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- 05-01-2011, 01:42 PM Thread Author #1
Cydia login with Google Two-Step Authentication
Just curious if anyone has any experience with this? If I have two-step enabled on my gmail account, can I still use it as a Cydia ID?
I have a Google account which i use for authentication with Cydia. No problems.Give yourself, to the Dark Side!
- 05-01-2011, 05:37 PM Thread Author #3
But do you use Two-Step Authentication with your Google account?
Here is exactly what mine says. Under Cydia Login... "You must authenticate yourself in order to use this Cydia feature"... Then it gives me two choices, Connect with Facebook or Sign in with Google. There is no second step.Give yourself, to the Dark Side!
- 05-01-2011, 07:41 PM Thread Author #5
When i set up my Google account, i don't remember being offered a two step verification, but it does seem more secure. Sorry that i couldn't help.Give yourself, to the Dark Side!
- 05-01-2011, 10:04 PM Thread Author #7
No sweat; the two step is a relatively new option. It's in your account settings page if you want to try it out.
- 05-03-2011, 02:18 AM #8iPhone Nanite
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You have to either use one of your backup codes, or have a text preview long enough that you can see the message from 'send a text to backup phone'; in my case with MobileNotifier it does not provide a long enough preview. I had to use one of those ten backup codes. They're available in your Google 2 Step Verification settings if you didnt print them out like me.
Hopefully this helps you. I signed up here just to tell you that, since I spent the last hour avoiding my girlfriend trying to log into cydia instead.
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- 05-03-2011, 07:05 AM Thread Author #9
Thanks for the heads up. I wonder if you're going to have to keep using your one-time codes for Cydia...I was hoping it might take an app-specific password like the iphone mail app does. I'd rather not use another backup code every 30 days.
- 01-14-2014, 04:54 PM #10iMore Nanite
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Re: Cydia login with Google Two-Step Authentication
Google have a bug in there OpenID/*System billing*/.profile_manegment hope that could help, we will fix it as soon as possible sorry for it =) our database broked down and we try moving files to our new server so we diffrently have some errors still
- 01-15-2014, 04:27 AM #11iMore Intermediate
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Re: Cydia login with Google Two-Step Authentication
I have the Two-Step Authentication for my Google Account and it does work without any problems in Cydia. You just have to enter the code which you get by SMS in the screen where you did the Login. You have to enter the code quickly without leaving cydia by seeing the code in the SMS notification banner


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Active-duty and retired soldiers, along with family members of all ages, filled every table at Club Stewart's main ballroom Saturday evening for the fourth annual Wildlife Gala and Venison Cook-off to learn about hunting and fishing opportunities on the largest military installation east of the Mississippi River.
Margaret G. Martin, who was born Jan. 5, 1919, recently celebrated her 93rd birthday with family with a meal at Captain Joe's Seafood in Midway.
The Rotary Club of Richmond Hill presented its first monthly Junior Rotarian awards of the year Jan. 12 to two Richmond Hill High School graduates who came back to teach at the school.
Cheers could be heard in the Richmond Hill City Center on Thursday evening when dozens people gathered to help kick off this year's sports-themed Relay For Life in Bryan County.
Visit Richmond Hill, also known as the Richmond Hill Convention and Visitors Bureau, has released a video designed to educate and promote the city as "the secret" in Savannah's backyard to potential visitors and residents.
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Local author and historian Buddy Sullivan kicked off the Richmond Hill Historical Society's 2012 lecture series Thursday evening at the Richmond Hill Museum with a talk on "Spanish Settlements in Coastal Georgia from 1526 to 1742."
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Pembroke Police Chief Mark Crowe and Ashley Tyson perform as the special guests Dec. 8 at the Pembroke Garden Club's Christmas luncheon. Club members enjoyed the Christmas carols and singing and thank Crowe and Tyson for sharing their voices.
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High spending cruise passengers boost British tourism economy
Cruise passengers who spend more either at the beginning of their cruise from the UK or during day trips to British ports are providing a major boost to Britain's tourism economy.
The value of cruising was further enhanced by the 10 per cent growth in passenger embarkations to 1.04 million and the 20 per cent year-on-year increase in day calls which reached 866,000 in 2013.
Cruisers passing through Southampton are a major boost for the UK's tourism economy
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1869. germany. caspar moos. there is nothing modern about this letterhead, however the typography speaks to me. the many covers that i have written about this one stands out. why is that? do they teach penmanship in school anymore? i know i was graded on 'writing' in elementary school. i remember my report card—all c's. this letterhead is in german and i tried to make out the handwriting to translate it for you but i gave up. sorry. i had more pressing things to do, sorry. whenever i think about handwriting i make a mental note. actually, michael sull comes to mind. i'd like to take one of his classes or workshops one day. i already have the tools. i've told my daughter we should do this together. of course i get the roll of the eyes and the 'what planet are you on?' look. i am interested in acquiring this skill. some day. just another thing for retirement.
blue and orange
the but designers who simply had an avid and passionate interest in the design history. i have acknowledged the depth and insight in christopher burke's 'active literature,' the monograph on tschichold, and strongly feel that all monographs about designers should be this informative. the time, the place, the reactions to current events—so many factors that contributed to the evolution of a particular piece of design are truly intriguing. this letterhead for a book binder—was he so progressive in his company's marketing? was he even aware of the current design movement or did the designer simply do a barter and so got his way? whatever the case, the design is memorable and worth considering. enjoy.
the color orange
sutnar. certainly one of my favorite designers. i have posted about him before, but included only one of his letterheads. here are two that i attribute to him but cannot confirm that definitively. i suspect they are sutnar, but they lack a certain forcefulness that i have come to '38 respectfully. sutnar was art director of prague's largest publishing house, drustevní praise, at that time, so it's feasible. no matter who designed them,they represent another study in the evolution of the avant garde letter-head that ihave come to love. simple, ordered and exhibiting all the sighs of tschichold's 'neue typographie.' these were a real find. ebay strikes again.
