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Since the beginning of time, many people from around the world have pursued an instinctive longing of understanding the meaning of life. We want to make sense of what we see around us. We want to know where our place in the universe is, and most of all; we want to understand ourselves on all levels of existence.
The search for understanding took us through the world we can perceive with the normal senses, to the immense world of the universe and the minute world of quantum physics. It took us through our psyche, emotions, thoughts, the hidden needs of the subconscious and the always-illusive unconscious.
Today is the age of immense streams of information available from all fields explaining life and its role. The great interplay between mathematics, science, physics, astronomy, astrology psychology; medicine, biology, philosophy and mysticism are some of the fields that give us the understanding of the world we know today. It gives us new insights of ourselves as human beings and set the foundation from where we can further discover the depth of our own awareness.
We went beyond the world of personality and the invisible world of emotions and thought. We saw how they influence us and than disappear in the subtle worlds of the inner self beyond consciousness from where they control our behavior. Medicine, the human body and biology took us to a world of organs, life fluids, cells and DNA. We have discovered the wonders of nature knowing of an infinite world yet to be discovered. Through astronomy our search took us to the heavenly bodies, the universe and it countless galaxies. Astrology indicates to us how these heavenly bodies influence our behavior. Through physics our search took us from the enormous world out there to the very small quantum world where matter dances with energy. Mathematics is woven through all these fields to give proof as expected from science. Philosophers reason about the endless possibilities, while mystics express their impression of the realms still deeply hidden somewhere in the unknown of our subconscious.
Great names brought to us their impression of how each of us, as well as the world around us function. So many times mainstream theories that scientists have disproved later, brought widespread change around the world in the way of our development. It is not that any of us are wrong, but each person before us laid the foundation from where we can continue our journey. We learn from their mistakes as well as their successes. From here we can broaden our awareness to lay a new foundation for the generations yet to come.
The feature knowledge lays dormant in the eternal now. Ready to be used, it is here, it always was…
We have searched the enormous universe, left in marvel for its infinity. We have studied the world around us to its smallest detail, from cells to a quantum world that fades slowly into eternity. We have observed the depth of the personality, to discover it's countless faces. We have discovered infinite possibilities of mind and matter, most by reason and proof.
To understand, we have taken the world out there apart in many ways – Stars, galaxies, cells, atoms, quarks, energy and brainwaves; from gigantic to microscopic, to the outer reflection of the true inner world.
Now it is for us to fuse it all back in oneness again. Have we forgotten what life really is? A feeling for us to experience… Life cannot be broken down and seen as a whole at once.
Our Intent is first to divide or take apart and learn, but to understand, all must be put back together, fuse as one again. If this is not done, we may forget how the whole appears, and try to create our own realities – the creation of our mask personalities.
Though the rational mind helped us to discover the endless possibilities of the world out there, it still becomes our greatest stumble block to understanding. We only experience a reflection of life through the rational mind. The habits, the routine, the world out there, friends, family and work… All influence life as a reflection of life.
As infinite as each possibility in the world out there may seem, so infinite is the beings we are. It may seem larger than the universe, or it may seem smaller than the infinity of smallness described in quantum physics.
Refine your senses, your inner subtle abilities, and the instruments to help you, master them all, devote your time to do so and expand your awareness of consciousness.
Before we start the journey on self-understanding, we'll have a brief look at a world of living energies and its different forms. This is not about what is out there, but an important interplay of different conscious energy patterns of which we play an essential role. It contains our bodies, emotions and thoughts, as well as our intentions, values, willpower, intuition, awareness, beliefs, imagination and so much more. It contains parts of us that cannot be explained with rational words, yet it is part of who we are and add to the knowing of our wholeness.
Most of us do not know how these areas within us really look, or precisely where they're from; yet we can see their power as expressions in the physical world.
Our inner landscape and energy is very alike and can be compared in many ways. Energy is powerful, mysterious and is expressed in different forms. Even with our knowledge to use energy as a power source such as electricity, we still cannot create or destroy it. We only know how to use energy in different ways.
Many forms of energy are experienced in and around us. Physical energy gives us drive for activities like walking, running, building and working. Mental energy gives us the power of clear thinking, while emotional energy gives us the sensation of joy. The subtler energies from within give us guidance on our journey and the ability to create our own vitality and power. All these energies surround us at the same time in the same space.
From ancient times it was known and taught that everything in the world we know are patterns of energy radiating from its source. This contains our souls and everything that is perceived in the world of the head, which include our bodies, our emotions and our thoughts.
What we distinguish as physical form, feelings & thoughts could be seen as a dance of conscious energy patterns fixed in time and space as the world of matter & life experience.
Our inner landscape is a source of enormous power. Use it wise. Just as electricity, it can give us light if we use it correctly. If we use it with disrespect, it could give us a powerful shock. If we don't know of it, we will be surrounded by darkness.
Matter is energy – Our great scientists and physicists of modern time have rediscovered this ancient knowledge. E = mc2. This famous formula suggests that even the tiniest particles of matter are composed of a tremendous amount of concentrated energy. If we break our bodies down in small units, we would find it is composed of millions of cells. If we break these further down, we would find molecules, then atoms, and eventually we would end up with the smallest of units, the subatomic particles, all of which are vibrating patterns of energy. These vibrating patterns of energy shape the blueprint for all subatomic particles, DNA structures and cells.
Cells are the basic building blocks in physical forms of human, animal and plant expressions. Everything that happens in our bodies occurs as a result of the organized and coordinated activities of these cells. The balance of all cells ultimately depends on the synchronized energetic vibrations of the subatomic particles that are found in each of them.
Together, cells form organs, tissues and various systems, which make up our bodies. Zillions of activities take place in a fraction of a second. It would be impossible to control it all with the awareness of our intellectual world. These activities are organized and coordinated through the nervous system by a type of universal intelligence that is part of our instinctive heritage.
In the same way as matter, our thoughts and emotions also consists of energy patterns. These energies are less "dense", or subtler of nature, for they could not be picked up by our normal senses. This does not leave them with less power, for in the world of conscious energy; power is measured by different means.
The subtler energies of thoughts and emotions are experienced in their own unique way. Emotions are "felt" as energetic sensations and could be experienced in different parts of the body. Thoughts are composed of even finer energy patterns and are sensed as a structured energetic "buzzing" that is organized in a logical sequence of rational data. All these different energies occupy the same time and space in our energy fields and therefore influence one another tremendously.
From the view of the physical reality, emotions and thoughts from the past might seem forgotten or well hidden in the subconscious mind, yet they still influence and control our conscious behavior.
Physicists have discovered that the basic energy patterns of a subatomic particle in a cell cannot be studied under controlled conditions. An experiment on these energies by one person may always obtain the same result, but as soon as a different individual performs the test, the result varies. The reason for this is that the intention of the observer influences the energetic patterns in particles, which in turn influence the result of the experiment. This means, on a very subtle level, the conscious energy patterns that regulate and shape the basic building blocks within each of our cells are influenced by our thoughts, feelings, beliefs and intentions. It can either have a nourishing effect on the body, or it can have a depleting effect on the body, depending on their quality.
Quantum physics describes the behavior of very small objects – the size of atoms and smaller. It gives us an understanding of energy. According to quantum physics, nothing is real and we cannot say anything about what things are when we are not looking at them. Events are governed by probabilities.
From the time of Newton, light has been described in terms of particles. He described light as a stream of tiny particles, called corpuscles. Light was later described as waves moving across a service or a lake. This has caused a lot of confusion, for a wave is energetic of nature with no structure that contains any form as particles. A particle has structure and a straight motion, therefore it could not be seen as a wave. In the beginning it has caused a lot of confusion, yet it was through this mystery that most physicists has came to the realization that light can now be seen as both waves and particles. It all depends on the intent of the observer.
When we expand our awareness within the higher dimensions of the Universal Field of Consciousness, we realize that we observe and create at the same time. Whenever we see energy patterns our intentions, beliefs and perceptual awareness influence the patterns we focus on, for we are these patterns. We create through our perceptions. When we change our perceptions, we change the world around us, for each one of us is the center of the universe. Each one of us is a reflection of the one great Universal Essence.
Another wondrous ideas the invisible world of quantum physics leads us to is the way conscious energy becomes matter, and matter eventually, very subtly become waves of energy, reflecting back as matter… This means mass equals energy. Matter is just a frozen, or slowed down form of energy.
In experienced time, all measurements involving space and time lose their meaning. Both time and space become just tools we use to describe events in the physical world. We can see this in our own lives. Time is relative when we have a traumatic experience. Time will be experienced much slower than the sequential time on a clock. When we are involved with a boring task that we don't like, time will also be experienced slower, but when we are involved with something we enjoy, time is experienced much faster.
This means that the way we experience time cannot be measured by a clock or linear time. Our experiences exist outside this time. We can also see it if we meet a friend that we haven't seen for many years. It is if we have just seen him or her yesterday. In regressional therapy childhood events are experienced as if they are happening in the present. Our memory also stores events in a different order than that of sequential time.
Everything in existence is connected in a way beyond space and time. Anything that happens to one particle will affect the most similar particles and continue in a ripple affect to all other particles. It happens instantaneously and no time is needed. It also means that there are events happening faster than the speed of light, even though it was previously thought as impossible. This also indicates that our thoughts, feelings, words and actions have an immediate affect on all of existence.
We live in a world of three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. This gives us the sequential world we see. If it were in any way different, nothing would exist the way we know it now. Just as two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom give us water, these dimensions give us the world we perceive.
Just as any other order of atoms will create substance totally different than water, any o
ther frequencies of conscious energy patterns will create a world totally different from the world we know. Our physical senses, our actions, our thoughts and our emotions form part of the sequential mind. No faculty of the sequential mind can go beyond the limited world we live in…
In ancient times, it was also known that all energy originates from the Source of consciousness, and therefore all energy is conscious. Each energy pattern, or energy unit within this pattern is conscious, whether it is a subatomic particle, a particle, a cell, an organ or a complete physical body.
