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Here's a quick look at events in Las Cruces from July 11-14, 2019.
Thursday, July 11
The City of Las Cruces Parks & Recreation Department is expanding the popular Music in the Park Series with the addition of Music on the Plaza, set for 8 p.m. every other Thursday on Plaza de Las Cruces. This week's Music on the Plaza features El Paso rockers Rust and Las Cruces variety act Pure Magic. Admission is free; for more, call 541-2550.
Thursday's live music includes solo singer-songwriter Danny Sanchez at High Desert Brewing Co. (8 to 11 p.m.)
Friday, July 12
Weight. Why does the occupation of our physical space hijack our mental health? "Weighing In" by Monika Mojica — debuting at 8 p.m. Friday at the Black Box Theatre — delves into the expectations and critical judgment comparison renders. By uncovering the nagging ticker of self doubt, we strip it of its potential to sabotage our power. Laugh, cry, sweat and weigh in.
Showtimes of "Weighing In" are 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturday, July 12, 13, 19 and 20; 2:30 p.m. Sundays, July 14 and 21; and 7 p.m Thursday, July 18. Tickets are $15 regular, $12 seniors and students, and $10 on Thursdays.
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Friday's live music schedule includes live music in the courtyard with Alan Kuncel at La Posta de Mesilla (6 to 9 p.m.); Triple Jack at The Game and Eli James Band at The Game II (7 to 11 p.m.); Rio Grande Bluegrass Band at Vintage Wines (8 to 10 p.m.) and Tucson's best R&B band Connie Brannock at Little Toad Creek (8 to 11 p.m.).
Saturday, July 13
The Las Cruces Museums are commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing with Over the Moon/Apollo 50 Celebration events all week long, including a Live Apollo 11 Launch Reenactment from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at Pat and Lou Sisbarro Field on the NMSU campus.
The NMSU Department of Astronomy presents a special Apollo 11 Anniversary public presentation, with the Fellowship of Las Cruces Area Rocketry Enthusiasts — FLARE — conducting an Apollo 11 launch reenactment. FLARE member Dave Kovar will bring a motorized replica of Saturn V Launch Complex 39, and scale model Saturn V Rocket. The event includes an audio track of President John F. Kennedy's "We Choose to Go to the Moon" speech, and the actual final minute of the Apollo 11 countdown to launch. A star party is set for 8:30 p.m.
Admission is free. For more on this — and all Over the Moon/Apollo 50 Celebration events — visit bit.ly/2YHlgxA.
The City of Las Cruces' Summer Movies in the Park series continues with a screening of "Incredibles 2" at dusk — around 7:30 p.m. — Saturday at Young Park. The Incredibles hero family takes on a new mission, which involves a change in family roles: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) must manage the house while his wife Helen (Elastigirl) goes out to save the world. The series continues with free, family-friendly movies each week; call 541-2550 for more.
Saturday's live music schedule includes Juilo Ortiz at Sombra Antigua Winery (2:30 to 6 p.m.); live music in the courtyard with Damian Luna at La Posta de Mesilla (6 to 9 p.m.); Dirty Brown Jug Band at The Game and Smokin' Mirrors at The Game II (7 to 11 p.m.); The Two of Us at Vintage Wines (8 to 10 p.m.); honest, raw singer-songwriter Calista at Little Toad Creek (8 to 11 p.m.); and jazz with Josh Carter Quartet at High Desert Brewing Co. (8 to 11 p.m.).
Sunday, July 14
The City of Las Cruces' Music in the Park series continues with performances by Blaze the Nation and Dead Like Disco at 7 p.m. Sunday at Young Park. Free and family-friendly, Music in the Park continues on Sunday evenings all summer long — call 541-2550 for more.
Sunday's live music schedule includes Travis James Manning at Vintage Wines (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.); and Minda Lacy — a lyrically driven singer/songwriter with vaguely morbid psychedelic undertones and a lighthearted sweetness — at Little Toad Creek (8 to 11 p.m.)
Next Week: July 18-21
Next week, enjoy an evening of music and dancing with Swing on the Downtown Plaza Wednesday on Plaza de Las Cruces; toast three summer favorites at the Fifth Annual Tequila, Taco & Cerveza Summer Festival; continue the 50th anniversary celebration of the first moon landing with various Over the Moon events, including "50 Years of NASA" by Safety Engineer at the Johnson Space Center Victor Murray and a Spaceport America Tour; and cool off at the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum's biggest event of the year — Ice Cream Sunday.
Plan Ahead:
No time like now to plan ahead! The Gilbert and Sullivan Company of El Paso will return to Las Cruces for a special production of "The Pirates of Penzance" on Aug. 3 and 4 at the Black Box Theatre. The following week, Las Cruces Community Theatre opens its production of Neil Simon's "Biloxi Blues" the evening of Aug. 9.
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Life Simplified...Thankful Thursday
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A beautiful list - thank you for sharing. It really does help to focus on the positive and the rich blessings in our lives. Your list points to what really matters. Thanks for the inspiration!ReplyDeleteReplies
You're welcome Elizabeth, and thank you for taking the time to stop by and leave a comment! I truly appreciate it! :)Delete
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Thank you, maqsad! It really does help to 'shift' your perspective from negative to positive when you focus on the good things in your life. :)Delete
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In part two of this series, we go into more detail about Gabe's inpatient hospital stay and focus on what he was thinking while he was hospitalized and what he learned after he was discharged. We talked about what to do if you feel like you need to be hospitalized, the steps you need to take in order to be admitted and the obstacles involved with getting the help you may need.
About The Not Crazy Podcast Hosts
Gabe Howard is an award-winning writer and speaker who lives with bipolar disorder. He is the author of the popular book, Mental Illness is an Asshole and other Observations, available from Amazon; signed copies are also available directly from Gabe Howard. To learn more, please visit his website, gabehoward.com.
Jackie Zimmerman has been in the patient advocacy game for over a decade and has established herself as an authority on chronic illness, patient-centric healthcare, and patient community building. She lives with multiple sclerosis, ulcerative colitis, and depression.
You can find her online at JackieZimmerman.co, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
Computer Generated Transcript for 'Psychiatric Ward' Episode
Editor's Note: Please be mindful that this transcript has been computer generated and therefore may contain inaccuracies and grammar errors. Thank you.
Announcer: You're listening to Not Crazy, a Psych Central podcast. And here are your hosts, Jackie Zimmerman and Gabe Howard.
Jackie: Hello and welcome to Not Crazy. I'm here with my co-host Gabe, who lives with bipolar and was also the subject of an interview last week on this podcast about what it's like in an inpatient hospital.
