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I am currently in negotiations with a poker coaching membership website (similar to CardRunners).
We discussed an integrated partnership together which would be very beneficial to both of us. We would promote their coaching program and possibly provide some forum integration, while they would in turn promote our forum and have their high limit professional players post on our forums.
We are also entertaining other ideas, such as offering private forums that are available to all members of the coaching program, in which users can get actual direct responses to their questions and analysis of their hands, etc. from the pros.
I won't disclose the names of the pros here just quite yet, but one of them is a well known pro that you've all seen on TV many times. The others are online pros who have won many large tournaments and play as high as $100-200 NL and $200-$400 NL.
We are still in negotiations in this, and it may be a bit of a slow and gradual process integrating together if we do go ahead with this, but this deal certainly has a lot of potential.
What do you think? Would you pay for special poker coaching videos and private access to a forum in which you can directly talk to the pros?
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December 2nd, 2010 #1
Some possible HUGE improvements coming...
December 2nd, 2010 #2
There are a lot of good coaching sites out there, as well as some good free forums. What would would make this site stand out from the rest?
I think you're on the right track and this forum really has some potential.
I really dislike the idea of a private forum though, I've seen a few and there is hardly any discussion going on. Maybe have an open forum and everything else be private?
December 2nd, 2010 #3
I'm guessing he's talking about making a private sub-forum , not changing the whole forum to private . Maybe paying members can post and other members can only read , that would be nice .
As much as I'd love some one-on-one coaching to find and fix those leaks I'll have to exhaust all free articles/videos (gold member on pokerstrategy) first to get to a level where coaching is needed (or the only alternative). And currently I'm not on that level .Build a poker bankroll at free bankroll
December 2nd, 2010 #4
The private forums would be additional forums for members who subscribe to the coaching service.
December 2nd, 2010 #5
That's pretty cool then, I probably wouldn't stick around if I had to pay. No offense meant at all, I just have a good amount of resources available to me.
I'm noticing there still seems to be a good influx of new players visiting the forum even now, giving this forum more of a focus on learning would be helpful to get more players involved here.
December 2nd, 2010 #6
Hey buddy!
So you would be basically offering PFO as the free section to DeucesCraced/BlueFire/PokerVT/other-random-training-site's subscription forum? This would be a great deal as their would be a lot of crossover traffic from the "Member's Only Forum".Read my musings on poker and life at PokerNewsBoy.com, and My Poker Blog
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December 2nd, 2010 #7
PFO would essentially remain the same, with the option of subscribing to the coaching services run by this other company. Subscribers, in addition to having access to all the video coaching content, would also gain access to private forums where the pros (coaches) would be active.
They would post in the main PFO forums as well, as that would be part of the deal, but the private forums would take precedence.
December 6th, 2010 #8
Annie Duke involved?????????????
See me playing $10/$20NL like it was play money
Doberman: "but Sarge, isn't poker gambling and just luck?"
Sgt. Bilko:" not the way I play it"
December 7th, 2010 #9
Nope, but he has played with Annie on TV many times.
December 7th, 2010 #10
If I guess right will you PM me???
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
A Cross Section of America - Views from a Neighborhood
Cars stop behind me as we wait for the police to arrive, or adequate space to move through the area. Between my truck and those two dented vehicles, one car that looks like it hadn't been washed in a year. The young lady in it opens her window and starts throwing several days worth of empty bags of fast food out the window into the street, the large "O" on her election bumper sticker nothing more than a big blind eye to the litter she was leaving for others to clean up.
Behind me a soccer Mom van, the windows darkened by shadows. The window is down enough I can hear "Bark!". . ."Bark Bark" "Down Boy!!" She's either got Fido in there or is listening to Shades of Grey on books on tape.
She passes, to get into the left turn lane and I see a bunch of small heads, the kids waving at me (or more likely Barkley riding in the back). Not soccer, Scouts. I see the neat haircuts and the little uniforms as they slowly and carefully pass the accident scene and I simply smile. I remember scouting, the leanings of self reliance, good citizenship, respect, I thank God there are still those that instill that in our children by organization or simply example at home.
My route takes me around the central part of the city, not a really bad part, but one I wouldn't want to break down in, as I head to a friends on the other side of the city. On a corner stands a young woman, makeup applied with a trowel, shivering in a short, thin jacket, which barely covers cheap tight clothes, her thighs straining what little fabric is there. The fabric is bright pink and written across her ample backside, in shiny rhinestones no less, is the word "LOVE" in BIG glittering letters. I guess I'm reading the wrong fashion magazines, my pants are khaki and just have pockets for a money clip and a spare magazine.
She's not waiting for a bus, but given the cold damp air, no one is stopping for her. Working girl. As I wait for yet another light to change, a man stops his car by her and rolls the window down. A customer or someone asking for directions? Neither. The car looked like one of those brightly colored futuristic 150 mph tropical fish shaped cars we saw at Tomorrowland at Disneyland in 1966. I was too young to remember most of that trip, but I remember those shiny cars. I could not help but notice his bumper was competing for hers for bling.
