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5 Things You Need to Know About Timeshare Fraud
You should always keep your head while doing business in real estate because scammers are opportunistic.
Real estate fraud has steadily increased in recent years, so you should be aware of some common tactics. This tactic is prevalent, especially in the timeshare market.
To avoid timeshare scams, read below and use the tip so you can avoid this problem.
What Points Should I Know About Timeshare Fraud?
By learning about timeshare scams going on, you will have the opportunity to sell your property without a misstep. Wrap your head around these five tips to avoid timeshare scams while looking for buyers:
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Researching the genealogy and competence of your real estate agent is the best way to avoid being scammed.
You should find out how long the agent has been in business and see what timeshares they face. Follow some real estate bloggers to get an idea of the best agents around, and to find out what practices they have together.
# 2: Beware of Cold Callers
Some con artists will even call timeshare owners cold, saying that they have found a buyer and only need some up-front costs to ease the sale. Your alarm should go up if this case happens.
Ask for the license number of the real estate agent and research number before moving further.
Any agent who is not willing to provide license information should be avoided at all costs.
# 3: Do not Pay Any Up Front Fees
Having to pay a fee up front is a glaring sign that you may be dealing with a scammer.
Instead of paying a fee to sell your property, a real estate agent of a timeshare will take a final sale piece.
In recent years, the cost of real estate agents hovered about 5%.
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Better Business Bureau is your friend when to avoid fraud.
Find a real estate agent in your area and only do business with those with the highest BBB value. For example, timeshare owners are attracted to Primo Management Group in Orlando because of their rating with BBB.
Getting some referrals from other timeshare owners can also get rid of some noise in the real estate market.
Meet with your agent personally while hiring them, to know that you are dealing with a legitimate operation.
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Make sure every detail of the timeshare transaction is written. Next, take your document at home and sleep with the decision before signing it.
E-mail or fax a document to your real estate attorney to get another set of eyes on it. If you do not have a lawyer yet, shop one by one, as this small service is valuable for your time and investment.


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Archtek is a fully responsive modern WordPress theme that is perfectly suitable for building any corporate and business websites. The theme comes with a powerful Page Bulider powered by Visual Composer plugin. Another premium LayerSlider plugin for managing wonderful sliders is also included. The theme already supports WPML plugin and you can easily use it for creating the multilingual site.
At a Glance
Theme Features
- Fully responsive layout
- Page builder by Visual Composer plugin
- LayerSlider plugin included
- Translation-ready using provided PO file
- Multilingual support using WPML plugin
- Compatible with Contact Form 7 and Gravity Forms plugin
- Style Customizer with live preview
- 6 color schemes included
- Flat & modern design
- Full-width home slider
- Google Fonts supported
- Unlimited custom sidebars
- Many elements (shortcodes) included (please see the demo site)
- Custom post types:
- Portfolio
- Team
- Testimonials
- Home Slider
- Fully support Child Theme
- XML dummy data file included
- Extensive documentation
SupportWe fully support operational components such as features usage, issue, bug, or the fix that are mainly related to the theme and to make the theme working properly. Please go to http://uxbarn.ticksy.com/ for our support site.
Connect with UsLet's get in touch for the latest news and updates!
Additional NoteThis theme is for self-hosted WordPress sites only (wordpress.org). It is not compatible with "wordpress.com" sites. Here are the differences between the two: https://uxbarn.com/go/wordpress-org-vs-wordpress-com/
Most photos in the live preview are not included in the package. However, we have instead created all image placeholders for you so you can quickly apply your own images to the areas.
Thank You!Thank you so much for your interests. Your comments and ratings would be much appreciated.
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VIR Event Bulletin
- 25 May 2016
Hi, all. We're a week and a day from VIR load in. The long range weather forecast is calling for a very different weekend than WGI; no snow in the forecast.
Load in is set for 5:30pm as the track has a private test scheduled. It is possible we will be able to get in a little early, but we won't know until next Thursday. Registration is set to open about 4pm outside the gate.
If you are coming, as always, please enter on DLBRacing.com so we can set up entry lists and T&S data.
Thanks, and see you next week.


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Oct. 24. 200 block W. Gravers Lane. Complainant states that an unknown person stole an unlocked 26" Trek Mountain Bike.
Oct. 25. Germantown and E. Moreland Ave. Complainant states that while walking, he was app- roached by three males who asked for $2 for bus fare. Complainant took wallet out and males grabbed it and ran. Complainant gave chase but lost them in the woods at Cresheim Valley Road. Taken was money and a Pennsylvania non driver's license. Three black males – one was dark skinned,had short hair and was wearing dark baggy pants. Reported at 8:46 p.m.
