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Students who are interested in majoring in psychology may be wondering , "Just what can I do with a degree in psychology? What occupational choices will I have?" These are common question! The sections below will provide information on the types of jobs and opportunities afforded to psychology majors.
QUESTIONS OFTEN ASKED BY CAREER-SEEKING PSYCHOLOGY STUDENTS
The following three questions are often asked by psychology majors who are interested in entering the job market immediately after graduation. Johnson (1988, p. 7-8) has given the following answers:
ARE THERE JOBS AVAILABLE FOR PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS?
In 1986, the National Science Foundation published a report that suggested a bright future for employment of psychology majors. The report indicated that one year after graduation, 90% of the psychology majors entering the labor force were employed. After two years that figure rose to 94%. Those are encouraging figures when you consider the fact that 40,000 psychology majors graduate every year and nearly half of them enter the labor force immediately.
IF I WANT TO MAJOR IN PSYCHOLOGY AND THEN GO INTO SOME OTHER CAREER AREA, WILL MY PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR HELP ME OR HINDER ME?
The psychology major is not a panacea (in other words, it will not be the best undergraduate training program for all careers). But you will find large numbers of persons who have their basic undergraduate training in psychology in a diversity of professions. For example, it is not uncommon to find lawyers who earned a bachelor's degree in psychology before they went to law school. Medical and dental schools often admit psychology majors who have good academic records and supplemented their majors with courses in the biological and physical sciences. It is also not uncommon to find psychology majors going to graduate school in business or social work. Many others are employed in social welfare settings or as counselors of various types (e.g., rehabilitation). So don't feel as though the psychology major limits your ability to find a job; it does not. Your marketability will be related to several other factors (such as your grades, skills, personality, and extracurricular activities).
FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, WILL I REGRET MY DECISION TO MAJOR IN PSYCHOLOGY?
Studies indicate that you will be very satisfied with your bachelor's degree in psychology. In a study of 797 University of Washington graduates in psychology, nearly 70% said if they had it to do over again, they would still major in psychology (Lunneborg and Wilson, 1982). Additionally, these graduates indicated that their degree in psychology was very satisfying as a means to personal growth and a liberal arts education. If these statistics are an indication of satisfaction of psychology majors i n general, then you will be probably be very happy that you majored in psychology.
JOB SKILLS POSSESSED BY PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS
"When people consider the question 'What am I able to do with a Bachelor's degree in psychology?', they are usually thinking about what kind of job they might get. But there is another way of looking at this question that you should consider as part of your career planning. That is, you should seriously think about what you are able to do in terms of the skills you may have acquired while majoring in psychology" (Edwards. 1989, p. 1). These wise words are the introduction to the following lists of skills that Edwards compiled for his students at Loyola University which have been modified and expanded to fit Indiana State University.
Students should realize that they may not develop these skills if they do not take full advantage of all their undergraduate opportunities (e.g., research and extracurricular activities). It is also equally important to obtain a broad, liberal education in addition to these specific skills. Because job markets are shifting constantly, it is crucial to avoid overspecialization and to strive for flexibility.
HUMAN SERVICES SKILLS
These are skills necessary for successful employment in situations where direct services are provided to individuals who are in need of help.
Perform institutional research and evaluation.
Write reports and proposals clearly and objectively.
Organize and lead groups, organizations, or committees.
Recognize and understand behavioral and emotional disorders.
Select, administer, score, and interpret psychological tests.
Respond in an unbiased and tolerant way to individual differences.
Display fundamental counseling skills with individuals and groups.
Collect, record, and report statistical and qualitative information.
Perform crisis intervention techniques (e.g., listening and referral).
Perform interviews to learn about people's history, problems, and plans.
Contribute to program or treatment planning, evaluation, and implementation.
Demonstrate small group skills (e.g., team building and conflict management).
Communicate effectively and sensitively in both individual and group situations.
Obtain information about problems through library research and personal contacts.
Critically evaluate theories and research and apply the results to solve problems.
Analyze problems on the basis of personal experience and psychological principles.
Understand and modify your attitudes and actions in interactions with other people.
These are some of the types of skills essential to jobs in which information based on basic or applied research is provided to assist decision making.
Construct and administer questionnaires.
Use a variety of types of research equipment.
Collect, organize, analyze, and interpret data.
Present verbal presentations clearly and persuasively.
Defend ideas in a clear, objective, and non-dogmatic manner.
Be familiar with a variety of research methods and designs.
Recruit research participants and treat them in an ethical manner.
Select, administer, score, and interpret various psychological tests.
Write reports clearly, concisely, objectively, and in the correct style.
Use library resources to research problems and prepare literature reviews.
Identify problems and suggest solutions on the basis of research findings.
Create easily understood graphs, tables, and verbal descriptions of results.
Select and compute appropriate statistical tests and interpret their results.
Assemble, interpret, and critically analyze research findings in specific areas.
Use computers to write reports, analyze data, and perform bibliographic searches.
Deal effectively with financial, temporal, and personnel constraints on research.
WHAT DO EMPLOYERS LOOK FOR IN PSYCHOLOGY MAJORS THEY INTERVIEW?
The items in the three major categories of the following outline (taken directly from Edwards and Smith, 1988) are arranged in descending order of importance as rated by a large sample of employers from Midwestern government, nonprofit, and commercial agencies, organizations, and companies that often hire undergraduate psychology majors. Psychology students are urged to take advantage of all their undergraduate opportunities to maximize the attainments of these skills, abilities, knowledge, and personal traits.
SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Writing proposals and reports
Identifying and solving problems based on research and knowledge of behavior
Performing statistical analyses
Designing and conducting research projects
Performing job analyses
Coding data
Using computer programs to analyze data
Systematically observing and recording behavior
Constructing tests and questionnaires
Administering standardized tests
Formation and change of attitudes and opinions
Principles and techniques of personnel selection
How people think, solve problems, and process information
Structure and dynamics of small groups
Effects of the environment on people's feelings and actions
Principles of human learning and memory
How people perceive and sense their environment
Theories and research on personality and individual differences
Principles of human needs and motivation
Theories and research on organizational behavior, work, and productivity
Theories and research on human development and stages of life
Symptoms, causes, and treatments of abnormal behaviors
PERSONAL TRAITS
Ability to work with others in a team
Motivation to work hard
Positive attitude toward work and the organization
Ability to communicate well
Tolerance for stress and ambiguity
DO YOU PREPARE FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL AND A JOB IN THE SAME WAY?
The two most common options available to college graduates are finding a job or going to graduate school. Therefore, a question they often ask their academic advisers is: "How do I get into graduate school?" or "How do I get a job?" These questions should be addressed early in an undergraduate's college career because the answers are often very unpleasant if the student has not engaged in appropriate career-planning activities during the freshman and sophomore years and carried through on these plans as a junior and senior.
The first step in this process involves the student's decision to pursue:
a career that requires a graduate degree, or
a job in a field for which graduate education is unnecessary.
The second step is to determine the set of factors that will in crease the probability of success in that career plan. The third step is to maximize these factors.