No, this was her. . um. . "employer", I'd wager. The expression on their faces is obvious, hers, the high flush of shame, his, one of ownership and anger. I whisper, please don't get in the car. She doesn't; she shouts something at him and walks away to share the love more enthusiastically elsewhere perhaps. There are always those who prey on the weak, offering up what appears to be shelter and sustenance, not for any altruistic means but simply to take from them what is needed to retain control.
A few more miles westbound, heading out towards the airport, traffic is slowing. At a intersection with an island between lanes, there's a young man holding a sign homeless, hungry, please help, god bless. I notice $100+ tennis shoes, a newer high end label coat, clean fingernails and hair, the only mark of his "homelessness" being a days worth of beard.
A few blocks away there are numerous warehouse type businesses, Indy being a huge shipping center for the country. There are many of them with "help wanted" signs posted by the roadways, hiring for the Christmas season and beyond at fair more than minimum wage. I've seen people leaving those places when the 3 o'clock shift gets out, some on bicycles, even in the cold, some walking even, toting a lunch pail, the nearest area of housing or bus stop a couple of miles away. People wanting to work, and work hard even if it means a long trek in the dark in the cold air. I looked that kid right in the eye, keep the window rolled up and start moving away.
On the other corner from the young man with the sign, competing with a bigger sign, is a woman. Hers is a face void of expectations, sunken in, no meat on her bones, bad teeth and the pock marks of a bad meth habit all over her face. She leans against the stop sign, a rag doll held up simply by need and addiction. The sign is just leaning against the pole, unreadable to me. She could be 23 or 63. If I give her something it will not buy food or care, only her next fix. I still drive on, but this time, not easily.
I see a lot more used cars on the road, now, the car dealerships full of bright shiny new cars for folks that aren't going to buy one, bailouts or not, unable, or like me, unwilling to take on any debt when the future is uncertain. I see a lot of older cars. I don't see a single Chevy Volt. I look down at the dash. The bat truck has 80,000 miles on it. Five years ago, I'd have just gone out and bought a new one without a second thought. Not any more, even if my income allows for such things. More and more of us are learning to re-use, repair and replace things ourselves and make do. But not everyone.
A much older acquaintance asked me if he should cash in some of his retirement to help out a family member. Both the family member and their spouse had enjoyed quite high incomes for their age, for years. But they loved to spend, the newest and best of everything, upscale neighborhood, new cars, vacations, whatever caught their eye for themselves and their only child. Ignoring the word "budget", the money went out as fast as it came in. When it wasn't enough to pay for the bills for the lifestyle they wanted, they took out a second mortgage on the home. Then, the highest earner of the two, lost their job of 15+ years. After many years of well above average income and good health, there is no savings, no equity in the house, no credit left on the cards.
I told him do NOT give them money. There comes a point when NO ONE should be bailed out simply because they were fiscally irresponsible and that goes for family, friends, cities and States. If they don't send you a Christmas card next year, or they don't vote for you next time, so be it.
I stop at a big box mart type store, to get a particular type of contact lens solution the drugstore was out of that the eye doc said big box mart stocks. I do not shop there if at all possible, the savings I get being passed on to me in the form of higher taxes to pay for the food stamps for the great number of their employees who don't get enough hours or pay to live without them. I'm not "saving" on my purchase, I'm simply paying for it elsewhere. Smoke and Mirrors.
But sometimes I have no choice but to run into one and grab something I need quickly. I do notice though, that such stores are often full of people quite happy to have a handout from the government, one of them wandering the aisles in size 24 shorts and a big furry hat made out of what appeared to be Naugahyde and roadkill, her obese pre-teens in tow, peeling the plastic from slices of processed cheese not yet paid for yet and shoving the slices in their mouths whole, as they wander the aisles. Just let me get my one thing and get out of here Lord, and please, if the ancient Celts were right and I die and come back to earth in another form after death, please not let it be at Walmart (would that be reintarnation?)
In line with my one item, the person in front of me, an older man, neatly dressed and groomed, likely living in the modest apartments behind here, buying just a few things, paying with some single folded dollars bills, carefully counted out. His shoulders are straight. This is a person who has probably never taken a handout but for the Social Security he paid into his whole life. He's not buying chips and soda and frozen meals. There's dried grain and beans and some apples, carrots and a couple of onions, powdered milk, no good coffee, just cheap tea and a small inexpensive chuck roast, food he will likely stretch as long as is possible. His hands show decades of hard work, his frame is thin, his stance is proud, even if all it can bear now is a hard and spartan heritage.
This community, thank God, still has more people willing to work, than to take and seeing him lifted my spirits after my walk through the store. He accidentally drops some coins as he gets something from his pocket, leans over and picks them up, takes his things and walks towards the parking lot. As we leave, I say. "Sir, I think you dropped this too?" He looks, up at me, smiles, but is puzzled. I press a few coins and a neatly folded up $50 bill in his hand and rush off before he can stop me.