Gabe: And I'm here with my co-host, Jackie, who asked me so many questions about what it was like to be inpatient that we had to break it up into two parts. Like how I blamed you when it was my overtalking that really caused this problem?
Jackie: Last week, we talked about Gabe's experience and this week we're going to continue with part two right now.
Gabe: But hey, if you missed part one, you can listen. Out of order, we honestly don't mind. Here we go.
Jackie: Were you in some kind of? Did you talk to someone when you were inpatient? Is there group therapy? Is there one on one therapy? Is your therapist, John Stamos? Like it was in something I watched recently?
Gabe: I do not recall any of my medical practitioners being exceptionally beautiful, male or female. You know, scrubs, they don't look sexy. My doctor was nice. I was in a learning hospital. So my doctor had like seven new doctors in tow.
Jackie: Ugh.
Gabe: That's just the way that it was, though. I did have group therapy.
Jackie: How long was it?
Gabe: Group therapy was an hour to an hour and a half. I'm having a little trouble remembering and the way that it worked in the hospital that I was in is that there was one that was required and then there was like optional ones throughout the day, depending on where you were. The one that was required is the only one that I ever went to, just in full disclosure. And it worked pretty much exactly how you would expect group therapy to work. It was led by a therapist. So it was medical person led, not peer led or or like AA, where it's you know, the group manages itself. It was led by a medical person, a therapist in this case. And there were rules and everybody talked and shared. And we all bounced off each other and we weren't allowed to give advice. And the therapist would help steer us along and we would hear from other people and we would share. And then group is over.
Jackie: How were you grouped?
Gabe: I honestly don't know. I can tell you that there was men and women, there was young and old. We all were there for seemingly different reasons. I remember when I was there, I was the only person that said I was just diagnosed with bipolar. A couple of people said depression, but a lot of people were kind of standoffish. They didn't want to share it all.
Jackie: Were you mad to be there or upset? If you weren't really engaging, let's say, were you sort of like, I don't want to be here? I don't need to be here, this is stupid?
Gabe: I never thought it was stupid. I thought it was so incredibly confusing. It was it. It's unlike anything that I can explain.
Jackie: Were you still feeling like this is how I feel all the time, why am I here? Was that feeling still kind of resonating?
Gabe: When I was first diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the first thing that I thought was, oh, my God, I have to move to a group home. I have to liquidate my assets and I'm going to be institutionalized for the rest of my life. The second thing that I thought is thank God they caught this before I hurt my family. I really associated mental illness and violence very much hand-in-hand. The third thing that I thought is I'm doomed. I'm just doomed. I didn't know anybody who is diagnosed with bipolar who is doing anything well. And in fact, I only knew one person with bipolar at all. And that was Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, a man who died by suicide. And this is this is a wealthy man. This is a once in a lifetime musical talent. This is his number one singles. Yeah. You know, this isn't the average person. And the dude was rich and he couldn't beat bipolar disorder. I'm some slut from Ohio. I'm not rich, my family's not rich. Frankly, we're all kind of a bunch of dumb asses. We didn't even realize anything was wrong. But yeah, we can beat this. You know this dude with millions of dollars, he can't beat it, but we'll be fine. So I thought that I was gonna be institutionalized. I thought that I was going to die. And I thought that it was a good thing I didn't murder my family. These were my first 24 hours.
Jackie: So when you're in the group therapy and you're meeting with John Stamos and you're talking about why you're there. Are you still thinking that? Are you still thinking those same thoughts or are you still thinking that that thought that you had when your friend brought you there and you really why am I here? This is what I think all the time.
Gabe: The very first group therapy that I ever went to in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, I actually there was a lot of women in the group and I actually thought, wow, these women complain a lot. That's honestly what I thought. I thought, wow, all of these women are complaining constantly. This is nonsense. The men were all quiet. There weren't that many of us. And all of the men sat stoic and quiet. All of the women cried a lot. And I just thought, wow, this is just this. I hadn't been diagnosed with bipolar disorder yet, though. The next day I get there and suddenly I just have a million questions about mental illness because what the hell?
Jackie: Were you diagnosed there?
Gabe: I was diagnosed in the psychiatric hospital.
Jackie: Ok, so that that makes a lot of sense then.
Gabe: Yeah. Yeah. The day before I went to the emergency room that led to my inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, I thought that I was fine. Not that I was normal. I thought that I was beyond normal. I thought that I was exceptional. Aw, shit. That's kind of the deal with bipolar disorder, right? You're either God or your garbage or you're just in between. Right. This is the kind of messed up part about bipolar disorder. It really is this whiplash effect. I sort of refer to it as an intermittent illness. Sometimes you're symptomatic, sometimes you're not, and sometimes you're symptomatic this way and sometimes you're symptomatic that way. And they're polar opposites, hence the name. And a lot of this did go into how I reacted to inpatient hospitalization, right? I went in there on suicide watch. By the time I left, I was stable. I kind of want to focus on that. Right? Because it was harrowing and it was terrifying. And there was no ping pong table, and pop culture really let me down on this. Because pop culture always shows a frickin' ping pong table.
Jackie: Or checkers or cards.
Gabe: There were checkers and cards. But I wanted the ping pong table. I could play checkers and cards at home and I thought, hey, if I'm gonna be in a hospital, I might as well get a ping pong table.
Jackie: That's fair.
Gabe: And I became very desperate looking for this ping pong table because I needed the world to make sense. And I thought, okay, if I'm in a psychiatric hospital, there's gonna be a ping pong table for me. In that moment, it was the thing that made the world right again. It would have balanced everything out. It would have centered me. I would have known where I was. And if I could have just found that ping pong table, I would've been like, okay, I know what to do.
Jackie: Play ping pong.
Gabe: Well, just obviously, if one piece of information is correct, all the pieces of information are correct. Right? Like isn't that nonsense? Like like, oh, oh, if one thing is true, the next 30 things are true. This is not reality. People do this that that aren't bipolar. And in psychiatric hospitals. But I became extraordinarily desperate. I need to be very, very, very, very clear on this point. The nurses had to come after me because I was. I was so, so upset. And like like like finding out your spouse is going to die upset over a ping pong table. To this day that this has been it's been years. I am still upset. There is no ping pong table. And I have desperately tried to donate ping pong tables.
Jackie: Yeah, that is what I was gonna say. You should donate one?
Gabe: It turns out that you can't have ping pong tables with their paddles, sharp edges and nets cetera in psychiatric hospitals for people who might not be in their right mind or a danger to themselves or other.
Jackie: Pop culture really did let us down on that one.
Gabe: Yeah, if you think about it for even a minute, you'd be like, oh, yeah, yeah, I can. Yeah, that's probably a bad idea.
