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I thought I'd pick a post where Erik wasn't so obnoxious. hopefully he won't ruffle too many feathers, but usually there's a reason for it when he does. There's "spiritual awakening" and there's "Erik awakening."
Me: Can you go, Erik, from being a regular spirit like you—sorry if that hurts your feelings—to an angel or an archangel?
Erik: You don't.
Me: So you cannot or you don't? There's a difference.
Erik: You can't become an archangel. No, if you were once, many, many, many moons and lifetimes ago—just saying that in a linear base frame so people can understand—
Jamie giggles.
Jamie: I love all of his little robot taglines.
Erik: Once you give up being an archangel, you always give up; you always give up the position.
Me: Okay. Well, can you go to being an angel from a regular spirit?
Erik: Sure.
Me: Wow, really?
Erik: Sure, just like a human becomes a saint.
Me: Oh.
Erik: It's like an evolution process. And remember, angels aren't like these, you know, awesome winged beings that are untouchable. They're very real.
Me: Do they have wings?
Erik (laughing): No.
Me: I'm just kidding. I figure they can fly without them. Well, what's the difference between a regular spirit and an angel, I mean energetically, everything? Tell me more about, uh, can they do more? What does their energy look like?
Erik: Oh, yeah. I get you.
Jamie: Okay he's breaking it down, so we have archangels, guardian angels, and angels.
Me: Okay.
Erik: Archangels don't reincarnate onto the earthly plane. They don't need to. They get the concept. They're pure energy, just like God Source is.
Me: How are they made, so to speak? Do they just clip right off from God Source like clipping off taffy?
Jamie laughs.
Jamie: That is awesome.
Erik: Yeah. I'll go with that.
Jamie: He was making a joke before. He was like, "Ah, Mom. How rude. Do we need to have the 'Birds and Bees' talk?"
Me: No, I mean seriously!
Erik: No, I mean it's God Source energy. We're all made the same way.
Me: Well then what's so special about archangels?
Erik: They don't come to Earth, Mom. They don't translate their energy into other Life Force beings. They don't go to Mars, to Jupiter, to other systems. They stay close to God Source.
Me: Oh, so anybody could have decided to be an archangel?
Erik: Hells yeah!
Me: Okay. It sounds kind of boring!
Erik: It comes with a lot of responsibility and work, but some people love that, right?
Me: Why do they exist?
Erik: Uh, to help kind of keep, not really the balance, but –
Jamie (to Erik): You're really going to use that, aren't you? (to me) He's going to use the word balance even though he says it's not really balance.
We both laugh.
Me: Okay, so what special abilities and roles do they have? Give me more details about that, and then we'll go on to the other angels.
Erik: They can help anything from wars to an inner war in a person's head to helping animals to helping the Earth, helping the weather. They can intervene and—they're not going to fuck things up.
Me: Mm hm.
Erik: They're going to set things right, even if what we consider to be devastating and wrong might be right for the world to experience—
Me: Oh!
Erik: You know, they can help set things up to where we're having those experiences that are helping overall.
Me: Okay.
Erik: So they're here kind of to correct the chaos if it's not the type of chaos that's needed.
Me: Oh, I see. So the balance, uh, sometimes you need the input of a little chaos in order to create balance, too, right?
Erik: Absolutely. And I don't want people thinking that it's a Big Brother thing and that we're all predestined and every movement and every, every, everything, cuz that's complete bullshit. There's so much free will. Angels are observers. The observer. And tell you what, archangels can react. They react if you ask them to or not. Guardian angels and angels, they have to be invoked. They have to be invited. They have to be welcomed kind of like your local vampire. You gotta let them into your house. You gotta let them into your belief system and surrender that they are going to be assisting you and what you're doing.
Me: So, archangels react to the free will of people. If you get things out of whack, they're there to balance the chaos and harmony.
Erik: Yes.
Me: Okay. Are they more powerful because they are closer to Source?
Erik: Yes.
Me: They can suck up that energy and—
Erik: Yes. And guardian angels are the ones who—
(I'm interrupted by an important phone call from a doctor.)
Me: Okay, so back to guardian angels. You were about to talk about them.
Erik: Yeah, they're the ones who kind of teach and give advice—private protectors. Most of the time, guardian angels are assigned to a group a people that they particularly help. So, there are a whole bunch of them. Then angels—
Me: Wait, wait. Who assigns them? Do they assign themselves?
Erik: Oh, no. You totally do that before you get into a life. These are all connection that you have. I mean, look how great people are networking on Earth. Trust me, you network in the spirit world! You know what's going on. You know what lessons you're picking and who can help you more, and if you actually want to design your life to where you don't feel like you don't have any help, you know, and that it's miserable. You can have that shit, too.
Me: Okay, so you can decide, Erik, if you want to guide somebody on your own.
Erik Yeah.
Me: And do you have guides, too?
Erik: I have people that I go to that I learn from, yeah.
Me: Okay, but you're not assigned, or—
Erik: No.
Me: Unless you want to have a guide assigned to you.
Erik: Yeah, yeah. Like somebody who's had a really rough life and they come over and they're not getting the adjustment they need—you know, you can be assigned a buddy.
Me: Okay, so, like over here, you're having a rough time, you go to a friend or go see a counselor or whatever.
Erik: Yeah. Totally.
Me: Just like over here. Okay. Now, are you considered a guardian angel? Because you do guide people like blog members and stuff. Or are you like a regular spirit.
Erik: I don't know. I think I'm still considered pretty much on the regular side.
Me: Like a guide.
Erik: Yeah.
Me: What's the difference between a guardian angel and a guide?
Erik: The difference is, um, energy vibrations. Guardian angels are able to do more.
Me: Including…
Jamie (to Erik): Oh, is this a bullet list?
Erik: Sporadic healing, helping more—
Jamie (to Erik): I know, but I don't think that metaphor comes across. Say it a different way.
Jamie (to Erik, sighing): Picture it, Erik. The way he's showing me is, um, guardian angels have more concentrated, higher vibrational energy.
Erik: So, they really don't have to take a lot of the shit that humans are dishing out.
Me: Oh!
Erik: And they can just come in and say, "I'm behind you; I'm helping." Guides are more like, "We're going to stand to the side, and we're going to whisper over to tell you what to do, and we'll give you all the insight, but we're not doing that shit for you."
Me: Okay.
Erik: Whereas the guardian angel says, "I'm doing that shit for you, because you're to point now where you can't do it for yourself."
Me: Oh, okay. Got it. And guardian angels, can they split off more than guides?
Erik: Yes.
Me: Okay. Anything else on the bullet list?
Erik: You can break it down, you know, career, family, health. They're always able to do more for the human being than what a guide can do. Guides—we're instructional. We're teachers. We'll talk the shit out of things.
Me (laughing): Yeah, I noticed!
Erik: Whereas angels are doers.
Me: Ah, I see. That's pretty much it in a nutshell. I completely understand. Angels can create change whereas guides can suggest change.
Erik: Yeah.
Me: Do you aspire to become a guardian angel or are you happy being a guide?
Erik (chuckling): I'm happy being a guide.
Me: Okay. Now, what about a regular spirit? I guess they just don't want to be guides or…
Erik: Yeah. Like your mom.
Me: Yeah. Okay.
Erik: She's just living another existence, being herself. You know, she doesn't wanna do that shit.
Me: Are there people who are in your dimension who are several things at once? Can you be a regular spirit and a guardian angel at the same time since there are different facets to a diamond, right? In one facet you might be, in the past, a—
Erik: Yeah, because I can choose not to be a guide for someone on Earth and just be a regular dude with them just like you can change that character or personality when you go out Friday nights.
Me: All right. I think we got a lot of very interesting information here.
God, I LOVE what Erik had to say here!
For all those participating in the Grieving Parents Conference Call, please email me at email@example.com for an mp3 file of the recording. For obvious reasons, I don't post these conferences publicly. If you want to register for the regular small group channeling calls, click here: CLICK
Jamie only accepts a handful of people so sign up as soon as you can. I think the next one is February 7th.
For you newbies, in these calls, Erik can bring forward your deceased loves ones, answer questions about why you're here (your spiritual mission), what past lives you've had, as well as health, career, relationship issues and more.
