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I need to make a confession: I was obsessed with researching Focus Factor. We conducted one of our in-depth reviews, examining the side effects, ingredients, customer service quality and scientific studies. Plus we scrutinized hundreds of user responses that are posted online. At last, we compressed all of the facts and feedback we found to give you the bottom line.
What You Need To Know
To start, Focus Factor is a daily supplement that claims to improve your memory, provide your brain with proper nutrition and help you feel sharper and more alert. The ingredients are vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, vitamin E, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B6, folate, vitamin B12, biotin, pantothenic acid, calcium, iron, iodine, magnesium, zinc, selenium, copper, manganese, chromium, molybdenum, potassium, diemethylaminoethanol, L glutamine, bacopin, L-pyroglutamic acid, phosphatidylsering, docosahexanoic acid concentrate, choline, inositol, N acetyltyrosine, bilberry fruit, GABA, Activin, vinpocetine, trace lyte, huperzine A, boron, vanadium and grape skin extract. It is boasted as natural, safe and effective for women and men alike. According to the official website, Focus Factor is "America's number one brain health supplement."
Focus Factor has been available since 2000 and it is backed by a 100% money-back guarantee. This supplement is made by Synergy CHC Corp. There are a few customer testimonials posted on the official website, but read on…
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The first concern with Focus Factor ingredients is promises that just aren't supported with customer results. According to our Research Editor, "We discovered an article on consumeraffairs.com that reveals Focus Factor is advertised with unsubstantiated claims. Therefore in 2004, one million dollars had to be paid out in a settlement, after federal investigators charged this company."
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This supplement can lead to adverse effects, which is a common complaint of many customers. One user commented, "This product made me have very intense migraine like headaches. My sleeping cycle was also interrupted."
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After doing plenty of research, we have concluded that if there is one particular facet of a supplement that is especially problematic (a painful/difficult exercise routine, too many side effects, false claims) the odds of real success for the long run are slim. This means if Focus Factor does in fact cause adverse reactions in many people, this could be a deal breaker.
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We took a close look at the official website for Focus Factor capsules. While a double-blind study is mentioned on the website, it is quite vague. The number of participants, age groups, time span and other factors are not mentioned at all. At DietSpotlight, we need to see published clinical results in order to support a supplement.
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Is this one on the top of our shopping list? We appreciate that Focus Factor contains some vitamins and minerals, but we certainly have reservations about recommending this supplement. First of all, there was a lawsuit against this product years ago. This is a red flag. Secondly, it's evident that it causes headaches, as well as other side effects, if you read through the customer feedback posted online.
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Breaking Up with a Friend: The Phase Out
I recently went through a pretty serious break-up. This one didn't involve your typical break-up routines. No angry shouting matches, no tearful goodbyes, no couples counseling, and no changes in relationship status on FB.
Before all you gossipers get too excited, I should clarify one thing. Yes, I'm still married. No, I did not leave my husband. This post has nothing to do with him.
I'm talking about breaking up with a friend. A pretty close friend in this case. Someone who has been there through much of my adult life, through boyfriends and break-ups, through successes and failures, and through major life transitions.
But over the past few years, I've left every get together with this friend (let's call her "Brooke" since this blog is only semi-anonymous) incredibly irritated by the rude and offensive things that she's said. I could provide outrageous examples that would leave your mouth agape with disbelief. She has always been known to have a very competitive personality, but it had never been directed at me, until recently. As we transitioned into our adult lives, her obsession with competing with everyone in everything eventually seeped its way into our friendship and her desire to "one-up" me dominated every one of our conversations.
Competition implies a contest in which one party clearly wins and comes out on top of everyone else. It does not allow for both parties to root for one another, but instead encourages rivalry between opposing teams. In my opinion, these conditions have no place in a true friendship.
Friends are supposed to be there to provide guidance, support, encouragement, and happiness. What's the point of maintaining a friendship in which you can't feel comfortable just being yourself? Are you really friends if you are just putting on airs around one another? Who says friendships have to last forever?
I've been grappling with the decision of what to do with our friendship for a while now. But after repeated offenses, Brooke's competitive behavior became too obnoxious to bear. If she had just done one or two things wrong, I could see the value in talking it over and trying to make amends. But the problem seems to be a chronic one which keeps recurring despite my best efforts to discourage her from behaving this way. I don't believe that I should have to bother with someone who is no longer good for me or who may even be doing me psychological damage. I decided it was time to cut her from the team.
Middle School Judy would have ended this friendship in a dramatic fashion, sending a nasty letter about how annoyed I was by her tacky ways and closing by telling her to have a nice life (handwritten on wide-ruled paper neatly folded up into a secret note square, of course). Adult Judy adopted a more subtle approach. I call it the Friendship Phase Out.