Jackie: Ok, here's another question that I have that I feel like I am wildly off on due to movies. How long were you there? Because in my brain, it's either you're there for a 72 hour hold or you're there for eight months, because the other assumption that I slash I think a lot of people have is, what can you possibly accomplish in three days?
Gabe: This is a tough one for me to answer, right, because there's a little piece of me that wants to say nothing. Everybody should be there for eight months. But at the same time, you can't leave people warehoused for eight months. But some people are so sick, they need more than 72 hours and they're let go too soon. And some people can be let go in 72 hours. I believe for Gabe Howard personally, that 72 hours was the right amount of time because I was in crisis. I needed stabilized and the 72 hours was enough to stabilize me. And I'm very fortunate. I was released to people who loved me and cared about me. It would just be a few days before my parents came all the way from Tennessee to take care of me and like, make sure that I was okay. I had the woman who brought me to the hospital who helped me fill my prescription and made sure that I got set. I had a job, so I had money and resources and I was on FMLA. I was able to take time off work to get better and still have health insurance and an income come in that's like really helpful when you're sick to not have to worry about money. And I had short term disability, so I was covered there and then I was moved into an outpatient program. This was great treatment for Gabe, stabilization, outpatient treatment, community treatment. And then the four year epic battle began.
Jackie: Is this the norm or?
Gabe: No.
Jackie: Would you say as a whole we are missing some of these steps for a lot of people?
Gabe: We are missing these steps for probably the majority of people. Let's talk about a couple of things that I think are very, very important, understand. One, I was very lucky that somebody recognized the symptoms of suicidality and mental illness. Two, I was lucky that this person took the time to help me. Three, I was lucky that I was taken to the emergency room where they knew what to do and they cared enough to do something about it. Four, I was lucky that there were beds available, literally beds available. Five, I was lucky that I had a payer source. Six, I was lucky that upon my discharge, people who were not me took responsibility for me.
Jackie: You're going to run out of fingers.
Gabe: Seven, I was lucky that there was an outpatient program where I could go and get immediate follow up care. Eight, I was lucky that there was a psychiatrist and a therapist and a psychologist that could see me within a week. Nine, I was lucky to be in a big enough city where all of these resources were readily available and 10, and this is the big one. I could afford it all. I had all of the money, all of the money. I could afford the co-pays, the out of pockets. I had insurance. I dumped tens of thousands of dollars into my care and the insurance company even more than that. And if any one of those ten things was missing, I might not be sitting here.
Jackie: So let's rewind for a minute, because one of the problems that I talked about that you just mentioned as three or four in your list, which is, let's say somebody notices it. You go to the E.R., they say, yes, there's a problem. There's no beds. I hear this all the time. Specifically, it must be in metro Detroit where we have like a massive issue because no beds is a incredibly common phrase that I hear. What do you do when there are no beds?
Gabe: Professionally, what you're supposed to do is find another hospital that has a bed, and ambulance them over.
Jackie: But?
Gabe: Well, you could convince the person that they're not actually suicidal. You could convince the person that they're gonna be OK. You could change your diagnosis to say, you know, I think you're just stressed out. You're probably fine. Or you could put them on a bus. Send them to another county. Tell them to go to that hospital. You can tell them to drive themselves to that hospital. You could say, I don't know what to do for you. You could ignore them. You just make them sit in the waiting room and play out the odds that they're just gonna get tired and leave. Which probably around hour 5, 6, 10, 20, they probably will. All of these things happen with shocking regularity. There's an advocate in Ohio that calls it greyhound therapy. Where somebody who does not have insurance, does not have a payer source, will show up at a state hospital that's required to take people like, you know, the health center. Things like that. And they will say, look, we don't have any beds. They would give them a bus pass.
Jackie: Oh my god.
Gabe: They would tell them to take that bus pass to the next county over and go to X Hospital. And you have to hope person who went to the emergency room because they were suicidal, because they were having symptoms of a psychiatric illness, who is not in their right mind, who is sick. You just want a sick person to get on a bus and go to a different hospital. That's what you did. And people are cool with it because after all, you can't abuse the mentally ill. And you think to yourself, society doesn't really believe that, Gabe. You see the homeless population. Do you honestly believe that all of those homeless people are homeless because they're making a reasonable and rational decisions? A good, good portion of them are severely mentally ill. We don't care. We really don't. As a society, we do not care.
Jackie: We'll be right back after these messages.
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Jackie: We're back talking about inpatient hospitalization. Ok, so here's a question. When I was considering trying to find an inpatient place, what was happening at the time was I was severely, severely depressed, highly, highly ideating on suicide. And I had a friend of mine who was calling local hospitals basically looking for a bed. I don't know what that looked like on her half because I wasn't with her. She was just calling and reporting back to me because we weren't at the E.R. We were calling we were trying to be proactive. If you show up to the E.R., you are the patient there. Let's say scenario wise, hopefully if somebody with you just hopefully and you show up and they say there are no beds and or you call around like I did and no one anywhere has any beds, like as the patient as me. What do you do if you're at the E.R.? You say, okay, I'll try this other hospital and hope that the person with you and you are in the right frame of mind to make that happen. Or if you're making the phone calls and there's nowhere you can go. Like, what are we supposed to do?
Gabe: That's a really good question. And as soon as society finds out the answer for it, I think that people will be better. I can tell you all of the things that I would do because I'm an advocate and I think that these advocacy points are good ideas. You can call your insurance company. You can demand to speak to a patient advocate. You can threaten to sue. You can call a lawyer. You can call all of the other hospitals. You can demand to get care. You can say, I don't give a shit, that you don't have enough beds. You can throw your money and your weight and your cloud around. You can say, listen, I'm a pretty white woman. And if you don't give me help, I'm going to call the news that you were willing to let me go home and die. There's a true story out there of a really well-known advocate that used to write for The Washington Post, and he literally threatened to call friends in the national media if they did not help his son. And they finally relented and said, fine, we'll do it. And they did it begrudgingly. This dude had to literally be a national journalist with a lot of money to get his son seen. So the bigger question that you should be asking is, one, will any of these things work? Yeah, they might. And two, does the average person with serious and persistent mental illness who is probably between the ages of 16 and 24, does not have insurance, does not have a payer source, does not have money, and who is actively sick at this moment, have the ability to fight a multi-billion dollar institution? To take on doctors and hospital bureaucracy and finally get society to give a shit about them? Here's what really sucks. This show is almost exclusively talking about middle class mental health and middle class. Mental health is just so messed up. It's so messed up. Yeah, it is way worse for lower income mental health and it's way worse for impoverished mental health. And we haven't even talked about the large percentages of mentally ill people in prisons and in jails.
