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15261. arkymalarky - 5/31/2005 9:26:40 PM I hope things go well for your brother, Thoughtful. He's Bob's age, and your description of him sounds like Bob ten years ago: heavy smoker, beer drinker, overweight and underactive, ate anything and everything he wanted. Bob quit smoking and never was much of a drinker, but when he got diabetes he turned all that around and has maintained his weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, and everything else, so it can certainly happen. He drinks some (it actually helps control blood sugar if you are very moderate), but very rarely beer. I don't think he's had more than two or three in the last year. 15262. Ms. No - 5/31/2005 9:38:28 PM The Celtic designs look pretty challenging -- easy to miss a line/cut or to cut through some line you're not supposed to. The one we'll be doing is fairly simple, but I downloaded a pattern for a Celtic Cross that makes my hand cramp just to look at. 15263. Ms. No - 5/31/2005 9:45:01 PM Here's an Al Stohlman pattern
15264. thoughtful - 5/31/2005 9:47:38 PM Thanks Arky, I hope you're right. But knowing my brother, he's always been one to take the easy road and has never been one for self discipline. He's also never been one to take responsiblity for his own actions...everything is someone else's fault. So I don't hold out much hope. But there's always a chance...
15265. arkymalarky - 5/31/2005 10:26:03 PM The diabetes diagnosis right after watching his father die a slow and unpleasant death from cancer after two heart surgeries did it for Bob, but then he had to sustain it himself, which required a real change in his whole personality and attitude. If I had put money on his success I'd have lost bigtime, because I'd have bet against him. For so many people, including Bob's father, major surgery meant positive talk and a few moderate lifestyle changes that didn't last long before they were back to their old ways. Bob's dad never drank or smoked, but he didn't eat well or exercise. 15266. arkymalarky - 5/31/2005 10:27:47 PM That's a really cool craft to pick up, No. Once you get going, bring your work down to some of the AR festivals and it will sell well. 15267. Ms. No - 5/31/2005 10:47:33 PM I've probably got two solid years of making belts and handbags for family members before I'm off the hook there and can make any kind of surplus items for sale.
Just as well, though, I'm pleased with my progress, but I imagine I'll look like an amateur for a good long while. 15268. Magoseph - 6/1/2005 12:07:00 AM After you finish making belts and handbags for the family, I want to be your first client, Ms. No. 15269. judithathome - 6/1/2005 1:05:36 AM I want a bookcover...you can even make it paperback sized. ;-) 15270. jayackroyd - 6/1/2005 1:21:21 AM Well, Ms. No, if you (or any of the whizzes here) are short on cash, here's a great CraigsList opportunity:
We are a startup adult video production company. We have no money, no backers, nothing but decent content, a head full of good ideas, a really great, copyrighted logo, and some really awesome models who also are enthusiastic about getting involved in adult video.
We need a webmaster who will set up the first "real" incarnation of our website. Preferably, you would be someone with experience in setting up an active, functioning adult site, knowledgable about 18 USC 2257 (although we WILL have our attorneys audit the site before it goes live - as none of us wants to go to jail!), etc. We want the ability to link to an outside site which is handling all of our fulfillment (so we don't need to worry about e-commerce features), we want a "legal warnings" front-end that ascertains the age and intent of visitors to the site and provides some sort of e-signature mechanism for validating their acceptance of the terms and conditions (I saw a pretty good one on southern-charms.com), and then drops them into the front page, where we 1) talk about our new releases, 2) talk about our models, 3) link to pics of the models and 4) link to the model's own page - which needs to have a blog for the model to make journal entries, the ability of the fans to leave comments (moderated, of course), and for the model's page to also link back to the distribution/fulfillment site so visitors can make purchases using that entity.
I think it sounds more complex than it really is, and I'd bet there's probably something templated and turn-key that we can exploit. We're not doing anything obscene or even terribly explicit - the website is all about the tease. We're selling the sizzle, not the steak. Everything on the website should be designed to get the visitor to buy the video.
Anyway, would love to hear back from interested people with your thoughts. My budget for this phase is $100. I realize it's worth more, but that's all we can afford at present, and I'm hoping to find someone local who wants to be involved - clearly, if we're profitable, I'd love to have an ongoing and permanent relationship with a webmaster, and at that point, the compensation would be much more in step with our profitability. My alternative to finding someone local is to find someone offshore, which I can do, but I hope to avoid.
Emphasis added. 15271. Magoseph - 6/1/2005 10:05:55 AM If you are lurking in this thread, remember that we often have France, Ireland, and Sweden on-line, namely AlistairConnor, Macnas, and PelleNilsson.
Good morning, Mac! 15272. Macnas - 6/1/2005 10:23:28 AM Dia dhuit ar maidin Mago. 15273. alistairconnor - 6/1/2005 10:50:05 AM aaaah yeah gudday.
(wearing my other national hat today)
or even,
Tena koe Makotepe. 15274. PelleNilsson - 6/1/2005 11:09:55 AM Sabah al-khair! 15275. alistairconnor - 6/1/2005 11:24:43 AM $100 eh? Sounds OK to me.
... Oh? they don't mean : $100 an hour?
