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For Family and Caregivers
What is an opioid?
Opioids are a class of drugs that frequently have a moderate or high level of addictive potential. Many are very effective for treating pain, and doctors frequently prescribe them for patients who have acute (like after an accident) or chronic (such as cancer) painful conditions. There are many opioid medications, such as Codeine, Vicodin, Percocet, Percodan, Demerol, Dilaudid, Morphine, Roxicet, Roxicodone, Oxycodone, OxyContin and Opana. Methadone, LAAM (short for levo-alpha-acetyl methadol), and buprenorphine (i.e. the active ingredient in Subutex and Suboxone) are also opioids.
Why are opioids used to treat addiction?
Many family members wonder why doctors use buprenorphine to treat opioid addiction, since it is in the same family as pain pills and heroin. Some of them ask, "Isn't this substituting one addiction for another?"
The three medications used to treat addiction to pain pills and heroin—methadone, LAAM and buprenorphine—are not "just substitution." The effects produced by these medications differ in important ways from the effects produced by, for example, the overuse of pain pills or an injection of heroin. These medications don't produce the same kind of quick high that pain pills or a shot of heroin will produce, and they remain in the body a longer time—so the person doesn't need to keep taking them several times a day (the way they take most illicit opioids).
Since the medications are prescribed by a physician, the patient is on a stable and regular dose—unlike the often chaotic pattern of use with illicit opioids. Many medical studies since 1965 show that maintenance treatment helps to keep patients healthier, helps to keep them from getting into legal troubles, and helps to prevent them from getting transmissible diseases like hepatitis and AIDS. The same studies also show improvements in education and employment, as well as the preservation of family units.
What is the right dose of buprenorphine?
Family members of persons who have been addicted to opioids have watched as their loved ones use a drug that makes them high, or loaded, or have watched the painful withdrawal which occurs when the drug is not available. Sometimes the family has not seen the "normal" person for years. They may have seen the person misuse doctors' prescriptions for narcotics to get high. They are rightly concerned that the person might misuse or take too much of the buprenorphine prescribed by the doctor. They may watch the patient and notice that the patient seems drowsy, or stimulated, or restless, and think that the buprenorphine will be just as bad as the illicit opioids they were using.
Every opioid can have stimulating or sedating effects, especially in the first weeks of treatment. The "right" dose of buprenorphine is the one that allows the patient to feel and act normally—the patient should not experience withdrawal (too little medication), and they should not be excessively drowsy during the day (too much medication). It can sometimes take a few weeks to find the right dose. During the first few weeks, the dose may be too high, or too low, which can lead to withdrawal, daytime sleepiness, or trouble sleeping at night. The patient may ask that family members help keep track of the timing of these symptoms, and write them down. Then the doctor can use this information to adjust the amount and time of day for buprenorphine doses.
Once the right dose is found, it is important to take it on time in a regular way, so the patient's body and brain can get back to a normal way of functioning.
How can the family support good treatment?
Even though maintenance medication treatment for opioid addiction works very well, it is not a cure. This means that the patient will continue to need the stable dose of buprenorphine with regular monitoring by the doctor for some period of time—ideally at least a year. At that point, the goal would be to try and taper the patient off of the medication and maintain their recovery without the assistance of medication. This is similar to other chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, or asthma. These conditions can be treated, but there is no permanent cure, so patients often stay on the same medication for a long time. However, with appropriate behavioral modifications and life adjustments, many patients with chronic illnesses can get to a point where they can control their condition without the assistance of medication. While being assisted with buprenorphine, though, the best way to help and support the patient is to encourage regular medical care, and not skipping or forgetting to take the medication.
Medication for opioid addiction is an important part of treatment, but addictions are complicated medical conditions, and often aspects of the illness outside the person (such as the availability of a drug, the people with whom the patient socializes, etc.) can play a powerful role in the disorder. Family members can support both the regular and appropriate use of Suboxone, and the other treatments (such as counseling) that are recommended by the doctor. It might be necessary or appropriate for spouses, significant others and/or other family members and friends to participate in counseling with the patient and/or independent of the patient for their own benefit.
For recovery to be successful, it is essential for the patient to have, in addition to the medication, regular counseling. It has been seen that medication alone will not get the patient better. The counseling will address many things including what lead up to the development of the addiction, and how to stay away from the triggers of drug use. At times, the patient may not even know what events lead him to use opiates, but this will be explored.
All patients in our program will have individual counseling sessions with licensed or certified staff specializing in addictions care. Some patients may also require additional mental health therapy outside of our program or benefit from participation in group therapy. These appointments are key parts of treatment, and work together with the Suboxone treatment to improve success in recovery from opiate addiction. Sometimes family members may be asked to join in family therapy sessions, which also are geared to improve addiction care.
Many patients use some kind of recovery group to maintain their sobriety (such as Narcotics Anonymous, Rational Recovery, Smart Groups or 12-Step Programs). It sometimes takes several visits to groups to find the right "home" meeting. In the first year of recovery some patients go to meetings every day, or several times per week. These meetings work to improve success in treatment, in addition to taking buprenorphine and the individual counseling. Family members may have their own meetings, such as Al-Anon, to support them in adjusting to life with a patient who has addiction.
Regular medical care
Patients will have ongoing visits for both counseling and doctor supervision. Most visits will be for counseling and the interval will be determined by the treatment team based on dynamic clinician assessment of the patient's progress and need for support. Visits with the doctor will vary in frequency based on both time in treatment and clinical need. Patients will be seen by the physician no less than every six months while being treated with medication. If a patient misses an appointment, they may not be able to refill the medication on time, and may even go into withdrawal, which could be dangerous. The patient may be asked to bring the medication container to each visit, and may be asked to give urine samples at the time of the visit.
Special medical care
A complication of drug addiction in many is the development of significant, and sometimes lethal, infectious diseases. In this case, patients may need care for other needle-related problems, such as Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, or HIV disease. They may need to see their primary care doctor for blood work, or see several speciality physicians for these illnesses.
