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Medication aides work in hospitals and other healthcare facilities where they are required to provide assistance to doctors, patients and coworkers.
To apply for this job, you need a good resume along with a supporting cover letter. Your resume should contain a brief snapshot of your qualifications and skills.
Let us see what a resume will look like for a person applying for their first job as a medication aide.
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Amy Harrison
6242 Cordes Lane, Rapid City, SD 44120
(999) 920-9999, Email
CAREER OBJECTIVE: Looking for a Medication Aide position with Family Health Services making the most of extensive patient care skills and knowledge of medical terminology.
• 6 months' experience in healthcare field
• Certified Nursing Assistant – South Dakota
• Highly skilled in assisting residents with activities of daily living
• In depth knowledge of supervising self administered medication to residents based on predefined guidelines
• Hands on experience in monitoring health and well being of residents and patients
• Implemented a resident interactive program to assist residents with self confidence development
• Attained Employee of the Month Award in Jan 2016 following excellence in resident services
Medication Aide | Sava Senior Care, Rapid City, SD | Nov 2015 – Apr 2016
• Assist residents with bathing and grooming activities
• Provide interactive activities for stimulation
• Assist residents to and from activities as required
• Report resident health or behavioral changes to the authorities
• Supervise medication administering
• Respond to emergencies
Nurse Aide | General Beaven Kelly Home – Holyoke, MA | Sep 2015 – Nov 2015
• Provided care, comfort and safety of residents
• Assisted residents with activities of daily living
• Assisted in personal hygiene, feeding and ambulating
• Maintained rooms in a clean and arranged condition
G.E.D | ABC School, Rapid City, SD – 2012
• Admirable organizational and management skills
• Good interpersonal skills
• Proven ability to comprehend and act on verbal instructions
• Able to manage time efficiently


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After six months of mourning her "soulmate", Graça Machel has announced she will return to public life.
Nelson Mandela's widow said she would return to her active role as a global advocate for women's and children's rights, with the aim of fulfilling Mandela's last wish.
"I was fortunate that in Madiba I found a soulmate and a fellow advocate for children and women's rights. I am inspired by his rich legacy that promotes justice, compassion and solidarity," she said.
"Children were very dear to Madiba and his last wish was to build the Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital." She said she shared this dream and would work to have it fulfilled in her lifetime.
Since Mandela's death, Machel and his ex-wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, have been wearing black as a sign of mourning and have not been permitted to make public appearances.
A cleansing ceremony was performed in Qunu earlier this month that was attended by family to mark the end of the mourning period.
Machel said South Africa had lost its "father of democracy and leader". She said the world had lost an internationally respected icon.
"I lost my best friend, beloved husband and guide."
She had been deeply touched and comforted by the affection shown towards her family and herself throughout Mandela's illness and in the wake of his death.
Earlier this month, Mandela's former PA, Zelda la Grange, published a book in which she illustrated sensational details of the friction Machel had to endure as a member of the Mandela family and how family politics took a heavy toll on her.
"I would like to thank our family, friends and the people throughout the world who gave me love and support during these difficult times," Machel said.
She said her priorities now involved continuing to advocate for an expanded space for women in Africa to access better opportunities in economic, political and social spheres.
"I will work with others to protect the rights of children, fight for an end to child marriage, ensure we continue to make progress on child survival and development, as well as promote the attainment of quality education for all children," she said.
On Monday Machel will welcome more than 1 000 international delegates to Joburg as part of her role as African ambassador for A Promise Renewed at the third Partners' Forum.
The Partners' Forum will focus on progress made in the health of women, children and newborns, and the post-2015 development agenda.
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OCPD and the health implications of being friendless and anti-social
I'm sick of hearing about how not being social and having no friends is so bad for your health. A doc on tv today said that not being social is as bad for your health as alcoholism! Well, what about someone like me? I'm OCPD and being around people literally makes me ill. I've tried my own behavioral therapies, pushed myself out into social situations to practice being better at it, yet after 3 years of realizing my ocpd and trying to do the correct things for myself, I still don't feel like having friends and being social is good for me at all.
In full disclosure, I do get lonely and wish that I had the ability to be "normal" in social situations, so I'm not without some anxiety about being a loner. But the anxiety from being social has always been greater than the anxiety from being a loner, until now when I just learned that my health may be affected. I'll add that I'm also obsessive about my health, so this is no small matter for me; in fact, it's the most difficult thing for me yet because I've figured out how to control every other manifested OCPD behavior, and do so every minute I live. I just feel like social situations make me worse, not better.
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listen to puppy, she has helped and encouraged me so much and helps me celebrate my babysteps. i understand how overwhelming our struggles can be. let's encourage each other!
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Huh? Who said anything about weight loss? Maybe you meant to send that message to someone else?
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Rarebird, please forgive me, my mind was in a very overwhelmed place that day, as I was under a ton of stress and anxiety from a family emergency. I am so very sorry about that. My mind's back in action and very focused now. I absolutely know that you don't need weight loss. It's all about focusing on getting you to a good comfortable place with your social anxiety. I am here to help you in any way that I can.


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Photo by James BunoanMeet Jordan Cooper: Mr. Hardcore. Well, maybe not Mr.Hardcore—after all, he's not a vegan, drinks on occasion and never called himself straightedge—but there has to be some kind of title for him. After all, his Revelation Records label just celebrated its 100th release last month with the less-than-imaginatively titled Revelation 100. And he has released almost all of the cornerstone albums in the modern hardcore lexicon, starting with a car full of seven-inches in Connecticut and growing into a warehouse full of CDs in Huntington Beach and in some ways putting together the definitive soundtrack for clean-cut iconoclastic suburban youth—judging by who's wearing those distinctive Revelation hooded sweatshirts, anyway.
Seminal "New York Crew" bands like Gorilla Biscuits, Sick of It All and Judge all called the label home at some point. Revelation eventually moved its operation to the Left Coast ("I get homesick for here, so I guess it's home to me," Cooper says) and began testing avant-garde waters with bands like the creepy Into Another and the post-hardcore Quicksand. And Cooper has branched out, too: no longer a big show-goer, not a flashy dresser, not much of a political firebrand ("I write quite a few letters to our local senators," he says. "But I have yet to get a reply"). It's mainly the music itself—and the label that gets it out there—that has kept Cooper tied to hardcore for 15 years now.
"In 1987, I lived for hardcore," he says. "And I was always looking for something to do. I couldn't play well enough to be in a band, and a label just came up as an idea between Ray [Cappo, legendary front man for Youth of Today]—who is a close friend of mine from high school—and a few other people we were friends with."
He grew up in New York but moved to Connecticut his senior year of high school with his "commuter dad" and gym-teacher mom, where Cappo plugged him into hardcore. Back in New York, he had never quite been into the whole punk thing ("I just pretty much liked classic rock and metal," he says), but when he sat down with Cappo in English class, things started to look a lot different.
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The first Revelation record was an EP by Warzone, a seminal New York hardcore band, which established a pattern that would last for years: press 500 or 1,000 records, load them into Cooper's car, and drive them to stores and distributors in New York City.
"We still deal with a lot of the same people we did then," says Cooper, "but I don't drive the boxes around as much now. My car is still here, but my friend actually just bought it off me—I bet that thing has held more records than any other car its size!"
Now Revelation has grown into a high-profile national label and distributor—not to mention trendsetter. The labels-come-lately that started up after Revelation's trailblazing have mushroomed into monsters: Chicago's Victory Records, for instance, was once second fiddle to Revelation but just sold a 25 percent share to major label MCA-Victory, and albums by Victory bands Hatebreed and Thursday have sold more than 100,000 copies each.
Texas Is the Reason's "Do You Know Who You Are?" was a defining emocore moment, echoing today in bands like Jimmy Eat World and the Juliana Theory. And of course you've got Inside Out's "No Spiritual Surrender," featuring a young Zack de la Rocha on vocals. In between, there have been some stinkers—records from Whirlpool, Chinchilla and a band called Slipknot (which predated the masked Iowans) immediately come to mind—but Cooper insists he doesn't regret any of them.
"I could say Slipknot, since it was like bringing kids to get haircuts to get them into the studio, but I do like the record," he laughs. "And there are a couple of others that ended up being a pain, but nothing I can say I really wish we hadn't done—I always wish we could do more."
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A Free State game farmer appeared in the Vryburg Regional Court on Wednesday in connection with rhino poaching, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said.
Marnus Steyl was granted bail of R100,000 and was ordered to hand over his passport, spokesman Frank Lesenyego said.
"If he wants to travel abroad he must pay R10,000 to get his passport and when he returns he will be given the money back. Those are his bail conditions."
The matter was postponed to March 25.
The 38-year-old faces 23 charges of fraud, five of illegal rhino hunting, one of money-laundering, and one of contravening the National Environmental Management Biodiversity Act.
Steyl reported to the court on Wednesday morning following the issuing of a warrant of arrest, prosecutor Douw Jacobs said.
Last year Steyl was accused alongside Thai national Chumlong Lemthongthai for among other things, illegally trading in and exporting rhino horn.
In November 2012 the charges against him were dropped.
Lemthongthai, who pleaded guilty to trading in rhino horn, was sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment. - Sapa


