Wednesday, December 31, 2008

I've been having the Scammers On:

Gentleman:

First I must remark that only a firm of the highest stature could possibly hold offices on the grounds of the John Rylands University Library. Do you also lecture in Law Studies?



FULL NAMES: Troy Evitt
RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: 411 Picket St.
POSTAL ADDRESS:Columbia, SC, 29154
EMAIL ADDRESS;zarathustra10@hotmail.com AND FAX NUMBERS:N/A
PHONE 843 991-5658
OCCUPATION:Agriculture Onion Boy Farms
PLACE OF BIRTH;
AGE;
CITIZENSHIP;
SCANNED COPY OF A VALID IDENTIFICATION.

IN YOUR RESPONSE TO THIS EMAIL TO ENABLE ME PREPARE THE DOCUMENTATIONS,AS SOON AS I AM DONE I WOULD SEND THE DOCUMENTS TO THE BANK AT ONCE, SO THAT YOU CAN CONTACT THE UK BANK AND GET THE FUNDS WHICH NOVEL FRANCES ANNE INTEND TO TRANSFER AND DEPOSIT IN YOUR ACCOUNT.

YOU HAVE TO CONSIDER YOURSELF A LUCKY INDIVIDUAL TO HAVE COME IN CONTACT WITH THE NOVEL FAMILY.

YOU HAVE BEEN NOMINATED TO GET THIS FUNDS AS A RESULT OF THE FACT THAT SHE IS VERY SICK AND WISH TO FULFILL THE WILL AND WISHES OF HER LATE HUSBAND THE HONORABLE SIR NOVELL AND YOU COULD EFFECTIVELY GET THIS FUND THROUGH THE UK BANK WHERE THE FUNDS IS DEPOSITED WITHOUT MUCH DIFFICULTY DUE TO TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENT WITH THE HELP OF ONLINE BANK TRANSFER.

I WILL WAIT TO HEAR FROM YOU.

Ron Parker & Associates, London, UK
150 Deansgate,Manchester M3 3EH
UNITED KINGDOM.
Tel: +44 703 195 4726
+44 703 195 6842

Fax: +(44)870-471-3395

Sunday, December 28, 2008

This German Company Needs New P.R.

And, if you read the whole thing, It Only Gets Worse!

For over 120 years the name FAG has been synonymous with high quality rolling bearings. In 1883, Friedrich Fischer designed a ball grinding machine in Schweinfurt, Germany. that, for the first time, made it possible to produce absolutely round steel balls by grinding.regarded as the This is one of the reasons why FAG has long been considered to be a pioneer in rolling bearing technology.

Company

[FAG Bearings Show]

fag bearingsThe FAG brand started with an ingenious idea. In 1883, Friedrich Fischer designed a ball grinding machine in Schweinfurt, Germany that, for the first time, made it possible to produce absolutely round steel balls by grinding. This invention is regarded as the foundation for the entire rolling bearing industry.

This is one of the reasons why FAG has long been considered to be a pioneer in rolling bearing technology. Today, FAG is one of the leading brands for applications in machine building, the automotive industry and in aviation and aerospace technology. The Schaeffler Group's FAG brand has companies, subsidiaries and sales agencies in all major industrial countries.

Since 2001, FAG has been part of the Schaeffler Group and has been active in all of the group’s divisions – Aerospace, Automotive and Industrial. Together with INA’s complementary product range, FAG has one of the widest product portfolios in the rolling bearing industry, covering nearly all applications in production machinery, power transmission and rail technology, heavy industry and consumer products.

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

My Greeting.

A recent email exchange and a discussion with one of my younger, and more fetching I might add, gutiar/bass students (She's an adult, if only barely, you catch-a-predator fans) sparked a bit of Google "research". This student of mine is planning to go Ophelia on everybody and commit herself to MUSC's psych ward in beautiful Downtown Charleston for the holidays. A Sociology major, she's intrigued about the





While the media has grossly overshot the mark, claiming a non-existent increase in suicide rates over the holidays, there is one logical explanation, the kernal of truth if you will.





Mental Health

Seasonal Affective Disorder

What is Seasonal Affective Disorder?

Seasonal Affective Disorder, or SAD, is mood disorder characterized by mental depression related to a certain season of the year - especially winter. Onset usually occurs during adulthood, and it is four times more likely to happen to women than men. Approximately 11 million people are diagnosed with this disorder, which has been incorrectly referred to as "winter blues."

SAD is a clinical diagnosis accepted in the medical community. Dr. Norman E. Rosenthal, Chief of Environmental Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health is the researcher credited with discovering SAD.

What are the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder?

  • daytime drowsiness
  • fatigue, or low energy level
  • decreased sex drive
  • diminished concentration
  • difficulty thinking clearly
  • tendency to overeat sweets and carbohydrates causing weight gain

Decreased sunlight is thought to be part of the cause of SAD, and is under clinical investigation. One treatment for SAD, which seems to improve the symptoms, is exposure to bright light, especially in the morning.

I just like that seasonal effective disorder is abbreviated "S.A.D." Like "Funtionaly Unqualified to Care Knowlegably for Extended Duration", often used to describe HMO's.

Holiday Suicide Myth
A higher rate of suicide during the holidays is a media myth.

Email This Article Email Article
Printer Friendly Printer Friendly


The idea that more people kill themselves around the winter holidays is a myth that the media have


little interest in correcting, according to a study from the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. In an analysis of newspaper articles about suicide between Thanksgiving and Christmas in 1999, researchers found nearly half of them associated suicide with the winter holidays, despite receiving press releases warning journalists that such associations don’t seem to be warranted. Suicides drop during the winter months, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, and they usually peak during the spring months. Researchers caution that the flurry of articles on holiday suicides could actually inspire “copycat” suicides. Exposure to suicide methods may encourage vulnerable individuals to imitate them, the study warns.



So it's likely the coincidence of Thanksgiving-Yuletide-New Years with the Winter Solstice that causes the Winter Time Holiday Blues. You don't hear about an increase in suicide rates around Easter-July 4th, in other words.


Now, I would like to vent. For those of you who insist on insisting that Jesus is the Reason for the Season, I would like to point out that the early Christian church did not observe the Nativity for any reason, at any time of year. Period. They were Jewish at heart.

25 December marked the Saternalia observance, linked to the birth-death cycle of the pagan god Mythra. This date is also 4 days into the Winter Soltice or Yuletide of the Northern and Norse Europeans by the time Catholicism found its way into Viking lands, the Church had adopted the 25th of December as a Christianized Holy Day and merely absorbed more pagan, or heathen, trappings of Solstice observance as it forced its Helenistic gobbledy gook down the throats of perfectly nature-based "White" people.

So, Jesus is not only not the reason for the season, Santa Clause IS!


Prior to St. Nicholas, or St. Anybody for that matter, the Yuletide tradition held that the Viking god Odin/Wotan would go flying about visting homes and claiming the elderly and ill, for whom winter would only be a cause of suffering. He was more Kevorkian than Clause, really.


Merry Mary!