Jackie: Which I suppose we touched on a bit in the beginning of saying this is your personal experience, but it is worth pointing out that if the system is failing you a middle to upper middle class, I don't know your life, but white guy in America, in the Midwest.
Gabe: In a big city.
Jackie: Is failing you. It is hard to even fathom the trickle down effect of that. And to be fair, we don't even have to fathom it. It's in the news. We see the terrible things that are happening. Even the media is talking about it. And pop culture also is talking about it in the worst of ways in times. So it's not that hard to think about how bad it gets it. I'm having a hard time even finding the words to express, hearing your experience of being inpatient and seeing how that can vary for different people, but like roughly the same. Right? Let's say that. And how hard and stressful and probably even less dramatic and traumatic that was for you thinking about how much worse it can be and how seeing very easily how this cannot turn out this way, how it can turn out very poorly.
Gabe: You asked me what it was like to be inpatient. It's scary and it's traumatizing and that's okay. Things are allowed to be scary and traumatizing and not be bad. I imagine that being a parent is scary. I imagine that your child being sick is traumatizing. That doesn't mean that your children are bad. It doesn't mean that your decision to become a parent was bad. But it does mean that you need to get help for that scary. It means that you need support for that scary. And if something happens with your children that traumatizes, you need to get help for that trauma so that you don't burden yourself or your child for their whole life. The takeaway that I want a lot of people to hear is that I don't think we address with people who have been inpatient and psychiatric hospitals and wards. The fact that they were scared or the fact that they were traumatized, we say things to them like, well, it was for your own good. We say things to them like, well, it doesn't matter. You're better off now. I really think a strong advocacy point needs to be. It's OK that you were scared. And I understand you were traumatized. Let's talk about that.
Jackie: Less of the end justifies the means.
Gabe: Right. And I want to be I want to be fair, the ends do justify the means, even though I was scared, even though I was traumatized, even though I had the wrong idea. And even though the very first time I walked into a psychiatric ward as an advocate and the door shut behind me and I heard it bang. These are big metal heavy doors. I had an instant panic attack. I broke out into a sweat. My heart raised. I almost collapsed. It was that terrifying. The person with me realized it immediately. It was like, what happened? And I was like, I was right back there. Let's talk about that. Let's move through this. What can we do? Let's be better. Look what you've become. Let's help. And that gave me a point of advocates say to all of the other people who get out and they're like, well, I'm scared and nobody cares. I care. I care.
Jackie: Can you imagine if we treated going inpatient or treating people with mental illness the same way we treat physical illness, like when you're going into the hospital for surgery where your family is there, everything is pretty well explained to you. There is support, there's compassion, there's a lot of compassion. And everybody understands that this is probably going to be traumatic, even if it's routine. Right. It's probably going to be traumatic. Could you imagine that if when somebody went in and they said, hey, I'm feeling suicidal? If the reaction was that strong, that compassionate, that educational like that supportive as opposed to we're going to put you here, it's gonna be good for you. Do what we say, because that's why you're here and you'll think us later.
Gabe: And that's where I want to get to. I just can't imagine telling somebody who's going to have heart surgery, who says I'm scared about the heart surgery, to suck it up. This is for your own good.
Jackie: Yeah.
Gabe: When we get those people casseroles, we clean their houses. We do support their families. We wait in the waiting room for them. And some people with mental illness do get some portion of this. But it's not regular. It's not normal. It is a typical I want this to become routine. And I believe that people with severe and persistent mental illness would have a much better outcomes if their trauma and their terror was addressed when they got out or soon after if it was just part of the process. If somebody said to them, what scares you the most? And they talked about it. And some of that did happen for me. I don't want to say, oh, it was just horrible, and they didn't address anything. People did ask me how I felt about it. And I had a really good support system. They messed everything up. But they were there. They were there messing everything up. My father and my grandfather moved my like a hundred and fifty pound television out of my house and into my apartment. This is like a 50 year old and a 65 year old man watching their 26 year old grandson sit in a corner crying while they carry this giant television.
Gabe: That's like real love and support. Right. They weren't the family that said suck it up, get better and do it. I was really lucky. But a lot of families would be like, look, you need to get back to your life. You need to help us move. You need to do this. You need to do this. I got really lucky. And I don't know how my family didn't mess this up because they just mess everything up. But this is one of the things that they got right. And it made a big difference. I think these things just matter a lot. And trauma is not a bad word. And we just so often never want to address people's trauma because we put some sort of moral value on it. Like if things turn out OK, you're not allowed to be traumatized. We saw this with soldiers. Why have PTSD? Why? We won the war, you lived. Well, yeah, we won the war, and you lived. But that doesn't mean that you can't be traumatized. What? This makes no sense to me for a long time. That was our belief system.
Jackie: Gabe, thank you for sharing that and helping me to separate, perhaps Girl Interrupted and John Stamos from reality. I'm a little bit sad that John Stamos doesn't just live in the hospitals waiting for us, but that's a whole other thing. Is there anything else that you want to add or anything that you feel that you just need to tell anybody who's maybe thinking about this?
Gabe: There is a couple of things first, I want to thank you for asking all of these questions, because some of these questions like saying, hey, did your doctor look like John Stamos? Were you all wandering around like doped up zombies? It sounds stigmatizing, right? It's like, are you making fun of me? And it's really important that when people ask the question that way, that you don't jump all over them and say, of course not. That's not what it's like because they don't know. And if they're willing to ask you about it, take a deep breath and answer it. That is what you thought was happening in there. And if you wouldn't have asked me, you'd continue to believe that that's what my life was like. And we never would have had this moment where you now know that John Stamos doesn't live in the hospital.
Jackie: The More You Know rainbow just went over my head right there.
Gabe: Exactly. And I think that sometimes we shut down the more, you know, rainbow by yelling at people for asking the question wrong. The next thing and I want to say is anybody who's listening to this thinking I might need to be hospitalized, but man, he said it was scary. He said it was traumatizing. He said that there were locked doors. He said that they make you go to group. He said that they make you share. These are all true. And I want you to have all of the information. We don't sugar coat things on our podcasts. It's one of the things that we pride ourselves on. So believe me when I tell you that I'm not sugar coating, that it will be OK. It will be scary. There could be some trauma. Hospitals are not fun places. Nobody goes to hospitals for vacation, but it can make you better. And it did make me better. And it was the start of making my life go from daily awful to, you know, pretty decent. I'm a pretty content guy. I've done a lot of really great things. And all of that started the day that I got help in an inpatient psychiatric hospital. And that really, really is worth it. And it's also worth moving away from it and hoping never, ever to have to go back again. So I assure you, I'm not bullshitting you when I tell you that just because something is awful doesn't mean it's not worth it. And that's really what I want to leave the listeners with today. I don't want to scare anybody away, Jackie. That's what I want to say. I don't want to scare anybody away. Just because it's hard doesn't mean it's not worth it.
