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Professional and technical considerations have, fortunately, taken precedence over political pressures and the move to shift the 2019 edition of Aero India away from IAF Yelahanka (on the outskirts of Bengaluru) has been junked ~ at least for now. The overdue statement from the Defence Ministry confirming the venue amounts to a snub to the high-flying bid of Yogi Adityanath to have India's only international air-show moved to Lucknow to bolster his effort to project UP as an upcoming hub for defence production: a clear case of wanting to run before learning to walk.
Conversely, Adityanath's loss is HD Kumaraswamy's gain ~ the Karnataka chief minister had battled to retain the biennial event his state has hosted since 1996. With the air eventually being cleared, both the authorities at Yelahanka and the national and international participants can get down to serious work for the show scheduled for coming February.
They will have a degree of "catch-up" to play, dithering over announcing the venue created avoidable complications, particularly for exhibitors/participants from abroad. Obviously military efficiency does not rank high with a ministry that had little hesitation in drafting Army engineers to erect a pedestrian overbridge at a suburban railway station.
No doubt the Yogi's success is critical to the political fortunes of the BJP: hence a defence production "corridor" is being located in UP which, to be fair it must be stated, always had a few ordnance factories. Yet to overnight project it as a major centre for the aviation/aerospace industry was overly-ambitious ~ to put it rather charitably. And while Kanpur does host a facility of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (the Dornier 228s are built there, as were the HS-748 transports), even that town was bypassed, the preferred venue for the unsuccessful bid for Aero India was politically more rewarding Lucknow ~ the IAF station at Baskshi-ka-Talab to be precise.
That Yelahanka has better infrastructure, Bengaluru is the home of the domestic aviation industry, and it has a flourishing hospitality service to cater to visitors all counted for little. A minister in the UP government waxed eloquent that if his state could conduct the Kumbh Mela, running Aero India was child's play. That tells you something.
What had military aviation experts worried was that Mrs Nirmala Sitharaman's prolonged silence fuelled UP's ambitions ~ the mess that has resulted from the political decision to relocate the DefExpo is not easily forgotten.
Adding to apprehensions that the minister does not differentiate her defence duties from her political fire-fighting is the fact that the BJP is still smarting over being outplayed by the Congress-JD(S) combine in Karnataka: depriving Bengaluru of Aero India would have been sweet revenge. It is indeed churlish to drag security-linked issues into the quagmire of pathetic political speculation ~ but who can deny that the prevailing climate triggers such thinking?


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Three days ago I made the craziest thing in my life : I jumped from the world's highest bungy jump platform of 233 meters! It is called the Macau Tower. Macau is one of the two administrative regions of China and in next posts I will be sharing stories and pictures from it. Also many posts about Hong Kong (just 60 km away from Macau) are coming.
Here there are some photos of Macau Tower, how it looks from outside :
The cost of one bungy jump is about $400, but it is worth of it, because :
- Macau Tower is the highest bungy jump in the world ;
- It is safe : about 9-10 people are working during one jump (three guys up, two guys controlling the cable, two guys down and two guys recording the video)
- Apart from the jump you get T-shirt (jumper's collection) + certificate which proves you really did it + USB with video & photos in high resolution.
More photos :
What was the reason to jump? I feel like I had more than few reasons to make that jump, for example :
- To challenge myself and make my mind stronger : «And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.» Richard Branson . I've been thinking about that phrase and agree that there is no other way to grow as personality as constantly challenging ourselves and extending our limits!
- To make the world understand that professional chess players are not only the guys who are spending all their time at chess board. Chess lacks of marketing nowadays so maybe this is one of the ways how to attract sponsor's attention to chess : blitz game, jump, one more blitz game, jump, etc? It has no point for open tournament but could have some logic for top closed events.
- To try completely new experience in my life.
I really hope, that similar extremal actions made by chess professionals could attract media's attention. We have to admit, that our game is boring and we must look for unexplored ways how to get new sponsors and investors for chess.
Proving my words : my jump was mentioned (0,5 page) in South China Morning Post, one of the most popular newspapers in English in Hong Kong :
So here we go :
Special thanks to Caissa Chess Club Hong Kong for sponsoring this jump and my stay in Macau!

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Ukraine: voters in Donetsk unable to vote after gunmen close down polling stationsComments
Voting in Donetsk in eastern Ukraine was not an option for voters on Sunday after pro-Russian rebels closed down polling stations.
The separatists had promised to do everything in their power to prevent presidential elections taking place and kept to their word, smashing ballot boxes in the streets.
Euronews correspondent Sergio Cantone reports that Donetsk is under the control of gunmen and that around 400 men from the Vostock (east) battalion were cheered by around 1,000 people as they passed through the streets, saying they were going to the "front."
Locals said the armed men were protecting them.
One man told euronews: "they protect us from Kyiv's junta, from the extreme Ukrainian nationalists. We didn't invite them over here, they came by themselves, and now they are crying out that they got killed, so go home!"