Taking the medication
Buprenorphine is unusual because is must be dissolved under the tongue, rather than swallowed. This allows the medicine to be absorbed directly into the blood stream. Any medication that is swallowed will not be effective. Please be aware that the absorption takes a few minutes. While the medication is dissolving, the patient will not be able to answer the phone, or the doorbell, or speak very easily. This means that the family will get used to the patient being "out of commission" for a few minutes whenever the regular dose is scheduled.
Storing the medication
If buprenorphine is lost or misplaced, the patient may skip doses or go into withdrawal, so it is very important to find a good place to keep the medication safely and securely at home – away from children or pets, and always in the same location, so it can be easily found. It is best if the location of the buprenorphine is not next to the vitamins, or the aspirin, or other over-the-counter medications, to avoid confusion. If a family member or visitor takes buprenorphine by mistake, he or she should be checked by a physician immediately. In addition, we want the patient to keep the medicine at home, and not carry the prescription on his person or take to work.
What does Suboxone treatment mean to the family?
It is hard for any family when a member finds out he or she has an illness that is not curable. This is true for addiction as well. When chronic illnesses go untreated, they have severe complications that can lead to disability and death. Fortunately, buprenorphine-assisted treatment is usually very successful, especially if it is integrated with counseling and support for life changes that the patient has to make to remain "clean and sober."
Chronic illness means the illness is there every day, and must be treated every day. This takes time and attention away from other things, and family members may resent the effort and time and money that it takes for buprenorphine treatment and counseling. It might help to compare addiction to other chronic illnesses, like diabetes or high blood pressure. After all, it takes time to make appointments to go to the doctor for blood pressure checks, and it may annoy the family if the food has to be low in cholesterol, or unsalted. But most families can adjust to these changes, when they consider that it may prevent a heart attack or a stroke for their loved one.
Another very important issue for family members to know about is: addiction can be partly inherited. Research shows that some persons have more risk for becoming addicted than others, and that some of this risk is genetic. So when one member develops opioid addiction, it means that other blood relatives should consider themselves "at risk" of developing addiction or alcoholism. It is especially important for young people who have family histories of substance use problems to know that alcohol or drugs at parties might be dangerous for them, even more than to most of their friends.
It is common for people to think of addiction as a weakness in character, instead of an illness. Perhaps the first few times the person used drugs it was poor judgment. However, by the time the patient is addicted, and using every day, and needing medical treatment, it is definitely more than simply a problem with willpower. In fact, research brain scans that are done on patients with a dependency issue show definite changes. Fortunately, these changes begin to look normal again with treatment.


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Built-In Fireplace Entertainment Center
This fireplace entertainment center was the perfect way to organize the customer's large screen TV and home theater system.
When dealing with a wall unit or entertainment center around a fireplace, consideration must be given to ventilation and air flow. With this design we used decorative metal mesh in front of the electronics as well as small fans inside the furniture for excellent air flow.
The large screen TV was beautifully highlighted with a frame out panel, which could be removed to accommodate future TVs.
The furniture was fully constructed in a fine white maple wood and finished in a walnut stain. We installed, wired, and tested all the electronics for the customer.
For more information or for a quote please call Diamond Case Designs, Inc. at the phone number provided or visit our website.
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Dimensions: Approximately 70" wide x 85" high x 22" deep.

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I was stuck to a bed in French Hospital and my brother was about to start the SLO Triathalon. I was going to missing my brothers Race. My sister managed to find an Application (Qik Video) for ourAndroid Smartphones which was like a video calling application and as my brother started the race I got an alert from my sister.
After acepting the alert I was pool side, hearing the splashes and seeing my Brother completethe 36 laps in the pool. He was looking good and halling but especially when I compared him to his lane partner (an elderly lady with a good kick and medicore swimming form). To save her phones battery my sister said she would check in with me every so often as the race progressed.
It looked like such a wonderful day, I was stuck in a hospital bed and it was so great out. Zeb finished the swim and I got my next alert from Lacey. I watched Zeb on his first transition to the bike and watched him pedal off out of site to Orcutt Road.
Lacey's phone died after that but Zeb looked good and I knew he would finish.
After about an hour my Mom came into my room and told me my brother would be running infront of the hospital. I had an urge to get up and see if the staff would let me out the front door to watch him but, by the time I knew he was close it would have taking me a good 30 minutes to get disconnected from everything and out the front door. He passed the hospital and went on to finish the race.
He must have immediately crossed the finish line, loaded up his bike and came to the hospital. He was there very quickly with my whole family. He gave me his metal and I got to ask him about the race. He said it was tough and a lot more difficult than he expected, even slightly boring. I wish I could have ran with him to keep things more lively.
My brother did great and I am really proud of him.
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Thanks Bro! You're a great Running Brother. I ran the race in your honor . . . I hope you have that medal framed or something.


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This hot breakfast porridge features an ancient grain called Pinole, which are toasted corn grits similar to masa harina. Pinole is a staple food of the Tarahumara, a Native American people of northwestern Mexico who are renowned for their long-distance running ability. The version featured here is a unique crop variety that is naturally instant and higher in protein. The combination of cranberries and nuts will sustain you for hours. Makes 1.5 cups per serving. 110 Cal/Oz. Vegan.
Meal Size: Hungry-Single (Serves 1 - 2)
Net Wt: 3.8 oz (108g)
Calories/Ounce: 110
Requires: Boiling Water (Cook). Stoveless? Soak overnight in water.
Ready In: 10 Mins
Prepared Size: 1.5 cups
Nutrition Per 3.8 oz: Calories: 420 kcal (1757 kJ) Fat: 8g Carbs: 75g Protein: 9g Sodium: 275mg
Preparation: Bring 1.5 cups of water to boil in a covered pot. Stir in cereal mix, turn off heat, keep covered and let stand 10 min. Enjoy!
Ingredients: Pinole (Ground Corn)*, Dried Cranberries* (cranberries*, dried cane syrup*, sunflower oil*), Almonds, Turbinado Sugar* ,Walnuts, Chia Seed*, Cinnamon*, Allspice*, Sea Salt. (*Organic)
Allergy Info: Contains WALNUT, ALMOND. Manufactured in a facility that uses eggs, nuts, soy & wheat.