Jackie: Gabe, I couldn't agree more. There are so many things in this world, including taking care of yourself, your mental health and your physical health that is going to be incredibly difficult, but it's also worth it.
Gabe: There's a famous philosopher that said that if it was easy, everybody would do it. And I really feel that that that's the deal, right? It was it was hard. It was hard to get well. But I'm glad that I did. And just because it was scary along the way doesn't mean that it wasn't worth it. And I know you feel the same way about a lot of the physical health issues that you've been through. I can't imagine having the number of surgeries that you had was easy, but it was totally worth it.
Jackie: Absolutely, my quality of life is significantly improved, and I think anytime you look at a surgery or an inpatient stay or anything that looks really difficult, if you look at how it impacts your quality of life at the end, it's always going to be better.
Gabe: I could not agree more, Jackie. This was part 2 of 2 if you missed part one. That's OK. It's literally one week back from this episode and you don't need to listen to him in order. Just jump back. Hear it out and you'll know everything that you want to know about Gabe's inpatient hospitalization stay. We thank you for hanging out with us, please, wherever you downloaded the podcast. Leave as many stars as you feel comfortable with. Use your words. Tell other people why to listen. Share us on social media. Email us your friends. Talk about us in support groups. We want the conversation surrounding mental health to go as far and wide as humanly possible. And our longtime listeners know if you stay tuned after the credits. There is an outtake. Usually it's Gabe and Jackie shitting the bed. We will talk to you next week.
Jackie: Happy Thanksgiving.
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Dealing with heating bills can be frustrating. There's nothing homeowners can do to change fuel prices, but with programmable thermostats, they can change home heating requirements and impact energy savings. But you have to know how to program the device to maximize your home's energy-savings potential.
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I'm reading a little note by a key force behind Hardly Art Records, the label releasing The Pica Beats (MySpace) sophomore album, Beating Back The Claws Of The Cold, today. I usually don't quote press releases, but this one is both important and relevant:
If there's one thing I love about this label, it is being able to introduce bands that no one knew existed.
And it's true. I hadn't known about Le Loup or Pretty & Nice (the latter will hit later this year), or even their set of local Seattle bands. The list: Arthur & Yu, The Moondoggies, and, of course, The Pica Beats. That is, I didn't know about any of them until the Hardly Art introduction.
Like many off the Hardly Art lineup, The Pica Beats dabble in the blurry edges of folk, and mix into it light elements of pop and a few seemingly random influences from the 60s and 70s. No matter how different the artists are, they all seem to have these things in common.
In comparison to the rest of Hardly Art's small but growing lineup, The Pica Beats are most like Artur & Yu. They've got a few more members, so their sound is undoubtedly fuller, but their music has similar pleasantries and is notably soft in nature (if not always in volume) compared to artists like The Moondoggies and The Dutchess & The Duke, both of which have a noted ruggedness. Instead, their laid back sound features orchestration, ranging from foreign instruments to classics like Trumpet (one of the more common instruments on Beating Back The Claws.
Songs like opener "Poor Old Ra" and "Shrinking Violets" may be a bit louder (due to the aforementioned orchestration), but the majority hit the soft note, like the title track and "Summer Cutting Cale". A classic example of The Pica Beats' sound can be found in the calming swagger behind "Hikikomori & The Rental Sisters"; you'll hear a plush, full sound that's both calm and sophisticated—it even includes a sitar.
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Eczema Cure Manuka Honey Benefits: Healing naturally
Eczema is incurable and can be a lifelong condition, following from childhood cases to adulthood. It is a terrible and unsightly condition for the sufferers. Although it can be painful and a source of embarrassment and irritation, there are medical cream that can help soothes and ease the condition. Manuka honey is a proven remedy to help ease and manage eczema.
In general, eczema patients have dry skin and has to deal with flaking, scaling and overall dryness of the skin. Furthermore, those with eczema are vulnerable to tropical infections, such as staph and other infections because of a weak skin barrier. Hence, most natural remedy helps provide a protective layer of natural barrier to prevent bacteria, and other unwelcome substance to reach the skin.
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Lab tests have applied medical grade manuka honey topically to wounds, resulting in smaller wound size and lowering of pH values. The wound heals fast due to strong anti-inflammatory effects. Also, 5 0ut of 8 psoriasis sufferers showed improvement after using manuka honey mixture. 80% of users suffering from dermatitis showed better conditions after a mere 2 weeks of applying a mixture of manuka honey mixture. Numerous independent tests on manuka honey have proved its strong antibacterial properties.
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It's hard to believe that we're in the midst of the Holiday season and that the new year is oh so close, but I know that many people are gearing up to launch their own blogs, so I wanted to share a few tips for all the newbies out there. While some may think that this industry is over-saturated or dying (AS IF!), it's still relatively young and keeps evolving monthly, if not daily. While how we blog may change, there are still a few things that new (and old) bloggers can implement in order to keep this industry growing while actually having fun with it.
Have something real to say.
Authenticity is needed in a big way in the blogging community, but only if it's genuine. Many times, bloggers assume this means being positive 24/7 or constantly posting inspirational quotes as captions on Instagram and I'm here to tell you…that's not it. When I say have something to say, I mean be yourself. Be interesting. Be REAL. Tell your readers about your day, your family, ANYTHING, just be real. People want to connect with that person, not the one spouting quotes all day. Trust me when I say that that get's old real fast and that people will start to glaze over your posts.
Blog first, post to social media second.
While Instagram is all the rage right now, remember that you don't own that platform and that it could disappear any day (hello Myspace). Focus your storytelling on your blog first, and then use your social media channels to get people to come back to your little corner on the internet. If your goal is to build a real community where people will support you across the board, don't neglect your site. Have fun with insta, but always treat your own blog like your home.
Build trust and loyalty vs. having a "sell, sell, sell" approach to content.
If your goal is to monetize your platform one day, how you choose to approach it is what will determine both your success at it and/or your burnout rate. We all love to shop and share our finds, but if you find yourself constantly shopping for the sake of posting something new to "sell", you're doing it wrong. Most of the bloggers that get caught up in the affiliate link/swipe up rat race are NOT keeping those clothes; they're taking it back after its shot and/or wearing it once and reselling it (please note, this is different from a real partnership with a brand). If this is your jam, then by all means continue, but know that if you go into blogging like this, there is NO guarantee that people are going to buy what you're linking just because you post it, and you may go broke or burnout if it's a facade. Some bloggers are able to successfully shop and share frequently because they have built trust with their readers beyond posting an outfit (Emma Hill is a blogger that does this quite well because of HOW she does her product reviews and try-on sessions) but it's not common. Do you know how many bloggers are out there that have swipe up + LTKI capabilities but can't actually convert to sales??? There are a lot of smoke and mirrors when it comes to blogging, so don't get caught up in the foolishness, ya'll.