To assist academic advisers in their attempt to help students answer these questions and maximize their chances of post-graduate success, Milton, Pollio, and Elson (1986) performed a survey of 362 representatives of business and industry who were actively involved in interviewing and hiring college graduates and 500 college faculty from the areas of natural science, social science, the humanities, and pre-professional programs. The task of the members of these samples was to rate the importance of each of the factors in the following 15 item lists on a 1 to 7 scale depending upon "the value or degree of importance they placed on each of the 15 possible pieces of information when reviewing the materials submitted by recent college graduates for either employment in their firm or for admission to graduate school." The two following lists are arranged in descending order of these ratings, with "1" rated as the most important.
RANKINGS BY BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES
Personality of student
Grades in major courses
Nature of non-college jobs
Overall grade point average
Breadth of courses taken
School/Recommender reputation
Breadth of life experiences
Publications, awards, honors
Number of difficult courses
Samples of student writing
Affirmative action needs
Contributions to the school
Standardized test scores
RANKINGS BY COLLEGE FACULTY
Publications, honors, awards
It appears from these lists that employers and graduate schools put emphasis on very different factors when they weigh the qualifications of newly graduated college students. A check of the top five factors indicates that employers appear to be most impressed with job applicants who possess a good personality, earn high grades in both their majors and a wide variety of other courses, and have relevant employment experience outside the college environment. Graduate schools are most impressed with undergraduates who earn high grades in their majors, take difficult courses, are good writers, earn high recommendations, and have publications, honors, or awards to their credit. In addition, students interested in clinical psychology should obtain clinical experience.
Undergraduates should study these lists during the early stages of their college careers when they are engaged in initial career-planning activities. Their willingness and ability to successfully attain these factors will have a profound effect upon their chances of post-graduate success!
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION WITHIN PSYCHOLOGY
The psychology department provides its students with both a well-rounded education and the opportunity to explore specific areas of psychology in which they have special interests. Graduate education is a process of further refinement during which students become increasingly more proficient in, and knowledgeable of, an area of psychological specialization. The following descriptions from APA's 'Careers in Psychology' booklet will serve as an introduction for students who are pursuing careers that require graduate education in a specialized area of psychology.
Clinical psychologists assess and treat people with psychological problems. They may act as therapists for people experiencing normal psychological crises (e.g., grief) or for individuals suffering from chronic psychiatric disorders. Some clinical psychologists are generalists who work with a wide variety of populations, whereas others work with specific groups like children, the elderly, or those with specific disorders (e.g., schizophrenia). Clinical psychologists may be found in hospitals, community health centers, or private practice.
Community psychologists are concerned with everyday behavior in natural settings -- the home, the neighborhood, and the workplace. They seek to understand the factors that contribute to normal and abnormal behavior in these settings. Community psychologists also work to promote health and prevent disorder.
Counseling psychologists do many of the same things that clinical psychologists do. However, counseling psychologists tend to focus more on persons with adjustment problems, rather than on persons suffering from severe psychological disorders. Counseling psychologists are employed in academic settings, community mental health centers, and private practice. Recent research tends to indicate that training in counseling and clinical psychology are very similar.
Developmental psychologists study how we develop intellectually, socially, emotionally, and morally during our lifespan. Some developmentalists focus on just one period of life (e.g., childhood or adolescence) whereas others study the entire life course. Developmental psychologists usually do research and teach in academic settings, but many act as consultants to child-care centers, schools, or social service agencies.
Educational psychologists are concerned with the study of human learning. Educational psychologists attempt to understand the basic aspects of learning and then develop materials and strategies for enhancing the learning process. For example, an educational psychologist might study reading and develop a new technique for teaching reading from the results of their research.
Environmental psychologists are concerned with the relations between psychological processes and physical environments ranging from homes and offices to urban areas and regions. Environmental psychologists may do research on attitudes toward different environments, personal space, or the effects on productivity of different office designs.
FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY
Family psychologists are concerned with the prevention of family conflict, the treatment of marital and family problems, and the maintenance of normal family functioning. Family psychologists design and conduct programs for marital enrichment, pre-marital preparation, and improved parent-child relations. They also conduct research on topics such as child abuse, family communications patterns, and the effects of divorce and remarriage. Family psychologists are often employed in medical schools, hospitals, community agencies, and in private practice.
FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY OR PSYCHOLOGY AND LAW
Psychology and the law studies legal issues from a psychological perspective (e.g., how juries decide cases) and psychological questions in a legal context (e.g., how jurors assign blame or responsibility for a crime). Forensic psychologists are concerned with the applied and clinical facets of the law such as determining a defendant's competence to stand trial or if an accident victim has suffered physical or neurological damage. Jobs in these areas are in law schools, research organizations, community mental health agencies, and correctional institutions.
Health psychologists are concerned with psychology's contributions to the promotion and maintenance of good health and the prevention and treatment of illness. Health psychologists may design and conduct programs to help individuals stop smoking, lose weight, manage stress, prevent cavities, or stay physically fit. They are employed in hospitals, medical schools, rehabilitation centers, public health agencies, and in private practice.
INDUSTRIAL/ORGANIZATION PSYCHOLOGY
Industrial/Organizational (I/O) psychologists are primarily concerned with the relationships between people and their work environments. They may develop new ways to increase productivity or be involved in personnel selection. You can find I/O psychologists in businesses, industry, government agencies, and colleges and universities. I/O psychologists are probably the most highly paid psychologists.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGY OR PSYCHOBIOLOGY
Psychobiologists and neuropsychologists investigate the relation between physical systems and behavior. It is one of psychology's hottest areas. These psychologists study both very basic processes (e.g., how brain cells function) and more observable phenomena (e.g., behavior change as a function of drug use or the biological/genetic roots of psychiatric disorders). Some continue their education in clinical areas and work with people who have neurological problems.
PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN
The psychology of women is the study of psychological and social factors affecting women's development and behavior. The field includes the study of stereotypes about women, the relation of hormones to behavior, women's achievements in science and mathematics, the development of gender roles and identity, sexuality, psychological problems of women, and sexual abuse of women and girls. Psychologists focusing on the psychology of women are found in academic settings and a variety of clinical settings.
PSYCHOMETRICS OR QUANTITATIVE PSYCHOLOGY
Psychometric and quantitative psychologists are concerned with the methods and techniques used to acquire and apply psychological knowledge. A psychometrist revises old intelligence, personality, and aptitude tests and devises new ones. Quantitative psychologists assist researchers in psychology or other fields to design experiments or interpret their results. Psychometrists and quantitative psychologists are often employed in colleges and universities, testing companies, private research firms, and government agencies.
Rehabilitation psychologists work with people who have suffered physical deprivation or loss at birth or during later development as a result of damage or deterioration of function (e.g., resulting from a stroke). They help people overcome both the psychological and situational barriers to effective functioning in the world. They work in hospitals, rehabilitation centers, medical schools, and in government rehabilitation agencies.
School psychologists are involved in the development of children in educational settings. School psychologists are typically involved in the assessment of children and the recommendation of actions to facilitate students' learning. They often act as consultants to parents and administrators to optimize the learning environments of specific students.