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Related Topics
Death, General: Resource List
Books for Children
Ages 4 to 8
A Bunch of Balloons
; by Dorothy Ferguson; Centering Corporation, 1992
A Child's Simple Guide Through Grief;
by Alexis Cunningham; Jalmar Press, 2001
Badger's Parting Gifts
; by Susan Varley; William Morrow, 1985
Charlotte's Web
; by E.B. White; Harper and Row, 1952
Gentle Willow
; by Joyce Mills; Magination Press, 2003
If Nathan Were Here
; by Mary Bahr; Erdmann's Books for Young Readers, 2000
Old Pig
; by Margaret Wild; Dial, 1996
Sad Isn't Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss
; by Michaelene Mundy; Abbey Press, 1998
Talking About Death
; by Earl A. Grollman; Beacon, 1990
Tear Soup
: A Recipe for Healing After Loss; Pat Schwiebert Grief Watch, 1999
The Saddest Time
; by Norma Simon; A. Whitman, 1992
Very Best of Friends
; by Margaret Wild; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990
You Hold Me and I'll Hold You
; by Jo Carson; Orchard, 1992
Ages 9 to 12
Beat the Turtle Drum
; by Constance Green; Econo-Clad Books, 2000
; by Eve Bunting; HarperCollins, 2000
If Nathan Were Here
; by Mary Bahr; Erdmann's Books for Young Readers, 2000
Little Men
; by Louisa May Alcott; IndyPublish, 2001
Little Women
; by Louisa May Alcott; Sterling, 2004
A Taste of Blackberries
; by Doris Smith; Econo-Clad Books, 1999
Young Adult
The Bridge to Terabithia
; by Katherine Paterson; HarperCollins, 1978
The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends
; Helen Fitzgerald; Simon & Schuster, 2000
On My Honor
; by Marion Dane Bauer; Econo-Clad Books, 1999
A Separate Peace
; by John Knowles; MacMillan, 1960
When a Friend Dies: A Book for Teens About Grieving and Healing
; by Marilyn Gootman; Free Spirit Press, 1994
Books for Adults
Children Mourning, Mourning Children
; Hospice Foundation of America, 2001
Guiding Your Child Through Grief
; by Mary Ann Emswiler; Bantam Books, 2000
Helping Children Grieve
; by Ruth Arent; Champion Press, 2005
How Do We Tell the Children? A Parents Guide to Helping Children Cope When Someone Dies
; by Dan Schaefer; Newmarket Press, 4
ed, 2010
It's OK to Cry: A Parent's Guide to Helping Children Through the Losses of Life
; by H. Norman Wright; WaterBrook Press, 2004
Helping Children Grieve: When Someone They Love Dies
; by Theresa Huntley; Augsburg Fortress Pub, 2002
When Children Grieve
; by John James; HarperCollins, 2002
When Your Child Loses A Loved One
; by Theresa Huntley; Augsburg, 2001
Your Grieving Child: Answers To Questions On Death And Dying;
by Bill Dodds; Our Sunday Visitor, 2001
Compiled by Catherine Smith, MLS, medical librarian at the Family Health Library, The Children's Hospital, Denver, CO.
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Last reviewed: 2010-06-04
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Reunion Home Page. Lots of great information on Reunion, the world's best genealogy program.
Enhancing Supercharts. A very nice article by superuser Jan McClintock. If you want to give your chart some extra flair, here's where to start. This article is a little dated but still has some nice ideas you can use today.
The Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies. If you're doing Swedish genealogy, this is the place to visit. Lots of fabulous information on how to use resources as well as links to other Swedish genealogy sites.
Swedish Discussion Group. A good place to hook up with fellow genealogists with similar interests (or similar ancestors). If you know the province and parish you're interested in, choose "Landscap" from the list, then pick your province, then choose "Socknar" from the list, then pick your parish. (Knowing län and parish isn't going to help much here.) Further explanation of the forums can be found here.
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center. Another good site for Swedish genealogy research, hosted by the Swenson Center, an institution dedicated to documenting the Swedish immigrant experience in the United States.
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Trailhead Photography. A change of pace. A place to get fine outdoor photography to decorate your walls or give as gifts.
fampres. Take a look for a really unique way of displaying a family tree.


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Intermittent rain showers got the Dodgers wet as they took batting practice for Friday night's game against the Orioles at Camden Yards in Baltimore, and the forecast is for more showers throughout the evening.
The latest rain sent the grounds crew onto the field. The tarp is on the field 15 minutes before game-time and the start of the game will be delayed.
No word yet on when things will get started.
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email: lgarcia [at] fma [dot] ph
Lisa specialises in women's rights and ICT. She has an undergraduate degree in Sociology from the University of the Philippines, a Masters degree in International Relations from the Kiev State University and an MA in Women and Development Studies from the University of the Philippines. Prior to joining FMA, Lisa worked for an NGO focused on women and migration. She is currently a member of the Board of the Centre for Migrant Advocacy (CMA), a Philippine-based NGO working for the rights of all migrants and members of their families. She is also co-moderator of the Dynamic Coalition on Gender at the IGF.
Jamael Jacob
Legal and Policy Advisor / Coordinator, Privacy
email: jjacob [at] fma [dot] ph
Jam is a lawyer by profession specialising in ICT, law, and human rights. He has been engaged in data privacy work since 2011. He is currently the Director of the University Data Protection Office of the Ateneo de Manila University, and works as a consultant on data protection to various other organisations in both the public and private sectors. He was previously the OIC-Director of the Privacy Policy Office of the National Privacy Commission, where he was directly involved in the development of most agency issuances during his stay. He has degrees in Sociology and Law from the University of the Philippines, and a postgraduate degree in Human Rights Law from the University of Auckland. In 2015, he also took up the Summer Course on US-EU Privacy Law and Policy at the University of Amsterdam.
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email: tlopez [at] fma [dot] ph
Christina is the Program Officer for Gender and ICT. She is a registered social worker and has been in practice since 2006. She is committed to making social work known to those outside of the profession, while fostering pride among those engaged in it. Her resume includes many years of experience working with women, children, migrants, and the elderly, under the tutelage of community-based and non-government organisations. Her previous paid and volunteer work included positions in frontline programs, agency management, and social services governance. At FMA, she participates in many conferences and mentoring opportunities to further hone her craft while studying advances in gender studies and internet governance.
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email: jpacis [at] fma [dot] ph
Jess is FMA's Program Officer for Privacy and Surveillance. She has an undergraduate degree in Broadcast Communication from the University of the Philippines and has a background in PR and academic and legal research. Her diverse work as a writer and marketer for various digital platforms has exposed her to the many ethical and legal issues revolving around the nexus of ICT and human rights.
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Irene has been working in the non-government sector for 17 years. She joined FMA in 2008 as Administrative and Finance Officer.
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email: jboco [at] fma [dot] ph
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This lacy little crochet top was handmade (in 2004) using an original British pattern from the 1960s. I know because I'm the one who made it. Lovely lavender shade. Extra-short sleeves. Scalloped hem. Soft, easy care acrylic yarn (if I can find any leftover yarn, I'll include it).
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Condition: has some surface pilling/fuzziness
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Debt-ridden Pakistan seeks $2 billion commercial loans from China
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec 6 (ANI): Islamabad is seeking commercial loans of $2 billion from Beijing amid the debt-ridden country seeking a bailout package from International Monetary Fund (IMF). China has already refused to provide balance of payment (BoP) support to Pakistan.
Business Recorder said in a report: "According to well-informed sources, a technical team of the State Bank of Pakistan and Finance Ministry paid a visit to China recently to talk about various modalities of loans and interest rate, however, an agreement wasn't inked because of differences and conditions imposed."
It added: "Islamabad had reached out to Beijing for $3 billion BoP support and after the conclusion of Prime Minister Imran Khan's visit a technical team including Secretary Finance Arif Khan and State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Governor Tariq Bajwa held talks with Chinese authorities but the result of the negotiations bore no fruit".
Reportedly, the meeting between the two sides ended in 30 minutes and the Chinese officials' attitude was described as "not friendly", said a Pakistani business daily.
The leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, Herald Finger visited Pakistan last month and left the country without giving any details of the outcome of his meetings. However, IMF mission is expected to visit Pakistan in the mid of January 2019 to conclude the $8 billion bailout programme.