Perhaps there are others of you out there faced with a similar problem of how to let go of a toxic friend so I thought I'd share my approach.
Group get-togethers: Instead of one-on-one get togethers, I only got together with Brooke at parties or group outings. This way, I only had to experience her in small doses and I could pawn her off on other people. In my experience, she would never dare say in group settings the things she says to me alone as she's aware that certain statements are just plain socially unacceptable.
Blame it on being busy: Work, baby, travel, classes, taking care of my old Aunt Gerdie, whatever. Point is: I was busy, reeeeally busy, too busy to hang out. Like ever.
Trial Separation: I took a trial separation period to cool down and get over my initial annoyance and resentment. I used this break to determine if I truly wanted to end this friendship for good.
Downgrade the friendship: I didn't want to drop her like a hot potato as this was a phase out that I was hoping would create as few waves as possible. I attempted to gradually downgrade our friendship from close friend to casual acquaintance by limiting my exposure to her as much as possible.
Keep your distance: I stopped initiating contact. I stopped emailing and calling. I gave her the good, old-fashioned silent treatment. When she called, I let it go to voicemail. When she emailed, I didn't reply. When she emailed again asking why I hadn't yet replied, I provided only one-word responses.
Avoid confrontation: I am trying my hardest to have the phase out go completely unnoticed, but I suspect that Brooke will eventually ask what's up and I probably won't be able to brush it off. If that happens, I think it'll be fine to acknowledge the issue, but I don't want to get into heated, involved discussions because that would suggest that I want to salvage the relationship which I don't. The point is the relationship is no longer working for me. I don't want to fight. I just want to move on.
Don't involve others: I tried my hardest not to talk to our mutual friends about my reasons for initiating the phase out. We're all adults. I didn't want to influence their relationships with her; however, several of her other friends have already come to the same conclusion as I did and I believe their friendships with her will suffer a similar fate.
Don't burn bridges: Part of me wants to point out the serious insecurities underlying Brooke's need to compete with everyone all the time, but I have held my tongue. Some words you can never take back. What's the point of doing irreparable damage?
Don't issue a final goodbye: Even though I'm fairly certain I'm done with Brooke for good, I want to be careful not to issue a dramatic final goodbye. You never know what might happen in the future. Maybe once she loses all her friends due to her competitiveness, she'll transform back into the friend I once knew.
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I created a match.com account for a little self-esteem boost and OF COURSE one of my husbands friends saw me on there and busted me. I only had coffee with these men, for the most part. So, its not like I was cheating! I contacted Andrew Sexton again for some psychic help, in making my husband realize theres nothing wrong with this and Andrew said that he would not work with me unless I got off of match.com and what's worse, he said the same goes for other dating sites. He even wanted me to cancel my page on AdultFriendFinder.com which I spent literally hours filling out.
I didnt do anything wrong. Its not fair that this psychic wont help me again. He got me into the marriage in the first place so this is his fault! What am I supposed to be Mother Teresa all of a sudden? How did that work out for her? Exactly!
A real psychic would have made this work. What a waste of $45.
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A blog about writing memoirs.
A to Z Theme 2016
For my 2016 A to Z theme I used a meme that I ran across on the blog of Bridget Straub who first saw it on the blog of Paula Acton. This meme is a natural for me to use on my memoir blog. It's an A to Z concept and it's about me. No research and nothing complicated. I'm given twenty six questions or topics to discuss that are about me.In April I kept my posts short and uncomplicated. In the midst of it all you might learn a few things about me that you didn't previously know.
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Vacation Time!
Since I'm on vacation for a few weeks, my plan is to limit my blogging to some extent. There will be a few posts at Tossing It Out, but on Wrote By Rote I'll likely go dormant until I return home.
Of course if I really have something big to say or am finding that I have more time for blogging than I had expected, then I might post here and there on this blog. Don't count on it though. When I'm not driving for extended periods I'll be enjoying time with my family members.
Whatever the case may be, have a wonderful summer. You can expect me back here probably on August 20th or so. See you then--or whenever I get an urge to post on this site.
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Candy Apply Red (Soundtrack of my Life)
Oh, to be a kid again! Though that would present the other challenges of adolescence and adulthood. Would I really want to live my life over again? Perhaps if I could edit out all the bad parts and just leave in the good. But then what kind of life would that be? I've had a pretty darn great life as far as I'm concerned so maybe those bad parts were necessary to appreciate the good parts. Still, it's fun to think back on the good times.