European election monitors said they had pulled out of the region for their own safety, explaining there was a campaign of "terror" against them.
In the east of Ukraine, voting was only happeneing in some polling station in Mariupol, Lugansk and Krasnoarmysk.
One lady in Krasnoarmysk said she was determined to vote whatever the cost.
"You ask if I am afraid to come to vote?" She said, "we live here not very far, it's very close, should we be afraid to come? Should we stay inside our houses? And who is going to provide a better future for our children?"
Sergio Cantone described how the district electoral commission in Krasnoarmysk was protected by the Dnipro battalion forces while inside ballots were being counted. In the last few days, he said, many of these places had been attacked.


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I attended a seminar last spring at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University that discussed the topic 'The Future of Nigeria'. With so many things happening in Nigeria at the time, I expected a robust discussion particularly on the threat that insecurity situation poses to the country's economic and political development.
But I was disappointed. Adebowale Adefuye, the Nigerian ambassador to the United States, talked as though things were perfectly normal. "This happens in every country," he dismissively replied when Bola, a Nigerian PhD student asked why despite government's promise of containing it we've seen the insurgency rise.
Never in the history of Nigeria have people come under such gruesome attacks for their faith like Christians have in the last three years. Disappointingly, Adefuye considered it normal. Never in the history of Nigeria has any group other than the military dictators tried to gag the press like Boko Haram has done in the recent past.
After listening to Adefuye, I immediately realized one of the fundamental problems facing Nigeria – the tendency of politicians and their representatives to play politics with everything including the lives of the very people that had put them in the positions they occupy.
It doesn't matter that Time Magazine named President Goodluck Jonathan as one of the most influential people in 2012, last year was Boko Haram's year in Nigeria. In 2012 alone, the terrorist group killed over one thousand people through their gun and bomb attacks on churches, schools, police stations, media centers, markets and communication networks, making the year the group's bloodiest.
To dismiss this as though nothing happened as Adefuye did in Harvard, is a disservice to the very people he claims to represent. Throughout the year, I carefully monitored reports on Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria, and there was no month that passed without at least three or four attacks on innocent citizens by the group. The average death toll a month in 2012 was 90.
I believe that Nigeria and Nigerians have had a handful. No nation allows such callous wastage of its people and expects to truly develop. The west listens to China and India today because these nations in the last two decades have demonstrated that they understand the power they have – their people both at home and in diaspora. Brazil, a country that recently overtook the United Kingdom as the world's sixth largest economy, is another nation that understands the power of it numbers.
It is said that one out of every six Africans is a Nigerian, yet Nigerians grapple with such challenges as constant power supply that smaller countries like Togo, Ghana and even war-torn Ivory Coast have substantially put behind them. Nigeria remains a sleeping giant.
One year after the massacre in the Catholic Church in Madalla, we have in Nigeria a country more insecure, where Boko Haram has become insolently audacious and resolutely bold as to invade a military cantonment and a police base of the caliber of Jaji and Special Anti-Robbery Squad office.
One year after President Jonathan cried in Madalla, we see Boko Haram virtually shutdown schools in parts of the north; we see them bomb telecom facilities making the mobile phones in the hands of some in that part of the country of no use in an increasingly interconnected world.
To blame the Boko Haram onslaught on politicians who are unhappy with the "revolutions that President Jonathan is leading" as Ambassador Adefuye puts it, is to indirectly show the weakness of the president. I did an article earlier in 2012 calling on the President to be bold to name and shame those sponsoring Boko Haram after he stated that his government knows them. Ironically the only suspect that was arrested for allegedly masterminding of the Madalla massacre escaped from police detention.
One year after the Madalla tragedy that claimed the lives of over 40 Nigerians while injuring more than 50 others, fear pervades our land. Nobody knows where and when the next Boko Haram attack will occur. The politicians in the national assembly are as fearful as the ordinary man on the street of Abuja.
Even the president, with all the security apparatus around him, feels unsafe. For the second year in a roll, he has refused to hold the normal outdoor parades to mark our independence day for fear of possible attack, preferring rather to hold an indoor get-together with friends and allies in his more fortified Presidential Villa.
For Christians in the north, the region has become worse than the Biblical lion's den.
The fatalities are more than most media counts indicate. In Borno, Kaduna and Kogi, not less than 70 churches were destroyed, according to one media account.
In a recent report, World Watch Monitor, a human rights group that monitors persecution of Christians across the world, describes Nigeria as "a country where the worst atrocities in terms of loss of life occur".
A number of Christian corps members have been slaughtered in the north for things that no sane person would call offence. I remember the stories of Evelyn Tagbo and Christiana Oluwasesin, two graduates who served in Gombe state. Both taught at two different girls school but their stories are similar. One day Evelyn was going to invigilate a class. It was so sunny that she decided to walk her way to the class passing under a tree in the compound where unknown to her some Muslim students sometimes prayed. The students went after her and almost lynched her but for the timely intervention of the school principal.
