What does Responsive mean?
Responsive web design is the concept of designing a website that scales to various screen sizes. With the increase in web surfing from tablets and mobile devices a website needs to work at different screen dimensions and resolutions. When making the all new MichaelDadourian.com, we chose this approach so that all users will have the optimal viewing experience, and be on the cutting edge of web technology. We hope you enjoy it.
The information age has seen technology change the way of life itself. The internet has grown so much and so quickly that old technology is only considered a year old at times. The consumer can not get information quick enough, devices and applications are continuously being updated. Social networks are being created from the problems of their predecessor.
Myspace was too complicated so they created Facebook and when that was too challenging, Twitter’s 160 character or less status updates satisfied Gen Y’s insatiable need for more conveinence.
It used to be that people used the phone to talk or if you wanted to be real personal, up close was the way. Emails replaced letters and Facebook apparently replaced emails. “Facebook is how I keep up with people,” I have heard so many times. Excuse me, I am quite fine calling or still using emails as a form of communication. A social network is by itself useless; a social network that is used to spread a message however, has purpose.
I deactivated my personal Facebook page and I did it for myself. I have many friends and family that use Facebook and that is great for them. People can still send me links to their photo album(s) to my personal email, which I love because their is no uploading or downloading numerous pictures at a time.
I use Facebook now a a lot like I used to use my Myspace page, for networking, marketing and business.
I share a great deal of my life with the world and it can be accessed via a willingness, internet connection, and a push of a few buttons. What do I care to share and what do I care not to share? What is for you and what is for me?
I choose to keep my son to myself, he is the one person that I choose to keep close to the chest. I have a fragile relationship with him and I cherish him with every beat of my heart, every breath in my lungs. Some things in life are for us to keep with us and not share with the world. I can not tell another person what to share and what not to. I am not going to tell people how to live their life. For me, I choose not to share pictures of my son and that does not mean I love my son any less than the person that posts pictures and videos.
I am a very proud first time father to the most handsome lil man in the entire world. My Luke turned one on January 2nd and I was able to spend some wonderful quality time with him that I do not take for granted.
I put my sobriety first because if I don’t, I won’t have my son. My sobriety is for me, my son is for me…my son is a part of me.
Daddy Loves You Handsome
I survived Friday, the 13th. I even survived the reboot of “Friday the 13th” from producer Michael Bay. For what it’s worth, it was not a disaster.
This weekend I will be working on actually publishing a blog entry or two. As of now I will be working on emailing every individual that participated in the 1st Annual Alumni Face-Off event fundraiser for Redford Union High School.
Raising over $1,700 dollars last year for the school helped me keep my sanity. I had wonderful help from former alumni. The edits to www.facebook.com/alumnifaceoff are being currently being worked on. We will be bringing back the soccer match for the 2nd Annual Face-Off because it won the voting from last year. Stay tuned for more updates.
Stay tuned for new MD BLOG entries.Happy New Year kids! I am interested in learning about your New Year Resolution(s), that is, if you even have any at all. What are your thoughts on resolutions ya’ll?
I myself have welcomed 2012 with sobriety thanks to rehab and the fellowship of alcoholics and other addicts. I also was able to see my son this year to celebrate his very first birthday. Seeing him was incredibly emotional for me and I won’t even try to explain how I felt when he had to leave. I am very grateful to have spent the time with him and never want to take that for granted.
I am thankful he will never know me in my active addiction. I am also optimistic that I will be a much bigger part of his life when he gets a little bigger. I love my son more than anything in this world but recovery comes first; without recovery I wouldn’t have my lil man.
Now that the holidays are over I will contribute more to the website, especially my Journal. I have been drafting Blogs but I have not published any new ones just yet. I used to publish blogs on Myspace and Blogspot as quickly as I finished drafting them. Well, these days I am much more strategic and deliberate with what I publish for the public and what I keep to myself. I will not publish emotional, personal blogs without sleeping a couple nights on the draft first.