Business Recorder quoted sources saying that the IMF has asked for further clarifications from the government on revenue yield initiatives, real-time exchange rate, privatisation and retrenchment of current expenditure. Pakistan media reports the IMF also wants to know the details of Chinese loans made to Pakistan for the multi-billion dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), which the Khan government is reluctant to provide. There is concern, notably in the United States that Pakistan's IMF loans may go towards paying off debt owed to Beijing. (ANI)


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DIR/WRI: Gia Coppola • PRO: Vince Jolivette, Miles Levy, Sebastian Pardo, Adriana Rotaru • DOP: Autumn Durald ED: Leo Scott • DES: Sarah Beckum Jamieson • MUS: Robert Schwartzman, Devonté Hynes • CAST: Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, James Franco, Val Kilmer, Chris Messina
Directed by Gia Coppola, the latest scion of the Coppola filmmaking dynasty, Palo Alto adapts a handful of short stories by James Franco (who also appears and co-produces) into a loosely-structured narrative about disaffected teenagers in the eponymous Californian region. Jack Kilmer (son of Val) and Emma Roberts (daughter of Eric and niece of Julia) play Teddy and April, two teenagers whose nascent attraction is complicated by Teddy's friendship with the volatile Fred (Nat Wolff) and by April's affair with her smarmy soccer coach (Franco). While Coppola's focus on troubled teenagers carries some echoes of her grandfather Francis's Rumble Fish (1983), the film most openly quotes her aunt Sofia, with one character's wall emblazoned with a poster for her 1997 film The Virgin Suicides.
This terrain is well trodden, and not only by Coppolas. While Palo Alto's dreamy suburban ambience is at times distinguished from that of The Virgin Suicides only by the present day setting, its sexual frankness invokes two collaborations between Larry Clarke and Harmony Korine, 1995's notorious Kids and 2002's little-seen Ken Park. These are certainly interesting poles between which to be suspended, but Palo Alto struggles to rise above the sum of its influences. Even the easy-on-the-ear score by Robert Schwartzman and Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange) is most notable for the way in which it juggles reference points, almost all of which originate in the '80s.
Coppola scores highest with her two central performances. As the confused but essentially decent Teddy, Kilmer has a tender, introverted quality reminiscent of a young River Phoenix, most obviously in a hushed fireside confession of love that echoes a similar scene in My Own Private Idaho (1991). The film belongs, though, to Roberts, who is a revelation as April. Coppola's sympathetic exploration of April's confusion as she edges toward adult life is reminiscent of her aunt's work with Scarlett Johansson and Kirsten Dunst, but Palo Alto works despite this familiarity because Roberts, like Johansson and Dunst, has the kind of mysterious quality that can make somebody else's boredom and frustration compelling to watch.
The same can't be said for Nat Wolff, saddled with the grating part of Fred, an obnoxious budding sociopath who doesn't develop much shading, beyond an occasional sulk, as the film unfolds. Phoned in from the pages of early Bret Easton Ellis, the juvenile Fred exists solely to provide dramatic counterpoint to April and Teddy's cautious steps towards adulthood. Nobody even passingly familiar with Franco's half-baked career as an occasional visual and performance artist will be surprised, either, that Fred's escalating fury eventually boils over into a stilted monologue about homosexuality. As heat-seeking gay tourism goes, it's not quite on the level of Franco's own Interior. Leather Bar (2013), but if we're supposed to infer that Fred's borderline psychosis stems from suppressed desires, there might have been a more nuanced way to get this across than through an artificial speech, delivered apropos of nothing in particular, in a parking lot.
Curiously, given its title, Palo Alto does not convey much sense of a particular place or time. This lack of specificity is both weakness and strength. While the familiarity of the film's style and content edges it perilously close to the generic, Coppola's affinity for the eternal struggles of teenagers gives it a universal quality. Empathic without being indulgent, and anchored by Roberts' performance, Palo Alto hints at an intriguing future for Coppola, especially now that her debt of influence is comprehensively paid off.
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The Exit of the Middle Class4 min read . Updated: 11 Jul 2013, 06:09 PM IST
A large section of the Indian middle class, though living in the country, is in a state of mental exile
A large section of the Indian middle class, though living in the country, is in a state of mental exile
It has now become the rule. Any conversation with friends, when it turns to the state of Indian polity and governance, quickly degenerates into either despair or derision.
Of course, middle-class disenchantment is hardly new. But in recent times, I do believe it has grown to fierce proportions. Government corruption, subversion of democratic institutions, a slew of supposedly populist but financially ruinous measures, shameless pandering to vote banks, mismanagement of the economy…in the last few years, if my friends are a representative sample, the Indian middle class seems to have just had enough. In fact, it is exhibiting classic signs of what economist Albert Hirschman observed in his seminal 1970 book Exit, Voice and Loyalty. Circa 2013, large sections of the Indian middle class are Exiting.
In the 1960s, free market champion Milton Friedman came up with a novel idea to rejuvenate the ailing American public school system. If the private sector is kept on its toes by the possibility of Exit—of shareholders, employees, customers—the same principle should work in the public sector too, he argued. Friedman suggested that parents be given vouchers that allowed them to take their tax money away from bad schools to good schools. But, Hirschman found that this Exit option (he extended it from schools to any sort of human grouping—firm, organization, nation-state) had several important drawbacks. In the words of political scientist Francis Fukuyama: "The freedom to Exit was often used by the most ambitious, educated, or well-to-do users of a particular service, and once they exited, those remaining were even poorer, less educated, and less demanding. Moreover…the possibility of Exit weakened the effectiveness of Voice, that is, the ability to directly change the management's behaviour through feedback, discussion, and criticism."
In the 1970s and 1980s, India lost large numbers of its best and brightest young men and women, who went to the US for higher studies with the express intention of never coming back. This, with the active support of their parents, who saw only a bleak depressing future for the middle class in India. In the 1990s and the 2000s, this migration—the most unambiguous form of Exit—has been tempered to a large extent, but Exits need not only be physical. The collapse of Communism was brought about by the Mental and Emotional Exit of people (Physical Exit was almost impossible, unless you were willing to risk your life).
In India currently, we are seeing a Mental Exit of the middle class, and a Physical Exit of the cream of the next generation, like in the past, may be imminent. Look around: the number of middle class parents taking on huge financial burdens to send their children abroad right after they finish school is rising by the year. The brain drain of yesteryears comprised graduates. Today, the process starts at a younger age. Exit has to be made at the earliest.
The Mental Exit—a rejection of the state while residing within its geographical boundaries—is typified by Indian resourcefulness. So the middle class uses every means it can think of to avoid or evade taxes. It is also increasingly insulating itself. Consider Gurgaon, aka Millenium City, or the townships burgeoning around our metropolises. Gurgaon gets only a fraction of the services that are its due from the Haryana government: power, security, transport infrastructure. So the city is a collection of countless gated communities—self-sufficient units with their own security, power and water backups, and recreational areas. The condominium dwellers can do little about the pot-holed roads or the law and order situation, so they shrug and once they are back home, they switch off from India. They are now well-ensconced in the Republic of Gurgaon. This is being replicated all over the country.
Exit is also about taking advantage of every loophole in the system it can exploit. A prime example is diesel, which, till as recently as a decade ago, was a commodity whose price needed to be stubbornly kept low, because it was the fuel needed to carry foodgrains and other essential products to the poor. Today, a large chunk of diesel consumption is by the rich and the middle class, who have shifted to diesel-powered vehicles and use the fuel to run generators that give them power when there isn't any coming from the state supplier. You get little anyway from the state, so take every bit you can. And screw the environment.
According to Hirschman, Exit extinguishes Voice, and this causes organizational stasis and finally decay. Evidence that a large part of the Indian middle class is exiting reluctantly and still cares enough to have its Voice heard lies in the popular participation in Anna Hazare-led anti-corruption movement, and in the spontaneous public outrage over the gangrape and death of a young women in Delhi in December (But the less-than-sensitive handling of that Voice by the administration perhaps strengthened the Exit impulse). We should also not find it surprising that Narendra Modi, with his talk about a New India, a new energy, is so popular on social media, which is packed with middle class people who have mentally exited India but yearn to return. They retain Loyalty—Hirschman's third concept—to some idea of India. That idea—at best hazy and amorphous—is powered by a bitter sense of betrayal.
What should worry the people who govern India is that it is always the more intelligent, the more valuable people who exit. Alienation is not a mental condition fools are familiar with. Also, when you Exit a place, you enter another. Circa 2013, the Indian middle class may be believing that wherever it enters, it can't be worse than the place it exited.


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Morewedge, C. K. (October 16, 2016). Why you should bet against your candidate. The New York Times, SR 9.