Social psychologists study how our beliefs, feelings, and behaviors are affected by other persons. Some of the topics of interest to social psychologists are attitudes, aggression, prejudice, love, and interpersonal attraction. Most social psychologists are on the faculty of colleges and universities, but an increasing number are being hired by hospitals, federal agencies, and businesses to perform applied research.
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Hindutva activists may want to tear Muslims and Hindus apart through love jihad and ghar wapsi campaigns, but metropolitan middle-class Hindus thronged to see Haider, some even silently shed a tear for the Kashmiri Muslim hero. Jingoists may propagate violent rhetoric against Pakistan as a dog whistle for majoritarian nationalism, but PK, Raju Hirani's clever comic caper lampooning Hindu godmen, is reportedly the biggest grosser in the history of Bollywood, and wild-eyed agitators for a ban on the film have been roundly outvoted by the vast majority of moviegoers.
Sadhvi Niranjan and Yogi Adityanath may conjure up hatred in the quest for votes, Muzaffarnagar riots may bring poll dividends, but from the 'Khanate' of Bollywood to the Hamid Ansari-led Rajya Sabha to India's tennis torch-bearer Sania Mirza to business legends Yusuf Hamied and Azim Premji to the cricketing quicksilver of Zaheer Khan and the Pathan brothers, India's exceptional Muslim citizens are icons whose achievements are proudly, subliminally claimed by Indian nationalism even if the 'Muslim' is apparently antithetical to it.
Yet today with Hindutva forces on overdrive, by inevitable reflex action, Muslim victimhood and permanent sense of injury once again threaten to bury Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's dream of a Hindu-Muslim rainbow nation.
The rising star of 'Muslim' politics is now the rumbustious Asaduddin Owaisi, leader of MIM, the Hyderabad city MP, once dismissed as a 'fringe' element, but now positioning himself as a 'national' leader whose party rather impressively won two seats in the Maharashtra assembly elections, one more than Raj Thackeray's MNS.
Owaisi plans to contest the Delhi and Bihar elections this year, both state elections where the Muslim vote can make a difference. In a sort of counter to ghar wapsi and to RSS sarsanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat saying every Indian's cultural identity is Hindutva, Owaisi has roared that every Indian — or person — is born a Muslim.
45-year-old Owaisi is fast becoming the Muslim opposite number to saffron politics, a claimant to being the sole spokesman who once warned of a 'third wave of Muslim radicalisation' after the Assam riots and whose intolerant cadres attacked Taslima Nasreen. Owaisi appeals massively to the young Muslim's rage and victimhood, by projecting himself as the tough-talking saviour of his community.
In the emergence of Owaisi as sole spokesperson of the Indian Muslim lies a dilemma of the community: if the so-called mainstream 'secular' parties will not address their concerns, if BJP will be seen to deny them representation, then why not turn to a politician who is openly promising to promote 'Muslim' interests?
It is no surprise that the spectacular rise of Narendra Modi and BJP has coincided with the growing clout of MIM in Muslim-dominated areas. Parties like Congress and the Janata parivar have responded to the Modi phenomenon by spreading fear, whispering to their constituencies lines from the film Sholay: 'So jao, nahin to Gabbar Singh aa jayega'.
The 'secular blackmail' of Muslims by making Modi out to be a Gabbar Singh-like ogre has only been matched by the pernicious ideology of the Sadhvis and the Yogis who have looked to demonise the Muslim as inherently anti-national. A leaderless community is now seeking refuge in their own demagogues, in the belief that they alone can offer an effective counterpoint to both majoritarian and flawed secular politics.
The 16th Lok Sabha has the lowest number of Muslims ever since the first general elections of 1952. There are just 24 Muslim MPs, down from 30 in the previous Lok Sabha, who constitute just 4.4% of the House. For the first time in an Indian Parliament there's not a single Muslim MP from UP, as BJP did not field a single Muslim candidate across the vast swathes of north and west India except for the sole exception of Shahnawaz Hussain.
Disappearing from politics, under siege in society, the wrongful incarceration of several Muslim youth in the Mecca Masjid blast case only reinforcing perceptions of injustice and discrimination at the hands of the law courts and police, the Muslim is being pushed into a rejection of 'secular' truisms even as the ghetto remains a refuge.
Which is why the community is in desperate need of a leadership that will encourage it to push for its due space in the national mainstream. It won't happen with Lalu, Nitish and Mamata who seek votes in return for 'protection'; it won't happen with the Congress which promises equal opportunity but in reality offers only sops; it almost certainly won't happen with the BJP which offers no guarantee of equal citizenship while Owaisi's present 'Islam khatre mein hai' message may breed a worrying separateness.
Today if the challenge of saffron majoritarianism is to be countered there needs to be an Indian Muslim leadership which doesn't prey on fear, but offers hope: hope of a social and economic transformation, a modern yet rooted identity that can challenge the narrative of the extremists within.
An eminent writer once said that after Maulana Azad and Sheikh Abdullah, the Muslims have never had leaders, only satraps who have nursed narrow constituencies. Yet in the land of Sania Mirza and Shah Rukh Khan, why can there not emerge a Muslim leader who will cast out fear, sidestep the clergy and stride briskly into India's centre?
Beyond the yelling bigots, there's a silent more welcoming truth: Indian Muslims would not be the second largest community in the world, if the true Hindu was anti-Muslim.


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Discussion in Off Topic Discussion & General Questions started by sunnyside • Apr 16, 2016.
I cannot stand cellphones and don't carry one around. People bug you all the time, especially girlfriends. I'd rather keep in touch via email. Actually, I enjoy reading email.
I am not sure how people use their phone that puts them in the category of 'unsocial' but I can't imagine my life without a phone anymore. I am a marketing professional and solve more than half of my problems talking to my clients without even visiting them. But if you mean some people use their phones for chatting etc that is different matter.
I believe it to be true that has made people more unsociable. Many people are now walking around with headphones on their heads which are attached to their cellphone. In most instances they are totally oblivious as to what is taking place in the immediate surroundings, therefore, unlike in the past, it may not be prevalent to experience persons exchanging good morning greetings or having initiating meaningful conversations. For the younger generation, especially, it's mostly about texting and sharing information across preferred media an there is hardly any interaction outside of this method of communication.In many instances, instead of helping others in distress, many persons opt to be taking pictures of the distressed persons to be shared with their colleagues over their favorite social platform.
I despise people who ignore me while I talk to them just because they're on their phone. It's one of the rudest most infuriating action. I end up leaving and I still leave them to wonder why I left them or why I am mad.
When you're talking to someone, don't be on your phone unless necessary or at least tell the person that you prefer using your phone so you won't leave them talking to themselves.
Exactly my point. I always make a point of keeping my phone down or explaining to the person if I need to use my phone urgently so that I don't appear uninterested in the talk. I wish everyone did this.
It isn't cell phones that are making us anti-social, it is games that are doing that. when I say games, I mean video games, X-box or internet games, or those games that are played solitarily. Cell phones enable us to make contact with others, either just to chat or to make arrangements to meet. They can be viewed as anti-social if you are in company and one person starts texting and spending time on the phone. This is not just anti-social behaviour but extremely bad mannered.