I will contribute to my Journal on a regular basis, after all, writing/typing is great mental exercise. Although active addiction nearly destroyed every brain cell, my body is healing. Two AA meetings today and three tomorrow with my Sponsor…don’t drink, don’t think, go to meetings.
Anonymous I refuse to be, the disease of addiction has been swept under the rug for way too long. Michael Dadourian I am, proud, grateful alcoholic & addict.
Whatever you are going through, whatever your pain is, there are doors cracked open for you; follow the light, open the door and find the courage to walk through… help is what you will find on the other side.
Love ya’ll from area code to area code and country code to country code.
I want to sincerely thank all those people that have been so supportive as it pertains to my health and recovery. A big thanks has to go out to my Arizona/Armenian Brother, Apollo Poetry, for his time and insightful Guest Blog entry entitled “Addiction.”
I have to also thank the selfless staff at Sacred Heart Rehabilitation Center ( http://www.sacredheartcenter.com/index.aspx ) for the treatment I received there for 30 days; if I could have stayed at Sacred Heart for a year I would have. What is recovery worth? It is worth my life and anyone else’s I can inspire.
I am grateful I was able to spend my Christmas with other alcoholics and addicts. I am proud I finished something I started for once in my life. I am thankful I still have people in my life that did not leave my side when it would have been easier to. Despite the distrust I earned, ya’ll still saw the good that was still underneath the active addiction.
I will contribute to my journal on a regular basis and will be working on my blog over the weekend. Their will be website edits coming as well. We are having a problem with the contact portion of the site but it should be working shortly. The email to contact for right now will be michaeldadourian@michaeldadourian.com
The So Crucial Store is still being worked on as well, hang in there fam.
After three meetings today I am set to watch a DVD to wind down.
This is a guest blog post by Apollo Poetry. Be sure to check him out over at The Traveling Poet.
According to one definition, ‘addiction has been defined as physical and psychological dependence on psychoactive substances (for example alcohol, tobacco, caffeine and other drugs) which cross the blood-brain barrier once ingested, temporarily altering the chemical milieu of the brain.Addiction can also be viewed as a continued involvement with a substance or activity despite the negative consequences associated with it. Pleasure, enjoyment or relief from actual or perceived ailments would have originally been sought; however, over a period of time involvement with the substance or activity is needed to feel normal.’
As we are souls in this physical body, it is easy to get so caught up in life that we neglect to recognize the signals our bodies are sending us. Since we are born, our brains are constantly being influenced by external stimuli. From school to movies to the internet, we are constantly being conditioned to act in a certain way. In an over-stimulated society, it is easy to form impulsive thoughts, because that is all we are constantly being fed. What we don’t realize is that our brains chemical make-up is molding itself through this process, until we eventually get to the point where it becomes extremely challenging to self-recognize what the issues actually are.
This is why we should applaud those who have crossed the line, yet still have the will power to recognize it and admit that they need help. Anytime we talk about disorders of the mind, we enter a tricky area. For most of history, psychological dependency or illnesses have never been understood. They’ve always been ‘taboo’. It is great that we live in the day of age where people have the proper education and the options to make the change. With physical diseases , it is easier to recognize the symptoms and properly diagnose. But with mental diseases, they are mostly invisible to the average-eye, so they in turn become more difficult to recognize and treat.
If you know anybody who is struggling, try to remember to not get mad at them. You are mad at the disease, not them! Deep down, they are often beautiful passionate human beings. For anybody who has the tenacity to become obsessed with an impulsive negative trait also has the capacity to do the same for a positive trait. In this sense, it is their strength that has turned into a weakness. And even though it may appear dim, let us never forget the light that shines through them. Let us support them on their road to recovery and always let them know that they are loved for who they are.
// Posted by Tony Mamo
I am running on fumes tonight from a long day yesterday that concluded with Hour Detroit’s Best Dressed Event in Birmingham, MI.
I must convey my appreciation for Metro Detroit’s finest coming out and representing with a wonderful runway show with people I have not seen in some years. It was a great networking evening and included full spread by some incredible restaurants within the venue.