Lau, T., Morewedge, C. K., & Cikara, M. (2016). Overcorrection for social categorization information moderates impact bias in affective forecasting. Psychological Science, 27(10), 1340-1351.
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Kappes, H. B., & Morewedge, (2016). Mental simulation as substitute for experience. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 10(7), 405-420.
Huh, Y. E., Vosgerau, J., & Morewedge, C. K. (2016). More similar but less satisfying: Comparing the efficacy of within- and cross-category substitutes for food. Psychological Science, 27(6), 894-903.
Morewedge, C. K. (May 13, 2016). Why buyers and sellers inherently disagree on what things are worth. Harvard Business Review (digital).
Morewedge, C. K. (2016). Utility: Anticipated, Experienced, and Remembered. In G. Keren and G. Wu (Eds.), Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making (pp. 295-330). Malden, MA: Blackwell Press.
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Morewedge, C. K., Yoon, H., Scopelliti, I., Symborski, C., Korris, J., & Kassam, K. S. (2015). Debiasing decisions: Improved decision making with a single training intervention. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2(1), 129-140.
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Morewedge, C. K., & Giblin, C. E. (2015). Explanations of the endowment effect: An integrative review. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 19(6), 339-348.
Morewedge, C. K., & Hershfield, H. (2015). Consumer prediction: Forecasted utility, psychological distance, and their intersection. In M. I. Norton, D. Rucker, and C. Lamberton (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Consumer Psychology (pp. 65-89). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Hamerman, E. J., & Morewedge, C. K. (2015). Reliance on luck: Identifying which achievement goals elicit superstitious behavior. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 41(3), 323-335.
Huh, Y. E., Vosgerau, J., & Morewedge, C. K. (2014). Social defaults: Observed choices become choice defaults. Journal of Consumer Research, 41(3), 746-760.
Morewedge, C. K., Giblin, C. E., & Norton, M. I. (2014). The (perceived) meaning of spontaneous thoughts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143(4), 1742-1754.
Garbinsky, E. N., Morewedge, C. K., & Shiv, B. (2014). Interference of the end: Why recency bias in memory determines when a food is consumed again. Psychological Science, 25(7), 1466-1474.
Garbinsky, E. N., Morewedge, C. K., & Shiv, B. (2014). Does liking or wanting determine repeat consumption delay? Appetite, 7(1), 59-65.
Morewedge, C. K., Krishnamurti, T., & Ariely, D. (2014). Focused on unfairness: Alcohol intoxication increases the costly rejection of inequitable rewards. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 50(1), 15-20.
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Morewedge, C. K. (2013). It was a most unusual time: How memory bias engenders nostalgic preferences. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 26(4), 319-326.
Morewedge, C. K., Chandler, J., Smith, R., Schwarz, N., & Schooler, J. (2013). Lost in the crowd: Entitative group membership diminishes mind attribution. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 1195-1205.
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Cryder, C. E., Springer, S., & Morewedge, C. K. (2012). Guilty feelings, targeted actions. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 38(5), 607-618.
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Morewedge, C. K., Huh, Y. E., & Vosgerau, J. (2010). Thought for food: Imagined consumption reduces actual consumption. Science, 303, 1530-1533.
Haran, U., Moore, D. A., & Morewedge, C. K. (2010). A simple remedy for overprecision in judgment. Judgment and Decision Making, 5(7), 467-476.
Morewedge, C. K., & Kahneman, D. (2010). Associative processes in intuitive judgment. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(10), 435-440.
Morewedge, C. K., Gilbert, D. T., Myrseth, K. O. R., Kassam, K. S., & Wilson, T. D. (2010). Consuming experiences: Why affective forecasters overestimate comparative value. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(6), 986-992.
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Morewedge, C. K., Kassam, K. S., Hsee, C. K., & Caruso, E. M. (2009). Duration sensitivity depends on stimulus familiarity. Journal of Experimental Psychology:General, 138(2), 177-186.
Morewedge, C. K., & Norton, M. I. (2009). When dreaming is believing: The (motivated) interpretation of dreams. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 96(2), 249-264.
Morewedge, C. K., & Clear, M. E. (2008). Anthropomorphic God concepts engender moral judgment. Social Cognition, 26(2), 181-188.
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Kimchi Fried Rice is undeniably delicious! Use leftover rice and store-bought cauliflower rice to get this healthier, gluten-free dinner recipe on the table in minutes.
Last Sunday I took to Instagram Stories to poll my peeps on their thoughts about kimchi. The options were heck yes or hell no, and the the result? Majority "heck yes".
Ok, ok – if you would have asked me what I thought about kimchi a couple years ago I would have responded "Kim who?" so I totally get why some would vote the other side of the coin. This Korean condiment is fermented vegetables, mostly cabbage, that's flavored with chiles, onions, ginger, and garlic. Kimchi is pretty intimidating-looking but if you can get past it's appearance, you'll be won over by its flavor. A little sour, a little spicy – like sauerkraut with an incredible kick.
I use kimchi as a topper on this meat served over rice (<< OMG), chopped up in Kimchi Fried Rice, and…chopped up in Kimchi Fried Rice. Over and over and over again. We are obsessed with this easy gluten-free dinner recipe!
This recipe concept came to me a few years ago by way of the New York Times. What can I say, if the NYT tells me to cook something, I usually do it. (You haven't lived until you've tried their Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.)
Anyway, their suggestion to toss chopped kimchi into a wok of fried rice with SPAM sounded just crazy enough to work. Well, minus the SPAM part – that just sounded crazy. That said, over the past couple of years I've swapped in everything from smoked ribs, to cooked bacon, but have settled on chopped kielbasa as my favorite. Its salty, savory flavor is perfection when paired with the tangy kimchi. Add in a splash of sesame oil, drizzle of gluten-free Tamari or soy sauce, and a couple scrambled eggs to boot, and you've got yourself one heck of a memorable, flavorful dinner. This is one of those recipes that's so good you can't wait to tell your friends about it (hence why I'm posting it here!)
Oh, it's also a little bit healthier then the original version as I cut half the rice with cauliflower rice! This is a trick I use ALL THE TIME on my family when I'm serving them fried rice or a rice-pilaf type dish. My kids have no idea. Last thing, because I brought up kids, this dish has a bit of a kick to it so be mindful if you're serving to little ones. My boys don't mind a little bit of spice, and gobbled this up, but you might want to make other plans for your squad if they're spice sensitive.
Start by heating a large wok over high heat then melt 3 Tablespoons butter (or vegan butter) inside. Add 1 chopped shallot or 3 chopped green onions then saute until softened, 1-2 minutes. Butter may seem like an odd fat to stir fry with but it pairs so well with the sour kimchi. You'll see!
Speaking of, chop 1 packed cup kimchi then measure out 1 Tablespoon of the packing liquid. Kimchi is not the most photogenic ingredient, but don't judge this book by its cover! We usually use Mother In Law's Kimchi which I find at Whole Foods.
Add the chopped kimchi and liquid to the wok then stir fry to heat through. Next add 7oz chopped kielbasa then stir fry until the mixture is mostly dry and the kielbasa is golden brown, 5 minutes or so.
Turn the heat down to medium then add 2 cups cauliflower rice to the wok. I use the grating blade attachment that came with my food processor to rice the cauliflower, but you could use store-bought if you need to.
Also add 2 cups cooked white rice (directions in the recipe card below,) then drizzle in 1 teaspoon sesame oil and a few turns of the pan of gluten-free Tamari or soy sauce (dish will not be GF if using traditional soy sauce). Stir fry until the cauliflower rice is cooked through, 3-4 minutes.
Last step is to push the fried rice to the sides of the wok then drizzle in 2 eggs that have been whisked with 1 teaspoon sesame oil. Scramble the eggs then toss with the rice to combine.
That's all she wrote! Let the stir fry cool for 5-10 minutes (you can really taste everything so much better, including the butter – YUM – when it's cooled off a touch,) then scoop into bowls and serve. I hope you LOVE this healthier, totally fun take on fried rice! Enjoy!
Kimchi Fried Rice
Kimchi Fried Rice is undeniably delicious! Use leftover rice and store-bought cauliflower rice to get this healthier, gluten-free dinner recipe on the table in minutes.
