day tomorrow, so it seemed like the perfect time to cook something a bit special for breakfast. After thinking about it a bit, I decided that what I really wanted was German Pancakes.
That posed a bit of a problem. You see, German Pancakes want to be cooked in the oven. And we're in the middle of remodeling.
The oven goes about where the white bucket is sitting. Until the remodel is done, we're stuck cooking with just an induction pad and a convection microwave. There's no way the microwave will heat up to 450°, which is what the recipe calls for. What's a hungry programmer to do? Why, improvise, of course. There's one more cooking appliance available, although it's not widely used for baking pancakes:
Technically, there's no reason you can't bake in an outdoor gas grill, but getting the temperature control right is tricky. I let it heat up for 15 minutes, and then tweaked the settings to get it to stay around 450°. Then I put a stainless steel frying pan onto the grill (all of the cast iron is packed up for now) and let it heat up for another 10m, and checked the temperature:
Looks like it'll hold 450° just fine. The recipe calls for 20-25m of cooking time, but that's always seemed high to me; our old oven usually took 15-20m. After 17m I checked the pancake, and it looked perfect:
There's nothing like grilled pancake for breakfast, now is there?
I need iPad blinders
These iPad reviews and App Store links are starting to get hazardous to my (financial) health. I mean, I really don't need one. I have 2 Nexus One phones in my pocket, a Kindle DX, and I rarely go anywhere without a Macbook Pro. The biggest thing that I'd use a small tablet for would be to-do/calendar management, and I don't think the iPad is particularly good at that–it's not really possible to integrate information from multiple silos (Calendar, To-Do, Email, etc) given the iPhone/iPad architecture. My general opinion hasn't changed much since the last time I wrote about it.
I'm not convinced that it matters though. Much like Stross, I have a low saving throw versus Shiny!
iPad: meh
Back in 2004 or so, I desperately wanted a 8-10" tablet from Apple. Something that would let me browse the web and check my mail while I was away from my desk, without forcing me to lug my laptop around. Something that would let me play with new ideas over lunch. Something that could use to build cool stuff.
Somewhere along the way, I decided that it was never going to happen. There just wasn't enough of a market for it, and the form-factor requires UI that is drastically different from desktop OS X. They'd have to start from the ground up to build it. It wasn't going to happen.
So, every 6 months or so, when the Apple Tablet rumor popped back up, I just ignored them–they were obviously bunk–and they went away on their own.
That is, until a few months ago, when the rumors shifted dramatically, and it became clear that Apple really was building a tablet. So yesterday morning, I was watching 3 live streams of the launch to see what magical thing Steve and company were working on. And now the rumors and the hype have cleared, and we're left holding the iPad. Which is more or less exactly what I was looking for in 2004.
And I'm amazed to discover that I don't want one. Not now, not in 2010.
It's not like I'm immune to iProducts. I mean, I was literally in a car, on the way to the Apple store halfway through the iPhone announcement. We had to turn around when he announced that it wasn't going to ship for 6 months. As a family, we've bought 9 iPods and iPhones over the years, including the very first model.
So why doesn't the iPad work for me?
- It doesn't do anything that I can't already do. I have a laptop. I have a phone. I have a Kindle. The iPad can't replace the phone or the laptop, and my Kindle doesn't need replaced right now. Sure, it's a better web-browsing platform than the phone, but not really all that much better.
- It's too closed. I switched from an iPhone 3GS to a Nexus One a month and a half ago, and I don't really want to go back. The iPhone is prettier, and Apple has more useful apps, but the N1 is much more useful for me. It has a dramatically better interface to Gmail and Google Calendar. It multitasks, so IM works right. When the browser is too slow loading a page, I can go check my mail and then flip back to check on the page loading later. Random third-party apps sync in the background on their own. Apps can extend the core OS experience trivially; install a Flickr uploading app, and the 'Share' button in the existing camera app suddenly knows how to upload to Flickr. Heck, I even replaced the default home page/app browser with Slidescreen, just because it fits what I want out of my phone better. None of this is possible with the iPhone, and none of it will be possible with the iPad.