Any technology has its pros and cons and so has the phone. Just imagine the world without cellphones and tell me how unsocial could people be without any communication with their loved ones. I think we should take the things in their right prospective.
Absolutely. I think cell phones have been the biggest factor in changing the way we socialize because we can now access social media and the internet on our cell phones in addition to the traditional uses like texting and playing games. So it is no surprise to me that some people interact more with their phones than with people.
I use my phone only when it is must. I have seen people using it for absolutely without any particular reason but hut to show off that they own a costly phone. I often travel by public transport as it saves me time traveling by metro trains and I feel astounded watching almost 90 commuters glued on their phone as if they have nothing else to do. That is a dangerous situation.
It depends on the angle one looks at the issue from. You can argue that it enhances sociability as you can contact each other even over long distances and even update your timelines using applications like Whatsapp and Social media. But there seems to be a general hit on social attentiveness due to absent mindedness and interruptions when people use their phones in social setups.
I don't mind when people use their phones for socializing but what would you say that most of them playing different games and listening to music at a high volume?
Yes I do think so specially social media sites making people more unsociable!
A cellphone can be a very useful tool, and nowadays most people own one or even two of them, and seldom go anywhere without them. However, even though cellphones can be very useful, they can also be overused, and even used at the wrong times or in the wrong setting.
If one is at a salon awaiting one's turn, or at a bus station waiting for a bus, or even in a doctor's waiting room, using a cellphone at these times would seem acceptable, since it is a good way to redeem the time while waiting. However, if one is at a social gathering like a party, or at a luncheon/dinner with other friends or family, or even visiting at a friend's house, using a cellphone at these times can make that person appear somewhat unsociable even though that is not their real intention.
What do you think? Do you think there is too much cellphone addiction these days?
Yes, I think cellphone is making people to become unsociable.We were created to be social beings, but this platform of socializing through the media forms,cellphones being one of them,has destroyed the socialization culture. My husband cannot put his phone down, we have had arguments about this behavior until I gave up.He is so addicted.
Cell phone addiction is real. This is because they have been modified to be like a virtual friend. My brother and I had the habit of using cellphones during dinner or during play time until our mum banned us from using them until we could be able to make friends. It was complicated because you are used to sitting down and playing games and now you have to move around and deal with friends who sometimes don't notice you. But it really helped us socialize with people. Cellphone can make it hard for you to make friends and they should be avoided when possible.
One of the most irritating situations I have been in is when I am trying to have a coversation with someone but they prefer being on their phone the entire time. I mean if all you are going to do is be on the phone all day might aswell stay home and not waste the others time. You are out to have fun but they find their phones more entertaining.
Cell phones are not only making people unsociable, but they are a threat on the road. Along with drunk driving, it's a cause of traffic accidents. In fact, they are such a threat, that the media and police are beginning to take serious action on the issue. Anyhow, there are certain hands-free devices you can buy to replace the cell phone in your vehicle.
Use of Cellphone for your personal use is not a problem as long you are not disturbing others or using it in your working hours but I feel really irritated when I am sitting in an office for some important work and the parson concerned is busy on his phone talking personal matter nonstop.
The unsociability of a person who is using his cellphone depends on how he manages himself. CPs are very useful and not all the time that a person is using when he is in the public or attending a party, a conference, or in any meeting. For me, cp doesn't in any manner make a person becomes aloft or unsociable.
People have adapted to the digital age and become more dependent on cell phones than ever. I started to point the finger at younger people, but I have seen people of all ages struggle with person to person interactions.
For people who struggle with social anxiety, technology can be a very useful tool, but when I go out to dinner and see mom, dad, and the kids all on their phones, it irritates me.
So, in general, I do believe that it does contribute to people being " unsociable".
No, I really don't think cell phones will make people more unsociable. In fact, I think cellphones might just do the opposite, eventually people will want to actually hang out with the person on the other end of the line. With cellphones, they might be encouraged to go and talk with other people here and there.


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Q: ng2-carouselamos left and right icons not working I am using ng2-carouselamos
https://www.npmjs.com/package/ng2-carouselamos
here I just copied html template and but clickable events are not working,as there is no ts file in the documentation,so that will work
I am not sure,I need to write something in ts file

A: You need to set listOfItems in typescript if you not set then ng2-carouselamos doesn't work.
here is working example: ng2-carouselamos demo

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Canine Caviar at the EcoLuxe Lounge
Canine Caviar pet foods was honored to attend the EcoLuxe Lounge on Sunday, August 24. Described as a "premiere socially conscious luxury event" the EcoLuxe Lounge was both a fundraiser for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Los Angeles and a celebration of the nominees and attendees of both the 66th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards and the MTV VMA Awards.
TV/film producer Debbie Durkin is the creator of the event and is the loving owner/pet parent to Custos, a beautiful Labrador Retriever puppy who is growing into a big strong dog with the nutrients of Canine Caviar natural dog food.
Canine Caviar Director of Public Relations Dawn Barraco attended the event along with Doreen Wong of the Social Business team. Dawn and Doreen spent the day speaking to celebrities about pet health, the benefits of Canine Caviar and Feline Caviar, the rising epidemic of cancer in pets and even were treated to celebrities photos of their pets.
"There are several celebrity gifting lounges during the award season; however, an invitation to Debbie Durkin's Eco-Luxe Celebrity Lounge is special. In addition to focusing on products committed to using natural, holistic and environmentally friendly, " said Doreen, "Durkin Entertainment pioneered the inclusion of pets. The highlight of each event is the ability to raise awareness about pet health and nutrition. With three EcoLuxe Lounges under our belt, it is an opportunity for Canine Caviar to reconnect with our celebrity Fur and Purr Parent friends as well as make new ones."
The incredible Elliott Gould, of Friends, Mash, Ray Donovan, Oceans 11, Oceans 12, Oceans 13 and many many other movies and television shows, stopped by to learn more about Canine Caviar. Beau Bridges, nominated for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for Masters of Sex, also stopped by to learn more about Canine Caviar holistic pet food from Dawn Barraco.
We are always thrilled to catch up with John Littlefield of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and the movie The Contractor. John is also a member of the Canine Caviar Cancer Research Foundation board of directors. HGTV's Drew Scott, one of the stars of Property Brothers and Brother vs. Brother, also stopped by the Canine Caviar booth and was fun to talk to as he posed for photos with our bag of food.
We also were honored to speak with Heather McComb of Showtime's Ray Donovan, Erica Ash of Scary Movie 5, Tenille Houston, The Canyons, and Kyle Keller, TV personality, host and correspondent. Patrick Gallagher of the Night At the Museum movies and Glee, Luke Barnett, who is known for his videos on the website Funny or Die, Daniel Nguyen of The Goldbergs and Tori & Dean: Inn Love, and David Witts of the BBC's EastEnders television series also visited our booth to discuss Canine Caviar pet food for dogs.
Several young celebrities also stopped by, including Blake Cooper of the movie The Maze Runner, Chad Roberts, who played a young Travis on Cougar Town, Zach Callison of Mr. Peabody & Sherman, Sofia the First and Steven Universe, and of course Caitlin Carmichael who is one of the stars of both The Wiener Dog Nationals and The Wiener Dog Internationals as well as Chosen, Doc McStuffins, and 300: Rise of an Empire.