Every event that has ever happened to us still exists within us in the form of conscious energy patterns. Every unit of energy, such as an organ is in contact with the collective consciousness of the larger energy pattern, as well as the Universal Field of Consciousness from where all energy originates.
All cells are surrounded by a pure consciousness that radiates from the ultimate source of true wisdom. Although all cells are surrounded by this higher consciousness, they are also influenced by the combined interactions of our thoughts, emotions, words and actions.
The interconnectedness of all things exists in all dimensions of consciousness. All planes are interconnected to one another and within each plane everything is also interconnected. This interconnectedness becomes even stronger as we expand our awareness of consciousness. The higher dimensions propel us much easier to the dimensions where everything becomes part of a great wholeness.
We are in one with this wholeness. We can enter a holistic state of being, become the whole and tap into all the creative power of the Universal Field of Consciousness. Higher consciousness equals higher frequencies, and the highest frequencies are one with the universe.
If we look at how the natural flow of energy operates, we'll realize that there is more power unseen than seen. An immeasurable huge amount of energy is concentrated within all substance, no matter in what form or size it is. It could be a piece of skin, a twig, a jacket or a piece of carpet. More energy is encapsulated in every drop of fresh spring water than an average sized power station is presently able to produce. Yet we do not know how to unlock these energies in a creative way.
The only attempts to release this huge potential of energy is through atomic fission. This is done through the destruction of the natural, resonant systems (atoms), and has only created a lethal and sad remembrance for feature generations in the form of the destructive power of an atom bomb.
We rely too much on the outward appearance of things. Whatever we perceive we believe to be the totality. We mistake effect for cause. Everything we see is a secondary effect. The primary cause we do not notice, for it is energetic of nature.
All we know of energy is the ways it manifest itself. We can see energy is involved in electricity and engines combusting petrol. We can also see that energy is involve in the growing of plants, movements, our thought patterns, the formation of clouds, the flow of water and in thunder and lightening. But this is not the essence of energy. What is this transcendent process that always seems intimately connected with all motion? The same conscious energy patterns that is involved in all this flows through our awareness where we shape it to create what we experience.
Could it be that what is called energy by the scientist and spirit by the spiritualist are essentially the same?
Since we cannot see energy, but only see its outward manifestation, it is obvious that its origin lays in a reality beyond the senses. It is more linked to a divine intelligence, with the desire to create, to try any possible way of gaining new experiences.
There are the energies we know, and then there are extremely high energies that scientists have measured and are aware of, but defy all scientific quantifications and measurements. The most sophisticated scientific instruments can only vaguely detect these conscious energy patterns. Beyond, within and around these energies are even more subtle conscious energy patterns with unlimited potential and self-creating abilities that reside beyond any resent knowing.
The things we do not understand, or does not fit our frame of reference are conveniently ignored. Within the physical universe is no room for intuition, clairvoyants or telepathy. Our linear thinking does not recognize this, but yet it happens. All of us can sense the tension in the atmosphere when we enter a room full of stressed out people. We have experience the sadness in a group as an almost tangible presence in the atmosphere. We talk about the different vibes of people, yet we are mesmerized by the physical experience and what we pick up through our physical senses.
We cannot rely on what we see in the physical, emotional or intellectual worlds alone. We have to center our awareness on the worlds within and beyond the spatial mind to discover the holistic view of all that is. By making it part of life, the insight will be gained that is needed to understand the fundamental meaning of energy.
In the past, things that cannot be calculated are not seen as real, this is not the case any more. We will be fools to wait for mathematical proof before we believe in it. We will be forced by our own restricted perceptions to a limited world of the rational mind, while the terrain of the spatial and universal mind will stay the unknown, for we assume that it is the unknowable due to the limitations of our own created technology. How can we ever limit our perception to the tools build by us if we possess of infinite information, possibilities and inner faculties through which we can reach anything we want?
We have to realize that the energies, or "forces" we know of are the manifestations of realities we know nothing about, but which the ancients understood and worshiped. We should take more account of the higher metaphysical realms, for we are not yet aware of the fourth, the fifth and higher dimensions within the Universal Field of Consciousness.
The highest and most powerful human experience of energy in the physical world is happiness and love. It is the gateway to the higher and more complex conscious energy patterns from the world of spirit. If this is raised to even higher octaves, frequency or dimensions, we will begin to perceive the outlines of what energy actually may be, namely the joyous outpouring of divine light images, unconditional love and the infinite power it animates for the purpose of all existence.
We have come a long way since from when we have seen ourselves as solid objects. The idea of a universe made up of solid objects and our belief that we are solid objects was held for many centuries.
Through the ages we have evolved in many ways. We have discovered new phenomena and we have developed a deeper understanding of our inner psyche. Our intellect found new ways to communicate. It gave us new tools, terms, words and symbols to improve the world around us and discover new technologies.
The most important aspect of this is that we can use our intellectual growth to gain a better understanding of the spiritual beings we are. This does not mean that we should change the way we see God, but that we should gain a deeper experience of spirituality and our relation with the power of our Creator. We have not evolved for the purpose of physical growth and a better understanding of the physical world alone. We have to expand our consciousness and evolve as spiritual beings to gain a deeper experience and a better understanding of spirituality.
We now look at ourselves as holistic being surrounded by fields of conscious energy patterns in a universal field of consciousness. We realize that all things are interconnected, corresponding to a holographic experience of reality.
In a holographic universe, all dimensions contain the whole. This can be seen in an experiment where a three-dimensional holographic image animates from a photographic plate with the use of a laser beam.
If you take the holographic plate and cut it in half, the image that is projected from it will not be limited to just half a picture, but contain a picture of the whole image. If the plate is cut in even smaller pieces, the holographic image that is projected from it will still contain a picture of the whole. Every time the plate is further divided, the picture appears hazier, till it becomes almost invisible. Even then it will contain the original holographic image of the whole picture.
In the same way as each part of the photographic plate contains the whole image of the holographic picture; all the dimensions within the universal field of consciousness contain the whole. The lower the frequencies of the field, the hazier the picture of the whole will be. If we focus our attention on the lower dimensions, we will attract all the fields of the same quality vibrations as the dimension we focus on. We will experience a smaller version of the whole. By believing this is all there is we separate ourselves from the whole. This happens as a result of our resistance and separation of the Universal essence, or Divine Source of all creation.
The Universal Field of Consciousness is a dynamic web of inseparable organic energy patterns. These conscious energy patterns form the wholeness of which the observer always is the center. The observer is not separate from the whole, but is the whole. This means that we are the observers, as well as the creators of what we see.
In the Universal Field of Consciousness, every energy pattern is an exact replica of the whole and can be used to reconstruct the entire map of consciousness. The DNA of our cells also reflects this. Each cell contains the blueprint of itself, the other cells and the body as a whole. In the same way, each fraction of human consciousness contains the whole of the Universal Field of Consciousness and its Essence.
It does not matter on what level of development we are. It does not matter on what level of development any being is, we all contain the exact replica of the whole. We can expand our awareness of consciousness to the totality of existence and experience the power it holds.
In the same way as the universe, the physical body and its brain's deeper structure are also holographic. Information through the senses of touch, sight, hearing, taste & smell is sent in a holographic manner through the whole body and all its systems.
The Universe is filled with condition in space, which has the potential to produce an experience of force, form or power. This is known as fields. A field is formed where the interactions between different energy particles creates a disturbance of the energy patterns in the space between it. This creates fields through which each particle has a unique experience of the differences that exists between all of them. The universe is filled with conditions of potential energy, which create conscious energy patterns that interact with each other.
This gives us a better understanding of our abilities to affect each other at a distance through means other than speech and sight, or the feeling mothers get when a child is in trouble, no matter where they are. Conscious energy fields also explain the way we sense another presence in the room before seeing or hearing the person; or the way we speak about good or bad vibes, the way we immediately know whether or not we will get along with, or clash with a person. All this indicates to field interactions and the possibility that we are composed of fields.
Differences in nature are needed for growth, life and evolution to take place. The differences in us create fields, which create new experiences and possibilities for further development. Through these differences we experience all sides of existence and the opportunity to expand our awareness of consciousness.
The Universal Field of Consciousness contains frequencies that do not have to be transmitted; they are everywhere simultaneously. This allows us to go back in time and see the cause of a problem in other dimensions. Nothing in the Universal Field of Consciousness stands separate from the whole. Each dimension, or piece of dimension contains the whole.
Keep in mind that the descriptions like dimensions; conscious energy bodies and different layers are only used to give us a better understanding of the one great whole. It does exist but as one greatness.
Universal Consciousness exists outside linear time and space and is therefore not easy to recognize. This is why only guidance can be given. To know your divine Self, you have to experience it through yourself. The Universal Field of Consciousness contains all time and has its own sequence. Holism cannot be experienced through linear thinking, for it separates everything. It can be experienced through meditation or even by witnessing a sunset. These experiences are very powerful and can propel us to a universal awareness where we are in one with existence.
Center your awareness on the world you know. This is the physical world of your body, your actions, your emotions and your thoughts. Be aware of the effect of each thought, action and emotion on the world of energies.
Now center your awareness on the qualities of the heart. This symbolizes the gateway to all our power, as well as our Essences. The conscious energy patterns from the heart resemble the frequencies of unconditional love, forgiveness and the knowing that we all are one and the same.
Every thought, emotion, word or action with a lower quality than this keeps us limited to the brain world in our heads. Beyond the heart is the world of spirit. It includes our Essences, as well as our connectedness to the divine will of God.
Become aware of the pure consciousness that surrounds each organ and cell, as well as the tiniest subatomic vibration of energy. This is the world of consciousness, the energetic dance of conscious energy patterns that create worlds within worlds.
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US Commerce Association
Awarded Best of Manhattan in Hair Coloring
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We are pleased to announce that The Drawing Room New York has been selected for the 2011 Best of Manhattan Award in the Hair Coloring category by the US Commerce Association (USCA).
This is a reflection of the hard work of our team members in the coloring department.
The USCA "Best of Local Business" Award Program recognizes outstanding local businesses throughout the country. Each year, the USCA identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their local community and business category. These are local companies that enhance the positive image of small business through service to their customers and community.
— December 2011