I've got a few more miles to travel before getting to my friends house. I pass the giant food pantry distribution place. I used to volunteer there. Then they cut off food distribution to a small food kitchen down south because they'd ask people receiving a meal if they would like to join with others in prayer. They didn't have to pray, the meal came with a smile either way, they were simply invited to join in if they wished. There was no requirement for prayer to be offered food. But because prayer was involved, they were cut off from help. They have a right perhaps. I have a right, as well, to not further provide free labor for them.
I am enjoying the Christmas lights that are up as I drive towards the center of this picturesque little town. The town square will likely have no Nativity scene, just Santa and elves, now that the nation has accumulatively and systematically proceeded to remove God from the tapestry of America, unobstructed by the persuasive power of His Word or His Church. On Christmas as a child, I said a prayer to God of thanks, lit a candle for the baby Jesus, and after church, both evening and morning service, enjoyed a few presents for which I was both thankful and blessed. Now Christmas is all Santa and Reindeer and "what will you give me" rather than stopping for a moment to thank the One that gave all.
Cutting through a small town I notice strip after strip mall, all closed up, shuttered. An open area, blocks long that was supposed to be the mall, before that idea shuttered. I stop for lunch at a small family owned place. It is spotlessly clean, and I am greeted warmly, though a stranger, and enjoy an excellent meal. I hope they are still here next time I drive through, rather than join the growing number of small business who will fail as they will never be in the position to donate to campaigns, hire lobbyists, and get special exemptions for themselves carved out the laws and regulations governing health care and labor that apply to everyone else.
These are all scenes one will never see on TV, on a reality show. on the news. This is simply a slice of a single day in Midwest America as viewed from these eyes. This is America, not Europe, as much as some people want to make it like Europe. Here the land is vast and open, spurning confinement, unlike most of the small countries in Europe where you can't swing a cat without accidentally whacking a Border Guard. Its a land of wide opportunities, where you should be able to succeed without paying socialist tax rates bigger than Original Sin. It's America. Not Europe. My ancestors (but for the Cree one) immigrated here for a reason. Our ideas were revolutionary, our people strong. You succeeded and failed by your own initiative. Besides if you are law abiding and want a new firearm you just go to the store and pick one out.
It's America, My parents America and mine. It's people struggling, people hoping, people succeeding, people failing. People still dreaming of what it once was, and by precept, what it still can be. A democracy, an undefeated democracy, not undefeated because it was never challenged, but undefeated because it was bravely and firmly protected, shielded in its impeccant frailty, but democracy growing.
As I turn down the remaining highway that will take me to my destination, there's a gun store, doing brisk business. They usually do during hunting season, but it's noticeably busier now. It sits in a small strip mall it shares with a small beauty salon and tanning place. I was going to stop, but spent the money I was going to get a box of ammo with on something more worthwhile. Another day, perhaps, as I stick to my budget, even when I don't want to. But I notice the customers of the completely divergent businesses intermingling politely in the parking lot as some big, bearded guy in a truck gives up his intended parking spot to some one's grandma come to get a new "do".
Small town American, shades of red white and blue. . . and black and white. Not black and white as in skin color by by the way we think. Entitlement, handouts from above and the freedom from want versus self reliance, sacrifice, and the freedom to fail. Both sides may equally support and defend our Country but both differ greatly in what they expect back in return from its government.
As I drive, I see signs that there are many that believe as I do, hard work, responsibility, helping neighbors who WILL help themselves. I am proud to be their neighbor. But as I travel through this city, into the small towns that circle it like stars, the signs of our economic overindulgence and the culture of entitlement are everywhere – in small things many would drive by without noticing, in others that most simply prefer to turn a blind eye to. We sit as the media tells lie after lie about the true state of affairs; more lies than they ever imagined they could say and more so than any reasonable person should believe, but they do believe, accepting the state of affairs with that spellbound stare of the lab rat, happy because he was handed a piece of cheese. But it's an experiment that will have dire results. We only have to look at other countries who have taken the road this country is turning down to see what our future holds.
It is that future that makes me very glad that I still remember how to pray.
35 comments:
- Earl said...
- December 8, 2012 at 7:15 PM
- Bob said...
Iam constantly surprised how you can make me feel good about people and in the next instant piss me off royally about people.
One does tend to get confused with old age...
- December 8, 2012 at 7:17 PM
- Bob said...
God bless you for helping the old man out, Brigid. You can be sure He sees all, even if He doesn't comment out loud much these days.
- December 8, 2012 at 7:18 PM
- BePrepared said...
*silent tear*
Saturday I drove back down the the third world country, er county I used to live in for an EVOC refresher, with 50% unemployment and 80% of Obama supporters.
Beautiful country if it wasn't infested with entitlement. - December 8, 2012 at 7:19 PM
- uncle al said...
What a truly powerful essay. It speaks so much more "truth" than the "news" media could find to report in a month - truth about who we are and what we've become, or allowed some to become. Thanks for being a light in such a darkening place in time.
- December 8, 2012 at 7:23 PM
- GW said...
I wish you would add a "share" button on your posts. Ones like this would be gladly shared for others' enjoyment and reflection.
You truly have a gift for observation and prose.
Merry Christmas, Brigid. - December 8, 2012 at 8:16 PM
- Roscoe said...