- I think this is really the killer for me: the iPad is really just a media consumption device. I agree with almost everything Tim Bray has to say on the topic–the iPad is 98% oriented towards consuming existing content. Which is nice, sometimes. I mean, that's all the Kindle is good for, and I love my Kindle. But it's not what I want in a portable, always-with-me computer.
So what *do* I want in tablet-like device, or really any mobile computer, PDA, tablet, or phone? I want it to make my life better in some meaningful way. I want to build things with it. I want to look at how I do things in my life and create tools to make myself more powerful. And I don't believe I can do that with the iPhone or iPad. They're too tied to Steve's View Of The World, and I'm not Steve. Almost everything that I'd like to have a device like this automate for me requires some sort of background processing, syncing with services online, and the iPad can't do any of that right now. Maybe that'll change in the future. Maybe iPhone/iPad OS 4.0 will fix that. Maybe the second-generation iPad will be able to do some of that. Maybe they'll be able to convince me to fork over $100 just to write software for my own device. Maybe.
For now, though, I'm planning on sticking with my Nexus One, and I'll probably keep an eye open for mid-sized Android tablets with high resolution screens. Android absolutely lacks the polish and shine of Apple's products, but it's moving amazingly fast, and it finally seems to be Good Enough for me. It's reached a sort of critical mass, and it's developing into a viable ecosystem of its own. At this point, the only thing that I really miss from my iPhone is the Kindle reader app, and I assume that Amazon is working on one for Android. Android's not perfect, but it's getting quite good. And while it lacks Apple's polish and shine, it doesn't have the same shrink-wrapped, pre-packaged, plastic feeling that so many interactions with Apple have these days.
Finally signed up for Facebook
I'm currently filled with self-loathing, as I failed in my attempt to be the last person in North America without a Facebook account. It's still entirely unclear why I'd want to share a single social network with my grandmother, my neices' friends, and a bunch of current and former co-workers. I mean, really–what could I possibly say that's appropriate and interesting for all of them?
Around the World in 365 Days
I know that I've been on the road a lot lately, but TripIt just made it a bit more real when it told me that I've travelled over 21,000 miles so far this year. The Earth's circumference seems to be around 24,900 miles, so I'm only 3900 miles short of making a round-the-world trip this year. And that's without the 3 trips left on my travel schedule–Mexico next week, Vegas the week after, and Dublin a few weeks after that. It looks like I'm going to end up covering around 30,000 miles and will have spent over 60 days on the road in total.
And, frankly, I doubt that next year will be any different. If anything, it might be busier.
New Stuff Day
It looks like today's shaping up to be really a really entertaining day for product announcements.
First, Canon just announced the 1D mk IV, which may finally close the lead that Nikon opened with the D3 a couple years ago. The big news with the mk IV is ISO 100-12800, with the ability to go up to ISO 102,400 in a pinch, which is more or less the same as the D3s that Nikon announced last week. If I was in the market for a new camera (and I'm not completely convinced that I'm not), the mk IV is interesting. It doesn't have a full-frame sensor, but in all other respects it looks just about perfect.
Next, Apple's due to announce a boatload of stuff at any minute. Current rumors suggest new iMacs, a new Mini, a new Airport base station (with multiple antennas, and maybe multiple radios), a new mouse with iPhone-like touch scroller, and some sort of desktop touchpad.
Finally, for some reason Barnes and Noble decided that today'd be the perfect quiet news day to get loads of press coverage for their new ebook reader. We'll see how that works for them.
New iPhone Time
I wasn't exactly one of the first people in line to buy an iPhone when they first came out, but I did own and use a first-generation iPhone for about a year and a half. It was a great little phone, but 3 things bugged me:
- It's slow. Oh, man, so slow. Apps open slowly. Things download slowly.