big blue continues
i enjoy searching for vintage ibm materials. i recently purchased a new book (at least new to me): 'the interface, ibm and the transformation of corporate design.' i have only skimmed it, but it has already heightened the pleasure i take in that period of design. i started out as a lover of corporate identity, long before the phrase 'branding' was used. i often prefer to use the word 'identity.' it's more manageable, in my mind, and often more relevant to many of the clients with whom i work. i'm not sure if rand designed this letterhead, but i expect so. i would guess it's a relatively early design given the logo. rand was designing pretty much all ibm's materials himself during the early years. there should be an exhibition of just the ibm stationery materials. there were vast quantities of them. i believe at one time ibm was responsible for using more paper for promotional materials and company literature than any other company in the world. incredible. i remember interviewing at saatchi in the '80s. i was told that i would be working primarily on the ibm account and was asked how i felt about bodoni. since it was the ibm house font, i gathered i wouldn't be using anything else. this letterhead is certainly before those days. i love the use of city typeface, too. it works perfectly for me. and that blue edge….hey, i'm a happy collector.
the square deal
the letterhead. in my mind, it remains my most active collection. that is to say, if i see or am offered one, i usually buy it. the finite piece of paper—either eight and half by eleven or a4—gives me infinite pleasure. i never tire of looking at letterheads, albeit old ones. i recall while working in my second job in houston, texas, i had the opportunity to design a program for a company called milpark that made drilling products. 'mud,' in fact. i learned that 'mud' is a lubricant that aids in drilling for oil. the logotype was already set when i arrived, but the application had not yet been completed. the colors were black and red, and i happily set to work. i recall taking out my ruling pen, mixing red gouache and using a red rule for the design element. i went to town, working on it for a couple days. the creative director was a designer from cranbrook named craig minor. super great guy. (though he fired me after six months, a story for another time.) this was the feeling-out process for the new designer: a simple project with narrow constraints. after a few days, i pinned all the designs up in the conference room. they filled a whole wall. i remember craig coming in and being a bit surprised. i had done very little editing. hell, i was having fun. i didn't care about the client, i just loved moving that little red rule around the page. the letterheads i'm sharing from my collection use the square much more successfully than i used my red rule. these designs by max huber are from the 60s or 70s, i believe, though i'm not sure. my apologies, as i do not have access to my reference books to check if these letterheads are included. they were bought at auction along with a pile of other items by max huber. i have always enjoyed the a4 format over the u.s. format. the slightly narrow vertical just seems right. there is an art to placing something on a piece of blank paper. i recall the 2d assignments of my freshman year. a small black square on a ten-inch white square. then, in the spring semester, learning in art history about the story of two squares. i even use this image as my skype picture. (yes, I carry design way too far). the swiss style is always comforting to me. i love the order. i love the simplicity. everything has its place, and moving anything on the page changes it altogether. it was obvious when i made my presentation to craig that my designs did not have this sense of completeness or uniformity. i was learning then. i still am.
paper boy
rifling through boxes of old papers excites few. it is something i don't do that much anymore but when i do there are many factors that lead me to start digging. the dealer and what else he's selling is one. what's on top. is it old? if so, how old? legal papers? letters? is this just one person's stuff or has the dealer merely thrown everything together? often the dealer has never looked through the papers in question. i have carefully combed through the materials and discovered a little letterhead or old photo, something that i think has some wonderful typography or uniqueness, only to have the dealer say, "wow that was in there?! it's not for sale." crazy, right? and annoying. if i were a hobo i would mark the dealer's booth with a sign saying "beware: untrustworthy." this piece of stationery was found in just such a way. a box full of random papers and what seemed to be discarded papers. there was no rhyme or reason to what was thrown together, but i was familiar with the dealer and he generally had a good eye. i felt there might but something he had overlooked, though he's not know for selling things cheaply. he expects a fair price and never gives a deal. so running across this letterhead was a surprise. i had never heard of henry j stahlhut but just loved his letter of september 17, 1934. almost 80 years ago. doesn't it inspire you to write such a lovely thank you? it seems mr stahlhut and gus traveled to jackie's and heyworth's for dinner and stayed over. he lovingly illustrates the highlights for us. as you might suspect, mr stahlhut is an illustrator. google images turns up many wonderful examples of his work. he has done many gourmet magazine covers, cookbooks and the like. i can't help but love each little drawing. the cats are my favorites. how could you throw this away? i recall discovering the second page and spending a significant amount of time trying to find the first page of the letter. often i don't like to buy just one item after searching for so long. that's because it puts too much emphasis on the one item, causing the dealer to examine it much too carefully, and his price usually goes up. the price turned out to be twenty dollars. more than i wanted to pay, but i didn't argue. contentment comes in many forms, and happiness is finding an overlooked treasure in a big pile of papers.
"the printer did it"
how often have you heard "the printer did it"? when i first started out as a designer there would a stream of paper promotions arriving at the design studios i worked. usually followed up by a call from the paper company's representative, "did you get our latest promotion?" when was the last time that happened? the promotions which were luxuriously printed would be passed around the studio and later in my own studio, the most deserving of these promotions were placed in a box labeled 'beautiful items'. since I collected letterheads, whenever a promotion landed in the studio which had letterhead samples, usually to highlight a specific paper stock, i took special notice. if a desirable letterhead appeared i would put it aside. here is one such example. the law firm of shook, hardy & bacon. i don't remember when i obtained this example, most likely in the 80s, but it has been a favorite from the school of 'the printer did it'. this letterhead is beautifully engraved, listing over a hundred lawyers. certainly a letter received on this letterhead conveyed a formable message. a google search to their website reveals it is apparent that they have since hired a designer and now have a 'logo' and i expect the letterhead is 'more' considered but i would not expect it be have quite the same impact. each time i look at it and marvel at the simple and straightforwardness of it's design. dare i say it's 'honest' intentions. i recently designed a logotype for a boutique insurance broker firm but initially the client had the printer do it, engraver actually. i made a presentation with various degrees away from what the engraver had done to a rather expressive design using baskerville italics. the client narrowed it down to two designs; one which was just slightly but clearly more considered typestyle than what the engraver had done to one which was obviously 'designed'. the client asked me which i preferred and i summed it up like this, 'clearly one designed you paid a lot for and the other looks old school, more straightforward — honest." guess which one he selected. honest it is!