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What is love? "Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more." Cue head banging. (If you're too young to remember this, here:)
Some maintain that love is an emotion. Or that love is an ability. Or that love is a verb.
I belong in the "love is an action" camp. Think about it, to act in love IS to love. After actors get paid to kiss each other, fake intimacy, and act as though they're in love, often, it turns into the real thing. They start dating, they get married, they cheat on their current spouse with their co-star. So what's the difference, I wonder. Between acting love, and feeling it.
I used to be a professional Ballroom Dancer. Yes, I KNOW. It's just as glamorous as it sounds. And in that industry, it's extremely commonplace for dance partners to fall in love. I fell in love with my dance partner, and 2½ years later, he became my husband. That's popular too. For dance partners to get married. (And about 3 years later, to get divorced. Hence why I USED to be a professional dancer. I'm still married, FYI.) When playing up the sexuality of the Rumba or Cha Cha, you're stepping through the actions of a couple in love, or in lust. Maybe it's more love -as in the heartfelt affection- when you dance the Waltz.
And as if by some sort of pre-meditated inside joke, every movie about one-night-stands or cheap and meaningless sex ends with the characters falling in love. The moral of the story is always that when you ACT in love, the body can't can't tell the difference. Two people who behave as though they're experiencing love, end up experiencing just that.
So there's this photographer who puts random people together in intimate poses before taking their picture.
These strangers who get thrown together to pose as couples, fathers, daughters, Aunts, or Grandmothers end up feeling affection for the random person that they're hugging in the picture.
The "Love Dare," as described in the book and movie "Fireproof" is the concept of acting out love whether or not you receive any in return. Eventually, the giver (and receiver) of this display of affection is powerless against the stream of emotion. And often, in the beginning, it's only an ACT of affection, that later morphs into actuality.
I'm definitely not the world's foremost authority on this subject, but I can most certainly tell you one thing: never easier is love received in my heart, than when it's created in my heart first. And never easier is it created in my heart, than when it's created in my hands first. It's easy to stop acting, but I want an award nomination.
Love is an ACTion. Better make it an Oscar-worthy performance.