- 3/4 cup long grain white rice
- 3 Tablespoons butter or vegan butter
- 1 shallot or 3 green onions, chopped
- 1 packed cup kimchi, chopped
- 1 Tablespoon kimchi liquid
- 7oz kielbasa, sliced into quarters then diced
- 2 cups cauliflower rice (~1/4 large head cauliflower)
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil, divided
- 1 Tablespoon gluten-free Tamari or soy sauce (dish will not be GF if using traditional soy sauce)
- Add rice to a small saucepan with a scant 1-1/3 cups water. Bring to a boil then place a lid on top, turn the heat down to medium-low, then simmer for 10 minutes (water should barely be bubbling). Remove pan from heat then let rice sit and steam for 3 minutes before scooping and spreading out onto a large plate to cool. Once cool, measure out 2 cups then use the remaining 1/2 cup or so for another dish (or just add to this dish and slightly increase amount of Tamari/kimchi, etc.)
- Add eggs and 1 teaspoon sesame oil to a small bowl then whisk to combine and set aside.
- Heat a large wok over high heat. Add butter then, once melted, add shallots or green onions and stir fry until slightly tender, 1-2 minutes. Add kimchi and kimchi liquid then stir and heat through, 30 seconds, before adding kielbasa. Stir fry until mixture is mostly dry and kielbasa is golden brown, 5 minutes.
- Turn heat down to medium then add rice and cauliflower rice. Mix to combine then add remaining 1 teaspoon sesame oil and go around the wok a few times with Tamari - I usually add about 1 Tablespoon. Stir fry until cauliflower rice is tender, 3-4 minutes.
- Push fried rice to the sides of the wok to form a well in the center then pour the egg mixture inside. Scramble eggs then toss with the rice to combine.
- Let fried rice cool for 10 minutes or so before tasting and adding additional tamari if necessary. Scoop into bowls then serve.
- You could use 2 cups leftover rice instead of cooking some fresh.
- Swap in store-bought riced or crumbled cauliflower to make this dish come together even faster.
This recipe is courtesy of Iowa Girl Eats, http://iowagirleats.com.


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What You Need To know About Windows 8.1
Windows 8.1 is just around the corner with previews available to anyone interested so if you're already running Windows 8 you can just update to version 8.1 via the Windows online store however just bear in mind that it's still currently in BETA stage so expect a few bugs and regular changes. I'd suggest not installing it on your main or only computer however set it up on a PC or laptop that you rarely use.
The release of Windows 8.1 is down to Microsoft listening to user feedback and is addressing some of the poorer features of Windows 8. Let's take a look at some of the options that will be available:
First of all the 'Start' button makes a return and left clicking on it will switch between the famous touch screen and the standard desktop while right clicking will bring up a menu containing many options Windows 8 users will have missed over the last 8 months.
Next is the ability to boot to the desktop, to do this you just simply right click on the task bar, select properties, then the navigation tab and under the start screen check go to the desktop instead of start when you sign in. Once you do this Windows 8.1 will have more of a familiar environment for you.
The search function was already a pretty powerful tool however now the search results pull in results from your PC, apps and the web giving you everything available in "one fell swoop".
The settings have also had a huge overhaul with Microsoft adding plenty of options such as power, sleep and display options as well as plenty of others. Previously these options were only available via the desktop however now make an appearance in Touch.
The built in camera app now does a whole lot more than just cropping your pictures, you can now change the brightness and contrast of any picture, adjust the rotation of the image and they have also included a colour enhancement tool.
Snap view is now even more flexible and you can add up to four, that's right 4 apps on the screen at once. Providing your screen has at least a 2560×1440 screen resolution that is. If your screen resolution is smaller you can only have a maximum of 3.
Xbox music has also had a facelift allowing you to create radio stations based on the type of music you like a bit like Spotify and Pandora. The new interface makes it easier to stuff like make playlists.
Finally the Windows Story has had a complete redesign and now has a much cleaner and more sophisticated look about it and instead of having to always update all your apps they will now be updated automatically for you. Only the system administrator will be able to change the updating options.
There are loads of other changes however these are probably the top changes that will stand out the most to users and I'm pretty sure most people will appreciate Microsoft taking action on their feedback and implementing these changes.
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Best Recipes, Breads, Breakfasts
Step 1Heat the oven to 425 degrees.
Step 2In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Cube or grate the cold butter on top of the dry ingredients, and then cut it in using a pastry cutter or fork. Stir in the buttermilk, and gently work the mixture until combined to form the dough.
Step 3On a floured surface, flatten and fold the dough onto itself three times. Flatten the dough out to a thickness of approximately one-half inch. Using a 3-inch round cutter, cut the dough and place on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Brush the tops with cream or melted butter, and sprinkle a pinch of natural sugar over each.
Step 4Bake the biscuits until puffed and golden, 15 to 20 minutes, rotating the tray halfway for even baking and coloring. Serve the biscuits warm.
Step 1Place a heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium heat. Place the orange halves, cut-side down, in the pan and cook, turning once, until they have developed a deep caramelized color, about 10 minutes. Add the juice, stirring to lift any flavoring from the bottom of the pan. Cook until the juice is reduced to a syrup, about 15 minutes. Remove from heat and press the juice and orange halves through a fine mesh strainer, then cool the syrup to room temperature.
Step 2Place the butter in a food processor and, with the motor running, drizzle in the honey and syrup to combine (the butter, honey and syrup can also be whisked together in a large bowl). Serve alongside the warm biscuits. This makes about 1 3/4 cups butter.


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Gorgeous Property. Friendly Vibe.
Welcome to The Village at Seeley Lake, a stunning apartment community of 1, 2 & 3 bedroom floor plans in Lakewood, Washington, gateway to Puget Sound and the urban network of the I-5 corridor.
Convenient to Joint Base Lewis-McChord and at the heart of one of Washington's premier school districts, our apartment homes are within walking distance to the woods and wetlands of Seeley Park and the Lakewood YMCA. Stroll to shops, excellent eats, and local events, then come home to your haven at The Village at Seeley Lake.
Designed for Your Lifestyle
Modern design meets creature comforts in beautifully crafted 1, 2 & 3 bedroom floor plans for rent in Lakewood, WA.
From a cozy fireplace with sophisticated mantel and handsome wood floors, to your in-home washer and dryer and abundance of extra storage, your apartment home has the features and the space to relax in style.
Have It All at Home
At The Village at Seeley Lake, you'll find amazing amenities to manage your schedule and make the most of your day. There's something for everyone, from good times on the playground, to canine fun at the on-site dog park, to movie night in the community theater room.
- Indoor/Outdoor Pool
- Fitness Center
- Indoor Basketball Court
A lush landscape includes an inviting courtyard, barbecue and picnic area, and a refreshing swimming pool. Stay fit with the free weights and cardio equipment in the fitness room, or play a little one-on-one on the full-size basketball court.
Pets Welcome
Bring your four-legged best friends to live with you at your new apartment at The Village at Seeley Lake. Our pet policy welcomes up to two pets per home. Ask about deposits, our one-time fee, and our low monthly pet rent. Breed restrictions apply.
Every day is a beautiful day at The Village at Seeley Lake. Contact our on-site management team to schedule your personal tour of pet-friendly apartments for rent in Lakewood.


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Good morning and happy Monday all my budget savvy brides and friends! Posting might be a little light / different this week as I am in full-on paper-lust at the National Stationery Show! I walked much of the show yesterday and saw so many great designs and cards and overall papery goodness! I'll share a few favorites that I spotted yesterday for you!
This engagement card is adorable and totally cracked me up! It's by a fellow Stationery Academy Alum Julie Goette of Ten Four Paper. She has an amazing collection of hilarious greeting cards for nearly every occasion imaginable. I seriously loved every one! Here's a couple of her other wedding/engagement greeting cards (not necessarily for the bride but TO the bride):
(image from Ten Four Paper)
(image from Ten Four Paper)
Hilarious, right? Ya gotta love some witty banter/humor 🙂 Julie also has a great collection of modern and bright wedding invitations that you guys should check out!
A few other faves from Day 1:
Letter sparklers from Tops Malibu! Spell out your last names, L-O-V-E, X-O-X-O… possibilities are endless. I think these would be ADORABLE as a cake topper with a sparkly edge during the cake cutting. Very festive, don't you think?
Also loved these cards from One Canoe Two Letterpress! Most of their invitations and letterpress items are not necessarily budget savvy BUT I absolutely LOVED their work and these cards are great for a wedding gift!