Bruno Amato, who plays the pizza shop owner Sal in The Internship with Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn, is a Purr parent and stopped by the EcoLuxe Lounge to learn about Feline Caviar cat food. Fellow cat lover Wes Ramsey, who will star in the upcomingNicholas Sparks Deliverance Creek this September, also stopped by to check out Feline Caviar holistic cat food.
We spoke to Obba Babatundé of The Manchurian Candidate and The Notebook, Tommy Savas who is known for the TNT series The Last Ship and is currently filming a new series called State of Affairs and Massi Furlan of True Blood and The Dark Night Rises. We were thrilled to meet Damien Puckler of the TV show Grimm, and Tara Buck of True Blood and catch up with Erin Murphy who played Tabitha on Bewitched, who is a huge animal lover and has visited our booth at several other events.
Of course we were also honored to meet Jiff the Pomeranian, who was in Katy Perry's "Dark Horse" video, which won the MTV VMA award for Best Female Video in 2014. Jiff has the distinction of being the only attendee who could personally enjoy the treats in his Canine Caviar VIP box at the end of the evening.
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Tom Hardy making plans for third Venom movie
Tom Hardy hopes that Venom and Spider-Man can appear in the same movie one day.
Tom Hardy is already thinking about a third Venom movie.
In the 2018 superhero movie, the British actor played Eddie Brock, a journalist who gains superpowers after becoming the host of an alien symbiote named Venom, and he reprises the role in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, which is released in September.
In an interview with Esquire U.K. magazine, Hardy revealed that he's already making plans for a third instalment.
"I'm thinking about the third movie as well, because I think you need to write that at the same time," he said. "A third won't be greenlit until the second is successful, but the studio were really, really pleased with number two."
Hardy pitched the storyline for the sequel and has a "story by" credit along with screenwriter and old friend Kelly Marcel. When asked if they were working together on the story for a third, he became coy.
However, he willingly admitted he was trying to steer the franchise so Venom – a character most commonly associated with Spider-Man – could eventually appear in the same film as Tom Holland's web-slinging superhero.
"I would be remiss if I wasn't trying to steer any kind of connectivity," he stated. "I wouldn't be doing the job if I wasn't awake and open to any opportunity or eventuality or be excited by that. Obviously, that's a large canyon to leap, to be bridged by one person alone, and it would take a much higher level of diplomacy and intelligence, sitting down and talking, to take on an arena such as that.
"Should both sides be willing, and it (is) beneficial to both sides, I don't see why it couldn't be. I hope and strongly, with both hands, push, eagerly, towards that potential, and would do anything to make that happen, within what's right in business. But it would be foolish not to head towards the Olympic Games if you were running 100 metres, so yeah! I want to play on that field."


How far would you go to get a foot on the housing ladder? Would you sacrifice holidays, delay relationships, or move back home with your parents?
According to our recent survey of 2,000 home owners, this is precisely what many of today's generation of home buyers are doing.
In this article, we look deeper into our research to uncover some of the more proactive steps people are taking in order to get onto the ladder.
Their answers showed us that not only are hopeful buyers cutting back on luxuries and making savings where they can, many are making major life decisions to get on the property ladder faster.
10% of home owners have chosen a partner based on their desire to get on the property ladder.
9% of home owners have sacrificed work-related happiness in order to achieve their dream of owning.
Less expensive parts of the country are becoming more desirable and viable to prospective home owners.
When did the property dream become a pipe dream?
In 1966, the average UK home cost £2,006. Back then, the average annual salary was £798. So buyers would need to borrow 2.5 times their salary in order to purchase a home.
Fast forward to 2018, the average home now costs £211,000 - more than 100 times its 1966 value, and 8 times today's average UK salary of £26,500.
Our Mortgage Expert, Dilpreet Bhagrath, is fully aware of the pain felt by many hopeful buyers.
Many of the mortgage holders we spoke to admitted that their choice of partner was influenced by their desire to get on the housing ladder.
11% of home owners between 35-54 admitted to allowing their romantic intentions to be overridden by the desire to own.
The number was even higher amongst millennials, where a whopping 25% of those surveyed said their choice of partner would be influenced by their aspirations to get on the property ladder.
Love might be blind but it seems it still has a nose for a suitor with a steady job and incremental salary package!
They could be onto something with their tough selection criteria, however. A quarter said they'd buy a house with someone after just one year in a relationship.
But beware, millennials… 16% also admitted that they bought with a partner when they'd have preferred to buy alone in order to get on the property ladder sooner.
Of the 2,000 people who contributed to our survey, one in six (15%) said they chose their career based on how quickly it would help them earn enough to buy a home.
Surprisingly, of millennials - widely regarded as the generation who want more fulfilment from their work - one in four said they focused on a career that would help them quickly climb the property ladder.
Pulling off this strategy can mean achieving your goals years before the rest of your peers, but the downside is that you could risk being lumbered in a job you don't hold a lot of love for.
One in five millennials also said their desire to own a home heavily influenced their choice of degree. By comparison, only 9% of 35-54 year olds and 3% of people over 55 who took part in our survey said they chose a career based on its ability to help them buy.
Many people we spoke to have made other sacrifices throughout their careers.
9% said they'd left a job where they were perfectly happy in order to earn more money to buy a home. Another 10% said their desire to buy encouraged them to choose a job based purely on salary.
Those who don't fancy compromising on love or their career, could always choose location.
For some, deciding to up sticks and move to a part of the country where house prices are cheaper and the cost of living is lower is a temporary measure. For others, it's a longer term strategy that allows them to save up for a deposit more quickly.
Of the people we spoke to, 29% moved to a more affordable location in order to get on the housing ladder sooner.
Account Executive Emma Lumley knows this situation only too well. After graduating from university she moved to Oxford, where her outgoings for rent and bills came to around £700 a month.
On a graduate salary, she was left with little disposable income. Saving money for anything, let alone a deposit, was little more than a pipe dream.
When her landlord announced their plans to sell the house she was living in, Emma made the decision to move back to her hometown of Nottingham rather than look for another expensive rental in Oxford.
Weighing up both the positives and negatives, she realised she could rent a city centre flat in Nottingham for around £500 a month – much less than what she was paying in Oxford.
But after a few weeks back home, she made the decision to move back in with her parents so she could save up the cash to buy her own property in the city centre.
Emma, who's currently in the process of buying a house, says "It's crazy to think that I was struggling to make ends meet in a five person shared house in Oxford, yet it only took me a matter of months to save enough to buy a nice flat in town.
Has she any regrets about moving to a smaller town in order to achieve her dream?
As more people consider moving to more affordable areas of the country, we decided to take a look into where you could save towards a deposit quickest.
Thanks to data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) and the BBC, we were able to compare the average cost of rent and living expenses (food, clothing, transport, etc) across the UK.
As expected, regions to the south tend to have the highest rents while the most affordable rents can be found in the North East (£544), Yorkshire and the Humber (£585), and the North West (£625).
The lowest cost of living can be found in Northern Ireland, Yorkshire and the Humber, Wales, and the West Midlands, which were all 2% cheaper than the national average.