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Invest in your photography.
Whether you hire a photographer to work with or get a camera yourself, invest in your imagery. Yes, the iphone is great for quick shots on portrait mode and can come through in a crunch when you need it, but if you're trying to use your blog for something bigger, you're going to have to bite the bullet for something better. Again, if you're a blogger that's only focused on shopping and pushing product via IG then carry on, but every single blogger that I know that has built a legitimate brand from theirs eventually upgraded. There's only so much a filter/preset can do to your photo. Even though this model is old I still recommend it (with this lens) as a great starter DSLR for bloggers but there are so many options out there. Do what works for your budget.
Connect with your target audience (not just other bloggers)
Unless you're an infopreneur and the content you're creating is specifically geared towards your fellow bloggers, they are NOT your target audience. Yes, it's cool to connect with other blogger babes (and I have a ton that I love), but don't get so caught up in building a following with other bloggers that you neglect the people outside of that. Why? Because if you ever plan to monetize your content, 9/10 a blogger is NOT going to use your affiliate link. They're too busy trying to do the exact thing as you! You will have some that will support (I personally do it all the time), but my point is, when brands are looking for bloggers to collaborate with, they don't really want a blogger that has a million comments from other bloggers (looking at you, comment pods), they want bloggers that have a solid audience of people that are invested in your content so much that they want to support you and will buy what you share. THAT is where real influence comes in, so don't neglect the real people in your audience.
Consistency will be your best growth hack.
Not photo filters, not constant collaborations, not loop giveaways. Blogging consistently will always be the number one thing to help you grow an authentic following. It is tempting to follow the crowd and do giveaways all the time but the thing to remember is that once you start doing those, you will have to continue doing them in order to maintain. I see it happen every day. Blogger joins in a "harmless" loop giveaway, gains anywhere from 500 to 2,000 followers during it and then immediately starts to lose them once it's over. They wait a few weeks, feel like they're growing too slow, and then do another one. And so it goes where it appears they have a large following, but it doesn't really convert to anything substantial and that number doesn't really matter. Don't be that blogger. Be consistent with that you're creating, pay attention to your analytics to see what your audience is engaging with and don't be afraid to switch it up if you find your growth being stagnant. There's nothing wrong with doing a giveaway from time to time, but DON'T let that be what you rely on for growth. You want a real audience that engages with your content across the board, so be consistent and take your time creating content that both you and your readers love.
While this industry has become competitive, please don't think that you have to compromise who you are or do shady tactics in order to grow or be successful with it. When I look at all of the OG bloggers that I admire who have launched brands and turned their platforms into something even bigger than they ever imagined, they all have the above tips in place-and have been following them since they began. Blogging is fun and is a great way to use your voice and to also connect with people beyond your current circle, so don't be discouraged by all of the craziness that gets amplified from time to time. As cliched as it sounds, being true to yourself and remembering your why will always be the way to go.
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- Senate directs NNPC to punish erring oil firms
- Jonathan, Etete named in $800m oil scandal
Two independent oil marketers have been accused of stealing 100 million litres of premium motor spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol belonging to the Federal Government.
The product disappeared in the storages of the oil marketing companies leased by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) without return of the value of the stolen product.
Already, the Senate has directed the NNPC to impose some stringent sanctions on the two independent oil marketers linked with the missing 100 million litres of petrol.
The state-owned oil firm is to carry out punitive measure against the independent marketers not later than the end of this week. The Chairman, Senate Joint Committee on Upstream, Downstream and Gas, Kabiru Marafa, made the disclosure while briefing journalists in Abuja at the weekend. Marafa did not disclose the identities of the oil marketers.
"This committee has established the missing of 100 million litres of PMS from such storage arrangement. We expected NNPC to have taken action against the two companies that carried out the theft. But since it has not, we hereby ordered it to do so immediately, precisely within this week, failure of which we shall make the whole details known to the public," he threatened. According to him, all key players in the sector, along with their collaborators who have taken the country for a ride during the period under review, must be brought to book through exhaustive investigation to be conducted soon.
This is not the first time that allegation of outright theft of fuel are made against the NNPC and oil marketers who serve as its contractors in the thruput programme.
Thruput is a third party contract arrangement in which NNPC offloads its imported petroleum products at the depots of oil marketers for bridging and sale to its retail outlets across the country. The NNPC has confirmed awareness of the probe, insisting that it remains highly transparent.
Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of NNPC, Ndu Ughamadu, who said this when New Telegraph sought his corporation's reaction to the allegation,maintained that the upper legislative chamber knows that investigation on the allegation would be done adequately within a time frame.
"It is an allegation and the Senate, in its wisdom, addressed a press conference to show it," he said, adding that "the respected upper legislative chamber knows that we will adequately finish our investigation of the allegation in needed time. But I can assure you that the NNPC, under this administration, has remained highly transparent."
Meanwhile, the Senate said it had uncovered about N10 trillion fraud allegedly perpetrated in the oil sector by the NNPC and some independent oil marketers from 2006 till date.
Marafa said that the joint committee would go into a thorough and holistic investigation of the alleged fraud, with a view to ascertaining the true state of transactions done in the sector within the period under review.
He explained that the breakdown of the N10 trillion to be investigated is the sum total of the N5.2 trillion of fuel subsidy collected by the NNPC, N3.8 trillion collected by the independent oil marketers and $1.5 billion, which the independent marketers still claimed that government was still owing them.
The investigation is the outcome of the Senate's resolution on Wednesday last week, when it mandated the joint committee to exhaustively review and investigate the accounts of the NNPC in relation to fuel subsidy and the abuse of product marketing and distribution between 2006 to date.
The Senate had particularly frowned at alleged discrepancies in subsidy payments and non-remittance of funds to the federation accounts by the oil corporation.
Marafa said that President Muhammadu Buhari and the Senate leadership were very much interested in unmasking those behind the scam perpetrated during the administrations of former Presidents Olusegun Obasajo, late Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Goodluck Jonathan and by extension, the present government. "President Buhari is highly supportive of this move by the Senate and we shall not fail in carrying out the needed holistic investigation on obvious sharp practices in the sector.
Needed documents for the onerous task are already in our possession," he stated. Marafa said that the committee would invite the following category of companies and persons in addition to the NNPC during the investigation: bona fide end users; established and globally recognised large volume product trading companies, indigenous companies engaged in Nigeria oil and gas with trading of petroleum product expertise; product trading brokers and inspection companies.