Christiana Oluwasesin, a mother of two, who found herself in similar circumstance never lived to tell her story. She was invigilating a class when a student walked into the exam hall with her bag. Christiana collected the bag and threw it outside as exam rules didn't permit students to take in their books. Immediately the student began to cry saying her Quran has been desecrated. Christiana never knew there was a Quran in the student's bag, but before she could even explain that, the students have descended on her and with the help of fanatics from the village stripped her naked and stabbed her to death.
Evelyn today blogs about the activities of Boko Haram, calling for government action to root out extremism in schools and for better protection of corps members serving in the north. She remembers with nostalgia how she would have died for what she knew nothing about. How many corps members have died under similar circumstances? One year after the Madalla tragedy, we are less safe. I am only hoping that the worst days are behind us.
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Vacation can be expensive. So is having a baby. Therefore, having a baby while on vacation is unlikely to be a cheap adventure.
A Canadian couple can tell you all about that. Jennifer Huculak and her husband were vacationing in Hawaii in October of 2013 when she suddenly went into labor, CTV News reports. She was six months pregnant at the time, spent six weeks on bed rest in a Hawaiian hospital and had her daughter nine weeks early. After her baby spent two months in intensive care, Huculak and her husband were happy to take their healthy daughter home. They weren't so happy about the $950,000 medical bill, and they were especially unhappy that their insurance provider refused to cover it.
The dispute centers on whether Huculak had a pre-existing condition that would exclude her early labor costs from coverage. She bought a Blue Cross travel policy before going on vacation, but a letter from Blue Cross, quoted by CTV News, states: "Ms. Huculak was diagnosed and treated for a high-risk pregnancy in the six months prior to departure. As Ms. Huculak is currently hospitalized and being treated for this high-risk pregnancy, any expenses incurred are not eligible under the terms of your policy."
Huculak says her doctor cleared her to travel, and she denies that she had a high-risk pregnancy. Huculak had a bladder infection, but her doctor in Saskatchewan wrote Blue Cross saying it did not cause the early labor, CTV News reports.
Facing the nearly $1 million bill, Huculak and her husband aren't thrilled about their choices, which she says are to continue the dispute with Blue Cross, declare bankruptcy or "wait and see what happens," according to CTV News.
Medical bills are the leading cause of U.S. bankruptcies, and millions of Americans deal with the frustration and financial pain of unaffordable health care. Even with the help of insurance, people still find themselves unable to pay medical bills, leading to collection accounts on their credit reports and, subsequently, credit issues. Having poor credit can cost you thousands of dollars over your lifetime — you can see two of your credit scores for free on Credit.com, as well as how much your credit score is costing you, using this calculator — so if you're caught in a medical debt dilemma, don't let the issue sit.
There are a lot of options you can explore, like negotiating with your creditors, setting up a payment plan that makes the bill fit in your budget, or looking into debt settlement. If bankruptcy is truly your only option, keep in mind that while it will seriously hurt your credit, it also puts you on the path to financial recovery.
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October on the Fraser river means intense White Sturgeon fishing!
Every day on the Fraser River in October equals quality fishing, much like any other month.
We always look forward to October Sturgeon fishing. This is when our charters produce incredible results for big fish. So far this month the Sturgeon fishing has been action packed. Every charter is getting into lots of big fish and many are over 7 and 8 feet. Fraser Sturgeon are extremely energetic at this time of year and battles are typically full of long screaming runs and jumps. Anglers are experiencing sore arms and battles that they could not even imagine. These fish are NOT slugs, they are one of the best big game sport fish on the planet.
Top Sturgeon fishing locations
Mission BC is the "Sturgeon Fishing Capital of the World"
We focus our efforts in the prime area of Mission to Maple Ridge(15 min from Mission). This is 30-40 minutes downstream of Chilliwack. This is by far the top producing area for big fish and lots of fish. It is the prime feeding zone. For example, 12 big Sturgeon were encountered on one of our charter boats 3 days ago. This is normal for October in the Fraser river valley. For best fishing opportunities it is always recommended to have a freshwater license with White Sturgeon conservation tag PLUS separately a Tidal waters license. Mission is based right on the boundary that separates Tidal from Freshwater. Please have both when you are going on one of our Sturgeon charters in the Fall months.
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Top baits for October
Without giving away any secrets; Sturgeon are actively feeding on Salmon during the Fall. We always have a fine selection of prime baits that Sturgeon cannot resist.
When is peak Sturgeon season over?
Generally speaking one can expect incredible results well into November. Many of our repeat anglers from Europe are keen on booking their Fraser River Fishing Holiday at this time due to the wicked action and fewer anglers. These veterans go home with destroyed arms and big grins!