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'Pen can't preserve lead for Rockies
LOS ANGELES -- As a mantra of hope, you can't beat resiliency, resiliency, resiliency. The 2007 Rockies have a knack for bouncing back, but after Sunday afternoon's loss, they'd just as soon move forward. "We battled back today, that's a given," said Colorado manager Clint Hurdle. "You've got to close games out. You don't win 'til you win." Ramon Martinez's two-run single off reliever Jeremy Affeldt in the eighth inning lifted the Dodgers to a 4-3 win, frustrating the Rockies' bid for a 3-3 West Coast road trip before 48,732.
Emotional whiplash was built into this one, as Todd Helton's two-run homer in the top of the eighth had given the Rockies a 3-2 lead. Colorado reliever Jorge Julio (0-4) shouldered the loss, which left the Rockies three games out of the National League Wild Card lead. Jeff Francis kept it close for six innings, leaving with a one-run deficit after allowing six hits, striking out seven and walking two. Ramon Ortiz got Colorado through the seventh. "He was pretty solid," Hurdle said of Francis. "He was able to work through some things and got better as the game went along. "This was much improved over his last outing." Francis said he definitely was motivated by the need to go deep into the game, to alleviate at least a tiny part of the burden that has put relievers on the mound for upwards of 30 innings over the last week. "They've picked us up," Francis said. "Right now we're not doing our jobs as starters to go deep into games." The 2-4 trip's what-if factor focused on the third games of both the San Diego and Los Angeles series; a big inning snuffed out Elmer Dessens' outing against the Padres on Thursday, and Sunday's heartbreaker was what it was. Scott Proctor (2-0) got the win in relief of Brad Penny and Joe Beimel, and Takashi Saito struck out the three batters he faced in the ninth to earn his 33rd save. Pitching on three days' rest for the first time in his career, Penny went five innings, allowing an earned run on just two hits while striking out three and walking five. Beimel pitched a perfect sixth and seventh. Penny's fatigue level no doubt took a spike in the third, when Cory Sullivan worked him for a 17-pitch at-bat, fouling off 12 straight pitches before flying out to left. The Dodgers put together a 2-0 lead on Matt Kemp's sacrifice fly in the first inning and Martinez's RBI single in the second. After going hitless against Penny in the first three innings, the Rockies cut the margin to 2-1 in the fourth when Brad Hawpe's bases-loaded sacrifice fly scored Matt Holliday. In contrast to the eighth-inning homer, Helton experienced a baserunning hiccup with one out in the fourth inning, after having doubled to send Holliday to third, setting up the Rockies' first run. On a ball hit up the middle by Troy Tulowitzki, Helton was thrown out when shortstop Rafael Furcal made the stop, pivoted and threw a strike to third baseman Shea Hillenbrand. "I'm thinking, 'Score right there,' and he makes a great play," said Helton, who was hung up in no-man's land when Furcal gained control of the ball. "I'm just running as hard as I can. It was an aggressive mistake." Hurdle, whose resilient troops now face the Pirates and the Nationals at home, spoke in general terms when asked about Helton's mishap. "We're always going to play to win," the manager said. "Don't try, 'safety first.' Make things happen on the basepaths, as well as with the bat."
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Inland Diversified Real Estate Services said it has launched a new mobile application designed to enhance customer engagement and retention and interaction with retailers at University Town Center, a neighborhood shopping center in Norman, Okla., that is owned by Inland Diversified Real Estate Trust.
Named after the center, which is located near the Oklahoma State University and University of Oklahoma campuses, the University Town Center mobile app aims to provide rich, interactive content and promotional offers to engage local consumers and promote the advantages of shopping in brick-and-mortar stores.
"With the more than 78 million people in the U.S. that currently use smartphones to download apps, search for stores, compare prices and research product details, we saw an opportunity to develop an app that the Norman community can use to help support local businesses and stabilize their local economy," said Maureen Denard, VP and director of marketing for Inland Diversified Real Estate Services.
University Town Center features a diverse tenant mix that draws from the approximately 102,000 consumers within a five-mile radius, including the more than 32,000 students and faculty members from the University of Oklahoma alone. Well-positioned to benefit from this tech-savvy student population, the mobile app features advanced tools that enhance the shopping experience and allow customers to engage directly with retailers on a recurring basis. Features include loyalty programs, personalized messages, and a customer feedback channel,
"We've already received positive feedback to this new mobile application, and look forward to rolling out this app at many of the shopping centers in our portfolio," said Denard.
The new University Town Center mobile app is currently available on the iPhone and iPad and will be available on the Android, Blackberry and HTML 5.0 systems this summer.


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Want to get your GED in Charlotte MI? The General Education Development (GED) examination is for adults who have not received their high school diploma. The certificate that you receive upon passing the Michigan GED examination is accepted as an equivalent credential to a high school diploma by employers and colleges throughout the United States.
The General Education Development (GED) exam tests basic skills that students are taught in high school. Lessons covered in GED classes include writing, reading, social studies, math, and science. Those are the subject areas that make up the General Education Development (GED) examination in Michigan.
Typically GED programs in Charlotte MI are offered at:
- Charlotte Adult Education Centers
- Charlotte Public Library
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AMC is going to have "sensory friendly" showings of children's movies, in select areas. If you have a child who is on the Autism Spectrum, you may want to give these special showings a try. This is the first time I have heard of a movie theater considering the needs of kids who have sensitivities to sound and light.
AMC Entertainment has movie theaters all across the country. They have teamed up with the Autism Society of America. Together, they are providing a sensory friendly movie experience for children who have autism, and their parents. This is a very new idea, and not one I have heard of before. The idea came from a request that a parent made to AMC. The parent has an autistic child, and wanted a special screening that she could take her child to, that would not be as overwhelming as the typical movie experience would be. The result is the Sensory Friendly Films series.
It is not unheard of for children to be startled by a sudden, unfamiliar, loud noise. Many children who have autism are especially sensitive to sounds that are too loud, or too grating. The same sound that a person without Autism finds annoying can be completely overwhelming to some children who have Autism. The same can be said for especially bright lights, or a large contrast between light and darkness. Some children with Autism will need to move their bodies in order to calm themselves, or to process certain sensory experiences. It all depends on how sensitive a particular child is.
A typical movie experience involves a pitch dark theater, with a loud, brightly lit movie playing. This can be too much for children with sensory sensitivities. Being anxious often causes children to want to get up, walk around, or move their bodies in ways that are not acceptable at a typical movie experience. The Sensory Friendly movies include theaters where the lights are up, the sound is lowered, and audience members are allowed to get up, move around, and even dance and sing. The films selected are for children, and are family friendly.
Right now, AMC is providing one sensory friendly film experience per month. Not all theaters are participating yet. Most of the theaters offering this unique movie experience are located in major cities across the United States. If you think this is something your child would enjoy, you can check a list on the AMC website, and look for a theater near you. It might not be a bad idea to phone ahead, just to make sure, before you arrive at the theater.
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A RANGE of parks and open spaces across the city are to be protected for the future by a legal agreement.
Fields in Trust, which was formerly known as the National Playing Fields Association, was set up by King George V in 1925.
The aim was to ensure all people young or old, able or disabled, should have access to free, local, outdoor space for sport, play or recreation.
The group's flagship policy is called Fields in Trust which sets out to protect as many outdoor recreation spaces as possible as a celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, the London Olympics and the Commonwealth Games.
Fields in Trust works with the owners of green spaces to protect them in the long term through a legal agreement.
At present there are only two such agreements in Glasgow - King George V park in Carnwadric and King George V pitch in Carmunnock.
As part of the Jubilee celebrations, Fields in Trust launched a scheme to designate a number of Queen Elizabeth 11 fields across the UK.
City council officers nominated 28 sites which they suggested should be covered by the legal agreement.
These cover large areas like the Botanic Gardens, Cathkin Braes and Glasgow Green.
But there are also smaller areas of green including Naseby Park, Garnethill Peoples Park and Binghams Pond.
The agreement means the sites shall only be used as public playing fields, open spaces, parks or for any other public recreation, leisure or sporting use.
If the council wants to change the use of a site, sell or build on it, it has to get the permission of the Fields in Trust organisation.
If it wants to remove a site from the scheme an alternative site must be added as a substitute.
Alistair Watson, the city council's sustainability and the environment spokesman, said: "By nominating a number of parks, the council is showing its commitment to promoting active lifestyles through the protection of our green space.
"This is yet another opportunity to build on the magnificent legacy of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games across the city.
"The signing of this agreement is great news for Glaswegians as it states that these parks will only be used for public recreation. Essentially, this is a real badge of honour for these parks."


