...was actually something I read in one of the men's lifestyle magazines a few years ago. It's not exactly scientific, but it makes a point. I'm sure there are a very very small smattering of guys that don't do it due to physical or mental disability, religious beliefs and so on. But in general, if you're a regular guy and you say you don't do it, well, who are you kidding?
It woke me up, even though I didn't realize it was an earthquake. (Felt and sounded more like the cat was scratching so vigerously as to shake the stuff nearby.)
I lived in Los Angeles briefly just before I moved to Champaign-Urbana. This is just the second earthquake that was strong enough for me to notice. Two quakes in 20 years is a big improvement over the six or so that I felt in the less-than-a-year that I lived in LA.
I've never played with my tcp settings and my Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level was set to 'highlyrestricted'. I wonder if Vista watches for TCP errors and changes the setting automatically.
We have a paintless dent removal business & have never used dry ice! There are a lot of special tools & training to fix things right. If dry ice works for you .... great!
No wonder you were a debt collector - read your fragmented sentences and incomplete statements. All I could do when reading your comment was correct all your errors.
"Debtor lie cheat and are stealing."
What?
"They write bad check and..."
How about they write "a" bad check
I can't go on. I'm sure you readers out there get my drift.
And yes, I pay all my bills - on time and in full.
Yesterday I recieved a call from a collection company about my mother's overdue charge account. She is the only person on the card, no other person signed the contract. The woman stated that were going to put my mom in litigation. She wanted to know if I would pay the $5000 balance to stop the litigation. When I said no, she knocked it down to $2200. She stated that my brother had given her my number and said I take care of her finances. I have been astranged from my brother for 2 years and do not pay my mom's bills.
Now here's the kicker.... My mom has been in a nursing home for four years!! She has dementia and is wheelchair bound due to sever arthritis. My nephew took her to live with him but she became too hard to care for and he was forced to put her in a home. ((I have arthritis too and am handicapped myself).
My mom is 84 years old and will spend the rest of her life in a nursing home. She recieves Social Security which is gobbled up by the nursing home fees.
I explained that the nursing home takes care of her money ( my nephew was removed because of some shady stuff) and she is a ward of the state. I live in WV she is in OK and my brother is in CON.(she is being well cared for and is very happy where she is).
I don't understand why they would call myself or my brother and ask us to pay her bill. If they put her in litigation what can they get? I mean, are they going to reposess her wheelchair?
Thank goodness I am smart enough to know that unless my name is on that contract, I am in no way liable for her account.
Boomers beware. I am sure this is happening across the US. I have fretted about this all yesterday and last night, only because they have called my mom and now she is in distress. I have told her not to worry but she thinks she is going to jail.
My question is, can I prevent them from calling her at the nursing home?
why dont u just pay your bills and then they stop calling. does it excite you to get all those calls probably not the way to make them stop is to pay your bill. Collectors have a job to do so do you. Do you understand wht impact u have on our economy by refusing to pay your bills, your salary is lower and the cost of living is higher.
Thanks for the links and for the info on Tabata. I am interested in the idea that short bursts of intense activity can make a significant difference in measures of fitness.
In my swimming days, I knew a guy who decided to ditch the overload of workouts (2-3 hours in the pool, going 5+ miles each day) and proposed alternative workouts -- he and a buddy were featured in Sports Illustrated (late 80s) with their ideas, though I am not sure if the swimming world adopted his proposed method. Still, from what I recall, he improved his times with less time.
I think most of us would agree that on a practical, day-to-day level the most important life skill is communication. However, when we take a look around we discover that:
1. Many of us have trouble expressing ourselves effectively.
2. Many of us spend the majority of our life not saying what we think or feel (for a range of reasons).
3. Some of us talk a lot without ever saying much.
4. The vast majority of us don't consciously work at becoming more effective communicators.
Sadly, too many of us mumble and bumble our way through much of our life. Or we remain silent. And frustrated. And unfulfilled. And angry. And sad. Sure, we'll learn how to weave baskets, use a computer, build a spaceship from scrap metal and we'll even attend university for years to learn irrelevant stuff that we'll never need, remember, or use, but will we actually make a conscious effort to learn how to communicate and connect more effectively with people? Nup.