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I'm a member of a photography club and responsible for the computer and projection equipment. We have a PC running Windows XP SP3 that exhibits a strange audio problem that I've never seen or heard of before.
We often project audio-visual presentations (effectively slideshows set to music) produced with various software (Wings Platinum, PicturesToExe, ProShow Gold, etc.) and are experiencing a problem where the audio stops midway through an AV playback while the video continues playing. It is fairly erratic, affecting AVs produced with various applications (so that is probably not where to look) and even behaving differently with individual files. Sometimes a file might play correctly all the way through and at other times get the audio stopping during playback. Any AV played immediately after one where the audio stopped starts with normal audio and may or may not experience the problem itself. I haven't tried playing music (MP3s for instance) for a long period so don't know if that would also be affected. Movies in AVI format don't appear to be affected, only AV presentations packaged in EXE files.
Anyone seen something like this? Got any ideas on what I should look at for the cause? It is a fairly new computer and I think but am not sure that this started happening soon after we got it (there were no problems with our previous one). Could it be a hardware or firmware issue?


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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Carnival Corp Statement on Reinstatement of Fuel Supplements
At the time we suspended fuel supplements for our six North American brands, we reserved the right to reinstate them if the price of light sweet crude oil, according to the NYMEX, should increase above $70 per barrel. While we have now exceeded that threshold, in light of the economic crisis and resulting consumer weakness, we presently have no plans to institute a fuel supplement. We will continue to monitor the situation in the markets and review our position as the situation warrants.
2 comments:
- Bob Sims said...
While we agreed with this statement in June, it's our feeling that shortly they'll reimpose the fuel surcharge as oil per barrel has surpassed the $80/barrel mark.
- October 25, 2009 at 8:43 AM
- Linda Coffman, AKA Cruise Diva said...
I've been watching the prices as well and expect to see some movement toward fuel surcharges if the per barrel cost remains high, particularly with base fares so low.
- October 25, 2009 at 10:15 AM
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Now, this is a question, we usually are ashamed of admitting in public. Replies like, "What?? Me?? I aint Scared of anything!" and "You gotta be kidding, I aint gonna admit anything!" are commonplace. Even if we coerce anyone to give us a list, we get stuff like Lizard, Cockroaches, Ghosts, snakes, etc, etc.
We are humans, from earth, not superhuman from Krypton, and are always threatened or we perceive threat- big and small, imaginary or real in our daily life, and the distressing negative emotion that runs through our spine (?), can be called Fear and though its Macho never to admit it, but even tough home boys have a few butterflies in their stomach just before some events. The level and degree varies and depends on each person, as to what distressing experiences he/she has had in the past, which made certain situations scary for them. Many people fear Dark. Batman feared Bats until he overcame his fear. Indiana Jones is scared of Snakes. SRK fears criticism ;). Among such illustrious name, I guess its ok to fear and get scared occasionally. Even though, I have done some scary challenges myself like visiting graveyard at midnight and riding bike with eyes closed for a minute and want to do Bungee Jumping and other adrenaline gushing stuff, but here are experiences put puts a tiny scare in me every time they happen. Hope you have a tummy splitting rollicking, falling off the chair time, reading my list of Top 10 fears/ Scares, in no particular order.
1. I, according to my parents, have been travelling in trains since I was an 8 months child. I still travel by Indian railways for almost all journeys. It is fun, looking and meeting different people from different background and approving or disapproving yet journeying with them. Travelling in AC compartments is safe and not so happening (unless one is perennially lucky like my Friend, Sandeep Das- who is always blessed by beautiful co passengers of opposite gender), but General or second Class are full of scares. My biggest scare, on train is not getting down and losing my baggage or getting pick pocketed or losing my tickets or the train leaving without me. But, a single simple yet special sound of a clap instills fear in me like none else. The eunuchs have made it a regular business route for themselves. And I have had the displeasure of certain distasteful experiences with people from not so straight community at various parts of India. I have been tried to be picked up by rich looking uncles in cars who promised me a good time if I show them New Delhi. One Benarasi on the Ganges Ghat after the beautiful Aarti Darshan, just hung on to me like I am his long lost lover. I swear, I never gave out any unintended wrong signals, but my bad luck!! So, whenever I hear anyone clapping (eunuch's Trademark in India), even if it's a kid clapping in glee inside the train, I turn around and make sure, who it is. Running away to toilets or shutting your eyes hard and act sleeping doesn't help. I wish I could pay a token (ransom) of my respect for their community for an "All India Annual Pass" for a (Eunuch) trouble free passage.
2. I dream, and usually wake up not to remember anything. After a while, I got used to it, not remembering my dreams that I was just experiencing, till I woke up and remember nothing about it- is frustrating. But I firmly believe that dreams have a meaning and come true. There are certain incidents in my life, which I have a strange feeling of fore boding / knowing beforehand, would happen. There have been certain instances, when incidents are played out before my eyes like in slow motion and I feel I have been here before and experienced this particular incident earlier in my life. I just do not remember where and how. People call it "Déjà vu". People call it freaky. I never admit my feelings for such cases. But, when such a incident starts happening, and you cannot remember the end, but have a very very bad feeling like something real bad is going to happen, its then, that feeling I fear the most. I am helpless, as I may exactly do the same mistake, which I had done in my dreams, and the result would be disastrous and scarily enough, I cannot remember what I did!! No Doubt, even God must have given up on me. Despite so many tips (dreams) from His end, I end up on my Bums and they hurt proper badly after all the scrapes of my life.
3. I am not scared of heights. Its just climbing down is a scary proposition. I believe, climbing Mt Everest should not be a problem for me ( ok..ok.. I cant bluff), but if it had chartered flights bringing passengers down. It so happened, that once in High School while climbing down a small hill, I had slipped and had ran down the whole hill in what I understood for the first time as Break Neck Speed!! It had put in enough experience in me to never try it again. This Fear is welcome to stay in my heart forever.
4. The Baby in Your Arms who was smiling at you when you took it into your arms, suddenly wails out at non stop speed and full volume and the mother is no where nearby and all people look at you. What has this fella done? Has he done anything wrong with the baby? Has he hurt/scared the baby? Oh My, I feel like I could also become a baby like it, and wail out in symphony. I usually am scared $hit outta my wits! Gawd, How much I hate Cry Babies wailing full volume!! Especially in my arms.
5. After Babies, it's another cute creature, which scares me a lot at times. Dogs. Usually, I come home late night and mostly I have to walk alone as there is no public Transportation willing to drop me off at my Auto-forsaken place. Most of the times, these dark streets are guarded by the blackest, mangiest and the meanest Canine species with the loudest bark. These fleas infected fellow night prowlers, who look so innocent and likeable in the morning, turn savage and make me forget my Hanuman Chalisha at times!! The Catch 22 is if u run, you are run down and if u turn statue, the fear gets the better of you. Trying to talk to them or shout back, may seem funny but at times work.
6. The next cutest thing I hate and am scared of is- now hold your breath- Girls! While conversing (I try to have intelligent talk but sadly they call it -flirting), I at times get a bad feeling about where the conversation is headed. That is especially when the girl in conversation turns naughty and dares me to go all the way, and prove myself! I turn Dodo and have always run away scared, with their sniggering taunts and laughs of "LoL! I was Just Joking.. You mean minded fella!!" I am scared of them- mean hearted gals who can anytime wail out anything anywhere at the drop of a hat!
7. Being a Foodie, I at times party very very late night and wake up to find a creaking full tummy ready to burst and the required restroom is occupied! You realize you are at your relatives and you cannot holler at the occupant yet you cannot sit down and smile at all. You fear the unwanted! To add to the perfect situation, the singular restroom is finally yours and once inside you realize, there are no toilet papers rolls or water!! Now fear turns a new colour!! "Sadda Belly Dilli Belly!!"
8. Wind wheezes past the ears, trying hard to ruffle my hair as I windsurf on my bike at breakneck speed. The road is empty and a very pleasant day it is indeed. I try to hum a song. And suddenly, realize the street is filled with dumb idiots and animals! Someone or something comes in front, and I apply brakes, hard. The motion suddenly goes into nano seconds of unwanted reality. The brakes do not succeed in stopping us at a distance and the approaching victim stand shell-shocked right on the path of impeding doom. The emotions that wells up in my mind, mouth and heart at that particular moment just before the impact, is fear.
9. As a child, I was nicknamed Professor Calculus from "The Adventures of Tintin" as I was (and still am) forgetful, resulting in me getting lost. I had got lost at Fairs, and Durga Puja festival crowd at Kolkata and many places, with the best being at Kalighat. As it happened, I was a very young kid and had entered the temple with my mother. I bowed down to pray and left the Temple tugging at a similar looking saree nape of a mother of an unknown brother When She finally realized that I am not her son, she howled like a hyena! As if I am responsible for her son, who forgot to hold on to her nape! I was scared to the worst degree, with the garrulous lady bleating down my neck, no where to run and hide, and as I did not know who her son was or how he looked to help her find him and interestingly, where was I? And funnily, where is my Mom with similar sari? With fear of rebuke and castigation of being a trouble monger, tears ready to jump out of my eyelids and the heaviest heart, I tried to retrace my steps and successfully got more lost (whatever that meant), and after a lot of effort, I guess about half hour later, with all tears dried up from my eyes, some one from my family finally found me. Man, I was so happy to be discovered in that melee, but the boxed ear told a differently red tale!! Those times as a child I got scared and feared a lot.
10. There are times of physical confrontation, when the opponent is scarily reputed and looks real mean. You want to get angry to psyche yourself up, but cant. Instead fear overtakes you and you feel the blood draining out of your legs, and suddenly, surprisingly you start hearing your heart beat! You want to act and sound strong, but your voice cracks and throat chokes. You fore see yourself being hit in the face/solar plexus, and suddenly the saliva in your mouth turn bitter. My friend, dear reader, its fear!!
I know this list is Bland, but genuine. I cannot help it, if I donot consider many other situations as scary and fear them. Hope you have a better list to share.