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BRADENTON, Fla. -- Bradenton Police Department is looking for a suspect responsible for credit card fraud.
On May 15th and 19th of this year, a victim's debit card was used without her consent at the "Lil' Country Store" in Bradenton. A few days later, the debit card was fraudulently used again at the Florida Central Credit Union in Bradenton.
If you have any information regarding this case, Bradenton Police Department asks that you contact Detective Leonel Marines at 941-932-9327 (reference Case #2014-4395 ), or to remain anonymous and be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000, call Crime Stoppers at 1-866-634-8477 (TIPS) or send an anonymous E-Tip at www.manateecrimestoppers.com.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Several recent news events in December have led me to investigate the prospects of Biodel (BIOD), a small company with strong proprietary technology in the growing insulin delivery market. The company has had success in recent trials and has several catalysts coming in 2014 that should get investors excited about long-term prospects.
Shares of Biodel are not for the weak; they currently trade around $2 and have seen several double-digit swings throughout trading days. The company is also high-risk with minimal revenue and a cash burn that could see the company issue more shares in 2015. Investors should greatly consider the risks of dilution and possible market failures of the company's drugs before investing. With that being said, I believe the opportunities outweigh the risks and this could present a huge reward for long term shareholders through 2015 or 2016.
Year to date, shares of Biodel are down 3%. Back in August, shares were above $5 and seemed like they could breakout. Shares have now traded in a range of $1.93 to $6.08 over the last 52 weeks. Amazingly enough, shares of Biodel are down 97% since their 2007 IPO. With upcoming catalysts in 2014, shares should breakout of the $2 range.
As for those catalysts, here's the company's Web site: "Biodel's technology facilitates more natural and rapid absorption of recombinant human insulin analogs than current insulin products and appears to improve its therapeutic efficacy in patients with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes." In fact, Biodel is taking on products from two large pharmaceutical companies in Novo Nordisk (NVO) and Eli Lilly (LLY).
The company's pipeline from the site:
- Ultra-rapid-acting prandial insulin RHI based
- Ultra-rapid-acting prandial insulin analog based
- Ultra-rapid-acting concentrated insulin
- Glucagon
The four major areas of Biodel have a current market opportunity of $8 billion. By 2020, that number is set to almost double to $15 billion. Biodel is hoping to take away share from Novo and Eli Lilly, which both have key patent expirations in 2014 for the insulin market. BIodel, on the other hand, has patents lasting until 2026 in the United States and 2027 in Europe.
Humalog, from Eli Lilly, continues to see an increase in use. In the most recent third quarter, sales of Humalog hit $616 million, growth of 7%. Through the first nine months, the drug has sales of $1.9 billion, a six percent increase. Humalog is the third-biggest drug in third-quarter sales for Eli Lilly.


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OCEANSIDE — The Art After Dark event, "Dr. Steampunk's Art Extravaganza," brought together steampunk film, fashion, sculpture and painting at the Oceanside Museum of Art on Nov. 5.
Steampunk art, which combines Victorian-era finery with industrial steel and science fiction, was on exhibit, strutted down the runway and performed live during the evening.
David Gough painted live in the second floor gallery. Gough said his images of medieval scenes, skulls and human figures are inspired by televised extremist idealism and fear bating. "I moved from Ireland to the U.S. and was confronted with Fox News' terrifying revolutionism," Gough said. "It's unlike the BBC that televises rational news in a nonpersonal way."
Gough said his work also reflects his thoughts about his own mortality after three of his close friends died within 15 years of each other. His work on the theme includes 24 paintings, including three that were on display. "I've been working towards this for 25 years trying to find the rationale of why I'm doing it," Gough said. "You're always revisiting what you did previously."
Fellow painter Shay Davis had two oil paintings on display. "I'd describe my style of painting as detailed surrealism with a futuristic mix," Davis said. His paintings tell stories of morality in rich interactive scenes between animals and half human, half animal forms. Biblical imagery is often present, like the snake holding the golden apple in "Greed."
On the catwalk, models dressed in steampunk fashion designed by Diana Drake sported metallic dresses with full skirts, wings, and fuel cell backpacks. Models acted out a tame Frankenstein scenario in which a mad scientist wound them up as they ran out of steam.
"My fashion ranges from gothic high fashion to costume theme period stuff," Drake said. "These gowns are styled steampunk. The steam power angle is retro-vintage taken futuristic."
Also on display in the second floor gallery were two mixed-media pieces, "Steampunk Mannequin" and "Steampunk Jewelry," by Denise Bonaimo. "I'm primarily a jewelry designer," Bonaimo said. "My work started getting larger and larger."
Bonaimo has made a series of 15 art pieces out of found metal objects, including spoons, thimbles, hinges and watch parts. "Steampunk Mannequin" is a seamstress mannequin decoupaged in newspaper and dressed in
tulle and thin sheets of
copper. Watch parts sit inside the mannequin's red heart and copper pipes curl into wings. "It's the most exciting thing I've done in a really long time," Bonaimo said. "It's feminine and edgy. Victorian lace and tulle juxtapose riveted cooper."
Art After Dark events are held at the Oceanside Museum of Art several times throughout the year.
OCEANSIDE — The Art After Dark event, "Dr. Steampunk's Art Extravaganza," brought together steampunk film, fashion, sculpture and painting at the Oceanside Museum of Art on Nov. 5.