In this post I offer another in my Soundtrack of My Life series. Robin at Your Daily Dose has been doing the Soundtrack of my Life posts on her blog for a while now. I had done a few of my own "life soundtracks" on my Tossing It Out blog as well as the song series (starting at this post) I did for my 2014 Blogging from A to Z April Challenge on Wrote By Rote. Be sure to visit and follow Your Daily Dose for more Life Soundtrack info. For my current back to the past post, I'm using the song "Candy Apple Red" by Robbin Thompson as my inspiration. If you like you can listen as you read the story that follows...
Candy Apple Red
When my family moved from San Diego, California to Crown Point in the northwestern corner of Indiana, I was just entering junior high as they called it back then. Going into seventh grade was a huge transition as now instead of one teacher all day as we had in elementary school, now we had a teacher for each class and we would move around from room to room throughout the day. It was almost like being in high school except that we were still like little kids in many ways. I guess that's why they called it junior high school. We were kids getting ready for those last few years before graduation and then on to college or whatever life was holding in store for us.
The biggest change about moving to Indiana was the weather. In San Diego the year round moderate weather made being outdoors a kid lifestyle. So much time was spent riding bikes, playing games, prowling the neighborhoods, and roaming the still wild canyons that surrounded our neighborhoods. Maybe there was some kind of law that said that kids had to spend at least eight hours a day outdoors--well it might have seemed like it, but perhaps it was just a natural law. Not often did I as a kid want to stay cooped up in the house all day when there were so many amazing things to do outside.
Of course I had my indoor activities that I liked to do sometimes. We played cards and board games. We might amuse ourselves making prank phones calls. It seemed like I watched several movies on television each week in addition to some of my favorite programs. I spent hours reading--I loved to read back then perhaps more so than I do now. And there was my stamp collection. My sister, some friends, and I all collected stamps and that activity could keep us entertained for hours. Looking back on everything we did back then I'm thinking that days must have been longer back then. I don't think the Earth was spinning more slowly, but I guess a kid's perception of time sees minutes, hours, and days from a far different perspective than an adult does.
The relocation to Crown Point didn't alter my desire to be outside and about my environment, but sometimes the weather curtailed such activities. Those heavy northern Indiana snows were fun to play in for a while, but after a while the cold would become unbearable causing us to seek the warmth and comfort of indoors. Books, games, stamp collections, and television were still on the agenda, Then came another interest for me--model building.
Being older I could do certain things better like reading and following instructions and being more intricately creative. I was ready to take on the challenge of those boxed models I would find in the variety store. Initially I was drawn by the allure of the classic monster models made by Aurora. The selection was limited so soon I had them all. I had done a pretty decent job assembling and painting these models and displayed them proudly throughout my bedroom. Eventually I was ready to move on with other model kits, starting first with inexpensive simple airplanes and ships. Then came car models.
Those car models presented a very different and new challenge for me. They were detailed and far more complex than the other models that I had been building. I began buying car model magazines for tips on creating better models and inspiration. Actually in the long run those magazines probably discouraged more than inspired me. Those professional and more experienced builders apparently had not only far more knowledge than I had, but also far greater patience.
I was particularly impressed and envious of the paint jobs on those car models shown in the magazines. These builders were putting on multiple coats of paints and coats and buffing them and treating them until they came out with glossy sheens. My paint jobs were so much less perfect with streaks, bubbles, and, well, to put it bluntly--sloppiness. I make it sound horrible I suppose. Actually some of my finished products did look pretty nice and I was proud of them. At least proud enough to display them in my bedroom.
None of my work would have won awards at car model shows. Not like the car models in the magazines. I was an amateur at building car models and so I remained during my short career as a car model builder. After a couple of years having those models on display some fiendish impulse within me caused me to burn all of those models to which I devoted so much time and care. Watching them burn, melt, and vanish into toxic residue fascinated me much to my dismay years later. I would have liked to have had them after I reached adulthood, but then again it just would have been more stuff for me to store or move like so much other stuff that I have now.
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Saturday, July 2, 2016
Friday Night Fights (Soundtrack of my Life)
Does anyone remember the Friday Night Fights that used to come on television in the 1960's? Recently there was a network fight broadcast that brought back memories of the old sports series sponsored by Gillette. There were other events besides fights, but the boxing is what stands out in my memory. And actually I think for a while the fights on Friday nights was a regular series. The following post recalls some of the memories stirred by the recent boxing broadcast on television.
In this post I offer another in my Soundtrack of My Life series. Robin at Your Daily Dose has been doing the Soundtrack of my Life posts on her blog for a while now. I had done a few of my own "life soundtracks" on my Tossing It Out blog as well as the song series (starting at this post) I did for my 2014 Blogging from A to Z April Challenge on Wrote By Rote. Be sure to visit and follow Your Daily Dose for more Life Soundtrack info. For some background music while you read the post you can listen to this Boston Pops recording of "Look Sharp, Be Sharp" which was the theme song used by Gillette.