I've mentioned before that the dominant pizza chain in PDX is the one that can take food stamps due to the "take and bake" loophole.
The pizza is just okay. I don't think they would survive against the other players if they couldn't accept the debit cards. There are obviously commercial interests with stakes in the welfare state.
BTW, I go to school at the university campus featured in "Shades of Grey". I was clueless about why the tour groups seemed larger, older, and better (well, kinkier) dressed until a co-worker clued me in a few months ago. Now, I'm wondering when the film crews will arrive. - December 8, 2012 at 8:27 PM
- RabidAlien said...
- December 8, 2012 at 8:35 PM
- Keith said...
You had quite a day.
- December 8, 2012 at 8:40 PM
- Rev. Paul said...
"It is that future that makes me very glad that I still remember how to pray."
Amen! - December 8, 2012 at 8:51 PM
- Brigid said...
Bob - I understand. I've sworn to protect people with my life, doesn't mean I have to like them.
Rev. Paul - thank you.
GW - I tried it after your comment(I don't do any of the social network things so I'm not real versed at this). There are some share widgets at the bottom of the posts now. Someone please let me know if these actually work.
Roscoe - I read about 3 pages of the book a friend showed me. OMG it was bad writing, but it fostered many, many bad jokes between Tam, Miss D and myself one day.
Uncle al - Thank you Sir, I'm not sure if you've commented before so if this is indeed your first - then welcome. If not, and I just missed you, welcome back. It's just small things I notice as I go. Sometimes I hold them in, sometimes I put them down on paper. - December 8, 2012 at 9:01 PM
- Alison said...
your word "reintarnataion" made me smile...
When my own times were better, I would often make up an extra sandwich or two to carry with along with my lunch, and have them handy to offer some of the homeless folks. We have a lot of them here in Portland, probably because the weather here is not so harsh in the wintertime. Many I see are obviously in need of both physical and mental health help, and most were grateful for a sandwich. I figured sandwichs are not money for addictions.
I myself was homeless for a time, (much younger, bad judgment in trusting someone who turned out not to be a gentleman at all) spent a New England winter in the back of a truck... but I somehow managed to find a job, and every week paid for a Y pass so even though I'd no place to live, at least I could shower every day and get warm for an hour. Took a long time to get myself out of the hole that stupidity put me in...
I've been working for pay since I was 15, and expect to keep working till they carry me out feet first... - December 8, 2012 at 9:03 PM
- Cactusneedle said...
I worked for many years as a church secretary at a church that had a food closet open to the public. It was an eye-opener to witness the different personalities that would come in for food. Some you could not help but respect, even though they did not have much monitarily. Others, you wanted to turn away because their greed and sense of entitlement was so irritating. The man who sat in his car smoking while his wife hobbled in on stiff knees to get a bag of canned goods. The person who wanted to pick and choose what food they got. But there was the one who always took the time to put new donations on the shelves for me before he took his food - he was the only one actually allowed in the pantry. Everyone else got the standard bag of cans. I learned early on not to let anyone "shop" for themselves - they would take all the "best" items. I shudder to think of what is at the end of the road this nation is traveling. I pray we take a different path soon.
- December 8, 2012 at 10:06 PM
- Bob in Tampa said...
Brigid, your link worked on Facebook...yes, I am on Facebook.
It is the only way I get to see pictures of my grandkids! - December 8, 2012 at 11:22 PM
- GW said...
The share links work good!
- December 8, 2012 at 11:27 PM
- Skip said...
Quite a trip lady.
You observations are quite succinct. - December 8, 2012 at 11:41 PM
- naturegirl said...
Thank you.
That was beautiful. And reality, in many places across the USA.....I think the money "dropped" into the perfect hands ;)
From experience, sometimes just acknowledging other people is all it takes to touch a heart. Being noticed for the right reasons, that is. It really is that simple sometimes.
P.S. To Alison, what counts is you survived, not how it happened :) - December 8, 2012 at 11:48 PM
- Monkeywrangler said...
Wow...astute observations, Brigid. Reading your blog is a pleasure.
Vic303 - December 9, 2012 at 1:05 AM
- Unknown said...
Found your blog awhile back and love it. Just read "Cross Section" and printed it to read after I teach my Sunday School lesson today. Your eloquence exceeds mine with words worth sharing.
- December 9, 2012 at 8:37 AM
- Paladin said...
- December 9, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- Once Free Man said...
How dare you judge who gets your help?
(all sarcasm intended)
I share your aversion to WalMart. What strikes me most in those infrequent visits, however, are the scooter riders. I shudder, knowing that wall-e and Idiocracy are the most accurate predictions of America's future.
Once again, an emotionally moving description of what most of us simply process and pass through. - December 9, 2012 at 9:34 AM
- Brigid said...
Alison - I did that once, went out and bought a hot lunch for one of the "hungry, out of work" only to have it shoved back at me as they said "I want money". But the sandwich is a good idea.
cactusneedle - anyone of us could have been there at some point through the right set of circumstances. We shouldn't forget. But helping those that appreciate it and wish to help back is so much better.
