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For Ramesh With Love
…Out on the road today I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice inside my head said don't look back you can never look back
…..those days are gone forever; I should just let 'em go – Don Henley
When I read Ramesh's post in Elephant Journal; Are Traditional Yogis Pretentious Preachers? the little voice inside my head whispered; "I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac". I felt Ramesh's concern and anger that people are altering yoga to be whatever suits them. Maybe it feels like someone's stealing something personal. I felt his frustration which awakened my issues which are different from his but may share some common ground. Reading between the lines I felt a wave of nostalgia.
There is an emotional tie many of us have to a time in our lives when yoga was not embraced by the masses and we did not see yoga as a saleable commodity. As it became a business it was subject to fashion. Fashion is about change and fashion also has cycles. But there is something more. As yoga has exploded as a fashion and a commercial cure for everything from weight problems to mental problems it has been exposed and that exposure is causing us to reflect on something we may have taken for granted. Haven't we always made yoga to be what we want it to be? I have my own impressions that reflect the passing of time and a changing environment.
There was a time in the late sixties and early seventies when yoga wasn't a commercial business or if it was, I was unaware of it. There were books and a few gurus and a few unflashy studios that were akin to the old "health food" stores that felt a little dingy and vaguely religious. Yoga sort of went with hippy. I did yoga because I liked it and there was no more to think about than that.
At the time yoga was part of the counterculture. It was about peaceful resistance and also about love and brotherhood. It was carried here by Indians and we embraced the foreignness as we rebelled against what we saw as a restrictive culture and an immoral war. Mind opening was a big phrase. Yoga was just a part of that. It was about nakedness and escapism and community and yes, "hope and change" to coin a phrase. Yoga was peaceful. Yoga was gentle and meditation was foremost. We read Satchidananda, Muktananda, Yogananda. The picture of a yoga teacher was more Indra Devi than Christy Turlington. In fact the image of a female yoga teacher would be considered dumpy and lumpy today. I don't believe it had anything to do with outward image. Anyway, that's my impression. The people who brought yoga to us were messengers of love.
If there was any elitism or discussion of who has been in a state of pure consciousness or bliss or whatever or God help us, whose is more authentic, I missed it and probably because in those days before the internet we weren't distracted by everyone else's take on life. It was probably there but I was unaware of it and so I was happier for that. My memories bind me to a time and place that was sweet and my nostalgia enables me to believe that it was a better time but that's probably not so. It was just an easier time because it was simpler. This was what I made yoga out to be. And then it changed because the environment changed and I changed with it. More than that, I was drawn by so much energy around yoga to explore it further. When I look at Yoga's history I might venture that the men who initiated yoga might have been horrified to see the lack of discipline in the bunch of hippies who were the early face of American yoga. I think they may have been much sterner than those gurus who later came to America and gave us our impression of yoga.
Aerobics classes hit the scene. Everyone was getting fit. I was dancing. I had always been dancing but now it was a fitness class. I wasn't doing much yoga although I brought out my meditation mantra for emergencies. My yoga environment had been replaced by a fast paced New York City film business whirlwind. Aerobics dance classes which dancers eschewed as "dance" classes became a way for artistic people to make a living. Aerobics classes were more accessible to the general public and now everyone could dance. It did not dummy down classical or professional dance. It was adjacent.
Yoga was still the domain of the minority. It was a quiet giant. I taught a dance based class for fun and to stay fit. I incorporated yoga balancing poses into the class. I had always found them balletic. I did not think it was disrespectful. However I did not call it a yoga class. I called it the Bodymind Workout. I had come back to yoga by then and my two teachers could not have been more different. Diana Lang taught meditation and energetic awareness. Ana Forrest taught physical and mental stamina intending emotional breakthroughs. Because fitness and the power of physical expression was my focus at that time it was inevitable that I found Bryan Kest and got hooked on Power Yoga. Power Yoga made yoga more accessible to the general public and now everyone could do yoga. Actually Bryan Kest infuses his classes with attention to the Yamas. His "shtick" as someone recently referred to it is his way of saying, no harm, no jealousy of others,no kidding yourself, etc. Power Yoga did not dummy down the yoga of meditation, reflection and science. It was both adjacent and part of that. It was also an extension of aerobics class. It was an extension of our American psyche in its evolution.
When I moved to Nashville I found yoga taught in a very different light. I called it Bible Belt yoga because it felt fundamentalist after coming from Los Angeles. An Iyengar teacher actually smacked me on the leg and told me not to come back to class wearing the flowing dance wear I was accustomed to. Talk about repressive! However Nashville, recognized by Nashville natives as the heart center of the country, drew more popular guest teachers, largely from the Iyengar tradition, than any place of its size. Spiritual seekers seek answers everywhere. Once yoga was accepted by the few it took wings. Although yoga was taught as a physical practice it was also embraced as a spiritual practice. The teachers who visited were largely a generation influenced by the yoga schools of India. Again yoga was neither an aerobics class nor about the outer image. It was however very much about structural alignment and living within the frame of correct posture which is a great metaphor for the overriding personality I saw here 17 years ago: The spirit can be revealed when there are clear parameters. There were very few teachers. You might say it was a controlled environment. I still think I got smacked on the leg because my brand of yoga was deemed out of control here.
Then the yoga schools appeared. With that everything changed. Guest teachers appeared to be yoga stars. They made yoga look glamorous. They were powerful. And what fun to do what you loved for a living. Everyone wanted to be a yoga teacher. In Nashville the community was also evolving. Whole Foods was replacing the meat and three. Yoga was often replacing the meeting ground of the church. Nashville was becoming home to more people outside the South. Lots of newcomers vying for jobs make for a competitive environment and the need to define one's brand.
In the seventies when I was a counter culture teenager I wrestled with the idea of entering the work force. I couldn't see the point. I had vague ideas of a life of writing, journalism, dancing but nothing about a routine or a paycheck seemed correct. I was given a book by the same boyfriend who had introduced me to yoga. It was called The Master Game, by Edward S. DeRopp. The message left a lasting impression on me. As I remember it: This is the game we were handed. Make the most of it and play it to win it. Running will not change things. There's no honor in that. The honor is in getting in the game because it is the one you were born to play. I hated that message but I heeded it. It's a free market. Do a job.