Vegan: Yes
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Hungry Single (Serves 1 - 2) makes about 1.5 cups prepared.
Hungry Double (Serves 2 - 3) makes about 3 cups prepared. It is exactly double the portion of the Hungry-Single meal size.
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We will host our Babcock Center Dance Party with our church family on February 26. This Day Mission Trip is an opportunity for anyone to jump in and serve our friends living and working at the Babcock Center here in Columbia. We will be holding a dance party from 6:45pm-10:00pm for anyone that can join us.
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Jeremy Profitt lives with his family in an East Bay suburb about 45 minutes outside of Oakland. He's in his weekend uniform when he greets me at his door: white t-shirt, jean shorts, flip-flops.
They've just moved in, and his wife is unpacking the kitchen as Profitt picks up his baby daughter, Reiland. He gently cradles her in his lap as he starts to tell me his story.
"It felt gratifying," Profitt says of his time in service. "I felt I was able to do my part."
Profitt joined the Army because he wanted to go into law enforcement. He signed up in July 2001, and he was still in basic training when 9/11 hit. He remembers that day. "We had a TV on. We had a break at the end of the evening. We were all getting ready to crash for the night."
That moment had a huge impact, not only to the world, but people enlisted in the military. It meant the country was likely going to go to war now.
Profitt describes the energy at the base where he was stationed as insane. "I'd say the mindset was we're not going to let this go by," he remembers. "You know these people were unjustly killed – and any – there was no reason for it."
It didn't take long for all that pent-up energy to find an outlet. Profitt's unit was among the first to go to the Middle East. But when he landed in Afghanistan, he says things were still fairly calm. "Afghanistan was like a peace, to me, a peace-keeping mission. We were there early on so there wasn't a lot of issues unfortunately that were going on today."
Profitt served in Afghanistan for eight months and left in September 2002, unharmed. He says that first deployment felt right, felt justified. But then he was deployed again – to Iraq. Profitt remembers telling his parents that he wasn't comfortable with this deployment, but he reminded himself that military service was something he signed up to do.
The trek to Iraq began in Kuwait. Profitt's unit was headed to the northern area of Mosul where they would provide security for supply routes. Profitt says everyone was on edge. "Every time at night time, these alarms would go off and we would have to put all this gear on, and … we'd run out of our bunkers and hide," Profitt remembers. After a while, he says, that scenario took a mental toll on him.
A lot of what he saw in Kuwait was like a Hollywood movie, Profitt says. The destruction and chaos he was used to seeing on film was now all around him. It didn't take long for him to become numb to it all. "I didn't really have any emotions, and that's the whole problem is that through this whole thing," he says. "There was no sad. There was no happy. There was … it was just, the best way I can describe it is just you're a robot."
On January 25, 2004, Profitt was violently jolted out of his numbness. He'd been in Iraq almost a year. He was in a truck about to head over a bridge when two improvised explosive devices blew up. His gunner and the gunner on the truck behind him were both hit. Profitt remembers the moment he looked up at his injured gunner and saw blood everywhere. "There [was] a hole in the side of his face. His helmet [was] gone. We all [wore] helmets when we're out there. It got knocked off of him from the explosion."
Profitt stayed with his gunner while the rest of the team hurried to get help. The gunner was in so much shock he didn't know where he was. Profitt and the other soldiers got him to the base hospital in time to stabilize him. He was sent to Germany for further care and survived. But Profitt says after that day, he felt a horrible rage. It was the first time he was able to feel any emotional response. He had watched his colleague's face be blown off, and he had to go back to work the next day.
Profitt was honorably discharged in March 2004. But he says his experiences in combat followed him. He calls it the "War at Home," and his family and friends fight it with him – including his wife, Lindsey. Lindsey Profitt says her husband' mother started noticing changes in him. Profitt was diagnosed with PTSD a year after his return home. He says it took a year for him to finally reach out for help because soldiers are "not trained to ask for help."
Profitt says everyone handles PTSD differently, but everyone who's been in combat deals with it. "I think that anybody that deploys, whether you fired your weapon or have done anything, it will alter your life because of the stuff you see," he says.
Profitt has had a lot support from his family – something he says not all veterans have. He says things are getting better, even though he can't shake the stigma that comes along with his diagnosis. He says he feared he would never get a job, but finally decided to accept his condition as a part of his life. Others would have to accept it, too. "If you're not going to hire me because of, I served my country," he says of hypothetical employers, "that's their loss and not mine."
If he could, Profitt would change one thing about the military: how it takes care of its soldiers when they come home. "We need to be proactive and not reactive. We have tons of funding, tons of services, but a veteran is not going to walk through the doors and say, 'I need help.'" Profitt says that's not realistic. "I didn't walk in and say, 'I need help.' It took me a year to figure out that well, there's something different."
Today, Profitt is studying sociology at Cal State East Bay and works at the VA in Palo Alto. He finds writing and talking to be therapeutic, and he hopes one day to run for political office. He's seen his symptoms gradually improve, but there's one thing he still struggles with daily: driving. "If he's in car he has to drive, he can't handle being a passenger," says Lindsey Profitt. Jeremy Profitt says that's because when they were struck by the IED, he wasn't driving. "I cannot have someone drive me anywhere. It's horrible, horrible, even now. I go nuts when people are driving me. I feel like I'm going to die."
The difference now, he says, is that he knows he can get past those feelings. And he wants other veterans to know they can get past them too.
Priscilla Yuki Wilson is a student reporter at Mills College in Oakland. This story originally aired on August 22, 2011. A list of VA centers in the Bay Area is available here.


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This month's issue of Vanity Fair has a profile on Sanders' ex-wife, Chanel model and actress, Liberty Ross who ironically played Stewart's mother in Snow White and the Huntsman.
The article shares that Ross was humiliated by the news that her then husband's mistress was "someone so young and famous" with a defiant bad girl attitude.
But it turns out that Ross' maternal grandfather, Lord Killearn, was a high commissioner, an ambassador to Egypt, and, most relevantly, preferred young women as well. The article states that "At 56, he married her grandmother Jacqueline, who was 19 at the time."