Others are shipping companies and ships brokers, ships tracking agencies, terminal and tank farm operators, independent providers of energy information and benchmark prices, independent product blenders and leading providers of global background investigative services.
The joint committee chairman also disclosed that the past and present executives and past and present CEOs, heads of operations planning, among others, would be invited for the investigation.
The investigative committee noted that the whistle blower approach, adopted by the executive in unravelling such fraudulent practices of corrupt public officials, would also be adopted in fishing out those involved in the massive fraud. It warned that strict penalties would be applied on invited stakeholders in the sector who might want to frustrate the probe by refusing to honour invitation sent to them or withholding needed information.
His words: "Today, I can announce that our committee is to embark on a unique journey of enquiry that will lead to a better understanding of how NNPC performs its commercial downstream petroleum product purchase, supply, distribution and payment function for and on behalf of Nigerians. "NNPC is the custodian of resources for and on behalf of every Nigerian.
NNPC has been responsible for anything from 51%-100% of Nigeria's imported petroleum products, yet has failed to justify the near N5.2 trillion spent on subsidy importation products from 2006 to date.
"It is, therefore, essential that we Nigerians better understand and that NNPC, when called upon by our committee, is able to properly account for and provide clarity under scrutiny to the questions we are about to ask."
Also in attendance at the briefing were the Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream), Tayo Alasoadura, his counterpart on Gas, Senator Bassey Akpan, Vice Chairmen of the committees and other members of the committees involved in the probe.


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Atlus has recently published first set of English character trailers for Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth on their official YouTube channel. The video set introduces the protagonists of both of Persona 3 and Persona 4.
Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth is scheduled to release on November 25 in North America and November 28 in Europe for the Nintendo 3DS. The game was originally released in Japan on June 5.
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Hi Team,
There is a file in mainstreet called: pmf_meas_ldr_load_batch_tmplt.fex
This utility exists to load measures outside of the PMF GUI, and I've used it at a previous client, but now I am running into an issue.
I copied the file into pmf_custom, renamed it to something meaningful to my client, added all my measure_series ids to the list and ran it from within Dev Studio. The first 10 to 15 measures worked fine, but then the screen pops up with this message and the load stops:
Reporting Server messages exceeded IBIF_max_messages, report retrieval aborted.
I thought it might be a problem with a specific measure load, so I did a test where I loaded the same measure again and again. It completes about 15 cycles and then stops, and the translog.log gets to be about 11 KB in size; the log shows 15 complete runs and then the start of a 16th run.
With WebFOCUS, when I see the above message, it is often because I'm echoing my code and it becomes too large for the server to handle. To solve that, I will include this SET, which stops the collection of the code during execution, thus preventing the message from happening:
Unfortunately, I included the SET, but it did not seem to make any difference in this situation.
How do I solve this, please?
JoeyThis message has been edited. Last edited by: Moogle,
-WebFOCUS 8.2.01 on Windows
Max messages is a WebFOCUS Client setting.
Go to WebFOCUS Administration Console, Configuration, General, set IBIF_max_messages to -1 to make it infinite. The default is pretty low - 20K lines of tracing, barely enough to run even a simple FOCEXEC if you have set ECHO=ALL.
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Hi Bob,
I set the IBIF_max_messages to -1, and I no longer get that error.
I loaded about 50 measures and then received this:
Reporting server exceeeded connection limit. Please investigate reporting server log for: EDASERVE
I know where that setting lives, so I'm going to experiment with various options to get past this error.
On the reporting server, I clicked Workspace | Configuration Files | Workspace - edaserve.cfg
I changed this:
SERVICE = DEFAULT BEGIN maximum = 50 number_ready = 10 idle_session_limit = 10 idle_agent_limit = 10 agent_refresh = 1 connection_limit = 120 END
To this:
SERVICE = DEFAULT BEGIN maximum = 50 number_ready = 10 idle_session_limit = 10 idle_agent_limit = 10 agent_refresh = 1 connection_limit = 250 END
End result is that I loaded 88 measures in about three minutes. If I'd done it through the GUI, it would have taken about an hour's worth of clicks.
Thank you, Bob, and have a great rest of your day.
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Accelerating progress on addressing the world drug problem - Common position of the UN agencies on drugs
4 December 2019 Geneva, Switzerland
When: Wednesday, 4 December 2019 - 12:15 - 14:30
Where: Palais des Nations, Room XXVII
In November 2018 the first ever UN common position on drugs was adopted with the aim to guide approaches across the United Nations system and step up efforts to ensure that no one is left behind. This event will showcase the work of the UN agencies in Geneva and Vienna on drugs, in particular since the adoption of the common position.
WHO, OHCHR, UNODC, UNAIDS and UNDP will present how they work individually and collectively on this important topic that touches not just on health but also on human rights, and which requires an inter-sectoral approach to address it. This briefing follows up on an event organised by the EU Delegation in Vienna on 16 October and will foreshadow a third mission briefing in New York in the coming months.
- Ambassador Walter Stevens, Head of the EU Delegation to the UN in Geneva
- Ambassador Socorro Flores Liera, Permanent Representative of Mexico to the UN in Geneva
- Jean-Luc Lemahieu Director, Division for Policy Analysis and Public Affairs, UNODC
- Angela Me, Chief, Trend Analysis and Research Branch, UNODC
- Zaved Mahmood, Human Rights and Drug Policy Advisor, OHCHR
- Annette Verster, Department HIV, hepatitis and STIS, WHO


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"Extra's" Mario Lopez stopped by "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," where he interviewed the daytime-talk queen on her own stage. The pair talked about the extreme weather, her headline-making Netflix stand-up special and "Ellen's Game of Games."
Lopez asked about her Montecito home after the wet and wild extreme California weather just months after the area was scorched with wildfires.
"It's very frightening. We're evacuated once again. We need the rain but those burn zones are dangerous for everybody because whatever's still left up in the mountains is coming down."
Mario also asked about her headline-making "Relatable" Netflix special.
"I was really very happy with it. I think it's my best special that I've done," she said.
DeGeneres revealed that her wife Portia de Rossi loved it, adding, "She had never seen me do stand-up before."
Would she ever do stand-up again? Ellen said, "Yeah, I'm busy all the time, but if I have the chance, I definitely want to go back and do it again."
One of the things keeping her busy is "Ellen's Game of Games." She teased the upcoming episodes, saying, "We like to get messier and scarier."
"Ellen's Game of Games" returns tonight at 8 p.m.