Would you consider moving to a more affordable location to save more quickly?
Are you pursuing a more lucrative career over your passion?
Did you buy with a partner when you'd have preferred to buy alone?
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Home Food The Best Bar to Watch Football in Every State
The Best Bar to Watch Football in Every State
Colman Andrews
Source: Nick D via Yelp
Alabama: The Houndstooth
> Located: Tuscaloosa
If you're an Auburn or LSU fan, keep it to yourself here. The Houndstooth is Crimson Tide territory. Sports Illustrated ranks it among the top college sports bars in the country. Watch the action on more than 40 high-def flat-screen TVs, including five 65″ screens above the bar and a 150″ projection screen. There are even TVs in the bathrooms.
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Source: Jamil M via Yelp
Alaska: McGivney's Sports Bar and Grill
> Located: Juneau
McGivney's promises "Every Game, Every Day," shown on 16 TV screens at both its two Juneau locations. The menu offers wings, nachos, burgers, and other appropriate fare. The bar also hosts what it bills as the biggest Super Bowl party in town.
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ALSO READ: Most Valuable College Football Teams
Source: Ken F. via Yelp
Arizona: K O'Donnell's Sports Bar & Grill
> Located: Scottsdale
Founded by legendary poker player Kevin O'Donnell and now run by his daughter, this Scottsdale hotspot shows the game day action on 70 TV screens. Post-game there's a "reverse happy hour" running from 9 p.m. to closing every night. (If you're a fan not just of football but of the sport of kings, O'Donnell's also has facilities for off-track betting.)
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Source: Courtesy of Brewski's Pub & Grub / Facebook
Arkansas: Brewski's Pub & Grub
> Located: Little Rock
With more than 30 TVs and two giant projector screens, Brewski's shows all NFL Sunday Ticket and RedZone games, as well as college football and every other sport you can imagine. Burgers, nachos, beer, and such are served — and if watching football spurs your competitive instincts, you can play shuffleboard, pool, beer pong and other games here, too.
Source: Melinda T. via Yelp
California: Ricky's Sports Theater and Grill
> Located: San Leandro
Ricky's has been known as the ultimate hangout for Oakland Raiders fans (it's less than 15 minutes from the Oakland-Alameda Coliseum). Whether or not fans will still come after the team relocates to Las Vegas next year remains to be seen. In any event, Ricky's has also been named one of the best places in the Bay Area to watch the Super Bowl — not least because it boasts more than 90 TV screens.
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Senator Doug Jones visits Huntsville for Town Hall Discussion
Posted 10:25 pm, January 19, 2019, by Dallas Parker
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - As Day 29 of the partial government shutdown comes to a close, many government employees are still looking for answers.
Senator Doug Jones hosted a town hall discussion about what he's doing in Washington, D.C. to help end the shutdown.
So far, Jones said he has a few bills pending to ensure workers affected by the shutdown receive fair compensation and back pay.
Jones said he believes government workers are being unfairly used as pawns.
"This shutdown is all a political issue," explained Jones. "So they are political hostages, there`s no question about that. This is all about a political policy and a political campaign promise, and it`s being entrenched on both sides."
Though the shutdown persists, Jones said he is noticing a shift in the right direction.
"Now that we've seen good faith movement," Jones continued. "The ability that we can talk. Let's get in there and talk. The problem we've seen right now is that the president's proposal was just a proposal that he and his buddies came up with. The House democrats aren't talking to the president's people about theirs. But it's at least a movement. "
Jones said common ground can't be achieved until every side is willing to discuss their proposals.
As he ended his discussion, Jones ensured citizens that he would continue the same discussion in D.C. in hopes that the government finds middle ground.
"Federal workers and the contractors," stated Jones. "People that do the service to this country should not be held hostage just over politics. I firmly believe that. I've continued to vote to keep this government open. I hope to continue to do that. And hopefully we'll get something on the table pretty soon to do just that."
Jones places extreme importance on the idea that the shutdown is a result of both parties failing to find a happy medium.
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We took our afternoon tea in The Glade room at Sketch. The room is supposed to be like an "enchanted fairy-tale forest", with wooden furniture and green painted leafy walls. But to me it was like being in a luxury bohemian living room somewhere in Asia with low comfortable chairs that made it quite difficult to sit up and drink tea.
But enough with the decor of The Glade, the best part of an afternoon tea is of course the food!
Tea (earl grey my poison of choice), flavoured marshmallows and scones with citrus jam, butter and raspberry jam.
The cakestand of cakes and finger sandwiches was served separately to the scones, instead of your standard cakestand, this one was constructed out of butterfly mugs.
Of course Sketch is a really cool place just to wonder around (if you have an excuse to be in there) which is why me and my friend spent almost 30 minutes taking photos and posing in the intergalactic toilets.
The toilets are capsules in which you shut your self in and a voice of a man talks to you and plays you the sound of birdsong. And the ceiling is in coloured tile. It's absolutely wonderful.
Also interestingly they make the cleaners wear French maid uniforms. I feel very sorry for the one who was having to clean the very white and pristine toilets.
Sketch was definitely the best afternoon tea I've ever had. I'm already missing the scones.
Sketch, 9 Conduit Street, W1S 2XG, http://sketch.uk.com/, nearest tube: Oxford Circus.


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Heaven, Sittin Down to Heroin
Have set myself the challenge to write a blog post a day throughout May. Probably going to regret it, but here we go.
THERE are a few habits which have developed when it comes to writing blog posts on this A-Z journey through my iPod. It adds up to the following routine.
Listen to a load of songs on my iPod.
List the tracks worth mentioning in the next post.
Try to find some theme for the next post among those tracks or work out how to shoehorn them into the subject matter already worked out.
Find loads of other things to do rather than actually write.
Decide it is time to stop putting it off.
Spend too much time looking through YouTube videos to drop into the post.
Watch TV.
Finally get round to writing – largely ignore what you worked out, head out on some tangent, realise you have overwritten and then cram in mention of the music at the end.
Managed to follow the first two of these through the latest section from track 4,701 past 4,800 (at least at the time, there's been a few additions) and the second threw up a longer than normal list of tracks.
So rather than try to knit them together into some form of coherent narrative (or squeeze a few of them on the end of something else), let's try something new and rattle through that list. Not every song, just the ones which somehow seemed worthy of note when drawing up that list.
Heaven, Sittin Down – Phosphorescent
We are doing some catching up here, the lack of posts in recent weeks means there has been a bit of a backlog. To the point that this was track 4,701 when listened to but has dropped to 4,724, courtesy of new arrivals on the iPod.
Phosphorescent fall firmly in the ranks of Americana acquired when staying at a friend's with no TV, no WiFi and only his music collection to keep me entertained when getting a job after my first bout of prolonged travelling had just ended.
This is their take on an old blues standard.
Heavy Metal Drummer – Wilco
Two outings for this one from a band which took me a while, all while they were being eulogised by one major influence on this journey.
Their more muso moments still pass me by a little bit, but when they are good, they are very good. And this is one of their best.