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On last week's program, "Only A Game" producer Karen Given speculated on the future endeavors of Watson, the computer that competed so successfully at Jeopardy! The conclusion to her musings featured Watson on a ski slope.
It did not go well.
That message on our listener line may or may not have been representative. There were no robo-calls on the line, so Watson and his ilk are apparently taking the high road on this issue.
Peter Davies was among the listeners responding to the story that "Only A Game" producer Doug Tribou provided of Kendra Stern, the Division III swimmer whose times challenge those of D-I athletes. "It was refreshing to hear about Ms. Stern's success," he wrote. "Let's have more on intelligent athletes in sports that don't bring in the big bucks."
Josh Humphrey, who hears the program on WUNC in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, wrote in response to our story about the monitoring of athletes at the University of Kansas. "Why is it necessary for schools to spend student funds to hire senior citizens to make sure the most privileged students on campus are going to class?" he asked. "Why not tell them 'if you skip class, your scholarship gets yanked and given to someone who has the drive and determination to succeed in the classroom?'"
Diane Sidwell had a different response to that story. With regard to athlete-monitoring, she left this message on our facebook page: "It would be the ideal retirement job for me. Now if I can only get Michigan to adopt the same policy and persuade my husband to move to Ann Arbor."
I spoke last week with soccer writer Grant Wahl, who announced his intention to unseat Sepp Blatter as President of FIFA. That conversation provoked a response from Bart Rankin. He hears the program – and works for – WFCR in Amherst, Massachusetts, and he wrote, "Good show today, especially the FIFA story. Bladder – B-l-a-d-d-e-r has been an embarrassment for a long time." Moments later Mr. Rankin left another message: "Sorry. Blatter," it read. "I blame spellcheck."
And finally, Dave Pierson contributed a final Super Bowl haiku to the mountain of same. It reads:
It's only a game:
Each year the super madness
Is only a game.
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Young County TXGenWeb
World War II Veterans
This roster comprises World War II era veterans who entered the
military from Young County or are buried in Young County.
by Dorman Holub
|O'Dell, Jack
O'Grady, John R.
Oatman, Bobby R.
Oatman, Eugene W.
Odom, Charles F.
Odom, Earl S.
Odom, Foy
Odom, Willie R.
Oliphant, Oran L.
Oliver, Claude T. Jr
Olsson, Sterling P.
Olsson, Walter G.
Oney, Billy C.
Orr, Billy H.
Orr, Daniel B.
Orr, Dennis W.
Orr, Donald
Orr, Elmer T.
Orr, Waldo E.
Orrell, James R.
Osborn, Bishop M.
Osborn, Kenneth B.
Osborn, Marvin B.
Oster, Billy C.
Oster, Marion L.
Otts, James D.
Owen, Albert F.
Owen, James A.
Owens, D.L.
Padgett, Harold O.
Palmer, Bernaro
Palmer, D.T.
Palmer, Pete
Palmer, Wayne
Pankey, Billy S.
Pankey, Harry H.
Pardue, Charlie L.
Pardue, John A.
Pardue, Robert W.
Paris, Lee L.
Parish, Arnold B.
Parish, Leon
Parker, Conrad T.
Parker, Curtis H.
Parker, Roy L.
Parks, Don O.
Parks, Jim H.
Parmer, Ivan A.
Parrish, LeVeoux A.
Parsley, Carlis C.
Parsley, Curtis L.
Parsley, John E.
Parsley, Porter A.
Parsley, Royce L.
Parsons, H.L.
Partain, Adrian T.
Partain, Foy T.
Partain, Harrell M.
Partney, Terel C.
Pass, Mitchell R.
Patrick, Sam R.
Patterson, Dennis W.
Patterson, Harvey C.
Patterson, King K.
Patterson, Thomas G.
Patterson, Waldo F.
Patterson, Wayne
Patton, Joe W.
Pauley, J.W.
Pauley, Nelbert R.
Pauley, Willie P.
Paull, George R. Jr
Paull, Russell O.
Payne, Charles G.
Peacock, Ray E.
Pechims, Alexander D.
Peden, Joda W.
Pemberton , Earl
Pemberton, Leon G.
Pemberton, Robert J.
Pemberton, Wilborn H.
Pemington, Nael G.
Pender, John E. Jr
Penix, Chauncey E.
Pennall, Hugh L.
Perkins, Elmer R.
Perkins, H.L.
Perkins, Habert M.
Perkins, James M.
Perkins, L.E. Jr
Perkins, R.L.
Perkins, Ralph B.
Perrin, William R.
Perry, James E.
Perry, John H.
Perry, William D.
Peterson, O.B.
Petty, Clarence M.
Petty, Henry C.
Petty, Henry O.
Petty, Johnnie N.
Petty, Ray B.
Petty, Virginia P.
Phelps, Joe O.
Phillips, Calvin G.
Phillips, Carroll H.
Phillips, Max N.
Phillips, Melvin R.
Phillips, Merril J. Jr
Phillips, Orie L. Jr
Phillips, R.J.
Phillips, Richard W.
Pickard, Charles L.
Pinkerton, Charles R.
Pinkerton, Ed Jr
Pitcock, Jurant D.
Pitcock, Louis Jr
Pittman, Andrew W.
Pitts, Frank
Pitts, Herbert A.
Pitts, Lawrence J.D.
Pitts, Robert E.
Plaster, Ones C.
Plemmons, Charles B.
Plemmons, Othal M.
Poindexter, Robert D. Jr
Pollack, Hurbert D.
Pollard, Douglas K.
Pollard, Eddie E.
Pollard, Jesse B.
Pollard, Julian S.
Pollei, Edgar E.
Pollock, Herbert C.
Pollock, Hubert D.
Pollock, James S.
Pond, Floyd D.
Pond, Loyd E.
Pond, Randle A.
Ponds, James G.
Pope, L.Dee
Porter, Cecil R.
Porter, Frank I.
Porter, Leon
Porter, Martin S.
Porter, Richard H.
Potton, Earnest H.
Pounds, Ferris
Pounds, Ferris
Pounds, James G.
Powell, Claude C.
Powell, Thurmon J.
Pratt, Gilman G.
Prescott, Leonard A.
Presenall, Hermleigh E.
Presnall, Caney G.
Price, Charles W. Jr
Price, Jack
Price, Robert L.
Price, Theodore A.
Prideaux, Minton A.
Proffitt, Loree D.
Pulliam, Carl F.
Purcell, Okley C.
Purselley, Aubra F.
Pyeatt, Allen L
Pyeatt, Melvin A.
Pyeatt, Milvin A.
|The roster is based on World War II reports, newspapers articles personal testimonies of families involved with these veterans and my personal research for the Young County Veteran's Memorial Wall
If a descendant of a World War II Veteran buried in Young county was inadvertently omitted from this roster, please let me know so that the omission can be corrected. If you have information on a World War II veteran, a photograph of that veteran, or would like to correct inaccurate information on a veteran, please contact Dorman Holub.
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The overexpression of permeability-glycoprotein (P-gp), an ABC transporter involved in the cellular exclusion of chemotherapeutic drugs, is a major factor in paclitaxel-resistant ovarian cancer. However, in clinical trials, co-administration of P-gp inhibitors and anticancer drugs has not resulted in the efficient reversal of drug resistance. To improve administration, we encapsulated the third-generation P-gp inhibitor tariquidar (XR-9576, XR), alone or in combination with paclitaxel (PCT) in liposomes (LP). After optimization, the liposomes demonstrated favorable physicochemical properties and the ability to reverse chemoresistance in experiments using chemosensitive/chemoresistant ovarian cancer cell line pairs. Analyzing publicly available datasets, we found that overexpression of P-gp in ovarian cancer is associated with a shorter progression-free and overall survival. In vitro, LP(XR) significantly increased the cellular retention of rhodamine 123, a P-gp substrate. LP(XR,PCT) synergistically inhibited cell viability, blocked proliferation, and caused G2–M arrest in paclitaxel-resistant SKOV3-TR and HeyA8-MDR cell lines overexpressing P-gp. Holographic imaging cytometry revealed that LP(XR,PCT) treatment of SKOV3-TR cells induced almost complete mitotic arrest, whereas laser scanning cytometry showed that the treatment induced apoptosis. In proof-of-concept preclinical studies, LP(XR,PCT), when compared with LP(PCT), significantly reduced tumor weight (43.2% vs. 16.9%, P = 0.0007) and number of metastases (44.4% vs. 2.8%, P = 0.012) in mice bearing orthotopic HeyA8-MDR ovarian tumors. In the xenografts, LP(XR,PCT) efficiently induced apoptosis and impaired proliferation. Our findings suggest that co-delivery of a P-gp inhibitor and paclitaxel using a liposomal platform can sensitize paclitaxel-resistant ovarian cancer cells to paclitaxel. LP(XR,PCT) should be considered for clinical testing in patients with P-gp–overexpressing tumors. Mol Cancer Ther; 15(10); 2282–93. ©2016 AACR.
This article is featured in Highlights of This Issue, p. 2271
Note: Supplementary data for this article are available at Molecular Cancer Therapeutics Online (http://mct.aacrjournals.org/).
- Received December 22, 2015.
- Revision received June 23, 2016.
- Accepted July 13, 2016.
- ©2016 American Association for Cancer Research.
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Create, Play, Express and Train with Cosmo.
The inclusive training system.
We unleash the creative potential of people with additional needs and make training and therapy easy, engaging and fun.
Among 16 therapist-designed games and exercises.
Solo, or with friends and family. At home, at school or in the sensory room.
Your congitive, communication and motor skills
Evaluate progress with rich data on users' abilities based on gameplay
Jess Carpenter Curriculum Lean. Hamilton school, Birmingham
The students get a lot from it. Cosmo cultivates waiting, turn taking and listening skills. I was amazed to watch how what teach in the class in transferable to other activities using the system. Fabulous
David Shiel Music therapist at the Garden School, London
Cosmo is brilliant! It is great for students with autism who are more visual learners, as it incorporates sound and light and it is immediate, without requiring any verbal explanation. It is very simple, but the activities develop it into something complex to support expression and multifaceted learning.
Alkis Ginatsis Occupational Therapist
This is a really useful tool. It supports reaction to stimuli, visual-motor coordination, the training of memory, orientation and attention. I can also see how my clients are doing, based on data, not guesswork. Well Done!
Eva Christodoulaki Physical Therapist
Aris made movements that I did not expect him to do and even spontaneously while using Cosmo. During the musical improvisation game, I observed how he used his hand that usually he is not able to use – it came out automatically, because he liked the interaction and was thrilled!
Stavros Psaroudakis Psychologist & carer of autistic children
The device is very pleasant, fun to use and rewarding! It is more tactile and physical than a touch screen, and very straightforward and this makes it engaging. Cosmo is an awesome sensory experience for kids on the autistic spectrum.
Lila Kossyvaki Lecturer at University of Birmingham & special educator
It is a very engaging tool that I use to grab the attention of students with severe learning difficulties. It is great to teach initiation, imitation and turn-taking, which are cornerstones of communication and social interaction.
We work day to day with our users, therapists, and families in order to design solutions for and with them. We have tested with people who have several moderate to severe cases of learning and physical disabilities. We now want to share out knowledge and foster open innovationFind out more


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So, I've decided on Dr. Perry & he's given me the quote info for the BBL & a separate quote for liposuction of the areas I need treated. I'm having trouble deciding if I actually need the BBL. My butt already gets attention & I'm not trying to be Nicki Minaj or anything. So, I figure if you girls have been stalking this site 1/2 as much as me you have seen enough to give me a good assessment.
Do I really need the BBL or would slimming down my waist accentuate my butt enough. The prices are pretty close & I just can't decide. HEEELP!!! I want to get the procedure done asap either way. I posted before shots for you guys.


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Man dies in A11 crash at Larling
PUBLISHED: 11:17 11 February 2014 | UPDATED: 11:17 11 February 2014
©Archant Photographic 2010
An investigation has been launched after a man died in a crash on the A11 last night.
Police are appealing for witnesses after the collision at around 10.15pm.
A silver VW Golf left the southbound carriageway at Larling, between Thetford and Attleborough, which went own an embankment through trees and into a ditch.
The male driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
The road was closed until 2am this morning whilst a collision investigation got underway.
Officers want to speak to anyone who was travelling in the area at the time and may have witnessed this collision, contact PC Richard Syrett at Wymondham Roads Policing on 101.