- It doesn't have all that much storage space. 8 GB just isn't enough. It was always full.
- The camera sucked.
Earlier this week, I gave in and bought a shiny new iPhone 3GS. So far I'm really happy. It was cheaper than the first-generation iPhone was, and the camera seems better. Plus the reception is slightly better in my new office. And it's actually kind of zippy, while the old iPhone had felt sluggish since I upgraded it to 2.0 or so.
I'm headed off to New York next week, and I hate dragging a real camera along on business trips, so I'll see if the 3GS is enough to make me happy on that front.
Back from the dead
The past two months have been nerve-wracking at work–I've been working on a big project that should be completely invisible to users, but should make life a lot easier for those of us who run things behind the scenes. The potential for failure was huge, and I did everything I could to prepare and test and tweak the process. Fortunately, it looks like it's all paid off; things went off almost perfectly yesterday, and unless something catastrophic happens this week, I'm going to be able to move on to a pile of new, more interesting, and hopefully less stressful projects. That's the penalty for success, right?
I kind of regret missing Gnomedex this year, as looks like a lot of old friends were there, but I just couldn't afford the time away from work in the middle of things. Maybe next year. In fact, I'm not quite sure where my summer went–I've been concentrating on this since early July; there are a huge pile of home improvement projects that didn't get done last year and I'd put off until spring or summer this year, and I haven't even touched them yet. Hopefully the weather will hold through the end of September, and I'll be able to get a bit of yard work in.
Kindle DX Review
I've been too busy traveling and reading my Kindle DX to get around to writing up the review that I promised last month. Since it's been out for a month now and people have been reviewing it the whole time, I'm just going to cover the things that have made me especially happy and unhappy.
In general, the DX is a nice step up from the Kindle 1. The larger size is, as expected, a mixed blessing. The bigger screen is great, especially when reading PDFs, but the extra size and weight makes long reading sessions slightly less comfortable than the Kindle 1. I almost exclusively used the Kindle 1's left-side page changing buttons, and I'm amazed that Amazon left them off of the DX.
I took my DX to Boulder with me last week and read 4 books along the way. The DX may be larger than my old Kindle 1, but it's so much thinner that it's easier to travel with. It's easy to slip it into airline seat-back pockets and it fits into my laptop bag much better than the Kindle 1 did.
A few gripes:
- It's crashed a couple times on me. Holding down the power button forced a reboot.
- With the wireless on, the battery life's kind of short. Don't expect more than a few days between charges, even if you aren't using the DX every day.
- The Kindle DX really needs a set of left-hand next/previous buttons.
- The Kindle 2/DX software is a nice improvement over the Kindle 1, but it still needs work. It's great for reading books, but once you give it more than 100 titles, you're going to be doing a lot of scrolling. Amazon needs a better way to manage your library.
- Wikipedia is ugly and slow on the Kindle. Amazon should spend some time building a Kindle-optimized version of Wikipedia. A bit of CSS and then optimizing the HTML a bit would go a long ways towards making it more usable.
- PDFs with lots of small text are hard to read. Beautiful Security from O'Reilly is rendered in a tiny little font that's readable on the DX, but it's so small that it's uncomfortable and it kills my reading speed. Removing the whitespace around the outside of the PDF would help with this; I'm going to look for a PDF post-processor to do it for me, but the Kindlle should really be able to handle this on its own.
- The page tilt sensor is dumb. It's prone to rotating your book for you while you're busy reading. Fortunately, it's easy to turn off.
All in all, I'm happy with my DX. I'd buy it again tomorrow if I had to (and if it didn't have a ~1 month waiting list at the moment). If you're looking for an ebook reader that can read PDFs and handle complex documents, then it's the best thing on the market, *IF* you can live with the price and you don't want to put more than 100 documents at a time on it. If you need more than that, then expect to spend a lot of time scrolling through the list of available books on the Kindle.