Oct. 26. 7700 block Winston Road. Complainant gained entry to shed by removing lock and stole one Echo backpack blower, two Redmax backpack blowers and one green Coleman generator.
Oct. 27. 8400 block Germantown Avenue. Complainant states that she observed offender shoplifting orange juice and two dozen eggs. Offender was arrested at Spring Lane and Stenton Ave. Offender and complainant were transported to NWDD. Occurred at 10:30 a.m.
Oct. 28. 100 block Rex Avenue. Complainant states that a black male stole a gray Trek bicycle and baby seat from rear of property. Male, 28 – 30 years old. Occurred at 7 p.m.
Oct. 29. 200 block Benezet Street. Complainant states that she left extra house key in flower pot next to door and an unknown person took the key. Police advised complainant to change locks. Reported at 10 p.m.
Oct. 29. 7900 block Winston Road. Complainant states that an unknown person broke out passenger side window of a 2001 Honda and stole purse containing identification, social security card and house keys. Reported at 12 a.m.
Oct. 30. 100 block Rex Avenue. Complainant states that when he arrived home he noticed garage door lock broken and when he opened garage door he found his gray 1998 Ford 150 Pennsylvania tag YRF8017 missing. Hopkins Roofing was written on side of truck. Truck was parked with keys inside at 4 p.m. on Oct. 29.
Summary — Eight crimes for week: one robbery, one burglary, three thefts, one theft from vehicle, and one stolen vehicle.
Town Watch, 215-248-1320.
If you have been the victim of a crime and would like information, service or support, call Northwest Victim Services, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.


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A winner was selected from 74 designs submitted by 35 freelance designers.
Coryell Construction Inc. needs a new logo. They are a framing company that wants a logo for some signs.
I am looking for a very clean and professional logo.
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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You might see one of these error messages when you migrate an existing photo library to Photos:
- "Photos could not upgrade your library because it is on an unsupported disk volume"
- "The library could not be opened"
- "The library could not be created"
These errors happen when the library is on a volume, or disk, that Photos can't write to. This volume might be a CD or DVD, a disk image set to read-only, a disk you can't write to because it's owned by another user, or a disk with a file system that Photos can't write to, like NTFS.
Follow these steps to move your photo library to a different location:
- Quit Photos.
- Copy your Aperture or iPhoto library to a volume that your Mac can write to, for example, to your Mac or to an external hard drive. The default location for photo libraries on your Mac is the Pictures folder within your Home folder.
- Open Photos and migrate your photo library from its new location.


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The 22 story apartment building is equipped with garbage chutes on each floor for tenant
The City of Newark Animal Control was contacted and ACO Arthur Skinner picked up the dog and brought him directly to the Society. The veterinary staff immediately put him on intravenous fluid.His temperature was so low that it did not even register on the thermomenter. He was covered with heating pads and blankets.
After a brief time at the Society's Newark facility, he was ambulanced to Garden State Veterinary Specialists in Tinton Falls — a referral hospital with 24 hour emergency care. If he died during that night, we feel he would know that everyone loved and cared about him and treated him gently and lovingly. He amazed everyone at the Society and at Garden State by surviving with the 24 hour emergency care that they rendered. He was given a blood transfusion, a bath — and even a walk! In honor of the first day of his re-birth, we call him Patrick — in honor of St. Patrick's Day and we hope he has the luck of the Irish!


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Victory Convention Centre (VCC)
98 Beaumont St, Freemans Bay, Auckland
The VCC is located is a fabulous complex located at the hub of Victoria Park Tunnel exit in Auckland's CBD. The VCC is only a short stroll away from Victoria Park and Wynyard Quarter for great dining options along the waterfront. Auckland Airport is only 25-30 minutes by taxi, the venue offers onsite car parking and public transport is only a 5-10 minute walk away.
Jasmax was the architect which worked on the VCC. Below is an article they published about the VCC design aspects.
The VCC Reinstatement Project results from New Zealand Transport Agency acquiring church land to construct Auckland's Victoria Park Road Tunnel. Jasmax acted as the Auckland based architect for dKO Architecture Melbourne to deliver the Church a relevant, contemporary multi-functional facility that both relates to Beaumont Street and provides an appropriate interface to the motorway. VCC is no longer a building that simply sits in a car park.
The existing 2500 seat auditorium has been extensively refurbished and wrapped in a new programme of function areas. A major front door provides strong visual connectivity along the ceremonial driveway, creating links to Victoria Park.
A new administrative building acts as a marker, fronting Beaumont Street, whilst a landscaped plaza and children's play area form an external gathering space. Beneath this plaza, cut into the site, is a 347 space car park screened by "green wall" planting and a distinctive "saw tooth" facade.