Weather is not too much of a factor here with exception of snow which is always possible by late November. Sturgeon are not affected by rain, they are already wet. We're not sure why people keep asking if rain upsets fish. We recommend booking your Sturgeon trip right up to November 20 for good results.
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We baby boomers grew up in a time when many televised movies were westerns or World War II films. I also loved Hogan Heroes, the television series about allied POWs who were operating an espionage unit within Stalag 13, a POW camp run by bumbling Germans. Yet, it was not until 2010 that I learned that the allies had POW camps here in America.
Although over 400,000 WWII POWs were in America. The camps were small and scattered across the country. Last year, I had the opportunity to visit Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, and that is where I first learned about not only all the German POWs, but also the ones held at what was then known as Wright Field.
These prisoners worked on the base in base mess halls and warehouses, as well as maintaining the grounds. Apparently, since some of them had artistic abilities, they painted several murals on mess hall walls depicting German folklore. Evidence indicates that the German POWs painted three murals, yet only one remains today – standing quietly in an unsuspecting building as a part of the base's history. I'm glad I got to see them, otherwise I may have never known about WWII POWs in America – even those not all that far away.


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Velvet Revolver, Fall to Pieces:
Boy, talk about a rally falling to pieces, that was it. But the truth is that today could have been corrective of the past four days' rally, taking half of it away in one day – could have. Then again…
The DOW finished the day down 226 points (2.7%), the S&P lost 3.3%, the NDX got hammered for 2.6%, and the RUT was on the receiving end, getting nailed for 4.2% - once again leading the market. The XLF was getting pounded for nearly 8% as it was reported that the aggregator bank idea was running into snafus.
Market internals were wickedly bearish. By my preliminary calculations, it was a 91.5% down day by advancing/declining volume. Issues were 5 to 1 negative on the NYSE and new lows rose substantially over yesterday.
To me there were two clues to today's action yesterday:
1. I hit on the first one with Lacker's Fed dissent/comments affecting the bond market. Today was an absolute rout in the long end of the curve. Here's today's P&F chart of the TNX (10 year). Note the bullish breakout in yields and the bullish target that says 41.0. That would be 4.1% which is nearly DOUBLE the 2.1% where we just were.
2. The second clue was the Dollar. Remember that I posted the chart yesterday showing the hammer right on the 50 day moving average? Here's the result today:
Amazingly, today gold gained more than $20 an ounce on a deleveraging day in equities, USO was down 1.8%, and bonds got creamed. Stocks down, bonds down, oil down… gold up. Uh, that's pretty much the doomsday trade in a nutshell, and it's what's worked since the beginning of the year. As they say, "as goes January, so goes the rest of the year." Well, the bulls better kick it in high gear, because I show the DOW off more than 500 points and the S&P down 6.4% since the beginning of the year, and that's after being up the first three trading days of the month. Bonds? TLT is off 12.8% year-to-date and down 15.6% from its December high.
Let's start on the charts with the 10 day SPX. Closed at 845, not quite to the 50% fib, but it did break pretty critical support at 850. I note that the 10, 30, and 60 stochastic fasts are all oversold but the 60 minute slow is just half way down and pointing straight down. The likelihood of a bounce is high, but will be weighted until that 60 minute slow works its way a little further down:
Next is the one month daily SPX. Had we opened higher and then closed beneath yesterday's candle bottom, it would have been a bearish engulfing candle, but as it stands, it's pretty much the same thing… bearish and engulfing the entire candle bottom with a close below. NOT BULLISH! Before I leave this chart, however, note where the stochastic is… it would be rare to not reach the overbought line here, but it definitely can happen. Remember all those important Fibonacci lines I showed this morning? Soundly rejected off that point, it was a very critical area and close yesterday. Also note the reject of the 50dma after closing above yesterday:
What happened the last couple of times we had bearish reversals such as this? Let's take a look at the June 5th and 6th candles of last year… Following that pair, in the middle of the chart, we got two spinners followed by another hard down day:
Here's another pair of similar candles at the top of a run on September 19th and 22nd. What followed that? A big red candle, a little sideways action, and then one of the worst market crashes in history:
Not enough? In this next chart I highlight last November 4th and 5th candles – which followed the October crash. What followed that was another giant red candle and then it finally settled more than 200 points and 25% collapse further:
To be fair, there are a couple of examples on the chart in the past year of this pair that was followed by a higher close, but none that followed previous advances such as this. Don't get too bearish on that pair… they are bearish, yes, but hey, AMZN beat and there are still believers in the government's ability to save us!
Let's talk volume… I have it turned off on today's charts so we could see the candles better, but the volume on the DOW was lower than yesterday's. It was lower but very close to level on both the DIA and SPY. When I go back and look at those pairs, that's exactly what I see on pairs that were located on tops… high volume black, low volume red, then the volume picks up on the downside later. The early November pair had much heavier volume on the down day. My point being that being a lower volume day today does not negate that pair.