I agree, the 2% are lying, and if there is actually a man out there who doesn't, then he's either having wet dreams, or he's what Woody Allen refers to as "an... guard at a eunuch convention." I think it follows the same logic that applies to colon cancer - traffic flow keeps things glow. The upside is that men who are castrated don't go bald because of the absence of testosterone, which seems like a high price to pay to keep your hair. Thanks for your interesting article.
When checks are forged on your account it is a whole different matter.
Contact your bank imediately.
In most states if you do not file a seperate afidavit for each and every check that was passed, the merchant can file on you for passing a worthless check (theft by sight draft) or passing a check on a closed account.
Depending on the amount of the check it might be either a felony or misdemeanor.
Does not seem right, but the attitude that they take is if you did not pass them why did you not file the afidavit?
When they contact you tell them you need their assistance in filing the afidavits.
You need the details that they have regarding what is on the check and the details regarding the passers identification used.
If they refuse to coperate contact the law enforcement agency where the check was passed.
Inform them that you are trying to fill out the afidavit but the merchant will not coperate.
Provide their information to the law enforcement agency.
This "Apparently driving behind big trucks also saves you gas due to something called drafting, and you can safely take advantage of this to save an additional 5 to 10% of your gas." is a complete guess and completely wrong. To get any sort of efficiency you would have to be TOO CLOSE. 100 feet is not enough. You going off and GUESSING 5-10% efficiency is wrong. No, you cannot draft at a safe distance.
This is an astoundingly disappointing article. The only decent point (drive behind slower trucks to keep yourself at a slow speed) was barely touched on, then there's focus on drafting for three paragraphs. You cannot draft at a safe distance. At a safe distance you are out of any drafting efficiency.
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Recently went with my family to Chicago and wasn't able to find anything less than $200/night for the downtown area. Several of the hotels charged $400/night for Mon. and Tues. then reduced the nightly rate throughout the week. Did you only use priceline and hotwire? Thought about hotwire, but was afraid of booking without knowing which hotel---couldn't find any feedback from customers on that.
I did the same thing a number of years ago. I lived in Germany as a soldier and I used the library on base to do my research for all my travels in Europe. I used to check them out and even use the included maps. I saved a lot of money doing this. Of course now with the internet and a printer you can take all the info with you. But back then the frommers and boris were a must.
Interesting. Paul,your first sentence, "98% of men say they do it; the other 2% are lying" raised two thoughts in my mind. First, surely there are men out there who don't masturbate. I met a zen master once who told me he never did, in order to preserve his ojas. Other people who are concerned about things like reducing the passions, clearing the mind, and/or fostering spiritual feelings undoubtedly refrain, too.
The second thought is actually an alternative interpretation of the data (well, of the paragraphs you clipped, anyway). Let's presume, as you said, that nearly all men do masturbate at least once a week. Some men feel neutral or good about it (ie. have no guilt), while some men feel bad about it(ie. have guilt, repressed feelings). Maybe the study's data is not accurate because this second group of men was even too ashamed of their masturbation habit to admit "Yes, I do masturbate" to the researchers.
The shame that this second group of men feels (the "non-mastubators" in the study) is symptomatic of larger patterns of guilt/shame/repression in their lives. This burden of negative feeling leaves these men more stressed than the first group. I think numerous studies have shown that higher stress levels, especially over long periods of time, lower immunity. Perhaps it's these mens' lowered immunity (the price of chronic stress stemming from repression/guilt/etc.) that increases their susceptibility to cancer.
That there's a 'cancer prone personality type' is a very controversial idea and I'm not familiar with all sides of the debate, but I can't help but feel it's one that misses the point. Certainly, the mind-body relationship is not a one-way street, with some disembodied-defective mind making an otherwise lifeless-healthy body sick. Conciousness itself, in fact, not just relies on, but is indivisible from the body. Ask Einstein's brain. Saying that there's a 'cancer prone personality' waaay oversimplifies things. All I'm saying is that maybe what this study shows is that if we embody a certain type of energy pattern (thought, feeling, action) we're more prone to a certain type of cancer.
The problem is that while 9x3=27 there is not an extra 2 sitting arround waiting to be added. The $27 is the amount that is over the counter, $2 of that $27 has been pocketd by the clerk. By adding $2 again to get $29 you are re-adding the cleark's cut and producing an extra $2. So really the question isn't where did the $1 go, it's where did the $2 come from?