Bob in Tampa - yay! Brigid Jr. does facebook, I don't as I don't like their privacy policies, but she loves to share her photos of fun and her friends from college on there.
Rich - thank you. My Dad gets some of them printed out in big type. I started this for him and my daughter and it became part of my life as well.
skip - stay safe out there. Big hug.
Paladin - thank you!
OnceFreeMan - ah, the carts. I look at them slightly differently now as in one year ago I was using one after I blew out my miniscus on "Labrador Retrievers on Ice!" I did a review of them here on a blogmeet post, right after the surgery, it might make you smile. -
http://mausersandmuffins.blogspot.com/2012/01/wookie-wraps-up-weekend-blog-meet.html - December 9, 2012 at 10:12 AM
- Old NFO said...
Well said, and hopefully those small town ideals will continue...
- December 9, 2012 at 11:12 AM
- Roscoe said...
I don't make any judgements about reading lists. :)
According to my co-worker, the "Shades of Grey" author came out of "Twilight" fan fic community so I have a pretty good idea about content and writing quality since a video swapping online friend spends a lot of her free time writing fan fic to work out her kinks. - December 9, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- Dick said...
Good stuff Brigid. I was able to visualize perfectly what you were seeing and I'm familiar with it all.
God Bless you. - December 9, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- CenTexTim said...
There is much more truth and understanding in this post than in the volumes of newsprint and hours of talking heads that we'll be subjected to this Sunday. Well done.
- December 9, 2012 at 1:31 PM
- The Freeholder said...
Well said. A candle in the growing darkness, you are.
- December 9, 2012 at 2:38 PM
- Murphy's Law said...
Brigid, you remind me again of what America used to be like, was supposed to be like, and still is like, if only in a few areas. And it's always good to be reminded that there are still enough of us left to make a difference if we choose to do so.
- December 9, 2012 at 3:06 PM
- Cond0011 said...
Its testimonies such as this one that give me hope. :')
Thank you, Brigid.
- December 9, 2012 at 3:11 PM
- Once Free Man said...
Injuries and maladies notwithstanding, Brigid, I stand by my observation that most of the Wall-e World cart racers are squatting from their own excess of consumption and lack of physical activity.
I blew my knee out bad enough that I had to be in a cast for weeks before I could even have surgery and another cast afterward, so I'm painfully familiar with the temporary gimpitude. Sadly, it wasn't one of those pinhole camera affairs. - December 9, 2012 at 6:07 PM
- jocostello said...
Dear Brigid,
You're an artist with words. Thanks for sharing your observations and insight.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,
John Costello - December 9, 2012 at 7:08 PM
- Tammy MomWithAGun said...
I'd like to think the good, kind, honest, hardworking folk still outnumber the parasites, but it's so hard to believe that sometimes. I've bought food for folks a few times, and they're usually grateful and appreciative. But I also had one who threw the sandwich at me and called me a b*tch for refusing to hand over greenbacks. Sad, so sad.
Still and all, America is my adopted home now - moved here twenty years ago,and became a citizen last year - and I can't imagine anyplace I'd rather call home. - December 9, 2012 at 7:18 PM
- The Suburban Bushwacker said...
" unlike most of the small countries in Europe where you can't swing a cat without accidentally whacking a Border Guard."
Funny we think the centralising forces are trying to make Europe more like america, for instance its often noted by visitors that the TSA learned their manners in the old eastern europe :-)
SBW - December 10, 2012 at 1:01 PM
- RonF said...
Here in Illinois we have more net tax consumers - direct government grant recipients plus government employees - than we do net tax consumers. And so the State of Illinois is functionally bankrupt.
- December 10, 2012 at 4:08 PM
- RonF said...
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TUESDAY, Oct. 16 (HealthDay News) — The amount and severity of pain that you experience after an automobile accident may depend on your genes, early new research suggests.
In two studies based on data collected from 948 adult car accident victims, scientists from the University of North Carolina found that inherited genetic variations affected participants' response to pain intensity, both immediately following the accident and six weeks later.
"The findings are important because currently patients who experience persistent pain, who don't have things you can see that are obviously damaged, are often viewed with lots of suspicion and they don't get the treatment they need," said senior study author Dr. Samuel McLean, an assistant professor of anesthesiology. "This shows a biologic basis for the development of these symptoms."
The studies are scheduled to be presented Tuesday at the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
Previous research has suggested that pain after a car accident isn't due solely to tissue damage from trauma but may also be strongly influenced by physiologic systems involved in the body's response to the collision, study authors said. Participants in the current research provided a blood sample after being treated in a hospital emergency room and were also evaluated for extent and severity of pain at the emergency visit and six weeks later.
The first study examined the role of dopamine — a neurotransmitter that helps regulate pain processing. It found that genetic variants associated with the dopamine receptor 2 contribute to the pain severity felt in the immediate aftermath of a collision.
The second study evaluated the role of a hormonal system known as the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal axis, which helps regulate the body's response to stressful events. It found that a gene variant was linked to a 20 percent higher risk of moderate to severe neck pain six weeks after a collision, as well as greater body pain.