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20Farscape: The Complete Series
A&E Home Video
In the late '90s, the sci-fi genre mostly lived in syndication or pay channels like Showtime. There were some impressive shows, but they mostly stuck to the 'Star Trek model' that personified the decade. Even the Sci-Fi Channel was small potatoes and aired mostly old material to minimal audiences. In search of an original series to expand their presence, the network found a partner in Brian Henson of the Jim Henson Company, who aimed to enter the television market to showcase their Creature Shop. Along with Rockne O'Bannon (SeaQuest DSV, Alien Nation), they talked to Fox about a project, but the two sides never reached the same page to move forward. Produced in Australia for the Nine Network and airing on Sci-Fi in the US, Farscape premiered in March 1999 and showcased remarkable make-up, prosthetics and puppetry to support a grand story. Creator O'Bannon had earned acclaim for his past works, but those projects didn't match this series' gargantuan scope. Airing for four seasons and concluding with a mini-series, it remains one of the most unique shows to ever hit the airwaves. Dan Heaton
The Alien Anthology (Blu-ray)
James Cameron, David Fincher, Jean-Pierre JeunetRidley Scott,
Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt, Tom Skerrit, Lance Henriksen, Michael Biehn, Bill Paxton, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Winona Ryder, Brad Dourif
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20th Century Fox
The first film remains a masterpiece of 'old dark house' revisionism (along with containing one of cinema's greatest monsters). The follow-up redefined the idea of a solid squeal, introducing imaginative action and adventure into the mix. Unfortunately, whatever vision David Fincher could bring to the series was thwarted by a nervous studio. All that remains of his proposed plan for the franchise is a scrappy work print, readily available here. And, perhaps, the less said about Resurrection the better. Still, for all their grandiose geek glory, many have felt the Alien films underserved by the digital medium—until now. Frankly, this collection is so overwrought with bonus bells and whistles that keeping track of them is as complicated as it is rewarding. Together with the films themselves, they illustrate a powerful concept that was, in the end, undermined by backstage bickering and financial fisticuffs. Bill Gibron
Antichrist: Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
Lars Von Trier
Willem Dafoe, Charlotte Gainsbourg
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Absolutely stunning in its visual flourishes, horrifying in its aggressive violence, and knowing in its psycho-sexual philosophical bent, Lars Von Trier's Antichrist is simply astonishing. It's a structured walk through one woman's terrifying mental breakdown, a deconstructed cry for relief and understanding. So obsessed with birth and biology that the symbols practically stand up and shout their intent, this is New Age therapeutics as Grand Guignol geek show. To put it mildly, Von Trier is not your typical anything. Over a career that has seen him embrace the strictures of the no-frills Dogme '95, dabble in TV terror, and defy convention with musicals and haughty historical period pieces, he has avoided easy description as his films have lacked commercial consideration. With Antichrist, he offers another work of unqualified brilliance… and impudence. Some have even dubbed it the most misogynistic movie ever created. Actually, it will probably stand as the filmmaker's masterpiece. Bill Gibron
Days of Heaven: Criterion Collection
Terrence Malick
Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke
17Days of Heaven: The Criterion Collection (Blu-ray)
The Criterion Collection
Terrence Malick writes in the hallucinatory language of sight and sound. Like the Buddhist parable his films point to an ultimate reality that is beyond what is simply on the screen. Like Gang Starr, his characters must live in relationship to nature, however alienated that relationship may be. Days of Heaven was the film that made Malick. It was an ambitious follow-up to an already ambitious film, Badlands, and the story behind its making is a true-grit summation of American independent filmmaking. Unfortunately, the video versions available up until now have never done justice to the film's visuals, even the original Criterion Collection version. It's taken Blu-Ray to be able to finally see what Malick had intended the film to be as he sat in the darkened cutting room, dreaming. George Russell
Mad Men: Season 3
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Mad Men probably won't change television, but it's hard not to wish it would. Matthew Weiner's sly love letter to the early '60s is simply unlike anything else on TV in this era of rapid-fire edits and unreal "reality". Thankfully, buoyed by amazing performances from Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Christina Hendricks and January Jones, Mad Men continues to dazzle in its third season. Though some missteps mar an otherwise ingeniously-devised structure—the John Deere scene is, in a word, preposterous—the good stuff far outweighs the bad. Working relationships become knottier, lies become more complicated, and illicit entanglements still scintillate even as they grow ever-more disappointing. Stuart Henderson
Bruce Sudano "When Cinderella Dies" (video) (premiere) // Music
Gunner & Smith 'Byzantium' (album stream) (premiere) // Music
Andrew Bryant "Robert Downey Jr.'s Scars" (video) (premiere) // Music
Derek Hoke "Destination Unknown" (audio) (premiere) // Music
Bette Smith "I Found Love" (audio) (premiere) // Music
It's No Joke: Why We Need 'Take My Wife'
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If the Shoe Fits Rumble Winners Announcement2014-01-29 11 18 Share Tweet
Shoe lovers came out of the woodwork to represent in our last rumble. Here are the awesome winners!
There's a saying that you can judge a man by his shoes alone. While we are not one to judge, this statement goes to show just how important footwear has become stylistically and not just for utility. The If the Shoe Fits Rumble showed a wide assortment of footwear the community wields, from broken down wingtips, to brand spanking new sneakers. But just like Cinderella, the shoe win we are going to award must be the perfect fit, and these 5 Lomographers slide in perfectly. Congratulations!
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text: I find that it can be awfully easy to crawl into a whole from which I never emerge, forgetting that in order to improve as a photographer it's important to continue showing other people my photographs in order to get useful feedback. Without valuable feedback from other photographers, you're missing a fundamental part of the foundation of photographic skill. It's not only good to learn what the consensus believes to be "wrong" with your photographs, but it's also useful to develop a thick skin to withstand tough criticism. Here's a list, courtesy of Lightstalking, of five valuable places online where genuine photographic feedback is not only appreciated but encouraged.


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Wilton Edible Sugar Sheets A Few Questions....
Decorating By Kiddiekakes Updated 13 Nov 2012 , 5:01pm by hbquikcomjamesl
Are they any good to use...What do they taste like?? are they easy to cut through on a cake?
Anyone's thoughts who have used them....
This is just a semi-educated guess, but (and I think this applies to both edible image media and pre-printed edible clip-art):
If they're anything even remotely like the edible image media the local cake supply uses (presumably DecoPac, since they use DecoPac inks), they probably taste very bland (I actually tasted a bit of the waste area of my first edible image), and cut very easily. (Maybe too easily: my parents, wanting to preserve the speed limit sign on their anniversary cake for as long as possible, cut around it, and within a day or so, the foil covering over the cake had made contact with the image, stuck to it, and taken a divot out of it! Why I didn't use the pan with the fitted cover, or break down and buy a cake cover set . . . )
I'm guessing that's fairly typical, since you wouldn't want to have the flavor of the material fighting with the flavor of the frosting, or the structural integrity of it fighting you when you try to cut it.
I tasted a small circle of it. It didn't dissolve immediately in my mouth- it took about 15 seconds. When I picked it up, it was thicker than I expected- thicker than rice paper.
That more-or-less squares with my own experiences. Is the Wilton product on a plastic backing sheet?