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Among other business activities, software testing (ST) is being increasingly outsourced nowadays to reduce the exorbitant expenses that are associated with it as well as to make sure that the evaluation is conducted by the best in the business.
Let us get into further details. Various critical business applications are being evaluated by third party vendors these days, as each and every business is striving to cut costs. Software development and testing are highly expensive processes and involve a number of critical parameters to be attained. Testing is often plagued by software failures and other uncalled for incidents that compel huge investments to go haywire. That is the reason, ST often demands huge investments to make sure that there is enough fund for rigorous in-house evaluation of the software by the most experienced as well as trained software professionals along with an able backup process to compensate any kind of failure whatsoever.
The digitisation of modern businesses has led to increased reliance or dependency on software systems for internal as well as external business activities. This has in turn led to increased emphasis by the business houses on evaluation or testing of these software systems within the process of development. All these have collectively resulted in the increase of software testing outsourcing.
A large chunk of ST centres where the projects are outsourced are located offshore – in countries like India, China or other countries in Asia. This is done after a lot of impeccable planning, taking into account the location of these countries as well as the difference in time zones wherein these countries are located. In case a company can obtain the results of evaluation over night, it effectively helps them to streamline the process of development they follow.
Now let us discuss the factors that the businesses need to consider while outsourcing software testing services.
Selection of Engagement Models
The first factor that needs to be considered is the engagement model that a business should rely on. This is ostensibly the most crucial aspect as the entire outsourcing plan will depend upon a correct decision. The process includes a number of factors – evaluating strategies of international business, selection of a geographical location, a thorough understanding of the landscape along with deciding on the particular strategy, etc. Some of the engagement models are:
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Businesses can opt for mitigating the risks associated with outsourcing by breaking the entire project into smaller projects that are more manageable or can be outsourced to the service providers in stages.
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The agreement includes a mobilization period for both the parties. This particular phase includes setting up of an effective communication protocol between the client and the vendor that defines breakdown structure of work, standard template sharing, setting up of test strategy, etc. This generally includes testing engineers and leads, project managers along with technical specialists. Knowledge acquisition, evaluation of infrastructure, integration with the different third party service providers are other aspects of mobilization.
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Electronic, discreet vibrators
It's not your mother's vibrator, and certainly not your grandmother's.
In the Bay Area, land of high-tech innovation and groundbreaking industrial design, inventors are creating sex products for the desktop - or nightstand - that are as imaginative, nuanced and advanced as the latest rainbow colors of the iPod.
Prominently displayed at lingerie shops, sex shops and even drugstores are cute rubber ducks, remote-control devices that pair a faux baby monitor (a transmitter) with a small vibrating cylindrical object on a leash, and discreet objets d'art designed by Yves Behar that could be safely left on a coffee table in front of book club guests who would never be the wiser.
While some may wince at the word vibrator, the electronic devices - which emit electronic impulses to stimulate the genitals - have a long medical history, having been developed in the 1860s, modified through the turn of the century and used by doctors to treat women for hysteria - an era dramatized in "In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play)," which premiered at Berkeley Repertory Theatre earlier this year before heading to Broadway. Once sold through Sears Roebuck catalogs as health aids, vibrators in ensuing decades were tarnished as they became associated with pornography.
But today, vibrators are out of the closet and enjoying newfound respectability.
In San Francisco, long home to alternative tastes, taboo sex practices have gone mainstream as curiosity seekers flock in growing numbers to "mothers' club" nights at Good Vibrations for martini sipping and vibrator shopping. Suburban looky-loos are increasingly drawn to the Folsom Street Fair leather festival to gaze at fetish and bondage wear devotees, and even the august Commonwealth Club has held discussions about hanky-panky over 60, with a recent reading by author Barbara Rose Brooker's novel "The Viagra Diaries," about an older woman's misadventures with Internet dating, aging bad boys and sex.
Nationally, vibrators are increasingly accepted as a natural part of the medicine chest, thanks to the design changes, the promotion of sexuality as a key to good health by mainstream medical experts like Dr. Mehmet Oz, sex toy gatherings akin to Tupperware parties, and openness to experimentation resulting from media exposure.
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Skeptical? A study by researchers at Indiana University published in the June issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine found that 53 percent of American women ages 18 to 60 had used a vibrator at least once and that nearly 25 percent of them had used one in the past month. Vibrator use was related to positive sexual function, and women who used vibrators were much more likely to have had a gynecological exam within the past year than those who had not.
The study, which surveyed 2,056 women, was funded by Church & Dwight Co. Inc., which makes Trojan brand sexual health products.
"Not only has using vibrators alone or with a partner become more mainstream, but so has talking about vibrators," said Debby Herbenick, associate director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at Indiana University and author of "Because It Feels Good: A Woman's Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction."
"We've now seen vibrators on TV, from 'Sex and the City' to 'Mad Men,' and celebrities such as Eva Longoria have been vocal about the benefits of vibrator use," she said. "Women today have far easier access to vibrators than their mothers or grandmothers did, thanks to the rise in popularity of in-home sex toy parties and the boom in women-friendly sex shops."
Vibrators are even sold at a variety of big-box retailers and drugstores including Walgreens, although a spokeswoman at the company's headquarters in Illinois said the company classifies them as nonsexual body massagers.
National awards
Jimmyjane, a luxury sex toy company founded in San Francisco in 2004 by industrial designer Ethan Imboden, has won national awards for its vibrators, which vary from noiseless gold-plated, silver and blue chrome-colored vibrators shaped like cigar tubes to banana-size curving cylindrical objects in bright colors.
Earlier this month, Jimmyjane launched its latest vibrator, the Form 2, the first of three to come out by next spring. The palm-size toy, priced at $135, is U-shaped and has two small prongs with separate programmable motors that vibrate at alternating speeds. The materials are nontoxic and submersible. (Imboden said that the sex toy industry is not regulated and that some manufacturers use materials that are not allowed in baby teething rings and which off-gas.)
San Francisco industrial design guru Yves Behar worked with Imboden and Jimmyjane for two years on the new line. Imboden said despite the recession, sales are up 50 percent over last year. He declined to give specific figures but said the company is among the top five Internet sellers of sex toys.
"Close to 50 percent of women own one, and own something that is badly made, cheaply made, that breaks down - a product that no one has the courage to complain about," Behar said. "There is no reason why sexuality products should not be as well designed as iPhones. So we approached this project exactly as we approached every other project, with the idea that it should be healthy, beautiful, practical and environmental."
Carol Queen of San Francisco's Center for Sexology and Culture has worked at Good Vibrations for more than a decade and seen firsthand the rise in acceptability and use of vibrators as the stigma slowly fades. Even Time magazine, she noted, had a recent article devoted to Earth- and body-friendly sex toys and lubricants.
"Vibrators are something to experiment with and enjoy," she said, "and not just a marital aid to use if something goes wrong."