Here in Arizona that is indeed the law; if they have water available they will give it to you. Even the gas stations here will do so. And in the summer when it's 118 out, they pretend they don't hear you hitting the ice machine so long as the Dr. Pepper doesn't follow.
The comment about the inventoried cups is helpful. I asked and found out that is why they give you the Dixie cup or whatever; not to stigmatize you as a "got free water" person, but the cup inventory keeps the employees from giving away free sodas, supposedly.
I worked with elderly people; a lot of them had problems with their thirst mechanism. They would get mentally a bit slower and more tired than their usual, without any real illness we could find. Then their labs would come back and they would be dry.
Some of the ex-military types I hung out with told me they were ordered while in combat zones to drink water at every rest stop, because people under stress would tend to put off taking a drink. Keeping ahead of the need kept them at peak performance.
When I worked 12 hour shifts in the hospital it was hard to get a break, and you aren't allowed to have drink containers in patient care areas. When we got busy I would go 4 or 5 hours running full out, without realizing I needed to rehydrate. When I started making myself get a couple ounces of water every 2 hours, I felt much better through the day. It is easy to go too long between drinks. The ER doctors told patients that by the time your mouth is dry and you feel thirsty, you are less hydrated than you want to be for optimal health and peformance. Those are my own experiences.
Perfectly valid medical studies may show conflicting results because of unknown variables in subjects and how they behave. People with completely opposing viewpoints may both have reliable sources to back them up, so research does not always yield a final answer.
Thank you, Amy, for the voice of reason. If you are not fluid restricted by your doctor, why not try the suggestions for yourself and find out how it works for you?
I'm going to go put my feet up and have a glass of cool water with a squeeze of lime.
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Hope you do not mind but I linked your post on my blog, 3 P's in a Pod beacuse really now, who doesn't love ice cream!
Thanks again,
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...was actually something I read in one of the men's lifestyle magazines a few years ago. It's not exactly scientific, but it makes a point. I'm sure there are a very very small smattering of guys that don't do it due to physical or mental disability, religious beliefs and so on. But in general, if you're a regular guy and you say you don't do it, well, who are you kidding?
It woke me up, even though I didn't realize it was an earthquake. (Felt and sounded more like the cat was scratching so vigerously as to shake the stuff nearby.)
I lived in Los Angeles briefly just before I moved to Champaign-Urbana. This is just the second earthquake that was strong enough for me to notice. Two quakes in 20 years is a big improvement over the six or so that I felt in the less-than-a-year that I lived in LA.
Glad to see you survived the earthquake ;)
I've never played with my tcp settings and my Receive Window Auto-Tuning Level was set to 'highlyrestricted'. I wonder if Vista watches for TCP errors and changes the setting automatically.
Here's another herb for maintaining prostate health.
Study Reveals Benefits of Red Clover for Prostate and Liver Health
April 15, 2008
http://www.naturalnews.com/023019.html
We have a paintless dent removal business & have never used dry ice! There are a lot of special tools & training to fix things right. If dry ice works for you .... great!
No wonder you were a debt collector - read your fragmented sentences and incomplete statements. All I could do when reading your comment was correct all your errors.
"Debtor lie cheat and are stealing."
What?
"They write bad check and..."
How about they write "a" bad check
I can't go on. I'm sure you readers out there get my drift.
And yes, I pay all my bills - on time and in full.
Yesterday I recieved a call from a collection company about my mother's overdue charge account. She is the only person on the card, no other person signed the contract. The woman stated that were going to put my mom in litigation. She wanted to know if I would pay the $5000 balance to stop the litigation. When I said no, she knocked it down to $2200. She stated that my brother had given her my number and said I take care of her finances. I have been astranged from my brother for 2 years and do not pay my mom's bills.
Now here's the kicker.... My mom has been in a nursing home for four years!! She has dementia and is wheelchair bound due to sever arthritis. My nephew took her to live with him but she became too hard to care for and he was forced to put her in a home. ((I have arthritis too and am handicapped myself).
My mom is 84 years old and will spend the rest of her life in a nursing home. She recieves Social Security which is gobbled up by the nursing home fees.