Although it was unplanned I was teaching yoga and it was a business. I tried to ignore the whole mess for years hoping it would go away but saner minds than mine ruled and I was handed a computer and a website by a client who had bought into a virgin web design company and insisted I have one. Then I needed a name for the website. The name indicated a definition. Now I had also remade yoga. Slippery slope and so it goes. It seemed far from my old picture of yoga. It almost made me think I didn't want to be part of a club that would have me. So what does that mean?
This is yoga in America. This is what's necessary to have a yoga business. What shines in the media headlights or congests the internet is distracting and also telling. It's telling us there's no going back. We can either hide out or stay in the game. I'm staying for now and I hope anyone who loves yoga and has something to teach about it will do the same. I am part of the change but I am not my own enemy despite my trepidation about being worthy of the title, yoga teacher. I'm O.K. with being branded because I created an environment that served my community well. It defined me and that was a good thing. It broke the mold but it didn't ruin it. Once I took the name yoga teacher I held myself accountable. The name Active Yoga was for business, the name Rebel Yoga defined me as someone who represented yoga in a new way.
A young student of mine has a research fellowship at the university here and she is from Pune, India. She is a scientist. She just returned from a visit to Pune and I asked her about yoga in her hometown. She had gone to the Iyengar Institute and several other classes in the area. She was there for Mr. Iyengar's birthday. She told me that she was a little disappointed in Mr. Iyengar because he talked so much about spirituality. He kept talking "inner body, outer body". She reported that her mother explained this as a result of Mr. Iyengar not having a formal education when he was young! It brought to mind the differences in opinion that are debated here in the U.S. about evolution.She told me that in India people think of yoga as exercise. She said women get off work and bring their children with them and take exercise at the Iyengar Institute. She also said that the majority of folks are in beginner classes. She went on to say that in the last five years India's economy has improved and so now more people can pay for yoga. They now have yoga at the gyms. She said that people want the most for their money and demand a lot of their teachers and what interests them is fitness. We have an impression of "authentic" yoga in India but are they so different from us? Yoga changes for them now because it is in the hands of the masses and the masses dictate what will sell. Was this the intention of yoga's founding fathers? Still, I think we are on a causeway that keeps winding back to the past as we evolve.
I have another student who was raised in East Tennessee. She's in her fifties and has been dealing with pain and restriction on one side of her body. I asked her if she could feel the restrictions in her leg as she assumed a posture. She answered with the wry wit that's commonplace here amongst people who consider themselves in recovery from their religious upbringing:
"I can't feel my body. I don't have a body. I have a heavenly body. I'm Baptist."
To my understanding you really do need to feel your body before you can manage that heavenly body. Moving my body took me to back to yoga. There is a huge demand to teach people how to communicate with their bodies. That's what people are asking for. People are asking for roots. It's tangible and understandable and it's good. Watching the yoga fashion show doesn't bother me. It just makes me want to work harder. The minority will have an intellectual curiosity or a spiritual bent to go further, as it's always been and the material will remain for that to be possible. As long as people care about that, and we will, there will be teachers. Viva la evolution.
Yoga and rock and roll are married in me for eternity as they had a common influence at a powerful time; love and freedom. I just turn away and I'm hearing lyrics once again: "It's more than a feeling" by the band, Boston. Yoga is as much in my emotional as my physical and mental body. Yoga has a home in me.
I'm not worried about yoga. It will live on in text and will maintain its authenticity there. It's up to the individual to take what he wants from it. It's more than a feeling that no matter how many times yoga changes hands and styles, the yoga you love exists as long as you do. To quote Ramesh's excellent declaration; "Not all yoga is the same, not all yoga experiences are the same. That is to cheapen yoga."
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16 Responses to "For Ramesh With Love"
Hi Hilary,
Interesting post. I'd just question a couple of things you say:
"This is yoga in America. This is what's necessary to have a yoga business."
The Sivananda yoga organization started in America and Canada, and has not sold out at all – 50 years later they are a huge organization, with many ashrams on all continents, and countless centers. Maybe it's just your perception that it's necessary to 'sell out' to have a business, but there are many examples like this one that would indicate otherwise.
"In India people think of yoga as exercise"
Well, this is an interesting topic you bring up. The fact is India is becoming rapidly Westernized while the West is becoming 'Easternised'. So of course you can meet an Indian woman who says 'yoga is exercise'. But that's more a reflection of the times we live in now, than the cultural background from which yoga comes.
wow, wonderful! Love the timeline and your view of the evolution!
"It is not selling out to put your name on yoga but taking the risk of saying I have a place in this . . . We are the natural dam to the commercialism that we are part of."
This is so right. I think that Ben's comment indicates the understandable protective instinct that so many of us have about yoga. But Hilary's response (and post, if you read it without jumping to preset conclusions) are showing us the complexities of being involved in the evolution of yoga – needing to name your studio, have a website, be true to your self – as well as the simplicity – which, in the end, is the faith in the experience of our practice.
Of course, there will be cynical operators out to make a buck off of yoga who don't care about it at all. But that's mostly not what we're dealing with. Instead it's a situation of a fast-changing practice that teachers are taking in many different directions at once – which makes many understandably nervous that what's valuable will get lost. I share that nervousness myself.
But the truth is that yoga has always evolved, it's just happening much faster now – which is in line with the rest of the world, which is also changing much faster than before. And in the world as in our little yoga corner of it as well, that creates unanticipated misunderstandings and problems as well as opportunities.
But what's so great about this post is the honest reflection on what it feels like to have been centrally involved in this process for decades now. I think that the yoga community would do really well to follow Hilary's example and have more of these reflective discussions about the contemporary evolution of yoga – it's just interesting, for one, but also helps us to take stock of what's been happening over the past several decades and what it means to us – and to the next generation, as we're going to be passing this legacy on to them.
You have such a calm way of getting to the point. I thank you for that assistance.
I realized after responding to Ben that the inference that I am selling out is so absurd that I'd really like to address that. He didn't seem to realize that I did not like the idea that I had to participate in the business world at all. I was trying to be a realist which is a maturation process I'm still experiencing even now. Thirty five years ago when probably more than half the people teaching yoga now weren't born I was happily waitressing in a macrobiotic restaurant, eating vegan and never defining it as such, living in a hippy enclave in Aspen, living a simple life in adherence to the principles of yoga without intention.
I would not have had to examine my understanding of yoga or study in depth had I not been pushed by the fact that it became a business. For that I am grateful. However, my heart is in that place where I walked three miles up a mountain to get home with my only worry, getting the wood burning stove hot before the sweat dried and I got a chill. I am no sell out. I am trying to deal with reality. I am trying to find my place there. We don't always have unlimited choice but we have unlimited choice on how we perceive things.