The building edges have been designed to relate to the disparate boundaries and integrate with the public pathway to Jacob's Ladder and shared areas looking beyond the site. The new auditorium frontage enhances the original building's identity. Extensive terraces and open decking afford views to Westhaven Marina.
The angular forms created are repeated in the administration building. Cantilevered off a solid inscribed base, this reflects the original shoreline escarpment.
The completed reinstatement provides the Church with enhanced links to the city community, offering support and amenity within a highly accessible urban context.


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MineCraft creator, Markus "Notch" Persson, has refused to work with Microsoft to certify MineCraft for Windows 8.
"Got an email from microsoft, wanting to help 'certify' minecraft for win 8," he tweeted. "I told them to stop trying to ruin the pc as an open platform."
"I'd rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along" Notch added in a follow up tweet. "Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way.."
To be more precise, the certification mentioned in Microsoft's email is not needed to get the game to run on Windows 8. It is however required only if the game is to be available through the Windows Store. While the X86 version of Windows 8 is able to run programs from any source, the ARM version is locked into running certified applications from the Windows Store only. Unsurprisingly, Notch and most of the indie community view this as a backward move from the (relative) openness of earlier Windows versions.
More Minecraft News
- Notch: Minecraft Is A Genderless World
- Notch Updates Minecraft Monetization Rules
- Notch Leaves Mojang After Microsoft Bought It For $2.5 Billion
- Molyneux: Microsoft Believed Minecraft Was "Rubbish"
- John Carmack: Minecraft Is The Single Most Important Oculus Application
- A Full Pokémon Game Is Playable Inside Minecraft


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A Wigan schoolgirl caught up in the Manchester Arena bomb outrage has told of her distress as she and a friend fled the carnage.
Lucie O'Mara spoke just hours after a suicide bomber blew himself up in the city venue's foyer at the end of an Ariana Grande concert.
Lucie and fellow Up Holland High School pupil Millie Howarth were preparing to leave when a huge blast rocked the building at around 10.30pm on Monday.
She spoke of the initial confusion, then panic, a stampede for the exits and the scenes of horror and confusion outside, with bloodied casualties treated all around her and distraught members of the public frantically searching for their loved ones.
The 16-year-olds, thankfully, escaped unscathed but there were 20 minutes after the blast when Lucie's mum Gill, who had come to collect them, feared the worst before they were reunited.
Lucie said: "I still can't get my head round it. The image that sticks in my head is of a woman running up to everyone, complete strangers, outside the arena, really distressed, asking if anyone had seen her daughter.
"It all happened so quickly. The show had finished and the lights came up and people were standing up to leave when there was this huge 'boom.'
"We assumed it was a bomb from the start and the stage managers shouted for everyone to run. Everyone was screaming and running as fast as they could. Because we were on a lower tier, we had to go up stairs before we could go down for the exits.
"Outside there were a lot of people injured and ambulances were everywhere. There were people on the floor with bandages and blood and a lot of screaming from people who had lost their children.
"There was woman near the park with her face full of blood.
I still can't get my head round it. The image that sticks in my head is of a woman running up to everyone, complete strangers, outside the arena, really distressed, asking if anyone had seen her daughterLucie O'Mara
"At first what had happened didn't really sink in but when I got out I had a panic attack and cried a lot."
Twenty-two people were killed and some 59 people were also injured in the blast when the attacker detonated an improvised explosive device.
Announcing that the death toll had risen overnight, Greater Manchester Police chief constable Ian Hopkins said: "What I can confirm is that there are children among the deceased."
He said: "This has been the most horrific incident we have had to face in Greater Manchester and one that we all hoped we would never see.
"Families and many young people were out to enjoy a concert at the Manchester Arena and have lost their lives."
Mr Hopkins said investigators believed the attack was c onducted by one man who died at the scene, although detectives are working to establish if he "was acting alone or as part of a network".
Police were called to reports of an explosion at the Manchester Arena at 10.33pm, shortly after US singer Ariana Grande had finished her performance.
More than 240 calls were made to the emergency services, with responders including 60 ambulances flooding the area.
Around 400 police officers were deployed as part of the operation, with a visible presence remaining on the streets of Manchester on Tuesday.
The injured are being treated at hospitals across Greater Manchester, and a hotline has been set up for those with concerns over loved ones who remain unaccounted for.
Police have appealed for concert-goers and witnesses to provide them with any footage they have from the scene if they believe it can assist the probe.
Oliver Jones, 17, who attended with his 19-year-old sister, said: "The bang echoed around the foyer of the arena and people started to run.
"I seen people running and screaming towards one direction and then many were turning around to run back the other way."