Okay, let's look at the DOW daily. Closed below the 50% fib, next support 8,100… 8,200 is now overhead:
The NDX filled its gap up entirely and ALMOST produced an island reversal. What's there to say about that?
The RUT led the way down today, failed to hold its 50dma and pinned the 50% fib line almost exactly (not shown).
Lastly, let's look at the XLF. That COULD be considered to be island reversal… if we ignore the little pin on top, that is. The body of this candle is completely beneath the body of the prior day. It only half filled its gap. I would think it would be very unusual for it to dip halfway in and finish the job!
Hey, that's what happens when people buy into the BS that a bad bank is going to save us all. All at once people were seeing how outright nationalization would be a much better deal for the taxpayers… that way they would get the good parts to go along with the bad parts. Sounds fair to me, IF we all want to be socialists, eh, Comrade? Better than just taking their trash, that's for sure. If that happens, current stock holders are ZEROS. Heaven forbid the banks just default and use the bankruptcy laws, can't have that, MUST DO SOMETHING!
Boy, so many charts, so many signals… the bond market, the dollar, the ugly candles – you might think there's a message in there somewhere:
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23 Jan 6 Things Your New Website Design Needs
Let's go basic on website design. Before we get bogged down in web strategy and advanced search engine optimization techniques, let's talk 6 basics that have to be present.
Today's search engines, like Google and Bing, are quite a bit different than they were several years back (or even several months back). Old school SEO required overloading the site with specific keywords (sometimes keywords that didn't even apply to the site, but showed up in a lot of searches). Things have changed… drastically.
Google and Bing have advanced well past these methods. In fact, the search engines do not rely on keywords through meta tags – they look for them on your pages and associate them with content to verify the validity of the page. Interestingly, Google's technology is moving towards a point when it can read a site's page very much like a human would. While we will cover SEO specifics in later posts, we'll dive right into the 5 things you must have.
The mention of SEO, is important in web design because ultimately, you want to rank well for interested parties. It is not a flip of a switch. Web Design Strategy needs to be implemented very early on in order to make SEO Strategy effective.
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•Content, Content, Content: Today's search engines give a lot of credibility to sites that have good quality, relevant, and unique content about your subject matter. Identifying certain aspects and keywords of your industry and building in great content around those concepts will certainly help people find you, because Google will see this and will see your site as having more authority over competitors whose site design lacks robust content.
Another reason content is so important has to do with your web site's audience. Many of today's consumers want good information. They want it in a certain format and they expect to be able to find it easily. The vast majority of potential customers research companies online prior to purchase. Make sure you are providing great info on your web site.
•A Blog: You do not need to embrace your inner Ernest Hemingway and write the great American Novel. However, a blog is essential for a number of reasons. It helps you build content for your site (see above), it helps keep your consumers informed of changes with your organization, it helps lend credibility to your organization by acting as a thought leader in the industry, and it also provides great content to share through Social Media Marketing efforts. These pages will also be the best pages to attract inbound links (another critical SEO component)
•Proper on Page SEO – We're not talking fancy SEO right now. Let's look for a good base to incorporate into design. Even though content is king, it has to be formatted in a way that search engines want to see it. Here is an easy checklist to get you started: images need "alt tags", Meta Titles are critical to telling the search engine what the page is about, a good Meta Description will get you more clicks, using your targeted keywords in the body is important (the same ones you used in the Meta Title), and using 1 header (H1) tag around your most important page concept in the body for each page will help
•Calls to Action – What do you want your visitors to do? Call you? Fill out a form? Join an e-mail list? Make a purchase? Make sure this critical aspect of the website design is clear and easily identifiable.
•A Form – It's great to have a contact us page, but make sure that forms are readily accessible on most, if not all, pages
•Analytics – Using tools like Google Analytics will help you track your web page's performance so that you can revise as necessary to adapt to how your users are responding to your web design. The best laid plans usually need revision. If you have no way to track usage statistics, you will be in the dark as to how to adapt your design.
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This week I learned even more about my beloved field of hypnosis: Agatha Christies work has been identified as being extremely hypnotic!
Stories are brilliantly powerful and a most engaging way to communicate.
Pretty much every culture, religion and tradition has storytelling as a teaching component, many traditions pass their history on through stories. I remember hosting a story telling evening with a wonderful man from the Chippa-Waa Cree nation, he is a metis from a nomadic shamanic tribe in Canada.
He learned his people's history in stories, he also learned about life and humour through stories, he laughed and cried at stories told by his elders each evening in much the same way that I laughed and cried in front of the TV as a youngster!
Parables from the bible are another wonderful example;
I can remember that following a truly brilliant training course I attended by here in Bournemouth that I had a very problematic client who was extremely difficult and I had concerns about. I discussed this with the trainer and he told me one or two stories, one of which was a parable from the bible. He did not tell me directly what he thought I should do, rather, he guided me through stories and metaphor and it helped wonderfully.