I think that anyone that feels they are 'involved in the evolution of yoga' is on an ego trip. How do you evolve something that is already perfect? You can't. If you think you can evolve yoga then you don't know what yoga really is – please don't take that personally: I don't know you, I don't know your practice. I'm certainly not judging you as a person, but I am responding to a comment you make that is typical of the yoga blogging world lately.
Yoga has been around (unchanged) certainly for centuries – some, myself included, would argue much longer. The idea that because we in the West have taken a limited aspect of it (let's face it, for the vast majority of people yoga = asana) and called it Yoga does not mean that we have 'evolved' it.
I didn't and don't mean to imply that you personally are a sell out. As I said above to Carol – I don't know you.
I'm just pointing out that it is possible to teach yoga as a total purist and 'succeed' financially, and in every other way.
The reason I wanted to point this out (and maybe I really wasn't clear enough, I don't have much time lately) is that I see many yoga teachers diluting what they teach because they think that's what people want. Well, maybe that's what some people want, sure, but once you step onto that path it's a slippery slope.
On the other hand, if you teach passionately, from the heart, what you believe in and love, it shows. People feel it; you transmit the essence of yoga; and you can't 'fail'.
With love, Ben
Ben: I think that anyone that feels that they have a proprietary understanding of "perfect" yoga is on an ego trip. How can you be so simplistic about something that is obviously so complex? You can't. If you think that you can sum up the vast tradition of yoga in a few absolutist declarations then you don't know what yoga really is. Please don't take that personally.
Seriously, I'm not sure what you mean by your very strong but equally vague statements. There's been a lot of good work done recently on how yoga has changed over time. This includes both the pre-modern periods and certainly the vast changes it underwent in conjunction with modernity (Mark Singleton, DG White, etc.) Not to mention the experiences of teachers on the ground like Hilary – and pretty much everyone else out there today or in recent memory (including Sivananda). Yoga was adapted to meet the needs of the modern world – that's a good thing, not a corruption.
At any rate, if you want to claim it's never changed in any significant way then I think that you need to have a compelling response to the mountains of evidence to the contrary.
Hey Carol,
I'm not sure what you mean by 'a proprietary understanding of "perfect" yoga' – I certainly didn't in any of my comments indicate that I feel I 'own' an understanding of yoga.
I also wasn't trying to 'sum up the vast tradition of yoga'.
I didn't want to provoke you (or Hilary, or anyone else), I simply wanted to offer a different perspective on the popular view that we have somehow 'evolved' yoga. In my opinion, we haven't.
You say yourself that yoga was 'adapted'… adapted and evolved are very different things are they not? I would say that adapted is a much more accurate description of what has happened.
The whole 'Modern American Yoga' thing is really primarily about asana. In the West the approach to asana has been very much adapted. However, that does not mean that it's evolved. I would argue the opposite: i would say that we have (contrary to what you say and I don't mean to provoke, again) corrupted yoga. My evidence for this is simply my personal experience:
I've been teaching yoga for 12 years, and I have never once had a case of a student injuring themselves in my asana class (and I teach a dynamic, powerful 90 minute asana class – I often have beginners doing headstand after a few weeks). On the other hand I have seen so many people injuring themselves in the modern 'adapted' styles of yoga. It's a corruption because it hurts people instead of healing them, whilst at the same time giving yoga a bad name.
I am convinced that if yoga is taught properly, in a traditional way, with respect for it's perfect roots, it can never hurt anyone. That's why I said what I said above – I'm genuinely sorry if my words were a bit too strong: it wouldn't be the first time I offended someone by speaking harshly (I'm very Pitta : / ). However, I beg you to forgive that, and consider my comment afresh.
Hillary, thank you so much for your article and the love! The love is mutual, the love of yoga, of the last 36 (for me) years of yoga experience, and the love of the future of yoga, which I think is bright, thanks, in part, to people like yourself, Ben, Carol, Bob, and all the other yoga enthusiasts riding this wild Elephant together.
Truth be told, Hillary, I was actually having fun writing that "angry" article. Some definitely saw the tongue-in-cheek nature of the piece, but most took it too seriously, but that is OK. Most of my pieces on Ej are written to stir debate and the "real" meaning is often in the subtext of what I write. And the main subtext of that piece was simply to say that a) yoga is more than asanas, and b) if you insists that yoga is pretty much asanas and also insist that yoga is whatever you make it, then why do you have a problem with people like me, who say that yoga is asanas, meditation, pranayama, kirtan, etc–the whole shebang. if yoga is whatever you want it to be, then why bother pointing fingers at those who think it is something different than you, just because you have boxed that person into a category called traditionalism?
You cannot say the world is both flat and whatever you want it to be at the same time.
At any rate, enough said about that.
As for perfection in yoga: according to yoga and tantra philosophy, there is only perfection on the spiritual level, in other words, when we experience yoga on the internal level in deep absoprtion, samadhi, when we are One with Spirit. Outside of that realm there is no perfection. You may or may not agree with this philosophical concept, but it is true to yoga philosophy. hence there is no perfect path, no perfect teacher, no perfect yoga practice, there is only a perfect goal–Spirit, God, Brahman.
The question is then, if you want to experience perfection in your yoga, if you want to experience God, how do you get there? By practicing yoga as fitness, or yoga as a spiritual path. Most people in the west do the former, some a little bit of both, very few the latter. In India, many more people did the latter, that is why we in the west, who think of yoga as primarily a spiritual path, try to emulate those who walked the path before us…. and that requires an intensity of practice on all level of yoga–body, mind spirit, that has yet to emerge in the West on any significant level. Yoga evolves in all kinds of directions at present, which evolution do you want it to go in–that is the question?
Hilary, thanks so much for sharing your wonderful journey. I truly loved hearing about it! And thanks for all the attention!
Hillary, fellow Nashvillian here. I've read all your posts and I am becoming a fan. I also read Ramesh here on EJ and I find myselft agreeing with him most of the time. My practice has evolved so that I prefer the Iyengar style more than the flowing styles here in NashVegas. The Iyengar style feesl more "authentic" to me, whatever that means. Maybe I am becoming one of those yoga fundamentalists. Please don't run me off 440 because of that.
Jan C ( you have to know who I am referring to) popped me in the leg once and it has been straight in Warrior 2 ever since. And it was nice to get a spanking as a free value added service instead of having to pay extra like normal.