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Bit of a special edition Coffee Grinds today as half of the article is written by `Brennil and the other half by Certis. It grew out of conversations we've been having recently about WoW, gaming in our lives, and how it affects our relationship. We've tried not to step on each other's toes too much in the editing of our respective halves - this here is a piece of real marriage communication! Aren't you privileged.
By the by - we're not asking you to take sides, or play moderator, or anything of that sort. It just seemed to us that this must be a common sort of issue in any relationship involving gamers. Please note, mommy and daddy aren't getting a divorce.
Fear and Loathing in Azeroth
I've been playing a lot of WoW recently, a fact that has come up in conversations with Shawn more than once. He's – not concerned so much as aware of the parallels between my enjoyment of this game and my past relationship with Everquest, or Evercrack, as it has been called in some circles. I usually play every day, usually for at least three hours, and I have, I admit, missed appointments because I had a really good group and we were just about to reach the end of the instance, and I had a quest that I really wanted to complete"…
Well. I'm sure that you know the drill.
So how much is too much? How do you know when it's too much? I still make it to work on time, I still see my friends, I enjoy my other hobbies, I kiss my husband when he comes in the door, I feed and bathe myself regularly. But I do play a lot. And admittedly it has cut into some of my other hobbies. And okay, I once blew off my mother when she called to talk and I was online, but that's hardly the game's fault – I'm just an ungrateful child.
I wonder if I play more WoW than Shawn plays his various video games. I've never timed us, exactly, but he does have his Tuesday night Rise of Nations with some of you guys, and he has ESPN Football and most recently Doom3. I think it's probably the contrast – before WoW I'd been in a gaming hiatus, playing nothing at all for months. Now I'm really into it, and to Shawn it must seem like quite a change.
I appreciate that he is – not concerned, but aware for me. I appreciate that it rises out of his desire to see me lead a full life, and not get obsessed with one thing, and to make sure that I'm happy and healthy and all that good stuff. But it also kind of grates on me that he doesn't trust my judgement and my sense of proportion. He plays computer and console games. A lot. It's pretty much his only hobby. I have always accepted and understood that about him, and never questioned when he chose to stay up til 2 AM playing Unreal Tournament. It feels really weird for him to be the one in this relationship making comments about me playing too much.
Or, maybe I'm addicted and I'm in so deep I can't even see it. Maybe he's planning an intervention even now, plotting to steal my video card and give it to Gaald so that I"…. Oh, wait, that already happened. Not that I'm bitter.
This kind of situation has had to have happened to some of you – significant others protesting for whatever reason that you are paying too much attention to pixels. Does it rise out of the same kind of mentality that caused people to blame violent video games for tragedies like Columbine and the like? A kind of perception of gaming as the retreat of the socially inept? How did you handle it? Has it caused you to re-examine your gaming habits? Do you resent your loved ones for attempting to come between you and your game?
Most likely, it wouldn't hurt me to play less WoW, and I feel like I should cut back just to make Shawn feel less – not concerned, but aware. Relationships are about communication and compromise, and obviously it's important to him. There's lots of other stuff I could do with my time, certainly, like working on my novel, biking more, etc etc.
But I'm so close to lvl 33, I can taste it!
- Brennil
Timing Is Everything
Games like World of Warcraft and Everquest do not invite you to spend time in them, they steal it. An hour here, an hour there and soon you're spending a majority of your personal time levelling up your character and letting other things fall to the wayside. To lend some perspective to her slightly mocking label of "not concerned, but aware" husband let me lay out some numbers. Since Karla started playing WoW around June 15th she has put in a total of 7 days, 17 hours and 31 minutes into her main character, not including any side characters she's created while learning the game. That's over 168 hours of gaming over the course of 55 days. If you worked full time, Monday to Friday, over the course of eight weeks (56 days) that would be 320 hours. This isn't a game, it's a part time job! In fact, Karla has a part time job so playing is obviously done when not working or hitting some family function.
As a gamer, I know how it goes with dropping a large amount of time into a game. I went through the Everquest beta and I probably spent more time playing over an eight week span than Karla has with WoW. While I was in the EQ beta I was also taking various computer courses to get my MCSE and other tech certificates. I was eighteen, fresh out of high school and to be perfectly honest, probably not ready to juggle a full time computer course and a MMORPG addiction. I could say EQ screwed me but it would be more accurate to say I screwed myself. I walked out of there with fewer certifications to my name than I wanted and I snapped up an easy tech job doing phone support for a corporation. Karla was right there with me through the EQ days, and playing even more heavily than me a year or so later so we both know how these things can go. I quit playing a few months after the game went retail.
We're older and wiser now of course. Although 168 hours seems like a lot of playing time Karla isn't lying when she says she still does most of the usual things she always has. Just more games and fewer sewing projects really. Normally this would be fine with me, I play plenty of games in my spare time and of course running GWJ takes more and more of my attention as it gets bigger. The only difference between my playing and Karla's is that I'm not in the middle of a transitional period and she is. Suffice it to say she's been talking about looking for a new job since she isn't going to school for her English masters this coming September.
Aside from looking for new work, she also wants to spend more time writing which is very important if she is going to become a famous author and support me like I've been planning all along. Find new job, do more writing. This has been the goal since the beginning of summer.
When I left my cooperate gig at nineteen years old and started my own business it took a long time to discipline myself to work during the day and not play games. When you're starting out you can be very poor and not have much to do, it's the perfect excuse to escape into anything. Instead, I forced myself to not play games during the day even when I had no contracts, thinking about things and picking away at projects is still more productive than levelling up my mage. It may sound funny coming from someone who runs a gaming site but in life games have to come second. If you're at a crossroads Everquest is not going to make getting on with things any easier. Change is hard, it's scary and many times contemplating it can be paralyzing. When it's time to take that next step you have to dramatically cut back your hobby time and spend more time moving towards your goal, even if that just means doing nothing more than thinking about it.
My wife is a brilliant and talented woman. I don't say this just because I don't want to sleep on the couch tonight, it's 100% true. This isn't devastating right now, it isn't dire – but sustained long enough it has the potential to be. We're only human after all. My general feeling is that the moment games serve as a diversion from getting on with life, you're not having fun anymore - you're just spinning your wheels.
- Certis
Maybe he's planning an intervention even now, plotting to steal my video card and give it to Gaald so that I"…. Oh, wait, that already happened. Not that I'm bitter.
Worry not fair Hoochie, for I have just finished Doom 3 and will be bringing back your treasured video card soon! Plan a Risk 2210 game and it will get there faster! Speaking of addictions.
In a way I really understand where you're coming from Certis.
Case in point, I really got into gaming when I was in college back in 1993 doing my A-Levels and I flunked my A's three times. Fortunately, it was in country so the costs were a bit bearable on my parents. So instead of one and a half years I spent a total of three years to get a decent result to enter university.
I finally got into La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia in 1996 to study my business degree and let's just say I did not learn from my lesson. Things got worse and worse as I got more into gaming until it suddenly hit me that I'm going nowhere at the same time spending my education fund like water flowing down a waterfall. This hurt bad financially especially at the currency exchange of 2 malaysian dollars for every australian dollar.
Anyway to cut a long story short, I finally made it after three and a half years in university with a hard paid, well learned lesson.
The morale of my morbid history is that, I think it really takes serious determination and discipline to ensure that one does not forsake one's goal due to disctractions such as gaming.
From what I've read, I am impressed that despite hoochie's current gaming addiction, she still has the discipline to ensure that she does other productive activities. I am sure that things will work out fine when she finds herself a new job.
Lock Hoochie in a cupboard and force her to play WoW until she's sick. That'll teach her to raid your gaming humidor.
Certis is going to try and lock you in a cupboard. Run!
At least you two share an addiction, my wife just mutters something about boys and toys and gives me a pitying look.
If she wants to embarass me in public she just mentions me playing computer games in front of the grown ups. *Sniff*
Seriously, it can be a challenge to balance all of your priorities, without a MMOG in the mix.
They are evil time stealers. I playes EQ myself for 2 years.
I make sure that games always come last in my life. Family first. I just accepted that I'll suck at games, but be good elsewhere. So when I play its after the wife and kid are in bed, or when they are off doing something else. Can't stay up to late because job>games. That got me off EQ 'cause I never had time to do any serious grouping or leveling. Its also prevents me from playing RoN with the cool kids- I have to get up at 6AM and go to work.
Just have to find whats works for you.
I forced myself to not play games during the day even when I had no contracts, thinking about things and picking away at projects is still more productive than levelling up my mage
+1 respect right there.
I've never played an MMORPG and reading articles like this continue to make me wary of moving within distance of their vice-like grip.
First off, I think you should consider youselves lucky that you can share gaming at all. My wife is completely uninterested in gaming, which is perfectly fine, but it would be fun to share now and then.
Other than that I would say if Hoochie is comfortable with things as they are, and the problems aren't more than abstract ideas of what we "should" do with our time, then there probably isn't a pressing problem. Or maybe she's a crackhead. It's a toss up.
Certis is going to try and lock you in a cupboard. Run!
It's been a while since something made me laugh so hard.
I understand exactly what you're saying, when I have something I know I really need to do but doesn't have a deadline I play games, watch TV, sleep, whatever. Maybe piddle with it a bit to fend off a guilty concience. I'm still in the lazy bachelor stage. School was always laughably easy, so I never really learned my lesson there. With my jobs, I'm getting paid to sit there and do them so it's not really the same thing. Plus, half the time I just don't care about my job, which makes it easier somehow. It's always with stuff like GWJ or WebVCR+ that it's hardest for me to sit down and actually do the work. This article has inspired me to actually go do something. You must be proud Certis, your article inspired me to want to do something besides punch you in the face. There's a first time for everything!
Lock Hoochie in a cupboard and force her to play WoW until she's sick. That'll teach her to raid your gaming humidor.
Certis is going to try and lock you in a cupboard. Run!
Totally agree with Pyro, this was dam funny!
You must be proud Certis, your article inspired me to want to do something besides punch you in the face. There's a first time for everything!
Again funny as hell.
If she wants to embarass me in public she just mentions me playing computer games in front of the grown ups. *Sniff*
Why let it embaress you? Screw everyone else. They could only wish they were as cool as us. The next time she tries to do this, don't play into her hands. Be proud of the fact you play video games and tell everyone how great it is!
Remember games are one of the major reasons personal computers are as fast as they are today, not many other people can say their hobby is on the cutting edge of technology!
If she wants to embarass me in public she just mentions me playing computer games in front of the grown ups. *Sniff*
Why let it embaress you? Screw everyone else. They could only wish they were as cool as us. The next time she tries to do this, don't play into her hands. Be proud of the fact you play video games and tell everyone how great it is!
Not to mention the only reason she says that is because it embarrasses her and she wants you to share the misery, sub-conciously.
Next time, YOU bring it up, and do it in a really geeky manner. That'll teach her!
If she wants to embarass me in public she just mentions me playing computer games in front of the grown ups. *Sniff*
Whenever games come up around a certain friend of mine he says, "You're such a dork." Then I remind him of his obsession with collecting Boy Scout patches. Usually shuts him right up.
Remember games are one of the major reasons personal computers are as fast as they are today, not many other people can say their hobby is on the cutting edge of technology!
Reminds me of those old 3dfx commercials. "Hey! Let's use it to play games!"
I can see where Certis is coming from here. It seems not to be the action insomuch as what's falling by the wayside because of it. No disrespect intended, hoochie.
Some days I wish my wife showed an interest in video games and other days I'm thankful she doesn't. I'd have to get another computer and who'd cook dinner if she got addicted to an MMORPG? Recently we joined Netflix and she's hooked on the buffy series, so on days I want to play I make sure she has a DVD lined up. We're both happy as clams. Her only other hobby is shopping, which she cannot presently do, so thank god for Netflix!
I know about gaming addiction and missed opportunities. It happened to me while in college (for both degrees.) I managed to get through my classes with good grades, but my thoughts were always on the game. It's scary when I think about how I was more concerned about clan issues or leveling my mage, than I was about real life priorities. They really can suck you in. This isn't to say you should be real worried about hoochie. People sometimes need make moves when they feel the time is right and maybe it's just not that time yet.
I feed and bathe myself regularly.
You've officially passed the Dr. Reaper patented Diagnostic Criterion for Addiction Verification test. If you're not a stinky-stink, you're not addicted to anything! One may ask, 'Well, can't you be addicted to personal hygiene?' The answer is, 'No. Because then you're obsessive compulsive.'
school was always laughably easy, so I never really learned my lesson there.
So true. This really messed me up when work requires me to actually do projects and such. In college I would do my homework and studying after class and then go home and game to my hearts delight. Now when I have a deadline to meet or some real work to do my gaming addiction gets the best of me. I will work on my project for about 30 minutes then 'take a RoN' break. So next thing I know its 2am and I have something to turn in 6 hours and I barely even started it.
I have questioned this so much that I'm sick of my own internal dialogue kicking in.
I have always wondered when it is that something is too much, and why something is too much. Of course playing so much that you start to fail at a job, fail with family, etc. is a problem. However, is it wrong to have the 2 or 3 hours a night, and 7-8 hours per weekend day that most people classify as "free time" go primarily into one hobby?
Of course with games, there is always the socialization problem; sitting in front of the computer does not make new friends. Sometimes I question the value of even this; is a choice to live a solitary life (ok, relatively solitary), less valid for some quantifiable reason as long as the person making the choice is happy? Regardless, is it for some reason clearly better to split hobby time? Am I clearly better off if I force myself to spend 1.5 hours playing WoW and 1.5 hours on a woodworking hobby, then if I just spend the 3 hours on the game or the woodworking hobby?
I have gone through phases in the past where I have done single activity hobbies more. I have also been in phases where I have attempted to be more "diverse." The problem with being more diverse is often that you feel like you have limited time in life, and by forcing yourself to diversify and do things other than that which you would immediately like to do, you basically are spending precious life doing things you do not enjoy as much as other things. We all have to do this in life (see, e.g. work/job/breadwinner), but it seems painful when we are doing it with the time that is supposed to be available for relaxation and enjoyment.
I think there is a meta-pressure along these same lines with games in general. Regardless of what you personally gravitate to and enjoy, some hobbies are "good" while others are "bad." Spend 5 hours on a Saturday at a LAN party with 3 friends, well, even though you had fun, you didn't get out, get fresh air, enjoy the sun, get exercise, blah blah blah. Go play golf for 5 hours with 3 friends (a game I am trying to pick up, but it tasks me, it tasks me), and everything is great, even though it's not really a great form of exercise, it's expensive, golf courses damage the environment, etc.
I can't help but have cognitive dissonance over the fact that while doing the things I thing I truly enjoy at my core, my rational mind is telling me that I shouldn't be enjoying them, that I should enjoy other things. I always wonder if I should be trying to change what I enjoy to be a better person, why I would somehow be a better person if I did change it (society telling me it is a better thing to do?), and why I can't just shut down the dialogue and live life.
Hmm...I'm trying to dig through the niceties on both sides of the issue and get to the underlying dirt. Oh, yes, there's always some dirt.
Here's the synopsis as I see it.... Hoochie's WOW gaming (3 hours a day) represents a shift in the marital dynamic. It's a change that Certis is not necessarily happy with and he's concerned that it's going to take presedence over career goals.
So here's the real question(s), is the gaming time actually cutting into important activities like looking for a new job, writing, etc? Are you staying home to game when normally you'd be going out and frolicking with each other in the grass? (and these questions apply to both C & H)
If the answer is yes to those questions, then maybe a shift in time allocation should be considered. Do a little test, cut your gaming time down to 2 hours a day and keep track of how you use those extra hours in a week.
Mike and I don't compete for gaming time but we do compete for computer time. One of the ways I've chosen to control my gaming time is to only have one computer in the house. If I didn't have to share it, I'd never get a damn thing done. It's been a good way to limit myself to no more than 2 or 3 hours of gaming or internet time at a stretch.
I personally don't think you guys have anything to worry about. The fact that you talk about it is what will keep gaming habits in perspective for both of you.
Trying to game with a wife, job, and four children (all boys) can certainly be a challenge.
I recently got City of Heroes and am it enjoying a lot. My kids, at least the oldest three, are playing it as well. While the kids play it during the day with time limits imposed by my wife, I TRY to get 1-2 hours in the evening, after dinner, chores, playing with the kids, giving the 1-year old his bath, bedtimes, cub scouts, etc. are done with.
I'll probably keep playing CoH at least until the free month is up or I get tied of it, whichever comes first. Then will come another game that we have but I haven't gotten a chance to play like KOTOR, Sim City 4, Morrowind, etc.
All things in moderation, that's our golden rule.
I think a number of us have "been there" at one point or another. My first relationship while playing an MMORPG ended when my wife met some dwarven male online and moved to Nevada to marry HIM! Or maybe he was a halfling..all I know is his name was Mike and he played a Paladin.
My next relationship I thought it would be great (what was I thinking!?!) to spend time together playing EQ..we'd come home from work, play together until all hours of the night and do it again the next day..heck, the game wasn't fun unless we were playing together. Then I lost interest, she didn't..and I became "aware" of the differences between us namely that she still wanted to spend every waking hour on the computer and I wanted to do real life things. This led to our breaking up in a more mutually friendly way. Last I heard she too had met a man on the EQ dating circuit and is moving to San Francisco next month to get married.
Along the same lines as Certis "getting screwed by EQ" I can blame my lack of a high school education, inability to hold a job for more than year and lack of social skills all on online, multiplayer gaming (eg. my addication). It's been 13 years now since I first started back on my 2400bps modem on a local BBS. I haven't been able to find an MMORPG to hold my interest beyond the 7-day trial since Star Wars Galaxies. I look forward to WoW as much as the next guy, but fear what changes it might bring to my current relationship too. As soon as I read through this post, I called my girl up and had her read it too with a warning, "This may be on the horizon for us..please understand."
So thanks Certis and Hoochie for reminding us all that communication with your loved one is key, and that real life comes before gaming..it's a lesson I wish I had learned an easier way, at an earlier age.
After reading Gotham's post, let me retract my previous statement and say, Thank God my wife isn't a gamer!!
Two thoughts:
1. By the original post, Certis is screaming "Paradigm shift -- agggh!" Hoochie would've giggled in response, but she was too busy playing to pay attention to Certis.
2. Gotham has just illuminated a whole new sub-culture that I never knew existed. Thank God I never took a hit of Evercrack. I think I'll stick to the single player games on my system (Doom 3, Far Cry, etc).
Everyone knows they don't have no cupboards. They drink from bottles, and eat straight from cans and take-out containers, sometimes using plastic plates and utensils for when Gaald cashes in his paycheck and occasions a visit with pizza and two sixpacks.
In all seriousness me and my girlfriend had an issue about a month ago. I picked up CoH and played with it a bit, she started playing and loved it. The next couple of weeks she would stay up until 3-4 AM even after telling me she'd be "just a minute" when I went to bed. She started being a bit sneaky about playing, and I found out she was getting friendly with another player, and even though it was for the most part harmless flirting, it was driving a wedge in our relationship and was crossing the line a bit. She would spend her day off playing all day, and really excited to tell me that she made it to the next level, and meanwhile the house was a mess. (We both share the responsibilities of cleaning) We had a few big fights and I ended up deleting the game, closing the accounts, and delegating it to the shelf to collect dust.
We worked it through and I can honestly say I'll never play a MMO again. I had avoided them all these years for a good reason, but I thought CoH might be fun. (IT WAS!) but just like every other MMO, it is a lot more demanding than a normal game. Unlike regular games, there's a certain level of attachment to your created character, an online extension of yourself (for lack of a better term). Plus you tend to bond very fast, and feel you have an obligation to the other online players.
My girlfriend was not a gamer before we met, but she started enjoying my hobby more and more, and for the most part it's awesome. Other than the CoH incident, we've had a lot of fun playing together (think Zelda 4 Swords, etc) and with friends when they visit. It's become a welcome past-time that we enjoy together, or separately. But the key is not to neglect other activities together, like going out for walks, hanging out with friends, and other "couple stuff" that is healthy.
No matter how well rounded of an individual you are, MMO's are a demanding temptress, and no matter how good your intentions are they can be an interferance. And I know you can compare it to "mindless" TV watching etc, but MMO's do have a distinct quality that is extremely hard to describe, which makes it much more compulsive than any other leisure activity.
Just remember to game in moderation. No online friendship should be a substitute, or interfere with the wonderful relationship you have with your flesh and blood partner. Who is just a touch away
you'd be going out and frolicking with each other in the grass?
I did so misread that.
Mommmm, daaaaad! Gross!
Certis, you don't know the half of it. It was actually the biggest fight we ever had, and over a game none the less. OH THE IRONY! (I can almost hear my dead grandmother chanting from her grave: "Don't sit to close to the Nintendo you'll go blind!")
We've been pretty active lately and I've put all my gaming on the backburner, so I can enjoy some outside stuff before I get the 51" Toshiba next month, in preparation for the Winter Hibernation aka Halo 2.
I wonder if a higher percentage of Canucks are gamers, due to the simple fact that 6 months out of the year is nut-freezing cold?
And I know you can compare it to "mindless" TV watching etc, but MMO's do have a distinct quality that is extremely hard to describe, which makes it much more compulsive than any other leisure activity.
Personally I think it's the sense of community. You make friends on there, suddenly your social activities and your hobby are all funneled through the same MMO. It's addictive.
All this makes me want to say, in the words of Lo Wang, "holy pieces of cow".
Myself, I long since found that developing my own (as in "real life") character doesn't leave me any damn time to play games at all, MMORPG or otherwise. Projects and chores around the house, two great kids, each with its own needs and unique attention demands, and my wonderful wife. When I actually do have time, leveling up my character stats in Taekwondo, reading, and language studies is still somehow more rewarding than even an idea of trying CoH or some pR0N of Nations.
In Doom 3, I am still on that level where the invasion begins and you need to get from Comm center back to Marine HQ in Mars City. And I had it for a week already.
I wonder if a higher percentage of Canucks are gamers, due to the simple fact that 6 months out of the year is nut-freezing cold?
Since they vehemently oppose the ideas of personal hygiene evangelized by Sanjuro, I can't see how nut-freezing cold can be of any concern to them.