Friday Night Fights
Rarely in my lifetime have I taken much of an interest in sports. Boxing has sometimes had an almost morbid draw for me--I like movies about boxing--but mostly I've tried to avoid this brutal sport. Not so with my father. He enjoyed viewing boxing matches. When one came on the tube and he was watching, the energy and passion he displayed might make you think he was fighting the match himself.
Actually I used to sometimes get scared when he was watching boxing because he'd be shouting, throwing air punches, and displaying what appeared to be anger. But he was like this about all sports. He was more than just a sedentary audience member--he put himself into the action with commentary and physical acts such as jumping out of his chair and pacing in a tight quick circle in the living room. His head would shake and his jowls would flap as he roared out acclamations of encouragement or yowls of disgust. You'd think he had some stake in the event, but he was just another armchair spectator among the millions in living rooms across the nation.
Back then our house wasn't all that big so my mother, sister, and I couldn't help but be witness to my father's sports fan antics. We could hear him throughout the house and if I didn't stay in the living room for the entire fight, I would at least have to peek in now and then to see what was happening. Even though my father could be somewhat scary when he was watching sports, he was always a source of curiosity as well as an odd source of entertainment. I wasn't as interested in the fights as much as I was my father's reactions to whatever was happening.
From the opening strains of the Gillette theme song to the events that unfurled during an hour or two on that tiny black and white television set in our small living room, Friday Night Fights are a mainstay in my memories of childhood. As many memories as I have of this, one might think that the fights were on every Friday night, but they weren't. But when those fights were on, my father was there. He loved those fights. My guess is that he might have wished that his son loved watching those fights as much as he did, but I didn't. However, my dad was plenty of entertainment while the fights were on. I do remember that.
Did you have a father or family member who was a huge sports fan? Was there a sporting event that was always on in your home on a regular basis? Do you tend to get highly involved when you are watching a sporting event?
Saturday, June 25, 2016
The Kazoo Man
When my family lived in San Diego in the early 1960's, each summer we'd go to the San Diego County Fair in Del Mar. We always got free admission because either our family was performing our juggling act on one of the entertainment stages or my sister was performing with her dance school. Either way it meant at least one full day at the fair.
This was a great fair with plenty of entertainment, a plethora of exhibits, savory food, and a noisy fun carnival midway. It's proximity to the ocean shore made for comforting breezes and the weather in San Diego was usually delightful anyway. Fair time was a great time for all, but an especially exciting time for any kid.
Now over fifty years removed from those days, I don't remember too many specifics about the San Diego Fair, but there is one memory that particularly stands out for me--the kazoo pitchman. I don't remember ever seeing such a pitchman at any other fair before or since, but my search on the internet revealed that the kazoo pitchman was not uncommon to find at fairs and circuses even decades before I saw the one at this fair. I've seen plenty of sales people hawking kitchen knives, home gadgets, and novel toys at fairs but for me the kazoo pitchman was something completely different.
Like any pitchman, the Kazoo Man at the San Diego Fair was a slick talker. But he did more than give a smooth spiel--he was an entertainer. He put on a good show and the crowds loved it. Rather than given a booth in an exhibit hall or some corner on the fairgrounds, the Kazoo Man had his own stage at the heart of the fairgrounds. Everybody had to pass this spot at some point of the day and when one of the Kazoo Man's presentations began to get underway, people stopped and began to crowd around the small stage.
Recorded music began to play to alert the passing throng that something was about to happen. People gathered in anticipation. Then the Kazoo Man stepped on stage to begin his show. He was a slight looking fellow with an expansive presence that drew everyone in. A fast talker, he was funny, he was fascinating. He explained the quirky little device that he never called a "kazoo", but gave a far more interesting name that I don't remember. Whatever he called the thing, the crowd wanted to know more. The Kazoo Man gave them more.
The Kazoo Man made funny noises with the instrument and then he began to play music. Beautiful wonderful music. He imitated all sorts of musical instruments with this tiny thing. One could almost imagine that he was actually playing a violin as he went through the gestures of drawing his invisible bow across unseen strings. I had to look closely to see that what I heard happening was only a ruse of pantomime. The sound was all coming from this silvery little thing in the guy's mouth.
The more the guy spoke his entertaining patter and played his enchanting music, the more the crowd was allured by whatever this guy was pitching. And then the closer came to the sales pitch. We too could have this fabulous little instrument that absolutely anyone could play with no training and no extraordinary skill. For seventy five cents we could have one of these devices or we could have two for a dollar.