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And thank you for reading. Yoga can be as much a part of a life as you like it. Take it home and try it on and maybe you'll let it live in the guest bedroom for awhile. Before you know it, you may want it to move in.
Hilary, the funny thing is, I never thought of myself as a traditionalist before people started calling me so on Elephant. I always thought of myself simply as someone who practiced the various limbs of asthanga yyoga, or tantra as I like to call it, and that others practiced what they did in their own way. Of course, i have my opinions, and I like to stir up debate, which I think is healthy, so i don't mind the label, what matters is the practice.
Spending time in the woods of the mind and heart is important… for me, it's an ocean….that daily dip in the ocean…


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Myers: Gophers hockey had a strong October, but is that so important?
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MINNEAPOLIS - The Gophers men's hockey team celebrated ascending to the no. 1 ranking in the country this weekend with an entertaining tie, and an impressive win. On Sunday afternoon the Gophers scored on four of their first seven shots, blasting past fifth-ranked Boston College 6-1, and with a 5-0-1 mark, will likely still be the nation's top-ranked team Nov. 8 when they next hit the ice, at Notre Dame.
Impressive, for sure, but is it a good thing to be unbeaten at the start of November? Recent history tells us that some of the more successful Gophers hockey teams have taken lumps early, then come on late in the season. On the visitors' bench, Gophers coach Don Lucia has seen a recent example of how it's done.
Two seasons ago the Gophers jumped out of the gate, starting 9-1-0, grabbing the conference lead and never letting go. Boston College, by contrast, was a pedestrian 14-10-1 in mid-January of 2012. Then the Eagles rattled off 19 consecutive wins. The 18th victory in that streak was a 6-1 dismantling of the Gophers in Tampa, in the NCAA Frozen Four semifinals. The 19th win enabled BC to hoist a national championship banner.
After the Eagles forged a 3-3 tie on Friday in Minneapolis, their coach was asked if a deadlock on the road, in the home of the nation's top-ranked team, felt like a win.
"We're more interested now in establishing our club and trying to get better," said Jerry York, college hockey's all-time leader in coaching wins. "The win-loss record and the ties are kind of secondary to me right now. Can we get better? Can we get more cohesive as a club? And I thought all of those were really positive signs for us."
On one end of Mariucci Arena, they also hoisted a banner this weekend, commemorating the Gophers' 14th - and final - WCHA title, won last year when Minnesota shared the conference crown with St. Cloud State. Those dozen-plus maroon banners are an impressive sight, but in the minds of Gophers fans, they are a distant second to the six gold banners on the other side of the arena's ceiling, commemorating five NCAA titles, and a AAU national title won in 1940, before college hockey was officially organized as it is today.
In the most recent NCAA title season, 11 years ago, the Gophers headed into the holiday break with a good, but not great, 9-4-4 record, then won 19 of their final 28 games, including the final game of the season, for the national championship. By contrast, the 2006-07 team was 19-1-3 at one point and cruised to the conference's regular season title, then fell short of even getting to the Frozen Four.
So where do these Gophers fit after six games without a loss? And have they been tested?
"We were tested plenty tonight," Lucia said, looking forward to a weekend off, then a tough test with two games at Notre Dame. "It was a good October for us. We were able to play at home, and obviously the competition stepped up this weekend. It's a long season and we've got a couple nicks right now so the week off comes at a good time. Hopefully we get everybody ready to go before we head to South Bend."
Boston College plays within a bus ride of roughly a dozen other college hockey programs, meaning that plane trips and hotel stays like this one are rare for the Eagles. They won't get on a plane again until after Christmas, when they travel to Pittsburgh for a tournament. By then both teams will know a lot more about who they are, and whether BC's 2-2-1 record means anything next to Minnesota's current unbeaten mark. For Lucia, the significance of early wins comes in March when they pick the 16-team field for the NCAA tournament.
"You close a chapter in October, put those wins in the bank which will help you in the end, and hopefully we continue to learn and grow as a team," he said.
On the other bench, there was a different philosophy, where October wins are fine, but to York they don't mean as much.
"Once it gets to be February we'll start thinking about our record, but right now it's just a good indicator that we're getting better as a club," said York. Then he headed down the tunnel, for one of the Eagles' rare plane trips home.

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The Netherlands By Rail
I was looking at Eurostar, as I want to go to Berlin at some time to see the new museum.
When I went to The Netherlands last time on the train, I had to wait for about an hour in Brussels to buy a ticket to get to Den Haag, as it was impossible to buy one before I left London. Now though you can buy a ticket from London to any Dutch station. All you have to do is get to Brussels Midi and then take a Dutch domestic service within 24 hours! The rules for return, are that you can take any Dutch domestic service that arrives within 24 hours of your Eurostar departure.
That sounds like a really sensible way of travelling. You could catch the next train to say Rotterdam and save time or you could catch a morning train to Brussels, have a look round the city and perhaps have a good lunch as I did in the spring and then take an evening train across the border.
It would seem to be cheaper too, as my ticket last time to Den Haag from Brussels and back would have cost 60 Euros in Standard Class. Looking today and going in a couple of weeks, it looks like I can do the whole journey both ways for about £120 or less. That price was for next week, so I suspect, you could beat that if you booked further in advance.
Incidentally going by Thalys to say Amsterdam from Brussels on the same dates, doesn't have a very good choice of trains and costs twice the price! I suspect you might save a few minutes on the journey, but because of the connections, you would probably have to leave London an hour or so later. That is not my style, as I've always been one for an early start! I always think that you can get a good lunch in Brusssels anyway. Or you could visit the falcons in the cathedral.
It all sounds to be a good deal to me! But one that won't be too good to be true!
Den Haag HS
Here are a few pictures of Den Haag HS station.
Note the double-deck trains.
V-2 Sculpture in Den Haag?
Outside of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Den Haag is this sculpture.
Is it a V-2 exploding on takeoff?
Because it is in the area that was devastated by RAF bombing, as they tried to stop the missiles.
Den Haag's Dark Secret
If you cycle towards Scheveningen past the prison and the barracks, there is a building on the eastern side of the road, that looks like a station. We see old stations all over the UK that have been converted into houses and although it's a different style, it has the same aura.
When I got back I looked it up and found that there used to be a railway that ran from the main line from Den Haag to Amsterdam, through Wassenaar to a station by the beach at Scheveningen. As I had thought, the railway had run where the road is now.
