What do you see here?

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Look at this video.  When you see the young man throwing money into the air–$100 bills–what do you notice?

Do you see a man who is outrageously happy?

He sure looks that way to me. 

This young man is Qawmane Wilson.  His mother, Yolanda Holmes, was murdered by an intruder and upon her death her son, Qawmane, inherited her savings and got payout from her life insurance policies.

Qawmane Wilson appears to be throwing his inheritance to the wind to feed his ego, doesn’t he?  You’d never have a clue how he got it by watching his emotions alone. You’d have to know the back story.

Police say Qawmane killed his mother to gain access to her money.

Make you sick?

Read the story here.

How Emotions Affect the Body

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by Bart (click for more info)

When you feel an emotion, are you aware of how it affects your body?  Science Daily has an interesting article about how different emotions trigger sensations to different parts of our body. And they found that across cultures, people reported the same sensations — hence supporting, again, that our emotions are biological in orgin (which I believe 100%).

There is a fascinating thermal photo in the article — don’t forget to check it out—showing where people sensed changes when feeling specific emotions–check it out. It’s quite fascinating!

Thanks to those of you who sent this to me.

Dateline: Killing in Cottonwood

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If you caught Dateline Friday night, they profiled the story of Mark & Karen Duenas.   One night Mark woke up when he heard a noise and found his wife Karen stabbed multiple times.  Mark says he had nothing to do with Karen’s murder. Karen died as a result of her injuries and Mark was eventually convicted of her murder after two trials. The first trial however voted to acquit 9-3, but one juror hung it up.

Having watched the show, I did not see any hot spots in Mark’s behavior.  This was an interesting case that left me wanting to see more of Mark.

I did find it odd that his “texting friend” testified that Mark said for anything to happen between them something “bad” would have to happen to his wife. That was the only red flag I found…which is not conclusive.

What did you think?

5th HP Hard Drive Failure

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I have owned an HP TouchSmart computer (sleek looking but it ended there) that has repeatedly had hard drive failures. Today was my 5th –yes 5th–you read that right, and last one!  I averaged a hard drive failure every 12 months.  Thank you, HP!

I managed to get HP to replace them through multiple calls to corporate, thankfully, but the joy was always short-lived.  It ALWAYS went on the crash again. The last replacement was January 9, 2012. Two years later and I am here again for the fifth and last time.

I”m finished!

This time, luckily, I am running two backup drive and hope they captured all the data I have on my hard drive. I just installed the second one two weeks ago!  Whew.

I was having keyboard issues the past few weeks, which I managed to resolve this morning, and then upon a reboot this afternoon, nothing worked.  Windows tried to launch and couldn’t. The PC tried to start and said there was a failure to try to do a recovery.  I tried three recoveries and nothing happened.  Then I ran a system check and up came this error.  The dreaded hard drive failure error.

Off to buy a new desktop PC. Any recommendations are most welcome.  I know many people swear by Apple, however, with my clients primarily on windows, I don’t think it is a wise move for me.

Bear with me now as it will take some time to get my office up and running again. I will be online on my laptop in the meantime but I have a lot of work to do to get things back to where they were.