Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints. Rheumatoid arthritis can affect multiple organs of the body, rheumatoid arthritis is referred to as a systemic illness and is sometimes called rheumatoid disease. Rheumatoid arthritis is generally a progressive illness that has the potential to cause joint destruction and functional disability.

If you have Rheumatoid arthritis it may be possible to qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance either by “meeting a listing”, which means your condition equals or matches a listing identified on the SSA Listing of Impairments (a list the SSA maintains of all the mental and physical health conditions it considers automatically disabling) or you may be able to prove through a medical vocational allowance that you are unable to work.

• Meeting a Listing for Rheumatoid arthritis (RA)

Listing 1.02 specifically lists the criteria needed for a condition to meet or equal the rheumatoid arthritis or other inflammatory arthritis disability listing. Listing 1.02 Active rheumatoid arthritis and other inflammatory arthritis states that an individual must meet or equal both part A and B of the listing.

So how do you meet Part A of the SSA listing? You will meet Listing 1.02A if you have major joint dysfunction and involvement of one major peripheral weight-bearing joints including your hips, knees, or ankles. Joint dysfunction should also limit your ability to ambulate effectively.

What will the SSA consider?

Whether you can walk without a walker?
Can you walk up to a block at a steady pace or on uneven surfaces?
Can you use public transportation?
Can you perform routine tasks such as banking and grocery shopping?
Can you climb stairs at a reasonble pace?

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relocating is a big problem for me and I cant do away with it since I have a transferrable job. relocating in India is really tough if we see the condition of roads..huh horrible was my experience last summer when i incurred a major loss due to damage of movable property while shifting to a different city via road.

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Well just about any review will tell you this, Yahoo is paying quite nicely right now. Much of this has to do with the fact that they are still in beta and have fewer advertisers to pay than Google does. Within the first month of using YPN! I managed to earn about triple of what I would typically make from AdSense. Keep in mind, I only ran it on one site that month.

However, I will state that YPN! is highly inconsistent. On Google you know what most clicks earn you, sure you might have a couple freak ads a day which pay extremely well; sky rocketing your earnings. However, with Yahoo every click is a freak click. You could have 10 on one site and it would be worth $50. The next day you could have 50 and it could possibly only be worth $70. It is highly inconsistent.

The Ads

Both have the same appearance for the most part. So there is no need to talk about the visual differences, rather we need to focus on the differences that the reader doesn’t see.

Right now YPN! doesn’t have as many publishers as Google does; so often times you serve up duplicate ads and/or irrelevant ads. Aiding to this is Google’s superior algorithm. Google manages to serve targeted ads up better than anyone else. YPN! is not terrible, yet its algorithm still does not compare to the one Google has devised.

The Administration

This is where the two are fairly equal. Both of the control panels for each of these services are nearly one of the same. You have your reports, ad setup and all those other features no one really uses.

The one thing that Google does better is updating. YPN! rarely updates or they update back to back. I’m not compulsive but I typically do check my earnings twice a day, three if I get bored at work. And often times I am presented with numbers that haven’t been updated since the last time I checked…even though there may be 8 hours difference in between those viewings.

Final Conclusion

Both services are what they are; they provide targeted ads to those who wish to make some money off their site. However, Google provides better targeted ads than YPN! does and YPN! absolutely pays out more than AdSense does (at the moment). They are both going to be around for a while; and eventually you will see it come out to no real difference between the two other than user preference.

Take for example 37signals, I know this example is played out, but they are the company that has done it to the most extreme as of late. Writeboard is a great product, but the hype (which lasted for several months) that surrounded it made it seem like a pile of crap when it finally went live. Once again, this is not because it was a bad product, merely because there was so much hype and buzz surrounding the product.

During this time people managed to speculate a lot and in their minds they built this super product, which was never 37signals intention for Writeboard. The fact that they announced it several months before it was ever even close to done was a major faux pax. Giving people that much time to speculate and formulate ideas about something is never a good idea.