It was the site with the map that told me the dark secret, that few know about. Den Haag was the launching point for all of the V-2 rockets that the Nazis sent towards London. A lot were fired from a beautiful estate called Duindigt, near the racecourse. It ended up being totally destroyed by Allied bombing and V-2's that exploded on takeoff.
Nearly three thousand died in 1944, in London due to these weapons. But not as many as about 20,000 concentration camp inmates, who died making the weapons. Even the Dutch suffered greatly, as the weapons misfired and hit local targets, the Nazis executed anybody for the most trivial of reasons and the Allies destroyed parts of Den Haag by mistake as they tried to stop the launching of the rockets.
War is never the simple business it is made out to be.
There is also a book, Spitfire Dive Bombers versus the V2, by Bill Simpson, which details the hunt for the rockets by RAF Fighter Command.
Wandering Around Den Haag
You may not have noticed, but I don't like places being given two names. That is why this post is called Den Haag and not The Hague.
These are some pictures that I took over the weekend.
Parakeets in Den Haag
I took this picture of a parakeet at a bird feeder in the garden of the house where I stayed in Den Haag.
Unfortunately, by the time I'd got the camera sorted, the rose-ringed parakeet had flown. That's what birds do! They fly.
But I did get this picture of several parakeets in the garden.
There is quite a few references to parakeets in Den Haag on the Internet. They've been in Holland for some time.


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Feb 23rd 2011 05:32 pm Amphibian charms
Under my rough amphibian skin, I'm still a prince. Sure I can give many kisses, but only a princess will break my spell.
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Just wondering if the spell is been broken yet, or do you have to keep being kissed a lot to find out who is the real princess.


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Visual Yoga Blog: Warrior 1.1
Among the many things in the world that are hard to improve upon, we have cheesecake, rollercoaster rides and bungee jumping.
Warrior 1, a staple of any yoga practice, would appear to be in that category. But watch out: fresh out of beta testing, here comes warrior 1.1.
Okay, so we all know the original warrior: feet spaced wide apart, turn toward one foot, bend that knee, keep the back foot sideways and firmly planted through the edge, raise both arms. Our good-natured warrior 1.1 corrects most people's tendency to not turn the hips enough and not align the neck with the spine.
THE POSE: Come into warrior 1 with the right foot leading. Bend your right elbow and drop the right hand toward your shoulderblades while pressing your head back against your right forearm. Reach your left arm forward, drawing your left hip forward as well. Breathe. Enjoy the knowledge you're advancing the cause of yoga by practicing a fractionally upgraded warrior. Repeat on the other side.
BENEFITS: Realigns the spine and hips, strengthens the quads, psychologically helps you be more assertive.
AVOID IF: You have a slipped disk or any other kind of spinal discomfort. Either do it gently enough that you stay shy of pain, or otherwise sit this one out.
OTHER THOUGHTS: Helpful for when you start calculating, in the middle of class, how many warrior 1s you've done in your yoga career — virtually guaranteed to rein in your (distracted) mind. So go ahead: upgrade your warrior. This isn't Google, so Warrior 1.2 isn't due out for another fifty years…
- Warrior 1.1 (c) 2011 Ricardo das Neves
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WALKER- The Walker Board of Aldermen has agreed to put to a vote a newly proposed ordinance defining and setting up control laws for keeping "dangerous and vicious dogs."
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Dave McAuliffe is in his fourth season as an Assistant Director of Sports Medicine at DePaul. McAuliffe works directly with the women's basketball program and also serves as the department's insurance coordinator.
McAuliffe comes to the Blue Demons after spending four years as an assistant athletic trainer at Oakland University, where he worked with all 18 of the Golden Grizzlies sports. He also served as the site coordinator for the NCAA drug testing program during the first and second rounds of the 2006 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan.
Prior to joining the staff at Oakland, McAuliffe spent two years as a graduate assistant in the Stanford sports medicine department where he worked with the Cardinal women's tennis program which won an NCAA title and the women's soccer team. McAuliffe got his start in the field working as a student assistant trainer at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. While with the Panthers, McAuliffe also served an internship with the training staff of the Milwaukee Bucks and provided training coverage to Nicolet High School.
A 2002 graduate of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a degree in Kinesiology, McAuliffe earned a Master's in Kinesiology from San Jose State in 2006. David and his wife, Abbie are the proud parents of a daughter, Nora. The family resides in Chicago.


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The Disney Dream leaves Port Canaveral after its christening Wednesday. / Rik Jesse, FLORIDA TODAY
There are some things money can't buy, and the publicity generated by Wednesday's christening ceremony of the Disney Dream -- not to mention the ship's arrival, splashed across newspapers and newscasts -- may be among them.
That's what J. Stanley Payne, CEO of the Canaveral Port Authority, was thinking after the elaborate ceremony Wednesday at Port Canaveral featuring musical entertainment, a pirate ship, fireworks, animation, Disney characters and Oscar and Grammy winner Jennifer Hudson, who in cruise industry tradition was named the ship's godmother.
Payne said the christening created a ripple effect through the area and put Port Canaveral beyond what any advertising could generate.
"The Disney Dream has created construction jobs in the $32 million (terminal) expansion and will create hundreds of jobs associated with its operations, replacing a much smaller ship," Payne said.
"But as the flagship of the world's premier entertainment company, the ship already has generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in publicity for the Space Coast and it hasn't even begun regular sailings yet."
Those trips begin with a maiden voyage on Jan. 26. In the meantime, thousands of travel writers, travel agents and other members of the news media set sail on a three-day excursion that left a few hours after the christening.
Even then, there was still a buzz about the ceremony.
Janet Flegel of Celebration Travel, based out of Vancouver, Canada, said that it was an "amazing" event.
The travel agent said that she's sailed on 50 ships, but never a Disney ship before.
But she was so convinced of her experience as a new Disney ship customer that she's already booked people to sail on the Disney Wonder in Vancouver as it sails to its new home in Los Angeles.
"I don't have the words to describe it," she said of the christening. "Only Disney could do that; it was just phenomenal."
That's the reaction the Dream is expected to elicit, according to Walt Disney Co. President and CEO Robert Iger, who spoke at the christening.
"From the moment the 20-ton keel was first laid in Pappenburg, Germany, our imagineers have taken pride in knowing they have created something special with the Disney Dream," Iger said. "We named our new ship the Disney Dream because she was created to make dreams come true for our guests."