You gals already know about my love for May Designs / May Books. These adorable, customizable notebooks are tres chic and make AWESOME gifts. Not to mention they have a variety of functions. I keep one in my purse at all times – you never know when you're gonna need to take down a note- why not do it in a CUTE notebook? They recently released a wedding planner version of their notebooks which would really help you stay on track of planning your big day. Another good one to keep around is a budget tracker. I seriously can't say enough good things about the ladies at May Designs and their products!
Well, that about wraps it up for Day 1. I focused mostly on gifty-items yesterday, so coming next will be actual wedding invitation faves! Stay tuned! 🙂


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Authentic animal sound effects, animal recordings and designed creature and monster sound effects
The Exotic Birds sound effects library is a unique collection of 24 different species of exotic birds. It features birds like flamingos, parrots, parakeets, crane, crow, ibis, peacock, and many others.
Bali mynah • Black headed ibis • Canada goose • Chilean Lapwings • Collared parakeet • Crows • Grey parrots • Grey winged trumpeter • Guira Cuckoo • Indian peacock • Kookaburra • Little bustard • Macaw parrot • Moorhen • Palm nut vulture • Paradise crane • Parakeet mouse • Red breasted goose • Red flamingos • Senegal parrots • Southern screamer • Superb starling • White naped crane
To set an exotic scene, or to illustrate a different and luxuriant nature, exotic birdsong is a great asset. Even if it is very difficult to identify each of them, the bird's songs of this collection will bring you far from home. Feel surrounded by those songs recorded in Brasil, Thailand, Maldives and France.
The Farm Animals SFX library represents an big selection of domestic animal and bird sounds. The sounds were primarily recorded on farms with a focus on vocalizations.
Baby Chicks: Chirps as a group and single.
Chickens: Clucking after laying eggs, squawking when scared, and clucking in a group.
Cow: Single long and short mooing, breathing recorded with close and far distances. Mooing in farm ambience recordings.
Dogs: Single medium-sized mongrel barking. Whining, yelping and aggressive growling. Big mongrel single barking.
Ducklings: Single calls to mother.
Ducks: Quacking as a group and single.
Geese: Calls in a poultry group.
Guinea Fowls: As a group and single.
Horses: Stallion neigh, grunt, breath, snort and head shake. Ambients of a stable (feeding hay, stableman working).
Peacock: Single calls.
Piglets: European piglets squeals and screams, slurping when eating.
Pigs: European big pig grunt, snort, breath, slurping when eating. Vietnam big pig squeal, scream and breath.
Roosters: Old and young rooster crowings. Recorded at close and far distances. As single and in a poultry group.
Sheep: Single sheep's bleatings recorded at close and far distances. Also contains recordings of milking.
Turkey: Calls in a poultry group.
The Australian bush is something very close to my heart. Most of these recordings were taken on my family's property in Molong NSW.
This collection includes a large number of natural bush ambiences recorded at all times of day. There are plenty of birds, some sheep, turkeys, bees, cicadas, crickets, dogs and chickens. As well as motor vehicles on gravel, chainsaws, campfires, generators, footsteps, and even a wall construction. There is as always some random stuff fin there as well.
Recorded with a Sound Devices 633 and Sennheiser MKH8040s. The library is 2GB and includes 126 x 24bit 48kHz .wav files. Sound Miner metadata embedded.
There are sounds of forests, swamps and meadows recorded in Ukraine, mostly in spring and summer. Recordings consist of coniferous and deciduous forests, different swamps and few meadows.
Recording gear: Sounddevices 744t, Oktava MC-012
The Forest Ambience 1 library focuses on the ambient sounds of Central Florida's forest ecology. The focus of this library is a collection of as much general background ambience as possible with minimal focus on any one individual element. It also focuses on a Mid Day – Early Dusk time frame.
The range of ambiences include windy gusts through thick canopies, forests alive with birds and bugs, and erie dead silences void of any life recorded near one of the nation's largest active bombing ranges. Also included are a few plane flyovers and some outdoor trail ambience near an apartment complex as a bonus.
Captured in environments such as:
• Bottomland hardwoods
• Pine Flatwoods
• Scrub
• Upland hardwoods
• Urban nature trail
Need a classic robot voice? You can build complete robot voice sentences with Fourbit, a typical small-size-robot voice with metallic resonances. It is very intelligible, you can use it for any robot that needs to talk a lot with the listener.
The Fourbit sound effect library contains more than THREE thousands words, chosen amongst the most common English ones. This allows you to build all the sentences you need for your project with this voice.
Fourbit comes with a custom audio browser html file to help you quickly locate, preview and drag & drop the files you need to construct complete sentences.
This library was recorded in southern France and Komagane, Japan for a diverse collection of cricket, grasshopper and frog sounds. With a Fostex FR2, Sennheiser 418S and Olympus LS11, these focused sounds were captured without the rumbling of nearby traffic or wind. They are clean enough to be dropped right into your project, and they are long enough to offer loop points for interactive use.
Get the sounds of 10 species of frogs, toads and treefrogs in this unique animal SFX library.
It features amphibians such as American Bullfrog, American Toad, Gray Treefrog, Green Frog, Mink Frog, Northern Leopard Frog, Pickerel Frog, Spring Peeper, Wood Frog, Western Chorus Frog as well as mixed frog chorus recordings.
The library has been recorded in Québec locations such as Laval, Knowlton, Bondville, Brome, Coaticook, St. Hubert, Sutton, and Longueuil. A total of 50+ minutes of frog recordings are included!
Please note this product was originally called "Animal Sounds."
Fun Animals Voices is a fun and one of a kind animal sound library. It contains a massive 1212 sound effects and consists of both studio recordings and on location nature recordings.
This sound pack is 2 parts.
1) 1085 animal impersonations by professional voice actors. Animals included: Bear, Cat, Chicken, Cow, Crow/Raven, Dogs (small, large), Duck, Frog, Goat, Gorilla, Hippo, Horse, Hyena, Lizard, Monkey, Mouse, Owl, Pig, Peacock, Pigeon, Rabbit, Seagull, Seal/Walrus, Sheep, Snake, Sparrow, Tasmanian Devil (comical), Turkey/Ostrich, Tweety Bird, Vulture, Wolf, Zebra.
2) 127 nature recordings of ambiences, birds, swamps and others.
ALL sounds from Fun Animal Voices are included our full sound library Pro Sound Collection so if you need more sounds be sure to check it out before purchase.
The "Fun Monsters" library is a vocal collection of 18 cute little monsters.
It comprises 2000+ non-textual vocalizations with variations of actions and emotions recorded by voice actors – all carefully edited, classified, thoroughly metatagged.
The sounds are suitable for cartoons, games, and any projects featuring cute funny characters! It is delivered in 192Khz which allows for additional pitch and treatments.
Gear used: Neumann TLM170R, Sanken Co-100k, Sound Devices 788T, Sennheiser MKH8090
Through the development process, we gathered unique sonic materials from the scary inaudible sounds up to the piercing cry of Banshee ghosts. Included are: 14 pre-baked atmospheres, 38 designed sound, and 373 useful source sounds.
It comprises recordings of male and female ghosts, crows, miscellaneous sounds of the house, bells, extensive door knocks from various perspectives, and sounds of ghost trying to enter a room.
The atmospheres are easy and ready to use, containing haunting houses, town, forest, cemetery, thunderstorm, and eerie soundscapes.
The designed sounds are mainly focused on ghosts creature with spooky murmur, breathe, group of ghosts and creepy inhalations.
Awaken an ancient fantasy game character who will reign down thunder in your next audio production! AAA Game Character Giant is a voice over sound library featuring a rich and powerful male creature on a mission for vengeance. He's hungry for man flesh soup, likes taking naps on the smashed villages and thinks everyone owes him tributes of gold and silver.
With AAA Game Character Giant, you get to feast on your enemies bones, laugh at his opponents, and crush anyone who doesn't give him what he wants. AAA Game Character Giant not only supplies you with a useful variety of vocalizations, stock sayings and dialogue lines, but provides you with immersive scripted dialogues lines allowing you to build those special in- game moments, and fantasy stories your audience wants and enjoys.
The doom of mankind is here. AAA Game Character Giant, available now!
126 vocal sound effects interpreted by three different actors divided in:
– Attacking (different intensities)
– Dying
– Suffering pains (different intensities)
– Emotions (laughs, angry, etc..)
– Dialogues
More about the pack:
– There are 3 types of goblin.