A better way.

Look at Google, they constantly keep cranking out new stuff. I will admit, some of what they come up with isn’t great at all, however, their approach is much different. One day you wake up and Google has a new service, “wow this is awesome,” you think to yourself, “why didn’t they let anyone know about it?” Because had they did they would have been forced to create a better product. I know they try to make the best product they can, but not every product can be gold. Not letting people know about something is a sure-fire way to ensure their hopes do not skyrocket out of this world.

The best way

Apple. Apple builds curiosity. They let you know something is going to happen on X date but never say or hint what it’s going to be. Some people may get their hopes way up, but most will just find themselves intrigued. For example “One more thing” that could have been anything in the world. Are people going to get their hopes up thinking it is a $100 iBook. Most likely not, someone might; but not everyone. Chances are they are going to dismiss it but watch curiously.

So to me the smartest form of hype is letting people know a week or two before the debut is made. It gives you time to get the word out there but not enough time for people to start assuming that what you have for them is the biggest thing since sliced bread. If you come out a week before and say something like “Hey, I’ve been working on X and it’s almost done. I’m pretty pleased with it and I think you will be too. Check it out on XX/XX/XX.” You give people time to find out about it but not enough to let their mind run rampant with ideas of this magical product or result that does not exist.

You don’t have to be passionate about something to write about it, but it makes it a hell of a lot easier on yourself. That’s why I chose to write about things I am both passionate and knowledgeable about. Sure, I could fake interest in it for a while, but after a while it is no longer something you wish to write about; it becomes a chore.

What is your passion?

Like everyone I have many passions. One would be my girlfriend, and though she is priceless to me, as far as readers there is absolutely no marketing value in my girlfriend. I could do variations of the thought, but the end result would still have very little profit. In addition, I’m not really writing about my passion; I’m writing about something that is related to my passion but not quite hitting the nail on the head.

One of my passions though is fun. Pretty vague, right? Well not really, because, I have one main thing that I do for fun. Sure I go to movies, hang out with my friends; but when I really want to have fun I get on my 4-wheeler and tear up anything I can find. Asphalt, dirt, gravel, streets, the woods; anything I can get it on.

Having said that, there is most likely an ATV blog in my future. However, since this is a very obscure topic, it becomes in some peoples minds a lost cause. However, since I have the passion the perseverance, patience and will to make it succeed will be there which is why it is strongly recommended to write about something you are truly passionate about as well as knowledgeable.

Now lets apply this to blogging. The beauty behind blogging is it does not strictly follow the same principles as life. There is the ability to rectify the past. For example I left virtually unannounced some time ago and yet people are returning. Why would you come back to someone who left you for such a long time? Same reason you might go out with an ex after some time, the interest never really left you; it just got pushed towards the back.

The thing about a good blog is that it is much like a relationship. You may start to forget about someone, but you never totally forget about them. And if you encounter each other at just the right time and you have the right thing to say at that precise moment; that relationship is likely to rekindle itself. Just like a blog.

Um, I saw the movie…what’s the point?

The point is that you can relive the past in your mind as the present is occurring. You can slowly forget about your mistakes, but never totally forget about them. If you happen to catch yourself making that mistake you saw the future of the past and know where to take it from there. No one is perfect and mistakes will always be made. Regret and sorrow are human nature.

When it comes to blogging there is a plethora of things I regret, however, you cannot let them consume you. Because just like in the movie, if you spend too much time dwelling on the mistakes made and trying to correct everything in a one shot fashion, you are creating more problems than you are solving. Mistakes are not corrected, they are merely prevented in the future.

And that concludes my overly prolific and evading post of the day.

Email is a vital portion of a lot of peoples life—- it is used by most people on a wider scale than home or mobile phones. However, as opposed to a phone number which a person is likely to have 2 numbers, a person can have dozens of email addresses. Right now I have 2 that I check almost religiously as they are deemed to be my primary and most contacted email addresses, however, I have about 12 more that cannot go unchecked for a long period of time.