If you don't care about PDFs, then I'd recommend that you just buy the Kindle 2. It's way cheaper ($299 instead of $489), lighter, and smaller, and it's more or less the same size as a paperback book. If you can handle cheap paperbacks, then you can live with the Kindle 2's screen.
Kindles, Kindles everywhere
I've owned an Amazon Kindle for almost a year now, and I'm still really happy with it. A few highlights of the year:
- I've read at least 80 Kindle books. 68 of those were purchased from Amazon, a few were free books from Tor, and a few were purchased from Baen.
- Of those, probably 10 were read via the Kindle app on my iPhone. It's a lot less enjoyable than reading on my Kindle, so given the choice I'll always grab the Kindle first, but I can keep my iPhone in my pocket and pull it out at lunch or while I'm stuck waiting in line. Since it syncs with the Kindle over the air, I'm able to hop back and forth between the two devices and still have the right page sitting and waiting for me.
- By and large, I've found that I enjoy reading books on the Kindle substantially more than I enjoy them on paper. I've probably only read 5 paper books over the past year.
- My original Kindle broke in February. I came home from work and picked it up, and half of the screen was dead. I called Amazon's 800 number and they overnighted a replacement to me. Everything synced over to the new Kindle and I was back in business.
I'm about 95% happy with my original Kindle. The button placement is still kind of annoying, but over time I've gotten better at not pressing the forward and back buttons accidentally. It's slow startup is kind of annoying, and mine crashes about once per month and needs me to pull the battery to get it working again. Over all, though, I'm happy enough with it that I'd willingly buy it all over again.
Although, if I was going to buy one over again, I'd buy a Kindle DX. When I originally bought my Kindle, I'd carry it with me everywhere to read when I had spare time. Now I mostly only bring the Kindle when I'm traveling and keep my iPhone in my pocket, so the DX's larger size isn't a liability. At the same time, the DX's larger screen will make it usable for reading technical books in PDF form, which never really worked right on the Kindle 1. The DX starts shipping next Wednesday. Mine's due to arrive on Friday. I'll let everyone know how it goes :-).
Off to California
One of the things that made last year so interesting at work was the amount of travel that I did. For the previous 8 years, I flew maybe once per year for work, either to visit remote offices or for conferences. Last year was a bit crazier–I think I had eight business trips between April and October.
This year's been a bit tamer so far, with only one trip to New York and one to California, but the slow stretch is over now–I'm spending all week next week in Mountain View, and then heading to Boulder at the end of the month for three days. I'll be back in California for almost two weeks late in July and early in August, and then I'll probably be in New York in early September.
This will be my first trip to California in a while where I'll have some free time; if anything cool is happening next week, please let me know :-).
Best HTPC media-center platform?
At some point in the next couple months, I'd like to buy a new media-center system to go with my new 50" living room TV. Right now, I have a slightly older MythTV install in the basement, and I've been watching video via a pair of Xbox 360s. They both have a few issues, though, and I'd like to find something better. I've considered customizing a newer MythTV build, and I've played with Boxee on a Mac, but before I invest a bunch of time and money into this, I figured I should look for advice. Here's what I'm looking for:
I need the ability to:
- Talk to a SMB or NFS file server.
- Play video in .avi, MP4, VOB, MKV, or OGM files with common codecs.
- Play back content up to 1080p without stuttering.
- Change audio tracks and subtitles for files that have multiple tracks.
- Control the whole thing via a remote control.
- Play video via HDMI, or DVI plus optical audio out.
It'd be nice if it could:
- Play YouTube and Netflix videos.
- Play DVDs or maybe Blu-ray disks.
- Be controlled via HDMI-CEC.
I don't care about:
- Recording or playing OTA or cable HDTV signals.
- Ripping disks
- RSS feeds, weather, etc.