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(Vatican Radio) Monday 15 February marked one year since video surfaced of the murder of 21 Orthodox Coptic Christians on a beach in northern Africa. The men were marched in orange suits across the beach, forced to kneel and then were beheaded by militants of the so-called Islamic State.
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It is impossible to forget the images of the atrocity seared into the public imagination but the Egyptian Coptic community is celebrating the memory of their martyrdom this week with prayer meetings, liturgies and reflections, culminating in a solemn liturgy on Tuesday.
The event is organized by the Coptic Orthodox diocese of Samalout in which most of the victims lived.
The last words of the 21 martyrs was the name of Jesus and Pope Francis, at the time, recalled their heroic testimony of faith.
Speaking in Spanish, the Holy Father noted those killed only asked for the help of Jesus. "They were killed simply for the fact they were Christians," Pope Francis said. "The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard. It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their blood confesses Christ.''
Pope Francis said that in remembering these brothers and sisters who have been murdered simply for confessing Christ, Christians should encourage one another in the ecumenical goal. There is, he said, an "ecumenism of blood."
Coptic Catholic Bishop Anba Antonios Aziz Mina also remarked at the time that as in the passion of the early martyrs, "they entrusted themselves to Him who would receive them shortly thereafter. And so this is a celebration of their victory, a victory that no perpetrator can take from them."
A new church is being built in the diocese to honour their memory.
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Being adjacent to the Augusta MSA and the future Army Cyber Command Headquarters at Fort Gordon will bring additional skilled labor to the area.
A leading manufacturer of high-quality brake components, Asama Coldwater Manufacturing Inc. in Warrenton, recently announced an 80,000-square-foot expansion facility adjacent to its 203,000-square-foot foundry operated by the company. This expansion will add several new jobs to the community.
Thriving industries in the east central region include manufacturing, mining, foundry, textiles, healthcare, retail, agribusiness, plastic extrusion and metal operation. Solar farms are also successful in the Warren County area.
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Next Christmas, while you are settling in to a turkey feast, Greg Kolodziejzyk hopes to be in the middle of the ocean peddling his kayak across the Atlantic.
He was in Victoria today to show off his prototype.
Nimbus Kayaks is a sponsor and apparently interested in marketing something like this. This looks waaaay cool.
Follow Greg's adventure on his blog.
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It's not a kayak.ReplyDelete
Human-powered fully-enclosed boat, yes. Kayak, no.
Cool? Yes.
Kayak? No.
Webster's definition of kayak:ReplyDelete
1 : an Eskimo canoe made of a frame covered with skins except for a small opening in the center and propelled by a double-bladed paddle
2 : a portable boat styled like an Eskimo kayak
It's a kayak.
Doesn't meet either definition.ReplyDelete
Not a kayak.
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Indians center fielder Trevor Crowe feared the worst after seeing pitcher David Huff get blasted in the head by an Alex Rodriguez line drive yesterday.
"That was really scary," Crowe said. "That's one of the few times on the baseball field where I've ever feared for someone's life."
Rodriguez drilled Huff above the left ear with a line drive in the third inning of the Indians' wild 13-11 win over the Yankees. The game paused for several minutes as the 25-year-old left-hander was taken from the field on a stretcher. He went to New York Presbyterian Hospital, and a CT scan was negative. Huff did not lose consciousness, his memory is intact and he is not showing signs of a concussion.
Huff left the hospital and returned to Yankee Stadium while the game was still going. He did not speak to the media, but he was seen in a hallway of the Indians clubhouse and, from a distance, he seemed to be smiling.
On his Twitter page, Huff posted: "Everything is good. It was a little scary but I'm out of the hospital now and with my family. Thank you for all your concern and support."
Crowe saw Huff when after the game.
"He looked fine," Crowe said. "He said he's doing good. A little woozy, but he was feeling good. Pretty impressive."
And it certainly was a relief to Rodriguez. Yankees PR man Jason Zillo said A-Rod was not in the clubhouse after the game because he left to go to the hospital to see Huff. As it turned out, Zillo said, A-Rod called him to ask where the hospital was located, but soon learned that Huff already had been released. Rodriguez asked for Huff's phone number.
On his Twitter page, Huff thanked the Yankees medical and security staff and singled out Rodriguez. "To A-Rod, contacting me on his way to the hospital, one class act."
After Huff was hit, he lay face-down on the mound, and trainers came out to examine him. Nick Swisher, who scored on the play, kneeled near home plate, and A-Rod was on one knee on the infield, his head down at one point.
Huff was put on a stretcher and gave a heartwarming thumb's-up as he was carted off, prompting a roar from the crowd.
"Your heart stops," Rodriguez said in a statement. "You want so badly to take it back. You're scared. You think of him. You think of his family. You think of a million other places that the ball could have gone other than where it did. Why there? I mean, we're playing a game. I know it's a business too but for all of us playing it should always be a game first. . . . I'm so thankful that he's going to be OK."
Indians manager Manny Acta said Huff was able to talk as he was examined on the mound. Indians first baseman Matt LaPorta said he saw Huff later and that Huff had a knot on his head "probably about the size of a golf ball."
"He doesn't have any concussive symptoms right now," Acta said, "but we'll find out more [today]."
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A new little princess will soon join one of Hollywood's royal families! Shayne Lamas-Richie (who appeared on GENERAL HOSPITAL in 2005 as teenage Carly) is expecting her first child with husband Nik Richie, founder of the gossip site TheDirty.com. "The Lamas-Richie family is happy, healthy and definitely pregnant," the former ABC bachelorette and LEAVE IT TO LAMAS star announced via Twitter on April 12. On her blog, www.LamasRichie.com, the actress/model posted a picture of herself in a bikini, showing off her baby bump, with the message, "Nik and I are so excited. Team Girl!!"
The daughter of THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL alum Lorenzo Lamas (ex-Hector), Lamas-Richie is also the sister of former AS THE WORLD TURNS hunk A.J. Lamas (Rafe). Her grandparents are the late Argentine actor Fernando Lamas and the sultry screen star Arlene Dahl. After winning Season 12 of THE BACHELOR, Lamas-Richie and *Matt Grant *were briefly engaged, but called things off in the summer of 2008, shortly after she was given the last rose. Last April, Lamas and Richie made headlines after eloping to The Little White Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas just hours after meeting for the first time. What a way to celebrate their first anniversary!


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Alia Bhatt and Parineeti Chopra are two of the most talented and hottest stars working in the Hindi film industry right now. In fact, the stars are so popular that their recently concluded "Dream Team" multi-city tour in the USA ran to packed houses.
The team that consisted of hearth-throbs Katrina Kaif, Varun Dhawan, Aditya Roy Kapoor, Sidharth Malhotra along with Karan Johar and rapper Badshah enticed audiences across USA and the tour was a big success.
But as they say, work must go along with plenty of play. And play they did!
We recently mined their Instagram accounts for some gorgeous pictures of the stars and were not in the least disappointed.
Check out the pictures filled with fun and frolic right here!
1. When Katrina and Alia PRISMA-fied Karan Johar
Source: Instagram
2. The high-flyers!
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3. Even stars need their cheat-meals.
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4. Alia flies!
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5. The simpletons!
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6. When the stars raided a photo-booth!
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7. The Sleeping Beauties!
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8. Students Of The Year-Again!
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There are quite a few of the truly iconic characters created in the world of genre cinema. Some have transcended their roles and become quite recognizable in the community, thanks mostly to their fame. And some have remained in the shadows of time...almost fossilized in amber, unfortunately never given his or her proper due. Today, we pay tribute to one of those icons that should be much bigger than he is...MR. BOBBY RHODES.
What is a film without the larger-than-life players that have made it what it is today? Take away certain actors and actresses from their given roles and what would you have left? A shell of a film. Something much less and weaker than what ultimately was. Take away Bobby Rhodes from the Demons films and perhaps we would not be talking about how awesome the film is today. Perhaps we wouldn't be doing a DEMONS WEEK or screening a FREE event this weekend, for that matter. Tony the Pimp and Hank the Gym Instructor are some of the coolest and most badass characters that you will find in genre cinema...ever. I realize that Bobby has been in a handful of films since (if even that)...but, it is his turn as Tony and Hank that has cemented his place in our hearts. Seriously...would I be the horror fan today if he never uttered the line..."SMASH EVERYTHING!"? Who knows? What I do know is that Bobby Rhodes is fucking awesome and if this were a just world...he would be a household name by now. However...sadly, he is not. Instead, he is known by a small group of individuals who know great talent when they see it. An elite, more specific crowd of fans who love these films for what they symbolize...a time in cinema history when all was right in the world. When Italy reigned and when it was not uncommon to have 5 horror masterpieces released within the same calendar year.
Bobby Rhodes is an icon. Plain and simple. Check out a video on his YouTube channel where he shares some of his thoughts and experiences working on the awesomely awesome film...DEMONS (and DEMONS 2)...
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You may be surprised to find this unusual looking tool among planes, as it does not at all resemble one. Because it looks like a sculpturing tool, you may even suspect that it might have been mistakenly included with the planes.
But in fact, it is a plane in its earliest form, and used in Japan since about 1000 A.D. You'd be amazed at the fine shavings that this tool can produce, in experienced hands and properly sharpened!
This is not simply a museum piece and of no practical use today. Many woodworkers have discovered the Yarri Kanna and consider it indispensable!
The furniture restorer can reduce inlays to the proper thickness without damaging adjacent surfaces. The sculptor can smooth the surfaces of his work without roughening the grain with sandpaper. This tool opens a wealth of possibilities for surface treatments for the artist and the designer, by filling the gap between the scrub plane and smoothing plane. Take a look at the instruction page of the Yarri Kanna.


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TrajPop allows users to create clusters of cities according to their temporal population evolution, resulting in clusters of (temporal) Trajectories of Populations.
Author: Robin Cura
App: http://trajpop.parisgeo.cnrs.
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Documentation: none
Suggestions, questions, or reviews for this app? Comments are open!
If any of the info above is incorrect or needs to be updated, please send an email to corrections (at) showmeshiny.com and reference this post's URL.