french letters
i have made many trips to the paris flea market and have had many successes there. here are three: beautiful pre-ww2 letterheads. to my displeasure, there aren't many paper dealers at the paris flea market. as you wander the stalls, you also have many indoor antique malls to search, similar to the ones i frequent here in the states. there is one particular dealer i visit on each trip who is located in one of them. it's a store really, and it has collections of countless items: books, jewelry, buttons, combs, just about everything. i am always overwhelmed by the sheer volume of stuff. what is interesting about this booth is how beautifully categorized everything is, all color coded. yellow means one price, blue another. i take this to mean little bargaining and generally higher prices. it has been five years since my last visit, so when i do have the opportunity i spend the entire day at the market, making sure i stop in to see what i can find at this particular shop. there are usually boxes of old letters and letterheads, but you have to ask to see them. so I begin there. as i mentioned, since it's more of a store, you don't get the same feeling of discovery. if there is a category you're interested in, you just ask for it. it can be intimidating to ask for assistance, though the staff is always kind and helpful. i manage passable French, and often a little goes a long way. an assistant reaches for your desired category and kindly hands it over, then stands right next to you. this doesn't make the experience as fun, as i certainly feel pressure—not necessarily to buy, but to hurry. since the price is marked I don't worry about haggling. i select a few, note the color price category and simply pay. ten euros each for these letterheads. seems fair to me. these three examples are all engraved and rich with typographic detail. i wonder about the designer of this these letterheads. were the designs chosen from a style book? art directed by the owner of the company? did the engraver have artwork to copy? maybe the phrase "the printer did it" is appropriate. whatever the case, they are fine additions to my growing collection…though growing more slowly these days.
is it not wonderful when a letterhead says exactly what the company does, simply by its design? i guess this isn't really designed, is it? that's an issue for another post altogether. 'specialist in perforating machines;' yes, indeed. have you ever had the opportunity to specify perforations? believe it or not, we have, many times. there are specific machines that perf in different units, and finding the right one for your job is important. we would frequently perf a brochure so the pages with turn easily. so many details. this letterhead certainly doesn't fall within my 'modern' letterhead design collection, but it's still worth sharing. we're all familiar with postage stamps being perforated, but you might not know that early u.s. stamps were not perforated and are thus called 'imperforate stamps.' the u.s. government would distribute these stamps for other companies to make their own perforations. the varieties are endless and within the stamp-collecting world adds another level to collecting. a quick read here can give you some idea of its depth. i have many letterheads that fall in my category of illustrated letterheads but not many have engravings of factories and the like. i try and confine my interest to the more typographically interesting ones. keep an eye out for my others.
made in sweden
once in a while you come across a design that just bowls you over. here is a piece of stationery designed by henrik nygren from stockholm, sweden, for atmosfär produktion. (see the whole program here.) in the photo of my desk pin board you can see henrik's business card. the tiny white rectangle with the single 'h.' i met henrik years ago when he contacted me through an acquaintance. i believe he was considering moving to new york, and stopped by my studio to share his work and ask a few questions about design in nyc. the work was clean, spare, restful and above all inspiring. after his visit i did not maintain a correspond-
ence, but his card remained on my wall. years later, i was in munich, zurich, geneva—frankly i don't remember where— but i bought a little book that was published in swedish. as far as i could tell, it showcased superb samples of graphic design and intimate photos of printing presses, a wonderful point of view. since i believe in looking everywhere, at everything for inspiration, i thought i had found a wonderful resource despite not being able to read it.
so many years ago now, i taught a few classes at parsons school of design, and i had a swedish student, mats hakansson. he's a talented designer i don't see enough Buy Cialis of and who happily, for me, worked at our studio. unfortunately, new york has the habit of coming between friends. life intrudes, and there is a lot of life in new york city but we managed to have lunch and i asked him to stop by the studio. while he was there, i brought out this book and asked him to translate. he told me it was the work of one designer and the book was about his projects and, suddenly, it hit me, i knew this person—it was henrik. wow. i never made the connection until that very moment. i had poured over the pages and looked at each project carefully, and i did so again with renewed interest. later that week, i located his business card. it had been filed away to make room for a new wall collage. i sent him an email and told him that i had discovered the book somewhere and just realized it was his work. i mentioned how much i loved everything in it and asked if he could send me a copy of the atmosfär letterhead. it so happened he was coming to nyc the following month for a project and he would be happy to stop by and bring a few samples. needless to say i was thrilled. i'm now thrilled to share this wonderful letterhead with you.


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I've been busy with none art projects... very busy... I still want to do this for a living but I doubt I'll ever get the chance. Anyways... now that the pitty party is done... heres a wip and final of my latest image.
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Top is basically finished... middle is half way... and shins down are base color...
After being happy with the detail I adjusted the colors and curves... and FIN!
I like it. A lot. It's really good. I wish you had put a background so we'd know why there was blue light on him
Anyway, the only things I see that look weird is his right leg being too skinny, and the glasses on his head. One of the lenses is too big or too small. But that might have been on purpose.
The character actually looks really comfortable.
I'm only laughing on the outside.
My smile is just skin deep.
If you could see inside I'm really crying.
You might join me for a weep.
-Jack Napier
You make it look so easy. He can do without the necklace - maybe a tight beaded pattern around his neck would fit his outlook. A neon orange anywhere on his body would also give that modern "sci fi punk" style. For now, words are coming out of his mouth in 3d. Fix the gloves - the loose frame of the material around his wrist is distracting. World War 2 battle of the bulge in his pants. I think he needs a bigger pant size : /
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i think his head is too big. Overall it looks good though. thanks for the work through
But what does he....do?
his legs look too short .. or his body is too long. but excellent color coloring and vaules. =).