There lies the problem. Finding a way to effectively manage, organize and prioritize all these emails for all these accounts. So what am I to do? Have my email client check them all? Use a web based interface? Have all accounts forward to a single address?

I am unsure which would be the most useful and sensible choice. All of these seem easy enough although checking 12 accounts via a web based interface would get highly annoying and could take quite a bit of time. The other 2 leave me with one problem; it bothers me not knowing which address the email was sent to and checking the headers can become very annoying when doing it for 40 to 50 non-spam emails.

I am open to suggestions and looking forward to seeing what you got for me.

Further more on my point; what you’re best at is what you feel the most comfortable doing. I have spent too long trying to fool myself into believing that what I do is somehow different than what I feel most comfortable doing. While doing so it seems that I have lost touch with the thing I feel most comfortable with.

I am never going to be the type of person whom puts on a suit and speaks professionally because I think that’s what the majority of people want. Rather, I’m more of a Steve Jobbs. I’d much rather be comfortable when conveying a message. Look at Jobbs and his infamous blue jeans and black shirt. He never comes across overly professional when speaking, because that’s not what he is comfortable with.

This goes with everything. I am not the type of person that can sit down with a client, potential client, group of people and feel comfortable talking in an overly professional manner. Not that my conversation is going to be full of swearing, rude comments and offensive material. However, I am not going to talk using phrases such as, “I am fully aware of the status of the grim situation which is causing everything to go downward at an increasingly high rate of speed. Which brings me to the conclusion that we need to take quick action to avoid the total demise of this project.” Rather, I would say, “This thing is going to hell in a hand basket faster than a speeding bullet. We need to get off our asses and fix it before it’s totally worthless.”

It’s the same reason I write the way I write. The same reason you write the way you write. The same reason I blog. The same reason you do what you do. For too long I have been denying myself of what is clearly inevitable. I love writing, I love design and I love combining the two of them together so that I am able to do just that…what I am passionate about.

It took a long time of doing a lot of things that I didn’t much have passion about to realize just how much more comfortable I am designing and writing in a manner that a down to earth audience can understand. Yes, I can write copy; but what’s the fun in that? When writing in that fashion, you seem like a complete tool of the system. Yes I can program and on occasion have fun doing so depending on the language. But it’s no fun when your work goes unnoticed.

Ultimately what I am trying to illustrate here, is do what makes you happy. Don’t try to kid yourself like I did. In the end you find yourself in a position you wish you weren’t in, even if it seemed like the best decision at the time. Just do what you like and if you stick by it eventually some good will come out of it.

Now if you’ll excuse me I have left this blog unattended for so long that I must now clean up a big mess that has been made while absent.

If someone were to ask me to get up at the Super Bowl and tell everyone my life story, I would be able to because I’m pretty familiar with that topic. Now the topics I’ve been discussing publicly are still subject matters that I do have knowledge on, but one fear always seems to enter my mind. “I don’t know everything.” What if someone asks me this and I don’t have the answer? Sure, this is a ridiculous fear to have since everyone you’re speaking to is going to know that you do not have the solution for everything, but it is still apparent.

Humans are only humans. We all have nerves. It’s not me being up in front of people speaking that bothers me, it is the other people speaking to me and asking me questions. Because if I don’t have the answer to one question, that’s fine and dandy…but what if I get hit with a plethora of off the wall questions that I just don’t have an answer for? Sometimes, like a politician, I kind of know something so I bluff it. However, there are questions I just lack any type of knowledge for.

So what do you think? Bluff as much as possible or just tell people that you have no idea? Keep in mind these questions aren’t anything that can be prepared for, they are typically questions formed by people who have no idea what they are talking about (executives) and in turn I have no idea what they are talking about.