Ironically when Ross was 10-years-old she posed as one of Ozzy Osbourne's child brides on the cover of his No Rest for the Wicked album.
Lastly, when Ross was a high school senior, her relationship with her 26-year-old future husband, Rupert Sanders, began to develop. I guess Ross thought that she was a special nymphet and that her husband wasn't an out-of-the-closet ephebophile.


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Who Should Not Buy a CoolBot
Who Should Not Buy a CoolBot
We have sold over 50,000 CoolBots since our founding in 2006. Universities around the country and world encourage its use. Our satisfied customers have offered tons of positive testimonials about how the CoolBot has saved them money and protected their products.
However, the CoolBot is not the right solution for all cooling needs. Is the CoolBot right for you?
CoolBot Systems Take Longer to Lower the Temperature in the Cooler
The CoolBot can get most walk-in coolers down from ambient temperature to 45°F (7°C) in about 20 minutes. However, it can take longer (about another 30 minutes) to hit 40°F (4.4°C) and will take increasingly longer the farther you go down in temperature. To most of our customers, that extra time doesn't matter (you can always pre-cool your cooler before putting product in); however, if cooling speed is crucial to your operation, please evaluate your system requirements carefully to determine if a CoolBot is right for you.
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As mentioned above, the further below 40°F (4.4°C) you need your cooler, the harder the CoolBot system has to work. Luckily, the CoolBot is pretty tough and can get most of our customers to 36°F (2.2°C) without an issue. Below 36°F, you need to be sure that (A) your cooler is very well insulated and built , (B) your A/C is oversized vs. our A/C selection guidelines, (C) you minimize door openings, and/or (D) you are okay with it taking longer to longer to hit your target temperature.
CoolBot Systems Don't Freeze
The CoolBot and the air conditioners it works with are not designed to freeze. If you need to freeze, buy a freezer!
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If you plan to use your walk-in cooler through harsh winters, be sure to touch base with us on A/C selection. LG, Haier and Samsung are all great A/C units for winter operations. However, we've had complications with some brands including Frigidaire. Reach out to us at 888-871-5723 or firstname.lastname@example.com to discuss any questions on the best A/Cs to select for winter operations.
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In order for a CoolBot to successfully cool your cooler, we have to make sure we are working with the right size A/C unit and the cooler is well insulated. Follow our Cooler Construction Guide and Our AC Sizing Guide to make sure we're setting you up for success. Questions about a really big room or special cooler situation? Just give us a call – 888-871-5723 or email email@example.com and we'll brainstorm if the CoolBot is right for you.
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David Fincher's "The Social Network" is about the early controversial days of Facebook, which now has over 500 million members. To promote a movie like this, the obvious strategy would be to constantly run ads on the site, but that's not going to happen.
Facebook's advertising guidelines don't allow ads to reference the company unless Facebook has cooperated with the object of the ad,
" said Columbia Pictures. "
So, we won�t be advertising there given these parameters.
The poster for the movie features actor Jesse Eisenberg as Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, but if you think that the real Zuckerberg will have anything to do with the film, you're completely wrong. Just recently, he publicly expressed distaste for it, stating that he dreads the movie's release because of inaccuracies in the book it is based on.
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on July 9th, 2010 at 3:19:23 PM
If David Fincher decided to make a film about me... i would be so f*cking humbled and feel so f*cking grateful that a director of that caliber wanted to tell my story I wouldn't give a sh*t about any minor inaccuracies... This sniveling little c*nt doesnt sound like anyone should really give a flying f*ck about him...
But because Zuckerberg expressed distaste i suddenly feel more compelled to see this film.
on July 9th, 2010 at 4:38:48 PM
I still can't believe they made a movie about this.
Ted Mosby
on July 9th, 2010 at 4:50:48 PM
I have faith in Fincher
on July 9th, 2010 at 4:59:44 PM
Of course he doesn't want the movie to be released. The movie just shows how much of a bastard he is. This movie is not about product placing for facebook, it's about an *sshole who screwed over his friends.
on July 9th, 2010 at 5:14:53 PM
facebooks a f*cking plauge of peados if you ask me the f*cking thing should be banned thanks to that site 1000s of kids are bullied they should put that in the movie
James Lipton T-Bag
on July 9th, 2010 at 7:03:19 PM
Great Zeus' toe ...
the logic behind that overwhelms me to no end.
I must go seek the sage advice of the spirit of Emmett Kelly ...
Tally ho!
on July 9th, 2010 at 7:05:32 PM
@triggax: i second that
on July 9th, 2010 at 7:08:15 PM
sh*tty move, Zucky!
You won't allow David Fincher (who directed motherf*cking Fight Club, btw...) to market a movie about YOU using your resources...
p*ssy stuff right there.
on July 9th, 2010 at 7:22:18 PM
They can always advertise on myspace and twitter
on July 9th, 2010 at 7:55:49 PM
Can anyone explain me the point of Twitter? I'd love to use it as a commercial tool, but the thing seems f*cking annoying.
"@donnajones lol the one where he looks like he's passing a reaaaaaly long fart?! x"
^ THE f*ck IS THAT?
on July 9th, 2010 at 9:01:10 PM
so wait ... Facebook hasn't cooperated with it's own film? the f*ck?
on July 10th, 2010 at 2:08:46 AM
I think this man has just become the favourite to win "Th Biggest Douche In The Universe" award.
on July 10th, 2010 at 12:26:05 PM
From Facebook to Facial.
on July 10th, 2010 at 1:16:10 PM
who cares? Nobody is going to watch a movie about facebook anyway.
on July 10th, 2010 at 1:19:28 PM
Kurskij,Twitter is a pretty decent business tool if you have many people working under you, or for any type of artist who gathers fans and likes to keep them informed.
It's not really social networking, so much as it is mass messaging.
on July 10th, 2010 at 8:23:37 PM
good point rabid, it works better for more well known business/people ... f*ck even cheerios has one.
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Salad Spynner – new sound library for Ableton Live
Praxworld has announced the release of Salad Spynner, a sound library for Ableton Live.
Add some greenery to your tracks with a helping of fresh delicious drum and percussion samples harvested from the SonicCharge Synplant synthesizer.