The crowd pressed in with dollars in hand. The Kazoo Man grabbed dollar bills and dispensed his wares with skilled efficiency. I convinced my father to let me get a couple of the instruments and I had no problem getting a dollar from him. He had been equally taken in by the pitch and had no qualms about his son being able to have one of these amazing things.
When I had my little devices in hand, I gazed upon them with great curiosity. They were metallic silver round things that looked not unlike the UFO's I'd seen in the science fiction movies I liked to watch. The instruments looked futuristic and mysterious. Almost immediately I recognized that they were merely fancy kazoos that functioned in the same way a piece of wax paper wrapped around a comb did. I had made those comb kazoos myself and understood the principle of how they worked. You'd hum through it and make weird sounding vibrating music. But these were special. The Kazoo Man's kazoos were the equivalent of a professional kazoo if there were such a thing.
I don't know how long I had those kazoos. I never was able to get quite the same sounds that I had heard the Kazoo Man perform during his sales pitch. No doubt that I had fun with my kazoos, but there was also some element of disappointment for me. However, that show put on by the Kazoo Man was the best part. I'm not sure how many years he was at the fair, but whenever I was there and saw him giving his show I would stop to watch, mesmerized by everything he said and did. All of us who bought his products were not buying kazoos as much as we were paying for his entertaining performance. It was something to remember.
Here's a bit of amusing entertainment from a professional kazoo quartet:
Have you watched pitch artists at events or on television? What items have you bought from a pitchman? Were you satisfied with your purchase?
Saturday, June 18, 2016
When the Music Comes Back to Me (Soundtrack of My Life)
How many songs do we hear in our lifetimes? Thousands? Millions? Each of us probably hears at least one new song per day if we are out and about or listening to some kind of media. Often we might not even notice, but the songs are there.
In this post I offer another in my Soundtrack of My Life series. Robin at Your Daily Dose has been doing the Soundtrack of my Life posts on her blog for a while now. I had done a few of my own "life soundtracks" on my Tossing It Out blog as well as the song series (starting at this post) I did for my 2014 Blogging from A to Z April Challenge on Wrote By Rote. Be sure to visit and follow Your Daily Dose for more Life Soundtrack info. If you like you can listen to this version of "Lover, Come Back to Me" while you read the post.
Evocative Music That Haunts Us
Of all the many songs we hear in our lifetime, some we like, some we don't, and some are basically background noise like an unnoticed soundtrack of a film. The music is always there even if only in our heads or some faraway place in memory. Why are humans so drawn to music? Or more specifically, why do certain songs tap into some distant hidden place within us?
Even for those who may claim they don't like music, don't pay attention to it, or willingly resist it--what would the world be like without music. Think, if you will, of a movie without a musical score or television commercials with no trace of music. Okay, some do exist, but not many. Think further of a club or a party with absolutely no music--that might be your preference some times, but most people might find this a bit awkward. Music is a soundtrack to many things. Even armies march to music.
Music can affect us in the moment or take us back into our pasts. Therein lies what is for me a mystery. Why do certain songs affect us deeply? Sometimes the melodies haunt us like ghosts, while sometimes they softly brush past us like a soft kiss of a loved one from another time and place. A sweetness of sound. A stirring that is as vital as the sound of our own breathing and our hearts beating. There are times when a song comes back to me and reminds me of something specific or some vague thing that I can't quite recall.
Recently when I saw the the film Deep in My Heart, I heard a song that I hadn't heard in many years. "Lover, Come Back to Me" is a tune that I've heard since childhood. It's a song that has been recorded by many artists. The melody is the kind that seems melancholy and poignant even though many of the recordings are done in an uptempo jazzy style. Even with that happier sound, this melody makes me reminiscent and perhaps a tad sentimental. To me it's just that kind of a melody. Maybe it is attached to some specific childhood memory or perhaps it merely evokes some undefinable wistfulness that is attached to a time, a place, or even a person. Or maybe it is just one of those kinds of songs that causes a gentle swell of passing emotion. There are songs like that for me.
I wonder if others feel the same way about certain types of melodies. There is probably no universal melody that moves all of us in the same way. Undoubtedly some of the feelings brought about by music are generational, cultural, or based on personal experiences. What works for me might not work for many people or maybe no one else. Still these types of evocative melodies and songs are part of my life soundtrack.
If my life were a movie, I'm sure "Lover, Come Back to Me" could work well in a scene or two. To me it's a beautiful song and I can't explain exactly why.
What songs move you deeply? Do you prefer slow songs or faster songs? Why do you think our memories are stirred by certain songs?