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dude. this character looks like he is ready to kick ass. i love it
You make it look too easy!
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day 30, #30daysofGOOD: document the sky.
unfiltered DC sky. taken during my morning coffee break. (shout out to MH for waiting patiently as i snapped the shot!)
what a beautiful send-off to this #30daysofGOOD challenge! many thanks to GOOD for guiding my appreciation of the world around me this month and for inspiring me to post more frequently! it's been GOOD!


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19 November 2010
Friday Flower: Pumpkin Seed BroochCategory: Friday Flowers, Jewelry
Author: PEACHES
Well you just know what crossed my mind: DANG, WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?
An hour, 35 pumpkin seeds, some cardboard, dental floss and two glue gun burns later, guess what I'm wearing to work today!
The back is messy and Lola keeps trying to eat on the dangly bits...so I'll make a few changes next time around, like incorporating some paint and pearls, but all things considered this has been a very productive morning.
Thanks Anne!
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Shut up! You even get crafty before work?ReplyDelete
You know I love a great flower, and this is one for the record books. I so wish I had your craftiness vision!ReplyDelete
Oh. My. Gourd. It's pretty much the most intricate, stunning flower pin evah! That's a beautiful photo, too.ReplyDelete
Wow! You made it again!ReplyDelete
Amazing brooch you have here! Love it compactness!
Oddly enough, I was just looking through a vintage (1974) craft book today and saw some seed flowers. Yours is better though! I may have to try this...ReplyDelete
IT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!! Even more beautiful than the one I saw because of the dangly ones hanging down. It only took an hour! Way cool... Now I WILL have to go get that pumpkin!ReplyDelete
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Well that is just gourd-geous (sorry couldn't help myself after Michelle's comment)! what a pretty way to start the day!ReplyDelete
So pretty! I might have to hack into the pumpkin sitting on my porch. ;)ReplyDelete
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Surgical site infections: Any time a patient undergoes surgery, a risk for developing an infection exists. Your surgeon should review the chance for infection with you as part of the pre-surgery consent process.
Some surgeries in some patients carry a greater degree of risk than others. Patients who are smokers or who have other health problems such as diabetes, obesity, and/or heart problems are at a greater risk for developing infections.
Some types of surgeries also carry a greater risk. We classify those risks in the following way:
Class I – Low-risk patient having an operative procedure in which there is no pre-existing infection, and no entrance into a body cavity (such as respiratory, gastrointestinal, biliary or urinary tract), which would create a greater risk.
Class II – Low-risk patient having an operative procedure in which there is elective entry into the respiratory, gastrointestinal, biliary or urinary tract.
Class III – An operative procedure where inflammation is present prior to the procedure; there is spillage from the gastrointestinal tract; or there was an open traumatic wound for greater than four hours.
Class IV – An operative procedure where infection is present prior to surgery and is often the reason for the surgery.
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We encourage our patients to see their primary care physician prior to any elective (voluntary) surgery to be sure that they are in optimal health for the procedure. We also encourage a pre-screening with our pre-operative care nurses who will discuss any additional testing such as MRSA (Methycillin resistant staph aureus) that may be needed.
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Our compliance with those measures is charted below:
Once our patients leave the hospital, we encourage them to continue infection prevention measures by taking good care of their overall health, diligently washing their hands, keeping the surgical area clean, and closely following their discharge instructions.
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Salad mix ok, didn't like the dressing at all. Needs more flavor, spice or wine vinegar, something. Really didn't see where onion added much.
Mesclun with Grilled Onion, Apple, and Gruyère Cheese
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 1/2 cups salad and 2 onion slices)
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Amount per serving
- Calories: 86
- Calories from fat: 41%
- Fat: 3.9g
- Saturated fat: 1.5g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.6g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.4g
- Protein: 3.9g
- Carbohydrate: 9.8g
- Fiber: 2.8g
- Cholesterol: 8mg
- Iron: 1.1mg
- Sodium: 178mg
- Calcium: 110mg
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- 8 (1/4-inch-thick) slices onion
- 1 teaspoon sugar, divided
- 6 cups gourmet salad greens
- 1 cup sliced Fuji or Gala apple
- 1/4 cup (1 ounce) grated Gruyère cheese
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 tablespoon white wine vinegar
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- Place a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium heat. Carefully arrange 4 onion slices in skillet, and sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon sugar; sauté 4 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Wipe skillet; repeat procedure with remaining onion slices and 1/2 teaspoon sugar.
- Combine salad greens, apple, and cheese. Combine water, vinegar, oil, salt, and pepper; pour vinegar mixture over salad green mixture, tossing to coat. Divide salad evenly among 4 plates; top each serving with onion slices.
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Philadelphia City Council members question reassessment approach
Philadelphia City Council members said they've had their butts whipped.
Attending community meetings across the city, council members received hundreds of questions from concerned citizens—questions centered around formulas.
How is the city reassessing their home's value under the Actual Value Initiative?
Under Mayor Michael Nutter's AVI plan, properties will be assessed and taxed based on their true market value, rather than a predefined percentage.
At the second budget hearing yesterday, council members relayed those concerns as well as theirs at representatives of the Office of Property Assessment. The OPA is working to reassess all of the city's 579,000 properties.
Councilman Curtis Jones Jr. said that with so many variables, he doesn't think the asessments can be accurate.
"This is a wild-ass guess," he said.
In his opening statement, OPA chief assessor Richie McKeithen said his office developed property valuation models based on statistical analysis.
About 100 evaluators have been deployed to evaluate the physical characteristics of homes in certain neighborhoods.
Council President Darrell Clarke and Councilmen William Greenlee and James Kenney expressed concerns that evaluators didn't visit homes individually.