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Oh man, it's been a while. With Excite@Home shutting down, the website went down too because that's where it was hosted. I've finally got around to putting this thing back up. Mainly just doing it for posterity I guess. Still also lagging on the new site. Oh well. Here's a site I put up for a friend a while back: www.paintandsuffering.com.
So, obviously, the last few days have been hell. I was woken up shortly after 6 am by my fiance, Lisa, saying that someone was bombing the World Trade Center. After finding out what actually happened and seeing news coverage for the last 2 days, it still seems surreal and hasn't completely sunken in.
On a completely different subject, Sam Beebe of SkateOregon asked me to help with a flyer for the contest in Donald, Oregon. Here's the flyer. The contest will be on September 22 at high noon. There is no entry fee and cold cash for the top three finishers. Go to Sam's site for more details and directions.
Also, I've secured myself an actual domain name and even got some more hosting space through my cool ass workplace, so I'm planning to switch over to that in the near future with some more videos. Will post the URL up when there's something there.
Okay, a little update. It's been a while. Along with planning for my wedding, work's been keeping me real busy.
So, I've added a pic of the new park in Sumner - well, at least a picture of the bowl. This one's from a few weeks ago and it wasn't open yet, but hopefully, it'll be officially opened soon.
Other than that, the EMP is throwing the 2nd 'Hey Punk!' this weekend at the Seattle Center. Going to check that one out again.
So there's been quite a number of news events going on in the real world since I last updated this site. There was an earthquake in Seattle, for one. Luckily, there were no fatalities (well, there was a heartattack possibly related to the quake). The night prior to the quake, Pioneer Square experienced the final night of Mardi Gras rioting. One poor guy was beaten to death while helping some woman up. That was the local news and today, in Southern California, another kid goes to school and starts shooting.
In less important news, I'm currently at an inspirational low regarding this site. It's getting messy and I'm sick of looking at it. So it's time for a little break - not that I've been diligently working away at this site anyways. It's time for me to go back to basics for a little bit. Time to let the computer rest for a while and find some inspiration in things more tactile.
Who knows, I'll probably update again on my regular semi-monthly schedule...but right now, I'm feeling like a break from this interactive, slow-moving television.
Here's someone whose works I've recently rediscovered my enjoyment of, Mr. Oliver.
'Til then, here's my latest update...a drawing of my fiance, Lisa.
Russ Browne went to the skatepark in Aumsville, OR a few weeks back. It's another Dreamland Construction creation so it must be a great park. There's 3 photos from Aumsville that Russ took in his photos section.
Also, I finally broke down and bought some low-end DV editing software and capture card (Studio DV). Not the best thing to do when you're unemployed but it was sort of cheap. I'm hoping to stick up some more video clips soon. For now, I improved the old sequence of Morris doing a rock-n-roll slide. Click over here to see it: Morris rock slide to ollie (429KB). It should open up in Windows Media Player. I'm not sure if it works on Macs.
Oh yeah, Happy Valentine.
I found out through Sleestak that Bluetorch TV is showing clips by Buddy Nichols and Rick Charnoski of their tour of Oregon skateparks. The clips are about 5 minutes long and are on the show each day this week. The footage I saw had Steve Bailey, Sam Hitz, Al Partanen, and Northwest locals tearing up Newberg skatepark. Those guys came up to Seattle during that trip too - wonder if the Butter Bowl will be in it (despite the subject being Oregon parks). Check it out if you have Fox Sports channel (Bluetorch comes on at 4:00pm Pacific time).
I went to check out the new Burien skatepark. I've also added two more drawings.
I forgot to add that I added more pictures to Russ Browne's photo section. Go take a look.
Happy New Year's. So I finally got everything done on this site's makeover. I lagged quite a bit.
Other than the site revamp, I added an article about the Milpitas Vans Skatepark.
So today was election day. Did you do your civic duty? It's sort of an all-around sad situation, but I'll leave it at that.
Even though it happened almost 3 months ago, I'm finally putting stuff up about the EMP "Hey Punk!" event. Better late than never, I guess.
Mac users will probably have trouble seeing any of the Flash stuff on this site. I'm working on fixing it.
I'm working on a new look for the site, so that'll be the next update you see. Until then...
Not much new going on. There's a few more animated sequences on page 2 of my photos section (B. Patch, the Ox, and Wez) ~ yeah, they're ghetto but I'm doing it that way until I run out of file space.
I've been playing around with Flash, so you might notice some of it used on the site. Watch out, I'm working on incorporating some BLINK tags in here too ~ until then go to the Crailtap links page to get your fix of the blink.
Oh yeah, I'm hoping to stick up some stuff from the Experience Music Project's "Hey Punk!" skaterock extravaganza that happened a month or so ago. Check back in a bit...
Added another animated sequence/button to my Photos page. Of course, you'll need the Flash plug-in to see it (go to www.macromedia.com). Until I get some video editing software, this is the only way I'm able to get this video footage on here. Hopefully, it'll work on Netscape.
Alright, I took a trip down to Newberg, Oregon a few weeks ago to experience the handiwork of Dreamland Designs. Oregon has yet another great skatepark and I managed to stop skating long enough to take a few photos. Go see and read a little bit about Newberg.
Other than that, I've added a few more scribbles. Oh yeah, check out Morris slidin' and rollin'. I can't seem to get it to work on Netscape, though.
After many years of setting up shoddy metal ramps in the summer and tearing them down in the fall, along with a complete absence of any skatepark last year, the city of Seattle has finally gotten it together and built a decent cement skatepark. The official opening was on 6~17~00. Go skate it or at least take a look at the skatepark for yourself.
I added yet some more old photos.
Also, go get a copy of Fruit of the Vine if you haven't seen it, though most of the people reading this were probably at the premiere for it. If you weren't, it's a video about poolskating that was shot mostly on Super 8. Highlights include current footage of Salba and Tony Alva. Also has NW locals and guys like Steve Bailey, Shaggy (really good footage), Chris Senn, and Lance Mountain.
Some sketches and drawings that I've done have been added to the Scribbles section.
I added some more photos - some taken by Russ Browne and a few more taken by me.
Alright, here's what's up with this site so far... There's no real concept going on yet. I'm just sticking up some photos that I have laying around. For now the photos are old photos that I've taken and they mostly happen to be skateboard-related. I'm also planning to stick up some drawings that I've scribbled. Hopefully, I can put up more current photos and get some stuff from other folks to stick up. Mainly though, this website is up so I can learn some of this here HTML.