In addition to bible parables, we can look at Sufi stories, fairy tales, Native American storytelling, Norse sagas, Indian Puranas (stories of wisdom), children's fables - they all have stories as an integral part of them.
These aren't just random stories. They're often used to teach people valuable moral principles and life lessons. And they're stories designed to have a specific effect upon the listener.
Why do they work so well? They work because they engage both the conscious mind (the linear, sequential mind) and the unconscious mind (the emotional, symbolic mind). A story has both a linear, logical sequence and emotional and symbolic content. Engaging the mind at both the levels is an extremely powerful way to communicate. Imagine how that can develop rapport, enhance relationships, increase sales and much more.
This brings me on nicely to my main topic today. A metaphor is also a story. A metaphor is a covertly hypnotic way of talking about something without talking about it. Let me explain that:
"Never try to teach your pet dog to sing. It wastes your time and irritates your dog."
If you wanted to get the message across to someone that they were going to a lot of effort that would only result in problems and frustration, you might use the dog quote. Firstly, it is a more gentle way of introducing an idea. It is much softer than saying "You're just wasting your time. Don't bother doing it." It's softer because you're talking about something without talking about it directly. Do you see what I mean?
Equally, I tend to open my speaking events with stories about myself and my experiences. If I were to stand up and say:
"hello everyone, I am Adam Eason and I am windswept and interesting and extremely funny!"
That would make me look full of myself, conceited and ridiculous (Even if it is all true!!). I have job enough trying to make sure I don't appear that way! If instead, I decide to mention an incident that happened to me while speaking in Dubai last year that I responded to in a witty way, then it shows me to be well-travelled, quick witted, successful and other things, without me having to actually spell those traits out to my audience.
Both of my books to date open with chapters telling a story from my life to illustrate a point and introduce myself and my take on the subject. That is how important I think stories are to our communication.
Why is it then, that I think metaphors and stories are so Powerful?
In order to explain why metaphors and stories are so powerful, let's get into the roles of the different parts of the mind. (For a fuller understanding of this, read my article Hypnosis Explained)
Part of the role of the conscious mind is to analyze incoming information to determine whether or not the incoming information agrees with your current beliefs, behaviour patterns and attitudes.
When new information disagrees with current beliefs, the new information is often ignored or rejected. We call this part of the mind the critical factor.
When you're using metaphors, telling stories or using other covert hypnotic language, we don't want the person's conscious defence systems and resistance to be activated. One way to make sure we successfully avoid this trap is to avoid activating the critical factor.
If we avoid the critical factor; the analytical, reasoning, evaluating, judging part of the mind is subsequently relaxed, allowing new information and ideas to more easily enter the subconscious/unconscious mind, with less emphasis on previously held beliefs.
When the critical factor is inactive, new ideas are accepted more easily.
When the critical factor is relaxed and the mind of the listener is fully engaged by a story, we can get the same results that a good hypnotherapist achieves in their office!
In short, a good compelling story puts a person in a trance state; it keeps the critical factor out of the way and gets them concentrating powerfully on an idea. The unconscious mind recognizes the parallels between the story and the listener's life and applies the lessons of the metaphor or story.
There are lots of ways to either bypass the critical factor or avoid it in everyday life. For example, people often suspend their judgement in favor of an authority figure's judgment. I know I would believe everything my doctor, Dad or early school teachers told me as a young man. Things they told me I just accepted as the truth without thinking; this is bypassing the critical factor.
Daydreaming and hypnosis are other ways that we bypass the critical factor intentionally. Becoming involved in a story is a natural way to bypass the mind's critical factor.
As you all know, my first love is hypnosis. One famous definition of hypnosis is: The bypass of the critical factor of the mind and the establishment of acceptable selective thinking. Let me explain how metaphor and stories, conversationally, can accomplish the same thing.
I have mentioned the critical factor bypass but what's acceptable selective thinking?
Well, selective thinking occurs when a person concentrates fully on an idea. A stage hypnotist might ask a person to concentrate on the idea that a raw onion tastes as good as an apple. (That does make me laugh to think about!) A hypnotherapist might ask a client to focus on the idea that they're accomplishing a personal development goal. With the critical factor out of the equation, the unconscious mind concentrates on those ideas so completely that they become the subject's reality!
What can get in the way? When the subject doesn't want to do it! If they don't want to accomplish the goal (or eat an onion!), their critical factor may be activated and then fight the suggestion. That's one reason it is known as acceptable selective thinking.
So, how do we keep the critical factor out of the way and at the same time get someone concentrating powerfully on an idea?
A powerful, compelling story (a metaphor) does just that. The critical factor does not get activated because you're not talking about them! Yet the unconscious mind gets involved emotionally. In other words, the mind concentrates on the ideas presented in the metaphor (acceptable selective thinking). The unconscious mind is also a lot better than the conscious mind at spotting symbolism. So, if a metaphor is symbolic of a situation in a person's life, the person will relate the story to their situation. You don't even have to consciously point it out! Their unconscious mind does that for you! Cool eh?