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Was wondering if any of you have had experience with flitch plates added to an existing full length, (42') 3-ply, 2x8 beam to change span from 7 feet to 14 feet (remove column at 7' position) ? Size of hardware, spacing of same, staggered or double row, thickness and lengths of flitch plate(s) and material (angle, channel or flatbar), etc. ?
Please don't just tell me to see an engineer. I've inquired of a couple and they wanted $350-$500 just to come look, with no guarantees a design could be done which wasn't to combersome to install without a 12 man rigging crew, and jacking up the house to add an I-beam. If you know of design can be used (ie personnal experience), then I'll draw it up and bring in the engineer to stamp his/her approval on it.
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Prior to removing the first column from the gable end of the beam, I intend to add two (2) 1/4" thk x 7" Wide x 14'-6" long, steel flitch plates, one (1) to each side of existing beam and bolted through with 1/2-13 x 6" bolts, (with flat and lock washers on each side), in thirty-five (35) places as follows:
1-1/2" in from each edge and 3" in from end, 12" o/c staggered spacing.
At each end would be a four (4) hole pattern (6" x 4"). Same pattern would be used on centerline of column to be removed. (All hardware to be tightened prior to removal of column.) ?? Torque ??
The plates will start at the gable end of the main beam and extend about 6" past the second column. I then plan to box-in the assembly with 1x10's on each side, suspended from the floor joists. I also plan to box-in the column, (square to the finished width of the boxed in beam).
To further enhance support, I can increase bearing support inside of the column "box", (floor to bottom of beam). I can also "pilaster" the gable end by adding supports off of the top of the exposed foundation, (about 4" wide, fluctuates due to form seams, etc.), lessening the span even more.
Not being a structural engineer, (but having had about 5 years of steel detailing/design experience in prior jobs), I "feel it in my bones", (however I don't want to end up with any broken bones if it all collapses), I will have the proper support required to remove the column. I live in Massachusetts where code is 40LL/10DL. By my figures, (please correct me if I'm making false assumptions or using wrong formula[s]), total load at section of beam to be "flitched" = 50 PSF x 24' x 14'** = 16,800 lbs. Since beam normally supports half the load, uniform load on beam = 8,400#. (Find lbs./inch =) 8,400# / 14' / 12" = 50 lbs./inch. which I need to support.
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[Two corrections – thank you, Chorius and Spot.]
As I warned, I'd be tweaking my spec. I'm looking at this one, but there are some issues. Specifically – and as you can see – I've got one point left to spend. I'm opening the floor for recommendations. Please include "why".
Some remarks to prevent you wasting effort, then some discussion of my actual changes as possible influence.
No, I am not going shadow. Or holy. I'm still tweaking a Disc build.
Yes, it's not ideal for raids. It is primarily intended for PVP-BG. If I like it and get comfortable, it'll go to Arenas — probably with a couple more tweaks, but [shrug].
Specific changes already made. After both experience and thought, I agree with a couple of commenters but not quite to their degree. I actually got a little out of reflective shield. Thing is, it never interrupts since it reacts after the fact to damage. And it doesn't discourage attacks. I'm also not certain it's damaging ranged attackers, but that, given the first two points, is relatively insignificant. So, that's five points removed.
I topped off both mental agility and martyrdom – good talents that have already given solid benefit, and I think the additions will give me more. And one in an odd place that solves a small problem – one holy fire. Rank 1 holy
fire [Nova] will cost me around 260 mana. If I pop it every 6 seconds or so I pretty much break even on mana. Which means if I even think a rogue might be around, pop goes the stealth. It won't be perfect, but it's one more point of frustration.
Again, that leaves one point. I'd considered, even, spirit tap.
Blackout is a slim possibility — I've gotten to where I through starshards every chance (zero mana, why not) so there's always a chance it'll proc 1 or 2 times per BG. [nevermind. I got confused and forgot Blackout requires shadow damage to proc.]
Seriously, I'm open for discussion. I'll listen. Tomorrow evening, I'll tweak.
Lay on.
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I have admittedly little experience with the different priest builds (I have a disc/holy priest I've leveled to 49). I'd probably go for Force of Will to do more damage. In my experience Spot Snacks, I mean, priests tend to get squished pretty quick in BGs, so you may not get much of a chance to see the benefits of Spirit Tap. Although with a good team you'll probably last longer and that mana regen would be very nice, but then again, you have to get the killing blow… If you end up healing more often than not I'd grab Holy Specialization, otherwise FoW is better. Or if you find yourself dispelling a lot, Absolution might be nice…
I don't think Blackout will do anything for Starshards, isn't it Arcane? Also, I think you mean Holy Nova, not Holy Fire?