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Saturday, June 11, 2016
Marvin's Records
|Vinyl record collection at student-run CKMS station at the University of Waterloo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
From the title of this post one might expect a story about a store called "Marvin's Records." My dear friend since high school, Marvin, would love to have owned a record store. He used to talk about it a lot when we were younger and had more time to dream. His dream even captivated me. A record store seemed like a great business to run--selling our favorite things while listening to music all day. What a dream job that would have been!
As things turned out, neither one of us ever opened a record store or even worked in one. I went my way which kept me touring with a stage show for years and then later managing a costume supply company. Marvin worked a series of jobs mostly in manufacturing industries. He stayed in Tennessee while my destiny landed me in Los Angeles. We both married and started families and bought houses to settle down in lives a couple thousand miles from each other--literally worlds apart. But there was one common bond that remained between us--a love for music.
In high school, as our friendship developed starting in senior math class where we sat next to each other at the back of the classroom, we began to share our common interest in popular music. We had both begun collecting records, modestly due to financial constraints, and we'd talk about the music we owned and that which we hoped someday to own.
As the years went by we both started amassing fair sized collections. There were some albums that were so essential that we both owned copies. Then there were the many albums found in cut-out bins or purchased according our individual tastes. The ones that he had that I didn't--and vice versa--we each took a keen interest in. Still there are albums of his that I remember listening to that I'd like to hear again but they are difficult to find even on YouTube or Amazon. Mostly those were the cut-out albums. I had a good collection of vinyl and Marvin had an equally good collection. We both took good care of our albums.
Now I've sold most of my collection and kept my absolute favorites which amounts to maybe 100 to 200 albums. Trying to downsize you know. The other day when I was talking to Marvin on the phone, I asked about his record collection. He said he still had all of his old albums, but, like me, didn't listen to them other than on very rare occasions. Marvin thought he might decide to start selling them on EBay, but wasn't sure. I know the feeling. It was hard for me to part with so much of my vinyl. I still think about some of those albums that got sold. And I think of Marvin's record collection. So many hours spent with great music listening.
If there really were a store called Marvin's Records and my friend Marvin owned it, he could just put his old collection in inventory. Sure, so much music can be downloaded on a computer or other gadgets that the technology of media storage is evolving to the point where maybe someday there won't be stores that sell recorded music. However the upside is that vinyl has seen a resurgence and record stores have been opening in many places. Vinyl still has a lot of fans.
Maybe there is still hope for Marvin's Records. Ah, what a great job just listening to music all day while you do the work you do in a record store. It could happen you know.
Is there a certain type of store that you've long dreamed of opening? Have you ever or do you now own a store of any kind? Do you have a collection of something that you might like to turn into cash?
Saturday, June 4, 2016
Just Say No--or Not...
| Decisions, decisions. The road on the left is the "Glen Road" running down towards Loch Avich.
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Some of my biggest lost opportunities came from me saying "no". I've had some interesting offers in my life--a few that could have resulted in extraordinary outcomes, but not having taken advantage of those opportunities I will never know how they might have turned out. Of course, my life having taken the course it has I'm in the place I was meant to be, therefore I harbor no regrets on what I've missed. One thing I have gained a greater awareness of is that when opportunity knocks, I need to pay close attention to what my acceptance can lead to if I answer the call.
No regrets is the mantra I live by. After all, what's the point? What could have been is apparently not what should have been and I have my present life to attest to that. If I had not declined certain offers or stubbornly resisted others, I would undoubtedly be in a far different place than I am now. That place might have been a good place--perhaps a better place than I am at this point in my life--or my place in life might not have gone so well. Maybe I wouldn't even be here today.
The word "no" can have great power. Not only does rejecting an offer close a door to an opportunity, but this action can kill a friendship or prevent a new relationship from flourishing. Those relationships might have amounted to great benefits or they might have been future difficulties averted by that little word "no".
A tiny negative word such as "no" can be much bigger than one might think. Saying it is diverting ones course in life to the extent that we head into a very different direction that we might have hoped for ourselves or where others might have wanted us to go. Sometimes we can go back to reconsider our choice. Second chances can happen, but more often than not they don't. Instead, we get different chances and new opportunities to set a course by saying "yes".
I can't go back in my life to change my course and I'll never really know what might have happened if I had accepted some of the opportunities that came my way at the times they presented themselves. Even if some of those opportunities came to me now at this stage of my life the outcome would not be the same as it might have been the first time they were offered to me. The past is a haze of what could have been if I had not said "no". My present is the result of my acceptance or rejection of my past decisions--or in some cases my indecisiveness.
The future? None of us can say for sure. Hopefully any wisdom gained or lessons learned from having said no, having said yes, or having delayed an answer until it was too late will guide us in coming up with the right responses to the next time we are given a chance to do something. Life is short when we are at the point of retrospection. As I head forward, the one thing I never want to say "no" to is life itself.