I guess they'll find someone who'll do it for ... love.
We want the ability to link to an outside site which is handling all of our fulfillment [...] the website is all about the tease. We're selling the sizzle, not the steak.
... you want fulfillment, you go elsewhere. 15276. Magoseph - 6/1/2005 11:25:44 AM If you are lurking in this thread, remember that we often have France, Ireland, and Sweden on-line, namely AlistairConnor, Macnas, and PelleNilsson.
What I meant to say is that the above posters are in this forum early in the morning.
Thank you, Ali, Mac, and Pelle--good sports that you are!
15277. PelleNilsson - 6/1/2005 11:50:18 AM That was Arabic, of course. The correct response is 'sabah-al-noor' (noor as in Queen Noor means 'light' or 'shine')
In Swedish it is 'God morgon!' pronounced, and sometimes written, as 'gomorron' stress on the second syllable. 15278. Magoseph - 6/1/2005 1:40:48 PM A Zogby quiz I took yesterday--I'll give you the answers later, of course.
1. For drivers of any age, what percentage of decisions made while driving are based on information received through the eyes?
1. 70%
2. 80%
3. 90%
4. 100%
2. On average, for how many additional years is a 70-74 year old driver likely to continue driving?
1. 3
2. 5
3. 7
4. 11
3. Under which of the following conditions are drivers 55 years of age and older more likely than drivers 16 to 34 years of age to have accidents?
1. During the evening and early morning,
2. At intersections
3. During adverse weather
4. Traveling at high speeds
4. By 2030, what percentage of traffic fatalities is expected to involve drivers 65 and over?
1. 15%
2. 25%
3. 5%
4. 5%
5. The amount of light a driver needs to drive safely doubles about every:
1. 3 years
2. 7 years
3. 13 years
4. 20 years
6. Which of the following is the best predictor of increased vehicle crashes among drivers 55 years of age and older?
1. Early Alzheimer’s disease
2. Field of view
3. Age
4. Hearing Loss
7. Under which of the following conditions have drivers 65 years of age and older been found to have greater likelihood of accidents than drivers 26 to 40 years of age?
1. Nighttime
2. In a hurry
3. Distraction by non-driving activities
4. Normal Driving Conditions
8. When are older drivers most prone to sleepiness?
1. After breakfast
2. Around noon
3. In mid afternoon
4. In the evening
9. Among drivers 65 to 79 years of age, how does the presence of passengers affect the risk of making unsafe driving actions?
1. Decreases risk
2. Has no effect on risk
3. Increases risk
10. Compared to vehicle occupants under 65 years of age, occupants 65 years of age and older are more like to be injured in front, rear, or side-impact crashes?
1. Front-impact
2. Side-impact
3. Rear-impact
11. Increased susceptibility to what kinds of injuries make the risk of fatalities in crashes greater for people 65 years of age and older compared to those under 65 years of age?
1. Head injuries
2. Chest injuries
3. Hip fractures
12. Renewing the license of a 70-year-oldmale driver for another year poses more, the same, or less threat to other road users than renewing the license of a 40-year-oldmale driver?
1. More
2. The Same
3. Less
13. Which of the following state motor vehicle license renewal processes has been found to be associated with lower fatality rate among drivers 85 years of age and older?
1. More frequent license renewal cycles
2. In-person renewal
3. Vision tests
14. Compared to a 16-year-old a 55-year-old takes how much longer to recover from glare?
1. 2 times
2. 4 times
3. 6 times
4. 8 times
15. Compared to teen-age drivers, are drivers 85 years of age and older less likely, equally likely, or more likely to be involved in a fatal crash?
1. Less likely
2. Equally likely
3. More likely
15279. jayackroyd - 6/1/2005 3:04:47 PM Not only will I answer, I will give reasons for my answers.
Here's to an 0 for 15 performance.
1.3 100% is obviously false. Any less than 90% is stupid. Blind people can't drive at all.
2.4 Kids take the keys away in the mid 80s in my experience
3.3 That's when I've most narrowly avoided accidents with drivers of that age.
4. 3 or 4, depending on which was suppposd to be 15%. Old people don't drive fast enough or often enough to get in fatalities. But there are gonna be a lot more of them soon.
5.4 the power of exponential growth makes any other answer implausible.
6.4 I'd expect that hearing loss has a cocoon like effect, reducing response rates to all stimuli in a driving setting.
7.1 I hear that complaint all the time from my senior citizen acquaintences.
8.3 Like everybody else.
9.1 LOOK OUT GRANDMA!!!
10.2 those intersections again
11.3 multiple choice test bias. hip injuries are more frequent in the population of old people, which is what the question is really asking.
12.2 renewing is the key here.
13.2 People are the best assessors of risk
14.4 I don't see any 15 year olds with those humungo wraparoung all plastic, even the temples, sunglasses
15.1 they drive less, they drive slower, they don't drive drunk and they drive at low risk times. 15280. judithathome - 6/1/2005 3:54:09 PM I'm going at noon for a rally of MoveOn.Org people who are delivering a petition to Kay Grainger's office for the removal of Tom Delay from his job. This should be fun.
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