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8 agencies barred from recruiting OFWs-A A +A
Thursday, May 8, 2014
EIGHT local recruitment agencies have been barred by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) from recruiting overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) upon recommendation by the Bureau of Immigration (BI).
In a statement, POEA Administrator Hans Cacdac said he has issued preventive suspension orders against eight recruitment agencies found to have provided fraudulent documents to their recruited workers.
"The eight agencies were among those previously endorsed to the POEA by the Bureau of Immigration for administrative sanctions," said Cacdac.
The eight are Experts Placement Agency, Inc.; Zareiko Production, Inc.; Dobim International Manpower Services; Chosen Divine Mercy Manpower Services Corporation; Tibiao Antique Manpower Corporation; Nahed International Manpower Services; Trustworthy International Manpower Corporation; and Ridzkey Human Resources International Services.
The POEA quoted the BI report as saying that the workers initially presented at the airport travel and employment documents stating they were bound for the United Arab Emirates to work as office clerks, salespersons, cashier, among others, but were also in possession of visas and itinerary tickets either for Jordan or Lebanon to work as household services workers.
The workers, subsequently, were barred by the Bureau of Immigration from leaving the country after the discovery.
Cacdac said he has already directed the POEA Adjudication Office to speed up the hearing of the cases.
"I asked them to submit their respective recommendations immediately for the issuance of final orders," said Cacdac.
Meanwhile, two more recruitment agencies are now prohibited from recruiting OFWs as their licenses have been cancelled after they were found liable of misrepresentation, which is considered a form of illegal recruitment.
The two found violating Section 6 of Republic Act 8042 or the Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 are Al-Sadiq Manpower Corporation and MEDRP International Philippines, Inc.
"Clearly, through deception, the recruitment agency tried to avoid the strict requirements of the POEA in the recruitment and deployment of household service workers," Cacdac said.
Section 6 (c) of the RA 8042 states that it is considered a form of illegal recruitment "to give any false notice, testimony, information or document or commit any act of misrepresentation."
Cacdac said a couple filed the case against Al-Sadiq Manpower after they were not allowed to board their plane at NAIA by the BI due to inconsistencies in their travel and employment documents.
The complainants alleged they were recruited by a freelance agent and were referred to Al-Sadiq Manpower for possible employment as household service worker (HSW) and driver respectively for a family in Saudi Arabia with a monthly salary of 1,200 Saudi riyals.
The complainants narrated in their joint affidavit that they have completed the necessary employment documents and were able to attend the pre-deployment orientation seminar (PDOS). They were surprised, however, that their respective PDOS certificate bore data encoder and laborer as position instead of HSW and driver.
The couple also alleged they were made to sign employment contracts with the new position.
They claimed that an employee of Al-Sadiq assured them they will still work as HSW and driver for the Arab family as promised and the agency is using other positions only to facilitate their immediate deployment. The employee also coached them on the "correct" answers if questioned by POEA and Immigration officials at the airport.
On the other hand, the complainant in the case against MEDRP International alleged that she was recruited by a certain Felix Villanueva to work as a household service worker for Al Jazzi Abu Zalman, a foreign principal in Kuwait. Villanueva assured her that she would be deployed without a local agent but her records with the POEA revealed that she was deployed by MEDRP International as a "promodizer" for Gulf Integration Establishment for General Trading and Contracting, also in Kuwait.
The complainant claimed that upon arrival in Kuwait, Al Jazzi Abu Zalman brought her to her first employer where she stayed for only 45 days. She requested repatriation to the Philippines after suffering from sexual abuse and maltreatment.
Al Jazzi Abu Zalman refused to let her go unless she reimburse the agency of its expenses in bringing her to Kuwait amounting to P200,000. The agency deployed her to its other clients in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia where she suffered more of the same maltreatment from the employers.
The husband of the worker sought the assistance of the POEA and eventually she was repatriated with the assistance of the welfare officers and personnel of the Philippine Overseas Labor Offices in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. (HDT/Sunnex)
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Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
If Americans dont return to thier previous post 9/11 paranoia and start getting inline at the fear factory, they might pull of a terrorist attack again to get us back on the "right track" and keep us marching.
Americans have become very apethetic and irritated by the war on terror, they no longer caRE.
And they need us to care.
Originally posted by orionthehunter
I don't believe we are safe, but don't go telling everyone that. I want everyone to feel happy and safe so my stocks go up.
I think the war on terror is just a background thing for most Americans who are more concerned about the economy, jobs, interest rates, etc. I keep imagining something really bad might happen but I hope it doesn't. I could post alot more here but I'm afraid I will give someone somewhere an idea or two so I'll keep quiet. If everyone thought of what I have, then the world would not seem safe at all.
Originally posted by Skadi_the_Evil_Elf
And look how much thought the American public gives to war on drugs, war on illiteracy, ect.
Look how americans react to terror alerts. No change. Bored and irritated with them. But not sufficently panicked. Most Americans have forgotten 9/11/ Most dont care. Hell, on 9/11 ibe heard people complain about the memorial services and such. Takes away from watching survivor.
So, no, we arent hardly worried about terrorism, weve gone back into apathy. We are now getting irritated by the infringments such as increased airport security, stupid lerts, ect.
We cant let that happen. A non paranoid america is an america who wont be rallying behind future invasions.


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Big guns Taylor and Wade check out early in Dublin
Former champions Phil Taylor and James Wade were sensationally knocked out of the World Grand Prix on a thrilling night of first round action in Dublin.
Former champions Phil Taylor and James Wade were sensationally knocked out of the World Grand Prix on a thrilling night of first round action in Dublin.
Brendan Dolan made an early check-out from the World Grand Prix in Dublin, while holder Michael van Gerwen progressed to the second round.
England's Phil Taylor and Adrian Lewis claimed a third World Cup of Darts title in four years with a thrilling victory over Scotland's Gary Anderson and Peter Wright in Frankfurt.
PDC world champion Gary Anderson's annus mirabilis got even better on Thursday night as the Scot secured the Premier League title for the second time after defeating Michael van Gerwen 11-7 at London's O2.
Sixteen-time champion of the world Phil Taylor has dedicated his Premier League Darts victory in Dublin to boxer John Joe Nevin.
Michael van Gerwen remains top of the Premier League after demolishing Dutch compatriot Raymond van Barneveld 7-2 in front of a crowd of more than 9,000 at the 3Arena in Dublin.
Gary Anderson is back in Dublin for Premier League darts but this time there's a difference - he's the champion of the world, writes Micil Glennon.