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The following testimony was given on March 20th, 2010 at the Riverside Church in New York City as part of the Truth Commission on Conscience in War.
If I could serve our country without being expected to kill people, I never would have considered conscientious objection. I enjoyed the challenge and the satisfaction of knowing I volunteered for some of the most demanding training, like jumping out of airplanes and repelling out of helicopters. It is impossible to encapsulate in words the feeling of camaraderie you achieve when you train so hard and so often with people that you can trust with your life. There really isn't anything else like it in the world.
Neither is there anything like the pain that comes with the realization that you are capable of killing another human being without question for people you have never met and have no reason to trust. It shatters any semblance of a positive self-image you might think you have cultivated.
When I came to that realization, it was too late. I had been on the battlefield for 11 months and I had seen my share of intense combat. I had smelled death, tasted the acrid carbon powder of the gunsmoke, and heard the cries of mothers outliving their children. Sitting outside a hospital in Samarrah in October of 2004, little did they know I wept with them, safely hidden from my platoon members, who would have seen the raw emotion as a liability. I had seen bodies outnumber available bags, draped over one another in an exterior storage room. My mind wandered recklessly and I saw my own father's face peer out at me from behind a thick black zipper of an open bag.
For a while, maybe my training proved sufficient, perhaps it had adequately numbed me from the stark reality that I encountered in Iraq. I returned home and reflexively forced those experiences, and others like them, to the furthest reaches of my mind, hoping that time in fact healed all wounds.
It doesn't.
It took me almost an entire year and a divine slap in the face to rouse me from the trance of unquestioning obedience and unthinking allegiance. But nothing could steal from me the trust and faith I had in my fellow brothers at arms. Five years on active duty had shown me heights of the human experience that many of you in the audience will never have the privilege of fully comprehending. Unfortunately, that privilege is not without a price, which comes as a realization of the depths of human depravity and callousness.
To be human is to be fully capable of the most awful acts of evil and the most audacious acts of charity. I both found and lost my humanity while I wore the uniform of a United States soldier. As painful as that has been, I would not trade the experience for anything. I would not be the man I am today had I not learned the lessons I did in service to our country.
For this reason, when I came to what the regulations call my "crystallization of conscience," (which is a misnomer since our consciences are continually evolving), I had decided that I would not seek discharge. How could I? The esteem in which I held my compatriots prevented me from parting company with them. However, Christ bid me drop my weapon, and I had no choice but to respond. Facing a second deployment, in April 2006, I was literally between Iraq and a hard place.
My CO application in June of 2006 was an attempt to reconcile my principles with my patriotism. I was not convinced that leaving the military would absolve me of my fair measure of responsibility to prevent or end the wars fought in our name. Would I be any less complicit as a tax-paying civilian? Or could I seek alternatives to violence in the midst of war?
I was inclined to believe the latter, which is why I took the road least traveled. Fortunately, I had a few shining examples of noncombatant courage that paved the way, such as Desmond T. Doss and Joseph G. LaPointe, both conscientious objectors who were awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. It is my distinct honor to have discovered that I had deployed to combat in the very same unit of a third, Thomas W. Bennett, of Bravo Company, 1st-14th Infantry Regiment, 25th ID.
After my commander berated me as a coward and insisted I was somehow aiding the enemies of America by asking to return to Iraq unarmed, I was forcibly reassigned to a unit that would not deploy. One of the most tumultuous days of my life was spent watching my unit leave for combat without me. Ten members of my unit would not return from their tour.
Despite being denied the opportunity to serve nonviolently in Iraq, I eventually found my way to warzones as a peacemaker. First, with Christian Peacemaker Teams to Israel/Palestine while on terminal leave before my discharge in November 2006, and again just two months ago with friends to Rutba, Iraq. In each combat theater, my heart felt as though it was being forced through a rusty paper shredder as I heard so many stories of indescribable grief and pain; stories in which others in uniform had a leading role.
Just as I had before, in the hospital in Samarrah, I waited until I had some time alone to restore my weary soul. In Iraq, I stumbled across some song lyrics that spoke directly to my situation. I grabbed my notebook and began to scribble, altering the lyrics slightly and adding a verse of my own. I immediately felt one heartbeat closer to redemption.
Adapted from "The Flame Deluge," by the band Thrice:
I feel that I was meant for something more
My curse, this awe-ful power to unmake
And ever since they found their taste for war
They've forced me onto those whose lives they'd take
To Baghdad, I and mine have brought
Ugly sights, so few before hast borne
Tho deceived, uniformed and uninformed, we fought
Once alone, like you and yours, we mourn
Thank you for listening tonight.