"The one thing we're learning is that the physiological machinery that's activated when one is exposed to a life-threatening situation, such as a car crash or a very stressful situation, can lead to persistent pain if things don't go just right," McLean said. "For car crashes, historically, the whole challenge has been . . . if something is wrong with [patients], we would be able to see it, find it on an X-ray or MRI scan, and that discussion continues. But we missed this important point — there's a whole biology that can cause pain that has nothing to do with broken bone or torn muscle."
The research may eventually open doors to new ways of tailoring pain treatments to each patient to better ease their suffering, said Dr. John Dombrowski, director of the Washington Pain Center in Washington, D.C.
"I think it's fascinating because I'm a clinician who's in the trenches taking care of patients," said Dombrowski, also chair of the ASA's committee on communications. "This kind of information helps me make sense of how to better deliver care."
Study author McLean cautioned, however, that the studies represent a broad first step toward individualizing pain care, noting that identifying the biology of pain is a huge accomplishment in itself.
"We're in much more the early stages, where we're trying to figure out the biology of this illness and then, later on, how that biology varies from person to person," he said.
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Hes a star piano player and shes the person who organises his professional life. Pianist Brian Silas and Ravinder Kaur have been married for seven years and he insists its all a, golden platter he got from God. They met when he was playing at a five-star hotel in the early 90s and never dreamt that the relationship would blossom as it has.
Ravinder has three daughters from an earlier marriage, but they turn to Brian whenever they have an argument with their mother.
Brians first brush with music was as a choir boy in a Lucknow church where his father played the organ. He took to the piano early in life and he has given Hindi melodies a new twist by rendering them on his grand piano with a tabla accompaniment.
It is because of my faith in God that I was gifted my family. When I look back, I realise how I have been blessed with whatever a man could desire. And I got it all on a golden platter. Ravinder has been the biggest blessing in my life.
I also have to admit that she is my driving force. She takes care of my musical shows, handles the domestic front and thereby enables me to concentrate fully on my music. Sometimes I dont even know the dates of my performances. All I have to do is go there and play. Whats kept us going is our faith in each other and faith in God.
Also, in any relationship, trust and understanding is very essential, and this we have in plenty. Over the years, our children have also kept us going. They have given me no reason to think that they are not mine. They are my own children and I have always felt that they are a part of my gift from God.
The best thing about Ravinder is that I can depend on her. I know that she will take care of every single detail, big or small. Another thing that binds us together is the fact that we spend a lot of time with each other.
For some, too much of togetherness may bring about a sense of boredom, but in our case, it only brings us closer. I would say, out of the 24 hours in a day, we spend 23 hours together. Ravinder has brought a sense of order to our house and yes, even to my piano room. She arranges all my albums on one shelf and has given a new twist to my room. Its a wonderful feeling having her by my side, and all I can say is that Ienjoy it immensely.
He has his own ways of making me feel special. On many occasions during a performance, he will play one of my favorite numbers. Even in the middle of a crowd of people, he somehow conveys that he cares through his music. It is this that I find extremely touching and beautiful.
Brians sense of humour is one of his greatest qualities. He is also very caring and understands even my unspoken needs. Another admirable quality of his is that even when he loses his temper, he cools down pretty fast.
Besides all that, there are those little things he does for me on special occasions like my birthday. Brian knows that I am very fond of flowers. So he always makes it a point to get flowers for me starting the day before my birthday.
Whats beautiful in this relationship is that Brian and I are true companions and tend to do everything together. We dont have separate lives that we follow individually. But there is no boredom because we share a very good understanding. Also, if we have any misunderstanding, we talk it out and thereby restore the harmony between us. For any relationship to work, it is essential for both partners to give and make an effort.
Also, it means doing something for the other person. I may not cook, but I know that Brian loves good food. So, I ensure that his favourite dishes are prepared and that the kitchen is running smoothly.
I also accompany him for all his shows wherever they may be. His music somehow rejuvenates us. No matter how often I might have heard him, no composition of his ever sounds the same to me. With each song, I hear a new sound and always feel as if Im listening to him playing for the very first time. Brian is so passionate about his music. And he translates that passion and compassion in real life too. I can never get tired of his music.
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By Carolyn Cooper
In 1948, Louise Bennett's subversive poem 'Nayga Yard' was published in Public Opinion. I don't know what or who provoked Miss Lou. Beneath the humour of her poetry, there was always a serious intention to expose the true face of Jamaican society. This is how 'Nayga Yard' blasted off:
We all know dat is true
Is who-for yard Jamaica is?
Is who dah beat up who?
Fast-forward to 2012. Last week, I got a most distressing email. Here's an excerpt: "I too made my way to the Jamaica village to mark the celebration of our nation on Monday, August 6 with my daughter. My heart beating with pride, my body decked out in the national colours and my hands waving the flag, I excitedly joined the festivities. Then it was back home to Waterhouse where I live.
"This morning, I woke up feeling a sense of loss, not because 'mi menopausal effects a kick mi an mek mi feel like a drug addict weh want a fix', but because my daughter, who graduated from the UWI, went to a job interview a few months ago and was asked "is this address where you will come from to work every day?" Weh dem mean by dat? A yah so she live, so wah? So I, in my motherly wisdom, that is, trying to steer the child in the way of survival, caution her to change her address".