Contains 213 single hits in .wav format, and seven fiber-rich Ableton drum racks.
The Salad Spynner library is available to purchase for $3.86 USD.
Unusual Percussion for Ableton Live – 126 different sounds
AfroDJMac is back with some really unusual sounds :-D, check'em all out:
Drums from less than ordinary places. I've sampled a couple of random items into Ableton Live to create these percussion sounds. If you are looking for something different types of percussive sounds, then this is for you. Enjoy and Share
Download @ http://bit.ly/freesynth47
FX Drooms for Ableton Live
Cluster Sound has announced FX Drooms, a massive collection of FX layered percussion kits specifically designed for Ableton Live and for a wide range of electronic music styles.
This Live Ready Instrument provides 5400 WAV samples, 312 percussion clips and 312 instrument racks organized into 13 categories : Congas, Bongos, Djembe, Metals, Woods, Toms, Mixed, Ethnics, Snares, Kicks, Shakers, Low Percs and Clanks.
Sample FX Layering : In FX Drooms, each of the dry percussion samples has been processed with 24 esoteric reverb and sound effect templates obtained by stressing DSP, hardware and convolution sources. Thanks to our Sample FX Layering technique you will be able to mix these external effect signals to the dry samples and manage them via dedicated controls : FX Amount, Decay Time, Pre Delay, Low Cut, Hi Cut, Pitch, Shaper, OSC Volume.
Mixed with the solid dry sources, the included FX templates give the library a distinctive glommy psycho (acoustic) athmosphere characterized by incredible hi end and definition. In addition to the dry percussions and the Sample FX Layers the included instruments implement also several sound-specific send effects created by using Ableton Live plugins.
- Live Clips
- Live Instruments
- Live Ready Pack
- 5400 WAV samples
- 312 Percussion Clips
- 312 Percussion Racks
- 24 Sample FX Layers
FX Drooms is available to purchase for 24.95 EUR.
New Reason 6 Refill from Nucleus – Celluloid Beats
Nucleus SoundLab would like to introduce you to a brand-new ReFill exclusively built for Propellerhead Reason 6 – Celluloid Beats. Celluloid Beats features an amazingly unique set of cinematic percussion loops suitable for filmscoring, game sound design, IDM and other electronic genres. The loops inside have been specially processed using a proprietary additive vocoding techique to emphasize long, smooth decay stages. Beyond the high-quality loops themselves, Celluloid Beats is also the first ReFill in an innovative new series called Modular Grooves.
Modular Grooves ReFills are meant to provide musicians and producers with a infinitely configurable palette of loops. These loops sound great at virtually any tempo thanks to being sampled using Wide BPM technology – anywhere from 60bpm to 300bpm is fair game. There is no reason to be limited by the original tempo of a loop any more!
Each Combinator patch in a Celluloid Beats contains 8 loops – 1 original loop and 7 creative loop remixes. This is achieved by using the Slice Edit Mode on Dr. OctoRex to change filtering, decay, volume and more on a per-step basis for each loop. Going farther than that, unique FX are added to each patch which are used to effect specific loop slices – so each slice in a loop can have a different distortion, filtering or delay! The resulting loop remixes sound incredibly complex, but they certainly aren't complicated to use. A single Combinator Rotary switches between all 8 loops; and you can also easily dive into Dr. OctoRex to tweak any loop remix to taste! To help users understand the Modular Grooves technology and get the very most out of it, PDF documentation is included.
Celluloid Beats also comes packed with all its loops in raw REX2 format outside the ReFill itself at no additional charge. So users can easily load these loops into other sampler, such as Kontakt, Ableton Live, Battery and more without any hassles.
- 40 24-bit 44khz REX2 loops form the base of Celluloid Beats
- 280 loop remixes using all 8 loop slots on Dr. OctoRex
- Each patch built exclusively for Reason 6
- All REX2 loops included outside the ReFill, for use in other samplers
- Detailed PDF documentation on the creation and operation of the ReFill
Download the free Demo ReFill right here.
Introducing the Orphion
Orphion is a dynamic velocity touch playable sounds and manipulation app
The Orphion is a new percussion instrument, which will be ported to the iPad / iPhone. The video shows a prototype in which the iPad is used only as a remote control of a laptop, but the whole should be converted into a native app, so everyone can download in the App Store.
In order to provide potential developers with an advance can I need this budget.
Hi! The App is allready finished by now: You can get it on the app store here:
Chromaphone – new creative percussion synthesizer
Applied Acoustics Systems is pleased to announce the release of Chromaphone, a new creative percussion synthesizer for Mac OS X and Windows.
"We have designed a synthesizer that combines acoustic resonators to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and synth-like instruments. At your fingertips are drum skins, bars, marimbas, plates, strings, and tubes that get sparked into life by a mallet and a flexible noise source."
Chromaphone combines acoustic resonators to create drums, percussion, mallet, string, and synth-like instruments. Drum skins, bars, marimbas, plates, strings and tubes form pairs that are sparked to life by a configurable mallet and a flexible noise source. At the heart of Chromaphone lies a novel coupling technology that precisely models how vibrating objects interact and influence each other capturing key acoustic behaviours of musical instruments. This, combined with access to the resonators' physical properties, results in a library of truly expressive instruments as well as a vast range of sonic colors.
A key feature of Chromaphone is a brand-new coupling technology. The coupling refers to the exchange of acoustic energy which occurs in real life between interacting objects. Consider a string bridged to a wooden soundboard, both have their own behavior and characteristics, but when assembled together, they merge into a complex string instrument. In a similar way, a metal bar interacts with the air column from a tube in a vibraphone. Chromaphone is the first and only plug-in to provide control over the coupling of resonators. The result is vivid instruments with unmatched acoustic precision, sharpness and realism.
More information: http://www.applied-acoustics.com/chromaphone/overview/ .
SPD-SX sampling pad demo featuring Craig Blundell
Craig Blundell demonstrates the new features of the SPD-SX Sampling Pad. The SPD-SX puts powerful sample creation and playback under your sticks with innovative audio-capturing features, expressive playability, three multi-effects engines, and much more.