Is there an offer in your past that you sometimes wish you would have said "yes" to? Do you have a difficult time saying "no" even when doing so would be better for you? What opportunity would you like for someone to offer you?
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HTC Desire 601 bootloops (never been rooted/unlocked)
At the moment my HTC Desire 601 bootloops. It has never been unlocked or rooted.
Last night I did not charge my phone, so I woke up to it being completely drained of battery. When I plugged it in to get charged, and turned it on around 15% charge. Then it started bootlooping. It just keeps on rebooting and I cant enter the home screen anymore.
What I think happened, is the phone was in the middle of updating an application when the battery went out. Which could have damaged the system files. Since this phone OS has never been altered in anyway.
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Re: HTC Desire 601 bootloops (never been rooted/unlocked)
Welcome to Android Central! Have you tried just letting the phone sit on the wall charger for 10-12 hours to make sure it's fully charged up, then try to power on?
- 08-28-2014, 12:14 PM Thread Author #3
Re: HTC Desire 601 bootloops (never been rooted/unlocked)
I havent tried that, I let it sit for 6 hours when I charged it. Will it make a difference to charge it for an extra 4-6 hours?
Here is what I tried in more detail
- I charged it for 6 hours. What happens is I get the battery charging animation, then without powering it on it will bootloop.
- Also about charging, I have a usb volt meter that goes in between the cable and charger. I know my phone is done charging when the volt meter reads 0.01 amps. In this case I just waited for it get to about 0.20 amps.(getting an accurate reading would be hard because it bootloops when it charges)
- I went into "the safe mode" I dont know what it is really called in android. I get the by pressing volume down + power button
- I tried the following recover, clear storage and factory reset. What happens when I try these is the screen goes black for a minute and a half. Then it bootloops.
Although I tried the image CRC, it seems to be a test or some sort and it passed.
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I just wanted to make sure the battery was charging up completely before trying to turn it on. The problem sounds pretty major--maybe a motherboard issue. I don't think I can help much more, sorry! You may have to talk to HTC.
- 08-29-2014, 12:15 PM Thread Author #5
Re: HTC Desire 601 bootloops (never been rooted/unlocked)
At the moment I am using my old LG P930 which I got in 2012.
Using my old LG P930 I do notice that I am getting better battery life. On the broken HTC 601 Desire I find that the battery drains quickly. I generally only get half day chargers, and it sometimes gets hot when I loose battery quickly. Perhaps it could have been a hardware issue.
Also, I got in in December 2013 for $150 and no warranty. Which is half price at the time.
- 09-12-2014, 01:45 PM Thread Author #6
Re: HTC Desire 601 bootloops (never been rooted/unlocked)
I went to my local carrier and HTC
HTC said there is nothing they can do about it, not event a repair. They suggest I go to my local carrier.
My local carrier said I can give them the broken phone and I get $50 credit on a new one. Also, the person at the carrier said that the battery can be causing the bootloop. Is that possible?
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My Year in Iraq
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With these words, Ambassador L. Paul "Jerry" Bremer begins his gripping memoir of fourteen danger-filled months as America's proconsul in Iraq. My Year in Iraq is the only senior insider's perspective on the crucial period following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime. In vivid, dramatic detail, Bremer reveals the previously hidden struggles among Iraqi politicians and America's leaders, taking us from the ancient lanes in the holy city of Najaf to the White House Situation Room and the Pentagon E-Ring.
His memoir carries the reader behind closed doors in Baghdad during hammer-and-tongs negotiations with emerging Iraqi leaders as they struggle to forge the democratic institutions vital to Iraq's future of hope. He describes his private meetings with President Bush and his admiration for the president's firm wartime leadership. And we witness heated sessions among members of America's National Security Council -- George Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleezza Rice -- as Bremer labors to realize the vision he and President Bush share of a free and democratic New Iraq. He admires the selfless and courageous work of thousands of American servicemen and -women and civilians in Iraq.
The flames Bremer describes on arriving in Baghdad were from fires started by looters. One of his first acts was to request an additional 4,000 Military Police to help restore order in the streets. For most of the next year, as the insurgency spread, Bremer resisted efforts by generals and senior Defense Department civilians to reduce American troop strength prematurely, replacing our forces with ill-trained, poorly led Iraqi police and soldiers. And he lays to rest the myth that the Coalition disbanded Saddam's army, a force comprised of Shiite draftees who had deserted and refused to serve under their former Sunni officers. Bremer also describes his frustration with intelligence operations that concentrated on the search for weapons of mass destruction while the insurgency gathered strength.