Councilwoman Cindy Bass said if AVI is supported by the city and the goal is to help and not hinder the citizens, "Then we need to do a better job trying to figure out how to reach them. I just think we're not nearly where we need to be."
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Nike: 'Digital more valuable than traditional'
Cannes 2012: Connecting with consumers using digital channels is more valuable and powerful to brands than anything that can be achieved with traditional marketing methods, according to Nike's digital chief.
Speaking to Marketing Week at the Cannes Lions Festival of creativity, Nike's vice president of digital sport Stefan Olander, says Nike created an "ecosystem" of digital services with digital fitness services Nike Plus and Silver Cyber Lion winner at Cannes Fuel Band that complement its product range and encourage consumers to connect with the brand daily.
In doing so, Nike has built a marketing strategy into a business strategy, according to Olander.
He adds: "Nike Plus was an experiment, but good marketing is solving things for people, making things easier and helping people get better at what they want to do. If that works, you can turn it into a service, when it becomes a service it becomes a component of your business.
"When you have millions of people that come back and reconnect with your brand multiple times a week, your realise that that connection is more valuable and powerful than any traditional pushed marketing messages."
Fuel Band allows users to connect to mobile and computer devices to measure, track and share their fitness levels launched in the US in January. It was followed by a London launch in May and now has 7 million users. Nike plans it roll it out worldwide shortly.
Presenting to delegates at the industry event, Olander said: "In classic marketing, buying the product is the end of the relationship. The thinking has completely shifted so that the purchase of any Nike product needs to be the beginning if the relationship. [with Nike Plus] we created a link stronger that anything we could ever say in our communications."
Nike fell foul of the advertising regulator earlier this week over a Twitter campaign with Wayne Rooney. It was ruled the activity was not clearly marked a marketing communication.
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So, Stefan Olander is at it again. When will people with the word 'digital' in their job title stop talking down 'traditional' advertising and acting as though there is some sort of competition going on between the two? At least it's fractionally less objectionable than his recent piece in Wired entitled 'A public announcement: advertising is over'. I blogged about that here http://bit.ly/KWj9Ki.
Of course it's wonderful that a brand like Nike can create connections with and services for people via online and mobile channels. But they aren't conjured out of thin air. If we put the Kool Aid down for a moment and look at how advertising actually works, then 'traditional' advertising (by which I assume he means anything that isn't online) is the thing that has built, nurtures and sustains the incredible Nike brand. Nike is a world class traditional advertiser – could this in some way be connected to its online successes? Many pieces of research would suggest so. I reckon Wieden & Kennedy probably think that their fabulous advertising has contributed to consumers wanting to have a conversation with Nike in the first place.
There is also plenty of evidence to show that a brand can't afford to communicate only with those people who want to have a relationship with it. It's not the way to grow – or even maintain - your market share. Common sense tells us that too.
There's a great deal more mutual respect between online and offline these days, thank goodness. Anyone who heard Dick Costolo in Cannes will have heard about the wonderful symbiosis between TV and Twitter and there are plenty of other examples. I look forward to Stefan getting on board the 'and' not the 'or' train.


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The worldview that says it's a good idea to force others to contribute to private causes that they oppose appears to be more popular in Maine than in many other places.
The current example is a bill submitted to the Legislature last year that was held over to the present session and came up for a public hearing April 4: LD 309, an anti-forced-unionism measure otherwise known as a "right-to-work" law.
Such laws are hardly unique; they are found in 23 states, most of them in the Rockies, the Midwest and the South. The most recent state to pass an RTW law was Indiana, which barred unions from charging fees to unwilling workers in February.
Yet, no Northeast state has such a statute, probably because unions are particularly strong above the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Great Lakes. But "strong" is a relative term; union membership as a percentage of the workforce has been declining steadily for decades.
Private-sector unions now represent less than 7 percent of the workforce (unions are more prevalent in the public sector, where 37 percent of workers are represented).
Overall, unions represent 11.8 percent of the workforce, down a tenth of a percentage point from 2010, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in January. In Maine, 11.1 percent of workers are members of a union or similar association.
The Taft-Hartley Act, which a Democratic president, Harry Truman, signed in 1947, prohibits employers from requiring union membership, and allows states (but not counties or municipalities) to ban compulsory union membership.
And the Supreme Court has held that in states where RTW laws are not in force, workers in union-represented workplaces may decline to pay those portions of union dues that are used for political activities, but may be made to pay "agency fees" that represent the costs of collective bargaining.
These "no free rider" laws are justified by unions on the grounds that such workers benefit from union advocacy and representation, but as has been pointed out by right-to-work defenders, no union has yet backed a law saying that it should be allowed to drop unwilling workers from its purview.
The dispute over such laws has both ideological and practical aspects, with RTW opponents saying such laws are designed to benefit employers by weakening unions as their principal purpose, and that they allow nonunion workers at represented workplaces to profit from wages and benefits negotiated by unions without paying for such representation.
They also point to studies that show that wages and benefit levels are higher in non-RTW states, while defenders of such laws note that business growth levels are higher in RTW states, meaning that more jobs are created there overall, even if employers are compensating those workers less on the average.
In addition, the laws' defenders say that compulsory dues or fees are a violation of individual rights, forcing workers who do not support unions (which overall are strong supporters of the Democratic Party and liberal legislation having little or nothing to do with employment) to pay them substantial portions of their incomes against their will.
It's quite possible that both sides are right in all the particulars of their separate arguments, so it all comes down to which set of talking points seems more persuasive.
To me, the assertion that someone else who is not a member of government has an automatic right to allocate the fruits of someone else's labor is on its face unjust, unless there is prior agreement between the interested parties.
However, we live in a society where some people are perfectly willing to force others to assume such obligations by using the coercive power of government to compel them.
Indeed, they are often willing to force others to take on such obligations while resisting them themselves. (You did know that members of Congress are not covered by Obamacare, didn't you? And that many unions have been given exemptions from health insurance costs imposed by the new law?)
And unions' political goals go far beyond membership issues. Unions are the biggest givers to Democrats — which is their right, recently verified by the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision.