1: Normal-size, neutral goblin.
2: Small-size, high-pitch goblin.
3: Higher-size, more low-tone voice goblin.
– These SFX's are also suitable for gnomes, small trolls and similar fantasy creatures.
– Recorded by professional voice actors
– Intuitive file naming
– All you'll ever need regarding Goblin vocal sounds
[Use them again & again]
Use the sound effects over and over, in any of your projects or productions, forever without any additional fees or royalties. Use the SFX in your game, in your trailer, in a Kickstarter campaign, wherever you need to, as much as you want to.
[Professional audio services]
For custom music, sound design, sound engineering or any other game audio services, please send a mail to: email@example.com
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Get some real insect sounds with this SFX library – almost entirely recorded in and around one large grassy meadow throughout various times of day and season. GRASSHOPPERS, CRICKETS & KATYDIDS is a small collection of 14 crisp recordings focusing on 12 insect species commonly found in open fields and forested areas of northeastern North-America. Each sound is 2:30 mins or longer (96kHz/24bit), for a total of 38+ mins of sound.
Allard's Ground Cricket • Carolina Ground Cricket • Northern Bush Katydid • Oblong-Winged Katydid • Red-Legged Grasshopper • Roesel's Katydid • Short-Winged Meadow Katydid • Slender Meadow Katydid • Snowy Tree Cricket • Spring Field Cricket • Sword-Bearing Conehead Katydid
– as well as multiple mixed choruses of various sizes!
• In Great Lakes: Sandhill Cranes, get a collection of ambiences from some of the largest freshwater lakes in the world. Hear the calming openness of still water and the magical echoes of regal waterbirds. Hear the startled alarm cries of Ospreys and the prehistoric calls of Sandhill Cranes so visceral you'll think pterodactyls are still alive.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of Sandhill Crane ambiences from the pristine lakes of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Hear these majestic birds and feel the power of their intense calls as they sing across the Great Lakes of North America.
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an "artist royalty" for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
Halloween 101 is a great collection of sounds for your spooktacular projects! Inside are eerie ambiences; ghosts and zombies; human grunts, dying, screaming, and wailing; bloody gore; blade sounds, glass breaks, squeaky floors and doors, and so much more!
• Strange, haunting ambiences
• Blades – impacts, hits, chainsaw, war-hammer, battle ax
• Fighting and Gore – punches, rib cage ripping open, splats, goops
• Footsteps – glass, creaky wood
• Glass Breaks
• Human Sounds – evil laughs, screams (solo and group), grunts
• Unhuman Sounds – Groups of ghostly voices, zombies (solo and groups), speaking in tongues
• Weather – thunder & wind
• Doors – creaking, "Demons Gate"
How many sounds can you create with a polystyrene bodyboard? Well, here's 1,000 to get you started!
This collection of sounds brings you 1,000 unique sounds at 96KHz/24-bit stereo created entirely from a bodyboard. From several creature sounds to computerized sounds, this library is extensive with 642 designed sounds with 11 different styles of vocalization, as well as all of the 358 base sounds that were the ingredients for the vocalizations. If you are looking to spice up your creature vocalization palette, then this library is certainly for you.
Hidden Voices is a new sound library series dedicated to finding the voices that are hidden in the most obscure objects. Each library offers an extensive range of sounds created entirely from that object, ready to add a unique flavour to your sound palette.
On the eternal search for new sounds, here is a hefty collection of creature voices created solely through the use of a metal flexatone.
This collection brings you 2,000 original sounds at 96kHz/24-bit stereo offering 4 distinct styles of vocalization prepared to breathe life into your creatures, whether they be alien or machine. Each style has over 450 variations covering over 15 different emotions such as "arguing", "sad", "scared", "excited", "laugh", "question" and general "talking". These 4 vocal styles are:
1. "Voice A": The untouched raw voice created by the flexatone, perfect for metallic creatures! (0:55-1:12 in the audio example!)
2. "Voice B": A slightly deeper voice with additional upper harmonics for a sci-fi aesthetic, ideal for futuristic machines! (0:02-0:13 in the audio example!)
3. "Voice C": A more mature voice with some throaty quivering, suitable for many alien creatures! (0:16-0:32 in the audio example!)
4. "Voice D": A brighter, lively, child-like voice perfect for younger, smaller creatures! (0:35-0:52 in the audio example!)
In addition to these 4 extensive voices, there are also over 150 traditional flexatone sounds such as the iconic comedic "boing" found in classic cartoons, as well as shakes, flicks, rises, falls and quivers!
Note: The sounds in the audio example have some panning added; the sounds in the library itself are entirely centred.
Hidden Voices is a sound library series dedicated to finding the voices that are hidden in the most obscure objects. Each library offers an extensive range of sounds created entirely from that object, ready to spice up your creature's voices and add an original flavour to your sound palette. palette.
Explore a large collection of beautiful, tranquil sounds from remote desert locations across the American southwest and enjoy listening to the morning sun awaken desert wildlife. This serene collection features sounds that will make you fall in love with the harmonious desert dawn. Sounds include doves cooing, woodpeckers hammering, White-throated Swifts in swirling flocks, and much more. Featured like never before are recordings of Swainson's hawks so close you can hear the whoosh as their powerful wings cut through the air. For the second installment of my extensive nature sounds from the heart of the American Southwest, here is High Desert Ambiences 2: Active Nature.
2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an "artist royalty" for the planet!
• This library is filled with the "Active Nature" sounds of desert mornings.
• Swainson's Hawks – a male and female recorded near their nest in a 200-foot cliff. Recordings are from below the nest and include close, distant, circling, diving, and soaring perspectives.
• White-throated Swifts – flocks of small barn swallow-like birds circling, darting, and whooshing in front of a desert cliff.
• Other Birds/Wildlife Included: Canyon Wrens, Bewick's Wrens, Montezuma Quail, White-winged Doves, Western Screech-Owls, Aoudad Sheep, Rufous-crowned Sparrows, Eastern Meadowlarks, and many more labeled as "songbirds" if not identified by species.
• Tracks starting with the filename "Quiet Desert" have low wildlife activity and are perfect "natural roomtones" to use as the foundation of a designed environment. If you need more "Quiet Nature" tracks check out High Desert Ambiences 3: Quiet Nature or the miniature pack of desert sounds in High Desert Ambiences 1: miNiATURE.
• Most files are 3-6 minutes in length
• Named markers included in each file to help find interesting events in an otherwise uniform waveform. Starting in Soundminer 4.5Pro_v252 you can now read text markers from within Soundminer!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer Description and BWAV description fields.
• Recording Location – Davis Mountains, Texas
• *Note – Birds were self-identified using several iOS apps and bird identification websites, so I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy of species identification.
In High Desert Ambiences 3, get a large collection of the desolate and beautiful sounds of the American southwest. As the sun sets, hear how nocturnal wildlife comes alive as the day fades away. This collection features sounds that will make you fall in love with desert nights as you discover sounds ranging from soft owl hoots to lonely night songbirds to keening crickets. This library also includes Javelina (wild pig) snorts and teeth clicks, humming trains off in the distance, coyote howls and yips so close you'll want to run for cover, and much more. While most recordings are between 3 to 6 minutes, this collection also includes a few 15-25 minute nocturnal soundscapes. A rare gem to find in the continental United States! For the third installment of my lush, peaceful nature sounds from the heart of the American Southwest, here's High Desert Ambiences 3: Quiet Nature.
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an "artist royalty" for the planet!
• Marker text included in the Soundminer description and BWAV description fields.
• *Note – I self-identified all birds using several iOS apps and bird identification websites, so I cannot guarantee 100% accuracy on species identification.
• In High Desert Ambiences 4: Coyotes, I revisit the place where my field recording journey started: West Texas. On my drive out, a massive wildfire was burning large parts of the Davis Mountains. The day I arrived firefighters were finally able to contain the blaze, but sadly not before 22,000 acres burned. Much of the wildlife is too slow to escape, but luckily one pack of coyotes was fast enough to climb over a ridge. Normally I hear coyotes out in the plains where they love hunting jackrabbits. That night, however, I was recording from the edge of the dead fire. I was stunned to hear howling deep in the valley! The pack had run into the mountains to escape the blaze.
• In this library, hear the angst-ridden vocals of coyotes running to escape a wildfire. Hear the howls and yips of an extremely close pack bouncing from high valley walls. Hear an echo chamber filled with the haunting howls of coyotes who has just had their home burned.