The perfect addition to any acoustic or electronic drum kit, percussion setup, DJ booth, or keyboard rig, the SPD-SX is equally at home on the live stage, in the recording studio, pre-production suite, or dance club. The SPD-SX takes many of the proven concepts from its predecessor and raises them to a new level. Whether you're firing off one-shot samples, looped phrases, or complete audio playback tracks, the SPD-SX is loaded with the latest technology and tools to get the job done with speed, precision, and convenience. Enjoy the most advanced triggering and sampling technology in a sleek, easy-to-use percussion instrument.
More on Native's DAMAGE
Take a trip into the depths of the DAMAGE user interface.
Heavyocity talk about the recording process behind DAMAGE, their techniques, sound design and more, in an in-depth look behind-the-scenes.
"Dark, aggressive, thrilling and threatening — DAMAGE is breathtaking cinematic percussion with a tense, epic edge. DAMAGE gives you 30 GB of drama, fusing industrial sounds and orchestral drums into a devastating electro-acoustic barrage. Percussive Kits provide more than 200 deeply sampled percussion sources, and over 500 single-shot elements, recorded in up to seven velocity layers and with up to nine round-robins per drum. Over 700 beat-sliced loops come as menu-style loop suites or as single loops for detailed tweaking. Even the most complex sounds are instantly usable, and it's all in hair-raising, big-screen quality." – Native Instruments
For more info: native-instruments.com/powered-by-kontakt/damage
Variation on the Largo from Winter by Antonio Vivaldi for Analog Modular Synthesizer
Beautiful capture of a classic composer
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This is my first video since I changed my modular system to all Eurorack. It is done just using step sequencers again. this time it uses the new Modcan Touch sequencer and two Analogue Solutions Oberkorn 3.
By the way I just needed to throw in some Buchla percussions to complement this post:
Soundcells releases new powerful Reason Refill – WaveDrummin
Soundcells are back with a new Refill for Propellerhead's Reason suite:
"WaveDrummin" is not just another percussion ReFill.
By finding a whole new continent Columbus redrew the map of our planet. Now it´s your turn to do so. By making use of this ReFill you can combine enchanting and haunting rhythms coming from all continents, maybe even from other planets as well as Wavedrummin opens doors to percussive bliss that have never been opened before. At the studio in Central Europe Soundcells recorded their favorite hits and bits coming from the ever popular Wavedrum by Korg while being caught by rhythms coming from distant worlds. The result of this all has become this ReFill, a work of art, a tool that lets you draw your own restyled map of our precious planet.
Realism vs mixability
Lots of samples taken from acoustic, real percussion instruments have the tendency to sound kind of dull in your mixes. The power of their sound often gets mudded by the rest of your instruments. With this in mind Soundcells processed all DSP generated percussion coming from Korg´s Wavedrum Oriental in such a way that the sounds will always sit conveniently in your mixes. Their impact and power will never get lost. Another point that needs to be highlighted is this special stereo knob coming with lots of combinators that works wonders for the mixability of our loops. Check it out!
Genre Crossover
The sounds of this percussion library are as authentic as you wish and at the same time they can be as electronic as you wish. There is no limit to their sonic possibilities. So whether you are a dance producer druling over techno or electro beats or you are a vegetarian ethno guru spiritualist… Wavedrummin will help you getting there. Check out the demos!
WaveDrummin Contents:
• 115 combinator patches stuffed with inspiring new energy.
• 107 rex loops that range from authentically acoustic to crazy electronic stuff, 20 Kong kits, 20 NNXT patches and 7 Redrum kits.
• 210 single hits to build your own kits from.
• Recorded impact noises coming from Brushes, Rods, Sticks and Fingers to add extra realism to the loops. The combinators carry knobs to control their volumes.
• All single loops and samples are included into this download in Rex and Wave format.
By purchasing this pack you are not restricted to Reason only. However there is a lot more magic to be found within the ReFill.
A web address to link to for more info and many "WaveDrummin" only MP3s:
Offering price per unit is 19,90 ,- EUR (normal price is 24,90 ,- EUR)


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You are facing a leadership challenge. Your organization has to make strategic adjustments, or perhaps adopt a new strategic direction, and that means change for a lot of people. You are not sure how you are going to get people across the organization to act together in function of the strategy and achieve the goals. What should you as a leader do to align your people, get their buy-in, get the strategy implemented, and reinforce the attitudes and behaviors that contribute to flawless execution?
How will you benefit?
As a result of participating in this workshop, you will be better able to lead strategy implementation and change. You will have a plan for aligning your people to deliver on your customer value proposition.
What will you learn and practice?
This is a flexible workshop, continuously updated as business trends change, and adjusted to the concerns of each participant group. Time will be set aside every day for peer-to-peer coaching, where participants can share challenges and experiences. Many participants have gained valuable solutions to difficult problems by this method.
Before the workshop, you will:
- Complete some background reading on the key concepts
- Prepare a very short case study about a real leadership situation and come to the workshop prepared to discuss it
- Gather any leadership or behavioral feedback you have received in your company
You will use these to help you think about your leadership action plan
DURING the classroom
Module 1 – Start with a Clear Strategy
This module is about setting the context for leadership. Topics include:
- Global trends: The world is changing, what changes do you have to manage?
- Elements of a clear strategy
- Customer Value Proposition at the centre of mission, vision, and strategy
- How do your customers experience your company, and why is this?
- Implications of the Customer Value Proposition for leadership – the MCE Leadership for Strategy Implementation Model
- Creating a clear strategy implementation plan – the "Strategy House"
- Making your strategy crystal clear and communicating it in a way people can understand, buy into, and know what to do
- Segmenting your stakeholders and tailoring your strategy communication
Module 2 – Align Processes and People to Strategy
You will look at the hard systems in the company that influence people's beliefs and behaviour. When the strategy changes, these things have to change too in support of the strategy; otherwise, you won't get the change in behaviour you want. What helps people to act in support of the strategy, and what blocks them, or encourages them to do something else? What can you do about it?