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Tuesday, 21 August 2012
Sorry, I've neglected my blog!!
Well, ladies what an exciting week it has been with the announcement of the new Design Team at Artfull Crafts. We can expect amazing things from our new members as they are all so talented. ( and I haven't been made redundant yet!) To top of the excitement re. the Design Team , the Dinner is on Friday night and it will be announced who has won the Top Shop - our fingers and toes are crossed!
Now must share some cards I have made for orders.
Our friend Marie absolutely loves green and purple, hence this card. I have used a Stampin' up stamp which I have coloured with my copics. Kaisercraft Lilac Avenue collection ( you can perhaps guess that I love Kaisercraft !)
Authentique papers was used for this anniversary card but I can't remember which collection. I used Martha Stewart optic border punch.
Now, this is a different card and I have used Kaisercraft's Attitude collection. It is very masculine, I have made a pocket card and have covered the front of the card with acetate which is part of the collection.
Well, all from me tonight, just about my bedtime. Thank you all for checking out my blog - it is so nice knowing that it appreciated and it makes blogging all worth while.
Happy crafting and God bless,
Betsy xxx
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Lovely cards and the middle one in pink is my favorite. It is so pretty and the flowers make it look really special xxReplyDelete
Hi Betsy, congratulations for being on the Design Team again, I never knew homemade cards could look so awesome until I discovered you via Artfull Crafts. I look forward to your new posts over the year and ONEDAY I will attempt to make a card :))ReplyDelete
Green and purple are my favourite colours too so as I still have some Lilac Avenue I may attempt a similar card - very exquisite.ReplyDelete
These cards are just amazing Betsy. I would just love to be one of your friends and receive a beautiful card of yours. They are just so fantastic. You are certainly one very talented lady.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you so much girls - just great to receive your comments.I do appreciate every one of them. Betsy xxxDelete


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After sleepless nights, days when all they do is change diapers and women often fill bottles mad. Okay, are justified, I do not want to imagine the madness of a newborn little boy, with his bellowing, weeping, her belly dolorcillos in that rages in the heart, soul and patience of the generous mothers.
For them-and before resorting to the help of British nannies group we see on TV-the NANC-E robot Nannybot of Buy n Large can be very helpful. I further believe that agile android arms soon become best friends with these deranged mothers, housewives sudden and desperate for good …!
NANC-E has a kind of tentacles that encourage children or feed them when necessary. Almost as a nanny in the flesh, knowing this powerful android monitor the health and morale of the children. And for mothers to be quiet when delegating tasks, the robot responds only if the sentence is pronounced verbally indicated, almost a secret code between mother-robot.


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In this section, you will apply what you have learned to your own teaching. The following activities are designed to assist you in developing activities to teach word analysis and vocabulary. Choose one or both of the activities from the list below.
In this activity, you will select words that contain a similar word pattern and plan a lesson to teach these words.
In this activity, you will choose 8 to 10 vocabulary words from a selection students are going to read and then develop two activities to help students understand and use these words appropriately.
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Anderson Island a Three Hour Tour
A little more than thousand inhabitants live on the island. Or as we discovered waiting in the ferry line the proper reference is, "islanders." If you don't navigate the ferry line correctly, the islanders will get out of their car and let you know the error of your ways (we witnessed this two times). Ferry lines are self- regulated apparently by the locals (no cutting on their watch). Ro could relate to the protective island mentality--being from an island herself (albeit a million times bigger). Neither of us knew this, but the long shots of Gilligan's island were actually shots of Kane'ohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii.
|Waiting for the ferry
Luckily, it was a gorgeous evening to be out on the water and the ride was short and sweet.
|Ro loves Instagram
After a short ferry ride and wait for it.....a TWO minute drive off the ferry, we arrived at our destination. FloJo booked this quaint little cottage called the Yew Tree Cottage and it was glorious! It's a decent sized cottage situated with a nice lawn (perfect to play bocci ball) and surrounded by tall evergreen trees. Yew is a perfect name for the cottage as it's a term used for various species of trees and the cottage was surrounded by trees.
We took a quick tour of the three bedrooms, 1.75 baths. Complimented by a big porch with sitting area in the front and a large deck area in the back to lounge and BBQ.
|Cherries in whiskey swimming pool
By the time we arrived at the cottage it was dinner time. As soon as we unloaded the car, FloJo started making our dinner. The theme for the dinner was cherry and bourbon. We started out with Manhattans which she soaked bing cherries in Jack Daniels for three days prior to the trip (they were very happy cherries). As an appetizer, she made a salad with a vinaigrette dressing, goat cheese, bing cherries and pistachio nuts. It was definitely restaurant quality.
For our entrees, FloJo BBQ'd a rack of beef ribs, corn on the cob and a portabella mushroom. She made an AWESOME bourbon BBQ sauce (that she made up cause she's creative like that) for the ribs, but forgot it at home. However, she did make a cherry butter sauce to dress the corn on the fly to make up for the BBQ sauce miss. Ro thought the ribs were truly exceptional even without the bourbon sauce.
|BBQ dinner on the back porch-- Anderson Island style!
The next day we had a lazy morning (which Ro loves and fully embraces). For brunch, FloJo made a zucchini quiche with ricotta cheese, mushrooms and pretty Thai basil flowers from our garden...YUM! We treated ourselves to mimosas as well.
We decided around noon that it was time to leave our cozy cottage and venture out to see if the island had any shopping. We stumbled upon the one grocery store on the island and let's just say we're glad we packed in our own supplies. The store left a lot to be desired. Let's just leave it at that. We did buy a 6 pack of 1/2 Moose Drool and 1/2 Summer Honey beer from Big Sky Brew. FloJo loves this stuff and thinks of our friends Kenna and Dana (who lived in Montana) every time she cracks one open-- cheers ladies!
We then moseyed on to the "Farmer's Market" at historic Johnson Farm. We saw a sign at the store and another sign for it coming off the ferry the night before stating the hours were from 11am - 1pm. With all the signage we figured this must be the happening place on the island. We did wonder why it was open for such a short period of time, but it was a clue. We found out why when we arrived, which was close to the 1 pm quitting time for all THREE of the vendors that were there. As we pulled the car into the lot, all eyes were on us and it was clear to us we were not islanders. Of course, we were the only customers there at the time-- awkward! We reluctantly got out of the car and made our way toward the first vendor who we didn't find particularly friendly (or any of them for that matter) even when we made our compulsory purchase an onion (we were terribly disappointed they were out of fresh eggs). We were done perusing the "market" and it's meager offerings in just under two minutes and that's with a transaction included. We decided to take a side trip and explore the huge garden in back of the farmers market stalls. It was a beautiful sight with multi-colored dahlias mixed in with tomatoes, beans, corn, purple/black peppers, and the list goes on and on.
We made our way past the garden and in the back was a gift shop and the Anderson Island Historical Society museum. It had a lot of artifacts and history about the island. There was no rhyme or reason to how the museum was organized and we did our patented two minute scan and dash tactic. We came, we saw, we wasted no time leaving. When we stepped outside of the gift shop we instantly noticed an old barn in the background and wooden folding chairs looking over a hoopa in the foreground. Clearly one of the four weddings was taking place here.
After taking in the beautiful scenery, we headed out to the island's one golf course. We decided to play eighteen holes instead of nine because it was only ten dollars more. We realized after we purchased that it's really a nine hole course in which we would play 2x. It was a decent nine hole course with various homes surrounding it. The best part was we had it all to ourselves and we definitely took advantage of it.
Since we didn't have the luxury of using a golf cart, after nine holes of golf we were stick a fork in us done and what else? Hungry! We decided to eat lunch at the Lakeshore clubhouse, which was across the street from the golf course and it looked over Lake Josephine (one of two lakes on the island). We sat on the patio outside and again had it all to ourselves. It was a super hot summer day, which us North-westerners cherish. There were a lot of kids playing in the water and other people on their pontoon boats. FloJo ordered a taco salad and Ro ordered a turkey club, which were ok but we were famished and we had low expectations. The best part of the dining experience was a definite island moment. Our waitress told us she'd be back in fifteen minutes just as we were finishing our meals-- she had to go pick someone up from the ferry. We pretty much had to wait for her because we hadn't paid yet. When she got back, we asked her about the sign hanging in the bar suggesting that patrons buy their return ferry tickets there. We questioned it because normally in WA state you only pay once and it covers a round trip. Apparently it was an islander joke on tourists.
|View from the clubhouse deck
We went back to chez cottage and took a much needed nap. When we woke, it was dinner time. Chef FloJo was back in the kitchen starting us out with scallops and a salad with melon, peaches, prosciutto (Ro's fave) and shredded parm. Again, restaurant quality. For our entree, FloJo was back on the grill firing up salmon on a cedar plank, which Ro learned helps give the fish a smoky flavor. Even though the board had been soaked in water for several hours it ended up going up in flames towards the end of the cooking session. The fish was rescued just in time. She also made a refreshing corn salad from the remains of last night's corn on the cob (made extra). We were so full we didn't manage to get to dessert, but we did enjoy a delicious sangria with dinner.
Eve, the cottage owner, has a binder with a laundry list of things to do on the island. Some examples include: using the cottage bikes for a tour of the island, golf, making home-made ice cream, board games, reading a book, fishing, clamming or crabbing. The list seriously goes on and on! The cottage has a magic closet that has most of the supplies needed for said activities. Reading the list alone made us tired. What did we decide to do on our last day on the island then? Stay indoors and watch DVDs from the ample Yew Cottage collection. We truly embraced island life and chilled out the rest of the day.
Aloha! Live life with flavor and fun!