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an "artist royalty" for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
• In High Desert Ambiences 5: Crickets, I revisit the place where my field recording journey started: West Texas. The heavy summer rains spawned a lively cricket chorus unlike anything I had heard before. Hear 10,000 cricket chirps weave into lush blankets of sound that gently float through mountain valleys. Hear the slowly sagging pitch of lush choruses as nighttime temperatures fall. Hear the joyous chirps of countless crickets that will make you want to take out your tent immediately.
• This library offers you an extensive collection of crickets from a unique slice of time in the life of a desert. Hear the rejuvenating summer rains fill a desolate desert with 10,000 tiny violins.
• Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause, as an "artist royalty" for the planet!
• Carbon offset credits were purchased to offset my field recording travel for this library.
Get the stunningly detailed sounds of one of nature's tiniest aerial acrobats flapping and fluttering in one of the quietest outdoor places in the continental United States. With their ultrasonic chirps, mesmerizing flight abilities and evolution-exhibiting beaks, this library captures the sounds of these rarely heard creatures from a mere two inches away.
2% for the Planet:
Two percent of the price of this library is donated to an environmental cause. I view it as an "artist royalty" for the planet!
Knights, the Cavalry, the Three Musketeers, Cowboys, Indians, Arnold Schwarzenegger in TRUE LIES: The cool guys sit on horses.
Bring these animals to vibrant life with our extensive HORSES SFX library.
You get 9 GB of high quality and royalty free SFX of countless horse voices, a mass of Foley sounds, pass-bys and steps in various gaits and different surfaces.
The Horses library just received a 4.8/5 rating at The Audio Spotlight!
• Library ships in 96/192 kHz, 24-bit High Definition Audio
• 9 GB of MOVEMENTS, HORSE VOICES & FOLEY
• Playable KONTAKT 5 instrument for horse steps
• Effective workflow: well-grounded Soundminer Metadata
Get the sounds of horses in this sound effects library library by GAF SFX. It features 74 recordings such as horses breathing, eating, galloping, walking, galloping pass-bys, snorting and grunting, whinnies and more.
This collection features 200 sound effects including horses, elk, moose and donkeys. These sounds have been handpicked from the Sound Ideas General HD collections, Series 6000, Series 1000, Just Birds & Animals and Wild World of Animals libraries, as well as the Digiffects Library and the Hollywood Edge Animal Trax, The Edge 1 & 2, Premiere Edition and Animal Planet libraries.
This library features nearly 100 vocalizations from a recording session with a VO artist that has mastered the art of weird utterances and creature voices.
You will find violent growls, grunts, sounds of pain, moans and groans, breaths, whispers, gargling, hisses, choking, growls and everything else you'd expect from a zombie, humanoid monster or demon.
These sounds are also dry overall, with only minimal editing, and recorded at 96 kHz to allow you to continue to play around with them. The library features dual mono recordings with a set of two different microphones—one crispier and one warmer. If combined and panned, some create a stereo feel.
Ambient/Breath • Choking • Gargle • Growls • Hiss • Moans • Panting • Snarl • Word / Phrase / Gibberish / Latin • Yell / Scream
From massive swarms in different densities and activity levels to individual passby sounds and landings, this insect sound library covers pretty much all variants of insect wing buzz sounds.
Below is a quick audio demo using 18 of the 185 sounds in the collection.
• 185 WAV sounds of bees, flies, mosquitoes, cicadas and designed insect sounds
• Single insect sounds & swarms
• Isolated insect sounds
• Seamless loops & long recordings
• Varied activity levels
• Purchase supports WWF & NABU
• Descriptive filenames
• 96 kHz / 24 bit WAV files
• Embedded Soundminer metadata
• 2+ hours of audio
Here you can find 61 HD quad surround ambiences of the wild North European nature. They were recorded during a two-week recording trip on foot and by rowing boat in the hot July of 2018 at the heart of the national park in Karelia, North-Western Russia. Spacious, transparent, immersive and absolutely free from any technogenic and anthropogenic sounds. Still air and wind through grass or trees. Birds and insects from single and sparse at the cloudy morning to dense and busy at the hot sunny noon, a mosquito chorus at dawn and ear-piercing grasshoppers at sunset. Distant thunder rolls and disturbed Arctic Loon, huge old trees creaking and grumbling in the wind.
10 % of the library's revenue goes to nature preserves and animal shelters.
Offer a massive value to players of your Irish Themed Casino Game with LUCK OF THE LEPRECHAUN, a truly unique collection of Highest Quality Music and Sound Effects, handcrafted and optimised to be the perfect addition to your slot game!
Transform your project with this staggering collection of meretriciously designed sounds, including ROLLUPS, SYMBOL Sounds, NOTIFICATIONS, TRIGGERS, REVEALS, BACKGROUND LOOPS, FEATURE MUSIC LOOPS, SUMMARIES, TRANSITIONS, ANTICIPATIONS and much more – PLUS incredibly versatile additional sounds and voice-over, such as LEPRECHAUN VOICE, POT OF GOLD COINS, NATURE AMBIENCE LOOP, CARD DEALING, and all other sounds your games will ever need!
Whether you slot game is land-based or online, each asset has been professionally optimised to cut through the background chatter and immerse your players in the beauties of Ireland and festive celebratory feel of St. Patrick's Day like never before. Keep them coming back for more with inviting sounds and catchy music that reward play and build long lasting connection!
LUCK OF THE LEPRECHAUN at a Glance:
With 100+ marine mammal sound effects (a total of around 2GB!), the 'Marine Mammal Vocals – Dolphins, Orca, Sea Lions' SFX library is powered with clear and amazing vocals from sea mammals like Bottlenose Dolphins, Sea Lions, and Orca (Killer Whale). It also features unique underwater echo location sounds.
Most of the recordings feature single animal vocal sounds, for maximum flexibility for sound editors. The set comes formatted in high resolution wav files with full metadata and keywords ready, so that your search results will be more satisfying and comprehensive.
The 'Marine Mammal Vocals – Dolphins, Orca, Sea Lions' collection feature a unique and varied collection of marine sound effects that will make your Sea Life scenes sound amazing – and it's a downright treasure trove for anyone doing creature sound design.
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A Sound Effect is a wonderful resource for indie sound effects libraries. On top of that, it has some of the finest sound design, film and game audio interviews!
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I havent blogged in a few days, nine to be exact according to my baby sister, thanks Diva V~
Anyway, I was tired,
And of course there was Thanksgiving and eating and reading, just being,
However, it is so nice to know that people miss me when I am not doing my thing,
So grateful,
Over the past few days, I have done a great deal of observing and one thing,
I came away with is that our mindsets,
Truly determine how we feel and react to things,
I talked to a young man who makes excuses for everything,
Nothing is ever his fault,
And with that being his mindset, he gets nothing done,
Just thinks about what he THINKS has been done to him,
A better mindset would help him realize that only he is responsible for him~
Another situation is a very lonely older woman,
She is sad and mad,
And even at her advanced age does not get that how she thinks determines what she says,
Thus how people treat her, she has alienated a bunch of folks, because she constantly shares,
The bitterness in her heart and mind and very few people hang around for that,
And finally there is a woman,
Who is so talented and gifted,
But has depressed herself by feeling that just because someone else,
Does something she should be able to do it also,
And is so bound up in thinking through the lens of what people think of her,
She is immobile,
All of these behaviors are tied to how they think,
Of others and of themselves,
I know for myself that when I learned to think better,
I was better,
And when I set my MIND on the goodness of life,
As opposed to all the darkness,
I could then see the light,
It is by no means automatic,
I have to make myself think good,
Through faith, prayer and a determined MINDSET,
I am able to succeed, MOSTLY~
Be BLESSED and a BLESSING~
PURCHASE MRS. BLACK? You will be glad you did~
Angelia Vernon Menchan
Angelia Vernon Menchan is an author, publisher and public speaker who owns two publishing companies, MAMM Productions and Honorable Menchan Media. Mrs. Menchan is also a Budget Officer and former Job Corps Counselor. To date she has published twenty-three books of her own work, both fiction and non-fiction and more than eighty ebook novellas on amazon.com. You can access her bibliography on www.amazon.com search words: Angelia Vernon Menchan
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Website: http://acvermen.blogspot.com
Email: email@example.com
Phone numbers: 904 714 2272 904 303 2679
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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