I don't really care about Linux vs Mac vs Windows in this case. I'd be okay with some sort of appliance, but I've never found one that actually works right. I have a Popcorn Hour A-100, and it's about an order of magnitude slower than what I'm looking for, plus it tends to crash or lose audio sync on a lot of the more obscure files that I've thrown at it.
Any suggestions?
All I can say is that right now, I really wish I hadn't given away my last copy of To Serve Spammers, if you know what I mean.
As mentioned a few days ago, I'm using Vyatta for my home router software. Vyatta is amazing; it's a complete open-source router platform based on Linux. It's something that I've been looking for for the last decade. You just boot up the CD image and wham–it's a router, with a Juniper-ish command shell. Type
configure and you're in router configuration mode, with context-sensitive editing. Type a couple more commands and it'll copy itself off of the CD and onto your hard drive or USB drive. It doesn't get much easier than that.
At the same time, it's impressively powerful. It still lacks a few features that upper-end Cisco or Juniper routers have–no MPLS, no policy routing, and IPv6 support is weak. But it's a huge step above any of the Linksys or D-Link routers that I've seen. It supports BGP and OSPF, plus reasonably flexible NAT and ACL settings. I've never benchmarked my router, but after 2 weeks of uptime it claims that it's spent 99.9% of its time idle while copying almost 750 GB of data between interfaces. Vyatta claims that a 4x2.66 GHz Intel CPU can route 3 Gbps of 512 byte packets, and I see no reason to doubt that.
Vyatta is open source, but it has a company behind it (also named Vyatta), selling support to anyone who will pay. I'm always conflicted when I run into projects like this. I'm happy that they're available, and that they're making progress forward, but they only rarely develop any sort of community around them. Maybe Vyatta will prove me wrong.


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GSA's Godwin sees employees as her 'greatest resource'
Wednesday - 2/27/2013, 2:03am EST
Beverly Godwin, the director of the Federal Citizen Information Center at the General Services Administration, inspires her staff even when she's not aware of it.
In December, Federal News Radio put out the call for federal workers to nominate top leaders in their offices. A dozen of Godwin's staff members nominated her, making her the person with the most nominations overall.
When Godwin learned that she'd been named one of Federal News Radio's Top Leaders in Federal Service, and that so many people had submitted her name, she was floored.
Godwin holds up the Hero of the Week Award she established to recognize excellent citizen service exhibited by members of her staff. (Photo by Michael O'Connell)
"I'm a very hard person to surprise because I'm always watching things," she said. "I'm always asking detailed questions. Throughout my life, people have tried to give me surprise parties and they've never succeeded. I was totally surprised."
For Godwin's team, the Top Leaders Awards was an ideal opportunity to recognize her leadership skills.
"Bev is truly one of those all-around, exceptional leaders who not only strives for and achieves operational excellence, but she's also, really, really, truly exceptional in her ability to motivate and inspire others," said Kathy Conrad, principal deputy administrator in GSA's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. "She has long believed in the power of the people around her, and so has really built a tremendously successful, talented team. And, I think, as a group, we all felt like it would be fabulous to recognize her leadership that she brings not only to our office and to GSA, but also to the people on her team."
Supervisory Federal Information Specialist Mary Ann Monroe agreed with Conrad.
"She is the best boss that I've ever had and that's because she demonstrates by actions all the things that make a workplace wonderful," she said. "At the core of everything that Bev does is this belief that the government has an obligation to make life easier for people. They give us their trust and we have to give back to them convenience, reliability, accountability and transparency."
One of the ways Godwin motivates her staff is by presenting the Hero of the Week award to a member of the Federal Citizen Information Center for a job well done.
"The award is simply a strange looking trophy that is passed on to the winner and they display on their desk all week," Monroe said. "It's also good because she awards for tangible results, not just for 'being nice' or being a 'hard worker.' It motivates everyone to think about their works in a results driven way."