Overall I think FoW gives you the best bang for the buck…
I don't think there is anything *wrong* with that talent build and at this point I think you are only building toward flavor and play style. The suggestions I could make I guess would be: (preface all this with IMO! )
1) Focused Power is of dubious effectiveness in a BG, especially for a healing priest. Its a must-have for arenas (and only then for the mass dispel RIGHT NOW), but to me it becomes second tier in BG's, if not third. I would take those 2 points and likely put them into Divine Fury for the obvious benefit.
2. I'd take the Holy Nova point and also put it into Divine Fury.
3. I would then take 2 points from spell warding and put them into Holy Reach. (and would even give thought to ditching the other three points remaining in spell warding for somewhere else – maybe move those to reflective shield 🙂
But like I said, I don't think there is anything wrong with what you have now. You are more asking us to input our flavor of play style to yours. Your ROI might vary!
ooops. I forgot reasons on 2/3 😦
My bad!
2. Holy Nova is only going to pop a rogue *maybe*, it won't save you my itself. You would save the point and a lot of aggravation by just putting yourself in better positions than by hoping you are going to glimpse that rogue before he locks you down. Plus, your shield, PS and scream can be way more effective. (again, my opinion based on my xp).
3. I never noticed much from spell warding in bg's. In arenas I did a bit, but not bg's. So lowering that somewhat and giving yourself more healing range is a better option imo.
Chorius already mentioned this, but if you're using Mass Dispel enough to take Focused Power, then even putting points into Absolution might be nice. It would net you more for just 1 point than anything else on the big board.
I haven't seen the spec, but from what you describe, it's rather nice.
Blackout is only useful for non-shadow troll priests (Shadowguard FTW!!!11). And that's if they spend at least 3 talent points.
Holy nova has quite a few uses. It actually is better than fear for keeping people from capping flags, because you can try to psychic scream but rogues and everyone else tends to just ignore fear. But spam a rank 1 holy nova at a flag will keep anyone from capping until reinforcements arrive.
As for popping rogues out of stealth.. it works about half the time, half the rogues are smart enough to get away then watch me (or mages) drain our mana for awhile. the other half are dumb enough to stand there. 🙂
I enjoy half second mass dispels whenever a pally is near. They should call that talent "chalice of pally tears" instead. I also use it on Curator actually, to dispel the slow on everyone.
seriously man, if you want debate, you've got to gimp yourself more -.-
That aside, it seems fine for your stated aims. On details (& can we assume IMO, IME, OfC & YMMV to save finger palp?):
Still unconvinced by by spell warding. My sense is that I just don't take that much spell damage except when a strategic blunder has left me with rather more friends than I really want; what I do take is healable; mostly in BGs, they're out of range. Might be of use in Arena, but in the melee/ranged/support battle lines that tend to evolve in BGs (especially in AV, where I assume you'll be battle testing this weekend) 5 points in Divine fury is preferable. If you're on offence and make it to d'rek…
Support topping off mental agility – didn't realize you hadn't in your last build, but I spent most of my leveling time as Disc, and regard that extra efficiency as central. Martyrdom: yes.
Holy nova: I have never, ever specced this. Does it trigger the GCD? Are you sure you want to lose that time every 6 seconds? Can you remember to spam it? Pretty damn sure I couldn't 🙂 Find a friendly warlock and get them to cast paranoia instead, and follow hildi's advice.
If you're heading towards utility, the extra point belongs in absolution. Mass dispel without inner focus is horribly expensive.
Spirit tap is a waste of space; don't even consider it. If you're using a grinding spec to pvp & switching between damage and healing (as I am at the moment) it is marginally useful with Spiritual Guidance. If you're primarily dispelling/healing, it has no place. I've only seen it used really successfully in the 60-69 bracket, by a human priest stacking damage, spirit & SG, and I think only because the trade off between spirit and pvp gear is less pronounced at that level. (I watched him play twice; top 5 in healing and damage both times, and he was a genius at positioning) In short: unless you're certain your sw:d timing is exquisite, and you re-engineer your entire spec to include SG, avoid spirit tap.
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Utility is an unusual choice for BGs. I've only ever played with Pain Suppression when it was self castable – useful when there's no-one better to run the flag in wsg, but I'm interested to know how you get on with it. Do you find you're using it to heal tank or actually save others? For the dispel route – I cast mass dispel, sometimes, but untalented, it's slow and expensive – any ideas about how to quantify the benefit? UA's not often cast, but then, half way into most BGs few players are sporting any significant buffs. I get a lot of mileage out of single target dispel – casting on mages with freezing armour will actually cause them, sometimes, to freeze when they realize their primary kiting tool is gone – but on the mass melee scrimmage? Curious to know how you find it.