- Performance metrics
- Processes and Structure
- Keeping things simple
- Using the Net Promoter Score to measure customer loyalty – a key performance measure and driver of process improvement to deliver value to the customer
- Applying to your own situation
Module 3 – You as Leader
You will focus more on the "soft systems" in the company – how do values, behaviour and culture help or hurt strategy implementation? What is your personal style and how can you use it to align your people?
- Talent, competencies, and mindsets needed for different strategies
- New strategy implementation as a change management programme
- The role of the top team in setting the example
- Building coalitions for change
- Your leadership style and behavior
- Exemplary leadership practices
- Motivating diverse teams and organizations
Module 4 – Getting into Action
You will compile your learning into a personal action plan for implementation on your return, informed by feedback from the workshop facilitator and from your peers.
- Practice communicating your implementation plan as you would to your staff
- How to make strategy actionable
- Managing complexity, scale and pace
- Managing multiple projects and setting priorities
- Managing risks to implementation
Who should attend
Senior executives who lead change and strategy implementation in their companies. They must align multiple levels, divisions and locations to achieve strategic objectives.
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- Casa Madrugada
- El Matadero
- El Presidio
- Manteca Falls
- Mesa de la Luna
- Mesa del Sol
- Roca de Madera
- Torquemada
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From Cuba to the majors: Yasiel Puig's harrowing story
Yasiel Puig's tangled trail from Cuba to Los Angeles entailed a stealth speedboat ride from the island, weeks holed up in a Mexican motel and shady smugglers haggling over a lucrative payout for the future baseball star.
The story, outlined in a federal lawsuit, features a series of fantastic plot twists. Puig spirited away from under the noses of the smugglers in the Yucatán. A henchman later threatening one of Puig's pals. A smuggler, in turn, shot dead in Cancún.
And to boot, the lawsuit alleges that Puig, before his June 2012 defection, plotted with Cuban security authorities to falsely imprison a businessman — who says he was later tortured and starved in an island prison.
Puig's journey is indeed a high-profile, high-stakes example of what many Cubans, not just baseball players, have undergone in enlisting the services of human smugglers in recent years to ferry them from the communist island to Mexico and then to the United States.
The 23-year-old Puig, the runner-up for National League Rookie of the Year in 2013, is a sensation with the Dodgers and the subject of Los Angeles Magazine and ESPN The Magazine investigative stories that first detailed his route to Major League Baseball and a $42 million contract.
"Any Cuban player who had been smuggled in during the past seven to eight years went through a similar process as Puig," said Joe Kehoskie, a former baseball agent who represented Cuban players and is a consultant. "None of these guys have spoken on the record about their experiences. They come out only through court filings."
Miami attorney Ben Daniel, a former federal prosecutor who handled dozens of alien-smuggling cases, said extorting Cubans, particularly baseball players expecting lucrative contracts, is a relatively new phenomenon in a long history of human trafficking from the island.
"I think it's a whole new cast of characters," Daniel said Friday. "It's a rougher-edged crowd."
Cuban baseball players typically flee to a third country so that, under MLB rules, they can avoid the amateur draft. In doing so, they become free agents — able to sell their talents to the highest bidder — and can land better-paying contracts. Daniel faulted Major League Baseball, saying smugglers are emboldened because baseball and the teams "are looking the other way."
Puig joins a wave of young Cuban players who have joined MLB in recent years after establishing residences in third countries, including Miami's Adeiny Hechavarria and Oakland's Yoenis Céspedes. The full details of their sagas usually remain secret.
Hechavarria, on Friday, said that while he took a boat loaded with immigrants to Mexico, he never ran afoul of smugglers. "Thank God my story is different than Puig. I did not have those kinds of adversities," he said.
Puig, through his agent, released a statement this past week acknowledging the articles: "I understand that people are curious and have questions, but I will have no comment on this subject."
The story of his escape from Cuba with the help of smugglers is not the first to emerge in recent years.
Sports agent Gus Dominguez was sentenced to five years in federal prison after he was convicted in 2007 of smuggling five Cuban baseball players through Mexico into the United States.
Former Tampa Bay infielder Leslie Anderson, a Cuban baseball player, also defected through the Yucatán before the 2010 season.
In December, the U.S. attorney's office indicted three people for conspiring to smuggle, kidnap and extort Rangers outfielder Leonys Martín Tápanes, and smuggling 13 other baseball prospects from Cuba to Mexico and then the United States.
A Mexican company partially owned by two of the defendants sued Martín, alleging that the player had stiffed him in a deal to pay 30 percent of his Rangers salary. In a counter lawsuit, Martín accused the group of smuggling him and his family out of Cuba into Mexico in 2010 and holding them "hostage" until the athletes obtained a major league contract and could pay them a "ransom."
The trio is awaiting trial.
Puig's case came to light when, last year, a Cuban businessman named Miguel Angel Corbacho Daudinot filed a Miami federal lawsuit claiming the baseball player had concocted a tale that he was involved in human trafficking, resulting in his arrest, torture and a seven-year prison sentence.
Corbacho says that Puig, in the doghouse with Cuban authorities for his earlier attempts to defect, began falsely informing on people to curry favor and earn his way back onto the national team — all while secretly plotting his flight from the island.
Puig and his mother, Maritza Valdes Gonzalez, are being sued for $12 million in federal court under the Torture Victim Protection Act of 1991. Puig's lawyers are asking a federal judge to dismiss the suit.
The lawsuit alleges that Puig followed the same strategy of another Cuban defector, pitcher Aroldis Chapman, who also allegedly became a government informant before defecting and joining the Cincinnati Reds, where he is known as the hardest-throwing ballplayer in baseball. A Cuban man allegedly imprisoned falsely because of Chapman also is suing the player in a similar Miami federal lawsuit.
The key witness in the Puig lawsuit: former Cuban national team boxer Yunior Despaigne, who backs Corbacho's claim and also says he is Puig's longtime friend who defected with him to Mexico.
Despaigne said he was the original link between Puig and the man who arranged the baseball player's escape from Cuba: Raul Pacheco, a Miami air-conditioning repairman and owner of a recycling business with a criminal history.
Pacheco offered to arrange and pay $250,000 for Puig's escape from Cuba in exchange for a 20 percent cut of the star's future baseball contracts, according to the suit.