But they assert they should also have the right to force others to finance their political goals, and that is not only unfair, it is dictatorial.
Sadly, on so many issues, Maine's Republicans appear to be only lukewarm where other states' conservatives are strong and committed to meaningful reforms. The Press Herald story this week advancing Wednesday's hearing cited Rep. Kerri Prescott of Topsham, House chair of the Labor, Commerce, Research and Economic Development Committee, as saying she supported LD 309, but it wasn't "high on her list of pressing issues."
And when the hearing took place, majority Republicans refused to even take a recorded vote on the bill, whose future is greatly in doubt. Just like last year.
Too often, conservatives and libertarians have gotten a do-nothing response to things they considered "high on their list of pressing issues," to the point where they could ask, "How long will the people we elect to represent us shunt our views aside because the fight to achieve them might not be an easy one?"
More importantly, they may also ask, "Why do we continue to elect people who turn their backs on issues of personal liberty whenever they meet opposition from those for whom liberty takes a distant second place to financial gain and increased influence?"
We don't know yet how this fight will turn out this time around. We do, however, hope that there might still be a fight — and not just a presumptive surrender.
M.D. Harmon, a retired journalist and military officer, is a freelance writer. He can be contacted at email@example.com.
Why? Because you are being represented in negotiations so you are being charged a fee for services rendered!
Do you complain at the grocery store for having to pay for the gallon of milk that you bought?
Man up and pay you dues for services rendered or expect a collection agency to come knocking at your door!
I want a "Right To Invest" law!
I am being forced to contribute to GOP campaigns against my will because I have invested money in corporations that support the GOP Candidates!
For several days the MaineWire has criticized Maine Today Media for failing to publish a piece of political commentary. Please note that I posted the following comment to this article on April 6 but it disappeared. I think it is important to have a balance in commentary so I am re-posting it:
A bit of history (as opposed one man's "world view") is in order.
Strained labor relations following WWII threatened the fabric of
American society. Wildcat strikes and violent clashes between workers
and industrialists who had reaped profits during the war created the worst labor relations environment since the Civil War.
The Labor–Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley) was a
government response to restrain both labor and management excesses which
amended the 1935 Wagner Act. Harry Truman did not sign the
Taft-Hartley Act. He felt that it went too far in constraining worker's
rights to bargain collectively and to protest unfair wages and working
conditions (i.e. – it limited their constitutional rights to free speech
and assembly). The bill was passed by Republicans over his veto.
It should also be noted that the advocacy for Right to Work provisions
arose not from workers dismayed by having to contribute to the cost of
representation, but from employers looking for tools to marginalize the
voice of workers at the bargaining table. Though LD 309 appears
to be a piece of legislation central to Governor LePage's new vision
for Maine, it has foundered in the legislature not because of Democrat
opposition, but because it simply does not have support, even from the
Republican majority.
You have 'Dues' forcibly taken from your pay?? Damn – I would be pissed off!!
- Supreme Court Decision "Communications Workers V. Beck, 487 U.S. 735 (1988) ruled that only 'Agency Fees' could be withheld from your pay. - The part which pays for the negotiations, etc for the pay and benefits you enjoy so you don't freeload.
You're saying 'Full Dues' are being withheld??
I have been arguing against this since Baldacci put it in the budget and the Strimling enhanced it four years later.
It is an issue of right and wrong … How Republicans can miss this point is beyond me.
Oh wait, it is an election year and they somehow believe the Unions will be less harsh if they do not address this issue.
That only happens in a world where Superman is a bad guy … and we know that is never gonna be
Amen, Mr. Harmon!
Why should a person have to pay to work?After the years-long struggles Republicans have had in State government, they should surely be aware of the grip the unions have on employers–school commitees,for one example– and how their rising salary and pension demands affect our economy.Are the Republicans suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome?The moderate Republicans should board the LePage bus ,the destination of which is an economically healthy State of Maine!That's why we voted them in!
Excellent post Mr. Harmon.
Other examples of GOP surrender to political intimidation or media-Democrat biased noise are the non-voting defeats of Photo ID, the continual tax funding of liberal hobby-horse MPBN, as well as the fore mentioned LD 309.
The GOP never even gives its supporters the satisfaction of an up or down vote on these issues. The Democrats and liberals have attack dogs. The GOP has nice house-broken lap dogs, who want to be petted ( or at least not kicked) by the the P.C. "beautiful people" in the liberal controlled (Su$$man) Maine Stream Media.
Why should I, as a conservative government employee, have dues forcibly taken from my pay by a union that supports democrats?
Democrats forced this law upon us and it is high time it were repealled! I would also say that every cent that was taken from us should be returned from these union thieves!


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February 1, 2012
Mental Health: I don't feel very good, mentally. And after taking some online mental health "tests" I wonder if I should do anything about it. Am I really as bad as the tests say that I am?
I've suffered with depression much of my life. That much isn't news to me. I haven't dealt with it more than just muddling through - no medication or therapy. Actually, I did see a psychologist briefly in high school. She ate popcorn as I told her my tales of woe. Really no more counseling contact other than that.
So, I was hit with a period of depression this past month or so that had me practically holed-up in my house, not doing anything during the day (I'm a stay-at-home mom), extreme fatigue, not being able to cook meals or do anything for my family, basically. This isn't new for me. But it is getting old.
I mention being holed-up in my house because it lead me to thinking of agoraphobia and I did a little online research. I was alarmed that it truly applied to me. I always joked about being agoraphobic because I hate leaving the house and am super good at avoiding going out. I took a "test." The test results stated that I most likely had agoraphobia as well as a severe social anxiety disorder.
I then took
this test
for social anxiety disorder. I score a 98! As in "Score 90 or higher SAD extremely probable. Scores in this range often are accompanied by great distress and difficulty in social functioning, and are also commonly seen in persons entering treatment for the generalized type of SAD."
Do I believe these tests?