Have fun in AV, & I'm hoping for a gear post when the spec is finalised.
PS: for reflective shield, don't get me wrong… IME I think it's an excellent talent, if you're 57-59, speccing disc & killing yellow elites to prove a point. (and it might function if you set yourself up as pet killer. Reflective shield, starshards, sw:p, fear; rinse; repeat)


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Periodic moodiness and feeling down are a normal part of life. It can result from a specific event, seasonal changes, or stress. However, depression is a serious medical condition involving your mood, thoughts, and body. It may affect how you feel about things, how you think about things, and how well you eat and sleep. It may be hard to tell the difference between them, but depression is generally characterized by more intense feelings, such as hopelessness and worthlessness, and is persistent and recurring in nature.
By making the distinction between the blues and clinical depression, you can take the appropriate actions that may help improve your mood and quality of life. If you have depression, you will need professional medical treatment, since depression is not something that you can shake off on your own. On the other hand, if you have the blues, there may be a few things you can try to help improve your mood.
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According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-5), if 5 or more of the following symptoms persist for 2 weeks or longer or if they interfere with work or family life, you may be suffering from one of several different forms of clinical depression.
- Persistent sadness, anxiousness, or feeling of emptiness
- Loss of interest or pleasure in activities, including sex
- Loss of appetite and/or weight loss or overeating and weight gain
- Sleeping too much or too little, early-morning awakening
- Decreased energy, fatigue, feeling like you are slowed down
- Restlessness, irritability, or excessive crying
- Feelings of guilt, worthlessness, helplessness, hopelessness, pessimism
- Difficulty concentrating, remembering, or making decisions
Contact your doctor for a complete evaluation, which will involve a physical checkup, a family health history, and a psychological evaluation.
Not everyone with depression experiences each of these symptoms. The intensity of the symptoms also varies from person to person.
If you are concerned that you may have depression, contact your doctor regardless of which symptoms you have noticed. If you have thoughts of death or suicide, seek help immediately.
Types of Treatment
Beating the Blues
If you are feeling down, you may need to make an extra effort to find ways around it. In most cases, beating the blues can be done without treatment. Consider writing down triggers, stresses, or other factors associated with your mood and how you overcome it. This may reveal a pattern and may prove useful the next time you feel down. Suggestions include:
- Getting into the light. Winter months, especially in a northern climate, reduce light exposure which can affect your mood. You can make changes by going outside when the sun shines and turning on more lamps. If you have problems coping with the colder, darker days of winter, talk to your doctor about seasonal affective disorder.
- Adjusting your expectations. Set realistic goals you can achieve, breaking large tasks into smaller tasks to make them more manageable.
- Being patient with yourself. You may not be able to accomplish everything you usually do. Ask your friends and family for help when needed.
- Postponing important decisions until you are feeling more optimistic.
- Making time for friends, hobbies, traveling, and meditating even when you do not feel like it. Talking to or hanging out with your friends will help improve your mood.
- Increasing your social and/or spiritual support.
- Finding time for regular exercise. Exercise helps clear your mind and improve your overall mood. Aim for 30 minutes of exercise per day on most days of the week. To combine exercise with being outside, find a winter sport to participate in.
- Improving sleep patterns. Go to bed and wake up on a regular schedule that you can stick with (this includes your days off). Getting the proper amount of rest will make you feel better.
- Eating a healthful diet that starts with breakfast every day. Limit the amounts of caffeine and sugar from snacks and drinks. Switch to water to maintain hydration.
Depression affects all areas of a person's life, including personal relationships and the ability to work, do recreational activities, or go to school. Because of the false belief that you should be able to get over depression symptoms, some people with depression may not realize that they have a treatable disorder. There may be feelings of embarrassment or shame involved in seeking treatment. However, receiving treatment for depression will not only improve your quality of life, but it may save your life as well. Untreated or inadequately treated depression may lead to suicide.
A variety of effective treatments are available to help people with depression. Treatment may include:
- Psychotherapy or counseling to help you learn more effective ways to deal with depression and the factors that originally caused or triggered it. Therapy can be individual, in a group, or with your family. Support groups are also helpful.
- Prescription medications for symptom relief and to help correct any underlying deficiency of brain chemicals.
- Combination of psychotherapy and medications
The FDA advises that people taking antidepressants should be closely observed. For some, the medications have been linked to worsening symptoms, suicidal thoughts, and suicide. These adverse effects are most common in young adults. The effects tend to occur at the beginning of treatment or when there is an increase or decrease in the dose. Although the warning is for all antidepressants, of most concern are the SSRI class such as:
- Sertraline
- Citalopram
- Fluoxetine
- Escitalopram
- Paroxetine
Antidepressants need to build up in your system before they work. This can take a couple of weeks. Your doctor will keep track of how you respond to the dosage prescribed. Do not stop taking antidepressants without talking to your doctor to avoid withdrawal symptoms.