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Roberto Saviano (Gomorrah) returns with a blistering, no-holds-barred account of the international cocaine trade entitled, Zero Zero Zero.
34-year old Roberto Saviano is the fearless author of the international bestseller, Gomorrah, a work of investigative journalism which has sold over ten million copies. The book been translated into over fifty languages. Saviano has been living under police escort protection since October 2006, following threats received from the criminal organizations that he denounced in Gomorrah, the so-called Camorra.
Following police investigations, the Italian Minister for Interior, Affairs Giuliano Amato assigned Saviano a personal bodyguard and advised him to leave Naples. In autumn 2008, it was revealed that certain individuals had schemed to murder Saviano and his police escort with a bomb by Christmas of that year. The killing was to take place on the Rome-to-Naples autostrada. The same year, six Nobel Prize-winning authors and intellectuals formally declared their support for Saviano in a newspaper article. The list included Orhan Pamuk, Dario Fo, Rita Levi Montalcini, Desmond Tutu, Günter Grass, and Mikhail Gorbachev. The same year he was invited by the Nobel Committee to give a lecture.
In his new book Zero Zero Zero – to be published in English translation shortly, by Allen Lane - Saviano forensically examines the international cocaine trade. He investigates the evolution of cocaine trafficking, from Mexican drug cartels to money laundering, through Wall Street and the City of London.The author follows the human trail of users, victims, traffickers, and perpetrators.
Fellow Italian author Umberto Eco has dubbed Saviano "a national hero." The New York Times has similarly enthused: "After reading Saviano, it becomes impossible to see Italy, and the global market, in the same way again."
Le Parisien too has heartily endorsed the author's crusade. "Saviano has an astonishing ability to write luminously yet subtly about terrible things," declared the French newspaper.


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