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"At Volvo Trucks, we pride ourselves on building strong partnerships to solve our customers' business needs," said John Felder, product marketing manager at Volvo Trucks North America. "Through extensive research, testing and engineering in collaboration with Fontaine Modification, the new VAH 300 model with a 94.5-inch height represents a new standard of excellence for trucks in the highly specialized auto hauler market."
The company notes that over the last 10 years, the height of vehicles hauled has significantly increased as the demand for more SUVs versus sedans rises. As a result, auto haulers are now in need of a solution that maximizes freight capacity, while also delivering optimal efficiency. The lower overall height of the VAH 300 offers the flexibility to position a larger vehicle over the truck's cab to maximize payload. A clean top-of-frame behind the cab also allows for easier body mounting and trailer hookup.
"At Fontaine, we are proud of our recent changes that will provide about three more critical inches of room for hauling larger vehicles above the VAH 300 day cab," said Paul Kokalis, president of Fontaine Modification Company. "We're pleased to help Volvo Trucks deliver this best-in-class, reduced-height cab option to meet the demands of the North American auto hauler market."
In addition to this new model, Fontaine also modifies a full range of Volvo Trucks models to service the needs of all customers for any auto hauling application or load size.
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In David Palmer's long awaited sequel to Emergence, Kid Genius Candidia Smith Foster kicks ass from California to the Russian heartland, where evil Nazi wannabes plot the destruction of all that is good and decent.
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By: Bryan Dumas
It's still March, and the madness continues. Last week, we saluted Northern Iowa for knocking off #1 Kansas to advance to the Sweet 16, and this week two more squads played with the kind of ferocity and poise down the stretch that makes this one of the best times of year for sports fans.
Michigan State, playing without their star point guard Kalin Lucas went up against a talented Tennessee squad on Saturday. Despite the Spartans' higher seed, they were far from a sure thing and battled the Volunteers to the wire, edging them out by a final score of 70-69.
Their margin of victory thus far in the tourney has been narrow in each game, with wins of 3, 2, 7, and one point for a total of 13 points through 4 games. The Spartans are battle-tested for sure.
The fact that Michigan State is in a position to win another national championship cannot be overstated, and is simply amazing. The Spartans were in the same position last year, eventually losing the National Championship game to North Carolina.
More impressive is that fact that Tom Izzo has taken the Spartans to the Final Four six times in the last 12 years. Izzo and the Spartans embody the saying "it's not about how you start, but how you finish," and perennially put in work and cut down nets this time of year.
Along with Michigan State, the West Virginia Mountaineers are this week's "co-swag" recipients. Facing a similarly daunting task of playing without one of their stars, the Mountaineers knocked off a #1 seed in the Kentucky Wildcats. Starting PG Darryl "Truck" Bryant broke his foot at practice last week and could possibly miss the remainder of the tournament. Bryant was the team's second-leading scorer and a key component of the WVU offense.
That mattered not though as Joe Mazzula, Bryant's replacement slashed, dished, and shot and his team to an impressive 73-66 victory over Kentucky to send the Mountaineers to the Final Four for the first time since 1959.
Playing without a star this time of year is a tall task…ask Syracuse. Especially when facing a foe with at least three NBA-caliber players in the starting lineup, as was the case with WVU. In both cases the teams facing the most adversity did what was necessary to remain in the tourney. Everyone's brackets look like poo at this point, but there hasn't been a lack of great storylines from this year's tournament.
March Madness continues to be just that, and the teams, players and coaches with the most swagger and intestinal fortitude are the ones who live to play another day. The Final Four should be highly entertaining. Can't wait. As T.O. says, "Get your popcorn ready!"


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Time for Big Brother to watch over you again in the sequel to Orwell: Keeping An Eye called Orwell: Ignorance Is Strength.
This game starts by having you take an aptitude test, which I failed. But when I selected that I re-try the test the program director Ampleford said I might be just what she's looking for if I'm willing to bend the truth.
All of the original tools are back; the Reader, the Listener and the Insider. But there appears to be a new tool called the Influencer. This new tool allows you to gather data chunks to construct new "facts" to spread through the e-world and influence people into believeinga narrative. Basically, fake news.
The story in this second Orwell game is just as good as the first one was, and is similar in setting. You're a part of a secret government organization called The Office; your goal is to uncover your target's online information to uncover the truth. Using the 3 tools provided (and The Influencer at the end) to track individuals down and turn their uprising into a flub. I won't say much about the story since it doesn't take too long to play, maybe 4-8 hours-ish, but definitely a game to check out if you like narrative based point and click/simulation type games.
My only complaint for the game is that during day 2 myself, and a lot of other players got stuck when there was no indication of a new article, and you don't get to use The Influencer for very long before the game wraps up. Overall, I enjoyed this game and encourage you to check it out as well.
If you are interested it is currently $9.99 on Steam, but you could snag both games for $14.98 also on Steam.


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A scented summer washes the blackness of your silence.
If heaven were hell what would you do?
If I must pick one type of love it wouldn't be eternal love.
Gabriela M. is a US university professor and the author of three novels. She was selected "Author of the Month" (April 2019) at Spillwords Press. https://spillwords.com/amour/
Her poetry was published by Spillwords, Vita Brevis, Indian Periodical, Gioielli Rubati Poetry:32 (translated in Italian by Flavio Almerighi), Tuck Magazine, KashmirPen, and other journals.
Her work was included in the anthology America's Emerging Poets Southeast Region (Z Publishing House, December 13, 2018).
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Friday Five: the week's top news
- French chef Pierre Koffmann has said the modern Michelin Guide "tries to be for young people" and is "rubbish" at judging one-star restaurants. Speaking during the London Restaurant Festival, Koffmann added he would "love" to open another site in the capital in future.
- Cambridge restaurant Alimentum has announced its closure prior to going in to insolvency, with staff claiming they had been made redundant and were left unpaid. Alimentum owner Gary Randall told BigHospitality the loss of its Michelin star last year and departure of long-time head chef Mark Poynton had caused a "drastic" decline in its fortunes. He said staff would be paid, but it may take longer than usual through the insolvency process.
- Gizzi Erskine is no longer opening the 60-70-cover flagship restaurant at Hackney's Mare Street Market, and her role has changed to that of a consultant. The chef helped curate traders for the 12,000 sq ft space, which opened earlier this year, and was also involved in selecting products for the market's on-site deli.
- Manchester's Midland Hotel, home to the Adam Reid at The French restaurant, is to be sold for £115m to overseas hotel investors. The site will keep its name after the sale, though its new owners are planning to invest £11m in renovation works.
- Barbecue restaurant group Grillstock has ceased trading, less than a year after it was bought out of administration. Its remaining sites in Leicester and Bristol have closed and administrators Leonard Curtis Recovery have been engaged.
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