Be patient and honest with your doctor. It may take some time to find the right combination of medications or a therapist you feel comfortable with.
Ways to Get Help
- If you need immediate help or if you are having thoughts of death or suicide, call the National Hopeline Network at 1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433).
- Talk to your doctor about your symptoms and treatment options.
- Contact a hospital near your home to determine if they have or can recommend a mood/affective disorder clinic. If not, ask for their referrals to doctors in the community who specialize in the treatment of depression.
- If you, or someone you know, has been diagnosed with depression and treatment has not been effective within three months, get a second consultation. Preferably, this should be from a doctor who specializes in the treatment of this illness.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
National Institutes of Mental Health
Canadian Psychiatric Association
Mental Health Canada
Antidepressant use in children, adolescents, and adults. US Food and Drug Administration website. Available at: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/UCM096273. Accessed January 29, 2018.
Depression. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Accessed January 29, 2018.
Depression. National Institutes of Mental Health website. Available at: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/depression/index.shtml. Accessed January 29, 2018.
The blues and depression: What you can do to overcome them. Kansas State University website. Available at: http://www.k-state.edu/counseling/topics/life/blues.html. Accessed January 29, 2018.
Last reviewed January 2018 by Michael Woods, MD Last Updated: 1/29/2018


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To mark World Water Day, Greenpeace activists, volunteers and the general public paste posters in cities around the world, as part of the as part of the ongoing "Detox" campaign calling on the fashion industry to eliminate hazardous chemicals from their supply chains. The posters, covered with a special non-toxic ink when washed reveal the fashion industry's 'Dirty Little Secret.' The posters were put up in shopping centres, by rivers and in other guerilla locations in cities including Amsterdam, Stockholm, Bangkok, Madrid and Jakarta.
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Anthony Hopkins is set to star as a rogue instructor in the film adaptation of "The Rite," about a young priest sent to exorcism school.
"The Rite: The Making of a Modern Exorcist," by journalist Matt Baglio, tells the true story of the Rev. Gary Thomas, a priest in the diocese of San Jose who is sent to Rome to study "how to distinguish between a genuine possession and mental illness... (and) participate in more than eighty exorcisms as an apprentice to a veteran Italian exorcist," according to Publisher's Weekly.
"Hopkins will play a priest who is an expert in exorcisms and whose methods are not necessarily traditional," according to Heat Vision, in the film to be directed by Mikael Håfström.
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Anyone whose seen "The Exorcist" shudders to think what "not necessarily traditional" methods entail.
One can easily imagine Hopkins having a ripping good time with a role like this, but one has to imagine that either audiences or Blagio will be disappointed.
"Both Thomas and Baglio were changed by their exposure to the rite. Thomas grew spiritually during the process, which bolstered his desire to help his parishioners, and Baglio, previously a nominal Catholic, reconnected with his faith," wrote PW's review.
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To reduce the algae blooms that threaten Lake Erie's tourism economy and public health, phosphorus runoff into northwestern Ohio tributaries to the lake should be cut by 40 percent, a state task force recommended yesterday.
To reduce the algae blooms that threaten Lake Erie�s tourism economy and public health, phosphorus runoff into northwestern Ohio tributaries to the lake should be cut by 40 percent, a state task force recommended yesterday.
Neighboring states and Canada must also make the lake a priority if its health is to be restored, members of the Ohio Lake Erie Phosphorus Task Force said.
�It�s extremely critical,� said Jeff Reutter, the director of the Ohio Sea Grant College program and Stone Laboratory on the lake.
The task force�s report has 20 recommendations. It calls on Ohio farmers to voluntarily adopt farming practices that can reduce phosphorus runoff from their fields. Some environmental advocates say voluntary compliance is not enough, but state agricultural leaders said more farmers are changing their habits as their knowledge of the lake�s plight grows.
�Ohio farmers understand the problem, and they certainly want to be part of the solution,� said David Daniels, the director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
Blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, are common in most Ohio lakes but grow thick in water polluted with phosphorus from fertilizer, manure and sewage that rain washes into streams. The algae can excrete liver and nerve toxins that can sicken people, kill pets and threaten fish and wildlife.
It is primarily phosphorus that feeds the algae blooms that have formed in Lake Erie, Grand Lake St. Marys in western Ohio and other inland lakes and ponds.
