My condolences, then, to you and all the other soccer fans who are forced to drink the piss many call beer over here. Do the Europeans actually consume the stuff, or do they just smuggle the good stuff into the stadium?
I myself am a microbrew kinda guy, and won't go neer the stuff they put out. I will most likely try this new stuff, if for no other reason than to say I tried it, but I don't have high hopes. The last thing the market needs is more girly beer, but I guess Anheuser wanted to get some of that action.
Whether you want to classify ADD/ADHD as a disease or not does not address the issue at hand. Many people have this problem. For some, medication helps. For others, it does not, or can do harm.
I myself was diagnosed as a child with ADD. For a while, I took medication. However, I have been off the medication for many years now, learning how to cope with this problem in my own ways.
When I was young, I was asked to try something called biofeedback. It is the closest thing to what the original post described that we had back in the late 80s. However, instead of wearing sensors on your head and monitoring brain waves, you wore two sensors on your fingers. These, from what I recall, monitored electrical impluses passing through your body. A noise was generated, based on the level of this noise. The idea was that by concentrating, you could slow the impulses, thereby slowing the noise, until it finally stopped. Rather than "messing with your brain" it simply provided a measurement for relaxation. By learning to stop the sound, you taught yourself how to relax. Eventually, this would teach you how to do it on your own, with out feedback. One of my problems as a child was stressing over timed tests. This was an attempt to teach me how to relax in such situations.
I'm not sure how helpful this was for me, or how helpful this new technique is. However, don't be so quick to judge such methods. They may be a helpful tool to allow people to deal with their problems.
To all of you out there who have this, or know someone who does, I hope you find something that helps you. As someone who had/has this problem, I sympathize. Best of luck to you all.
Part of what made/makes Blackburg so wired is not it's DSL, but the Ethernet which is wired into the some of the apartments. While it did suffer from a slump a few years ago, the amount of fiber in town seems to have been growing again, and more places are getting wired.
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My condolences, then, to you and all the other soccer fans who are forced to drink the piss many call beer over here. Do the Europeans actually consume the stuff, or do they just smuggle the good stuff into the stadium?
I myself am a microbrew kinda guy, and won't go neer the stuff they put out. I will most likely try this new stuff, if for no other reason than to say I tried it, but I don't have high hopes. The last thing the market needs is more girly beer, but I guess Anheuser wanted to get some of that action.
because I know it's a lightsaber not a lightsaver.
Whether you want to classify ADD/ADHD as a disease or not does not address the issue at hand. Many people have this problem. For some, medication helps. For others, it does not, or can do harm.
I myself was diagnosed as a child with ADD. For a while, I took medication. However, I have been off the medication for many years now, learning how to cope with this problem in my own ways.
When I was young, I was asked to try something called biofeedback. It is the closest thing to what the original post described that we had back in the late 80s. However, instead of wearing sensors on your head and monitoring brain waves, you wore two sensors on your fingers. These, from what I recall, monitored electrical impluses passing through your body. A noise was generated, based on the level of this noise. The idea was that by concentrating, you could slow the impulses, thereby slowing the noise, until it finally stopped. Rather than "messing with your brain" it simply provided a measurement for relaxation. By learning to stop the sound, you taught yourself how to relax. Eventually, this would teach you how to do it on your own, with out feedback. One of my problems as a child was stressing over timed tests. This was an attempt to teach me how to relax in such situations.
I'm not sure how helpful this was for me, or how helpful this new technique is. However, don't be so quick to judge such methods. They may be a helpful tool to allow people to deal with their problems.
To all of you out there who have this, or know someone who does, I hope you find something that helps you. As someone who had/has this problem, I sympathize. Best of luck to you all.
Part of what made/makes Blackburg so wired is not it's DSL, but the Ethernet which is wired into the some of the apartments. While it did suffer from a slump a few years ago, the amount of fiber in town seems to have been growing again, and more places are getting wired.
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What if the Hokie Pokie really is what it's all about?