As we celebrate that superb 1-2-3 men's 200 Olympic victory, as well as all the accomplishments of our female athletes, we cannot afford to forget that after the festivities, many of us have to go back home to Waterhouse. We have to confront the deep-rooted problems of colour and class prejudice in Jamaican society. This is how that distressed mother ended her heartbreaking email:
"If an interviewer says to a young person who is fresh out of college and has limited resources, that to have a car would help your personal development, what exactly do they mean, and if young people are not trained, where will the years of experience come from? If class and colour still takes [sic] precedence over character and hard work, should we be surprised when some of us decide 'fi tun cruff'?"
In 1948, Miss Lou was much more optimistic than this mother from Waterhouse about the prospects for black people in colonial Jamaica:
Call fi Jamaica fastes sprinters
Gal or bwoy, an den
De foremos artis, doctor, scholar -
Nayga reign again!
Miss Lou humorously admits that 'nayga' are also dominant in less desirable spheres:
Go eena prison, poor house, jail
Asylum - wha yu see?
Nayga dah reign predominant!
De place belongs to we!
Who is fooling who?
Nobody in their right mind could look at the crowd of people in the National Stadium on August 6 and not see that Jamaica is a predominantly black society. Ninety per cent of Jamaicans are black, black, black. Bleach or no bleach. So why is our national motto, 'Out of Many, One People'? Who are the 'many' and who are the 'one'? Who came up with this motto? And what was its purpose? Who is fooling who? Or 'whom', in deference to the purists.
Incidentally, 'whom' is fast dying. The English language keeps on reinventing itself and bits and pieces fall by the wayside. But some of us in Jamaica will be the very last to know. We're convinced that English grammar is divinely ordained. So a grammatical error is a sign of sin, not just a slip of the lip. For example, we assume that the use of 'whom' shows that we're very righteous. Some of us even wrongly use 'whom' for 'who' as in, "May I say whom is calling?" It just sounds so 'stush'.
Anyhow, when I was asked by a newspaper 'a farin' to write an opinion piece on Jamaica to be published on Independence Day, I decided to focus on troubling questions about identity. I suppose I could have written an obviously celebratory piece 'bigging up' our athletes and singing the glories of Jamaica in many other fields of accomplishment.
I'd actually started off with the headline, 'Jamaica - A Speck of Greatness'. I'd spoken on that topic at a TEDxIrie event held in April 2011 in Kingston. TED talks are designed to promote technology, entertainment and design. The x brand signifies a local event. The 'Irie' forum was organised by Knolly Moses, CEO of the cleverly named Panmedia, a digital agency specialising in mobile, social media, online marketing, and web development.
The forum's goal was "to show the world that Jamaica's size doesn't limit what we can contribute globally in all areas of human activity". TEDxIrie featured speakers in a range of fields: Ebony Patterson (fine art); Jacqueline Sutherland and Mark Jones (contact centre services); Kaiton Williams (information sciences); Wayne Marshall (not, Tru Tru Tru; this Marshall is an American ethnomusicologist with expertise in Caribbean popular music); I kicked off the forum, with a talk on repositioning Brand Jamaica. To see all the talks on YouTube, just Google TEDxIrie.
As I started to write that Independence piece, the national motto kept on bothering me. It was forcing me to reflect on some of the deep-rooted contradictions of our society. So I decided to focus on the spirit of resistance to imperialism and racism in Jamaican culture, another form of celebration, I would argue.
In a radio interview with Marlene Malahoo Forte last week, I was most surprised by her interpretation of the motto. 'Many' could mean people from different walks of life. It doesn't necessarily signify race. Not even her predecessor Motty Perkins, in his worse moments of Anancyism, would make such claim. We're still afraid to confront the issue of race and that's why we continue to take comfort in our deceptive national motto. One people? Just ask that woman from Waterhouse.
Carolyn Cooper is a professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona. Visit her bilingual blog at http://carolynjoycooper.wordpress.com/. Email feedback to firstname.lastname@example.com and email@example.com.


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Q: Are the Broncos going to do anything in free agency? I watch all of these other teams signing people. When are John Elway and Co. going to get in on it?
A: Stephen, in free agency, teams often chase the big fish and let the others swim by, or they let the big ones go by and try to catch as many of the smaller ones that will fit in their current boat.
The Broncos went the big-fish route, perhaps the biggest fish to appear on the open market since free agency began in 1994. Their focus in free agency has been Peyton Manning.
The Broncos knew the risks before they made the decision to take their swing at Manning. They have let most of the other top-tier free agents pass by.
And plenty of cash has been tossed around — guard Ben Grubbs just got a $36 million deal from the Saints, after all — but the Broncos' checkbook is pointed directly at Manning.
If they land the four-time NFL MVP, you'll see why. Manning isn't going to get some incentive-laden contract with all kinds of performance benchmarks, because he doesn't have to sign that kind of deal.