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The report released yesterday is an update of a 2010 study by the task force, which then concluded �that there are multiple contributors to phosphorus into Lake Erie, but agriculture is the leading source.�
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WASHINGTON (AP) — America as a whole has regained all the household wealth it lost to the Great Recession and then some, thanks to higher stock and home prices.
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The Federal Reserve says U.S. household wealth jumped $3 trillion to $70.3 trillion in the January-March quarter this year. That tops the previous peak of $68 trillion in the third quarter of 2007, just before the recession began.
The recession cost Americans $15.6 trillion in wealth.
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To quote Janet Jackson (Ms. Jackson if you're nasty), "This is a story about control." And whether your lifestyle is Joe Schmo, Average Joe, or Joe Millionaire, control is something we can all use a little more of in our lives. Fortunately, achieving some level of control over our A/V systems is easily done. Replacing that pile of remotes with a universal model that makes movie watching or music listening a single-button affair is the first step, and it doesn't have to cost a fortune. But what about controlling your lights, the thermostat, or the blinds covering the windows? Whole-house automation systems that also perform these tasks are pricey, on the order of $20,000 to more than $50,000 for a typical installation. Should it cost so much more to turn on a light remotely than it does to open your garage door the same way?
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A basic Control 4 system provides remote control of entertainment and other devices scattered throughout the house as well as multizone audio distribution. The heart of the system is the Media Controller, a component that contains the brains and connections for the system as well as inputs for your primary music sources. Digital audio signals are transmitted via a conventional wired or wireless home network.
The Media Controller ($1,495, above, on bottom) can be operated either via the supplied handheld remote (below) and onscreen menus or a sexy, 10.5-inch Wireless Touch Screen ($1,995, above, on top). The touchpanel plugs into a wall adapter or easel-style table dock but can also run on battery power and be carried from room to room.
Remote rooms can be fed in a variety of ways. If running new wiring isn't possible, one of the company's Speaker Point boxes ($399 Ethernet, $449 Wi-Fi) can stream audio directly off the network and drive a pair of speakers with its built-in amp. Or go with the wall-mountable or tabletop Mini Touch Screen interface (page 4, $699 Ethernet, $799 Wi-Fi). The latter has a 4-inch touchscreen keypad, can stream audio off the network, and includes a stereo RCA output to feed a local amp and speakers. I used both of these, and Control 4 also makes a more traditional eight-zone distribution amplifier ($1,995) that streams audio off the network and routes speaker-level signals to selected rooms. Each zone can be controlled by either of the touchpanels or the remote handset.
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As a consumer, you may already be wary of the Big Data buzz. And with good reason – private companies are collecting a disconcerting amount of information on their customers. (Your utility company can tell when you get home from work, when you go to bed and when you wake up just by monitoring minute-by-minute electricity use, for example.)
But as a farmer, the explosion of data collection and analysis services has provided more positive opportunities. After all, you're collecting the data, not private companies, and you own the data you collect. Right?
Depending on the situation, that answer isn't always crystal clear. Service provider agreements are notoriously difficult to read and understand. Rather than dig through page after page of legalese and contract lingo, most farmers would rather skip to the end and sign on the dotted line. That's not always a wise practice, says Shannon Ferrell, associate professor of agricultural law at Oklahoma State University.
"When you sign up for a service, you have to read the terms of the service agreement," he says. "Make sure you're comfortable with them before you sign anything. Public enemy No. 1 is signing off without reading the agreement. It happens all the time."
Read the agreements and ask the right questions, says Iowa farmer Nathan Legler. Everyone should start with this one question in particular, he says.
"The No.1 question every farmer should ask is who will have access to their data?" he says.
Most companies mitigate the risk of privacy breaches by keeping the data locked up, only accessible through user names and passwords. Farmers can then grant permission for their consultant or employees to see different levels of their data.
Farmers who are worried this safeguard is inadequate may also want to see where the data servers are located. If you collect data through Company X, and that data is stored on Company X's servers, is that a cause for concern? It's hard to say for sure, but it has affected how some companies store farmer data. Syngenta, for example, uses a third party called Ag Connections to store data from its AgriEdge Excelsior farm management software.
"The biggest question we've gotten this past year is about data privacy," says Missouri AgriEdge specialist Brad Koch. "It's a huge concern to farmers right now. Some love to show their data and some don't. We're fine with that, and that's a big reason we use a third-party partner to warehouse all of our data."
That's one of the reasons AgriEdge has enjoyed a 96% customer retention rate, he adds.
AgriEdge allows farmers to track exact cost of production and plan out their season task by task.
The payoff potential is huge, but Koch admits farmers won't get on board the Big Data train until they trust their data is in good hands.
"We have to get to a level of data consistency and transparency," he says.