I explained that the nursing home takes care of her money ( my nephew was removed because of some shady stuff) and she is a ward of the state. I live in WV she is in OK and my brother is in CON.(she is being well cared for and is very happy where she is).
I don't understand why they would call myself or my brother and ask us to pay her bill. If they put her in litigation what can they get? I mean, are they going to reposess her wheelchair?
Thank goodness I am smart enough to know that unless my name is on that contract, I am in no way liable for her account.
Boomers beware. I am sure this is happening across the US. I have fretted about this all yesterday and last night, only because they have called my mom and now she is in distress. I have told her not to worry but she thinks she is going to jail.
My question is, can I prevent them from calling her at the nursing home?
why dont u just pay your bills and then they stop calling. does it excite you to get all those calls probably not the way to make them stop is to pay your bill. Collectors have a job to do so do you. Do you understand wht impact u have on our economy by refusing to pay your bills, your salary is lower and the cost of living is higher.
Thanks for the links and for the info on Tabata. I am interested in the idea that short bursts of intense activity can make a significant difference in measures of fitness.
In my swimming days, I knew a guy who decided to ditch the overload of workouts (2-3 hours in the pool, going 5+ miles each day) and proposed alternative workouts -- he and a buddy were featured in Sports Illustrated (late 80s) with their ideas, though I am not sure if the swimming world adopted his proposed method. Still, from what I recall, he improved his times with less time.
I think most of us would agree that on a practical, day-to-day level the most important life skill is communication. However, when we take a look around we discover that:
1. Many of us have trouble expressing ourselves effectively.
2. Many of us spend the majority of our life not saying what we think or feel (for a range of reasons).
3. Some of us talk a lot without ever saying much.
4. The vast majority of us don't consciously work at becoming more effective communicators.
Sadly, too many of us mumble and bumble our way through much of our life. Or we remain silent. And frustrated. And unfulfilled. And angry. And sad. Sure, we'll learn how to weave baskets, use a computer, build a spaceship from scrap metal and we'll even attend university for years to learn irrelevant stuff that we'll never need, remember, or use, but will we actually make a conscious effort to learn how to communicate and connect more effectively with people? Nup.
I agree, the 2% are lying, and if there is actually a man out there who doesn't, then he's either having wet dreams, or he's what Woody Allen refers to as "an... guard at a eunuch convention." I think it follows the same logic that applies to colon cancer - traffic flow keeps things glow. The upside is that men who are castrated don't go bald because of the absence of testosterone, which seems like a high price to pay to keep your hair. Thanks for your interesting article.
Where there is greed there is a way.
When checks are forged on your account it is a whole different matter.
Contact your bank imediately.
In most states if you do not file a seperate afidavit for each and every check that was passed, the merchant can file on you for passing a worthless check (theft by sight draft) or passing a check on a closed account.
Depending on the amount of the check it might be either a felony or misdemeanor.
Does not seem right, but the attitude that they take is if you did not pass them why did you not file the afidavit?
When they contact you tell them you need their assistance in filing the afidavits.
You need the details that they have regarding what is on the check and the details regarding the passers identification used.
If they refuse to coperate contact the law enforcement agency where the check was passed.
Inform them that you are trying to fill out the afidavit but the merchant will not coperate.
Provide their information to the law enforcement agency.
This should stop the calls cold in their tracks.
This "Apparently driving behind big trucks also saves you gas due to something called drafting, and you can safely take advantage of this to save an additional 5 to 10% of your gas." is a complete guess and completely wrong. To get any sort of efficiency you would have to be TOO CLOSE. 100 feet is not enough. You going off and GUESSING 5-10% efficiency is wrong. No, you cannot draft at a safe distance.
This is an astoundingly disappointing article. The only decent point (drive behind slower trucks to keep yourself at a slow speed) was barely touched on, then there's focus on drafting for three paragraphs. You cannot draft at a safe distance. At a safe distance you are out of any drafting efficiency.