He's a franchise-changing quarterback, a future Hall of Famer. He's getting guaranteed money and plenty of it. And when the Broncos chose to pursue Manning, they decided they could live with the results whether or not they signed him.
If they do sign him, they will spend more money on offense. And until former Colts tight end Dallas Clark signs somewhere, folks in the NFL will keep saying he's going where Manning's going, just as they did about Reggie Wayne until he re-signed in Indianapolis.
If they don't sign him, they not only have to deal with explaining to Tim Tebow why they put the full-court press on, with enormous smiles on their faces, to sign his replacement. They will also have to regain their balance in free agency.
Yet this may not be all that difficult for the Broncos, given what their plan was before they started kicking around the idea of signing Manning. Their original plan in free agency was to work the middle tier of players, veterans who fit specific jobs in their schemes and to shy away from the big-money targets.
And most of those middle-tier players remain unsigned. Free agency opened with 532 players available to sign, and the vast majority have not signed.
The Broncos have done some non-Manning work, including visits with safeties Brandon Meriweather and Mike Adams. Meriweather (who signed with the Redskins) carries some baggage — some pro personnel guys question his desire these days — but Adams is a good find in free agency for any team.
He can play free safety, and the Browns lined him up at cornerback at times when they were in a pinch. He has been a high-quality special-teams player in his career. He is the kind of player who doesn't make everybody breathless, but this deal has potential as a quality signing.
The bottom line is when the Broncos really started to gather themselves in February — coach John Fox was telling folks at the scouting combine why it made sense for the Broncos to pursue Manning — they simply made the decision in the opening week it would be a Manning-first approach.
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John and Terry, married for 22 years, have been struggling in their marriage for the last five. Very focused on trying to make his business successful, John works long hours and is often not home in the evening. As the kids grew up Terry felt like she wasn't needed as much and John wasn't around to give her support. Terry began to look for more in her life.
This is a typical story that plays out in many couples marriages before divorce occurs. At the point of crisis, the decision to get divorced, many couples make a final attempt to save the marriage by entering into marital counseling or therapy. The success rates of these interventions are low and in fact might even make things worse if one partner is no longer committed to the relationship, according to Sam Margulies PhD, author of Divorce for Grownups.
I became curious about how successful counseling really was and what would make it more successful. This is what I discovered.
"Each year, hundreds of thousands of couples go into counseling in an effort to save their troubled relationships, but does it really work" asks another article on The Hypnosis Motivation Institute site. It references research indicating that 25 percent of couples are worse off two years after they stop therapy, and 38 percent divorce after four years.
5 Reasons Counseling / Therapy is Ineffective
- Couples enter into counseling about 6 years after they start having problems, which is too late. Often by the time they enter into counseling or therapy one of the partners is already on the way out and is no longer committed to making the relationship work.
- When domestic violence or addictions are involved and the offending partner does not take responsibility for their actions there is very little the other partner can do other than look after themselves. Counseling may be sought to find the strength to leave.
- The intervention often involves gaining new insights about the marriage and the other partner as well as learning new skills to work through difficult situations. Couples usually quit practicing the new skills learned and go back to treating each other the way they were before counseling.
- Often underlying emotional insecurities in both partners are not being resolved.
- Sexual and intimacy issues aren't resolved.
5 Types of Intervention
- Behavioral Marital Therapy teaches spouses to be kinder to each other.
- Insight-oriented Marital Therapy works on defense mechanisms and power struggles in a relationship.
- Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy focuses on learning to accept and accommodate the needs of your spouse.
- Emotionally Focused Therapy emphasizes emotions and their impact on the marital relationship.
- Differentiation uses sexual and intimacy counseling to unveil a couple's emotional insecurities that affect their relationship, intimacy and other areas of their lives.
According to the Hypnosis Motivation Institute research Emotionally Focused Therapy has the highest satisfaction success rate – 70 to 73 percent, with couples 2 years after their intervention.
"Until emotionally focused therapy came along, therapists were so intent on getting couples to make contracts to change their behavior that they did not delve into the emotional underpinnings of a relationship."
It is no surprise that Emotionally Focused Therapy and Differentiation are more successful methods of marriage counseling. Both methods focus on emotions, which when triggered are more powerful than thinking. The first three methodologies are based on changing our thinking.
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Imagine having a technique you could use to let go of the underlying emotional energy which causes the majority of your marital problems. Imagine being able to let go of this energy by working with it while conflict it is occurring!
It does not require a lot of talking, if any. You don't have to understand where the energy comes from or your underlying family conditioning. All you have to do is learn how to feel it in a particular way that brings it to resolution, and learning takes less than 4 hours.
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- Get support early on when you are having problems in your relationship, before your emotional connection dies.
- Decide if you are really committed to having a great marriage with your partner. If you are not committed counseling won't save your marriage. Choose divorce counseling instead, and be clear on your motives.
- Learn the Emotional Hot Button Removal Techniques: they support and increase the effectiveness of other counseling methods whether you stay in your marriage or get divorced.
- Find out what methodology your counselor or therapist uses in their couples counseling sessions. Emotion- based marriage counseling has the best success rate for marriages.