DanM

Trader · Aviator · Get after it

[DanM @danmcn84]

@thegoldenmuzzy Bring back Zauner!

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@GoldenKnights @CCCNevada W Golden Knights

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@Combat_learjet @theATCapp No read back on the UA 2262 turn instructions either after the go around command. Ended up flying runway heading but the ATC caught it. That could have been something else

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@preston_holland “Tipping the pilot helps him remember where he dropped you off”

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@BlueJays @TD_Canada @baseballcanada Hopefully McAdoo can play better than when I saw him play against the Mets in spring training! He stood out as being the worst guy on the field. Wishing him the best for his first start.

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@SenseiShao @92pancho1 @AJA_Cortes How are you using it? For injury?

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@AJA_Cortes Got a deep bone bruise on my knee, hoping BPC/TB/KPV can help

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@ShaziGoalie Baggage carrousel areas are not part of the restricted area of the airport at most airports in Canada in the USA at least

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@tsnjamesduthie Great story and kind words for a man who did many things for the junior hockey in the maritimes. He wanted nothing more than to see the Cats win a Mem cup

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@MCCCANM No mention of the glove? 🤣

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@CTVNews Comments did not disappoint LOL

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@MCCCANM Is he really "yours"?

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@jumpjim This looks awesome. Any idea if it will show "N/A" or "Blocked" callsigns like on FlightRadar24? The aircraft I fly is blocked but will still show position on those apps. My Dad loves it when I fly over , this would be a cool gift.

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@MarcNixon24 What is wrong with Wayne Long? it looks like he is being strangled when he speaks

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

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@MarkMcGrathCFP Honest question, as a grown man, what does it matter?

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@GordonLyon14 This is believable but also looks like AI

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@swedepilot was just in Lewiston for the first time and was shocked. Not what I expected. Friendly folks at the airport though!

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@MarkJCarney @ZelenskyyUa This is getting old...

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@unusual_whales What could go wrong...