It has been a long time since I have been apart of an event of its kind but am very appreciative of the opportunity. The highlight might have been driving the Porsche Panamera 4 which happens to be my favorite Porsche model.
http://detroit.metromix.com/events/standard_photo_gallery/party-pics-hour-detroits/2926135/content
Dear Luke,
Well kiddo, you are the most beautiful young man I have ever seen. You will be 11 months old next month and I have seen you only on two occasions, for a grand total of five weeks.
You know I typed a letter to your unborn sister Kalen once. This letter brings up Myspace Blog memories. I asked to have a little girl for a long time but when I first saw your face I could not help the emotion that came over me, the trembling was real for me.
I was very happy that you came and very happy that I chose your mother. The first time I saw your mother I knew I wanted her to be the mother of my child. Your mother was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life. Your mother also was the best mother I knew, besides your grandma.
I write you letters from time to time because I am not able to see you and it helps me deal with not being there for you at the present time. I will sit and write you full well knowing that you will not read the letters for years down the road. I truly hope that my letters will find you well.
I will keep the letters or give them to your Grandma Andy Andy or Grandpa John John so they can give them to you once you are old enough to understand. Their is also a chance you will read them in my presence.
I watch you grow up through video and pictures. Watching you grow up away from me is torture of the worst kind for a first time father. Trust me when I express to you, I love you. Forgive me for not being there now, your father is not well and your mother and me do not get along at all presently.
One day you will learn that a relationship takes work and is always 50 percent your fault if it does not work. Women are going to be loving you when you get older, they already do now!
Your mom and I did good, we made you and you are beautiful!
You are the youngest of four. Please go easy on your big sisters and brother, they will look after you especially since you are the little brother. Please respect your mom, she gave birth to you afterall. As for me, I will be here for you as much as I am able and as much as your mother will allow me to.
I have done many things I am not proud of in my life Luke. Who knows if this site will exist when you are old enough to read and understand. In the case this site does not exist you will have many letters to understand where your dad has been and where he believes he will go.
The year 2011 has been a year to remember and forget. The year 2011 is the year he saw you and you are beautiful.
I will always love your mom, she to me is the most beautiful woman on this planet; she gave me you.
Kalen still rests but you are here and you are perfect. I will see you after Christmas and I could not be more excited for that. I promise to work on my health so I can be a better dad to you. My friends express to me that you will not remember these early years. If that is the case I am not at a total loss and I can work to be there for those years that you will remember.
Like the letters I pen, this letter trips me out because I am typing to the older you. I want you to know that I loved you from the first time I saw you, held you, kissed you. I will love you past my last breath young man.
I love you Luke.
Dad
One thing is for sure, concrete will skin a human alive. Riding a bike for the first time in years yesterday was a great reminder of my early years. It was nice to be outside in November Michigan weather for the first time on a bike, you never forget.
Riding in the concrete jungle which is Detroit one should never forget that people run stop signs all the time. I mention that because yesterday someone ran a stop sign which made me lose control of my bike so that I could avoid the front end of a motor vehicle. As I swerved to miss this person I flew across the bike onto a curb and slid across the concrete.
I have not had a spill like that ever. My whole left side from shoulder to ankle is skinless in numerous spots. Do you think he stopped to check on me?
Apparently some people could care less if you are dead on the street.
Even though new scar locations I am not that upset because I still have breath in my lungs and so many in the world will have theirs expire today.
The site is still being worked on today and will continue to be worked on this weekend onward to the next week. I will continue to post in my journal almost daily. I will try to work on my blog as well but it has been hard to focus on that currently.
I wish you all the best today and beyond.
I want to thank Tony Mamo of www.tonymamodesign.com for helping me with this next gen website. I would encourage anyone looking for an online presence to check out Tony Mamo and the services he offers, I mos def co-sign.
Big thanks also goes to the author of “Patient Stories” Andrea King for lending her skills to some of the content being developed on the site.
I would highly recommend reading Andrea King’s “Patient Stories.”