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ASY corporate-supporter Wal-Mart and homefront group Proud Patriots recently got together to pack and send over 2,200 care packages to deployed servicemembers in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world. The packing took place at Wal-Mart's annual "Year Beginning Meeting" where thousands of Wal-Mart store managers converged. Proud Patriots is a national organization that has been sending care packages overseas since 2004 to over 4,000 deployed military personnel. The Wal-Mart care package event was the largest Proud Patriots effort to date. Included in the packages were phone cards, disposable cameras, and comfort items supplied by Wal-Mart. Personal notes and cards were collected by Wal-Mart managers and associates from across the country to include in the packages as well.


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Landscape, Maternal Space, And Child Exposure In The Sagas Of Icelanders
Paper by Robin Waugh
Given at the 3rd International St. Magnus Conference on April 15, 2016
The mother's "powerful influence during early infancy" has been described as "maternal space" by critics such as Patricia Cramer and Julia Kristeva (Cramer 497; Kristeva, Desire in Language, 247, 281-86). An obvious situation, then, in which to examine the potential construction of maternal space would be the episodes when men try to co-opt such space, for example in the eight or so narratives of child exposure that are extant in the Sagas of Icelanders (Jochens 85-93; Clover 101-10). On the one hand in these narratives men typically wrap the child tightly, place something in the infant's mouth to replace the mother's breast, and otherwise attempt to imitate and ritualize maternal space by (among other things) trying to secure the child's silence while it is exposed. On the other hand these scenes assert women's highly individual emotions, co-optation of language, and marking out of space.
To offer one example, in Vatnsdæla saga, Nereid's illegitimate child is exposed with a cloth over its face (Ch. 37). The infant is eventually recovered, but the cloth must be connected to the "kerchief" that a witch named Groa has previously used in her sorcery. Her magic results in the death of an entire household. Not only is the child's cloth thus connected to a particularly female mode of expression, but it is also connected to the landscape as described in the saga: Groa had been observed walking around her house backwards just before the household's disaster. In Þorsteins þáttur uxafóts, the many details of clothing and the sense of ritualizing a landscape through setting up a child's place of exposure as an externalized substitute for maternal space evoke, even more than in the Vatnsdæla saga version, ideas of a female language (Þorsteins þáttur uxafóts, ch 4). The boy's mother, Oddny, is dumb, and communicates with her family through the inscription of runes (Ch. 3). There follows a pattern of language acquisition in the þáttr that echoes the treatment of landscape by the major characters, and a similar pattern occurs in the story of Selkolla from the Byskupa sögur, which connects child-abandonment with lust, demonology, and fylgjur (pp. 494-95).
A survey of these episodes, then, suggests that maternal space in the sagas reasserts itself generally—and particularly reasserts itself onto the northern landscape—during instances of child exposure, where this mode of attempted infanticide takes on a variant meaning in Northern societies than it would from more Southern ones. Particular treatment of landscape is paired with unusual depictions of heightened expression by female characters in these works—both traditional artisanal modes of expression for women, such as textile usage, and also examples of highly individual language production. This "new language" typically maps the Northern landscape in a sex-specific fashion that is unique to the sagas of Icelanders.
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1. My main objective is to reuse or recycle items into something functional or fun. I need to stay true to that no matter what I decide to make.
2. Although the coffee cozies are by far my best selling item, I am not going to limit myself to that. I am going to go with the flow and see where it takes me.
3. I am going to keep one blog. Who am I kidding? I have a hard enough time keeping up with one. Two would be impossible.
4. I am still working on branding, labeling, and updating the look of my blog and Etsy shop. I was on a roll last week and haven't had a chance to work on it since then.
I thought I would show you so of my various works in progress. Maybe one day I will finish them.
My latest obsession- making tags from cereal boxes or other various cardboard boxes.
I am hoping now I will actually get some of these completed so that I can show you the finished product. A girl can hope, right?


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I have been lucky enough to be one of six improvisers nationally to have been chosen by Sound and Music to be part of their portfolio scheme. I along with Anton Hunter, Rachel Musson, Julie Kjaer, Shelley Knotts and Seth Benett were able to go on two residentials at Wooda Farm in Cornwall under the mentor ship of Steve Beresford. The scheme finished with the seven of us playing at Wooda then at The Vortex for Mopomoso.
Portfolio Improvisers
In the words of Sound and Music, their Portfolio scheme provides a key development opportunity for composers to create new work with and for some of the UK's leading ensembles and presenters of new music. Portfolio enables them to develop their portfolio of compositions and gain vital artistic and practical insight and experience in working with professional ensembles and presenting organisations, and delivering new work to public audiences. We are delighted to host this fine group of improvisers mentored by Steve Beresford.
MOPOMOSO was founded in 1991 by guitarist John Russell and pianist, trumpeter and composer Chris Burn to promote freely improvised music in all its forms and where applicable its relationship to other forms of contemporary music making. From the outset the aim has been to present the music on a local, regional national and international basis and to involve relative newcomers as well as more established musicians. Run by a team of volunteers, we hold a passionate belief that improvised music, sometimes called free music or free improvisation offers many exciting opportunities both to players and listeners alike.
You can read about the residency from Seth here and Shelley here and also Shelley talking about her practice as a live coder here


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Arroyo v. TP-Link USA Corporation (N.D. Cal.) presents a varied opinion on the viability of class claims under California law, particularly as brought by a non-California class representative. Plaintiff, a Florida resident, alleged that defendants made false and misleading statements about the speed and capabilities of their network adapters. Plaintiff brought claims on behalf of a putative class under California's Consumer Legal Remedies Act (Cal. Civ. Code § 1750 et seq.), Unfair Competition Law (Cal. Bus. Code § 17200 et seq.), and False Advertising Law (Cal. Bus. Code § 17500 et seq.), and alleged fraudulent inducement, breach of express warranties (Cal. Comm. Code § 2313 et seq.), and unjust enrichment. In granting in part and denying in part defendants' motion to dismiss, the court first discussed whether plaintiff could assert California's consumer protection laws even though he was a Florida resident and purchased the network adapters in Florida. The court found that California's laws could apply owing to sufficient contacts with California: defendants' principal place of business was California, the false advertising emanated from California, and a "large portion of the class members are expected to reside in California due to California's large population and Defendants' business presence in that state." Once plaintiff met his burden of proof that application of California law would not offend due process, the burden shifted to defendant to show that the court should apply the consumer protection laws of Florida. The court thus acknowledged defendants' argument that the consumer protection laws of Florida should apply in place of California's, but found that defendants had failed to prove this argument by engaging in the requisite three-part conflict of laws analysis under the governmental interest test.
The court did, however, grant defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's allegations as to products he did not purchase and plaintiff's claim for injunctive relief. Plaintiff only had standing to assert claims as to non-purchased products, the court reasoned, if he detailed why the products were substantially similar to those actually purchased. This he failed to do, providing only a cursory footnote on the similarities. Plaintiff's claim for injunctive relief also failed because he was unable to credibly state he would purchase the product in future – such a statement being at odds with his theory of liability.
Arroyo v. TP-Link USA Corporation, No. 5:14-cv-04999, 2015 WL 5698752 (N.D. Cal. Sep. 29, 2015).


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