Bremer faced daunting problems working with Iraq's traumatized and divided population to find a path to a responsible and representative government. The Shia Arabs, the country's long-repressed majority, deeply distrusted the Sunni Arab minority who had held power for centuries and had controlled the detested Baath Party. Iraq's non-Arab Kurds teetered on the brink of secession when Bremer arrived. He had to find Sunnis willing to participate in the new political order.
Some in the U.S. government pushed for what Bremer would come to call a cut-and-run policy that would have quickly delivered governance of Iraq to a handful of unrepresentative anti-Saddam exiles. Bremer vigorously resisted this ill-conceived course. He takes the reader inside marathon negotiations as he and his team shepherded Iraq's new leaders to write an interim constitution with guarantees for individual and minority rights unprecedented in the region.
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I think I'll start with the obvious one. What happened in 2004 that Katamari Damacy actually became a thing? To this day, I have NO idea how that even happened.
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The main site, on English, has a widget for subscribing to some list, the "/es" site has another list for Spanish users, correctly configured on the widget, and stored on the database.
On the English site, it works well, but on the Spanish site, when it makes the AJAX call it seems like the main (English) site is receiving the call, so when it gets the wp_option value for key "widget_ns_widget_mailchimp" it always retrieves the main site's one, and not the one for the "/es" site.
It doesn't make a difference to put as form action the full "/es" URL, it just always retrieve it from wp_options table.
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I got an package in the mail, the week of Christmas. When I received the package, it was already opened. All it had was an book and different brochures. But, it didn't have the credit card. I'm so angry and disappointed about this situation. I was excited and depending on that credit for moving expenses and Christmas items for my children.
From now on, I will never apply for an credit card, especially accept anything over the phone again. It's hard when you're depending on money. I hope the people that did this will get what they deserve and get put in jail for an long time. They have got people's personal information and done anything with it. Now, I don't know who has my information now. We have to stop things like this from happening.
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If the bank is says that you have waited too long, explain to them how you called their 800 number as soon as the charges were found, and were told by the bank that nothing could be done. Remind the bank that they failed to assist you properly at the 800 #, and instead, provided you with an inadequate explanation of your right to dispute. Tell the bank that it's their fault time has expired, and since they gave you the wrong info to begin with, they will just have to deal with it, take the loss and reverse the charges.
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Let them know nicely, that you were advised to Report them (the Bank) and this situation to the Banking Commission in your state. Since each state has a different name for the agency/controller over banks, find that name before you call or get to the bank so you can throw it in their face. The more knowledgeable you appear to be, the further you will get.
And just continue to demand the Federal Regulation E form! The bank CAN, MUST and WILL reverse the charge! But, you must be persistent; ask to speak to the supervisor or the area manager for all the branches in the state.
Let the bank personnel know you are meeting with the media later in the day, that you would much rather they do the right thing (as most other banks have) by looking at the complaints and immediately reversing the charge(s) to your account; no matter how long ago it was. Be sure to call the Media if necessary so you are telling the truth.
If you have to, be loud (but nice) in front of other customers. If you are just calling by phone, the above tactics should still work. The bank can easily fax or mail to you the Federal Regulation E dispute form.
If the charge was to your credit card (not debit card, check card, or checking account), contact the credit card company as soon as possible to request a dispute form. Consumers usually have a little longer to dispute fraudulent credit card charges (up to 6 months), but it is better to act right away. In this type of situation, credit card disputes are usually successful since fraudulent companies often won't contest the disputed charge. In rare cases, credit card companies will review disputes, but refuse to reverse the charges. If this occurs, complain to a manager and let them know you will be filing a report here.
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LeBron James wanted to play with Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. The only place that could happen was Miami.
Get ready, NBA: A superstar trio is born.
Ending weeks of silence and drama, the two-time MVP said on his ESPN special from Greenwich, Conn. on Thursday night that he's decided to join the Miami Heat and leave the Cleveland Cavaliers after an unsuccessful seven-year quest for the championship he covets.
"The best opportunity to win and to win now and to win in the future also," James said. "Winning is a huge thing for me."
It's a huge victory for the Heat, who got commitments from Wade and Bosh on Wednesday. That duo, along with James, formed the upper echelon of the most-celebrated free-agent period in league history.
Heat president Pat Riley landed them all, a three-pack of stars to help shape his quest for a dynasty in Miami.
And for Cleveland, a city scorned for generations by some of sports' biggest letdowns, James' long-awaited words represented a defeat perhaps unlike any other.
James is gone. Home sweet home no more.
He said he made the decision Thursday morning and knows it won't go over well in Ohio.
"They can have mixed emotions, of course," James said, adding that Akron will "always be home for me."
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