Scott Mitchell held his nerve to land his first BDO World Championship crown with a nail-biting 7-6 win over Martin Adams on Sunday night.
Three-time world champion Martin Adams came through a thriller to book his place in Sunday's BDO final.
Martin Adams, Scott Mitchell and Glen Durrant all reached the final four of the BDO World Championship, while Canadian qualifier Jeff Smith's dream debut continued as he stunned tournament favourite Robbie Green at Frimley Green.
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Alan Norris was a surprise second-round victim as the second seed fell short in his bid to reach back-to-back BDO World Championship finals.
Leading contenders Alan Norris and Robbie Green progressed to the last 16 of the BDO World Championship at Frimley Green.
Top seed James Wilson suffered a shock 3-1 defeat to Peter Sajwani at the BDO World Championship at Lakeside.
Gary Anderson collected his first PDC World Championship title after a stunning 7-6 victory over 16-time champion Phil Taylor in a thrilling finale at Alexandra Palace in London.
Former winner Scott Waites came close to a shock exit from the BDO World Championship at the hands of debutant Sam Hewson at Lakeside.
Phil Taylor will meet Scotland's Gary Anderson in Sunday's PDC World Darts final at the Alexandra Palace after both players eased through their respective semi-finals.
Three-time champion Martin Adams advanced from the first round of the BDO World Championships on Saturday with a 3-1 win over Dutchman Jan Dekker.
Sixteen-time world champion Phil Taylor repelled a huge comeback by Vincent van der Voort to move into the semi-finals of the PDC World Championships at Alexandra Palace.
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Whatever you think you are paying for credit card processing, you are probably wrong. We will get back to this in a moment.
Getting a credit card to pay camp expenses is a relatively straightforward process. Setting up your camp to access credit cards as a form of payment, is a little more complicated. To take credit card payments in person or over the phone using a terminal (viz. boxes with keypads and swipe slots), you need a merchant account. (Taking credit card transactions through your camp Web site is more complicated.)
When a charge is made, the money is deposited in this account, less a small fixed charge per transaction and/or a small percent of the sale. Typically the merchant account will "sweep" the funds into your camp's checking or savings account at the end of the day. Most big banks can set up a merchant account without too much hassle.
Credit card processors like to quote a single low rate in their ads but you actually pay that rate far less often than you think. Your merchant account statement is designed to hide surcharges and fees. Even if you checked a particular processor's references—and you are checking references, right?—these items are so well disguised that many happy customers are completely unaware of them.
Understanding Fees
Don't be surprised if you have to pay a one-time, set-up fee. You can sometimes get this waived, especially if you are switching to a new processor and can show them a history of large payment volumes, but if this is the first time you are applying to take credit card payments, you should expect to pay something around $100 to get started.
Note: This is a set-up fee, not an application fee. You should not have to pay anything to simply apply for a merchant account.
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What this line really means is that you are paying $0.30 for every sale, refund, and authorization that you process. If you process only a few, high value transactions each month, this $0.30 per transaction fee may not be very meaningful. But if you process many, smaller transactions these fees add up. On a $10 transaction, this fee adds 3 percent to the credit card processing costs.
These are sales where the customer used a business credit card or other "rewards" type credit card (e.g., frequent flyer miles, cash back). Visa and MasterCard charge your processor 40-80 basis points (100 basis points = 1 percent) more to process these "nonqualifying" credit cards than they do for a regular "qualifying" credit card. Your processor passes these costs on to you, the merchant.
What is worse, your credit card processor knows that you are not looking carefully at this part of your statement so they often mark these surcharges up significantly. It is unfortunately not unusual to see some of these nonqualifying credit card surcharges run as high as 175 basis points!
Since all you are shown is the number of transaction (viz. ###) and the total of these surcharges, it is hard for you to figure out exactly what these markups are, but you can estimate it. Your credit card statement probably includes your average sale value (e.g., "average ticket"). At the very least, it shows you the total number of transactions ("tickets") for that month and the total dollar amount which you can divide out to calculate your average sale value. If you multiply the number of nonqualifying transactions of a certain type by your average sale value, you get an estimate of the total dollar amount of those charges. You can then divide the surcharges by that total to find out how many basis points above that "great low rate" you are actually paying on these sales. I guarantee you will be surprised.
It is not just surcharges they are adding on that are costing you. There are also savings that they are not sharing. Take a look at these two typical lines from a given day:
dd/mm/yy ... VISA SALES DISCOUNT .25000 DISC RATE TIMES .... $$$$
Here at least is the rate you were promised (2.5 percent in this example). Ignore for the moment your credit card processor's use of the word "discount" to mean the money it takes from you to process this transaction, and these lines almost make sense: multiplying your rate by the daily total dollar amount ("$$$$") yields the cost of processing those transactions (excluding the fees and surcharges we discussed earlier, of course).
"Sale" Versus "Debit Sale"
What these lines hide is the difference between a "sale" and a "debit sale." A debit sale is when the customer uses a debit instead of a credit card. Debit cards are cheaper to process by as much as 10-20 basis points, but, as mentioned earlier, many credit card processors charge you, the merchant, the same rate and pocket the savings. What percentage of your customers use debit cards varies from camp to camp, but it is not unusual for debit cards to make up over 10 percent of the total charges. This can add up to several hundred dollars a year in additional credit card processing costs.
Remember also that your discount rate is not set in stone. As your charge volume grows or even as you accumulate more of a credit card processing history (and become a lower risk as far as your provider is concerned), you can get a lower discount rate . . . but don't expect to get it automatically. You have to ask your merchant account provider for the lower rate. If it has been more than a year since your discount rate was set, it is time to call your provider. Don't be afraid to mention those "great low rates" you are being offered from other merchant account providers when you call.
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Grouper is a self-described social club that involves signing up through facebook. Grouper techs match your facebook profile (interests, likes) to another Grouper applicant of the opposite sex; once matched, you receive a confirmation email and find two friends to join you on your Grouper meetup. The outcome? Three boys and three girls meet at a trendy location chosen by Grouper founders Jerry Guo, former "Good Life" columnist, and Michael Waxman, designer of the news reader Paper buff. For 20$ a person, you and your friends have a table at an assigned venue, and the Grouper match and their friends meet you under one reservation name (first drink included!) For us, it was Lucy–no other information about either party was disclosed prior. Comparing Grouper to sites like OkCupid, this is a big difference. There is absolutely no stalking or ruminating on who you will meet up with! The experience is based solely on the actual meetup and nothing else.
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