Godwin has a simple formula for good leadership. "My primary philosophy as a leader is to treat your employees as your greatest resources," she said. "They really are. If you, from the bottom of your heart, treat them like that, all else will fall into place."
What qualities do you admire in a good leader?
Godwin: Humility; passion for their work; willingness to share and give credit to those who work for them, and takes the blame when needed; truthfulness even when the truth may not always be pleasant; one who encourages the best in their people and allows them to run full steam ahead; and those who have good instincts for recognizing good leaders under them and allow them to flourish and innovate, realizing they do not need to be micro-managed.
What is your leadership philosophy?
Godwin: My primary leadership philosophy is our employees are our greatest resource and we must always treat them that way. Do that from the bottom of your heart, and everything else will fall into place. I also think one of my philosophies is to keep calm and have a sense of humor. We rarely deal with life and death situations. Keep things in perspective as people around you get stressed out.
Who inspired you as a leader when you were younger?
Godwin: When I was in the SES Candidate Program at HHS, I had a coach who really inspired me. One of the things she said to me was, "You don't need more training, you need a bigger stage from which to show what you can do." This instilled great confidence in me, and I've thought back on those words, and shared them with others over the years. I try to give my staff the biggest stage they can handle, even when they are not sure they can handle it, to show what they can do.
Who do you admire as a good leader now? Why?
- Hillary Clinton because of her intellect and because she inspires confidence in the way she responds, such as during the recent congressional hearings.
- The late Mother Teresa because she was so passionate about her work and because of her humility.
- Marissa Mayer, formerly of Google, now CEO of Yahoo, who is the youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 company and has been ranked as one of the top women in business for many years. I admire her because she is a techie by training who has become an executive, and she seems very down to earth and humble. Also, as a recent newlywed and young mother, she also seems to be able to balance worklife and family life, which is something we all need to value in our leaders.
- Another leader who has recently come to my attention is Sharon Vosmek. As CEO of a start-up called Astia, Sharon Vosmek has an unwavering passion and uniquely well-suited background to drive forward the company's mission of propelling women-owned start-ups to success. Sharon has doubled her company's resources, which include mentors, coaches, sponsors, investors, thought-leaders and entrepreneurs that provide women-owned companies with counsel, coaching, guidance and advancement opportunities.
What advice would you give to someone who wants to improve their leadership skills?
Godwin: I have two pieces of advice that have helped me throughout my career:
- Choose a mentor or coach who you respect as a leader. Meet with them regularly, informally and talk about your career dreams.
- Practice your communication skills. It is so important as a leader to communicate in both directions.
- Share information you have with your staff. They need it to do their jobs well and to see their jobs in the broader context.
- Listen to them. They know better than you do how to do their jobs and usually have great ideas for further improvements.
- Communicate to those above you. Let them know of the successes and brag about individuals on the team.
What's the most challenging part of being a leader?
Godwin: Two things come to mind:
- Continuously providing constructive feedback as well as praise, so both your best performers and your lowest performers all get better.
- Shielding your employees from negative influences in the broader environment. Just as I do being a parent, I try to shield my children from negative and harmful influences in the world. So, too, I do with my employees. This is not entirely possible with children or with employees.
What is the most rewarding part of being a leader?
Godwin: Seeing people you have mentored succeed. Several of the folks I hired early in my career are now in very senior positions throughout the government, as CIOs and other Senior Executive Service positions. But, just seeing anyone who works for me succeed on a project, be recognized by an award, be promoted or who take on more responsibility and have more impact, is what keeps me going.
More From the Special Report: Top Leaders in Federal Service:
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Parker leads IRS Chief Counsel's legal processing staff to success
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June 25, 2013
Pfeiffer Universitys Vice President for Athletics/Athletic Director Bob Reasso has officially announced Justin Fainter as the new head mens and womens tennis coach. Fainter most previously served as the head womens coach at Roanoake College since 2011.