Hell Is Around The Corner – Portishead & Tricky
This loop was pretty much everywhere for a while as Portishead started to mean more than a place where we somehow got taken for an unlikely day out near the seaside on the edge of my Dad's patch as a rep for a builders' merchant. Great song.
Hell Is Chrome – Wilco
Wilco sort of took over one trip to the gym with two versions of this as well. There's a lot of bad drumming on the weight machines.
Hello, Goodbye – The Beatles
This whole journey started with A Day In The Life and opened with a wall of The Beatles in the first 100 or so songs. It would appear they wrote an awful lot of songs beginning with H as well. Three versions of this while on the treadmill in the gym.
Help Save The Youth Of America – Billy Bragg
Frequent visitor on this journey and always a very welcome one. Bragg has been a constant in my music collection for more than 30 years and this is not that far below the rarefied air of his very best.
Two versions, one from the first Bragg album in my collection and one live recording from Russia. Which is up there on that video.
Help! – The Beatles
Told you they were popping up a lot. Three times again, plus a version by The Damned which is preferable purely for ditching the exclamation mark.
Helpless – Ryan Adams with Gillian Welch
Think (can't be sure, went through a stage of getting pretty much anything by him) this was in Adams' post-Whiskeytown days when he was fighting a difficult reputation.
As opposed to… oh.
Helpless – Sugar
To go with those rules on the process of posts for this blog, a few others have emerged over the last 4,700+ songs.
One of them is pretty simple – anything off Sugar's Copper Blue album gets a mention.
At The Drive-In come close with Relationship of Command, but it remains the choice when you want to blast away the cobwebs with some loud guitar and you don't carry the metal gene. Not sure how a spoonful of Sugar did not damage my hearing.
Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
Something a bit quieter. Twice. Another in the category of bands which are always welcome visitors, but rarely leave a major impression.
It's not just The Beatles, there are also the cover versions which somehow have worked their way into my collection. Siouxsie and the Banshees and, surprise surprise, Oasis this time.
Her Majesty – The Beatles
This is getting silly.
Here Comes A City – The Go-Betweens
It's a bit slicker, a touch more polished in the production than some of their early stuff, which perhaps explains why The Go-Betweens' second coming got sort of shunted aside in my mind towards Radio 2 territory.
Right up to the point when another listen reveals something missed along the way. It's not in the same league as the wonderful Cattle & Cane, but better than first thought.
And Robert Forster's new solo stuff well worth a listen.
Here Comes A Regular – The Replacements
A bit of research (or timewasting) on YouTube reveals this was used to soundtrack the death of a character on One Tree Hill played by Sheryl Lee. So maybe The Replacements killed Laura Palmer.
Mixing the cultural references, the school in the film Heathers (Westerberg High) was named after Replacements singer/songwriter Paul Westerberg as they were star Winona Ryder's favourite band.
One of those great songs this A-Z journey has rediscovered.
Here Comes The Blackout – Stornoway
Pretty sure agreed to see Stornoway live without hearing anything by them – not the first and one of the great advantages of review tickets. And well worth the visit it was.
Shared fondness with a fellow traveller soundtracked a couple of mellow evenings sat on the beach in Togo watching the sun go down over the incoming oil tankers on the horizon.
Here Comes The Summer – The Undertones
Yeah, yeah… Peel loved them, Derry boys and all that. But for nine-year-old me still largely unexposed to anything beyond my parents' music (even then was fairly sure The Band of the Royal Marines and Glenn Miller was not the way forward) and whatever was on the radio (Junior Choice?), The Undertones were just fun.
Remember loving this and then they released My Perfect Cousin – the first song I knew all the words to, still remembered in my first attempt at karaoke. Many years and quite a few pints later.
Here Comes The Sun – Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
Oh yeah, The Beatles as well. Again. Twice.
Here Comes Your Man – Pixies
Two things popped up in recent weeks about the Pixies (one fewer than appearances by pretty much their poppiest track).
First a Facebook music group was discussing a gig at Gloucester Leisure Centre which has cropped up on YouTube and a live bootleg. Was tagged in it as someone who was there and if there is anything to promote some form of cool among younger people with any concept of good music, having seen the Pixies live is pretty much there.
Remember it being very loud. Or rather quiet, loud, quiet, very loud. Leisure centre closed as a live venue due to structural issues not long after. Wonder why.
Secondly, Doolittle came out 30 years ago last month. Was still in my teens for Christ's sake. It's still brilliant.
Here Today – The Chameleons
In studio was track 4,800, accompanied by a live version. Beyond that, not much too add. Think this got loaded onto my iPod in a bout of, ahem, borrowing ahead of travelling.
Here, There And Everywhere – The Beatles
Look, this is really silly now.
Here's Where The Story Ends – The Sundays
For about five minutes, they were the future of slightly introspective, jingly indie guitar music. Best viewed through a fringe. Can't Be Sure still on several playlists.
Heroes – David Bowie
Confession time. Was never a massive Bowie fan when younger. Certainly not compared to many.
But have sort of revisited and re-evaluated over the last few years, especially a bout of downloading focused on filling in the gaps in my knowledge most serious music fans are not supposed to have.
And you can't really knock this, can you?
Heroin – Velvet Underground
Think this is on my iPod from the same bout of musical education. Bowie had more of an impact than his old mate Lou Reed and co.
Heroin (Live) – Echo and the Bunnymen
Somehow fitting the Bunnymen, albeit with someone else's song, round off the first blog since the loss of Steve Tucker – a shared musical passion.
He'd have been appalled at my less than glowing reviews of Bowie and Velvet Underground though, pointing out the error of my ways over a few pints in The City Arms.
Antistar to Ashes of American Flags
THE past week has been dominated by departures – one expected but with a string of problems, the other unexpected but with a hint of better times ahead (well, hopefully).
Both have taken up the bulk of my time, thoughts and conversations, over the last few days, meaning this entry has been delayed and taken us a fair bit further along my A-Z journey through my iPod.
Departure number one saw the tenants leave my house in Cardiff.
Installed four years ago while the house stood empty on my overland journey from London to New York (helped by a string of calls and e-mails between Cardiff and China which had the agents trying endlessly to calculate time differences), they remained as my return to the Welsh capital was shortlived.
Even as their latest contract ran out, that was one issue ahead of heading to Africa which looked simple – they sign another one and worries about paying my mortgage were sorted. That was until they announced out of the blue they weren't signing and were moving out.
And move out they did, seemingly by grabbing a few bits and pieces, walking out the door and heading to pastures new.
At least, that's how it appears, judging by what they have left strewn across the uncleaned house and unkempt garden, sadly bereft of a few pieces of my furniture which seem to have walked out of the door with them.
The constant amending of to-do lists for Africa, this blog and life in general has been replaced by a to-do list for sorting out the house, but only after a few very deep breaths to calm down.
As well as anger, their actions and attitude in leaving the house in such a state totally amazes me – how can anybody not be consumed by embarrassment to leave somebody else's house in that condition?
When the time comes later this year, my flat will be attacked from all angles by an array of cleaning products and, bar a few dusty bits and one or two difficult to access places in the bathroom, it is already in a pretty presentable state.