I know I have some serious anxieties, especially socially related, as well as depression. And I guess these tests just really shocked me at how severe they might be.
What's my next step?
Is there a next step? Or
is muddling through a decent option?
Other relevant info: 36, female, I could stand to lose 10 pounds
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Don't worry about the tests. Look at what you wrote:
So, I was hit with a period of depression this past month or so that had me practically holed-up in my house, not doing anything during the day (I'm a stay-at-home mom), extreme fatigue, not being able to cook meals or do anything for my family, basically. This isn't new for me. But it is getting old.
This isn't what mental health looks like.
It seems that muddling through isn't an option anymore. That's okay, you just have to see a doctor.
Next step: Go here:
psychology today finder
and put in your zip code. Tomorrow morning pick 5 and make 5 appointments for as soon as possible.
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on February 1, 2012 [
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I agree with Bleep (though not sure what she means by "pick five." One will do to start with.)
Don't take online tests- it's just another thing to stress over. But you do sound depressed, and therapy helps! Good luck!
posted by
on February 1, 2012
Next step: Go here: psychology today finder and put in your zip code.
Or ask a trusted friend for a recommendation.
posted by
roger ackroyd
on February 1, 2012 [
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I don't feel very good, mentally.
Is all you need to be paying attention to here. Find a supportive therapist. It may take some time, some are better than others. Find one that clicks. Think of them as you would a personal trainer or a doctor - someone to help you start feeling better.
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If you don't have a GP, your children's pediatrician may also be able to provide a referral for you; they do a lot of referrals for post-partum depression (and other parental mental health issues) and so will have names of psychiatrists for adults to hand. (Your comfort level may also be higher with the pede, since I see my kids' pede way more often than I see my doctor.) Part of keeping your kids healthy is keeping mom healthy; your pediatrician is on your side.
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Eyebrows McGee
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In my experience with my own and friends' mental health, we always always always underestimate the severity of our own problems. By the time you start to realise yourself that you might have a problem and start looking at online diagnosis tests and thinking about seeing someone, that usually means it's
serious, and probably about six months or a year past the point where you should have gone to the doctor.
So go to the doctor already :)
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Another option for free counselling could be if your parner has an Employee Assistance Program available through work - often, counselling is available for family members as well as the employees themselves.
posted by
on February 1, 2012
Yeah dude, you don't need to pass or fail a internet mental health test to feel it's okay to ask for a little help. Sounds like you could do with a little help. I would probably ask around for a recomendation; counsellors are a bit like hairdressers and pulling a random one of the paper introduces a lot of chance into something you probably want a little more certainty with.
posted by
on February 1, 2012
When I was depressed I took a bunch of those tests too, but I learned more from the fact that I wanted to take all the tests ( I was obsessed with taking them, on every site, and poring over the site) than what the tests actually said. Shocker, they all said I had severe anxiety and depression, which was true.
Please don't take your bad experience with the psychologist in high school to mean that therapy won't work for you. I think both the therapy finder and a friend suggestion are good ideas. FWIW I tried the friend's suggestion first and it was terrible for me, and then I met 8 therapists from the therapy finder and am happy with the person I chose out of those 8. Probably the best decision I ever made, for me and all the people who ever have to deal with me.
It's not easy to choose a therapist and make a plan to get better, but living with poor mental health isn't easy either is it?
posted by
on February 1, 2012
Therapy isn't just for people with crazy-bad stories; it's for an average person who has thoughts and feelings that seem counter-productive. It sounds like you would rather be doing something instead of holed up in the house. Especially since you realize that this cycle is getting old. That is a sufficient reason to try therapy for a bit.
I didn't have a great reason to go into therapy - no major traumas, etc. But one day I realized that I was really down on myself, so much so that I was hindering my own life. Therapy sounded like this really extreme, out-there solution, and I was hesitant to go, but I knew I didn't want to be this way forever. Fortunately, I had a friend who had recently gone to therapy and was very open about it. That made therapy tenable to me. I went. It took a few months of going once a week, but I started making progress, and after 18 months I had learned to manage those negatives thoughts and feelings well enough on my own.
You can be a totally-normal person
go to therapy. Normal people have problems - problems are a fact of life. If you are tired of the cycle of feeling so down that you can hardly function, then you really should give it a shot. I recommend Cognitive Behavioral therapy - it seems to be the most effective and has evidence backing it up.
Some therapists aren't great. I was lucky, and my first was very good. My second wasn't so great. But that doesn't mean therapy in general is flawed, just that one of my experiences with therapy wasn't great. It sounds like your first experience wasn't great, and I'm sorry for that. But you should try it again, and meet with a few therapists. The one you feel comfortable with is the one you should stick with.
Also, this:
we always always always underestimate the severity of our own problems
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This is not like deciding whether to go to the ER for stitches. There's no lower limit for therapy, people go for all kinds of reasons and there are methodologies for all of them. If a high-performance athlete can go to therapy to shave seconds off their time or improve their focus in a live sports setting, you can and should certainly go because
you don't feel good
Not going because you drew a crappy therapist in high school is like not going to restaurants because you once went to McDonald's and it was not tasty. And remember: if you have shades of social anxiety and agoraphobia, those diseases will fight tooth and nail to keep you from going; that's their survival mechanism. Question every excuse, because it might have a false premise.
Also, my customary advice: go to your (or any!) GP or urgent care or Planned Parenthood or school clinic and get a physical with bloodwork. What if you feel shitty just because your thyroid is out of whack or you need some extra Vitamin D? It might be that easy to solve this problem, but even if it's not you'll have ruled those things out so you can take the next step - which will be easier because you're already in motion - and find someone to talk to.
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Lyn Never
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is muddling through a decent option?
Sure, muddligh through is always an option. Until it doesn't work anymore and you find yourself holed up in your house, unable to leave for a month. If you'd like to get better, follow the advice above and find a good mental health expert. My personal advice, if you suspect mental illness, is to find a psychologist (the kind with a PhD) rather than a generic therapist.