Fainter oversaw all aspects of the womens tennis program including practice planning, scheduling, recruiting and retention at Roanoke. Fainter coached 13 players to the All-ODAC team during his tenure and his 2013 squad set a school record for most wins in a season with 14. Fainter guided the team to a regional ranking and a runner-up finish in the conference tournament, also firsts in school history. His efforts earned him the 2013 ODAC womens tennis Coach of the Year award.
While with the Maroons, Fainter was also a Physical Education and History Teacher at Smith Mountain Lake Christian Academy in Wertz, Va. He started in July 2011 but quickly moved up the ranks. A year into his term, Fainter was named the schools Athletic Director where he organized and ran week-long summer athletic camps, developed team schedules and also coached the boys and girls basketball teams.
Fainter served as the Head Tennis Coach at Harrisonburg City Schools from 2008-11 and won three district championships, one regional runner-up and two regional championships. Fainter was named the VHSL Region III Coach of the Year in 2009.
Fainter also has extensive experience working as a Tennis Camp Counselor at camps such as Penn State University, Washington and Lee University, College of William and Mary and Bowdoin College. He also was the head tennis pro at Timber Ridge Summer Camps from 2010-11.
We are delighted to add Justin to our coaching staff, said Reasso. Justin is a proven college coach who will make a seamless transition to Pfeiffer. The Knapp Tennis Center is a great facility and we believe Justin will bring us the student athletes and the success that will grace that wonderful facility.
Fainter graduated from James Madison University in 2010 and holds a degree in History with minors in Secondary Education and Interdisciplinary Studies. He went on the gain a masters in the Art of Teaching in 2011 from James Madison.
Fainter and his fiancée Kelly currently reside in Concord, NC.


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Peter Perreault
Contact Information
(812) 855-1094
perreaul [at] indiana [dot] edu (E-mail)
Business School
- Senior Lecturer of Marketing
- Bloomington
- PhD - Business, Indiana University, 1992
- MBA, Indiana University, 1982
- BSBA - Management, Boston University, 1975
Professional Experience
- Lecturer in Marketing, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 2002 - present
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1999 - 2002
- Lecturer in Marketing, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1998 - 1999
- Visiting Professor of Marketing, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1993 - 1995
- Visiting Lecturer in Marketing, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1992 - 1993
- Associate Instructor, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, 1983 - 1989
- Adjunct Instructor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, 1999 - current
- Instructor, Independent Study Program, Indiana University, 1986 - present
- Research Assistant, Institute for Urban Transportation, Transportation Research Center, Indiana University, 1984 - 1992
- Summer Intern, Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation, 1981
- Hearings and Findings Coordinator, Conneticut Department of Public Utility Control, 1976 - 1980
Awards, Honors & Certifications
- Distinguished Professor, 1994 INTERNATIONAL INTERMODAL EXPOSITION, Atlanta, GA. April 19-21, 1994
- George Krambles Transit Foundation Scholarship
- Beta Gamma Sigma (national business honorary)
Professional Interests
Marketing Decision Making
Peter joined the faculty in 1992 and has taught a variety of undergraduate-level courses at the Kelley School of Business including marketing research, marketing management, business-to-business marketing, logistics management, transportation carrier management, and principles of transportation. He has taught a course in nonprofit marketing management for the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University in Bloomington. Peter has also served as a Mentor in the X220 career development course offered by the Undergraduate Career Services office in the Kelley School of Business. His dissertation, The Consolidated Rail Corporation: An Examination of Government Intervention Into Railroad Restructuring and Ownership in the United States (1992) examined the public policy and management strategy implications of the reorganization of the northeast freight railroad system. While a doctoral student, Peter worked at the Institute for Urban Transportation of Indiana University. His primary research efforts included studies of the intercity bus industry in Indiana and the use of college student interns in public transit management. Peter is also a co author on two management handbooks for public transit industry. Before coming to Indiana University to pursue an M.B.A., Peter was employed by the Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control.