Having just about calmed down from a trip to confirm what the agents had told me – via a journey that included an almost hour-long traffic jam in Chepstow, of all places, which helped scoot the A-Z journey along at a healthy pace and past the 400 mark (Apple Blossom by The White Stripes) – the second departure crept up on us on Monday morning.
The sacking of Nigel Davies as Gloucester's director of rugby was not totally out of the blue – after all, the season has disappointed from start to finish and Saturday's closing defeat at relegated Worcester was, frankly, laughable as the Cherry and Whites mixed touches of genius with splashes of ineptitude.
While the loud-mouthed bloke behind me at Worcester will not be alone in celebrating Davies' departure (his main reason being that the outgoing boss is Welsh), his reading of the situation was remarkably misplaced and badly informed.
This, after all, was a man who only realised in the second half when he could see the names and numbers on the players' backs that he had been slagging off the wrong player for 40 minutes while claiming that flanker Matt Kvesic had only made about three tackles all season and should be sold. His tackle numbers actually put Kvesic fourth in the entire league.
Personally, with reinforcements arriving, my opinion was that Davies deserved time next season to shape what is finally his squad – not short on talent this term, but lacking in depth and, at crucial times, leadership and direction – probably until the Six Nations at least.
But, having made the decision, the board were right to act quickly – stay or go, this could not drag on all summer.
And they now need not only to find the right man, but the right structure. Davies spent a lot of time during the season working on bringing in those signings and, from a distance, that was time Gloucester needed him sorting out the problems on the pitch – two jobs, one man just didn't add up.
Of course, this poor season (and when we have had bad seasons before it was, unlike this one, largely expected) coincided with my first season ticket in four decades of watching rugby at Kingsholm, the first time when playing, working, travelling or living away did not keep me away from Castle Grim for long periods.
Fellow fans will be delighted that being in Africa for most of the season will mean no renewal.
So, that's the background to the last few days, what has been the soundtrack?
Starting with the new longest so far (Antistar at Massive Attack comes in at 19.41, but more than half of that is largely silence bar a few background beats), we have seen classic first entries by The Housemartins (Anxious), The Jesus and Mary Chain (April Skies, which a friend once tried to teach me the bassline to, without success) and Lloyd Cole and the Commotions (Are Your Ready To Be Heartbroken?).
Also popping up for the first time – and blowing away a few emotions on the drive back from Cardiff – were At The Drive-In with Arc Arsenal while Prefab Sprout's Appetite gave a more gentle first touch from their Steve McQueen masterpiece (the first side of which is almost flawless) and A-Punk by Vampire Weekend slipped from the opening track of the whole countdown on a previous attempt to somewhere near 400.
Arseholes, The Shirehorse's much preferable version of Robbie Williams' Angels, provided a rather different direction while The Clash and Joe Strummer have different readings of Armagideon Time.
To wrap it all up on a high note, Wilco provided two versions (live and original) of probably my favourite song of theirs, Ashes of American Flags.
And blasting that out on the drive home from work was enough to provide a great end to a testing few days.
April Skies
A-Punk
Arc Arsenal
Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken
Ashes Of American Flags
Add It Up to Airportman
WOKE the other morning to headline news of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin's 'conscious uncoupling'.
Normally, this would have been met with justified indifference and an attempt to get at least a few more minutes in bed before stumbling the into shower.
But having initially misunderstood and thought Conscious Uncoupling was the bizarre name for their latest sprog, two startling concerns hit me.
First that we were going to be subjected to acres of newsprint wasted on something so desperately uninteresting to anybody not involved and, secondly, that Martin would use his feelings for a new Coldplay album.
The first, which has happened, is just about tolerable and easy to ignore. The second – and there are warnings of a new selection of songs to creosote to – is a fearsome prospect.
There is no Coldplay anywhere on the road from A to Z on my iPod and, while the second episode has not been littered with too many sparkling highlights, it has been infinitely superior to Martin and his cohorts' earnest greyness.
Amid a wide selection of album tracks and songs burned off compilations given away with magazines were a few first entries from major bands who will pop up regularly – just not their best.
Three of those maiden appearances came from acts at the top of my best live gigs list – Ryan Adams, Radiohead and REM.
Radiohead (Airbag) have chalked up a hat-trick of gigs from supporting James at Gloucester Leisure Centre via a big tent in Newport to a stunning appearance at Cardiff's International Arena.
REM appeared at track number 102 with Airportman – well after Bill Berry had left and they had ceased to be a reliable trademark for quality (Murmur to Automatic for the People must rank as one of the greatest run of top-quality albums from any band).
And their gig at the Newport Centre just as they were about to become massive ranks right at the top of my list.
Haven't counted but Adams, who leads a growing collection of Americana in this list, will probably appear as much as anyone in this blog. That's partly due to me being a bit of a completist and Adams' lack of quality control (three albums in one year could easily have been squeezed into one).
But when he's good – as he was at Wales' Millennium Centre – he is very, very good.
At least one friend of mine will perk up at the very mention of Neil Young (who also appeared with After The Gold Rush as part of a recent attempt to study a few supposed classics) and acclaim him the greatest living singer-songwriter.
My feelings for Adams are not quite that strong, but he's getting there, even if his first entry Afraid Not Scared only fits somewhere in the middle of his quality scale.
There were more firsts from Arcade Fire (After Life), Prefab Sprout (Adolescence from last year's surprising validation of Paddy McAloon's talents, Crimson/Red), Sufjan Stevens (the less than sparkling Age of Adz), Sonic Youth (Against Facism from their finest hour, Dirty), Carter USM (After The Watershed – probably the only song on this list to namecheck an ex-Hereford United goalkeeper) and the Violent Femmes, who kicked off this section with Add It Up. All will return.
Other notables included …And They Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead (Aged Dolls), who provided an answer in my favourite round of University Challenge.
The question required four clueless students to identify the three famous people after which the songs played were named after – Sylvia Plath by Ryan Adams, Einstein A Go Go by Landscape and Mark David Chapman by Trail of Dead. They got none, two of them will appear later in this list.
Annoyingly, Jeremy Paxman declined to say the band's full name.
And so we rattle along to the end of this section and the end of the first 100 tracks. The honour of that landmark went to Wilco with a live version of Airline To Heaven, hot on the heels of the version they did with Billy Bragg as part of the Mermaid Avenue Woody Guthrie project.
So that's 100 down (and another two, to be honest), just 11-odd thousand to go.
Afraid not scared
Airline To Heaven
Airportman
A-Z iPod Challenge
Trans South America
Trans Africa
London to New York 2010
About The Marmot
In The Shadow Of A Virus
I'd Go Anywhere With Hugh to I'm Shipping Up To Boston
Trans South America – The Best & Worst
First Among Equals
I Wanna Die to I.D.
I Need Direction to I Wanna Destroy You
I Found Love to I Must Have Been Blind
The Unravelling
A Better Understanding
Dave Cornthwaite
Grown Up Gap Year
Grumpy Traveller
Life's Great Adventures
London-New York – The Original Blog
Oasis Overland – Trans Africa
The High Line
This World Rocks
Tim's Twitter Listening Party
yTravelBlog
echo and the bunnymen
Half Man Half Biscuit
oasis overland
Trans-Siberian Railway
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