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Recently went with my family to Chicago and wasn't able to find anything less than $200/night for the downtown area. Several of the hotels charged $400/night for Mon. and Tues. then reduced the nightly rate throughout the week. Did you only use priceline and hotwire? Thought about hotwire, but was afraid of booking without knowing which hotel---couldn't find any feedback from customers on that.
thanks,
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I did the same thing a number of years ago. I lived in Germany as a soldier and I used the library on base to do my research for all my travels in Europe. I used to check them out and even use the included maps. I saved a lot of money doing this. Of course now with the internet and a printer you can take all the info with you. But back then the frommers and boris were a must.
Interesting. Paul,your first sentence, "98% of men say they do it; the other 2% are lying" raised two thoughts in my mind. First, surely there are men out there who don't masturbate. I met a zen master once who told me he never did, in order to preserve his ojas. Other people who are concerned about things like reducing the passions, clearing the mind, and/or fostering spiritual feelings undoubtedly refrain, too.
The second thought is actually an alternative interpretation of the data (well, of the paragraphs you clipped, anyway). Let's presume, as you said, that nearly all men do masturbate at least once a week. Some men feel neutral or good about it (ie. have no guilt), while some men feel bad about it(ie. have guilt, repressed feelings). Maybe the study's data is not accurate because this second group of men was even too ashamed of their masturbation habit to admit "Yes, I do masturbate" to the researchers.
The shame that this second group of men feels (the "non-mastubators" in the study) is symptomatic of larger patterns of guilt/shame/repression in their lives. This burden of negative feeling leaves these men more stressed than the first group. I think numerous studies have shown that higher stress levels, especially over long periods of time, lower immunity. Perhaps it's these mens' lowered immunity (the price of chronic stress stemming from repression/guilt/etc.) that increases their susceptibility to cancer.
That there's a 'cancer prone personality type' is a very controversial idea and I'm not familiar with all sides of the debate, but I can't help but feel it's one that misses the point. Certainly, the mind-body relationship is not a one-way street, with some disembodied-defective mind making an otherwise lifeless-healthy body sick. Conciousness itself, in fact, not just relies on, but is indivisible from the body. Ask Einstein's brain. Saying that there's a 'cancer prone personality' waaay oversimplifies things. All I'm saying is that maybe what this study shows is that if we embody a certain type of energy pattern (thought, feeling, action) we're more prone to a certain type of cancer.
So I can finally gamble on stuff I have an interest in?
How is this different from Intrade.com ?
The problem is that while 9x3=27 there is not an extra 2 sitting arround waiting to be added. The $27 is the amount that is over the counter, $2 of that $27 has been pocketd by the clerk. By adding $2 again to get $29 you are re-adding the cleark's cut and producing an extra $2. So really the question isn't where did the $1 go, it's where did the $2 come from?
Here in Arizona that is indeed the law; if they have water available they will give it to you. Even the gas stations here will do so. And in the summer when it's 118 out, they pretend they don't hear you hitting the ice machine so long as the Dr. Pepper doesn't follow.
The comment about the inventoried cups is helpful. I asked and found out that is why they give you the Dixie cup or whatever; not to stigmatize you as a "got free water" person, but the cup inventory keeps the employees from giving away free sodas, supposedly.
I worked with elderly people; a lot of them had problems with their thirst mechanism. They would get mentally a bit slower and more tired than their usual, without any real illness we could find. Then their labs would come back and they would be dry.
Some of the ex-military types I hung out with told me they were ordered while in combat zones to drink water at every rest stop, because people under stress would tend to put off taking a drink. Keeping ahead of the need kept them at peak performance.
When I worked 12 hour shifts in the hospital it was hard to get a break, and you aren't allowed to have drink containers in patient care areas. When we got busy I would go 4 or 5 hours running full out, without realizing I needed to rehydrate. When I started making myself get a couple ounces of water every 2 hours, I felt much better through the day. It is easy to go too long between drinks. The ER doctors told patients that by the time your mouth is dry and you feel thirsty, you are less hydrated than you want to be for optimal health and peformance. Those are my own experiences.
Perfectly valid medical studies may show conflicting results because of unknown variables in subjects and how they behave. People with completely opposing viewpoints may both have reliable sources to back them up, so research does not always yield a final answer.
Thank you, Amy, for the voice of reason. If you are not fluid restricted by your doctor, why not try the suggestions for yourself and find out how it works for you?
I'm going to go put my feet up and have a glass of cool water with a squeeze of lime.