Along with Despaigne and others, the burly outfielder defected from the island on his fifth try in June 2012. They were whisked away by boat to Isla Mujeres, near Cancún. They spent one month in a cheap motel as the smugglers argued with Pacheco over the payment price, which had now risen to $400,000.
Puig was never mistreated while he was at the motel, said Corbacho's lawyer, Kenia Bravo.
"These people are not kidnapping victims," said Bravo, who filed the suit last year with Miami attorney Avelino Gonzalez. "They are willing participants."
Pacheco finally was able to send another group to "clandestinely" extract Puig and the others and get them to Mexico City, Despaigne said. After signing his seven-year deal with the Dodgers, Puig paid $300,000 to Pacheco, some $400,000 to Pacheco associate Alberto Fariñas and $600,000 to a lawyer named Marcos Gonzalez, Despaigne said.
At an address identified in public records as Pacheco's, an elderly man said the air-conditioning repairman no longer lived there, that the dwelling had recently been sold. Pacheco could not be reached for comment elsewhere. Reached at his home Friday, Fariñas denied being involved in the plot. Gonzalez could not be reached.
According to the lawsuit, the smugglers — led by ringleader Yandrys Leon — were still hounding the star to collect the money they felt they were owed.
After his own arrival in Miami, Despaigne said in an affidavit, Leon dispatched a gunman who "pressed a pistol to my liver" and told him to tell Puig to pay up or the star would be killed.
"I am concerned that something may happen to me," Despaigne wrote in his affidavit.
Then, another of Puig's financial backers told Despaigne that Leon would be "neutralized," according to his affidavit. Leon was later found shot to death in Cancún, although it remains unknown who is behind his death, or if it is even related to the smuggling episode.
Leon already had come under scrutiny by U.S. federal authorities — in 2011, he was indicted for his alleged participation in an unrelated ferrying of Cubans from the island to Mexico.
The indictment against Leon was dismissed in January after Mexico confirmed to the U.S. attorney's office that he was shot and killed in Mexico.
The scheme spelled out in Leon's federal criminal case was similar to how the baseball players are spirited off to the Yucatán, but without the high-money involvement of sports agents.
In Leon's case, a group of Cuban women and men left the island in May 2009 aboard a smuggler's boat. To their surprise, one of the smugglers told them that unless they received enough money, they "would be thrown in the ocean," according to federal court documents.
In Cancún, the group — including Leon —was placed in a house near a hotel and told they could not leave. One migrant, Adelaida Iglesias, testified at a co-defendant's trial that she was told her mother had to pay $40,000 to get them.
The group was eventually allowed to enter the United States after cooperating with law enforcement. Co-defendant Oswaldo Martinez was convicted of conspiracy to commit extortion, while three others were acquitted. Last year, a judge sentenced him to three years in prison.
Miami Herald staff writers Joey Flechas and Clark Spencer contributed to this report.


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Atlas Ran Screaming/
My re-read of Atlas Shrugged is proving to be just the thing I needed to tap into motivation I didn't know I had.
More than two years ago, having just been downsized from an agency, I decided I didn't want to work for somebody else anymore. So Underscore was launched and the great struggle of starting a new agency with no clients began. From time to time along the way, I've asked myself whether this was the right decision. Perhaps I should qualify that - I was less concerned with the ends of that decision and more concerned with the means. Did I decide to start Underscore because I was reacting emotionally to being let go from my previous agency? Something always told me that there was more to it than that, but I never could really put my finger on what it was.
Now I'm getting a bit more clarity on the unrealized reasons why I decided to start Underscore. One of the major contributors was the notion of working hard and producing results while moochers and looters hung on for dear life.
For as long as I've worked at agencies that were not my own, I've known that the media department was the big profit center from which much of the agency's work originated. We were the ones bringing in a good deal of the new business, doing much of the strategy and generating the big ideas. We were also the ones having the most direct effect on the bottom lines of our clients. Meanwhile, there were all these extraneous personnel clinging to the business we were bringing in - folks who had nebulous titles and job responsibilities whose salaries were paid with the money we generated. While my department worked long hours going the extra mile to bring in new business and maintain that which we already had, most of these other folks worked 9 to 5, often refusing to do what it would take to build the business. They latched on to "client relationships," taking our existing relationship-building tasks off our plates when we didn't need that. They managed our projects when we already had a handle on schedules and deliverables. They created their own redundant responsibilities and took things away from us that we had built, trying desperately to justify their own existence by any means.
When work slowed down and agencies needed to lay people off, executive management often made the right decisions, looking at revenue-per-employee numbers, billable hours and other metrics that were directly tied to agency and client revenue. That's when they tended to make the right decisions, and media people were generally insulated from layoffs while the looters and moochers were let go.
But sometimes, agencies made the wrong decisions, electing to hang on to the people who were the supposed stewards of the account relationships and cutting the people who actually produced the product, in which case I'd find myself on the street while the moochers and looters lived on for short periods, usually riding the agency's momentum downward until there wasn't enough revenue coming in the door to justify having even them aboard.
Many times I'd find myself in these situations where media was propping up a good number of redundant personnel on the agency side, and it became tough for executive management to let media folks share in our own success. Many media people lament being thrown a bone by executive management in the form of a bump up in title and job responsibilities without the increase in pay that normally comes along with it. This happens to media people all the time - some are placated by the ego boost they get, others see it for what it is - a license for executive management to continue to enjoy the fruits of the media department's labor without having to expend cash.
Without realizing it, I think what we did with Underscore was to create an environment where we were the ones who benefitted from the ideas and the revenue we generated, free of moochers and looters. This really didn't happen consciously by directive, but it was borne out of a subconscious need to be judged by our achievements.
All those years spent slaving away at agencies working on media plans...I was always wondering where all the revenue went and why those old agencies never seemed to grow like they should have. Now I've got a bit more clarity on the situation.
To sum up, I know I made the right decision because the "why" of the whole thing is a lot more clear to me - We wanted to build something where we would be judged by our achievements, not by our ability to carry dead weight.
Of course, this is only one of many reasons for starting an agency, but I'm glad that I've been able to finally put my finger on something that's eluded description.