Coming up, I am going to explain how to design your own metaphors, when and how to use them and much more. Look out for that article (part 2) very soon.
For now, think about your own stories from your own life; when did you overcome great odds to achieve something? What is something really self-deprecating or humorous that happened to you? Describe a time when someone you know acted with great kindness to you. I will tell you how to use these stories to enhance your communication, develop better relationships and create more success in your life in that next article.
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This is Al Martinez's first column for LA Observed. He will be back frequently.
As a long-time resident of Northern California, I can declare with impunity that nothing that happens in Berkeley ever surprises me, and that includes the U.C. campus.
Then why, I hear you ask, write about it at all, Berkeley being so, you know, far away? Well, because what happens there occasionally trickles down to our own colleges, and I want everyone to be prepared for what could escalate into a new academic pursuit: sex on campus.
Right. Here come the Golden Bares.
I realize there are sensitivities involved here, not the least of which is that many parents are learning for the first time that a columnist for the impish Daily Californian is leading the way in what seems to be encouraging , er, intimate relationships on campus without getting caught, although fear of detection doesn't appear to be a real concern.
The writer is one Nadia Cho who, one is led to believe, specializes in sex. She tried it with a woman once and wrote about it and decided that what the seething undergraduates of the prestigious university needed was "a nice little sex tour through the campus."
It was, you see, a holiday week, the campus was relatively abandoned and there wasn't much to do, so why not grab her boy friend and explore the question of whether sex inside of Sather Gate is a possibility. Her answer is yes, it's "very doable."
Her essay was reprinted in Facebook and while I admired her ingenuity I was appalled by her audacity. Was she suggesting that campus sex be included in a regular curriculum and that class assignments involve field studies? Beats me.
She claimed to have found a good site for her own dalliance in a section of the campus library devoted to the archives of the British Royal Academy, which I suppose at least adds the whisper of an intellectual tone to her eroticism. But because silence is traditionally required in libraries regardless of one's activities, it probably isn't the best place for a loud and lusty roll in the archives.
So next they tried an empty classroom where they not only could be as noisy as they wished but where she could prance about in her underwear "writing dirty things on the chalkboard," a practice not yet acceptable during regular sessions.
I emailed Cho to ask if her giggly take on sex was real or only a whimsical piece of satire. She replied that it was finals week and she didn't have time for an interview. I emailed her again for just a yes or no to my basic questions and never received a reply. Finals first, sex-talk later, I guess.
I fear that the fun-loving nature of her treatise could inspire others to conduct their own experiments and that campus fornication might spread to UCLA, USC and even Valley College where they're still learning how to do it, not where. At least it will be a more visual response to those wondering if their kids are really learning something in the halls and bushes of academia.
A version of this column ran in the Daily News and at Al's own website. He will appear occasionally at LA Observed.


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After your morning coffee, you'll be expected to...
- Develop Adblock Plus SDK and its integration using your Java/Kotlin, JavaScript and C++ skills
- Solve problems such as optimizing memory usage and performance for our mobile partners, and of course striving for a high adblocking quality
- Ensure the stability of our SDKs across all platforms and partners
- Ensure that partner requests are answered and implemented, and that partners are satisfied
- Keep up with changes related to Chromium versions and translate these into the required changes for our libraries
- Work with other team members for code reviews and coordination of QA
What you bring:
- 4+ years of software development experience
- Ability to solve compatibility problems using Kotlin, Java, C++, JavaScript and Python
- Understanding of how the web technically works
- Comprehensive knowledge of the Android SDK and OS
- Experience working with complex software projects
- Experience with concurrency/multithreaded development (both C++ and Java/Kotlin)
- Experience with Building Systems (e.g. GNU make, gradle)
- Experience of cross platform native development (Android, iOS, Linux)
- Experience of UI and Unit-testing for Android
- Knowledge of version control systems (git)
- Fluent in both verbal and written English
- Proactive problem solver with a good attitude
It's awesome, but not required, if you have...
- Knowledge about Java or other programming languages
- Experience working on open source projects
- Understanding of the ad tech landscape
- The ability to speak Mandarin (not at all required, but would be amazing)
A little bit about the team you'll work with
The Distribution Partners team works on growing eyeo's number of users by finding and collaborating with partners that help us scale our user base. Our partners include leading players in the browser and OEM markets; we collaborate closely with them to integrate ad-blocking technologies into their projects. We do this by providing, maintaining, and constantly updating the SDKs that make it easy for our partners to integrate with us. We add features and functionality based on partner feedback and new trends in the markets around us.
Not sure if this is for you? Consider contributing first.
When applying, please include a code sample or, preferably, references to open source projects you've worked on.