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on February 1, 2012
* muddling. Grr.
posted by
on February 1, 2012
The impact of the stigmatization of mental health treatment is so clear in stories like yours. You saw a shitty, unprofessional therapist, which sucks. It's outrageous that she thought it was OK to eat a snack during your session.
But if you saw a shitty, unprofessional dentist, would you never go to the dentist again? If you had a shitty, unprofessional auto mechanic, would you decide to just "muddle through" and never get your car fixed from then on?
Not blaming you for this--I think it's a logical outcome of the English-speaking world's culture. But there are lots of unshitty, highly professional therapists out there, and they may be able to help you.
Good luck.
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lollusc is absolutely right. I was severely depressed for over a year before going to the doctor, coming up with possible external reasons for my miserable state, until some brief suicide thoughts woke me up.
And after a while you realize it's not
, it's just an illness of your brain.
Also, psychiatrists rock. You will most probably feel much better just a few weeks after you start therapy/treatment. Best wishes.
posted by
on February 2, 2012
This is a really classic example of what goes wrong when people self-diagnose - basically they overdetermine their own symptoms. To me, it doesn't sound like you have depression and agoraphobia and social anxiety disorder. It sounds like you most likely have depression, which makes people stay indoors and avoid people. If you get the depression treated the other things ought to go away; although the DSM stuff encourages people to think of depression and anxiety as different things, and of certain kinds of anxiety as being distinct, the truth is that the majority of depressed people experience a level of anxiety as a component of their condition. Bear in mind that the basic treatments for anxiety are antidepressants and talk therapy, which coincidentally are the same as the basic treatments for depression.
Now, maybe after you've done that for a while you and your doctor will decide that you need, say, some anti-anxiety meds to help you through certain things. But that's the kind of thing you're only going to find out if you start tackling your depression in the first place. It sounds like it is hitting you hard, and it's OK to ask for help with that from a medical professional. Bear in mind that your self-supporting, 'muddling' attitude may well be helpful to you as you go about this; depression treatments are rarely magic bullets, and the best way of thinking of them may be as a useful addition to your existing range of ways to deal with your problems. You aren't compelled to take 'the sick role' and cede all responsibility for managing your difficulties onto somebody else. But if you say to yourself 'I am only going to deal with my problems in this way, I will not try that other way', then you risk making things more difficult for no reason. One of the most difficult things for me to realise when I embarked on this was that I'd hobbled along for over a decade under the assumption that this was somehow or in some way The Right Thing To Do, whereas really it would have been much simpler for everybody if I'd just asked for help sooner.
posted by
on February 2, 2012
Don't get hung up on the potential diagnosis. Instead, think about what you're not feeling mentally good about, and what you'd like to improve. Mental illnesses are fuzzily defined and often overlap, and good therapy evolves to help the client in the specific ways he needs. It's a journey.
Sometimes we have to muddle through our mental shit, because we have no other choice - we're broke, or living in Siberia, or something. But if you don't absolutely have to muddle through, don't.
And nthing that we underestimate the severity of our problems, in regards to mental health. Or, many times, they just prevent us from seeing them clearly and objectively. If and when you get treatment and it starts clicking, you will be amazed at how much it's helping and how long you muddled through without it.
posted by
Metroid Baby
on February 2, 2012
You're a fulltime mother. How many children do you have? How supportive is your partner? Do you have friends and family nearby? These are questions a therapist will, we hope, ask.
Is it cold winter where you are? Wherever you are you are probably not getting enough sunlight if you rarely leave the house. Start getting some, and some daily exercise. Take the kids for a walk. Take a walk by yourself before your partner leaves for work or after your partner comes home from work. Get some exercise or yoga dvds and do them every day, do them with your kids. When you cook meals that could be frozen double the recipe and freeze half for those days when you do not want to cook.
Stop taking those tests! Try to get out of the house more. If your kids are all in school use some of that time to take a class, do some volunteering.
I hope you start to feel better soon.
posted by
on February 2, 2012
Chiming in with similar advice to most folks in the thread - you've got nothing to lose by asking your physician or your kids' pediatrician for help/a referral, or by calling a few therapists and seeing how that goes. In my experience, it's a bit less exhausting to go through your regular physician (if he/she is a good one) as they'll often be willing to do some of the work for you regarding phone calls, etc.
I understand the "am I sick enough to merit therapy" line of thinking, as I used it for years to keep myself out of therapy. I rationalized endlessly, kept telling myself I was "functional enough" even when I was missing 2 out of 3 meals a day to lie in bed. Looking back, I wasted most of college being miserably depressed when I could have probably dealt with it sooner.
Hang in there - I hope you feel better soon.
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you sound like you are looking for someone else to make the decision on whether or not you need mental healthcare. Go, take the advice of the people here, and make an appointment. Sure, you probably could meddle through this and survive and function on some basic level. But why do that when you can deal with this and feel better?
posted by
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Everyone here is correct in that online tests aren't a true measure of a mental/psychological disorder, i.e, depression. Get a good therapist and go from there.
In the meantime, how about trying "baby steps" to see if you could conquer your agoraphobia? Since you haven't had a true diagnosis yet, how about trying something small to get out of the house? Do you have any hobbies? How about some exercise? It sounds like you're almost a prisoner in your own home (not to say that being a stay-at-home mom isn't a full-time job; I give those women mad props.) Don't do anything big, just start small. Maybe a walk tomorrow, coffee in a coffee house in a few days, going out with some friends in a few weeks....all small steps leading up to something big, like a vacation or a weekend trip!
I know from previous experience that feeling trapped and overwhelmed leads down a quick road to depression. Therapy, medication, developing coping mechanisms, setting small (and future large) goals all helped me get out of my rut. Don't get me wrong; I still have bad days here and there. But now I have resources to help me out.
A suggestion..when you're ready, pick up a camera and get out. It's really therapeutic (to me..possibly you too)!!
From one who has been there...GOOD LUCK!!!!
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