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Poetry. Fiction. After the delicate first concept album I, Coleoptile (2010), Ann Cotten now comes out with a full-fledged book of English poetry and prose. LATHER IN HEAVEN assembles her work in English up to now, as well as some selected translations from the German. English, however, is a wide field. The author, known for stretching the limits of German expression, writes in an English informed more by several global variants of pidgin than by universities or writing schools. If it sounds like Shakespeare, it also sounds like slips from Chinese fortune cookies.The poems hail from various third- and first-world countries the author spent time in; the largest body of poems was written in Japan. Cotten's linguistic estrangement is both trauma and solace. In tune with her generation, she does not seem to feel bound to a single position. She will pound in the brutality of a postcolonialist reality only to create, in the next line, some bizarre fluff that flies off into speculative aesthetics. The topics may grasp at the personal and the general with one and the same phrase; misused rhetoric serves to aggravate the sensibility of the crass realities we live in with the startling trusting gestures of a domestic plant gone feral.The book is interspersed with fine black-and-white photography by the author. After the poems and songs, it includes four stories from Der schaudernde Fächer, Cotten's prize-winning German prose collection, and an interesting dialogic lecture on the evolution of art memes.
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Ann Cotten, born in Iowa, grew up in Vienna, Austria, where she studied German Literature. Her first book of poems consisted of 78 double-sonnets, creating a surprise effect in the German poetry scene. Since, she has published her diploma thesis on concrete poetry (Nach der Welt, Klever Verlag 2008), a second book of poetry and prose ostensibly written by a palette of characters (Florida-Rooms, Suhrkamp 2010), a 1-Euro elegy (Das Pferd, SuKultur 2007), a part of a bibliophile Schock edition (Pflock in der Landschaft, 2011) and a book in English: I, Coleoptile (Broken Dimanche Press, 2011). With Monika Rinck and Sabine Scho, she performs the Rotten Kinck Schow, a wild theory and paper- mache thing, irregularly. In 2013 she published The Quivering Fan a collection of short stories in German currently being translated into English and has been working on a project on the Kanji in Japan.Author City: VIENNA AUT


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November 13, 2013
Food & Drink
» Dining
Roy Choi appears on Saturday,
Nov. 23, at the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena. 2555 Main St., St. Helena. 9am. $95. Details, venues and tickets for all other Flavor!
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"Sometimes in the food world, we only talk about the pretty things," says restaurateur Roy Choi, discussing his new cookbook that topped both the Asian and Mexican cookbook lists on Amazon last week. "I wanted to create a book that felt like Milpitas."
Choi, most famous for inventing the Korean taco and igniting the food truck movement with his Kogi food-truck fleet in Los Angeles, is now shaking up the food publishing scene with a new memoir-cookbook, L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food, the first release from Anthony Bourdain's new publishing imprint. Choi appears in St. Helena as part of Flavor! Napa Valley on Nov. 23.
For L.A. Son, Choi kept three goals in mind: make it affordable, truly tell the story of L.A. immigrant life and keep it rated R. He succeeds at all three. In addition, his own personal narrative details struggles with adversity, addiction and finding his calling in life.
Choi moved from South Korea to Koreatown in Los Angeles as an infant. His parents failed at liquor store and restaurant businesses before striking gold with a jewelry business. As their wealth grew (they eventually moved into Nolan Ryan's former Orange County house), Choi struggled with his identity in SoCal's bleach-blonde suburbs.
He turned to the streets, disappearing alone for days and bumming around Hollywood, becoming the only Asian member of a Latino lowrider club and running with a crew called the Grove Street Mob. He flirted with alcohol and crack before falling to the soft touch of green felt on Indian casino card tables.
Amid Choi's troubles, there was food, recipes of which are peppered throughout the pages of L.A. Son: carne asada with the lowriders, pho and pork fried rice from casinos and some of the healing dishes from his mother's kitchen after his parents finally staged an intervention for his gambling addiction.
Choi says he wrote most of L.A. Son's personal stories between midnight and 6am, "because I had to tap into a place that was blocked off. I couldn't write about those things when other people were awake, because I would consciously think people were looking at it or concerned about it," he says. "Even if you haven't read in a while, you can read this book because it's alive. It just feels like me talking to you, right here."
This week, Choi talks at Flavor! Napa Valley, a three-day festival featuring local chefs Cindy Pawlcyn, Dario Di Conti, Tyler Rodde, Michael Chiarello and Christopher Kostow alongside high-profile visitors like Todd English, Scott Conant, Mario Carbone and Masaharu Morimoto. And while he won't be prepping for Thanksgiving dinner ("I don't believe in the lies that holiday represents," he says), he's all but guaranteed to inspire attendees with his own unique recipes—and his life story.
"I think the great part of it now, in that arc, is that it's moving further and further away from having to define it as a Korean guy doing this, and it's just becoming a story that inspires others," Choi says. "It doesn't matter where you come from or what color you are—it's just an American story."
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